Allied Air Strikes Hold Leyte While Western Front Fights On
U S airmen sank 10 enemy transports in a long convoy assault near Leyte, sending 4,000 troops to the bottom as Japan loses 26 ships and 21,000 men in reinforcement attempts. In China and Burma theater, Japanese push stalls near Kweiyang while Chiang Kai-shek’s forces struggle to blunt the drive toward Chungking. In Europe the western front rages as Patton and Patch press toward the Saar while Eisenhower shifts units to Julich Duren. in Budapest Russian forces cross the Danube toward Hungary. A sedition trial in Washington collapses after seven months, with new proceedings possible but unlikely within a year and a half.
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Leyte
Philippines
Yamashita
U. S
Philippine
Ormoc
Tokyo
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Burma
Chungking
Liuchow
Kweiyang
Kai-shek
Rhine
Patton
Third Army
Saar
Patch
Seventh Army
Vosges
Julich
Duren
Roer
Rhineland
Eisenhower
von Rundstedt
Julich- Duren
Budapest
Danube
Edward C. Eicher
Iowa
Washington, D. C
U.S
Yanks and Allied Units Advance on Western Front Amid Big Push
The report names numerous U S armored and infantry divisions under Generals Simpson Hodges and Patton as they push toward Germany. It also notes Cordell Hull’s retirement and Edward Stettinius becoming Secretary of State, highlighting Hull’s 12-year tenure and Stettinius’s rise at General Motors and U S Steel.
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Germany
Simpson
9Th
Roer River
2Nd Armored
Hodges
Aachen
Patton
Saar
Patch
7Th
The
Vosges
U. S
82Nd
101St U. S. Airborne
U. S. Armored
94Th U.S
Cordell Hull
Edward Stettinius
Morgan
Stettinius
General Motors
U. S. Steel Corporation
Hull
Postwar Federal Highway Plan Reaches Compromise
In Washington, both houses agree on a major peacetime public works program. The senate OKs spending 450 million annually for three years for rural and urban highways while the house adopts 500 million annually for three years. States must match funding and distributions rely on regional importance. The house breakdown would allocate 775 million rural highways, 450 million for secondary roads and 375 million for urban arteries.
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Senate
House
Record beef and veal production hits November high
The American Meat Institute reports November meat output at 1.539 billion pounds, a 6 percent rise from October, marking the largest production of beef and veal at federally inspected plants on record. A purebred Holstein bull calf traded hands in Omaha for 380 thousand in bonds, later resold for 375 thousand by the Douglas County Dairy Breeders association.
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American Meat Institute
Omaha
Douglas County Dairy Breeders, Association
Canada Faces Raw Crisis Over Overseas Conscription
Prime Minister Mackenzie King seeks a confidence vote as Canada debates conscripting the home army for overseas duty. Quebec opposes the plan, insisting on the vow against overseas service while King narrows draftees to 16,000. He counts on provincial support to weather the opposition.
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Pudgy
MacKenzie King
Canada
King
Quebec
Kong
Farm Income Up Again As 1944 Ten-Month Totals Reach High
Farm income from crops rises 10 percent and livestock receipts up 4 percent for the first ten months of 1944. Total receipts reach 18.43 billion, six percent above 1943. USDA notes farm prices stable and grain supplies ample for 1944-45. War finances show nine months ending July spending 72 billion on war, with 47 billion borrowed.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Uncle Sam
Ted Gamble
Gamble
Notorious and other highs for Selznick stars
Studio culture notes trace Hollywood moves from England to Selznick projects. Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Sylvia Sidney, Shirley Hunter, Marc Platt, and Sergt. Robert Foster linked to upcoming films and TV-to-film pathways. Mel Blanc voices highlighted for Burns Gracie and Porky Pig roles.
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George Burns
Gracie Allen
Mel Blanc
Hubert Peabody
Phoebe
Jack Carson
Porky Pig
Mary Mason Inspired by Actress Mother to Act
Mary Mason known as Penny on My Best Girls recalls not choosing acting was impossible due to her mother’s early Western movie roles and her fascination with her mother's work, which shaped her career path.
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Mary Mason
Penny
Blue Network
Mary
Teen soprano Donna Lee debuts in The Body Snatcher
In film notes Donna Lee makes her screen debut in RKO's The Body Snatcher. Warner's reverts Joan Crawford's Mildred Pierce title. Errol Flynn to lead eight women in The Adventures of Don Juan. Lilian Fontaine debuts in The Lost Weekend as Jan Wyman's mother. Hollywood Canteen to donate 40 percent of profits.
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Donna Lee
RKO
Warners
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Errol Flynn
Lilian Fontaine
Joan and
Olivia de Havilland
Jan Wyman
Hollywood Canteen
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