British Rommel clash drives 8th Army into Egypt
Cairo reports a major Allied tank battle as British forces unleash a large armored force against Rommel near Tel El Akakir and El Alamein. The action follows a coastal push and an important infantry advance into Axis positions, with numerous prisoners taken and heavy Axis losses claimed.
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Cairo
Rommel
Egypt
Tel el Akakir
Reuters
Berlin
DNB
B. L. Montgomery
Mediterranean
Qattara
el Alamein
Axis
Erwin Rommel
Fe] Alamein Line
Montgomery
Tel el Bisa
Sidi Abd el Rahman
Rome
North African
Eighth Army
Call For 33 More Men Issued By Board No 1
A second November Selective Service call for all white registrants includes 33 men from Board One groups in Frederick and surrounding areas to undergo Baltimore physical exams with potential Army induction. The list features Daniel Sprigg Chesley and E Spencer Ware among others, plus a note that some 1-A reclassifications travel to Baltimore.
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Board No
Baltimore
Army
Selective Service
Registrauais Divinite Dist
Strond
Daniel Sprigg Chesley
East Second Street
Frederick High
E. Spencer Ware
Carl W. Snook
Fredericktown Savings Institution
James Abraham Voorhees
Brunswick
Willard Harrison Mercer
Carroll Parkway
Thomas Raymond Steele
Wes
Third Street
Kermit Kercheval Shewbridge
North Virginia Avenue
Charles Lewis Burck
West Patrick Street
Charles Lewis Mulligan
Hagerstown
Buckeystown
Paul Keller Shafer
Middletown
William Edward Greenfield
F Street
Marion Davis Boyer
Charles Glenn Stine
Mair Street
Charles Irving Michael
Winchester Street
Austin Luther Huffer
Burkittsville
Earl Shoemaker
South
Bentz
Eugene Spencer Ware
George Washington Buffington
Knoxville
James Clayton Burgee
Eugene Crawford Mills
Frederick
Thomas Noble Mohler
Paul Henry Summers
Joseph Hoffman
Jefferson Street
Harvey Blair Wilt
Duncansville
Carl Webster Snook
North Market Street
Andrew Jackson Spring
Adamstown
Leon Norman Gross
Fengaville
James Swartz
Archie Richard Mohler
Albert Vernon Shafer
East
Patrick Street
Ernest Martin Miss. Doubs
Robert Bowlus Crone
War and Navy Depts to share one building in Virginia
Secretary Knox announced that the War and Navy Departments will be housed under one roof in the War Department’s new pencorn building across the Potomac in suburban Virginia. The Navy accepted an invitation from Secretary Stimson to move there. The complex was designed to house 35,000 federal workers.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
War Stimson
War Department
Potomac River
Virginia
Local election turnout strong amid long ballots and lengthy delays
Voters filled city and county polling places for Governor Congress, seven constitutional amendments and many county offices in a brisk morning turnout. Ballots proved long and cumbersome with folding errors and delays as observers noted high interest, good weather, and an expected near record turnout, while precinct results showed solid early activity and a forecasted post noon rush.
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Crete
Ceech
Ing
French Bomb Blasts Hit Petain and Doriot Offices
German radio reported two bombs exploded in Vichy early today. One struck the front of Marshal Petain's Committee for Social Propaganda and the other hit Jacques Doriot's French People's Party office. Police guards at one site were injured.
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London
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Committee For Social Propaganda
Jacques Doriots
French Peoples Party
Court House
Horace M. Alexander
Charles M. Fox
Liberty
Harmon L. Ahalt
Brunswick
Charles W. Hutte
Melvin O. Gladhill
Jackson
Howard B. Smith
Urbana
Luther V. Cook
Buckeystown
Edward 5
Lease
New Market
John O Barkdoll
Catoctin
Ecker
Lipganore
William Green
Thurmont
Charles L. Miss. Braddock
Edgar A. Fogle
Reds Lose Nalchik Stand as Nazi Drive Hits Caucasus
A 50,000-strong German Romanian force pushed toward Nalchik with tank divisions and Alpine troops while Red Army withdrew from Nalchik. Nazi leaders aimed at Ordzhonikidze as Stalingrad gains buoy Russian defense. Soviet counterattacks recaptured parts of Stalingrad factory district amid heavy fighting and shifting front lines. Local holidays and deputy sheriffs were noted as voting details emerged.
