Allied Drive Through Aachen Tightens Grip on Siegfried Line
In the Aachen sector the First Army pushes into the Siegfried Line as tanks widen the western wedge toward Cologne and the Ruhr. Eisenhower weighs where to strike next while Goebbels claims an all-out German defense rages along a 460 mile front.
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Aachen
Western Front
Uncle Sam
Siegfried Line
West Wall
Cologne
Ruhr
Berlin
Rhine
Hitler
Eisenhower
Reich
Azi
Goebbels
Germany
Eight Attend Aimee Semple McPherson Funeral
Eight people including her son Rolf McPherson and mother Minnie Kennedy attended a private Glendale funeral for Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. A public service is planned at Angelus Temple Monday at 1 p.m. with burial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Glendale
Watson B. Teaford
Angelus Temple
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Allied Planes Launch Attack On Dunkerque As Armistice Ends
Allied fighter bombers attacked Dunkerque at 19 a.m. as the truce with the stranded German garrison expired. British and Canadian forces had not yet begun a full ground push on the last Nazi held Channel port. French civilians began leaving Dunkerque safely while Dutch radio reported fighting intensifying. About 17,000 Germans were believed trapped and ready to fight.
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Dunkerque
London
Holland Premier Predicts Ruin For His Nation
Premier Pieter S. Gerbandy of Holland warned Germany aims to ruin his country by famine flood deportation and destruction. He described widespread German control of major cities and the threat of autocratic devastation of ports power plants and industry if Germans are not expelled. He cited 7 million people trapped between the Rhine delta and the sea and German armies burning and looting.
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London
Pieter S. Gerbandy
Holland
Germany
Europe
Rhine
Japs Suffer Severe Loss In Supplies
Allied dispatch from New Guinea reports Gen. MacArthur confirming a second crippling strike against Japan. Liberator bombers attacked Balikpayan, seven lost, while 29 or more enemy aircraft were shot down over the Borneo base in a lengthy air battle. Large explosions hit refineries and storage tanks releasing 40 tons of explosive fire.
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Allied
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Balikpayan
Borneo
Bombers Reach Deep Into Kuriles Near Japan
Aleutian Liberator raids pushed to Kita Island in the Kuriles within 310 miles of Japan in a deep strike following an attack on Nippon’s gasoline center. Comei News Agency reports 12 B-24s attacked Kita twice, two shot down in a fierce air battle amid the northern push toward Tokyo.
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Associated Press
Japan
Kurile Islands
Tokyo
Nippon
Comei
Kita Island
Kuriles
Kita
Balikpapan Raid Shows High Allied Losses and Targets
A military briefing cites fierce air opposition and heavy anti aviation fire as proof the enemy values Balikpapan installations supplying 15 percent of Nippon fuel and soil. Seven Liberators were lost the largest single raid tally to date, with three Liberators downing seven Zeros in the first Balikpapan attack. Tokyo claimed 40 Liberators in a raid noted as the most lucrative Pacific target. The communique also reports nine enemy freighters sunk or damaged across southern Philippines Amboina and Ceram, with ten vessels listed yesterday.
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Nippon
Balikpapan
Tokyo Radio
MacArthur
Pacific
Philippines
Amboina
Ceram
Body Of Girl Found On Links In Capital
The 14 year old girl was garroted on a public golf course near the Potomac river in Washington. She wore a red coat with large white buttons and bobby socks and carried an out of town high school class ring. Police found a black leather belt possibly bearing on the case.
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Washington
Potomac
District of Columbia
Allied Forces Seize Rion In Greek Campaign
Allied land forces sealed off the gulf of Corinth by capturing the fortified port of Rion. Greek reports say over half of the Peloponnesus is under British and Greek patriot control as Patras falls after German troops surrender nearby.
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Rome
Adriatic
Gulf of Corinth
Rion
Peloponnesus
Grek
George Papandreou
Tripolis
Patras
Athens
Kythera
Greece
Kalamai
Trimpolis
Katakolon
Albania
Sarande
Corfu
Sarande-Delvine
Egg price ceilings set for last two months of year
OPA fixes retail price ceilings and sales quotas through year end with higher fall and lower spring levels. The plan aims to keep average annual egg costs stable while ensuring farmers receive full parity each month. Examples show highest new prices for a dozen grade A eggs in Raleigh, with notes on possible extra charges for cartoon sales.
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Washington
PI Opa
OPA
Raleigh
N. C
Russians Plan Capture Of Budapest Within Few Weeks
Dispatches report Red Army and Yugoslav partisans near Belgrade and Pancevo as they push toward Budapest. Troops threaten across the Danube from the north bank while German forces and Hungarian defenses guard the frontier.
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Budapest
Molex
Belgrade
Danube
Pancevo
Marshal Tito
Army of National Liberation
Old City
Pravda
Nis
Bel
Szeged
Romania
Hungary
Red Army
Topola
Pancev
North Carolina State Bar to Meet October 27
The 12th annual meeting of the North Carolina state bar will be held in Raleigh on October 27 with David Simmons of Houston Texas, president of the American Bar Association, as principal speaker. The bar council will meet October.
