Capture Of Naples Near As Foe Retreats
Allied Fifth Army surged within miles of Naples after driving German forces from coastal plains near Mount Vesuvius. Castellammare and the Sorrento peninsula lay in Allied hands as a Paris radio broadcast claimed Naples could fall today. Germans were retreating toward the Volturno river line as the Foggia air center fell with its air fields intact.
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North Africa
Fifth Army
Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Castellammare
Sorrento
Bay of Naples
London
Elmer Peterson
Paris
Gulf of Naples
Gulf
Plurk
Renee See Rere
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Rome
Milan
Volturno
Foggia
Germans Capture German Headquarters Headed by Sleeping General
British and American forces on the advance toward Naples said to have entered a German headquarters near Naples without a shot. A sleeping German general was found inside while many officers were despatched to chairs. A military spokesman warned predicting Naples timing. recall of Tunis and Sicilian delays cited.
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New York
Naples
Tunis
Catania
Sicily
Veterans of Foreign Wars votes to delay women members
In New York the Veterans of Foreign Wars halted a proposal to admit women who served overseas for one year after a heated convention session. The vote was 2,070 to 826. Opponents warned that women members could reach high offices and cause auxiliary friction. Lieut. Commander James E. Van Zandt praised wartime bravery, but the motion to change failed.
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New York
James E. van Zandt
History as the key to liberal education says Butler
Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler told students at Columbia’s 190th year opening exercises that history is the most important instrument of liberal education. He argued that history provides a view of today’s world and tomorrow’s problems beyond what current events can offer. He warned that newspapers and radio alone cannot explain what events mean.
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New York
tPi
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Columbia
Baseball Scoreboard Night Standings and Delays
National league results show New York 3 Chicago 3 at end of 14th due to darkness. American league notes Chicago 3 New York 0 and New York 4 Chicago 0. St Louis 3 Boston 2. Brooklyn 14 Pittsburg 7. Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 0. Other games include Philadelphia 8 Detroit 2 and Detroit 9 Philadelphia 1. St Louis 4 Boston 3 in 13 innings, darkness called. Washington 6 Cleveland 2 and Washington 7 Cleveland 4.
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National
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Boston
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
American
Detroit
Philadephia
Washington
Cleveland
Corsicans Rise Against Axis In Corsica Uprising
A Paris broadcast cited by the French Committee of National Liberation says a seven Corsicans movement swelled to 2000 fighters by 1942 and harassed Axis troops, aiding Allied efforts on Corsica's east coast. Two of the original seven were killed, others remained in action.
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New York
Corsica
French Committee of National Liberation Radio
Algiers
U. S
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Front Patriotic
France
Final Settlement for Mexican Oil Reached
The State Department announced a final settlement with Mexico over expropriated oil properties. Mexico will pay American nationals $20,137,700.84 in addition to $9,000,000 already paid in 1941. Payments begin today with $3,796,391.04 and four annual installments of $4,985,327.45 follow.
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Washington P
State Department
Mexico
Pope Pius XII Resumes Audiences at Vatican City
Swiss radio reports the pope resumed his usual audiences at the Vatican last night, signaling a return to normal schedule after any prior interruptions. The brief bulletin confirms continued papal activities and public appearances from Vatican authorities.
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London
Pope Pius XII
Vatican City
Dewey Refuses Special Session Over Aurelio Ballot Fight
Governor Thomas E. Dewey declined to call a special session of the legislature to bar Thomas A. Aurelio from the November ballot. He warned a new law could enable parties to substitute candidates at will. Both parties repudiated Aurelio amid links to Frank Costello and underworld influence. Kennedy declines to sign immunity waiver in grand jury probe over Aurelio's nomination.
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Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas A. Aurelio
First Judicial District
New York City
State Supreme Court
Dewey
Aurelio
New York
Frank S. Hogan
G.Q.P
Frank Costello
Costello
Kennedy
New York Cpi
Michael T. Kennedy
Tanany Hall
Supreme Court
Senate Maps Own Postwar Peace Plan
Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee decided to draft its own postwar foreign policy statement and may have it ready for Senate action before Christmas. It aims to articulate a concrete stance, potentially bottling up the House approved Fulbright resolution which urged American participation through constitutional means in creating an international peace framework.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations
Senate
Congress
Indorse All Gas Coupons, OPA Warns
The Office of Price Administration urged motorists to endorse every gasoline coupon in their ration books immediately rather than signing them individually when purchasing fuel. The move protects consumers from loss or theft and helps identify those trafficking illegal gasoline.
