Reds Advance in White Russia
The Russian army has fallen back from Korosten and retreated near Kiev while pushing forward in White Russia and the Dnieper bend where about 4000 Germans fell in heavy fighting. Korosten and Zhitomir, railway junctions, were lost as the Russians withdrew to stronger defenses.
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London
Korosten
Kiev
White Russia
Dnieper
Moscow
Zhitomir
Korpeten
Italy
Greece
Von Papen May Succeed Ribbentrop
Reports from Istanbul indicate Franz Von Papen veteran Nazi diplomat may soon take over as German foreign minister replacing Joachim Von Ribbentrop. Von Papen’s Ankara post and circuitous route through Bratislava Bucharest Budapest Vienna and Rome are noted as he travels back toward Turkey to bolster support amid setbacks in Russia.
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Cairo
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Istanbul
Berlin
Ankara
von Papen
Bratislava
Slovakia
Bucharest
Budapest
Vienna
Rome
von Ribbentrop
Nazis seize Norwegian university students in mass roundups
German forces detained between 3200 and 1500 Norwegian university students for alleged activity against Germany. The arrests, described as actions to protect occupation authorities and maintain order, are reported as part of the crackdown in occupied Norway.
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Tockholm
Gestapo
Germany
Custody Prerequisite Of Clemency Hearing
Albany authorities said Governor Dewey cannot grant a clemency hearing to Louis Lepke Buchalter until he is in New York State custody. Attorney General Nathaniel I Golstein informed federal authorities that Buchalter, a Murder Inc. leader, remains outside state custody.
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Albany
Nathaniel I. Goldstein
Dewey
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Murder, Inc
New York State
Utica Cub XXX Cream Ale or Pilsner Lager Beer Ad
An advert promotes Utica Cub XXX Cream Ale or Pilsner Lager Beer describing it as brewed from pest barley emalt and hops with a friendly influence on life. The note reflects a vintage promotional tone and misspelled words.
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Lfe
Allies Bomb Ruhr City of Solingen in Daylight Raid
American heavy bombers with Thunderbolts and Spitfires bombed Solingen 14 miles southeast of Düsseldorf, first Allied attack on the target. The raid, part of the month’s strong bomber campaign, lost two heavies and five fighters, with seven enemy planes downed. Weather was bitterly cold, and crew lamented no German opposition to fire.
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London
Highth Air Force
Ruhr
Solingen
Dusseldorf
Dominion
Britain
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Budapest
United States
Hungary
Vienna
Wiener Neustadt
Duesseldorf
Robert L. Wheatley
Penns Grove
N. J
Railroads and Union Must Void Jim Crow Rules
Ten southern railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine Men were told by the Presidents FEPC that their operating contract discriminates against Negroes and must be voided. The FEPC found the contract aims to reduce Black firemen and favor white workers by designating Negroes as non promotable and restricting hires to promotable men based on race.
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Washington GP
Southern Railroads
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
President's Committee On Fair Employment Practice
Rail Union
FEPC
Malcolm Moss
Well Organized Tule Lake Riot Demands Stir Camp Action
Representative Engle told a Dies subcommittee that disturbances at the Tule Lake relocation camp in California were organized by Japanese using a loudspeaker system. He said the group demanded a meeting with War Relocation Authority Director Dillon S. Myer to pursue a program including better food roofs over doors buckets mops and brooms resignations of most white personnel ambulances on duty and unemployment insurance.
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Washington (P
Tule Lake
California
Engle
D-Cal
Dies
House
War Relocation Authority Cowra
Dillon S. Myer
Old-line Junkers Plot Quiet German Coup Against Hitler
London reports say an anti Hitler group of veteran Junker officers plans a government coup when psychological moment arrives. Leaders include Rundstedt Brauchitsch Bock Raeder, backed by Junker industrialists and diplomats, awaiting any peace hint from Churchill Roosevelt Stalin.
