FDR and Churchill Near End of Quebec Talks Saturday
The second Quebec conference nears closing with Roosevelt and Churchill to meet in person again as pace of the European war may hinge on final discussions. Cadogan and Eden arrive with fresh proposals on postwar occupation plans for Germany amid ongoing Soviet Polish tensions.
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Churchill
Quebec
Europe
Roosevelt
Alexander Cadogan
Cadogan
Britain
Washington
Eden
European Advisory Commission
Germany
Allied forces strike Palau and Morotai in decisive Pacific push
Allied commands report American forces land on Palau and Morotai as part of a coordinated assault from Adm. Nimitz and Gen. MacArthur. Heavy bombardment preceded landings with 2,500 Japanese killed early. ships and air power target Japanese defenses across the Philippine Sea. The push follows Rome Berlin campaigns, as Aachen nears capture and U.S. troops breach the Siegfried Line near Trier and Maastricht.
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Nancy
Maastricht
Gates of
Warsaw
Palau
Philippines
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
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Morotai
Manila
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Chester W. Nimitz
Central Pacific Command
Mindanao Island
Douglas MacArthur
Mindanao
Tokyo
Feleli Island
Great Barrier Reef
Japan
U.S
William F. Halsey
America
Nimitz
Tno
T. 3
Wilkinson
Julian C. Smith
Marine Corps
Guam
Big Drive From Praga Pushes on Warsaw Front
Soviet and Russian forces reportedly storming toward Warsaw across the Vistula from Praga while other units threaten to outflank the ruined capital. Four bridges still standing. Pravda warns not to destroy them.
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Transylvania
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Hungary
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Nowogrod
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East Beskid
Czechoslovakia
Serbia
Tito
Red Army
Negatin
Germany
Reich
Americans Gain On Italian Front Near Lucca and Rimini
Allied forces push north of Lucca four miles and advance toward the Adriatic sector with Lt. Gen. Mark Clark announcing the deepest northward penetration. Canadian and British units press the Adriatic front, driving toward Pietrabuona and Rimini as German resistance tightens around San Marino and San Savina with heavy fighting and air support.
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Lucca
Allied
Mark W. Clark
Adriatic
Marana
Rimini
Ohaeay
Gir
Gerre
San Marino
Grim Realso
Pietrabuona
Pistoia
Additional Coal Mines Taken Over On FDR's Orders
National War Labor Board actions order seizure of several coal mines amid wartime disruptions. Garrison of WLE reports widespread idle time as unions resist new directives, with about 35 mines producing coal daily and 299 supervisory staff placed on stoppages. Production workers struggle without supervision as downtown area shows signs of strain and salvage efforts continue.
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FDR
National War Laborate
Gut
Garrison
Lony
Thursday Best Day For Scrap Drive In City
Scrap collectors reported Friday that Thursday's results were the best of the week with five full truck loads hauled to the Salvage Committee warehouse. Largest collections of paper tin metal and fat came from Morning side Circle Bays View Addition Pineola Avenue Winston Terrace and Fine Street in Borden MUL Village. No collections will be made Saturday or Sunday with five routes planned next week. schedule to be repeated in Sunday's Kingsport Times.
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Morningside Circle
Bays View
Pineola Avenue
Winston Terrace
Fine Street
Borden Mul Village
Kingsport Times
Fire sweeps block in St Charles destroys six homes
A $20,000 blaze in St Charles destroyed six homes on the west end after starting at Joe Jones’s Baptist Hill residence. Victims include Joe Jones Layman Gilliam Donald Hall Ruby Wilson Reginald Wacks and Mayor Charles M Wheeler reported. Wind and clogged pumps hindered firefighting. Hall a former St Charles postmaster and now a Naval Postal Department petty officer in New York lost 14 war bonds. A large cash and bond loss occurred in other houses. no housing plans announced for homeless families.
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St. Charles
Joe Jones
Baptist Ill
Orel Joe Jones
Layman Gilliam
Donald Hall
Ruby Wilson
Reginald Wacks
Lawrence Terry
Charles M. Wheeler
Baptist Church
Hall
Naval Postal Department
New York
Nazis Attack Repelled On Finnish Island Hogland
Stockholm reports Finnish communique says German naval assault on Hogland in the Gulf between Katka and Narva was repelled with only one bridgehead mopped up. Nine German ships were said to be set afire or damaged as Finland faces renewed hostilities after breaking with Germany. Emergency meeting called as Premier Hackzell suffers a brain hemorrhage in Moscow.
