Chinese push deep in Burma and bonds drive opens
Chinese troops press into Burma near Mangshi and Liuchow in a wide offensive while in Mercer county a Sixth War Loan bond drive opens with a Colonial theater parade and auction. Local leaders report bond sales nearing one hundred thousand dollars as refugees flood from conflict zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Theater
Mercer County
Lowing
Ramsey School
Chamber of Commerce
River Legion
Kee
AFL Opens Annual Meet In New Orleans
William Green of the American Federation of Labor spoke at the AFL annual convention in New Orleans urging higher wages to sustain postwar prosperity. He said workers must generate income to pay public debt, noted 1300000 AFL members in uniform, and predicted returning service members would be welcomed without separate formation fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
William Green
Peechans
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Municipal Auditorium
America
Green
CIO
Labor
Latest Totals Of Popular Vote Shown
Totals of the Nov. 7 election show Roosevelt with 24,396,261 votes and Dewey with 31,676,416. The two major parties total 45,677, files. official canvass proceeds under state law and will be completed by mid December per the Association data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waseaten
Roosevelt
Dewey
Assoc
War Voter Act Held Invalid by Virginia Court
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled the 1944 War Voters Act unconstitutional citing its poll tax funding structure and registration provisions for armed service members. The Norris appointment to the state corporation commission was also declared void from the outset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Robert O. Norris, Jr
State Corporation Commission
General Assembly
Supreme Court
George L. Browning
Norris
John W. Eggleston
House of Representatives
Miners Rescued After 20 Hours In West Virginia Mine
Two miners Floyd Jeffries and Louis Daunch were rescued unharmed after spending about 20 hours behind a brattice shielding them from fumes in Ridgeview Boone County. State Mines Chief Jesse Redyard led efforts as crews navigated an air path around a stubborn fire that began around 11:30 a m yesterday. The Ridgeview Coal Company mine employs roughly 150 workers and the rescue concluded as the fire was being controlled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgeview
W. Va
State Mines
Jesse Redyard
Boone County
Floyd Jeffires
Louis Daunch
Ridgeview Coal Company
Jeffries
Forgmen
Russians Drive in Hungary as Latvia Front Fights Intensify
Russian forces broke into the outskirts of Miskolc Hungary and advanced along eastern and western escape routes from the city while Berlin reported a major new winter offensive in Latvia with 300000 Germans in pockets and up to a million troops massed on the front. The drive near Jelgava and Liepaja was described as fierce, and the operation was hailed as the first of Stalin’s promised new blows in the east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Burma
Mangshi
Seind
Kwangsi Province
Liuchow
Manchuria
Hong
Tokyo Radio In
FCC
U. Air Force
Chine
Nanning
Yungning
Ape
China
Kwangsi
Japan
Bhamo
Hangshin
Umnan
Callant
London
Miskolc
Hungary
Berlin
Red Army
Latvia
Moscow
Jelgava
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Ukraine
Csaba
Szirma
Priekule
Liepaja
Stalin
Andrei Yeremenko
Ivan Maslennikov
Riga
Ernst von Hammer
Courland Peninsula
DNB
Carrier Planes Destroy 188 Japanese Planes Near Manila
U S Pacific Fleet reports carrier air group destroyed 188 Japanese planes in the Manila area during a rapid strike. Losses to enemy fighters were light. several ships and tankers were damaged or sunk. Total Japanese aircraft destroyed in Philippines this month reaches 731 in air and ground actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Charlies H. McMurtry
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Chester W
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Nimitz
Adm
J. & McCain
South Pacific
Naval Air Chief
Washington
Manta Bay
Japan
Laizon
Luzon
Tion
Leyte
Wes
Tans
Canes
Nimitzia
Kurile Islands
Niuru
Typhoon grips Leyte Island in fierce fighting
General MacArthur's headquarters reported a third Leyte typhoon as American infantrymen of the 32nd division battled a Japanese counter attack around Limon in the Ormoc corridor. Rain and floods hinder movements while American airmen press offensive and defensive operations against Japanese lines and installations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte Island
Ormec
Limon
Leyte
Ormoc
Ormoc Highway
Imperial First
Ormoc Road
Carigara Bay
Wildcats On The Loose Close Off Vanceburg School
In Vanceburg Kentucky farmer Joseph Johnson obtained permission to keep his children home from school for several days due to wildcats roaming the Queens district. Superintendent Thomas Rowland explained no law allows home absence for wildlife but noted safety concerns for students traveling three miles to attend classes. Johnson proposed using dogs to hunt the cats, saying local dogs fear the beasts. the official response acknowledged no clear solution beyond protecting children from harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanceburg