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Raleigh
North Carolina State Bar
David Simmons
Huston
Texas
American Bar Association
Bar Council
Army Sergeant And His Wife Get Baby Back In Meridian
An army sergeant and his wife rejoice as their newborn is recovered after being stolen from Rush's infirmary in Meridian Mississippi a day after birth. A 35 year old war worker's wife, Mrs H B Jenkins of Chickasaw, confessed to kidnapping and was held on $500 bond. The infant suffered no ill effects and will be returned to Meridian soon.
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Mobile
Ala
R. Jd. Abbaticchio
FBI
Alabama
H. B. Jenkins
Chickasaw
Meridian
Gulf Shipping Company
Max Suter
Key Field
Army
Fighting Father Sent Overseas Again in Pacific War
Major Fred D. Conderman of New Bern known as the fighting father of 1944 is ordered to overseas duty after his son Lt. Robert J. Conderman Marine aviator was killed at Wake Island. He previously served as a mail officer with the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal and at Camp Lejeune.
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New Bern
Fred D. Conderman
TSMC
National Fathers Day Committee
Conderman
Robert J. Conderman
Wake Island
Marine Corps
Marine Division
Guadalcanal
United States
Camp Lejeune
Pacific War Zone
Higher Wages urged for textile workers wage case
The CIO Textile Workers Union urged the war labor board to grant 60 cents an hour to 50,000 workers in northern and southern mills to relieve bottlenecks for army and navy needs. Mills contend the raise would be harmful and inflationary. WLB found wages below what is needed to support a worker and family on a WPA budget. A minimum 72.7 cents an hour for 2000 hours yearly would be required per panel findings.
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Washington
CIO Textile Workers Union
War Labor Board
Army
Navy
Emil Rieve
WLB
Much Blood Will Be Shed Says Churchill
Prime Minister Churchill told the Commons that a great deal of blood would be shed in the coming months as the Allied offensive against Germany proceeds. He urged maintaining pugnacity where possible for export and pledged to push social measures while keeping morale at home and preventing needless disputes.
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London
Churchill
Commons
Germany
Berlin Engine Plant Target Of Bombers
A fleet of over 1,200 American heavy bombers attacked Berlin's engine plant and other German targets. British heavy bombers destroyed rail hubs at Saarbrucken while Mosquitos pressured Berlin at dawn. Night raids hit Hamm area trains and barges as Typhoons and Spitfires damaged more river craft over Holland.
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London
Berlin
Germany
Saarbrucken
Siegfried Line
Metz
Hamm
Holland
German Armor Rushed In To Halt Allied Push
First Army infantry in their fifth day of Siegfried Line assault at Ubach faced heavy German counter attacks. Berlin forces reinforced with large armored units and hundreds of guns aimed to block the Rhine road as Americans pulled back from Beegendorf and retreated from a pillbox ridge near Ubach and Herbach amid intensified fighting.
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London
Siegfried Line
Ubach
Rhine
Beegendorf
Germany
Battle advances near Aachen push into Hurtgen forest
U S Army dispatch reports a new attack through Hurtgen forest south of Aachen with American tanks reaching Gellenkirchen near Ubach breach. The drive southeast of Aachen nears Duren as hundreds of fighter bombers support the assault and artillery pounds Hurtgen forest. The action begins at 11:30 with troops entering the forest battle.
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Siegfried Line
Aachen
Hurtgen Forest
Gellenkirchen
Ubach
Feilenkirchen
Germany
Duren
Americans Attack Germans Through Fortified Ubach Area
Airpower broke clear skies as U.S. forces pressed from Ubach into a fortified German belt. Civilians dug trench networks hindered advances while a 500 yard sector southeast of Ubach saw a four story concrete fortress packed with anti tank guns artillery and mortars. Allied tanks and planes intensified bombardment as infantry closed to rifle range.
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Ubach
London Struck Again By Flying Robots
After a week's lull flying bombs struck southern England and London during the night. The Heinkel launched planes emitted a light flash when launching the bombs and one was shot down by an RAF Mosquito. The attack lasted minutes and caused damage and casualties. Two robots were destroyed by anti aircraft guns, and a bomb killed six people in two cottages in a country lane.
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London
England
Heinkel
North Sea
American Fifth Army Grinds Three Mile Advance in Italy
Allied forces in Italy pushed forward up to three miles in rain soaked mountains along the Po valley approaches. They seized the Loiano road junction, less than 14 miles south of Bologna, as Austrian and German Alpine troops resisted with heavy artillery. Monzano near Triano and Monte Venere area also fell in recent operations while doughboys moved toward Monterenzio and Imola.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Loiano
Bologna
Florence
Monzano
Triano
Monte Venere
Monterenzio
Route 65
Imola
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Merkstein
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Arnhem
Joe
Stimson
Italy
Aimee
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