Yanks Maintain Pressure on Jap Forces
Allied forces on Leyte press the Limon pocket as Japanese resistance tightens. US 32nd division cleanly drives to reduce pockets and pillboxes despite typhoon conditions. Liberator bombers hit Palompon while fighters target Valencia. several isolated enemy positions are crushed.
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Allied
Leyte
Philippines
Ednesday
32Nd
Earmy Basin
Limon
Douglas MacArthur
Ormoc-Pinampoan
Capoocan
U. S
Dagami
Ormoc
New Guinea
Palompon
Valencia
Mechanics Feel Silly as Hell Capture Two Japs
Two unarmed Seventh Army Air Force mechanics in the Marianas encountered two Japanese Marines while in brush. They fled when discovered, then returned to see the Nipponese surrender, with one saluting and thanking them as they did so.
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Marianas
Seventh Army Air Force
Set
William G. Pate
Louisville
Roy F. Williams
Houston
Texas
Williams
Pate
Beet Growers in Need of Support
Denver scene reports western beet growers after a two day session on boosting production. They anticipate a December 4 Washington meeting called by the Commodity Credit Corporation to set price supports for next year. W J Gorst of Worland Wyoming, president of the National Beet Growers Association, says domestic production has been well below normal in the last two years due to farmers switching to other crops. He warns that without adequate price support and labor assurances from the government growers may not return to normal acreage next year.
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Denver
Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
W. J. Gorst
Worland
Wyo
National Beet Growers Association
Goerst
Block Leaders Prepare Canvass in Silver Bow County
Civilian defense block leaders 1,200 strong in Silver Bow County plan a house to house canvass to urge extra war bond purchases in the Sixth War Loan drive totaling 3 955 800 dollars. Banking officials report 20 100 dollars in bonds bought on the campaign’s second day bringing county total to 44 451 25 dollars. D J McGonigle says kits with literature are being prepared and mailed by the A W V 8 S. canvass to begin Friday.
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Silver Bow County
D. J. McGonigle
Blockleaders’ Group
Japanese Casualty Toll in Palau and Marianas Reported
The Navy released a Pacific fleet communique listing 63,388 Japanese killed and 3,267 captured in Palau and Marianas campaigns. It also reports 126 Japanese planes destroyed in Sunday carrier raid near Manila.
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Washington
U.P
Navy
Palau
Marianas Islands
Pacific Fleet
Manila
Canadian Officers Break with Government on Overseas Enlistment
Ottawa November 21. A group of high ranking Canadian army officers publicly rejected the voluntary overseas enlistment policy, the first such open defection in Canadian military history. The move adds pressure as Parliament convenes to debate the overseas conscription controversy following Defense Minister Col. J. L. Ralston's resignation and Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton's succession.
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Ottawa
U.P
Canada
Col
J. L. Ralston
A. G. L. McNaughton
Colonel Ralston
British Chinese Meet Stiffening Jap Resistance in Burma Battle
British and Chinese forces face stiffer Japanese resistance in northern Burma as they press on Bhamo and Katha. Chinese troops repelled a counterattack in Bhamo while heavy fighting raged nearby. British 36th Division paused after hard fighting north of Pinne on the Myitkyina Mandalay rail corridor.
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Burma
Kandy
Ceylon
U.P
Bhamo
Katha
Southeast Asia Command
Bhama
36Th Division
Myitkyina
Mandalay
Pinne
Superforts Bomb Omura Plant and Okinawa Targets
B 29 Superfortresses blasted the Omura aircraft works in western Kyushu and attacked Nanking and Shanghai in occupied China. The raid followed a round trip of over 3,000 miles, with Japan reporting 14 to 80 bombers lost, while the Allies claimed 55 enemy planes shot down or damaged.
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Washington
Omura
Japan
Nanking
Shanghai
China
H. H. Arnold
20Th Air Force
Nagasaki
Kyushu
Russian forces crack Baltic defense in Saare island push
Moscow reported Red Army amphibious troops pierced a Baltic defense line and cleared most of Saare island in the Riga gulf as German lines along the Tisza near Tokaj crumbled. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian army seized towns, took 4,220 prisoners for 11,920 in 13 days.
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London
U.P
Baltic States
Saare
Osel
Riga Gulf
Moscow
Berlin
Red Army
Czechoslovakia
Tisza
Tokaj
All Out Effort for War Urged
Paul V. McNutt urged labor, industry and government to maintain total production as World War II nears its end. He warned against home front complacency and premature optimism, calling for an all-out war effort to defeat Germany and Japan and to meet challenges of reconstruction and peace. A Roosevelt message echoed the call for unceasing production to shorten the war.
