War Front Telegrams Signal Shifting Allied Pressure
Press conference details Allied and Axis positions across theaters. Corsica patriots aided by North Africa forces push Nazis from Corsica. Dodecanese clash yields air superiority for Germans. Emden and Frankfurt raids noted as bomber offensive continues. Dnieper line holds as Kerch bridgehead appears to withdraw. MacArthur offensive in New Guinea progresses rapidly. Japanese evacuations and air activity rise in Solomon Islands and China. Burma raids from India inflict heavy damage on the Burma front.
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Washington
Stimson
Italy
North Africa
Corsica
France
Dodecanese
Coot
Gerai
Greece
Germany
Europe
Emden
Frankfort
Dnieper
Kerch Straits
Crimea
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Solomons
Kolombangara
China
Claire L. Chennauilt
14Th Air Force
India
Burma
Five Die In Oil Barge Explosion In Jacksonville
An oil barge exploded at Gibbs Gas Engine company on the St Johns River in Jacksonville killing at least five people and injuring 12. Officials said no navy personnel or equipment were involved while firms recovered five bodies. Identified victims include Paul Bennett a welder 37 formerly of East Avondale Georgia and Tim McCranie a shipfitter 50 formerly of Moultrie Georgia. The blast occurred as a commercial gasoline lighter was under repair at the shipyards.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Gibbs Gas Engine Company
St. Johns River
Navy
Paul Frank Bennett
East Avondale
Tim McCranie
Rome Fascists Move From Hiding Under Nazi Shield
A Rome dispatch reports fascists reemerging in the Italian capital under German protection, while Rome’s open city status and Nazi occupation shape street signs and police posture among residents. Separately in Newark, seven German born naturalized citizens face espionage charges linked to a pre war Nazi spy ring and German American groups.
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Frank Brutto
Bern
Switzerland
Rome
Tribune de Geneve
Benito Mussolini
Newark
N. J
United States
Thorn Lord
Quirinale
Vatican
Bern der Bund
White Russia Battle Slowed By Mud and Rain
The Red Army pushed at the Velikie Luki to Smolensk front but mud and rain slowed operations in White Russia. Moscow reports say Soviet forces breached lines near Nevel and advanced up to 13 miles from Gomel while German counterattacks near Vitebsk Mogilev and Gomel were repulsed.
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White Russia
London
Red Army
Velikie Luki
Smolensk
Moscow
Velikie
DNB
Nevel
Leningrad
Warsaw
Vitebsk
Odessa
Berlin
Dnieper
Mogilev
Gomel
Draft Ban Rejected Senate Votes Increase In Dependent Allowances
The Senate rejected a proposal to halt draft induction of pre war fathers and moved to raise monthly dependent allowances for soldiers. Proposed: $80 for a wife with one child, $20 for each additional child, with higher figures in a House bill. House panel also aims to cut liberal child payments and extend wife allowances to all seven grades of enlisted men.
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Washington
Senate
House
Military Affairs Committee
Congress
Wheeler
Army
House Military Committee
Wake Island Blasted By Strong Yank Task Force
A powerful U S fleet including at least one aircraft carrier opened a heavy dawn attack on Wake Island. The operation aimed at the Japanese defenses near Wake Island and followed reports from Pearl Harbor of a large task force involved in the strike.
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Sicily
Signal Corps
Wake Island
Pearl Harbor
United States
Hawaii
Adm
Pacific Fleet
Alfred E. Montgomery
Marcus Island
Gilberts
Nimitz
Wake
Strategic Pacific
Ernest J. King
United States Fleet
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Ramu
New Guinea
Madang
Bogadjim
Fifth Airforce
Solomons
New Georgia
Bougainville
Choiseul
Congress Faces Sharp Split Over New Tax Plan
Washington October 7 Congress shows bipartisan resistance to the administration proposed 10.5 billion tax program. Economic Stabilization Director Fred M Vinson warns inflation endangers bonds savings and homes and urges tax increases as a wartime revenue measure. Opponents expect a reduced package around five billion while hearings continue with Treasury Secretary Morgen thr?au presenting the plan.
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Washington
Fred M. Vinson
Vinson
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means Group
Morgenthau faces committee on tax plan and apples
The house ways and means committee disagrees with Treasury Secretary Morgenthau over taxes but approves his claim to know his apples. His $10.5 billion revenue proposal drew rough treatment, as did the crate of select New York apples he presented to the panel.
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Washington
House Pays and
Treasury
Morgenthau
New York State
Yank Fifth Army Presses Close To Key Nazi Defenses
Allied reports describe German armor shifting to the Adriatic front near Termoli as the Eighth Army under Montgomery presses forward toward the Volturno line. Fifth Army gains across the Volturno amid heavy rains and demolitions while air forces strike Mestre rail junction near Venice.
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Yank Fifth Army
Montgomery
Dwight R. Eisenhower
Adriatic
Pescara
Naples
RAF
Tergets
Termoli
Alfedena
Rome
Eighth Army
Volturno
W Clark
Fifth Army
Calore
Tyrrhenian Sea
Fifth
Capua
Clark
Africa
Venice
Mestre
Yugoslavia
Austria
Beheading Atrocity Demands Grim Retribution
The piece urges a formal declaration that the heaviest punishment be dealt to those linked to the beheading of a captive allied airman in the Pacific. It argues such action would boost Allied morale and instill fear in Japan, insisting justice reach to Tojo and the top leadership.
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Pacific
F.D.R
State Department
Japan
Tokyo
United States
Tojo
Tobacco sales total 33 478 460 pounds for Middle Belt
Raleigh reports War Food Administration data showing Middle Belt tobacco sales totaling 33 478 460 pounds for the season at 38.77 cents per pound with a peak day of 1 640 886 pounds at 41.73 cents. Old Belt and Bright Belt figures also appear with daily and seasonal totals and averages.
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Raleigh
War Food Administration
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