Eighth Army Builds Bridges and Presses Trigno Front
Allied reports say Eighth Army engineers laid bridges over the Trigno River under heavy shelling as American troops advance in the upper Volturno valley. Monro announced a secure bridgehead northwest of the Trigno with intense artillery fire pounding German positions.
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Noland Norgaard
Algiers
Volturno
Raviscanina
Eighth Army
Trigno
Allied
Bernard L. Monroe
Ei Army
Torella del Sannio
Rerthong
Mafalda
Montecileone
Berlin
London
Reuters
Montefalcone
Montemi
War Today analysis of the Dnieper battle and Nazi risk
DeWitt MacKenzie argues the Dnieper fight signals grim Nazi peril with Berlin preparing for catastrophe. He notes German troops trapped by the bend face withdrawal pressure as Moscow reports continued fighting and heavy casualties but no decisive collapse yet.
Food will lead world effort in 1944 says Wallace
Vice President Henry A. Wallace told a National Food conference that food will be the dominant factor in 1944. He praised Allied food aid to Britain Russia and occupied Italy and urged more food to Russia to reduce American casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Henry A. Wallace
National Food Conference of
For Freedom, Inc
Russia
Italy
Wallace
Partisans Inflict Heavy Losses on German Forces in Balkans
Yugoslav communiques report partisans in Montenegro and Sandjak areas near Albania strike German units causing heavy losses. Captures include officers allied with the Germans and a named traitor. In Slovenia and near Ljubljana, partisan actions destroy a textile factory and railway links while German advances face stiff resistance.
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London
Broz
Drug Tito
Liberation Army
Tenegro
Sandjak
Bosnia
Albania
Kolasin
Berane
Tha Sawamamione Salen
Vwversseclfegee Sreee Bere
Yugslav
Djukanovic
Stanislau
Balkans
Paris
Samos
Leros
Aegean Sea
Cairo
Antimacchia
Cos
Sknolja Loka
Ljubljana
Dr. Edwards
Rmall
Winston Churchill
Mediterranean
Slovenia
Novomesto
Yugoslavia
Draja Mihailovicc
Peter
Lewis Rejects Plan to End Coal Wage Dispute
John L. Lewis rejected the War Labor Board compromise on coal miners wages. He told district UMWA presidents by telegram he viewed the plan for approving a $1.232 daily earnings increase as equal to reducing the basic wage rate, as work stoppages spread in the field.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
United Mine Workers
UMWA
WLB
Illinois
Physicians to Meet at Regional ACP Session in Winston-Salem
Doctors and medical officers of the armed services will attend a regional meeting of the American College of Physicians in Winston-Salem tomorrow. Sessions begin at 2 p.m. in the amphitheater of Bowman Gray School of Medicine and conclude with a dinner at 7 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
Armed Services
American College of Physicians
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Attempt on Mussolini reportedly sabotaged plane route
Radio France in Algiers quoted an Italian frontier report claiming an assassination attempt targeted Benito Mussolini. The broadcast said the lane planned for his visit to Littler's headquarters was found sabotaged but gave no further details.
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Duce
London
Radio France
Algiers
Benito Mussolini
Litter
Fingerprint ruling opens Bahamas murder trial record
Chief Justice Sir Oscar Bed ford Daly admitted the disputed fingerprint evidence in the Alfred De Marigny murder case over Sir Harry Oakes. Barker testified he lifted prints from a bedscreen and attached them to adhesive rubber, with the defense arguing the screen itself was the best evidence.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Oscar Bedford Daly
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Stern
Godfrey Higgs
James O. Barker
Barker
de Marigny
Miami
Godfrey S. Higgs
Eric Hallinan
Film Star Virginia Weidler Stricken With Pneumonia
Relatives report actress Virginia Weidler has pneumonia in San Francisco after a tour through the east. Her mother Mrs. Margaret Weidler is with her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holywood
Virginia Weidler
San Francisco
Margaret Weidler
American troops use horse mounts in Italian reconnaissance
With the Fifth Army in Italy on October 28, American forces employ horse mounts for reconnaissance in rugged terrain where combat is ongoing. Mounted units were formed in Sicily after its conquest.
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FIFTH
Italy
Sicily
Castelmauro Falls to Allied Forces After Bitter Battle
In the Castelmauro area six miles southwest of Palata, Eighth Army units captured the town after a hard fought clash that pushed British forces a mile and a half beyond their previous line. Farther south Germans harassed advancing units toward Bojano and the vital inland road to Isernia while artillery delayed American thrusts in the Fifth Army sector. Clark’s troops seized Riardo and expanded the Volturno front, but the main mountain defense line remains beyond reach as German forces withdraw.
