Warsaw Under Siege as Red Army Attacks
News dispatch reports Soviet forces pressing toward Warsaw as three Red Army columns advance along the Vistula, with heavy bombardment and marked fires in the capital. Marshal Rokossovsky directs the assault as Praga and eastern suburbs brace for bombardment and possible evacuation.
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Warsaw
Perth
Red Army
Jt Pross
Slong & 143
Pt Diack Mmoke
Evauca- Weacew
WMAP
Puny
Redplanes
Ruswiee Ee
Prage
Werors
Vistula
Filers
and Irvertia
Konstantin K. Rokossovy
Bimanif
Major Parties on Fireworks On Wary Committee
Democratic leadership to meet daily after Labor Day with no emergency call to Congress unless needed. War reconversion bills urged. Speaker Rayburn says country will be safer with sound legislation and quicker committee action. Senate reopening increases pressure on war end policies impacting industry and Germany’s collapse prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest B. Vaccaro Warngson
Ramspeck Ga
Rayburn D
B. Vaccaro Igton
Mboa
Senate
Germany
Ees
World War II Frontes and Allied Advances Across Fronts
War-front dispatch summarizes Allied push along Brittany ports and northern Europe, with British and American forces advancing on multiple fronts. Soviet air and artillery pressure targets Warsaw Praga as German defenses resist northward drives. MacArthur eyes amphibious reach to isolate 150,000 Japanese on Guam and Mariana Islands while Japan fights to defend Hengyang amid heavy battles.
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Selune River
Avranches
Plain of Ee
Brittany
Nort
Warsaw
Praga
Zignthrmens
Bitter
Clace MacArthur
Guam
MacArthur Now In Air Range Of Philippines
Allied reports announce an unopposed leapfrog landing placing General Douglas MacArthur's forces within bombing range of the Philippines and completing the reconquest of New Guinea. The Tokyo radio quoted an Imperial Headquarters communique claiming Japanese units on Rota Island repelled Allied landings while heavy fighting raged on Guam and on Tinian. Sixth Army troops also captured Sansapor in northwestern New Guinea, near a 20 mile amphibious operation.
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New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Phlippines
Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Imsperias
Rola
Rots
Tinian
Guam
Sixth Army
Sansapor
Britons Told Two Congress Figures Seek renomination
Associated Press reports Rep. Hamilton Fish seeks renomination in New York 28th District and Sen. Bennett Clark aims for Missouri seat amid tough opposition. Dewey and Willkie press for Fish's defeat while Fish defends remarks on Jews as facts. Dewey campaigns in Pittsburgh and Springfield before St. Louis meeting with 25 Republican governors. Brownell predicts Dewey will win at least 30 states and 311 electoral votes.
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Associated Press
Congress
Hamilton Fish
New York
Bennett Clark
Missouri
Fish
Augustus W. Bennett
Newburgh
Thomas E.dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
Pittsburgh
Alacken
Springfield
St. Louis
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Roosevelt
System Of Danger Signals Prepared As Defense Move
London reports Morrison hints at silent bombs and plans audible danger signals to guide public response. Amid daylight raids, a radio warning, three two second horn blasts, and six second danger signals aim to alert civilians as robot and silent bombs threaten English towns. An eyewitness recounts a mother and crowd diving as a flying bomb struck a church area. Two killed and four injured as a three story apartment wing is wrecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Goldberg
London
England
Herbert Stanley Morrison
Home Security
Commons
Morrison
Iie
City Formally Drops Light And Water Tax
The City Commission passed an ordinance abolishing a five percent rise in water, light and gas rates saving about $2,100 monthly for around 4,000 consumers. The increased charges, set in June 1941 to aid Dale County land purchases, raised about $70,000 over two years before expenses grew. The repeal gained support from Rawlins McKin nay and Clyde L. Cse, with Miles A. Miller’s endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Dothan
Dale County
Napier Id
Rawlins McKinnay
Clyde L. Cse
Miles A. Miller
Finland Heads Through Reshuffle After President Resigns
AP dispatch from Helsinki cites unreliable reports of President Wists Eytl of Finland resigning. The Helsinki-based Gepatch quotes sources saying the new president will be Premier Ed Wis Linkemice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wists Eytl
Finland
Leckhelm Tedsya
Gepatch
Helsinki
Fremier Edwis Linkemice
78 000 Now Idle Throughout Nation In Work Disputes
A nationwide surge of work stoppages idled about 78 000 workers, with 34,000 in Philadelphia and 7,000 in Detroit area stores affected. The Philadelphia shutdown stranded city workers as drivers protested against Negro operators, while Detroit area Montgomery Ward stores faced a lockout over overtime pay. General Motors Chevrolet gear and axle plants near closure added to the widespread tensions. Turn to No. 8 for more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Montgomery Ward and Company
Detroit
Nea
Philadelphia
Montgomery Ward
Jeff Craig
CIO United Retail and Wholesale
General Motors
Chevrolet
CIO
United Automobile
Roebling
Trenton
Atlantic Storm Nears Carolinas
A small tropical storm moving northeast toward the South Carolina coast prompted storm warnings from Cape Fear to Brunswick. Center was about 200 miles east of Jacksonville with winds near 50 mph and expected to strengthen toward hurricane force as forecasters monitor its northwestward path.
