Finland’s Uncertain Path Amid Third War and Allied Shifts
Finland, after finishing a second war in five years, now faces a third conflict as it aligns with Germany and the Allies shifts. The piece notes Finland’s complex wartime moves, including pro Nazi leanings, gripping propaganda, and a fragile chance to gain position if Germany’s withdrawal had not occurred. Capt. H. W. Brown tops U S aerials with 27th victory as Warsaw endures heavy smoke and destruction in a high risk battle.
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Finland
Reds
Leningrad
United Nations
Hitler
Germany
Italy
Washington
Procope
H. W. Brown
Warsaw
Albert Grasso
Jefferson
Paulsboro
N. J
John A. Spreng
West 83Rd
Cleveland
Tishomingo Marine Among Returning Pacific Veterans
ATLANTA Ga Sept 19 UP The Marine Southern Procurement division announced 161 Marines 22 of them from Oklahoma have returned to the Pacific after more than two years of combat duty Most are with the Second Marine division and many from the Second Marine regiment pending reassignment to new stations in the United States they will have 30 day furloughs The Oklahoma list includes Cpl Neil Henry Buckley Pfc Roy Kenneth Baker Sgt Raymond Earl Cleghorn and numerous other Oklahoma City Tulsa El Reno and Ponca City Marines with ties to Tishomingo and Bowdon Broken Bow and Madill locales.
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Atlanta
Marine Southern Procurement Division
Oklahoma
Pacific
Second Marine Division
Second Marine Regiment
United States
Neil Henry Buckley
Roy Kenneth Baker
Tulsa
Raymond Earl Cleghorn
Ymond Wesley Thomas
Henry Eugene McClure
Oklahoma City
Ray L. Palmer
Eddie Arthur Noah
el Reno
Bill Mager
Wilburton
Millard Eugene Lawton
Locust Grove
Victor Lee Dobyns
Elk City
Robert E. West
Medford
Thomas Marion Ash
Mead
William E. Summerlin
Stillwell
Geronimo Theodore Jackson
Tishomingo
Robert Byron Hutchinson
Bowden
Herman Claude Dickey
Quinton
Berlin Robinson
Madill
Cecil Mervan Molder
India
William Landis Hutchinson
Cameron
Byron A. Hanks, Jr
Duncan
Otto Howard
Broken Bow
Olney Branford Ratliff
Ponca City
Fortresses Drop Tons of Supplies To Warsaw Patriots
American Flying Fortresses and two Mustang fighters conducted a major supply mission to Warsaw, delivering arms food ammunition and medicine to Polish patriots amid fierce resistance. Two bombers and both escorts were lost, while Russian and Allied air forces supported the operation and fighters completed a record 1900 mile round trip.
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Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Russia
Warsaw
U. S. Eastern Air Command
Bor
Eastern Command
England
Danes Defend Amalienborg as Germans Seize Copenhagen
Danish policemen fought German naval troops attempting to seize the royal castle Amalienborg in Copenhagen. The king and royal family remained inside as civilians aided police in the city. A general strike was called after German forces occupied government buildings and police stations across Denmark.
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Stockholmi
Amalienborg
Copenhagen
Danish
Royal
Christian X
Oil Workers Hunt Living Room Here
Twelve families of oil field workers from East Pauls Valley seek housing in Ada by Monday noon but find no suitable places. The men work for the D and D Driburg company of Dallas and are all Texas families. One man prefers Pauls Valley for proximity, yet housing is unavailable. Contacts: Elmer Kenison at the Chamber of Commerce office in the Aldridge hotel or phone 506.
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East Pauls Valley
Ada
D and D. Driburg Company
Dallas Texas
Texas
Peals Valley
Elmer Kenison
Chamber of Commerce
Aldridge Hotel
Mix Up Ends With No Ada Airport Opening
A mix up in dates and arrangements prevented Ada Airport from opening for inspection Sunday. Lighting work was incomplete and contractors must still deliver about 18 carloads of chat for runway completion. No public inspection or flights occurred to avoid contractor liability in case of an accident.
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Ada
Police Make Six Arrests Sunday
City police reported six arrests Sunday across four town sections for five offenses including assault and battery by a white man and reckless driving by a taxi driver. Two negro girls were held for drunkenness and disturbance and a negro man was held for investigation. another white man was arrested and turned over to county authorities.
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Drew Thomas
Ickes Presses UMW Leader Over War Strikes
Secretary of the Interior Ickes demanded that John L. Lewis confirm the UMW's commitment to contracts amid wartime strikes. The UMW convention in Cincinnati rejected the challenge, saying it may answer telegrams addressed to Lewis, while warning Ickes to beware of a maneuvering foe and asserting the union’s right to respond.
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Cincinnati
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
UMW
Lewis
Legion Urges Universal Military Training Law at Once
The American Legion urged immediate enactment of universal military training for every qualified young American for 12 months after education and work life. The convention backed integrating training with schooling and maintaining Navy strength and base control for national security.
