Third Army Opens New Attack as Japanese Break Yank Line
In the Philippines near Ormoc, Japanese tanks breached an American roadblock to reinforce defenders as the 8th and 24th divisions pressed the assault toward Liromon and Ormoc. American patrols near Limon reported Japanese withdrawals after heavy artillery, though fierce fighting continued at the city outskirts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Army
MacArthur
Hfadtarters
Philippines
Ormoce Road
Limon
Ormoc
Russians Press From Budapest Front Near Matra Mountains
Moscow reports Nazi defenders on the northeast battle line near Budapest yielding ground as Soviet flanking moves push toward the Matra and Buk ranges. The Red Army nears Eger Miskolc Hatvan and Gyoengoes, threatening Hungarian rail towns and key routes on the Budapest Miskolc line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Budapest
Matra
Buk
Eger
Miskolc
Hatvan
Maklar
Fuzesabony
Red Army
Tisza Luc
Karacsond
Kuzesabony
Gyoengoes
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Slovakia
Csany
Air raid alert on Oahu as unidentified planes trigger response
American planes that failed to identify themselves caused Oahu to sound a second longest air raid alert of the war. Anti aircraft fire went up briefly but no planes were shot down. The incident occurred shortly before midnight last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Oahu Island
Japanese Forces Hold Leyte Valley Amid Tough Echoes of Battle
AP war correspondent Fred Hampson reports Simon held by hundreds of Japanese soldiers with diverse weapons near Li and a village south of it. Japanese light and then three large tanks breached a roadblock. two more may have. US troops hold Breakneck Ridge region as Ormoc forces regroup for a possible future stand. Navy summary warns new seaborne invasions of the Philippines appear likely after a decisive victory over Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Hampson
Associated Press
Simon
Liand
Hampson
Limon
Leyte
Washington
Philippine Islands
University Regent Accuses Rainey of Handling Homosexuality Issue
A Texas state senate committee heard regent Orville Bullington claim President Homer P. Rainey failed to weed out a nest of homosexuals in the UT faculty. The hearing examined administration squabbles that led to Rainey’s firing and board resignations amid controversy over campus investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
State Senate
University of Texas
Homer P. Rainey
Orville Bullington
Rainey
Bullington
Stat. Public Safety Det
Regents
Cooley Outlines Grange Agenda At Winston-Salem Meeting
Rep Harold D. Cooley outlines a five point rural program to aid farmers including electrification roads credit price stability and land value stabilization. He calls for long term loans to curb tenancy and stresses soil and forestry conservation as Grange initiates a large class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston Salem
Harold D. Cooley
DNC
National Grange
House Committee On Agriculture
Cooley
AFL Endorses Pepper Bill with Wage Floor View
AFL spokesman Lewis G. Hines told a Senate subcommittee that the AFL backs Pepper’s 65 cent wage floor but favors freeing monthly incomes of 200 dollars or less for family heads from War Labor Board review. He said employers could raise wages to 200 dollars without approval while keeping the 40 cent minimum wage. The Pepper resolution targets substandard straight time under 65 cents an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
AFL
Lewis G. Hines
Senate
William Green
War Labor Board
Pepper
D-Fla
WLB
Congress
Germans Quit Tirana in Albania Evacuation
The official German news agency reported that German forces evacuated Tirana the Albanian capital. Earlier reports from free Yugoslav radio claimed fierce fighting inside the city between patriots and German troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tirana
London
DNB
Albania
Free Yugoslav Radio
Alien Is Forced From Position In Maritime Unit
Ferdinand C. Smith resigns as national secretary of the National Maritime Union because he is an alien and lacked final citizenship papers. NMU president Joseph Curran announced the move saying a union council vote approved the action after scrutiny of his 1918 West Indies entry. Smith remains a union member and will be investigated further by a committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ferdinand C. Smith
National Maritime Union
CIO
Joseph Curran
NMU
Curran
Smith
West Indies
Union
National Council
Germans Erect Peculiar Structures in Norway
Allied informants report Germany building mysterious installations in central Norway mountains. The area is said to be restricted and hundreds of foreign laborers are employed on the projects as potential bases for a secret weapon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Navy
Norway
Santa Claus Leaves Money To Children
George Kitzinger long known as a Christmas charity figure in Atlanta died Friday while still in costume. His will funds youth work with gifts to 4 H clubs providing a yearly honorary award worth 13000 dollars. Other bequests include 15000 dollars in securities and real estate in Grand Rapids to the Ann Lynch home for show people and 7000 dollars for a Kitzinger memorial library at the Northwestern Military and Naval academy in Lake Geneva Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgai
George D. Kitzinger
Securities and Real State
Grand Rapids
Mich
Ann Lynch
Kitzinger
Northwestern Military and Naval Academy
Lake Geneva
Wisconsin
Watch Prices When Buying Your Turkey
The OPA sets Thanksgiving poultry ceilings to prevent overcharging. Live poultry under 4 pounds sells at 38 cents per pound, hens 34, roosters 34, drawn poultry under 22 pounds 59, hens 51, and turkeys sold by farmers for consumers at 44.2 cents per pound live for light, medium and heavy. Report overcharges to local war price and rationing boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
OPA
Johnson
China War Crisis Deepens As Japan Advances In South
The war report notes Japan's rapid push along the Hankow Canton railroad cutting Chinese air bases near it and nearing French Indochina to forge a land route for supplies into China. Moscow and Tokyo exchange sharp words as Stalin’s stance signals a shift that could draw Russia into the Pacific conflict. Major General Wedemeyer has recently taken command amid this developing crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
China
Moscow
Tokyo
Marshal Stalin
Japan
Russai
Stalin
Hankow-Canton
Indo - China
Indonesia
Mikado
Chungking
Wedemeyer
Telephones Hit By Strike in 20 Ohio Cities
In a wave of walkouts by union switchboard operators the Ohio Federation of Telephone Operators called a strike at Dayton affecting long distance service in 20 communities. Dayton reports sparked similar halts in Toledo and other areas while dial systems remained operational. Military bases nearby reported calls handled normally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Dayton
Toledo
Ohio Federation of Telphone Operators
Army Air Forces
Wright and Patterson Fields
Lockborne Army Air Base
Fifth Service Command
Fort Hayes
Jeannette Reedy
Federation
Christmas Eve For Ailing Tot In Cheyenne
Three year old Forest Nubbins Hoffman in Cheyenne faces Christmas Eve before a possible Dec 25 death from an incurable bladder condition. Parents report packages pouring in from across the country including a three foot long gift and many items. railroad friends fund a turkey dinner and a prewar model toy car. The family plans a quiet morning opening gifts while Nubbins, restless yet hopeful, sits in his high chair for a holiday meal if fate allows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Little Forest
Nubbins
Marshall Hoffman
Hoffman
Union Pacific Railroad
W. M. dJetters
Santa Claus
Polish Troops Take City On Italian Front
Allied headquarters announced Polish troops in the Eighth Army drive captured Monte Fortino five miles south of Fanza on the Bologna Rimini road. The advance met heavy German resistance with counterattacks while other units neared Faenza and British forces fought near Villagrappa.
