President Hails G E Wage Plan
President Roosevelt endorsed General Electric head Charles E Wilson's plan to maintain earnings as wartime production shifts to a forty hour week. He described the idea as awfully good and noted support for keeping take home pay near wartime levels while adjusting hours. The approach blends the Little Steel formula with higher straight time raises to preserve weekly wages as net production scales back.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Poe
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric
Germany
Bir
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wilson
Hamich Monuments Ruined German Battle Scene
Reports from Hamich describe a ruined town memorializing a savage fight as American infantry battled a German force. Observers note massive German casualties, German dead removed by truckload, and Allied troops enduring days without food while under artillery fire. Bulldozers clear rubble to move trucks past a destroyed German tank in a crater.
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Hamich
Germany
Hans
Trent
Charles IT. Horner
Doslestown
Yanks Forcibly Rid German Billets After Shootings
U S troops in Germany drive out German soldiers from billets after deadly weeknight incidents. Four Germans killed in separate confrontations as Lieut Col Elisha Peckham and Capt George Folk, both of Northrup, engage shooters at billets. A German woman who wounded an American officer is reportedly killed.
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Germany
Howsex
Elisha Peckham
Nortragensett
Andernest
George Folk
Ohio
County Slashes Troy Tax Rate by 6.8 Cents in 1945 Plan
Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors designated a 12.39 per $1,000 tax levy for Troy, a 2-cent drop per $2,000 from the 1945 rate, while other towns await designation. The combined city rate includes state stenographers tax and county levies totaling about 32.38 per $1,000, with a county grand total of 1,628,280.64 and a temporary tax warrants plan approved.
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City of
Troy
Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors
Rensselaer County
Algo
David W. Brenenstuhl
Petersburg
Taissil
War Labor Board deadlines threaten Ohio telephone strike
The War Labor Board orders Ohio teleshow operators to resume work or face government seizure. Feisinger sets a 16 am hearing with union officials to decide if state federation members should return to work. Officials warn the dispute could become the nation’s worst communications crisis if unresolved in days. Dayton transfers at higher pay are cited as intolerable and controversial.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Ohio Teleshows
WLB
N. P. Feisinger
Labor Board
Reinsinger
Feinsmeger
Iust
Ohio
Dayton
Pollock
Five Killed in Denison Gas Truck Explosion
In Denison Texas a gas tank truck collided with a car then exploded fatally injuring five people and burning at least 31 others, with 12 in critical condition. The blast toppled a nearby grocery warehouse, scorched nearby homes, and was termed the city’s worst incident by Police Chief Pauli Borem.
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Denison
Tex
Denison Herald
Pauli Borem
Swiss Report Claims U S in Strasbourg Suburbs
A Bern radio report said Americans are in the suburbs of Strasbourg but there was no confirmation from Swiss sources. The story notes the claim appeared last night with no independent verification.
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Strasbourg
New York
Bern
Strike Spreads To Michigan
The Michigan Telephone Employees Federation voted its willingness to strike in solidarity with an Ohio walkout. Michigan Bell reported 70 of 325 alert operators absent, causing some Detroit service curtailment while automatic service continued. 23 local assistants were missing at two Detroit exchanges. 39 of 225 long distance operators were also absent. Florence Karp, vice president, said workers would return after adjournment pending War Labor Board clarification.
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Detroit
Michigan Telephone Empoyeex Federation
Ohio
War Labor Board
Florence Karp
Michigan
Michigan Bell Telephone Co
Police Halt Turkey Seekers as Officials Enforce Prices
In New York, turkey buyers and poultry dealers faced a price crackdown with 49 summonses issued for ceiling price violations. Shoppers braved snow and rain outside butcher shops while police and OPA officials supervised the orderly line and enforced rules.
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New York
OPA
OFA
Ling
Superforts Fought Off Jap Attack Over Omura Raid
American B 29s battled Japanese air defenses in the Omura raid on Kyushu hitting a major aircraft center for the third time in a month. The Air Force reported at least twenty enemy planes shot down and nineteen damaged with reverses claimed by Tokyo radio.
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Washington
BOO
Japan
Omura
20Th Airforce
Tokyo Radio
Shanghai
Nanking
Omure
Kyushu
Airforce
Congress Grants Catsup Conked Citizen $2500
The House approved numerous uncontested measures including payments for injuries. Walter Landmark Sap of Lake, Washington received 2500 for a head and face injury from a catsup bottle wielded by a soldier. Brigadier General Louis J. Fortier of Camp McCain, Mississippi was awarded 1140.80 for property losses after leaving Belgrade. Ida M Rutherford of West Bloomfield, New York was granted 5000 for injuries from a War Department employee slipping on wet pavement.
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Washington U
Congress
House
Walter Landmark
Sap Lake
Wash
Louis J. Fortier
Camp McCain
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Mte
Ida M. Rutherford
West
Bloomfield
War Department
Military Training For Youth Backed By State Teachers
The New York State Teachers Association adopted a resolution approving beachtime military training for youth if needed for national security. It urged training be channeled through recognized educational institutions. The proposal sparked nearly an hour of debate at the association's 8th annual convention with amendments defeated.
