U S Will Back Peace With Force Says Hull
Washington reports show Secretary Hull opening Dumbarton Oaks talks calling for sovereign equality and force backing world security. Gromyko and Cadogan stressed prompt military backing and swift action while small nations seek protections and a cooperative framework for a postwar order.
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U. S
Hull
Washington
Great Britain
Russia
Dumbarton Oaks
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
United States
Sirxander Cadogan
Bull
Cadogan
Am@ican
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
John Foster Dulles
Dumbarton
Dulles
Superforts Strike Japan Home Islands and Sink Cruiser
World War II report details a daylight raid on Yawata Kyushu by B-29 Superfortresses with Tokyo confirming heavy damage and losses. A Liberator sank a 14,200-ton Japanese cruiser as Gen. MacArthur reports gains in the Philippines against Japanese air defenses.
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Yawata
Kyushu
War Department
Shikoku Island
J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
Japan
Gen. MacArthur
Philippines
Europe
Tokyo
Joseph Stilwell
Ctarters
New Guinea
Halmahera
Moluccas
Washington
20Th Air Force
Sheriff Seeks Ross Hastings Over 1943 Kidder Case
Ross Hastings the tree trimmer linked to the long running Kidder case resurfaced after a La Crescent incident. He allegedly drew a knife in a street brawl, hid from Houston county authorities, fled to La Crosse, then back to Chicago on a midnight train. His whereabouts remain unknown.
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Kidder
Ross Hastings
Hastings
Dean Ladd Kidder
Main Street
la Crescent
la Crosse
Houston County
Chicago
Here
Savanna
Victory Paper Maps Forecast Low Tuesday Near 80
The brief notes a cool start and warmer trend with a forecast in the 80s on Tuesday. It references a paper map and a victory theme as part of the readable OCR fragment.
Missing Lieutenant Danaher From Caledonia Since August
Lieut. Robert Danaher of Caledonia has been reported missing in action since August 6. He went overseas in June 1944 after working as a bookkeeper at International Milling in Mason City, Iowa. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. James E. Camp Livingston.
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Robert Danaher
CaledonIa
Minn
James E. Camp
Patton's Third Army Presses Across Brittany to Paris
The U S third army has inflicted 109 575 German casualties since Aug 1 in Brittany and northern France toward Paris. The drive shows 49 650 captured 11 025 killed and 48 900 wounded. Refugees report intensified street fighting between French resistance and German forces in Paris.
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U.S. Third Army
France
Patton
U. S
Brittany
Paris
Third
First German Amazon with Wehrmacht Confirmed Killed
A British stretcher bearer reports finding a German female combatant in Normandy near Viessoix Burcy. She wore a German uniform with trousers field pack and a silver star badge on her jacket. Identity details were not recovered.
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Normandy
Wehrmacht
Normandy Bulge
Vire
Viessoix
Burcy
Japanese Withdraw From Wuyi Area As Mopping Up Push Presumed
The Chinese high command announced the Japanese had pulled back from Wuyi, about 95 miles south of Hangchow, moving southeastward. They may have begun a new mopping up expedition as the operation continues.
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Wuyi
Hangchow
Soviets Smash 3 Nazi Divisions In Warsaw Area
Soviet forces shattered three Nazi divisions in the Sandomierz salient below Warsaw and drove toward Praga as Russia pursued multiple fronts. Allied dispatches report German attempts to rescue up to 200,000 isolated troops on the Baltic front amid heavy casualties and shifting advances near Riga and Tallinn. Soviet gains could enable a drive toward Krakow Warsaw or Silesia while a Baltic push strains German lines.
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Sandomierz
Warsaw
Baltic
Praga
Ivan S. Konev
First
Ukraine
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Konev
Krakow
German Silesia
Jelgava
Gulf of Riga
Estonia
Ivan Maslennikov
Tartu
Tallinn-Riga
Riga
London
Tukums
Latvia
End Of War Nearer Says Prime Minister
Prime Minister Churchill told Canadian tank crews near Florence that Normandy battle promises a nearer end to the war. He could not guarantee an early finish but said it could end sooner than hoped pending the front line progress.
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Eighth
Florence
Churchill
Normandy
House Ways and Means Committee Limits Office of War Mobilization
The Ways and Means Committee tentatively voted to limit the life of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion to one year after the war. Senate legislation provides two years of government assistance for reconversion, with Rep. Disney noting the aim is to wind down government involvement quickly.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Office of
Disney
Dokla
Drop Tons Of Arms To Marquis Supremly Headed Supply
American heavy bombers carried thousands of tons of arms ammunition and supplies to French interior forces under Allied command. The 8th Air Force and the RAF conducted hundreds of similar missions in support of French authorities and allied operations.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
8Th Air Force
RAF
NBC Reporter Tom Treanor Killed in France Jeep Accident
NBC announced in New York that correspondent Tom Treanor was killed in France when a jeep was struck by an American vehicle in the war zone. The incident occurred in the American sector as Treanor covered events for The Nation al Broadcasting company.
