Mighty Red offensive drives Germans from Stalingrad
Allied reports confirm a major Soviet counter offensive near Stalingrad, with German forces routed and thousands killed or captured. The drive encircles supply lines, threatens Nazi positions in the Caucasus, and marks the year’s largest Soviet assault as winter sets in. Prisoners and wreckage mount as Red Army advances up to 45 miles in places.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Stalingrad
Volga
Caucasus
Rer
Red Army
Damage Suits Settled and Delayed in Beckley Court
Two suits against the Beckley hotel and the City of Beckley with plaintiffs Dr. John R. Koch and Bessie G. Floyd for 5000 and 7500 dollars were continued to the next circuit term after negotiated talks but no final settlement. Other cases settled or dismissed included Meadows vs Deck and Lewis, a 15000 dollar suit, and Lyons vs Wykle Hutchinson. A divorce was granted to Lymond Benjamin Morgan from Dorothy Belle Hurt Morgan.
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Beckley
John R. Koch
Bessie G. Floyd
Circuit Court
Clarence Meadows
Robert Lyons
W. A. Wykle
Thelma L. Hutchinson
Tracy J. Moses
Mount Truck Sales Company
Lymond Benjamin Morgan
Dorothy Belle Hurt Morgan
West Virginia Adopts Victory Corps Plan In Schools
State Superintendent W W Trent outlined a voluntary high school Victory Corps program requiring five hours of health in freshman and senior years plus three weekly physical training. The plan aims to train youth for war service and community war work, with broader curriculum updates including more math science and shop courses.
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W. W. Trent
Raleigh
West Virginia
Victory Corps
Trent
Otway Gunnoe
Fayette County
U S Reaches Agreement With Martinique Securing Western Hemisphere Holdings
Secretary Hull announced a satisfactory agreement with Martinique covering all French possessions in the western hemisphere including French Guiana. He said no American occupation is likely and described the deal as a renewal of the 1940 arrangement with Admiral Robert, French high commissioner on Martinique, with additions and modifications.
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Associated Pro
Washington
United States
Martinique
Hull
French Guiana
Robert
Eight Accepted by Marine Corps
Eight men were accepted as applicants for enlistment in the marine corps over the week end. They are James Chester Polk of Sophia William Henry Cooksey of Beckley Baxter McLindon Houck and Mason Dixon Houck brothers of Sophia Paul Ellsworth Pauley of Beaver John Wilson Vargo Jr of Prudence Roy Robert Davidson of Beaver and Colin Winfred Manning of Pineville. Sergeant Thomas Edgell and Sergeant Charles Renick local recruiters will accept applications for enlistment in Mullens on Thursday and in Hinton on Friday. They are in Oak Hill and Fayetteville today.
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Marine Corps
Howard George
James Chester Polk
Sophia
William Henry Cooksey
Beckley
Baxter McLindon Houck
Mason Dixon Houck
Brothers
Paul Ellsworth Pauley
Beaver
John Wilson Vargo, Jr
Prudence
Roy Robert Davidson
Colin Winfred Manning
Pineville
Thomas Edgell
Charles Renick
Mullens
Hinton
Oak Hill
Fayetteville
British Force Pursues Rommel's Retreating Men In Africa
The British eighth army pressed remnants of Rommel's forces in the Agedabia region, forcing a withdrawal as Allied air forces increased pressure on enemy lines. U S built Liberator bombers pounded Tripoli and the mole at Rommel's base, with B 24s striking from Malta and Sicily raids hitting Bizerte and Trapani airfields. Several Axis transports were shot down while British fighters hunted along the coast. one British plane is missing.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
Agedabia
U. S
Tripoli
Rommel
Malta
Desert
Bizerte
Tunisia
Trapani
Sicily
North African
Chinese pilots aid raids on Japanese forces in Asia
Allied air actions over Indo China Burma and China intensified during a weekend of strikes. Chinese pilots reportedly sank a large Japanese ship at Haiphong, possibly a carrier, in the Gulf of Tonkin area. US and RAF bombers joined raids on Rangoon, Mandalay, and Toungoo, with heavy fires and widespread destruction.
