Red Army drives sting through Sary Island and Budapest rebuff
Soviet forces press a no quarter assault on Saare island as Red Army units push toward Riga harbor. In Hungary quagmires hinder advances on Budapest while mounting German counter blows and harsh rains slow the Bucharest front. Moscow signals impending big action in Poland and East Prussia as crews report limited gains across the Soviet line.
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London
Suy Cottaung
Rifles
Nien
Sance Island
Higa
Riga
Red Amy
Budapest
Rodionko Malmovsky
Moscow
Berlin
Poland
East Prussia
Red Army
Czechoslovakia
Saure Island
Piast Targets In The Ruhr
More than 1,300 British heavy bombers dropped an estimated 5,000 tons of high explosive and firebombs on the Ruhr and Rhineland. The raid hit Aschaffenburg Sterkrade Custrop and other targets while fighters met German opposition.
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London
Ruhr
Rhineland
Wid Burn
Aschalfensborg
Heauhy
Sterkrade
Custrop- Hidnet
Air Ministry
Hetun
RAF
8Th Air Force
Reich
Mersebach
Hamburg-Harburg
Germany
Thanksgiving holiday closes Elyma Lorain schools
Schools will be closed for Thanksgiving through next Monday for thousands of Elyma and Lorain county students. The last day of sessions is today with classes resuming after the holiday. Elgin high students will begin registering for the second semester of the 1944 45 school year.
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Lorain County
Elgin High School
Meet To Establish Food Production Goals
State farm leaders with WEA and AA officials meet in Columbus to set production goals for Ohio farmers. They study options including increasing sugar beet acreage while planning a decline in egg production for next year.
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Columbus
Aet
WEA
Ohio
Harp
Weather Outlook Cloudy Cold With Snow Flurries Northeast
Weather summary notes cloudy and cold tonight with snow flurries in the northeast portion. Thursday looks partly cloudy and warmer. Market page reference on page eight.
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Ohlo
First Report In Sixth War Loan Drive Elyria
The Elyria report shows 115 sales totaling 62766.50 in two days of the Sixth War Loan Drive, about 17 percent of the 3 508 221 quota. The drive opened Monday and continues, with library participation and the Disney designed baby gift certificates for bond purchases announced at campaign HQ.
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Elyria
Harry W. Luethi
Utipstun
Eda Mouare
Campxagi
Walt Disney
Japanese Field Marshal Removed in China Shake-up
Field Marshal Gen. Shunkroku Mata, commander of all Japanese expeditionary forces in China, was removed from command in a broad army shake-up announced by the Tokyo War Ministry in May. Hata, previously directing the campaign against American air bases in Kwangesh, was moved to inspector general of military education.
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United Press
Shunkroku Mata
China
Tokyo War Ministry
Hata
Kwangesh
5000 Truck Drivers Return To Their Jobs
In Boston an estimated AFL union of about 5000 truck drivers ended a nine day wildcat walkout after a mass meeting voted unanimously to return to work. The move followed a War Labor Board threat of government action by Regional Director Saul Wallen.
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Boston
AFL
Saul Wallen
War Labor Board
Two B 29s Shot Down In Major Allied Air Battle
Washington reports two B 29s shot down by Japanese fighters in the largest air battle involving Superfortresses to date. A third B 29 is listed missing with presumed crew lost, as enemy opposition for the 20th bomber campaign was described as the first since its inauguration.
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Washington
Bape Chest Fiehties
Vestep
Qguova
Dune Li Et Sd
Wis
U S Super Fortresses Clash With Japanese Aces
American B 29 Superfortresses reportedly battled Japanese fighters over Kyushu in the war’s first major test of strength. Tokyo and Washington offered conflicting tallies of planes shot down or damaged, with Japan claiming about 63 Superfortresses engaged and significant losses for the US, while American reports suggested different figures and hundreds of planes involved.
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Washington
Kyushu
Ching
Tokyo
Imperial Headquarters
LC. S. War Department
Japan
Yokyo
Omura Auto Weirks
Anner
Horas Mruvines
Ag Dante
Krywehu
Clana
Take Heavy Toll Of Jap Forces On Pacific Islands
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports American ground forces killed or captured 66 655 Japanese on the Marianas and Palis over five months while remaining garrisons are destroyed. Isolated enemy resistance continues with more than 2 000 Japanese killed in caves on Bloody Nose Ridge at Peleliu in the past month. High command notes ongoing patrol encounters despite formal end of organized resistance.
