War powers extend as Congress opens final sessions
Washington November 13 The 78th Congress opens amid debate on extending the Presidents war powers including priorities with little inter party opposition. House Republican Leader Martin MA says no planned opposition to prolongation. Major issues include social security tax, postwar highways, crop insurance revival, flood control, coal law revival, and a looming postwar agenda.
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Francis M. LE May
Associated Press
Wastington
Congress
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Avor
Sapere
Pearl Harbor
Man Held After Staying At Bula
In Bula Bailey County, R C Dennington about 45 was shot to death around 11 AM in front of a cafe. His father in law J W Parkman about 60 is charged with murder and has posted a 5000 dollar bond. Parkman waived preliminary hearing and is bound over to the Bailey County grand jury for action. Dennington’s body lies at Hammons Funeral Home in Littlefield. Mrs Dennington had filed for divorce in early November. Grand jury convenes in December.
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Muleshoe
R. C. Dennington
Bula
Bailey County
Dennington
J. W. Parkman
Pat Bobo
Parkman
Bobo
Midget Bride-To-Be Engaged In Austin Match
Miss Myrna Merle Clifton of Austin, the world’s only midget daughter of midget parents, is engaged to August Clarence Swensen of Austin. She will be 19 in February and stands 50 inches tall. he is 26 and two inches taller. Wedding date not set. ceremony expected in Austin.
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Austin
Myrna Merle Clifton
J. E. Clifton
August Clarence Swensen
Clifton
Kelly Field
San Antonio
United States
Canada
Mexico
Buster Brown
Tige
German Pows Report Lamps Signs Reading Capacity Two SS Men
A German prisoner of war told American officers in Germany that signs appeared on lamp posts in Cologne reading Capacity two SS men. The report notes the signs as a possible intimidation or warning during Allied operations in November.
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U. S. First Army
Germany
Cologne
Goebbels Takes Up Role Of Persuader
Propaganda minister Goebbels uses public reassurances about Hitler’s health to reinforce loyalty while Himmler appears to be rising in influence. Berlin and Moscow reports discuss Himmler’s top role and alleged collaboration with Hitler.
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Goebbels
Persuader
Richard Kaischi
Associated Press
London
Paul Josephs Goebbels
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Germany
Reich
Himmler
Moscow
East Prussia
Berlin
Rudolph Semmler
Hitler
Fuehrer
Semmler
Eighth And Fifteenth Give Germany Going Over
London reports that American Eighth and Fifteenth air forces have dropped 638,880 tons of explosives on German industrial and military targets through Oct. 31. Since August 1942 and November 1943 respectively, they destroyed 15,210 enemy aircraft, with 12,640 shot down in the air and the rest on the ground, while American losses totaled 5,708 bombers and 2,449 fighters.
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London
Eighth
Fifteenth
U. S
Europe
Eighth Airforce
England
Italy
Halsey Warns of Phoney Japanese Peace Offer
Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the U S Third Fleet, warned Americans on NBC of a phoney Japanese peace offer. NBC correspondent John Cooper reported Halsey believed Japan’s leaders see defeat as inevitable and may seek a ruse to delay total surrender and rearm for another war.
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United Pres
William F. Halsey
U U. S
Halsey
Sayng
Red Army casualties reported by German DNB agency
Berlin broadcast cites a DNB report claiming the Red Army suffered 32.6 million casualties over 41 months of war, including 13.4 million killed, according to a German source.
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London
DNB
Berlin
Red Army
Reds Tighten Ring Around Budapest Front Progress Near Jaszbereny
Soviet Malinovsky’s southern and eastern columns advance toward Hatvan raising the siege of Budapest as Jaszbereny and Jaszapati fall or are entered. Yugoslav Partisans reach Skoplje on the escape route for German forces and fighting intensifies around Hungary’s capital.
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W. W. Hercher
Associated Press
Ondon
Rodion Y. Malionvsky
Budapest
Jaszapati
Jaszbereny
Malinovsky
Varda
Nasis
Fuzesabony
Miskolc
Moscow
Jastelek
Hatvan
Jaszberen
Vecses
Danube
Dunaharaszti
Csepel Island
Air Service Route Bypasses Lubbock on Transcontinental Plan
The Civil Aeronautics board approved an American Airlines route from El Paso to Tulsa via Oklahoma City but did not recognize Lubbock as an intermed99iate stop, despite examiner recommendations. Chamber officials expressed disappointment and explored possible protest while Transcontinental’s Lubbock option remains their sole coast to coast link.
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American Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
American
el Paso
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Associated Press
Chamber of Commerce
Carroll Hinners
Fort Worth
CAB Representave
Transcontinental
Wichita Falls
Hobbs
Transcontinental Air Service
Hinners
Spraniff Airlines
Washington
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
Texas
Missouri
Nashville
Joplin
Chicago
Ft. Worth
Braniff Airways
Memphis
Muskogee
Ft. Smith
Little Rock
Chicago and Southern Airlines Inc
Pine Bluff
Car Device Invented For Woman Drivers
Kenneth W. Jarvis a Chicago consulting engineer announced at the 17th annual meeting of the radio manufacturers association and the institute of radio engineers a device that would automatically stop a moving car when an object looms. The sound receiving and projecting system would control brakes and gasoline, determine distance to the nearest object, slow the vehicle, or halt it if collision is possible.
