Trucks Wil Start Work on Sunday
Minneapolis report on a government supervised resumption of trucking across eight Midwestern states. Officials including Ellis T Lengenecker of DDT and William Watson of Sioux Falls urged operators to meet at 10 am Sunday to hear operation regulations. Seizure orders possible. 25,000 long-haul drivers affected.
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Minneapolis
Midwetern
Office of Defense Transportion
Ellis T Lengenecker
DDT
Ingh
Wis Transportation
William Watson
Sioux Falls
Cairman
Milwest Operators Association
Aear
Roosevelt
Lnte
Woman Doctor Dies Among Early U S Physicians
Dr Anne Sturgis Dane, 33, one of the first women doctors in the United States, dies in New York. She was among pioneering female physicians in the era and part of the medical community that advanced women in the profession.
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New York
Anne. Sturgis Dane
Fear Germans Will Destroy City of Paris
London reports German forces may attempt to destroy Paris before retreating in retaliation for the bombing of Berlin. A French official said Gen Charles de Gaulle’s National Liberation Committee will delay an administration in France until they can return to Paris. The pace of Allied gains and hope Paris will be freed soon prompted the shift from establishing a temporary government in a liberated city.
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Cate
Longenecker S
Din Flse Bee
Paul Halpine
Lincoln
Neb Sace
Milwest Op
Ctos
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Nba
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Wheeli
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GDL
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Bas Aden
Perators
Uhear
Joonaderd Lederal
Utckue Wall
Lederal Mantock
Leek
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Minnesota Sol
South Dakota
Sebia
Wisconsin
Ohlalom
Omideo
Nebrasha Chammar
Hons
Asti
Ft Odt
Omaha
Sas City
Marning Willam Wilson Signa
Falls
Midwest
Associalii
WLB
London
Pars
Berl
Charles de
FDR Returns to U. S. Mainland
President Franklin D Roosevelt returns from Hawaii and Alaska after a Pacific war tour. Howard Flieger notes his first radio address since accepting a fourth term, with stops at Pearl Harbor and the Aleutians. The itinerary included Honolulu conferences with Admiral Nimitz MacArthur and others, then a Bremerton radio broadcast.
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Seattle Wash
Saturday Wall
Fouth
Bremerton Navy Yard
Hoe
Roosevelt
San Diego
Calif
Honolulu
Nate Oon Hs
Roosevelt Ws
Willam D Leahy
White House
Jett Washington
Alaske
Aleutians
Imed Terees
Roose
Bell
Roosevel
Farmers Urged to Bundle Papers for Rail Depot Collection
Rural route banners call on residents to bundle old magazines papers and catalogs and place them by mailboxes for pickup. County carriers will tie and load the bundles for transport to the nearest depot during a countywide paper drive. Local press highlights daily efforts to boost salvage and recycling.
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Virighout
Soviet Armies Advance on East Prussian Front
Soviet forces pressed along a 100 mile front into the Masurian lake country of East Prussia, threatening the German left wing. Two armies, northeast of Warsaw and west of Bialystok, pushed northward despite German armor shifts, taking over 150 settlements and driving toward Lyck. The Red Army maintained pressure on Warsaw as other units moved toward Lomza and Riga, signaling encirclement risks for German defenses.
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Moscow
East Prussia
Konstantin K Hokossovskys
Warsaw
Genakharov
Forca
Bialystok
East Prussia-Lithuania
Red Star
Haat Prussia
Imere
Masurian
Vistula
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Narew
Bralystox
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Ivan Maglenmikov
Pskov
Petsert
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Fed
Tm 4
Riga
Tallinn
Lyck
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Raiway
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Lomza
Tykoca
Konstantin K Roshpasovsky
I Dobre
Priewnik
Korytmica
Barlystok
Red Army
Poland
Wiarsaw
Krekcy
Attributes Success to His Friendly Habits
Salt Lake City reports 83 year old retired raureader John Henry Koffel credits his success in winning 84 year old Annie Tucker to his habit of never using a hostile word toward a Roman. The welding is set for next Taursay.
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Salt Lake City
John
Henry Koffel
Raureader
Annie Tucker
States' Rights Wins in Senate
U S senate backed the George measure 55 to 19 amid a fight over reconversion policy. The plan would create a mobilization office, bring 8500000 federal workers under state unemployment programs, and set a federal loan fund, while leaving some unemployment rates to states. House Ways and Means members signaled support for states rights approaches and possible amendments to broaden postwar support and reconversion measures.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ways and Means
George
D-Ga
Carlson
R-Kan
Ways and Means Committee
Barkley
Murray-Kilgore
Elso
Kilgore
D.W. Va
Attack on Norwegian Coast Targets Ships and Installations
British forces attacked enemy shipping along Norway coast between Alesund and Ermstiansund on Friday. Planes hit airfield hangars and shore storerooms at Gossen. Radio stations and staging areas were set ablaze. Two vessels were sunk in the Lepacy area.
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London
Alesund
Ermstiansund
Norways
Gossen
Entish
Lepacy
Four Million Fire Destroys Hoboken Pier
A 1100 foot Hoboken pier on the Hudson River was nearly destroyed by a four hour fire. Acting Fire Chief Andrew Keller said the blaze started on a barge transferring cargo to a ship at pier No 4 with no sabotage suspected. Unofficial loss cited at 4 million dollars. Fourteen people treated at St Marys Hospital for burns and smoke inhalation. more than five others received on site care. Three barges and a derrick were burned. one barge damaged by an explosion believed to involve oil or nitrocellulose.
