Japanese convoy destroyed near Leyte as 4,000 die
U S forces under General MacArthur report a four-ship Japanese convoy bound for Leyte destroyed off Masbate. About 4,000 Japanese soldiers drowned, two transports sunk, an escort vessel sunk, and a 6,000 ton transport beached and burning. The 32nd division crossed the Leyte river at Limon and pushed toward Ormoc amid heavy resistance and air attacks.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Safturay
Leyte Island
Douglas MacArthur
Masbate
Leyte River
Limon
Ormoc
Leyte
Thunderbolt
Ator Tempts
U. S
Ormac
Hull Award Presented to Cordell Hull at Dinner
President Roosevelt honored Cordell Hull with the Variety Clubs of America humanitarian award at a Washington dinner. Roosevelt sent a message due to illness and Acting Secretary of State Stettinius accepted on Hull’s behalf from Bethesda Naval Hospital. Byrnes and Stettinius spoke on global cooperation and the proposed world organization charter.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Variety Club
Cordell Hull
Variety Clubs of America
Organization of Amusement Industry
Huil
Var
Bethesda
Stettinius
United States
Latin
Russia
Tokyo War Industries Damaged Heavily by U S Bombers
American B29 Superfortresses based on Saipan raided Tokyo in daylight striking the Musashina aircraft factory and other plants. Recon photos showed fires burning in central Tokyo with limited enemy air resistance. About 70 planes or more took part, with most returning safely according to the army air forces communique.
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Vern Waughland
U. S
Saipan
Tokyo
Japan
Musashina
Army Air Forces
Pacific Ocean
Marianas Islands
United States
Jimmy Doolittle
Tierney to Head See Page 2
Two Washington forecasters forecast little tax relief for mining and industry under the Democratic administration. President Edward R. Burke warned of a long death struggle for business while lawmakers noted few new faces in the administration. Laur ence E. Tierney Jr. was elected president of the State Mines Institute.
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Bluefield
Coal Institute
Industry
Charleston
W. Va
Washington
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers Association
West Virginia Coal Mining Institute
Nan C. Mulligan
National Coal Association
Volks Ald Op Congress
Nedition
British Expand Bridgeheads Near Faenza in Italy
British troops drive to widen five newly won bridgeheads on the Senio River southeast of Faenza. German counterattacks and heavy artillery shell the Bologna Rimini corridor while tanks cross streams to support advance. Monte Ricci taken. Adriatic flank patrols push south of Ravenna. Montone River line holds as Fifth Army reports light patrols.
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Rome
Faenza
Bologna
Ame
Bologna-Rimini
Monte Ricci
Marenzo
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Ravenna
Montone
Ravena
Fifth Army
Four of quintuplet girls die at birth in Brazil
In Curtibia at Vitor Amaral maternity hospital physicians reported four of the quintuplet girls, born Wednesday night, were dying. The fifth infant had died at birth. The mother Felicia Zachesca of San Mateus was doing well as the babies weighed about one pound each.
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Rio de Janeiro
Vitor Amaral Maternity Hospital
Curtibia
Felicia Zachesca
San Mateus
Victory Ends Lend-Lease Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt told Congress that lend-lease ends with victory and urged matching dollars for dollars in final allied support. He stressed that aid is wartime and that courage and sacrifice have no monetary measure. Secret talks in Washington also near a 5.5 billion program to Britain for 1945 based on a Europe end in early 1945 and continued aid against Japan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Britain
United Nations Partnership
Europe
CIO Presses Wage Catch-Up and Attacks War Labor Board
The CIO urged the government to accelerate wage increases to match living costs as Philip Murray was reelected CIO president for a fifth term. He attacked the Little Steel formula author Dr. George W. Taylor and criticized the War Labor Board members and Byrnes Vinson for alleged mismanagement while urging Taylor to resign. The CIO convention adopted resolutions on wage policy relaxation and board procedure and reelected officers including James G. Carey as secretary treasurer.
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Chicago
CIO
Philip Murray
War Labor Board
George W. Taylor
WLB
Murray
War Labor, Board
James F. Byrnes
M. Vinson
Taylor
James G. Carey
War in Brief: Allied Advances Across Multiple Fronts
AP reports heavy bombing damage at Tokyo factory areas. In the Pacific allied forces destroy a convoy to Leyte as U S troops clash with resistance on Leyte river. In Europe U S troops and French armor push Germans from Strasbourg and near Rhine crossing, while Soviet forces overrun German garrisons on Saare. In Italy the Eighth Army breaches across Cosina. In Asia Japanese claim an airfield near Nanning and Chinese push toward Bhamo in central Burma.
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U. S
Tokyo
Leyte Island
Philippines
Leyte
Leyte River
Asiatic Front
Nannin
Chungking Army
Kwangsi Province
Burma
Prisoner Counts Soar as Allied Push Captures Germans
Allied forces report over 40,600 German prisoners taken since the winter offensive began on the western front. American Third Army leads with 20,409 captives as Patton’s units push from Nov. 8, with Devers Sixth Army Group adding 10,000 plus. Ninth Army tallies 6,156, while British Second and American First are each believed to exceed 2,000.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Third Army
Patton
Sixth Army
T. Jacob L. Devers
15Th Corps
Voges
Rhine
Ninth
Mercer Man Among West Virginia Men Killed In Action
Washington reports a War Department release listing 45 West Virginia soldiers killed in action in Europe. Included are Pvt. Claude Chafin of Thacker Mines and Pfc. David Stocchi of Crumpler, with family identifications. Whittaker of Duhring was confirmed killed in action on Sept. 15 in France.
