German High Command Plans to Sacrifice Officers
AP reports leaked secret document from the German High Command outlining a strategy to preserve core leadership by sacrificing subordinate officers and maintaining morale. It argues the officer corps must stay strong for any future conflict, with junior officers chosen to die as heroes to sustain the army’s survival and world power goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Dris
Fares Oho Ger
Gaat
Civi Amanders
Airmen Smash Nazi Supply Centers Across Western Front
RAF heavy bombers hit the twin towns of Munchen Gladbach and Rheydt behind the Siegfried Line north of Aachen. Two rail lines from Aachen and Cologne meet at Rheydt before feeding the Ruhr to Holland route. The raid focused on key railway hubs, igniting large fires. five planes were lost. Mosquitos attacked enemy fronts deeper in the Reich, with Berlin noting an assault on Budapest by Mediterranean-based aircraft. Additional raids pounded seven German communications centers with nearly 2,000 Allied planes, with heavy losses for the attackers. A Mosquito formation also hit a Rhine convoy near Emmeln and Dinslaken, while Beau fighters pursued seven ships in Norway’s fjords, three burning. One plane was missing on the 700-mile return flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seney B. Jawfeox
London
Prin Opel
Heidh
RAF
Munchen - Gladbach
Rheydt
Aachen
Cologne
Munchen-Gladbach
Ruhr
Holland
Eaids
Aur Ministry
Reich
Berlin
Budapest
Baye
Almos
Cantey
Rhine
Emmendh
Dinslaken
Norway
Rome War Crimes Trial Ties Police Chief to Hostage Demand
Police chief Pietro was linked to an order to supply hostages for a reprisal tied to a bombing case in Rome during the Occupation. The testimony named Kappler and Buffarini Guidi as figures advising on the action as Allied forces watched closely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pietro
Keeselring
Rome
Pinty
Caruso
Buffarini Guidi
St. Paul's
Catpellee
Ccchietto
Iuss
Wilder
Mark Clark
Fifth Army
World Today Dispatches Lower Bee Clash and Front-Line Shifts
Fragmented report outlines troops massing and positions along Siegfried Line. Mentions Moscow Petitions, Vistula, and Hungarian movements with Baltic forces pursuing German units. Notes Fifth and Southern front actions, plus tensions around the Philippines and China.
Finland loses Karelia and vast reparations under Moscow armistice
London reports the 23 point Finnish armistice with Soviet Russia and Britain strips Finland of Karelia and cedes Petsamo to Russia. German troops in Finland to be disarmed and handed to Allies while Finnish troops retool for peacetime. Allied airfields to be used by the Allies as the border with Russia is restored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Finland
Ernst von Bor
Moscow
Russia
Great Britain
von Bom i
London Times
Romania
Bulgaria
Europe
Karelia
von Born
Leningrad
Lake Ladoga
Viipuri
Rugela
Petsamo
Tis
Fern Fe
Three Face Murder Trials in October Session
Three defendants face first degree murder charges and will be arraigned October 20 in Houston circuit court before Judge D C Halstead. Defendants are Mrs Irell Fancher Mrs Grace Eldridge and John Peter Moss. Five Negro defendants charged with robbery join the docket with specific names listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
D. C. Halstead
Tril
Irell Fancher
Grace Eldridge
John Peter Moss
Carl Barnes
Jester Gienn
Hosea Koonce
George King
John Doe
Fancher
Dollie Sims
West Savannah Street
Sims
Dothan
John Henderson
Eldridge
Gas Coupons Expire Tomorrow in Houston County
Officials of the Houston County War Price and Rationing Board announced that 12 A gas coupons expire tomorrow at midnight and new coupons starting with No 13 become valid Friday. Each new coupon covers four gallons and six coupons exist in each series. Applications are still filed at the local board, but books are issued after filing. Consumers must endorse all coupons immediately upon receipt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County War Price and Rationing Board
Former Hitler Bodyguard Describes Idiosyncrasies
A former Hitler personal bodyguard recounts the Fuehrer’s reactions to the 1939 non aggression pact with Russia. He details Hitler as irascible and sleep deprived, notes no affair with Eva Braun, and recalls service in the Waffen SS before disfavor after a drunken incident in 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Don Whiteread
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Russa
Poland
Tve
Gothic Line breached by American Fifth on six mile front
American Fifth Army breached the Gothic Line above Florence on a six mile front after a week of fighting, capturing key heights Gastel Guerring and Lacroce and pushing into the Gothic defenses near Firenzola. British Eighth Army close to Rumi while allied forces tighten positions on the eastern coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noland Norgaard
Rome
Fifth Army
Florence
Firenzola
Gastel Guerring
Lacroce
Army
Stars and Stripes
Fouth
Italy
Eighth Army
Rumi
Fifthh Army
Tropical Hurricane In Gulf Of Mexico
A tropical disturbance in the eastern Gulf of Mexico is rapidly intensifying and moving west northwest at 10 to 12 mph. It lies about 58 miles south of Pensacola Florida with winds near 73 mph in a small center area and squalls up to 60 mph within 100 miles. Vessels to the west and northwest are urged to exercise caution as the storm’s center is near 22 degrees latitude, 7 degrees 30 minutes longitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Tap
Gulf of Mexico
United States Weather Bureau
Pensacola
Fla
Weather Bureau
Yucatan
Yucatan Channel
Gulf
Japanese-Americans Returning To Coast
SEATTLE RP The return of Japanese-Americans to the Pacific coast defense area has begun under an Army approved screened program. Rev A G Murphy chairman of the Evacuees Service Council calls the plan an infiltration to ease Japanese-Americans back to test community sentiment. The system is being used in Seattle Portland San Francisco and Los Angeles. Murphy said a Japanese-American girl was allowed to return to Pasadena high school California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Pacific Coast Defense Area
A. G Murphy
Evacuees Service Council
Murphy
Pacific Coast
Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Pasadena
Calif
Five Guilty Pleas for Public Drunkenness in Court
Five defendants pleaded guilty to public drunkenness in the Court of Common Pleas before Judge J Norton Mulling Jr, each fined five dollars plus costs. Two vagrancy cases were not pressed, and one drunkenness case remained open. Of 27 calendar items, 11 continued and three left open. a Sunny blue law violator, Whe Me Swart Negron, was fined ten dollars. Another defendant pleaded guilty to vagrancy and was fined two dollars plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Common Press
J Norton Mulling, Jr
Whe Me
Swart Negron
Special Forecast Today Cloudy With Rain Showers
Cloudy this afternoon and evening with numerous scattered rain showers. Temperatures range from 71 to 72 degrees, with a late evening period remaining cloudy and cooler.
