Allies Press Break Through Strasbourg Amid Rhine Bridge Fight
French armored corps and American troopers fight for three Rhine bridges as Strasbourg’s damaged cathedral flies the tricolor. Allied columns push toward the Siegfried line with German forces falling back in pockets around the fortress city. Casualties and captures climb as Devers and Eisenhower seek to breach western front lines and seize key crossings.
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Paris
Rhine
Strasbourg
Strasig
Dpoilus
Alsace
United Press
Clinton B. Conger
Bolt‘itadel
Jacob L. Dever
S. 3Rd Anmy
Siegfried Line
Saar
Archer North
Cologne
Ineland
Aachen
Tech
Oi Nio
Berlin
Maas
Roermontiis
Supreme Headquarters
Germany
Devers’re
Angers
Dussei
Ger- Ns
Logne
Haven
Geilenkirchen
Gerns
Beeck
Eilenkirchen
Labor leader Tobin拒绝出席伦敦世界劳动会议
纽约侨等报道，阿美劳工联盟大会在新奥尔良举行，丹尼尔·J·托宾拒绝参与伦敦世界劳动大会的讨论，称美国产工会受政府设定工资而非自由谈判所限。托宾表示自己仍愿在和平大会上以美国劳工代表身份出席，并强调 CIO 已接受伦敦大会与他无关。
Memorial Service for Sgt Roepke to be Held at Zion Lutheran
Memorial services for Sgt Alvin Roepke, reported missing in action in France in August and later reported killed, will be held at Zion Lutheran Church next Sunday, November 26, following the secular morning worship at 10:30 a.m.
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Alvin Roepke
France
Zion Lutheran Church
Guard Killed in Prison Break at Stateville
Ten inmates attacked Stateville Prison in Joliet led by two members of Roger Touhy, seizing a ladder and forcing a guard to accompany them. Zoethe Skaggs died from a heart wound after guards opened fire. four convicts were wounded, others fled. John Alberts fired from a wall tower, wounding Skaggs and four inmates. Touhy’s faction escaped earlier in 1942 but were recaptured. Touhy not involved in this specific attempt.
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Skaggs
William Stewart
Mathew Nelson
Touhy
Chicago
Therisoners
Cecil Henry
Henry
Roberts
Nelson
Stewart
Prohibition
Sera
Aadder
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Toughy
Demands Wage Revision by CIO at Chicago Convention
The Congress of Industrial Organizations urged revisions to the steel wage formula and questioned the War Labor Board. It called for removing bias in dispute rulings and condemned the Board for not submitting a presidential recommendation on wage alignment with rising living costs. Delegates urged a strong National War Labor Board to settle disputes peacefully and fairness. They also backed international labor collaboration to speed victory and lay groundwork for a just postwar peace.
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Orleans
Kin
CIO
London
Philip Murray
Withree
Tobin
Tabor
Tha
Chicago
Congress of Industria Organizations
National War Labor Board
How Army Built Huge B 29 Field in Pacific
In the Marianas engineers known as the Flying Castles built a vast B 29 base amid invasion chaos. They filled 600 craters within 24 hours and laid coral and blacktop highways under nonstop takeoffs and landings. The effort supported Superfortress bombers against Japanese positions across the Marianag Bonins and Volcanoes.
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Snto
Jananeese Boses
Marianag
Bonins
Vocenos
Pecover Body Found in River Near Lansing Woman
A Lansing woman whose body was recovered yesterday from a river, with Miss Beck reported as a witness. The state conservatory teams recovered the remains after hints of a local incident. Further details remain unclear due to fragmented OCR text.
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Lansing
War Labor Board to Probe Telephone Wages
The War Labor Board plans a full inquiry into the telephone industry's wage structure after operators strikes in Washington Detroit and Ohio. A special panel may investigate hours wages working conditions and grievances to determine substandard pay and wage practices once service is restored. President Pollock of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers urged a return to work as other unions echo a broader wage dispute nationwide.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Soday
Detroit
Ohio
Fred M.vinson
Vinsor
New York
Chirazu
Loral Exchanece Svhite Tetfan
Jearnee
Devton
Ohie Kell
WLR
Robert Pollock
Strikerigueting Ohio Federation
Ofeleptone
Setleemii
Pollock
Mullen Former Resident Dies in Cedar Falls Hospital
Death notice reports L. C. Mullen longtime resident of 515 West 5th Street Ge- died Wednesday night at 10 30 in Sertori Hospital Cedar Falls Funeral services set for Saturday at 9 a m at 8th Street Sir Patrick's parish.
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L. C. Mullen
Fth
Sertori
Cedar ‘Falls
Sir Patrick's
Mullens
Senate backs sale of public power
The article reports a Senate proposal restricting Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes from building power lines for a public power sale. Senator Josiah Bailey offers an amendment to require 80 percent of reservoir-generated power be sold before allowing transmission lines, with private interests allowed only after favorable sale to cooperatives or public groups.
