Parole Rocket Discovered Operating In State Prison
Governor’s office announced a parole racket ring operating inside the state prison. At least three members are jailed and a fourth is sought in a distant state. The probe involves long-term inmates victimized by the scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Jring
Paroles Office
Governor's Office
W. S. Gatling
State Bureau of Investigation
Gatlane
Broughton
Hathaway Cross
Gatling
Cross
Italy Allies Demand Sparks Tensions With AMG Officers
War dispatch notes Italy's Premier Badoglio edging toward joining the United Nations as an ally, provoking resentment among American and British troops and AMG officials who oversee civil administration. Troops fear Italians wielding civilian power and decrees affecting Allied forces, complicating occupation policy.
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Badoglio
United Nations
AMG
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Italy
Germany
Yanks Open Thrust Toward Madang in New Guinea
Allied headquarters in the Southwest Pacific report General MacArthur’s forces have opened a land thrust toward Madang, 170 miles northwest of Salamaua, with the capture of Sagerak and advances in the Markham valley. Airborne and paratroop actions linked to Kaiapit and Lae support this push as Australians probe last defenses before Finschhafen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Salamaua
Finschhafen
Madang
Sagerak
Kaiapit
Lae
MacArthur
Yrem
Fifth Army Advances At Salerno And Foggia Capture
Allied reports say Montgomery’s Eighth Army seized Foggia and 12 satellite air fields after a 25 mile drive. Fifth Army, facing stubborn German resistance, advanced two to five miles north of Salerno, capturing Lioni Castelnuove and Melfi as German losses rose. The German communique notes intensified Anglo American pressure after fresh landings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Albert Kesselring
Foggia
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Salerno
Lioni
Castelnuove
Melfi
Italy
Twenty Freight Cars Pile Up Near Thomasville Crash
Twenty Southern railroad freight cars piled up two miles north of Thomasville in an early morning wreck that halted main line traffic for over five hours. No injuries reported as an alert crew stopped the No 30 passenger train. cause undetermined pending investigation. War materials aboard undetailed. no sabotage detected. Traffic to be restored today with diversions in place.
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Thomasville
Southern Railroad
Southern
Here
C. W. Ashby
Danville
W. D. Stallings
Guy Miller
Cicero Cox
Ashby
Marshall Field Buys $70,000,000 In Bonds
Chicago reports Marshall Field III purchased ten million dollars in war bonds, part of a fortune valued between seventy and one hundred seventy five million dollars. Harold H. Swift received ten million from Field estate comptroller Carl J. Weitzel. Weitzel valued the estate holdings above seventy million, noting vast cash and securities in the Field legacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Field
Chicago
Harold H. Swift
Illinois War Fiance Committee
Carl J. Weizel
Marshall Field Estate
Weitzel
Field
Prince
Telegraph Merger Is Approved
The Federal Communications Commission approves the merger of Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies to create a nationwide telegraph system. The order sets a two year integration plan, argues monopoly can benefit public interests by reducing waste and duplication, with dissent from Commissioner Durr who warns against lost competition and postwar slowdown.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies
Congress
James L. Fly
Paul A. Walker
Norman S Case
T. A. M. Craven
Ray C. Wakefield
C. J. Durr
Durr
Combine
American Bombers Raid Burma Japs
New Delhi Sept 28. American Liberators hit the port of Akyab on Burma’s west coast, scoring on the jetty and damaging a harbor area. Medium Mitchells attacked central Burma rail yards 95 miles south of Mandalay, destroying buildings tracks and rolling stock as fires burned.
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New Delhi
Akyab
Burma
Tenth Air Force
Mandalay
Nazis Routed From Caucasus Defense Base
London dispatch reports advancing Red Army forces threatening Gomel Mogilev and Vitebsk while Soviet columns push on Kiev Kremenchug Dnepropetrovsk and Melitopol, setting stage for possible Crimea drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
White Russia
Gomel
Mogilev
Vitebsk
Kiev
Kremenchug
Dnepropetrovsk
Melitopol
Crimea
Rail Board Approves Wage Hike For 300,000 Workers
Washington report states a railroad emergency board urged a minimum four cent per hour raise for 300,000 operating employees under the little steel formula. The panel, voting 2 to 1, notes a higher increase might have been supported if the government approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Little Steel
Two Staten Island men get 30 years for spy charges
In Brooklyn federal court Judge Mortimer W. Byers sentenced Ernest F. Lehmitz, 57, and Erwin H. De Spretter, 52, to 30 years each after guilty pleas to conspiracy to violate wartime espionage act. He said they lied to the government and did not cooperate with the FBI.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Staten Island
Mortimer W. Byers
Brooklyn
Byers
Ernest F. Lehmitz
Erwin H. de Spretter
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lone American Airman Bags Three German Subs
Lieutenant Robert Pershing Williams led a single American Grumman Avenger on Atlantic convoy duty, sinking three U boats and possibly damaging a fourth. His crew included Melvin Paden and Morris Grinstead. destroyers rescued about 65 German crewmen. Williams, born in Pierre, South Carolina, later landed on another carrier after the Lexington was sunk.
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Washington
Atlantic
Navy
Robert Pershing Williams
Snoqualmie
Wash
Morris C. Grinstead
Letts
Iowa
Melvin H. Paden
Salinas
Calif
Williams
Paden
Earl H. Steiger
Buffalo
Steiger
James F. Schoby
Bode
Towa
Radio
Pierre
S. C
Lexington
Pacific
Nazis Move Fast After Foggia Falls
London dispatch reports that after Foggia fell to Allied forces, Germany moved quickly to shield its Balkan front. German actions included landing forces on Corfu and claiming to retake Split, while Eisenhower announced Montgomery’s forces overran Foggia, expanding Allied air operations toward the Balkans and northern Italy. Corfu fell after a brief battle as Italian troops resisted surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Smith White
London
Foggia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard L. Montgomery
Corfu
Greece
Split
Hitler
Balkan
Italy
Danube Valley
Balkans
Adriatic Sea
Berlin
Ionian Sea
Merrill proposes 10 point veteran welfare program
Robert T. Merrill commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars advocates a 10 point veteran welfare plan as a fuller alternative to President Roosevelt's six point program. He argues the nation will face enormous veteran welfare needs when 11 million service members are demobilized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert T. Merrill
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Roosevelt
Merrill
VFW
Mth
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Ees
Moscow
Dnieper
Azporozhe
Russia
Red Army
Dneiper
Temryuk
Caucasus
Kerch
Aemnepatreres
Dniper
Nizhnedneprovsk
Red Air Force
North Carolina
Mandang
Corfu Island
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
RAF
Hannover
Yester
Aton Emden
German North Naval Base
Bruns
Julius Green
Rail Board
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