Turkey Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Germany
Turkish national assembly votes to sever diplomatic and economic relations with Germany effective at midnight amid fears of broader Axis war. Premier Sukru Saracoglu says Turkey could join if Germany attacks. US welcomes move as step toward full cooperation in defeating the Axis.
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Sukru Saracoglu
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Mediterranean
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Ankara
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Berlin
Saracolu
Germany
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Balkan
Bulgaria
Soviet
Russia
Washington
State Department
United Nations
Turkish National Assembly
Finland Names Mannerheim President as Ryti Resigns
Marshal Baron Mannerheim is named Finland's president after Ryti's resignation and a pact with Germany is effectively voided. Moscow is believed to have given assurances for Finland's path to independence with possible peace talks mediated via Sweden as Berlin views the change with cautious optimism.
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Stockholm
Baron Mannerheim
Finland
Moscow
Cnies
Risto
Ryti
Germany
Berlin
Marshal Baron Mannerheim
Risto Ryti
Surricane Causes Beach Outages in Eastern Carolina
A tropical storm struck Wilmington and eastern North Carolina causing beach erosion and widespread utility outages. Officials evacuated residents as high tides and shifting sands overwhelmed dunes and disrupted services along the coast.
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Wilmington
N. C
Carolina
Weather Outlook Says Fair Skies Through Thursday
Local forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Thursday. Temperatures expected near 66 tonight and highs around 90 during the day.
Hopes For Relief From Hot Weather Are Slim
La Crosse endures a heat wave during Inter State Fair week with temperatures rising from 83 to 90 degrees. Meteorologist A D Sanial says the weather is sluggish and a heavy downpour is not visible in the near future.
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la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
Camp McCoy prisoners recaptured near La Crosse
Three garrison prisoners who escaped Camp McCoy guardhouse were found hiding in hills near Sparta and hitchhiked to La Crosse. Foree Sims was arrested Tuesday night. Henry M. Dickey and Pvt. Philip P. Young were captured early Wednesday in a Burlington yard boxcar and returned to Camp McCoy by military police.
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Henry M. Dickey
Philip P. Young
Sparta
Crosse
Foree Sims
Dickey
Young
Burlington
Allied raid on Himare yields prisoners in Albania
Allied forces conducted a successful raid on the Albanian port of Himare last Saturday. British land sea and air units cooperated and inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy. The raid returned 30 prisoners. other details were not released. Himare lies near Albania's southwest coast.
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Himare
Albania
Nazi Legions In Tightening Soviet Noose
Soviet forces tightened around German legions trapped in Latvia and Estonia as a fast Baltic advance pressed toward Riga. East Prussia and Warsaw defense lines held amid heavy fighting. bridges over the Vistula remained intact as Russian assaults extended near the Polish capital and Memel port.
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Marianas advance and Tokyo broadcasts claim Tinian taken
Allied forces announced conquest of Tinian after nine days of land fighting and rapid Japanese resistance collapse on Guam. Rota invasion reports were unconfirmed. MacArthur's airmen continued strikes off Halmahera while China battles raged around Hengyang. Tokyo named Koshiro Oikawa new naval chief as Tojo cabinet fell.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Robert Douglass, Jr
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Tojo
End Spirit of Fatigue Nazi Soldiers Told
Heinrich Himmler ordered officers and men to renounce egoism and fatigue and dispatch those who can be spared to the front. Those overage or unfit must work in arms factories. Underground Warsaw uprising grows as Poles fight Germans in the streets.
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Berlin
Himmler
Germany
A. B. Ruby Dies After Pleasant Springs Crash
A. B. Ruby, 75, one of five injured in a three car accident in Pleasant Springs, Stoughton area, died yesterday. Other injured ranged in age and status with police continuing to investigate the Sunday crash.
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Wis
A. B. Ruby
Pleasant Springs
La Crosse Inter-State Fair Opens With Busy Week Ahead
The 54th La Crosse Inter-State Fair opened with exhibitors ready and judging set to begin Thursday. 4-H calves lambs ponies and poultry will be judged by open class judges by Friday, with Ernie Young revues on the grandstand and a Mighty Sheesley Midway providing rides though some were delayed by labor. Attendance on Tuesday night was about 8,000 and Wednesday’s crowd was expected to approach that figure as Children's Day brought many youngsters with five cent admissions.
