Japs Lose 13 Ships And 4,000 Men In Leyte Reach Effort
General MacArthur’s headquarters report a Tuesday-Wednesday battle sank 10 Japanese transports and three destroyers with about 4,000 reinforcements aboard. Japanese losses include 26 transports and 17 escort vessels, while 35,000 reinforcements have landed since October 25. Heavy rains limited ground activity as air supply supports frontline units.
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MacArthur
He.uarters
Philippines
Leyte
Ormoc
Ormoes
Cebu
Britain Wins Concession in Trade Lend-Lease Deal
Washington reports that the United States will halt lend-lease shipments of iron and steel to Britain starting January 1, trimming the 1945 program to about 5.6 billion dollars, a near 50 percent cut. The move aims to ease postwar conversion of British industry and achieve equitable U.S. conversion while preserving war-time aid. Officials Stettinius Morgenthau and Crowley announced the plan after long talks.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Stettinius
Treasury
Morgenthau
Leo T. Crowley
Capital Plans For Idaho Inaugural Ball Lays Dates
Boise chamber selects January 8 for the Idaho inaugural ball honoring new state officials. Ed Baird, erstwhile Ada county state senator, named chairman of arrangements. Gov elect Gossett and others will take oaths January 1, legislators December 1. Chamber appeals for housing for legislators as war department asks hotels limit extended leases.
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Boise
Laurel Elam
Chamber
War Department
BE. G. Harlan
Allied Bombers Pound German Rail and Oil Centers
Allied air forces carried out a major raid wave with almost 1,300 American heavy bombers taking part in a 48 hour offensive against rail and oil targets in Germany. Mosquito raids struck Leipzig refinery yards and Hannover. Lancasters attacked Essen Neuss Dortmund. over 2,000 sorties flown with losses of four American bombers and one fighter.
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London
Leipzig
Hannover
Essen
Neuss
Ruhr
Ijssel
Zwolle
Deventer
Holland
Kleve
Reichwald Forest
Geilenkirchen
Strasbourg
Saarbrucken
U. S
Pravda Labels Polish Government in Exile as Hostile
Pravda declared the Polish government in exile a hostile political force and said any future talks would split the allies and risk a new war. It viewed Stanislaw Mikolajczyk’s withdrawal as premier as ending hope for rapprochement with the exiled regime.
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Moscow
Russia
Pravda
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
President fires Littell after clash with Attorney General
President Roosevelt dismissed Norman Littell amid a feud with Attorney General Biddle sparked by Biddle's demand for Littell's resignation. Littell accused Biddle of meddling in a justice department case in favor of Tommy Corcoran. The move may prompt a Senate probe as the fighters claim the conflict is not over.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Justice Department
Littell
Biddle
Thomas G
Tommy the Cork
Corcoran
White House
Cal
Senate
Department
Norman Littell
Russians and Slavs Drive 25 Miles West of Danube
Soviet and Yugoslav partisan forces push 25 miles west of the Danube into Hungary in a broad offensive threatening Budapest and possibly Austria. Stalin reports 350 Hungarian and Yugoslav towns captured as Tolbukhin's third Ukraine army and Yugoslav units advance north of the Danube confluence with the Drava.
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London
Danube
Hungary
Budapest
Austria
Balkans
Stalin
Yugoslavia
Pecs
Mohacs
Bataszek
Moscow
Feodor X Tolbukhin
Ukraine
Drava
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Roosevelt Names Stettinius Secretary of State
The Senate confirmed Edward R. Stettinius Jr. as secretary of state, making him the youngest since 1794, succeeding Hull who resigned for health reasons. Other dispatches report Soviet advances near Budapest and heavy allied air strikes on German fuel plants and rail yards, plus AFL opposition to postwar universal conscription and a call for a national reform committee.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Cordell Hull
Stettinius
George Washington
Edmund Randolph
House OKs War Powers Act Extension With Ruling Jurisdiction
The House approved a one year extension of the war powers act and sent it to the Senate with an amendment granting federal courts jurisdiction over certain rulings by war agencies.
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Washington
House
Senate
Boise Receives 25000 for River Flood Control Work
An additional 25000 Army Engineers appropriation will fund Boise river flood control repairs. Dams and dykes damaged in the April 15 1943 flood near the Stoner packing plant three miles west and the Echeverria ranch four miles west are to be repaired. Hendrix expects more allocations for similar projects at other locations.
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Boise
Army Engineers
Boise River
Hendrix
Stoner
Here
Echeverria Ranch
Allied Offensive Urges Universal Military Training
Milt D. Campbell of Minneapolis urged passsage of a peacetime universal military training law before 150 American Legion members. He called for a trained citizen-m militia alongside a regular army and navy to shorten future wars. James C. Bangs of Pocatello urged broader publicity for the program.
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Boise
Milt D. Campbell
Minneapolis
Department
Leon
Campbell
National Defense
The
Legion
National Guard
James C. Bangs
Pocatello
Legion For
Idaho
Idaho Dealers In Danger Of Extinction
In Twin Falls Idaho dealers fear extinction as midwestern buyers push prices above OPA ceilings for potato sacks. Local dealers report sales at 25 to 30 cents over the limit and say suits will be filed if conditions persist. Investigators from the Boise Salt Lake City and Denver OPA offices have been called in to probe.
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Twin Falls
Snake River Valley
Midwest
OPA
Boise
E. 8
Harper
State Office
Salt Lake City
Denver
Commission
U.S
Nazis Shoot Dissenters in Armament Factories
A Schaffhausen Arbeiter Zeitung dispatch cites arrivals from Germany saying Nazis are using mass shootings to force workers to remain at armament factories. The report describes a campaign of violent intimidation to maintain production.
