RAF Hits Germany as London Faces Long Two Hour Raid
British and American air forces carried out daytime raids on Bremen, Stuttgart, and Munich, with RAF bombers escorted by Thunderbolt fighters. German raids on London and southeast England dropped heavy bombs, injuring and frightening civilians as shelters filled and two enemy aircraft were shot down. The BBC noted radarless claims of damage to Bremen and other targets, while Norwich was also struck during the night.
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London
Rmany
Stuttgart
Friedhshafen
Munich
England
Iman Radio
Uttgart
Iti
Air Ministry
Aotow
English
Norwich
DNE
Associed
Imriant
RAF
Reign
Berlin
Bay
Helgoland
Germany
Wilhelmshafen
Bremerven
Ndon
East Anglia
Britain
Mother of Meigs Co Deputy Sheriff Dies
Alma Clark aged 87 died at her Hemlock home. She was mother to Meigs County deputy sheriff James Clark and four other sons including Ollie and Eldon of Meigs County. Survived by a daughter Mrs Bur Midkiff and 25 grandchildren plus several great and great great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements not yet completed.
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Pomeroy
Alma Clark
Hemlock Ore
Hersband
James Clark
Rank
Meigs County
Eriff
Ollie
Eldon
Eigs County
James
Hiah
Fla
Bur Midkiff
Cost of living rose in September after July drops
The National Industrial Conference Board reported living costs for wage earners and lower salaried clerical workers edged up in September following declines in July and August.
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New York
Nationaldustrial Conference Board
Death of Ed L Keen Ex-foreign Correspondent and VP
Ed L Keen 3, longtime vice president of United Press, and for 29 years general European manager and former foreign correspondent, died last night. He was born in Chillicothe Ohio.
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New York
Ed L. Keen
Unitedress
Forign
Chillicothe, O
Naples Post Office Mine Blasts Kill Scores
Allied reports describe a hidden delayed-action mine beneath Naples post office detonating with hundreds of tons of explosives. The blast collapses pavement and kills many Neapolitans including women and children amid a tense push through former enemy territory.
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London
Naples
Noel Monks
Via
Armando Diaz
Intensified Sub Warfare Promised by German Leader
Admiral Karl Doenitz declared in a Berlin broadcast that submarines remain Germanys greatest threat to the Allies and vowed a naval war greater than any before. He said the war will continue with new weapons and devices to attack enemy tonnage across all seas and that such warfare may prove decisive in the long run.
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London
Karl Doenitz
Germany
Berlin
DNB
Used Tire Rationing Eased For Cars By OPA
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration will begin a special gasoline ration on October 13 that allows passenger car owners to obtain used or Grade 3 tires. Local boards grant special rations for emergencies such as medical treatment food supplies and changing residence.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Merger Forms Unified US Telegraph Network
The Postal Telegraph and Western Union merged to create a nationwide telegraphic system, taking effect today and uniting major communication services across the country.
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New York
Postal Telegraph
Western Union
Warns of Trend To Socialized Medicine
Dr. Morris Fishbein editor of JAMA told the Eastern Dental Society at the College of Physicians and Surgeons that the Federal Government uses doctor and dentist shortages as propaganda to push socialized medicine, which he said the American people will never accept.
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Philadelphia
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Fishbein
Eastern Dental Society
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Tobacco referendum on AAA quotas set for Oct 23
The War Food Administration schedules a grower referendum for October 23 to decide whether to continue the AAA marketing quotas on burley tobacco. The vote affects tobacco growers and the farm program under wartime measures.
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Washington
War Food Administration
AAA
New Artificial Arm Operation Successful
Commander Henry H. Kessler reports a Cineplasty operation linking stump muscles to an artificial arm to control hand movements, potentially speeding rehabilitation for arm amputees. The Navy Medical Corps Reserve notes this as a significant advance.
