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Allotment for First Child. :

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U. P)~— The house military affairs commit tee today approved a bill to increase the government allowance for children of men in the armed forces to $25 a month for a first child, $20 for the second child and $15 for each additional child. The bill would not change the $50 a month allotment and allowance for the wife of a serviceman.

compromise between one recommended by a house military affairs subcommittee—$22 for the _ first child, $18 for the second, and $16 for each additional—and the scale approved by the senate yesterday in passing legislation to tighten up on. occupational draft deferments. An amendment written into that bill would provide $30 a month: for the first child and $20 for each additional.

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10¢t 7 (U, P.) ~Following is a play-

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Yanks’ Hank Borowy In Third Game.

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U. S. Warships and Planes Shatter Jap-Held

PEARL HARBOR, T. H, Oct. 7 (U. P).—~The shattering American sea and air bombardment of Jap anese Wake island Tuesday dawn pointed today to a mounting naval

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game of the world series today be-

October sun. Billy Southworth, Cardinal manager, was banking on his young left. hander to put the Cardinals into a two-to-one game lead when the (Continued on Page Six) » » »

Play-by-Play * YANKEE STADIUM, New York,

by-play account .of today’s game, ‘the third, in the World series: First Inning CARDINALS — Klein flied Stainback. Walker doubled down the left field foul line, poking a soft fly over Johnson's head. Musial walked on five piiches. W. Cooper

Dickey. - Sanders struck out, swinging, on three pitches. - Litwhiler singled off Borowy's left knee. It

Keller, who made the catch standing against the foul line marker in left field. NO RUNS, ONE HIT, NO ERRORS.

YANKEES—Gordon lined to Litwhiler, who came in fast to make a spectacular shoestring catch. Dickey t an easy grounder to Klein who out. Etten, with a count

two, grounded to Kur-

Oct. 7.—-Rookie Southpaw Alpha

grounded into a fast double play,

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BACK INTO AFL

Unanimous Vote .Readmits Union; Decision on

Lewis Next Week.

BULLETIN BUFFALO, Oct. 7 (U. P.) ~The Sth annual convention of the C. L 0. United Automobile Workers today voted to support a fourth term for President Roosevelt conditioned upon his taking “an aggressive pesition against the foes of the New Deal, of progress and labor within the Democratic party as well as outside it.”

BOSTON, Oct. 7 (U. P:)~The American Federation of Labor voted unanimously today to readmit the International Association ‘of . Machinists which broke away from the A. F. of L. last May in a dispute with the executive council over work jurisdiction. The action. by the 63d annual A. F. of L convention came amid persistent reports that John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers also would be in line for readmission. Lewis matter probably will

of a Martin PBM-3 Mariner patrol |

offensive designed to roll back the enemy from his Pacific outposts. Striking with dramatic speed only 24 hours after the disclosure that American naval chiefs have just {concluded a Pacific war council in| | Hawaii, warships of a powerful U.! 8. task force raked the tiny islet with shell fire while planes from an {accompanying carrier bombed and {strafed the enemy. | A terse communique Issued by Adm, Chester W. Nimitz, com- | mander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet,! {gave few details of the action, pos-| {sibly indicating that the task force {had not yet. broken radio silence

SOVIETS MASS FOR ATTACK ON NAZI LINE

From Front; Hundreds of Russ Planes Blast Germans.

