Pine Street Closing Voted By Aldermen
Aldermen passed the Pine street vacation from its Fourth street intersection 150 feet west to aid the Northern Engraving plant extension. Provisions include street reversion, an alley for public use, and timely building, with city rights to install sewers and protect utilities.
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Common Council
Pine Street
Fourth Street
Schultz
Northern Engraving Company
Northern
Carl Schubert
Ee On
F. A. Kraft
Local Weather Tonight and Sunday Forecast
Fragmentary forecast notes tonight with low temperatures and Sunday outlook with high temperatures. Missing details limit clarity on exact figures, but mention of a warm to mild weekend pattern appears.
Shawneetown Fire Tragedy Kills Twelve In Ill
In Shawneetown Illinois a fatal blast and blaze killed twelve people including six children after gasoline fumes in two storage tanks ignited. Family members among the dead include Joseph Rider and his daughters Betty Joe Clara Donna and Mrs Harold Back along with Wayne Roark and two Farm Supply Co workers William Scott and Logan Tharp. Estimates put tank and equipment loss at $50,000 while 275 thousand gallons of third grade gasoline were pumped into two storage tanks nearby.
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Shawneetown
Ill
Old Shawneetown
Ohio River
Jce
Joseph Rider
Betty Joe
Clara Donna
Harold Back
Wayne Roark
Rider
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Illinois Farm Supply Co
William Scott
Logan Tharp
Kingston Mines
Lorris Crandall
Farm Supply Co
Lower
Shawneetown Levee
Crandall
Truck Drivers Ordered Back in Government-Run Move
Minneapolis report describes a Sunday meeting with government and Midwestern operators to review regulations for government supervision of truck lines. President Roosevelt ordered seizure of the truck lines and the army will back the ODT until a 25 000 driver strike ends. Officials from ODT and the Interstate Commerce Commission will attend along with Midwest operators’ leaders.
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Minneapolis
Office of Defense Transportablis
T. Longenecker
DDT
William Wilson
Sioux Falls
S. D
Midwest Operators Association
Roosevelt
ODT
Washington
Sgt. Art Olson Dies At Camp MacKall
Arthur E. Olson, 26, son of Mr and Mrs Edward Olson of 226 Market street, died in the Camp MacKall station hospital Friday from injuries in a motorcycle accident on the military reservation. He had served in Battery D 151st Airborne Anti Aircraft Battalion since January 15 1942. Survived by parents two sisters Helen and Dorothy and brother Harold in the U S Army. Body to be returned to La Crosse for burial. arrangements incomplete.
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Set
Arthur E. Olson
Edward Olson
Market Street
Camp MacKall
N. C
Robert Bruce
Olson Associated Press
Olson
151St Airborne
Helen
Dorothy
Harold
la Crosse
Florence Spared as Germans Withdraw From City
German forces pulled back from Florence allowing the city to be spared battle damage. Allied troops kept to the south bank of the Arno while military officials aided hungry civilians. Col. Fuchs commanded the garrison as parachutists and Fascist squads infiltrated south of the river. German withdrawal also reported along the Cesano near Pesaro.
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Rome
Florence
Arno
Mugnone
8Th
Empoli
Col
Fuchs
Pavolini
Alessandro Pavolini
Mussolini
Adriatic
Cesano
Pesaro
Provisional Peace Government Formed in Romania
Romanian peasant party chief Julian Maniu leads a provisional peace government reported from Istanbul with knowledge of Premier Ion Antonescu. British radio hinted Antonescu might resign, a development described as having Antonescu powerless to intervene.
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Istanbul
Peasant
Julian Maniu
Bucharest
Ion Antonescu
Antonescu
Lublin Mourns Its War Dead
Soviet reports describe 25 000 mourners in Lublin at a mass for Nazi camp victims. Polish Liberation Committee unveiled a wall tablet and urn of ashes while crowd scenes showed grief, anger, and German prisoners digging up bodies at Maidanek in the early August memorial.
