U S 7th Army Enters Germany Near Karlsruhe Front
American forces of the U S seventh army advanced into Germany driving toward Karlsruhe and Mannheim after crossing the Alsace border. The push places Karlsruhe Ludwigshafen and Mannheim in reach as Patton’s third army attacks the Saarland fortifications. Allied air forces targeted Siegfried line defenses and rail links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kennedy
Paris
U. S
Germany
Alsace
Bavarian Palatinate
Karlsruhe
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Rhineland
French Riviera
France
Roer River
Aachen
Saarland
Siegfried
Wissembourg
Eifel Range
Bienwald Forest
Rhine
Hermann Balck
Colmar
Strasbourg
Saar
Jacob L. Devers
Palatinate
Devers
Switzerland
Lauterbourg
U. S. Third Army
George S. Patton, Jr
Saarlautern
Dillengen
Sarreguemines
U. S. First Army
Heidelberg
Bavaria
Patch
Siegfried Line
West Wall
7Th Army
UA English professor Pattison dies at 67
Sidney Fawcett Pattison the University of Arizona professor of English and former English department head died at 6 30 a m today in a local hospital He joined the faculty in 1918 and served as head from 1923 to 1938 Survived by his wife a daughter Halka Pattison and a son Karl Pattison who is an B 29 pilot Lt Pattison was stationed at Mc Cook Nebraska in October See PATTISON on Page 9
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Fawcett Pattison
University of Arizona
Pattison
University of Rochester
Williams College
Harvard
Colorado College
Acadia College
University of Utah
University of Minnesota
Melvin T. Solve
Connecticut
Phi Beta Kappa
New Haven
Conn
Rochester
N. Y
M. M. Pattison
East Linden
Halka Pattison
Karl Pattison
Allied Invasion of Mindoro Presses On
Allied forces land virtually unopposed on Mindoro's southwest coast as heavy air raids target Luzon ahead of the Leyte invasion. MacArthur's air and naval strikes destroy ships and airfields, with numerous Japanese losses reported and signals of broader Pacific offensive activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Luzon
Leyte
Camiga
Comei
FCC
Manila
Batangas
Lipa
Japese
Dougl MacArthur
Legaspi
Juzzon
Verde Pasge
Manila Bay
America
Pearl Harbor
Strabers
Volcano
Tokyo
South Tucson Attorney Named Chief Deputy in Arizona
Harry Juliani local attorney and gas representative for South Tucson was invited as chief deputy by John Sullivan attorney general elect for the state. Juliani will move to Phoenix to assume duties while Ms Juliani noted he may keep some local practice and return after the term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Juliani
Tucson
John Sullivan
Estate of Arizona
Ucson N
Th Tueson
Julian
Phoenix
Sullivan T
Lay
Sullivan
J. Hubertith
Kingman
Mohave County
May- Barth
St. Johns
Pache County
Bby Sullivan
Juliani
South Tucson
Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Wer Company
Valley National Bank
Taxi ride turns into cross city shootout in Chicago
Corby Baker sought a simple ride home but boarded a stolen taxi that became the target of a citywide police chase. Four squad cars pursued the rambling cab as bullets shattered the vehicle thirty two times. the driver Thomas Hand, AWOL from Camp Hood Texas, was wounded and later surrendered. Baker escaped unharmed and asked if he was shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Corby Baker
Baker
Thomas Hand
Camp Hood
Tex
Hand
John Pilot
Montgomery Ward faces nationwide strike threat over WLB orders
The Warner Ward labor dispute looms as the War Labor Board gives Montgomery Ward until Monday night to meet directives from 1943 and 1944 in Detroit stores. CIO Retail Employes leader Samuel Wolchok says the union could expand to all Ward locations, with 60,000 to 65,000 workers affected. A Detroit strike occurred last weekend and a hearing targets Chicago, Denver, St. Paul, Portland, San Rafael, and Jamaica Queens. If noncompliance continues, government action or seizure could follow, with possible White House involvement and submission to Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Montgomery Ward
War Labor Board
WLB
Detroit
CIO
Samuel Wolchok
Retail Employes Union
Wolchok
Sewell Avery
Wardhead
William H. Davis
Chicago
Denver
St. Paul
Portland
Ore
San Rafael
Calif
Jamaica
N. Y
Davis
White House
Fred M. Vinson
Ward
Pilots Survey Ground For Future Bombing Of Jap Industry
U p reports say B 29s carried out two nuisance attacks on Tokyo with fire bombs and extended recon over Kobe Osaka area, Japan s key war production hub. Three bombers struck Tokyo at 3 30 a m and a lone craft at 6 a m with little damage to U S forces. Tokyo broadcast notes new sightings over Hanshin Osaka Kobe area and a looming major strike possibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Scherff
Washington
U.P
Tokyo
Kobe-Osaka
Japan
FCC
Hanshin
Osaka-Kobe
Tokyo Bav
Nagoya
Kobe
Osaka
Patch Slashes Across France In Four Months
Clinton B. Conger reports from Inside Germany that Lt General Alexander Patchs Seventh U S Army crossed into Germany near Wissembourg after four months since D Day. The unit moved toward the Siegfried line with heavy artillery pounding the advance. The writer recalls his wartime internment and shares crossing the reich frontier with the troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton B. Conger
Germany
France
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh
U. S. Army
Vosages
Wissembourg
Seventh Army
United Press Berlin
Reich
Siegfried Line
Ramond says he did not know what to do after Lupe Velez tale
Harold Ramond an Austrian born 27 year old French actor and former lover of Lupe Velez faced immigration scrutiny in Hollywood on reports he fathered Velez unborn child who died by suicide. Ramond claimed to have started citizenship papers and said he loved Velez though marriage was not possible for ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Harold Ramond
