Allies Break Nazi Lines In Southern Italy Advance Toward Rome
Allied forces push through crumbling Nazi defenses in southern Italy as the American 5th Army seizes Caizzo and Amorosi near the Volturno while British 8th Army takes Campobello and Vinchiaturo. The advance aims at Rome, with heavy fighting and demolitions delaying progress. Long lines stretch from Volturno north to the Adriatic, and air strikes target Salonika airfields as bombers escort the push.
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Italy
Rome
Volturno
Calore
Caizzo
Amorosi
8Th Army
Campobello
Vinchiaturo
Adriatic
Termoli
Clark
5Th Army
Campobasso
Foggia
Naples
Northwest African Air Force
Salonika
Three Nazi Planes Down Over England
Three German aircraft over southeastern England and East Anglia were shot down during the night. Bombs caused scattered damage and a small number of casualties. Ground batteries engaged raiders approaching the east coast four times.
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London
England
East Anglia
Sham Air Raid Is Called Off
Baltimore and Annapolis escaped a sham air raid as 65 civilian air patrol planes and six Navy planes were grounded by bad weather during yesterday’s test alert. No bombs were dropped and the exercise was canceled.
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Baltimore
Annapolis
Navy
Kra Matorsk mass grave reported in WWII broadcast
The Khabarovsk radio, cited by the Office of War Information, claims Nazi squads killed about 5,500 residents of Kra matorsk last January and buried them in a mass grave in the town. The report emphasizes Nazi responsibility for the massacre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Khabarovsk Radio
Office of War Information
Kramatorsk
Nazis Offer High Wages in Italian Enlistment Drive
Border dispatches report German forces in Italy and Mussolini's National Republican army bidding up pay to entice Italian men into the German army or auxiliaries. Germans offer 975 to 1,275 lire monthly for soldiers and up to 5,500 lire for married captains, as Graziani steps up recruitment in the republic. Enrollment begins November 15 for men born 1921 to 1925.
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Bern
Switzerland
Italy
Mussolini
National Republican Army
Rodolfo Graziani
Graziani
Rome
Heavy Showers Bring Welcome Rain Across Hagerstown
Heavy rain drenched Hagerstown and Washington County today, ending a four month drought with more than an inch likely fallen before noon. Keedysville saw about three quarters of an inch, while the storm guttered streets and helped fill cisterns and wells. Weather forecasts expected continued rain and cooler conditions.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Keedysville
J. A. Miller
Washington Dispatch
Maryland Crops Below Average Report Says
The Maryland crop reporting service notes October 1 yields are below last year and the 1932 41 average. Tobacco has the smallest output in 41 years and corn is the worst since 1930. September showers helped corn potatoes pastures and tobacco but rainfall came too late to offset drought damage.
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College Park
Maryland
Maryland Crop Reporting Service
Nazis Fighting Hard But Reds March Forward
Russian forces push westward toward the Crimea amid audacious efforts to trap up to 100,000 Germans in Melitopol and Zaporozhe. Red troops drive back Germans near Kiev and Gomel, with heavy casualties reported and air superiority claimed over the front.
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London
Melitopol
Crimea
Great Peninsula
Moscow
Red Army
Zaporozhe
Dnieper
Plavni
Kiev
Gomel
White Russia
Taman
Caucasus
Kerch Straits
Black Sea
London Radio
CBS
Prague
Reichs
Karl Hermann Frank
Bohemia
Moravia
Six Die When Train Hits Bus In California Crash
TRACY Calif Oct 16 A crowded Greyhound passenger bus collided with the Western Pacific Exposition Flyer in a screech of tearing metal. At least six bus passengers were killed and 35 injured as the train carried the bus 95 feet along the track. Assistant District Attorney Maxwell Willens said the Oakland driver Richard Manning 43 reported brakes failed and gears jammed after the bus stalled before the collision.
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Tracy
Calif
Greyhound
Western Pacific Railroad
Maxwell Willens
Richard Manning
Oakland
Lt Suffecool Receives Temporary Promotion
The War Department announces a temporary promotion for Wilson Leroy Sufficool of Blue Hill Hancock from second to first lieutenant as part of several promotions.
