Germans Counter Red Army Drives Near Zhitomir and Cherkasi
Moscow reports a broad Soviet counteroffensive along the Ukrainian front. Russians retreat from Zhitomir while defending Cherkasi and Ovruch as German forces push to disrupt rail links. Soviet troops claim over 4,600 German dead and gains around Ovruсh, Korosten, and Rechitsa in White Russia.
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Moscow
Pinsk
Middle Dnieper
Red Star
Zhitomir
Kiev
Cherkasi
Dnieper
Quruch
Odessa-Leningrad
Korosten
Korostishev
Leninrad–Odessa
Red
Dnepropetrovsk
Reuters
Dakhnovka
Khitomir
Ukraine
White Russia
Ovruch
Gomel
Planes Attack Japs In China And Lake City Plans Cuts
American fighter planes supported Chinese ground forces in central China targets near Shihsien Langho and Chunghai Pingka along the Tungting lake and Salween river areas. About 60 Japanese soldiers and 40 horses were reported killed. In Missouri the Lake City ordnance plant will reduce production and release about 3,000 workers on December 6.
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Chuneking
Tungting Lake
Salween River
Joseph Stilwell
Langho River
Shihsien
China
Chunghai
Pingka
Panyeen
Lake City
Independence
Here
A. H. Gardner, Jr
Average stock figures and a Keeler's sale note
Reading shows a 60 stock average of 48.6 and a Yes day at 48.3. A lone 7 inch cover is listed at $3.50 from Keeler's.
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Keeler
Allies Bomb Jap Bases From Soerbaja to Gilbert Islands
Allied air power struck a broad arc across the Pacific from Soerbaja Java to Gilbert and Marshall island outposts. Liberator bombers completed their sixth straight raid on Gilbert-Marshall bases without losses while carrier planes dropped 90 tons on Nauru and hit Tarawa atoll. In New Guinea, fighting intensified with Australian and US air action, and Tokyo warned of worsening Japanese home-front risks as forces pull back from China.
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Soerbaja
Java
mid-Pacific
Gilbert and Marshall Islands
Uines
Gilberts
New Guinea
Pacific
Kichisaburo Nomura
Pearl Harbor
Washington
America
Japan
North China
Manchukuo
Southwest Pacific
Radio Tokyo
Sattelberg
Leros
Dodecanese
Germany
Ars
Robert P. Patterson
Tony
Washington and Jefferson College
Patterson
Italy
Stalingrad
Tokyo
Germans may widen U boat war to Indian Ocean and Pacific
Washington experts warn Germany could extend U boat warfare beyond the Atlantic with possible Japanese support. The strategy shift aims to disrupt global supply lines, though German submarine production and sinkings remain limited. Rear Admiral Low notes sizable submarine strength still exists as the war drags on.
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Washington
Atlantic
Indian Ocean
Pacific
Francis Low
Tenth Fleet
Germany
Bricker Advocates Clear Foreign Policy Stand
Columbus Ohio November 20 Governor John W Bricker urged the Republican party to declare a definite stance on foreign issues and explain it to the nation. He said lack of a clear position hinders the country and that foreign policy should be a campaign topic for debate not foreclosed before the election.
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Columbus
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Republican Party
Chicago
Mihailovic Calls Croats to Desert for Allied Arrival
Yugoslav General Mihailovic urged officers and soldiers of Ante Pavelic’s Croatian army to desert and await arrival of allies. The call, reported by the Yugoslav army, frames the move as accepting only those not bloodied by the fighting.
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Cairo
Egypt
UPI
Draja Mihailovic
Peter
Yugoslavia
Ante Pavelic
Pavelic
Doimobrani
Mihailovic
Government urges continued glass container limits
Washington announces war production board says restrictions on commercial use of glass bottles and containers must continue into the wartime period.
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Washington
UPK
War Production Board
Oday
News Is a Necessity on Front Lines in New Guinea
General Douglas MacArthur praised P-News and the New Guinea army paper Guinea Gold on the front line anniversary. He said news and information are the breath of modern existence and as necessary as bread and bullets for soldiers, noting the tabloid’s 30,000 circulation and distribution by air, sea, and native couriers.
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New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Guinea Gold
MacArthur
Endeavor Program Closes Popularity Contest at North Lawrence Church
The Special Endeavor group of North Lawrence Baptist Church will close its popularity contest on Tuesday night November 23 at 8 pm in the church. Miss Special Endeavor Senior wins a magic chest and Miss Special Endeavor Junior receives an Indian bracelet. A musical and literary program is planned plus a visitor’s prize at the door. Admission is free. Mrs. Maude Hill chairs the group with Mrs. Lois Strode as secretary.