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New Orleans
Paul V. McNutt
F Commission
McNutt
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
William Green
Germany
Japan
Directive Orders Ohio Telephone Strike End
Washington November 21 The War Labor Board ordered striking Ohio telephone workers to resume work immediately and gave union officers until 10 am tomorrow to comply. The board acted unanimously and set the deadline to enforce the directive.
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Washington
U.P
War Labor Board
Ohio
Contempt Hearing Tests Montana Supreme Court
In Helena Associate Justice Claude F Morris told a contempt hearing that the Supreme Court is on trial more than attorney George Niewoehner as witnesses were briefly excluded. The proceeding, part of a dispute over minutes and potential political motives, included testimony from Court Clerk Murray and other officials.
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Helena
Niewoehner
Morris
Judge Morris
Howard Johnson
Lief Erickson
Erickson
Neiwoehner
Hall
Great Falls
Frank Murray
Peter Meloy
Julius J. Wuerthener
Niewoenhner
Wuerthener
Richard K. O'Malley
Associated Press
Hugh R. Adair
Eisenhower Urges Relentless Push for Victory
General Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe, declares Germany would not quit and warns the war is a fight to the death. He pledges to hammer the enemy with ever-increasing pressure until surrender or destruction, calling for every man at home and on the front to supply more troops and materials. He expects no lull and stays optimistic, though wary of complacency.
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Germany
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
France
Adolf Hitler
Gestapo
Reich
Eisenhower
Shells Rationed on Front Lines
President Roosevelt said American soldiers’ lives were lost due to shell rationing in Europe and joined Eisenhower in urging higher home front production. He noted wartime losses from short shells and urged workers to stay at plants, warning that reconversion to civilian work will be quicker than expected.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Rosevelt
Weather forecast west and east of divide
West of the continental divide mostly cloudy with little temperature change. Light freezing rain or snow is possible in the northern portion Wednesday. East of the divide partly cloudy with mild temperatures.
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Continental Divide
Allied Armies Forge Ahead on All Battlefronts
Allied forces press advances on multiple fronts as American Seventh army seizes Sarrebourg and French units push toward Mulhouse and Belfort. Patton and De Gaulle coordinate the effort. German positions at the Rhine and in the Vosges threaten larger pockets. France drives north from Rhine foothold. Belfort area under heavy bombardment.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Mulhouse
Seventh Army
Sarrebourg
Jacob L. Devers
Sixth Army
Vosges
Eschweiler
U. S. First Army
Germany
Aachen
Metz
George S. Patton
Charles de Gaulle
Rhine
Basel
Switzerland
Belfort
Nancy
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh
Strasbourg
Associated Press
Rhineland
Four Killed in Twin Blasts in Denison Texas
A fiery blast after a collision between a Butane gas truck and a car killed four people and injured about 30 in Denison. Victims included Mrs. W. L. Sweeney of Kansas City and residents F. L. Nix Denison H. F. Hammond Sherman and Lonnie Iker Denison. Police called it the worst tragedy in Denison’s history and speculated the blast was sparked by a passing train or car exhaust.
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Denison
Texas
W. L. Sweeney
Kansas City
Kans
F. L. Nix
H. F. Hammond
Sherman
Lonnie Iker
Paul Borum
Belfort Occupied but Not Secured
Belfort, a fortress city long a battlefield focus, fell to a French task force as German forces dwelled in a castle tower and shelled the town. Sherman tanks moved up flanking routes to assault the castle while the garrison refused surrender after an accepted ultimatum. The scene described near the castle notes the 200 foot cliff, the lion carving by Bartholdi, and a reflection linking the Belfort fight to Liberty’s image at New York Harbor.
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Belfort
Roderic Aueguste Bartholdi
New York Harbor
Alsace
Three Students Die in Crash Near Chugwater Wyoming
Three Chugwater high school students died when their car collided with a gasoline tank truck a half mile south of Chugwater. Willie Storm 15 Barbara Laycock 17 and Leo Haney 17 were killed. Colleen Ogg 17 was injured and hospitalized.
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Chugwater
Wyo
Cheyenne
Wheatland Hospital
Barbara Laycock
Willie Storm
Leo Haney
Chugwater High School
Colleen Ogg
Prayers for Men and Women of County in Thanksgiving Service
Butte marks a wartime Thanksgiving with prayers for homecoming and vacant chairs to be filled. City and county offices close, banks and stores shut. social events and church services abound though turkey is scarce. Many fans travel to Missoula for the state open football title game.
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Butte
Missoula
Mis
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