Nazis Attack U S Forces Near Aachen in Hurtgen Forest
U S First Army infantrymen counterattacked German forces at grenade and bayonet range in the Hurtgen Forest southeast of Aachen as Allied warplanes provided close support. Vossenack and Schmidt saw street fighting with control shifting between sides. Efforts to clear the Maas bridgehead and Schelde Estuary approaches continued, with Allied minesweepers preparing Antwerp approaches.
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191 Enemy Aircraft and Six Warships Destroyed in Raid Ree
Allied reports from Tokyo and Manila claim dramatic air and sea losses for Japan including 191 aircraft and six warships sunk or damaged in the Philippines and China theater. U S forces say Superforts bombed Tokyo approaches while carrier planes struck Manila, with Japanese bases on Cebu Negros and Leyte under pressure.
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War era voting image shows Allied advances and record turnout
Allied forces press Walcheren and Berg offensives as 1940 style wartime election sparks unprecedented turnout. Early reports indicate a potential national vote around 50 million with brisk polling across major cities and rural areas amid Roosevelt and Dewey contest.
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Hitler brain operation rumors flare in wartime dispatch
Reports claim Adolf Hitler underwent a brain examination at Berchtesgaden and was moved in a castle near Salzburg. European grapevine accounts describe German forces in a strengthened position in the Netherlands and Hungary while Allied operations press in across Aachen, Moerdijk, and the Hungerian capital.
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African Outruns Wild Antelope
An African animal story describes a tan fan or Eland antelope exhausting itself while fleeing or competing with another animal. The fragmentary text suggests a chase or race scenario highlighting endurance and natural behavior.
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Athou
Election Telephones For Returns At The Messenger
Early indications point to a large turnout across the country and a slow count. The Messenger will provide returns via three telephones 0244 0245 and 0246 though accurate results are not expected for several hours after polls close.
British Reds Support Roosevelt Prompted by Dewey Clash
Across London papers reaction shows British communists and tabloids split on U S politics. London Sunday papers critique Dewey and Roosevelt while warning Nazis would celebrate if Roosevelt falls, underscoring international stakes in the election.
States decide on union shop bans and liquor controls
California Arkansas and Florida vote on outlawing closed union shops today. Nebraska weighs statewide prohibition. North Dakota ballots on two liquor control issues including municipal stores and limits. In Mahoning County, a soldier wallet mixup sent five ballots to a precinct, causing confusion.
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British Officials By Jews at Cairo
CAIRO UP Jewish assassinated Lord Moyne, resident minister in the Middle East. The motive was not known. Moyne's duties concerned almost exclusively relations between Great Britain and Egypt and did not cover other problems in the Middle East.
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Charge Fugitive With Murder and Kidnapping Cleveland
Albert Kei, 29, a fugitive from Apple Greek State Hospital for the Feeble Minded, was held by police on charges of first degree murder and kidnapping in the drowning of a sixteen month old child.
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Albert Keibring Alas Dana Thomas
Apple Greek State Hospital
Welnobers
States Still Accept Soldiers Votes Today
Associated Press reports about 2,652 thousand soldiers requested absentee ballots, with 3,269,000 total ballots cast including civilians. Forty states count GI votes, some after election day, potential to affect the outcome if no candidate surpasses 81 electoral votes.
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New Mexico
Connecticut
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Dakota
Atest
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Tidotheinis
Bricker Ends Ohio Campaign Monday Night
Ohio voters faced a cool cloudy election day with up to three million expected at nine thousand polling places. Governor Bricker closed a 31 state tour with a radio address predicting Dewey’s win and urged Garfield Stewart’s election as governor as returns awaited statewide results.
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Bricker
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Thomas B. Dewey
Neal
James Garfield Stewart
Dewey Home Voters Defy Rain in Owosso Poll Rush
In Owosso Michigan the city sees a great rush of voters at seven in the morning in light rain. Election officials call it the greatest voting rush in the city's history as residents line up at polling places and show familiarity with long machine ballots.
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Dewey
Owosso
Mich
Thomas E. Dewey
Paradoctor preps for practice jump with SAR gear
A Paradoctor of the U S Army 2nd Air Force Search and Rescue unit readies for a training jump. He weighs his portable field equipment while Knask shields his face against possible injury during loading.
