Japanese Claim Blunted Air Attacks Over Philippines and Kuriles
Tokyo broadcasts via Domei and FCC relay claim 300 American planes raided Leyte and Legaspi in the Philippines while also reporting bomber raids on Para Mushiro in the Kuriles and attacks on Bonin islands. Japanese interceptions and damages cited, with several claimed U.S. losses and no reported Manila damage.
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Associated Press
Philippines
Tokyo
1 Communications
London
Manila
Domei
Libertors
Legaspi
Thern
Luzon
Yaturday
Manila Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Dome! Agency
United States
Tokyo Time
Paramushiro Island
Kurile
Bonin Islands
Kuriles
Counter Attacks Repulsed by MacArthur Forces in Leyte
American troops beat back Japanese counter attacks in Leyte Philippines as the campaign in the central Philippines continues. Reported from General MacArthur's headquarters the action involved storm drenched troops and slow progress as front lines remained active and stubborn. The dispatch notes more than 45,000 Japanese casualties or engagements, with continued coverage on the fight page.
Allied drive toward Rhine presses on amid weather and mud
The drive toward the Rhine moves forward with growing momentum despite a lack of clear signs it will end the war this year. Weather, mud, and German stubborn resistance shape the campaign as Allied forces press past Aachen toward Cologne and Metz Belfort, while German resolve remains undiminished.
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Rhine
Eisenhower
Aachen
Cologne
Metz-Belfort
Europe
Westwall
Planes Up Again Over Ruhr with Allied Bombardment
Planes from four Allied armies bombed and strafed the Ruhr valley with about 850 aircraft including 160 heavy bombers and 700 fighters. They targeted an oil plant at Gelsenkirchen and the Munich railroad yards near Münster as Berlin reported Americans striking southern Germany for the third day.
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London
Ruhr
Germany
Berlin
Gelsenkirchen
Munster
Mongters
Channel
Murray Opens CIO Meet With Attack on WLB
CIO leader Philip Murray opens the seventh annual convention condemning the War Labor Board for not protecting war workers as wages were frozen. He urges continued no strike pledge and notes PAC will persist. He calls the Smith Connally Act vicious and urges repeal in the next Congress.
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Harold Ward
Associated Press
Chicago
Philip Murray
CIO
War Labor Board
Political Action Committee
Organized Labor
PAC
Murray
Washington
Durham Passenger Sells Self-Made Cigarettes on Train
A Durhamite traveling from Atlanta struggled with a homemade roll your own tobacco on the train. A Pullman porter offered to supply a popular brand from another passenger for one dollar per package, and the traveler continued his improvised tobacco fight.
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Durham
Navy
Atlanta
Pullman
Grange Chooses Kansas or Missouri for Next Meeting
The National Grange accepted an invitation to hold its next meeting in either Kansas or Missouri. At a Raleigh breakfast, speakers from the Carolina Rural Electrification Authority and state leaders discussed rural electrification progress and goals for postwar expansion.
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Winston-Salem
National Grange
Kansas
Missouri
Rural Electric Co-Operatives
Public Utilities
Harry Caldwell
North Carolina State Grange
Wyn RB. Price
Carolina Rural Electrification Authority
Cecil Viverette
N. C. Rea Association
Price
State Authority
Rural Electrification Administration
Six Negroes Carry Cotton Ed Smith To Last Resting Place
Ellison Durant Smith, dean of the U S Senate and staunch defender of states rights and cotton farmer welfare, was buried near his ancestral Lee County plantation. Methodist rites drew about 1 attendees as pallbearers were six enslaved on the Smith estate, chosen by the late senator who claimed affection for them despite political views.
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Cotton Ed Smith
Lynchburg
8. C
Ellison Durant Smith
U. S. Senate
Lee County
Smith Plantation
Russians and Allies Close In Around Budapest Front
Soviet and American tanks push toward Lucenec and Hatvan as streets clash in Gyongyos and Gyangyos. Moscow reports heavy fighting near Budapest with multiple infantry divisions deployed on siege operations east of the capital.
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London
Budapest
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Lucenec
Gyongyos
Ee Gyongyi
Hatvan
Galgacheviz
Moscow
Slovakia
Gyangyos
Rodio Y. Malinovsky
Ukraine
Moskolc
Hungary
Hernadkak
Miskoloc
Hernad River
Baltic
Berlin
Ninsula
Gulf of Riga
Gyerme
Twenty six U S soldiers killed in British plane crash
London reports twenty six American soldiers killed and four injured when a C-47 sky train troop carrier en route from England to France crashed near a peak north of Brighton. The plane was not a hospital aircraft and no flight nurses were aboard. Six victims were taken to a hospital with two dead and others in serious condition. No cause fixed by air force headquarters.
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London
England
France
Air Force Headquarters
Brighton
Aviation Conference bogged down over commercial flying rules
The International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago stalled for a second day with no scheduled action as delegates from Canada Britain and the United States clash on peacetime commercial flying regulation. An official said a draft document might be completed by noon but would not be released if it failed.
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Chicago
London
State Tops Nation in Draft Rejection Rates by South
A Senate labor committee report shows the South has the highest draft rejection rates driven by low wages. North Carolina leads at 56.8 rejections per 100 registrants, followed by Arkansas 55.9 and South Carolina 54.7 with low per capita incomes contributing to the pattern across several states including Florida Georgia Alabama Mississippi Tennessee and Virginia.
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State
Clair Johnson
Washington
South
Senate Labor Committee
Selective Service System
Leonard G. Rowntree
CIO
Philip Murray
Sen. Pepper
D-Fla
North Carolina
Arkansas
South Carolina
Florida
Louisiana
Virginia
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
FDR Proposed As Delegate To International Council
Washington reports float the idea of appointing President Roosevelt as the US delegate to a proposed international security council. Proponents say his role would lend prestige and speed, with a deputy proposed to keep the council in session. In Belgium, protests and martial policing follow calls to resign Pierlot and suspicions of government collaborators amid food shortages.
