Fifth Army Advances Threaten Massico Ridge Amid Battles
Allied forces push on along the Fifth Army front near Sparanise advancing toward Pigfore and Maggiora to threaten the Massico Ridge. German counterattacks are repelled as air and sea operations intensify across Italy and Albania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Tirana
Albania
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montry
Trig
Fifth Army
Rman
Sparanise
Pigfore
Maggiora
Massico
Volturno
Mark W
Pignatoro
Isernia
Massico Ridge
L Yards
Pistoia
Florence
Formia
Turo
Naples
Italy
Reich
Adriatic
Korcula
Dubrovnik
Cassino
Mount Mas
Lorie
Nia
Terni
Crippling Rail and Coal Strikes Loom in 1942 Balance
Washington reports wage strikes threaten continued rail transport and coal production. The War Production Board warns of crippling effects on steel plants, shipyards, and munitions unless a settlement occurs. UMW calls miners back as work stoppages rise with wage disputes and union actions loom nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
United Mine Workers
War Labor
WLB
Ilinois
UMW
Brotherhood of Railroad
AFL
War Labor Board
Los Angeles
Britain
U.S
United Nations
Alabama
Indiana
Gulf Coast
War Production Board
Bethlehem Fairfield
Baltimore
War Today: Dnieper battle and Moscow talks shape world conflict
The article weighs the Dnieper front battle against the Moscow conference among the big three nations. It notes Red Army momentum near Krivoi Rog threatens a major German setback while Hull Eden Molotov seek to remove distrust to avert a broader war.
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Russia
Dnieper
Moscow
America
Britain
Hitler
Hull
Eden
Molotov
the Dnieper
Second Front
France
Berlin
Krivoi Rog
Japs Fail In Attempt To Pierce Aussie Lines
Allied commander reports Japanese assaults near Finschaffen repulsed as Australians hold Ka t ika village. Air wins include destroying 26 enemy planes and sinking ships. several Allied aircraft missing. Efforts aimed to reach the sea via New Guinea coast framed as supply route attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Finschaffen
Katika
Jor
Dagua
Wewak
Buka Island
Solomons
Kahili
Bougainville
Tokyo Announces New War Policies
Tokyo radio reports the Japanese diet will rubber stamp a total mobilization program. It seeks unity between command and administration, a decisive war footing at home, and a vigorous foreign policy to push the war toward a brilliant conclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tokyo Radio
Office of War Information
Bahamas Trial Week Opens With Doctor Testimony In De Marigny Case
Nassau Bahamas October witness Dr William Yohannan told a Bahamas supreme court jury that Alfred de Marigny threatened to crack Sir Harry Oakes's head after a conflict over Nancy de Marigny and hospital scenes. The trial for allegedly murdering the millionaire father in law continues with further testimony.
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Nassau
Bahamas
William Yohannan Sayad
West Palm Beach
Fla
Supreme Court
Alfred de Marginy
Harry Oakes
de Marigny
Nancy
Good Samaritan Hospital
Sir Harry
Sayad
Dr. Sayad
Eunice Oakes
Rival Patriot Forces Clash In Battle In Montenegro
Yugoslav Partisans under Gen. Josip Broz Tito clashed with Gen. Draja Mihailovic forces in Montenegro. Tito’s radio said Mihailovic’s Chetniks joined Germans, with heavy fighting in Hatesevo and Mont Cakor. Earlier reports claimed Partisans captured 2000 Nazi troops at two western Bosnian towns.
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London
Josip (Tito) Broz
Draja Mihailovic
Montenegro
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Slavia
Kingter
Hatesevo
Mont Cakor
Mihailovic
Eee
Bosnia
Matesevo
Reuters
Cairo
Kotor
Split
Yugoslavia
Morocco
Erwin Rommel
Balkan
Air Cadet Held In Slaying Case In New York
Canadian air force cadet Wayne Lonergan 22 was detained by Toronto police for New York investigators in the Bludgeon slaying of his wife Patricia Lonergan 22. Blood stains on the staircase and third floor bedroom scene are key clues as detectives seek a deadly struggle. Interior decorator Mario Gabelline 43, who escorted Mrs Lonergan to clubs, is booked as a material witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wayne Lonergan
Royal Carradian Air Force
Toronto
Patricia Burton Lonergan
Lonergan
District Attorney's Office
Mrs. Lonergan
FDR Slightly Ached From Grippe In Illness Touches Week
President Roosevelt ran a fever of six tenths of a degree and remained a little achey from grippe, though his physician Admiral McIntire expected he could work in his study this afternoon. No regular schedule or appointments were listed at the White House. The illness began last Friday.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ross T. McIntire
White House
FDR Names Bowles For OPA Job
President Roosevelt nominates Chester Bowles to be administrator of the Office of Price Administration AP. Bowles, a New York advertising man, currently general manager of the OPA, would succeed Prentiss M. Brown who resigned last week.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
New York
Office of Price Administration
Roosevelt
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
Brown
Bowles
Two-Way Aerial Squeeze Opens On Germany
RAF Mosquitos bombed Ruhr and Rhineland targets last night. Berlin radio claimed American four-engined bombers, based in Italy, attacked Southern Germany Austria and Hungary. Berlin reports cited Vienna to Budapest raids and shuttle raids from Foggia.
