Allied Armies Advance On 400 Mile Front In Pacific War Dispatch
Allied forces push along a 400 mile front as Japanese defense mounts with Home Ministry forming a liaison council to handle air raid disasters. Tokyo reports large scale air assaults anticipated while American air power harasses targets across the Ryukus and Philippines fronts.
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Fifth Army Seizes Modigliana After Tough Fight
Rome up Fifth Army troops have occupied Modigliana nine miles south of a major road junction. Allied headquarters say several prior assaults were repelled by fiercely fighting German troops in a week long defense.
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Classified Ad Reminder and Contact Instructions
A brief advertising note urges readers to phone before 3 to place an ad for the Sunday section. It highlights a contact number 0242 and emphasizes prompt submission to ensure publication. The message stresses urgency and provides the dialing detail for ad placement.
Talks of reconversion delay peace say war mobilizer Byrnes
War mobilizer James F. Byrnes warned that talk of reconversion could prolong hostilities. Republicans and Democrats fear shortages as plans for peacetime production push forward. Byrnes suggested a strong postwar organization to follow the war and indicated reconversion plans may be kept quiet until Germany’s collapse is assured.
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Vinton County Welfare Department Is Created
The State Service Commission announced a director candidate exam for the new Vinton County Welfare Department to be held at 9 00 p m EST December 8 at the McArthur courthouse. Miss Gertrude Jones, commission chairwoman, said county commissioners consolidated welfare administration including aid to dependent children and aid to the blind under the new county department.
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State Will Service Commission
Vinton County
Commentator Boake Carter Dead After Stroke
Hollywood mourns radio figure Boake Carter a well known commentator who attracted large audiences and critics. He appeared healthy but fell ill after his daily program and suffered a stroke en route to a hospital where he died soon after admission.
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Sudden Heath
Boake Carter
Robot firing subs ready to hit U S shores
A London Daily Mail dispatch from Stockholm reports German U boats and surface ships along the Norwegian coast are fitted to fire robot bombs from their decks against targets in New York Philadelphia or towns farther inland, signaling a potential Atlantic invasion capability.
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3500 Bombers Blast Nazis On Approaches to Rhine
Allied air power with 3500 bombers hit German defenses along the Rhine in a five hour prelude to a winter offensive. American and British aircraft dropped vast tonnages of fragmentation bombs near Aachen, forming a long, wide corridor. Hundreds of German prisoners were reported taken as the attack disrupted enemy positions and troops in the area.
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Bricker Says GOP Setback Is Temporary
Ohio Governor John W Bricker told the Pennsylvania council of Republican Women in Harrisburg that the GOP setback from the November election is temporary. He urged sustaining the two party system, private enterprise, and tax readjustment, saying Americans will free themselves from bureaucracy once the world is freed from autocracy. He noted the Dewey Bricker ticket drew 21 000 000 votes, nearly half the popular vote outside the South.
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Casualty totals rise past two hundred thousand in Europe
The War Department reports ground force casualties in Western Europe now exceed 200,000. As of November 1 the total reaches 200,349 with 35,884 killed, 145,788 wounded, and 18,677 missing. The figure, not including the air force, covers Seventh Army operations in Southern France and northern fronts, up 25,589 from last month. The dead number rose by 6,042, the wounded by 15,561, and the missing by 3,966.
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War Department
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Lausche and Bricker urged to meet over postwar Ohio projects
Lt. Gov. Paul M. Herbert as chairman of the Ohio Westwar Program Commission said Governor-elect Frank J. Lausche of Cleveland and Gov. John W. Bricker should sit with the commission sub committee chairmen to consider contemplated public works for Ohio after the war. Bricker would furnish much of the background for the talks.
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Frank J. Lausche
Cleveland
John W. Bricker
Ohio
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Herbert
Bricker
Yanks and Nazis Divide German Border Town
Stolberg Germany Nov 10 American held Stolberg occupies nine tenths of the town while Germans hold one tenth and quarrel over it. Civilians flee or hide as both sides shell and street fight. Private Chris Kacoyanis recalls capturing German guards and predicts a Nazi defeat by Christmas.
