Inland Philippine sea battle ends near draw and Leyte raids
Pacific war brief notes two destroyers sunk in Nip waters off Ormoc as Catalina planes rescue survivors. U S and Japanese ships trade blows in Ormoc harbor with Liberator raids on Japanese airfields and renewed fighting around Leyte and Kweiyang as China sees political shifts including Soong appointment.
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Associated Press
Philippine
Tokyo
Ormocan
Leyte
U. S
U.S
Catalina
Borneo
Ormoc Harbor
Bonin
Volin
Saipan
Fie
Kweiyang
MacArthur
Philippines
Ormoc Gulf
Leyte Island
On Oe
U.S. Navy
Cats
Navy
Cigao
Ball
Fullerton
Calif
Sedestroyer
Partly cloudy tonight with a weak low Wednesday
The report notes a partly cloudy night with a low and Wednesday turning generally fair and slightly warmer with a high around 35 degrees. The line Dont Burn This Paper yer Fights For Victory is a stray stray line in the text.
U S Opposition to Outside Interference in Italian Government
The United States told Britain and Italy it seeks an Italian government formed by Italians without outside meddling. London and Washington debated Count Sforza’s role as Eden resisted his inclusion, while the U S stance urged self rule for liberated territories and all nations.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Italy
State Department
Great Britain
Count Sforza
Count Cforza
United Nations
Anthony Eden
Sforza
Bonomi
London
Foreign Office
U. S. State Department
One Fatality Noted In Area
One fatality was reported from icy weekend conditions in Prairie du Chien where Pfc. Harry Charles Gossel, 36, died after a fall. Coroner officials called the death accidental due to a fractured skull from a cement impact. Gossel, on weekend pass from Camp McCoy, was visiting his sister near Prairie. Funeral plans are set for Eastman and Shanghai Ridge cemetery. survivors include his father and two brothers.
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la Crosse
Harry Charles Gossel
Prairie du Chien
William J. Rider
Lys Day
Gossel
Pic. Gossel
Prairie
Proving Ground
Til
Edward Snyder
Snyder
Francis Mahan
Martha Williams
Liberty Street
Avon
City Police Department
Army
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Camp McCoy
Illinois Proving Grounds
Lake Funeral Home
Eastman Church
Shanghai Ridge
Norbert Miller
William Gossel
Eastman
Leonard
Roy
War Loan Drive Urges Priority Over Christmas Shopping
Washington treasury officials urged Christmas shoppers to prioritize the sixth war loan drive over holiday spending. National war finance director Ted R. Gamble said the drive dates November 20 to December 16 coincide with heavy wartime buying, but war expenditures must take precedence.
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Washington
Treasury
Ted R. Gamble
War Finance
Security Tax Work Started
Congress advances social security tax legislation as it aims to move the tax from one to two percent on January 1. House begins parsing the bill amid a divided Ways and Means committee while rivers and harbors debates linger in the Senate.
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Washington
Congress
State Department
House
Senate
German Hospital Ship Tuebingen Sunk by Allies
Aircraft of the Mediterranean Allied coast air force sank the unilluminated German hospital ship Tuebingen during a period of poor light on November 18 while she was en route to Trieste. Regrets were conveyed to German authorities.
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Rome
Mediterranean
Tuebingen
Trieste
County Clerk Announces 1945 License Plate Applications
Automobile drivers may apply for their 1945 plates at the county clerk’s office. County Clerk Es ther Domke announced Tuesday.
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Esther Domke
Airman rescues bomber crew behind Nazi lines
A New York Times dispatch details Lieut George Irvine of Wisconsin who, in a Cub spotter plane, landed beside a wrecked A-20 Havoc to extract Corp Henry Morris amid heavy German fire. Irvine flew back to attempt additional rescues as shells and machinegun fire raked the field near Merzig Germany.
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New York
New York Times
U. S
9Th Air Force
George Irvine
la Crosse
Wis
Irvine
Jessica Irvine
South 20Th Street
Field Artillery
3Rd Army
France
Corp
Henry Morris
Seaford
Del
Morris
Merzig
Germany
Lieut
Four 4-H Health Champions Named at National Congress
Fourteen year old Lucilie Latza and three other teens were named 4-H health champions at the national 4-H congress in Chicago. Lyle M. Ramey from Redwood Falls Minnesota Bob Tolbert 18 from Pawleys Valley Oklahoma Elizabeth Ann Laughner 18 from Leetonia Ohio joined Latza as winners.
