Germans Make Desperate Stand To Prevent Loss of Rich Rhineland Territory
Allied forces push into the Siegfried Line eight miles north of Aachen as U S Third Army storms Fort Driant near Metz. In Ubach and Rimberg, German resistance stiffens with pillboxes and concrete forts as the Wurm River advance continues. Berlin says the wedge into Aachen is limited and Allied HQ offers few details on new offensive progress.
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Rhineland
U. First Army
Aachen
U. S. Third Army
Fort Driant
Metz
Ubach
Reich
First Army
Rimberg
Wurm
Westwall
Berlin
Germany
Japs Invade Vital Allied Coast Areas
Tokyo Radio reported a sea-borne Japanese invasion landing 25 miles northeast of Foochow as forces aimed to seize the city and disrupt Allied communications. The report noted ongoing Pacific operations with Romulo and MacArthur returning toward Manila, and U S bombers and naval actions against Japanese targets in Palau, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines.
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China
Tokyo Radio Today
Foochow
Tokyo
America
Pacific
New England
Japan
China Coast
Chungking
Sian
Henan
Shansi
U. S. Pacific
Peleliu
Angaur
Palau
Nimitz
Kweilin
U. S
Philippines
Manila Radio
Jose Laurel
Carlos P. Romulo
Voice of Freedom
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Manila
MacArthur
Babelthuap
Iwo Island
Mother Believes Lost Child Well Cared For
Detroit detectives after checking over 100 clues remain puzzled about the disappearance of four month old Robert James King and a recently hired nursemaid. The child and the maid vanished from the King home Saturday night while the parents were away. Mrs. King expresses hope and trust that the nursemaid is lovingly caring for Bob.
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Detroit
Robert James King
King
Banks report rush to cash War Bonds in first conversion day
Columbus banks said yesterday an extremely large number of holders converted War Bonds into cash on the first day their holdings could be redeemed at banks.
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Columbus
Columbus Banks
Special Favors For South and West Needed
A Senate committee urged banning reconversion of all government owned war plants in 11 northern and eastern states and called for large scale industrialization in the West and South. The report lists New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Massachusetts Connecticut Maryland Delaware Rhode Island Ohio Michigan and Illinois as to have their seven billion dollar wartime plants frozen. It argues postwar prosperity depends on decentralizing industry.
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Washington
Senate
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maryland
Delaware
Rhode Island
Ohio
Michigan
Illinois
Farmer Says Class War Not Our Aim in Jamestown
In Jamestown New York Roger B Corbett secretary treasurer of the American Farm Bureau Federation said farmers do not want labor set against capital or vice versa. He stated farmers are not Communists first or laborers first but Americans first concerned with national welfare and not seeking to divide the nation into economic classes.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Roger B. Corbett
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Democrats Drop Probe of CIO Contribution Controversy
House Campaign Expenditures Committee will not continue its inquiry into reports that the father of Rep Grant entertained by Ind was pressured by his CIO union to donate funds used against his son.
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Washington
Anderson
D-Nm
House Campaign “Expenditures Committee
Rep
Grant
CIO
Millionth Ton of Bombs Used by Yanks Monday
The Army Air Forces announced it dropped its millionth ton of bombs in the war, reaching the milestone on September 28 with the attack on the Merseberg Leuna refinery in central Germany. Since December 7, 1941, through that date, 72,000 air force casualties occurred, with total losses around 42,000 aircraft and 14,600 combat losses plus 9,900 non combat overseas losses. in the United States 4,500 planes were 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 Ohio
Columbus Ohio Infantile paralysis has peaked and begun to decline according to State Health Director James Bauman Bauman predicted the current year may rank as the second worst in history with total cases likely to exceed 920 set in 1930 and trailing the all time high of 1350 in 1927
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Columbus
Ohio
James Bauman
Bauman
Detroit Plants Face Wage Study Demand By CIO Union
The CIO union group urged the War Labor Board in Washington to order an immediate wage rate study to avert a threatened strike by 300 Detroit maintenance workers. About one million war workers could be affected, with Ford, Chrysler, General Motors, Packard and others involved. CIO says wage gaps between CIO AFL maintenance workers drive the demand.
