Comment on lend lease and world recovery debate in press
The piece reviews President Roosevelt's stance to end lend lease with the war and explores how postwar reconstruction aid might unfold for Britain and Russia. It highlights concerns about domestic strength, trade, and debt, and praises William L. White's Soviet Russia reportage as a defense of the American system. It closes with a Thanksgiving note on turkey and gratitude.
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Simlar
United States
William L. White
Soviet Russia
White
Middle West
Russia
Moscow
Wwe
Allies Reach Rhine Front as Strasbourg Falls to French Drive
Allied forces push across the flooded Rhine east of Strasbourg with American and French units advancing toward the city. Third Army drives deep toward Saarbrucken while Seventh Army closes on Metz and Le Clerc’s division seizes Strasbourg, trapping tens of thousands of German troops.
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London
Rhine
Strasbourg
Doughboys
Poilus
Gerd von Rundstedt
Cologne
Beeck
Hoven
Geilenkirchen
United States
Ninth Army
Julich
Roer
Holland
Venlo
Inde
Weisweiler
Colognie
Berlin
Upper Rhine
Jacques le Clerc
Guadalcanal
Alexander M. Patch
Second Armored
15Th Corps
Cologne Plain
United States Third Army
Metz
Saar
Saarbrucken
le Clerc
OPA Checks Rising Prices Of Clothing
Washington officials move to curb clothing costs with price ceilings on inexpensive infants and children’s wear and a plan to curb over finishing of cotton and rayon fabrics. The measures, part of a broader drive to hold living costs, include fixed ceilings tied to material allocations and required price markings on garments. Representative prices include boys underwear shorts 38 cents, girls panties 44 cents, girls blouses 1.00 to 1.15, boys pants 1.40 to 1.95, with anti over finishing reducing finished goods by about 1.5 percent.
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Washington
INS
Chester Bowles
War Production Board
Bowles
WPB
OPA
Occasional Rain Seen for Saturday in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids area forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and warmer tonight with occasional rain Saturday. Temperatures remain above freezing with state weather bureau predictions of rain spreading across Iowa, changing to snow in the extreme west.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
State Weather Bureau
Mercury
Itas
Council Bluffs
Atlantic
County Near Two Million War Bond Objective
Linn county nears two million dollars in war bond sales as Cedar Rapids leads with about 1.065 million. Wednesday sales totaled 103,912 with Cedar Rapids at 103,593 and county remainder 318.75. The county quota stands at 9.256 million, Cedar Rapids 8.006 million, remainder 1.25 million. Boy Scouts Sea Scouts and Cub Scouts plan a door to door drive in Cedar Rapids Saturday to boost pledges. Camp Fire girls assist with proceeds to buy an army field ambulance.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
War Finance Committee
Boy Scouts
Sea Scouts
Cub Scouts
Allied winter offensive praised in Soviet press
Moscow reports universal favorable and enthusiastic assessments of the western front winter offensive progress, citing positive remarks in the Russian press about Allied advances and momentum.
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Moscow
INS
Phone Strike Called Off by Union Heads
Washington and other cities saw a rapid end to a planned nationwide telephone operator walkout as unions halted the action after talks with the War Labor Board. Operators in Ohio, Washington, and Detroit returned to work while outside crews and bonuses were discussed. Union presidents Pollock and Gannon ordered immediate termination of the strike.
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Washington
Ohio
Detroit
New York
War Labor Board
WLB
Fred M. Vinson
Robert G. Pollock
Mary E. Gannon
First Ave Bridge Debt Paid Off by City Council
Under council approval the city retired 103000 in bonds including 40000 to finish the First Avenue bridge. Also settled were 3000 in exhibition hall bonds 34000 in memorial bonds 8000 in sewage disposal bonds 13000 in sewer bonds and 5000 in swimming pool bonds.
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Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
German Denies Nazi Peace Feelers to Allies
London dispatches report the German foreign office issued a formal denial that Nazi diplomats in Vatican City were sending peace feelers to the Allies. The denial followed European continent reports cited by stress dispatches on Friday.
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London
Vatican City
Roosevelt seeks end to lend lease with war
President Roosevelt told Congress lend-lease and reverse lend-lease should end with the war. He said the United Nations partnership must go on, noting Britain’s reverse lend-lease aided Allied victory and helped delay the invasion of France. He contrasted monetary totals with the value of courage and sacrifice in winning victory.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Britain
Japan
United Nations
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
India
United States
France
Accidental gunfire wounds man on Thanksgiving hunt
Raymer Mingo 47 of 1844 Zika Ave NW was critically wounded when he stepped into his partner Orville Smiths line of fire while rabbit hunting near Walker on Thanksgiving day. Smith fired a double-barrel shotgun. investigators report Mingo was rushed to St Luke’s Hospital after first aid at Walker.
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Raymer Mingo
Zika Avenue NW
St. Luke's Hospital
Mingo
Orville Smith
Second Avenue SE
Walker
U S General Says He Will Eat Christmas Dinner In Germany
Maj. Gen. Wade Haislip of the U S 15th Corps, famed for the Saverne breakthrough, declared Thursday he would have Christmas dinner somewhere in the middle of Germany.
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London
Wade H. Haislip
United States
15Th Corps
Saverne
Germany
B-29s Hit Tokyo Industrial Targets in Major Raid
Washington said Tokyo fires burned hours after the attack with B-29s striking the Musashina plane plant near the imperial palace and other industrial targets. A second dispatch from Saipan described a massive dawn raid by hundreds of Superfortresses, led by Brig. Gen. Emmett O Donnell, from Marianas bases, marking the first land based attack on Tokyo.
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Washington
INS
20Th Air Force
Tokyo
Musashina
Imperial Palace
Twenty -First Bomber Command
Saipan
H. H. Arnold
Japan
Emmett ‘‘Rosie” O'Donnell
Jamaica
N. Y
West Point
21St Bomber Command
20Th Army Air Force
Marianas
Hayward S. “Possum” Hansell, Jr
San Antonio
Texas
China
Nouncement
United States
Yokohama
O’ Donnell
W. T. Chatman
Panhandle
Cpl
Thomas Bonvici
Bridgesport
Conn
Te Carrier
James Doolittle
Alaska
Nippon
Leyte Allied Tanks Smash Japanese First Division
Allied forces advancing near Ormoc on Leyte reported by Gen Douglas MacArthur as the Japanese First Division suffered terrible losses. American 32nd Division reached the central ridge after capturing Limon and moving toward Ormoc while mop-up operations continued against scattered Japanese pockets in Pinamopoan Capoocan and surrounding areas.
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Allied 4Hdq
Philippines
Ormoc
Limon
Leyte River
Yamashita
Leyte
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Pinamopoan
Capoocan
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