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London
Ruhr
Rhineland
Berlin
Germany
Italy
Austria
Hungary
Britain
DNB
Styria
Reich
Vienna
Wiener Neustadt
North Africa
Budapest
Stockholm
Foggia
England
Gift Tax Increase Voted Down
Washington officials report the committee rejected any rise in estate gift taxes and personal income taxes. Only corporate and excise levies remain possible as the administration seeks wartime revenues. The panel dismissed lowering the gift tax exemption and reducing it from $60,000 to $40,000 despite the treasury push.
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Washington
Treasury
Bomber Attacked Near Attu Island Navy Reports Damage
A Japanese bomber operating near American positions on Attu Island in the Aleutians was attacked yesterday afternoon by a navy patrol bomber and was probably damaged. The incident occurred around October 25 near the international date line, the navy stated today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Attu Island
Aleutians
Navy
Tripower Conferees Begin Drafting War Postwar Terms
Diplomatic experts from the United States Russia and Great Britain move to put into writing points agreed at the tri partisan conference on war and postwar. Hull Eden and Molotov have begun deliberations after agreeing in principle on general questions. The Soviet press urges a coalition among the three powers as essential for future peace while maintaining objections to the Polish government in exile.
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Henry CC
Cassidy
Moscow
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Ingen
U. S
Cordell Hull
Anthony Eden
Vyacheslav Molotov
Hull
Bolshoi Theater
Imperial Box
Ing
London
Nazi Reserves Do Battle to Slow Soviet Drive
In Moscow on October 25 Nazi forces rushed in more troops planes and tanks to halt the Red Army offensive pressing toward Krivoi Rog and the Dnieper bend. Soviet units advance toward Krivoi Rog with a widening gap to the southeast as Zaporozhe and Melitopol areas are outflanked.
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Kiev
Ukraine
Gomel
Moscow
Red Army
Dnieper
Krivoi Rog
Germans Describe Renewed Russian Assault Across Sector
A German broadcast reports waves of 90 minutes apart and an autumn battle from Kremenchug to Melitopol reaching new proportions. German experts say the fighting has achieved ferocity rarely seen before, signaling a new climax in the sector.
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Kremenchug
Meliteopol
Soviet advances threaten German hold on Dnieper bend
Reports say Red Army break through at Zaporozhe Melitopol created danger for German forces in the Dnieper elbow as bridgeheads form near Dnepropetrovsk Krivoi Rog and Melitopol. Russians push along the Askaniya steppe toward the Crimea threatening the last escape route via a single rail line.
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Krivoi Rog
Zaporozhe-Melitopol
Crimea
Dnepropetrovsk
Onisk
Nikopol
Soviet Union
Nikolaev
Kostonovo
Dnieper
Askaniaya Steppe
Steppe
Dnieper River
Melitopol
Askaniya Steppe
Dorado Submarine Listed Lost After Short Service
The Dorado, commissioned August 28, 1943, was declared long overdue and presumed lost. The 307 foot, 1 525-ton submarine carried 65 officers and men under Lieutenant Commander Earle Gaffrey Schneider and was likely lost in the Pacific after less than two months of combat service.
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Washington
Navy
Earle Gaffrey Schneider
Arnold
Groton
Conn
America
Pacific
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Dwight D. Hower
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Korosten
Zhitomir
Cherkassy
Work Movement
Naval Dry Docks
Long Beach
Cal
Marshall Islands
Wake
Marcus
Midway Island
International
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Patriot
Fdr
Air Ministry
Tripower
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