Germans Rally to Hold Rhine Territory in Major Offensive
Allied forces press into the Siegfried Line north of Aachen and push toward Metz as U S troops storm Fort Driani and advance across the Wurm River. Germs fight house to house near Ubach and Rimberg as they attempt a last line of defense before the Rhine industrial region.
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ATED
U.S
First Army
Siegfried Line
Aachen
US 8
Third Army
Fort Driani
Metz
Mesa
Ubach
Reich
Rimbere
Sesautt
Wurm
Westwall
Germans Fight To Hold Ruhr In Strong Forest Counterattack
Allied reports say German units attacked west of Hart 3 fen to divert Allied strength from the Ruhr while Hodges wedge into the Siegfried Line between Cologne and Dusseldorf. The assault was held without loss of ground as British push toward Deurne and Maastricht.
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Hart 3Fen
Courtney H. Hodges
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Ruhr
Holand
Deuze 10
Meisel
Maas
Meuse
Germany
Japs Invade Vital Allied Coast Areas
Tokyo Radio reported a sea-borne Japanese invasion aiming to seize Foochow and sever Allied communications on the China coast. Allied forces on Peleliu and Angaur battled retreating Japanese as MacArthur and Romulo returned toward Manila.
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China
Tokyo Radio Today
Foochow
Tokyo
America
Pacific
New England
Japan
China Coast
Chungking
Sian
Henan
Shansi
U. S. Pacific
Pele- Hu
Angaur
Palau
Adreirai Nimitz
Kweitin
U.S
Philippines
Manila Radio
Jose Laurel
Carlos FP. Romuio
Voice of Freedom
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Manila
MacArthur
Babelthuap
Mother Believes Lost Child Well Cared For
Detectives after checking more than 100 clues report they are mystified by the whereabouts of four month old Robert James King and a nursemaid hired to care for him. The baby and the maid vanished from the King home Saturday night while the parents were away. Mrs. King says the maid loved Bob and she trusts the caregiver is devoutly looking after him.
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Detrovi
Robert James King
Reds Reported Joining Tito's Force in South
Poland’s defenders in Warsaw reportedly surrendered after a 63 day siege, with Moscow reports claiming thousands crossed the Vistula to Soviet lines. Lt Gen Komorowski reportedly fled or remained in Warsaw as evacuations were arranged. Separate dispatches note Hiiu island landings and Tito’s drive toward Belgrade with Russian forces.
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Warsaw
Moscow
Vistula
Stalingrad
Berlin
Tadeusz Bor Komorowski
Komorowski
Associated Press
Daniel Beluce
National Liberation Committee
Monter
Rea
Hiiu
Estonia
Tne
Gulf of Finland
Gulf of Riga
German International Information Bureau
Bari
Iitaly
Marshal Tito
14Th Partisan
Belgrade
Special Favors for South and West in War Plant Policy
A Senate committee urged banning reconversion of all government owned war plants in the North and East and recommended heavy industrialization of the West and South. It proposed freezing seven billion dollars in government owned plants across New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Massachusetts Connecticut Maryland Delaware Rhode Island Ohio Michigan and Idaho. The panel linked postwar prosperity to industrial decentralization and noted 12 states held 65 percent of 1939 U S manufacturing.
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Senate
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maryland
Delaware
Rhode Island
Ohio
Michigan
Iagis
Farmer Not Eager for Gas War in Jamestown
Roger B. Corbett of Chicago, secretary-treasurer of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told Jamestown listeners that farmers oppose pitting labor against capital or agriculture. He said farmers are not communists and place Americans and national welfare first, avoiding economic class divisions.
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Jamestown
Roger B. Corbett
Chicago
American ‘Farm Bureau Federation
Jnot
Democrats Drop Probe of CIO Contribution
Chairman Anderson of the House Campaign Expenditures Committee said yesterday the panel will not continue its investigation into reports that the father of Representative Grant faced a CIO union demand to contribute funds used against his son.
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Washington
Anderson
D-Nm
House
Ren.Grant
CIO
Millionth Ton of Bombs Used by Yanks Monday
The Army air forces declared it has dropped its millionth ton of bombs in World War II, reaching the milestone on Sept. 28 in the Merseberg-Leuna oil center attack. Through Dec. 7, 1941 to Sept. 28 this year, 72,000 air force casualties plus 3,300 non-battle losses are noted, with total plane losses near 42,900 including 14,600 combat and 9,990 non-combat overseas. In the U.S. continental theater, 1,750 planes are reported lost.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Merseberg-Leuna
Germany
Henry H. Arnold
AAF
Thea
Ters
Arnold
Continental
United States
Polio Peak Reached in Buckeye State Says Official
Ohio health director James Bauman announced infantile paralysis has peaked and is declining. He expects this year to be the second worst on record with cases likely to exceed 920 from 1930, surpassed only by 1,350 in 1927.
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Columbus
Ohio
James Bauman
Bauman
Detroit War Board hears CIO wage demand amid 300 plant strike threat
A CIO union group petitioned the War Labor Board in Washington for an immediate wage review to avert a threatened strike by maintenance workers at 300 Detroit war plants. CIO says 1,000,000 war workers could be affected. major firms like Ford Chrysler General Motors Packard and others are involved. CIO and AF of L wage gaps cited.
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Detroit
CIO
War Labor Board
Washington
Ford Chrysler
General Motors
Packards
AFI
Hollywood New Dealers Hear Mr Ickes In Roosevelts Re election Drive
Hollywood committee announces Interior Secretary Harold Ickes will speak Sunday night under Hollywood Is For Roosevelt banner. Co-chairs film producer Jack Warner Samuel Goldwyn and actress Katharine Hepburn organize the event as part of a nationwide Roosevelt campaign via radio hookup.