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U.S. Army
2Nd Air Force Search and Rescue Group
Knask
Candidates Urge Heavy Vote in War Time Election
In a wartime push to mobilize turnout, Dewey and Roosevelt urge Americans to vote heavily. Dewey from Albany calls for a strong civilian mandate while Roosevelt from New York argues soldiers expect a democratic government. Experts note service votes could swing 16 states with 23 electoral votes, amid talks of a broad congressional contest and key Senate battles.
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Salt Roosevelt
Vode Path
Army
Navy
Congress
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Sears
Barkley
Kentucky
James Park
Wagner D
Thomas J. “Arran
Watch These in The Association States to Watch in Election
The Atlantic Seaboard states New York Pennsylvania New Jersey and Massachusetts are key. The border states Kentucky Maryland Missouri Oklahoma and West Virginia show caution. New York has rarely voted for losers since the Civil War while Pennsylvania shifted only twice since 1864. The United Mine Workers vote could prove pivotal in Massachusetts and New Jersey, with other states doubtful this year. Four of the five border states backed Republicans in 1920, with all five voting GOP in 1928 and Roosevelt winning each of the past three elections.
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United Mine Workers
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Heavy Vote Expected In New England States
Heavy turnout anticipated across Connecticut Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont and Massachusetts as the 40 electoral votes of New England go to the polls after campaigns by Roosevelt and Dewey. The latest indicators suggest a strong voter surge despite partisan forecasts.
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Roos- Welt
Dewey
Liquor Stores and Bars Closed During Ohio Voting
Ohio state liquor stores and bars were shut during voting to prevent distraction as voters marked their choices for local and state offices. Production resumed at Continental Motors Corp and the Freeman Trailer Co after ballots ended the strikes.
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War Pup Brissy Finds New Home After Guam Battle Run
Four month old Aust rier named Brissy, adopted by Comdr J M Cavallos USCG, fled thousands of miles to reach her new home at Consaw Plantations Dale DC. Brissy, veteran of Guam and New Guinea caches, poses at her adoptive country.
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Fate of Party Chiefs May Be Decided Today
Washington dispatch notes that voters choose party lines for the 7th Congress with key figures like Alben Barkley and Taft facing Republican opposition. The outcome hinges on Senate seats and House races as campaigns determine control of the nation’s legislative machinery.
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Senate
Kentucky
Harry S
Ection
Taft
Ohio
Hire
Nye
North Dakota
Dai Her
Connecticut
Davis
Pennsylvania
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Reed
Janeas
Wiley
Wisconsin
Toledo Plants Return to Private Management
Under a War Department order Colonel Philip R. Faymonville announced that army control of Toledo plants has ceased and production has resumed under private management. The dispute involved the Mechanics Pauliational Society of America and the CIO United Automobile Workers.
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Mechanics Pauiational Society of America
CIO
United Automobile Works
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War Department
Col. Philip. R. Faymonville
Stalin urges new UN to avert future wars and secure peace
Stalin praised Soviet advances and Allied unity in Moscow as he marked the Russian Revolution anniversary. He warned Germany nears catastrophe but said victory must be final and called for a new armed United Nations to enforce peace, with major powers working unanimously to prevent anew aggression. He asserted the Red Army faces its final task and will raise the banner of victory over Berlin.
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Antwerp
Netherlands
Germany
France
Marshall Stalin
United States
Moscow
Tina Forts
Stalin
United Nations
League of Alions
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Groat
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Red Army
Berlin
Ihe
Noted gas rationing fraud convictions in 20 and 15 months
Rich B Freed today sent sentenced C Richard Allen former district manager ODT and Robert A Dissauer former chief clerk Local Ration Board No 6 to penitentiary terms of 20 and 15 months respectively for conspiring to make false representations to obtain 70 gasoline coupons. Sentences mark the first pronounced in gasol ine rationing irregularities traced to Local Board 6 by OPA investigators.
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C. Richard Allen
Office of Defense Transportation
Robert A. Dissauer
Office of Price Administration
Nutbush voters report in with straight Democratic ticket
The red voters of Nutbush in the northern part of Vance County kept their time honored pattern and by ten o'clock counted all ballots. Every voter had voted V straight Democratic ticket.
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Women voters may swing 32 states in race for president
Analysis of voter distribution suggests women voters could decide in 32 states with 364 electoral votes well above the 266 needed to win. They could account for more than 60 percent of the total popular vote, influencing the presidential outcome.
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