Nazis Striving To Escape Russian Trap in Caucasus
London dispatch reports the Red Army driving Nazis from Staro-Tamanskaya on the Ta man Peninsula and attacking Mogilev from the upper Dnieper. Berlin said Staro-Tamanskaya fell as Soviet dispatches claim German ships sunk while evacuating the Crimea. Moscow reported over 2000 Nazis killed as troops crossed the Pronya River near Mogilev, threatening a German flank. Russians stalled at the Dnieper near Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk.
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London
Caucasus
Red Army
Staro-Tamanskaya
Taman
Dnieper
Mogilev
Berlin
Kerch Strait
Crimea
Moscow
Pronya
Kiev
Dnepropetrovsk
CIO No Strike Pledge Sparks Floor Clash at UAW convention
Buffalo New York reports the CIO United Auto Workers eighth convention opens amid a heated floor clash over reaffirming or revoking the no strike pledge. Six local union resolutions call for withdrawal while five back the pledge. debate includes allegations that the pledge aids Axis enemies and harms wartime production. A proposal to lift the constitutional ban on Communist Party members holding union offices is also considered.
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Buffalo
N. Y
CIO
United Automobile Worker
Congress
United States
Uaw-Cio
Communist Party
Italian King and Family Reach Naples in Royal Visit
A Berlin radio report cited by the Associated Press says King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, with Crown Prince Umberto and Marshal Pietro Badoglio, arrived in Naples and will reside at the royal palace long inhabited by the prince and his family.
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London
Berlin
Associated Press
Geneva
Vittorio Emanuele
Italy
Umberto
Pietro Badoglio
Naples
Per la Suisse
Germans Attack Island in Aegean Stepping Stone
Cairo dispatch reports a German attack on the island of Coo as part of the push toward the Balkans. Coo houses an important air field seized by British paratroops and sea forces on September 22 in the Samos archipelago north of the Aegean.
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Cairo
Aegean
Balkans
Coo
Yam
Lace
Samos
Tea supplies improve with new import levels
New York reports adequate tea supply as imports rise. Benjamin Wood of the Tea Bureau notes increased shipments allow retailers to stock shelves. Trade leaders say the US is receiving tea at a rate near normal, around 100 million pounds annually.
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New York
Benjamin Wood
The
Tea Bureau, Inc
Trade Association
United States
Frost Forecast for S E District Tonight
Columbus report says frost will blanket Southeastern Ohio tonight in a special Weather Bureau forecast.
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S-E
Columbus
Ohio
Weather Bureau
British strike lands at Termoli in Adriatic push
Allied forces thrust 17 miles north of the Fortore River mouth as British troops land at Termoli and link with Fifth and Eighth Army units driving along the Adriatic coast. German rear guards retreat while Capua bridge is knocked out and towns from Motta to Benevento fall under Allied control.
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Italy
Rome
Eighth Army
Crotone
Cosenza
Taranto
Bari
Foggia
Fifth Army
Salerno
Naples
Italian Adriatic
Termoli
Fortore River
Benevento
Calore
Adriatic
Capua
Volturno
Motta
Montemiletto
Castelfranco
Frigento
Allied air blitz hammers Frankfurt as Kassel raid ends
Allied daylight attacks smash the industrial city of Frankfurt while RAF heavy bombers pound Kassel 91 miles from Kassel and other targets. Night raids hit Hannover Emden and Munich as Yugoslav forces seize Kolasin and Free Yugoslav radio reports Rommel’s forces in Italy poised near the Po Valley.
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Britain
Germany
Frankfurt
Kassel
RAF
Hannover
U. S
France
Holland
Munich
Emden
Kolasin
Tara
Dubrovnik
Zagreb
Susak
Reuters
Bern
Romania
Paris
Bernard L. Montgomery
Adriatic
Rommel
Kesselring
Rome
Appennines
Civitavecchia
Corsician
Isernia
Geneva
la Suisse
Italy
Dr. Victor Biddle Dies at 68 in Steubenville
Victor Biddle 68 died at his home in Steubenville on Sunday October 3 from a heart attack. He was a Ohio University alumnus and Phi Delta Theta member who played on OU’s first football team. A World War I Medical Corps captain, he married and had one daughter. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. October 6 in Steubenville.
