Malta shoots down 115th axis plane in steady fight
Cairo dispatch reports Malta's air defenses bagged eight more axis planes, reaching 115 for the month in Mediterranean operations seen as protecting North Africa reinforcements. The RAF losses totaled 23 Spitfires with eight saved. Rome noted increased Axis sea traffic to Libya and Egypt, though Rommel's supply levels remained uncertain amid ongoing sky battles. Submarine attacks and long range bombers were also active, with a continuation noted on page 2-Cot. 5.
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Guilford Ends State Salvage Drive Read in County Race
Guilford County again forged into the salvage read in the statewide drive, giving Guilford a slight edge over Durham after a long week of a tense race. The contest reported 4,167,183 pounds, with per capita averages near ninety-four counties. The committee leading the drive drew 642,900 ads for the period, amid calls for stronger effort as the drive continued.
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British Lancasters raid Le Creusot in daylight attack
London reports a large force of four motored Lancasters attacked the Le Creusot armament works at dusk in the heaviest daylight raid of the war. The operation, conducted without fighter escort, was described as highly successful with all but one aircraft returning. RAF fighters and Spitfires supported earlier strikes on occupied Europe.
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Arm plan weighs Chinese Russian gun power, US tempo
New York Oct 17 The economist Andrew Zelanek of International Statistical Bay says the United States can either arm and deploy millions of Chinese and Russians for guns soon or build a large domestic army while China and Russia stay under gunless. He notes Britain and the US can both make and fire, while China and Russia rely on manpower to fire guns but cannot produce them in bulk. A third option is a compromise under President Roosevelt to end the war quickly with minimal cost. Zelanek, sandy haired, 40ish.
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Andrew W. Zelek
International Statistical Bay, Inc
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Great Britain
Russia
China
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Allied raids strike solomons and new guinea advance
General MacArthur announced Allied bombers pounded Japanese bases and ships in the Solomon Islands while Allied ground troops captured Templeton's Crossing high in the Owen Stanley range in New Guinea. A large Japanese transport was attacked off Shortland Island with the outcome not known.
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Unrest grows in France as workers rebel
London dispatches report that German execution squads pursue a pacification program in occupied territories while unrest deepens in France. Police and Laval forces press to draft workers for Germany, with at least 55 killed in Lyon and Amberieu, hundreds injured, as both occupied and unoccupied areas end the week in a restive mood.
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Vichy
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Cardinal Dies in Rio at 60 After Heart Attack
Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra, archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, died today from a heart attack at age 60. He had held the cardinalate since June 30, 1930.
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Large Convoy Arrives Safe After Attacks By Nazi Subs
A British port reports a large convoy arriving safely from the United States after four days of evasive action against a German submarine pack. Air cover from American planes, RAF coastal command, and British ships deterred torpedo attacks, with several U-boats sunk or driven off by Flying Fortresses Catalinas Liberators and Hudsons over Iceland and convoy routes. The escorting forces claimed multiple submarines destroyed or damaged and the convoy reached British waters safely.
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Russians Admit Four Withdrawals At Stalingrad
Moscow dispatch reports that the Red Army held firm against the German drive in Stalingrad. The Soviet midnight communique said German tanks broke through briefly near a factory but all tanks were destroyed by day’s end. It noted heavy fighting with German tanks and planes failing to gain ground and eight more enemy tanks destroyed by Red Air Force on Friday in the northwest sectors.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
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Stalingrad
Red Air Force
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Caucasus
House and Senate Reach Tax Bill Agreement
Senate and House conferees adopt a compromise tax bill with Treasury estimating annual federal revenues rise by 36.9 billion dollars. The measure increases taxes versus both chambers versions, includes a 5 percent Victory tax on weekly income over 12 dollars and a 40 percent corporate rate. Senate Finance chair calls it an excellent bill, House chair says it is as good as possible.
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Senate Finance Committee
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Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt backs McNutt over veterans on rehab plan
President Roosevelt sides with Paul V. McNutt against a united veterans groups on rehabilitating disabled WWI era servicemen. The American Legion urged vocational training be with the Veterans' Bureau, which sponsors the program. the President then asked the Federal Security Administrator to take the assignment. Continued on Page 7-Sec A.
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Roosevelt
Paul V. McNutt
F.D.R
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Veterans’ Bureau
Legionnaires
Senate Finance Committee
Federal Security Administrator
House Okays Bill Calling Young Men 18 And 19 To War
The House passed a bill making youths aged eighteen and nineteen subject to the draft in a 345 to 16 vote. President Roosevelt had urged the step five days earlier, with estimates showing about 1.5 million 18 and 19-year-olds would be inducted to help reach a 7,500,000 force in 1943. The measure would end educational deferments after next July and include married men with children only if their state has eligible single or childless married men. Local quotas and draft-board rules would become mandatory under the plan.
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Army Bombers Score Again On Japs At Kiska
Navy reports B-26 Marauders attacked and damaged a cargo ship in Gertrude Cove on Kiska Island and hit two Japanese destroyers to the northeast, likely sinking one. One US plane was shot down. Japanese losses reach at least 42 ships sunk or damaged in the Aleutians campaign.
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Army
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Aleutian Islands
U S Troops Land In Liberia As US RAF Hunt Sub
United States troops arrived in Liberia where RAF patrols use the country as a base to hunt Nazi submarines along West Africa. The dispatch notes Roosevelt's representative met President Bar clay in Monrovia after talks. Liberia lies about 750 miles from Dakar amid war hopes.
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United States
Negro Republic of Liberia
Reuters
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Liberia
West Africa
U. S
Roosevelt
Monrovia
Edwin Barclay
Another Negro Is Lynched In Mississippi
LAUREL Miss Oct 17 Gov Paul B Johnson stationed two Mississippi State Guard units in Jones county to preserve order as a grand jury probes the lynching of Howard Wash age 49 a Negro who murdered his white employer Clint Welborn The lynching marked the week s third in Mississippi A mob of about 75 to 100 white men took Wash from the jail and hanged him Two 14 year old Negroes were lynched near Shubuta Monday after alleged attacks on a white girl The governor said several men were captured and troops sent to arrest others Judge F Brukitt Collins asked for a thorough investigation and recessed the grand jury until Monday without report
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Miss
Paul B. Johnson
Mississippi State Guard
Jones County
Howard Wash
Mississippi
Shubuta
Jackson
F. Brukitt Collins
Clint Welborn
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Grand Jury
Antagonists Square Off For Showdown In Solomons War
Washington reports all American arms in the Southwest Pacific gathered for the Solomon Islands fight. Navy says the battle is developing toward a showdown, with Army Navy and Marine forces meeting a serious enemy assault as both sides maneuver in the Solomons waters and on Guadalcanal. Japanese losses include a cruiser, transport damage, and eight planes.
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Solomon Islands
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Army
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Solomons
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Japan
GOP Speaker Charged With Seeking Peace
Democratic Leader McCormack charged that Clarence Budington KeHand, head of the Republican National Committee, signaled a stance for negotiated peace with one caveat that it not be premature. McCormack said this in a prepared address aired on a blue network.
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Clarence Budington KeHand
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Hitler’s Contempt for Allies Revealed Before War
Chicago report details Adolf Hitler’s August 22 1939 speech to generals nine days before war. He mocked Italy’s king and Japan’s crown prince, praised speed and brutality, distrusted Japan, and said Poland pact was only to gain time. Source cites Berlin AP bureau chief Lewis Lochner.
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