Dewey Closes Campaign With Madison Square Garden Speech
Gov Thomas Dewey winds up his campaign with a Madison Square Garden rally in New York City set for 7 30 to 8 p m after 20 000 miles of travel and a nationwide NBC CBS broadcast He aims to frame the election as a change and targets Roosevelt on policy and party leadership as the race heads to next Tuesday's vote.
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Washington
Dewey Backers Lead Willkie Group Urge Presidential Vote
Fourteen members of the national committee backing Wendell Willkie urged voters to elect Gov. Thomas F. Dewey of New York for president. The Portland group said they speak as a unit but not for the 1940 nominee.
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Wendell Willkie
Thomas F. Dewey
New York
Republican National
Springboard For Winter Offensive Aimed At Rhineland
Allied forces widen the wedge into western Germany near Cologne as a winter offensive builds. American units push toward the Roer river, seize bridgeheads in Holland, and advance in the Vosges as Patton's third army reports 103000 prisoners since St Lo breakthrough.
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Schlucht Pass
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Mediterranean
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Moulinet
Third Army
Nancy
Metz
Maizieres Les Metz
George S. Patton
St. Lo
Normandy
Plants To Be Seized By Army Troops
The White House ordered the Army to seize and operate eight Toledo area plants producing war materials. Bakers Brothers Inc, Willys Overland Motors Inc, Great Lakes Stamping and Manufacturing Co, Ohio Tool and Dye Co, In Chield Products Co, Crescent Engineering Corp, Toledo Steel Tube Co, Wayne Metal Products Co were named. The action targets strikes linked to the Mechanics Educational Society of America at Electric Automobile Light.
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White House
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Willys-Overland Motors, Inc
Great Lakes Stamping & Manufacturing Co
Ohio Tool & Dye Co
Inchield Products Co
Crescent Engineering Corp
Toledo Steel Tube Co
Wayne Metal Products Co
Roosvelt
New England
Mechanics’ Educational Society America
Electric Auto Lght Company
Football finals score roundup from the era
A list of multiple college football finals with scores: Penn State 41 Syracuse 0. Michigan 41 Penn 19. Navy 32 Notre Dame 13. Army 83 Villanova 0. Rochester 19 Case 0. Bucknell 26 NYU 0. Cornell 25 Columbia 7. Franklin-Mar hall 0 Swar pcore 28 0. Yale 6 Dartmouth 0.
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Case
Bucknell
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Columbia
Roosevelt and Dewey Set to Address Nation on Local Airwaves
Tonight marks the final campaign push for both parties as Roosevelt and Dewey speak via nationwide radio. Roosevelt’s Boston address airs on KTUC and KVOA from 6 to 6 45 p m, followed by Dewey’s New York speech on the same stations from 7 30 to 8 00 p m.
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Thomas E. Dewey
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KTUC
KVOA
Dewey
New York
Vacant Seats In Congress To Be Filled
Franklin D Roosevelt and Thomas E Dewey battle for the presidency as 31 governorships and numerous congressional seats go to the polls next Tuesday. Absentee military ballots may decide many results with final counts extending to December. Senate Democrats hold 48 seats to Republicans 37 and Progressives 1. House Democrats 214 to Republicans 210 with several vacancies and several six year terms on the line.
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Roosevelt campaigns through New England in final appeal
President Roosevelt barnstormed through Connecticut and Massachusetts in a final campaign swing, denouncing the Republican platform as a “wild, weird future” and urging workers to secure time off to vote. He targeted Margaret Connors and urged broad industrial turnout in the close race against Dewey.
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Massachusetts
Bridgeport
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Margaret E. Connors
Clare Boothe Luce
Germans flee Greece as Allied forces clear country
Allied headquarters announce Greece is clear of German troops. RAF reconnaissance notes no traces of Nazis in the country, with retreating columns seen near Lake Prespa in Albania. Tito’s partisans report sieges near Bitolj and Skoplje as Germans destroy bridges to delay pursuers.
