Nazi reverse at Rostov signals Soviet counter drive
Soviet communique reports repulsed German attacks on the Moscow Rostov front and advancing Red Army forces in the Rostov Donets basin. Cavalry led pursuit breaking German lines as 14 miles of gains push them toward Taganrog and Mariupol. Major German losses noted amid broader Soviet offensives near Moscow.
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Moscow
Soviet Information Bureau
Rostov
Pravda
Donets
Sea of Azov
Red Banner
Germany
Red Army
Taganrog
Mariup
Coushern
Japan Willing to Talk Further for Pacific Peace
The Japanese cabinet decided to continue negotiations with the United States in the Pacific peace talks despite major differences with Washington. Domei reported Tokyo aims to present a conciliatory approach in Washington as President Roosevelt prepares to meet the negotiators, linking Tokyo's stance to broader European war developments.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Japan
United States
Pacific
Domei
Washington
Tokyo
Shigenci Togo
Hull
Togo
America
Roosevelt
Germans claim Rostov evacuated amid civilian fighting
Berlin reports Rostov city evacuated after combat with civilians. German spokesman says troops pulled back to better positions but not to Taganrog. He cites three main operations in Moscow Rostov and North Africa. claims Russian tank sortie near Leningrad halted with 30 tanks captured.
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Berlin
CPA
Rostov
Taganrog
Moscow
Africa
Leningrad
Neva Riger
Talks to Goering and Roaring Efforts in Franco German Talks
Vichy France reports Petain and Goering held a long talk at St Florentin about questions of mutual interest. Roosevelt's rail strike board continued talks after a marathon session with little progress as unions and managers eyed a tentative settlement but non operating groups held back.
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Vichy
France
Marshal Petain
Reichsmarshal Goering
St. Florentin
Department of
Yonne
Paris
Germany
Fernand de Brinon
Petain
Darlan
Occupied Zone
Montoire
Adolf
Hitler
Washington
Roosevelt
Wayne L. Morse
Morse
British report gains in Libya push Axis back
A British stroke in Libya claims to have driven German footholds from Rezegh and moved forces 300 miles from the Egyptian frontier toward the Gulf of Sirte. Cairo reports say Axis westward retreat is being cut off and Tobruk forces may be vanquished by midweek if current fighting continues.
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Libya
North Africa
Rezegh
Cairo
Egypt
Gulf of
Sirte
Bengali
Tobruk
Point Out Payments to Aged Not Pensions
Douglas county board of commissioners says old age assistance is not a pension. L H Griffith chairs the board and stresses aid only when necessary and based on need. The group notes Kansas law differs from Webster’s definition of pension.
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Board of County Commissioners
Douglas County
L. H. Griffith
Kansas
Saxon Trial Opens in Topeka Embezzlement Case
Keene Saxon of Topeka faces a federal embezzlement charge of 6300 dollars related to the Cemeteries of America. The trial before Judge Royce H. Savage in Kansas City is held after Judge Hopkins was subpoenaed by the defense. The indictment followed the transfer of receivership from Shawnee County court.
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Kansas City
Kan
Keene Saxon
Topeka
Royce H. Savage
Tulsa
Savage
Richard J. Hopkins
Saxon
Cemeteries of America
Shawnee County
Achieve ment Banquet for Douglas County 4 H and Vocational Students
The fourteenth annual achievement banquet for Douglas County 4-H Club and Vocational Agriculture students is set for Saturday at 6 pm hosted by the Douglas County Bankers Association. About 100 children and leaders are expected. A E Woestemeyer will preside. No guest speaker this year. music by a Haskell Institute quartet and a chalk talk by J A Dillstrom. Five talking pictures slated including a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Mrs Ike Schellenberg directs group singing.
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Douglas County
Douglas’ County Bankers Association
The
Bankers Association
Haskell Institute
J. A. Dillstrom
Ike Schellenberg
Missouri to Send Large Squad to Sugar Bowl
Columbia Missouri December 1 The University of Missouri will send a squad of between 44 and 46 players to its New Year’s Day Sugar Bowl game with Fordham in New Orleans Coach Don Faurot said. He noted past mistakes in Florida in 1939 when not enough men accompanied the team.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
Fordham
New Orleans
Don Faurot
Florida
Missouri
Georgia Tech
Record Atlantic eastward flight tops pace in eight hours
London report credits Capt. O. P. Jones with an eight hour 23 minute eastward Atlantic crossing in a United States built Liberator bomber. The air ministry said he landed in Britain today twenty two minutes ahead of the previous best, set by another Liberator and a US built Boeing.
