Eisenhower appeals for sixth war loan drive aid
General Dwight D. Eisenhower urged Americans to over-subscribe the sixth war loan to supply shells tires guns blankets and planes for the western front offensive. He spoke in an NBC broadcast from his European headquarters noting mud cold and mine fields cannot stop troops who must be well supplied. Treasury notes release confirmed the drive totals with a Thanksgiving Day update.
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Washington
Dwight PD. Fisenhower
Germany
Eisenhower
NBC
Euron
Treasury Department
Jar
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
William F. Halsey, Jr
Third Fleet
Douglas MacArthur
Treas
America
Soviet forces drive toward Hatvan and Eger on 85 mile front
Soviet assault troops pushed toward Hatvan Eger and Mingrim as heavy rain mud slow Malinovsky offensive. Six villages seized and 43 German tanks knocked out amid counterattacks by Hungarian and SS units. Heviz Gyor counterattacks repulsed as Red Army advances skirt Budapest toward Czechoslovakia.
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Moscow
Hatvan
Eger
Mingrim
Budapest
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Heviz-Gyor
Budapest-Hatvan
Gyongyos
Matra
Czechoslovakia
Germany
East Prussia
Warsaw
Pultusk
Hungary
Navy says 691 Jap aircraft and 44 ships sunk by 8th Fleet
Washington reports that naval air group eight destroyed or damaged 691 Japanese aircraft and sank 44 ships during a 72,000 mile Pacific patrol from New Guinea to Formosa. Under Commander Ralph L. Shirley the Essex carrier group made 192 strikes against targets across the theater.
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Washington
Pacific
Naval Air Group
Navy
New Guinea
Formosa
Philippines
Ralph L. Shirley
Mounds
I/L
Philippine Sea
Ae States
Wilam M. Collins
South Arlington
Thanksgiving Observed Amid War Front Feasts Across Forces
Civilians and fighters mark Thanksgiving as the nation preserves a wartime tradition. The War department mandates turkey for soldiers in trenches while the navy allocates extra portions for those at sea and on duty. Plymouth Mass hosts prayers, tableaux, and pilgrim descendants as broadcasts extend to service members and posts worldwide.
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Turkey
War Department
Aship
Navy
Army
Continental
United States
Plymouth
Mass
Plymouth Pilgrims
Chinese Troops Clear Stretches Of Burma Road
CHUNGKING November 23. Chinese forces push ahead in a three pronged attack focused on Che fang driving beyond Mang shih and capturing key positions at the Mangshih valley mouth. The eastern prong engages a Japanese force at Mengka while the western prong clears hill positions along the Nam Kkawn river three miles north of Chefang.
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Burma
Chungking
Chefang
Fallen Mangshih
Mangshih
Mengka A
Nam Kkawn River
Leaders Announced for Rural Life Institute at Guilford College
Dr. Raymond Binford announces the Rural Life Institute to be held December 4-5 at Guilford College under sponsorship of the North Carolina Friends and Rural Life Association. Leaders named include Dr. O. E. Baker of the University of Maryland, Stanley Hamilton of Quaker Hill Indiana, and Paul V. Continued op Page 2.
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Guilford College
Rural Life Institute
North Carolina Friends and Rural Life Association
Raymond Binford
O. E. Baker
University of Maryland
Stanley Hamilton
Quaker Hill
Ind
Rural Life Association
Paul V
Polio Fund Total Tops 159 Thousand In NC Drive
North Carolina infantile paralysis campaign raised 159 thousand 222 dollars and eight cents this year, announced by state chairman Dr. Ralph McDonald. The figure shows an increase of about 70 thousand dollars from last year and reflects strong support across the state.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Ralph McDonald
Sheriffs Institute Set for Chapel Hill Meeting Dates
The Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina will host its annual sheriffs’ institute in Chapel Hill on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 28 and 29, announced Albert Coates, director.
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Chapel Hill
Institute For Sheriffs
Institute of Government
University of North Carolina
Albert Coates
Institute
American Fighters Tighten Up Against Japanese Landings
Gen. MacArthur reports Japanese reinforcements threatening Leyte island with a major stand at Limon bastion. American fighter planes and light naval craft reinforce coast patrols to prevent landing activity and protect the Ormoe corridor as defenses tighten.
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Limon
MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte Island
Douglas MacAthur
Ormoe
Reconnaissance Flight Over Ise Bay Reported
Tokyo radio said a B-20 Superfortress conducted a reconnaissance flight over Ise Bay on Honshu from an apparent Marianas base. The report, unconfirmed, mirrors a similar flight last week and was recorded by the Federal Communications Commission. Ise Bay lies near Nagova's industrialized area on Honshu's Pacific coast.
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Ise Bay
Honshu
Marianas
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Pacific
Nagova
Allied air units hit Japanese shipping on Yamashita line
A Pacific theater communiqué reports fighter pilots sank or badly damaged four troop laden freighters four luggers and 14 barges while repelling a Japanese effort to reinforce the Yamashita line. MacArthur noted heavy enemy use of reserves to bolster the front.
