Destruction of Convoy Deepens Japanese Losses in Philippine Seas
American air and sea forces continued pounding Japanese convoys off Leyte and surrounding waters. The latest action resulted in 5,000 more Japanese troops lost at sea, with several transports and ships sunk or left ablaze. Simultaneously, U S. forces gained momentum on Leyte, while B 29s and naval units struck targets from Saipan to Palau.
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Tokyo
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War Department
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Leyte Gulf
Federal Communications Commission
Japan
Palau
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Fanshaw Bay
White Plains
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Approve Pay Hike for Greyhound Workers
The War Labor Board announced approval of a master contract for Southeastern Greyhound Lines workers. Nearly 2,000 bus drivers terminal and maintenance staff will receive about a 10 percent wage increase. Also reports 1944 iron ore traffic on Great Lakes totaled 81,170,538 gross tons, third largest ever.
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Fourth Regional War Labor Board
Southeastern Greyhound Lines
Cleveland
Great Lakes
Lake Superior
Nazis Retreat Toward Po Valley Across Italian Front
Fifth Army Indian division moved along the Florence Faenza Road facing light resistance as Germans withdraw toward the Po Valley. Eighth Army fought near Alberto Faenza with heavy clashes. Monte Fregnanello Tramonti Cantanelice areas evacuated by Germans as British Fifth Army advances.
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Florence- Faenza
Eighth Army
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Highway Nine
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Tramonti
Monte del Tesoro
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Cold Wave Grips Ohio With More Frigid Weather
A severe cold wave spreads across Ohio with temperatures in the low 20s, brisk winds, and intermittent light snowfall. The Columbus Weather Bureau expects continued cold tonight and tomorrow as snow accumulations total up to a few inches in Cleveland area and roads remain slippery in spots.
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Ohio
Columbus Weather Bureau
Cleveland
State Highway Department
U S Casualties Rise to 536 950 In War Update
Washington reports total U S casualties from Pearl Harbor to November 15 at 536 950. Army deaths total 461 058, an increase of 6 878 in one week ending November 7, according to Secretary of War Stimson.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
War Stimson
2000 Workers Idle At Airplane Factory
Company and union officials sought to end a strike affecting 2000 employees at the Wright Aeronautical Corp. plant in Lockland Cincinnati as talks continued.
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Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Lockland
Russians Within 78 Miles Of Outflanked Budapest
Moscow reports a nine mile advance along the Danube west bank and Soviet forces reach within 78 miles of Budapest. Red troops seize Eger and Szikszo, cut the Miskolc to Kassa line, and push from Ungvar toward key rail routes into Slovakia and Yugoslavia as they aim to threaten Budapest invade Austria and trap German units in Yugoslavia.
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Budapest
Great River
Red Army
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Slovakia
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Zagreb
Yugoslavia
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Austria
Pollution Control Body Appointed by Bricker
Gov. John W. Bricker announced a five man commission to represent Ohio in an interstate compact controlling pollution of the Ohio River. The appointees are Kenneth Lloyd Youngstown Hudson Biery Cincinnati E F Bearce Chillicothe Barton A Hall Logan and F H Waring Columbus with Waring the sole reappointment.
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John W. Bricker
Ohio
Ohio River
Kenneth Lloyd
Youngstown
Hudson Biery
Cincinnati
E. F. Bearce
Chillicothe
Barton A. Hall
Logan
F. H. Waring
Waring
Walkout Halts Work At Ohio Arms Plant
About 600 workers at United Engineering and Foundry Co. halted production of guns mortars and shells for the Army and Navy in Youngstown Ohio today. The walkout stopped manufacturing and disrupted wartime output at the facility.
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Ohio Arms Plant
Youngstown
United Engineering and Foundry Co
No Tires for A Motorsists Delayed Tire Rationing Ordered
Washington reports passenger tire quotas total 2,000,000 for the month but A card motorists may not obtain new tires until spring. OPA said some passenger tire facilities may switch to jeep tires and production gains may be delayed, with possible further civilian quota reductions for heavy trucks and buses.
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Washington
OPA
Athens Listed By CAA in Its Airport Plans
The Civil Aeronautics Administration recommends a $1 billion postwar airport program including 3050 new airports and 1625 improvements nationwide. Ohio projects include Athens upgrading from Class 1 to Class 3 with 370000 total costs, Chesapeake 25000, Gallipolis 960000.
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CAA
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Civil Aeronautics Administration
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Gallipolis
Seven Die In Trans Continental Plane Crash Near Burbank
A Trans continental and Western Airlines plane carrying 23 aboard crashed in heavy fog near the San Fernando Valley while approaching Burbank from San Francisco. Police confirm seven killed and Army officials report seven military dead with nine survivors. Details on civilian casualties were not released.
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Wage Dispute Slows Timken Bearing Plant
Zanesville reports Timken Roller Bearing Co plants idled as workers quit in protest over the company’s refusal to discuss rate changes for piece work. Joseph Arthur, labor relations chief, says about half the workforce at the two sites are idle.
