Beachhead in South France Growing Fast
Allied forces pushed a solid 50 mile by 30 mile beachhead along the southern French coast near Toulon and Cannes. American and French troops, with armored support, seized about 500 square miles and connected inland positions within 50 miles of the coast. Paratroops behind enemy lines and air support aided rapid gains as German resistance showed signs of nerves and possible countermeasures.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
UPI
France
Alexander M. Patch
Tth Army
Toulon
Cannes
Napoleon
St. Trapez
Ste. Maxime
St. Raphel
Frejus
le Lavandou
le Muy
le Luc
Lorgues
Callobrieves
Cap Camaral
St.Cropex
Patch
Alps
Provence
Thunderbolts
Nice Harbor
Genoa
Italy
Pra
Helel
Farmers urged to bundle salvage paper in rural county
Rural residents in Pottaswattamie county are asked to bundle old magazines papers catalogs and salvage paper products tie bundles securely and place by mailboxes. Rural carts will collect and deliver to a salvage depot during the drive to meet urgent paper needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottaswattamie
Soserpeais Linge
Roosevelt vows invasion if Axis resists to end war
President Roosevelt returns to Washington after a Pacific voyage and declares that 41 Allied armies will invade and occupy Germany and Japan if resistance collapses. He rejects the idea of allowing Axis homefronts to survive and signals continued offensive pressure as Allied forces push in from France. He notes potential talks with Churchill and plans for further high level discussions while stressing Allied unity and a determined path to unconditional surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Fliieger
Washington
Roosevelt
Pacific
France
Hawaii
Aleutians
Congress
Associated Press
United Press
International News Vice
Seattle
Wash
Brame
Churchill
Great Brit- Ain
Decem
Germany
Japan
Trajia
New Zealand
Shewe
Four powers deny coercion plans for postwar peace
Secretary Hull publicly rejects Dewey fears that Britain Russia China and the United States might coerce smaller nations to back postwar peace. He says no such permanent four power alliance is contemplated and notes the Moscow Declaration supports a general international organization for peace open to all states. The Dumbarton Oaks talks are a preliminary step toward broader United Nations discussions.
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Washington
Hull
Dewey Carrest
Dewey
Britain
Russia
China
United States
Dumbarton Oaks
Weweyt
Tan
United States Senate
Bi-Pertisan Vis
of &S
da Vlon Oaks
Savir
Warriig
Taft
R.ghiss
Seneter Hill
D.-La
P. Fish
R-N. Y
Capry
Landmarks Hit by Flying Bombs Near Buckingham Palace
A flying bomb damaged Buckingham Palace windows and nearby landmarks including Dr Samuel Janan's house and Butchers Wall. The royal family was away when the bomb fell half a mile from the palace. The blast destroyed wine claw frames gardens ash trees and a summer house. The tense court used by the king in earlier years was ruined. It was the second near miss at the palace with a prior bomb landing in a road outside the grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckingham Palace
Samuel Janan
Butchers
Buckingham Grounds
Making Last Stand on Swiss Frontier
About 1 000 German troops, the last organized resistance in the Saleve district of Haute Savoie, took positions in Annemasse to ward off advancing French forces. A 69 man Nazi garrison at St. Gingolph surrendered to two French detachments as partisans claimed gains around Annemasse, five miles southeast of Geneva, and in Haute Savoie frontier posts.
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Saleve
Heute Savoie
Annemasse
St. Gingolph
Annemas
Lake Geneva
Geneva
Haute Sarene
Philadelphia Lines Returned to Owners By Army Mission
Maj Gen Philip Ha returned the Philadelphia Transportation Company to its owners at 11 a.m. Thursday after troops restored the city’s transit facilities. He said the army’s mission was accomplished with the city’s system back in operation and troops would now return to their posts.
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Philadelroa
Philip Ha
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Waterlo o mother fined under curfew ordinance
The first prosecution under Waterlon's curfew ordinance resulted in a fine for Mrs. Willtax pers sing in Waterloo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
W Terlon
Willtax
Paper Drive Sees Strong Start Amid Hopeful Finish
The Boy Scout paper drive reported strong results through Thursday with high hopes for a record final day. Wilbur Wilson cited good cooperation as key, urging residents north of Broadway and west of Thirteenth Street to bundle paper and place it on curbs or porches by noon Friday. Officials stressed avoiding door collection due to time, and asked anyone missed on Friday’s route to call 3-2033 for pickup assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scout and Salvage Committee
Wilbur Wilson
Broadway
Thirteenth Street
Wilson
He Sard
Robert &. O'Brien
Seoul
Earle Hegeman
Hegemai
George Ray Tweed Granted Divorce
George Ray Tweed 42 a Chief Radioman was granted a divorce from Mary Frances Tweed 27 by Superior Judge Jacob Weisberger at San Diego California. The decree followed Tweed’s return from Guam where he hid during Japanese occupation and his testimony in July. Custody of their child was given to the mother with $30 a month and Tweed’s furloughs were extended as he prepares to report in Seattle.
