Senators Hint Break In Little Steel Wage Plan
Washington lawmakers discussed possible White House action on wage policy as war ended. Fred M. Vinson pledged vigilance with the price admin to curb costs while planning for reconverted industries and consumer goods. They weighed retaining or discarding the Little Steel formula with Meany proposing higher increases for some workers.
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Washington
Geraiuta
Fred M. Vinson
Binsell
Derek Creases
War Labor Board
Davis
White House
George Meany
AFL of
Russell
D-Ga
Aitken
R-Vi
Aiken
Vinson
Army Dependents Receive Record 612 Billion Aid
The War Department reports 6.5 billion dollars paid to Army dependents in just over two years. The Dependency Benefit system covers more than 15 million people, with 7 million accounts opened and 4 million family allowances paid directly to relatives. About 3 million receive Class E allotments of pay, life insurance, and related credits.
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Washington
Adounis
Office of
Dependency Benefit
War Department
Cranberry Stains Warn Against Linen Damage
In Los Angeles California founder executive Hoy J. Friedman warns against cranberry sauce stains on linens. Laboratory tests show cranberry stains weaken linen napery by up to 24 percent, affecting cotton materials for some time.
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Tos Angeles
Cal
Hoy J. Friedman
Foundey Executive
MacArthur Announces New Invasion Landing Near Loronz
General MacArthur's headquarters report American forces have landed in the Asian lands about 130 miles north of Loronz, New Guinea, marking a new invasion movement.
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General MacArthur
Philippines
Asia Islands
Loronz
Guinea
Hospital Ship Tubingen Sunk Report Stirs New Charge
Officials in the air and naval ministries declined to comment on a German charge that the hospital ship Tubingen was sunk Saturday by KR. A. planes in the Stetherteneu area, as London reported. The claim adds to wartime tensions and raises questions about hospital ship protection.
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London
Air and Naval Ministries
Tubingen
KR. A
Aachen Fall Delayed By Shell Shortage
Allied headquarters reported Aachen's fall was delayed by shell shortages and transmission issues. Eisenhower urged faster production of artillery shells, noting U S forces used about 306000 rounds in a two week period as planners warned of tougher fighting ahead.
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Aachen
Dwight
Nation Opens 14 Billion Bond Drive
President Roosevelt urged Americans to buy War Bonds as the Sixth War Loan drive began. He said the war costs about 250 million dollars daily, and 6 million volunteers will ring doorbells nationwide to remind citizens to contribute toward the 14 billion goal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Jmen
Idte
Navy Raids Base Near Tokyo in Pacific Bombardment
US warships shelled two islands near Tokyo nine days ago, starting fires ashore as Japanese shore batteries fired back with no damage. Liberators followed up with raids in the Bonins on November 15 16 hitting coastal cargo ships at Chichi Jima and sinking medium cargo vessels at Haha Jima.
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Washington
United States
Bowinin
Navy
Pacific Fleet
US S
List Army
Ngeregong
Palaus
Bonins
Chichi Jima
Haha Jima
Taha Jima
Mariannas
Rkuriies
German Underground Formed, Moscow Says
Moscow radio reports Nazis have formed an underground network in Germany to undermine frontier areas. Special emissaries adopt fake identities to pose as private citizens in frontier towns, with designated organizers in each district. Secret caches are used for smuggling and hidden matériel as part of a covert resistance.
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Moscow Radio
Ization
Germany
Radio
Hillerite
Savi Party
Frontier District
Moscow Broadfoaat
MacArthur reports Leyte losses and American counterattack
General MacArthur announced Japanese casualties on Leyte exceeded 43,000 with American losses about 5,691. Reports describe bloody fighting around Limon as American ground forces pushed through the Ormoc corridor, holding the road block along Ormoc highway while bypassing and enveloping strongpoints. Casualties listed include 1,333 killed and 432 wounded. totals omit sunk ships and naval losses. Continued details note 23,000 remaining Japanese in the corridor, with 35,000 killed earlier and 10,000 new casualties reported. fighting centers on Limon and surrounding approaches.
