Soviet Drive Clears Caucasus As Red Army Hits Latvians
Soviet divisions claim to have crushed German forces in the Caucasus killing 20,000 and taking 3,000 prisoners. Moscow says Red Army nears Latvia border within 62 miles, with a large German dead count and material abandoned along the Kuban bridgehead. Reports also note advances near Kiev, Kremenchug, and the Dnieper after major bridgehead operations.
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James M. Long
London
Caucasus
Moscow
Red Army
Russia
Florida
Kerch Strait
Dnieper River
Kiev
Kremenchug
Liozno
Vitebsk
Moshna
Monitor
Latvia
Nevel
London Radio
Leningrad
Stalin
Ivan Petrov
Taman
Taman Peninsula
Crimea
Tama_ peninsula
Struggle on 30 Mile Front Across Volturno
Allied forces push across the Volturno River as American Fifth Army patrols clash with German troops reinforced by a new division. Caserta fell and the Volturno’s south bank came under Allied control along a 30 mile front. The fight continues despite heavy rains and floods.
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Volturno
Algiers
Fifth Army
Rome
Cairo
London
Garigliano
Caserta
Naples
Calore
F Se En Morin
Associated Press
Eighth Army
Middle East
Greece
Crete
Dodecanese
Morin
Benevento
Mark W. Clark
Fighters Smash Jap old In Central Solomons
Allied airmen delivered strong blows in the Southwest Pacific while Australian troops expanded control in New Guinea. Reports note no Japanese landings or withdrawals from central Solomons since an October 6 fleet battle near Vella Lavella, with occasional bomber activity and a large transport damaged by a Liberator raid near Bougainville.
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Southwest Pacific
Valley of New Guinea
William F. Halsey
South Command
Solomons
Vella Lavella
Imperial
Kolombangara
South Pacific
Kahlili
Bougainville
Posit
Equator
New Ireland
New Guinea
Finschhafen
Huon Peninsula
Nazis Submarines Lose Duel With Allied Convoy
Washington reports a North Atlantic clash last month between a westbound Allied convoy and a large U-boat pack. Three escort vessels and a small number of merchant ships were sunk, while many U-boats were sunk or damaged. The joint Roosevelt Churchill statement notes no Allied ships lost until late September and cites high merchant ship losses for August and September as a warning that German pack tactics may resume.
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Washington
North Atlantic
Roosevelt
Churchill
Juvenile crime on increase dominates wartime reports
Washington reports show rising juvenile delinquency per two studies. Hoover's FBI tally notes espionage and sedition convictions and many sabotage incidents, while the Labor Department survey cites escalating youth misbehavior alongside large alien enemy arrests and naturalization actions during the war period.
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Washington
Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Children’s Bureau
Labor Department
Hoover
Rocket planes used in Bremen raid described as rocket gun fighters
London reports say German pilots used rocket gun equipped fighters against American bombers during the Bremen raid. Initial descriptions suggested rocket propulsion but later intel confirmed the same rocket guns used in earlier Regensburg Schweinfurt actions. Three American fighters were shot down in the engagement.
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London
Bremen
Regensburg-Schweinfurt
Mighty U S Force Bombs Germany and Poland in Deep Raid
A large American bombing strike with Flying Fortresses and Liberators reportedly penetrated deep into Germany to hit Pomerania East Prussia and Poland. The raid, up to 1 800 miles round trip, reportedly destroyed 91 enemy fighters with a loss of 29 US bombers and left 25 more likely shot down.
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Robert N. Sturdevant
London
Germany
Pomerania
East Prussia
Poland
U. S
Bremen
Vegesack
Fred L. Anderson
Eighth Air Force
Air Ministry
France
Belgium
Lend-Lease Deliveries Reach August Total
The War Food Administration reported that August deliveries of food and agricultural commodities to ports for overseas shipment and Allied fronts totaled about one billion pounds. Evaporated milk pork lard and sugar were principal items. The British Empire received 59 percent, Russia 23 percent, and other regions together 1 percent.
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Washington
War Food Administration
British Empire
Russia
North Africa
Greece
West Africa
Netherlands
Turkey
Louisiana Governor Declares Martial Law in Plaquemines Parish
Governor Sam Jones uses martial law to remove Leander H. Perez as district attorney and install Walter J. Blaize as sheriff’s office head. State guard with about 600 troops arrives from New Orleans, reporters note no resistance and a road barricade incident occurs near Braithwaite. Dr Ben R Slater protests the ouster. Blaize seeks guard protection.
