Flying Forts Blast Germany Again in Weekend Air Push
American Flying Fortresses and Thunderbolts shot down 102 enemy planes as raids hit Muenster and Coesfeld and an airfield near Enschede. The weekend effort, part of a broader push crippling German bases, followed raids on Bremen Vegesack Danzig and Gdynia with close to 400 bombers on two days. General Ira Eaker said raids signaled preparations for an invasion across the Channel and North Sea.
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Germany
London
Muenster
Coesfeld
Enschede
Holland
Bremen
Vegesack
Free
Danzig
Gdynia
Ira C. Eaker
U. S. Eighth Air Force
English Channel
North Sea
White Heat
Baker
Berlin
Hannover
DNB
Ministry of Information
Ohioan Aids in Shooting Down Four Jap Zeros
Staff Sgt. Richard S. Fern of Wadsworth Ohio served as assistant engineer on a Liberator bomber whose 10 man crew was credited with destroying all four Japanese Zeros that attacked on a solitary flight over the Makassar Straits near Borneo and Celebes in August.
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Southwest Pacific
Richard S. Fern
Wadsworth, O
Makassar Straits
Borneo
Celebes
Roosevelt backs repeal of Chinese exclusion law
President Roosevelt urged Congress to repeal the Chinese exclusion laws and grant citizenship to Chinese residents. He argued the move would correct a historic mistake and counter distorted propaganda from Japan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Britain’s Secret Gun Targets German Tiger Tank
London reports Britain’s new secret weapon firing a 17-pound shell capable of blasting a tank turret at 1500 yards. The gun is described as Britain’s answer to the heavily armored German Tiger tank recently introduced on the battlefield.
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London
Britain
Fire Destroys Wauseon High School Building
Fire destroyed the Wauseon High School building on Sunday. Officials estimate the loss at about $76,000 for the structure and contents.
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Wauseon
Wauseon High School
Allies Press Air War on Axis in Aegean and Greece
Allied air forces intensified attacks on German targets in Greece and the Aegean, with long range missions striking Tatoi near Athens and Araxos, while RAF bombers hit Rhodes and other islands. The campaign, ongoing for six days, reported heavy enemy losses as Fortresses Liberators and fighters engaged strong concentrations over Crete Rhodes and the Greek mainland.
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Allied
Algiers
Greece
Aegean
Mediterranean
Tatoi
Athens
Araxos
Peloponnesus
Middle East
Balkan
Maritza
Calato
Rhodes Island
Dodecanese
Cairo
Crete
Rhodes
Federal Sales Tax Debate Opens Second Week in Congress
Opponents stall the administration tax program of 10.5 billion dollars while lawmakers consider a 10 percent retail sales tax. Rep Robertson argues for substituting the levy for the existing plan. Fred Vinson warns the tax would raise living costs and spur wage and price hikes.
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Washington
Rep
Robertson
D-Vay
Fred M. Vinson
Soldiers Die In Machinegun Accident At Fort Meade
Private Walter L. Sindorff of Akron Ohio and Private Edward M. Scott of New York City were killed when a single cartridge discharged from a machine gun they were loading onto a truck. The weapon had not been properly cleared, post officials reported.
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Fort George G. Meade
Walter L. Sindorff
Akron
Edward M. Scott
New York City
Ohioan Enters Ranks Of Army Air Aces
Lt. Glen Schiltz from North Canton Ohio became an ace by downing his fifth aircraft during the raid on Muenster while serving at a United States bomber station in England.
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Army Air Aces
England
Glen Schiltz
North Canton
Muenster
Guerrillas of Yugoslavia Capture Three Towns
Free Yugoslav radio reported units of the Second Croat Corps seized the Slovenian town of Cacea on the Zagreb Vinkovci railway after heavy combat that derailed two armored trains, as Partisan forces pressed attacks against German communications across Slavonia, Slovenia, and eastern Bosnia.
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London
Yugoslavia
Drug Tito
Slavonia
Slovenia
Bosnia
Free Yugoslav Radio
Cacea
Zagreb-Vinkovci
Forgotten Mothers Gather to Seek War News in Kansas City
In Kansas City, 127 families of missing service members met at Mrs. Ralph Herrick’s home to share grief and press for information from the War Department. The group planned to address Missouri's delegation, Army and Navy, Red Cross, and YMCA, praying together as they await word.
