Finschhafen Fight Near Finish As Attacks Increase
Allied forces pressed the Finschhafen offensive as Australian troops pounded Japanese positions on high ground and Nebbe Creek. Allied bombers, including Mitchells and Liberators, hit Wewak and the coastal area, destroying ships and materiel while exploitation of Japanese bases continued along 70 miles of water to encircle New Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Wewak
Hansa Bay
Finschhhafen
Nebbe Creek
Japan
New Britain
Two Huronians Injured On Train Wreck Near Sanborn
A Chicago and North Western train derailed four miles west of Sanborn Minnesota at 2 30 a m injuring about 15 people two from Huron South Dakota and others from Chicago Volga and Tracy The wreck damaged 500 feet of track and reports indicate a broken rail caused the accident services resumed hours later at the line intersection with the line remains intact with no fatalities reported cleanup underway
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Sanborn
Minn
Chicago and North Western
Here
Huron
S. C
Tracy
Edward Lockhart
Chicago
Paul van Nevel
Lyndh
Earl Smith
MW. A. Lowery
Ernest C. Cook
Eugene Wood
Robert Wood
Eugene
Howard Rosenberry
John Hammer
Volga
S. D
Andrew J. Kelly
A. J. Kelly
Police Patrolman Ropes Escaped Heifer in Field
Los Angeles radio patrolman Earl C. Gordnan roped a yearling heifer that had escaped from a truck. His roping deftness boomeranged the animal, dragging him through a yard littered with tin cans before he required hospital treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Earl C. Gordnan
Russians Press Nazi Escape Hold At Kremenchug Across Dnieper
Soviet and Allied dispatches report a major Russian push across the Dnieper aimed at Kremenchug. Red army forces drive toward the river, capturing villages and threatening German positions while Berlin reports heavy counterattacks to hold bridgeheads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kremenchug
Dnieper
Moscow
Todiay
Communist Party
Pravda
Red Army
Xelivg
London
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Dnepropetrovsk
Kiev
Per
Mos
White Russia
Baltic States
Gomel-Vitebsk
Vitebsk
Poland
Battl
Gas Ration Slash Rumor Circulates Amid OPA Denial
In St Paul on September 29 officials denied definite knowledge of a forthcoming reduction in A coupon gas values from three to two gallons yet rumors spread that a cut could take effect by November 1. Harold J. Slawik said no official word has come from Washington though the plan to reduce from four to two gallons had been proposed earlier. The final decision would rest with the petroleum coordinator Secretary Harold Lcks and the War Production Board and rubber director. Todd Stoops of Indianapolis claimed the gas order has been drafted in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
OPA
Harold J. Slawik
Slawik
Washington
Harold S. Ickes
War Production Board
Todd Stoops
Midwest Rubber Conservation Committee
Indianapolis
Gascot
New Tire Quota Cut By One Fifth
The Office of Price Administration announced an October tire quota cut of 20 percent to 645 000 new passenger tires from 829 659 in September. Beginning Oct 1 car owners must drive 401 miles or more per month to qualify for new tires while other tire and tube quotas stay largely unchanged. Farm and tractor implement tires will be reduced due to seasonal demand decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Milk Policy Group To Discuss Dairy Supply
In Washington and Berlin representatives of member cooperatives of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation formed a policy committee during a national emergency meeting. The group will propose a program to address the country’s dairy supply problem and present it to government officials and Congress, announced federation president John Brandt of Minneapolis. Members include W. S. Moscrip of Elmo Mina and the Twin City Producers Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingt
Ber
Eee
National Cooperative Milk’ Producers Federation
Federation
Congress
John
Brandt
Minneapolis
W. S. Moscrip
Ake Elmo
Mina
Twin’ City Producers Association
Aoa
Huron War Fund Sets 9000 Goal for October Drive
Huron Beadle County groups map support for the National War Fund campaign with a 9000 goal in October All In One Drive. Local officers Bert Edwards and H M Heinie Fierce lead committees planning canvass targets to reach every business and home in the county while the national drive begins October 11 with local canvassing starting a week later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huron War Fund Group
John Bangerter
Huron
Beadle County
Bude Zets
Driva
Sturan
Nanun
Ity Service
BowiBcouta
Gist Anat Wca
Donde
Bert
Edwards
Heinie
Pierce
Grr
Armour Manager Here Promoted To Chicago Position
M. E. Barnes, longtime Armour and Company packing plant manager in Huron, named assistant to the general manager in charge of plants with Chicago offices. Effective Nov 1. Barnes, a 37 year old Missouri native, rose from accounting clerk in Kansas City to various plant roles and earned a law degree. G. E. Mackey to replace him in Huron. Barnes will work under E. E. Evans in Chicago. Barnes will be joined in Chicago by his wife and daughter Donna Lee after the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Barnes
Armour and Company/s .mzat
Huron
Chicago
Missouri
Kansas City
G. E. Mackey
Barnes
G. EB. Mackey
Armour
Milwaukee, Wis
E. E. Evans
Armour’s
United States
St. Paul
Richmond
Armoaur’s
Kansas City University
Salina
Kant
Baltimore
Mad
St.| An
Peale
Armean - Dui
Port Ren
Induction Of Dads To Begin Friday
The Associated Press reports that induction of fathers for military service starts Friday. Senate demands rescan of federal payrolls to remove draft dodgers and slackers. May calls hearings on boosting family allowances for drafted fathers as the Army and Navy endorse higher allotments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Senate
Wheeler
Montana
May
Kentucky
Army and Pavy Department
Army Liberator crashes killing 11 near Colorado Springs
A Liberator bomber based at Low Field Denver crashed about ten miles south of Colorado Springs. Eleven airmen were killed in the Sept Tuesday accident announced by the field's public relations office.