Baltic Drive Pushes Germans Toward Riga Threat
Soviet forces launched a major Baltic offensive sweeping through Latvia and Estonia. Front reports say deep advances near Riga with heavy tank and infantry pressure, as Valga and Plavinas fall to the Red Army. Romania and Yugoslavia frontier successes followed as the war broadens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epdy Gilmore
Moscow
Rige
Red Army
Estonia
Latvia
Lithugma
Gulf of Finland
Yugoslavia
Baltic
Stalin
Riga
Ivan Bagramian
Kehava
Daugava
Dvina
Vales Faille
Estonia + Latvia
Ivan Maslentiikov
Valga
Gulf of Riga
Balle
Romania
Tirsoara
Belgrade
Crete Blockaded As Allied Forces Press Assault
Allied forces tightened a blockade around Crete to trap the German garrison as sea and air strikes continued. Carrier planes destroyed 11 German vehicles and damaged many more, with a JU-52 wrecked on Crete. Aurora bombarded Melos, while British ships targeted a Melos wireless station and other Greek isles. Commodities and operations across the Dalman sea region were reported as coordinated actions against German forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noland Norgaard
ROME
Crete
Aegean
Aurora
Melos
Beth
Auroraa
Terps
Milet Keocula
Firsc
Dalravan Roas
Germare Br
Brosh Newey
Aled
Admat
Derade
Delmanen Ares
Americans Mopping Up Two Palau Group Isles
American forces reported progress on Palau as Mide Anguar Inland fell to Blast Infantry after three and a half days of fighting. Japanese resistance described as light, with about 1,000 defenders. mopping up continues as islands Angaur Peleliu near completion. Continuous updates cited Nimtz and allied units in Pacific theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McMurty U
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Palau
Mitchell
Philippines
Angaur Island
61St
Peleliu
John Cooper
Dewey Survives Train Wreck Speaks in Portland
Dewey uninjured after a train wreck travels to San Francisco to campaign in California. In Portland he assails the New Deal as quarrelsome and disunited and warns that Roosevelt’s indispensability risks world peace. Bricker and Kelly appear in related notes as campaigns heat up ahead of a Washington speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
Portland
Associated Press
Thorman
San Francisco
California
Ore
Roosevelt
EWT
Apeak
United States
Churchill
Stalin
Denial by Marquise de Polignac on Nazi collaboration
Paris dispatch reports the Marquise de Polignac, former New York socialite, denying collaboration claims as she faces arrest at the Drancy camp. She asserts she aided France during the war, produced evidence of her actions, and claims to have helped seven people including an American, aided by German embassy connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Cowan
Paris
Marquise de Polignacn
Nine Crosby
New York
Drancy Stockade
Geviarre
Perpera Se Beauty
Postion
Dochers de Briavor
Marquise
France
Germany
Gestapo
Geren
James Biddle Eustis
Hospital of
Montgomery Says War To End Before New Year
British armor and Allied airborne troops dated tonight for crossings of the lower Rhine in Holland as the Allies push toward the Ruhr. Nijmegen and the Rhine line solidified, with the Second Army driving to trap German defenses. Allied air and ground forces press into the Netherlands, threatening a broad offensive across northern Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Long
London
Lower
Rhining
Holland
Ruhr
Germany
Netherlands
Second Army
Sky
Nijmegen
Rhine
Aachen
Duren
Al-les
Essen
Krupps
U. S. First Army
Siegfried Line
Supreme Headquarters
Weatam
Lower Rhine
Waal Rhine
Arnhem
Natlands
Nancy-Metz
Belfort
Nancy
Strasbourg
Brest
Brittany
Peninavle
U, & Hande
Boulogne
Algiers
Great Brest Port Falls To Allies
Supreme Headquarters reports Brest, France, fell to American forces after a two week siege. The port, a key to supply lines toward the German invasion front, is described as converted to a major forward supply hub. Despite stubborn resistance, German forces wavered as Allied artillery and armor battered the defenses.
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Brest
Allied Expeditionary Force
Tom Bres
France
Americana
Germany
Hitler
Supres
Borks
Richeleu
Europe
Coop
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Cerne
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Ek Tront
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Fitler
von Ribshe Fuerner
Furler
Lend Riefeneadl
U. S
Warsaw
First Airborne
Eindhoven
Wesel
Coblenz
Palau Group
Isles
Navy
Montgomery
Western Front
Messiaen
Pulatsk
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