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Vice Pres Wallace on oil cos monopoly of pipelines
Gen Marshall, Sec Stimson and other high mil officials rept on war progress to House of Reprs members in secret session; Reprs comment
5th Army forces Gers back to new defense line between Mondragone and Venafro; 8th Army repulses counter-attack at Montedilfone in Adriatic area; Gers harass civilians in retreat; Allied bombers destroy 4 bridges between Pescara and Ancona; bomb rys and airfields; gains since invasion beginning revd and line described; map
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Thursday, Oct. 21 -- The scale of fighting north of Finschhafen, New Guinea, increased yesterday as enemy forces sought to break out of Sattelberg, site of an old Lutheran mission, where they took refuge after the fall of Finschhafen and established communications with other enemy forces.
USSR forces advance toward Krivoi Rog in Dniepropetrovsk drive; widen bridgeheads north of Kiev and below Gomel; gain in Melitopol fighting despite stiff Ger resistance
1943Tariq Ali, Pakistani historian and author[†]
Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
1943Ron Elliott, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer[†]
Ronald Charles Elliott is an American musician, composer and record producer, best known as songwriter and lead guitarist of the rock band The Beau Brummels. Elliott wrote or co-wrote the band's 1965 U.S. top 20 hits "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little". In addition to reuniting with the Beau Brummels on occasion over the years, Elliott released a solo album in 1970, and has played on and produced albums by a number of other artists.
1943World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.[†]
The Provisional Government of Free India or, more simply, Azad Hind, was a short-lived Japanese-controlled provisional government in India. It was established in exile in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II in October 1943 and has been considered a puppet state of the Empire of Japan.