Flying Fortresses Hit Emden Across North Sea Raid
American Flying Fortresses reached across the North Sea to bomb Emden, Germany, marking the 10th Fortess raid this month and tying July’s record for missions. U S Marauders flew 19 times, Rheims repair base attacked, Thunderbolts supported with no fighter opposition reported. RAF Mosquitos bombed targets in the Rhine land. one enemy bomber was destroyed at its base in Holland.
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Gladwin Hill
London
Britain
North Sea
Emden
U.S
Rheims
Paris
France
Thunderbolt
Rhineland
Air Ministry
Holland
Germans Reel Back Under Red Blows
Red Army forces pressed the Dnieper line as Germans retreated westward from Kiev and other key crosses. Soviet claims, echoed by Berlin radio, described advances to the Dneiper near Dnepropetrovsk and Kiev area, with significant German losses and battlefield material abandoned. Kiev’s fate loomed as Russians eyed an encircling move.
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Dneiper
Dnepropetrovsk
Kremenchug
Pereyaslavl
Kiev
Berlin
Associated Press
Red Army
Dnieper
Russia
Moscow
Reuters
Dniepropetrovsk
Zaporozhe
Dnepropet
U S Air Armada Attacks Bougainville and Kolombangara
More than 100 American fighters and bombers struck Kahili airdrome on Bougainville and Vila on Kolombangara, with nine Zeros downed and over 700 light bombs. Additional waves on Kape harbor and Vila Cove followed, while Allied forces push toward Finschhafen from Lae as Australian troops advance along the Huon Gulf.
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William Hipple
U. S
South Pacific
Navy
Marine
Kahili
Boungainville
Kolombangara
Solomon Islands
Vila
Kape Harbor
Single Cove
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Huon Gulf
Lae
Douglas MacArthur
Hanisch Harbor
Finschafen
Sattelberg
224 Axis Planes Captured Intact
Allied forces report that 224 Axis planes were captured intact or largely undamaged on six Italian airfields during the campaign in North Africa. Counts include 77 at Montecorvino Ravella near Salerno 64 at Vibo Valentia 69 near Taranto and 34 at the Taranto seaplane base.
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North Africa
Italy
Northwest African Air Forces
Montecorvino-Ravella
Salerno
Vibo Valentia
Taranto
Northwest African Air Force
Chinese Navy official executed for treason in Nanking puppet regime
Chinese military authorities in Chungking executed Sah Fu-Chow vice minister of the Navy in the Nanking puppet government and two subordinates after conviction on treason charges. The dispatch said they were captured by guerrillas near Canton.
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Chungking
Sah Fu-Chow
Nanking
Canton
Four Plead Innocent On Fraud Charges
In federal court Representative James M. Curley and three others pleaded innocent to mail fraud charges tied to a corporation formed to obtain and supervise war contracts. Co-defendant Fuller awaits arraignment. Hall’s date is pending. The group, officials of Engineers Group Inc., was urged toward an early trial with two weeks to file motions.
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Washington
James M. Curley
D-Mass
Curley
Massachusetts
Boston
Donald Wakefield Smith
National Labor Relations Board
Marshall J. Fitzgerald
James Barton Underwood
Egypt
James Fuller
Bertram Hall
Dallas
Tex
Fuller
Hall
Engineers Group, Inc
Pine
Roy C. Frank
Justice Department
Thousands of Japanese Hit Chinese Positions in Shantung
The Chinese high command announced an offensive by more than 10,000 Japanese on Chinese positions in northwestern Shantung Province. Chinese troops aided by local militia units engaged three Japanese columns in heavy fighting through September 11, with heavy casualties on both sides and no outcome disclosed.
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Chungking
Chinese High Command
Shantung Province
Capital Talk backs separate national forces over world police idea
Washington officials doubt a world police force postwar, urging each UN member especially the United States Britain Russia and China to retain land sea and air forces. Hull’s policy stresses peace through willing use of force and two supporting roles for national military power to localize disputes when necessary.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United Nations
United States
Britain
Russia
China
Derlay
Hull
World Organization For Peace
League
Stettinius Takes No 2 Post at State Department
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. becomes undersecretary of state as part of a reshuffle that also bakes in new foreign economic and relief posts. The move signals a firmer approach to wartime diplomacy and may ease Moscow concerns ahead of trilateral talks with Britain and the United States.
