PLOESTI Campaign Drives Germans Back in Romania
Soviet forces break through at Oituz pass and advance toward Transylvania as 275000 Romanian campaign prisoners are reported. Malinovsky’s army pushes 10 miles in northern Transylvania while Soviet marines seize Tulcea and overrun the Danube delta toward Braila and Galati.
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Ploesti
Brasov
Bucharest
Moscow
Rodion ¥. Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Oituz
Polana-Sarata
Translvania
Sesnen
Transylvania
Sovet
Hitler
Romania
Hungary
Ca Iia
Danube
Tulcea
Braila
Galati
Ukraine
Allied air strikes hit targets across Pacific theater
Japanese strongpoints at Onnekotah and Manado targeted in separate Saturday operations. Bombers and fighters attacked shipping near Onnekotah, Amboina area, and a key harbor in the Philippines Celebes Ceram line. Coastal craft damaged near Dutch New Guinea. raids on Pagan Alamagan Yap Woleai Jaluit Mili islands in the central Pacific.
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Ers
Onnekotah
Kuriles
Nauru
Marshalls
Army Navy
Manado
Philippines
Celebes-Ceram
Amboina Island
Don Visit Aims at Lend Lease, UN Relief Plans
Don today on a visit is expected to study lend lease operations and plans for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Mickey Finn.
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Don
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
American Planes In Chekiang Struggle
U S 14th air force bombed Kinhwa airfield and rail yards on the Chekiang Kinkiangsi line. Fighters strafed Wuyi near Lishui as Japanese drive advances. Chinese troops retook a northwest Tengchung gate and captured pillboxes near a temple. Japanese reinforcements moved toward Lungling while China reclaimed Fangmachiao.
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Chungking
U. S
Chekiang
Lishui
Japan
Claire L. Chennault
Kinhwa
Cheking-Kiangsi
Wuyi
Tengchung
Yunnan
Fangmachiao
Burma Road
Lungling
U.S. Official Says British Russian Endorsement Not Final
Stettinius noted ongoing discussions while agreeing that Cadogan and Gromyko showed a June 15 statement edging toward an endorsement of the American plan. Areas of agreement focus on workday methods for trade and territorial disputes and reducing war-breeding tensions.
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Stettinius
Alexander Cadogan
Andrei Gromyko
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to visit America for medical care
Dr. H H Kung said Mme Chiang Kai Shek would travel from Brazil to the United States for further medical treatment. He noted she is ill but not seriously so and is the wife of China's Generalissimo.
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New York
H. H. Kung
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
United States
Brazil
Kung
Mme. Chiang
China
Tito Forces Snatch Enemy's Stronghold
Marshal Tito announced Yugoslav partisans seized the fortified Palisad Zlatbor stronghold in Serbia. The operation left about 830 Bulgarians killed and 120 captured from a 1,400 total force. A Polish battalion formed in Yugoslavia reportedly distinguished itself in Bosnia.
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London
Tito
Palisad Zlatbor
Serbia
Yugoslavia
Bosnia
Weather Ahead North Carolina partly cloudy to warmer
Partly cloudy to cloudy and warmer today and tonight with light rain over the eastern portion this morning. Tomorrow the region stays warm with continued clouds and a chance of showers in the east.
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North Carolina
Allied push tightens noose on Nazi forces near Calais
The Allied advance concentrates on trapping Nazi troops toward the English Channel while Allied Air Forces inflict heavy losses on enemy concentrations. The article notes Paris security resting with French authorities to avoid friction and foreign armed intervention.
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English Channel
Somme
Cala
Calais
Bou
Hitler
Paris
One Killed Two Hurt In Navy Ship Fire at Norfolk
NORFOLK Va Aug 29 Fred L King 26 of Norfolk was killed and two other employes were burned one so severely he was not expected to live in a flash fire in the hold of a navy ship under repair at the Norfolk shipbuilding and dry dock company plant today Roy O Morgan of Broad Creek Village was burned severely and C L Webb of Norfolk had his hands scorched
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Norfolk
Fred L. King
Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Roy O. Morgan
Broad Creek Village
C. L. Webb
Ford Motor Company Among Defendants
Government files civil complaint in federal court seeking to restrain defendants including Ford Motor Company from Sherman Act violations in the wood alcohol industry. Plaintiffs allege defendants control about 95 percent of wood alcohol produced and sold in the United States.
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New York
Ford Motor Co
U. S
Irving B. Glickfeld
United States
British Troops Take Northern Burma Town
Allied forces report British troops captured Pinbaw in Northern Burma on the Mogaung Mandalay line and press the pursuit of withdrawing Japanese forces. In Kabaw Valley Allied flanking actions left hundreds of Japanese starving as supply lines were cut. U S S Liberator bombers attacked the Moulmein Bangkok railway to hamper troop movements to Central Burma. Airplane sales of surplus Army Air Forces planes scheduled in several Southern and Carolinas airports. Reps Mundt and Richards arrived in London for talks.
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Southeast Asia Command
Pinbaw
Mogaung- Mandalay
Burma
Kabaw
U. S S
Moulmein
Bangkok
Allied Push Reaches Meaux Area as Vitry Falls
Reuters reports U S Third Army forces drive toward Meaux and Vitry near the Marne as German resistance weakens. Fighter planes launch 100 plus sorties striking German communications from the Seine to the Somme, with German traffic dropping in the corridor through northern France Belgium and into Germany.
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Lindbergh
Montforency
Chalons
Meaux
Cuvergnon
Forest
Compiegne
Adolf Hitler
France
Aisne
Sav Vitry
Reuters
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Vitry
Upper
Marne
Paris
Lorraine
Seine
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Germany
Somme
Marseille Toulon Liberated as Allied Forces Press Ahead
Allied forces complete the surrender of Marseille and Toulon coastal defenses. German holds fall to the St Mandrier peninsula garrison after heavy bombardment by French, British and American ships. Naval actions in the Gulf of Genoa sink enemy vessels while Allied convoys rush food, drugs, and flour to liberated areas.
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Vence
Nice
Marseille
Toulon
St. Mandrier
Gotthold Schaefer
Lorraine
Ramillies
Gulf of Genoa
France
Allied
Ex Senator Norris Suffered Cerebral Hemorrhage in Neb
McCook Nebraska August 29 George W Norris 83 year old former independent United States senator from Nebraska suffered a cerebral hemorrhage early today. His physician reported he is unconscious but resting easily Norris known as father of TVA and a five term supporter of Roosevelt.
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McCook
Neb
George W. Norris
United States
Nebraska
TVA
Norris
Senate
Roosevelt
Selective Recoveries In Stock Dealings
New York stock market shows selective gains with U S Steel Bethlehem Zonite General Motors Southern Pacific U S Rubber Anaconda Dow Chemical leading at intervals. Santa Fe Consolidated Edison J C Penney Goodyear Kennecott and Standard Oil New Jersey also appear with occasional advances.
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New York
U. S Steel
Bethlehem
Zonite Products
General Motors
Southern Pacific
U. S. Rubber
Anaconda
Dow Chemical
Santa Fe
Consolidated Edison
J. C. Penney
Goodyear
Kennecott
Standard Oil
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