Fifth Army crosses Volturno River advancing toward Naples
Allied Fifth Army crossed the Volturno River and seized Aversa and Maddaloni north of Naples as heavy German resistance delayed the advance. Montgomery’s Eighth Army faced stiff actions near Termoli with the Germans throwing up delaying lines and new tank and artillery fire. Allied air forces pounded Bologna and Brenner Pass rail targets while Yugoslav reports claim rail links cut to Trieste.
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Fifth Army
Volturno
Rome
Aversa
Maddaloni
Naples
Italy
Lago di Patria
Cape ‘Miseno
Pozzuolo
Qualiano
Villarecca
Amzano
Marano
Mark. W. Clark
Adriatic
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Biferno
Termoli
Bologna
Brenner Pass
Northwest African Air Force
Maddaleni
Bolzano
Austria
Triesté
Eighth
Benevento
Montecalvo
Carniola
Gatigliano
Yugoslav Army Cuts Rail Line Between Trieste and Austria
London, Oct. 6. UP reports new Allied successes in the Balkans including the severing of the Trieste to Austrian border railway, a strategic cut used to move German troops. Croat patriots claim full control of Lussino after a surprise naval assault, while fighting spreads across Yugoslavia and into Slovenia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and Herzegovina as Croatian forces join the liberation army.
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London
Trieste
T Thoratina
Lussino
Josiph Broz
Postumia
Free Yugoslav Radio
Proerets
Bosnia
Montenegro
Herzegovina
Army of
Liberaion
Rakek
Slovenia
Ljubljana
Cardinals Win Thriller to Tie World Series at One
At Yankee Stadium on October 6 Mort Cooper pitched through tragedy to lift the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4 to 3 victory over the New York Yankees. The win evened the series at one game apiece as Cooper’s arm and spirit carried the Cards in a tense, homer filled contest.
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Mort Cooper
New York Yankees
Yankee Stadium
New York
St. Louis Cardinals
Red Army presses toward Vitebsk despite weather and German resistance
Moscow dispatch says the Red army, slowed by worsening weather and stronger German opposition, advances to within 25 miles of Vitebsk and improves lines toward Gomel. German reports claim a Soviet force west of the Kuban mouth was wiped out, while counterattacks narrow Soviet bridgeheads on the Dnieper. Red Star urges speed in consolidation as essential after gains.
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Moscow
Red Army
White Russia
Vitebsk
Gomel
Kuban
Caucasus
Dnieper
Pripet River
Smolensk
Red Star
Stones Cast At New Tax Plan in U S
Washington reports more stones cast at the administration’s 10.5 billion dollar tax program as lawmakers demand a 5 billion substitute. Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee push for immediate economies to cut the plan by about 40 percent, arguing the proposed increases exceed what most citizens can bear. Knutson and Taber urge economies before any tax burden, while Paulsen Spence urges waiving excess profits tax for small invested-capital corporations up to 1 million dollars with a 10 percent return.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Knutson
Rminn
Congressman Taber
House Appropriations Committee
Paulsen Spence
Spence Engineering Company
Walden, N. Y
Ways and Means Committee
Chinese forces push back Japanese along east China front
Chinese high command reports heavy fighting along the east front as Chinese forces slow advance from Hangchow toward Nanking. Japanese troops loot the rich countryside, while the clash continues in the region near former capital.
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China Chungking
Chinese High Command
China Front
Hangchow
Nanking
Germans Draft Italians for Labor Service
Rome correspondent for Goteborg Handels-Och Sjefartstidning says all Italians aged 18 to 35 were drafted by Germany and taken from Rome for labor service.
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Stockholm
Rome
Goteborg Handels-Och Sjefartstidning
Congress seeks immediate crude oil price rise
Washington Oct 6 A bipartisan bloc of over 100 members from oil producing states demanded at least a 35 cent per barrel hike in crude prices. They urged quick action on a petroleum administration for war recommendation and called for PAW price fixing authority to replace the office of price administration.
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House
Fred Vinson
Prentiss Brown
Petroleum Administration
House Banking Committee
Disney
D-Okla
Office of Price Administration
PAW
Brown
Vinson
Rees
Sealed bid sells pair of nylon hose for six dollars
A Lawrence rummage sale raised funds for Win ter hospital patient care as a donated pair of nylon hose sold for six dollars in a sealed bid auction. Bidders lined up at the Massachusetts street store window to place bids, with the top bid of six dollars winning after bids of five dollars and three dollars. A man inquired about size and was told the hose were 9½, with a joke about fitting his wife who wears size six shoes.
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Lawrence
Winter Hospital
Topeka
U. S. Armed Services
Massachusetts Street
OPA Sets Ceiling Price On Apples for Home Use
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration set maximum prices for home use apples effective October 2. National retail average 10 to 11 cents per pound with October level about 9.5 cents, roughly one cent below current prices. Seasonal maximums exceed GPA goals by about two cents as part of fruit price controls under the OST directive.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
GPA
Chester Bowles
OPA
Office of Economic Stabilization
National War Fund Appeal Hits 125 Million Target
In a White House radio address President Roosevelt urged a 125 million dollar National War Fund to back welfare and relief groups. He said contributing to the fund is a stake in winning the war and securing a free future, consolidating campaigns for all welfare bodies except the American Red Cross. The fund will support Community Chests United Service Organizations war prisoners aid United Seamen's Service and foreign relief agencies.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
National War Fund
American Red Cross
United Service Organizations
United Seamen’s Service
Roosevelt asks Congress to speed Philippines independence
President Roosevelt urged Congress to grant power to proclaim the legal independence of the Philippines as a separate self governing nation as soon as feasible. He proposed three steps including security negotiations with Quezon, economic adjustments to aid independence, and rehabilitation efforts citing wartime ties and future pacific peace.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Philippines
Quezon
United States
Pacific
United Nations
Frosty Night Across North Kansas Forecast
Frost returned across northern Kansas with many localities reporting record low temperatures. Ellis and Hays saw 80 degrees, Salina dropped to 36 with little damage expected, Topeka 40, Ottawa 34, Coffeyville 47, and Goodland 70 yesterday. Most of eastern Kansas likely dodges frost again tonight.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Ellis
Hays
Salina
Ottawa
Coffeyville
Goodland
Weatherman
S. D. Flora
Allied drives reach Ramu valley in New Guinea
Allied headquarters report rapid advance into New Guinea’s Ramu valley sixty miles from Madang as American air and sea blockades tighten in the central Solomons. The communique notes new air bases won for MacArthur in northeastern New Guinea and acknowledges praise from Gen. Marshall for the campaign’s tactics and speed.