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Hogland
Germany
Finland
Finnish Gulf
Katka
Narva
Thesland
Estonia
Latvia
Diet
Hantti Hackzell
OVT
Hackzell
Moscow
GOP Attacks Rise as 18 Incumbents Lose Nominations
Republican leaders claim primary losses show CIO strength and a mood favoring change while Dewey Bricker escalate attacks on the Roosevelt era. O'Mahoney and Halleck dispute the implications, arguing incumbents still hold the tide and that the race for president remains unsettled as Dewey plans a Saturday speech.
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Bricker
Halleck
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O'Mahoney
Rogsenen
Senate
House
Champ
Dewey
Eight Die In Hastings Naval Depot Explosion
A blast at Hastings Naval Ordnance Depot killed at least eight and injured many more. The Hastings Daily Tribune cited at least four dead and 21 injured, with a Coast Guardsman and three Negro sailors among the dead. The explosion occurred about 9:25 am at a 48,000 acre facility nine miles east of Hastings, with fires and smoke seen for miles and hospitals overwhelmed.
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Hastings
Roy Carter
Hastings Daily Tribune
Coast
Fairmont
Harvard
Nobi
Navy
Carter
Glénvil
Main
Nebraska
Storm Heads Away From Coast Of Maine
The roar of a great Atlantic hurricane pushed out to sea off Maine and toward Saint John New Brunswick. It caused deaths, widespread damage across the northeast, with Long Branch New Jersey reporting over 2 million dollars in destruction. Gales 80 to 100 mph tore buildings, cut utilities, and disrupted transport as 306000 telephones failed.
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St. John
New Brunswick
Long Branch
N. J
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Pennsylvania
New
Brunswick
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Long Island
New England
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Burricane
Bombers Hit Athens Area In Wide Greco Action
Allied heavy bombers from Italy hit three Athens area airfields Eleusis Tatoi Kalamaki to disrupt German evacuation of troops. Frontal raids, airfield fires visible for miles, Junkers 52 transports burned, submarines pens at Salamis attacked. ships sunk off Greek coast.
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London
Italy
Athens
Greece
RAF
Eleusis
Tatai
Kalamaki
Salamis
Piraeus
Adriatic
Germany
Tatoi
Britain
Wreck Toll Rises to 28 After Train Collision
Terre Haute Ind The death toll from a head on collision of two trains north of here rose to 28 with the hospital death of T Sgt Edward C Gillan Dixon Ti Sgt Gillan a 25th Air Force fatality bringing the total servicemen killed to 25 all Air Force veterans. Fourteen airmen were seriously injured with three in critical condition. three crewmen aboard the Dixie Flyer were killed and about 25 other trainmen and civilians hurt. Soldiers returning to a redistrib ution center in Florida after furloughs. Blood plasma supplied from Chicago aided the more seriously injured until more arrived from Indianapolis. Army and railroad officials investigated the wreck the first passenger fatality on the line since 1905.
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Florida
Chicago
Chicago Herald- American
Indianapolis
Break In Pay Formula May Reach FDR Before Election
The Roosevelt administration may face a decision on loosening wartime wage limits before election day to allow a general pay hike for workers. The War Labor Board set Oct 9 for executive session on wage stabilization and whether to advise Roosevelt to ease Little Steel wage caps, amid a CIO drive for a 17 cent hourly raise.
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Washington
Roe
Bureau of Labor
WLB
Roosevelt
Miners Condemn Roosevelt Support for Dewey Declared
The United Mine Workers convention adopted a Resolutions Committee report condemning President Roosevelt and praising Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York after a brief debate. The measure noted that only once before had the union endorsed a presidential candidate and suggested Roosevelt’s 1936 endorsement was ill-founded, listing alleged anti labor actions by the Roosevelt administration including prosecutions under the Smith Connally Act aimed at miners.
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United Mine Workers’ Convention
Resolutions Committee
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
UMW
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