Battle for town on way to Cologne
Allied forces push in Vosges and Holland as fierce, hand to hand fighting rages around Vossenack and Schmidt near Aachen. Germans rush reserves to block the Roer line while American and French units advance toward the Cologne plain and Dutch waterways.
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Vossenack
Cologne
Aachen
Wossenack
Supreme Headquarters
First Army
Hurtgen
Schmidt
Associated Press
Roer
Vosne Pases
Germany
Holand
Wil Jematad
Maas River
Vosges
Meurthe River
Baccarat
St. Die
Schirmeck
Saales Pases
St. Remy
Compatelize
la Salle
Sales
Ste. Marie
First
Urigen Forest
Cologne Plain
Stalin Says Hungary Will Be Out of War Soon
Soviet premier Stalin declares that Hungary will soon be out of the war as Red Army and western allies push a decisive offensive around Budapest. Reports say Soviet forces move within two miles of the Ferihegy airdrome while Berlin and Rome radio outlets note strikes and political upheaval in Budapest and Szalasi government. Voters flock to polls across the United States in the wartime Roosevelt-Dewey presidential race with heavy turnout and early balloting forecasts.
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London
Red Army
Budapest
Stalin
Hungary
Germany
Ferihegy
Moscow
Hungar
Battle pushing toward Ormoc in Leyte campaign
General MacArthur's headquarters reports American forces four miles from Carigara Bay advancing through Japanese mountain defenses toward Ormoc, the island's last stronghold. Japanese reinforcements are believed nearby as fierce clashes erupt on the Ormoc valley highway.
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Carigara Bay
Ormoc
Leyte
Limon
Visayan Islands
Unidentified Man Crashes Plane at Fairfax Field
Kansas City dispatch reports Army authorities search for a man in a soldier’s uniform who obtained a twin engined plane before daylight and crashed it at Fairfax Field. The pilot signed clearance papers as C L Rutter of Kingman Arizona, but no such person is registered. Papers bore the name Pvt Jack Smith, not listed at Fairfax Field. Investigators probe how the pilot obtained a plane without proper identification.
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Fairfax Field
C. L. Rutter
Kingman
Ariz
John Tyler
Kingman Field
Tyler
Pvt
Jack Smith
Election Day Weather and Labor Restarts at Two Detroit Plants
Weather reports show widespread rain across the upper Mississippi valley into the Great Lakes and lower Michigan with snow in the Rockies and clear to cold conditions along the seaboard and Gulf states. In Detroit, 8,000 auto workers returned to work after local votes ended strikes at Continental Motors and Freuhhaus Trailer Co.
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United Automobile Workers
Must Halt Aggression Washington Discusses Stalin on Japan
Washington reports Stalin flagged Japan as an aggressor and hinted Soviet aid to Pacific allies could range from bases to full participation. No clear plans disclosed. authorities caution against premature action while hoping for coordinated response.
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Stalin
Japan
Soviet Union
Pacific
Russia
London
Appeal to Court for Kansas contracts canceled
Topeka reports that Pi-Thirteen Toad contractors appealed to the Kansas supreme court seeking to cancel more than 1 million dollars in Highway Commission contracts. Kawnee county district judges upheld demurrers to the contractors evidence, saying war conditions prevented completion. Also reported, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Allen, ninety, voted for Governor Dewey in Rochester.
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Toad
Kansas Supreme Court
State Highway Commission
Kawnee County
Dewey
Rochester
Elizabeth D. Allen
Grover Cleveland
Polish troops seize San Martino and Marsignano in Italy
CAPTURE SAN MARTINO Rome Nov 7 Polish Eighth Army units have captured San Martino and Marsignano in the mountains southwest of Forli. Several hill features were taken. Italian front activity consisted mainly of patrols with German attempts to infiltrate near Ravenna repelled.
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Eighth Army
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Marsignano
Forli
Adriatic
San Stefano
Ravenna
Bolo
Bologna
Alison
Armstrong
Congress to hear Pearl Harbor cases and flood relief bills
Senate Republicans were urged to stay in their seats when Congress reconvenes November 14 as the chamber acts before year’s end on extending the wartime Pearl Harbor trial timeline for Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimml and Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, approving flood control and river harbor contracts, and renewing the 1 percent social security payroll tax for another year.
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Senate
Whcerey
Nebraska
Congress
Erry
Husband E. Kimmel
Walter C. Short
Pearl Harbor
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Dewey Leads Early In Kansas With Partial Returns
Incomplete and unofficial results from Kansas precincts show Dewey ahead of Roosevelt in presidential votes. 83 of 2760 precincts report, with city precincts counting, plus early tallies from Topeka Leavenworth Pratt and numerous towns. 1st figures include Dewey 4453 Roosevelt 3031 statewide from some updates.
