Background of news –
Surplus war property
By Burt P. Garnett
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Touring Chicago with a notebook –
New dehydrated soups, breakfast foods, (even rubber!) created by cereal firms
In addition to compact foods, service forces get standard cornflakes, puffed rice, etc.
By Josephine Gibson, Press home economics editor
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Yank back from overseas with a baby for his wife
But she isn’t sure whether she will accept either the G.I. or his daughter
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Well, there seems to be a sudden trend toward using good-looking men in politics and if you ask me, it’s a healthy sign. Take Junior Stettinius, our new Secretary of State: He’s ruggedly handsome.
Governor-elect Tobin of Massachusetts is suavely handsome, Governor Green of Illinois is boyishly handsome, and Mayor La Guardia of New York wears large, handsome hats.
Washington society ladies aren’t exactly members of the bobbysock set, but you should have heard them sigh when wavy-haired Paul McNutt whispered “All or nothing at all” regarding his control of manpower. I can just see him now in a double-breasted blue suit competing with Walter Pigeon for Greer Garson’s affections.
Goodness, with all the good-looking devils going into politics, the newsreels have more dimples than the main feature.
Millett: ‘Weaker sex’ is no more
‘Inferiors’ have super traits
By Ruth Millett
A war plant doctor in Seattle claims that women tire less easily than men, learn faster, live longer, endure routine more cheerfully and take orders better.
Assuming that the doctor is right (and it’s a pleasant assumption), how come? The doctor didn’t say. But maybe: Women tire less easily than men because though there is always some woman to say “You poor dear” to the man who claims he is “dog tired,” nobody loves a tired woman.
Maybe the reason women learn faster is because they meet life’s greatest challenge when they are young. A man works up gradually to becoming an important person or a man of responsibility, but a woman has her main job in life thrust on her when she becomes a “Mama,” and that is usually when she is just a girl herself. To handle that job, she has to learn fast.
Why they live longer is easy. No wife wants a successor in her husband’s affections and her only way of making sure she won’t have one is to outlive him.
And the sex that is condemned for life to cooking three meals a day and doing the dishes afterwards just has to endure routine good-naturedly.
As for taking orders well, men have conditioned women to that by building up the bugaboo that there is something mighty funny about a woman’s taking herself seriously enough to get to the place where she can give orders herself.
Which just adds up to the fact that our superior traits are probably largely the result of our inferior position.
Both teams strengthened –
Dobbs’ return helps cadets for Navy test
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Army is rated two touchdowns over Navy
By Harry Grayson
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Senator says Stettinius delayed defense program
Langer opposes former steel executive’s appointment as Secretary of State
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Völkischer Beobachter (December 1, 1944)
Glodschey: Deutsche Kreuzertat im Westsibirischen Meer
Von unserem Marinemiterbeiter Erich Glodschey
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Japans Sonderangriffskorps –
Ein Schlachtschiff versenkt
Tokio, 30. November –
Das Kaiserlich japanische Hauptquartier gab am Donnerstag bekannt: Sechs Flugzeuge der Yasukuni-Lufteinheit unseres Sonderangriffskorps griffen am 29. November feindliche Kriegsschiffe und andere Schiffe in der Leytebucht an. Zwei Flugzeuge versenkten ein Schlachtschiff und drei andere versenkten je einen feindlichen Transporter. Das letzte Flugzeug griff ein Schlachtschiff an, beschädigte es schwer und setzte es in Brand. Zwei unserer begleitenden Jagdflieger sind noch nicht zurückgekehrt.
Führer HQ (December 1, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
Im Raum von Aachen setzte der Feind seine starken Angriffe vor allem nordöstlich Geilenkirchen und im Gebiet von Hürtgen fort. Gegen den entschlossenen Widerstand unserer Truppen kam er wiederum nur wenig über seine Ausgangsstellungen hinaus und verlor neuerdings 23 Panzer. In der nun seit dem 17. November tobenden Schlacht haben unsere Verbände den fortgesetzten Großangriffen der 9. und 1. amerikanischen Armee unerschütterlich standgehalten und in wuchtigen Gegenstößen alle ihre Durchbruchsversuche zerschlagen. Der örtliche Geländegewinn des Gegners, der an der tiefsten Stelle östlich Würselens etwa 15 Kilometer beträgt, hat die nordamerikanischen Angriffstruppen ein Mehrfaches unserer eigenen Verluste und bisher den Ausfall von über 500 Panzerfahrzeugen gekostet.
An der lothringischen Grenze östlich Sierck und östlich Busendorf kam es im Vorfeld des Westwalls zu weiteren heftigen Kämpfen. Stärkere Vorstöße bei Saarunion scheiterten vor unseren Stellungen.
Im Elsass stehen unsere Truppen weiter in schwerer Abwehr gegen die feindlichen Verbände, die ihren Einbruchsraum beiderseits von Straßburg auszuweiten suchen. Östlich Markirch ist dem Gegner ein tieferer Einbruch gelungen. Heftige feindliche Angriffe gegen die südlichen Eckpfeiler unserer Gebirgsstellungen an der französisch-elsässischen Grenze wurden abgeschlagen oder aufgefangen. In Elsass–Lothringen vernichteten unsere Truppen gestern 32 feindliche Panzerfahrzeuge, viele davon mit der „Panzerfaust.“
Vor unseren Festungen am Kanal und Atlantik lebte das Artilleriefeuer in den letzten Tagen auf.
Das Gebiet von London, Antwerpen und Lüttich lag weiterhin unter unserem Fernbeschuss.