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Pearl Harbor
T.I
Amerian
Marianns
Pali Islands
Siare
Highdquarters
Dgchiting
Bloody Nose Ridge
Peleliu Island
Local Employment Studied By Ely na Committee for Economic De Vleopment
The Elyria committee met to review postwar employment surveys from four local manufacturing firms and ongoing data from farmers and retail, utilities, and small businesses. Goals include a composite view of prewar, present, and postwar labor needs, including armed forces, women workers, and out‑of‑town employees.
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Elyna Committee For Economic de Vleopment
Elyria
Lorain
Ehane
Six Die In Texas Gas Explosion After Collision
Six people killed and eight injured in a Nash gas explosion in a Denison residential block after a buline gas truck hit a passenger car. A pipe burst releasing heavier gas, which spread rapidly and ignited, possibly by locomotive sparks, blowing a grocery store apart and destroying the truck and three anti motor vehicles while damaging several homes.
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Denison
Tex
Nash
Wyoming Boy Faces One in Ten Chance of Recovery
Denver report on Forrest Huffiin a three year old Wyoming boy named Chesenie Huffiin. He survived Christmas but suffered a bladder condition deemed life threatening. A gastric urinary surge at Mercy Hospital said his condition was unchanged and he remains seriously ill though hopeful for an operation once strength returns.
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Denver
Colo- Forrest
Nibbins) Huffiin
Chesenie
Bev
Dee
Churchill's Son-In-Law Named To War Cabinet
Duncan Sandys, 36 year old son in law of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, was appointed to the war cabinet with direct responsibility for rebuilding millions of British homes wrecked or damaged by German bombs. Lundy’s appointment highlighted a series of government charges elevating Sir Edward Grigg to minister and abolishing the ministry of economic warfare as unnecessary at this stage of the war.
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London
Duncan Sandys
Winston Churchill
Lundy
Edward Grigg
Ministry of Economic Warfare
No Negotiations Until Strikers Return To Jobs
Washington reports say the strike at Ohio Bell Telephone Co remains unresolved as unions reject company proposals. Officials note no settlements yet and indicate further action depends on strikers returning to work and board decisions. The National War Labor Board says there is no companion resolution in the Ohio dispute and councils await developments.
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Washington
Cleveland
Ohio
National
Oia Federation of
Local Strike In Its Sixth Day At Elyria Telephone
About 40 Elyria Telephone Company employees entered a sixth day of striking. War Labor Board in Cleveland ordered union officers to a hearing to explain why a back to work order was ignored. Picketing continued at the plant while long distance operators and a maintenance crew kept some service, awaiting a settlement or government takeover.
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Elyria Telephone Company
War Labor Board
Clevelland
International Brotherhood At Electrical Workers Ca.f.l.1
Forday
Surketa Sines
Cunteversy
Toms
Bresent Md
Cuntwal
Red Cross To Offer Home Nursing Course
Red Cross announces a 12 session home nursing course in Elyria with Pearl Murphy as instructor. Mrs Worthington notes civilian readiness to support doctors, nurses, and the home front by learning basic care, contagion prevention, and aid to families and doctors during wartime.
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Red Cross
GC. Worthington
The
Elgin
Pearl Murphy
Morse
Worthington
Elyria
Army
German Tank Force Beaten By Americans
American armor under General William P. Simpson defeated a major German tank force northeast of Aachen near the Roer River. About 67 enemy tanks were knocked out, including 42 Tiger IIs, in a four day battle as U S forces held ground west of the Roer amid stiff German counterattacks and new Tiger tanks entering action.
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Wihptholmun
Ier
War Labor Board Considers Steel Workers Demands
Washington the War Labor Board tentatively approves several CIO steel workers demands including dismissal pay, vocational vouchers, and elimination of geographic wage differentials. It rejects the general wage increase request of 17 cents, aiming to draft a broader plan and set dates for full consideration by the workers.
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Washington
War Libor Board
CIO
Dresden Housevell
Wurkel
No Deliveries Of Mail Tomorrow Holiday Service
Postmaster Col. Sartor announced no mail on Thanksgiving Day with only office staff serving core offices and rural routes, and all post offices closed for the day. Regular dispatches will be made earlier and items must be at the post office by 4 p.m. to go out tomorrow. Saturday mail will proceed as usual.
