Reds Drive to Mountain Tops as McNapoli Axis Falls
Allied forces push to the summit line above the Naples plain as American and British troops storm German defenses. Over 2,000 Nazi prisoners taken since Salerno landings. Junkers transport planes shot down while Corsica routes are bombed.
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Noland Norgaad Allied
North Africa
Naples
Corsica
Italy
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Salerno
RAF
Wee
Yugoslav Patriots Halt German Attacks at Split
London dispatch reports Yugoslav patriot armies repelling several German assaults on Split, holding much of Susak in the north, and destroying armored trains tanks and other equipment as thousands of enemy casualties were claimed in a late communique.
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Associated Press
London
Adriatic
Split
Susak
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Balkans
Fiume
Gorizia
Trieste
Zagreb-Belgrade
Brod
Vinkovi
Idria
Lika
Dalmatia
Bihac-Kninine
Istanbul
Middle East
Draja Mihailovic
Yugoslavia
BBC
Cairo
Messenia
Greece
CBS
Stockholm
Italy
Albert Kesselring
Germany
Casualties At Salerno Put At 3 497
The War Department announced American casualties at Salerno through September 15 total 3 497 killed wounded and missing. The report notes Sept 14 German claims of 8 000 to 10 000 American deaths and similar captivity figures, amid German counterattacks on Allied beachheads.
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Washington
U?p
War Department
Salerno
Roosevelt
Sicily
Soviet Spearheads Pierce Dnieper Defenses
Soviet columns chased German forces after capturing Smolensk as reports said Red Army spearheads breached the Dnieper line at several points from Smolensk toward Kiev. Gen. Sokolovsky’s troops pushed along the Moscow Minsk highway toward Orsha.
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London
Smolensk
Red Army
Moscow
Dnieper
Kiev
Associated Press
Vassily Sokolovsky
Roslavl
Moscow-Minsk
Napoleon
Russia
Orsha
Virtebsk
Latvia
Vitebsk
Joseph Stalin
Allied Troops Near Finschhafen Push Southward
Allied forces under Gen. MacArthur reported crossing the Bumi river within three quarters of a mile of Finschhafen New Guinea. Australian troops pressed toward the town despite bitter Japanese resistance and air attacks by a numerically superior force. Nearby Soviet successes included Smolensk liberation after fierce street fighting and the capture of key northern districts.
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Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Bumi River
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Huon Peninsula
Japan
New Britain
Bumi
Moscow
Sokolovsky
Smolensk
Hull to Head to Moscow for Major Allied Conference
Secretary of State Cordell Hull may attend the Moscow conference on allied war and post-war cooperation. Ambassador William Standley plans to resign, with W. Averell Harriman likely to succeed him. Anthony Eden expected to represent Britain as talks hinge on American British Soviet collaboration.
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Washington
Moscow
Cordell Hull
Hull
William H. Standley
Roosevelt
Standley
Molotov
W. Averell Harriman
Lend Lease
London
White House
Harriman
Britain
Forign
Anthony Eden
Mrs Eleanor Sere To Describe South Pacific War Tour
New York report states Mrs Eleanor Sere, recently returning from a South Pacific war theater tour, will describe her experiences in a Blue Network broadcast next Monday from 7 05 to 7 30 p m Eastern War Time. The program originates in Washington DC.
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New York
Nea
Blue Network
Eleanor Sere
South Pacific
EWT
Washington, D. C
Work Resumed In Ship Yard After Strike
In Jacksonville Florida on September 25 a three day labor dispute halted operations at the St Johns River Shipbuilding Company yards. Arbitration will interpret seniority and promotion clauses as 95 percent of 15 000 workers return to duties. Union leaders cited the hiring of J R Haughton of Wilmington North Carolina as superintendent of shipwrights as the dispute trigger. No wage issues were raised.
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Jacksonville
Fila
St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company
U. S. Maritime Commission
J. R. Haughton
Wilmington
N. C
U S Bombers Hit Longuenesse Airfield in France
Allied air action across northern France Belgium and Holland included Marauder bombers striking the Longuenesse airfield at St Omer and RAF Beaufighters sinking a medium sized supply vessel off Den Helder. Spitfires escorted the raid. several locomotives barges and enemy aircraft were destroyed or damaged with multiple planes reported missing.
