Allies Seize 10 Towns In Italy
Allied armies in Italy report capturing 18 more towns with advances of five to six miles. Fifth Army seized Fiacacina near Isernia while advancing from Campobasso toward the Adriatic. British forces took Zarnelle and other strongpoints as German rearguards offered stubborn resistance. Air operations hit Podgorica and LaGosta, while bombers targeted Italy’s rail and road hubs.
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Ishewerat Clark
Fiacacina
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Austria
Britain
Germany
Reich
Mass execution of Italian officers and men by Nazis reported
Refugees arriving in southern Italy describe a brutal Nazi campaign in which 18000 Italians were executed or forced to march to Germany after revolts on a Mediterranean island near Albania. The report notes mass punishment, widespread raids, and severe food deprivation as Germans retaliate against Italian resistance.
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Clark Lee International Kown Service
Italy
INS
Albania
Mediterranean
Marshal Badoglis
Germany
Teleh
Mary Isell
Poland
Russa
Ialy
Tian
Stalhry
Rome
Hitler
House Group Votes to Raise Liquor Tax Amid War Measures
Washington report shows the House Ways and Means Committee voting to raise liquor tax from 6 to 10 dollars per gallon, with 3 dollars per quart, and increasing taxes on beer wine and other beverages. Proposals for gasoline tobacco and postal rate hikes were also discussed for wartime funding.
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Oct
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Ways Any Means
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Gearhart
R. Talls
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Congressional
British Troops To Wear Berets
London reports a new beret type approved for the British army replacing the field service cap in units already wearing berets. Sir James Grigg, war secretary, announced in Commons. Maj Maurice Petherick praised the replacement as practical and economical.
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James, Grigg
Commons
Maurice Petherick
Pos- Merida
Mexico
Isimo
Am Old
Ciudad Tama
Yucatan
New York
Congregation of St. Brier
Rome
Forecast for San Antonio and Texas Regions
Little temperature change expected for Tuesday afternoon and night with a slight warm tilt in the west. Wednesday and Thursday show minimal shifts, with no major swings forecast across Highland and Eagle areas in Texas.
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San Antonio
Highland
Eagl Texas
West
Battered Nazis Flee Before Reds In Ukraine Push
German forces retreat before advancing Soviet armies along the Dnieper bend toward the Bug river. Four Russian units pushed deep into Ukraine capturing Dnepropetrovsk and Dnepropetrovskinsk, narrowing the front near Krivoi Rog as Red air forces disrupt the retreat and German rear guards struggle to save assets.
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Bug River
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Poland
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Krivot Rog
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Odessa
Kiev
Gomel
Krichev
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Mogilev
Texan in England To Be Hanged by Court Martial
A U S court martial has sentenced Texas native Pyt Lee A. Davis of Temple to death for the murder of Irish girl Cynthia Lay and the attack on Muriel Farden in Marlborough England. Davis, 22, will be hanged.
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TNS
United States
U S Employment Service Seeks Pistol Packin Mamas
The U S Employment Service called for women able to ride horseback and use firearms over 21 to serve as guards at a war plant or field post. Meanwhile President Roosevelt has largely recovered from grippe but stayed away from his risk.
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U. S
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Grippe
Washington
Roosevelt
Aleutians Chief Details Kiska Landing and Japanese Losses
Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Aleutians area commander, said American destroyers sunk several Japanese submarines as Kiska garrison evacuated. He outlined the campaign that drove the Japs from the Aleutians, noting a garrison of about 10 000 and the strategic route toward Japan via Paramushiro and other bases. He described heavy beach defenses and the evacuation of combat units, and called the route to Japan extremely important for future operations.
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Coimmander
Ninth Naval District
Graat Lakes
John R. ‘Downes
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Klokeld
Vine Hills
Japan
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Paramighira
Eurile Island
Kamchatka
Grave Situation Warns Hirohito Amid Pacific Losses
Hirohito warns the diet of a grave situation as Allied communiques report heavy Japanese losses in the Pacific. U.S. bombers destroy over 120 Japanese planes, strike Kahili and Choiseul in the Solomons. British, American air forces hit Burma and Rangoon, while Japanese naval losses total 18 destroyers and 445 planes.
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Tojo
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Haipong
Train crash injures twenty in Queretaro area
Twenty people were injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train at Hercules station near Queretaro. The night accident involved a passenger service from Guadalajara to Mexico City and occurred last evening, authorities said.
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Mexico
Hercules Station
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Guadalajara
Mexico City
Dr Hunt and wife found slain near Littlefield
Dr Roy Hunt 37 and his wife Mary Hunt about 26 were found strangled to death in their Littlefield home three miles from town. Both tied to bed with hangers and rope, eldest daughter awoke and alerted others. Suspect prior shooting of Dr Hunt in 1942 and a related case in Cameron, Texas.
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Roy Hunt
Central Fight
Mary Hunt
Littlefield
Hunt
Littlefield Hospital Land Clinic
Lubbock County
William R. Newton
Caméron
Newton
Starving masses camp in Calcutta amid heat wave
London dispatches say 130,000 starving people are camping in Calcutta streets. Free food centers were set up to aid the hungry but relief efforts are hampered by the vast numbers and a severe heat wave.
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London
INS
Calcutta
India
Nazis Link Red Setbacks to Italy
Stockholm report cites German press claiming Allied successes forced German withdrawals from Russia to counter Italian divisions. The article says Italian retreats and loss of industrial centers weaken Axis offensive, with claims of strategic reserves strained and eastern front gaps widening.
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Stockholm
Bruessley Aeitung
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