Decisive Battle Rolls Near Cologne Front, Mackenzie Analysis
Dewitt Mackenzie outlines an Allied push toward Cologne as German defenses stiffen along the Roer. Weisweiler is seized after a 24 hour street fight while Von Rundstedt holds to delay open-field fighting, with Eisenhower massing reserves for a potential breakthrough.
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Dewitt Mackenie
Associated Press
Cologne
Aachen
Europe
Weisweiler
First Army
van Runestedt
Beer
Giechting
von Rundstedt
Roér
Eisenhower
Anchen
Gremven
The German Front and a Possible Delay in Winter War
The piece discusses Von Rundstedt’s delaying action west of the Rhine as weather, icy rain, and mud hinder Allied advances. It notes his skill, the danger to bridges and supply lines, and the risk that his winter stand could become a costly last battle if withdrawals are constrained.
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von Rundstedt
Gage
Cologne
Rhine
Simple Test Restores Hearing For Thousands
An easy no risk hearing test helps thousands regain hearing after temporary deafness. The ad promotes Online Home Method test and Ourine Ear Drops with a money back guarantee at John P. Cox and drug stores.
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John P. Cox
Market Report from St Louis Livestock and Produce
National Stockyards report shows hogs 180 to 270 pounds steady to 10 lower. sows down to 15. top hogs around 14.30. Cattle and calves, 6,500 head, steady on openings with steers to 15.50, cows 7.50 to 11.00, vealers 14.50. Lambs opened steady to 10 lower. natives 14.25 to 14.50, feeders 12.25 to 14.00. Poultry steady. fowls 25-26 cents, leghorn 23-24, fryers 28-29. Butter firm. carlots 93 score AA at 41 1-2. Prices for eggs and other commodities listed.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
U. S
U.S
Postwar essay contest and radio program influence workers
Our Daily reports a postwar worker essay contest and a New York radio station’s early evening broadcast piped to plants for night shifts. The piece questions whether government or local appeals better persuade workers that postwar unemployment fears persist and urges cooperative effort toward future job creation of 60 million promised positions.
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New York
Hochin Falls Before Jap Army Sweep
Chungking reports Hochin has fallen, 95 miles west of Liuchow in Kwangsi, as Japanese forces push toward Kweichow. Hochin lies near the Kweichow border and southeast of Kweiyang, with U S air assets at Nanning abandoned after the advance.
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Hochin
Chungking
Liuchow
Kwangsi Province
China
Kweichow
Kweiyang
Burma
Mrs. Estell Ward Dies Former Hope Resident at 26
Mrs Estell Ward 26 former Hope resident died at St Vincent s Infirmary Little Rock Saturday. Funeral held Owen s Chapel Little Rock at 130 this afternoon with burial in Landmark cemetery. Survivors include two daughters Clovis Vera and Wanda Joe father J L McNatt Yazoo City Miss sisters in law Edyth Ward Hope and Mrs J L Knight Charlestown Rhode Island.
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Estell Ward
Hope
St. Vincent's Infirmary
Little Rock
Owen's Chapel
Landmark Cemetery
Laney appoints Porter as secretary and Smith as police head
Governor elect Ben Laney fills two top posts naming Forrest City mayor Jack Porter state police superintendent and W. J. Smith of Texarkana executive secretary. Porter will replace A Gray Albright who helped form the Arkansas Ranger Force in 1935 and has led the department since. Smith, age 36, is a former Army Air Forces medical discharge recipient and a member of the Workmen's Compensation Commission. The joint budget committee plans pre session meetings December 4 and will later name its seven senators and nine representatives.
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Little Rock
Ben Laney
Jack Porter
Forrest City
W. J
Bill) Smith
Texarkana
Porter
Ley
A. Gray Albright
Albright
Arkansas Ranger Force
Laney
Smith
Army Air Forces
Arkansas’ Workmen's Compensation Commission
J. L
Rex) Shaver
Legislative Joint Budget Committee
Shaver
H. A. Northcut
Salem
Fulbright and Laney Dominate Arkansas Election
Final state tally shows U S senator J W Fulbright and governor Ben Laney winning big over Republican rivals. Fulbright led with 182 499 votes in the senatorial race while Laney amassed a six to one majority as Arkansas voters backed the Democratic ticket.
