October 10, 1943

VARIOUS producers have been laying the blame for the lack of good straight plays on Broadway to a dearth of good dramatic scripts. Perhaps this is true. In the musical field, when nothing presentable is available, they dig out an old operetta, streamline it, and make a fortune.

Roosevelt-Churchill rept, Aug-Sept

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 9 -- Two of the great running backs of the year thrilled a record crowd of 86,000 spectators with their dazzling exploits today in the Michigan stadium.

CHICAGO, Oct. 9 -- Harold (Jug) McSpaden, winner of this summer's $15,000 Tam o'Shanter All-American open, found the Tam links still to his liking today and rolled up a six-stroke advantage over Sam Byrd in the first half of their two-day competition in golf's "world series."

5th Army patrols cross Volturno between Capua and sea; reptd fighting small-scale battles on Ger-held river bank; other Clark units capture Caserta; 8th Army advances 2-3 mi in Termoli area; Grazzanise heavily mined by Gers; US planes attack bridge and junction near Palata; 20 Ger trucks destroyed; other aerial activity described; bomb tonnage dropped by Allies, Sept, estimated