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Chicago —i
Lyle M. Ramey
Redwood Falls
Minn
Bob Tolbert
Pauls Valey
Okla
Elizabeth Ann Laughner
Leetonia
Lucilie Latza
Letcher
S. D
Red army nears Austrian frontier along Lake Balaton drive
Soviet forces led by Marshal Tolbukhin push toward Hungary's border with Austria as they advance from Nagybajom to Lake Balaton and along the Danube, cutting enemy lines and tightening siege near Budapest. They reach 60 miles from the frontier and seize multiple towns in a broad advance.
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London
Hungary
Budapest
Lake
Balaton
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Nagybajom
Moscow
Danube
Austria
Sagvar
Sterday
Tamasi
Kaposvar
Pecs
Drava
Yugoslavia
Szigetvar
Zagreb
Bond Sales Lag in La Crosse County War Bonds Drive
La Crosse county trails state averages in Sixth War Loan E bond sales with 29 percent of the $1,119,000 quota and total county bond sales at 78 percent of the $3,940,000 target. Chairman Gysbert Van Wyk noted the weak pace and mentioned special decorative envelopes for bonds as Christmas gifts, available at banks and the county war finance office.
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la Crosse County
Gysbert van Wyk
County War Finance Organization
van Steenwoyk
County War Finance Office
Batavian Bank
Milwaukee Road to share in Sixth War Loan drive total
Chicago report says the Sixth War Loan drive credits portions of the Milwaukee Road purchase of 30 million dollars in government securities across 12 states. Wisconsin gets five million two hundred eighty four thousand, to be divided among 45 counties served by the road, La Crosse County receiving 116 thousand.
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Chicago
Milwaukee Road
Wisconsin
la Crosse
Injured Actress Says She Fell In Bathtub
Joan Rydell, 27, actress model, found unconscious in a water filled bathtub in her New York apartment. Hospital attaches report she is in good condition at Knickerbocker Hospital. Police to question her as they note the apartment was disordered. She reportedly said, Just say I fell in the bathtub and let it go at that.
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New York
Joan Rydell
Union Meeting To Address Graham Paige Plant Closure
Officials of United Automobile Workers Local 142 called members to a meeting in Detroit to discuss a weeklong shutdown at the Graham Paige Motors Corp plant and the ongoing labor dispute.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Graham-Paige Motors Corp
Greek premier offers to quit amid Greek strike
Greek Premier George Papandreou offered his resignation and proposed a coalition cabinet with center and right groups led by Themistokles Sophoulis as a general strike and clashes continued in Athens. Elas militia left police HQs in Piraeus and tensions rose with deaths and injuries near the railway station. Britain pledged support to Papandreou and warned against a Communist dictatorship, as the army could be used to restore order.
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Athens
George Papandreou
Themistokles Sophoulis
Elas
EAM
National Liberation Front
Piraeus
Papandreou
Greek Naval College
London
Britain
Greece
House of Commons
Churchill
Prankster's miniature bomb explodes in Philadelphia man
Glen Gloyd says a prankster's miniature bomb or chemically treated paper wad caused a mouth blast while he chewed gum on Sunday. The blast lacerated his lips and left contusions as police sent gum and a paper fragment to the FBI for analysis.
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Philadelphia
Glen Gloyd
FBI
Lloyd
Ruth Hanna Simms in Chicago In Serious Condition
Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms 64, a former New Mexico Republican leader and Rockford newspaper publisher, was read in extremely serious condition Tuesday after pancreatitic surgery at Billings hospital. The operation occurred Sunday. she had recently left Billings after a long convalescence from a broken shoulder from a fall near Alamosa, Colorado, in October.
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Chicago
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
New Mexico
Rockford, Ill
Billings Hospital
Simms
Alamosa
Colo
Eisenhower Urges German People to Rely on Own Resources
General Eisenhower in a wartime proclamation told Germans they cannot count on military government aid and must salvage food seeds fertilizers and agricultural machines to avoid hunger after defeat. He warned the scorched earth policy will worsen suffering and that Allied support will mainly go to ravaged populations.
