Allies Fast Clearing Air of Foes and Gas Rationing
About 27 million passenger cars and 5 million commercial vehicles began a mileage reducing diet as nationwide gasoline rationing starts. In the eastern states most drivers hold A cards for four gallons per week, while the rest face three gallons per coupon. Undersecretary Patterson defends controls as essential for wartime needs, stating rubber use must be cut to ensure military safety. Senator Vandenberg voices opposition.
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Washington
East
Office of Price Administration
West Virginia
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
Senator Vandenberg
Murray Speech Charges John L Lewis With Plot To Kill Him
A dispatched account reports Phil Murray alleging John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers allies drove Murray to a sick bed and pressured followers at a C I O convention to kill him. The document cites death threats and a tense confrontation during the Fifth Constitutional convention in Boston on November 12.
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Iself Labor Movement
New Deal Party
Phil Murray
Mr. Murray
John L. Lewis
Gethsemane
District 50
The
United
Roosevelt seeks $25 000 limit on investment income
Washington reports President Roosevelt plans to ask Congress to extend the $25 000 net salary limit to investment income starting in 1943. An official said the president believes all earnings should be limited, but investment income was excluded due to authority limits under the wage stabilization act. The issue draws criticism from Senator George and CIO leaders, while the president pushes reductions in top brackets.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
James F. Byrnes
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Texa
Joan Blondell Tours Camp Polk In Louisiana Visit
Movie star Joan Blondell travels to Camp Polk Louisiana greeting Major General Willis D Critten berg and tours Seventh and 1th divisions. She will be entertained by service command and return to Los Angeles after the visit. In London the first members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps arrive to staff army headquarters with five officers named for secretarial and administrative duties.
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Camp Polk
Joan Blondell
Willis D. Crittenberg
Third Armored Corps
Service Command
Los Angeles
Ondon
Women’s Army Auxry Corps
London
United States
Army Headquarters
Therps
Wom
Attio A. Pinette
Fort Kent
Ruth M. Briggs
Westerly
R. Ll
Martha E. Rogers
Jackson, Miss
Alene Drezmal
St. Paul, Minn
Louise Anderson
Denver, Colo
Vichy Nearly Declares War On Allies Amid North Africa Landing
The Vichy cabinet voted 8 to 6 to declare war on the Allies after American troops landed in North Africa. A French diplomat who stayed with the regime reported German actions including the Toulon attack and the destruction of most of the home fleet. Submarines Casablanca Marsouin Le Glorieux Iris were mentioned as losses or movements in the region.
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Associated Press
Pierre Lavel
Vichy
North
Africa
France
Europe
Toulon
Casablanca
Algiers
le Glorieux
Iris
Barcelona
Cocoanut Grove Inquest Reveals Overcrowded Night Club Fatal Fire
Boston witnesses recount a crowded Cocoanut Grove where a flash fire raced through draperies and crowded exits. The inquest lowers the death toll to 449 with 172 injured as investigators note rapid spread and locked doors amid a city of funerals.
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Boston
Cocoanut Grove
Maurice Levy
Levy
Worcester
Boston Committee On Public Safety
Charles ‘Buck’ Jones
Frank J. Linney
William Arthur Reilly
Linney
Reilly
Linne
Gasoline rationing begins nationwide amid hoarding fears
nationwide gasoline rationing took effect today ending a frantic scramble by motorists to stockpile fuel and liquor. People stored gas in open dishpans and buckets, abandoned stations and other vessels sparking fires. In Oklahoma a liquor rush followed the four gallon weekly quota. Tulsa officers reported heavy interstate traffic as residents brought home liquor cases. In Texas authorities in Potter County joined officials in monitoring shortages and Amarillo’s rationing board rejected special agency favors.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Walter
Johnson
Tulsa
Joplin
Fort Smith
Ark
Potter County
Texas
Amarillo
Collector of Internal Revenue
State Comptroller's Office
Submarine Sinks Eight Ships Near Nippon Coast
Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Klakring leads a U. S. submarine into enemy waters near Japan, sinking eight cargo ships totaling about 70,000 tons and damaging four more. The crew watched from periscope depth as ships went down, despite depth charges and escorts. Klakring to receive the Navy Cross from Adm. Nimitz.