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OPA
Washington
Office of Price Administration
East gas ration raised to two gallons a week
Washington reports the basic East Coast gas ration for an A board holder will rise from one and a half to two gallons weekly. A final date is pending with announcement possible tomorrow by War Mobilization Director Byrnes. The change follows a negotiation between OPA and the Petroleum Administration for War to balance regional supplies.
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Washington
East
Byrnes
Office of Price Administration
Midwest
Petroleum Administration For War
OPA
Threw Baby from Hotel Charged with Murder
Los Angeles resident Pi-Claude L Dexter, 45, was charged with murder in a district attorney's complaint after his 16 month old son Johnny died from a tenth floor hotel window fall. A coroner jury ruled Dexter tossed the child while witnesses testified he was intoxicated.
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Los Angeles
Claude L. Dexter
Johnny
Dexter
Hitler scolds generals over Stalingrad psychosis
London based Radio France of Algiers quoted a German Freedom station saying Adolf Hitler reproached a conference of German marshals and generals for a Stalingrad psychosis influencing their strategy. The broadcast, AP recording, placed the meeting at Field Marshal Von Manstein's headquarters.
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London
Radio France
Algiers
Atlantic
Adolf Hitler
Stalingrad
Associated Press
Fritz Erich von Mannstein
Union Head Urges End to Strike
Providence R I three day walkout by 1009 Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen Heiners locals continues with pickets halting interstate shipments at the state line. International president Daniel J Fobin urged workers to return to work and let the War Labor Board decide the dispute while noting 100000 members in uniform and that strikers harm their own brothers by staying away.
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Providence
R. L
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
A. F. of L
Massachusetts
Boston
Daniel J. Fobin
Ark
War Labor Board
Knife Wielder Sent to Mattewan in New York
Ph papers filed in felony court show Giuseppe Nudi 47 arrested on felonious assault after the non fatal stabbing of Ettore Manfredi 61 a writer for Italian language publications. He had been committed to Mattewan State Hospital for the insane.
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New York
Giuseppe Nudi
Ettore Manfredi
Mattewan State Hospital
Food Plan To Use Subsidies Plans to back farm price supports
The administration seeks congressional backing for a 1944 food production program using subsidies to insure farmers receive higher prices while shielding consumers from price jumps. President Roosevelt plans a billion dollar subsidy and farm price support push, with Marvin Jones outlining details before the House Banking Committee. The CCC holds 500 million dollars for subsidies and a White House briefing signaled the president will press to stabilize food prices near September 1942 levels.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Roosevelt
Marvin Jones
House Banking Committee
Jones
WFA
Commodity Credit Corporation
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
CCC
War Food Administration
House Committee
Bombers Hit Wewak Base In Southwest Pacific Blitz
American bombers smashed the Japanese base at Wewak New Guinea destroying a large munition depot and triggering eight fires after dropping 145 tons of bombs. Allied pilots reported the largest explosions seen in the Southwest Pacific. Australian troops pushed through Japanese defenses near the main jetty at Finschhafen approaching 600 yards to the jetty as they closed on vital shipping bases at New Britain.
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Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
MacArthur
Finschhafen
New Britain
Judge Condemns Low Wages Paid Bank Employees
Federal Judge William F. Smith suspended a year and a day sentence for John J. Kling, former assistant cashier of First National Bank of South Plainfield, criticizing the banking system that pays high front-office salaries while lower-paid staff struggle. He said he would show leniency to employees with inadequate pay who face embezzlement charges, while not condoning offenses.
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Newark
S.J. Ulp
William F. Smith
John J. Kling
First National Bank of South Plainfield
Smith
Plenty of Gobblers For Civilians Thanksgiving Turkey Assurance
Washington report says despite large Army Navy purchases there will be plenty of turkeys for civilians. Grover B. Hill testified to a Senate sub committee that the Army and Navy are buying the early crop to ensure every fighting man gets a holiday meal. This year’s crop reached a record 37 million birds, about 4.5 million more than prior peaks.
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Washington (P
Army
Navy
Grover B. Hill
Senate Agriculture
Early draft proposals gain favor in Congress
Washington moves to ease draft impact by expanding inducement of non-fathers and under thirtys into government roles. Senators Bailey and Clark push limits on non-father federal posts and desk duties for draft age officers, while Taft notes a bipartisan plan to curb deferments for under 30s unless indispensable in agriculture or war industries.
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Washington
Baily
D-N.c
Clark
D-Mo
Army
Navy
Bailey
War Department
Taft
R.O
Appeal From Renegotiation Suggested For War Contractors
A Ways and Means subcommittee urged that war contractors gain access to the court of tax appeals if they believe renegotiation of contracts with the government is unfair. It proposed allowing same production costs as tax laws, excluding inordinate salaries from profit, permitting full plant amortization in war production costs, and barring renegotiation for firms with less than $500,000 in war business in a year starting last January.
