Tanks Save Beachhead In Salerno Landing
Allied dispatch from North Africa recounts eight U S tanks surviving German 88 mm fire to push inland after Sept 9 landings. They knocked out two enemy tanks, destroyed a pillbox, an ammo truck, and aided captures near Albanela while Captain Martin Peterson escaped a burning tank.
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North Africa
United States
Salerno
Dave Golding
Stars and Stripes
Golding
Albanela
Tank Company
Martin J. Peterson
Kansas City
Peterson
Exchange Ship Reported Sailed From Yokohama
Berlin radio quotes Tokyo advices that the Telia Maru loaded with Americans who had been Japanese hands since Pearl Harbor sailed from Yokohama today. It is expected to reach Mormugao in Portuguese India by mid October, the broadcast recorded by the Associated Press states. The exchange liner Gripsholm left New York on September 2.
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London
Berlin
Tokyo
Yokohama
Mormugao
Portuguese India
Associated Press
Gripsholm
New York
Weather Outlook for Carolinas Shows Moderately Cool Periods
Moderately cool conditions prevail this afternoon tonight and into Wednesday forenoon across North and South Carolina. Temperatures dip slightly this evening with gradual warming by midday tomorrow as high pressure influences keeping skies mostly clear.
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North
South Carolina
Averages Slump On Weed Mart
Official averages on the middle flue cured tobacco belt show prices slipping after an irregular opening. Durham, Henderson, and Oxford reported mixed totals with averages around 32 to 34 cents. better grades reached 46 to 47 cents, while poorer leaf yielded only a few cents. Crop quality was generally off due to hot, dry weather, and growers faced frustration as higher opening prices elsewhere contrasted with local softness.
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Associated Press
Middle Belt
L. G. Cheek
Durham
Henderson
Oxford
Georgia- Florida
Agriculture Department
Two Hunters Plead Guilty In Out Of Season Pheasant Hunt
In Boise Idaho two men admitted illegal hunting after U S Game Agent Robert Bach reported pheasants shot out of season. Bach's dog found two dead pheasants as the men confessed. Also noted is the repatriation of 1330 Japanese civilians with 173 more expected at Rio de Janeiro and an exchange at Mormugao for about 1250 U S citizens and 250 other nationals.
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Boise
Idaho
U. S
Robert Bach
Bach
Rio de Janeiro
Mormugao
United States
American Republics
Canada
Treasury Men Confident Of War Loan Quota
Washington reports $2.369 billion already in the till and confidence that the $15 billion third war loan quota will be met. Three day sales totaled $1.802 billion with corporations and large investors supplying $1.474 billion and individuals $328 million. Delaware led in percent of quota with 28 percent from $14 million, New York 24 percent with $1.12 billion, and North Carolina 16 percent with $24 million.
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Washington
Delaware
New York
North Carolina
The
Treasury
Fiscal policy through wars and bond drives over time
The piece traces funding methods in wartime United States from the Civil War through World War II and beyond. It notes Richmond meal prices at $75, bond bursts, North taxation, greenbacks devaluing, Jay Cooke’s bond drives, and the shift to Liberty Bonds. It highlights postwar bond drives with large totals and oversubscription in earlier loans.
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Richmond
Congress
Jay Cooke
Cooke
Boston
San Francisco
America
Tragic Fire Claims Life of Mrs. Knight in Guilford County
Mrs. Knight, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Henry Winslow of High Point, is survived by two sisters Elma and Ida Winslow of High Point and two brothers Robert Winslow Jamestown route 1 and Glenn Winslow Baltimore Md. The Knights belonged to New Garden Friends church Wilma Knights sang in the choir and helped in young people work. They lived for many years in the Guilford college community.
Allied Bombers Strike Paramushiro Again From Aleutians
U S army bombers hit Paramushiro in the Kurile islands for the fourth time this year in a new raid. The attack, part of unified operations, likely drew from Attu or Kiska bases in the Aleutians to reach the northern Japanese port. Paramushiro, a key to Tokyo, lies within bomber range from the Aleutians.
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Japan
Kurile Islands
Aleutians
Navy
Paramushiro
Attu
Kiska
Aleutian Chain
Tokyo
Bering Sea
Attu-Kiska
United Nations
Tuberculosis Hampered U S War Power, Costs One Billion
Buffalo report to wartime conference cites Gen C R Reynolds stating tuberculosis cost the U S military one billion dollars in World War I. He notes low army admission rates but high time lost due to chronic disease, with prolonged hospitalization and invalidism common outcomes.
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Buffalo
N. Y
United States
American Hospital Association
C. R. Reynolds
Bureau of Tuberculosis Control
Pennsyvania State Department of Health
Hose Hunters Cedar Rapids
Mr and Mrs Woodrow Knurr arrived in Cedar Rapids advertising a reward for a suitable home then waited in a hotel for results. Days passed with no satisfactory options found and the couple announced plans to move to Minneapolis.
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Cedar Rapids
Woodrow Knurr
Knurrs
Minneapolis
Lt DeWitt Speaks At Civitan Meet
Lt Louis N DeWitt commanding officer at High Point College airforce training detachment spoke to Civitan Club members about the preliminary physical mental and air training received by stationed students. He answered questions from civilians after the talk chaired by Robert L Thompson with Rev Howard Hartsell in charge of the program.
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Louis N. DeWitt
High Point College Airforce Training Detachment
Civitan Club
DeWitt
Robert L. Thompson
Army
Howard Hartsell
Allied forces press in Salerno area as German counterattacks intensify
Field Marshal Kesselring threw armored divisions against Clark's Fifth Army as air power and heavy fighting raged along the Salerno front. The Nazis, including the Hermann Goering division, pressed counterattacks while Allied bombers targeted road junctions and installations around Torre Del Greco, Pompei, Potenza, and Auletta. Allies reported ten German planes destroyed and three Allied aircraft losses.
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Albert Kesselring
Hermann Goering
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Salerno
Transocean
Eighth Army
Italy
Cosenza
Reggio di Calabria
Taranto
Brindisi
Bari
Adriatic
Gioja
Clark
Tunisia
Medjez el Bab
Sicily
Torre del Greco
Pompei
Bay of Naples
Potenza
Auletta
Russians claim Bryansk held by Germans in autumns long ago
Berlin reports heavy street fighting at Novorossisk as German forces press on. The Moscow bulletin says Bryansk was evacuated by Germans after a failed Russian encirclement while other Red Army units advance toward Kiev and the Dnieper, moving from Bryansk toward the Sea of Azov and Crimea.
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Novorossisk
Kuban
Bryansk
Vyazma
Red Army
Kiev
Dnieper
Sea of Azov
Crimea
Moscow
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