Capital Paralyzed By Earlier Attacks
Berlin remained virtually paralyzed after the second successive night raid by four engined bombers believed to be from the Royal Air Force. Coastal observers said the aircraft headed east over the Strait of Dover at dusk for the third consecutive night. Rain fell on the stricken city aiding fire control, while firefighters faced water shortages due to broken mains as Berlin reeled from the bombardment.
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London
Berlin
Strait of Dover
Dubin
Stockholm
Continental
Europe
Allied Air Attacks Hit Toulon and Sofia Bases
Large formations of Flying Fortresses and Liberators from the Fifteenth Air Force attacked the Nazi controlled Toulon naval base and Sofia in daylight raids. The Toulon strike targeted submarine pens docks and repair facilities while Sofia aimed at rail yards and the city largely evacuated after prior raids.
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Algiers Py
Toulon
Sofa
Mediterranean
Sofia
Cannes
Balkans
Fifteenth Air Force
UNRRA Urges World Price Control System
UNRRA committees call for immediate price control systems and uniform health and retail price standards across broad world areas as supplies move into liberated zones. They urge vigorous enforcement to curb black markets while allowing national price variation to ensure fair distribution.
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Atlantic City
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Soviet Women Ferry Planes in Lease-Lend Program
Edmonton reports reveal Russian women pilots are prominent in United Nations Lease-Lend by flying planes from the United States to Alaska and then to the Russian front. Planes with red star insignia are seen along the Alaska highway to Fairbanks where Russians take over. Not all pilots are women.
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Edmonton
Alta
United Nations
Alaska
United States
Army to Operate Closed Tanneries in Massachusetts
The War Department under President Roosevelt took over 12 strike-closed tanneries in Massachusetts. Immediate returns of about 2,500 workers were expected as a patriotic duty. Lt. Cal Curtis G. Pratt of the Ordnance department was assigned to operate the industries.
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Washington
War Department
Roosevelt
Massachusetts
Robert P. Patterson
Cal Curtis G. Pratt
Ordnance Department
This One Got Away At the Swiss German Frontier
Adolf Hitler reportedly stayed in a Reichschan shelter during a Berlin air raid as sirens sounded. He was said to confer with Keitel and Speer while others found shelter. Reports indicated prisoners escaped amid the attack and Berlin faced renewed threats of reprisals as residents searched ruins after the strike.
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Berlin
Fuehrer
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
Albert Speer
Bombs Burst Loo Cages Free Animals in Berlin
Reported during the second massive air attack in two nights Berlin endured walls of flame and broken water mains. Animals in the city zoo escaped as guards hunted elephants and bears in Tiergarten while the Air Ministry Building designed by Adolf Hitler burned and Friedrichstrasse left in ruins.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Tiergarten Park
Rail crash injures many as train collides with freight
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train from Detroit to New York crashed into a freight train near Newton Falls last night. Early reports said the engineer was killed and more than twenty passengers were injured. St. Joseph's Hospital in Warren reported twenty injured and Warren City Hospital seven, with more expected.
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Youngstown
D.C
Detroit
Truman says canal project cost unjustified
Senate Truman committee closed its inquiry into the War Department's $130,000,000 Canadian canal venture yesterday. Chairman Truman stated the Army had failed to justify the expenditure.
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Washington
Senate, Truman Committee
War Department
Truman
27th Division Girds For Marshall Island Thrust
The Associated Press reports that after four days of fierce hand to hand fighting, American ground forces have completed the conquest of the Gilbert Islands and are ready to consolidate gains for a push at the heavily fortified Marshalls to the north en route to Tokio. The capture of Betio signals progress in the mid Pacific campaign.
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Associated Press
Gilbert Islands
Marshalls
Mid- Pacific
Tokio
Betio
New York Officer Killed in Makin Island Assault
Colonel James Gardiner Conroy 54 a Brooklyn lawyer and National Guard veteran who served since 1911 was killed in action Sunday during the Makin atoll assault in the Gilbert Islands. He had served on the Mexican border in World War I and led the old Fighting 69th. The battle for Betio on Tarawa atoll ended in 76 hours with heavy Japanese losses and few prisoners. meanwhile four Japanese destroyers were sunk near Rabaul Bougainville action.
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James Gardiner Conroy
New York National Guard
Makinato
Gilbert Islands
War Department
Marie Conroy
Brooklyn
National Guard
Conroy
71Th New York
Tarawa Atoll
Gilberts
Makin F
Abemama
Betio
Chester W. Nimitz
Southwest Pacific
North Solomons
Rabaul
Bougainville
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Wake Island
Super Mosquito to Enhance Axis Bombing Capabilities
De Havilland Aircraft Co disclosed a new super Mosquito fighter bomber. The craft merges Mosquito armament with half the bomber’s bomb load while maintaining 400 mph speed. It enables intruder squadrons to add bombs to their cannon hail against Nazi ships and airfields.
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London AF
DeHaviland Airecarft Co
Removal of Patton Urged
A congressman urged the removal of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. over an incident in a Sicilian army hospital where a wounded soldier was allegedly slapped and berated. A Senate committee pressed for a War Department report on Patton’s actions while Rep. Johnson pushed for his removal, while Rep. Grant urged Army handling and moving on with the war.
