Losses in Leyte Convoys Deepens Pacific War
Allied reports detail Japanese losses as 47 ships and 26,000 soldiers in seven Leyte convoys. American air strikes near Masbate and Cebu sank multiple ships while survivors were picked up. Japanese claims of gains in Central China and Leyte Gulf accompany steady Allied advances in the Pacific theater.
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Leyte
Associated Press
Philippines
Central
VBL Ams Sya Ules
Philippine
Masbate
Cebu
Mindoro
Dean Schedter
Borneo
Saipan
Tokyo
Palau Islands
Peleliu
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
War Department
China
Japanes
Leyte Gulf
Federal Communications Commission
Japan
Palau
Phitippines Sea
Kalinin Bay
Fan- Shaw Bay
White Plains
Kitkun Bay
Greyhound Workers Win About Ten Percent Pay Increase
The War Labor Board approved a master contract for Southeastern Greyhound Lines workers, including nearly 200 bus drivers, terminal staff, and maintenance employees, granting an approximate 10 percent wage raise. Also notes Great Lakes iron ore shipments in 1844 totaling 81,179 538 tons.
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Atlanta
Fourth
Resgional War Labor Board
Southeastern Greyhound Lines
Cleveland
Great Lakes
Lake Superior
Allied Forces Push Through Italian Front Advancing Toward Po Valley
Fifth Army Indian division moved along the Florence Faenza Road facing light resistance and reported German retreat toward the Po Valley. On the Eighth Army front heavy fighting continued near Alberto and Laenza with several hills and passes captured. British Fifth Army units reached Contanelice nine miles below Imola as Germans evacuated the area.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Florence
Faenza
Eighth Army
Alberto
Laenza
Modignana
Highway Nine
Monte Fregnanello
Tramonti
Monte del Tesoro
Monte Fortino
Roncosole
Cold Spell To Continue Across Ohio This Week
The first severe cold wave of the season grips Ohio with low 20s and brisk winds. Cloudy skies gave way to intermittent snow, with Cleveland seeing up to two inches and roads turned hazardous by slick, slippery conditions in Columbus and surrounding areas.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
Columbus Weather Bureau
Cleveland
State Highway Department
U S Casualties Rise to 536 950 in War Update
Washington reports total U S casualties reached 536 950 with army deaths at 461 058 as of November 15. War secretary Stimson notes a weekly increase of 6 878 from November 7, reflecting ongoing military losses.
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Washington
Fears Harbor
War Stimson
2,000 Workers Idle At Airplane Factory Strike
Cincinnati reports 2,000 Wright Aeronautical Corp employees in Lockland idle as company and union officials work to end a strike affecting the plant.
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Cincinnati —Company
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Lockland
Church Group Opposes Vatican Relations in Diplomatic Debate
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, representing about 26 million Protestants, adopted a resolution at its biennial convention opposing U S Vatican diplomatic ties. Delegates warned such action would grant a church preferential government status.
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Pittsburgh
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
United States
Vaticans
Russians Within 78 Miles Of Outflanked Budapest
Soviet forces push west of the Danube, nearing Budapest within 78 miles as they seize Eger and Sztkezo and threaten routes into Central Slovakia. Petrov’s units advance on a 30 mile front, cutting rail links between Miskolc and Kosice, while aiming to invade Austria and disrupt German retreat from Yugoslavia.
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Moscow
Danube
Hungary
Budapest
Great River
Red Army
Eger
Sztkezo
Slovakia
Miskolc
Bifth
Kassa
Kosice
Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Fees
Austria
Pollution Control Body Appointed by Bricker
Gov John W Bricker announced the appointment of a five man commission to represent Ohio in an interstate compact for the control of pollution of the Ohio River. Members are Kenneth Lloyd Youngstown Hudson Biarv Cincinnati H F Bearce Chillicothe Barton A Hall Logan and F H Waring Columbus. Waring was the only reappointment.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Ohio River
Kenneth Lloyd
Youngstown
Hudson Biarv
Cincinnati
H. F. Bearce
Chilicothe
Barton A Hall
Logan
F. H. Waring
Waring
Walkout Halts Work At Ohio Arms Plant
About 600 workers walked out at United Engineering and Foundry Co in Youngstown halting production of guns mortars and shells for the Army and Navy. Union leaders cited disputed wage and overtime terms as the cause of the stoppage. The plant halted operations but no arrests were reported.
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Ohio Arms Plant
Youngstown
wPi
Army
Navy
United Engineering and Foundry Co
No Tires for A Motorists
Washington reports passenger tire quotas reach two million this month but A motorists may not receive new tires until spring. The OPA said some passenger tire production may be diverted to jeep tires and that production increases may not be realized soon. Further civilian quota reductions in heavy truck and bus tires are possible.
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Washington
OPA
Athens Listed By CAA in Its Airport Plans
The Civil Aeronautics Administration backs a $1 billion postwar airport program proposing 3,050 new fields and 1,625 improvements nationwide. Ohio would see extensive work including Athens with $370,600 planned for land prep paving lighting radio and miscellaneous costs.
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Athens
CAA
Washington
Ohio
Congress
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Pedex Airlines
Chesapeake
Gallipolis
Gass 3
Seven Die As Transcontinental Plane Crashes Near LA
A Trans continental and Western Airlines passenger plane with 23 aboard crashed in heavy fog near the San Fernando Valley as it neared Burbank from San Francisco. Police report at least seven killed while the Army and TWA say seven military personnel died and nine survived. Civilian casualty numbers and names were not released.
