Reds Halt German Advance Near Stalingrad Front
Soviet and German actions near Stalingrad and northwest of Moscow dominate the report. Red Army counterattacks push back German forces amid heavy artillery and tank support, with casualties cited on both sides. Reports mention advancing Red troops near Voloki Juki and Velikid, and German efforts to break Red lines using armored formations.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Red Army
Rahov
Volokio Juki
Germaan Saunterattacks
Floren
Kotelnikovald
Caucasus
Volga
London
Don
Neon War Bulletin
Rzhov
Sovieta
Tichoretsk
Kalelnikavaki
Kalmuck Steppe
Volga-Don
England
Rutov
Bern
Aga
Velikh Lid
Red
Comauninus
Voroncel
Don River
87 Draft Eligibles Under 18 Sign With Local Board
At midweek of the first registration week, Kingsport draft board logged 87 youths under 18. Heavy turnout on day one with $6 filled forms. 81 more registered Saturday and Monday. Final registration for July to August births Thursday. second period runs December 4 to 24 for September October 1924 births. Third period starts December 26 for November December births 1924. all born after January 1, 1925 to register on reaching 18.
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Kingsport Draft Board
Airliner With 14 Aboard Missing Search Organized
Los Angeles Western Air Lines reports a passenger liner with nearly 20 aboard missing on the Salt Lake City to Los Angeles run. Takeoff at 1 08 a.m. mountain time, last contact 60 miles south of Salt Lake City near Fairfield. Ground search teams are being organized. no radio contact since takeoff.
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Los Angeles
Western Airlines
Salt Lake City
CAA
Fairfield
Utah
Leo Werlkotte
Jino
Share
Western Airelines Officinia
ICC Petitions to Cancel Soft Coal Freight Rise
The bituminous coal consumer’s counsel Luther Harr petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to cancel a five cent per ton freight increase on bituminous coal and coke granted last spring. He argued the rise is unnecessary for cost coverage and would raise revenues beyond initial estimates. He noted a four cent per ton rise due to a transportation tax and urged removal to counteract price trends. The Navy announced American air forces bombed the Japanese airbase at Munda on New Georgia Island on December 14.
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Washington
Luther Harr
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harr
Hare
Navy
South Pacific
Munda
New Georgia Island
Allied Air Power Tips Scales North Africa Battle
Allied air power grew stronger as Rommel's Libyan retreat from the Gulf of Sirte continued. British and American planes struck supply ports and railways while Axis air resistance weakened, with Rommel’s forces withdrawing under heavy fire from Tunis to El Agheila.
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London
Bembers
Tunja
North Africa
Rommel
Gulf of Sirtecomat
Libya
Highth
Tripolitania
Marble Arch
E Agholls
el Agheila
Cairo
Meins
Egypt
Axia
Mororce
Galro
Tualatia
Tunis
Ita
la Goulette
North African
Rommeel
Tunisia
U. S. Army Air Forces
Navy investigates sinking of liner President Coolidge
Secretary Knox said a naval board of inquiry is conducting a thorough probe into the loss of the 21,936 ton liner President Coolidge in the Solomons area. He noted the ship near shore might have hit a mine and discussed possible American or Japanese mine involvement. Four thousand aboard were saved.
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Washington
Knox
Naval Board of Inquiry
President Coolidge
Selaimon Islands
United States Army
Navy
Solomons
South Pacific
Solomon and
Mentian Islands
Hoe
Munda
New Georgia Island
Soa Fdte
Jockton
Calif
J. Hugh] Jackson
American Presidents Line
Kiwanis Club
United States Navy
U. S
Jackson S
U S Armed Forces To Hit Peak In 1943
Washington reports that Americas air sea and land forces will have weapons to launch major offensives against the Axis by late next summer. Giant bombers aircraft carriers and battleships are in production with long-range planes expected on battle fronts in eight months.
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Washington
Americas
Axis
Pacific
Henry H. Arnold
Army Airforces
Arnold
Japan
Truk
Roosevelt Nominates Senator Josh Lee to Civil Aeronautics Board
Roosevelt nominates Senator Josh Lee to the Civil Aeronautics Board to replace resigning George Baker. The report notes Lee’s defeat for re-election, outlines anticipated carrier force expansion in 1943, and highlights the broader wartime role of naval aviation and aircraft carriers in the Pacific and Europe.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Josh Lee
D-Oliin
Civil Aeronautics Board
Lee
George Baker
Ed H. Moore
Senate
House
Representatives
Mr. Roosevelt
Oswald Ryan
Indiana
Thes Aeronautics
Navy Board
Japan
North Carolina
South Dakota
Massachusetts
Alabama
New Jersey
Ernest J. King
United States
Japanese Drive From Burma Feared By China
Japanese forces in western Yunnan number 30,009 men with two more divisions possible as they push toward the old Burma road. Chinese officials warn of a large scale offensive and press for an Allied drive from India and China to Burma. Tokyo radio claims of sunk British convoys and naval air success lack independent confirmation.
