Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 16, 1994 TAG: 9411160104
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
President Franklin D. Roosevelt won his fourth term in office, leading Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey 413 electoral votes to 118, based on incomplete returns. The Democrats also retained control of both Houses of Congress. Locally, Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum was elected to his 12th term in the House of Representatives.
American carrier planes of the Third Fleet wiped out an entire Japanese convoy of six destroyers and four transports in Ormoc Bay, killing roughly 8,000 enemy troops headed for the fighting on Leyte in the Philippines.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's rampaging Third Army split the German defenses of the Saar in a six-mile sweep around the east of Metz, closing the arc around that powerful fortress.
In college football, the Duke Blue Devils, playing before a home crowd of 50,000, gave the Georgia Tech Engineers their first defeat, 19-13. Navy dropped previously undefeated Notre Dame by a 32-13 score. The following week, Army, led by Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, beat Notre Dame for the first time in 13 years by a whopping 59-0 score.
The German high command announced that a new weapon was being used against London, the V-2 rocket. The rocket carried a ton of explosives at a 50-mile high trajectory and 700 miles per hour. Neutral sources said the Germans intended to use the weapon against New York.
Speculation had already begun about candidates for the 1945 gubernatorial election in Virginia. Mentioned on the Democratic side as possibilities were Lt. Gov. William M. Tuck, Speaker of the House of Delegates Thomas B. Stanley and Congressman A. Willis Robertson.
A fierce commercial rivalry developing among the allies loomed as a threat to post-war plans for preservering the peace. Among the issues was English-American-Soviet competition for Iranian oil.
The 41,000-ton battleship Tirpitz, the last "unsinkable" giant in Adolf Hitler's navy, capsized and sank in Norwegian waters after being hit by three 6-ton bombs dropped by British Lancasters.
Soviet troops tightened their ring around Budapest.
A new synthetic rubber made mainly from sand and called silicone was being made by the General Electric Co. for the Army and Navy.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a winter offensive against Germany, sending six armies with 1.5 million men ahead on a 400-mile front behind the greatest aerial bombardment of all time.
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