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Associated Press
Chungking
Amercan Skydragons
China Command
Haiphong
French Indo- China
Burma
Yangtze Basin
China
Gulf of Tonkin
Claire L. Chennault
China Air Task Force
Yunnan Province
Buthidaung
Shasi
Yangtze River
Hupeh
Shayang
Han River
Offical Central
Hankow
United States
Rangoon
Mandalay
Toungoo
New Delhi
Admiral King at 64. will stay on duty amid war needs
Admiral Ernest J. King, 64, heads the U S Navy in a time of global war. Despite reaching retirement age, associates say he will not retire while battles unfold and Allied life lines require protection. His schedule often runs 18 to 20 hours daily as he plans, holds staff meetings, and directs operations affecting ships and sailors. King arrived in Washington last December from the Atlantic fleet to command the United States fleet, with March adding duties.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ernest J. King
America
Navy
King
William B. Hawley Receives Army Commission
William Bonner Hawley, son of Mrs. Lucy M. Hawley of 304 Woodlawn Avenue, has earned a second lieutenant commission after three months officers training at Fort Benning Georgia. After a ten day furlough he will report to Camp Livingston Louisiana for assignment. Hawley, a Woodrow Wilson High School and Beckley College graduate, served ten months at Camp Walters as an instructor before transferring to the signal corps for three weeks of training.
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United States Army
William Bonner Hawley
Lucy M. Hawley
Woodlawn Avenue
Fort Benning
Georgia
Hawley
Camp Livingston
Louisiana
Army
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley College
Camp Walters
Signal Corps
Sunday hunting charge against Mabscott man
Jack Shumate of Mabscott was arrested and jailed by Constable Roy Hodge on a Sabbath hunting charge. He is to be tried before Magistrate J P Meadows at 7 p m today.
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Jack Shumate
Mabscott
Roy Hodge
Shumate
J. P. Meadows
Weather West Virginia Cold with occasional rain today
Occasional rain and continued cold prevail across West Virginia today and tonight. Temperatures remain low with unsettled skies and chilly winds expected to persist through the period.
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West Virginia
Allies sink Japanese destroyer and press Buna
American and Australian airmen and ground troops battled Japanese forces on the Buna front in northeastern New Guinea. They sank a Japanese destroyer, destroyed 19 enemy planes and two landing boats, while strafing ground positions. Allied forces also seized a new Buna landing strip as they pressed toward Gona and Buna mission objectives.
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Associated Press
MacArthur
Australia
Buna
New Guinea
Gona
Course in Counterfeit Money Education Planned in Raleigh County
Raleigh County board of education officials cooperate with the U S Treasury and Secret Service to introduce school materials on detecting counterfeit money. Superintendent E M Ashworth announced a Washington representative, J F Carr, is in Beckley to organize a crime prevention education program. Carr says counterfeit money is a wartime sabotage tool, with the Japanese noted for employing it.
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Raleigh County
Carr
Treasury
German “Tourists” Prepare To Defend Shores of Italy
London reports claim Hitler sent 60000 “tourists” and Gestapo squads into Italy to bolster Fascist morale and fortify coasts against possible Allied invasion. Tass and Ankara sources note a Badoglio led peace movement. Vatican mediation sought with King and Ciano referenced amid Mussolini-Ciano tensions.
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Italy
Associated Press
London
Continent
Near East
Adolf Hitler
Tass
Ankara
Reuters
North Africa
Badoglio
Ethiopia
Vatican
Vittorio Emanuele
Umberto
Galeazzo Ciano
Il Duce
Mussolini
Ciano
Allies Press Tunis and Bizerte Front Through Tunisia
British first army with American and French support launched a major attack on German Italian positions around Tunis and Bizerte. Rommel’s forces were said to be concentrated in the area with possible Libyan units, as prisoners were reported and Allied advances continued toward the northern Tunisian coast.
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Associated Press
London
Perimter
Bizerte
Tunis
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Morocco
Berlin
Rommel
Tunisia
North Africa
Middle Mediterranean
Radio Morocco
Axis
Tripolitania
Registration For Coffee Starts for Institutional Users
Registration of institutional coffee users began today in the local ration board office in the Memorial building with few applications. Applicants under this class will receive purchase certificates entitling them to a specified number of pounds of coffee. Bulletins with registration instructions and information on retail rationing are available at the local office. New regulations provide for additional sugar allotments for new restaurants for baking purposes one pound of sugar for every 42 meals served.
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Memorial Building
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