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Philippines
Gen
Douglas
MacAithes
Leyte Island
God
Rew
Limon
Martzern
Ormec
Japanese Counterattack and Held Srmly To Their Road Block Acros Ormec Highway
Tantele Nipponese
Yamashita
MacArthur
Ormos Bay
Tomoyuki Yamashitasui
Ofmoe
Soviets Make New Gains In Hungary
Soviet forces push six miles beyond the Budapest railway line and seize Gyengyos, a key communications hub forty miles northeast of Budapest. Germans report massed infantry and motorized units near the capital with heavy fighting around Gyomro and Gyongyos. Baltic reports say three divisions and tanks threaten Sworhe Sworhe on Sadre Island near the Gulf of Riga.
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Budapest-Bhiskole
Gyengyos
Moscow
Miskloc
Budapest
Hatvan
Berlin
Gyomro
Gyongyoes
Matra Mountains
Gyongyos
Baltic
I Sworhe
Sadre
Gulf of Riga
Anglo-U S Oil Pact Faces Senate Pigeonhole
A Senate foreign relations committee stalled the Anglo American oil pact as opposition from U S petroleum firms surfaced. Chairman Connally avoided scheduling hearings, leaving the prospect uncertain for this session. The plan, drafted by U S Great Britain and Northern Ireland, would create an international petroleum commission to equitably share output and aid exploration rights with a system of fair prices.
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UPI
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States Petroleum Industry
Connally
Texas
Senate
United States
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
Petroleum ‘Commis
Yanks Crack Aachen Line For Four Mile Advance
Europe faces disaster in winter war as American officials warn of severe suffering across occupied and liberated regions. The piece cites German resistance, supply shortages, and looming winter hardship from France to Italy, with widespread disruption in Holland, Greece, Yugoslavia, and central Europe.
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Europe
Roosevelt
Churchill
Italy
Greece
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Austria
Poland
Germany
Army Nurse Wed Guns Drawn At German Wedding
Lieut Pauline Fersman, an Army nurse from New Smyrna Beach Florida, wed Chief Warrant Officer Charles M Saker of Aurora Colorado in Kornelimunster Germany. As the chaplain said I do, a battery of heavy U S guns fired a garta shaxing salvo nearby marking one of the war’s loudest celebrations.
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Kornelimunster
Germany
Pauline Fers
New Smyrna Beach
Fla
Gharies
M. Saker
Aurora
Colo
Georte W. Zing
Erie
Army Navy football tickets go on sale by War Bond rule
Maryland War Finance committee announces Army Navy tickets sold today on a first come first served basis. Applications by mail require a Wart Bond receipt and each buyer may purchase at most two tickets. Sale limited to Baltimore area residents.
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Baltimore
Marylandi War Finance Committee
It Committee
Baltimore City
Phone Strike Spreads to Youngstown as Bell Walkout Widens
A 0.23-A strike of Ohio telephone operators, already halting two cities, spread to Youngstown with main maintenance workers joining. No settlement seen as regional and national War Labor Boards handle the dispute. Ohio Bell cites pending action from Washington. Details list 850 Cleveland maintenance workers, plus others across Akron, Youngstown, Canton and Salem.
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Columbus
Ohio
Youngstown
Harold Barber
Bell Telephone Co
Bell
Wear Labor Board
Regional War Labor Board
Cleveland
National Board For
Bodty
Washington
Dayton
Jeanette Reedy
Southwestern
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Eerl Culp
Federaion
Chinto
Akron
Canton
Children Out of School Amid Wildcats Blamed
In Vanteburg Kentucky farmer Joseph Johnson seeks a school exemption for his children due to wildcat presence in Lesis County. County Judge Tait Stone already ruled catamounts allowed, prompting Johnson to claim daily danger and earlier daylight travel issues for children walking to school. Orville Johnson corroborates encounters, describing a rock-throwing close call with a wildcat.