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Los Angeles
IFI
Western Airlines
San Fernando Valley
Burbank
San Francisco
TWA
Army
Wage dispute slows Timken bearing plant operations
Zanesville plants of the Timken Roller Bearing Co. curtailed operations as workers quit in protest over the company’s refusal to discuss changes in piecework rates. Joseph Arthur, labor relations chief, said about 50 percent of employees at the two plants were idle.
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Zanesville
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Joseph Arthur
Bombing Raid Across Germany Follows Record Allied Offensives
Allied air forces suffered their worst losses in seven months as 56 bombers and 30 fighters failed to return after a night raid on Germany. More than 3,000 planes attacked Ruhr city targets, including Duisburg and Hamburg, while German defenses claimed several interceptors shot down. Ground offensives along the Rhine and Roer rivers pressed toward the Rhine, with American and Allied forces fighting near Cologne, Dusseldorf, and Karlsruhe despite heavy mud and weather hampering operations.
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London
Germany
U. S
Amil
Thurty U.S
Leipzig
Saarbrucken
Rhine-Ruhr
Duissurg
Hamburg
United States
Berlin
Eighth Air Force
coMinique
Behlen
Zelz
Merseberg
Lutzkendorf
Reich
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Associated Press
Rhineland
Roer
Saar
Rhine
U. S. First
Ninth
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Third Army
Siegfried
Eufe Range
Karlsruhe
Roer River
Argonne Forest
Ninth Army
Lindern
Flossdorf
Roerdorf
Julich
Linnich
Duren
First
Inden
Inde
Saar River
Merzig
Soutern
Vosges
Assatian
Seventh Army
Hagenau
Orte
Second Army
Dolland
Wanssum
Venlo
Broekehuizen
Brokehuizen
Maas
Bussang Pass
Urbes
St Arrarin
Mulhouse
Harth Forest
Rhin
Soldier Dates Princess of Monaco in Royal Palace Encounter
Swell date Sergeant James J. Kaporis of the Seventh Army in Monaco met an attractive blond who claimed to be a date. At the address she gave, he discovered it was the Royal Palace and his companion was Antoinette, Princess of Monaco. He said she turned out to be a swell date and learned American dance steps quickly.
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Fuste
James J. Kaporis
Seventh Army
Principality of
Monaco
Yankike
Royal Palace of
Antoinette
Kaporis
General Motors Plant Planned in Columbus
In Columbus a General Motors plant is planned to be built as part of a 500000000 expansion program. The project would yield what officials say would be the largest sheet metal stamping mill in the world and produce steel bodies for automobiles. Edward B. Stettinius Jr. assumes the role of Secretary of State with a strong Senate endorsement.
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Waliington
Edward B . Stettinius, Jr
Senate
Cordell
Hull
Roosevelt
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Stettinius
Columbus
General Senate
Motors Corporations
Senator Langer
Worlhairman
United Emergency 3S
Ohio State States Steel
Journal
Wall Street
House of the Paper
Alfred “ Sloan Morean
Langer
Robert Brawley Dies and Funeral Set
Robert G. Brawley, 78, died Thursday at his home on Amesville Route 1 after illness. He was Ames Township resident, member of Amesville Grange and longtime Ames community secretary. Funeral services are Sunday at 2 PM at Amesville Methodist Church with burial in Amesville Cemetery. Friends may call at Fawcett Stone Funeral Home. Visiting Stalin London Dispatch notes De Gaulle arrives in Russia for talks with Marshal Stalin.
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Columbus
Pegualicens
Ohio State Senate
Frank E. Whittemore
Robert G. Brawley
Axton
General Assembly
Can- Calentine
Amesville
Venes
Lawrence Kane
Edward H
Jennie McCallum
Brawley
Ames Township
Kane
Albert L
Daniels
Greenfield
Fred Roy
secre\Serbert
St. Marys
Tom Jones
Tary
Middleport
Fred Adams
Green Township
Bartlett Academy
Amesville Methodist
Fawcett- Stone Funeral
No Changes Planned In Food Point Values
The QPA said today current food point values will be unchanged as the new ration period begins Sunday. The Wart Food Administration rejected CPA proposals to place most point free meat and some major varied vegetables back on the ration list.
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Washington
QPA
Wart Food Administration
CPA
Eisenhower Delays Allied Drive Until Shells Arrive
General Eisenhower postponed a major offensive awaiting sufficient artillery and ammunition as Secretary Stimson outlined supply bottlenecks. He cited rail and port limitations, Europe’s heavy ammunition use, and the need for overwhelming artillery support to reduce casualties. The Antwerpport opening could ease deliveries to the front.
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Washington
Eisenhower
War Stimson
Stimson
Europe
EL Paso
Texas
Albert B
France
Harding
Great Britain
Rhine
Eisenhower i
United States
Antwerp
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Montreal
Quebec
Vatican
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Madison Theater
Joseph C. Shouvlin
Ltcaf
James D. Perley
Army Service Forces
Regional War Production Board
Ronderoth
Ubach
Alsdorf
Wurseiene
Aashhen
Belgium
Eupen
Miles
Kosiar
Mezerha
Aldenhoven
Bourheim @ Hongen Indeng
Weigweiler
Eschweile
Stolberg
Tor
Ost
Ene
Ederzier
Grosshat
Beek
Bricker
U.S. Air Force
General Motors
Robert Brawley
Solon
Stalin
Gen DeGaulle
Russia
Marshal Stalin
Albert B. Fall
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