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Hoboken
Njpa
Hudson River
Andrew H. Keller
Keller
Bt Marys Hospital
Mer
Sming
Rocco Albro Stev
Edore
Huge Mass Held for War Victims in Lublin Castle
Eddy Gilmore reports 25 000 mourners gathered in Lublin to honor Nazi camp victims. Polish unity, soldiers with uncovered heads, and lamentations marked a somber mass at Lublin Castle. Witnesses described ash urns, tablets, and a weighing chamber used by Germans, with prisoners starved to 70 80 pounds.
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Eddy Gilmore
Committee of Liberation
Lubint Castle
Masona
Majdanek
Boris Gorbatov
Twelve Die In Gasoline Blast In Shawneetown
In Shawneetown Illinois twelve people all children died after a gasoline fumes leak inside the Ohio river levee burst into 300 foot flames engulfing two storage tanks and burning occupants of two houses and three workers. All victims were from one family.
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Shawneetown
Old
Ohio River
Bombing Blitz Hits Northern France Rail Hubs
Allied air forces attacked rail yards and airfields across northern France in a Saturday operation. Four engined Lancasters struck Brest and Brest U-boat shelters while American Fortresses targeted Metz and airfields near Laon and Paris. Fighter-bombers aided a two week campaign, disabling 13 locomotives and 1,059 railroad cars, with heavier losses totaling nearly 5,000 cars and hundreds of locomotives in the week.
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Lew Haykins
London
Metzard
France
Brest
le Perthe
Chamant
Pang
Athies Couvron
Juvincourt
Laon
Toulouse
Britain
Russia
Italy
Berlin
Givore
Paris
Allied forces claim 10 080 prisoners in Brest area fight
Supreme Headquarters says Allied thrust against Le Mang area kept secret as Germans probe positions. Enemies launched small reconnaissance counter assaults near Brest with 20 progress in 48 hours. By Thursday midnight American forces had captured over 10 000 prisoners.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied
le Mang
Brest
Allied Victory News Flows to Soviet Fronts
Soviet forces received rapid Allied victory news from France by air and telegraph on Saturday. Russian soldiers marching to the front were told of the allied advances, with writers expressing shared triumph and resolve.
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Moscory
France
Lya Ehrenburg
Allied Push Tightens Normandy Caen Pocket Amid French Front Guarded Movements
Allied forces press through Normandy concentrating on the Orne river sector and Loire corridor. American troops reach near Conde-sur-Noireau and threaten Caen while German counterattacks from St Petre Vieille and the Loire region attempt to slow the breakout. Allied air power targets pillboxes and fortifications as Montgomery reports German forces in the northwest Europe area are in a bad way.
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Roger Greene
Orne River
Briish 2Nd Army
Conde
Bulge
St Petre
Lp Vieille
Gladwin
Tl Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
France
Normandy
Caen
Loire
Italy
Mediterranean
Loires
le Mans
Paris
Irajan Rivieras
French Channel
Omar I Bradley
Lowe
Loire River
Brittany
Seine-Loire
Johannes Blaskowitz
Blaskowitz
Bordeaux
Barcelona
Vichy
Bernard L Montgomery Jin
Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Falaise
High Command
J. S
Bress
Alencon
Guenther von Kluge
Orne
Thia
Nazis Abandon City of Florence
Allied forces report German retreat from Florence leaving the historic city largely spared. Allied troops on the Arno's south bank aided civilians while the 8th Army prepared crossings at the Mugnone canal and probed German defenses near Empoli. Garrison commander Cot Fuchs and units tied to Pavolini reportedly used infiltrators to man snipers south of the river. An official said civilians north of the Arno could receive food water and medical aid.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Pha
Florence
Aaty
Arna
Mugnone
Arno
Empoli
Cot Fuchs
Morence
Pavolini
Alessandro Pavolin
Musgolini
Italian Based Planes Hit Southern France
Fifteenth Air Force heavy bombers delivering a blistering attack on coastal targets in southern France along with a second day of strikes on Nazi defenses guarding the Mediterranean coast. Mustang fighters strafed targets as Fortresses returned from Russia and Italy joined the assault hitting an airfield at Toulouse. Allied losses were minimal as bombers and fighters concentrated on pillboxes and radio facilities along the coast.
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Rome
Fifteenth Airforce
France
Tactical Air Force
Italy
Mediterranean
Russia
Toulouse
Fort Tesse
Riviera
Ghost heckler disrupts Berlin radio broadcast
A German radio news broadcast from Berlin was interrupted by a spectator shouting claims of Allied advances. The heckler disputed reported Russian American and British progress and shouted that a Ryggian unit was surrounded, while the announcer urged unity against Hitler.
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London
Berlin
Hitler
Fmef
Grand Army of the Republic chief commits to Des Moines encampment
George H. Jones, 95, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, says he will attend the national encampment in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 10. He notes he might hire two nurses to assist him if needed.
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George H. Jones
Grand Army of the Republic
Des Moines
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