Nazis Crack Under Allied Push In Italy Front
Allies drive north toward Rome as American Fifth Army and British Eighth Army seize multiple towns along the Volturno line and advance several miles. Montgomery’s forces reach Montecilfone and Santo Stefano near the Adriatic while Clark’s forces push beyond Gioia, Liberi, and Pontelatone. Germans dig in along the Volturno’s northern slopes as fatigue spreads through divisions.
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Volturno
Rome
Algiers
Adriatic
Montgomery
Montecilfone
Santo Stefano
Mark Clark
Gioia
Liberi
Facchio
Pontelatone
Albigna
Submarine War Sinks 460 Japanese Ships in Pacific
American submarines have sunk or damaged 460 Japanese ships since December 7, 1941, including 319 sunk, 36 probably sunk and 105 damaged. The Navy cited 148 new sinkings and described patrols across the Pacific and near Japan. Allied forces repelled a Japanese landing attempt near Finschhafen and shot down 24 of 35 raiding planes.
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Washington
Japan
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Pacific
Cap Woman Flier Is Killed in Plane Mishap
INDIANA Pa. CAP station commander Margaret Bartholemew, 30, of Cincinnati Ohio was killed when her Civil Air Patrol courier plane crashed and burned in a field near Indiana Pa after a weather forecast grounded a companion flyer. The accident occurred minutes after departure from Williamsport airport.
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CAP
Indiana
Margaret Bartholomew
Cincinnati
Civil Air Patrol Courier Service
Williamsport
Republicans Kill Administration Tax Plan With Economy Push
Washington Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee rejected the administration's proposed ten and a half billion dollar tax program. Rep. Knutson of Minnesota led a stance for government economy and opposed further income tax increases for individuals and corporations.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rep. Knutson
Minn
Jap Plane Sighted Over Hawaii On Sunday
An unidentified airplane, likely Japanese, approached Barbers Point on Oahu early Sunday but fled seaward when detected by searchlights. The prior enemy sighting near Honolulu and Pearl Harbor was in March 1942 when bombs fell harmlessly in a wooded area.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Barbers Point
Oahu Island
Honolulu
Guerrilla Sedition Claims Persist in Philippines
Tokyo radio acknowledged ongoing guerrilla activities in the Philippines with continued sedition reports.
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Washington
Tokyo Radio
Philippines
Bankhead Attacks War Bond Ad Plan in Senate
Senator Bankhead of Alabama condemned the Treasury for seeking unpaid newspaper space for war bond drives. He backs a bill to spend 25 to 30 million dollars annually on paid war bond advertising and argues four of every ten families have bought no bonds, needing a stronger push.
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Washington
Bankhead
D-Ala
Treasury Department
Treasury
Senate Banking Committee
Russia Presses for Cross-Channel Second Front
In Moscow Hull Eden and Molotov open a tripartite wartime conference. The Soviet press highlights the second front as a key topic while talks aim to set groundwork for UN coordination, with preliminary sessions at the Kremlin and the Moscow Airdrome.
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Hull
Eden
Moscow
Russia
Europe
Molotov
United Nations
Kremlin
Moscow Airdrome
Allies consider fixing Russia western frontiers in Moscow talks
Washington follows a Moscow meeting of American British and Russian foreign ministers as Hull arrives with a European trained staff. The three power talks may clear the road for postwar frontier settlement while Pravda denies Baltic state discussion. Harriman and aides travel with cautious optimism seeing Allied aims align.
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Washington
Inter- Allied Commission
Moscow
Hull
English Channel
North Sea
Russia
Pravda
Baltic States
United States
California
Eden
W. Averell Harriman
U. S
Soviet Union
Green Hackworth
U. S. State Department
James Dunn
John Dean
U. S. Army
William Strang
Sir Hastings Isway
Harriman
Kathleen
Spasso House
Berlin
Ohio War Manpower says 69,093 placements in September
Ohio war manpower officials announced a record 69,093 placements by the United States Employment Service in September. Unemployment compensation payments and job applicants fell to new lows, with 33,878 applicants registered on Oct. 1. Women outnumbered men 19,034 to 14,844 in registrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
E. Spede
Ohio War Manpower Commission
Hugh Jenkins
State Bureau of
United States Employment Service
Keenan
Roosevelt summons labor leaders on wage talks
President Roosevelt calls a Thursday conference with labor leaders to discuss wage demands and avert a threatened nationwide railroad workers strike. The move aims to head off escalation and seek a negotiated settlement between unions and railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Germans to Evacuate Rome by Oct 31
Stockholm dispatch reports German forces plan to evacuate Rome by October 31. The note also states all food requisitions for Rome for the first week of November have been cancelled by the Germans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Stockholm
Bern
Svenska Dagbladet
Decisive Invasion Role Is Predicted for Yanks
London reports Field Marshal Jan Smuts predicting a grand assault on Hitler’s central fortress of Europe next year. He said American troops may have to play the decisive part as Britain relies on the United States as the strategic reserve in the west for the war’s final moves.