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Legion
Chicago
American Legion Today
Congress
National Defense Committee
National Guard
F. L. Schlage
National Education Association
Red Cross Motor Corps Sees leadership Change
Miss Sarah Boswell resigns as head of the local Red Cross Motor Corps after two years, heading to Washington for two weeks of training before overseas Clubmobile duties. Mrs Iva Jones is selected new captain, guiding a six member corps planning an expansion drive.
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Sarah Boswell
Red Cross Motor Corps
American Red Cross
Washington, D.C
Red Cross
Motor Corps
Iva Jones
Summer Heat Returns Across Oklahoma
Temperatures rose into the nineties with Ada recording 91 degrees and Waynoka hitting 96 as other areas saw warm conditions. A Wednesday morning low of 68 added a summerlike feel amid partly cloudy skies and cooler readings elsewhere.
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Ada Greenhouse
Associated Press
Oklahoma
Waynoka
Guyman
Pan American outlines world wide air routes after war
Pan American World Airways seeks two new trans ocean routes and extensions of pre war lines. Applications filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board aim to connect all continents by air. One route would link New York to Moscow via Newfoundland Iceland Oslo Stockholm and Leningrad. The other would run Seattle to Canton China via Nome Kurile Islands Tokyo and Shanghai.
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New York
Pan American World Airways
Pan American
Civil Aeronautics Board
Moscow
Newfoundland Or Labrador
Iceland
Oslo
Norway
Stockholm
Sweden
Leningrad
Seattle
Canton
China
Nome
Alaska
Kurile Islands
Tokyo
Shanghai
Moonshiner Tracked by Tracks to Jug in South Carolina
Federal agent, stalking an illegal still operator in Lexington County, hid as a man followed fresh footprints to a hiding place. The agent emerged and arrested the suspect after the man’s cautious approach to the trail.
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JUG Columbia
S. C
Federal
Lexington County
Penney Managers In Meeting Here
J C Penney store managers from ten area towns gather for a two day convention starting Wednesday afternoon at 4 PM. Sessions proceed tonight and tomorrow morning with a final close at 3 PM tomorrow. attendees include D F McDowell Hugo Stanley Hiatt Guthrie C A Hope Shawnee O Covington Shawnee Leon Hailey Perry George Richie Durant Floyd Coffee Cushing Jess James Oklahoma City Herb Beatty Bristow John Dowd Pauls Valley A E Plume Ardmore and the group will inspect local Penney practices under Scott Baublits.
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J. C. Penney Company
D. FE. McDowell
Hugo
Stanley Hiatt
Guthrie
C. A. Hope
Shawnee
O. Covington
Leon Hailey
Perry
George Richie
Durant
Floyd Coffee
Cushing
Jess James
Oklahoma City
Herb Beatty
Bristow
John Dowd
Pauls Valley
A. E. Plume
Ardmore
Scott Baublits
Penney
Ada Man Eugene Bates Dies In Olympia Heart Attack
Eugene Bates long resident of Ada died in Olympia Washington after illness since September 12. The body will return to Ada for burial. Survived by widow Pearl Bates daughter Barbara brother Kenneth Bates and three half brothers Lt Jack Bates Charles and James Ray Bates father Charles T Bates.
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Eugene Bates
Olympia
Wash
Ada
Bates
Charles T. Bates
Pearl Bates
Barbara
Kenneth Bates
Houston
Tex
Jack Bates
Savannah
Lincoln
Neb
Charles
James Ray Bates
Two Kansas Plants Seeking Workers
Kansas City reports both Sunflower Ordnance Works at DeSoto and Kansas Ordnance Works at Parsons are short of essential workers. A Sunflower official cites a 4,000 shortage, Parsons 3,000, while an army fire power caravan showcases equipment to boost interest in jobs.
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Kansas City
Sunflower Ordnance Works
DeSoto
Kas
Kansas Ordnance Works
Parsons
Sunflower
Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Sunflower Ordinance Works
Japanese Thicker On Peleliu Than On Other Islands
REMEMBERT JAMES reports from Peleliu Palau Sept 19 Marines on Peleliu face denser Japanese defenses than any Pacific island engagement. Lt Col John W Scott notes high defense density per square yard amid heavy fire as troops press a ridge. A cave death by self destruction marks a grim flank of the final push with troops crowded into 18 square yards per man.
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James
U. S
Peleliu Island
Palau
Pacific
John W. Scott
Elkton, Md
Marine Division
Tarawa
Saipan
Guam
Cape Gloucester
Peleliu
Koror Island
Pacific Islands
Finland Accepts Armistice Terms Losses Territory and Cash
Acting Prime Minister Ernst Von Born announced Finland forfeits Karelia and Petsamo, cedes Porkkala for 50 years, and pays 300 million dollars in reparations over six years. German troops to be disarmed and handed to Allies as part of the Moscow accord with Soviet Russia and Britain.
