Russians Advance Into East Prussia Front Lines Expanded
London dispatch reports Red Army forces totaling about 300000 with tanks and aircraft pressing into East Prussia from multiple directions. German defenses near Lomza Ostrow Mazowiecka and near the Lithuania border show breaches as Soviet forces seize dozens of localities and advance toward Warsaw and Praga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Hercher
London
Lomza
Ostrow-Mazowiech
Warsaw
Berlin
East Prussia
Germany
Moscow
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
East Prussian
Reich
G F
Wizna
Kolomija
Bialystok
Czyzewo
Bialystok-Wartsay
Siedice Tre
Smolevo
Ostrow
Vistula River
Ivans Konews
Ukraine Army
Ave Waonte Paper
Sympathy for Mother as Son Is Dead in War
In Boston on Saturday, Gov Lev Saltonstall and others expressed public sympathy to Mrs Jean Hanson of Newton after her son 1st Lt Robert M Hanson, a Marina aviator, was reported missing in action in the south Pacific. Saltonstall’s speech followed news that his own son Sgt Peter Saltonstall had been killed in action, as Marine officers stood with Mrs Hanson, while honors included the Congressional Medal of Honor for her son’s aerial feats against Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Jean Dorchester Hanson
Newton
Robert M Hanson
South Pacific
Leverett Saltonstall
Hanson Saltonstall
Navy Department
Peter Saltonstall
Pacific
Saltonstalls
Peter
Hanson
Farmers Urged to Bundle Papers in Pottawattamie County
Rural residents asked to bundle old magazines newspapers and catalogs and place by mailboxes for pickup by rural carriers. Carriers will haul bundles to the salvage depot during a county wide collection campaign to address a serious paper shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottawattamie
Polish exile premier nears accord with Stalin on Poland
London dispatch reports Stanis law Mikolajczyk has secured a personal assurance from Premier Joseph Stalin that Soviet interference in Poland’s affairs will end. An informant says a possible coalition with the National Liberation Committee could be formed within days, with Mikolajczyk prepared to travel to Warsaw to present plans for broadening government representation and Poland’s rehabilitation. Final steps hinge on Warsaw’s liberation and treatment of underground leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Poland
Joseph Stalin
Morday
Russia
Mikolajczyk
Warsaw
Mikolajcayk
Papen
Committees Named for The Nonpareil Fall Show
New committees are named for The Nonpareil fall garden show at the ety auditorium August 26 and 27. Selection completes most setup details with exhibitors supplying remaining items. Prize money in stamps and bonds up from last year. Lorde classes dropped. more changes to reflect last year’s success and the flood of exhibits expected. Vegetable division led by Mrs Allen Dudley and fruit division led by Mrs E H Sylvester list members. Decorations committee chaired by Mrs Carl Gernet and co chaired by Mrs Daniel Sullyan includes several local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ety Auditorium
Council Bluffs
Allen Dudley
North Broadway
Karl Holst
Ninth Avenue
Glen Avenue
Nellie ‘Torrey
B Prouty
Walter Hansen
Carl Gernet Shy
Avenue
Digs
Daniel Sullyan
Seventh Avenue
Claude Nichols
Oakland Avenue
McMicken Hanchett
South Sixth Street
Andrey Hensing
North Second Street
Edward Evans
Forrest Drive
Manan Turner
South
Eighth Street
Mary Ann Sullyan
Save Roste
Germans Narrow Balkans Force Confined Across 600 Miles
A Roma listening post reports Germans hold fewer than a dozen divisions across the Balkans with most units understrength. About two thirds are stretched over some 600 mountainous miles between the Black Sea and Krakow, with central and north western Yugoslavia housing the remainder. Von Paulus reportedly commands only five or six all-German divisions left in Yugoslav, Albania, and Greece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph E Mori Bari
Italy
Lac
Balkans
Russia
Black Sea
Krakow
Poland
Danube
Central
Yugoslav
Germany
Ploest
Hungary
I Igawan
Reich
Mirshal
Daamilan von Werehs
Yugoslavia
Albania
Greece
Roosevelt orders seizure of 99 San Francisco war plants
President Roosevelt ordered the navy to take over 99 machine shop firms producing war materials around San Francisco after the International Association of Machinists refused to lift an overtime ban. The move follows a War Labor Board letter and aims to end the eight hour day limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary of Navy