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Blycia
Hachpeta
Col. Sartor
Matt
Sqn
Five men jailed after tunnel eviction near Western College
Kalamazoo Mich Five men evicted from a tunnel linking Western College gymnasium and stadium were jailed to serve vague terms after a night watchman investigated a manhole cover death. Charles Schuffer, one of the five, said he had slept in the tunnel over three years and complained he let rovers in and someone slammed the door.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Western College
Charles Schuffer
Liberators Hit Japanese Warships at Brunei Bay
Allied forces reported pre dawn attacks near Brunei Bay, Brunei on Japanese ships including a light cruiser. General MacArthur announced Manila and much of the Philippines were supplied by newly expanded airfields on Leyte with carrier based planes previously constrained to reach Manila. Japanese resistance on Leyte remained stubborn though crumbling, while shipping at Brunei Bay drew attention as a major Japanese stopover.
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Philippines
Sanday
Brunei
Barneo
Douglas
MacArthur
Manila
Leyte
Brunel Bay
Earrier
Brunel
Kipan
East Indies
Arimei Bay
U S Soldiers To Eat Turkey For Thanksgiving
U S Army plans turkey dinners for about one million troops across Europe including Germany with Thanksgiving services from front lines to major cathedrals. More than 200000 pounds of grade meat arrived in France on refrigerated ships and will be distributed to troops and chaplains for Catholic Protestant or Jewish services.
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Paris
United States
Germany
Europe
France
Elyria Library Set to Close for Thanksgiving Day
Elyria library will close tomorrow in observance of Thanksgiving. Patrons are advised to plan ahead for holiday closures and altered hours.
War At A Glance United Press Summary
Western Front: American Seventh Army breaches outer German Rhine defenses, advancing near Rhine land. Eastern Front: Soviet tanks and infantry, with artillery, strike near Suare Island to reopen Gulf of Riga. Pacific: B 29s and Liberators engage targets over Kyushu and coastal China, Japanese forces pocketed near Leyte show strain. British forces probe Rimini Faenze corridor as Adriatic patrols push toward Ravone.
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United Press
Rhineland
Rhine
Suare Island
Gulf of Riga
Kyushu
China
Limon
Leyte Island
Faenze
Rimini-Bologna
Adristic
Raveons
Siege Of Metz Officially At An End
Allied forces reported major breakthroughs in Alsace and along the Rhine as Metz fell and Mulhouse was captured. American and French units pushed through the Vosges toward the Roer river while German resistance collapsed near Metz. Besieged Belfort faced renewed fighting as German retreat through the Saverne Gap intensified.
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Paris
Mulhouse
Metz
Vosges
Rhineland
Roer River
Cologne
Milhouse
Alsace
10Th Army
Europe
Rhine
Colmar
Jean de Lattre de Tussigny
Belfort
Qaid
Saverne Gap
7Th Army
Sarrebourg
1St Army
Jat
Dth «Dn 9Th Arcetes
Germany
Elyrian Named Alternate for West Point Appointment
Elyrian Malanowski of 346 Twelfth Street been named an alternate for the U S Military Academy at West Point. He is one of three Ohio youths nominated by Senator Burton, with other nominees for Annapolis and the Army. Malanowski, 19, will turn 20 next Tuesday and is an aviation cadet in Iowa City.
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Chester M. Malane Uwski
Twelfth Street
U.S. Military Academy
West Poult
Washington
Elyrian
Ohio
Harold H. Bureton
Buryton
Cleveland
West Point
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Atmmnopolis
E Malynowski
Walter Malanowski
Twelfth, Street
Navy
Iowa City
Iowa
Elycia High
Purdue University
Neevy
Burton
Robert Howard
Officer Capigis Gale School
Fort Benning
Georgia
Angapolis
William G. Hall
Angster L. Brett
Aliignce
Public Offices To Be Closed Tomorrow
The county courthouse and city hall will both be closed all day tomorrow in observance of Thanksgiving Day, announced by city and county officials.
Wanted help ad promises top workers for hire
A vintage classified urging readers to place wanted ads to quickly hire workers such as maids, clerks, or factory staff. The notice claims Chronicle Telegram supplies the highest quality workers and promotes rapid rental of ad space.
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Chronicler
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Hie
Ware Daher
Steelkeeps
WLU
Nahan Moinsinwer
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fAcme Telephoto
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Turkey
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Aachen
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