Allied Armies Break Through Front Into Alsace and Rhine
Allied forces surged toward the Rhine and Metz as French and American troops advanced from the Sarrebourg sector. Saverne fell, Mulhouse and Colmar neared, and Strasbourg loomed as German defenses dissolved along a widening front. Major German 19th Army faced encirclement while Ninth and Seventh Armies pushed toward key river targets and besieged Metz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mulhouse
Metz
Rhine
Alsace-Lorraine
Paris
Strasbourg
VEW Leases A Landmark VEW Leases A Landmark Yet to go
VEW announces lease for a landmark facility with operations pending approval. Officials and developers anticipate completion but await permits and possible legal steps before opening.
VFW to Occupy Old Weather Bureau Building in Amarillo
John B. Golding post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will move into the old Weather Bureau building on Seventh Avenue after a five year lease with the Public Works Administration. The site will be renovated with ground floor recreation rooms for service members and families, with VFW meetings continuing in Odd Fellows hall until occupancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Seventh Avenue
Taylor Street
John B. Goldingpost
Veterans of Foreign Wars
E. R. Bruce
VFW
Public Works Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Principaly
Amarillo
English Field
Bruce
PWA
Union Bus Depot
John B. Golding Post
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Fort Worth Corporal Key in Leyte Invasion Fight
A Fort Worth corporal named Cpl. Jim Rogers was one of 30 American soldiers who annihilated a Japanese force of 51 including three officers infiltrating the 96th Infantry Division lines near Leyte on November 22. Pvt. Robert Hessington of Ester City New Jersey reported the action. Two Americans were killed in a nearby night attack on a supply dump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
96Th Infantry
Leyte
U.P
A. Fort Worth
Jim Rogers
Robert Hessington
Ester City
N. J
Steel plant resumes at Gary after pit crew strike
Gary Indiana November 22 production resumes at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Gary works after 39 striking pit crewm en vote to return to work pending settlement. The dispute had left 5,500 men idle for two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary
Ind
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Plan to Return to Norway Could Move Exiled Government Home
Bandon NorCal reports King may authorize a partial transfer of the exiled Norwegian government back to Norway soon, possibly within four weeks. The development was learned today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Bandon
Kingyn
Amarillo Weather Outlook With Mild Days
The forecast shows fair conditions across Amarillo and West Texas with mild daytime temperatures and slightly cooler nights. Mexico expects scattered showers and snow flurries in the southwest, with highs between 50 and 63 degrees and lows from 15 to 40 depending on location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas
Manhandle
Mexico
German Tank Force Left a Shambles Near Aachen
U.S. Ninth Army armor under Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson decisively defeated a major German tank force in a four day battle northeast of Aachen. About 67 of 100 enemy tanks were knocked out including 42 of the 170 ton King Tiger model. The fight swayed along the Roer River plain as German King Tigers were committed with heavy armor and long range guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colmar
Mulhouse
Charles de Gaulle
Federal Communications Commission
Upper Alsace
Strasbourg
U. S. Ninth Army
Roer
Aachen
William H. Simpson
Linnich
Julich
Cologne
Fronthoven
Berlin
Bourheim
U. S
Vosges
Germany
U.P
Roer River
Simpson
Veterans Return From Pacific War In Large San Diego Homecoming
More than 2,000 Marines and sailors arrived back in San Diego today after 18 months to three years overseas. The transport carried several children, mainly New Zealand born children of American servicemen who traveled with their mothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Strikers Hold Out Against Ohio Bell After WLB Deadline
Cleveland reports that the Ohio Federation of telephone workers says the strike against Ohio Bell Telephone Co. remains on after a War Labor Board deadline passed. WLB threatened seizure of facilities unless workers returned by 10 A M. Pickets stay at their posts as federation officers in Washington review the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
War Labor Board
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
WLB
Independent Labor Organization
Earl Culp
Ernie Pyle to Join Navy Again as War Correspondent
War correspondent Ernie Pyle plans to return to the Pacific to chronicle life aboard fighting ships and the home-front impact. He will join the ground forces after duty aboard ships, despite ill health and pressure from crowds and publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
Navy
Pacific
Amarillo
TWA
Albuquerque
Washington
Ernie
War
U. S. Treasury
Allied Planes Hit German Convoy Off Swedish Coast
A Goteborg dispatch said Allied aircraft attacked a large German convoy sailing north outside Koering Island off western Sweden last night. At least one ship was reported sunk in the engagement reported by Morgentidningen.