Die 8. britische Armee in Mittelitalien griff gestern erneut mit stärkeren Kräften unsere Stellungen in der Romagna östlich Faenza an. Der Ansturm wurde jedoch schon in unserem Hauptkampffeld aufgefangen.
In Südungarn haben wir neue Stellungen zwischen der Drau und den Bergen nordwestlich Fünfkirchen bezogen, vor denen starke sowjetische Panzerangriffe scheiterten. Aus dem Raum von Mohács ist der Feind nach Norden und Nordwesten eingedreht und im Vorgehen gegen die Linie Fünfkirchen–Szekszárd. Gegenmaßnahmen sind eingeleitet.
Im Südwestteil des Mátragebirges warfen unsere Grenadiere den Gegner zurück und brachten ihm in harten Waldkämpfen erhebliche Verluste bei. Eine auf engem Raum zusammengedrängte bolschewistische Kräftegruppe wurde vernichtet. Nordwestlich Erlau wurde der Feind vor neuen Stellungen abgewiesen. Erneute sowjetische Angriffe im Raum von Miskolc scheiterten. Nordöstlich davon kamen die feindlichen Verbände nach geringem Geländegewinn zum Stehen.
Zahlreiche Vorstöße der Bolschewisten am Modrog und im Grenzgebiet der Ostslowakei blieben ohne Erfolg.
Von der übrigen Ostfront werden keine Kämpfe von Bedeutung gemeldet.
Mitteldeutschland, der rheinisch-westfälische Raum sowie das frontnahe Gebiet im Westen waren am gestrigen Tage Angriffsziele anglo-amerikanischer Terrorflieger. Duisburg wurde bei Tag und Nacht mit Bomben belegt. Luftverteidigungskräfte schossen 30 feindliche Flugzeuge, darunter 24 viermotorige Bomber, ab.
Die Kriegsmarine versenkte im Monat November 1944: 7 Handelsschiffe mit 35.500 BRT, 8 Zerstörer, 1 Unterseeboot, 6 Schnellboote, 4 Bewacher und 17 Landungsboote. Acht weitere Dampfer und fünf Schnellboote wurden beschädigt.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (December 1, 1944)
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Communiqué No. 237
Allied forces, continuing to clear the Maas pocket, have occupied enemy strongpoints in the two castles near Wanssum and Broekhuizen. The village of Broekhuizen was cleared of the enemy.
Railway transport and communications in northern and eastern Holland were again under attack by fighter-bombers. At Süchteln, factory buildings were hit by fighter-bombers.
In the area of Linnich, our forces have reached the Roer River north of Koslar. We are fighting in Beeck, Lindern and Flossdorf. Fighters and fighter-bombers, closely supporting our ground forces in this sector, attacked enemy troops and mortar positions, and bombed and strafed strongpoints at Baal, Rurich, Glimbach, Gevenich and Boslar.
Farther south, we have cleared Lammersdorf after hard fighting and have entered the section of Inden west of the Inde River. High ground east of Grosshau was occupied. In Merode, heavy fighting continued.
Medium, light and fighter-bombers destroyed a number of enemy tanks at Pier and Inden, attacked the fortified villages of Stockheim, Vettweiss and Erp, bombed and strafed strongpoints and gun positions at Brandenberg, Bergstein and Berg, and bombed an armored vehicle repair depot at Gemünd.
Other medium and light bombers went for railway yards at Zweibrücken. Escorted light bombers attacked a benzol plant at Duisburg during the afternoon and two other benzol plants at Oberhausen and Bottrop were the targets for escorted heavy bombers which made concentrated attacks through cloud. Last night, heavy bombers were over Germany in strength with Duisburg as the main objective.
Fort Saint-Privat, in the Metz defense ring, was taken, and 500 prisoners were captured. In the Saar River Valley, further gains were made. We occupied high ground west of Merzig and are fighting in the Buren area northwest of Saarlautern. In clearing out the Saint-Avold area we occupied Carling and L’Hôpital and entered Adamswiller, southeast of Sarreguemines.
Limited advances were made by our ground forces east and west of the Vosges Mountains north of the Saverne Gap, and near the Rhine River in the vicinity of Haguenau.
Strasbourg was shelled heavily by enemy guns across the Rhine.
On the northern Alsace Plain, our units reached Gerstheim and Stotzheim, meeting little opposition.
The advance in the southern high Vosges continues on a wide front and our forces are within a mile of Urbes and Saint-Amarin.
We inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in repulsing a counterattack at Burbach, just south of Thann. East of Mulhouse, deep penetrations have been made into the Forêt Domaniale de la Hardt.
On the Channel coast, strongpoints at Dunkerque were hit by our medium and fighter-bombers.
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CINCPAC Communiqué No. 194
Fires were started on two airstrips on Iwo Jima in the Volcanos by bombs dropped from a force of 7th Army Air Force Liberators on November 28 (West Longitude Date).
On the following day, the same targets were again bombed by 7th Air Force aircraft. Our bombers were intercepted by three to four Japanese aircraft of which one was destroyed and another probably destroyed. Five of our airplanes suffered minor damage but all returned safely.
On the same date, Mitchells of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and Army bombers struck at other targets in the Bonins and Volcanos.
Army bombers and 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing fighters attacked Japanese bases in the Palaus on November 28. Hits were scored on a radio station on Arakabesan.
A supply dump was set afire by fighters of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing in an attack on Babelthuap in the Palaus on November 29. A torpedo dump on the airstrip on Yap was also hit.
Gun positions on Rota in the Marianas were bombed on November 29, by fighters of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.