Two Japanese Warships Sunk or Damaged in Bismarck Sea
Allied air attacks in the Bismarck Sea claim success against Japanese shipping with several vessels sunk or damaged. Forces at Rabaul and Bougainville report heavy action as MacArthur says operations proceed with Japanese restraint. Casualty lists include minor damage to allied planes and ongoing land, sea, air offensives.
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Southwest Pacific
Key E
Rabaul
New Bitain
Bisparck Sea
Simpson Harbor
New Ireland
Mitchell
Adm
William F. Halgey
13Th Air Force
Bougainville
New Guinea
Vanakanau
MacArthur
Markham
Ramu
Solomons
Bougainvile
Choiseul Island
Empress Augusta
Choiseul
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
New Teland-Bougainville
Sainville
USO
Rail workers to get pay raise under new board ruling
Washington AP The special wage board for 1 1 million non operating railway workers proposes increases from 10 cents to four cents an hour depending on pay level with Nov 19 effective date. Vinson backs the plan, replacing a flat eight cent rise. unions vote on a strike while the carriers face higher payroll costs.
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Washington
Fred M. Vinson
Vinson
Coal Stocks on Decline in September and October Start
Washington report shows soft coal stocks fell by 2.41 million tons in September due to higher consumption and lower output. Secretary Ickes notes households began October with about 45 days of supply versus 49 at Sept 1. Soft coal production dropped 1.5 million tons week to week, totaling 9.825 million tons.
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Washington
Ickes
Georgia Convicts Blast Way From Prison Camp
Fourteen long term convicts escaped Douglas Prison Camp using shotguns. They wounded two guards and forced motorists to surrender cars. State highway patrol captured two suspects. four others fled into woodlands as a manhunt began.
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Douglas
Woodlands
Entire Family Celebrates 66th Wedding Anniversary
An 87 year old sugar planter and his 82 year old wife marked 66 years of marriage on their farm near LA ROSE with their 13 children attending the anniversary dinner yesterday.
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LA Rose
Here
Long Job Ahead Fort Knox Discusses Far East Air War
Fort Knox held a War Department conference where Colonel Emmett ODonnell cautioned that defeating Japan will take time. He stressed building and defending bases in the Far East to sustain operations and eliminate Japan as a major power.
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Fort Knox
Germany
Europe
China
Japan
Fort , Kentucky
Emmett O'Donnell
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Far East
O'Donnell
United States
Philippines
Philippine
Java
Australia
Burma
India
Korea
Manchuka
Devers Signals Imminent Main Assault On Germany
Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers announced that American and British forces are massing for the main assault against Germany. The Army Hour broadcast marked the anniversary of the North Africa invasion with praise for Allied and Soviet efforts and hints of a new front in western Europe.
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London
Jacob L. Devers
Germany
Hitler
Devers
United States
General Devers
North Africa
U. S
War Stimson
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North African
Stimson
General Eisenhower
North
Africa
Italy
Mediterranean
Russia
Eisenhower
Europe
Nazis Report Convoy Attack Off North Africa
The German high command claimed Allied convoy of 22 fully laden troop transports was attacked by German planes off North Africa. They said 13 vessels and two destroyer escorts were hit, with several transports burning and sinking as fliers returned home. They estimate many thousands of American and British reservists perished. No Allied confirmation arrives.
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London
High Command
North Africa
Split
Ancona
Advance Air Headquarters
Yugoslavia
U. S. 15Th Air Force
England
Europe
Germany
France
U. S
Dueren
Thunderbolts
RAF
Hitler
Holland
Belgium
Norway
USO
All American Harmon Missing After P 38 Downed Over Kiukiang
Lieutenant Tommy Harmon listed as missing in action after his P 38 Lightning was shot down October 30 in a dogfight over Kiukiang on the Yangtze River. Harmon had previously bailed out of a bomber over a South American jungle and later marched to safety. He was to receive a promotion to First Lieutenant the day after he was shot down.
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U. S. 14Th Air Force
China
Tommy Harmon
Kiukiang
Yangtze River
Hankow
Harmon
Germans Blame Allies for Vatican Bombing
German propagandists pressed claims that the Vatican was bombed by Allied forces despite an Allied headquarters denial. Paris radio quotes Rome papers alleging bomb fragments found over Vatican territory were identified as British.
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London
Vatican City
Ieee
Paris
Rome
Vatican
Convicted Wife Sentenced in Principal Vance Death
Mrs Gladys Vance aged 39 received one to 20 years in the Marysville Reformatory after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the gas explosion death of her husband Terley Vance 39 elementary school principal.