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London
Atlantic
Air Ministry
O. P. Jones
Imperial Airways
British Overseas Airways
Jones
Britain
Boeing
Four Men Die In Okmulgee Refinery Blast
December 1 Okmulgee Oklahoma four workers killed and seventeen injured at Phillips Petroleum refinery when two stills exploded starting a massive blaze. Rescue efforts and evacuations occurred as a tank threatened detonation. Names Jim Hawks Hype Decobert C J Steighner among the dead.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Phillips Petroleum Company
Jim Hawks
Hype Decobert
C. J. Steighner
Decobert
Steighner
Hawk
John Rogers
George Sayler
Louis Pope
Wilson School
Topeka Skies to Clear as Mild Weather Continues
Sun will shine across eastern Kansas with clearing skies tonight and tomorrow. Forecaster says no frigid air in sight for Kansas as western Canada weather weakens. Topeka saw drizzle and fog with highs near 61 and 34 to 38 degree lows, Chanute 64, and statewide warmth expected under sunnier conditions.
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Topeka
Kansas
Canada
Great Plains
New England
S. D. Flora
Flora
Chanute
KU Chancellor Urges Perspective In Education
Topeka December 1 Chancellor Deane Malott of the University of Kansas told the Topeka Ministerial Alliance that perspective is a key educational goal alongside momentum tolerance and loyalty He said students focus on football rather than Hitler or inflation and need more perspective.
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Topeka
Deane Malott
University of Kansas
North Carolina Dean to Survey Five State Educational Institutions
Dean Pierson of North Carolina University to conduct the first independent survey of North Carolina and Kansas state schools. He met Gov. Ratner and regents to outline a plan including Kansas State College University of Kansas and state teachers colleges at Hays Emporia and Pittsburg. Pierson, with 25 years on the faculty, will deliver a preliminary study in ten days and a full survey after the new year.
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Topeka
W. W. Pierson
Graduate School
North Carolina University
Payne Ratner
Board of Regents
Kansas State College
University of Kansas
Hays
Emporia
Pittsburg
Dean Pierson
Kansas
Association of American Underwriters
Pierson
KU Bonds Retired Reducing Stadium Debt to 123000
The University of Kansas Physical Education corporation paid 7720 to Lawrence National Bank trustee retiring 5000 in Memorial Stadium bonds and 2720 interest on the remainder. The total indebtedness on the big concrete horseshoe now stands at 123000. Weather kept crowds below expectations and rain and snow at the Missouri game cut receipts by thousands. Dr W W Davis said the financial showing was not critically low and the board remains solvent.
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University of Kansas Physical Education Corporation
Lawrence National Bank
Memorial Stadium
Karl Klooz
Missouri
Altho
W. W. Davis
Athletic Board
Rush To Buy New Auto Tags Today
Douglas county motorists jammed the county treasurer’s office to purchase 1942 license tags that may be valid for two years due to defense metal shortages. Authorities noted high demand for low numbers and expected record sales of auto and truck tags, with plans to reuse 1942 plates via a 1943 tab.
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Douglas County
Roy Flory
Flory
Dad
W. E. Bear
West
Sixteenth Street
P. A. Diehl
West Twenty-third Street
C. M. Voelker
Noe Elected Chairman of Douglas County Ag Conservation Group
David Noe of Lecompton wins the race for chairman of the Douglas County Agricultural Conservation association executive committee in a Saturday election. He succeeds Otto Hack as chair with George Butell of Baldwin re elected as vice chairman and R I Alsup of Budora named as the third member. secretary to be chosen later, with E J Prim currently serving.
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David Noe
Lecompton
Douglas County Agricultural Conservation Association
Noe
Otto Hack
Willow Springs
George Butell
Baldwin
R. I. Alsup
Budora
E. J. Prim
Stock Market Index Rises to 38.8 On Saturday
The stock market index for 60 stocks records 38.7 on Friday and climbs to 38.8 on Saturday signaling a modest gain. Investors watch market movements as value stocks lead the advance and trading volume remains steady.
Unity urged as Edson cites war’s turning point
Lt. Col. C A Edson of Fort Leavenworth urged national unity at a Rotary address praising rising U S military strength. He warned the world faces a 2000 year choice between pagan materialism and a Christian life framework, and stressed home front cohesion as key to reducing casualties and shaping postwar order.
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United States
Rotary
C. A. Edson
Command and Staff School
Fort Leavenworth
America
Edson
France
Appointments Made for KU ROTC First Semester
Col. James S. Dusenbury announced appointments promotions and assignments for Coast Artillery and Infantry units at the University of Kansas ROTC. Lawrence cadets named include Cadet Captains W. E. Nusbaum Spencer Bayles. Cadet First Lieutenants P. T. Fleagie J. P. Brown. Second Lieutenants W. T. Kopp J. H. Doolittle P. D. Courter J. H. Dodderidge R. A. Gulley. Sergeants C. A. Elder K. H. Allen W. B. Hinshaw G. L. Johnson A. H. Nelson W. J. Barnum W. W. Krum F. P. Evans L. J. Svoboda R. E. Wiedemann H. G. Kolsky C. E. Reynolds B. A. Harrison H. L. King Jr. E. C. Jones. Corporals D. B. Cole F. C. Blue W. E. Schimmel D. A. Tompkins.
