Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 23, 1994 TAG: 9411230095
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
U.S. 24th and 32nd division troops were locked in a battle to the death with 3,000 Japanese troops caught in the "Limon pocket" in northern Leyte where enemy light tank and supply units apparently had succeeded in passing an American road block to bring aid to their comrades.
President Roosevelt's special committee to investigate the wartime rise in living costs reported that for the bulk of wage earners the rise since January 1941 amounted to 30 percent, rejecting union labor claims that the cost of living was up 44 percent since the start of the war.
Industrial designers and interplanetary experts were viewing Germany's V-2 rocket as heralding the age of rocket-power. Peacetime uses of the technology could include a turbo-jet engine to power aircraft, they said.
Jefferson High's Magicians scored on a pass from Keith Bohon to Dudley Colhoun in the last quarter to beat the Fleming High Colonel's 7-0.
President Roosevelt, formally opening the $14 billion sixth war loan drive, warned that many costly battles must be fought before the war is won and exhorted all Americans to "stick to the plow" until the enemy is finally defeated.
The Japanese were still holding Pacific Islands from which the United States had imported 1 billion pounds of fats and oils each year. Americans were urged to keep saving their kitchen fats, not only to make gunpowder, but for medicines, for tanks, synthetic rubber, soaps and parachutes.
The French 1st Army had smashed to the Rhine in an epochal drive through the Belfort Gap. Patton's 3rd Army, meanwhile, ended all organized German resistance at the fortress city of Metz. The city had last been conquered by direct assault 1,500 years earlier when Atilla the Hun accomplished the feat.
James G. Thurber, New York artist and playwright, was still quite ill following an emergency appendectomy at the Chesapeake and Ohio hospital in Clifton Forge. Thurber had been vacationing at the Homestead in Hot Springs when he was taken ill.
A large force of U.S. Superfortresses of the 20th air command rained destruction on Japan's Omura airplane manufacturing center, and a day later 100 of the mighty planes raided Tokyo.
A national communications crisis developed as telephone operators in Washington, D.C., walked out on strike in sympathy with striking "hello girls" in Ohio. Operators in Detroit prepared to follow suit.
U.S. front line troops in Europe and Asia enjoyed turkey dinners for Thanksgiving, and 4,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, nurses and Red Cross workers trooped into Westminster Abbey for hymns and prayers.
American and French troops liberated Strasbourg and began lobbing shells into German defenses on the Rhine.
by CNB