British Eighth Army Captures Two Towns on Rome Road
Allied reports say Montgomery's Eighth Army seized Pietro Avellana and Vastogirardi four miles into central Italy as they push toward the Sangro River line. Archi and Castel San Vincenzo were also taken, tightening the grip near the German winter front.
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Eighth Army
Algiers
Italy
Bernard L. Montgomery
Nouay
Pietro Avellana
Agnone
Vastogirardi
San Pietro Avellana
Alfedena
Castel Sangro
Rome
Castel di Sangro
Sir Alexander
Nings
Chiusi
Rome-Florence
Gaeta
Thhe
Tyrrhenian
Lanciano
Sibenik
Yugoslavia
Vorre
Durazzo
Albania
Porto Civitanova
Pedaso
Guilianova
Loreto
Ancona
Archi
Castel San Vincenzo
Rocchetta
Sangro
Montgomery
Adriatic
War Labor Board proposes new miners overtime formula
The War Labor Board announced a formula to calculate overtime pay for coal miners and related workers. It would yield lower take home earnings, about 57.07 dollars for a six day period, compared with the Interior Department proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Warner Board
Lary
Interior
Ickes
Rman
William H. Davis
WLB
Soviet Magazine Condemns Japanese Pro Nazi Leanings
Moscow Soviet War and the Working Class denounces Japanese extremist elements aiding Germany and notes Japan signed a five year pact in Moscow in 1941, with Russia keeping its hands off the Pacific War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
War and
Japan
Russia
Gery
Rusapan
Aleutians Route to Tokyo Emphasized by Army Chief
Brigadier General Post, chief of staff of the Army's Alaskan Department, states that the main route to Tokyo lies through Alaska and the Aleutians. He praises the health and morale of troops and notes families with sons in the service should be thankful they are there as their men work hard with little rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Alaska
Aleutians
D. Post
Army
Ohio
General Post
Youth 17 Held for Questioning in Death of Girl 15
Albert Hawkins 17 of Washington D D H is jailed for questioning after an autopsy found a drug in the stomach of 15 year old Gladys Zimmerman of Atlanta. Hawkins says he picked her up Saturday evening in Washington D C and spent the night with her before discovering her dead.
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Washington, C. H
W. H. Eisenhauer
Fayette County
Albert Hawkins
Washington D. H
Gladys Zimmerman
Atlanta
Pickaway County
Eisenhauer
Charles Radcliff
Hawkins
Miss Zimmerman
Harry Zimmerman
Washington D. C
LaGuardia Faces Removal Demand Over Crime Handling
A New York civic group calls for Mayor Fiorello H LaGuardia to be removed, alleging misfeasance shown in his Bedford Stuyvesant crime handling as he defended himself on a weekly radio broadcast and before Governor Thomas E Dewey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
F. H. LaGuardia
Brooklyn
Bedford- Stuyvesant
Thomas E. Dewey
LaGuardia
Civic League
Solon's Death Halts Work On Anti-Subsidy Measure
Washington AP report notes Rep. Ditter's death in a plane crash delayed House action on a subsidy ban. Speaker Rayburn postponed business 24 hours as lawmakers mourned, delaying debate on the subsidy bill and the new tax measure. The coal oil bloc pressed OPA changes amid fights over coal miners pay and food price controls. Rep. Jenkins said the anti subsidy measure could pass once there is floor time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ditter
Rayburn
Tex
Pennsylvania
Columbia
OPA
War Labor Board
Ickes
United Mine Workers
House Agriculture Committee
Republican Food Study Committee
Rep
Jenkins
Ohio
Ohio Welfare Bureau Seeks New Workers
State Welfare Director Herbert Mooney warned of a serious staffing shortage in Ohio social service programs and urged college authorities to recruit social work majors. Civil service exams for the divisions of aged care and social administration will be held December 8 and 9 in multiple cities with over 300 positions open. applications are due by November 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Herbert R. Mooney
Ohio
Mooney
State Division of Aid For
State Division of Social Administration
Athens
Canton
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Dayton
Toledo
State Civil Service Commission
Canada Miners Get Pay Raise
