Big-scale battle developing in Italy
Germans desperately defending Faenza
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WLB places increase in living costs at 30%, cites workers’ gains
Demand for general pay boost dampened; labor members file sharp dissents
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40 states to observe Thanksgiving Nov. 23
By the United Press
Thanksgiving will be celebrated Nov. 23 in 40 states and the District of Columbia in keeping with a federal law, passed in 1941, establishing the fourth Thursday in November as the holiday.
The eight states which will observe the holiday Nov. 30, the last Thursday in the month, are Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
The last Thursday in November was observed as a day of national thanks from President Lincoln’s day until 1939 when President Roosevelt advanced it a week to lengthen the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The experiment was ended by Congressional action in 1941.
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Move launched to bring Nisei to Pittsburgh
Loyal Jap-Americans may be moved here
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U.S. bishops oppose Russia on peace plan
Ask ban on nation judging own case
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U.S. sending envoys to Bulgaria, Romania
Washington (UP) – (Nov. 18)
The United States today prepared for resumption of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria by designating Maynard Barnes to be U.S. representative to Bulgaria with the personal rank of minister.
At the same time, Burton Y. Berry was appointed U.S. representative to Romania with the personal rank of minister.
Mr. Barnes, a foreign service officer since 1919, has served since 1942 as consul general at Brazzaville in French Equatorial Africa. Prior to that, he served in the Eastern Mediterranean area.
Mr. Berry has been consul at Istanbul since June 1942.
‘Cotton Ed’s’ funeral will be held today
Lynchburg, South Carolina (UP) – (Nov. 18)
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Senator Ellison D. “Cotton Ed” Smith, South Carolina’s vitriolic dean of the Senate, who died yesterday of a heart attack at his plantation.
The body of the 80-year-old Senator, whose fanatical devotion to anything representing cotton earned him his nickname, will be buried in the family plot of St. Luke’s Methodist Church following services at 3:30 p.m. EWT.
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Soldier ballot count to begin on Wednesday
G.I. Joes to be given ‘benefit of doubt’
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Extortion case fugitive gives up
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Republican lead 846 for Missouri Senator
St. Louis, Missouri (UP) – (Nov. 18)
Republican Governor Forrest C. Donnell’s slim lead over Attorney General Roy J. McKittrick, his Democratic opponent for U.S. Senator, was 846 votes tonight with only 1,700 absentee ballots uncounted.
Governor Donnell pointed 725,033 of the regular votes, against 734,530 for Mr. McKittrick for a margin of 9,495. But of the civilian and soldier absentee votes counted thus far, 48,980 went to Mr. McKittrick and 40,329 to Governor Donnell.