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Special Endeavor
North Lawrence Baptist Church
Maude Hill
Lois ‘Strode
TENSION STILL HOLDS IN LEBANON AS REGIME CRACKS
Cairo reports that tension in Lebanon remains serious after a 94 hour Beirut visit by British minister Robert G. Casey. French authorities have arrested Lebanon's president prime minister and some parliament members amid moves declaring independence.
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Cairo
Egypt
Lebanon
Robert G. Casy
Middle East
Beirut
Allies Make Gain On Italian Front
Allied Fifth and Eighth armies report ground gains on the Italian front in the last 24 hours. Montgomery’s Eighth Army seizes Perano near the Sangro river, with patrols crossing the river and inflicting Nazi casualties. American Fifth Army advances north of Venafro amid heavy artillery fire as big guns blaze along the front. Air operations break through clouds to strike targets in Italy and Yugoslavia, destroying vehicles and damaging a locomotive and oil tanks.
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Fifth
Perano
Sangro
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Archi
Adriatic
Rionero
Bomba
Fifth Army
Venafro
Italy
Yugoslavia
Split
Cassino
Mignana Front
Barrea
Bernia
A.F
Lanciano
Pescara
Hetkovic
Durazzo
Albania
Late buyers swarm court house for driver licenses
Moody crowds gathered at the court house treasurer’s office as more license applicants queued for renewals after the highway patrol arrest sweep on Massa enderha street last Thursday. Seventy three licenses were sold yesterday with six to eight people waiting today. four people appeared in O J Lane’s justice court, each paying a one dollar fine and two fifty costs for lacking a state license.
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Court House
State Highway Patrol
Massaenderha Street
Justice Court of
O. J. Lane
Highway Patrol
Ethel Kushel
Paul Rogers
W. J. Dunn
Karl E. Vogel
Germans Launch Attempts To Invade Samos Island
London reports via Anarka radio that Germany began attempts to invade Samos, a Greek island near the Dodecanese chain. The move follows Leros fall to German sea and air forces this week, as Castelrosso and three other small isles are claimed by Germany with Furni still held by them.
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London
Ankara
Samos
Dodecanese
Leros
Castelrosso
Ikaria
Patmos
Lipsos
Furni
Windsors Depart New York for Nassau Visit Ends
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor left New York secretly on November 20 returning to Nassau where the duke as governor will reopen the legislature next week. Their seven to eight week U S visit concluded quietly in New York.
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New York
Duke
Duchess of Windsor
Nassau
Bahamas
United States
Nazis Tight Lip On Vichy Affair
Bern, Switzerland, Nov. 20. The Berlin foreign office spokesman confirmed reports of a crisis at Vichy where Marshal Petain may have offered his resignation as chief of staff. He called the Vichy situation an internal affair and dismissed rumors of Petain's resignation as nonsensical, while frontier reports said Petain allies were arrested and cabinet resignations expected.
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Bern
Switzerland
Berlin Foreign Office
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Basler Nachrichten
Berlin
Petain
Willhelmstrasse
Air WACS parade previews Air Forces recruiting in Kansas
A Topeka Army air base Air WAC company led by Sgt Hazel C. Theodore staged a noon parade on Massachusetts Street to showcase marching precision and honor the recruiting campaign. Lt Mark G. Treat's team visiting Lawrence promoted opportunities for women in the Air Forces with a recruiting office on Seventh Street beside the Jayhawker theatre.
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Massachusetts Street
Air Forces
Kansas Stadium
Air Wacs
Topeka Army Air Base
Air Base
Special Services Section
Air-Wac
Hazel C. Theodore
WAC
Des Moines
Topeka
Air Force
Kansas
Mark G. Treat
Midway
Guadalcanal
Lawrence
Seventh and
Treat
Cochran Injunction Restricts Rent at 1142 Indiana
Judge Bower Broaddus signed an injunction on October 27 prohibiting Mrs. Starr Cochran and her son Kenneth from charging above the rent control maximum for housing at 1142 Indiana Street or ejecting tenants without proper cause. Costs of the action are charged to the Cochran pair. The suit, filed in 1948, followed disputes with tenants. the property is vacant and for sale.
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OPA Rent Control Office
Bower Broaddus
U.S. District Court For
District of Kansas Second Division
Starr Cochran
Kenneth Cochran
Indiana Street
Cochrans
Chambers of Commerce urge OPA continuation and rice act renewal
The United States Chambers of Commerce board urged continuation of the Office of Price Administration as a separate agency and renewal of the rice control act for another year with possible termination if the war ends. They also asked to retain the Taft amendment banning OPA grade labeling and argued that postwar prosperity requires freeing private business from restrictive legislation to balance agriculture and industry.
