Current Events October 5, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY OCTOBER 5, 1943

NEW YORK, Oct. 5 — (AP) — In a comedy of errors and weird defensive play that resembled sandlot baseball on occasion, the New York Yankees whipped the St.Louis Cardinals, 4 to 2, today behind the seven-hit pitching of Spud Chandler to draw first blood in the 1943 World Series

Hitting the blasted German city of Frankfurt less than 12 hours after American Flying Fortresses
delivered a precision blow there,
RAF heavy bombers last night dumped another load upon that war production center, while a

small fleet of night bombers struck Ludwigshafen.
                     THE LIMA NEWS
                                      LIMA, OHIO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1943

            GERMAN LINES STIFFEN
             Yanks Take Series Opener From Cards

SEEK TO CHECK
ALLIED MARCH
TOWARD ROME
Intensified Bombing Campaign
Wrecks Key Bridge And
Airdromes
A L L f E D HEADQUARTERS,
ALGIERS, Oct. r. _ (UP) -~
Four to five German divisions perhaps 60,000 to 75,000 men) stiffened their resistance on the Italian front today after new American gains of six to eight miles and the first Allied air attack on occupied Greece from newly-won bases in Italy.
An official announcement of the mounting German opposition followed the disclosure that United States troops slicing into the Nazi flank above Naples had captured the Montesarchio road junction and Northwest American air forces had intensified their part in tho expanded Mediterranean campaign.
The strengthened Nazi resistance w\as noted particularly in the coastal sectors, where, the Germans
stniggled desperately to anchor their wavering line across tho
peninsula.
                                                             Eighth Army Advances
On the west const the Fifth Army wns hammering nt the German barriers above Naples, while
along the Adriatic the British Eighth Army beat off counterattacks at Termoli and moved in reinforcements.

BIRDS GRANT
TWO RUNS IN
4TH AND 6TH

Cards         010 010 000—2 7 2
Yanks .. . . 000 202 OO—4 8 2
YANKEE STADIUM, N E W
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 — (AP) —
In a comedy of errors and weird defensive play that resembled sandlot baseball on occasion, the New
York Yankees whipped the St.Louis Cardinals, 4 to 2, today behind the seven-hit pitching of Spud Chandler to draw first blood in the 1943 World Series.

FRANKFURT HIT
SECOND TIME
IN 12 HOURS
RAF Blasts Reich War Center;
Night Bombers Smack
Ludwigshafen
LONDON, Oct. 5 —(AP)—
Hitting the blasted German city of Frankfurt less than 12 hours after American Flying Fortresses
delivered a precision blow there,
RAF heavy bombers last night dumped another load upon that war production center, while a
small fleet of night bombers struck Ludwigshafen.
The great bomber fleet ranged over much of the Rhineland during the night delivering the main . attack on Frankfurt — exceeding 500 tons—and a force of Lancasters made a subordinate raid on Ludwighafen which, with its twin city of Mannheim across the river, has been blasted 59 times previously.
JAP EVACUATION
FLEET WRECKED
Attempt To Rescue Kolombangara
Force Frustrated