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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1943
Page
3
Allied troops press into Italy facing strong Nazi defenses as Jap forces retreat from Solomon and New Guinea bases. Reports note growing demand for higher taxes to fund the war effort and sustain military costs.
Allied forces pressed toward Rome as German defenses formed a 125 mile line across the country. Montgomery and Clark sent reinforcements while airmen targeted supply routes. Balkans watchers tracked island skirmishes in the Aegean as invasion plans hovered.
Allied forces push in Solomons and New Guinea as Japan relies on nighttime barges for outpost resupply and evacuation. In the Philippines debate, independence bills gain traction while U S tax plans seek billions in new levies to fund war needs and social programs. Senate actions shift manpower deferments and family allowances as war costs rise.
In Italy the British Eighth Army rapidly surged toward Termoli and a detachment captured the German commander in his bed. Art notes report Rome’s treasures being moved as troops approach the city. Religion coverage covers the 54th meeting delegates and move toward unity with the Presbyterian church amid meningitis vaccine notes.
The fragmented text describes the Kelly Nash political machine led by Pat Nash and boss influence in Chicago's West Side wards, noting Nash's 60-year rise and contracts with the Sanitary District. It also covers War Food Administration plans for 1944 to market three million cattle, a 30.5 billion pound meat target, and the CCC wheat stock restrictions affecting hogs and dairy feeding, with CCC wheat sales and Canadian imports quantified.
Russia drives across the Dnieper at three points with a breach 50 miles north of Kiev. Red forces push reinforcements and supplies to the west bank as Nazis struggle to halt momentum and prevent Kiev being cut from the rear. In the north, Reds recapture Nevel, a rail hub feeding Leningrad, with lines toward Poland.
Moscow hosts Allied conferences on Russia and postwar orders as Stalin’s ambitions widen. Russia claims parts of Finland Latvia Estonia Lithuania eastern Poland and parts of Romania while courting Germany for peace terms. Hull and W Averell Harriman lead the American delegation as Allied statesmen seek a path to satisfy Russian territorial aims without collapsing the anti Nazi coalition.
Washington dispatch details the friction between Britain and Russia around the Gulf of Persia, with Russian forces gaining an air and supply foothold under U.S. supervision while the British resist and later concede access to Teheran. The report notes close U.S. cooperation with a capable young Russian general and mutual suspicion by Britain amid wartime balance-of-power pressures.
A collage of film and theater notes from wartime gossip columns. Morgenthau buys at Delmonico’s pharmacy while not recognized, Ann Corio chafes at daily press mentions, and multiple sketches tease celebrities like Sonja Henie Charles Laughton and Richard Dix. Observations, stage notes, and Broadway chatter mix with imports on World War II era media figures and public figures.
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