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Pearl Harbor
United States
Thomas Burton Klakring
San Mateo
Calif
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Klakring
Welders Return to Dixie Ordnance Work After Pay Dispute
About 13 pipe welders resumed work at the Dixie Ordnance plant as tests and hires continue. The delay followed the termination of 18 welders who refused to pay a Steamfitters Union No. 807 assessment at Baton Rouge and some laid off workers have been reinstated.
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Dixie Ordnance Works
Baton Rouge
Steamfitters Union
New Car Stickers Put On Sale In State Office
The annual sale of automobile stickers began Tuesday at the state office of internal revenue motor vehicle section. First sticker sold to John Medica of 2908 Jackson street and a truck sticker to R. O. Cannon. 1942 license tags remain valid until February 5. public urged to buy early to avoid a rush, especially for trucks due to new paper requirements.
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State Office of Internal Revenue
Mark H. Wilenzick
North Second Street
John Medica
Jackson Street
R. O. Cannon
Wilenzick
Reds Advance Relentlessly Upon Germans
Soviet dispatches claim 2 250 invading troops killed in overnight fighting as Reds drive on from Stalingrad to the central front west of Moscow. Axis counterattacks north and south of Stalingrad fail to check the Soviet advance with heavy combat reported in several villages west of Moscow and around Voronezh.
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Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Rzhev
Velikie Luki
Rahev
Red Star
Hitler
Berlin
Stalingrad
Red Army
Voronezh
Don River
Savage fighting rages as invasion lines tighten in New Guinea
Allied and Japanese forces clash along a 20 mile New Guinea front from Gona to Buna as heavy fighting, artillery and air support intensify. MacArthur says clashes are close in with gains at the beachhead. four barges destroyed and fires sparked near Gona while eight Zero fighters fall to Allied air power over the region.
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Australia
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Gona
Papua
Buna
Darwin
United States Plans $100 Billion Victory Budget for 1944
Washington reports outline a 1944 budget aimed at a $100,000,000,000 victory fund with current-year spending above $70 billion. If the war ends earlier the plan may be cancelled. if it lasts beyond July 1, 1944 the budget seeks maximal mobilization to shorten the conflict.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Lend Lease
Pearl Harbor
Santa Visit Sought For Dying Daddy's Family
A ten year old writes to Santa asking aid for his mother and siblings after their father died five months ago. The plea describes illness in the household, poverty on Luna Star route, and requests clothes, food, toys, and a house robe, with aid urged from Good Fellows.
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Santa Claus
Santie Claus
Santie
Good Fellows
Allied wedges aim to sever Axis in Tunisia
Allied columns pressing in Tunisia under clearer skies widen two wedges aimed at splitting Axis forces in Tunis and Bizerte and severing the last land route to Tripoli. American and Free French units race toward the coast as air strength grows and French forces enter Pont de Faris near Tunis.
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London
Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Tripoli
North Africa
Mediterranean
Pont de Faris
Pierre Boisson
French Equatorial Africa
Jean Darlan
Boisson
Dakar
United Nations
Auguste Nogues
Morocco
Admiral Michelier
Darlan
Algiers Raedio
Buck Jones dies in Cocoanut Grove fire tour
Cowboy star Buck Jones dies from severe burns after attending a hospital visit and the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston. Born Charles Frederick Gebhard in Indiana, he rode with the Miller 101 Ranch Wild West show and served in the US Army and Navy. He is survived by widow Odele Osborne and daughter Maxine.
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Boston
Buck Jones
Cocoanut Grove
Buck
Children
Philippines
United States
Odele Osborne
Maxine
Jones
Lima
Ohio
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