Red Army Drives Deep Into Smolensk Front in WWII Push
Soviet forces under General Yeremenko crack the Smolensk gateway on the central front as the offensive along a 700 mile line gains momentum. Units seize villages and rail lines near Kiev and Dnieper while pushing toward Smolensk from the northeast and Vorkuta region.
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Moscow
Red Army
Andrei Yeremenko
Stalingrad
Smolensk
Momnow
Kiev
Dnieper
Dakhovechiny
Nezhin
Cepitel
Ukraine
Rustien Wer
Westwerd
Wth
Yeremenko
Coliin Urnder
Vacsiliy Scholowsky
Vorteevo
Majer
White Rusia
Poland
Hosheii
Alee Ienant
Sekt
Deane
Dubrovka
Roosevelt Supporters Debate Leadership Image and Tactics
A fragment discusses Roosevelt supporters and critics, portraying a faction split between patriots and opportunists. It argues the leadership appeal targets a minority and that many followers are homebound or unsure, calling the group an organizer class rather than a unified movement.
Churchill to report on war with Allied talks eyed
London dispatch notes Prime Minister Churchill set to report on the war and outline Allied plans with the United States. Parliament will reconvene to hear why Britain delayed a decisive move against Mussolini and what intensified coordination with Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union may entail.
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London
Britain
United States
House of Commere
Benito Muswlini
Allien
Iet
Rustie
AMG
Noober
U-Boat Attacks Hit Record Low in Western Atlantic
Report notes only one Allied or neutral cargo ship sunk in 20 days in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor. U-boat patrols had tailed 687 ships with fewer sinkings, while insurance rates for transatlantic shipments fell to 4 percent, lowest since 1949.
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Gantic
Ostral
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
Frank Knox
Marine
New York
United Kingdon
Ire
Northern Ireland
North Jersey Junior College Opens With Strong Enrollment
The first general assembly at North Jersey Junior College for the coming year was held in the auditorium Monday. Dean C. C. Colvert announced an enrollment of 544, the second largest fall registration in school history, and urged student involvement in clubs, bands, and glee clubs while emphasizing leadership development and duty to the college and government training participants.
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Northtant Junior College
C. C. Colvert
Life prisoner offers skin graft to save girl in burn case
In Philadelphia a life-term inmate Thomas J. Caulfield 33 one of several volunteers prepared to donate skin to save Judy Rosen a severely burned girl. The Mt Sinai hospital team said this graft could be her only hope of recovery after a May drone fire damaged her arms and chest.
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Philadelphia
Eastern Penitentiary
Judy Rosen
Herbert M. Smith
Thomas J. Caulfield
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Allied push seizes Lae in New Guinea drive
MacArthur reports three pronged assault against Lae with Allied forces making gains. At Wewak airfield Allied fighters claim destruction of about 19 Japanese bombers on the ground, boosting enemy losses in the Wewak area.
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New Guinea
Wewwk
MacArthur
North Africa
Saléro
Gefiles
Contursi
Veteran Secret Service agent to retire in Florida
Secret Service veteran Edmound Starling known as Big Bil will retire November 1 after 30 years guarding presidents. The 6 foot 200 pound Hopkinsville native plans a quieter life in Biscayne Bay Miami Beach with fishing and hunting, selling his 75 acre farms and moving to a familiar hunting territory. He joined November 14, 1914 during Woodrow Wilsons administration and rose to White House detail supervisor before mentoring Michael F. Reilly.
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Washington
Edmound W
Big Bil) Starling
Secret Service
Florida
Sterling
Bea
White House
Biscayne Bay
Miami Beach
Hopkinsville
Starling
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Micheel F. Reilly
Actor Bacon Reported To Have Received Threatening Letter
Los Angeles reports indicate film actor David Gaspar G. Bacon 29 from a Boston family received a money demand letter shortly before his death from a stabbed back on September 12. Blakeley Patterson, singer and actor, testified Bacon spoke of the note and planned to meet the sender.
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Los Angeles
The
Los Angeles Examiner
David Gaspar G. Bacon
Boston
Examiner
Blakeley C. Patterson
Bacon
Patterson
Pat
Americans Hit Tarawa and Nauru Islands in Pacific Raids
U S forces launched night long carrier air strikes against Tarawa in the Gilbert group and Nauru to the west in the Pacific. Admiral Chester Nimitz said task forces conducted operations in the central Pacific with details not immediately available. The raids followed Marcus Island actions and the ships remained silent during pursuit.
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Pearl Harbor
T. H
America
Japan
Pacific
Tarawa
Nauru Islands
Hawaii
Marcus Island
Tarawa Island
Gilbert Group
Nauru Island
Chester W. Nivnity
American forces strike Tarawa Nauru and Bougainville targets
Allied fighters attacked Tarawa and Nauru and pounded Bougainville airfields at Ballale and Kabil in night and daylight raids. Aircrews claimed 16 enemy shot down from 60 interceptors, bringing Japanese aircraft destroyed to 100.
