Pacific War Progress Through War Zones Review
DeWitt Mac ie reports via Glenn Mackenzie on the Pacific front, noting Japanese retreat in major zones and a lack of new ground gains. The piece tracks island changes from Midway to Hawaii, mentions Kiska, and highlights Chinese and American forces slowing Japanese advances in the south.
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DeWitt Macie
Glenn Mackenzie
Brion
Fed
Stalingrad
Pacific
Mment
China
United States
Owen Stanley
Japan
Midway
Burma
Dia
India
United Nations
Siberian
Russia
Hiller
Eagle Squadron Opens Sunday at the Saenger Theater
The Universal film Eagle Squadron opens Sunday at the Saenger. Producer Walter Wanger presents a wartime tale based on real Eagle Squadron exploits with Robert Stack as a California pilot and Diana Barrymore in her screen debut. The film boasts a large cast and authentic wartime details including the Royal Air Force setting and foreword by Quentin Reynolds.
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Eagle Squadron
News Universal
Saenger Theater
Walter Wanger
Royal Air Force
Wanger
F Ully
Robert Stack
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Diana Barrymore
Miss Barrymore
John Barrymore
Royal Family
Cin- Reynolds
Alan Hale, Jr
WAAF
Quentin Reynolds
England
Arthur Lubin
Norman Reilly Raine
Cosmopolitan Magazine
C. S. Forester
Marines Repel Jap Assault On Tank Siege
Private Kenneth Koon of Indiana and a Marine squad fought off a Japanese attack on a tank, sniping attackers as 30 swarmed the vehicle. The crew exited under fire, one Marine wounded, another killed, and the tank later set ablaze amid heavy smoke.
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Moya
Naval Shack
Moore
Kenneth Koon
Cummitville
Ind
Koon
Nazis threaten to shackle more Britons in retribution
London reports Nazi Germany has shackled 1 376 British war prisoners and warns it will triple that number by noon tomorrow if Britain continues announced counter measures. Italy also threatens reprisals as a bitter exchange over treatment of prisoners intensifies.
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London
Britain
Germany
Italy
Dieppe
Channel
Sark
Maly
Rome
Tobrule
War Office
Marines Describe Brutal Fighting On Gavutu Tank Siege
A Marine recounts overpowering fighting at Gavutu where a tank sprayed smoke as enemies fired from tanks and pill boxes. He details a brutal melee, a comrade Moore beaten and wounded, and 31 Japanese dead counted afterward. Snipers, shelling, and a frantic bomb shelter escape dominate the harrowing account.
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Moore
Phey
Naval Shack
Koon
Gavutu
Ace Qi
More Dressings Needed in Prescott Church Rooms
Prescott News reports Helen Hesterly notes Red Cross dressings work at Presbyterian and Methodist rooms requires 1000 dressings daily. Volunteers urged as production rises to meet gala goals. Rooms open Tuesday through Friday and Thursday evenings. Methodist sewing room had 30 workers producing 49 garments last week.
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Presbyterian Church
Methodist Church
Social notes from Little Rock and nearby towns
Mrs Archie Johnson and Atlestan visit Little Rock for a few days. Ernest Hester and son Otho were Thursday visitors in Little Rock. Mrs Jet Livingston returned from Texarkana visit with relatives. Miss Carolyn Ella Murrow, Henderson State Teachers College, elected secretary of the Women’s Council. Ralph Gordon and Mrs Gordon returned to Brownwood Texas after visiting relatives. Urual Cloud and Paul Buchanan enlisted in the Coast Guard for duty, from Little Rock to St Louis. Neeley Parker of Osawatomie Kansas visiting relatives here.
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W.H. Cobb
Ernest Hester
Otho
Little Rock
Jet Livingston
Texarkana
Carolyn Ella Murrow
Henderson State Teachers College
Arkadelphia
Haseen
Women's Council
Ralph Gordon
Urual Cloud
Paul Buchanan
Coast Guard
St. Louis
Neeley Parker
Osawatomie
Kansas
Parker
Market Report Poultry and Produce Chicago Oct 9
Market news from Chicago shows poultry prices for hens broilers and turkeys with varied weights and age groups, receipts for butter and eggs, plus unchanged current prices across the board. New York stocks, St. Louis livestock, grain and cotton futures follow with mixed gains and losses, long with cautious market sentiment ahead of Columbus Day holiday.
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Chicago
White Rock
Springs
Plymouth Rock
New York
New Yorke
War prisoners swap tensions rise over counts of captives
A Berlin broadcast claimed Russia killed prisoners on the eastern front while Germany pressed Britain over prisoner numbers. The British hold about 23,800 Germans, Britain has 115,000 Britons in German hands, and 262,000 Italians are in British custody, with analogous friction emerging between Germany and the Soviet Union.
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Germany
Britain
Libya
East Africa
Germans Renew Siege Continues as Red Army Holds
Soviet dispatches report German planes bombarding the besieged garrison for days while Red Army units sustain stubborn defense. Red Star notes numerically superior forces broke through to occupy two streets, with garrison troops praised for defending every yard. Izvestia and Tavistia describe ongoing cannonade and a seventh week of siege as battles persist across central Caucasus fronts. A guerrilla group derailed 18 German trains near Orle in September.
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Hine
Berlin
Red Star
7IT
Valianly
Tavestia
Red Army
Izvestia
Central Caucasus
Central
Moscow
Northwestern
Lenin
Orle
Homer Adkins outlines university training bases for WAACs
Homer Adkins discussed using University of Arkansas Fayetteville facilities and agricultural colleges at Russellville, Jonesboro, Monticello and Magnolia for specialized army training. He stated ample space at the university could support 500 WAACs, after a conference with Civil officials.
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University At
Fayetteville
Russellville
Jonesboro
Monticello
Magnolia
Chamber Urges Freezing of Security Tax
At a meeting last night the Chamber of Commerce directors instructed Secretary R P Bowen to telegram Senators Spenser and Caraway urging support for a bill freezing the social security tax at one percent, avoiding a rise to two percent in 1943. Bowen to attend state Commerce Secretaries meeting in Little Rock. The group plans to handle soldiers' dependents allotments free of charge and will not publish a new city directory this year. Aeronautics board Adkins urged expanding pilot training facilities at the university and using the university engineering colleges for aeronautical research.
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Chamber of Commerce
R. P. Bowen
Spenser and
Caraway
RP. Bowen
Commerce
Little Rock
Aeronautics Board
Adkins
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