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London
Germany
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
United Nations
Hitler
Karl von Rundstedt
Walther von Brauchitsch
Fedor von Bock
Erich Raeder
Japs Use Gas In Capture Of Changteh
Japanese forces backed by poison gas aircraft and artillery stormed Changteh in an all out attack from the north and east gates. Street fighting left heavy casualties on both sides as Chinese reports warned of a possible pincer toward Changsha while reinforcements moved to relieve the besieged city.
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Chungking
Changteh
Changsha
Yo- Chow
Tungtinge Lake
Famed Sub Skipper Missing in Action
Lieutenant Commander Dudley W. Mush Morton, famed U S submarine skipper, is missing in action, his wife said she had been advised by the Navy Department. Morton, 36, commanded a submarine that sank a Japanese convoy in the Pacific last spring and had at least 19 enemy ships to his credit.
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Los Angeles
Dudley W. “Mush” Morton
United States
Navy Department
Morton
Pacific
Millionaire For An Hour At Federal Reserve Bank
Pittsburgh industrialist I Mark Nolan president of the Keystone Box Co sent a 25000 dollar bond payment and received five 500.44 bond receipts in return. Bank clerks had dipped into a 500000 stack by mistake and corrected the error after Nolan returned the 2500000.
Eighth Army Breaks Sangro Ridge in Italy Advance
Allied forces under Montgomer y shattered the German winter line in Italy, seizing the Sangro Ridge and a 15 mile bridgehead north and west of the Sangro River. After 48 hours of fierce fighting, units moved into Fossacessia Villa Santa Maria Mazzagrogna and Romagnoli, with 12 towns captured. The ridge rises 750 to 1,000 feet above the valley as the Eighth Army pushed toward Rome.
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Algiers
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Italy
Sangro Ridge
Sangro River
Eighth
Rome
Sengro
Adriatic
Fossacessia
Villa
Santa Maria
Mazzagrogna
Romagnoli
Gripsholm Due Today In New York
The Gripsholm, ablaze with lights for safe passage, neared New York carrying 1,236 U.S. nationals, 221 Canadians, and 43 South Americans from Japanese camps. It will anchor at Ambrose Light and dock at Pier F Jersey City about 10 am after long FBI and War Department passenger checks.
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New York
Gripsholm
United States
Soran
Rio de Janiero
Ambrose Light
Pier
Jersey City
War and Navy Departments
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Drottningholm
FBI
Canada authorizes coal price increases in western regions
Ottawa reports the prices board has authorized coal price increases from 10 to 65 cents per ton for coal from Alberta and British Columbia. The adjustments were approved by coal administrator E J Brunning as directed by the government, following Royal Commission findings on the mining labor dispute in those areas.
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Ottawa
Canadian Prices Board
Alberta
British Columbia
E J. Brunning
Royal Commission
Reich Foreign Office Moved from Berlin
The German foreign ministry and diplomatic corps were relocated from Berlin to Breslau about 190 miles southeast near the former German Polish border due to heavy Royal Air Force raids on the capital, Svensk Dagbladet reported last night.
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Stockholm
Foreign Ministry
Berlin
Breslau
Svensks. Dagbladet
Soft Coal Agreement Near as UMW Sets Talks
United Mine Workers and most soft coal producers moved to negotiate a wage contract without southern producers in a session with Secretary Ickes. John L. Lewis and northern western operators planned to meet today to draft a contract under the Ickes-Lewis plan, with Southern and Alabama groups holding out. About 75 percent of soft coal tonnage is represented by these operators.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Ickes
John L. Lewis
Northern and Western
Northern
Steel Company-Owned
New B and C Gas Coupons Worth Five Gallons Each
Washington DP OPA reminds motorists that all B and C coupons issued after midnight will be worth five gallons each nationwide. Existing B and C coupons remain two gallons in the East and Midwest and three in the Far West until used. New B-2 or C-2 designations distinguish the updated coupons. Monthly mileage limits adjust modestly: West 460 miles, East 325 miles. Fewer coupons will be issued, saving manpower for issuing boards and gas industry bookkeeping.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Midwest
Focal
OPA
Manpower Acute Despite Shutdowns Warns of Shortage
The War Manpower Commission said shutdowns of munitions plants ease local labor shortages but national manpower remains acute with demand far exceeding supply. It reduced acute labor shortage areas from 77 to 69, linking the change to government contract cutbacks.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Roosevelt Fourth Term Favored By Seminole Voters
In Donalsonville Georgia Seminole County residents backed a fourth term for President Roosevelt with 816 votes in favor and 70 against from three of five precincts reporting. The sentiment reflected rural support in the primary.