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Associated Press
Washingto Ss
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Russia
State Department
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Stettinius
Congress
Britain
United States
Moscow
W. Averell Harriman
London
Stellinius
Sumner Welles
Welles
Mr. Welles
Hull
San Francisco
Washington
Bombers Strike Jap-Held Burma Bases In Coordinated Raid
U S and Royal Air Force bombers and fighters attacked Japanese held Burma targets including Mandalay Rangoon railway yards and communications. American strikes damaged yard facilities while RAF Beaufighters hit rail lines destroying engines cars. Other raids targeted stations barracks horse transport and river craft along Mayu and Buthedaung areas.
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New Delhi
U.S
Burma
Mandalay
Rangoon
U. S
10Th Air Force
Pyinmana
Pyaubwe
Kyindaunggan
Saingyin
Yeu
Mayu River
Kwazon
Buthedaung
Hull In Hot Springs for Rest Before Moscow Trip
Secretary of State Cordell Hull arrived in Hot Springs Virginia for a brief rest after leaving Washington to join Mrs Hull. The trip is seen as a possible prelude to Hulls long air voyage to Moscow next month for the Britain Russian United States foreign ministers meeting.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Hot Springs
State Department
Hull
Virginia
Moscow
Broughton Names Board of Correction
Governor Broughton announced appointments to the North Carolina Board of Correction and Training for terms from one to six years. The board will oversee all state correctional and training schools, including Stonewall Jackson, Eastern Carolina, Morrison, and other facilities.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Clyde A. Dillon
J. J Earnhardt
Concord
W A. Stanbury
Winston-Salem
Stonewall Jackson Manual Training
Eastern Carolina
Rocky Mount
Industrial
Kinston
State Home
Samareland
Morrison Training
Hoffman
Fifth Army Takes Cassano in Italian Campaign Drive
Allied reports say General Clark's Fifth Army captured Cassano 50 miles east of Naples after a 10 mile deep mountain push. British Eighth Army moved up the Adriatic coast, taking Cerignola and Margherita di Savoi a within 22 miles of Foggia airport center.
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Yank
Bay
Eighth Army
Foggia
Noland Norgaard
North Africa
Mark W. Clark
Fifth
Cassano
Naples
Broad Bay
Bernard L. Montgomery
Cerignola
Margherita di Savoia
Oranto
Gulf of Manfredonia
Cairo
Reuters
Balkans
Salerno
Amerie
Avellino
Benevento
Clark
Sele
Calabritte
Valva
Furo
Potenza
Italy
Fifth Army
Italians Placed In Command Debate Splits Allied Troops
In southern Italy Badoglio’s government asserts control as AMGOT power wanes. Allied officers resign or complain their job is sidelined while Italians issue decrees and use Bari radio. Troops and the British Eighth Army News question alliance with Italy and resist the idea of Italians as comrades in arms.
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Italy
Badoglio
United Nations
Badoghio
Germany
Vittorio Emanuele
Umberto
Bari
Occupied Territories
Eighth Army News
Eighth Army
German orders report executions and Belgian death sentences
refugee agencies quote Berlin announcements that 18 Czechs including a 61 year old woman and a 70 year old man were executed, and 20 Belgians received death sentences. The Berlin radio claimed heavy air power raised Lero Island in the Dodecanese as Britain seeks an eastern Mediterranean base. Chiangs tensions rise as Chinese communist rivals accuse the nationalists of disobedience and subversive acts.
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London
Berlin
Lero Island
Dodecanese
Battle on the Dnieper Front Rages Toward Kiev
War dispatches describe the Dnieper crossing crisis as German retreat falters under autumn mud while Soviet forces pour forward. Nazi losses mount as rivers and railways crumble, yet Red troops push siege guns and supplies toward Kiev amid fierce riverbank combat.
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Broughton Names Board of Correction
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Middle East
Sicily
By Edward Kennedy
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