Nazi Stand Puts More Realistic Perspective on Victory Hopes
London dispatch notes that after a week of limited gains Allied efforts along the Siegfried Line show stalled breakthroughs despite penetrations near Aachen. German defenses stiffen as U S First Army advances past the line while Patton and Patch push toward the Rhine frontier.
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London
Siegfried Line
Rhine
Aachen
Hodges
Reich
Prum
Trier
Patton
Patch
Mo- Selle River
England
Normandy
France
Brittany
British Second Army Drives East Toward Germany
Allied dispatches report the British Second Army advancing from the Meuse at Boxmeer toward the Dutch German border as American transports reinforce the Nijmegen Arnhem corridor. Airborne troops in Holland receive winter gear as the fight for the Ruhr gate intensifies and supplies reach Arnhem.
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Ruhr
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Allied Expeditionary Force
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Meuse
Boxmeer
Nijmegen
Holland
Nijmegen-Arnhem
Rhine
Superforts Strike to Knock Out Anshan Arsenal
American heavy bombers attacked Anshan in Manchuria aiming to cripple Japan’s main war arsenal. AP reports say the latest raid sought to destroy overlooked targets after two earlier sorties that hit steel and coke plants.
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Associated Press
Japan
Anshan
Manchurian Industral Center
Sky Giants
U. S
China
Nippon
Manchuria
Radio Tokyo
FCC
Philippines
Halmahera
Borneo
Amarillo City Retains $1.19 Tax Rate and Sewer Charge Plan
Amarillo retains a $1.19 per $100 valuation city tax rate with 96 cents for current expenses and 23 cents for debt service. The budget totals $772,805 in revenue, and a sewer rental plan is approved in first reading, charging residents 50 cents monthly plus five cents per extra fixture, with industrial users at 20 percent of the water bill. Mayor Joe A. Jenkins and commissioners R. H. Epperson and O. H. Hargett attended, along with Manager Hancock and city secretary Katheryne Gordon.
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Amarillo
City Commission
Water Department
Ing
Joe A. Jenkins
R. H. Epperson
O. H. Hargett
Hancock
Katheryne Gordon
Italy Granted Expanded Home Rule and Reconstruction Plan
In a Hyde Park agreement dated Sept 18–19 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill announce a broader home rule for Italy and an industrial reconstruction program to aid Italy in fighting Germany and Japan. The plan envisions direct Rome Washington London political relations and increased Allied support though financing details are undisclosed.
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Churchill
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Germany
Japan
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Hyde Park
Quebec
Britain
Rome
London
Mediterranean
Nazis Fall Back for Final Stand in Baltic
German northern army divisions retreat toward Riga as Soviet forces press from Estonia and Latvia. Riga remains a key Baltic naval base while the Red Army reports capturing 200 plus towns and pressing toward the coast, with fighting elsewhere across Poland Hungary and Slovakia.
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Riga
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Red Army
Estonia
Tallinn
Latvia
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Poland
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Hungary
Eight Column General Election Ballot Planned for Texas
Texas Secretary of State prepares an eight column ballot with Democratic Republican Texas Regulars and Prohibition full elector slates at the top and Socialist and America First partial lists. The ballot also shows two amendments proposing city retirement systems and county tax levy reallocation up to 80 cents per $100. County clerks will add local candidate names after certificates mail tomorrow.
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Austin
Texas
Secretary of State
Sidney Latham
Socialist
America First
Balkan Nazis In New Trap
In Bari Italy on September 26 heavy fighting was reported around Sarande as German troops crossed from Greece into Albania. Albanian Partisans reportedly pushed back about six and a half miles along the Adriatic coast while about 7,000 enemy troops concentrated near the Greek border east of Argyrokastro. Allied Balkan Air Force fighters attacked fleeing Germans in Northern Greece and Southern Albania and fighter bombers damaged enemy communications in Yugoslavia.
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Reichswald Forest
Nijmege
Eindhoven
Nijmegen
Siegfried Line
Bari
Italy
Sarande
Greece
Adriatic
Argyrokastrom
Albania
Balkan Air Force
Yugoslavia
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas Area
The Amarillo region faces cloudy skies with light showers Wednesday and Wednesday night. Thursday turns partly cloudy and warmer. West Texas expects continued cool, cloudy conditions with rain and showers, windy by Wednesday night and clearing by Thursday. temperatures show little change.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
My.sccoers
Cves
Bey Ade
Texas
Guilty Plains
Sky Troops Break German Corridor In Southern Holland
War dispatch reports American airborne troops with British armor driving back German forces from a corridor near Veghel and Eindhoven. The pursuit follows a 24 hour wedge attack as engineers clear mined roads and allies push to reopen supply lines toward the Rhine.
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Walter Cronkite
Gedenrode
Holland
Dempsey
Here
Veghel
Second Army
Eindhoven-Arnhem
Zuid Willems Vaart Canal
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