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London
Jan Christian Smuts
Union of South Africa
Adolf Hitler
Europe
London Guildhall
VU. S. A
Smuts
America
United Nations
Toledo
Bertha
Mack
Charles E.war
Stalingrad
el Alamein
Japs Lose 24 Planes in Sweep on Allied Base
The Japanese attempted a heavy air sweep against an Allied airbase in New Guinea. Twenty four raiders were shot down while the Allies lost four planes. Second Lieutenant John C. Smith of Portsmouth Ohio credited with two downed enemy planes.
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New Guinea
John C. Smith
Eastern Ave
Portsmouth
Akron to Reconvert Factories for Civilian Goods
Akron rubber firms begin shifting from war to civilian product output. Hundreds of workers move from war goods to civilian manufacture as industry plans toward a 30 million synthetic passenger car tire goal, part of a 60 million tire program for 1944. An expected six months delay precedes large scale tire output, with about 5,000 more workers moving to tire jobs from war work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Akron Rubber
Beacon Journal
Wheat Prices Rally Past 1943 Highs in Chicago Trading
Wheat prices surged in Chicago with December wheat reaching 1.57 1 8 dollars as demand from distillers and livestock producers drives a boom era rally. The market tops recall the late 1920s prosperity period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Worker Finds Radium Sinker Worth 12000 Dollars
A Toledo war worker found a metal capsule used as a fishline sinker containing 200 milligrams of radium. He carried it in his vest pocket for over 15 minutes before learning its value. Quaranteed under medical supervision, he shows no ill effects to date from exposure several days ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
First Exchange Of Prisoners Is Completed
London reports the first prisoner exchange in the war with Germany. More than 5,000 Allied servicemen including 17 Americans, long held in POW camps, are en route home via Swedish and Spanish ports. The British Foreign Office says Americans will be sent home soon after arrival and families will be notified. Berlin says about 5,000 wounded German soldiers and six merchant sailors will be returned from Britain and Africa. Further exchanges are expected to be agreed periodically.
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London
Germany
DNB
Berlin
Federal Communications Commission
Britain
Africa
Washington
Kansas City Stockyards Do Record Beef Run
President J C Cash and other Kansas City Stockyards officials and workers helped manage a world record run of beef cattle. The firm reported about five million dollars in cash flowed to southwestern stockmen. Only around ten percent of salable cattle head for packing houses now. the rest will be fattened on Midwestern farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
J. C. Cash
Kansas City Stockyards Co
Southwestern
Senate House Agree on Allotments for Service Families
The Senate and House agreed to raise monthly allowances for service families. Wives would receive 50 dollars, first child 30 dollars, each additional child 20 dollars, totaling 100 dollars for a wife and two children. The bill returns to the Senate for concurrence. servicemen still contribute 22 dollars monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Russians Will Increase Aid Under New Lend Lease
The Soviet Union agreed to supply raw materials such as manganese to the United States and the United Kingdom in return for armaments and food under a new London signed lend-lease accord. Earlier arrangements mainly covered servicing Allied ships in Russian ports. The third and latest lend-lease agreement was signed by the United States United Kingdom Canada and Soviet representatives.
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Washington
Russia
London
State Department
United States
United Kingdom
Parsons brothers held to 75-year sentences in kidnapping
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld 75-year terms for Clarence and Arthur Parsons of Parkersburg West Virginia. They were convicted under the Lindbergh Law of kidnapping a 15 year old Manchester Kentucky girl and transporting her to Lexington Kentucky.
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Cincinnati
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Clarence
Arthur Parsons
Parkersburg
W. Va
Manchester
Lexington
Allied Bombers Hit Balkans and North Africa Front
Allied forces report gains on Balkan mountain heights near the Volturno and north of it as soldiers push to secure high ground. American bombers struck Skoplje’s railroad yard in Yugoslavia, while RAF crews hit Rhodes Crete and Skyros Harbor. Eisenhower saluted infantry Footslogger resolve amid renewed night bombing of Hannover Berlin and Western Germany, with 17 bombers lost after a 10 day lull.