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Donalsonville
Seminole County
Roosevelt
Tarawa Visit Highlights U S Marines Tough Pacific Battle
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, touring Tarawa, praised the Marines after a fierce assault on the Gilbert Islands. He called Tarawa the hardest U S operation in the Pacific but said its success bodes well for future central Pacific offensives and hinted at continued actions without rest.
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U. S
Tarawa
P—Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
mid-Pacific
Gilbert Islands
United States
Pacific
Central Pacific
Allied forces seize Bonga on New Guinea coast
No Opposition Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters reports Australian jungle fighters push north from Finschhafen and capture Bonga without a struggle. The seizure cuts a key link in the Japanese supply line on the northeastern New Guinea coast, threatening the Houn peninsula. Admiral Nimitz pledges continued pressure on the Japs as Tarawa in the Gilberts is opened as part of the broader mid Pacific offensive.
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Southwest Pacific
Finschhafen
Bonga
New Guinea
Houn Peninsula
Tarawa
Gilberts
Nimitz
Dense Fog Lifts Blackout in London Nights
Dense fog clears over London ending a significant blackout for the night during one of November’s worst fogs in years. German air raid activity was reported with anti-aircraft fire and raiders diving, as visibility returns and traffic lights, floodlights, and bonfires illuminate intersections to aid residents returning home.
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London
Anteatreral
Batteress
Supper- OPA Style Brookfield Parson Invites Again
Brookfield Missouri preacher Rev Kring Allen of the Christian Church known for supplying meat by deer elk and duck invites his congregation to another supper after a prior event that drew attention as he heads toward a Missouri River duck blind.
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Brookfield
Kring Allen
The
Christian Church
Senate group favors eight cent rail wage raise
A Senate Interstate Commerce Committee vote backed an eight cent per hour wage rise for 1,100,000 non operating railroad workers. The plan aims to validate last August wage talks and faces counter offers from Stabilization Director Vinson. Unions plan strike votes while operating railroad workers also vote on a four cent award.
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Washington (P
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Fred M. Vinson
Senate
Vinson
Truman
D-Mo
Endinmemen
Hamilton Supports Willkie Move for Republican Nomination
St Louis reports former FR publican National Committee chairman Hamilton stated he would back Wendell Willkie for the Republican presidential nomination. He said Willkie appears the best candidate for the next June campaign, amid ongoing party activity and discussions with key GOP figures about future commitments.
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St Lous
John D M Hailton
Frpublican National Committee
Wen Gett L Willkie
Ded Wilkie
Hamilton
St Lowe
Batak T. Matt
Renuohfan Nu
Ard
C.é
Epubucan
Meeting In Cairo Report Echoed In Allied Broadcasts
A Reuters dispatch from Lisbon said President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had finished a Cairo session with Premier Stalin. OWI relayed a long tent meeting near the pyramids and said a Cairo communique would follow.
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Reuters
Lisbon
Roosevelt
Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Cane Pyuinar
Stalin Mhan
Europe
OWI
Cairo
Chiang Kalshek
Chiang Karshek
New York
Office of War Information
Office of Censorship
London
Elmer Datis
Washington
OWT
D.N
Gem Man
Davis
Persia
Stalin
Stockholm
United States
Turkey
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Ankara
Fir
Teheran
Tran
Budpest
Svenska Dagbladet
OPA Slashes Meat Points for December Ration
Washington based Price Administrator Chester Bowles announced a 30 percent larger December meat ration by cutting meat point values substantially. He said families will receive about 34 percent more meat, with reduced points for certain cuts and some varieties requiring no points, while pork and butter adjustments remained largely unchanged.
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Washington (P
Chester Bowles
Bowes
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