San Francisco
White House
George W Taylor
War Labor Board
Lodge 6
The
International Association of Machinists
Taylor
Navy
Naval
OPA
Office of Economic Stabilization
Pacific Gear and Tool Works
Federal
Stogal Corp
Link Belt Co
Pacific Division
US Pipe and Manufacturing Co
Enterprise Engine and Foundary Co
Award Medals to 105 Women
Washington reports 105 American women received Army and Navy awards for war bravery and efficiency. Army nurses lead with 97 awards including a distinguished service cross to Lt Kathleen A Dial for caring for 18 patients after a Port Moresby ambulance crash. Navy and WAC honors, Purple Hearts, and other recognitions follow, with notable names Blanche F Sigman and Major Emily N Weder noted among the fallen and honored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Navy
Office of War Information
Kathleen A Dial
Florence Ala
Port Moresby
New Guinea
WACS
Blanche F Sigman
Akron
Anzio
Emily N Weder
Sellersville
Tex
Elizabeth Reynard
New York City
WAC Recruiting Now Separate Fort Des Moines
WAC recruiting is placed under a separate command to handle only enlistments for the Womens Army Corps. State headquarters are in Des Moines with offices planned in Cedar Rapids Sioux City Waterloo Davenport Council Bluffs Dubuque Fort Dodge Mason City and Ottumwa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Des Mgines
UPI
Womens Army Corps
Regular Army
Womens
Service State
WAC
Federal
Des Moines
Cedar Rapida
Sioux City
Waterloo
Davenport Council
Biaffa
Dubuque
Fort Doage
Macoy Cry
Burlington
Clinton and
Marshalltown
Shuttlecocks Stir Senate Talk and Price Control Fight
The shuttlecock price order sparks cross party debate as Senator Wiley denounces the move and Senator Wherry vows to press the issue in the Senate. Officials cite feather supply questions and warn against using wildfowl down while the OPA requires sellers to document price explanations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Senate
National Association of
Fish and Wildlife Service
OPA
Chester Bowles
Butter to seek state Legion post vice commander seat
John G Butter of Rainbow post No 2 Council Bluffs will seek the Seventh Iowa district endorsement for state vice commander at the four day Toya American Legion convention in Sioux City. He serves as seventh district commander and a past commander and is district engineer for the Town state highway commission who will preside at a round table discussion. About 25 Council Bluffs members are expected to attend the convention and Town Leads Parade Tuesday night as district honors the membership drive winner. Over ten percent of veterans attending will be men returning from service within the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G Butter
Locust Lodge
Iowa
Toya American Legion
Sioux City
Rainbow Post No 2
American Legion
Council
legion@res
Battlefelds
Germans Using Rocket Planes
Frankl Banker reports on German rocket propelled fighters claimed to be the ME 16 Flying Wing jet fighters used against Allied bombers. eyewitness pilots describe speeds far above 780 mph with white condensation trails, noting no propellers and a stubby fuselage with a single pilot canopy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankl Banker
Britanny
Reich
Robert H Knapp
Norwich NY
Emden
Germany
Cass . Hough
Plymouth Mich
John Murphy
Tulsa
Okla Mustang
Leipzng
Cyn W Jones Jr
Athens
Tenn
Immy C Shoffit
Fort Worth Texas
Murphy
Flers
South Front Is Expanding Fast
Rome dispatch reports American 7th Army advancing toward the Rhone valley with moves from St Mammes to Grasse and Cannes. German forces retreat as Toulon outflank and defenses crumble while French and American tanks surge inland near Marseille and Toulon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noland Norgaard
Rome
Hara
St Mam‘am Leste Baume
Marseille
Aixon
Toulon
Rhone River
France
Ferdinand Neuling
62Nd
St Maaimin
Grasse
Cannes
la Bastide
la Roque‘brussanné
Solles-Font
Sollles
Alexander M Patehs
Sara
Increase Ceiling Price on Potatoes
OPA raises potato ceiling prices by 60 cents per hundredweight in Iowa and by 50 cents in Indiana Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin, effective Sunday through August 31. Retail increases will total less than one cent per pound. The hike follows drought reports reducing self-supply in the five states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iowa
Indiana
Dhnois
Michigan
Wisconsin
OPA
Erep
Gothic Line Holds Despite French and Allied Landings