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Tierno
Volturno
Skoplje
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Athens
Marttza
Calato
Rhodes
Kastel
Heraklion
Crete
Skyros Harbor
Aegean
Dwight BD. Eisenhower
Hannover
Berlin
Germany
Battle for Melitopol as Red Army presses into Ukraine
Russian offensives drive toward Melitopol from east and north, with Red Army spearheads battling through blockhouse defenses in a dust-filled city. Malinovsky’s divisions push four miles deeper along the Dnieper bend, threatening a junction with Tolbukhin. Berlin acknowledges 300,000 troops moving south from Zaporozhye as Nazi forces retreat. Fresh Soviet gains reported near Gomel and Rechitsa, while Kiev’s west bank positions improve in the Dnieper pincer. Nearly 7,000 German casualties counted on the day.
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Ukraine
Melitopol
Crimea
Great Peninsula
Red Army
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Dnieper River
Zaporozhe
Ward
Feodor Tolbukhin
Berlin
Moscow
Gomel
Kiev
Dnieper
Vance
Re‘chitsa
Moscow War Bulletin
Ukraiian
Special Detail Guards Boston Jewish District
A 35 officer police detail patrolled Roxbury Dorchester and Mattapan as tensions rose over reported anti Semitic incidents by gangs of toughs. The move followed talks between Jewish leaders and Police Commissioner Timothy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Roxbury
Dorchester
Mattapan
Joseph F. Timnity
War Loan Drive Beats Goal by Four Billion
The American people pledged 15,000,000,000 for the Third War Loan Drive and then added 3,943,000,000 more for bombers and bullets. Treasury announced final tabulations. individuals subscribed 5,377,000,000 of the nearly 19,000,000,000 total.
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Washington
Treasury
U S and German bombers clash in Atlantic convoy raid
U S Army Air Forces anti submarine crews shot down two to four Nazi bombers during three aerial battles over the Atlantic. Liberator heavy bombers from overseas bases fought Focke Wulf fighters as a convoy was threatened. Captain Maxwell of North Carolina led attacks, all crews sustained injuries but pressed their posts. one Liberator and other enemy planes were lost. Survivors were rescued by convoy ships amid chaotic sea battles.
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New York
Army Air Forces
H. D. Maxwell
Pink Hill
N. C
Maxwell
Liberator
Geralarange
N. Y
Athena
Frederick W
Train Women To Fly Bombers At Lockbourne AAB
Five WASP members arrived at Lockbourne Army Air Base to begin a nine week course. The first group of 17 women will be trained to pilot four engined B 17 Flying Fortress bombers. Col John S Gullett said they will fly as co pilots initially and may qualify as first pilots if needed.
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Columbus
Women's Auxiliary Service
WASPS
Lockebourne Army Air Base
John S. Gullett
Lockbourne
Sweetwater
Tex
Gullet
OPA Finds Gas Misuse At Ohio State Game
Regional Office of Price Administration investigators checked license numbers of fans who drove to the Ohio State Purdue football game. Seven violators of OPA regulations were charged, including three drivers from Pennsylvania and one driver each from Franklin, Licking, and Knox counties in Ohio. Violations involved misuse of coupons for supplemental fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
Pennstonia
Franklin
Licking
Knoxtom
Ohio
Coun
Willkie To Hold World Peace Parley With GOP Leaders
Washington D C news brief states Wendell Willkie arrives for a free discussion event with Republican leaders and members of Congress. Louis spefan, touted as a potential 1944 special candidate, joins a closed meeting of congressional newcomers tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Willkie
Wendell Day
Congress
Louis Spefan
St. the Keven
Local youths face charges in induction report case
Cincinnati youth James Hal Fichter of Oxford, son of Joseph Fichter Ohio Grange Master, pleads innocent to failing to report for induction. U S District Judge John H Druffel sets trial for November 1. Harry Martin of Ironton pleads guilty to forging government checks and receives a fifteen month sentence.
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Cincinnati
James Hal Fichter
Oxford
Joseph Fichter
Ohio
U.S
John H. Druffel
Harry Martin
Ironton
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Tierno River
Radio Cairo
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Italy
Finschhafen
MacArthur
Oro Bay
Wewak
Ternate
Halmahera Island
Malukka Sea
Cordell Hull
V. M. Molotov
Anthony Eden
Bonds
Vyacheslav Molotov
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Essen
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OPA
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