Lupe Velez
Ramond
Albert del Guercio
Lupe
Davis Testifies Shooting Was in Defense in Navarre Case
Joe Davis, a Negro patrolman on trial in Phoenix for murder, testified he fired at Leonce Navarre as the detective reached for a gun at the police station on October 4. Davis said he acted with fear of death and had lived in fear since Navarre's earlier trial and acquittal over David Johnson's slaying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Joe Davis
Leonce T. Navarre
Davis
Navarre
David Johnson
Roosevelt creates fleet admiral and general ranks
President Roosevelt signed a bill creating the ranks of fleet admiral in the Navy and general of the Army. He nominated three admirals and four generals, including Leahy, King, Nimitz, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Arnold, with Pershing as general of the armies. The act allows one more fleet admiral to be named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
William D. Leahy
Ernest J. King
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Pacific Ocean
George C. Marshall
Army
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
John J. Pershing
United States
Congress
Reds Fight Grip on Budapest as Offensive Intensifies
Soviet forces pound north and northeast of Budapest with converging columns from the Slovak border while Berlin reports heavy tank and infantry battles along a 50 mile siege arc around the capital. Hungarian civilians are mobilized to defend the Budapest Szekesfehvar railway embankment as a decisive breakthrough looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce W. Mann
London
U.P
Red Army
Budapest
Stalingrad
Moscow
Slovakia
Berlin
Hungary
Austria
Danube
Rodion Y Malinovsky
Pest
Budapest-Szekesfehvar
Erd
Lake Valencie
Capital
Salvadoran Revolution Gains Strength in Central America
Rene Glover the charge d affaires of the Salvadoran embassy in Mexico said the revolution in El Salvador is growing with volunteers joining nuclei. He noted Col Arturo Romero leads 2000 armed rebels moving from Ahuachapan toward Santa Ana as Aguirre's forces hold parts of the city. Casualty figures remain unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Rene Glover
Growth Of European Blood Puts Future Peace In Peril
Growth of European blood threatens future peace as major powers seek spheres of influence. The Greek contretemps fuels fears that Atlantic Charter ideals are challenged and that power blocs may imperil postwar global order. War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes self-determination questions require rapid resolution. The Atlantic Charter inspires China and India, whose vast populations support its aims for independence and well being.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Athens
Europe
Ake
Chungking
Middle
Far East
China
India
Churchill Will Abandon Poles London Regime
No Roosevelt Churchill Stalin conference before end of January says officials. February is earliest possible for the big three meeting as the season of major wartime planning proceeds. Roosevelt plans a Christmas Eve broadcast and must deliver his budget message in early January and attend the January 20 inauguration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas B. Cornell
Associated Press
Washington
United Nations
State Department
London
Roosevelt
Congress
Greeks propose regent and plebiscite amid Athens fighting
Greek insurgents respond to British terms with demands for amnesty for leaders a national government representing all parties and a regency until a plebiscite decides monarchy or republic The Elas pressed attacks in central Athens Omonia square and north of Patras while British reinforcements moved to Piraeus and security of the peninsula neck was reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Associated Press
Elas
Patras
EAM Central Committee
Reginald Leeper
Emmanuel Sophoulis
George
London
Omonia Square
Atlantic Charter Ghosts Stir Commons Over Poland Rift
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Churchill outlining a Polish frontier along the Curzon line with compensation from Germany including Danzig and East Prussia. He urged Roosevelt and Stalin to meet, while Henry Raikes bluntly called the Atlantic Charter a ghost amid UN split.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Britain
Churchill
Old Poland
Poland
Lwow
Ukraine
East Prussia
Danzig
Germany
Commons
Roosevelt
Marshal Stalin
United Nations
Washington
United States
Russia
Curzon Line
Konigsberg
Europe
Henry Raikes
RAF
Public Works Measure Hits Conference Snag
The senate refused to approve a compromise report on a half billion postwar rivers and harbors authorization bill and sent the measure back to a conference committee. Objections centered on a rider exempting the California Central Valley project from a 42 year old reclamation law, with the senate not concurring in the house approved rider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
California Central Valley
House
Naval School Final Review This Wednesday at 11:30
Captain W E Cheadle USN ret and Dr Alfred Atkinson president of the University of Arizona will address the 25th and final class of student officers at the naval indoctrination school. The ceremony follows a 10:15 regimental review and precedes the decommissioning of the USS Beardown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Cheadle
USN
Naval Indoctrination School
Alfred Atkinson
University of Arizona
Polo Field
Robert M. Russell
Atkinson
Russell
USS Beardown
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Inkee
Marthur
Philipines
Mindoro Island
Thehilippines
Ty William B. Dickinson
Saipan
Navy
Reds
Salvador
Mexico
Stephen Barber
Atlantic
Naval School
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