Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 7, 1994 TAG: 9412070094
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
A stubborn strike at Chrysler's Dodge plant in Detroit that had paralyzed B-29 engine work for a few days was ended. The strike followed the transfer of a woman to a $1.17 per hour job over workers with more seniority, who were earning less.
A Gallup poll showed an overwhelming majority of Americans believed the accounts of Nazi atrocities and mass murder of Jews and Christians were true, but opinion differed widely on the extent of the slaughter and number of victims. The average American believed 100,000 had been killed, despite reports of many more than that.
The Army football team took the national college title with a 23-7 win over Navy before 70,000 fans in Baltimore. Fullback Felix "Doc" Blanchard and halfback Glenn Davis spearheaded the West Point attack.
Mammoth American Superfortresses attacked Tokyo for the fourth time in six days, hurling 100s of tons of bombs on the sprawling Musashina aircraft works.
Greek police fired on a crowd of left-wing demonstrators, killing 15 and wounding 148 as a pitched battled broke out between Royalists and the left-wing army in an Athens suburb. The crowd was demonstrating against Prime Minister George Papandreou's order that all guerrillas be disarmed and disbanded.
The Soviet Red Army drove within 50 miles of Austria with the capture of Marcali in Hungary.
The United States pointedly told Britain - and indirectly Russia - that European peoples should be allowed to work out their own governments without interference. In the meantime, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said the British army stood ready to crush any revolt aimed at setting up a Communist dictatorship in Greece.
Rebellious prisoners who had seized four guards at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta surrendered. They had objected to being housed with Nazi saboteur and espionage prisoners and complained they had not had proper medical supervision or given any religious services for six months.
Eighteen-year-old soldiers were being sent to battle fronts because of urgent military requirements, the U.S. Army disclosed. The previous policy had limited front-line soldiers to those 19 and over.
Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott replaced Lt. Gen. Mark Clark as head of the 5th Army in Italy. Clark had been named head of all Allied forces in Italy.
U.S. Third Army troops, aided by giant howitzers, established four new bridgeheads across Germany's Saar River.
The craziest 24 hours of the Pacific war had closed the Japanese supply port of Ormoc, a back door to Leyte Island through which the enemy slipped 35,000 troops.
by CNB