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Greece
Serbia
Albania
Lake Prespa
Vardar
Skoplje
Marshal Tito
Bitolj
Valona
Scutari
Tirana
Liquor Permit Not For Loan Court Ruled Against Jung
Judge Eva De Concini dismissed the case brought by Ham Moon Jung seeking to cancel a contract with T and T market and T H Soo over liquor license sale. The court held only the license owner may operate a liquor business and that the agreement was illegal. Jung sought invalidation of the contract and transfer of assets including the license. The Soos counterclaimed for damages and a bill of sale for fixtures equipment and license.
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Ham Moon Jung
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T. H
Rose L. Soo
de Concini
Soos
Jung
Judge de Concini
Rose Soo
Arizona
T. H. Soo
Japs Bring Up Troops To Bar Leyte Advance
Japanese reinforcements moved to halt the western Leyte advance as American units push toward Ormoc and Carigara. Nipponese air attacks hit Leyte airfields and docks while Allied gunners mass at Pinamoppan and Baybay as Maj. Gen. Arnold’s seventh infantry division crosses central Leyte.
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Marlin Spencer
Ormoc Valley
Carigara
Sibert
24Th
First Cavalry
Pinamoppan
Ormoc
Seventh Infantry
Archibald V. Arnold
Cross Island
Douglas MacArthur
Baybay
Philippines
Express Still Held Up By Wells Fargo Strike
Rail express service remained paralyzed on the Mexican west coast as Wells Fargo offices in Nogales Sonora stayed padlocked. P E Baffert of the Southern Pacific de Mexico railway said no settlement had been reached in the Wells Fargo strike.
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Ariz
Wells Fargo Company
Son
P. E. Baffert
Southern Pacific de Mexico Railway
Wells Fargo
72 Hours May Decide Fate Of Budapest
Soviet armored spearheads smashed into the southeastern outskirts of Budapest driving deep into the enemy lines. Front dispatches say the German Hungarian army group between the Danube and Tisza rivers is shattered and isolated. Cossack patrols pushed into Pest as a Soviet flotilla moved up the Danube for the final assault while rumors of a Budapest revolution circulated.
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Moscow
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Budapest
Germany
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Tisza
Thhe
Pest
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Alsonemedi
All-Out Assaults Against Rhine Reich Due Shortly
Allied offensive momentum grows as war analyst Mackenzie predicts an early push to cross the Rhine. He cautions winter weather may delay plans but expects a swift, heavy air borne and ground assault to break the German defenses and shorten the war.
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Reich
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Several Yank Ships Damaged By Jap Planes
Pearl Harbor report says Japanese air attack on a Third Fleet carrier group damaged several American ships. Adm Nimitz announced ten Japanese planes were lost with light U S casualties while Vice Admiral Mitscher estimated Japan lost four to six aircraft carriers in the Philippines battle.
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Chester W. Nimitz
Third Fleet
Philippines
Ormoc
49Th
Far Eastern Army Air Force
America
Richard I. Bong
Poplar
Wis
Carigara Bay
Leyte
10Th Corps
Franklin C. Sibert
Dan McGuire
The
Marc A. Mitscher
San Diego
Calif
Mitscher
Japan
Florida citrus gets price raise on grapefruit orange boxes
Washington reports Florida growers secured a one dollar increase per box for grapefruit and forty five cents for orange boxes under the stabilization extension act. If hurricane damage worsens, further raises may follow to cover losses. Texas Arizona and California growers are excluded from the boost.
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Florida
OPA
John Gismond
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Arizona
California
Gismond
War Food Administration
Fred M. Vinson
Searching Region For 8 Plane Crash Victims
Kingman area crews hunted 35 miles north for eight Army airmen missing after a collision of a four engine bomber and a fighter killed seven. Eyewitnesses saw chutes bloom before the bomber crashed a mountainside. Six victims were Kingman air field student gunners. Lt. Martin H. Campbell was the fighter pilot. Names: Herman H. Castile John F. Clinch Claude V. Busta James W. Burner Theodore L. Cook Jackson B. Campbell.
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Here
Kingman Air Field
Martin H. Campbell
Cooper Hill
Tenn
Herman H. Castile
Foreman
Ark
John F. Clinch
Philadelphia
Claude V. Busta
Velva
N. D
James W. Burner
Buckhannon
W. Va
Theodore L. Cook
New Concord
Jackson B. Campbell
Clarion
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