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Associated Press
London
Finland
Ernst Von‘orn
Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Great Britain
von Born
van Born
Karelia
Leningrad
Lake Ladoga
Vispuri
Petsamo
Porkkala
Finnish Gulf
Monty Glad Hitler In Charge Of West Front
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery told troops in Belgium that Hitler is taking closer control of Western operations. He said the Allies should be thankful as the enemy is now commanded by a lunatic and noted the failed bomb attempt against the Führer.
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London
Bernard L. Montgomery
Belgium
Hitler
Montgomery
Thefuehrer
Boni Hunt Nets Consolation Prize On The Salween Front
William F. Boni, AP war correspondent, while with expeditionary forces in west China, aimed at a crow but failed to load his carbine. He missed several shots before returning to camp with wildflowers as trophies of a day in the woods.
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Bonis
China
William F. Boni
Associated Press
Boni
Former Baseball Player Paroled After 18 to 36 Year Sentence
Samuel B. Crane a former major league player was ordered paroled from Eastern penitentiary effective September 26 after serving 15 years of an 18 to 36 year term for the slaying of his former girlfriend and her escort The plan for his release was arranged by his former employer Connie Mack manager of the Philadelphia Athletics in Philadelphia Roy Mack said Crane would do odd jobs around Shibe park Crane had been convicted of second degree murder for the 1929 shooting in a Harrisburg taproom of Della Luter and John Oren Crane played for Washington Cincinnati and Brooklyn among other teams and later with the Athletics
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Harrisburg
Samuel B
Red) Crane
Eastern Penitentiary
Pennsylvania Board of Parole
Connie Mack
Philadelphia Athletics
Philadelphia
Mack
Roy Mack
Crane
Shibe Park
Della Luter
John Oren
Washington
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Athletics
Oklahoma Tax Official Joins Democratic Speaker Bureau
Marie M. Stewart, long time employee in the research division of the Oklahoma Tax Commission, has joined the speakers bureau at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in New York.
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Demo
Oklahoma City
Marie M. Stewart
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Democratic National
New York
UNRRA Sees Heavy Relief Demands for Europe
Montreal reports to the UNRRA conference show Europe’s relief needs will keep US Britain and Canada busy for at least 12 months after Germany’s collapse. Footwear and clothing top demands, with farm machinery and textiles also large. Lehman says 90 percent of US funds will be spent domestically, 10 percent for administration.
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Montreal
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Europe
United States
Britain
Canada
Germany
U. S
UNRRA
Herbert H. Lehman
Bricker Says New Deal Cannot Be Trusted in Pennsylvania
Governor John W. Bricker declares the New Deal has a 12 year record of broken promises and cannot be trusted. He argues the public seeks change and cites his eastern tour ending with a six hour Pittsburgh stopover aboard three special railroad cars.
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Harrisburg
John W. Bricker
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Bricker
Pittsburgh
Sharp Drop in Lend-Lease Food Shipments to Allies
The War Food Administration reports August lend-lease food deliveries total 558,577,695 pounds, down from 1,076,611,544 pounds a year earlier and 522,851,964 pounds in July. Fifty percent went to the United Kingdom and British possessions, 41 percent to Russia. Also, Corporal John A. Canata has arrived safely in France, attached to an infantry unit and formerly an East Central cadet.
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Washington
United States
War Food Administration
WFA
United Kingdom
Russia
Cpl
John A. Canata
France
East Central
States Seek Reversal of High Court Insurance Ruling
Georgia and 37 states file a joint petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn its ruling that insurance is interstate commerce and subject to federal regulation.Attorney General T Grady Head expects oral arguments around October 2 with Kansas and Oklahoma among the signatories.
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Atlanta
United States Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Georgia
T. Grady
Washington
Department of Justice
Southeastern Underwriters Association
U. S
Marvin Underwood
Supreme Court
Head
Kansas
Oklahoma
Roosevelt Nominates Ambassadors to Six Nations
President Roosevelt named Charles Sawyer to Belgium and Luxembourg minister, Stanley K. Hornbeck to the Netherlands, Arthur Bliss Lane to the Polish government in exile in London, Richard C. Patterson to Yugoslavia in exile, Lithgow Osborne to Norway in exile, with a note an envoy for Czechoslovakia may follow. The picks cover most liberated countries except Czechoslovakia.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Charles Sawyer
Democratic National
London
Richard C. Patterson
New York
Yugoslavia
Lithgow Osborne
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Czechoslovakia
White House
Republican women leaders begin five county tour in Oklahoma
Three Republican women leaders started a tour of five Oklahoma counties to rally women for the GOP ticket in the November election. Mrs. H. H. Sayre Miss Nell Neville and Mrs. Mary Long led events in Seminole Wewoka and McAlester with Wilburton and Poteau planned for tomorrow.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
GOP
H. H. Sayre
Nell Neville
State Central Committee
Mary Long
Oklahoma Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs
Seminole
Wewoka
McAlester
Wilburton
Poteau
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Tishomingo Marine
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American Legion
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Miss Boswell
Olympia, Wash
Leon Leach
Virgil Hurley
Ada News
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Hungary
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Oulu
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Spokane
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