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FDR
International Council
Washington
Roosevelt
International Security Council
United States
International
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Peace Council
Allied officials fear Belgian crisis may trigger uprisings
London observers warn that unrest in Belgium could spill into other liberated countries in critical postwar moments. A Brussels brigadier said dissatisfaction is expected as propaganda over four years encouraged defiance of German laws and armed resistance, raising concerns of lawless acts once liberation occurs.
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London
Brussels
Europe
Telephone Strike In Ohio Expands to Northeast Centers
A telephone operators strike spreading across 26 Ohio towns in three days was set to extend to Akron and Canton tomorrow, with a union spokesman citing protest over out of town workers' costs averaging 18.25 weekly plus salary. Sympathy walkouts followed in Youngstown, a steel center, amid the dispute.
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Columbus
Ohio
Akron
Canton
Dayton
Youngstown
Ethel Barrymore Nearing Release From Hospital
Ethel Barrymore, 65, was taken to Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital with a lung congestion a week ago. Her doctor said today she is well on the road to recovery and expects to decide soon when she may leave the hospital.
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Miss Barrymore
New York
Ethel Barrymore
Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital
Makers Of Airplane Wings On Strike
DETROIT November 20 The De Soto plant of Chrysler Corp which makes wing sections for the Navy Hell Diver planes remained idle over the weekend The UAW CIO local 227 withholds a back to work order pending certification of a contract dispute by the War Labor Board The local executive board met Sunday to decide the action led by Perry Young president of the local
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
de Soto
Navy
Perry Young
United Automobile Workers (Cio
War Labor Board
China Reports Progress In North Burma
CHUNGKING NOV 20. Chinese troops fight inside the North Burma stronghold of Bhamo, surrounded several days earlier. The town was penetrated Saturday after an American dive bomb hit the Chinese command. In bitter fighting the Chinese have wrested one city block from Japanese defenders as Allies seek a route to China. The 38th division repelled two heavy Japanese counterattacks to maintain encirclement of the city. Bhamo is the strongest remaining Japanese base in North Burma, 60 miles from the Burma road and 175 northeast of Mangshih near the Burma border and a Salween offensive objective.
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Chungking
Burma
Bhamo
China
38Th Division
Burma Road
Ary
Mangshih
Churchill Cautions Roosevelt About Rain Visit
Albany dispatch reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Bishop G Ashton Oldham to tell President Roosevelt not to go out in the rain. Oldham, back from an overseas mission, relayed Churchill’s message, noting Churchill’s remark about what Roosevelt would say if he went out in rain.
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Albany
N. Y
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Roosevelt
G. Ashton Oldham
Episcopal Diocese of
Churchill
Bolivian Revolt Quelled Under Villarroel Regime
The 11 month government of President Gualberto Villarroel announced the revolt led by Pena randa sympathizers was put down. A communique said the outbreak was limited to Oruro, Bolivia’s third city and second largest mining center, with some resistance continuing.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Gualberto Villaroel
Enrique Penaranda
Comr
Oruro
Chinese Cabinet Shakeup Promotes Chen Cheng to War Post
In Chungking on November 20 General Chen Cheng was named minister of war replacing General Ho Ying-Chin as part of a broad cabinet reshuffle. O K Yui becomes finance minister succeeding H H Kung while several others move to new posts. Observers note limited changes and question if further reshuffles will follow.
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Chungking
Ho Ying-Chin
Chen Cheng
O. K. Yui
Finance
H. H. Kung
United States
Chen
Salween
China
Chow Chung Yao
Interior
Examination Yuan
Chang Li- Sheng
Executive Yuan
Chu Chia-Hua
Education
Chien Li-Fu
Kuomingtang Organization
Wan Shih-Chieh
the Peoples Political Council
Liang Han-Chao
Kang
Ministry of Finance
Kung
Peoples Political Council
Belfort Breakthrough Opens Rhine Reach In Allied Push
Front advances across the Belfort area push the Rhine line deeper as French and American forces breach the southern German frontier. Metz falls as Allied drives reach the Saar border while Aachen area positions show strain and German withdrawal signals emerge toward Cologne and the Ruhr.
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William Frye
London
Belfort
Rhine
Fone
Germany
Jean de “Attre de Tassigny
Voseges
Strasbourg
Colmar
Mulhouse
Metz
Saar
Luxembourg
Moselle
Faemous Moselle
Trier
Coblenz
Cologne
Eisenhower
Aachen
Second
U. SS. Ninth
First
Dusseldorf
Ruhr
American Ninth Army
William Sim
Duren
Julich
Holland
Kessel
Venlo
Monte Fortino Recaptured by German Troops
German forces retook Monte Fortino five miles southeast of Faenza after heavy fighting with Polish units of the Eighth Army. Polish troops repulsed two German counterattacks at Converselle and extended positions near Monte Fortino. Fifth Army and Eighth Army patrols moved along Ravenna, the Montone river, and south of Bologna.
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Rome
Monte Fortino
Bologena-Rimini
Faenza
Eighth Army
Converselle
Ravenna
Adriatic
Montone River
Bologna
Fifth Army
Third Army Enters Metz Center After Four-Way Squeeze
American Third Army troops broke into the center of Metz as Patton’s forces encircled the fortress city. They overran about a third of Metz while nullifying German house to house defense plans in a rapid four way squeeze.
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Rhine
Metz
France
Third Army
Attila
George S. Patton
Europe
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