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Timken Roller Bearing Co
Joseph Arthur
Church Group Opposes Vatican Ties Amid Production Cutbacks
In Pittsburgh delegates of the Federal Council of Churches representing about 26 million Protestants adopted a resolution opposing U S Vatican diplomatic relations. In Cleveland the Army releases hundreds of soldiers to civilian work due to wartime production delays, said Col. Joseph C Shouvlin and Lt Col James D Perley.
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Pittsburgh
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
United States
Cleveland 4
Army
Joseph C. Shouvlin
James D. Perley
Army Service Forces
Regional War Production Board
Covington Play House Destroyed by Fire
A fire in Covington Kentucky destroyed the Madison Theater Building downtown early today. Officials estimate light damage with losses around 150 dollars and investigators probe the cause tying it to a cigarette.
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Covington
Covington, Ky
Madison Theater
Albert B Fall Dies Former Interior Secretary and Teapot Dome figure
Albert B Fall, 83, longtime cabinet member of the Harding administration and central figure in the Teapot Dome scandal, died in El Paso Texas yesterday. He served as Secretary of the Interior during the 1920s shaping policy and controversy.
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EL Paso
Texas
Albert B. Fall
Interior
Harding
Record German raid costs U S bombers and fighters
Allied air forces suffered their heaviest losses in seven months as 26 bombers and 30 fighters failed to return from a raid on Germany. The attack involved about 3 000 planes targeting Leipzig area oil plants and Saarbrucken rail yards, with 76 bombers and 32 fighters lost over the two day period.
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Germany
U.S
U. S
Leipzig
Saarbrucken
Bohlen
Zetz
Merseberg
Lutzkendorf
Reich
U. S. Eighth Air Force
General Motors Plant Planned in Columbus
Ohio State Journal reports General Motors will build one of 10 plants in a $500 million expansion. The Columbus site would be the largest sheet metal stamping mill in the world and would manufacture steel bodies for automobiles once the war emergency ends, per Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
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General Motors Corporations
Ohio State Journal
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General Motors Board
Robert Brawley Dies at 78 in Ames Township Funeral Sunday
Robert G. Brawley age 78 died Thursday at his Amesville Route 1 home after an illness. He was a longtime Amesville Grange secretary and former Ames Township clerk, attended Bartlett Academy, and lived his life in Ames Township. Funeral services are Sunday at 2 PM at Amesville Methodist Church with burial in Amesville Cemetery. Friends may call at Fawcett-Stone Funeral Home.
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Amesville
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Jennie McCallum Brawley
Ames Township
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Fawcett- Stone Funeral Home
De Gaulle Arrives in Russia for Talks with Stalin
The Moscow radio said General De Gaulle arrived in Russia to confer with Premier Marshal Stalin last night.
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DeGaulle
Russia
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Moscow
Soldier Charms Princess in Monaco Date Revealed
Sgt James J Kaporis of the Seventh Army in Monaco met and dated a woman who turned out to be Antoinette, princess of Monaco. He discovered the Royal Palace address and noted the royal partner quickly picked up American dance steps.
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Allied Drive Toward Rhine Amid Mud and Heavy Losses
US First and Ninth Armies spearhead a broad advance toward the Rhineland from the Roer and Saar lines as Allied forces push toward Cologne, Duren, and Karlsruhe. The fighting, described as brutal as the Argonne, costs German troops heavy losses while American and French units exploit in the Vosges and Alsace regions. Weather and mud hinder movement as bombers strike supply lines and rear areas.
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Huningen
Stettinius Assumes State Secretary Post in Roosevelt Era
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. takes over as Secretary of State with broad Senate support. The 44 year old former United States Steel chairman inherits Cordell Hull's post amid talk of naming a new undersecretary and a 68 to 1 confirmation vote.
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Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Senate
Cordell Hull
Roosevelt
Hull
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Stettinius
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RND
United States Steel
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Langer
Middleport Solon Is Named on Committee
Ohio Republicans in the State Senate select leadership for the 96th General Assembly to convene January 1. Sen. Lawrence Kane of Cincinnati named chairman of the Committees on Committees with colleagues Albert Daniels Greenfield Fred Seibert St Marys Tom Jones Middleport and Fred Adams Bowling Green assigned as associates.
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Ohio State Senate
Frank E. Whittemore
Akron
96Th General Assembly
Lawrence Kane
Cincinnati
Kane
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No Changes Planned In Food Point Values
The OPA said current food point values will be unchanged when the new ration period begins Sunday. The War Food Administration rejected OPA proposals to put most point free meat and some major canned vegetables back on the ration list.
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Washington
OPA
War Food Administration
Eisenhower Delays Allied Drive Until Shells Arrive
Secretary Stimson disclosed General Eisenhower postponed a general offensive in Europe until a larger artillery reserve could be built. He cited rail and port bottlenecks in France and Britain and noted the Antwerp port opening would greatly ease ammunition deliveries to the front.
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Eisenhower
War Stimson
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