Battle of Volturno Ends in Fifth Army Victory
The Navy reported United States submarines have sunk or damaged 460 Japanese vessels since December 7, 1941. The new totals include 148 vessels not previously listed as struck by torpedoes, with 319 ships sunk, 36 probably sunk, and 103 damaged.
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Volturno
Fifth Army
U.S
Washington
Japan
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Pacific
Far East
United States
Navy Department
Conference Of Labor Leaders Meeting Aims At Wage Demands
Washington on October 19 reports Roosevelt summoned labor leaders to a Thursday conference to discuss wage demands and avert a nationwide railroad strike. The White House convened the combined Labor War Board with CIO AFL and independent railroad brotherhoods. A strike threat among rail workers grows as Thanksgiving approaches, with Chicago hosts crucial union responses. Specialties attract market buyers in New York.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Laboor War Board
Ising Ouf
CIO
AFL
van Independent Railroad
Chicago
Economy Pact Over Taxes Receives GOP Backing
Washington officials report Republican members of the House Ways and Means committee rejected further federal taxes on individual and corporate incomes and backed a government economy program. A Republican member stated that sales tax proposals are dead, as the first war related discharge was formally recorded in the county circuit clerk’s office for a local Marine honored for disability.
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Washington
tax-framing _ House
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Knutson
R-Mina
Marine Corps
Hannover Attacked Again In Major RAF Bombardment
London reports the Royal Air Force struck Hannover in a large operation, main blow on the rubber hub of Gummswerke, with Mosquito bombers hitting Bern and western Germany. Seventeen bombers were lost, clouds obscured full results, and Hannover has been targeted 62 times since Sept 22 in a series of heavy raids. Canadian Lancasters participated and returned.
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London
Royal Air Force
Germany
Hannover
Bern and
Wesen
Ainistry
Gummswerke
Berlin
East
Angilia
England
RAF
Brermen
Senators Say No Criticism From Allied Front Tour
Washington October 12 three of the five senators who toured Allied battlefronts voiced no criticism of the English people. Senator Russell D Ga chair man said British and American interests are inseparably linked and any criticism aimed to correct situations we felt needed correction. Senator Brewster Maine quipped were not mad at anybody except Maines and Mirphite. Mead called attention to an address he made in which he said no one revealed criticism at the British war effort and we have a huge appreciation of English courage. Lodge and Chandler were out of town. Clarence P Handley Jr 116 East South street was picked up by deputy sheriff and turned over to military police.
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Washington
Senate
Russell D.ga
Russell
Maines
Mirphite
Brewster
Maine
Mead
GiTori
England
R.mass
Chandler
Nazi Generals And Admirals Called To Important Meeting
London reports Adolf Hitler received leading state and party figures who attended a meeting called by the high command. DNB said speakers addressed ideological and home political subjects. Hiller spoke on political and military matters as senior officers and chief officials attended.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Germen
DNB
Berlin
Hiller
U S Planes Strike Deep Into Yugoslavia Rail Center
Allied air forces based in Algiers reported that U S medium bombers and P 38 escorts penetrated into Yugoslavia to destroy the Skoplje rail center in the Vardar valley. Tracks and a rail bridge were damaged, at least three locomotives and 15 rail cars destroyed, with additional hits on yards and a signal building. No enemy fighters or antiaircraft fire engaged.
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Allied
Algiers
U. 5
Yugoslavia
Skopljes
Vardar
Swanska
Greece
Skoplje
RAP
Rhodes
Crete
Orn Skoplje
Issues In Will Case Are Filed
Five issues in legal proceedings filed in circuit court prep to trial focus on the alleged will of Mrs. E. Louisa Schley wife of former Mayor Gilmer Schley. The plaintiffs and defendants are named with multiple Ramsburgs and related parties. The case concerns an alleged January 26 1942 will not probated due to a caveat and questions include sound mind, signature witnesses, reading of contents, undue influence and fraud.
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E. Louisa Schley
Gilmer Schley
Schley
Commander of Jap Air Corps Reported Killed
Berlin broadcast quoted the Japanese War Ministry saying Lt. Gen. Morihide Nakazono, commander of the Japanese Air Corps on the Chinese front, was killed early last month during operations in southern China.