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Chungking
Yunnan
Depp
China
Burma Road
Tengyueh
N Ated
Burma
India
Tokyo Radio
Toway
Chittagong
Indo-Burma
United States
Britain
Fifth Drunken Driver Fined Fifty Dollars
The fifth motorist arrested in Kingsport this week on charges of driving while intoxicated was fined in city court Tuesday by Judge Napoleon Bond. The offender’s license was revoked for one year in addition to the $50 fine. Four others received the same penalty Monday in city court.
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Kingsport
Napoleon Bond
Inman
TVA Plans Pay Increases With Longer 48 Hour Week
TVA will discuss with white collar employee representatives a plan to raise pay as the work week grows from 44 to 48 hours. General Manager Gordon Clapp says raises would range from 20 percent for the lowest brackets to about seven percent for higher brackets, contingent on an economic stabilization order and a congressional bill seeking a 48 hour federal work week and higher pay scales.
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Knoxville
TVA
Gordon Clapp
Clapp
James Byrnes
Congress
Roosevelt
Final Adjournment in Senate Votes Wednesday
Washington The Senate unanimously adopted no resolution calling for final adjournment of the Seventy-seventh Congress on Wednesday. The measure was sent to the House for quick approval as war measures end. Minority Leader McNary said he would object to controversial bills. Plans emerged to inaugurate the 78th Congress January 6.
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Washington
Senate
Pearl Harbor
New War Housing Rules Issued by Nelson
War housing must be rented for at least four months to war workers before occupants gain the right to buy. Projects, public or private, require WPB defined war workers and materials authorized by the War Production Board. Nelson and Blandford announced the policy and pledged material support for approved housing, aiming for maximum dwelling space given limited resources.
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Washington
P—Striet
War Production Board
National Housing Agency
War Manpower Commission
Donald M. Nelson
WPE
John B. Blandford
Nations
Nelson
WPB
Aquyar
Man Arrested Here Admits He Escaped From West Virginia Prison
A 21 year old man named Ernest Crigger alias William Reyes Crigger was arrested by Kingsport police after presenting as a soldier without furlough papers. He admitted escaping from the West Virginia state prison at Moundville last July while serving a larceny sentence. Crigger is in the city jail awaiting transfer to West Virginia.
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Ernest Crigger
William Rey Crigger
West Virginia
Kingsport
Crigger
Jack Jobe
Chainer Catshall
Lawrence Ellis
Doyle Clemons
Sid. Crigger
Moundville
Derk
Ceril Durham
Durham
Lee Circuit Court Docket Gathers 100 Cases at Jonesville
The Lee Circuit Court opened Monday in Jonesville with more than 199 chancery and criminal cases to be heard during the term. Only one murder case appears on the docket, Lloyd Long, 17, charged with stabbing a friend near Rose HIM in June. Long remains jailed without bond as the stabbing incident is investigated. Commonwealth attorney Robert B. Ely missed court due to illness, and Senator Lloyd M. Robinske was absent for expected participation as attorney in many cases.
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Front Bute News
Hershey St. Charles
Vae-Lea
Cauly
Jonesville
Lloyd Long
Johnny Ayres
Long
Commonwealth
Robert B. Ely
Lloyd M. Robinske
Allies press on in New Guinea drive near Buna and Gona
Allied forces led by Americans and Australians storm Buna village and Buna Mission as heavy fighting rages along the Buna Gona front. Japanese shore positions at Mamkere and Kumasi estuaries face counterattacks from three sides with air and naval bombardment mounting against invasion attempts.
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Australia
Buna
Melbourne
Gona-Bune
Americana
Sanananda Point
Buna Village
Buna-Goat
Buna Mission
Sananands Point
New Guinea
Lae
Salamacua
Gona
Port Moresby
Milne Bay
Coastat
Chewarthiert
Sananandi
Buns Mission
Yage
Bunn
Madang
L New Guinea
Alwait
Mambare
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ICC
Allied Air Power
Sousse
Vichy
Edey Ieatures
Berlin
Erwin Romme
Eighth Army
Senator Josh Let
Ake
Europe
Intesiesta
High Command
Cation
Oran
W. Va
Lee Circuit Court
Kumual
Melbourne Hernd
New Games
Mamkere
Kumasi
Land
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