New Landing by Yanks Resisted Reports Say Italians Fighting Nazis
German broadcasts claim north and central Italy are occupied with Italian forces disarmed. Allies landed at Naples and possibly Leghorn as German efforts to hold Italy intensify. Berlin and Stockholm reports discuss a new Nazi backed Mussolini regime and calls for Italians to resist surrender.
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Gulf of Eufemia
Palms
Reuters
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Badoglio
Berlin
Germany
North
Africa
Marshal Badoglio
Greece
Norway
Zagreb
Croatia
U. S
Mussolini
Naples
Genoa
Rome
Sardinia
United States Seventh Army
Leghorn
Russians Close on Kiev as Donets Falls to Reds
Russian front reports say Rokossovsky and Vatutin’s forces captured the rail junction at Chinnin and pushed within 100 miles of Kiev, cutting German rail lines near the Pripet Marshes. Moscow dispatches describe Red Armies advancing toward Dnieper, with gains from Kharkov to Smolensk and captures around Borzna and Nyevlya as German defenses crumble.
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London
Constantine Rokossovsky
Central Front
Cmaninn
Ukraine
Kiev
Stalin
Rokossovsky
Nikolai Vatutin
Dnieper River
Pripet Marshes
Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Stalino
Donets
Dnieper
Mariupol
Sea of Azov
Isthumus
Perekop
Crimea
Smolensk
Red
Konotop
Borzna
Kharkov
Bryansk
Nvlya
Bakhmach
Keeping Up With Ration Coupons for 1943 Essentials
Civil ration guidance outlines expiration dates for meat cheese and other goods. Book 2 red stamps T U V W expire August 31 while X Y remain valid through October 2. blue stamps R S T valid through September 20 with U V W valid until October 20. Sugar Book 1 stamp 14 covers five pounds through October. stamps 15 16 cover five pounds each for canning. Shoes Book 1 stamp 18 valid through October 31. Gasoline allocations detail regional values for No 7 A and B C stamps. fuel oil period 5 coupons expire September 30 while season 1 coupons remain valid through January 3 1944 for ten gallons per unit.
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Rocky Mountains
Far West
Midwest
Southwest
Hope High cafeteria opens September 15
The Hope High School cafeteria will open on Wednesday September 15 under school management with meals planned by the Home Economics department. Students must buy a meal ticket in advance, with options at three, one, or fifty cents. Plate lunches with milk will cost up to 25 cents and may include supplementary items. milk support may extend to Paisley and external lunch rooms once funded by the Food Distribution Administration.
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Hope High School
Home Economics Department
Oglesby
Brookwood
Food Distribution Administration
Paisley
Hope School District Readies Buses for Monday Start
Hope School District 1-A announces buses will run Monday morning on last year’s routes. Out-of-district students are not allowed to ride. nonresidents must contact the superintendent about tuition for all grades. J. H. Jones, Superintendent.
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Hope
Superintendent of Schools
J. H. Jones
Marcus Island Eliminated Says Admiral Nimitz
Marcus Island has been eliminated as a threat to U S naval operations in the Pacific. Admiral Chester Nimitz said about four fifths of the island defenses were destroyed and roughly two thirds of the garrison killed after a raid on September 1.
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Pearl Harbor
Marcus Island
United States
Pacific
Chester Nimitz
Japan
Apan
Wake Island
South Pacific
New Guinea
Alliea Neadquarters
Morobe
Lae
Buna
Markham Valley
Carrier Force Bombards Marcus Island in Major raid
The largest carrier strike in the Pacific blasted Marcus Island on Sept. 1, 900 miles past Wake, within 1200 miles of Tokyo. Eight hours of bombing leveled 80 percent of installations, with 300 bombing runs and 150,000 rounds by Grumman Hellcats and other aircraft. No Japanese air or naval opposition appeared.
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Tom Yarbrough
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Tokyo
Marcus Island
Nippon
Marcus
Grumman Hellcats
Chester W. Nimitz
Wallace M. Beakley
Vineland
N.J
Hope records $150000 War Bond sales on opening day
Hempstead county led off the Third War Loan drive with $150,000 in War Bond purchases by 2 p.m., half of its September quota of $380,000. The breakfast rally at Hotel Barlow featured O A Graves, A H Washburn, Justice E F McFaddin, and Mayor Albert Graves.