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Associated Preas
Pacific
Tarawa
Nauru
Bougaiville
Solomons
Ears Kabil
Ballale
Bougainville
Douglas Mac
Arvour
Bougain
Five Die In Auto Crash Funeral Set In Wisner
A funeral is planned at Central Church in Wisner for five family members killed in a Sunday auto accident near Alexandria. William Edward Townsend 61 his wife Ola Townsend 37 their daughter Billy Cleo Townsend 10 all of Sterlington and William A Waller 2 and Mrs William A Waller 2 1 2 of Gilbert are named. Two other passengers are identified as Hiram Waller and an unnamed youth. Interment follows at a nearby church cemetery Mulhearn Funeral Home Winnsboro in charge. The Townsends had worked in Port Neches Texas and were returning home when their car collided with a locomotive on the Red River and Gulf railroad. Townsend is survived by two daughters a stepson three brothers and a sister.
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Central Church
Wisner
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Winnsboro
William Waller
William Edward Townsend
Mra Ola Townsend
Billy Cleo Townsend
Sterlington
Wiliam A. Waller
William A. Waller
Gilbert
Waller
Townsend
Hiram Waller
Winneboro
Townsends
Port Neches
Tex
Red River and Gulf
Alexandria
Roosevelt to Visit White House After Aleutian Tour
Lieutenant Colonel James Roosevelt, son of the president, returns from the Aleutians and plans a stop in Washington to visit his father at the White House. He jokes about an extra bed at the executive mansion.
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James Roosevelt
Los Angeles
Aleutians
White House
Washington
Marshall Warns Draft Pause Threatens Allied Offensives
General George C. Marshall told Congress the Wheeler bill delaying induction of fathers awaiting pre Pearl Harbor service could undermine quotas and force reductions in combat units. He warned postponement might sap the war effort as American forces push to the front.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Senate
House
Marshall
Austin
Vermont
Thief of Staff
Congress
Maynhall
Ernest J. King
Norfolk Explosion Death Toll Reaches 26
The Norfolk naval yard blast raises the death toll to 26 after Henry Nowocian seaman second class dies. Over 200 injured, more than 30 in critical condition. A naval inquiry probes cause amid witnesses attributing it to sparks from a dragged depth charge along a city line.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Naval Gir
Henry Nowocian
United States Wave Reserve
Fran Nowocian
Warren Avenue
Buffalo
N.Y
Naval Board of Inquiry
WPB to use six factors for newsprint allotments
Washington Sept 29 six factors will govern WPB decisions on extra newsprint for newspapers. Factors include population growth and circulation before Dec 1 1942, paper conservation, 1941 quota curtailment, 1942 newsprint use by 1941 nonexisting papers, mergers and quota shifts, and 1941 publication suspensions due to strikes or tech issues. Similar standards apply to magazines and books.
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Washington
Sept
War Production Board
WPB
WPR
Italian leader Bets on Allied War Aim in Radio Italiana Broadcast
North Africa dispatch reports Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio telling Italians to fight with the British and Americans against Germany and anti Allied factions. He says unconditional surrender is outdated and pledges cooperation with Anglo American forces to drive Germans from Italy and aid postwar reconstruction.
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North Africa
Pietro Badoglio
Badoglio
Radio Italiana
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Japan
Mussolini
United Nations
Haly
Vittorio Veneto
Italy
Badoglia
Clark Visits Salerno Area With Fifth Army
In Italy on September 19 Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark toured the central Salerno sector in a jeep amid a minefield and battle dust. He inspected outposts and two recently captured cities, met field officers and patrol chiefs, and drew crowds as he moved near the front lines.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Mark W. Clack
Salerno
Clark
Tihe
Confessed theft of seven automobiles in New Orleans
Police chased a gang early today and captured three juveniles and a 19 year old youth who admitted stealing seven cars and committing several robberies. Two youths from Monroe were being sought. Officers Maumus and Schiro stopped the group after gunfire and found 40 pairs of pants and a suit in the car.
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New Orleans
Monroe
Joseph Maumus
John Schiro
Italian Forces Seize Sardinia as Fifth Army Advances
Allied forces report the Fifth Army controls the south side of the Bay of Naples and the Sorrento Peninsula heights. Capri Ischia and Procida are secured. Gioia and Torre Annunziata seen near the front as Sardinia falls to Italian troops under Badoglio.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Fifth Army
Bay of Naples
Sorrento
Capri
Ischia
Procide
Italy
Castellammare
Torre Annunziata
Salerno
Monteversvino
Battipaglia
Sardinia
Pietro Badoglio
End Conference of Governors Ends With Mixed Freight And Sugar Talks
Southern and western governors closed their Denver meeting pledging to study mutual freight rate issues and sugar production plans. A liaison committee may be formed to examine interests beyond freight and a second conference considered. Abolition of acreage quotas was debated amid oil price requests.
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Denver
Weit
Spessard Holland
Florida
Sam Jones
Louisiane
Gulf hurricane dissipates offshore saving rice crop
A Gulf hurricane dissipated at sea over the weekend, sparing Southwest Louisiana's 42 million dollar rice crop from damage at harvest. Weather officials cited atmospheric conditions that steered the storm inland and then weakened it as it moved into Louisiana coastal squalls of under 40 miles per hour.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Texas
Loumiana
PJ. Naughton
New Orleans Weather Bureau
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Manus
Imadong
Port Moress
Newsguinea
Edmund W. Starling
Jap Islands
Penemy- Held Islands
Amiens-Glisy
France
Cortursi
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Eboli
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