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Hollywood
Son Kills Mother and Ends His Own Life
A verdict of murder and death by own action was returned today in the slaying of Mrs. Maggie Fogle, 78, and son Elmer Fogle, 42, at their home. The coroner said the son shot his mother with a shotgun then killed himself. The incident followed concerns about the man’s health. A separate note reports a light bomber landing at Beulah Park race track and stopping near the photo-finish wire after low fuel.
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Columbus
Beulah Park
Night bombing targets German supply hubs in raid
London AP reports over 1,000 American heavy bombers with 700 escorting fighters hit Nurnberg Gaggenau and Giebelstadt industry and airfields. RAF Mosquitos conducted moonlight train busting destroying trains barges and transports, while hitting a naval trawler and a Western German factory.
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London
Nurnberg
Gaggenau
Giebelstadt
Daimler-Benz
Karlsruhe
Germany
Brunswick
Reich
Ruhr
Emmerich
Gladpach
Coblenz
Osnabruch
Allied Drives In Italy Slowed By Heavy Rain
Allied forces in Italy advanced slowly as heavy rain halted river crossings and flooded routes. The Fifth Army pressed toward Bologna along High 65 from Monghidoro, while German counterattacks blocked gains near Monte Battaglia and Monte Capello behind the Bologna Rimini road at Imola.
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Rome
Menghidoro
Bologna
Fifth Army
Apennines
Deen
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Fiumicino
Monte Battaglia
Monte Capella
Bologna-Rimini
Imola
Carseggia
Monghidere
Florence-Bologna
Fifth Armay
Sedrechia
Irish Girl Held for Immigration Action
Nineteen year-old Elizabeth Macleod told a strange tale of being smuggled from Ireland in a casket on a U S Army bomber and later aboard a victory ship as a stowaway. She faces three charges of illegally entering the United States.
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Youngstown
Elizabeth Macleod
Ireland
America
United States
China rues allied help as meager aid to war effort
Ta Kung Pao editorializes that Britain and America share responsibility for China's weak war posture. It notes U S aid to China amounts to only one or two percent of total Allied support, calling Churchill’s lavish praise for American help misleading.
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Roosevelt
Chungking
Cleveland
Churchill
China
Vidas
Ta Kung Pao
Britain
America
Western Front stalemate looms amid German withdrawals
Front dispatches report German units threaten with entrapment north of Antwerp retreating from Merxem as Canadians occupy the area. The American First Army drive north of Aachen is not seen creating a Rhine sweep due to deep German positions. Bad weather and Allied pauses allow Nazi reinforcement as heavy fighting is anticipated. Morocco radio says Allied landings on Crete threaten the German garrison already strained by prior occupation of Kythera. Crete blockaded and under air attack as naval forces tighten the noose.
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Dunkerque
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Twinhaus
Holland
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Nijmegen
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Luxembourg
Nancy
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Belfort Gap
Rhineland
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Aachen
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Morocco
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Kithera
Strikes Halting Ohio Factories
Approximately 3,700 Ohio workers are idled in walkouts at Kent Ironton and Norwood. The CIO United Automobile Workers halted Twin Coach in Kent with 1,200 on strike and the Globe Wernicke plant in Norwood also shut. At Jrenton 300 to 400 members of the CIO United Steel Workers walked out at Mount Vernon Bridge Company. Company officials offered no comment.
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Columbus
Ohio
Kent
Ironton
Norwood
Cio-United Automobile
Twin Coach Company
Globe Wernicke Co
United Automotile Workers
Jrenton
Betwee
CIO
United Steel Workers of America
Mount Vernon Bridge Company
Roosevelt to speak in Cleveland Public Hall during Navy election week
Cuyahoga County Democrats chairman Ray To Miller announced President Roosevelt would address the public in Cleveland's Public Hall as part of his campaign for a fourth term. The appearance would occur in the week preceding the Navy election, per the official assurance.
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Cleveland
Ray To Miller
Cuyahoga, County
Democrats
Tion
Roosevelt
War Labor Board to weigh pay demands of CEIO union
The War Labor Board will hear the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, CIO, against General Motors on an 11 percent pay rise that would topple the Little Steel formula. The panel found facts and will hear company and union arguments on the eight union demands. Hearings resume Wednesday on stabilizer policy questions. Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton Grant announce reconciliation after six weeks apart.
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Washington
LFI
War Labor Board
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Cio
General Motors
Athens Legion Post To Meet Wednesday Night
Regular monthly meeting of K. C. Crosgen Post No 21, The American Legion, will be held Wednesday evening beginning promptly at eight. Several matters of importance will be discussed and all members are urged to attend. Refreshments will be served. Electrocution incident reported in Forest Dale and former Gov. Smith still seriously ill in New York hospital.
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K.’ ‘T. Crosgen
Veluek
Uncle Sam Helps Pay Education For Veterans
The government will pay school expenses for most veterans with at least three years in the armed forces since Sept. 16, 1940, if honorably discharged. Benefits cover up to 300 dollars for tuition and related costs, plus monthly stipends of 90 dollars with no dependents or 75 dollars with dependents, for study at state-approved institutions including elementary, secondary, colleges, trade schools, and technical schools. Time in Army or Navy training does not count toward the 90 days active service requirement.
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ATL
Leary
Uncle Sam
Luision
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