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Ramu Valley
Madang
Solomons
Kolombangara Island
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George C. Marshall
Army
MacArthur
Yankees Rally Pushes Ahead in Tight Inning
In a tense sequence, a single brings in a run after Marlon advances to third on a steal and Walker lines out. Johnson doubles for the Yankees, Keller triples to score Johnson, and Dickey grounds out. Etten is thrown out at home as Keller scores. Two runs cross, two hits, no errors, two left.
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Walker
Musial
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Johnson
Bonham
W. Cooper
Crosetts
Kurowski
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Litwhiler
Gordon
Keller
Dickey
Wesker
Etten
Tower
M. Cooper
Crosetti
Mussal
Redbird
Cooper
Weatherly
Cardinal
Crosettll
Girikes
Betheny
John Murphy
Murphy
Marlon
Staimback
Wein
Final Reports On Bond Campaign At Chamber Meet
Final reports of the Third War Bond drive were presented at a Chamber of Commerce gathering. Douglas county total reached 2,125,612.50 with Mrs Helen Blythe earning a US treasury citation for 1345 bonds sold at Crown drug store. High school drive totaled 2,692.60. Booth results and district canvass summaries highlighted strong worker efforts and ongoing stamp sales through the coming month.
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Chamber of Commerce
Aftenoon
Douglas County
United States Treasury
Helen M. Blythe
Crown Drug Company
Blythe
Pvt
Kaley Blythe
Shreveport
Ralph Graber
George Warner
Lawrence National Bank
Henry Werner
Earl Patton
Pinckney
Philip Ernst
MacAllaster
Floyd Holcomb
Cordley
al Hunter
Woodlawn
Lincoln
Orville Stone
New York
Werner
McAllaster
Grace Porter
Milton Moore
A. E. Strode
W. A. Jackson
Warner
Werner and
L. A. de Forest
L. E. Rice
Roger Allen
John Skie
Paul Harnar
John Schrader
Bob van Noy
Karl Kreider
Charles M. Baker
W. C. Hunsinger
A. J. Mix
Donor Rush Fill Red Cross Mobile Bank List
The 440 donors expected for the Kansas City mobile blood unit arriving tomorrow and Friday filled appointments fully. Red Cross workers note a last minute surge as more people volunteered than could be used, with donations running 1 pm to 6 pm tomorrow and 10 am to noon and 1 pm to 4 pm Friday.
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Red Cross
Blood Bank
Kansas City
Mobile Blood Bank
Lawrence
The
Sabotage Raids Reported Along Swiss-Italian Frontier
Frontline dispatches state that Italian led bands from northern Italy raid German communications at the frontier. Field Marshal Rommel is said to have issued a decree threatening death for sabotage across northern and central Italy.
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Italy
Germany
Erwin Rommel
Indispensables Safe From Draft Substituted Measure
Washington, Oct. 6. The senate voted to substitute Wheeler's don’t draft fathers bill with a measure directing thousands of federal and war plant workers into the armed forces by proving indispensability. The action scuttled Wheeler’s plan to postpone in‑ductions of pre‑Pearl Harbor fathers until Jan 1, and required written explanations for industrial deferments.
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Washington
Senate
Bilt
Wheeler
D-Mont
Taft
Rohio
Barkley
Six youths in stolen car chase through Lawrence
A stolen 1939 Mercury carried four boys and two girls aged about fourteen to sixteen, sparking a high speed chase up to 80 mph along highway 59 from Lawrence toward Ottawa. Deputy Sheriff Saw ers pursued, stopping the car five miles past Ottawa. The six youths from St Joseph Mo gave names Floyd Ball Neil Nolan William H Hutton Robert Eugene Cordill Mabel M Steltenphon and Pansy B Braman.
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Lawrence
Here
Ottawa
Louis Kiser
Vermont Street
Raymond Sawers
Highway 59
Sanders
Floyd Ball
Neil Nolan
William H. Hutton
Robert Eugene Cordill
Mabel M. Steltenphon
Pansy B Braman
St. Joseph
Niser
Surprise U S British Raid Strikes Nazi Nordic Supply Lines
London oct 6 failure to draw German ships from Norweg fjords did not deter a bold foray by U S carrier aircraft and British home fleet. The Bodoe area raid hit large enemy merchant ships including an 8000 ton tanker while two German planes shadowing the fleet were shot down. Three American planes were downed. some crews may be captured. The operation pressed near Altenfjord Narvik where Tirpitz is reported. The British navy patrols the Russia sea route but has not drawn out the German fleet.
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London
U. S
Norway
Norwegian
Communia
Altenfjord
Narvik
Tirpitz
Russia
Stock Market Report Shows Mix After 60 Stocks Deck
A stock market brief notes most of the 60 stocks moved, with the index at 50.2 following yesterday’s activity.
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Gveraie
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