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Victor Biddle
Steubenville
T. R. Biddle
D. H. Biddle
J. C. Harner
Athens
Biddle
Ohio University
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Physicians and Surgeons College of Baltimore
Body of Young Wife Found in Hills Near East Liverpool
Coroner identifies the corpse as Mrs. Alice Lyons 17 based on a hair ribbon. He states she was beaten or strangled. The body was found by three boys on a wooded hillside Saturday, six weeks after her husband John Lyons a steel worker reported her missing.
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East Liverpool
Alice Lyons
Arnold W. Devon
John Lyons
Funeral for Millfield Mine victim moved to 9 AM
The funeral for Frank Pasievitch, killed in the Millfield Mine disaster, will be held at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning at the Catholic Church rather than the previously planned eight o'clock time.
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Glouster
Frank Pasievitch
Millfield
War Rationed Edition Delivers Southeast Ohio News
The Messenger releases a condensed War Rationed eight page edition to conserve newsprint under government orders. Officials state the paper will maintain essential news and features for readers while adhering to War Production Board regulations and subscription service.
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Ohio
Messenger
War Production Board
Every State Tops Quota in War Loan Drive
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau told the House Ways and Means Committee that every state oversubscribed its quota in the 15 billion third war loan drive. Individual purchases exceeded the set ceilings, and the total neared 17 billion dollars with final figures due around October 16.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
Union
House
Ways and Means Committee
Columbus Added to Restricted Milk Area
War Food Administration adds Columbus and Akron to area restricted for civilian milk use during fall and winter. Program sets dealer quotas capping fluid milk and cream to June deliveries and reduces by products to 75 percent of June sales.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Ohio
Columbus
Akron
Agreement Ends Potential Strike Over Bus Passenger Rule
Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines drivers avoided a strike after company president S R Sundstrum announced an agreement to arbitrate a dispute over carrying standing passengers in buses.
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Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Greyhound Lines
S. R. Sundstrum
U S Navy Secretary Knox Visits Brazil Arrival at Recife
U S Navy Secretary Knox arrived in Recife Brazil from Africa today according to a Brazilian news agency dispatch. He is proceeding with official duties amid a visit to South American ports and discussions with local authorities.
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Knox
Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
Recife
Africa
Mrs Carlton Corner Dies After Prolonged Illness
Mrs Aileen Corner 35 died at 11 50 p m Sunday night at her parents Frank X and wife’s home 87 S Court St following a long illness. She was wife of Carlton C Corner and their Euclid home. Born in Sallon New she later moved to Nelsonville Athens attended Athens High School Ohio University Ward Belmont and joined Chi Omega Sorority. She married November 1935 and he was Cleveland LaChoy Foods manager until wartime government takeover. Funeral Wednesday at two at the Rauch home with burial in W Union St Cemetery.
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Aileen Corner
Frank X. Rauch
S. Court ‘St
Corner
Carlton C. Corner
Euclid
Athens
Ohio University
Ward-Belmont
Nashville
Ralph Dupler
Frank X Rauch
Frank Rauch
W. Union St
Japs Hemmed In on Huon Peninsula in New Guinea
Allied reports say Japanese troops were ousted from Finschhafen and pressed into dire positions along the Huon Peninsula as Australian forces under the Ninth Division advance from Finschhafen toward Madang. MacArthur said ground and air thrusts have outflanked and contained enemy centers between Finschhafen and Madang, causing Japanese losses with minimal Allied damage.
