Russians Reach Borders as They Push Toward Ploesti and Bucharest
Allied dispatches report two large Russian mobile armies advancing into Romania's Ploesti oil region and nearing Bucharest after breaking Romanian defenses. German broadcasts claim Soviet forces crossed toward Hungary, while Bucharest says Romanian troops join the Allies and block mountain passes into Transylvania. Continued on Page Two.
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Moscow
Ploesti
Romania
Bucharest
Feodor i Tolbukhin
Rodion
Malinovsky
Neal
Hungary
Transylvania
Carman Brondcasts
Ploestinilfeld
Allies Step Up Air Offensive Against Japan
Allied air power intensifies in the Pacific with heavy raids across Tokyo and Manchuria. Bombing campaigns target Anshan Shanghai and the Marianas plus newly developed fields near Mindanao, with significant enemy aircraft losses reported.
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Japan
Powers Seek Unified Peace Force Plan
Russia Britain and the United States work toward a peace force framework at Dumbarton Oaks. Delegates debate an international air corps and a regional security model. The American proposal links force to national commitments under a global security body.
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Washington
Dumbarton Gaks Security
Apy
Torre Tor
Tallon
Talif
Evely Qi Coeps
Allied push reaches Rhone Valley north of Montelimar
American troops have reached the Rhone valley north of Montelimar after covering over 200 miles in two days. Dispatches say the advance has potentially cut off German forces, with estimates of at least 60,000 enemy front-line troops knocked out of the southern France invasion to date. Butler's mobile column near Grenoble aids the advance as Germans attempt a withdrawal northward toward the Rhone’s east bank.
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Rome
Rhone
Montelimar
Marseillé
France
Wis
Maquis Inni
Lome
Valence
Montelimay
Butler
Frederick Butler
Grenoble
Colaim
Alexander M. ‘Patoh
Umjale
Mont Said
Marseille
Company A Joins Test Mobilization At State Armory
Captain Guy Abbey and Company A returned home after a test mobilization with the Corry Mendville and Franklin units of the 15th Regiment. The exercise included field marching with Enfield rifles, compass leadership drills, and a three direction course over difficult terrain. Troop leaders praised the exercise as a success despite improvised shelter and a brief vehicle delay.
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Guy Abbey
Sf Company A
State Armory
Corry
Mendville
Franklin
15Th Regiment
Oil City
AU Drybreske Tne
Drake-Oil Well anniversary noted in TITUSVILLE radio program
In Titusville on August 28 the Drake Well anniversary was marked by a radio program praising America's petroleum industry. Remarks by Rear Admiral William Brent Young hailed the industry as key to victory and progress, and visitors toured Drake Well Memorial Park, linking the 1859 drill to the area's long history.
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Drake-Oil
Titusville
America
Navy
William Brent ‘Young
Desire
Bureau of
Supnllis
Ard
Anneten
New York
Drake Well Memorial Park
Ayiuilexyt Peteolsum Institute
Angie
Amit
Leaders Using Assumed Names In New Regime
Paris reports a new French government forming after a chaotic weekend marked by General Eisenhower’s reception, German bombing, and Gen. De Gaulle escaping sniper fire as Paris radio described the city quiet with resistant nests suppressed.
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Associated Prev
Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles DeGaulle
London
Resisrance
Algiers
Quartin Cerat
Oldarge
de Gaulle
Cerat
Oliiers
Eisenhower
Arc de ‘Triomphe
Kansas Prairie
Omar W. Bradley
T. 5 12Th Army Group
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Interior
Jacques LeGlerc
Arthur ‘Tedder
Leonard T. Orrow
U. S
Essensioner
Bernard Montgomery
George 8. Patton, Jr
Ghitles DeGaulle
Pétain Sends Secret Message Before Arrest in Paris
Paris reports a clandestine note from Marshal Petain before his seizure by the Gestapo and transport to Belfort on August 20. He claimed all actions were for France’s welfare, a message amid arrests of Laval and Herriot as Allied forces entered Paris.
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Pe—taint
Belfort
Franue
Inductees Listed for Twelve-Way Draft Call from Corry
Twenty four youths from Corry area are named for induction by the Wilon City draft board set for September 11. The full list, issued this morning at Union City offices, includes residents of Corry RD routes and several from Waterford Union City Edinboro and Cleveland with assignments to Army Navy or Marine Corps. Destination not yet known. reception centers and post offices noted for processing and travel.
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Army
Navy
Cary
Igis
Wilon City
Union Cty
Snaining
Ten Corry
Cory Post Office
Eneler
al Grenh
Sampson
Avihit
Robert Lngrym
Henry Cainton Burlingame
Parry
Srville Leroy Bonils
Ry D
Bulgaria Awaits Allied Peace Terms
London reports surrender terms for Bulgaria will be handed to an envoy within days, with armistice terms for Romania expected soon. The European advisory commission prepared the terms, seeking Greek and Yugoslav concurrence, while Pravda urged nations to turn against the Nazis to escape their policies.