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Yamashita
MacArthur
Chiang Kai Shek approves Wedemeyer plan for China defense
General Wedemeyer announced Chiang Kai-shek accepted his concept to mobilize Chinese forces against Japan. He said the strategy will be implemented and that ultimate defeat of Japan requires a continental lodgment in Asia with sea routes secured by American forces.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Wedemeyer
Chungking
Albert
U. S. Army
China
Gien
Joseph W. Stilwell
Pacific
Asia
U S Rubber Wins Overtime Case? No Third Line
The Fourth Regional War Labor Board orders time and a half overtime for the sixth day in a dispute between United States Rubber Company Winnsboro South Carolina and United Textile Workers. The decision was reported from Atlanta with continuation noted on Page 2 Section A.
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Atlanta
Fourth Regional War Labor Board
United States Rubber Company
Winnsboro
S. C
United Textile Workers
Fraternization Rules Tighten as Allied Troops Drill In Rhineland
Eisenhower enforces strict prohibitions on Yankee soldiers speaking to or fraternizing with Germans to counter underground and spy threats. The issue arose after Lt Gen Dodge’s army reached Aachen, with reports of missing soldiers linked to Nazi operatives. Spies in civilian clothes threaten morale as Allied forces advance, while locals and saloons can unknowingly leak strategic details.
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U. S. Seventh Army
Sarrebourg
Strasbourg
Rhine
First Army
Belfort-Mulhouse
Third Army
Merzig
Saar
U. S. First Army
Eschweiler
Aachen
Rhineland
Eisenhower
Dodge
Germany
Mufti
No-Man'’S Land
Phone Strike Reaches White House as Walkouts Spread
A growing strike of women telephone operators expands to Washington, D C, with national significance and potential White House action. The walkouts began a week ago in Dayton Ohio and spread to major production centers in Michigan, with other cities soon affected.
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Washington
White House
Dayton
Ohio
Michigan
Union Calls to Limit Calls Into Ohio Strike Zone
New York delegates of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company decided to handle only essential calls into the Ohio strike area. The decision followed a meeting with the federation of long lines telephone workers and its traffic plant and administrative branches. Discussions will be resumed.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Ohio
Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers
Capital area operators walk out in advance of strike start
Nationwide telephone workers join a walkout hours before the 6 a.m. E.W.T. start time. Detroit crews form picket lines as essential calls are handled by a skeleton staff. In Washington, similar picketing begins at three company buildings.
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United Nations
E.W.T
Michigan Telephone Employes Federation
Detroit
Washington
Koslar Barmen Captured in Roer Valley Drive
American Ninth Army units pushed through mud and German steel to seize Koslar and Barmen in the Roer valley as they pressed toward Cologne twenty six miles from the Rhine. Troops also entered Bourheim Pattern and Lohn forming a six mile wide ram toward the Rhineland arsenal city of 768000.
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London
Ninth Army
Roer
Koslar
Barmen
Cologne
Rhine
Aachen
Berlin
Bourheim
Pattern
Lohn
Rhineland
Ten Army unit captures bunkers on Siegfried Line
On the Western Front Nov 23 a platoon led by Tech Sgt N W Williams of Parkton North Carolina seized eight concrete bunkers and took 150 prisoners in one hour of fighting during the initial assault on the Siegfried Line.
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10Th Infantry
UPI
Siegfried Line
N. W. Williams
Parkton
N. C
Allied Push Across Rhine Tightens German Break in Lorraine
Heavy rain and gales hinder air support as American infantry and French tanks break through near the Rhine less than 18 miles from Strasbourg. Von Rundstedt is implied to be giving up Lorraine and Alsace to salvage forces, while French units advance from Mulhouse toward Battenheim.
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Rhine
Thenee
Strasbourg
Alsace-Loreraine
Marshal von Rundstedt
Lorraine
Alsace
Vosges
Saverne
Belfort
Mulhouse
Battenheim
Aachen
Roer
Julich
Kostar
Venlo
Holland
Germans Cleared From Casina Loop On Italian Front
Eighth Army reports clearing Germans from the Casina river loop near Faenza, with several villages captured below the Bologna Rimini highway. Polish troops moved beyond Mount Fortino, taking Oriolo San Biagio and San Mamante. Fifth Army Indian troops held ground north of Modigliana.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Casina River
Faenza
Bologna- Rimi
Mount Fortino
Oriolo
San Biagio
San Mamante
Fifth Army
Modigliana
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MS Ae
Allies
9Th Army
Clarmy
Belgium
France
Geilenkirchen
Signal Corps
Associated Press
Name Leaders of Rural Life Institute
U. S. Rubber Company
Dewitt MacKenzie
Roer Valley
Casina Loop
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