Allied Eighth Pushes Through Volturno Front to Mountain Line
Dispatches from fifth headquarters report German forces retreating to a new rugged mountain line anchored on Mas ridge and Monteleone as Allied troops advance five miles north of Capua. British Eighth Army seizes Petacciato near Termoli while repelling counterattacks on the Adriatic coast.
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Noland Norgaarded
al- Oct
Volturno
Dejon
Masridge
Mon
Vena
Fifth Headquarters
Naples
Rome
Capua
Amer
Venafro
Pignataro
Rocca
Dragoni
Alvignano
Petacciato
Termoli
Bernard L. Montgoms
Adriatic
Othe Eighth Army
Tecilfone
Italy
Red Army pushes west of river in tightening Dnieper stance
Soviet forces trap German units as a flank drive from the Dnieper advances toward Pyatikhatka and Krivoi Rog. German lines shrink to Krivoi Rog corridor with a dangerous situation west of the Crimea while Kiev region sees fierce Red Army counterattacks near Vyshgorod.
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Red Army
Has
Tikhatka
Saeedzhinsk
Dnepropetrovsk
Pyatikhatka
Znamenka
Irovsk
Krivoi Rog
Kri
Judge Charged Over Crooked Court Decisions
Philadelphia reports that Thomas Raeburn White accuses former U S Circuit Judge J Warren Davis of six crooked decisions. He cites bankruptcy cases involving William as a factor and a patent suit won by Universal Oil Products Co. White alleges Davis received illegal payments via attorney Morgan Sufman of Scranton and a $1000 fee.
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Philadelphia
U. S
J. Warren Davis
Decis
Third
U. S. Circuit of Appeals
Thomas Raeburn White
Philalphia
Davis
William
Wtill
Fev
Ieal Oil Products Company
White
Universal Com
Morgan Sufman
Scranton
Nomura Named Commandant At Kure Naval Station
The Tokyo radio reports Admiral Naokuni Nomura was appointed commandant of the Kure naval station by Vice Admiral Chuichi Naoto. Nomura, 58, has held posts including commander of the Kure fleet, submarine fleet, chief of staff of the Combined Japanese Fleet, and naval attache in Berlin and China.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Naokuni Nomura
Kure
Japan
Chuichi Nao
Nomura
Reme War Council
Ving
Cn Cf
China Waters
Berlin
China
Mussolini Signals Resignation Plan for Italian Government
A Budapest dispatch says Benito Mussolini intends to resign as head of the Fascist Republican Government and has asked Berlin directors to name Marshal Rodolfo Graziani as his successor. The report appears in the Gazette de Lausanne.
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Buce
Bern
Switzerland
Budapest
Deusanne
Benitoussolini
Italy
Rtg
Berlin
Olfo Graziani
German Seaborne Attack Smashed By Yugoslavs
Yugoslav forces claim to have repelled a German seaborne assault on western Germany aided by Thunderbolts and Spitfires. The clash followed Allied bombing and Tito’s headquarters reports continued partisan fighting, rail disruptions, and Italian-Romanian troop movements in the Balkans with heavy material losses on both sides.
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Germany
England
London
Adriatic
Drug Tito
Free
Peljesac
Split
Dubrovnik
Hvar
Balkan
Nort Africa
Mljet
Bilece
Herzegovina
Nova
Iman
Trogir
Dalmatian
Italy
Erwin Rommel
Susak
Ovulin
Susak-Sunja
Sunja
Kostajnica
Georgia Chief Wants Lowered Voting Age
Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall urged a constitutional amendment to drop the voting age from 21 to 18. He testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee, arguing youths are intellectually and morally fit to vote and would bring enthusiasm and idealism to government.
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Washington
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
House
Judiciary Subcommittee
Arnal
Senate Passes Anti-Discrimination Amendment to Aid Bill
The senate approved by 40 to 37 an amendment to block racial discrimination in the use of school aid funds. Southern senators signaled they would oppose the bill as amended, with the proposal offered by Senator Langer.
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Washington
Senate
Langer
R-Nad
No Indication Slain WAC Expectant Mother
Richmond officials announced after autopsy that WAC Lt. Mildred S. Arrington was not confirmed as pregnant. Her husband Wendell P. Arrington, charged with her murder, had earlier claimed he strangled her and cut her throat after she said she was to have a child by another man.
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Richmond
Richmond Army Air Base
B. H. Bailey
Henrico County
WAC
Mildred S. Arrington
Wendell P. Arrington
Defense Grills Witness In Sir Harry Oakes Death Case
Nassau Bahamas October 20. Defense attorney Godfrew Higgs cross examines Christie, a house guest at Sir Harry Oakes’s mansion, about finding the burnt body last July and efforts to revive the baronet. Questions probe blood, water, and the night’s events as trial proceeds.
