Red Drive Advances Into Balkans Amid Rail Junction Push
Soviet and Allied reports claim Red Army forces moved deeper into the Balkans advancing toward Belgrade and Nis along key rail lines. Hungarian and Romanian units reportedly crossed into southeastern Hungary, with Moscow silent on deeper depths as fighting rages near the Belgrade Nis corridor and Danube front.
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Yugoslavia
Serbia
Belgrade
Nis
Balkans
Budapest
Hungary
Ubal
Axis
Badapest
Moscow
Warsaw
Berlin
Danube
Rodion
Malinovsky
Ukraine
Turat- Severin
Marshal Tito
Sofa
Salonika
Timok River
Allies Hold Back Germans in Italy After Bitter Fights
Allied forces in Italy report capture of Savignano near the Adriatic and advances along the Fiumicino line. Eighth Army cleared the east bank of the river to Sarignano, taking Tribola and Afontalbano as rains slowed operations. American Fifth Army repelled a major German counterattack on Mount Bailighe, a key height near Imola, threatening the Po Valley supply route.
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Eighth Army
Savignano
Adriatic
Rimini-Bologna
Fiumicito
Sarignano
Tribola
Afontalbano
Fifth Army
Apennine
U. S
Albert Kesselring
Italy
Supreme Court To Reconsider Insurance Ruling
Washington reports the Supreme Court opens its new term with 41 states urging reconsideration of a ruling that insurance is interstate business under the Sherman Act. Justices return with over 300 cases, aiming to address wartime issues and long-running disagreements among jurists.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Tast
Towm
Pvt Mickey Rooney Weds Betty Jane Rose at Camp Sibert
Pvt Mickey Rooney, top film actor, married Betty Jane Rose Miss Birmingham 1944 at Camp Sibert Alabama after a six-day courtship. The ceremony joined Rooney and his bride soon after their secret engagement.
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Birmingham
Ala
Camp Sibert
Mickey Rooney
Hitle
Rooney
Betty Jane Rose
Referee For British Repel Big Nazi Troy's Tax Cases Named
Troy names former New York Supreme Court Justice Thomas Noonan of Buffalo as official referee to hear all valuation reduction claims against the city. Chief Justice James P. Hill approved the plan to consolidate hearings to cut costs. Noonan will calendar cases and hear taxpayers evidence, with findings to be confirmed by the court.
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Troy
New ‘Tax Bureau
Corporation Co Unsel
Amgquutueuser
Thomas
Noonan
Buffalo
Supreme Court
Righth
Janes P. Hill
Appellate
Renasselaer County
Noon Jan
Supreme Calin Troy
Pierce H. Russetti
Brooklyn
Stea |Ing
Sttofney
Wian FL Darby
Deci~sion
Japanese Capture Fourth U S Air Base In China
Japanese forces report a new air base in southern China as they continue in the Hunan and Kwangsi fronts. Wholesalers report a two month coffee supply on hand and deny imminent rationing, while buyers stock up to meet two months demand. Palau battle nears end with Peleliu secured minus pockets of resistance.
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Associated Press
James
Westiexion
Sala Ves Vorny
China
R. Stivell
Joseph W. Stiwell
Byrnes
Neals
New York
Tanchuk
Wechow
Hunan
Prowas
Ser- Vice
Kwangsi
Wuchow
Hwangsi
Cisha L
Chennagit
Hetgyang
Lingling
Hunan Province
Kewilin
Palau
Chester Wo Nimitz
Palau Islands
Philippines
Peleliu Island
Bloody Nose Ridge
Angaur Island
Peleliu
U. S
United States
Ingenious Cheap Robot Bombs Aid German Offense
London reports British scientists found the buzz bomb often dives by itself due to misfiring controls, while tiny transmitters allowed triangulation from listening posts. The crude, inexpensive robot weighed about 2700 pounds with a 2600 pound warhead and reached about 360 meters per hour.
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London
Ager Ik
Aerisi
Highi
Austria Receives Allied Instructions For Postwar Roles
In a broadcast at 1 30 pm General Eisenhower urged Austrians to form clandestine local committees to assist the Allies. The bodies would aid administration, purge Nazis, and organize transport and order, aiming to prevent Nazi aims of turning Austria into a devastated theater of war.
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London
LFA
Eisenhower
Ausizia
Renewed Hearings on Wage Increases in Washington
Hearings resume today on wartime wage demands with Eric Johnston president of the U S Chamber of Commerce as a principal witness. Johnston appears alongside Robert M Gaylord president of the National Association of Manufacturers arguing that any relaxation of wage controls could trigger inflationary spirals harming postwar prosperity and reconversion plans.
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Soarch
Eric Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
Johnston
Robert M. Gaylord
National Association of Manufacturers
Communion Observance At Sampson Naval Center
More than 3 000 Navy men and women at Sampson Naval Training Center joined a World Wide Communion Sunday service. The second annual observance filled Farragut Hall with a 500 seat double rail and required fifteen servings. Capt William W Edek led 29 civilian clergy and 15 chaplains assisted, with a choir of 800 WAVES and bluejackets.