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Miamy
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
South Carolina
Weather Bureau
Cape, Katierna
N. C
Brunswick
Jacksonville
Allied and Axis clash as Florence front holds in Italy
Allied Eighth Army advances slowly toward Florence amid stiff German resistance. Fourth Parachute Division, 20th and Third Panzer Grenadiers, supported by Tiger tanks and wire-embedded grenades, make a stand. West of Highway Two San Michele held. British and South African forces push near Arezzo and Subbiano while observations around Pisa persist.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Florence
Allied
Italy
Parachute
20Th
Panzer Grenadiers
Third Panzer Grenadiers
San Michele
Eighth
le Romola
San Andrea
Grove River
Mount Scalari
San Martino
Arezzo
Arezzo Bibena
Amo
Subbiano
Fifth Army
Pisa
Driving American Armor Spreads Out From Avranches
Allied dispatches report American and British forces pushing across Normandy and Brittany with progress on multiple fronts. American tank columns crossed the Beleune river from Avranches, reaching toward Brittany, while British advances extended near the Eveque forest and Caen region. Canada briefly held Tilly-la-Chapagne before being driven back as German resistance stiffened.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Percy
Normandy
Avranches
Caumont
Brittany
Souleuvre
Eveque
la Ferriere
Gladwin
Belune
Paris
Vire
Torlany
Souleuvre River
Yvire
Caen
Tilly - L-Cham- Pagne
Ponteubault
Tessy - Bur- Vire
le Beny- Bocage
Caurment
English Channel
Eveque Forest
Torigni - Sur - Vire
Omar N. Bradley
Brittany Peninsula
France
Grove County
Bartilly
Teasy - Sup-Vire
Milea C. Dempsey
K Aull
Fumechon
Bois du Homme Forrest
Gala
Quezon Dies in Exile Tuberculosis Claims Philippine Leader
Manuel Quezon former president of the Philippine government died at 45 at a summer home in Saranac Lake New York from tuberculosis. He arrived from Asheville North Carolina and was with his wife two daughters and son at his bedside. He fled Luzon after the Japanese conquest in 1942 and had supported American efforts against the invaders.
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Saranac Lake
Manuel Quezon
Quezon
Luzon
Philippines
Asheville
N. C
sAmetica
Houston Man Fined On Hit Run Charge
State Highway Patrolman Earl Henley said Mer lin Paulk of Ashford route one was taken into custody on a hit and run charge after a Sunday collision on Cottonwood road. A wide search followed for the damaged vehicle. Paulk was fined 111 dollars by Justice of the Peace John White for leaving the scene and operating without a license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Henley
Dothan
Merlin Paulk
Ashford
Taw
Cottonwood Road
Kenley
Cottonwood
Henry Thomas Brown
Henley
Paulk
Justice of the Peace
John White
Nazi Revolution Is Crushed, Sources Say
Flora Lewis reports from Washington that official sources indicate the bomb plot against Hitler failed. Nazis maintain control, with Himmler purging suspects, Berlin tightens security, and public reaction in Germany appears apathetic. Soviet embassy bulletin notes Allied tanks and weapons spell Germany’s fate, not German mutiny.
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Flora Lewis Washington
Washington
Germany
Hitler
Hiller
Berlin
Heinrich Himmler
Himmler
Stilwell Nominated As Four Star General
President Roosevelt nominated Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of American forces in Burma, for four star rank. The move places him with Gen. Marshall, Gen. MacArthur, and Gen. Eisenhower and signals expanded Allied operations in Southeast Asia.
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Wassinton Japi
Roosevelt
Joseph Warrer
Stilwell
Burma
United States
Stiilwell
George C. Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
Shiwell
Burrell- China
Burnet Theater
Knmoe Chang Kai-shek
China
Lewis Mountbatten
Senate
Southeast Asia
Ture
Germans Hurling Mystery Device At Allied Forces
The Germans unveiled a rocket propelled fighter that Allied pilots reported as incredibly fast though encounters were brief. Seven planes were seen. one formation claimed to have met five Me USS rocket planes, with two in range but uncaught. The announcement notes potential to challenge air superiority and references jet trials and bomber sorties.
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KY Janson O'Quinn
London
Berlin
U. S
Germany
U. S. Eighth
Lth
Alvin P.tacon, Jr
Mobile
Ala
Money Order Receipt Leads to Auto Theft Suspect
Federal agents traced a post office money order receipt found in an abandoned car stolen from Dothan to identify the thief. The car, linked to Bainbridge Georgia, was abandoned in May after being stolen in April, and the receipt helped confirm ownership during the investigation led by RF. J. Abbaticchio, Birmingham office.
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Post Office
Troy Childia
Dothan
Federal Bureau of Investigation
RF. J. Abbaticchio
Birmingham
Childs
Bainbridge
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E. Prussia
LITH
Poland
Estonia
Taree
Vica
Latvia
U.S.S
East Prussia
Wersaw
Red
Lasviel
Jelgava
Pskov
Tartu
MacArthur
Clark
Austin Bealmear
Carolinas
Yanks
James F. Kelly
Boston
Mass
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