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Kansas City
Ralph Herrick
War Department
Missouri
Army and Navy
Red Cross
Y.m.ca
Herrick
Fifth Army Advances Through Mud Captures Pontelandolfo
Allied headquarters says Fifth Army under Lt Gen Mark W Clark pressed forward through Italian mud that hampered vehicles and faced stout German defense to seize Pontelandolfo, 12 miles northwest of Benevento, in a flank move against the Volturno River.
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Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Pontelandolfo
Benevento
Volturno
Nazi Mine Kills 23 Americans in Naples
Twenty three American officers and men died and more than 380 were wounded when a heavy dynamite charge planted by Germans exploded, destroying a whole wing of the Naples building where they were quartered. Reports described heavy fighting along the Volturno and Adriatic fronts as Allied forces pressed German positions and prepared for a likely major battle before Rome.
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Naples
Mark W. Clark
Volturno
Clark
Garibaldi
Rome
Italy
Pontefandolfo
Terracina
Farm Group To Oppose Federal Tax on Sales
The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation adopts a four fold program opposing a general retail sales tax advocating price floors under farm commodities state and local administration of any federal subsidy program and greater farmer influence in soil conservation administration.
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Columbus
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Frigate to be Launched at Lorain Yard Next Saturday
The 303 foot frigate VU. S. 5 built for the Maritime Commission will be launched at American Ship Building Co. Lorain yard next Saturday.
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Cleveland
VU. S
Annapolis
Maritime Commission
American Ship Building Co
Lorain Yard
Garbage strikes halt Columbus collections demand wage increases
Columbus disposal crews walk off job today in protest over pay raises and back salaries, halting garbage collection across the city.
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Columbus
First American Woman Reaches New Georgia Island
Army nurse Lieut. Dorothy Shiposki of Green Lake Wisconsin becomes the first American woman to step on New Georgia since its capture. She inspects a shattered Jap dive bomber in a U S Marine Corps photo from NEA.
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Dorothy Shiposki
Greenlake
Wis
New Georgia
U. S. Marine Corps
NEA
British Subs Hit Tirpitz
British midget submarines damaged the Nazi battleship Tirpitz in Alten Fjord Norway. The communique said the attack targeted the main units of the German fleet in protected anchorages and involved first order hazards. Underwater damage was inflicted on the Tirpitz.
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London
Alten Fjord
Norway
AFL Ready To Accept Miners
The AFL convention enters its second week with key items ahead including the United Mine Workers readmission, the Negro membership question, and several resolutions. Resolutions committee sources say readmission is likely if John L. Lewis commits to disbanding District 50 which crosses AFL union lines, a move not expected to reach the floor until tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
UPI
American Federation of Labor Convention
United Min Workers
Resolutions Committee
UMW
John L. Lewis
AFL
Lewis
UAW Calls For End Of Little Steel Formula
The CIO United Automobile Workers union with over one million members reaffirmed its no-strike pledge and demanded scrapping of the Little Steel formula. Delegates at the UAW CIO convention also urged price rollbacks to September 1942 levels and changes to war labor board rules to allow direct wage talks with management.
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Buffalo, N. Y
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Roosevelt
Uaw-Cio
War Labor Board
Ambassador's Son Missing in Action in Europe
Lt. John G. Winant Jr. 21, son of the American ambassador to Britain, reported missing after yesterday's raid on Muenster Germany. It was his 13th mission as a Flying Fortress pilot. fellow fliers saw German fighters machine-gun parachutes trailing from his stricken aircraft.
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U. S
England
John G. Winant, Jr
Britain
Muenster
Germany
Ellow Fliers
Frederickton Gunner Credited In Luftwaffe Downing
London reports Staff Sgt. Leroy Brodnick of Frederickton D was credited with shooting down a German MF 110 during an air raid on Muenster yesterday.
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London
Leroy Brodnick
Frederickton
Muenster
Isaly Dairy Co Founder Jesse Isaly Dies at 65
Mansfield reports the death of Jesse Isaly 65 co founder general manager and treasurer of Isaly Dairy Co He helped build the dairy business and served in leadership roles.