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Moscow
Lublin
Polish Committee of National Liberation
Father Krasinski
Committee of Liberation
Maidanek
Senate Reconversion Battle Shifts to House Debate
After a 55 to 19 Senate defeat of the Murray Kilgore reconversion plan the fight moves to the House Ways and Means Committee which backs a states rights George bill for unemployment aid. Senate leaders urge expanding federal payments for displaced workers and reconversion planning.
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Washington
Senate
House
House Ways and Means Committee
George
Carlson
R-Kan
Ways and Means Committee
Barkley
Murray-Kilgore
Sng
Murray- Kilgore
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Robert M. la Follette
Wiley
Roosevelt reports on Pacific war tour from Bremerton yard
President Roosevelt will radio from Bremerton navy yard at 5 p m Pacific War Time for his first national address since accepting a fourth term nomination. He toured Pearl Harbor the Aleutians Adak and Hawaii with Admiral Leahy and other aides during a 15 day voyage to boost Allied war effort.
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Seattle
Wash
Roosevelt
Bremerton Navy Yard
San Diego
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Aleutians
Honolulu
William D. Leahy
Joint Chiefs of Staff
White House
Washington
Alaska
Norman Bell
Associated Press
Aleutian Island
Mr. Roosevelt
Bell
Hawaii
Adak
Reds Threaten Left Flank Of German Armies
Soviet forces drive from northeast of War saw and from Bialystok toward East Prussia pressing the German left wing. Russian units captured 150 settlements northwest and west of Bialystok and pushed toward Lomza and the Masurian lake country as German reserves shift eastward.
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Moscow
East Prussia
Konstantin K. Rokossovskys
Warsaw
Zakharov
Bialystok
Lyck
Masurian Lake
Lomza
Tykocin
Underground Reclaims Control in Warsaw Stawki District
General Bor reports Polish underground forces have regained control of the Stawki area in Warsaw, through which runs the railroad to Danzig, according to the commander to the Polish government in exile.
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London
Bor
Stawki
Warsaw
Danzig
Report of assassination attempt on Nazi leader
Zurich report states Field Marshal Baron Maximilian von Weichs, German Balkans commander in chief, was wounded by a young Nazi lieutenant in an assassination attempt. The Belgrade source confirms the incident with no further details on injuries or outcomes.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Belgrade
Baron Maximilian von Weichs
Balkans
British Carrier Air Attack Hits Norwegian Coast
Naval planes from a carrier force bombed a 65 mile stretch of the Norwegian invasion coast targeting Alesund Kristiansund and surrounding defenses. Six enemy planes destroyed on the ground, hangars and stores burned, three armed vessels set ablaze, two British aircraft lost.
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London
McGrigor
Alesund
Kristiansund
Trondheim
Norway
Admiralty
Gossen
Lepsoy
Tirpitz
Alten
Stockholm
Von Kluge Reinforces Trapped German Army on Orne Front
Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge sends reinforcements into a German bulge west of the Orne amid a tightening noose. He concentrates troops and armor in a coffin shaped salient near the battle zone, while British strategists express puzzlement at the gamble as flames close in.
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Roger D. Greene
Orne River Front
Guenther von Kluge
The
Orne
Stalingrad
von Kluge
Europe
Long Toms Firing Sulfa Plasma To A Lost Battalion
American 155 mm Long Tom artillery shells carried blood plasma morphine and sulfa drugs to a World War II unit nicknamed a lost battalion. The force held a hill behind German lines for five days, endured multiple assaults by Nazi armored divisions, and received air support and supplies while fighting back.
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Wes Gallagher
Mortain
France
Hitler
Nazis Lose High Ground On Orne River Front
The British 2nd Army pushed into von Kluge northern flank and seized high ground within 5 000 yards of Conde Sur Noireau eleven miles southwest of Thury Harcourt and 26 from Caen. After dawn the attack forced the enemy back 2 500 yards in four hours of close fighting. Far north the Germans recaptured hill 229 west of St Pierre La Vielle after a brutal 36 hours.