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Topeka
Kansas
Dewey
Roosevelt
Churchill promises very searching inquiries into Moyne murder
London reports that Prime Minister Churchill told the Commons that very searching inquiries would be made into the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo. He said the British nation had suffered a heavy loss and that no official information on the killer or motives had been received, though the Egyptian government stated the assassins were not Egyptian subjects. Lord Strabolgi suggested Nazi agents may be responsible. Meanwhile in Flemington, New Jersey, absentee ballots counted for Hunterdon county showed Roosevelt and Truman leading Dewey and Bricker 130 to 120 for president and vice president, with 1940 county totals cited.
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Truman
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Bricker
Wendell Willkie
Lawrence Voters Rally To Polls Amid Rainy Morning
Lawrence Douglas county voters flocked to polling places despite morning rain. Early results showed Dewey leading Roosevelt in the presidential race with spurred turnout in Baldwin and Woodlawn precincts. Counting boards staffed from noon as voters queued, including soldiers and absentee ballots, with totals continuing to rise through the day.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Schrivner
Baker
Palate
Schoeppel
Lemon
Dewey
Baldwin
Four new members named to regional War Labor Board
Public and labor groups add four members each to the regional War Labor Board to speed wage stabilization. New public members include A J Granoff Frank Stockton Marcy Brown Jr and Robert Leslar. New labor members include Ben A Henry Leo Quinn Mack A Fitzgerald Estile F Noble Charlie W Mowery Leroy Jones.
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War Labor Board
Paul F. Nachtman
A. J. Granoff
Tripartite
WLE
Frank T. Stockton
School of Business
University of Kansas
Marcy K. Brown
Robert A. Leslar
School of Law
University of Arkansas
Ben A. Henry
C.I.D
Des Moines
Leo Quinn
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs
Absentee Service Votes in Douglas County Counted Today
A total of 579 absentee service votes are to be counted in today’s election by County Clerk T. R. Gerhart. Of these 418 were sent to city precincts and 161 to rural voting places. Thirteen ballots arrived by mail this morning, and all but one were sent to the precincts. one ballot from H. O. Groth could not be matched to a proper precinct.
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Gerhart
H. O. Groth
Packard Plant in Detroit Closed Over Polisher Dispute
Detroit November 7. Packard Motor Corp closed its entire plant employing about 9,008 workers due to a dispute with several hundred polishers creating an unbalanced material condition that halts aircraft and marine engine production. International UAW CIO representatives have been trying to settle the walkout since last Friday night. Weekend work was not scheduled, but the night shift on Monday saw the same polishers walk out again, making operation impossible until they return.
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Packard Motor Corp
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C.I.O
Vote returns from multiple states show Dewey leads early
Harris County Texas unofficial counts place Dewey ahead with 1,929 votes for Republicans 938 for Roosevelt. Cape Cod town Mashpee reports Dewey 89 to Roosevelt 1. Mt Washington Massachusetts tabulates 37 total with Dewey 29, Roosevelt 8. Tulsa three precincts show Dewey ahead about four to one with 506 Roosevelt 157 in others. Jefferson County Alabama absentee ballots favor Democrats. Nutbush precinct North Carolina reports Straight Democratic ticket.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
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Washington
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Okla
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Ala
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Nutbush
Once County
North Carolina
RAF halts bombing as weather slows German raids
London reports a weather halt ends a three day aerial campaign against Germany after 25,000 Allied planes dropped over 26,000 tons of bombs. RAF crews resumed night bombing of Coblenz and daylight raids on Ruhr targets as Mosquitos hit Gelsenkirchen amid fires from yesterday’s massive strike.
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Rhine
U. S
Third Army
R.A. F
Gelsenkirchen
Ruhr
Reich
Board opposes highway routing near Pinckney school
The board of education passed a resolution opposing routing U S Highway 40 past Pinckney elementary on West Sixth Street, at the November meeting held in Liberty Memorial High School. The measure, urged by the Pinckney PTA, argues the road would create traffic hazards and noise disrupting school function. A copy will be sent to the State Highway Commission chair in Topeka.
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West Sixth Street
State Highway Commission
Board of Education
Liberty Memorial High School
Pinckney Parent Teachers Association
Highway Commission
Topeka
Bernice Irwin
Rainy Election Day in Topeka and statewide showers
Voters faced rain across most of Kansas on election day with mild temperatures. Rainfall varied by location from .09 in Topeka to .71 in Coffeyville, while October brought above normal warmth and moisture followed by a lingering front. Farmers benefited from Indian summer conditions late October.
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Topeka
UPI
Katsag
S. D. Flora
Kasisas
Coffeyville
Dodge City
Goodland
Wichita
Phillipsburg
Concordia
Wamega
Flora
Late War Ballots Speed to Home Towns
Topeka reports war ballots rushed by special delivery and highway patrol to county clerks. Seventy six late ballots arrived at the secretary of state’s office, many for nearby counties, as polling closes. Total war ballots reach about 30,506 with about 15,000 military absentee ballots sent directly to county clerks.
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Topeka
Kansas
Secretary of State
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