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Associated Press
London
Longuenesse
St. Omer
France
Belgium
den Helder
North Holland
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Air Ministry
U. S. Army
Coastal Command
Fighter Command
Guadalcanal Flag Raised at New York War Bond Rally
The tattered flag from Henderson Field in Guadalcanal was raised in front of the sub-treasury during a war bond rally. Private First Class Dana Babcock, a 27 year old Huntington New York marine wounded on Guadalcanal, raised the flag for the first public display since return from the South Pacific.
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New York
Henderson Field
Guadalcanal
Sub-Treasury
Dana Babcock
Huntington
N. Y
South Pacific
Sumner Welles Quits Post FR Bolsters Foreign Policy
President Roosevelt named 42 year old C hicago executive Stettinius as undersecretary of state to replace Sumner Welles who resigned. Leo Crowley of Wisconsin will head foreign economic activities. Former Gov Herbert Lehman was named special assistant to plan for the November 9 UN relief meeting. Welles cited wife’s health. differences with Hull noted.
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Sumner Welles
D. Harold Oliver Washington
Roosevelt
Chicago
Ae Ece R. Stettinius, Jr
Nelson Rockefeller
Office of Inter-American Affairs
Leo T. Crowley
Wisconsin
Third Step
Herbert Lehman
New York
United Nations
Lehman
Welles
Hull
State Department
Soviet announces Mediterranean commission formed in North Africa
The Soviet foreign affairs information bureau named Andrei Vishinsky as its rep to a new inter allied Mediterranean commission with headquarters in Algiers. Harold MacMillan will be the British representative. a U.S. delegate is expected soon. The panel will address armistice questions with Italy and liberated territories and include a French National Liberation Committee member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Soviet Foreign Affairs Information Bureau
Andrei G. Vishinsky
Inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission
Algiers
Moscow
Soviet Monitor
Harold MacMillan
North Africa
United States
Italy
French Committee of National Liberation
Britain
Russia
Washington
Churchill
House of Commons
Willow Run Bomber Plant Termed Failure
The United Automobile Workers CIO released a letter to President Roosevelt and War Secretary Stimson with Senator Truman declaring Willow Run a Ford plant producing bombers as a failure. Signed by Glenn R. Brayton and Walter Quillico, the missive criticizes decentralization and shifting small parts work to other plants while planning final assembly at Willow Run.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers(cio
Roosevelt
Stimson
Harry S. Truman
Willow Run
Glenn R. Brayton
Walter Quillico
Uaw-Cio
Germans spread peace rumor campaign in wartime
London dispatch reports German led propaganda claiming peace with the Soviet Union and possible armistice talks via Romania and Turkey. The piece notes the rumors aim to frighten the Allies and mask Nazi setbacks in the Balkans and Hungary amid fighting Yugoslavs and growing democratic pressure in Hungary.
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William Smith White
London
Russia
Spain
Turkey
Germany
Mediterranean
London Daily Express
Goebbels
Balkans
Poland
Hitler
Stalin
Hungary
Iron-Fisted Nazi Rules Denmark
Stockholm dispatch reports Col. Gen. Kurt Daleuge, linked to Heydrich, poised to govern Denmark as Reich governor. He is said to have been in Copenhagen since Thursday, signaling a Nazi SS regime amid Danish sabotage and violence. The appointment follows shifts in Prague and Bohemia Moravia, with Danish leaders and King Christian X resisting a new government.
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Stockholm
Kurt Daleuge
Reinhard Heydrich
Denmark
Reich
Christian X
Daleuge
Copenhagen
Bohemia - Moravia
Old Czechoslovakia
Heydrich
Heinrich Himmler
William Frick
Prague
Bohemia-Moravia
Eric Scavenius
Christian
Alexandrine
Sorgeniri Cas ‘Tle
Jap Navy Goes Into Hiding As Allied Offensive Carries On
The Japanese navy has pulled back during weeks of the New Guinea and Solomons push. No sinking reports since August 7. September hits limited to two destroyers far from bases. After heavy July engagements, Japanese ships have largely retreated to base safety and rely on barges for supplies.
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Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
Auctioneer Sells Underwear At Bond Rally
In Reidsville the auctioneer at a war bond rally stripped to his pants and underwear and sold them to the highest bidder. Officials reported 1.35 million dollars in bonds sold, near Rockingham County's quota.
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Reidsville
Rockingham County
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Reds
Bar Harbor
By James M. Long
Eden
Mrs. R. Will
Deails of War
U.S
Stettinius
Lend-Lease Administration
James F. Byrnes
United States Steel
New Soviet Commission
Jap Navy
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