Japs Decide To Battle Yanks For West Leyte
Russian forces siege Budapest as Red Army breaches outer defenses and encircles areas north of the city. German and Hungarian units fall back toward Pest while fugitives flood toward Vienna. Red Star cites immense losses and near capitulation as Soviet forces press from multiple fronts.
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Eddy Gilmore
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Danube
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Roosevelt Election Tour Ends With Boston Address
President Roosevelt plans a Boston Fenway Park speech to cap a four city swing in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He accuses Republican critics of fear tactics over insurance and urges workers time off to vote amid wide radio coverage. Senator Walsh joins in Worcester while Rep Luce faces a campaign in her home district. Truman predicts an overwhelming Roosevelt victory with a Missouri plurality, ending in Independence with a 9:15 p.m. address and a women's tea in Liberty.
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Fenway Park
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Washington
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Missouri
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Liberty
Italy Front Stalls as Allied Casualties Reach 116150
Rome reports 116150 Allied casualties since the Cassino offensive began May 11. Patrolling and limited clashes persist in rain as Gen. Sir Harold Alexander notes German and Allied losses, with German casualties at 194000.
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Rome
Cassino
Harold Alexander
Ruling Lets residents on housing lands vote in Green county
The Green county housing projects vote ruling held that residence on government housing lands does not deny suffrage. The decision came after Karl Bull questioned 1,000 residents on military reservations being ineligible next Tuesday if otherwise qualified.
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Green County
Karl Bull
Herbert
Japs Penetrate Into Kweilin Amid Fierce Fighting
Chinese high command reports Japanese forces have broken into Kweilin's eastern western and northern suburbs with heavy combat ongoing. An enemy column moved toward Liuchow along the Hunan Kwangsi railway reaching six miles from Yungfu near Kweilin. Liuchow is a key rail center and home to an American air base. US air support from the 7th fighter bomber force attacked advancing columns and supply, while other pushes threaten Liuchow from the west and Yunnan operations press on Lungling on the Burma road.
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Tenn
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Tito Wounded in Unconfirmed Balkan Assault Report
A German short wave propaganda broadcast cited by the Associated Press claimed Marshal Tito was wounded by Serbian nationalists, though the report could not be independently confirmed.
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Associated Press
Tito
Dewey Campaign Hits Final Push to Election Night
Governor Thomas E. Dewey arrives at Madison Square Garden after two months of campaigning and 20000 miles of travel, poised to hammer Roosevelt on domestic and foreign policy with calls for change. John Bricker, finishing his vice presidential push, seeks Ohio’s 25 electoral votes for the ticket with four speeches in a single day including an Ohio network broadcast.
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Thomas E. Dewey
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John W. Bricker
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Roosevelt
New York
Kesselring Reported Seriously Wounded in Italy
The Gazette de Lausanne reported that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, German commander in Italy, was very seriously wounded and facing long hospitalization after a crash near Bologna following an air attack. Italy had said he was wounded when his car overturned after being machinegunned by an Allied plane.
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Switzerland
Gazette de Laussane
Albert Kesselring
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Kesselring
Bologna
Presidential Train Guards Die In Fog Collision
Stamford, Conn. auxiliary policeman Francis Carrigan died after being struck by a train while guarding the presidential special. Theodore Hartlett was critically injured when the same foggy collision occurred near the Stamford depot as President Roosevelt traveled en route to Boston for a major political address.
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Tank Swing Fails to Hold Schmidt Near Aachen
German counterattacks supported by tanks recaptured the village of Schmidt, 15 miles southeast of Aachen, forcing American troops to fall back. Americans had seized Schmidt but a second German assault with tanks broke through. seven enemy tanks were destroyed in the sector. Allies meanwhile pressed toward the Roer and Maas front lines as heavy fighting continued along a broad front.
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Westkapelle
U. S. Airmen Blast Enemy's Motor Convoy
Allied air forces strike at a Japanese motor convoy near Ormoc Leyte as 49th fighter group and others report heavy returns. Bombing, artillery and naval actions unfold with ships damaged and transports ashore amid continuing Leyte fighting.
