British Greek troops seize Athens as Nazi rule ends
British and Greek forces land at Piraeus and Athens amid an airborne and seaborne operation. The surrender of Corfu and entry into the Adriatic follow. Greek partisans may assist under Gen. R. M. Scobie as a provisional government forms and plebiscites are prepared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jome
Athens
Piraeus
Jar
United States
Comwe
R. M. Scobie
Greece
Aseave
Corfu
Adriatic
norTu
Yugoslavia
Esate
Cairo Radio
Marathon
Darius
Alwas
Peloponnesus
Cap- Corinth
Bomb Assault On Formosa Sets Record For B 29 Mission
Big Island report details a record B 29 raid on Formosa’s Okaya with 22 000 feet plume and near zero enemy resistance. Maj Gen Curtis LeMay hailed it as the best show yet while Navy carrier planes struck earlier at the same base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West A
Okaya
Formosa Island
Mainla
Navy
Eouraine
Curtis Lemay
Partisans And Reds Push Into Belgrade In Street Battle
Russian and Yugoslav partisans entered Belgrade and began street fighting with a German garrison as Soviet forces reached the city outskirts. Bulgarians and Russians reported key rail hubs and towns captured, with large German forces trapped or forced to retreat across the Balkans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Kasischke
London
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Berlin
Moscow
Hungary
Magyar
Szolnok
Budapest
Debrecen
DNB
Transylvania
Nis
Aleksinac
Athens
Balkans
Reich
Paracin
Kraljevo
Yugoslavia
Greece
Arane Delovac
Bel
Night bomb raids over Germany reach new peak
London reports a massive retaliatory bombing with a large force of bombers and Mosquitos crossing from southern England toward the continent. The raid pattern covered Hannover Brunswick and the Hamburg Berlin region as warnings spread and Nazi stations issued alerts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ndon
Germany
Duisburge
England
Hannover - Brunswick
wig-Holstein
vandenburg-Berlin
U S Doughboys Close In On Aachen Amid Nazi Relief Failures
U S troops converge from three directions on Aachen as German relief efforts falter. American First Army seals a corridor into the city while British forces press near Overloon and Canadian units push toward linking with allies on the Schelde Estuary front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Cowan
London
U. S.S
Aachen
First Army
Arnheim
Maas River
Germany
Arnhem
Beveland
Schelde
Antwerp
Hoey Links Roosevelt to Victory in NC Democratic Rally
In Asheville on October 13 a gathering of 300 Young Democrats heard Clyde R. Hoey praise Franklin D. Roosevelt as the symbol of war and victory. He argued Americans must stay the course to win the war and the peace and would not change leaders while victory is in sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
R. Gregg Cherry
Clyde R. Hoey
United States Senate
North Carolina
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoey
Winston Rites In Raleigh Tomorrow
Judge Robert Watson Winston, famed biographer and former jurist, died in Raleigh at 84 after a long career. Funeral services are planned at Christ Church in Raleigh on Monday morning.
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Chapel Hill
Robert Watson Winston
University of North Carolina
Christ Church
Raleigh
War Production Board promises more and better toys for Christmas
The War Production Board announced a prioritized Christmas toy plan. Wood replaces much paperboard and metal wheels appear on 100000 doll carriages with limited tinseled items. zinc based miniatures, track replacements, and non mechanical toys amid wartime constraints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Washington
Santa Claus
WPB
De Gaulle Criticizes Allies For Aloof War Stance
In a radio address from Paris General Charles de Gaulle denounced Allied aloofness and urged France to rely on its own efforts to restore its former greatness. He warned that while military cooperation exists, Allies pursue separate policies and interests.
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Paris
de Gaulle
France
Utilities Men Seek Slashing Of Rail Rates In South
Public service commissioners from ten Southern states voted in Atlanta to urge elimination of the 1942 ten percent rise in passenger fares and cancellation of 1942 freight increases now suspended until January 1. Walter R. McDonald of Georgia will represent the group at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Washington on October 23.
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Atlanta
Public Service Commissioners
Walter R. McDonald
Georgia Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
McDonald
Southeastern Association of Public Service Commissioners
Robert Nixon
Office of Price Administration
United States Department of Agriculture
Allied armies press on from Holland to Belfort Gap in winter war
Front line observers report Allied forces battling Nazi defense lines from the Lesser Rhine in Holland toward France while awaiting a decisive breakthrough. Eisenhower says no winter sitdown campaign though a prolonged stalemate looms and internal German collapse remains possible but not relied upon.
