RAF Delivers Major Night Bombardment on Duesseldorf and Cologne
London reports a heavy RAF bomber strike on Duesseldorf and Cologne following a large daylight USAF raid on Wilhelmshaven. Nineteen RAF aircraft were lost, four enemy planes destroyed, with minelaying in German waters and intruder patrols over France and the Low Countries. Authorities note weakened German defenses and speculate it may be the greatest combined effort yet.
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London
Duesseldorf
Cologne
Wilhelmsshaven
Reich
Wilhelmshaven
RAF
Air Ministry
Battered German Army In Ukraine Still Retreating
London reports German forces led by Von Manstein retreat across the Nosaisk steppes toward the Bug River defense line. Red Army Cossacks and motorized columns push them back from the Ukraine toward Kherson as hundreds of German dead and war material are abandoned. The Dnieper bend area sees heavy combat with failures to advance in Crimea noted.
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London
von Mannstein
Ukraine
Nosaisk
Russia
Bug River
Red Army
Kherson
Black
Doioper
Jeading
Moscow
Dnieper
Kurkinit Bay
Black Sea
Corman
Moscow Bulletin
Milk Producers Seek Cent Per Quart Price Rise
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation urged Congress to raise milk prices by about one cent per quart nationwide, totaling around 600 million dollars yearly, as a substitute for the administration subsidy plan. The proposal was introduced as part of a bill by Senators Eastland and McClellan, with federation secretary Charles W. Holman stating support from major producers’ groups.
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Washington
Ratan
Congress
National Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation
Senate
Eastland
Mississippi
McClellan
Arkansas
Charles W. Holman
Federation
Governor Seeks To End Confusion Over River Plan
Governor M Q Sharpe urged creation of an independent agency to oversee the Missouri River development plan to avoid conflicts among flood control power and irrigation aims. He cited a dam mismanagement that left flood control storage full, enabling dangerous flash floods on a single stream.
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Pierre
M. Q. Sharpe
Missouri Valley
Chinese Charge Japs Using Poison Gas
Chinese high command accused Japan of deploying poison gas in central China near Nanbsien seven miles south of Shasi on the Yangtze. They reported considerable casualties from the gas attack amid fierce fighting. The U.S. and Britain pledged retaliation against any Axis gas use.
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Chungking
China
Nanbsien
Shasi
Yangtze River
United States
Great Britain
Old 147th Still Together After Three Years, Jensen In Command
Sioux Falls dispatch recalls the 147th Field Artillery now redesignated AI combat unit. Pvt. Wally Hanson reports most men remain together after three years of service across Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific, with transfers to training schools and a longing for home letters. The piece notes encounters with natives in New Guinea, and quotes a pidgin exchange with Col Leslie Jensen, plus updates on awaiting personnel transfers to Keesler Field.
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Old 147Th
Jensen
Sioux Falls
La7ta Field Artillery
South Dakota National Guard
147Th
Southwest Pacific
South Dakotany
West Coast
Wally
Hanson
Australia
New Guinea
South
Leslie Jensen
South Dakota
Makum House
Pvt
Keesler Field
Mississippi
Robert Brooka
Aberdeen
Bill Day
Flandreau
Edwin ‘Johnson
Baltic
Bob
Herrick
Ipswich
Allied Armies Move Toward Rome as 5th Army Advances
Allied forces under Vic Lt Gen Mark W Clark push on a 40 mile western Italian front reaching within 85 miles of Rome and driving German troops from Massico ridge and San Croce Mountain. Montgomery's Eighth Army advances along the Botano Isernia road, crossing the Trigno River and storming toward Castelpetroso amid heavy tank counterattacks at San Salvo.
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Allied
Algiers
Vic
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Rome
Garigliano River
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Botano
Isernia
Castelp
Clark
Sessa Aurunca
Sessa Aurunce
Roccamonfina
Treana
San Croce
Presenzana
Mignano
Highth
Montgomery
Trigno
Adriatic
San Salvo
Youth Confesses Staying Near Kin
Wayne, Pa. Nov 4 Leonard Marcus, ten, of the Bronx, was arrested on a technical homicide charge in the strangulation death of his step grandmother Mrs. Jennie Flicker. Blamed for grabbing her neck during a money theft, he said he placed her in a closet with a pillowcase knot.
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Wayne
Leonard Marcus
Bronx
Jennie Flicker
Wilmer Clemence
Radnewd Township
Marcus
Flicker
Clemence
No National Issues In GOP Victories Says Frank Walker
Democratic National Chairman Frank C. Walker dismissed Republican wins in New York Pennsylvania New Jersey and Kentucky as state issue outcomes with no national trend. He said the administration did not actively participate in any contest and national party politics were not clearly drawn. He added GOP optimism for 1944 stems from a political formula to seize any opportunity to paint a favorable picture.
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Washington
Frank C. Walker
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Kentucky
Walker
Irons but No Washers Promised Early in 1944
Washington officials said the civilian production plan for the first quarter of 1944 includes electric irons but no electric washing machines. They acknowledged home laundry equipment is among the worst needed items, but small electric motor supplies are thought to permit resumption of washing machine manufacture.