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San Diego
Calif
Tan
George Ray Tweed
Guam
Mary Frances Tweed
Jacob Wes Einberger
Tweed
Goa
Two German Ports Blasted From Air
London reports nearly 1200 bombers dropped about 5 600 tons of explosives on Kiel and Stettin before dawn. Fires raged as supplies for Nazi troops nearby were hit. Mosquitos attacked Berlin for the third straight night as air raids targeted airfields and parked planes in western Germany.
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London
Kiel
Stettin
Finland
Western Front
Berlin
Jorace
Germany
Low Countries
Japanese Cleared From India Report Clears Burma Front
Allied forces announced on Thursday that Japanese troops have been cleared from the India theater. Mred troops reportedly advanced two miles across the Burma frontier toward Tibase while other air forces moved north of Burma and along the landward route near Mogaung.
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ASTA
Mred
Taey
Burma
Cold Air Brings Relief From Heat Across Iowa
A cool front in Western Iowa dropped morning temperatures to around 60 as rain spanned the state. Rain totals reached Forest City 2.27 inches and Cedar Rapids 2.26 with other gauges showing measurable precipitation ending a dry spell.
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Iowa
Forest City
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Oskaloosa
Iowa City
Estherville
Mason City
Creston
Dubuque
Marshalltown
Charles City
Clarinda
Keokuk
Council Bluffs
Onawa_ Rave
Russians Turn Guns Into Wedge Near Warsaw Front
Soviet forces unleashed a counteroffensive east of Warsaw driving hundreds of field guns into Ossow while twin German blows north and northwest of Siaukai in Lithuania failed to break through. Red Star reports the Germans suffered heavy losses including up to 118 tanks destroyed across the front in 24 hours.
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Daniel de Luce Moscova
Ossow
Warsaw
Red Star
Praga
Vistula
Elity Guard
Sandominera
Silesia
Moscow
Batonia
Lake Pskov
Baltic Sea
Siaukai
Lithuania
Red Army
Indian Leaders to Discuss Partition
Bombay reports five top Indian political leaders including Gandhi to discuss partition proposing separate autonomous Hindu and Moslem states. Observers call the five-year conference potentially the most pivotal event in modern Indian history, with a treaty likely outlining broad division principles and possible endorsement by Congress and the Muslim League led by Jinnah.
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Bombay
Lidia Pi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mattomed Abdinenah
India
Gandhi
all-India Congress Arty
Moslem League
Jinnah
Ilowa Woman Joins Equal Rights Drive
Mrs. Broderick Weitz of Des Moines is among club women leading an equal rights campaign on the capital bill. The group aims to pressure congressmen after Rep. Cannon’s remark, pressing for elimination of gender discrimination and broader protections while lobbying for state laws.
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Ilowa
Washington
Broderick Weitz
Des Moines
Club Woman
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Rep. Cannon
Fla
Patton's Doughboys Ahead of Paris in Chaos Report
New York dispatch quotes British radio and Allied front lines as Lt Gen George S. Patton's 3rd Army advances toward Paris. Dreux Chartres Orleans fall, Paris described as a front line city with shortages, strikes, and a Berlin radio claim of chaos.
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New York
B. S
Paris
Gladwin Hill
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
United States
3Rd Army
George S. Patton
Patton
le Mans
Hia
3Rd
Dreux
Chartres
Chateaurdon
Orleans
Versailles
Dreuz
Eure River
Berlin
Clateaudun
Loire
Vth
Falaise
Normandy
Seine
Channel
Dreux Arcs
Risle
Nazig l
Loire River
French Riviera
War losses in Normandy total 164434 killed 76735 wounded
Secretary McCloy reported Normandy battles since June 6 to August 6 claim 164,434 killed 76,535 wounded and 19,764 missing. He said German forces are heavily harried, trapped near Faltaise, with little chance of a fresh stand west of the Seine, while southern France operations surge ahead and resistance grows.
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Waskington
Normandy
France
John J. McCloy
McCloy
Faltaise
Seine River
McClay
Melay
Germany
Himmler Forms Secret Service Network in Berlin
Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler reportedly established a new Gestapo backed secret service to monitor daily reports on German civil officials. The Berlin operation reportedly employs about 2000 operatives and records every visitor while officials must file written summaries of conversations. Some officials allegedly refused to meet manufacturers over fears of misinterpretation by the new agency.
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Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Hitler
Berlin
Hael
Weather summary for Council Bluffs and Nebraska regions
Fair conditions across Council Bluffs, Keokuk, Onawa, and Nebraska with cooler periods Thursday night and warmer Friday. Max in Keokuk reached 92. Onawa 50 Thursday morning. Nebraska cooler south portion Thursday, highs 75 east to 85 west, followed by warmer periods through Friday night. Total precipitation 0.25 inches with 0.29 inches excess.
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Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs and
Sawa
St Keokuk
Himum
Onawa
Nebraska
Eisuam
Churchill Witnesses Allied Landing Off Southern French Coast
Allied headquarters disclosed that Prime Minister Churchill watched the landing operations from a destroyer off the southern French coast. Also aboard were U S Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson and Lt Gen Brehon B Somerville. Churchill praised the clockwork precision of the operation.
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Churchill
Rome
Allied
U.S
Robert P. Patterson
Brehon B. Somerville
U.S. Army Service Forces
Jqquarters
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Formosa
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Big Four
Philadelphia Lines
Partition
Keystone
Himmler
Secret Service
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