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War Department
Wilson Leroy Sufficool
Blue Hill
Hancock
Search Narrows For Missing Tot Crying Is Heard
Eight-year-old John Coover remains missing in the rugged central Pennsylvania mountains as volunteers narrowed the search to his farm home vicinity after a neighbor reported hearing crying at night. A state police party led by Corp. C. W. Achenbach, with local volunteers, shifted operations after an anonymous caller claimed sobbing sounds near his Carlisle Barracks area but did not report the case. John wandered into a forest near his home Thursday afternoon while hunting for firewood.
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Newville
John Coover
Pennsylvania
Corp
John
Ten Die As Airliner Crashes Near Centerville Tenn
An American airliner with six passengers and four crew is reported to have crashed and burned last night near Centerville Tennessee. All aboard are believed dead. A Nashville Airlines official said Mr Myers reported locating the wreckage about three quarters of a mile from highway route 100, twelve miles northeast of Centerville, with no signs of life observed.
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Nashville
Tenn
Centerville
H. C. Duncan
Myers
Duncan
Butter Scarcity Expected to Persist Next Month
Washington reports butter remains scarce as ration points rise from 12 to 16 and government requisitioning ends until spring. Limited civilian supply continues due to peak production with set-asides for armed forces and lend-lease, plus cream diverted to other uses and manpower and feed shortages.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Nothing Doing Says Selassie Refuses Italian Co belligerent Status
Emperor Haile Selassie, who was restored after British forces ousted Italy from Ethiopia in 1941, said in London that Ethiopia now at war with the Axis would not grant Italy co belligerent status.
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London
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Italian East Africa
Italy
New Britain Bombarded In Major Pacific Assaults
Allied HQ reports a sweeping air campaign over New Britain exposing key Japanese positions. Rabaul and Cape Gloucester bases suffered heavy bombardment with hundreds of tons of bombs and substantial ship losses. Concurrent raids targeted Madang and the Ramus valley as Australian forces press inland in New Guinea.
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Southwest Pacific
New Britain
MacArthur
New Guinea
Rabaul
Cape Hoskins
Cape Gloucester
Associated Press
Robert Bunson
Mitchells
Gasmata
Madang
Ramu
Curfew Enforced in Copenhagen and Aalborg
STOCKHOLM October 16 The Germans have imposed a curfew on Copenhagen and Aalborg after a fresh sabotage wave in Denmark. All traffic is banned from seven p.m. to five a.m. and restaurants must close by seven p.m.
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Stockholm
Copenhagen
Aalborg
Denmark
Blimp Crashes Off New Jersey Coast
The Fourth Naval District announced that a blimp has crashed in Barnegat Bay off the coast of New Jersey near Forked River. Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the closest base, had no further details.
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Philadelphia
Fourth Naval District
Barnegat Bay
New Jersey
Lakehurst
N. J.) Naval Air Station
Forked River
Life Lines and a River Guide’s Enduring Faith
Catherine Banzoff teases Keller Banzoff about cleaning up after floods as he smiles, a 69 year old river guide and retired tanner who endured the 1889 Williamsport flood that washed away his parents’ home. He slept in a garret with a skiff tethered below as river mud filled the house, a memory he keeps amid river life.
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FE. Keller Banzoff
Williamsport
New Chairman Named for Price Panel as OPA Expands
E. E. Bradley was named chairman of the Price Panel of the local Ration Board at a meeting. Robert Barnard, OPA supervisor, said the panel will be the most important phase of OPA functions in the county as violations of ceiling prices in food liquor and other commodities prompt expanded policing and enforcement. Chief Clerk Thomas Bittle said dealers in whiskey and alcoholic drinks would be called before the panel to answer charges of price violations.