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TOX
Harold L.kes
Josiah W. Bailey
DL X. C
Nissior
Enov Talks With Polish Chief in Moscow Standoff
Averell Harriman, U.S. ambassador to Moscow, conferred with Premier Stanislav Mikolajczyk and presented the American viewpoint on the Russo Polish dispute. The meeting was disclosed today in London and confirmed as part of ongoing diplomacy.
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London
Averell Hartman
U. S
Moscow
Stanislav Mikolaiczyk
Lend-Lease To End With War And Rebuild World
President Roosevelt told Congress that lend lease should end with the war while the United Nations must continue to grow. He urged a postwar system of permanent united nations and noted vast lend-lease transfers to Britain Australia New Zealand and other nations totaling over 10 billion dollars. White papers show Britain’s reverse lend-lease at 2.44 billion and additional Allied support, with talks of new credits to Britain and France and the potential for postwar American loans to restore economies.
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B.C
Roosevelt
Congress
Aisrth
United Nations
United States
British Commonwealth of Nations
Britain
United Kingdom
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New Zealand
Infa
U. S
British Empire
White
Germany
Japan
Ames
France
USS
Steffen Trains As Bomber Radioman
Robert FL Steffen of 109 7th Ave SW is assigned to the RAF Training Camp Radio School at Sioux Falls Army Air Field SD for a 20 week course as radio operator mechanic. After completion he will join a bomber crew of the Army Air Forces. He previously worked for Chicago Great Western Railroad and is a 1942 Sacred Heart School graduate who played football. He entered service December 28, 1943 and was stationed in McCook, Nebraska.
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Robert FL Steffen
Charles Steffen
7Th Ave
RAF
Sioux Fells Army Air Field
Sioux Falls
S. D
Aining
Army Air Forces
Bob
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Sarred Heart High School
Rites Saturday for Gulich Crash Victim
Funeral services are planned for Donald F. Gulich who died after injuries from a motorcycle collision. The service will be held Saturday at 12:30 PM at Hinten General Home with burial at Murphy Cemetery, West Bates. Survivors include his parents Herman and a Waterloo-based mother, two brothers, four sisters, and a recent Army discharge from Camp Roberts, California. The accident occurred two miles north of Oelwein when Gulich allegedly emerged into the path of a car driven by Mrs Albert Gatzki of Dubuque, now living with relatives in Weston.
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Gulich
Mercy Hospital
Hinteneral Home
Surial
Murphy Cemetery
West Bate
Herman Gulich
Farmer Sorth
Waverly
Camp Roberts
Calif
Albert Gatzki
Dubuque
Weston
Oclwein
Shorts
Reds Complete Estonia Mop Up
Stalin announced the Red army finished liberating Soviet Estonia by crushing the last German resistance on Saare (Osel) island off the Baltic coast. He said Baltic fleet ships supported a Leningrad front assault that cleared the island, closing the Gulf of Riga approaches and marking Estonia free of German invaders.
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London
Josef Stalin
Red Army
Soviet
Estonia
Saare
Osel
Baltic
J Victua Hy
Gulf of Riga
Latvia
Leningrad
Sasre
Gulf of
Bigs
Stalin
Savi Estonia
Csenel
Danube
Budapest
Berlin
Moscow
Slovakia
Deepel
DNB
Csepei
OPA Moves to Cut Clothing Prices and Eliminate Fancy Finishes
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration will set price ceilings on cheaper clothing for infants and children and order reductions on overfinishing and fancying up fabrics. It also prohibits manufacturers from adding fancy touches to basic styles, urging plain colors and simple designs to curb costs.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Saipan B-29s From New Bases Strike Tokyo in 1944
Saipan based planes launched a daylight bombing raid on Tokyo, the first from the Marianas. Brig. Gen Emmett O'Donnell led the mission with Maj. Robert Morgan piloting the first aircraft aboard Memphis Bell. Arnold described the operation as a sustained, strategic effort to cripple Japan's war industry, signaling a turning point in air power reach.
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Saipan
Marianas
Japan
Robert Morgan
Asheville
Memphis Bell
8Th Air Force
O'Donnell
Morgan
Moon
James O 'Doolittle
H. H. Arnold
Army Airforces
20Th Air Force
Arnold
Roosevelt
7Ist Bomber Command
Bomber Command
China
United Nations
Honshu
Demands to Halt Fioriday Whisky Bonus Policy
The Iowa Anti-Saloon League urged the State Liquor Control Commission to abandon its Christmas “bonus” policy for extra whisky. The telegram, signed by O. G. frau, argued the move would boost intoxicating liquor sales and align badly with wartime efforts.
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Des Moines
Iowa
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