Allied Forces Push Germans Across Roer and Saar Rivers
Paris dispatch reports four American armies driving Germans back across the Roer and Saar lines and breaking through defenses near Haguenau and Strasbourg. Ninth and First Armies press along the Roer and Inde. Third Army advances toward Merzig while Siegfried defenses and Rhine approaches loom.
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Paris
Roer
Saar
Rhine
France
U. S. First Army
Naxi
Duren
Cologne
Eisenhower
Courtneyie
Hurtgen Forest
Gey
Brandenberg
Strasbourg
15Th
Corna
U. S. Seventh Army
Haguenau
Farges
Karlsruhe
U. S. Ninth Army
William Simpson
Inde
Hodges
George 8. Patton
U. & Third Army
Siegfried
10Th Armored
Morzig
Soviet spearhead nears Austrian border in Danube drive
Soviet forces push west of the Danube in southwestern Hungary and move north toward Budapest and the Austrian frontier. Units attack from Ungvar toward central Slovakia, threaten key hubs at Kassa and Eger as they press toward Zagreb and northern Yugoslavia. The operation aims to reach Budapest, invade Austria, and block 100000 German troops retreat.
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Moscow
Danube
Hungary
Budapest
Slovakia
Kosice
Szikszo
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Xacs
Eger
Austria
Yugoslavia
Bomb From Italy Fails to Break German Defenses
London reports U S 15th air force heavy bombers from Italy struck Germany as wintry weather slowed a two day Allied offensive. Berlin claims raids over Bavaria while U S losses were lower than earlier announced with many aircraft returned safe. In Italy, Fifth and Eighth army actions push near Faenza and Bologna as German positions around Lamone and Imola areas briefly resist before retreat.
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London
U. S
Air Force
Italy
Germany
U. S. Eighth Air Force
RAF
Berlin
Bavaria
Eighth Air Force
Leipzig
Saarbrugken
Tactical Air Force
Bohlen
Seitz
Merseburg
Lutzkendorf
Reich
Eighth Army
Alberto
Faenza
Lamone River
Modigliana
Monte’ Fregnanelllo
Tramonti
Monte del Tesoro
Monte Fortino
Roncosole
Fifth Army
Fontaneliie
Mola
Imola-Castel del Rig
Monte Belmonte
Bologna
Pistoia-Bologna
Bombiana
Ferther
OPA Eases Room Rules For Hotel Transients
The OPA moved to expand transient rooms by letting hotels and rooming houses petition to drop the June 1942 occupancy baseline. Landlords with up to half their rooms used weekly may offer all rooms transient, with a 10 day or more tenancy weekly rate for those in occupancy. Eviction protections for permanent tenants remain unchanged.
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Washington
OPA
Ford to pay non vacationing workers 1944 vacation bonuses
Ford Motor Co said it will distribute 3,882,722 dollars in cash to employees who were entitled to vacations in 1944 but did not take them due to the war emergency. Payments equal two weeks of wages, based on service length. The total vacation pay, including those who took vacations, was reported.
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Pr Troit
Ford 7 Co
Stock Market Index
Senate panel expands crop insurance for 1945 plan
Washington December 1 CP The senate agriculture committee approved a liberalized version of the house bill to revive federal crop insurance next year on wheat cotton and flax It adds a 20000 incentive to boost flax production from 1000000 to 5000000 acres by 1945 with payments to be set by the war food administration The panel also proposes insurance claims up to 75 percent of the average yield value while the house bill caps losses at actual investment It would extend program costs through June 30 1946 and add sugar cane to insured crops after 1946 other listed crops include fry beans oats barley rye rice peanuts sugar beets and potatoes.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
WE ‘A
Lady Astor Retires From Parliament After 25 Years
London reports that Virginia born Lady Astor will not seek re election after a 25 year tenure as the first woman MP. She represented Sutton division of Plymouth and recalled the early Commons days when no one wanted her there. Conscription crisis in Canada cooled as discipline was declared and anti conscription leaders urged calm in Quebec.
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London
Lady Astor
Sutton
Plymouth
British Federation of Business and Professional Women
Commons
Margaret Wintringam
Lord Astor
Mem of Commons
House of Lords
Ottawa
Canada
Quebec
More School Rooms Planned at Sunflower
Federal works agency will spend an extra 106 dollars beyond the 72000 grant for Sunflower Eudora school facilities, according to housing manager D W McDonald. Sunflower School enrolls about 450 with 19 teachers. high school students from the village attend DeSoto.