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Eisenhower
Inurope
Office of War Information
Europe
Allied forces advance across Western Front theaters
In operations across the Western Front today Allied armies push forward from Nijmegen to Saarbrucken. Canadian 1st Army reports spearheads inside Reich opposite Nijmegen. British 2nd Army clears area west of Maas. U S 9th Army breaches resistance west of Roer at Julich. French 1st Army advances north from Mulhouse. Saarbrucken targeted by multiple divisions with gains near Sarreguemines and Sarre Union.
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Associated Press
Reich
Nijmegen
Arnhem
Maas River
Holland
U. S. 9Th Army
Roer River
Julich
Ut. S. 1St Army
Duren
U. S
Saarlautern
Saarbrucken
U. S. 7Th Army
Patton
Karlsruhe
France
Colmar
Alsace
Strasbourg
Kleve
Eisenhower
Germany
Hurtgen Forest
Aachen
Saar
Merzig
Sarre Union
Roden
Fraulautern
Siegfried Line
Sarlautern
Ene Emy
Berlin
Cologne
3Rd
Forbach
Sarregue
3Rd Army
Coloegne
Eissenhower
Local Man Missing In Action In France Pvt Snodgrass
Pvt Robert L Snodgrass is reported missing in action in France as of November 3. A Morse telegram to his wife Ruth Viner lists his address, notes six years of service, three overseas years including Iceland, and participation in the invasion of southern Italy after the D Day landing. He is a Kent Ohio native. father Ervin Snodgrass is reportedly working in Michigan.
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Robert L. Snodgrass
France
Acto Apar Rtment Teleram
Ruth Viner
Winnebago Street
Snodgrass
Camp McCoy
Iceland
Italy
D-day Landing. Pvt. Snodgrass
Kent, O
Ervin Snodgrass
Michigan
Immell Presents Hitler Bust To Governor Goodland
Brig. Gen. Ralph M. Immell on leave gifts a bust of Adolf Hitler to Governor Goodland. The bust came from the German French cultural institute in Dijon Burgundy France, taken in October. The piece bears a mark of a V over the cross of Lorraine from French interior forces.
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Madison
Wis
Adolf Hitler
Goodland
Ralph M. Immell
Dijon
Burgundy
France
Curia
Interior
Lorraine
Heavies Renew Berlin Assault
American heavy bombers and fighter escorts conducted a major daylight raid on Berlin and Tegel, dropping about 2000 tons of bombs as 80 German planes were shot down. The attack involved 550 heavies and 800 fighters from Britain with notable aerial combat led by Maj. William J. Howe who claimed five enemy kills.
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London
Berlin
Britain
Tegel
Munster
Luftwaffe
Messerschmitts
Focke-Wulfs
Maj
William J. Howe
Crookston
Minn
U. S
Seven Navy Volunteers Suffer Food Poisoning
Seven 17 year old Wisconsin navy volunteers were taken to the county emergency hospital in Milwaukee after falling ill from food poisoning. Eugene Randall of New Richmond was in poor condition while the others were listed as fair. The group had dined at a downtown Milwaukee restaurant before midnight.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Navy
Eugene Randall
New Richmond
William Lee
Keith Anderson
Elena
Edward Lieffering
Durand
Lloyd Wright
Baldwin
Michael Yaeger
Boyd
Homer White
Chippewa Falls
1328-Bed VA Hospital Planned for Tomah Wisconsin
The Veterans Administration will establish a 1328 bed hospital in Tomah Wisconsin at an estimated cost of 4.88 million dollars. The permanent facility will serve neuropsychiatric veterans from southern Wisconsin eastern Iowa and northern Illinois. Construction will begin early next spring on land from the U S Indian Industrial School farm.
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Washington
Veterans’ Administration
Tomah
Wis
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
9th Division Presses Through Siegfried Line Front
The 9th Infantry Division of the U S 3rd Army drives through Saarlautern and presses into the Siegfried line beyond the fortress city. Roden Fraulautern and Saarbrucken were targeted as Patton’s forces push toward the Rhine front. American units also seize Selestat and advance toward Colmar while Bergh of the Hurtgen area maintains heavy combat on multiple fronts.
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Saar
Wallerfangen
Saarlautern
Keskastel
Paris
U. S
3Rd Army
Siegfried Line
Supreme Headquarters
Roden
Fraulatern
Saar River
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Konz-Karthaus
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Mackwiller
Heavies
By James M. Long
Shell Rail Town
George S. Patton
U. S. 1St Army
Bergstein
7Th Army
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