Germans capture Korosten as Red Army advances in Ukraine
Moscow reports German forces recaptured Korosten but the Red Army maintains pressure along the Leningrad Odessa line and advances west from Kiev. In New Jersey, about 1500 repatriates dock in Jersey City viewing their homeland for the first time in two years amid cheers and charity clothing for the evacuees.
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London
Nikolai Vatutn
Kiev
Friz von Mannstein
Korosten
Zhitomir
Leningrad-Odessa
Moscow
Red Army
Russia
Koresien
Dnieper
Ukraine
White Rusia
Korasien
Leninstad
Oder
Ovruch
Velsk
Zhlobin
Gomel
Jersey City
N. J
America
Gripsholm
Lingr
American Red Crosse
Plan Would Open Door to Wholesale Fraud in War Ballots
Washington Dec 1 Senate debate centers on a Republican substitute to permit service members overseas to vote by proxy. Lucas criticizes the plan as naive, while supporters argue it keeps voters in their districts under supervision. Brooks faces broad opposition for excluding merchant mariners from the Lucas bill. Continued on Twelfth Page.
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Washington
Lucas
Seinster Brooks
Divners
Lucas Bill Brooks
Harry Bridges
Joe Curran
Natonal
Pepper
Florida
Brooks
Merchant Marine
Hite Bridges
Oddities in the News collage of quirky items
A collection of brief oddball items from Denver to Salt Lake City. Stories include a sergeant mistaking his reflection for a recruit, an elementary principal moonlighting in crafts, space talk among South Pacific traders, a man accused of arson to dislodge in-laws, and Missouri constitutional delegate Joseph Blay weighing tax provisions in a rambling miscellany.
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Serferson
Mo—Joseph Blay
St. Lain
Miscouri
Silay
Legislature Plans Mail Poll On Funding Authority
Baton Rouge reports indicate lawmakers debate a mail poll to study funding for the treasury and salaries amid a looming emergency. Government officials and the liquidation board consider restraining actions to prevent siphoning state funds without legislative authorization.
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Baton Rouge
Guida
Witheni
Helen Svea
Norman Bauer Gecias
Anto
Beard
Grmany Bureau of Governments
Reeranch
Eerdingys
Fem
Plans to Take Oath in December at New Orleans
Shreveport attorney P Lee, named to the federal circuit of appeals, won Senate confirmation Tuesday and plans to take the oath in New Orleans on December 15. He will keep residence in Shreveport and will sit with the court in New Orleans and Fort Worth as needed while arranging transfers of pending matters.
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P. Lee
Shreveport
Federal Circuit of Appeals
Senate
New Orleans
Lee
New Orlean
Fort Wor
Montgomery
Ala
Atlanta
Jacksonville Fla
Shoup offers 1000 to fix voting machines in New Orleans
Ransom F Shoup chief engineer of the Shoup Voting Machine corporation offers $1000 to anyone who can make New Orleans voting machines register a fraudulent ballot The offer follows rumors of a political ring manipulating the count Shoup notes each candidate has an adding machine and a vote is recorded for every X placed on the board He inspected machines prepared for January primaries under Robert R Wolfe Louisiana state custodian of voting machines.
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New Orleans
Dew
Ransom F Shoup
Shoup Voting Machine Corporation
Shoup
Louisiana
News-Star Today
Robert R. Wolfe
U S landings on Bougainville spark possible Solomons drive
Tokyo radio reports American forces landed at Cape Torokina on Bougainville in six large landing barges under cruiser and destroyer bombardment. The claim says Japanese defenses annihilated two landing companies and notes a beachhead of over six miles at Empress Augusta Bay.
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Japan
Solomons
Tokyo
United States
Bougainville
Cape Torokina
William F. Halsey, Jr
South Pacific
Germany
Arnger
Reich
Hong Kong
Bougeinville
Ad- Habe’ Étemaunermonnd
Wyitland
Magine
United States Forces
Empress Augusta Bay
Cape Torokina i
Juba
Empress Augusta
Piva Ridge
Bougainwvile
Downsville Merchant Cleve Hammons Dies After Car Crash
Cleve Hammons 57 prominent Downsville merchant dies in Monroe hospital ten days after a head on collision near Downsville. His funeral was in Downs ville Baptist Church with interment at Sibley Cemetery. He leaves a wife a son Doland in the U S Army in Ireland and a daughter Mrs Dorothy Haun.