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Little Rock
J. W. Fulbright
Ben Laney
U. S
Secretary of State
Fulbright
Japanese claim to Nanning captured fuels China split
The article notes broad acceptance of Japan’s capture of Nanning while the high command omits the southward drive toward Indo China. It reports Japan bypassed Hawaiyuanchen west of Liuchow to attack positions near Hochin, marking Nanning as the seventh American air base lost in Japan’s north and south thrusts that split China.
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Hochih
South China
Nanning
14Th
U. S. Air
Indo-China
Hawaiyuanchen
Liuchow
Hochin
China
Vote Totals Highlight Arkansas Results in Gubernatorial Race
Final statewide figures show Laney 186 401 for Democrat and Harley Stump 30 447 for Republican in the governor’s race. Roosevelt defeats Dewey by 85 414 in the national contest with 145 965 Democratic electors, 65 551 Republican, 438 Socialist. Benton Searcy and Madison counties stood Republican.
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Victor Wade
Laney
Harley Stump
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Secretary of State
Benton
Searcy
Madison
Arkansas
British Reach Lamone River After Faenza Flank
British troops outflank Faenza and reach the Lamone river three miles southwest of Bologna’s highway stronghold as Belvedere falls. Germans mass for renewed house to house fighting while Polish units push toward Alboreto on the ridge between the Marzeno and Lamone. American and British units fend off several German counterattacks south of Bologna.
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Rome
Faenza
Lamone
Marzeno
Fifth Army
Bologna
Hempstead County Cotton Ginnings Reported for 1944
The census shows 11,446 bales ginned in Hempstead County from the 1944 crop before November 14, versus 13,041 bales for 1343. George W. Wylie, special agent for the Department of Commerce, reports the figures.
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Hempstead
George W. Wylie
Department of Commerce
German Fighters Shot Down Over German Frontline Air War
London reports at least 94 German fighters were shot down as American air forces with 1200 planes engaged near Berlin. Battles raged over Magdeburg Munster and Brunswick with 226 enemy planes down in two days. Allied raids hit Offenburg and Mainz rail targets following pre-dawn RAF Lancaster assault on Munich.
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Howard Cowan
London
Reich
Berlin
Offenburg
Strasbourg
Bingen
Mainz
Munich
Exterminator Mourns Peanuts the Shetland Pony
In Binghamton New York on November 25 Exterminator the 1918 Kentucky Derby winner mourns his pony companion Peanuts a 30 year old gelding. The pair had been inseparable for 17 years and Peanuts died yesterday afternoon. Exterminator's caretaker said Old Bones wouldn’t touch his hay and appeared dazed.
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Jinghamton
N.Y
Peanuts
Family Bond Stays Strong Amid War Efforts
In a town where families rally as sons join the Navy and sisters work in airplane plants, Ben Ryder's kin illustrate a united home front. Foreman, canteen volunteer, and letters bind Ma, Sis, and Ben Jr. in a shared resolve to keep family and America intact.
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Ben Ryder
Ben
Mom
Sis
Ben Jr
America
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Harry W. Shiver
Hope, Ark
Theo Long
Bob Elmore Auto Supply
Lone
Doug Bacon
Carl Jones
Tcu
Rice
Houston
Texas
TCU “Horned Frogs
Rice Owls
Hadaway
Gibson
NEA
Ohio State
Michigan
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Dick Flannigan
Gene Derricotte
Adv
East
Hope, Arkansas
Market Report
Our Daily
E. Ward
Manila Harbor
U. S. Pacific
Lamone River
Italy
Eames
Joe Marsh
Spe
Brewing Industry Foundation
Arkansas Committee
J. Bugh Wharton
Pyramid
Andrew Carnegie
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company
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