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Ernie Young
Mighty Sheesley
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Fair Association
St. Michael's Orphanage
la Crosse Home
Chamber of Commerce
Canadians slain by Nazi murderers in Normandy
Prime Minister Mackenzie King said 19 Canadian soldiers were wilfully murdered after capture by Nazi SS troops in Normandy. A mixed British, U S and Canadian court of inquiry verified the charge as Switzerland protests Germany and demands punishment.
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Normandy
W. L. Mackenzie King
Mackenzie King
Commons
U. S
Switzerland
Germany
Nazis Confirm Rommel Injured In Allied Air Raid In France
Berlin broadcasts confirm Marshal Erwin Rommel was injured in an Allied air attack in France. He supposedly escaped with a brain concussion and his condition described as satisfactory, with life not endangered. The report marks Germany's first confirmation of Rommel's injury, amid earlier front line dispatches from Normandy.
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London
DNB
Berlin
Erwin Rommel
Normandy
Eden Says No Peace With Germans In Seven Weeks
Secretary Anthony Eden told the house of commons there would be no peace with Germany in the next seven weeks though surrender might occur. He warned Laborite John Lawson against conflating surrender with terms of a later peace. Commons then approved a recess until Sept. 26.
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House of Commons
Germany
Commons
McNair Killed by Allied Bomb at Normandy Front
Lieut. Gen. Lesley J. McNair was killed when an Allied bomb exploded short during bombardment before a Normandy breakthrough. General Eisenhower relayed the report. General Bereton confirmed some bombs fell on own troops, causing casualties among forward elements.
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Normandy
Washington
Lesley J. McNair
War Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lewis H. Bereton
Tactical Air Force
Lumberjack Hunted For Slaying Of Girl
LAONA Wis A 31 year old lumberjack is hunted by a 20 man posse after midday encircled woods near Blackwell He is described as the bludgeon slayer of Selma Strauch 15 a CIO organizer whose battered body was found near the North Western station. Sheriff Fannin says the fugitive is cornered and armed with a shotgun with capture expected soon.
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Selma Strauch
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Blackwell
Forest
War Budget Forecast Shows $88.9 Billion War Spending
Budget Director Harold D. Smith projects the United States will spend 88.9 billion dollars on war in the year starting July 1, with net receipts rising to 45.663 billion. The revised figures reflect higher tax estimates and record public debt, signaling the largest government take on record.
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Harold D. Smith
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United States
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Congress
Philadelphia Riots Spark Calls for Martial Law
Philadelphia citizens urge Mayor Bernard Samuel to declare martial law to curb racial clashes and transit disruption amid a tie up of buses trains and subways. Roosevelt sites seizure of the system as riders riot and looters clash with police. nationwide labor stoppages push idle workers past 33,000.
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Philadelphia Citizens Committee
Bernard Samuel
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War Ends May Come Sooner Says Churchill
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons he believes the war against the Axis may end sooner than he once expected. He cited Allied advances on multiple fronts, the Tehran pact shaping Normandy and the Russian drive, and warned against false hopes while noting heavy British rocket-bombing losses and destruction since June.
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House of Commons
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Normandy
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Tehran
Americans In Gains Toward Brest Rennes
Allied armored thrusts break German lines in Brittany racing toward Brest and Rennes. Dempsey and Bradley spearheads advance, aiming to encircle pockets as Rommel reportedly hospitalized after air attack. Forces threaten to trap Germans across Tessy Torigni Villedieu and near Caen with continued air and river crossings pressure.
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Erwin Rommel
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Omar N. Bradley
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Seine
Normandy
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Viller-Bocage
Kreipe Named Chief of German Air Force Staff
Gen Werner Kreipe named chief of the German air force general staff by Reichsmarshal Goering to replace Col. Gen Guenther Korten killed in the July 20 bomb plot. Kreipe previously headed air training. report cites Insterburg attack location per Stockholm/Stockholm radio.
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Werner Kreipe
Guenther Korten
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Kreipe
Stockholm
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East Prussia
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