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Sampson (P
Sampson Naval Training Center
Farragut
William W. Edek
British Forces Land on Three Greek Islands
A London radio Cairo correspondent reports New York CPI says British units landed on Kythera and two other Greek islands with no opposition. The island of Kythera lies six miles off the Greek mainland between Greece and Crete.
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New York
London Radio
Cairo
Kythera
Greece
Crete
Finns Take First Nazi Prisoners
Finnish troops advancing through Lapland say they have captured a small Nazi force near Pudasjarvi on the Tavlasva River area. The Helsinki communique notes German prisoners and equipment, plus destruction by retreating Germans as they evacuate the region.
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Steckholm
Lapland
Tarn
Helsinki
Pudasjarvi
Finland
Jaz T
Tounique
Prussia
Tatvaikoski
Moscow Poles blame London for Warsaw uprising fallout
Moscow backed Polish Liberation Committee demands criminal trial for leaders of the London exile government over Warsaw's uprising. Osudka Morawski accuses Londoners of causing the tragedy as rifts widen with Gen Sosnkowski ousted, Komorowski favored, and Berlin front lines cited amid heavy civilian losses and starvation warnings.
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London
Warsaw
Russia
Britain
Committee of National Liberation
Don
Kazimierz Sosnkowski
Tadeusz
Bor
Komerowski
Stalin
Prega
Vistvie
Polish Liberation Committee
Red Army
Kremlin
Morawski
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Org
Mikolajczyt
Raczkiewicz
Sost- Fortski
Allied Air Power Hits Dutch Front as Tanks Face Fire
Allied fighters and rocket-Tephoons struck German tanks north of Nijmegen while heavy bombers faced weather delays on opening October. RAF and US air forces conducted behind lines assaults and damaged ships off Denmark as Mosquitos and intruders targeted Hamburg and targets behind the Siegfried Line.
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London
RA. F
Nijmegen
Holland
Ait Huisses
R.A. F
Frankfurt
Denmark
Eondomm
U. S. Egihth
Germany
Rafl Bomber Command
Series Opens Wednesday as Browns Meet Cardinals in World Series
The Browns, last in the American League cellar, win their first pennant in four years and face the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. The series opens Wednesday with St. Louis as the home club for games one two five and six, and the Browns hosting in all other games at Sportsmans Park until one team wins four.
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St Louis
Browns
St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis
Cardinals
Sportsmans Park
Baseball Scoreboard Notes from Historic Standings
The scoreboard lists games with teams like New York, St Louis, Chicago, Boston, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Washington, Detroit and Cleveland. Results include 13 innings St Louis 16 over New York 6, multiple 1 runs and 5 run margins, and various league matchups.
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IS. Louis
New York
Chicago
Boston
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
St.Louis
Washington
Detroit
Cleveland
Alfred E. Smith in Serious Condition at Rockefeller Hospital
Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, 70, is seriously ill at Rockefeller Hospital after transfer from St Vincent’s Hospital last week. Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan said he spent a restful night. last rites were administered Saturday night by Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis A. McIntyre.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Rockefeller Ta Ie Hospital
Raymond P. Sullivan
Rockefeller Hospital
St Vincent’s Hospital
Sullivan
Smith
J. Francie A. McIntyre
WPB rejects auto industry tool priority plan
WPB chairman J A Krug said the government cannot grant auto manufacturers priority on machine tools to speed up postwar civilian production. He argued such issuance would mislead and that WPB lacks the manpower for broader allocations. Krug noted Nelson will resign, with Roosevelt highlighting a major postwar economic role. He pledged to aid industry in reducing layoffs after the German surrender.
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Washington
WPB
J. A. Krug
Gramti
War Production Board
Krug
Donald M Nélson
China
Nelson
Roosevelt
Jaymy
Detroit
Dustry
Bayeux Tapestry And Other Art Not Destroyed
London reports that France’s national art measures largely remained safe. The Bayeux Tapestry was found with the Louvre, Mona Lisa Venus de Milo and Michelangelo’s Slave intact under Allied entry into Paris. Lieut. Col G F Webb noted the tapestry in good condition and little looting of national collections, though private Jewish-owned works suffered.
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London
France
Supreme Headquarters Commission
Louvre
Paris
Vichy
Michas Angelos
G. F. Webb
Blade
Snearis
U . of Cambridge
Supreme Headquarters
Germans Told Food Supplies Are Short
London broadcast warned the German people that the potato crop would be mediocre after last year’s harvest. Reichminister Backe said digestion of nutrition hinges on the German harvest and production, and occupied territories cannot be relied on for food supplies.
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London
Backe
Allies halt German drive on Arnhem front near Nijmegen
Allied forces report the German counterattack aimed at splitting American spearheads east of Arnhem and Nijmegen broken up. Canadian troops seize Calais and Dunkirk region remains contested as the Allied front across France and the Low Countries stiffens with heavy bombing and armored strength.
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Normandy
Neder Rhine
St Heissen
Arnhem
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Walter Model
Siaha
First Army
Prum
Gre Mecy Forest
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Holland
Huisser
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Nede Rhine
Arnien
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Austria
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Bertin
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