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Washington
Henry H. Kessler
Navy’s Medical Corps Reserve
Jap Industry Being Moved To Mainland
Washington reports indicate a private Senate panel warns of a prolonged costly war in the Pacific as Japan shifts important industry to the Asiatic mainland. House debates a potential 10 percent federal sales tax to raise about 6 billion dollars plus early action on dependent allotments for service families amid shifts in Argentina’s ambassadorial posts.
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Washington
Senate
Pacific
Chandler
MacArthur
Capitol
Ways and Means Committee
House
Argentina
United States
Felipe A. Espil
Adrian C. Escobar
Brazil
Spain
Plan Now for Servicemen's Return in Ohio
Gov. John W. Bricker urged all Ohio communities to plan now for the return of servicemen to civilian life to avoid shock. He told the Ohio Development and Publicity Commission that it is not too early to address postwar readjustment problems.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio Development and Publicity Commission
Burton Seeks Clear Foreign Policy at Republican Meeting
Senator Harold H Burton criticized the Roosevelt administration for lacking a definite foreign policy. He argued the United States deserves a policy that is understandable and aligned with national needs and principles during a Republican gathering here last night.
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Warren
Harold H Burton
United States
Roosevelt
Bricker To Speak at OU Inauguration
Gov John W Bricker will be principal speaker at the inauguration of Dr Walter Sylvester Gamertsfelder as thirteenth president of Ohio University. The ceremony occurs at 2 pm on Wednesday Nov 3 in Alumni Memorial Auditorium with a procession from Ewing Hall and a chaplain from North Central College.
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Walter Sylvester Gamertsfelder
Ohio University
Alumni Memorial
John W. Bricker
Ewing Hall
Edward E. Ball
North Central College
Naperville
Gamerts
Germans Dnieper River Line Breached by Reds
Soviet forces report major breakthroughs along a 2000 mile front from Leningrad to the Caucasus. Bridgeheads established north of Kiev, near Pereyaslav, and southeast of Kremenchug. fierce fighting continues with heavy German losses and potential entrapment in the Dnieper bend and Crimea. Velikie Nevel captured, rail hubs near Vitebsk and Leningrad threatened. Volkhov front gains 15 miles. Kirishi fell.
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London
Leningrad
Caucasus
Red Army
Kiev
Baltic
Taman
Moscow
Dnieper
Crimea
Nevel
Vitebsk
Russia
Latvia
Warsaw
Volkhov
Andrei I
Yeremenko
Stalingrad
Allied actions in Pacific unfold wake island raid updates
Allied headquarters in the Southwest Pacific report silence on Wake Island activities while noting gains elsewhere. Vila on Kolombangara Island is evacuated by Japan and efforts to withdraw troops from the southern end of the island continue. Allied air power sinks barges and small boats with heavy casualties. In India Mountbatten arrives in New Delhi for talks with British leaders and plans to meet Chiang Kai-shek and American commanders Stilwell and Chennault.
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Southwest Pacific
Wake Island
Pacific
Vila
Kolombangara Island
Solomons
MacArthur
India
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
New Delhi
Lord Mountbatten
Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Joseph W. Stilwell
Claire L. Chennault
Non Metallic Mines Slow Salerno Beach Advance
Lieut Walter A Reynolds of New London recounts meeting plastic and concrete German land mines at Salerno Harbor. He notes these non metallic devices evade electric detectors and slow troop movement as mines must be prodded from the ground.
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Boston
Walter A. Reyonolds
USCG
New London
Salerno
Civil and military meat allocations set for coming year
War Food Administration officials announced total meat needs for the next year: 8.0 billion pounds for military use and 17.0 billion pounds for civilians. Roy F. Hendrickson detailed allocations by region, with 1.51 billion pounds to Russia and 1.72 billion to Great Britain, mainly pork and lard. Civilians receive 6.70 billion beef, 8.50 billion pork, 586 million lamb and mutton, and 906 million veal across the period.