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Orne River
von Kluge
Conde-Sur-Noireau
Thury-Harcourt
Caen
Conde
Hitler
Bulge
St. Pierre la Vielle
U. S
le Mans
Alencon
Robots Hit Hard In Londres Bombardment
Flying bomb attacks on London and the southern counties intensified from midnight to dawn Saturday. The assaults in the south were heavier than at any time recently, with some robots suspected on a new route coming in over the French coast behind Boulogne.
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London
French
Boulogne
Road To Berlin fronts distances for Allied pushes
The report lists distances to Berlin from key fronts. Russian front measures 322 miles from eastern Warsaw, Italian front 603 miles from Florence, and French front 626 miles from Seignolles.
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Warsaw
Florence
Seignolles
Heavies Strike Southern France In Allied Air Offensive
Allied air power hammered coast defenses in southern France and coastal Italian Riviera as up to 750 American heavy bombers and 500 fighters attacked rail yards and airfields in Metz Brest Toulouse Le Perthe Chamant Athies Couvron and Juvincourt. Mustangs and Fortresses supported the raid in a multi force operation part of a continuing Mediterranean theater bombardment.
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Rome
Fifteenth Airforce
France
Tactical
Italy
Mediterranean
Hitler
Russia
Toulouse
London
Metz
Britain
Berlin
Vigors
Paris
Riviera
Tactical Air Force
Allied Air Command
Former Gov Alfred E Smith Resting in Hospital
Former New York Governor Alfred E Smith is staying at St Vincent's hospital for several days of rest due to the heat. Dr Ray Sullivan, his physician, said Smith did not feel well but is resting and should recover.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Rayeed Sullivan
Bombers Open Attrition Blows Against Isles South Of Japan
U S Pacific forces extend pressure on island fortifications south of Japan with land based Liberators from Saipan striking Iwo Jima and Mili in the Marshalls. MacArthur reports sinking freighters near Halmahera and adds ships to the tally while Australian pilots target staging Japanese forces at Sorong. Tokyo radio notes Japan’s factory control group reacting to B 29 and Liberator raids.
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Isles
Japan
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Douglas MacArthur
Mindanao
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Volcano Islands
Tokyo
Link
Nimitz
Iwo Jima
7Th Army Air Force
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Halmahera
New Guinea
Philippines
Mili
Marshalls
Samate
Sorong
Dutch New Guinea
Manchuria
Tokyo Radio
Japan Industrial Machinery Control Association
Allies drive west of Paris threaten Caen pocket
Allied commands said a four day operation west of Paris created a two way threat to southern France. American armor pressed 10 miles south of the Loire while 750 US bombers hit Mediterranean coast defenses. British and Canadian forces neared Conde Sur Noireau as Americans moved toward Le Mans.
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Supreme
Hdqtrs
Allied Expeditionary Force
France
Supreme Headquarters
Paris
Guenther von Kluge
West Wall
Caen
Loire River
U. S
Italy
Mediterranean
Riviera
le Mans
Channel
Falaise
Rivieras
Omar N. Bradley
Loire
Johannes Blaskowitz
Blaskowitz
Bordeaux
Vichy-Paris
Barcelona
Vichy
Berlin
Alene
Mortain
Sourdeval
Stockholm
Calais
Seine-Loire
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Board of Works
Alley
Warren Smith
Emof
Glenn Streblow
Streblow
Fred Steele
Joseph Zeimentz
J. J. Verdota de Gared
Swift and Co
Harold Beg
Verdota
Swift
Jacob Ritter
Board of Public Works
Ferry Street
23Nd
23Rd Streets
John Zabowski
Pearl Street
Lawrence DeJariais
North Third
Fire Ined Te Maneee
Unity Council
Gee Pine Street
Mane Sunda
Lou Hosking
Operators’ Association
Mel G. Barnes
Twin Cities
Barnes
Sgt
Art Olson
Camp
Romania
By Eddy Gilmore
Pravda
F. R
Andreanos Islands
Estonia
Daniel DE Luce
Red Star
Rasurian
Bug
Vistula
Biebrza
Narew
Get
Stalin
Ivan Maslennikov
Pskov
Underground
By Roger Greene
Heavies Rock
South
Reich
Madison
Germany
Werner Gilles
AL Smith
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