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Washington (P
Court of Tax Appeals
Butcher Knife Slayer Found to Be Insane
Detroit reports that Dr. Lowell Seiling of the Detroit recorder's court announced that a sanity commission found Emyrs Richards insane after he allegedly killed his stepson's wife Mary Gallian. Gallian, 18, was found Septembers 20 with throat slashed and cloth knotted around her neck. Richards confessed to the slaying.
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Detroit
Lowell
Seiling
Detroit Recorder’s Court
Sanity Commission
Emyrs Richards
Mary Gallian
Richards
Island in River Near Kiev Fell to Soviet Forces
Soviet columns 400 miles apart closed to within 110 miles of the old Polish border and 210 miles of the Romanian frontier while a river island near Kiev fell to the Reds. Rudnya, Trukhanov Island near Kiev, Darnitsa, and Kremenchug yielded to Soviet advances as casualties and captured matériel mounted.
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London
Dnieper
Kiev
Mostow
Red
Smolensk
Vitebsk
Rudnya
Marshall Joseph Stalin
White Russia
Riga
Trukhanov Island
Darnitsa
Hiev
Kremenchug
Dnepropetrovsk
Stalin
Moscow Radio
Monitor
Army supports larger aid to families of service members
The Army and Navy urged higher government payments to children of service personnel while opposing boosts for childless wives. Maj. Gen. Miller G. White testified to the House Military Committee that the Army favored maintaining allotments as part of a serviceman’s remuneration and rejected withholding or means testing based on wives’ financial status or fidelity.
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Washington Upi
Army and Navy
House Military Committee
Miller G. White
White
Army
War and Navy Departments
Senate
Sparksman
Planes Make Low Level Attacks on Nazi Facilities
Planes including Spitfires Mustangs and Typhoons conducted low level strikes on German land and sea lines of communication. They damaged engines of more than a dozen freight trains in occupied France. Two coastal vessels suffered serious damage off the Netherlands, and additional coastal ships tugs barges and E-boats were targeted. No Allied planes were lost.
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London
UPI
France
Netherlands
Induction of Father of Nine Delayed Pending Inquiry
Edwin C. Cole a 35 year old Denver father of nine faced a temporary postponement of his army induction scheduled for Saturday. State Selective Service officials said his status would be reviewed to assess hardship to his family including a dependent wife receiving 142 dollars a month and nine children aged from one week to seventeen. Cole works as a cement finisher at an Army internment camp.
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Denver
Armed Forces
Edwin C. Cole
Selective Service
Cole
Third War Loan Nears Quota in New Yorker
An independent campaign committee formed with Nathan Straus named treasurer and Owen D Young and Jonn Childs as co chairmen. The Third War Loan reached $26,110,000,000 in sales, with Rhode Island and Illinois near targets and overall individual and corporate purchases rising to $3.104 billion and $311.121 billion respectively.
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New Yorker
Chigens
Carmelee
Gentam NL
Can Labor Party
Comecion
Nathan Straus
United States Consistration
Citizens’ Committee
Cochairmen
Owen D Young
General Electric Co
Jonn
Childs
Columbia
American Labor Party
Mead
Wation
Treasury
Minnesota
Utah
Rhode Island
Iinois
Georgia
Banners Banned In War Production Effort
The War Production Board banned production of advertising and theatrical banners to save materials for military uses. It prohibited any banner over 150 square feet and barred other non essential banners and flags from manufacture.
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Washington Pi
War Production Board
Anti Nazi Europe Seethes Across Fronts and Paris
Yugoslav army reports heavy fighting with German troops across Trieste and the Adriatic front as it advances in Monte S moment Hercegovina and Sandzak. Split evacuated to avoid encirclement. Germans retook the port. Reports also note unrest in rural France with peasant resisters attacking city halls and destroying crops and tracks. Belgian agency cites rail line attacks by Belgians.
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London
Laval
France
Madrid
A. B.C
Belegian No. 1S
September Milk May Bring 833.27 Per Cat
Dairymen from six states supplying New York metropolitan milk pool may earn $3.27 per hundredweight for September milk. Dr. C. J. Blanford announced anticipated sales of 440 million pounds and an expected farmer payout near $15 million. Last September production reached 477.5 million pounds with $14.64 million paid.
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New York
C. J. Blanford
New York Metropolitan
Urgency Felt At UK Aircraft Factory Tour
Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, toured the Midlands aircraft plant where Spitfires are built. He stated there is a great sense of urgency and promised to take the message back to America for wartime production.
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Shidlands
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
United States
America
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