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U. S
Enemy
Oust Nazis From Greece Move By Salonic Coast
British landings near Salonika signal Allied push as Germans retreat from Greece. Tito reports Partisans besieging Bitola and Skoplje while Germans evacuate Valona and fortify northern Albania to shield routes to Scutari.
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Cold Weather Also Forecast Across Region
The forecast continues cold with Sunday morning lows around 26 degrees and a high near 48. Saturday saw a 30 degree low after a Friday high of 48. Canadian stations ranged 10 to 20 degrees with some under 30, while Bismarck North Dakota reported seven above. Snow was absent locally, though a Sunday snowstorm risk exists in northwestern Minnesota, and Manitoba saw four inches of snow with freezing temperatures. Hunters noted continued cold affecting southern duck flights.
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Winnipeg
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Manitoba
Plug Tobacco Price Up 20 Percent Notice
The price of plug chewing tobacco rises 20 percent on November 8 after OPA approval to cover higher production costs. A plug sells for six cents up from five, and ten cent plugs move to twelve cents. The OPA notes manufacturers’ earnings under the old ceilings were well below standards.
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OPA
OPA Bars Lieut Garnett Front Room Polling Site
The Office of Price Administration ruled that Lieut. B. M. Garnett’s landlady cannot use his front room as a polling place next Tuesday, citing the regulation against double renting and preventing voters from tramping in and out.
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Montrose
Calif
Office of Price Administration
B. M. Garnett
OPA
Strike Bound Toledo Plants Taken Over by Army
President Roosevelt ordered the army to seize and operate eight Toledo Ohio plants essential to the war effort. The firms include Baker Brothers Willys Overland Ohio Tool and Dye Inshield Crescent Engineering Toledo Steel Tube and Wayne Metal. The action expands government control amid widespread strikes tied to labor unrest.
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Toledo
Washington
White House
Voting Lists Decrease 400 in La Crosse Presidential Race
About 400 fewer La Crosse residents have registered to vote for the presidential election than in 1940, with 24,100 registered this year. City Clerk Fred Kramer noted voter registration rose since the August 15 primary, and more than half of ballots mailed to servicemen and women have been returned.
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la Crosse
Fred Kramer
Kramer
Indian Troops Overrun Vital Jap Defenses in Burma
Southeast Asia Command says Indian troops of the British army overran Japanese defenses at a vital corner on the Tiddim to Fort White road in the Chin hills. They reportedly are within a mile of Kennedy peak. Allied air forces destroyed and damaged several enemy planes at Rangoon airfields.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Tiddim
Fort White
Chin Hills
Burma
Kennnedy Peak
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Eastern Air Command
Rangoon
Stolen Bus Recovered Near Camp Van Dorn
A bus missing from the Vicksburg station Thursday night was found abandoned near Camp Van Dorn on Saturday. Police theorize it was borrowed by someone after the last train from Vicksburg.
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Vicksburg Station
Camp van Dorn
Vicksrg
Sailor and Bride Elect Die in Fatal Auto Crash
A sailor home on furlough and his bride elect, along with four others, were killed in a crash when their car struck a stalled motor truck. Five others were injured in the collision near Kempton Illinois. The deceased include James C McGinnis 23 Loren Boux 24 Louis Heenan 12 Elaine Heenan 8 and Miss Mary Heenan 40. The couple had planned to marry after his 13 months overseas service.
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Kankakee
Ill
James C. McGinnis
Kempton, Ill
Ethel M. Residori
Loren Boux
Louis Heenan
Elaine
Mary Heenan
British Prepared For New Nazi Weapons
Hull England Britain must be ready for German use of new weapons that will be less futile than flying bombs Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair said in an address Saturday The German beast is desperate In the last six months the RAF bomber command dropped more bombs than in all previous months of the war We are watching them and they won’t take us by surprise.
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