Aleutian Bombers Close Gap to Tokyo in Deep Kuriles Strike
Aleutian based bombers swept to within 310 miles of Tokyo in their deepest Kuriles raid, with 12 Liberators attacking Kita Island. A fierce air battle left two bombers shot down, while U.S. commanders said refineries and barracks near Balikpapan suffered direct hits. Casualties and losses were reported on both sides as battles continued across the Pacific theater.
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Camel News Agency
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Aleutians
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Balikpapan
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Southwest Pacific
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Americas
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Peleliu
Indian Jungle Forces Moving on Jap Base
Indian infantry jungle fighters pressed along the Chocolate Staircase highway toward the Japanese base in Northwestern Burma, while the 14th Army closed a nine mile gap on the Manipur Road and trapped Japanese four miles north of Tiddim.
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Kandy
Cey
Germans in flight from Greek ports intensify Greece invasion
Allied reports say German forces retreat after seizing Rion on the Gulf of Corinth as British units press along the Peloponnesus north shore. Fifteen hundred prisoners taken at Patras, and German artillery repurposed against small craft. News from Nelsonville notes local ties and a long evacuation route as remnants flee toward Corfu.
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Lille
Edward Shafer
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Allied Fighters Resume Attack Upon Dunkerque
Allied fighter bombers struck Dunkerque at 10 a m as a truce expired. Indications suggested a renewed ground offensive by German forces against the surrounded port and the evacuation point used in 1940.
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London
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George A. Bow
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Two Kinds of Pensions Will Be Paid to Soldiers
Washington reports the government pays two pension types to veterans and survivors. Group One covers death in service or death caused by service connected disability, with widow and child allowances. Group Two pays non service-connected death pensions to widows without children or orphans, or to a widow with children if the veteran’s disability exceeds a yearly income threshold.
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Gov
Tom Smith
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Ogame
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Douglas Funeral To Be Held on Sunday
Funeral services for Eli Douglas age 0 who died at his home in Glouster this morning will be held at two o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Wallace Funeral Home. Interment will be in Glouster Cemetery. Surviving are wife Pearl eight children one brother George Columbus and two sisters Mrs Ben Hooper Glouster and Mrs Alice Kline Nelsonville. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Wallace Funeral Home
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George
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Nelsonville
James Carrothers
Coolville
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Washington County
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Tenary Church
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Roswell
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Morris
Kenneth
Chicago
Dan
Toledo
Catherine Carr
Massachusetts
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Cincinnati
Helen Rogers
Dora Carruthiers
Blended Whiskey To Be Made Ration Free
Columbus liquor director Don Fisher announced that several brands of blended whisky would become ration free effective Monday. Increased inventories of the brands during the last 30 days made the action possible.
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Don Fisher
Fisher
FDR Denies Selling Out to Reds in Radio Address
Washington reports President Roosevelt rejects GOP fear propaganda claiming his fourth term bid ties to Communism. He defends U.S. Soviet ties, mocks anti-Communist rhetoric, cites campaign mail freighting, stresses demobilization and wartime controls, urges all citizens especially women to register and vote, and opposes poll taxes.
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Dewey to Pay Respects to Smith at St Patrick’s Cathedral
In New York St Patrick’s Cathedral prepared to receive the body of former Gov Alfred E. Smith to lie in state this afternoon and tonight. Gov Thomas F Dewey Republican presidential nominee will pay his respects tonight to the four time elected former governor who Dewey now holds the office for.
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Smith
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
Alfred E. Smith
Thomas F. Dewey
Yugoslav Leader Meets Stalin in Moscow
Paris Radio reports Yugoslav leader arrived in Moscow to discuss with Marshal Stalin. The meeting signals high level talks amid postwar diplomacy.
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Stalin
London
Paris
Marshal To
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Marshal Stalin
Hitler's Subjects Plead for Lives
Lt. Glenn Poppe of Mason Ohio, one of the first American soldiers to enter an ill lit mine tunnel near Palenden, where 30 men women and children lived like caged animals, waiting to learn if captors would spare or behead them as warned.
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Normar
Glenn Poppe
Mason
Warren County
Foochow Near Fall as Japanese Reach Suburbs
Chinese high command reports Japanese forces advancing toward Foochow in Fukien Province, threatening the city before nightfall. The same day, Cincinnati Committee for Economic Development notes Hamilton County Industry will invest over 20 million dollars in postwar building projects.
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Hamilton County
GOP Chiefs To Headline Ohio Meeting Today
In Columbus Ohio leaders of the Republican Party meet to map out the drive for the November 7 vote. Herbert Brownell Jr U S Senators Robert A Taft and Winfield H Burton and Representatives Frances Bolton and George H Bender speak at this all day session as about 1200 attendees gather. The evening program features Brownell Taft and Mayor James Garfield Stewart the gubernatorial nominee.
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Republican Party
Ohio
Federation of Ohio Republican Women's Organizations
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Republican National Committee
U.S
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Winfold H. Burton
Frances Bolton
George H. Bender
Brownell
Taft
James Garfield Stewart
Cincinnati
Fifth Moves on To Po Valley
Allied troops advanced toward the Po Valley after gains on rain soaked terrain. They seized the road junction at Loiano less than 14 miles south of Bologna and pushed to about 2,000 yards south of Monterenzio as Austrian and German Alpine reinforcements fought strong resistance along Route 65 and near Imola.
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Red Conquest Of Hungary Is Imminent Amid Belgrade Battle
Russian and Yugoslav troops clash with German forces on Belgrade outskirts as Soviet leaders push toward Budapest. Partisans join the fight inside Belgrade while lines along the Tisza River and near Szeged tighten, signaling a broad advance across Hungary.
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Movie Plant Workers Strike in Hollywood
A union jurisdictional row in Hollywood threatens film making as over 200 workers walk out amid a dispute between the Screen Set Designers Local and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The strike risks tying up much of the movie industry as AFL groups contest control of work.
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International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Bricker Calls for Reassessment of Labor Relations Board
Milwaukee news wires quote Gov. John W. Bricker urging a full resurvey of federal labor relations handling. He argued the New Deal National Labor Relations Board was biased and unfair in its conduct and interpretations of the law, as he spoke to war workers and Republican supporters after remarks in Rock Island.
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Jonn W. Bricker
Republican Party
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Rock Island
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Sale of State Humor Publication Withdrawn at Newsstands
Columbus reports Ohio State University's humor magazine the Sundial faced action over its self-styled Filthy Issue. President Howard L. Bevis called the publication below the university standard and ordered the issue withdrawn from newsstands yesterday.
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Expect Dewey To Make Reply At Charleston
Roosevelt and Dewey face four differences of opinion shaping the early campaign. Roosevelt spoke last night in a 20 minute radio address to Democratic allies. Dewey was expected to answer soon perhaps in a Charleston West Virginia speech tomorrow night. Dewey leaves Albany in mid afternoon for New York City to visit Alfred E. Smith’s pier and St Patrick's Cathedral before the medal train to West Virginia.
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Thomas E. Dewey
al Lies
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Alfred E. Smith
St Patrick's” Cathedral
West Virginia
Arnhem Affair Dims Odds for Victory in 1944
Springfield reporter cites OWI forecast that victory chances this year are reduced by the Arnhem affair and postwar dislocations. The report says civilian hardships grow, war industry converts progress, and rationing continues for fuels tires and foods as the Rhine campaign nears its end.
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