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Associated Prean
London
Bulgaria
Cairo
Romania
Moscow
Balkan
European Advisory Commission
Washington
Germany
Pinland
Hungary
Slovakia
Pravda
Poles In Italy Register Advance Against German Forces
Polish troops press the attack along the Gothic line in northern Italy driving behind the Metaura river and across the Arailla. Allied dispatches place Migith army units in the Adriatic near Pesaro and Rimini with Fano cleared of Germans as they retreat before the pursuing Poles.
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Italy
Associated Press
Rome
Metaura
Arailla
Aled
Sinso
Adriatic
Pesaro
Rimini
Fano
26 Killed In Crash Of Air Transport
London officials report twenty six people dead after a large air transport crashed near a military air base. Seven crew and passengers aboard the Nowe were among the dead, with American soldiers and civilian workers digging through wreckage through the night seeking more victims. Two nearby horses were injured in the disaster.
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London
Hho Nowe
Harris Returns as Corry Pastor for Another Year
Rev H R Harris, longtime pastor of the United Brethren Church in Corry, is returned to lead the Corry church for another year after the Erie Conference annual session at Camp Findley. Assignments across the district were announced with several moves including Bear Lake, Millport, Youngsville, and Chan-dlers Valley, as conference leaders noted the approaching retirement of Bishop B H Butdori in 1945.
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H. Ray Harris
U United Brethren Church
Corry
Erie
Camp Findley
Youngs- Villeistriet
Mh, Ray
Hart
Charles M. McIntyre
Youngsville
Buffalo Riverview
C. O. Sellwefer
J. L. Strong
Frewsburg
Frew
McIntyre
Youngs(i
F. Eugene Donelson
Chandlers Valley
Chundiers Valley
H. H. Athoris
Pleasantville
Rin
B. H. Butdori
Westerville
Ohio
Complete Mailing of Soldier Ballots
Harrisburg Aug 28 County election bureaus will finish mailing military ballots to Pennsylvania service men and workers worldwide this week. Indications are thousands more will return to vote in November as they prepare for wartime elections.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
War Bulletins From Europe And Asia Describe Allied Actions
London reports German propaganda claims sinking of an Allied cruiser and a motor torpedo boat off Normandy. Allied air forces strike across France Belgium Holland and Germany with 40 American fighters reaching Frankfurt. Rome notes heavy German losses in southern France and near Tessyannes. General Headquarters in Southwest Pacific cites MacArthur approach to the Philippines and Allied raids on Sumatra and nearby targets. Chinese fronts report renewed fighting and an execution for dereliction of duty during Changsha operations.
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Associated Press
Qeneral
Southwest Pacific
Iteh
Tokyo
Aled
Pacific
Sted Ins
Axia
China
Anshan
Manchurian Steel Center
Shanghai
Japan
Nimitz-Macarthur
Jima
Volcano Islands
Feliu
Moluccas
Saipan
Tinian
Guam
Marianas
Middelburg
London
Army private father of quadruplet sons in Georgia
Gainesville Ga Aug 28 four tiny baby boys slept in incubators at Hall County Memorial Hospital today as their 23 year old mother wife of an Army private repeated I dont know what I am going to do with all these babies The quadruplets weighing about three pounds each were born to Mrs Charles Dee between 6 and 7 pm yesterday Doctors said the infants appeared healthy and two were placed under oxygen tents
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Gainesville
Hell” County Memorial Hospital
Charles Dee
Thenfanta
Allied Attack Advances Toward Paris in WWI Battle
Allied forces push north toward the coast. American Third Army tanks seize Meaux near the Marne while inching across the Seine, deepening riverhead and threatening Rouen. British and Canadian troops widen bridgeheads as Allies press toward Le Havre and the Pas de Calais.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Third Army
Meaux
Marne River
Paris
Meals
Marne
Chateau-Thierry
Americhh
Tok
Seine River
Bea
Seine
Rouen
France
John J. Chester
Seinr
Acoss
Joy
le Havre
Pas de GR
Ais
Wounded Lt Dave Daye in England hospital recoveries noted
Mrs Khlar Daye learns her husband Lt Dave Daye, wounded in action, is hospitalized in England recovering from light injuries. Daye enlisted January 28, 1947, after officer training, serving with the 100th Infantry overseas since October. The article notes his High School graduation and local ties as context.
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Khlar Daye
Dave
England
Daye
Dora Due J
West South Street
War Departments
Wwhlers
Wee
See
Draduath
Ob High School
Oy Thicher Yas Pe
Ie Stbbek
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Joseph Lawrence Sanders
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Jack Foster
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Union City
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