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Hempstead
C. C. Spragins
Henry Haynes
Spragins
O. A. Graves
A. H. Washburn
E. F. McFaddin
Albert Graves
Justice McFaddin
Allied Invasion Fleet Reported Swarming Over 1000 Square Miles
Flying Officer John Anthony Vasicek, a 20 year old Spitfire pilot from Chatham Ontario, described from Naples district reconnaissance that about 1000 square miles around the bay were filled with invasion fleet ships. He said the first glimpse showed dense shipping, then a full invasion armada coming into view.
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North Africa
Naples
John Anthony Vasicek
Chatham
Ont
Free Lemonade on Hot Bluefield Streets Stirs City Spirit
The Bluefield Chamber of Commerce offers free lemonade on downtown streets daily when temperatures reach 90 degrees. Since 1934 only once before has the treat been served in August 1941 as Bluefield logged 91 degrees. The Mount Evans Highway in Clear Creek County Colorado stands as the United States highest automobile road.
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Bluefield
Mount Evans
Clear Creek County
Colorado
United States
Japs Draw Planes From China Amid Pacific Struggles
Allied HQ reports Japan drawing heavily from China and other fronts to rebuild air strength after heavy losses in the South and Southwest Pacific. The communique notes 21 planes destroyed and 9 probably lost as Japan raided Darwin and opposed Allied air raids on Bougainville.
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Vern Haugland
Souwest Pacific
Southwest
Pacific
China
Japan
New Guinea
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
Wewak
Lae
Darwin
Australia
Bougainville
Dobdubi
Salamaua
Salamaua-Lae
Terrace
Markham
Mitchell
Miracle saves Nazi Field Marshal Kesselring in raid
Radio Rome reports Field Marshal Albert Kesselring escaped death by a miracle during a Flying Fortress raid on Frascati Italy. His quarters were hit by bombs and he narrowly avoided burial in debris. The broadcast also notes shortages in the Chinese diet including meat milk eggs vegetables and fruits.
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London
Rome
Albert Kesselring
Italy
Frascati
Keesselring
Italians Occupy Brenner Pass as Germans claim
German bulletin says Italian troops occupied Brenner Pass Tuesday a day before Badoglio announced surrender and notes Italian resistance in parts of Italy. Berlin asserts most key communications are under German or Axis loyal Italian control while warning of treachery in Italy.
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London
Brenner Pass
Pietro Badoglio
Italy
German International Information Bureau
Berlin
Associated Press
Badoglio
Iran War Declared by Iran and Italian Front Actions Reported
Reuters reported Tehran declared war on Germany while Swiss dispatches described German and Italian troops fighting in Tortona and near Voghera. German forces disarmed Italian guards at a bridge near Voghera and occupied the Tessin bridge with artillery. Fighting also reported near Pavia and Cernosa as Allied landings northward advanced with Italian troops.
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London
Reuters
Teheran
Iran
Germany
Bern
Switzerland
Chiasso
Tortona
Genoa
Milan
Italy
Voghera
Tessin
Pavia
Certosa
Yank Progress Satisfactory Says Stimson
Secretary of War Stimson reported American troops landed near Naples are in contact with German forces and making satisfactory progress under General Mark W. Clark. He noted the Italians surrendered after heavy Allied landings in the Naples area with units of the Fifth Army and several beaches seized.
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Washington
Mark W. Clark
Naples
Stimson
Fifth Army
Italy
Tunisia
Sicily
Allies land near Naples mark first combat in Italy
Allied forces under Gen. Mark Clark land near Naples at 4 a.m. amid heavy German resistance as British and American troops push inland. Simultaneous air strikes knock out German headquarters near Rome, while Italian forces face confusion and a new fascist government rumor circulates in Berlin.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
U. S
Mark W. Clark
Naples
Italy
Frascati
Rome
Mediterranean
Sir Harold Alexander
Clark
Seventh Army
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Vibo Valentia
Gulf of Eufemia
Palmi
Eighth
Locri
Gioia
Berlin
Brenner Pass
Germany
Marshal Badoglio
Africa
Stefani
U.S
Genoa
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Alex. H. Washburn
Treasury Department
Treasury
Admiral Nimitz
Reggio
Medito
NEA
Montgomery
Bulletins
Tyrrhenian
Turin
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