Fall Of Stalino Gives Reds Last Donets Industrial City
Huron will blackout for 15 minutes tonight in a statewide air raid drill. First warning at 9 45 p m with main switches turning off street lights. G O Martin civilian defense corps commander outlined two minute siren blast followed by shop whistles and post patrols.
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Martin
Huron
G. O. Martin
Citizens Defense Corps
Civilian Defense Council
South Dakota
R. P. Harmon
State Office of
Civ
Firepower Drives Japanese From Lae Frontlines in New Guinea
Allied air and ground forces push toward Lae as about 20,000 Japanese troops are reported trapped near the Lae approaches. Parachute troops seize Nadzab airfield while Australian infantry routs hundreds of Japanese near Singana plantation. US Warplanes hit Hankow area targets in China.
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Associated Press
Lae
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Singana Plantation
MacArthur
U. S
Markham Valley
Sky
Nadzab
Gir
China
Hankow
Theaters Install Blackout Signals
Dr. K. R. Stratton, chief air raid warden, announced amber signals at the Huron Theatre and a light at the Bijou to flash during alerts. Officials receiving rain checks for leaving duties were advised to note the procedure.
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Citizens Defense Corps
KR. A. Stratton
Huron Theatre
Six Year Old Spots Pickpocket at Union Station
Six year old Ella Farris alerted her parents to a man reaching into her grandfather's pocket at Union Station. Bystanders restrained the suspect as police noted a long criminal record.
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Kaqwsas City
Ella Farris
Union Station
World Events At A Glance From Associated Press
Russia Berlin radio reports Germany evacuates key steel center in Donets basin as Red Army drives toward Kiev capturing towns and inflicting heavy casualties. Allied air raids hit Amiens and Abbeville. Marshall says plans to invade NW Europe nearly complete while Japan is on the defensive. U S parachute troops seize a Japanese airfield near Lac and trap a 20,000 man garrison as Australians rout the enemy northeast of Lue. American planes bomb Hankow area in China.
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Associated Press
Russia
Berlin
Germany
Stalino
Donets
Pripet
Kiev
Geremana
Vagoslivie
Alban
Italy
Paris
U. S
Amiens
Abbeville
Washington
Marshall
Hitler
Europe
Japan
New Guinea
U. S S
Lac
Lue
China
Hankow
War Today summary of Marshall progress report July 1941 to June 1942
Chief of Staff George C. Marshall’s survey to Secretary Stimson charts American and Allied war progress from July 1, 1941, to June 30 of this year. It presents a clear, nonpropagandistic account of peril turning to assured victory, without predicting exact end dates.
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the War Today
U.S
George C. Marshall
Stimson
Rose
Zee Maczte
Red Army Drives to Mariupol After Staling Victory
Soviet forces press from Stalingrad victory toward Mariupol crossing the rail line and severing Donets basin connections. German reports admit evacuation amid heavy combat as Allied reassessment notes large Nazi losses and continued Donets battle with abrasive violence.
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Mariupol
Lewis Hawkins
London
Donets Basin
Red
Ukraine
Red Army
Stalino
Sea of Azov
Donets
Kuban
Crimea
Ten Rapid City soldiers die in bomber crash
Rapid City Sept 8 The names of ten Army Air Base soldiers killed in a four engine bomber crash just outside the city limits Monday night were announced by Major Ellis Eno commanding officer at the base. Major Eno said the plane was on a routine flight when it fell and burned killing the entire crew. None were from the local area.
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Rapid City
Army Air Base
Ellis &. Eno
Eno
Germans Hold Line Along Po in Italian Capitulation
Dewitt Mackenzie reports on the Italian surrender and the German defense along the Po river in northern Italy. He notes potential grim fighting if Nazis defend the line, possible withdrawal through bombing of Brenner Pass, and questions over the Italian fleet's control at Pola. The piece weighs Allied release of reserves and the Badoglio government's stance toward the Germans and the United Nations prospects.
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Italy
Brenner Pass
Germany
Nazia
Badoglio
Pola
Adriatic
United Nations
Eisenhower To Tell It As FR Reports Italy Surrenders
In Washington on September 8 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were unaware of the immediate formal reaction as Italy capitulated. News dispatches sparked suppressed excitement in the White House with Secretary Stephen Early delivering the dispatch and Roosevelt remarking, It is General Eisenhower's story. Let him tell it.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Churchill
Great Britain
Italy
Stephen Early
Dispatch
General Eisenhower
Eisenhower Announces Surrender of Italy in World War II
Allied headquarters report General Eisenhower announced Italy's unconditional surrender to the United Nations forces, effective immediately. The armistice, signed with Marshal Badoglio, ends hostilities with Italy and opens pathways for new Allied offensives in North Africa and Sicily.
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North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Italy
Eisenhower
Russia
Britain
United States
Hitler
Pietro Badoglio
Benito Mussolini
Casablanca
Tunisia
Sicily
Marshal Badoglio
United Nations
Messina
Warns Fleet To Avoid Germans
Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Allied naval commander in the Mediterranean, broadcast a warning to the Italian fleet and merchant marine that the German armed forces are the open enemy of the Italian people. Italian ship commanders were told to reach Allied or neutral ports, while merchant vessels should scuttle or sabotage ships if forced to fall into German hands.
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Andrew Browne Cunningham
Mediterranean
Italy
Back the Attack Third War Loan Drives Nationwide
An editorial insists the war's offensive has begun after Italy's capitulation with U S forces facing invasion. It urges citizens to support the Third War Loan, targeting a national $15 billion goal and a Beadle County quota of 1.11 million dollars, urging sacrifice equal to soldiers' blood and sweat.
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Europe
Italy
United States
Beadle County
Aesari
Boas
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Dewitt MacKenzie
By Edward Kennedy
United Kingdom
Union of the
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