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Bern
Schaffhausen
All Superfortresses Return From Third Raid on Tokyo
All Superfortresses participating in the third B-29 strike on Tokyo returned to base, with two losses in the three raids. Airmen reported meager anti-aircraft fire and cloud-obscured results. General Arnold said the campaign aims to destroy Japan’s war machine heart and nerve centers.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
20Th Air Force
Japan
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Kansas City
Kusaki Koiso
Saipan
Volcano Island
20Th Airforce
Washington
Imperial Headquarters
United States
Federal Communications Commission
Sungen
Shizuoka
Arnold
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Kavisas City
England Plans Reconversion After End of German War
Prime Minister Churchill outlined a Britain US trade accord after Germany’s defeat. Lend lease would be cut about in half and Britain would pay cash for American materials for export from England. He said postwar exports would rely on needs of the war against Japan.
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London
Churchill
Germany
Britain
England
Commons
United States
America
Great Britain
United States of America
Japan
Nazis Retake Italian Area Near Bologna Front
German troops regain three Fifth Army strongpoints southeast and southwest of Bologna in renewed counterattacks. Monte Castellaro and Monte Belvedere areas are recaptured, with Corona also retaken. Air raids on Florence Bologna corridor continue as the Eighth Army fights near Faenza in the Alboreto region.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Bologna
Monte Castellaro
Monte Grande
Bologna-Rimini
Castel San Pietro
Bologna-Pistoia
Corona
Monte Belvedere
Florence- Bologna
Eighth Army
Alboreto
Bologna- Rimini
Faenza
Battle Looms On Tax Bill
The 78th Congress faces a veto battle with President Roosevelt over a social security tax freeze. A House Ways and Means poll shows strong opposition to raising the tax from 1 to 2 percent, though supporters privately concede insufficient votes to override. Other major issues include rationing powers, war plant capital, postwar road financing, Johnson Act repeal, and treaty ratification reform.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means Committee
War Plants Corporation
United States
Senate
Congress
Weather summary for Pocatello area November data
The Weather Bureau reports for Pocatello Municipal Airport the 24 hour period ending noon November 30 with high 28, low 17, mean 22, above normal 0.29 and month to date 1.98 inches. Tonight and tomorrow expect light rain or snow with cloudy skies and little temperature change. Sun sets at 5.57 pm, rises tomorrow at 8.41 am.
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U. 8
Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal Airport
Ccsceess
Ceseses
Pocatello
Dworshak Assists In Labor Program
Rep. Cannon assures western congressmen including Rep. Dworshak that the 1944 program to import Mexican labor for farms will continue. He and others said beet farmers demand continued use of Mexican nationals along with prisoners of war for next year’s planting plans.
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Washington
Cannon
D-Mo
Dworshak
R-Idaho
Kowledge
Yankees Move on Roer Dictates Imminent Allied Push
The American ninth army drives along the Roer valley in the Rhineland as Allied planners hint a major offensive to hit the German northern flank. Eisenhower and Montgomery reportedly met in Belgium to map a strategy aimed at crushing German forces and forcing a Rhine crossing in the Cologne plain.
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Ninth Army
Roer
Rhineland
Belgium
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Field Marshal
Montgomery
21St Army Group
Fromcer
Colognes
Dorf
Rhine
von Stedt
Cologne Plain
Area Shivers In Storm Deluge Hits Much Of The Nation
Snow and cold spread across the north while a deep south cold wave took hold. The Chicago bureau noted up to four inches in the upper lakes, nine inches in Syracuse, and subzero readings in Nebraska the Dakotas and eastern Montana. Birmingham and Vicksburg endured near freezing and near 25 above. Kansas City and St. Louis reported single digits to teens as winds drove snow across the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys.
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Chicago Weather Bureau
Upper Lakes
Pennsylvania
Ohio Valley
Nebraska
Rocky Mountains
New York
Syracuse
New England
Dakotas
Montana
Sanish
North Dakota
Birmingham
Ala
Vicksburg
Miss
Kansas City
St. Louis
Oklahoma City
Chicago
Ohio
Mississippi
Garrison Falls to Yankee Drive Near Munchen Gladbach
Allied forces push through Lindern Beeck and Lindern area on the Cologne plain as the Ninth and First Armies press toward Munchen Gladbach, Dusseldorf and the Rhine. American units claim gains across the Roer river line with heavy fighting around Beeck, Inden, Julich and Duren as Patton's Third Army moves to break out of Lorraine.
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London
Lindern
Munchen Gladbach
Roer
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Beeck
Wurm
Lamersdorf
Grosshau
Hurtgen Forest
Courtney H. Hodges
Inden
U.S. Third Army
Siegfried Line
Saar
Karlsruhe
Cobleng
Frankfurt
Gl&ns
Thern
Julich
Duren
Ninth
Koslare West Marik
Frost
George 8. Patton, Jr
Lorraine
Alsatian
Rhine
Burning Beeck
Hitler
Beech
Linnich
Japanese radio labels Americans as barbarians in broadcast
A Japanese propagandist Goro Nakano, former New York correspondent for Asahi, told Japanese listeners that Americans are a barbaric nation. He cited wrestling, blackface acts, Broadway shows and films as examples of American brutality and urged hatred toward the American people.
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Goro Nakano
New York
Tokyo
Asahi
Federal Communications Commission
Nakano
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Plain
Basel
Jap Radio
Broadway
Nakano Ports
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