MOSCOW, Oct. 7 (U. P.).——The Russian army is mass« ing troops, tanks, cavalry and big guns along the 160-mile stretch of the middle Dnieper hYetween Kiev and Kremenchug in apparent preparation for a full scale assault on the German defense line, front dispatches said today. The concentration of Russian strength along the river » was accompanied by intense artillery duels in which each side sought to weaken the enemy positions along the most

and might still be ranging deep in formidable water barrier east of Poland and the Balkans. | The newspaper - Komsomolskaya Pravda said Soviet units of all categories were pouring westward to the Dnieper, and shelling had become especially intense a third of the

enemy “waters; bent on a new ass sault,

Offensive Rumored

“A strong Pacific fleet task force. commanded by Rear Adm. Alfred E. Montgomery, U. 8. N., heavily attacked enemy-held positions on Wake island with carrier aircraft and ship bombardment, commencing at dawn, Oct. 5, 1943, west longitude time,” the communique said. “Pur. ther details are not now available.” The new raid, coming amid persistent reports that a major United

tral Pacific is impending, climaxed a series of far-ranging forays staged by American task forces against the enemy's island bases in the past month.

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It was the second naval blow struck against Wake since overwhelming Japanese land, sea and alr forces captured the tiny island from a handful of American marines on Dec, 22, 1941. Located 2000 miles due west of Pearl Harbor and 1200 miles southwest of Midway, the barren, horse-

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BULLETINS

LONDON, Oct. 7 (U. P.)=At

UAW Votes Down

Incentive Pay Plan

BUFFALO, Oct. 7 (U. P.) ~Afte} six hours of debate, delegates of the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers convention voted today to ban extension of the incentive pay system in the nation’s aviation, motor and agricultural implement industry, In adopting a majority report of| the resolutions committee against] the incentive plan, the delegates voted down a minority report which would permit local unions io install] the production base pay system under restrictions imposed by the

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ALI TIME BOMB (ILLS 100 IN NAPLES

Some Soldiers Casualties

In Postoffice Blast.

NAPLES, Oct. 7 (U. P) —A Germen time bomb exploded at the Naples postoffice today as

States naval offensive in the Oen-|.

ALLIED TROOPS NEARING CAPUA

British Beat Off German Counter-Attacks; Blast

Venice Area.

By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Stall Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Alglers, Oct, 7.The allied 5th army

Naples, on Hannibal's ancient road to Rome today as the 8th army, reinforced with tanks and aided by & naval bombardment, smashed the heaviest German ocounter-at-tack yet launched on the Adriatic Const, American Flying. Fortresses car ried the war to the Venice area

of northern Italy for the first time -| yesterday, flying 1200 miles round

trip from North African bases to

{pound railway targets at Mestre, 10

miles to the west, an important relay point for German military supplies moving between Italy, Jugoslavia, Hungary and Austria. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's 5th army already was within artillery range of Capua following the capture of Aversa and Maddaloni, 10 miles to the southeast and south respectively, but flooded lowlands were slowing the advance, The army was approaching the Volturno river, the first natural axis defense line above Naples, on a broad front and an official announcement said the Germans were holding the north bank in strength, though apparently only as a delaying action, An announcement yesterday sad the 5th army already had crossed the Volturno at one point, but this (Continued on Page Six)

LONDON, Oct. 7 (U. P).~Re-

Special Nazi Squads were said to be stripping Roman palaces, museums and private houses of masterpleces on a scale dwarfing their

neared Capua, 17 miles north of

way downstream from Kiev to Kremenchug. Newspapers published pice tures of the Dnieper at Kremenchug showing that the Russians {held - a commanding view of the west bank, The river appeared to be swollen by heavy rain, i Dispatches sald that behind the | Kremenchug-Kiev stretch of the | Dnieper the countryside was dotted (with markers indicating the altes of destroyed villages,

Summer Resort Rased Bravare, Kiev's summer resort across the river, was reported rased, Pravda reports sald the Germans were “scorching” the Melitopol area | below the big hend of the Dnieper, where heavy fighting in_progress. The

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Fliers reported that rail tions behind the middie reaches of the Dnieper jammed with trainloads ment, munitions and the retreating Germans. night raid alone, 22 trains stroyed and heavy explosions cated that many were loaded munitions. ; Fleet air arm planes were in the offensive. Two German transports totalling 13,000 tons were sunk in the Baltic sea and a 1500ton transport was sent to the bot tom of the Black sea yesterday.

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