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New York
National Broadcasting Company
Tom Treanor
France
Erican
Treanor
Aircraft Carriers Slip Down Ways at Philadelphia Yards
At the Philadelphia Navy Yard yesterday the 27 000 ton aircraft carrier Antietam and the 13 000 ton cruisers Los Angeles and Chicago slid down the ways marking a launch milestone for the fleet.
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Philadelphia Navy Yards
Antietam
Los Angeles
Chicago
Cruisers Shell Bayonne Defenses as German Line Crumbles
Three Allied cruisers shelled Bayonne area coast as German defenses melted away. Batteries near Bayonne offered occasional fire but yielded little resistance. German Atlantic wall reportedly destroyed as forces pull back. An American column moved toward the Spanish frontier via Angouleme with minimal opposition.
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Iran
Spain
Bayonne
France
Bordeaux
Hitler
Angouleme
Nantes
Loire River
Marquis Take Toulouse City in German-Occupied France
The Algiers radio reported that on Sunday the Marquis captured Toulouse, France's sixth largest city with about 213 200 residents, located in southwest France near the Spanish border. Another report said French interior forces battled German troops in Marseille as American units advance. General Koenig said patriots now control about one third of France across eight departments.
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London
Algiers
Toulouse
France
Marseille
Seventh Army
Joseph Koenig
Interior
Cages-Les-Pins
le Beausset
No. 8
Toulon
Cannes
7Th Army
Hans Schubert
Schubert
Patch
le Revest
Monte Caume
Airfields in Hungary and Serbia Struck by Allied Bombers
U S 15th air force Liberators blasted Hadja Bostermeny airfield in Hungary and hit the Nisaur drome in Serbia in seven strafing attacks. Escorts and Thunderbolts attacked Alessandria rail yards in northern Italy where scores of rail cars were destroyed and tracks left tangled.
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Rome
Hungary
Serbia
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Thunderbolts
France
Alessandria
Italy
Hadja Bostermeny
Nisaurdrome
Sitka
Release Over Million When Germany Falls
Denver reports Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of selective service, forecast the release of 1 to 2 million armed service members after Germany falls. He supported gradual demobilization after Japan's defeat but noted it is unpopular as families want their sons home.
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Denver
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Armed Services
Germany
Japan
Yank Subs Sink 19 Jap Vessels
American submarines in the Pacific and Far East sank 19 more Japanese ships including a light cruiser and an escort vessel, bringing total combatant ships sunk by subs to 56 and overall Japanese losses to 853 since Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
Pacific
Far East
Navy
United States
Pearl Harbor
25 000 Nazis Captured in Normandy Bulge
Allied forces tightened the Normandy pocket near the Falaise Argen tan gap with an estimated 25 000 German prisoners by 6 45 p m. The pursuit of von Kluge s 7th army accelerated as American British and Canadian units crossed the Seine and moved southeast and northwest of Paris. Miles Dempsey s British 2nd Army reported 2 000 more prisoners by noon for a total of 10 000 in the pocket.
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France
Normandy Bulge
Falaise-Argentan Gap
von Kluge
Seine
Paris
Miles C. Dempsey
Chambots
Supreme Headquarters
Argentan
Normandy
Guenther von
French Troops Enter Toulon in Terrific Drive
Allied forces report French troops breaking into western and northern Toulon as the invasion of southern France progresses rapidly. American units push 50 miles inland toward Lyon via Valensole, with Marseille within sight and Marseille’s rail/road links threatened.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Mediterranean
France
Valensole
Asse River
Lyon
Rhone River
Alexander M. Patch
7Th
Marseille
Mont Faron
Napoleon
Pearl Harbor story sparks call for full truth and blame
Rep. Church charges the Roberts report is political and says the true Pearl Harbor culprits were in Washington. He cites Admiral Kimmel and General Short awaiting court martial and urges full disclosure to the public. Truman’s Collier’s article is called into question.
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Rep
Church
R-Ill
House
Pearl Harbor
Truman
D-Mo
Husband E. Kimmel
Kimmel
Associated Justice
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
Roberts
Pacific
General Short
Admiral Kimme
Kermit A. Tyler
Walter C. Short
Hawaii
Charles B. Rugg
Boston
Collier's
End in sight as Allied drive traps German forces at Falaise
Allied forces declare the war nearing its end with Montgomery and Patton reporting heavy German losses in the Falaise pocket and surrounding crossings. American tanks push toward Paris while resistance grows in the capital aided by air drops of arms.
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Paris
Bernard L. Montgomery
France
Seine
Mantes
Corbeil
Melun
Fontainebleau
Soissons
Reims
Marne
Versailles
House of Liberation
George S. Patton
Patton
Montgomery
Falaise
Cotentina
Occagnes
Sentilly
Bailleul
Goulet
Argentan
Touques
Lisieux
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