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James S. Dusenbury
University of Kansas
Coast Artillery
Lawrence
W. E. Nusbaum
Spencer Bayles
P. T. Fleagie
J. P. Brown
W. T. Kopp
J. H. Doolittle
P. D. Courter
J. H. Dodderidge
R. A. Gulley
C. 4. Elder
K. H. Allen
W. B. Hinshaw
G. L. Johnson
A. H. Nelson
W. J. Barnum
W. W. Krum
F. P. Evans
L. J. Svoboda
R. E. Wiedemann
H. G. Kolsky
C. E. Reynolds
B.A. Harrison
H. L. King, Jr
E. C. Jones
D. B. Cole
F. C. Blue
W. E. Schimmel
D. A. Tompkins
Britain lands large force at Rangoon fronts Burma
It was disclosed that Britain landed a large force of veteran British and Indian troops at Rangoon to take up positions along the 1,700 mile front through Malaya and Burma. An all American unit flying American planes under the Chinese flag would soon defend Burma.
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Britain
Rangoon
Burma
Malaya
Kansas Wheat Acreage Set to Dip Below AAA Target
Wet weather will push Kansas 1942 wheat acreage to fall slightly under the AAA 11 percent reduction. Eastern Kansas faces the steepest cut while portions of Oklahoma and Nebraska also expected to show declines. Some eastern counties have planted less than a fourth of intended. Seventy-five Kansas counties to receive part of an $85,000 old age assistance fund allocation.
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Topeka
Kansas
AAA
Santa Fe Railroad Agriculture Department
C. W. Lane
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Lawrence records fourth wettest year in weather history
November brought 1.39 inches of rain, reducing monthly deficit but keeping 11 month total at 49.27 inches, 10.55 inches above normal. The year lags only behind 1901, 1908 and 1909 for wettest on record, with 51.62 inches in the record year. Snowfall reached 1.70 inches, mean November temperature 45.37 degrees, highs to 76 and lows to 19, and the month was 48.33 percent cloudy with 18 clear days.
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Lawrence
J. Posey
Volunter
Decorate for Frolic at Cordley PTA event
Cordley School hosts a Fun Frolic Friday and Saturday with a festively lit building. Miss Hazel Lee Simmons directs decorations with evergreen garlands and lighted trees in the foyer and halls.
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Hazel Lee Simmons
Cordley
Howard Sutherland
Board of Education
Miss Simmons
Irene Nordstrom
Hazel
Santa Claus Opens Radio Greeting in Lawrence
Santa Claus is set to deliver his first radio greeting to Lawrence children tonight at 5 15 PM on station WREN and announce his planned visit Friday afternoon. The parade entries are coming in for a 3 10 PM start, with bands floats cyclists horse riders and pet owners in line. Rural schools dismiss at noon and city schools at 3 PM to allow attendance.
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Santa Claus
Lawrence
Wren
No parole for floggers tied to Ku Klux actions
Gov. Eugene Talmadge refused clemency for six convicted floggers named Dan Eidson Walter Forster W. T. Walton Raymond Bryan George Cameron and Henry Cawthon. The decision followed a hearing opposed by Atlanta ministers and others After years of terror in suburban Atlanta the six faced continued imprisonment with no parole grant.
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Atlanta
UPI
Eugene Talmadge
Ku Klux
Dan Duke
Dan Eidson
Walter Forster
W. T. Walton
Raymond Bryan
George Cameron
Henry Cawthon
State Prison and Parole Board
Peale to Speak at Kansas Christian Emphasis Week
Dr Norman Vincent Peale will headline a three day Christian Emphasis Week at the University of Kansas beginning with a 10 oclock convocation in Hoch auditorium. About 370 ministers and wives will attend the minister’s conference and related events.
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New York
K. U
University of Kansas
Hoch Auditorium
Student Christian Federation
University
KFKU
Margaret Learned
Keith Martin
Dave Watermulder
Norman Vinecent Peale
Marble Collegiate Church
New York City
Heaven
Regiow
Membris Union
Peala
Peale
Traffic Toll in Kansas Drops to 25 in November
Topeka reports 25 traffic fatalities in November, down from 49 the year before. Safety Engineer Claud R. McCamment cites better weather, publicity, and stricter enforcement as factors. October fatalities total 40, matching 1940, with 11 months of 443 deaths versus 405 last year.
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Topeka
Highway Safety Division
Kansas
Claud. R. McCamment
McCamment
Garnett Man Clarence Lawellin Found Dead Near Railroad
Clarence Lawellin, a 1920 Garnett resident, was found dead Sunday beside Santa Fe tracks in Garnett Kansas. His parked car was located half a block away. Authorities believe a train caused his death and an inquest was set for Tuesday night.
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Garnett
Kan
Clarence Lawellin
Santa Fe
Lawellin
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