An Alberta and British Columbia miners wage dispute ends with a commission ordering a dollar-a-day raise retroactive to November 1 and two weeks paid vacation after a year of service. District 19 United Mine Workers members had sought two dollars daily plus time and a half for overtime. the commission left that overtime request unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Alto
Alberta
British Columbia
District 19
United Mine Workers of America
Yale Expert Sees 19 Billion Tax Bill as Limit
Yale's Professor Fred RK Fairchild told the 36th National Tax Conference that 19 billion dollars annually is the minimum and maximum the nation can bear for postwar debt, plus 10 to 11 more billion in state and local taxes, totaling about 25 percent of a 120 billion income. He warned against balancing budget by unchecked spending and warned this could lead to a totalitarian state without restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fred RK. Fairchild
Yale University
Yanks Learn Italian In Army Newspaper
New York 4 inch lessons in Italian appear in Stars and Stripes edition as soldiers practice syntax and pronunciation with sharp observations to locals. NBC reporter Don Hollenbeck says soldiers joke about civilian life phrases such as I have no fiancée and I was an honest millionaire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Naples
Stars and Stripes
Army
Don Hollenbeck
NBC
America
Mine shaft moves eyed to cut worker travel time
Plans to shift mining shafts closer to coal seams could reduce daily travel by about 45 minutes. An Eastern Ohio mining executive noted current travel wastes about an hour daily, with miners paid for that time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellaire
Ohio
War Wives Warned To Avoid San Francisco
The army and navy wives were cautioned by Robert C. Newell, head of the San Francisco war housing center, to prepare to go to work or stay away. Hotels have limited transient guest stays to five days, affecting service personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Army
Navy
Robert C. Newell
San Francisco War Housing Center
Reds Try To Divert Nazis In Ukraine
Russian forces launch a new offensive aimed at diverting German units in the Korostyshev area west of Kiev as Stalin’s army pushes toward Minsk and Gomel. Soviet reports claim heavy German losses in eight bases near Kremenchug and widespread fighting across the Dnieper bend.
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Moscow
Krivoi Rog
Korostyshev
Ukraine
Kremenchug
Dnieper
Kiev
Zhitomir
Ihon
Pravda
Berezina
White Russia
Rechitsa
Minsk
Minsk-Gomel
Gomel
Korosachev
Korostyshey
Red Army
Berlin
Dnepropetrovsk
Nezabudino
Cherkasy
Kerch
Crimea
McNutt Seeks Roosevelt Veto on Father Draft Delay Bill
The Senate received a house approved measure delaying the father draft and stripping War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of select service powers. McNutt plans to ask Roosevelt to veto the bill if it reaches his desk. The measure delays induction of pre war fathers until non fathers pool is exhausted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Paul McNutt
McNutt
Roosevelt
Navy reports 18 dead in Rio crash of U S transport plane
The Navy announced the deaths of 18 persons in the crash of a U S Naval transport plane 30 miles east of Rio de Janeiro last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rio de Janeiro
Navy
Game Law Violator Pays $305 in Fines and Costs
FINDLAY Walter C. Slattery, 36, of Middletown paid 305 in fines and costs in mayor's court after being charged with violating state game laws on 10 counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Findlay
Walter C. Slattery
Middletown
Marshall Islands battlefronts push toward Japan
In the Pacific the Marshall, Gilbert and Ellice Islands see hard fighting as American forces press from Tarawa and Mekin in the Gilberts toward Japan. The invasion by U S troops continues to intensify across the region.
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Marshall, Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Japan
Mekin
Tarawa Islands
Gilberts
Nine Killed in Pennsylvania Air Mishaps
A Navy plane crashed near Columbia Lancaster County while carrying Rep. Ditter and Lieut. Com. Mansure. Earlier an Army transport wrecked into Locust Mountain near Tamaqua, killing seven. Names of seven died were withheld pending kin notification. Ditter, 55, a Republican from Ambler, was en route with Mansure from Quansett to Willow Grove.