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E. E. Bradley
Ration Board
Robert Barnard
OPA
Thomas Bittle
Ramírez hits back at manifesto signed by foreigners
Buenos Aires reports President Pedro Ramírez denounces a pro Democratic manifesto as tampering by foreigners urging Argentina to join a United American front against the axis. The government, defending nationality sovereignty, vows no toleration of insubordination amid cabinet reshuffles and Jewish language newspaper ban reversal.
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Buenos .Aires
Pedro Ramirez
Ramirez
Roosevelt
Argentina
Yesterdy
Rio de Janeiro
Dispatches
Mr. Roosevelt
Washington
Mishap Victims Improve After Bus-Tank Crash Near Home
Miss Betty Byers of Middlebury Pike was injured yesterday when a tank truck rear-ended a Potomac Edison airport bus she rode to work at Hagerstown Trust Company. She suffered a sprained back and other injuries but rested comfortably at home. Schoolgirl Betty Blevins on Middleburg Pike also suffered injuries but none serious.
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Betty
Byers
Middlebury Pike
Miss Byers
Hagerstown Trust Company
Potomac Edison
Betty Blevins
Middleburg
Keedysville Blaze Destroys Store Homes And Church
A early morning fire in Keedysville destroyed the town's largest store building owned by Henry K. Zimmerman, adjoining homes of Zimmerman and Mrs. Lillie Suman, the stone dwelling of Miss Luda M. Zimmerman, and the United Brethren church. Estimated losses exceed $100,000 with $20,000 plus for the church. Fire units from Middletown Boonsboro Shepherdstown Funks Town and Hagerstown battled flames, aided by rain, after the blaze started around 6 45 a m from a defective refrigerator in the store.
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United Brethren Church
Keedysville
Henry K. Zimmerman
Lillie Suman
Luda M. Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Pauline Walters
Middletown
Boonsboro
Shepherdstown
Funkstown
Hagerstown
Pins emerging from Florence Fordyce after teen swallowed pins
In Washington Pennsylvania a 15 year old girl named Florence Fordyce who swallowed pins 11 years ago began expelling them. Her mother and doctors reported two pins have come out head first and rust free while Florence attended Claysville high school. The pair of pins emerged yesterday and more may follow.
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Washington, Pa
Florence Fordyce
Florence
Claysville High School
Lots Of Cheer Is Mailed Here
Hagerstown residents send 7000 to 8000 Christmas parcels and many cards for Army personnel overseas in the month ending yesterday. About 400 parcels went out yesterday as the deadline neared for Christmas delivery. Postmaster Thomas M. Simpson says the War Department allows mail to soldiers leaving the country around October 16 to December 10 with change of address. Each person may mail one parcel to a service member, fitting weight and size rules. Overseas parcels can be mailed with a addressee written request at mailing time. Home folks with Navy or WAVES members may mail parcels without written requests up to November 1.
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Hagerstown
Thomas M. Simpson
War Department
Mr. Simpson
Boys Overseas Not Forgotten
New York report shows 13 million Christmas packages for American soldiers overseas arrived at the New York post office by midnight with an expectation of 4 million more in the next days. Postmaster Albert Goldman called the rush the largest seen in the usual holiday period.
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New York
Albert Goldman
New York Post Office
Goldman
Derailed Cattle Cars Block Track
A Pennsylvania freight move derailed eight cattle cars at a switch between Sunset and Virginia avenues at 5 30 am. One loaded car of prime beef cattle escaped damage while seven empty cars jackknifed, damaging track and a signal pole. Crews used a derrick to lift two derailed cars as traffic was diverted to the main line until late morning.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Sunset
Virginia Avenues
Pennsylvania
Rubber Plant Workers Vote On Union Representation
An election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board will be held for the employees of the Hagerstown Rubber Company on Tuesday October 19 to determine whether the workers shall be represented by a collective bargaining agency. Employees may vote for the UAW CIO the AF of No union.
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National Labor Relations Board
Hagerstown Rubber Company
Uawcio
AFI
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Richard McMurray
AP War Editor
Suffecool
Selassie
Catherine Banzoff
Keller
E. Keller Banzoff
Price Panel
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