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Kansas City
Office of Price Administration
Board of Directors
United States Chambers of Commerce
OPA
Final link in Edmonton to Fairbanks telephone line completed
Brig Gen James A. O Connor announces the completion of the 2026 mile overland line from Edmonton to Fairbanks marking the first time direct telephone communication exists between the United States and its largest territorial possession Alaska.
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Alaska
Whitehorse
Y. T
Edmonton
Fairbanks
United States
James A. O'Connor
Northwest Service Command
Four Motor Bombers Hit Nazi Centers in Western Germany
London reports detail six heavy Allied raids in four days with Canadian airmen missing and Berlin hit by fires and chaos. American Fortress bombers escorted by Thunderbolts attacked western Germany in daylight with no losses. Kepner vows intensified bomber and fighter operations to crumble German heavy industry.
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London
R.A.F
Leverkusen
Britain
Berlin
Sweden
Germany
U. S
New Heights
William S E. Kepner
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Pleasant Indian summer graces Kansas with milder spell
Topeka reports pleasant Indian summer weather across Kansas with unusually mild temperatures expected to linger into next week. Clouds may form but no rain threatens, according to weatherman S. D. Flora. Last night avoided a freeze in eastern and southern counties as Goodland saw a low 30 and a high of 66. Flora forecast higher highs around 62 to 68 statewide and no widespread frost tonight.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
S. D. Flora
Goodland
Flora
Fire destroys small shed on California Street
A grass fire yesterday afternoon spread to a small shed at 645 California Street before firefighters arrived. The shed belonged to Mrs. F. M. Holliday.
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California Street
F. M. Holliday
Mysterious London Blasts Prompt Speculation and Claims
A Soho district explosion in London, the third in a week, sparked theories of a German secret weapon while officials doubted enemy action and suggested a faulty gas main. A German communique claimed British bombs but no planes or sirens were heard locally.
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London
Soho
Germany
Ministry of Home Security
Junkers
KU Dr. Yak Pep Rally Celebrates Homecoming Eve
An old fashioned Dr. Yak pep rally on KU south practice field preceded today’s Kansas Missouri game. Dr. Yak known as Phog Allen handed out pep pills and introduced 240 pound tackle Jim Bouse as testimonial. Army beat KU basketball 38 to 23 in Hoch auditorium. Homecoming queen Heloise Hildebrand and attendants crowned at halftime.
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Kansas
Hoch Auditorium
Ernie Pontius
Heloise
Hildebrand
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Wichita
Nancy Jane Peterson
Kappa Alpha Theta
Dodge City
Margaret Gurley
Chi Omega
Beloit
Henry Shenk
Government to Release Canned Foods to Public Markets
The War Food Administration announced plans to release government-held canned pineapple asparagus corn pumpkin spinach and figs for civilian use. Known quantities include 540 000 cases of pineapples and 77 000 cases of figs with larger vegetable amounts expected. Retail availability is expected within weeks along with 2 400 000 cases of canned grape fruit juice and 2 970 000 cases of peaches peas and ketchup previously announced.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WEA
WFA
Regents Committee to Confer on Education Plan
Topeka date Nov 20 CP A committee of the Kansas board of regents will confer with the legislative council on the council plan to put all state educational supervision under the regents. Regents voiced disapproval individually while avoiding official opinion. The board deferred action on a proposal by the U S veterans administration to abolish out of state fee requirements and on a plan allowing faculty to supplement salaries with outside work.
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Topeka
Kansas Board of Regents
Legislative Council
U. S. Veterans Administration
Battleship Richelieu Readied for War on Axis
Algiers reports the 35,000 ton French battleship Richelieu fully refitted in the United States and now ready to fight again. General Henri Giraud and allied officers inspected the vessel after its return from the refit.
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Algiers
Richelieu
Henri Giraud
United States
Kansas Missouri Battle Sees Scoreless First Half At Memorial Stadium
In a cold 1941 clash at Memorial Stadium the Kansas Jayhawkers and Missouri Tigers remain scoreless through the first half. Ekern’s 50 yard run after a lateral from Collins gives Missouri a touchdown attempt but the extra point fails. first quarter drought and turnover-filled drive sequences dominate as both teams fight for control.
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Ekern
Collins
Tiger
Ihm
Kansas
Missouri
Memorial Stadium
Jayhawkers
Riegel
Reece
Thm
Ed Miller
Moffett
George
Stucker
Watzig
Russell
Morton
George Quick
Tigers
Petain Receives Normandy Delegation In Vichy Broadcast
London reports the Vichy radio for the first time in a week mentions Marshal Petain receiving a Normandy delegation and calls him chief of state. The announcer says the meeting occurred a few minutes ago to deny reports he was jailed or interned after postponing an address.
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London
Vichy Radio
Marshal Petain
Normandy
Petain
Vichy
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