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Stockholm
Goteborg
Morgentidningen
Koering Island
Sweden
Repeated Nipponese Losses and Command Shakeup Reported
Thirteen more Nipponese ships were sunk at Brunei on Borneo and nearby. U S Marines and soldiers in the Marianas and western Caroline Islands killed or captured nearly 9,000 more Japanese. A total of 63,388 dead and 3,267 taken prisoner across Saipan Guam Tinian and Peleliu Angaur. Tokyo radio told of reshuffles in high army command led by Gen Yasuji Okamura replacing Gen Shunroku Hata as commander in chief in China. MacArthur noted the Leyte road block battle as U S forces press to hold Limon while the First Division is described as sacrificed to defend the position. The rugged terrain forces piecemeal destruction of pillboxes and entrenchments to limit losses.
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Brunei
Borneo
U. S
Marianas
Caroline Islands
Saipan
Guam
Tinian
Peleliu
Angaur
Palau
Imperial Army
China
Tokyo Radio
The
War Ministry
Yasuji Okamura
North China
Shunroku Hata
South China
Hata
Philippines
Leyte
Spitfires Destroy Hidden German V-2 Base in Holland
Australian flown Spitfire bomber forces attacked a secret V-2 rocket base in occupied Holland and destroyed launching platforms and depots. The raid followed RAF photos shown of Peenemunde with a vertical rocket and a horizontal one in a forested site resembling a stadium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.R
Holland
Air Ministry
RAF
Peenemunde
Escapes From Prison Just Before His Pardon Arrives
John Anthony Wear escaped from Har lem State Prison Farm on horseback after taking a gun from a guard. A condition pardon had arrived at the Huntsville prison but had not yet reached Wear, who is serving five years for felony theft and burglary. Jack Stewart, serving 10 years for murder from Palo Duro County, fled with Wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
John Anthony Wear
Harlem
Wear
Bell
Crockett
Jack Stewart
Palo Duro County
Battle Over Japan See B 29 Losses From Kyiv Force
U S Air Force reports a three pronged strike against Omura on Kyushu by B 29s from China. Two B 29s were shot down and possibly a third. Twenty Japanese fighters were shot down and 22 damaged. Weather forced partial diversion and two B 29s were definitely lost. None of our planes were lost at Nanking or Shanghai.
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China
Omura
Kyushu
Tokyo
Nanking
Shanghai
20Th Air Force
Call of the Wild Awakens Joe Witt From Slumbers
Joe Witt, still asleep on his special sleeping porch, heard an unusual noise around 4 am. He noted it wasn’t the usual plane hum and then heard geese honking as they went south. Mrs Witt struggled to keep him from dressing to head south too.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Witt
British Bomber Strike Pounds Ruhr Oil Plants
More than 1,300 British heavy bombers dropped an estimated 5,000 tons of high explosives and fire bombs on German oil and transport targets in the Ruhr and Rhineland. The raid split into three task forces hitting Aschaffenburg Sterkrade and Castrop-Rauxel with good visibility reported and strong fighter and flak resistance as fires roared upward.
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London
Ruhr
Rhineland
Wehrmacht
Aschaffenburg
Prankfurt
Sterkrade
Castrop- Rauxel
Air Ministry
Servicemans Kin Invited to Book Review
Wives and mothers of servicemen and Amarillo club women are asked to attend a review of Veteran Comes Back by Bobbie O’Keefe at 7 30 Friday night in Federation Club Rooms. The book by Willard Waller portrays the veteran’s return from a seeing perspective with help from Gray t and Skills Corps Canteen Home Service and Library Staff assistants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Club
Bobbie O'Keefe
Federation Club
Willard Waller
Gray T and Skills Corps
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Saverne
Sarrebourg
Alsace- Lorraine
Seventh Army
Eisenhower
19Th Army
First Army
Alsace
Saverne Gap
Eschweiler
Collogne
Swiss
Europe
Belfort
Lorraine
Courtelevant
Bisel
West Bank
Supreme Headquarters
Belfort Pass
Suarce
Delile
Rhine Plain
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Maasbree
Venlo
Baarle
Sevenum
Ninth Army
Ninth
Fronthaven
Reich
Luxembourg
Jacques le Clerc
Paris-Strasbourg
Schalbach
Siewiller
Sarreboure
Saukey Island
Kittel
VEW
Jack King
Ross Rogers
Codiggamen
Cona
Paramount Theater
Bivins
Sam
Ama- Tille
R. B. Groves
Goldie Freeman
Ladies Auxiliary
U. S. Weather Bureau
Brides
Russell Stationery Company
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Swedish
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Western
Dean Kirk
Herb Budke
Potter County
Roy Cullum
Fancher Upshaw
Spitfires
Japan
20Th Bomber Command
Call of the Wild
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