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Washington
George
S. Patton, Jr
War Department
Rep. Grant
R.ind
Patton
Grant
Pvt
Charles H. Kuhl
Kuhl
Army
Algiers
Carolinas
Rep
Johnson
D.-Okla
Subsidy Fight Spurs Substitutes in Capitol Strike
Washington observers report the Pi Administration seeking a compromise on the food subsidy issue as the House bill aimed at ending payments lingers. Senator Gillette of Iowa predicts the Senate will vote strongly for the House measure, with possible veto override if necessary, amid a frenzied push by subsidy opponents.
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Washington
House
Senate
Gillette
Iowa
Grange League Federation Opposes Egg Price Injunction
Buffalo reports that the Cooperative Grange League Federation Farm Products Inc. yesterday opposed the OPA request for a permanent injunction restraining the cooperative from allegedly violating maximum price regulations in the sale and purchase of eggs.
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Buffalo
Grange League Federation
Farm Products, Inc
OPA
Co-Operative
Soviets Repulse Nazi Counterattack Near Kiev
Soviet Ukrainian army mounts defense in the Kiev sector killing about 1,500 Germans and destroying 32 tanks in bitter fighting. Russian communique says German assault failed to break defenses as they press Chernyakhov and Bruislov areas. reports say Leningrad bombarded and German gains near the city.
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London
Russia
Kiev
Chernyakhov
Bruislov
Vichy
Leningrad
Dai
Gomel
Dnieper
Tax Bill Passage Rebukes New Deal
Washington reports the House approved a 2.139 billion wartime tax bill, rejecting the Treasury’s request for 10.5 billion. The measure, passed by standing vote 200 to 27, moves to the Senate after defeating the food subsidy program. Debate lasted six hours as critics urged spending curbs and tax reform amid war finance concerns.
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Washington
House
Treasury
Senate
Roosevelt
Robert Lee Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Administration
Coughton
Free French Accept Allied Pacts After De Gaulle Demand
In Algiers the Free French consultative assembly unanimously pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter and Moscow conference foundations. Gen. Charles de Gaulle pressed for full Allied recognition of his government. The assembly praised the National Liberation Committee for managing a recent incident without harming cooperation with the Allies or French interests.
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Algiers
French Consultative Assembly
France
Charles de Gaulle
Freech Committee of National Liberation
de Gaulie
Foreign Affair Commission
National Committee
Alles
Churchill Absent At Royal Ceremony To Open Parliament
King George VI opened a new Parliament session in a brief ceremony as Prime Minister Churchill was absent. Deputy PM Attlee gave a positive review of military prospects and outlined plans to guarantee food homes and employment in the wartime transition. The King spoke of advancing offensives with Allied help and American aid to liberate Europe, ending with a ceremonial exit as the Yeomen of the Guard did not search the vaults for Guy Fawkes.
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Churchills
Clement R. Attlee
Attlee
House of Lords
Queen Elizabeth
The
Aeet
Guy Fawkes
Troy 1944 Budget Proposed with Tax Rate Cut
The 1944 Troy budget, presented to the Common Council, calls for a county and city tax rate drop to 52.04 per thousand, from 53.245. The plan reduces direct taxation by 82,636.10 and lowers the city rate to 39.59 per thousand, with county rate at 17.45. Alderman Frederick C Casey requested a public hearing next Thursday. Mayor Hogan’s term ends, to be followed by Mayor-elect John J. Ahern.
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Frederick C Casey
Eleventh Ward
Finance Committee
Frank J. Hogan
John J. Ahern
Troy
Anthracite Prices Jump 70 Cents Under OPA Order
The Office of Price Administration boosted anthracite price ceilings by an average of 62 cents a ton for six months to offset wage increases granted to hard coal miners. The changes, effective immediately, can be passed to consumers. ranges vary by coal size. Bituminous coal prices to be revised later to align with soft coal wage gains.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Anthraca
Fred M. Viagon
Area
OPA
CPA
Ickes
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ckes
Thanksgiving and War Across Allied Forces
Thanksgiving across the Southwest Pacific and Mediterranean theaters shows turkey sent by air to New Guinea and ships to hospitals in Australia. American troops, engineers, and air corps men enjoy one pound portions as Australians host picnics and dances in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. In London, Capt. Quentin Roosevelt with 400 officers and nurses receive informal royal entertainment. Front line units from Italy to Casablanca await their share, while WACs in Algiers open houses with Allied service women to celebrate an English French American holiday all together.
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Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters
New Guinea
America
Coral Sea
Air Corps
Australia
Turkey
Syney
Melbourne
Brisbane
London
Quentin Roosevelt
Eve Patty
Buckinghan Palace
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Scme
Armietican
WACS
Jacop 1. Devers
Foirapesn
Army
Harold RB. Stark
Navy
King George Vio
Elizabeth
Allied
Algiers
Mediterranean
Italy
Casablanca
Tunis
Reich Prepares for Jutland Invasion
The Danish press service reports Germany has the Jutland peninsula on alert for an anticipated Allied invasion. German troops are prepared to defend the area with an important air field for fighter defense and fortification work is being accelerated. A confidential memo from Danish officials urges civil servants to mobilize accordingly.
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Stockholm
Jutland
Denglark
Britain
Origis
Holiday Grease Drive Aims to Salvage for War
A wartime drive urged Washington housewives and workers to save kitchen grease and fats yesterday on the War Production Road. The effort seeks salvage to support war pipe manufacture and fuel production for Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year observances.
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Washington
Housewives Co
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