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Cleve Harrions
Downsville
Monroe
Downsville Baptist Church
Sibley
Hammons
Frank Maniey
Union Parish
Manley
Hamons
Doland
United States Army
Ireland
Cleve Hammons
Dorothy Haun
Farmerville
Willkie Proposes Four Point Program For 1944 Campaign
Wendell L. Willkie outlines a four point program in Cheyenne Wyoming urging Republicans to consider for the 1944 race. He calls for lower income taxes to give the average citizen seed corn for tomorrow, a regulatory system that preserves capital flow, citizens taking responsibility for government, and a restoration of moral aspects in American life and governance.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wendell L. Willkie
Report of Cairo meeting and Iran trip involving Roosevelt Churchill
Unconfirmed reports say President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill aimed for a conference with Stalin in Iran after meeting Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo. Lisbon dispatches via Reuters claimed the Cairo meeting had occurred and the leaders departed for Iran amid German propaganda speculation.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Iran
Chiang Kai-Shek
Cairo
Lisbon
Middle East
Reuters
Lawlocal
Partotfins Dine
Monroe
U-Boat Hero Missing After Notable Submarine Feats
Lieutenant Commander Dudley Wy. Morton, decorated for sinking at least 19 enemy ships and praised for two daring patrols, is reported missing in action. His wife Harriet says no location details were given by the navy, while Morton’s exploits included sinking a Japanese destroyer and convoy duties at New Guinea. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross from General MacArthur and the Navy Cross with gold star. Morton, a Kentucky native, married in China in 1936 and left behind two children.
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Los Angeles
Commader Dudley Wy. Morton
Harriett
Navy Department
Washington
Wewak Harbor
New Guineas
New Guinea
Morton
Douglas MacArthur
Kentucky
DeKalb, I
Tsingtao
China
Douglas
Seminole County Backing Roosevelt Supports Fourth Term
In Seminole county Georgia the preferential primary showed strong support for a fourth Roosevelt term with 816 for and 10 against from three precincts. Ellison Dunn credited voter sentiment for keeping the county’s early test of presidential preference, noting shifts toward Roosevelt and peace-table diplomacy after the war.
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Donald Sornville
Roosevelt
Ruret
Seminole County
Ellison Dunn
Walter F. George
Georgia
Wendell Willkie
Biennha
Dunn
Germans Await Chance To Overturn Hitler In Army Drift
German forces ponder prospects of mutation while air war intensifies across Europe. Allied daylight raids on Bremen Olingen Solingen cause heavy bombardment plus night Mosquito and Beaufighter strikes. Losses run to multiple fighters, with aircraft damaged and airfields attacked across northern France and Germany.
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London
Germany
France
Bremen
Olingen
Ruhr
R A. F
Dominion
Royal Canadian Air Force
Air Ministry
United States Eighth Air Force
Heer
Solingen
United States
Duesseldorf
Europe
Budapest
Holland
Junkers
Peace faction within Germany seeks mild terms while keeping militarism
A vonnections report from London says a junta of veteran German officers and Junker industrialists plots to overthrow Hitler and negotiate peace that preserves German militarism as the nucleus of a future world power. Informal armistice overtures have been dismissed by allies as not originating with the government. High officials warn against German peace balloons, but the anti Hitler faction may still act.
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Robert Bunnelle
London
Junker
Hitler
Germany
United Nations
Cordell Hull
Brendan Bracken
Lie Detector Test Planned in McCoy Family Murders Case
Fayette County authorities plan a lie detector test for a suspect connected to the McCoy triple murder at Oak View. Prosecutor John B. Hill said the test would be at a police laboratory in another city as officials press to resolve last Wednesday’s unexplained gap in the alibi. The case remains centered on a suspected intimate knowledge of the slain family and a deliberate plot to wipe them out.
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Washington Court House
Fayette County
John B. Hill
Hill
Ovan
Elmer McCoy
Forrest
Mildred
Oak View
McCoy
W H.leenhower
Good Fellows Appeal for Help as Donations Fall Short
Community Chest funds are not used for Good Fellows. Readers describe dire need as volunteers report only small gifts of 138 230 250 145 dollars from donors. Letters beg for food clothing and underwear for families including a widow with five children and a bedridden senior citizen. Continued on Twelfth Page.
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Ytrrenegs
Good Fellows
Community Chest
Eve
Germans Use Barbed Wire in Sangro Ridge Fight
Allied reports say the Eighth Army pressed along the Sangro ridge with air support and near three miles of advance. Lanciano, Casoli and Castefrentano reportedly fell. Monteleone and other areas saw heavy minefields and wire defenses breached. Liberators and fighters blasted German strongpoints as Montgomery’s forces pressed toward Rome with sea- and air-based bombardment.
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Eighth Army
Sirvi
Sangro Ridge
Paisa
Algiers
Lanciana
Sangre
Pescara
Caste Frentano
Casoli
Ter
Sar Ndge
Reuters
Fifth Army
Mon
15Th Air Force
Adriatic
Flume
Partisone
Erwin Rommel
Balkan
Sir Bernard II
Montgomery
Quillian and Loyal
Saneero
Commuunique
Berlin
Albinia
Romé
Ancona
London Radio
United States
Wwe
Landon Calls for One-Mulers Coalition Across Parties
Former Kansas governor Alf Landon urged a cross party coalition of Democrats and Republicans he termed one mulers among business leaders and white collar workers. He spoke to Republican freshmen, citing 1944 prospects and noting Kentucky GOP wins as evidence of a moving trend.
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Washington
Larkson
Kansas
Landon
Kentucky
Wegarat
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