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Detroit
CIO
War Labor Board
Washington
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
Packard
Hollywood New Dealers Hear Mr Ickes
Hollywood roosevelt campaign group announces Interior Secretary Harold L Ickes will speak Sunday night with a nationwide radio hookup. Co chairs are Jack L Warner, Samuel Goldwyn, and Katharine Hepburn.
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Hollywood
Mr. Ickes
Roosevelt
Harold L. Ickes
Jack L. Warner
Samuel Goldwyn
Katherine Hepburn
Son Kills Mother and Ends His Own Life
Springfield report states a verdict of murder and death by self-inflicted gunshot closes a case in which 78 year old Maggie Fogle and her 42 year old son Elmer Fogle were slain in their home. Coroner Austin Richards noted the son had been ill.
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Springfield
Maggie Fogle
Elmer Fogle
Austin Richards
Richards
Light bomber lands on Beulah Park track in photo finish
A light bomber, low on fuel, slipped into the Beulah Park race track yesterday. It landed neatly on the home stretch and halted against the photo finish wire, creating a startling interruption to the race day.
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Columbus
Beulah Park
Reds Reported Joining Tito's Force in South
Polish patriots abandoned Warsaw after a 63 day siege as reports from Moscow claimed thousands of insurgents crossed the Vistula to Soviet lines. Komorowski reportedly remained in Warsaw while evacuation proceeded. Meantime Tito's forces and Russian troops advanced toward Belgrade and mining regions in Yugoslavia.
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Tito
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Moscow
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Stalingrad
Berlin
Tadeusz
Bor) Komorowski
Komorowski
Associated Press
Daniel Deluce
National Liberation Committee
Monter
Hiiu
Estonia
Night raid bombs Nazi supply lines across Germany
Allied air forces strike southern German targets including Nurnberg Daimler-Benz plant and Giebelstadt air base. RAF Mosquitos conduct moonlight train busting, hitting 51 freight trains and other targets in Germany and Holland while most fleet bombers suffer no losses.
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Nurnberg
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Giebelstadt
Daimler-Benz
Karlsruhe
RAF
Germany
Holland
Brunswick
Reich
Ruhr
Emmerich
Gladbach
Coblenz
Osnabruch
Irish Girl Held for Immigration Action
Nineteen year old Elizabeth Macleod told a bizarre tale of being smuggled from Ireland in a casket on a U S army bomber and later boarding a victory ship to America. She was named today in three charges of illegally entering the United States.
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Youngstown
Elizabeth Macleod
Ireland
America
United States
Allied Drives In Italy Slow Under Heavy Rain
Allied forces push north through the Apennines as mud slows the Fifth Army toward Bologna and Imola. The British Eighth Army stalls on the Adriatic due to the Fiumicino River flooding. Germans counterattack American positions on Monte Battaglia and Monte Capella, while Fifth Army seizes Monghidoro and Cedrechia near Highway 65 south of Bologna.
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Monghidoro
Bologna
Fifth Army
Apennines
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Fiumicino
Monte Battaglia
Monte Capella
Bologna-Rimini
Chinese Say They Are Fighting Japs Alone
Chungking dispatch notes an editorial protest in Ta Kung Pao over Churchill calling American aid lavish. The paper argues Britain and America bear moral blame for China's weakness and that Allied lend-lease support to China amounts to only one or two percent of total aid.
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Chungking
Churchill
China
Ta Kung Pao
Britain
America
Athens Legion Post To Meet Wednesday Night
Regular monthly meeting of K T Crossen Post No. 21 The American Legion will be held in the Post Home Wednesday evening beginning promptly at eight o clock. Several matters of importance are to be brought before this meeting and all members are asked to attend Refreshments will be served.
