State-Wide Scrap Metal Campaign Opens in Beadle County
Beadle County joins a statewide scrap drive urging every man woman and child to collect metal for war production through October. Prizes totaling 1000 dollars in war bonds will be shared by two schools and two counties with the largest collections. Officials urge turning over discarded items from homes sheds and fields to help avert factory shutdowns and soldier shortages.
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Cardinals Edge Yankees 4 3 In World Series Tilt
In Sportsman’s Park St Louis the Cardinals beat the New York Yankees 4 to 3 in the second World Series game. Stan Musial drove in Enos Slaughter with a eighth inning single while Charley Keller answered with a two run homer for the Yankees.
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No Place To Retreat In Stalingrad Says Red Star
Red Star reports the siege in Stalingrad reaching a decisive phase as German tanks press into the industrial northwest, with Stalin urging defenders to stand firm. Soviet losses mount while desperate urban fighting continues, and relief actions push back Axis units along Don and Volga corridors.
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Fuel Oil Buyers To Sign Promise
Fuel oil consumers in an eighty state rationing area may buy supplies today with a written pledge to surrender their ration coupons when issued by the Office of Price Administration later this month. Dealers delivering fuel oil must also pledge coupon submissions for the gallons delivered. Consumers were told to inventory heating oil supplies so ration calculations can start today. Dealers and suppliers must register inventory and storage capacity as of today.
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War Production Board
Two Nazis Killed In Paris By Grenade
Two members of Jacques Doriot's French Popular Party were killed and seven wounded in Paris when a grenade was thrown over a barracks wall and exploded on their parade ground. One suspect was arrested for complicity. a second participant reportedly escaped. Two wounded were in grave condition.
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Can't Brag About Arms Production Says Don Nelson
Washington October 1 Donald M Nelson head of the War Production Board said September munitions output remained spotty and unlikely to reach the August record which he called not a record we can brag about. He described September as spotty again in response to questions on manufacturing improvements.
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Arm Amputation After Chadron Truck Collision
CHADRON NEB Oct 1 Hig left arm severed in a truck crash. Ross Thompson 80 searched for the limb then drove about four miles before losing consciousness. Found in shock with severe blood loss, doctors say the plumber has a fair chance to recover.
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Hitler Threat Prompts British Preparedness For Bombing
The War Today reports Hitler’s pledge to retaliate against Britain for raids, but Londoners remain calm. His capacity for further large scale bombing depends on Allied opening of a second front and his need to defend western Europe, with focus shifting to fighting the Russian thrust in the south.
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London observers say Hitler may stabilize fronts after pushing Stalingrad
London observers interpreted Hitler's speech as signaling one last push to seize Stalingrad and the Grozny oilfields before stabilizing the eastern front for winter. They cited possible German withdrawals to reinforce Rommel in Africa and defenses in Italy France and Norway, with Stalingrad divisions being refitted. Winter conditions along the Leningrad Moscow front hinder withdrawals.
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Air Raids Kill 47305 British In Three Years
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison told the House of Commons that air raids in the first three years of the war killed 47 305 British civilians and left 55 098 seriously injured. In Greater London 90 110 were killed and 26 071 injured.
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President Roosevelts Two Week War Plant Tour Ends
The White House announced the President has completed a two week inspection tour of war factories nationwide. He traveled 8,754 miles from Washington visiting army and navy bases shipyards tank and aircraft plants training centers depots and embarkation ports across the Midwest and West before returning to Washington for a press conference. The journey included stops in Michigan Illinois Minnesota North Dakota Montana Idaho Arizona New Mexico Texas Mississippi and South Carolina.
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Aussies Press Japanese On In New Guinea Front
Australian troops pressed the retreating Japanese across New Guinea with a swift 10 mile climb up the Owen Stanley Mountains. Allied forces reported heavy bomber and submarine pressure on Bougainville and Buka as Japanese bases faced repeated strikes. In the Aleutians, winter swept the western end of the chain with snow and icy winds per Tokyo radio, while in Burma RAF planes bombed Akyab near the Indian frontier as unrest rumbled in India amid Gandhi's campaign.
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