Allied patrols probing the upper Arno valley report German forces in the gothic line near Florence continuing to fight despite French and American landings in southern France. The city remains mostly under allied control with German shelling causing civilian losses and property damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyne Hemyzerling
Florence
Alliec
France
Fisa
Adriatic
Arno River
Atlantic
Albert Kesseling
French Riviera
Paris
Arno
U S Using New Type of Rocket In Ninth Air Force France
U S Air Force reports use of a new American armor piercing rocket in France. Col Anthony Grossetta of Tucson Arizona said his group destroyed 19 German tanks with 45 rockets in a single day, with the weapon suited for armored columns and airfields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Air Force
France
RAF
Ueir
Anthony Grosetta
Tucson
Aziz
Eaye Waste Papetr
Weather summary for Council Bluffs and vicinity
The Weather Bureau reports generally fair and cooler conditions with a high around 80s in Council Bluffs area. Sunday will bring widely scattered thunder showers in the northeast and warmer conditions in the eastern portion with hourly temperatures showing afternoon highs near 86 and evening readings in the low 80s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US Weather Bureau
Councl Bluffs
Nebraska
Lest
Extend Time on Ceiling Prices
The Des Moines district office extended indefinitely the deadline for restaurants to post ceiling prices on individual food items. The original deadline of Aug 16 was extended to let War price and rationing boards finish restaurant files and posters and receive instructions from the regional office. Ceiling prices will not change. posters urge posting and protect customers from overpricing. Officials estimate it may take over 30 days for boards to complete and verify prices against the April 8 to 10, 1943, base period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Sarah
Concern in China's War Show
The piece reports rising American worry over China's war with Japan. President Roosevelt plans to send two emissaries, Gen Patton and Donald Nelson, to meet Chiang Kai Shek for months of talks on military, supply, and economic issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Cushing
Associated Press
Molucca Straits
Arca
Douglas MacArthur Palau
Carolines
Japan
Dbomel
Imperial Japan
East Asia
Europe
Americas
Hengyang
Hunan
Rai
Kweilin
Kwangs
New Tractors and Farm Equipment Needed in Iowa
A Iowa survey shows farmers require 16 388 tractors and 10 480 corn pickers before July 1 to meet 1945 production goals. Additional needs include 10 430 corn planters 9 995 milkers 7 425 side delivery rakes 4 976 combines and 795 hay loaders. Field choppers grain drills corn binders and other gear also listed. In Red Oak a navy report confirms Coxswain Themes Lee Marcum wounded in action. Des Moines hosts statewide feed school Sept 25 co sponsored by Western Grain and Feed Association and the Iowa Feed Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Retail Farm Equipment Assomation
State War Board
War Production Board
Red Oak
Paris Next: U S Troops Reach Seine Front Near Mantes
Allied dispatches say American patrols are near the Seine in the Mantes area and Patton's forces have fought to Mantes and Vernon as German remnants retreat toward crossings. Air power has bombed and destroyed thousands of tanks and trucks, while the battle to encircle Paris continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladwin
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Seine River
France
Fez
Paria
George 3. Patton
Faris
Fataise Gap
Sege
Seine
Mantes
Patton
Vernon
Field Censora
Drena
Amenean Idash
Calaag
Associated Press
Willsram White
Crosaince
Lettuce Prices to Rise Slightly Under OPA Schedule
The Office of Price Administration announced a nationwide ceiling price schedule showing lettuce up by about half a cent per head on average. Some areas will see as much as an additional cent, while others may experience no increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Kelly Washington
OPA
Rosa
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA Sa
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Prussia
F. R
State Legion Post
Wfaste
French Tank Corps
Noszis
U. S
China
Chiang
Spellss
T J Marcum
Lee Marcum
Plan Feed School
Deg Mars
Western Grain and Feed Asanration
Feed Institute of
Towa
United Nations
Algiers
Vichy
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