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Fed Works Agency
Sunflower Telageans
Senaber Acohir
Poderal Works 8 Y
Eudora
D. W. McDonald
Sunflower Village
Slanston
Sunflower School
DeSoto
Chinese Forces Withdraw In Northwestern Kwangsi
Reported withdrawal by Chinese forces in northwestern Kwangsi as enemy massed for an all-out assault on Kweichow Province. Patrols and lines shifted to cover the Burme road capital and protect Chung. The scene reflects tension with no clear Japanese side update.
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Kwangsi
Kweichow
Kweipm
Chung
Brenner Pass Sealed by Bombs
Rome dispatch reports air intelligence says persistent aerial raids have blocked the Brenner Pass rail connection to the Reich. No train has run since destructive bombing began, with bombers continuing to pound tunnel systems and sabotage Nazi repair efforts.
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Rome
Des
Italy
Reich
Brenner Pass
TWA Plane Crash Near Burbank Kills Pilot Crew
A Transcontinental and Western Air passenger plane en route from San Francisco to Burbank crashed in heavy fog near the city early today killing the pilot and co-pilot and a city official from San Diego. Mayor Charley Knox was severely injured, and Walter Cooper was reported dead. Several passengers were injured as the craft struck power lines and tumbled.
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Transcontinental and Western Airlines
San Francisco
Burbank
Diane
Walter Cooper
San Diego
Charley Knox
Lockheed Air
Brinkman
ae E @ Brinkman
Wellington
Merchant Marine
Wellington High School
Sunflower Ordnance Works
DeSoto
Kaw
W. E. Lund
Lee Flanagin
TWA
Lockheed
Knox
British Polish exiled government faces critical censure
London reports on December 1 describe the new Polish exiled cabinet as a tragic failure with some urging Britain to back the Soviet sponsored committee at Lublin. Conservative Times and Daily Worker both say Arciszewski’s regime lacks genuine reconciliation with the Soviet Union. Moscow’s press also notes anti Soviet aims by the exiles.
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London
Britain
Lublin
Times
Daily Worker
Omass Arciszewski
Soviet Union
Moscow
Largest Tire Quota Delayed For A Card Holders
Washington reports passenger tire quotas reach 2,000,000 for December but A card motorists cannot receive new tires until spring. The OPA says some passenger tire facilities may shift to jeep tires and production increases for passenger tires may take time. Further civilian quotas for heavy trucks and buses could be reduced.
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Washington
Upi
OPA
War Bond Sales Pass Milestone in Douglas County Drive
Douglas County reports 911 954 25 total Sixth War Loan bonds sold so far with 99 168 75 raised yesterday. rural districts planned meetings to finish in a single day and several small cities posted ten day totals above Fifth War Loan figures. Lawrence women prepare war stamp corsages and decorations through Christmas.
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Douglas County
Chris Kraft
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Baldwin
Eudora
Lecompton
D. A. Lytle
Werner
Bond
Weaver
Rose Albert
Edna Wilson
Hilda Zilmer
Rachel Reber
Frances Roy
Leutenant
Sixteen Register for Military Service in Douglas County
Sixteen young men aged eighteen registered at the Community building selective service office for U S military service. Names include Ernest Fenstemeker James Fineley Litz Thomas Hutton Walter Stand Donald Fanesti Adelbert Spalsbury Glenn Davis Raymond Miller Nevels Ralph Davin Harold Patchen John Blodig Jack Atwood Wiley Wilson Edward Garrett Big Goose and others.
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Douglas County
Armed Forces of the
United States
Ernest Fenstemeker
James Fineley Litz
Route 4
Law
Thomas Donald Hutton
Walter Leon Stand
Haskell Institute
Donald Edward Fanesti
Battenfeld Witten
Raymond George Miller
Ta. Z. J. Nevels,Jr
Eldon Ralph Davin
Harold Eugene Patchen
John Leopold Blodig
Jack Ray Atwood
J . Wiley
Charles Wilson
Lyons
Waily
Edward Garrett
Hevi
Sixth War Loan Drive Is Started on K U Campus
The University of Kansas hosts the Sixth War Loan Drive in cooperation with the bond effort, running through December 8. A War Bond dance closes the drive next week in Hoch auditorium after the basketball game, with Donald Cousins and his Navy orchestra. Stamps and bonds booths operate in Frank Strong hall and Fraser hall run by Coed Volunteer DE. A queen will be elected from sorority and independent houses based on votes cast at the dance, with 1 vote per 10 cent stamp purchased.
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University of Kansas
Hoch Auditorium
Donald Cousins
Navy
Frank Strong Hall
Fraser Hall
Stama
Legion of Merit Award To Rear Admiral Bernhard
Rear Admiral Alva D. Bernbech of Lawrence Kansas yesterday received the Legion of Merit at the Naval Hospital in San Diego where he is convalescing from illness. He was cited for planning and executing the neutralization and achievement of U S control over 22 atolls in the Marshall Islands during February to October. General Chou En Lai left Chungking for Yenan with new proposals from Chiang Kai-shek for settlement of the communist question to be discussed with leaders in Yenan. Flowers of Distinction: Allison Flower Shop. Phons 363ve.