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E. V. W. Jones
Nassau
Bahamas
Godfrew Higgs
Harold G. Christie
Sir Harry Oakes
Alfred de Marigny
Higgs
Christie
Oakes
Harry
Invasion Timing For France Remains Unsettled
The article reviews the pending question of when cross channel invasion of France will occur, noting Allied hopes for a spring window, ongoing troop arrivals in Britain, and Churchill's greeting to American soldiers. It cites Dieppe lessons and risks from German land batteries and heavy mine defenses as major dangers to the operation.
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Moscow
France
England
Churchill
Dieppe
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Hitler
English
Ben Bernie Dies in Beverly Hills After Long Illness
Beverly Hills Calif Oct 17 Ben Bernie longtime stage screen and radio maestro died at his apartment this morning after a long pulmonary illness with heart complications He was 52 and surrounded by his wife his son Private Jason Bernie and Herman Bernie and his wife He fell ill with pleurisy in Chicago last February and after a westward relocation to fulfill engagements he relapsed spending 11 weeks in an oxygen tent The life was described as despaired during that period
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Ben Bernie
Jason Bernie
U.S. Army
Herman Bernie
Chicago
Flue-Cured Sale For '43 Under Total Of 1943
The 16 markets of the Carolinas border belt sold 171,045,418 pounds of flue-cured tobacco in the 1943 marketing season, down from 202,070,31 pounds last year. The general average was 38.69 cents per pound, above 37.26 cents last year, with higher prices for lower quality tobacco. Adverse weather kept offerings light and crop maturity late, and sales began August 5 with peak activity in early weeks.
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Raleigh
Carolinas Border Belt
War Food Administration
WFA
Mitchell bombers raid Rabaul in low passes sink ships
Allied air forces report Mitchell bombers flew at tree top height to strike Rabaul and Cape Hoskins while sinking two Japanese warships and destroying 60 planes. Japanese troops push toward Finschhafen as weather hampers operations.
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Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
New Guinea
Solomons
Finschaufen
MacArthur
Cape Hoskins
Cape Gloucester Field
Dampier Strait
Cape Gloucester
Saitelberg
Finschhafen
Friseishafen
Marshall Gives House Inside War Picture
Washington oct 20 members heard General Marshall and Secretary Stimson describe wartime progress in a half hour briefing at the congressional library auditorium. Lawmakers viewed war action films and hailed the session as a convincing, straight from the shoulder briefing on what has been done and what lies ahead.
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Washington
Oct
House
Neval George C. Marshall
Eeenay
War Stimson
Congressional Library
General Marshall
Cannon
D-Mo
Appropriations Committee
Larry MacPhail
Army Public Relations
Million Men Discharged From Army to Be Hired
Frederick C. Crawford president of the National Association of Manufacturers says members plan to hire up to 1,000,000 men who may be medically discharged in 1944. He spoke at an executives conference on public relations in Philadelphia and said industry must have job spots ready before releases.
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Philadelphia
Frederick C. Crawford
National Association of Manufacturers
Cleveland
Daily Moscow talks begin after first wartime meeting
In Moscow U S Secretary of State Cordell Hull British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov open daily conferences on wartime and postwar matters at Spiridonovka Palace after a two hour 15 minute initial session. No details released.
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Moscow
Hull
Anthony Eden
Red Commissar
U. S
Cordell Hull
Vyacheslav Molotov
Spiridonovka Palace
Red Triumph Is Virtual Catastrophe For Hitler
Stockholm dispatches report the Red Army breached German eastern front defenses in a major breakthrough. Berlin sources say the event could eclipse Stalingrad, signaling a shift of initiative to the Soviets and a growing German crisis as Sommerfeldt announces a Russian breakthrough at a press conference.
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John Colburn Stockholmn
Germany
Berlin
Aftonbladet
Stalingrad
Egg See
Sommerfeldt
High Command
Red Army captures Pyatikhatka cutting Nazi escape line
London reports the 4%-un mass attack breaches German lines southeast of Kremenchug and seizes Pyatikhatka, a key rail junction 70 miles west of Dnepropetrovsk. Four divisions rout the defenders, 1,800 Nazis captured, and Dnepropetrovsk loses most rail connections, isolating pockets along the Dnieper. Allied observers note a vast spoil pile of trains, tanks, guns, and trucks left behind.
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London
Kremenchug
Pyatikhatka
Dnepropetrovsk
Moscow
Nikolaev
Black Sea
Dnieper
Znamenka
16 Percent Newsprint Cut Urged By WPB Chief
Washington October 20 H M Bitner head of the WPB printing and publishing division urged newspaper publishers to accept a 16 per cent cut in November newsprint consumption. He said this slash would replace tapping reserves and reduce inventories from 40 to 30 days in the northeast and central states and from 65 to 55 days in the south and west.
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Washington
H. M. Bitner
War Production Board
WPB
Eitner
Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee
Northeast
Central States
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