Disorder And Misery Reported In Italy Nazis Try To Hammer Italy Back Into Line
London dispatch reports chaos in Italy as German forces press to reimpose control. Rome suffers food shortages and hunger while Vatican officials protest conditions. Fighting breaks out along the Brenner Pass and Turin Milan areas as anti Nazi resistance grows.
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William Smith White
London
France
Italy
Rome
Vatican
Pope Pius XII
Stockholm
Brenner Pass
Turin
Upper Peninsula
Genoa
Turin-Milan
Cune
Trentino
Alto Veneto
Libera Stampa
Lugano
Mlaw
Neutrals See War's End In Another Year
London Daily Express surveyed well informed citizens in Turkey Sweden Portugal and Switzerland on when World War II would end. Opinions ranged from end of 1943 to end of 1944 in Europe, with the Far East war not ending before mid 1946. Citizens cited changes in will to fight and strategic shifts as key factors.
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London
INS
London Daily Express
Thorugh
Turkey
Sweden
Portugal
Switzerland
Europe
Far East
Japan
Daily Express
Express
Kenan Sesbes
Germany
Stockholm
Date Line War Theory and Ocean Torpedo Possibilities
In the Pacific war discussion lies the idea that the international date line could cause strange effects. It posits a submarine releasing a torpedo today might strike a ship yesterday, illustrating time travel paradoxes in wartime scenarios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Ocean
Patter Explained Why Congress Talks in Circles
Washington analysis explains parliamentary tricks used in Congress to gain floor time and avoid debate. It covers unanimous consent, striking out words, moving to suspend rules, and pairing votes, with emphasis on how parliaments in both houses operate and why filibusters occur in the Senate.
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Congress
Deschler
Senate
Smith
Jones
House
Death Sentence Imposed On Italians With Guns
Bern Switzerland September 18 German secret police issued a death decree for Italians caught hiding arms or sabotaging military equipment in occupied Italy. The measure signals Nazi ruthlessness and aims to deter resistance as Mussolini’s regime collapses. The Italians show mixed resistance while awaiting clearer Allied and German moves.
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Thomas F. Hawkins
Bern
Switzerland
Italy
Poland
Norway
Low Countries
France
Russia
Badoglio
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Allied anti-air units tally 501 enemy planes in Africa Sicily
War Department reports allied anti-aircraft crews shot down at least 501 enemy planes in North Africa and added 16 in Sicily during the first week there. The account notes rapid deployment, including a Sicilian beach landing where an AA gun hit a Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf 190 at 500 feet, causing a dramatic crash.
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Washington
Sicily
War Department
Bond drive boosts since High Point backs third loan
Bond boosters for Walgreen Drug Company offices allocate 83000 for war bond purchases in support of High Point’s role in the third war loan drive. This figure excludes bond purchases by local store employees.
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Walgreen Drug Company
High Point
U S Officers Visited Rome Before Invasion
Two high ranking American officers met with Italian leaders in Rome hours before the Salerno invasion. Brig. Gen. Maxwell Taylor and Col. William Tudor Gardiner carried out a dangerous mission in uniform, avoiding capture, to gather vital information affecting post armistice events.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Rome
Salerno
Pietro Badoglio
Maxwell Taylor
West Point
Kansas City
William Tudor Gardiner
Maine
Count Calvi di Bergolo Arrives in Switzerland
London reports Count Gregorio Calvi di Bergolo, son-in-law to King Vittorio Emanuele III, has reached Switzerland in a broadcast cited by the British Information Ministry. Earlier, German claims tied to Rome position consolidation named him Italian commander of Rome with a single division at his disposal.
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London
Gregorio Calvi di Bergolo
Vittorio Emaneuele III
Switzerland
Ministry of Information
Rome
Italy
Calvini Berghélo
Tough Ship Survives Two Torpedoings By Enemy
The nameless merchant ship, carrying war cargo, endured two torpedo blows and a second attack near the Portuguese coast while under Captain William S. Harvey. Despite a 40-foot hole, broken steering, coal shifting, and fires, the crew defended the vessel, reached port, and survived the perils of a brutal Atlantic voyage.
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London
INS
Africa
William S. Harvey
Harvey
Stevedores
Vinson Warns Japanese Naval Losses Threaten Supply Lines
Chairman Vinson cites Navy data showing 180 Japanese warships sunk and heavy losses to their merchant and troop ships. He credits Allied sea power for strangling Japan’s garrisons, notes New Guinea advances, and says Italy’s capitulation leaves Japan without German naval aid, forcing Tokyo to stand alone.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Committee
Pacific
Navy Department
ATR
New Guinea
Salamaua
Lae
Wewak
Southwest Pacific
Knox
London
Southwest
Roosevelt
Congress
Naval Committee
Italy
Japan
Germany
West Coast Restrictions May Be Relaxed Soon
San Francisco report on Sept 18 cites Lt General Delos C. Emmons announcing potential easing of civilian wartime controls on the West Coast. Emmons vows not to endanger security while moving civilian defense toward a modern, workable system. He warns the threat remains and evacuee restrictions persist without War Department approval.
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San Francisco
Partiel
War Department
First US passenger car built for sale by Duryea Wagon Co
The Duryea Wagon Company of Springfield Massachusetts produced the first passenger automobile regularly manufactured for sale in the United States in 1895. A steam driven prototype had been invented by Henry Alonzo House 29 years earlier.
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United States
Duryea Wagon Company
Springfield
Mass
Henry Alonzo House
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New York
Georgia
Lewis Deschler
House of Commons
United States Congress
ARMY
U. S
Remaielittes
Happy Landing
Burlington Mills
High Point Weaving Company
Hillcrest Throwing Company
Burlington Mills Corporation
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