Japan Rushes Air Reinforcements Into Philippines
Allied dispatch reports Japan eyes a last stand on Luzon as air reinforcements travel from homeland to the Philippines. Leyte airfields slow, but land bases and carrier planes press the blockade, with enemy losses rising on the west coast.
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Japan
Philippines
Allied Headquarters
U.P
Luzon
Manila
Leyte
Formosa
Camotes Sea
Cebu
Ormoc
Streetcars and Buses Rumble Through Dallas After Army Ended Strike
Dallas city transit returned to schedule as Army officials intervened to end a 12 hour stoppage over eight non union promotions. Union leader E N Rhodes said the action was unofficial and sparked by the promotion list. Col W H Nelson announced a compromise, moving four of the eight workers.
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Dallas
Army
E. N. Rhodes
Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motorcoach Employes
AFL
Rhodes
W. R. Burns
Dallas Railway and Terminal Company
G. I. Plummer
Oak Cliff Barns
Office of Price Administration
Col. W. H. Nelson
Eighth Service Command
A. F. Steele
Nelson
Mussolini Property Confiscated by Rome Court
A Rome court ordered confiscation of Benito Mussolini's personal property and real estate at the request of the customs office. The ruling notes most goods had been moved to Brazil previously by a transatlantic airline whose president was Vittorio Mussolini.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Brazil
Vittorio Mussolini
Dispute Hope Fades In Toledo Plant Walkouts
Hope for settlement of the inter union clash faded after a four hour conference between Mechanics Educational Society of America officials and CIO United Automobile Workers failed to yield a truce. About 4500 workers in 25 Toledo war plants participated in the walkouts.
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Toledo
Mechanics Educational Society of America
CIO United Automobile Workers
Air Medal Awarded Posthumously to Lt Branson Jr
The Navy announced the Air Medal posthumously for Lt Branson Jr a 23 year old naval aviator killed in action in the Southwest Pacific. He earned the award for meritorious aerial bombing missions against Japanese targets at Mille Marshall Islands Palau and Woleai in March and April 1944. He is remembered in Amarillo where his parents once resided before moving to Pampa.
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Guilford Fox Branson, Jr
Secretary of Navy
Naval
Young Branson
G. F. Branson
Pampa
Southwest Pacific
Mille
Marshall Islands
Palau Islands
Woleai
Carolines
Branson
Amarillo
Halloween hydrants drained Santa Cruz reservoir
Halloween pranksters turned on 150 hydrants in Santa Cruz California lowering the city reservoir by two feet and costing the treasury about 1500 dollars after paying ten dollars per hydrant turn.
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Treasury
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