DIARY OF
NEWSY 1944
(Continued from Page 3)
‘‘Desert Fox” as a result of air
# strafing . . . Fourteenth biennial
convention of United Lutherans
resolves to “vigorously combat”
hasty marriages and divorces.
I NOVEMBER 1944 |
Political harvest time: Cam_
paigners on both sides are bitter,
heated . . . V-2 rockets hit Eng
land . . . General Stilwell, re
called, reaches Washington; no
statements • • • Mayor LaGuardia,
at LaGuardia Field, is porter for
i porterless woman . . . Roosevelt
re-elected; carries 36 states with
432 electoral votes; Dewey 12
with 99 . . . Solid South vote un
needed for Democrats to win for
the fifth time since the Civil
War . . . Democratic sweep in
creases party’s majority in Con_
gress . . . Sixth war loan drive
w for $14,000,000,000 . . . RAF sinks
Tirpitz . . . Eisenhower: ‘‘More
supplies are needed” . . . Cigaret
shortage . . . French army reach
es Rhine . . . William Temple
becomes first Archbishop of
Canterbury to be cremated . . .
Lauritz Melchior, Wagnerian
tenor, bags l^OO^lb. buffalo . , ,
Regents fire Homer Price Rainey,
U. of Tex. prexie; students pro
test . . . Dead- Dr. Alexis Carrel,
French surgeon, scientific phil_
osopher . . Metz falls . . . Specta
tor at jitterbug session in Stock
holm: ‘‘I assume they get mar
ried afterwards’” . . . Allies step
up assaults on western front . . .
Superfortresses bomb Tokyo . . .
On Aachen sector, Yanks capture
roostful of Nazi carrier pigeons;
eat them for supper . . . Left
rigiht quarrels break out in Bel
gium and Greece . . . Interna
tional aviation conference in
Chicago . . . China cut in two
by Japanese line trom Manchuria
to Hong Konk . . . B-29s again hit
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Tokyo . . . Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, resigns because of
ill health; Roosevelt names Ed
ward R. Stettinius, Jr. . . . For
third time in six days B-29s hit
Tokyo in first night raid . . .
Japanese threaten to lynch fliers
wiho bail out over Tokyo . . .Jap
convoy of 13 ships sunk off
Leyte . . . Ninth Army lashes out
on Cologne plain . . . Gertrude
Atherton celebrates 87th birthday
with completion of her forty
first book . . . Nazi prisoners of
war pick apples in Washington
State . . . Married: Dale Car
negie, after meeting and influ_
encing Dorothy Price V&nder
pool . . . Died: Boake Carter, ra
dio commentator; Republican
Senator Brookhart of Iowa . . .
General Joseph W. (Vinegar Joe)
Stilwell sheds h*s four-star khaki
for slacks and black sweater at
his Carmel, Calif., home.
DINERS —Rear Adm. Wat Tyler Cluverius talks with Mrs. I
William Howard Taft, II, at a dinner at New York’s WeltJorF
I DECEMBER 1944 |
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Allies hammer at German de
fenses . . . Advance slowly at
terrific cost . . . Reconversion
halted to speed arms output . . .
Lady Astor, ‘‘Eve” of Commons,
to retire after quairter-century
. . . Ten killed in Athens as Left
ists march . . . Yanks fight way
across the Saar . . . B_29s to Tok
yo again . . . Army pigskins Navy
(23 to 7) at Baltimore . , , Wed:
Col. Elliott Roosevelt, Faye
Emerson, movie actress—'his
third, her second . . . State Dept,
reorganization . . . FTC joins in
the search for cigarets . . . Greek
crisis mounts . . . Gov. Dewey
back to work after vacation at
Sea Island, Ga. . . . British tanks
fire on Greek Leftists . . . G. E
Shaw’s eye view of the war. “A
m.ere bubble in the froth of his
tory” . . . Russians lash at Buda
pest . . . Eden firm against
Sforza . . . New Hitler photos
stress his ‘‘recovery” . . . U. S.
surprise landing at Ormoc splits
foe . . . Earthquake shakes Ja
pan, Radio Tokyo admits; seis_
mologists throughout world re
cord quake as one of greatest . . .
Churchill wins vote of confidence
on Greek policy . . . B-29s hit
Volcano islands to neutralize
Japanese planes attacking Saipan
. . . New devices make U-boats
still a menace . . . Americans win
Ormoc, the foes Leyte port . . .
Sixth wai* loan of 14 billion over
subscribed . . . Gen de Gaulle
confers with Premier Stalin in
Moscow . . . Tokyo reported be
ing evacuated in fear of B-29s
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