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San Diego
Alva D. Bernbech
I Lawrence
Kan
Naval Hospital
Bernhard
Marshalls Islands
Chungking
Chou En-Lai
Changking
Yenan
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Machinery Output for Farms Slags
Production data from the Associated Press shows farm machinery output lagging in the four months ending October 1. Corn, cotton and potato picker production fell 50.1 percent and manure spreaders 52.6 percent below quotas. other implements also underperformed. A WPB industry advisory committee meeting set for December 8 will revise machinery manufacture figures and address shortages.
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WPB
Housing plea in Lawrence as SO W demands homes
C Whipple of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce housing committee appeals residents to list available apartments, furnished rooms, and homes for Sunflower Ordnance Works workers and new families moving to Lawrence. He emphasizes housing is vital to war production alongside buying bonds, noting a single listing already connected a family with an available apartment.
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Lawrence
Sunflower Ordnance Works
C. Whipple
S.O.W
Whipple
United Nations
Cold snap easing across Kansas as warmer weather near
Topeka reports the worst of the cold snap is over says Weatherman S D Flora with a more pleasant winter pattern expected today and tomorrow. Some north central and northwestern areas still show snow but most of the state warms. Coffeyville leads with 28 and Phillipsburg at eight above zero. Temperatures should range from mid 20s to near 80 in the east, around 35 in the west tonight and rise to 35 to 40 tomorrow.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D
Flora
Oklahoma
Texas
Rockies
Missouri
Coffeyville
Phillipsburg
Co-Op Club to Entertain High School Squad
The Lawrence Co-Operative Club hosted a program at the Colonial and plans a feed for Liberty Memorial high school football squad next Thursday at the Community building. Inductions of Prof. F A Russell M J Pat Patterson and Elmer Schaake were conducted by Co-Operator Ruben Fox.
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R. E. Bruns
Walter Schaal
Lawrence Co-Operative Club
Colonial
Liberty Memorial High School
F. A. Russell
M. J
Pat” Patterson
Elmer Schaake
Ruben Fox
Marine General Named to Command Pacific Department
Maj. Gen. Julian C. Smith designated commanding general of the Pacific Department with HQ in San Francisco. He will assume around December 5, relieving Maj. Gen. J. C. Ragan at Mare Island. Smith has led expeditionary forces in Gilbert and Palau campaigns and supported the Central Pacific offensive.
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Washington
Julian c. Smith
Pacifier
San Francisco
Tarawa
Gilbert
Palau
Pacific War Predictions Fuel Education Talk at Liberty Memorial High
Dr. Sutton warned the Pacific war may last ten to twenty years and the European conflict could extend to 1947. He urged immediate plans to live differently, criticizing postwar planning while praising American organizational ability. The talk, at Liberty Memorial High School, urged stronger homes and families, tolerance, and a youthful, ever-reliable spirit.
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Europe
Sutton
Liberty Memorial High School
Dr. Sutton
America
Aine
Riea
Weidlem Joins Mid West Research Board Trustees
Kansas City December 1 Dr Weidlem a trustee of the Mid West Research Institute has accepted a board appointment. J C Nichols notes the addition brings three foremost industrial men to the board including F Kettering of General Motors and Dr Ernest W Reid of Corn Products Refining previously on the board.
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Kansas City
Pi—De
Ed Weltein
Weidr Mellon Institute
D ‘Industrial Research
Pittsburgh
Mid-West
J. C. Nichols
Weidléin
Es F. Kettering
General Motors
Research Laboratories Division
Ernest W. Reid
Corm Products Refining Company
The
Heard
Veterinarian to be heard by Douglas county beef dairy herds
Farmers with beef or dairy herds in Douglas county are urged by county agent Deal Six to attend meetings. Dr. J W Lamb extension veterinarian from Kansas State College will discuss Bangs disease and mastitis, a major dairymen issue. Meetings set for Monday in Lawrence at the Chamber of Commerce Tooms at 2 pm and in Baldwin at Fellowship Hall at 8 pm. Maj Charles H Pruden reassigned from Sunflower Works to Badger Ordnance Works Baratow Wisconsin, after serving at SOW from 1942 to last June.
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Douglas County
Deal Six
Baldwinne
J. W. Lamb
Kansas
State College
Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
Tooms
Baldwin
Fellowship Hall
Pruden
Charles H Pruden
Sunflower Ordnance’ Works
Badger Ordnance Works
Baratov
Wis
W.L. Keldsen
S.O.W
St. Louis
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