Three-Way Maneuver Advances Near Budapest Front
Soviet and Yugoslav forces push five miles west of the Budapest line in a broad offensive. Stalin claims 350 communities captured in Hungary and northern Slavia. Russian and Yugoslav units drive across the Danube north of the river’s confluence with the Drava as the front extends 493 miles.
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London
Iine
Hungary
Budapest
Austria
Stalin
Slavia
Contavine
Mohacs
Bataszek
Moscum
Ninth Fights By Streets In Beech
Ninth Army Americans captured Lindern and a street by street advance through burning Beeck up the railroad toward Munchen Gladbach in the great Allied offensive cracking the Roer river line before Cologne and Dusseldorf. Survivors of the SS garrison of strategic Lindern were captured with the town. Most of the Beeck garrison were killed. the stragglers fled toward nearby Wurm.
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London
Ninth
Linedern
Beeck
Munchen Gladbach
Roer
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Lindern
Wurm
Allied Ninth army drives on Roer as Antwerp backs supply lines
The article discusses an anticipated major Allied push in the Rhineland along the Roer valley aimed at pinning down German defenses near the Cologne plain. It notes Eisenhower and Montgomery likely coordinating and highlights Antwerp port readiness, Ruhr industrial importance, and predicted hard fighting with weather and waterlogged terrain shaping progress.
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Ninth Army
Roer
Rhineland
Strenthens
Sone
Belgium
Eisenhower
Field Marshal
Montgomery
21St Army Group
Colne-Duseddorf
von Rundstedt
Rhine
Hitler
Cologne Plain
Rundstedt
Cologne
Nazidom
Saar
Ruhr
Germany
Reich
Churchill
House of Commons
Antwerpe
Fisenhower
Linnich
Julich
Ninth
Maas River
Roermond
Venlo
House Body Opposes Security Tax Rise
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 17 to 7 to freeze the social security tax and block an automatic rise. Nine Republican members backed the move along with eight Democrats, defying an administration plea to allow the tax increase. A veto battle with the White House looms, with some Democrats predicting Roosevelt could still win.
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Washington, Navy
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
Roosevelt
Little Relief Promised From Cold Wave Grips South
Atlanta reports a deepening cold wave with sub freezing temperatures expected today and tonight across a wide region. Snow flurries occurred from Tennessee to the gulf coast while a storm moving from Texas and Louisiana brings snowfall warnings to extreme North Georgia and western North Carolina.
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Atlanta
Tennessee
Gulf Coast
Weather Bureau
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
Louisiana
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Birmingham
Bumpers Over Locking Bumpers Praised by Mead
Senator Mead of New York urged replacing locking bumper systems with bumping bumpers in a Senate committee study on Army ordnance relations with car makers. He praised the American auto industry but called for a fix to the bumper problem as Senator Ferguson joked about selling fenders.
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Washington
Sass
Mead
D-Ny
Senate
Army Ordnance
Perguson
R-Mich
13 Ship Japanese Convoy Destroyed in Leyte Battle
General MacArthur's Headquarters reports fighter planes sank 10 Japanese ships including transports and three destroyers near Ormoc. About 4,000 reinforcements were aboard the convoy, with two transports destroyed after unloading and eight sunk at sea. Japanese losses include 26 transports and 17 escort vessels.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Ormoc
Arm forces casualties rise to 536950 in war update
Secretary of War Stimson reports total armed forces casualties through November 15 at 536,950. Army losses reach 461,058 with weekly increase of 6,878. Navy casualties total 75,892, up 1,277. Details show deaths, wounds, missing, and prisoners across services.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Stimson
Navy
Eisenhower postpones offensive until ammunition buildup
Secretary Stimson outlined in a news briefing that General Eisenhower delayed a Europe wide offensive due to shortages in artillery ammo. Rail disruptions and port capacity delayed deliveries, but once ports like Antwerp open near the front, ammunition flow should rise and U S production must expand.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Stimson
Stimisen
Europe
France
Great Britain
Rhine
Xxxx Stimson
United States
Antwerp
All B-29s Return From Third Tokyo Raid
All Superfortresses participating in the third B 29 strike on Tokyo returned to base, with two bombers lost and one crew rescued by a destroyer. Airmen said antiaircraft fire was meager and cloud cover hid results. Tokyo fires burned long as Gen H H Arnold hailed the mission as part of targeting Japan's war capability.