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Columbia
Lancaster County
Ditter
Com
J. Mansure
Locust Mountain
Tamaqua
Third Service
Coaldale Hospital
Ambler
House
Was &N
Mansure
Squantum
Mass
Naval Air Base
Willow Grove
Navy
Poles Threaten To Fight Reds Over Poland Frontier
Washington reports Polish sources warn the Russian army must enter Poland as an ally not a conqueror or face fierce Polish resistance unless Soviet relations with the London Polish Government in exile are restored. Red troops press toward the 1921 frontier, despite Soviet assurances about 1939 borders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Poland
London
Constantine Dumansky
Mexico City
Russia
Yanks Invade Tarawa and Makin in Pacific Campaign
American forces storm Tarawa and Makin in the Gilbert Islands in a push toward Truk with battleships carriers and air support. Tokyo reports heavy fighting as Nimitz says the offensive aims to crush Japanese island strongholds.
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Tarawa
Makin
Great Jap
Truk
Associated Press
Gilbert Islands
Tokyo
United States
Central Pacific
Makin Islands
Japan
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Gilbert Chain
Hawaii
Radio Tokyo
Nippon
Gilberts
Marshalls
Nimitz
American Forces Land on Gilberts in Pacific Invasion
The article describes Allied landings on Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands during World War II. It notes the invasion targeting Betio and Butaritari, the enemy fortifications including artillery and foxholes, and the broader Allied advance from New Guinea through the Solomons toward Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butaritari
Tarawa
Betio
Gilberts
Marshalls
United States
Equator
Pearl Harbor
New Guinea
Solomons
Makin
Allies press advance on Bougainville and Huon Peninsula
American forces push along Bougainville bases with continued gains despite five Japanese air raids on New Guinea. Australian tanks lead east of Sattelberg to oust Japan from Huon Peninsula while Allied bombers strike Rabaul area and Gasmata on New Britain. A Japanese cargo ship burns in Ft. George Channel after navy air attacks. In China, Japanese spearheads near Changteh threaten Changsha as Gen. Glenn notes growing importance of Area No. 1 in the theater.
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Bougainville
Japan
Salmons
New Gainea
Sattelberg
Huon Peninsula
Rabaul
New Britain
Gasmata
Ft. George Channel
New Ireland
Hansa Bay
New Guinea
China
Changteh
Tungting Lake
Edgar Glenn
U. S. 14Th Air Force
New Dust Protects Grain From Weevils
Discovery of a powder that preserves grain by killing weevils with thirst, protecting thousands of times its weight. Reported in Monthly Science News, the wartime Britain journal, noting potential value for U S grain stores and similar use in Britain and Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Great Britain
Australia
Science News
Britain
Postwar Germany plan eyed after Roosevelt Churchill Stalin talks
Allied leaders discuss speeding up a postwar political and economic framework for Germany. A joint study by the European advisory commission is possible to map disarmament and control of German industry while avoiding premature disclosures. No single plan has been decided, but a workable approach is sought if Germany capitulates earlier than expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Roosevelt
Churchill
Joseph Stalin
America
European Advisory Commission
London
Samos Captured by German Forces in WWII East Aegean
Berlin radio reports Samos surrendered to German troops this morning, leaving Castelrosso still under Allied control. Leros fell to the Germans on November 16, part of a broader drive to seal the eastern Balkan flank and reassert control of the Dodecanese islands Cos and four others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Samos
Aegean
Castelrosso
Dodecanese
Leros
Balkan Peninsula
Cos
RCA Radiola 66 For Sale in Athens
For sale a good size floor model RCA Radiola 66 in excellent condition. Originally $175, asking $35. Contact 188 Congress Bireet, Athens or dial 24012.
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