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Denver
Low Field
Colorado ‘Springs
Theil Field
Local Man Clinton Derscheid Killed in Action
The War Department notified Mr and Mrs A P Derscheid of 875 Nebraska Ave SW that their son First Lieutenant Clinton L Derscheid was killed in action September 21 in the European theater. He had earlier been cited and awarded the Air Medal for bravery and had served since February 1941 with the National Guard and later the Air Corps. Surviving are his parents a sister and two brothers Mrs Allen King of Huron Second Lieutenant Lyle A Derscheid of Ft Knox Ky and Merle D Derscheid of South Gate California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. P. Derscheid
Nebraska Avenue
War Department
Washington, D. C
Clinton L. Derscheid
Secretary of War
Ulis
Derscheid
National Guard
Huron
Air Corps
Maxwell Field
Ala
England
Huron College
Allen King
Lyle A. Derscheid
Ft. Knox, Ky
Merle D. Derscheid
Southfate
Cah
Standley Reports To President On Russia
Admiral William H. Standley United States ambassador to Russia made his first reports to President Timan as the American lend lease coordinator in London. The note highlights Standley’s briefing role and the continuing U.S. policy discussions regarding Russia and aid arrangements.
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Standley
Russia
Washington
William H. Standley
United States
Timan
London
Allies Sweep Toward Naples as German lines Break
Allied forces push from mountain positions toward Naples as German holds crumble. Fifth Army, racing across the coast, seizes Nocera and Castellammare while advancing six miles on the right flank toward Avellino. Eighth Army secures a western line from San Angelo to Malfi and Montgomery’s troops push north along the Adriatic coast toward Zappenetta. Weather slows patrols as the front runs coast to coast across Italy.
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Ventura
Naples
London
British
Fifth Army
Italy
Fifth
Avelline
Avellino
Eighth Army
San Angelo
Malfi
Adriatic
Bernard L. Montgomery
Margherita di Savoia
Zappenetta
Gulf of Manfredonia
Foggia Air Base
Beadle County Bond Drive Shortfall Prompted by Meaghan
Beadle County faces an $81,249 gap toward a $1,116,000 Third War Loan quota with three days left. County chairman James J. Meaghan urges immediate bond purchases and warns excuses risk failing those fighting abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tove
Beadle County
James J. Meaghan
War Finance
Sioux Falls
Meaghan
Beadle
Het
Bond
Hitler
Mark Clark
Fifth Army
Italy
Europe
Pacific
Salerno
Propeller Strikes Kills Army Lieutenant at Watertown Base
Second Lt. Joseph S Fejes twenty three of Toledo Ohio died in a Watertown hospital this morning from injuries received when struck by an army bomber propeller at the Watertown air base last night. The navigator walked into the propeller after alighting from the plane and the blade struck his head and face according to base officers.
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Watertown
Sept
Toledo
hos_ ‘pital
Hir
Banana Rail Ships Move East From West Coast
Oakland California September 20. The last of the large west coast banana ships to end markets go into government service today. Fewer bananas in the nation will be shipped west to east and to the middle west due to the change. C D Dogwell west coast manager of United Company, a major fruit firm, says some fruit will enter the Atlantic market, though volume declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Cali
C. D.dogwell
The
United
Popany
Atlantic
There’s Nothing Like A Hot Bath
A Utah inventor built a fire powered tub heater but flames spread rapidly. His home, barn and outbuildings were destroyed in the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clearfield
Utah
Iamer
Army Approves Missouri River Development Plan
Rep Cause announces approval by the Army rivers and harbors board of a valley wide plan to control Missouri floods. The program calls for levees from Sioux City to the river mouth and twelve storage reservoirs, with water use for power irrigation and navigation, affecting eight states and possibly moving to Congress after War Department and White House review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Missouri River
Army Rivers and Harbors Board
Dakota
Sride Tuby
Col
Pick
Omaha
Case
Sioux City
Missouri
River
Mississippi River
Secretary of War
Ite House
Congress
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Montana
Senator Buck seeks new steel penny design to deter confusion
Washington reports Senator Buck announces a bill to withdraw the zinc coated steel one cent coin and require pennies that are colored shaped and designed to be readily distinguishable from dimes. The move comes amid frustration over the current penny and calls for clearer currency.
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Washington
Buck
Allies seize Nocera and press toward Naples
World War II briefing reports American Fifth Army capturing the mountain town of Nocera and advancing toward Naples on the Sorrento peninsula. Russian front shows Nazi retreat, with German forces pulling west of the Dnieper and across the Kerch Straits toward the Crimea. Airwar notes heavy weather hampering operations in Europe and Italy. In the Pacific, Australian troops near Finschhafen and Wewak, with Allied air forces destroying 60 plus enemy planes and sinking vessels. Marines land on Namumez Island southeast of Tarawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Italy
Fifth Army
Nocera
Naples
Sorrento
Bay of Naples
Salza
Russia
Ludwig Sertorius
Dnieper
Caucasus
Fpr
Kerch
Crimea
South Pacific
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Wewak
Pacific Fleet
Namumez Island
Gilbert Islands
Tarawa
Foggia Capture Opens Way For New War Developments
The War Today argues that the Foggia breakthrough in southern Italy enlarges bomber reach into Germany and vital targets. It notes the Balkans opening to Allied operations and asserts Italy remains a focus while the Soviet front claims new offensive moves around Leningrad.
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Foggia
Dewitt MacKenzie
Poggia
Germany
Balkans
Italy
Rth
Feningrad Sa
Eee
MacKenzie
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Gomel
Mogilev
Orsha
Leningrad
Bantam Hens
North Africa
Insula
Gulf of Salerno
Mark W. Clark
Castellammare
Saja
Alraeady
iMand
Seer RR Teener
Clark
Este
Army
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