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Bulaio G
House of Delegates
New York State
Teachers Association
Nalson
Association
Congress
Yanks Repel Attempt To Break Leyte Trap
General MacArthur's forces report a stubborn Japanese counterattack near Limon on Leyte, with First Japanese Division likely involved. American troops of the 25th Infantry and 32nd Division maintain road blocks and hold positions along the Ormoc highway despite heavy rain and damaged supply lines.
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Leyte
Macrifce
Limon
25Th Infantry
Ormoc
MacArthur
Yamashits
Simon
Ameri¢tans
32Nd Division
Qsth
Uss
Limas
Liman
Associated Press
Elmont Waite
Americas
Carigara
Pinamoposa
Nelson Receives Cabinet Rank for China Mission
President Roosevelt grants Donald M. Nelson cabinet status as personal representative to the president. Nelson moves into White House offices and will attend cabinet meetings while preparing for a mission to China to boost wartime production and aid Pacific operations. He arrived in Chungking with steel and alcohol experts to assist China’s war effort.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Donald M. Nelson
WPBE
White House
China
Nelson
Associated Press
Nelspn
Chungking
27th Division Named in Call For Investigation
Washington The House was urged to probe Pacific battle events involving the 27th New York National Guard Division. Rep Fay introduced two resolutions asking the Military Affairs Committee to examine reports claiming the unit lacked courage and the September Saipan incident where Marine Lt Gen Holland Smith replaced Army Gen Ralph Smith.
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Washington
Pacific
Fay
D-Anioz
27Th
New York National Guard
Tte
Saipan
Holland M. Smith
Ralph Smith
Fae
Overtlander
Ter
Army Act
Holland Smith
War Department
Army
Holland Stith
Mllitary Committee
Peace Dove Lets Loose In Congress
Washington Capitol Hill witnessed a sign of reducing tension as Rep Cox of Georgia urged harmony with the White House. Cox praised the President and urged unity on war and peace, calling for tolerant, trusting relations and a united effort under the flag.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
White House
Cox
D-Ga
House
Rep. Priest
D-Tena
Watertown honor killing: Marine and wife jailed
Lily Sell Fortes, 28, a Watertown resident, is jailed on first degree murder charges in an alleged honor killing linked to the stabbing of Robert F. Hodkinson, 25, after he attacked her. Her Marine husband Arthur Hodkinson, a corporal, was arrested in connection with the case. A witness account and a statement by Mrs Foster describe the sequence and local police confirm Hodkinson’s stabbing at a Watertown restaurant. District Attorney Carl J. Himes notes Foster aided her husband in intent to kill.
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Watertown
Lily Sell Fortes
Foster
Corp Artherp
South Pacific
Robert F. Rodkinson
Samuel Roberts
Hodkinson
Pacific Mop-up Progress and Japanese Casualties
Allied forces report ongoing Marianas and Palau cleanups with totals showing Japanese deaths rising to 63,388 in the Pacific and 3,267 prisoners captured. The update cites Nimitz and details Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Angaur and Peleliu casualty figures and prisoner counts through November 23.
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U_ 5
Pacific
Fleet Headquarters
Pearl Harbor
Marianas
Palau Islands
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Saipan
Guam
Tinian
Angaur
Pereliu
Lady Astor praises Russia while guarding British communists
London MP Lady Astor spoke publicly about Russia praising aspects of communism but warned she would not associate with British communists. She criticized French and Spanish policy, questioned Russia's freedom, and recalled the Cliveden set as a wartime political elite meeting group.
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London
Astor
Russia
Burisia
House of Commons
Spain
Lias
France
Tommy
Churchill Names Son-in-Law Duncan Sandys Minister of Works
Prime Minister Churchill announced Duncan Sandys as Minister of Works replacing Lord Portal after Portal’s resignation. King approved Sandys appointment, with Cabinet duties to oversee rehousing Britain’s bombed out population.
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Ionden LP
Churchill
Britain
Duncan Sandys
Sandys
Lord Portal
Churchi
Allied Push Continues On Front From Mulhouse To Saverne
Allied forces drive north and east across the Rhine region sweeping from Mulhouse toward Colmar and Saverne as US Ninth Army nears the Roer River. British Second Army advances west of Maas while French and American units pursue encirclement risks and rapid gains through the Vosges.
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Aachen
Western European Front
Ninth Army
Aldenhoven
Julich
Parisia
Bifth
Chedel
Mulhouse
Sarrebourg
Mulhoute
Rhine
Vosges
Colmar
Seventh
Dich
Maten
Second
Geilenkirchen
Maas River
Holland
Ninth
Roser
Lauren Asbert
Eront
Allies Strike Deep At Nazi Oil Centers In Major Raid
Allied air forces destroyed 74 Nazi planes in the air and six on the ground as more than 1100 American fighters protected 1250 bombers heading for Hamburg Harburg and Merseburg. The attack hit three key oil refineries with 4000 tons of bombs amid fierce Luftwaffe resistance and heavy anti air fire.
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London
U.S
Hamburg
Harburg
Leuna
Merseburg
Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
Britain
France
Luftwaffe
Thanksgiving Day Death Toll Estimated at Sixty
The National Safety Council estimated the national traffic death toll would reach sixty on Thanksgiving Day and about 300 for the holiday weekend. The figures include all deaths from holiday accidents regardless of when the injury occurred.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
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Piythowski Estate
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