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Moscow
Nalchik
Caucasus
Red Army
Ordzhonikidze
Caucasian
Hed Star
Stalingrad
Red Star
Nachik
30,000,000 Voters Face War Time Balloting
The Associated Press reports upwards of 30 million war minded Americans vote in the first wartime election since 1916. Democrats hold Senate and House majorities, while Republicans forecast gains but not a House upset. Turnout expected lighter than peacetime. women voters may near 62 percent. Ballots cast across about 129000 precincts. early voting rules and absentee ballots noted.
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Board of Election Supervisors
House of Delegates
Frederick
Atorney
Clark
Circuit Court
Register of Wills
Orphans Court
J. Millard Tawes
Lave
Congress
Associated Press
Senate
House
New York
Maine
Roosevelt
Uniformed Services
Thomas E Dewey
Canidate
Wendell Willkie
John J. Bennett, Jr
James A. Faiizy
Dean Allange
California
Michigan
Connecticut
Ohio
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Nevada
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Delaware
Knox Warns Public Against Optimism Over Solomons Fight
Navy Secretary Knox warned against growing optimism about Solomon Islands operations and said the Japanese fleet would return. He cited the sinking of two more enemy cruisers by a U.S. task force in the Savo Island battle of October 11-12, noting Ghormley’s updated tally and praising submarines as crucial to the war effort.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
Solomon Islands
United States
Savo Island
Robert L. Ghormley
Pacific
Ghormley
Solomons
William F. Halsey
Full Victory Not Far Off Dr Soong Says
Chungking Nov 3 Foreign Minister T V Soong spoke at his first press conference since returning from Washington. He said he left the United States with a fall in the not distant future and that the greatest difficulties are over. He praised America’s vast war effort while stressing China seeks to recover Manchuria and Formosa and that aid hinges on logistics and transport routes. Soong plans visits to England and Russia and lauded Canada’s war mobilization.
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Chungking
T. V. Soong
Washington
United States
China
America
England
Russia
Soong
Manchuria
Formosa
Chiia
Roosevelt
Canada
Briton Who Sold Out His Country Executed
London Nov the Home Office announced a 21 year old British merchant seaman Duncan Alexander Croall Scott-Ford was executed today in Wandsworth prison for treachery. He admitted meeting a German agent in Lisbon and providing secret information on the British merchant fleet convoy movements weather conditions and aircraft protection for a payment of 72 dollars. He pledged more data.
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London
Duncan Alexander Croall Scott-Ford
Wandsworth
Home Office
Scott-Ford
England
Lisbon
Portugal
Britain
Cyclone Disaster in Bengal Kills Over Ten Thousand
London reports from India say at least 11 090 lives were lost in the October cyclone that devastated Bengal districts along the coast near Calcutta. Midnapore and Parganas suffer heavy deaths. 75 percent of cattle perished as houses were destroyed or damaged. The storm began October 18 and lasted until the next day after a tidal wave and heavy rains.
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London
Ritish Prear
India
Bengal
Reuters
Midnapore
Parganas
Calcutta
Bay of Bengal
Quetta
Hitler Claims Sinkings At Sea In Canada Convoy
A Berlin broadcast from Reichsführer Hitler's headquarters claimed a German U boat attack near the east coast of Canada sank 16 ships totaling 94 000 tons. The report, broadcast on DNR, lacked corroboration from other sources and was regarded as unreliable given past exaggerated German claims.
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Berlin
Reichfeehrer
Hitler
DNR
Ushosteete
Canada
Britain
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War and Navy Depts
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Doriot
U.S
Foe
Dr. Soong
U. S
Ben. Jah Minor
Pikesville
Thomas
Minor
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