Marshall Named To Lead Global Allied Forces In World War II
Reports indicate General George C. Marshall will head supreme allied command with authority over U S and British troops worldwide. Announcement expected from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, as invasion plans accelerate and Mediterranean victories widen the war’s reach.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Hitler
Japan
U. S. Army
Roosevelt
Churchill
London
Kirke Simpson
Associated Press
Europe
England
Mediterranean
Marshall
Quebec
County Third War Loan drive near finish
Total bonds sold reach 1,168,106 with a 1,135,000 quota. Several districts report this week. drive to end Saturday. Pickett Black Rock Oakman Hall's Hill Stonewall districts set sales nights. Delaney to speak on KADA Thursday. Huddleston urges continued effort through Saturday. Many districts meet quotas. aim to exceed all.
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Pickett
Black Rock
Oakman
Hall’s Hill
Stonewall
W. A. Delaney, Jr
Kada
H. J. Huddleston
German Demolitions Wrecking Naples As Allies Move Nearer
Allied reports say a American unit assists French forces in driving Germans toward Corsica's northeast corner. More than 1,000 German troops killed and several hundred prisoners captured as regular French troops and patriot detachments harass the enemy withdrawing from the Bonifacio Porto Vecchio area toward the island’s northeast corner.
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North Africa
Corsica
Bonifacio-Porto Vecchio
Seine
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Potenza
Salerno
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Reds In Sight Of Kiev Now
Soviet forces push toward Kiev across a 750 mile front as Cherni gov fort falls and German defenses retreat. In Italy, Naples defensive ring forms while Fifth Army seizes Camopagna Rovella and San Cipriano as Corsican and Sardinian actions unfold.
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Kiev
London
Moscow
Red Army
Ukraine
Adolf Hitler
Dnieper
Desna
Chernigov
Gomel
White Russia
Koshclovka
Berestovitzi
Cotton pickers needed in Oklahoma to harvest war crop
Southwestern Oklahoma requests 4500 cotton pickers and snappers to harvest an early opening crop. Shawnee Brown of Oklahoma A&M cites drought and war needs, listing counties and numbers while urging farm workers to help for six weeks as weather permits.
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Stillwater
Oklahoma
Shawnee Brown
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Brown
Southwestern
Tillman
Caddo
Grady
Jackson
McClain
Kiowa
Beckham
Greer
Harmon
Washita
Cotton
Grady County
M. G. Tucker
Hugh Warren Returns Home for Visit
Hugh Warren formerly Ada high school basketball coach arrived in Ada after a strenuous five day trip from Ada Alaska. He spent the early hours talking with his mother and visits friends while expressing Navy confidence that prepared blows will develop against Japan. Warren had been at Sand Point and Adak and was aboard a ship near Kiska when word spread that the island was abandoned.
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C.P
Hugh Warren
Ada
Alaska
Warren
Navy
Japan
Sand Point
Adak
Kiska
Labor leader defends AFL against Legion critics
President William Green of the AFL told American Legion members that workers have matched soldiers in sacrifice and urged an end to broad denouncements of organized labor. Legion officials warned against hijackers and racketeers while supporting war production.
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Omaha
William Green
American Federation of Labor
American Legion
Legion
The
Green
Organized Workers of America
Roane Waring
Toronto
Sicily
Italy
Pacific
Waring
Areen
America
Ada Youth on Missing in Action Bomber Crew
Johnny Lovin, gunner and assistant radio operator on the Flying Fortress Silver Dollar II, is missing in action since September 6, with teammate Russell Candry also unaccounted for. The Levins fear the entire crew may be missing. Lovin, a former Ada high school football standout, wrote that the bomber crew felt like a football team where the best wins.
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Johnny Lovin
Walter Lovin
Ada
War Department
Russell Candry
Stroud
Levins
Johnny Levin
Johnny
Europe
Drive For Discarded Silk Resumed Here
The hosiery salvage drive in Ada resumes with collection boxes in local downtown stores. Residents are asked to donate discarded silk and nylon hosiery. those unable to bring items may call Gwin's Drug Store at No. 10. The state salvage committee ends the program on Thursday, September 30, after strong local response.
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Ada
No. 10
Gwin’s Drug Store
State
Clyde Bailey
Hess Flight Story Revealed In Eden Dispatch
London report details Rudolf Hess mission of humanity to Scotland in 1941. The official Eden statement lists Hitler peace terms and Hess’s claim of flying without Hitler’s knowledge. It states Britain would not negotiate with Nazi leadership and Hess remains a prisoner of war.
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E. C
Daniel London
Rudolf Hess
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Brian
Scotland
Hitler
Commons
Anthony Eden
Churchill
Germany
Hess
Europe
Russia
Duke of Hamilton
Fuehrer
England
Italy
Lisbon
Ngavel
Oklahoma drought drives cattle surge into D C stockyards
Oklahoma City reports more than 10 000 cattle and calves moved to market at the D C stockyards in a total of about 30 000 sold over three days. Prices fell about 50 cents per hundredweight with feeder cattle markets nearly empty.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Joe C. Scott
State Board of Agriculture
Oklahomans Receive Air Force Honors in India
The U S air force based in India awards the Distinguished Flying Cross to Melvin R London and Vernon S Cook. Oak Leaf Clusters go to John C Gehay. Air Medal awarded to Robert C Mason. All are listed with ranks and hometowns Sand Springs Amber Enid Tulsa.
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New Delhi
U. S. Airforce
India
Melvin R. London
Sand Springs
Vernon S. Cook
Amber
Grady County
Air Med
John C. Gehay
Enid
Robert C. Mason
Tulsa
Ben K. McKinley Dies At Home Here
Ben K. McKinley of 131 West Nineteenth Street died at 3 PM Wednesday after several weeks illness. Funeral arrangements were not announced. London dispatch notes Soviet Union appoints Andrew J. Vishinsky envoy plenipotentiary to the French National Committee in Algiers with a Mediterranean scope.
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Ben K. McKinley
West Nineteenth Street
London
Russia
Andrew J. Vishinsky
Algiers
Vishinsky
Mediterranean Allied Commission
Britain
United States
Buy it Sell it with a Want Ad in This Paper
A compact notice promotes placing want ads to buy or sell items. Readers are invited to submit listings through the classified section and use the paper’s advertising format to reach buyers and sellers.
Resolution Tossed Into Senate Hands
Senate leaders faced a political hot potato as the House passed Rep. Fulbright's postwar international collaboration resolution by 360 to 29. Senator George of Georgia voiced doubts about floor action now, while Republicans offered cautious remarks. The Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on postwar matters set a first post-recess meeting for tomorrow.
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Washington
Senate
House
George
Foreign Relations Committee
Rep
Fulbright
Ark
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations
Pessimist Quips on People and Pints From Elmer Tate
A clipped quotation records Elmer Tate, an insurance solicitor, describing his preference for avoiding gushy people unless they are worn out. He is noted for always carrying a pint to ease entry.
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Elmer Tate
Allus
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