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Vanteburg
Board of Education
Joseph Johnson
Lesis County
Orville Johnson
Joseph
Thamas W. Rowland
Johnson
Queens Digitiet
Rowle
Orvinles
Ike
Explosion near Genoa Kills Four Thousand Germans
A dispatch from Paris datelined near the Italian frontier reports that an explosion in a tunnel near Genoa killed about 4,000 German troops. The event was confirmed by the Agence France Presse bureau. Details on exact location and cause were not immediately available.
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Paris
Agence
France
Bresse
Genoa
Former Troy Man Builds China Oil Line
A former Troy man, Brig. Gen. Thomas Farrell, announced by American Army HQ in New Delhi, led the completion of a fuel pipeline from Calcutta to China via Burma. The line, the world’s longest military pipeline, will boost fuel supply for U.S. forces in China and free air transport for guns and other gear on the Ledo Road. Farrell, a Brunswick native and RPI graduate, previously served as New York State canal commissioner and earned the Distinguished Service Cross in World War I. His son Thomas Farrell Jr. was killed at Anzio.
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India
Calcutta
China
Burma
Ledo Road
Claire L. Chehnnan
U.sixth Air Force
Ledo
Igh
Chennault
Wator
Thomas Farrett
Fi Iy
New York State
United
U.S
Farrell
Troy
Brunswick
Rensselaer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wag
Cane
Thomas
F. Farrell, Jr
Anzio
Police Quell Riotous Reds In Belgium
Brussels braces under steel helmeted police as 15000 marchers demand Pierlot resignation singing The International. Demonstrators display Soviet insignia and red flags, half women, some in Belgian uniforms, while armed support stands by and a single shot alarms the crowd. Government purge accusations target sympathizers with Germany amid food shortages.
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Brussels
Pierlot
International
Russia
Monkey Mother Endangers Life of Gertie at Philadelphia Zoo
Report from Philadelphia Zoo describes a month-old orangutan, Gertrude, held by a protective mother. Keepers have tried three weeks to coax the cub from her cage and alleviate danger as the mother drops bananas trying to keep the infant close.
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Gertie
Philadelphie
Philadelphia
Guaring
Orangation
Gertrude
Gertin Gars
Caen
Conan
Tina
Conant
D. i Hennez
Ihan
Aussies Drown as Prisoners of Japs
Canberra reports that 18 Australian POWs drowned and 72 were rescued when a Japanese transport was sunk last June. Survivors were taken to a prison camp in Japan. the incident was confirmed by the international Red Cross.
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Canberra
Australia
Gpr
Francis Fords
Cata
Japan
Forde
International Red Cross
Revolt in Bolivia Suppressed as Villaroel Declares Siege
The Bolivian government announced a revolutionary plot was uncovered and leaders arrested. President Gualberto Villaroel decreed a nationwide state of siege with no further details disclosed.
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la Paz
Bolivia
Gualberto Villaroel
Americans Reach One Third Of Metz In German Retreat
American forces broke into Metz from several approaches as German defenders collapsed. General Patton’s Third Army pushed toward the frontier with heavy air support, while the Seventh Army advanced farther south. Allied troops reported a wide German withdrawal along the Thier front and air strikes destroying hundreds of fleeing columns.
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London
Asthes
Cepu
Meiz
Sserweiler
Cologne
Rilex Soin
Cean
Gelsenkchen
Aachen
Dusseldori
Metz
Thire
Sear Basin
Patton
U.S
Arene
Cap
Allies Stall At New Nazi Line In Italy
Allied forces press into the Po Valley after breaking the Gothic Line but encounter a new enemy line along the Adriatic coast. Eighth Army reports delays near the Montone River southwest of Ravenna and near the coast as fighting continues. Fifth Army patrols gain in central Italy while Brazilian troops shift to an area twenty miles southwest of Estasng.
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Rome
Ufi
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Tid Resterd
Montone
Drom
Ravenna
Foti
Faepma
Two Brooklyn Men Strangled By Ties
Two Brooklyn men were found dead in separate incidents, the victims strangled with neckties. One was discovered in a rooming house, the other in a Parking Ni with coins scattered nearby. The ties were pulled tight, and both bodies showed evidence of a struggle. Authorities are investigating, with one victim yet identified.
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New York
Bath
Pwr
Elson
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