Training Realism Emphasized After Fort Sill Soldier Death
The War Department told Senator Connally that U S forces stress more realistic training across theaters. It described Private Jack Underwood of Lockport Illinois as dying after an exhausting overnight hike at Fort Sill Oklahoma and said every effort was made to locate him.
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Washington
War Department
Sen. Connally
Texas
Fort Sill
Okla
Connally
D. L. Crider
Elgin City
Tex
Crider
Jack Underwood
Lockport
Ill
Underwood
Department
Army
Fitzhugh Delays School Reopening
Superintendent Albert V. Horn says Fitzhugh schools will not resume classes until October 18 due to staff shortages in the district for harvesting crops.
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Fitzhugh
Albert V. Horn
Fittstown Defense Workers Notice
All Fittstown residents who worked for Red Cross or other civilian defense efforts must turn in hours to their block leaders or Jim Duncan. Applies to hours since Pearl Harbor and to residents of the Fittstown area.
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Fittstown
Red Cross
Jim Duncan
Pearl Harbor
Prices to fall for most chicken next month
Washington reports the office of price administration will cut poultry ceilings effective October 12. Hard scalded poultry declines 1 to 2 cents a pound, frozen varieties drop 3.5 cents, dressed poultry rises 1 cent, drawn poultry down 1 cent, quick frozen eviscerated poultry down 2 cents at processor levels, and Kosher poultry prices stay unchanged.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Germans hold 15 mile Corsica coastal strip in 1943 report
Allied headquarters in North Africa says the Germans control only a 15 mile coastal strip along Corsica in the Bastia Borgo Forelli area. The French high command released the update today.
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North Africa
Corsica
Bastia-Borgo-Forelli
Jones Seeks Extension for CCC and Higher Borrowing Power
Washington, Sept 29. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones urged Congress to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation life and boost borrowing authority by 500 million dollars to back farm price supports for 1944. He argued for subsidies to guarantee higher prices and warned of rising production costs.
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Washington
Marvin Jones
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
House Banking and Currency Committee
WFA
CCC
Jones
Farm
Roosevelt
Soldier Flunks Gunnery School Then Scores In Combat
Technical Sergeant Thomas Dye of Steubenville Ohio flunked air gunnery school for an unskilled shooting eye. He later flew on the fortress Snow Ball with two enemy planes credited and after returning to combat he shot down eight more planes earning the flying cross three clusters and the air medal.
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U. S
Britain
Thomas Dye
Steubenville
Dye
United States
Snow Ball
DAR junior members pledge seeing-eye dogs for blinded servicemen
Mrs. R. C. Goodfellow, New Jersey state regent, announced that junior members of the Daughters of the American Revolution will supply a seeing-eye dog for every wounded serviceman blinded in the present war. The plan aims to assist veterans across states with trained guide dogs.
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New York
Daughters of the American Revolution
R. C. Goodfellow
New Jersey
Dad Drafting Starts Oct 1 in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma State Selective Service Director Col. Clive Murray said drafting of fathers will begin October 1 with only a few local boards involved at first. On October 10 statewide quotas will mainly include fathers and a few single men, estimating several thousand fathers could be inducted before year end.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Selective Service
Clive Murray
Murray
Col
Coal County surpasses Third War Loan quota with strong finish
Coal County residents exceed their $1 235 300 quota by about $20 000 in the Third War Loan drive as Pontotoc and nearby districts continue to buy bonds. Roff held a pie supper netting 3 907 to push district totals to 15 407 beyond the 15 000 goal while T Sanford and Schultz led the event with a cottonseed meal prize aiding bond purchases.
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Coal County
Pontotoc County
H. J. Huddleston
S. C. Boswell
Roff
T. Sanford
Schultz
Fulbright Peace Resolution Put Aside by Senate Group
A senate foreign relations sub committee plans to draft its own postwar policy declaration and shelve the House approved Fulbright lasting peace resolution. Chairman Connally and Senator George indicated delay until after a Moscow conference, delaying discussion of postwar policies.
