U S Forces Drive On Defenses In Carigara Bay Area
Allied forces push inland in Carigara Bay area targeting Japanese defenses as assault units and Canadian troops advance toward strategic objectives. Reports indicate renewed counterattacks anticipated by German forces while allied air and ground operations continue to pressure enemy positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Carigara Bay
MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte Valley
Jaro
Franklin C. Sibert
Joseph Stilwell
Tenth Corps
Ormoc Bay
U S Carrier Planes Blast Jap Air Force
Allied dispatches credit U S carrier aircraft with destroying thousands of Japanese planes and sinking ships in battles across the Pacific from August through October with Nimitz announcing losses and expected revisions. American forces also report significant ground action around Leyte and the Philippines campaign as Halsey’s Third Fleet concentrates strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. McMurtry
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Philippines Sea
Bonins
Palau
Ryukyus
Formosa
Philippines
Nippon
Luzon
Samar
Leyte
Nimitz
Adm
William F. Halsey
Marc A. Mitscher
Douglas MacArthur
Third Fleet
Leyte Island
Junior Red Cross Drive Opens Enrollment Campaign in Silver Bow
The Silver Bow county Junior Red Cross drive begins this morning to enroll more than 7 500 grade and high school students in the county into the American Junior Red Cross. Chair Stanl ey D Griffiths says literature and blanks are in schools and first enrollment efforts start today. The county aims for 100 percent enrollment for the third year running. enrollment will be in classrooms with buttons and certificates for participants. Fees set by national HQ are 50 cents per room in elementary schools and $1 per 100 students in high schools for the calendar year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Bow County
American Junior Red Cross
Stanley D. Griffiths
Junior Red Cross
Griffiths
Butte
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Japs Close In on Kweilin
CHUNGKING October 31 Three Japanese columns moved toward Kweilin in southeast China as Chinese forces claimed progress against supply lines. The high command reported gains east and southwest of the city plus stalled Japanese advances near Pingnam and Liuchow and interceptions of Japanese shipping on the Siang River. U S Fourteenth Air Force fighters aided by trapping and strafing a two mile Japanese column in a canyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Kweilin
China
High Command
Kwangsi Province
Stalingrad
Tungan
Siange
West River
Liuchow
Pingnam
U. S
Fourteenth Air Force
Weather Outlook Mostly Cloudy With Light Rain
Mostly cloudy forecast with intermittent rain on Wednesday. Tuesday’s temps reach a high of 57 and a low of 43 with about 0.01 inch of precipitation.
200 Hungarian Towns Taken by Reds
Soviet forces pushed toward Budapest, seizing more than 200 Hungarian towns and villages as they forced a front from the Danube to the Tisza. Berlin reported a third great offensive aimed at East Prussia, with Red troops breaking into German lines at two points and pushing near Liepaja and Auce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Budapest
Kecskemet
Hungary
Danube
Tisza
Berlin
Red Army
East Prussia
Danzig
Narew River
Poland
Pultusk
Warsaw
Latvia
Baltic
Liepaja
Auce
Moscow
Matvei Zakharov
Serock
Rozan
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Gross Trakehnen
Insterburg
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
F D R Explains Stilwell Recall
President Roosevelt said Gen Joseph Stilwell was recalled to Washington at Chiang Kai shek’s request due to long standing personal differences, not strategy, and that Ambassador Clarence Gauss will resign China but take a new post. He noted no link between Gauss resignation and Stilwell recall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph W. Stilwell
Chiang Kaishek
United States
Clarence Gauss
China
Gauss
Stilwell
White House
Chiang
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
China-Burma-India
Generalissimo
No Campaign of Slander on a State Faces Montana Governor Hopeful
Zales Ecton denounces Lief Erickson in Bozeman as a newcomer misrepresenting Montana. Ecton cites Judge Frank Leiper and Erickson warnings, accusing the candidate of slander against the state, its industry, and workers while living on public payrolls. The piece frames Erickson as unqualified and out of step with Montana’s wartime and postwar economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zales Ecton
Bozeman
Lief Erickson
North Dakota
Montana
Ecton
State Senate
House of Representatives
Washington
Johnnie
Here
Frank Leiper
Glendive
Leiper
Supreme Court
Erickson
Ford Re-elect Bid Seen By Montana Senator
Sen. Dan Maddox of Big Horn predicts Gov. Sam C. Ford will win re election by an overwhelming majority on November 7. He cites a surplus growth from a deficit to more than five million dollars, efficiency in government, and Ford’s work for Montana waters and veterans. Maddox lauds Ford’s record as governor, attorney general, and Supreme Court judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Sen
Dan Maddox
Hardin
Big Horn County
Republican State Central Committee