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Pry
Berlin
Japanese War Ministry
Morihide Nakazono
China
Nazi Planes Shot Down In Atlantic Dogfights
New York reports that two possibly four Nazi bombers aiming to smash Allied shipping were shot down by Army Air Forces antisubmarine units in blazing dogfights over the Atlantic.
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New York
Army Air Forces
Atlantic
Bankhead denounces free advertising for war bond drives
Senator Bankhead charges the Treasury is trying to ride a free horse to death by obtaining newspaper space for war bond ads without pay. He backs a bill to allocate 25 to 30 million dollars annually for paid bond advertising across dailies and weeklies, with support from press groups and opposition likely tomorrow.
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Washington
Qet
Bankhead
D.-Ala
Treasury Department
Treasury
Senate Banking Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
National E Jal Association
Camor Han
Naif
Treasure Bond
Oreinal Bil
American nationals boarded Gripsholm after internment in Japan
Marmugao dispatch reports that on October 19 American nationals filed GY with the Japanese ship Teinarn and boarded the exchange liner Gripsholm, which will bring them here following months of internment in Japanese hands.
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Marmugao
Gripsholm
Churchill Defends Britain in Senate Criticism Row
Prime Minister Churchill refuses to publicly rebut Senate criticisms of Britain’s actions, noting he is not fully informed about a secret report to Congress. He says no public renown will occur as British and U S forces fight together in Italy and that a prepared reply will be released.
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Tandon
Prin
Churchill
Commons
Britain
Congress
U.S. Senate
Senate
United States
Trent
Royal Air Force
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Germany
George Strauss
John Anderson
America
Anderson
Meriva
United Kingdom
B and O Official Dies In Car At Cumberland
An official from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad died suddenly in his private car at Cumberland when a heart attack struck, Dr. Koon confirming the cause. The incident occurred as the car was placed on a siding during the operation.
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Cumberland
Ge EN Ai
Jon
Baltimore and Ohio
Thomas Wo
Koon
Fifth Army Crosses Volturno River and Captures Five Italian Villages
Allied forces report the Fifth Army crossed the Volturno at all points and captured five villages on the eastern front as British troops breached defenses between Capua and the sea. American engineers aided river crossings while Montgomerys Nighth Army seized Sante Stefano and Mottecilione on the Adriatic flank. The action shifts to securing high ground as Keselring prepares a new defense line.
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Algiers
Volturno
Fifth Army
Capus
Dyidees
Bermud L. Montgomery
Sante Stefano
Mottecilione
Adriatic
Titerno
Gioia
Liberi
Falcehio
Pontelatone
Albignano
Rhodes
Kastel
Heraklion
Crete
Skyros Harbor
Aegean
Riker Fiestine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tiereno
Capua
Lesdery
Fo Acetary
Kesséiring
War Fund Drive in Frederick City Reaches 6571.50
First tabulation shows Frederick City subscriptions totaling 6571.50 with county figures not yet reported. Campaign runs two weeks, targeting 58750 with 37250 city and 21500 county. a dinner at Francis Scott Key hotel is urged for city and county workers.
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Na-Cal We Pou Reevery Ge
Frederick
Glenn T. Sidishel
Francis Scott Key
National War Fund
Campven
Wiliam C Raval Seneral
USO
United Seaman's Service
United Nations
Community Chest
Children’s Aid Society
Boy Scouts
James WH. Falk
Tuckerstown
Austin P. Reni
Creagerstown
Elmer Senil
Emmitsburg
M Kerr
Lend Leases Extend Aid to Soviet Russia from London
The State Department announced a third agreement for lend-lease supplies to the USSR was signed in London by representatives of the United States United Kingdom Canada and Soviet governments. The pact provides arms equipment materials and foodstuffs to Soviet Russia by the three allied governments.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
London
United States
United Kingdom
Ussr
Not Compulsory Oct 19 Parliament Snaps at Italian Co-belligerency
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Churchill answered a question from Cat Egweid Ghadés Gebb about being forced to hear the Italian national anthem on BBC broadcasts. Churchill said there is no obligation to listen to the nine o'clock news, reflecting ongoing pot shots at co-belligerency.
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Churchill
House of Commons
Egweid Ghadés Gebb
BBC
Jaugater
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Florence S. Belcher
Margaret B. Ramsburg
Gilmore
Jap Air Corps
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Bivera
Almers
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