Joseph Johnson
Queens
Eee Johnson
Orville
Selby
Lewis County
Thomas
Rowland
Louis
Edward
Ark
Johnson
Frenchman Admits Slaying 63 Gestapo Agents and Traitors
Paris reports Dr. Marcel Petiot testified he killed 63 people, 30 Gestapo, the rest traitors, in a sprawling courtroom narrative. He described plots across three continents and a offered secret weapon he claimed to have proposed to the American consul. He hinted at details to come about aiding Allied escape routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gestapo
Paris
Marce
Petiot
Gestapore
Uni
2000 Planes Raid Germany In Multi-Force Offensive
United States and Allied air fleets struck Germany with about 2000 planes bombing two synthetic oil plants and a strategic rail yard while fighters harassed retreating Nazi troops. Additional raids targeted Ruhr industry and Silesia oilworks as bombers concentrated on Scheven-Buer plant and Brenner Pass routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
U. S
Ruhr
Lth
Upper Silesia
Blechhammer
Eighth Airforce
England
Schelven-Buer
Welsenkirchen
Siegfried Line
Brenner Pass
Nowneee
Congress to vote against V E Day celebration
Rep. Brehm of Ohio says he will introduce a resolution asking Congress to oppose any celebration of victory when Germany surrenders. He argues V Day should not be treated as the war’s end and notes the ongoing fight in the Pacific, urging respect for servicemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Germany
Rep
Brehm
Ohio
Pacific
Brother of Local Woman Wounded in France
Mrs. W. T. Underwood of Virginia Court was notified by the war department that her brother Pfc. Arthur Hall of Roanoke Virginia was wounded in action in France. Hall has four and a half years in the army and has been overseas six months after training at Camp Wheeler Georgia. He attended Roanoke schools and worked for Peterman Contract company before enlisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Underwood
Virginia Court
War Department
Pfc
Arthur Hall
Roanoke
France
Hall
Camp Wheeler
Peterman Contract Company
Court overturns liquor illegal purchase ruling in Virginia case
The Virginia Court of Appeals held Pardue not guilty of unlawfully acquiring liquor under the ABC act because the liquor was legally sourced. The court ruled proof must show illegal acquisition and noted the absence of state stamps does not, alone, prove illegality. The decision emphasizes that intent and source matter more than mere quantity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chic Geevened
Aew Virginia
State Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
Fi Vem Court of Appeals
Santine Henry W. Holt
M. Pardue
Circuit Court of
Princess Anne
Winskey
Pardue
Maryland
New, Jersey
District of Colurfibia
Slayer Sentenced To 25 Years In Norfolk Murder
Edward David Pelletier 19 formerly of Billings Montana was sentenced to 25 years for murder in Norfolk County Circuit Court after pleading guilty to killing Richard E Baughan a Norfolk firefighter. The case arose from an incident on Sewell Point Road on Sept 15 and Pelletier claimed self defense. a separate robbery charge against him was continued to January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Edward David Pelletier
Billings
Mont
Norfolk County
Richard E. Baughan
Sewell Point
Pelletier
Fort Byagg
M. D. Wright
A. B. Carney
Commonwealth
A. O. Lynch
Conta
Baughan
Ting Paney
Allied drives breach German southern flank toward Swiss frontier
Allied forces under Eisenhower push into the Rhine land and Saar basin cracking the Metz line. French first army and Patton's third and the British second advance toward the Rhine while Metz defense collapses, Patton’s corps two miles inside Germany near the Saar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
D. Eisenhower
Rhineland
Saar Basin
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Metz
Belfort
Rhine
George 8. Patton
U. S
Germany
Thionville
Sear River
Merzig
Third Army
Patton
Doughboys
Vosges
First
CIO Calls for Revision of Wage Formula at Chicago Convention
At the seventh CIO convention in Chicago Philip Murray urged revision of the Little Steel wage formula saying labor and management should cooperate and avoid constant conflict The session also featured Bishop Bernard J Sheil praising social unity and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt urging women’s participation and education for better citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
CIO
Philip Murray
Congress
Alo
Sheil
Bernard J. Sheil
Archdiocese of
Brotherhood of Free Men
Murray
Eleanor Roosevel
Roosevelt
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Bluefield
Colonial Theatre
W. F. Hendricks
Minnie Waver
Cris Barton
Hong Kong
Lewey O. Treadway
North Africa
Sicily
A .A. Angrist
State Guards
Treadway
Janie Marie Lambert
WHIS
Princeton
Kiel Alderson
Mercer County War Loan Committee
Alderson
Mickey Owenby
Jack White
Juanita Robey
Henry Fortune
Rosemary Tickle
Billy Wassum
Colonia
Fortune
Sr W
Red Cross
WAC
State Guard Company
Mercer
Wafl
Virginia High Court
Ausoiang Open Drive
North
W. W. Hercher
PFI
Gaetion
Britain
Europe
Slayer
Dhe
Prisesn
Belfort Gap
By Austin Bealmear
Roer River
Aachen
Heistern
Wenau
Hurtgen Forest
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