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Marion
Gladys Vance
Marysville Reformatory
Terley ‘Vance
Vance
Settlement of Fathers Draft Sought in Congress Today
Washington lawmakers clash over drafting fathers amid White House uncertainty. Senate moves to halt Pre Pearl Harbor fathers and tighten deferments for non fathers while House proposes a nationwide induction quota with a medical panel to lower physical standards for 4 F non fathers.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
White House
Wheeler
D-Mont
Burma Blasted By U. S. Fliers
New Delhi India report says American air fliers strafed and bombed loco motives water towers bridges and buildings in northern and central Burma. Targets included Nadaw Mahnyin Maymyo 20 miles east of Mandalay and rail lines between Naba Mo gaung Hamaing Walabum and south of Namma. RAF also bombed four river steamers along the Irrawaddy and Chindwin.
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New Delhi
India
Jia
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Nadaw
Mahnyin
Maymyo
Mandalay
Naba
Mogaung
Hamaing
Walabum
Namma
Irrawaddy
Chindwin
RAF
Cse
Russians Reach Fastov in Bold Kyiv Breakthrough
Soviet forces broke through southwest of Kiev driving toward Fastov and Romania, seizing trains and German equipment as they push toward Zhmerinka and the Romanian border. Russian troops reportedly advance beyond Fastov, with 120 captured guns and 400 trucks.
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Russia
Kiev
Fastov
Dnieper
Ukraine
Krivoi Rog
Reuters
Moscow
Romania
Joseph Stalin
Crimea
Kerch
Perekop Isthmus
Red Army
North Central Front
Nevel
Berlin
Pripet Marshes
Zhimour
Zhmerinka
Lwow-Odessa
Stalin
Fostev
Rybalko
USO
Thousands Battle Coast Brush Fires in Southern California
Thousands of firefighters in four southern California counties battled brush and woodland blazes. Army and FBI authorities said the fires might be incendiary in origin. No loss of life was reported.
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Santa Monica
Calif
California
FBI
Seek To Simplify Price Regulations
The Office of Price Administration said 17 subcommittees representing retail stores are exploring a single simplified price regulation for all retail sales except food and fuel. The OPA stressed it is not committed beyond surveys to see if simplification is possible or desirable.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Allies To Sign Post War UNRRA Pact In Washington
At noon tomorrow 44 international delegates plus the French Comité de Libération sign the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agreement UNRRA to aid starving and jobless war victims. President Roosevelt to speak. delegates move to Atlantic City for UNRRA council meeting. Herbert Lehman nominated as director general.
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Washington
White House
United Nations
Committee of National Liberation
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agreement
UNRRA
Roosevelt
Atlantic City
Herbert H. Lehman
United States Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
New York
Living costs probe opens as miners return to war work
The War Labor Board headed a general inquiry into wartime living costs as miners resume production of coal. Roosevelt-backed investigators, drawn from the board, must report within 60 days after workers complained wages lagged behind rising costs. The U S Chamber criticized Ickes wage hikes to UMW miners, warning of a potential challenge to the anti inflation policy.
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Washington
LLP
Roosevelt
Special Industry-Labor Public Board
War Labor Board
United States Chamber of Commerce
Interior
Ickes
UMW
Chamber
Bricker Aide Resigns State House Post
Columbus Gov John W Bricker announces Don Power resigns as secretary in his administration Power a former law partner and close advisor will be succeeded by Robert L Barton who also previously practiced law with Bricker
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Bricker
State House
Columbus
John W.bricker
Don Power
Power
Robert L. Barton
Britons See Possible End To War Despite Warnings
Britain remains buoyant over early victory hopes with talk of ending the European war by Christmas or early next year. Churchill and Attlee urge caution while Lloyds brokers quote four to one against a Christmas Armistice and three to one against by February.
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London
Allied Council
Britain
Churchill
Germany
Clement Attlee
Lloyd's
Allied Advances In Italy Reach Five Miles Near Sangro
Allied troops pressed along the Italian front, with the British Eighth Army pushing five miles past the Sinella River toward Scerni and Casalbordino near the Sangro, amid fierce German resistance and tank counterblows. The Fifth Army gained ground in the west and center, while air and naval actions targeted Yugoslavia and Albania as Australian and South African forces supported the operations.
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London
Italy
Eighth Army
Trigno
Adriatic
Sinella
Scerni
Casalbordino
Sangro
Fifth Army
French North Africa
Yugoslavia
Durazzo
Mignano
Via Casilina
Rome
Gaeta
Gissi
Vasto
Selcito
Split
Ulcinj
Bar
San Giovanni di Medua
Ten Miners Die After West Virginia Mine Explosion
NELLIS West Virginia ten miners died when a blast trapped an eight member crew at Nellis No 3 Mine Saturday night. One miner survived and was hospitalized in Charleston in critical condition. William Barker aged 59 shot firer was among the dead. John Boettiger, President Roosevelt’s son in law, promoted from Captain to Major.
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Nellis
W. Va
Charleston
Boone County
Nellis No. 3
William C. Barker
American Rolling Mill Company
Naples
John Boettiger
Roosevelt
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