Allies fuse Salerno fronts in major Italy advance
Allied headquarters announced a rare joint front as the Sth Army under Gen Clark linked with Gen Montgomery’s forces near the Salerno bridgehead. Canadians reportedly reinforced from Calabria as air and naval support pounded German positions. Albanella and Montecorvino were captured or pressed, expanding the western and southern Salerno foothold amid heavy bombardment and repeated German counterattacks.
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Noland Norgaard
Associated Press
LLIED
North Africa
Sth
Mark W. Clark
8th Army
Bernard Montgomery
Reuters
Stockhold
Calabria
Italy
Salerno
5th Army
Taranto
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Montgomery
Clark
Gen. Clark
Berlin
London
1st Army
Valle Della Lucania
Agropoli
BBC
Algiers
CBS
sala
Drigade
Albanella
Al bea
Bonus Oats And Barley Give Farm Boosts In Canada
Trade Minister MacKinnon announced that farmers will receive 10 cents a bushel on oats and 15 cents on barley at delivery, plus market prices, to aid exports to the United States. Flax seed price fixed at 2.50 per bushel, up 7.5 cents, for 1943-44. Ceilings unchanged for oats and barley. export charges go to farmer relief accounts.
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OTTAWA
MacKinnon
praine
United States
Fort William
Mr. MacKinnon
Canadian Wheat Board
Fort Wiliam
Canada
United Stites
Reds Attack Krasnograd on Kharkov Dnieper Front
Three Soviet armies push west through southern Ukraine toward Krasnograd a key Nazi rail junction. Red columns win four battles yesterday and race to force German withdrawal before autumn rains freeze operations. Berlin admits loss of Novorossisk base in the Caucasus.
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ONDON
C.P
Ukraine
Krasnograd
Kharkov- Dnieperopetrovsk
Reuters
Moscow
Dnieper river
DNB
Berlin
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Caucasus
Russians claim capture of Bryansk a major victory
London Sept 17 The Russians announced the capture of Bryansk a junction for six vital railways at the gates of White Russia in a major Soviet victory hailed by a Stalin ordered day. Berlin admitted retreat of German troops from Bryansk and Moscow broadcast touted four victories across northern Rus sia. The push included Novorossisk port and Novgorod Severski.
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BRYANSK
LONDON
C.P
White Russia
Joseph Stalin
Kharkov
Stalino
Moscow radio
Soviet
monitor
Moscow
Red army
Russia
Berlin
Associated Press
Dnieper
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Crimea
Novogorod Severski
Insulin Made Under Siege by Glasgow Chemist in Shanghai
A Glasgow chemist A N Walker, aided by Chinese workers, improvised insulin production in Shanghai after Japanese forces seized the city. Lacking essential equipment he used muslin bags and glass bottles, bribed a meat inspector for pancreas, and relied on ethanol concentrates to create insulin despite dangerous risks and limited resources. The effort drew help from a German medical director and a Korean biologist in a perilous wartime effort.
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Glasgow
A. N. Walker
Walker
Connaughts Laboratories
Toronto
Roosevelt speaks to Congress on war progress and future blows
President Roosevelt, addressing Congress, reviewed Allied war efforts worldwide and forecast renewed invasions of Hitler's Europe. He urged Axis satellites to quit the war, praised Soviet advances, and stressed continued production and caution against overconfidence. He offered no concrete action recommendations and outlined a four point summary of the war’s status.
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ASHINGTON
Roosevelt
United States congress
Germany
Japan
Hitler
Rumania
Hungary
Finland
Bulgaria
Italy
Mr. Roosevelt
Russia
Mediterranean
North Africa
Sicily
Europe
Leningrad
Black Sea
Balkans
France
English Channel
congress
Slavs Seize Axis Port After Two Day Siege
London Sept 17 An AP report says Spiit Yugoslavia’s key Adriatic port Spiit fell to guerrilla patriots after a two day siege. The Yugoslav army of liberation claims the Axis garrison at the port surrendered in the last 24 hours. Guerrillas strike Ogulin and hold parts of the Susak Zagreb railway east of Fiume as German units retreat. Italian Bergamo division reportedly surrendered and Italians join Garibaldi division.
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WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
Associated Press
LONDON
Spiit
Yugoslavia
Yugoslav army of liberation
Adriatic
Ogulin
Susak-Zagreb
Fiume
Kila
Bergamo
Garibaldi
Trapped Miner Saved After Four Hours in Mine
Blairmore dispatch reports Pete Porayko a Greenhill miner trapped four hours when a pillar caved in at the bottom entrance. His partner Nick Kybicz escaped. Miners tunneled through to reach Porayko who remained unhurt and seated awaiting rescue as compressed air kept him alive.
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BLAIRMORE
Pete Porayko
Greenhill
Hillcrest
Pete
Nick Kybicz
Nick
Mosquitos Raid Berlin and French Rails Blasted
A large force of RAF and Canadian bombers attacked southern France targeting Medane near the Italian frontier and disrupted rail yards at Modane. British and Canadian Lancasters struck near the Alps while Mosquitoes and Mustangs aided missions over the Low Countries and France. several bombers were reported missing.
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LONDON
R.A.F
France
Medane
Mosqutos
Berlin
Antheor viaduct
St. Raphael
Modane
Mont Cenis
ALPS
RCAF
R.AF
rau
R.C.AF
Low Countries
RAF
17 Dead in Blast at Norfolk Naval Air Station
Norfolk Va. a large explosion at the Norfolk naval air station in transit ammunition killed about 17 people and wounded around 257 with 14 in critical condition. Rear Admiral H F Leary said witnesses thought the blast was caused by ammunition in transit and officials noted casualty figures were provisional.
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NORFOLK
Norfolk naval air station
H. F. Leary
USS.N
5th Naval District
Allied air victory over Wewak and Malahang
Allied bombers and fighters crippled 59 Japanese fighters and likely destroyed 11 more bombers in a decisive Wewak raid. The operation also captured Malahang anchorage near Malahang airdrome east of Lae, with 66 tons of bombs dropping on Boram and Wewak runways and dispersal areas housing 20 to 49 aircraft.
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C. YATES McDANIEL
Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Allied
Malahang
Lae
Dargua
Boram
Allied War Writers Make First Contact in Italy Front
British and American war correspondents with the 8th Army linked with the 5th Army near Salerno in a cautious first contact. The journey through No Man's Land involved flak, mines, and a roaring bombardment as Allied writers observed the advancing Italian front.
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Sicily
Africa
Italy
Naples
Salerno
5th Army
8th Army
DANIEL DE LUCE
Associated Press
FIFTH ARMY
No Man's Land
Jim
ranean
Invasion Fleet Reported In Palermo Harbor In Sicily
News bulletin cites German agency reporting a 490000 ton concentration of troop ships in Palermo harbor aimed at expanding Italy invasion. Other dispatches note Soviet forces advancing toward Bryansk and Berhitsa clearing Desna river area, plus indictments in Detroit and teacher bonuses in Alberta. Nine more deaths in Kentucky coal mine disaster.
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PALERMO
LONDON
DNB
Stedmers
Sicily
Italy
BRYANSK
C.P
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Detroit
Walter Joseph Abt
Romeo
Mich
Edward J. Moinet
EDMONTON
Solon Low
KENTUCKY
HARLAN
CA.P.J
Three Point
im the ming
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Alpine Mont Genis
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