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Washington
Miners Win $1.50 Daily Raise With Extra Hour Work
Government and United Mine Workers agreement ends major shutdown and raises pay by $1.50 per day for miners, with travel time payments and lunch hour cuts. anthracite miners gain 37.8 cents. Total cash rise about 70 cents daily plus tools valued at 20 to 25 cents. Production resumes slowly as workers return on schedule.
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Joserh-A.“Loftus
Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Ickes
U. S
Seiz
Lewis
WLB
WLE
World Events At A Glance AP Europe War Updates
Italy and Britain push toward Rome and Isernia as Soviet reports claim German disarray in Ukraine. In the Pacific, Bougainville combat intensifies with Allied air and sea actions. RAF and US bombers strike Germany while Yugoslav and Greek fronts receive Allied air support. Germany reportedly ferries reinforcements into southern France amid Corsica activity. Die Nation portrays Germany’s plight as worse than 23 years ago.
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Italy
Rome
Eighth
Isernia
Russia
Ukraine
South Pacific
Bougainville
Rabaul
Aled
Tuesseldorf
Cologne
U. S
Wilhelmshaven
Raf
Joses
Balkans
Araxos
France
Madrid
Germany
Corsica
Die Nation
Hills Sugar Plant Ends Short Run in Belle Fourche
Slicing operations at the Utah Idaho sugar factory in Belle Fourche are due to finish tomorrow marking one of the shortest runs for the plant. The mill slowed this week to aid farmers delayed by bad weather, and it will have operated 25 days by tomorrow.
U S Casualties In Mediterranean Zone Reported
Secretary of War Stimson announced American army casualties in the Mediterranean zone from the North Africa landings through Oct 29 total 31 126. Of these 5 539 were killed 17 261 wounded and 7 966 missing. Axis losses estimated around 800 000 with Allied prisoners 468 055.
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Washington
Mediterranean
North Africa
Stimson
Discover Man Who Turns Down Subsidy
In Dallas Texas on November 4 the Dallas County Agricultural Adjustment Administration reveals a milk producer who refused part of a government subsidy. One man eligible for 196 dollars accepted 92 fifty, saying it matched what he marketed, while the rest of the milk subsidies were supplied at his cafe.
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Dallas
Tex
Dallas County Agricultural Adjustment Administration Office
King Vittorio Emanuele Seeks Abdication Talk in Italy
In Naples King Vittorio Emanuele arrived incognito from Brindisi amid unknown purpose. He aims to confer with Count Carlo Sforza and others favoring abdication as a first step to Italy's political solution. An informant said Sforza declined to see the King in Brindisi and planned to depart for Naples, remaining firm against abdication.
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Naples
Vittorio Emanuele
Brindisi
Carlo Sforza
Italy
Sforza
United States
Lower Brule Flier Killed In Air Crash
Five Army fliers were killed and a sixth seriously injured when a four engine bomber returning to Fort Worth army air field from a training flight crashed at midnight Wednesday. The dead include Kenneth LaRoche, 27, aerial engineer, son of Mr and Mrs John W LaRoche of Lower Brule South Dakota.
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Ort Worth
Tex
Army
Fort Worth Army Air Field
Kenneth LaRoche
Bir
John W. LaRoche
Lower Brule
Destroyers And Transports Sunk In Pacific Actions
Allied reports detail heavy losses for Japan near Bougainville and Rabaul. American forces, including MacArthur’s dive bombers and Halsey’s carrier air groups, destroyed multiple destroyers transports and a heavy cruiser, while submarines claimed ten merchant ships sunk or damaged off Bougainville and near Ocean Island.
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Navy
Ocean Island
Guadalcanal
Rabaul
Southwest Pacific
Allied
Japan
Solomons
General MacArthur
Adm
William F. Halsey
Bougainville
Halsey
Interned Japs Defy Officials at Tule Lake Center
San Francisco dispatch reports War Relocation Authority head Dillon Myer recounting a Tule Lake center protest by Japanese inmates. He says disloyal leaders aimed to be first sent home to Japan, with a three hour mass meeting, a priority demand for better food, personnel changes, and questions about unharvested crops. Dr. Pedicord, chief surgeon, was beaten by 15 detainees in a side incident.
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San Francisco
Dillon S. Myer
The
War Relocation Authority
Tule Lake Segregation Center
Japan
Myer
Seattle
Tule Lake Center
California
Myers
Robert Cozzens
WRA
Reece N. Pedicord
Japs Use Big Brother Strategy in Asian Rivals, Warns AP
War analyst Les Mackenzie reports that Japanese militarists seek a liberal peace and an Asiatic bloc to lead against whites, a strategy he calls a deadly race war threat. He cites Burma and Siam as examples of current cooperation with Japan, and urges caution of this growing bloc.
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Associated Press
Nippon
Burma
Thailand
Siam
Les MacKenzie
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Frank Walker
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Salerno
Fial Navy
Nea Telephoto
Mediterranean Zone
Emanuele
Bougainville Island
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