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Tro
Castelmauro
Palata
Eighth Army
Bojano
Isernia
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Volturno
Riardo
Raviscanina
Capua
Krivoi Rog
Ukraine
Crimea
Melitopol
Moscow
Akimovka
Nikopol
Maganese
Dnieper
Zaporozhe
Sea of Azov
Kherson
Geen
Perekopya Kherson
Nikolai
Yank Airmen Blast Rabaul New Landings Reported
Allied headquarters report B-24 Liberators and fighters blasted Rabaul destroying or damaging hundreds of planes in 13 days. In five raids Oct 12–25, more than 500 tons of bombs hit airfields as Allied fighters claimed dozens of enemy aircraft. Tokyo radio claimed landings on Mono Island near Shortland in the Solomons.
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Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
Philippines
MacArthur
New Britain
Acr
Lakunai
Bougainville
Solomons
Wewak
New Guinea
New York
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Mono Island
Shortland Island
United States
Shortland
Kahili
Kara
Shortlands
Vella Lavella
Kolombangara
New Comic Hit Will Start Here Now
Roy Crane creator of Cap not easy will start his smash strip Buz Sawyer in The Enterprise Monday Crane leaves Cap n Easy to launch Buz Sawyer a feature readers long awaited Look for this Enterprise feature November 1
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Roy Crane
Cap'n Easy
Buz Sawyer
Enterprise
Crane
American prisoners report German hostility and pessimism in retreat
Fourteen American soldiers freed from German camps describ e German attitudes as pessimistic about the war and angry toward Americans. They recount rocks and hot coffee thrown at airmen during bombardment sorties and note widespread destruction in Germany. One wounded veteran, Pfc. Herbert Ehrich of Brooklyn, cites expected end of the war by January 1944 and credits Red Cross food packages for survival after brutal front-line service in Sicily and Tunisia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan F. Chester
Cheshire
England
Sicily
Herbert Ehrich
Barbey Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lester Miller
Hartford
Conn
Holland
Hamburg
Berlin
Augsburg
Ehrich
Tunisia
Troina
Munich
Red Cross
Sales Tax Proposals Rejected by House Ways and Means
Washington action: House Ways and Means Committee rejects all plans for a national retail sales tax and limits new revenue to about 2 billion dollars. Administration opposed the tax, warning it could trigger wage increases. A proposed 10 percent levy with cost of living safeguards was also voted down.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Rep. Robertson
D-Va
Anti-Trust Suit Filed Against Merck in Federal Court
The Department of Justice filed a civil complaint in Trenton New Jersey accusing Merck & Co Rahway New Jersey and E Merck Chemical Works Darmstadt Germany of maintaining a cartel in violation of anti trust laws. Defendants include Merck president George W Merck and Powers Weighman Rosengarten Corp with co conspirators Karl Merck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
Trenton
N. J
Merck & Company, Inc
Rahway
E. Merck Chemical Works
Darmstadt
Germany
Merck and Company
George W
George W. Merck, President, and Powers-Weighman- Rosengarten Corporation
Merck
Karl Merck
Duke Power Tax Suit Carried to High New Jersey Court
Hillsborough Township seeks to reverse a 1939 tax ruling and add 11.6 million dollars in tangible personal property to its tax lists. Duke Power, moving its office to Flemington, argues the decision rested on improper tax treatment of out-of-state payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke Power
N.J. Court
Trenton
N. J
Hillsborough Township
Duke Power Company
Carolinas
New Jersey
W. Eddy Heath
Somerville
Court of Errors and Appeals
State Supreme Court
Duke
Hillsborough
Flemington
Reme
State Board of Appeals
Somerset County Tax Board
Heath
North Carolina
Carriers and Land Planes Set for Pacific Air Battles
The United States faces a likely clash between carrier based and land based airpower as it targets Japanese outer defenses in the central Pacific. Navy officials expect carrier air strikes to pressure Japanese defenses while land based units guard Marshall Gilbert and Caroline island garrisons.
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Washington
Central Pacific
Marcus
Wake Islands
South Pacific
Marshall and
Gilbert Islands
Carolines
Philippines
Russians drive to encircle German forces in southern Ukraine
Soviet troops press westward along a 150 mile front threatening a closing pocket in the Dnieper bend. Krivoi Rog is reported as toppled or near collapse, with red troops flanking German defenses as Moscow says a large withdrawal is underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dnepropetrovsk
Ukraine
Berlin
Dnieper
Moscow
Brown-Out Succeeds Coast Dim-Out as Sub War Eases
Washington reports a shift from dim-out to brown-out on November 1 as Allied success against submarines reduces need for city lighting restrictions. The plan aims to conserve power while keeping communities ready for possible reimposed controls if the submarine threat returns.
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Washington
Army
Navy
War and Navy Departments
Production Board
WPB
Office of Civilian Defense
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
Yhust
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Associated Press
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Hitler
Azis
Ress
Lewis
Marigny
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Liverpool
By John M. Hightower
Salmon Islands
Alioutians
Solomons Archipelago
Ralph A. Bard
Detroit
Krivoi
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