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Point-A-La-Hache
Sam Jones
Leander H. Perez
Plaquemines Parish
State Guard
Thomas P
Blaize
New Orleans
Perez
Braithwaite
Parish Special
Slater
Ceiling On Vegetables Demanded by Florida Producers
Florida vegetable committee passes resolutions urging immediate price ceilings on winter vegetables. More than a hundred producers and shippers from across the state will take the measure to Washington to demand guidance from the Office of Price Administration. E W Lins of South Miami, committee chairman, denounces delays and warns farmers cannot start production without clear returns. The group notes a yearlong effort to oppose ceilings on perishable vegetables and fruits.
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Clewiston
Fla
Florida
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
E W. Lins
South Miami
War Food Administration
Lins
Germans Jittery Reports Say Nazis Will Evacuate Baltic States
Swedish reports claim Germany plans to pull out of the Baltic states by October 31 as Allied air power dominates skies over Europe and naval control in the Mediterranean enables strikes into the Balkans. Evacuation of Baltic troops near Leningrad and fortifications from Narva southward are noted as part of a last-ditch defense.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Baltic States
Germany
Europe
Mediterranean
Balkans
Leningrad
Peterhof
Narva
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Riga
Odessa
U. S
Berlin
Ing
Leghorn
Rome
Italy
Kesselring
Rommel
Jutland
North Sea
Railroads Win Ruling In Seatrain Car Case
Newark October 9 Fifteen railroads secured a federal court ruling that the Interstate Commerce Commission lacked authority over operations beyond U S territorial waters. The case involved Sea train Lines freight car interchange between Hoboken New Jersey and Belle Chasse Louisiana via Havana and demurrage payments.
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Newark
N. J
Seatrain Lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Seatrain
Hoboken
Belle Chasse
Havana
Ten Given Parole By Broughton
RALEIGH Oct 9 Ten prisoners paroled today by Governor Broughton include two convicted of manslaughter and one of accessory before the fact of first degree murder. Names and sentences: J D Stillwell life. Jorian two to three years. Booker T Williams 15 to 18 years. Walter Dalton five months. Mary Smith MacLamb two years. Boyd Cuthbertson 12 months. Andrew Jackson Graham 12 months. James Clark 25 to 30 years. Joseph Judge four years eight months. L J Allen six months.
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Raleigh
Broughton
J. D. Stillwell
Burke
James Torian
Booker T. Williams
Martin
Walter Dalton
Rockingham
Mary Smith MacLamb
Johnston
Boyd Cuthbertson
Andrew Jackson Graham
Durham
James Clark
Mecklenburg
Joseph Judge
Nash
L. J. Allen
Cleveland
Yugoslavs Fight Nazis in Trieste and Seaports
Yugoslav liberation forces press bitter fighting in the southern suburbs of Trieste and against a German force driven toward the Port of Fiume. In Yugoslavia, partisans say they surround the Ogulin garrison and destroy a key railway bridge.
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London
Trieste
Fiume
Yugoslavia
Ogulin
Karlovac
Zagreb
Hungary
Dagens Nyheter
Budapest
Office of War Information
Balkans
Northwest African Air Force
Greece
Crete
Dodecanese
RAF
Middle East Command
Heraklion
Calate
Rhodes
Vlying
North Africa
Italy
Eleusis
Athens
Kastell
Maritza
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Three Forts Forced Down In Sweden
Three U S Flying Fortresses raided northeastern Germany and were forced to land in Sweden. All 30 crew members are reported safe. two bombers caught fire. Two German fighters were also shot down in southern Sweden amid heavy air battles near Swedish waters. Internment of the crews announced.
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Stockholm
VU. S
Sweden
Germany
Kristianstad
Alvesta
Malmoe
Ater
Oslo
Norway
Plane Plant Found Under Naples Caverns
Allied troops in Naples uncovered a completely equipped aircraft engine factory in four caverns beneath the city used to produce engines for Messerschmitt fighters. A second grotto housed the main repair shops of the chief technical headquarters of the Italian air force. CBS recorded the British radio broadcast.
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New York
Naples
Airforce
CBS
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Taman Penisula
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