Forced labor decree signals Nazi expansion aims
The Laval decree at Vichy to mobilize forced labor is cited by Free French sources as proof of Hitler’s drive to enlarge slave labor. Goering and Nazi leaders claim millions of foreign workers, including Poles, Italians, Czechs, Belgians, Yugoslavs, Slovenes, and Russians, are already under brutal Nazified discipline in Germany and occupied territories.
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Stalingrad Front Presses Back Amid Heavy Bombing
From Moscow on September 15 Henry C Cassidy reports Stalingrad’s defenders holding fast under a brutal pattern bombing. Red Army operations north on the Moscow front claimed about 4,000 German casualties and the capture of a fortified town in a three day fight. German air attacks targeted Volga crossings while Soviet forces pin back German columns and destroy tanks and trucks in vicious engagements near the city.
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Volga
Stalingrad
Red Army
Stalin
World Series To Start Sept 30
The World Series opens September 30, to be played in St. Louis and Brooklyn depending on who wins the National League. If the Cardinals win, the first two games occur in St. Louis on September 30 and October 1, with October 2 for travel. The following games shift to Yankee Stadium October 3 to 5, with travel days and possible return to St. Louis for remaining games.
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Dieppe casualties set by 3,350 by Canadians
Ottawa reports Canadian casualties in the Dieppe raid totalled 3,350 dead, wounded, and missing. The 134 page casualty list was issued by the department of national defence or commod today.
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United States Bombers Back British Tobruk Assault
United States bombers backed the British Tobruk offensive in a wide night raid across Tobruk Bengasi and coastal targets. Heavy and medium bombers created fires at dockyards airfields and grounded planes amid anti aircraft fire with no Axis night fighters.
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Tobruk
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Middle East
U. S. Air Force Command
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Uni
Ted States
RAF
United States Air Force
Eighth Army
RAF Bombers Hit Wilhelmshaven As Axis Attacks Increase
German naval center Wilhelmshaven bombed by strong RAF force with fires started in docks and residential areas. Berlin said four bombers shot down. totals cited as part of a surge in Allied raids on Germany, Romania, and Bulgaria, with Soviet air force strikes on Bucharest and Ploesti. Air Chief Marshal Portal vowed overwhelming allied air power to defeat the Axis.
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Rumania
Bulgaria
Focke-Wulf
Bucharest
Ploesti
Budapest
Moenigsberg
East Prussia
Charles Portal
Tobruk Raid by British Army and RAF Forces
London reports a sea borne British army detachment with light naval units and heavy RAF squadrons struck Tobruk, Rommiel's Libyan base, Sunday night. A separate light naval force bombarded El Daba behind the Axis line. Casualties occurred at Tobruk. El Daba operation finished with no damage or casualties. Italian claims of sunk ships were partially discounted by a Cairo communique.
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Admiralty
Tobruk
Rommiel
el Daba
Cairo
John L Lewis to address biennial union convention
John L. Lewis plans a forceful speech at next month's Cincinnati convention addressing a broad national labor alliance. He will criticize CIO leader Philip Murray for repaying about a million dollars in coal miners funding and recounts a $20,000 reimbursement amid power shifts within the UMW and CIO.
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Cincinnati
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American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Philip Murray
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UMW
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Chinese Retake Chekiang Town In New Drive
Chinese forces recaptured Wuyi in Chekiang Province about 20 miles southeast of Kinhwa, after pushing Japanese troops from the city on August 31 and forcing a withdrawal again. The Chinese reported heavy fighting near Lanchi and said roughly 4,000 Japanese troops were blocking the area, with over 500 Japanese killed or wounded in the Wuyi assault.
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Kinhwa
Chekiang
Chekiang Province
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Lanchi
High Command
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Maine Republicans sweep gubernatorial Senate and House wins
In Maine on election day Republicans achieved a political grand slam winning the governorship three House seats and one Senate seat with Sewall and White securing re election by over two to one margins. Robert Hale narrowly defeated Louis J Bryan in the first district. Primaries also held in MA NH NJ MI WI with a Mississippi run off and CT Democratic nominating convention.
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Wallace H. White, Jr
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George W. Lane
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Fulton J. Redman, Jr
Robert Hale
Louis J. Bryan
Roosevelt
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New Hampshire
New Jersey
Michigan
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Mississippi
James O. Eastland
Watt Doxey
Japanese Drive On Port Moresby Stalled In New Guinea
General MacArthur reports signs of possible action near Owen Stanley Mountains as Japanese push toward Port Moresby. Allied patrols increase fire on positions while Blamey says the terrain forces a hard long campaign and that heavy artillery will be needed to take Port Moresby.
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Australia
Owen Stanley Mountains
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Thomas Blamey
Boston Relief Headquarters Hit By Bomb
A blast at the British War Relief Society quarters on Commonwealth Avenue and Berkeley Street, Boston, appears to be from a time bomb. Police ballistics expert Sergeant Edward Seibolt said the device caused little damage, with windows shattered in the basement and debris blown outward.
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Boston
British War Relief Society
Commonwealth Avenue
Berkeley Street
Seret
Edward Seibolt
Setholt
Immediate Stabilization Of Farm Prices and Wages
Price Administrator Leon Henderson told the Senate Banking Committee that stabilizing farm prices and wages is urgently needed to avert inflation. He urged quick action on a Roosevelt stabilization measure, warning that uncontrolled price hikes threaten the war program and cost of living. He noted farm feed prices must stay near current levels to avoid forcing ceilings on meats and dairy.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Senate Banking Committee
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Wagner
Brown
Midh
Roosevelt
Blandy urges supply routes be kept going
Rear Admiral Blandy, back from a 26 000 mile inspection, said US forces hold the balance of striking power in the Western Pacific for the time being but cannot remain static. He praised naval ordnance deliveries, noted effective anti aircraft guns on ships, and said no transports were hit in the Solomons attack though one destroyer was torpedoed.
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Admiraal
W. H. Blandy
United States
Pacific
Blandy
Navy Ordnance
Knox
Japan
Bandy
Solomons
Towers Named Head of Navy Aerial Force
Rear Admiral John H. Towers will become commander air force in the Pacific fleet and vice admiral in the new post. He will hand over as chief of naval aeronautics to Rear Admiral John S. McCain who leads an air command in the Pacific. Halsey shifts to a full time task force commander role.
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John H. Towers
Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics
Air Force
Pacific Fleet
Knox
Air Arm
Towers
John S. McCain
Carrollton
Miss
Pacific
William F. Halsey, Jr
Geese Fly South as Winter Nears Moscow Area
From Sept 15 Izvestia reports cold mornings and frost on grass near Stalingrad as Russian soldiers spot V formations of cranes geese and ducks heading south indicating approaching winter. Snow has begun in the Caucasus range as frost bites the steppes.
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Stalingrad
Izvestia
High Caucasus
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