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Chicago
America
War Food Administration
Roy F. Hendrickson
Food Administration
WFA
American Meat Institute
Russia
Great Britain
Taft Announces 1944 Bid and Bricker Support
Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati said he would run again in 1944 and reiterated his backing of Governor John W. Bricker for the Republican presidential nomination, expressing confidence Bricker would be the nominee.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
John W. Bricker
Hamburg Bombing Described as Holocaust by Swiss Paper
The Bern Swiss newspaper emneine Vetung described the August Allied bombing of Hamburg as a holocaust in which residents fled or died in a firestorm. It said air oxygen was exhausted by a towering blaze creating a typhoon like phenomenon with 20,000 people perishing in shelters and cellars.
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Bern
Switzerland
Hamburg
Emneine Vetung
Father of slain WAC joins Navy Sea Bees in honor of daughter
Frank E. Cheney Sr of Jasper Alabama, a postal clerk and WWI veteran, was sworn in as a Navy Sea Bee recruit in Birmingham. He said he aims to fill a niche his daughter Naomi Kathleen Cheney, a Sioux Falls S D WAC Second Lieutenant, held. He has a daughter Carolyn 16 and a son Frank Jr. both connected to military service.
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Birmingham
Ala
Frank E. Cheney
Jasper
WAC
Naomi Kathleen Cheney
Sioux Falls
S. D
Navy Sea Bees
Armed Services
Kathleen
Cheney
Carolyn
WACS
Frank, Jr
Jersey Solon Raps Federal Paper Waste
Washington hearing exposes government magazines printed on high quality slick paper. Harold Boeschenstein warns wood pulp stocks exhausted by spring while newsprint mills run 25 percent below capacity due to material and labor shortages. Rep. Wolverton cites Latin American affairs magazine and condemns wasteful use of costly paper.
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Washington
Congressional
Harold Boeschenstein
The
War Production Board
Rep. Wolverton
R-Nj
Italian Catholics Fear For Pope As Rome War Threatens
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich reports Swiss weekly Sie und says Catholics in Italy fear for Pope Pius XII. German plans reportedly consider moving him to a safer north Italian town to escape Allies’ advance and Rome’s danger of street fighting.
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Bern
Switzerland
Pius
Italy
Rome
Tooy
Sie Und Fe
Reuters
Zurich
Army airmen among four killed in big four engine bomber crash
El Paso Texas reports four Army fliers perished when a four engine bomber crashed near Biggs Field in Texas. The crew included 4 Lt Clarence D Hagelbarger of Brinkhaven Ohio and other officers from Ohio and nearby states.
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EL Paso
Tex
Clarence D. Hagelbarger
Brinkhaven
Knox County
Ohio
Biggs Field
Tu’ Y
Two Towns Captured by Fifth Army Front Lines Shift near Naples
The Fifth Army seized Castel Volturno at the Volturno mouth and Capua inland along a 16 mile front, marking a push 17 to 200 miles north of Naples. British Eighth Army improved positions around Termoli as rain bogs slowed operations. The Dodecanese island Simi was reported occupied, and Allied air forces destroyed German and Italian targets while claiming 190 disabled planes.
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Fifth Army
Castel Volturno
Rome
Capua
Volturno
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Termoli
Middle East
Simi
Dodecanese
Rhodes
Aegean Sea
Cos
Cyclades
Athens
Greece
Mark W. Clark
Naples
Mediterranean
Araxos
Peloponnesus
Gulf of Patras
Eleusis
Italy
William Stewart
Biferno
Mestre
Venice
16Th Armored Division
Salerno
Stalingrad
Gas Station Hours Restrictions Revoked By War Admin
The Petroleum Administrator for War Secretary Ickes revoked wartime rules limiting service stations to 72 hours weekly. Local dealers may set hours by voluntary agreement. The prior 72 hour weekly limit had been in effect since July 31, 1941 and nationwide since January 18, 1943.
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Washington
Ickes
Youths Save Crops Cleveland
Nearly 500 high school youths from Cleveland and 16 suburbs saved thousands of bushels of apples beans and grapes from rot by crop picking efforts in the area.
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Cleveland
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Ohioan
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