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Mercer
West Virginia
Washington
War Department
Army
Claude Chafin
Larry FE. Chafin
Thacker Mines
George M. Scharder
Davis
Schader
Biluefield
David Stocchi
Julia Stocchi
Crumpler
John H
Daily Telegraph
Whittaker
Duhring
France
Senate probes cigarette shortage for war effort
The senate war investigating committee will start a preliminary inquiry immediately into the cigarette shortage. A full-dress quiz may be sanctioned next week to assess limited supplies for fighting men overseas and U S workers. Senator Ferguson urged the probe calling the shortage a blow to the war effort. Chairman Mead supported the recommendation. Neither senator smokes cigarettes.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
United States
Ferguson
Mich
Mead
N. Y
Gen Henri Giraud Returns To Metz In Triumph
General Henri Giraud returns to Metz, his former hometown, after serving with the U S Third Army. He had vowed not to wear medals until Metz was liberated, resuming his full honors upon return.
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Henri Giraud
Metz
U. S
France
Soviets seize Saare island as Baltic forces push Germans back
Soviet and Estonian units cleared the fortified Estonian island of Saare in the Gulf of Riga, enabling future amphibious operations. Red airmen sank four German warships and damaged four others offshore. Berlin claimed Russians threw 52 divisions across Latvia front amid peak violence, while Moscow reported gains in Czechoslovakia and Jiangary and warned of reinforcements for further Baltic attacks.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Saare
Osel
Gulf of Riga
Moscow
Riga Gulf
Germany
Baltic
Latvia
Berlin
Czechslovakia
Jdiangary
East Prussia
War Bond Sale Prizes Listed in Sixth West Virginia Drive
West Virginia announces prizes for the Sixth War Loan campaign. County with the highest per cent over its E bond quota wins a B-29 model, while the top county in individual E bond sales gets a B-24 Liberator replica. Four prizes include a Hancock county per capita trophy and a nine by fifteen foot American flag for the largest oversubscription. Total E bond sales reach 3 693 023 by Thanksgiving, 18 percent of the 21 000 000 goal. individual sales total 5 713 425, 15 percent of 39 000 000.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State War Finance
A. C. Spurr
Tokyo
Spurr
Hancock County
Bond Sales Move Forward On Five Billion Drive
Washington reports the wartime drive to borrow five billion dollars from Mr. and Mrs. America advancing with 563 million already in the treasury vault. Officials say more sales in the Sixth War Loan are coming in and likely to affect totals next week.
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Washington
America
Treasury
Eisenhower seeks 100 percent rise in small arms ammo
General Eisenhower appeals to the War Production Board for a 100 percent increase in small arms ammunition citing fourfold use by troops. WPB Chairman J A Krug says production will double at 13 plants to meet urgent battlefield needs and a 77 000 worker expansion is planned, reversing a year long cutback.
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Washington
Eisenhower
War Production Board
WPB
J. A. Krug
Krug
Nazis Remove High Officer In Eastern Front Shuffle
London reports Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz removed from command in eastern France as Allied gains threaten the Alsace front. Berlin commentators admit Strasbourg entry and street fighting but claim central attacks persist and re opening lines by the French first army is blocked. If confirmed the move shortens the western front split between Model in the north and Balck in the south.
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London
Johannes Blaskowitz
France
Strasbourg
Raine
Berlin
Vorges
Belfort
Mulhouse
Blaskowits
West Front
Walther Model
Hermann Balck
Alsace
Rhine
Eisenhower
U. S. First Army
Weisweiler
Germany
Cologne
Courtney H. Hodges
First
Hurtgen Forest
Aathen
Social Security Freeze Tilt Seen on Capitol Hill
Washington reports backers of freezing social security taxes at current levels won committee approval to consider such legislation. The measure faces a presidential veto risk and follows years of Congress rejecting automatic tax increases. The coal act renewal faced a 15 to 9 vote against revival despite Roosevelt urging renewal to avoid market chaos.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Capitol Hill
78Th Congress
Congress
Rep
Knutson
R-Minn
Pact to Control Germany Signed in London
British, American and Russian representatives reach a postwar military occupation plan for Germany with separate American British and Russian zones and a future common capital council. France seeks Ruhr and left bank Rhineland participation though top posts remain with the three powers.
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Washington
London
Germany
Allied Council
Stettinus
Moscow
Reich
East Prussia
Austria
Berlin
Supreme Allied Council
France
Ruhr
Rhine
Capitol Barber Braden Retires After 33 Years With Congress
Bert Braden known as the house barber for the U S Capitol, retires at 77 after 33 years of shaving congressmen. He exits the barber shop with a farewell glance and a photo from World War I, plans to smoke his pipe in retirement.
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Washington
Bert Braden
Joe” Cannon
House
Speaker Cannon
Braden
Bert
Congress
New York State
Washin
Capitol
Allied Crossing of the Rhine Signals Major Front Push
Allied forces report across the Rhine near Strasbourg with French and American units advancing into Germany. U S First Army presses toward Cologne while Ninth and Third armies push toward Julich and Saarbrucken amid German resistance and robot bomb attacks.
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Western
U.S
Strasbourg
Germany
Rhine
Cologne Plain
U. S
Weisweiler
Insirmany
Pvt James M Price Reported Missing in Action in France
Pvt James M Price of Bluefield is reported missing in action in France since November 8, per the War Department. He and his wife and three children live at 635 College Avenue. he trained at Camp Blanding, transferred to Meade, and has been overseas eight weeks.
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James M. Price
Bluefield
France
War Department
Private Price
Kitty
Betty
Marsha
College Avenue
Bulah T. Price
Re Y H L. Price
Price
Camp Blanding
Fla
Meade, Ne Des
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