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Rochester
N. Y
Kenneth W. Jarvis
Chicago
Jarvis
Radio Manufacturers Association
Institute of Radio Engineers
Unicameral Plan Wins In Missouri
Missouri voters backed a unicameral legislature with 78,905 vote lead in unofficial returns from about three quarters of the state captured in Tuesday’s election.
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Missouri
Kansas City
Texas plants keep up with rubber trees
Port Arthur dispatch reports that Goodrich and Firestone twin synthetic rubber plants at Port Neches near Port Arthur have produced 195 million pounds of rubber in about one year. Officials say twenty eight million natural rubber trees would yield no more rubber in 14 months than the plants have produced since starting operations late last year.
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Port Arthur
Texas
Goodrich and
Firestone
Port Neches
Here
War expenditures in Texas exceed seven billion dollars
Dallas and Fort Worth accounted for 2,610,111,000 of the wartime spending in Texas from May 1940 through September, with Houston-Galveston totaling 1,713,596,000 and Orange-Port Arthur at 1,444,298,000. Langford of the War Production Board cited ship, ordnance, aircraft, industrial facilities, and military establishments as major cost components.
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Dallas
Texas
Dallas- Fort Worth
A. J. Langford
War Production Board
Houston-Galveston
Langford
Orange-Port Arthur
VFW adopts holiday on prohibition local option votes
About 500 veterans of foreign wars at their Fourth District encampment in Houston adopted a resolution urging a holiday duration for prohibition local option elections. The measure passed unanimously as part of the veterans' meeting.
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Houston
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Declines Delay U T Board Selections On Regents
Governor Coke R Stevenson announced that at least four nominees declined or remained undecided delaying filling vacancies on the University of Texas board of regents. Two of three prospects declined and the third had not decided, with possible appointments by Wednesday as the governor prepared to deer hunt. A San Angelo meeting of the Senate educational investigating committee was set for Austin to review the UT controversy and hear from Homer Rainey and current regents.
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Ustin
Board of Regents
University of Texas
Coke R. Stevenson
San Angelo
Penrose Metcalfe
Austin
Senate
Special Educational Investigating Committee
Metcalfe
Homer P. Rainey
RAF Heavies Sink Battleship Tirpitz
The 41 000 ton German battleship Tirpitz capsized and sank in Troms County Norway after three six ton earthquake bombs from RAF Lancasters struck her deck. The ship, long pursued by British and Russian forces, cost Germany $50 million to build and had not fought surface battles. The mission freed British ships for the Far East and crippled the German Navy's backbone.
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Robert Eunson
Associated Press
London
Tirpitz
Adolf Hitler
Tromse Ford
Air Ministry
Norway
Arctic
Hnes
Russia
Far East
J. B Tait
A. G. Williams
Britain
British Push To Edge Of Ravenna
British Eighth Army crossed the Ghiaia canal near Ravenna on the Adriatic coast and pushed into pine woods four miles south of the city as German forces reportedly prepared to evacuate. Allied progress from Forli toward Bologna continued against strong resistance amid winter conditions warned by Gen. Sir Harold Alexander.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Ghiaia
Ravenna
Adriatic
Fiumi Uniti
Forli
Bologna
Harold Alexander
Italy
Alexander
Fort Driant
L’aisne
Eat
Moselle
Metz
Mosel
Karl Rudolf, von Rundstedt
Broadelli
Tthi
Lee
Sion
Third Army
Ger Patton
Ucksange
Turn
Page
Attempt Said Made on De Gaulle and Churchill
An enemy radio bulletin claimed an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Prime Minister Churchill and French leader Charles De Gaulle during Churchill’s Paris visit. BBC records in London dismissed the broadcast as propaganda and bogus.
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London
Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
BBC
San Antonian Named Miss Texas In War Title
Miss Faith McNamara of San Antonio won the Miss Texas in the War title at a Waco contest sponsored by General Tire and Rubber. Miss Elizabeth Robinson of Lubbock received a $100 war bond and exposure in Life magazine. McNamara earned a $500 war bond and future opportunities with movie companies.
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Waco
Faith McNamara
San Antonio
Robinson
Escaped Army Man Is Captured By FBI in New Orleans
Robert C. Kaslow, 23, former Army Air Forces officer, who escaped from Craig Field Alabama guard house Friday night, was captured in New Orleans by FBI agents. He is serving a 30 year sentence for violations of the articles of war and was taken at 5 p.m. in a hotel cocktail lounge.
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New Orleans
Robert C. Kaslow
Army Air Corps
Craig Field
Ala
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Zack J. Vanlandingham
Kaslow
Alabama Field
Dorsey Dane Smiley Assault Charges Delayed
In Los Angeles an assault case against bandleader Tommy Dorsey his wife Pat Dane and Hollywood figure Vnte Smiley was halted as an absentee witness is expected to return, delaying dismissal of the charges.
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Los Angeles
Tommy Dorsey
Pat Dane
Vnte Smiley
Metz Defenses Falter as Allied Push Near Saar Front
Allied forces report progress around Metz with German fortifications yielding under pressure. U.S. Third Army troops breach the Moselle line and seize river crossings as they press from the southeast toward the Saar border, while German broadcasts acknowledge Metz’s stiff defense. The front remains fluid amid fighting and uncertain footing.
Eisenhower urged large artillery stockpile for Western Front
Patterson says Eisenhower needs far more artillery ammunition than produced with no U S reserves. He notes heavy use in Western Europe, cites millions of rounds needed for North West Europe and First Army, and reports production rising but insufficient for ongoing campaigns. Turn to Page 11.
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Son
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Patterson
Eisenhower
Weasern
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