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Red Cross
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Somerville
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Autoaccident fatality of local rail official in Charleston
Hobson, master at the New York Central Railroad, died in Charleston Hospital seven weeks after a car crash. Survived by his wife and daughter Paula Jean. Funeral services at 2 p.m. Sunday at Rawlings Coates Funeral Home with Beach Grove Cemetery interment. Friends may gather after 11 a.m. Saturday. Masonic rites Saturday evening. He was active in Middic ort civic life and a member of the Masonic Fraternity and the Eagles.
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Charleston
Paula Jean
Rawlings-Coates
Beach Grove Cemetery
Britton
Middicort
Masonic Fraternity
Eagles
Phone Operators Strike Hits Columbus Dayton Toledo
Dayton union affiliated workers walked out early opposing out of town operators at Columbus and Toledo in sympathy. About 600 Dayton operators affected, with emergency calls only and controversy over hiring out-of-town staff and pay.
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Dayton
Toledo
Paul Denning
Jeanette Reedy
Southwestern Area Council
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Rayton
Soviet Stand Restated Amid Coexistence Policy
A Soviet statement reiterates nonintervention in other states and upholds coexistence of two systems as Moscow's core policy. It argues free world states are growing stronger and labels communism a propaganda trump card in the peaceful postwar aims.
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Awarded Divorce From Follower of Gen. France
Ohio liquor card users face a three week ration period starting Monday. A waitress, Maria Munir, sought divorce from her husband Yanloning, claiming abuse amid political tension. The case touched on Fascist sympathies and ties to General Franco.
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George N. Graham
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Michfunes
Massive Allied Push Drives West Front Advance
Allied forces in a huge offensive along a 400 mile western front push toward Cologne and the Ruhr. Four American armies gain up to two miles amid rain and snow, while British Second Army clears the Roer and advances to the Rhine frontier as Roosevelt urges youth training and national defense readiness.
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Flying Bombs and Allied Advances Near German Front Lines
Army reports describe Nazi use of flying bombs amid heavy air and artillery battles as American and Soviet forces push near Aachen and along the Rhine. German defenses stiffen with barricades and wire as the Seventh and Ninth Armies advance, threatening key rail hubs and towns along the frontier. The Baltic Fleet lashes out against German ships as Soviet forces widen river crossings and push toward Budapest and Vienna. Byrnes confirms a second term as director of war mobilization.
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Accidents Wipe Out Family in Georgia Tragedy
A Georgian family suffered multiple fatalities when a home fire two years earlier claimed Mrs. J. P. Anderson and two of her children. Then Wednesday night a grade crossing collision killed nine year old Billy and his father.
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Catamounts Haunt Kentucky School Pupils Threaten Truancy
Vanceburg Kentucky farmer Joseph Johnson vows to appeal to the Lewis County School board to learn if catamounts justify his children’s truancy. Judge Taft Stone warns that the children must attend school. Johnson reports pets and livestock terrified by night cat sightings and foxholes in response. Separately, the Polish National Committee of Liberation claims to have divided 365 Polish estates and partly split up 340 others under agrarian reform orders from Lublin.
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Joseph Johnson
Lewis County
Fonra
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Taft Stone
Moscow
Polisnational Committee of Liberation
Isatchen
Lublin
Gallia County Riverman Drowns After Boat Fall
Aerman Campbell, 22, son of Mr and Mrs John Campbell of Eureka Gallia County, fell from the Progress into the Ohio River last night and drowned. The body was recovered near a yard where locomotives were present. Harry Amos, 51, a skilled worker, was involved at Steubenville in the same area.
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Aerman Campbell
John Campbell
Eureka
Ohio River
Campbell
FDPs Alleged Profanity Denied by Poll Worker
AYDE PARK NY Mildred M Todd a Democrat section inspector said she did not hear President Roosevelt use profanity or any words while he was voting in the booth A News magazine Time described the incident noting a machine noise and a shouted profanity Missouri Glendale California Ministerial Association sent a letter asking the President to apologize for alleged shocking profanity and seek public forgiveness from constituents and friends worldwide.
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Borrowed Money Is Repaid After 50 Years
POINT PLEASANT. An old friend of attorney E. J. Somerville sent a check for 12 dollars to settle a 3 dollar loan made half a century ago. He explained there were 50 years of interest at the legal rate, West Virginia’s six percent annual, totaling nine dollars in interest. The debtor claimed ownership of a small bluegrass farm and admitted he was in the wrong to delay repayment.
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Somereville
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