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Southwest Pacific
Finschhafen
Huon Peninsula
New Guinea
Madang
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Lae
Ramu
British New Guinea
China
Shanghai-Nanking-Hangchow
Chungking
Tokyo
Berlin
Japan
Vella Lavella
Solomons
Ohio farm leaders open three day wartime food plan conference
Eighteen state and national farm leaders meet in Columbus to shape Ohio crop quotas for 1944. The conference aims to fit Ohio production to national war needs and considers recommendations from the War Food Administration and Ohio State University extension and AAA committees.
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Columbus
Ohio
Washington
War Food Administration
Ohio State University
Extension Service
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
High Court Opens 1943 44 Term With Key Debates
The Supreme Court begins its eight month term, facing major issues including draft act applications for conscientious objectors, the constitutionality of OPA rent control rules, and a Black voter’s rights in a state congressional primary.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Former Ohio Athlete Dies in Air Crash at England Base
Captain Don F. Scott 23 former Ohio State football star and Marauder bomber commander died Oct 1 in a routine training flight near a U S Marauder base in England. Scott entered the air corps in 1941 and was commissioned at Kelly Field later that year. He was the son of Charles L. Scott of North Canton. In San Diego fire crews continued overnight to battle a timber and brush blaze that claimed five Marines and left 77 injured.
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U. S
England
Don F. Scott
Ohio State University
Scott
Air Corps
Kelly Field
Charles L. Scott
North Canton
San Diego
Calif
Morgenthau Seeks 10.5 Billion in Wartime Taxes
Secretary Morgenthau asked Congress to raise annual federal revenues by about 50 billion dollars, proposing 6.5 billion in higher individual income taxes, merging the Victory tax, higher corporate and excise taxes, and refundable portions after the war. The plan also broadens social security and job programs amid expected congressional limits.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Congress
Roosevelt
Treasury
House
Ways and ‘Means
Capitol
Morgenthau calls for repeal of Victory Tax to simplify tax code
Morgenthau urges repeal of the five percent Victory Tax and the 10 percent earned income tax credit. He proposes lowering exemptions to 1100 for married couples and 300 for dependents, retaining some tax for those affected while freeing about 9 million families. Graduated withholdings would simplify collection and broaden tax financing of war costs.
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Morgenthau
Plan T B Test In War Plants
Cleveland starts a mass tuberculosis survey of about 100000 war workers using 35 mm film and a fluoroscope. Dr Stocklen estimates 120 per hour and 600 per day, with about 30000 expected to be scanned by U S Health Service film equipment this year.
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Cleveland
Anti-Tuberculosis League
J. B. Stocklen
League
U. S. Health Service
Need for More Planes Is Shown in Salerno Battle
Gen Henry H. Arnold says Allied air forces used every available plane to secure Salerno. He warns the invasion could have succeeded with fewer planes but calls for greater bomber production and expands the war effort to continental Europe with a massive air and material buildup.
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Salerno
Seattle
Mediterranean
Italy
Henry H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Arnold
U.S
Boeing Aircraft Company
Europe
Maryland
California
Kansas
New York
Texas
Steubenville Woman Shot To Death in Home
An inquest will be held tomorrow into the shooting death of 39 year old Mrs Julia Pentinella in Steubenville. Coroner Ray Slee announced the death, initially attributed to a heart attack, after a bullet wound was found by the undertaker. A 32 calibre revolver and the bullet were sent to a Cleveland ballistics expert.
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Steubenville
Julia Pentinella
Ray Slee
Cleveland
Parlett
Ohio flier dies in bomber crash near Bailey
Sgt. Howard J. Lawler of West Union Ohio, father living there, is among 11 Army airmen killed when a bomber crashed near Bailey Thursday night, according to Lowry Field officials.
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Ohio
Denver
Howard J. Lawler
West Union
Army
Bailey
Lowry Field
Akron inventor J Frank Cooper dies at 58
J Frank Cooper credited with designing the first rubber life raft and helped develop Goodyear dirigibles. He died at age 58 in Akron.
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Akron
J. Frank Cooper
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
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Senate Military Committee
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WAC Pfc
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High Court
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