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Lesser Rhine
Holland
Belfort
Upper River
France
Eisenhower
Paris
Germany
Nazi Germany
Imperial Germany
Soviet and Allied advances tighten grip on Eastern front
Reports describe a Red Army breakthrough sealing off Nazi troops in the Baltic area and presses toward Budapest and Vienna. Moscow signals Hungarian collapse as German forces face isolation. In the west, Eisenhower readiness to strike the lower Rhine before winter looms remains the key unknown.
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Eisenhower
Red Army
Baltic
Germany
Balkan Peninsula
Danube
Sava
Buda
Pest
Transylvanian
Budapest
Carpathian
Vienna
Moscow
Lower Rhine
Holland
Bombing of Okayama Depot by B 29s Hits Formosa Target
American B 29s based in China launched a large strike against Okayama C1 depot on Formosa’s southwest coast. Early reports credit the attack as successful, though four bombers were missing at press time with hopes they reached friendly bases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Cronin
Associated Press
America
Battle of
Formosa
Navy
Okayama
Twentieth Bomber Command
Japan
Soldier linked to Georgette Bauerdorf case at Fort Bliss
4 Pvt. Jerome M. Brown an anti aircraft artillery trainee from Chicago was identified by Fort Bliss authorities as the man Bauerdorf planned to visit before her slaying. Army officials quoted Brown saying he expected her to arrive here yesterday and that they met at the Hollywood Canteen on June 13. He said he left California after that meeting, arrived at Fort Bliss on June 29, and that they exchanged six letters. He formerly served at Camp Callan, California.
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EL Paso
Tex
Jerome M. Brown
Chicago
Fort Bliss
Georgette Bauerdorf
Hollywood Oil
Army
Brown
Miss Bauerdorf
Hollywood Canteen
California
Camp Callan
Calif
Presidential Contest Speeds Up With Key State Appeals
The presidential race grows feverish as Roosevelt aides hint at a tentative calendar that includes talks in Philadelphia Cleveland and Chicago plus a New York policy speech next Saturday night. Dewey adds a Pittsburgh stop Friday and plans St Louis talk and an international affairs forum in New York. Berle accuses Dewey of falsely portraying the administration as seeking a Communist system in Charleston West Virginia.
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Roosevelt
St. Louis
New York Herald-Tribune Forum
Robert F. Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
New York
Hannegan
Ogden Reid
The
Herald Tribune
Reid
Adolf A. Berle, Jr
Gov
Dewey
Charleston
W. Va
Dewey Berle
Stork And Orchid To Arrive Simultaneously
In Kansas City on October 14 Nedville Nordness AP war correspondent in Paris sent an orchid home to his wife. The AP relayed news that the flower was en route to New York and Mrs Nordness said she might give birth at St Luke's hospital as the orchid and baby could arrive together.
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Kansas City
Nedville Nordness
Associated Press
Paris
New York
F. K. Butler
Government Financing War At 134%
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau said wartime debt growth was funded at about 1 percent interest, far below World War I levels. He cited annual interest savings near four billion dollars and taxable securities boosting net treasury savings by several hundred million dollars a year. He expected no rise in rates and a plan to refund obligations as they come due.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
First B-29 cost to build revealed in war bond tally
Dayton reports the first B-29 Superfortress cost 3,392,396.60 to build funded by 180,928 of 25 war bonds. ATSF Chief Brig. Gen. Kenneth B. Wolfe notes current Superfortress cost about 600,000 each as example of new warplane expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Air Technical Service Command
Kenneth B. Wolfe
ATSF
Nazis Pushed Back On Po Valley Front
British and American forces advance along the Po valley front in Italy as Canadian troops push toward Cesena and Forli. The American Fifth Army fights along the Bologna Rimini corridor while German resistance remains firm north of Rimini. Clear skies aid operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Heinzerling
Rome
Italy
Cesena
Adriatic
Rimini
Via Emilia
Bologna
Forli
Giumbino
Fifth Army
Bologna-Rimini
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Memel
East Prussia
Big Island
U. S. Air Forces
China Coast
By Joun Grover
Tansui
Kasho
Okayma
Takao
Partisans
Magyar Plains
U.S
Heart of Aachen
Winston
By Kirke Simpson
Stork
Orchid
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