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Washington
Senate
Fullbright
Connally
Texas
Subcommittee
George
Georgia
Moscow
Fultbright
Congress
Wewak Bombing Raid Yields Heavy Blow by American Airmen
American flyers returning from a raid by more than 200 planes on Wewak New Guinea said the base took a heavy new blow. Mitchell bombers and heavy fighters helped destroy over 60 enemy aircraft and sink seven ships and 29 barges. Lt. Anthony N. Chiappe of Bronx NY earned praise for a tail-first emergency landing after hydraulic failure.
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New Guinea
Wewak
Owen Stanley Mountains
Communique Roi Ailied
Anthony N. Chiappe
Bronx
Chiappe
J. M. Adams
Atlanta
C. R. Depascale
East
Douglas
Wichita
Kansas
Adams
Depascale
Fifth Army closes in on Naples after Salerno victory
Allied forces push through the Salerno line as Fifth Army drives Germans from their mountain position and advances toward Naples. Nocera and Castellamare fall, Pompeii is entered, and Avellino is seen as a likely threat to German defense on the eastern flank.
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North Africa
Fifth Army
Salerno
Naples
Sorrento
Bay of Naples
Gulf of Salerno
Mark W. Clark
Nocera
Castellamare
Fifth
Eighth Army
Vellino
Avellino
San Angelo
Malfi
Adriatic
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Margherita di Savoia
Zappanetta
Gulf of Manfredonia
Foggia
Sala
Clark
Albert Kesselring
Winaval
Italy
Miskovsky Questions October Trial for Phillips and Aide
County Attorney George Miskovsky doubts former Governor Leon C. Phillips will face trial at the October term. Phillips and parole investigator Robert R. Fitzgerald are charged with bribery and conspiracy. A decision on severance and a bill of particulars motion is expected after hearings scheduled for tomorrow.
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Miskovsky
Oklahoma ‘ “Tv
George Miskovsky
Leon C. Phillips
Phillips
Robert R. Fitzgerald
Ada's August sales tax up. Michigan group resignations noted
Ada, Idaho reports increase in August sales tax from 1942 to 1943 with total collections of 9 964 21 and 14 94 respectively. Meanwhile Michigan regional smaller plants group resignations were sent to Washington after five months of efforts failed to aid war production. In Frederick Oklahoma a two man patrol was created to curb rising traffic deaths, Tulsa and Oklahoma counties leading fatalities in 1943.
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State Tax Commission
Ada
Detroit
Michigan
Smaller
Plants Corporation
Washington
Frederick
Tillman County
J. M. Gentry
Border County
Oklahoma County
Tulsa
Rogers County
Highway Patrol
Buy it Sell it with a Want Ad
A compact want ad promotes buying and selling items through a local classifieds section. The short notice invites readers to place or respond to listings for secondhand goods and services in the community.
Italy's Place Is Uncertain in War Allies Co-belligerent Debate
Sept 26 dispatch notes Italy seeks status as a co bel ligerent or full ally with Britain and the United States. Premier Badoglio weighs declaring war on Germany to align with the Allies. Public and troop sentiment may limit acceptance of Italians as Allies, while Allied authorities push to use Italian forces to hasten victory and ease occupation.
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Italy
Badoglio
Germany
United Nations
United States
Britain
Washington
London
William McGaffin
Associated Press
Cairo
McGaffin
Lero Islands
Dodecanese
AMG
Sicily
Road map folding hints spark quiet marital chatter
Local folks joke that after marriage the talk dies down while appreciating practical tasks like folding a road map. The remark highlights everyday domestic humor and shared expectations in community life.
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Guthrie
Soil Conservation Station
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Pravda
Zaporozhe
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Constanta
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Black Sea
Red Army
White Russia
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Chernigov
Unecha-Krichev
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Lostiukovichy
Kirchev
Unecha
Mstislav
Orel
Nosovichi
Red Star
Poltava
Globino
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