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K T. Crossen
American Legion
Woman Electrocuted In Garden Accident At Forest Dale
Mrs. Ruth Collins, 35, of Forest Dale, was electrocuted when she touched an aerial wire in the garden of her home. The incident occurred at her residence, prompting an investigation by local authorities.
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Ironton
Ruth Collins
Forest Dale
Former Gov Alfred E. Smith Seriously Ill in Hospital
A hospital spokesman said former Governor Alfred E. Smith remains seriously ill at Rockefeller Institute Hospital. The report notes his condition as of the latest update from the facility.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Rockefeller Institute Hospital
Nazis Fight To Save Ruhr
German forces counterattacked west of Hartgen to divert Allied pressure from Hodges wedge toward the Ruhr gate between Cologne and Dusseldorf. British gains near Meijel and Overloon, U.S. Seventh Army near Belfort and Epinal, Third Army near Grevenmacher and Trier. Luft cover uncertain as Allied armor presses, while Germans pour reserves across the Rhine to halt the Ruhr drive.
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Courtney H. Hodges
Siegfried
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Ruhr
Holland
Deuze
Meijel
Maas
Meuse
Germany
Aachen
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Bonchamp
Belfort
Epinal
Third Army
Grevenmacher
Luxembourg
Trier
Gremecey Forest
Nancy
Nijmegen-Arnhem
Rhine
No Sudden Rhineward Sweep Despite German Resistance
Front dispatches indicate German units retreating north of Antwerp with Canadians advancing into Merxem on Antwerp’s northern edge. The American First Army faces a brutal, protracted fight north of Aachen as German positions deepen 15 000 yards inland. Bad weather and Allied pause allowed Nazi reinforcements. Crete landings reported with a blockade and ongoing air attacks on installations.
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Hertogenbosch
Antwerp
Merxem
Aachen
Rhine
Morocco
Crete
Kithera
Strikes Halting Ohio Factories
About 3,700 Ohio workers were idle in stoppages at Kent Ironton and Norwood. At Kent the Twin Coach plant postponed a meeting and 1,200 workers withdrew, closing the plant. In Norwood pickets gathered for a UAW Local 382 walkout at Globe Wernicke. In Ironton 300 to 400 members of USWA walked off at Mount Vernon Bridge Company. company officials had no comment.
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Columbus
Ohio
Kent
Ironton
Norwood
Cio-United Automobile
Twin Coach Company
Globe Wernicke Co
United Automobile Workers
CIO
United Steel Workers of America
Mount Vernon Bridge Company
Roosevelt Plans To Make Cleveland Talk
Chairman Ray T. Miller of the Cuyahoga County Democratic organization said he secured assurance that President Roosevelt would speak in Cleveland Public Hall during the week before the November 7 election as part of his campaign for a fourth term.
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Cleveland
Ray T. Miller
Cuyahoga County
Democratic Organization Today
Roosevelt
War Labor Board weighs GM wage demands
The War Labor Board opened hearings on the United Electrical Workers wage claims at GM plants seeking a 17 cent pay raise that would break the Little Steel formula ceiling. The panel limited itself to facts and scheduled arguments on the 18 union demands, briefly recessing to consider abandoning the current wage stabilization policy until Wednesday morning.
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Washington
War Labor Board
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Cio
General Motors Corporation
Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton Grant Reunite After Separation
Hollywood confirms Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton Grant have reconciled after six weeks apart. The couple, once divided by a separation, resume their marriage amid public interest in their high profile pair.
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Hollywood
Cary Grant
Barbara Hutton Grant
Uncle Sam to Help Pay for Education for Veterans
The government will fund at least a year of schooling for almost any veteran of this war, with paid tuition up to 500 dollars and a monthly stipend of 5 to 75 dollars. Eligibility requires 90 days of service since Sept 16, 1940 and honorable discharge, with 3 years served preferred. time in special training programs not counting toward the 90 days. Schools must be state approved and cover a wide range of education providers.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
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