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Rome
Monte Fortino
Fanza
Eighth
Bologna-Rimini
Faenza
Villagrappa
Fugna
Adriatic
Molinaccio
Ravenna
Forli
Germany Threatens To Use Submarines Again
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, head of the German Navy, warned that U-boat warfare would be revived. A wireless dispatch recorded by DNB and cited by the FCC quotes him addressing armament workers in a German harbor town that intensified actions would follow if U-boat successes remain limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Karl Doenitz
DNB
FCC
Doenitz
Bonds Burned in Voluntary Fire in Miami Florida
In Miami on November 18 a spontaneous patriotic fire destroyed 8675 of bonds owned by 27 members of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Bond Fire Club. They burned 250 dollar certificates to cancel part of the debt to the nation as a gift to the United States. Edward Vines organized the idea at the plant. The Treasury said there is no legal prohibition though it did not encourage bond destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Bond Fire Club
United States
Edward Vines
Navy
U. S. Treasury
Chinese Forces Break Into Japanese Lines In Burma
Southeast Asia command reports Chinese troops widened a wedge into Japanese positions along the Namkam road southeast of Bhamo and reached the Irrawaddy river cutting off southern routes from Bhamo. In China, Maj. Gen. Wedemeyer outlined possible enemy moves and praised Gen. Shunroku Hata as capable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Namkam
Bhamo
Burma
China
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Irrawaddy
Chindwin
Rero
Mandalay
Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
Chiang Kai-Shek
Liuchow
Kwangsi Province
Indo-China
Kweiyang
Kweichow
Chengtu
Szechwan
Wedemeyer
Shunroku Hata
Fear Air Chief’s Plane May Have Been Downed by Fighter
London reports RAF Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory and his wife missing after a flight to India. An air ministry note says search efforts found no trace as speculation points to an enemy long range fighter. Leigh-Mallory, 52, was to take a Southeast Asia air commander post with Mountbatten’s command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
RAF
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
India
Trafford
Southeast Asia
Air Ministry
Lady Leigh-Mallory
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Western Europe
Mediterranean
Asia
Sir Trafford
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Kandy
Ceylin
Drives Into Saar Sector On 15 Mile Front
Americans of the Third Army launched a new attack on a 15 mile front toward Germany's northern Saar and stormed Metz from two sides. The Pushed advance was part of a broader Allied thrust involving 1,250,000 men along a 400 mile front under Lt Gen George S Patton as six armies push toward the Rhine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Third
Germany
Saar
Reich
Metz
George S. Patton
Rhine
Allied Forces Break Into German Front Near Aachen and Metz
British Second Army and American Ninth and First Armies form a widening assault arc into Germany near Aachen as Doughboys push inside Metz. The 400 mile western front sees new incursions toward Luxembourg and the Saar with additional advances near Belfort Geilenkirchen and Prummern. Three hundred prisoners are captured.
Allied Forces Advance Toward Rhine Front Near Aachen
U S first and ninth armies push toward the Rhine within 25 miles as U S armored units move north from Geilenkirchen toward Roermond near the Dutch border. South of Aachen the First Army's right wing advances between Stolberg and Montjoie while the French First Army nears Bel Fort. The Seventh Army gains 2 to 3 miles along a 30 mile front toward Strasbourg as British forces press near Roermond in southeastern Holland.
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Aachen
U. S
R Rhine
Berlin
Geilenkirchen
Roermond
First
Stolberg
Montjoie
Belfort
U. S. Seventh Army
Strasbourg
ADVAN
Holland
Curtis McDonald Expected To Leave Hospital Sunday
Curtis McDonald, High Point High School left halfback, suffered a neck injury described as a sprain at the base of the neck in the Winston-Salem game. Hospital officials said his condition is not serious and he may be released Sunday after a day more of observation.
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Curtis McDonald
High Point
Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem Baptist Hospital
Winston- Salem
McDonald
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Second Army
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