Sam C. Ford
Maddox
Veterans’ Committee
Montana Republican Organization
Montana
Sam Ford
Supreme Bench
Dewey Outlines Eight-Point Right-Point Program for Government
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey accused President Roosevelt of false promises and detailed an eight-point Republican program aimed at ending government abuse. He promised office on January 20 with no secret pledges, pledging full employment, a new tax structure to create jobs, expanded social security, price floors for farms, free collective bargaining, fewer business reports, and curbs on monopolies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Memorial Auditorium
United States
America
Broadcast Urges German Revolt Against Hitler
A mysterious German broadcast on an unusual wavelength urged the Reich’s people and army to revolt against Hitler. The speaker, calling himself Col Gen Ludwig von Beck, ridiculed Nazi claims of his suicide after the July 20 plot and stated that Dr Karl Goerdeler, once Leipzig mayor, was alive and at liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Reich
Hitler
Dagens Nyheter
Ludwig von Beck
Karl Goerdeler
Leipzig
Wallace Truman Share Platform at Madison Square Garden
Wallace and Truman spoke from the same platform for the first time since the party convention and urged re election of Roosevelt as doorway to the future and symbol of Democracy. They attacked Dewey on foreign policy and urged changing isolationist faces in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Wallace
Harry Truman
Roosevelt
Wallace
Dewey
Truman
Madison Square Garden
Senate
House
Pay Raises Are Authorized by War Labor Board
Helena Oct 31 Four to eight cent hourly differential raises were granted Montana employees of Anaconda Copper Mining and American Smelting and Refining. About 14 000 workers are affected. Wage Stabilization Director Fred Vinson approved the increases after a War Labor board order. Reid Robinson of Denver is international president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Thomas Murray
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Montana
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
American, Smelting and Refining Company
Murray
Fred Vinson
War Labor Board
Colombia Accepts Argentina Meeting Proposal First in Americas
Colombia's foreign office said on Tuesday night it will accept Argentina's request for a meeting of American foreign ministers to discuss the Argentine situation after consulting with Venezuela and Ecuador. Colombia becomes the first American republic to accept the proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bogota
Colombia
Foreign Office
Venezuela
Ecuador
Argentina
Churchill Eyes War End By Summer With Japan Victory 18 Months More
London Oct 31 Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons the war against Germany cannot end before Christmas or Easter and may stretch into early summer. He warned it would take at least 18 months after Hitler’s downfall to defeat Japan, while urging Parliament to extend the coalition and delay a general election. He noted no U.S. reference and stressed forecasts must be revised by allied chiefs as German tenacity and Japanese resistance shape the long conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Singleton
London
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Germany
Hitler
Japan
U. S
Churchill
United States
Chiefs of
Commons
Navy Ace Downs Nine Planes in Hour and Half
Commander David McCampbell, flying a Hellcat squadron, shot down nine Japanese planes in one hour and 35 minutes near the Philippines on Oct 24. The ace increased his war total to 30, ranking second behind Richard Bong while leading the Navy in overall aerial victories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Navy
David McCampbell
Los
McCampbell
America
Don Gentile
Piqua
Ohio
Richard Bong
Poplar
Wis
United States
Wasp
Alex Vraciu
East
Chicago
Ind
Jerseley
Presidential Ballot Change Explained
County Republican and Democratic committees warn voters about a ballot change for the coming election. Instead of marking a small X beside each elector, voters now place an X in a large square for either the Democratic Roosevelt or the Republican Dewey Bricker ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican
Democratic County Central Committees
Roosevelt
Truman
Dewey
Bricker
Seattle-Tacoma airport opens for partial postwar service
The Seattle-Tacoma municipal airport, built between Seattle and Tacoma, began partial operations with a ceremony and a plane-load of officials from the airlines, Board of Trade, Civil Aeronautics authority, and other agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
U.R
Seattle-Tacoma
Board of Trade, Civil Aeronautics Authority
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By Marlin Spencer
Jap Air Force
Ormoc
Carigara
Bataan
Dagami
Holland
James F. McGlincy
Paris
Maas
Miles C. Dempsey
Second Army
Dempsey
H. D. G. Crerar
First Army
Rotterdam
S Hertogenbosch
Oodenbosch
Roosendaal
Willemstad
Moerdijk
Mark River
Liesee
Eindhoven
Red Cross Daive
By Spencer Moosa
By Robert Musel
F.D.R
Merriman Smith
Bozeman Farmer
Gov. Dewey
Gardner Bridge
Wallace, Truman
Comdr. Campbell
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