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Mansfield
Jesse Isaly
The
Isaly Dairy Co
Believe New Soviet Drive Is Imminent
AP reports the Red Army reinforced across the Dnieper to strengthen bridgeheads north and south of Kiev. Soviet columns near Vitebsk advanced four to seven miles capturing 140 villages and Krasnoe, while plans threaten to cut German land routes toward Orsha. The Kerch Strait invasion potential and Kuban battles are noted with heavy German losses.
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London
Dnieper
Kiev
Dniper
Leningrad
Vitebsk
Expect Fewer Relief Cases In Postwar Ohio
Ohio public relief caseload slumped to its lowest level in years, with 13 000 cases last month down from 122 000 in February 1940. Expenditures fell from 2 500 000 to 484 000, and aid to the aged declined from 139 525 in January 1942 to 132 000. Total relief costs dropped from 188 000 000 in 1939 to 83 000 000 in 1942 as wartime industry boomed.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Welfare Department
Chiang Kai-Shek Sworn In as China President
Chiang Kai-Shek took the oath as president amid notes of unity with the United Nations. He declared goals of aligning external and domestic policy to defeat the Axis and to establish a constitutional government. The inauguration had no foreign officials and only Mrs. Chiang in attendance.
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Chungking
United Nations
Axis
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Drastic Slash In Paper Next Year Forecast
Washington officials warn 1944 could see a 52 percent drop in newsprint and wrapping paper use without 38,500 more pulp wood cutters in the United States and Canada. The ANPA urges tariff relief and even considers war prisoner labor to avert shortages.
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Washington
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Combined Production and Resources Board
Combined Raw Materials Board
United States
Boren House
Cranston Williams
ANPA
Congress
Resources and Materials Boards
Beef Supply To Drop Further After Jan 1
John Milton of the American Meat Institute told Ohio retailers in Columbus that beef shortages will worsen after January 1. He cited strong overseas demand and poor pre market cattle feeding as causes for a tighter civilian beef supply despite record cattle numbers.
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Columbus
John Milton
The
American Meat Institute
Chicago
Ohio
Michigan Forest Fires Brought Under Control
Marquette Mich Northern Forest fires though still serious enough to keep more than 1000 fire fighters busy remained under virtual total control today. An estimated 5000 acres of the upper peninsula lay black or smouldering from the five days of the worst conflagration in the woods country in seven years.
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Marquette
Mich
Upper Peninsula
Early Start urged for industry demobilization after war
Washington officials push an early shift from military to civilian production to prevent postwar economic collapse. Congress demands end to blank check war funding and strict budgeting as defense outlays are cut. James Byrne to appoint agency to transition industry, focusing on essential civilian goods. Senate and House leaders press departments to slow spending and tighten controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Chan Sone
James F. Byrne
Thomas
Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee
Cannon
D.-Mo
House Appropriations Group
Congressional Money Committees
Allied Forces Step Up Pacific Strikes Amid Tojo Warning
A Pacific-wide U S report credits Admiral Halsey with weakening Japanese forces in the Central and South Pacific. Losses include Vila airfield on Kolombangara, Wake Island air defenses, and Rekata Bay seaplane base, with advances toward Madang and Bougainville. Nimitz notes 320 tons of bombs dropped Oct 5 6 as carrier air power routs enemy air and surface units.
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Central
South Pacific
Tojo
Japan
William F. Halsey, Jr
Soloimons
Vila Airfield
Kolombangara
U. S
Solomon Islands
Wake Island
mid-Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Wake
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
Berlin
Tokyo
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Madang
Choiseul
Bougainville Islands
Solomons
Rabaul
New Britain
Halsey
Nimitz
Alfred E. Montgomery
Midway Island
Caverier
Blames Public for Not Preparing To Fight Axis
The State Department's White Book argues Roosevelt and Hull believed Axis policies aimed at a U S attack but says public opinion remained isolationist delaying belligerent action between 1931 and Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
State Department
Japan
Mukden
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Hull
United States
First Lady Debuts Hair-Do On Birthday At Hyde Park
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt marks her 59th birthday at Hyde Park New York with a fresh look and shorter hair amid the nationwide interest in the new cold wave permanent style.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
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Krasnoe
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Orsha
Nevel
Moscow
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Kuban
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