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Tokyo
The
Associated Press
20Th Airforce
Japan
U. S
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Kansas City
Kuniaki Hoiso
Ex-Convict Craig Chappell Held on Arson Charge in Thomasville Fire
Thomasville police say Craig Sparks Chappell twenty former convict and boarding house roomer confessed to setting fire that destroyed the East Main street house killing June Weir seventy one and damaging the Dr C A Julian home His motive quarrel with two roommates revenge by skipping work and lighting papers in his closet He is held on arson with a Friday court hearing expected.
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Craig Chappell
Thomasville
Craig Sparks Chappell
East Main Street
F. R. Richardson
June Weir
Dr. C. A. Julian
Richardson
Chappell
Thomasville Chair Co
Policy Headquarters
Greensboro
Comely art student hailed as heroine after train bomber incident
Peggy Parsley a 17 year old art student at Moore Institute Philadelphia, credited with halting a New York to New Orleans train by placing a broom in a stove and passing it to a man on the tracks, after a bomber crashed near Morris Field.
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Charlotte
Peggy Parsley
Southern No. 39
New York
New Orleans
Miss Parsiey
Ted St. Claude Nelson
Rene Palfreynan
J. ©. Milton
No. 59
Littell Fired From Office By Roosevelt
Roosevelt removes Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell amid a justice department feud with Attorney General Biddle. Littell accuses Biddle of pressuring in a case favoring Thomas G Corcoran. Senate investigation possible. White House involvement noted.
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Washington
Navy
Roosevelt
Justice Department
Norman Littell
White House
Senate
Snow and Sleet Paralyze Upstate New York Roads
Snow and sleet snarled traffic across upstate New York as the worst storm of the season hit. Syracuse reported nine inches of fresh snow with continued snowfall expected at five to six inches, while temperatures dropped to 20 degrees on Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks.
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Albany
WN. Y
Upstate
New York
Syracuse
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Whiteface Mountain
Adirondacks
Nazis Regain Three Points On Italian Front
Allied headquarters say German troops recaptured three Fifth Army strong points in the Bologna sector after their strongest counterattacks in weeks. Fifth Army forces were forced back as the fighting continued in Italy.
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Rome
Navy
Fifth Army
Bologna
German says Eisenhower massed 70 divisions for western front
Berlin radio quotes a German spokesman claiming Ike threw 70 divisions into the western front offensive. The DNB dispatch places the battle 16 miles by nine deep in the Aachen sector with heavy fighting ongoing. The Navis reports British attacks south of Helmond were repulsed before the big offensive could start.
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London
Berlin Radio Today
Eisenhower
DNB
Aachen
Helmond
First Army Seizes Key Front Sections on Cologne Plain
The First Army at the southern end of the 25 mile front captured a bridge area at Inde and Inden as Lt. Gen. Hodges’ units fought a seesaw battle for the river crossing. In the center the Third Army held firm against multiple counterattacks from the Siegfried Line along the Saar.
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Cologne Plain
Sonbeged Dreih
Rhinelands
Courtney HF. Hodges
Inden
U. S. Third Army
Siegfried Line
Saar
Bombers Hit German Rail and Oil Targets in Sweep
In a 48 hour assault, about 1300 American heavy bombers attacked German rail and oil centers. Targets included four Leipzig area synthetic refineries and Saarbrucken rail yards with Fortresses and Liberators supported by fighter escorts from France and England. Earlier a large daylight fleet departed British bases heading east, following Mosquito raids on Hannover.
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London
Abkl
Leipzig
Saarbrucken
France
England
United States Strategic Air Forces
Europe
Bohlen
Merse Zeitz
Lutzkendorf
Berlin
U. S
Hannover
Concord Soldier Rescues Comrades From Germans
Staff Sgt. Henry Weinberger of Butternut Wisconsin rescued Pfc Clarence Berringer of Concord North Carolina from 16 Germans near Hagenau and led the effort to take all captors prisoner. With teammates James Brown and Robert York they demanded surrender after Weinberger impersonated an officer, convincing the Germans to surrender.
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VU. S. Seventh Army
Henry Weinberger
Butternut
Wis
Pfs
Clarence Berringer
Concord
N. C
Berringer
Weinberger
Hagenau
James C. Brown
Mountain Park
Okla
Pfe
Robert York
McKee
Daniel Wilson
Newport
Del
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