Churchill Visits Niagara Falls With Daughter Mary
Prime Minister Churchill arrived at Niagara Falls and toured the area with his party, crossing to the U S side, saluting with the V sign, and visiting Queenston Heights. Mary Churchill, in ATS uniform, bought postcards and remarked on the falls as British notes and Canadian hosts watched. Churchill recalled seeing the falls first in 1900 as they toured the border city and viewed the whirlpool and Brock monument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IAGARA FALLS
N.Y
A.P
Churchill
Niagara Falls
ONTARIO
Harold Fair
Ont
C.P
Mary
Niagara river
Victoria Park
Canadian Pacific Railway
falls
Quebec
Sir Isaac Brock
Mary Churchill
Britain
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Don Baldwin
Winnipeg
Constantine
min wars
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
William Mackenzie King
western hemisphere
Axis
Roosevelt
Mackenzie King
ATS
International Soundphoto
Heavy U S Bombers Hit German Industrial Targets
Heavy U S daylight raid by the 8th Army Air Force struck industrial sites in Germany across the Channel amid prior RAF night raids on the Ruhr and Rhineland. Bonn, a major rail center and Beethoven birthplace, was named by German radio as a target. actual objectives were not listed. Night raids in France and the Low Countries attacked railway targets while one night bomber was missing.
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LONDON
United States
8th Army Air Force
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Bonn
Cologne
Beethoven
air ministry
R.A.P
France
Britain
Ruh
Nuremberg
R.A.F
Berne
Switzerland
CBS
London Night Tours Revisit War-Torn Streets In Old Notices
A London correspondent finds lingering “Lovely” notices on gutted buildings four years after the blitz. A disused garage advertises Night tours of Chinatown Limehouse and Dockland with a museumlike stop at Charlie Brown's house of curios. Guides promise a parrotlike lecture through Pennyfields and Dickensian inns as motor coaches depart once more.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Orient
Chinatown
Limehouse
Pennyfields
Dockland
Pennyfield
ang
Leftist party offers cooperation with the CCF in Canada
In Vancouver on August 12 a new British Columbia Leftist party formed by former Communist Party of Canada members offered to cooperate with the CCF. The group, still unnamed, authorized a committee to meet the CCF and pursue joint efforts on welfare issues affecting Canadians.
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VANCOUVER
C.C.F
British Columbia
Communist Party of Canada
Toronto
Preacher breaks up craps game by claiming loot for church
In Palestine Texas on August 12 a group playing a dice game after a business barbecue had hoped to conclude unseen. Rev Joe Berry confronted them and took $750 plus the dice, announcing the money would go to the First Christian Church collection plate next Sunday. The gathering dispersed.
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PALESTINE
Tex
Joe Berrys
Christan
Allied ship sinkings and advances in Pacific war
Allied communique reports a 1,500-ton ship sunk and a 2,500-ton vessel damaged plus damage to a small vessel near New Ireland supply point for Rabaul. Eight e?fteen barges sunk near Salamaua and northwestern New Guinea. In New Georgia, American forces push toward Banoko Harbor between Munda and the garrison.
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ALLIED
Southwest Pacific
New Ireland
Rabaul
New Britain
Japan
Salamaua
New Guinea
New Georgia Island
Munda
Banoko Harbor
South Pacific
William F. Halsey
Balloko
Exiled guests linger as Chateau Prontenac hosts wartime conference
Aug 12 UEBEC coverage notes the Chateau Prontenac clears guests for a British American Canadian conference. A single woman remained inside with heart trouble, her doctor warning against movement, while staff say observers spotted three or four outsiders around the hotel, though no definite details were disclosed.
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UEBEC
Chateau Prontenac
Chateau
Volunteer Loses Wife and Child in Draft Rejection
William Jo Gressel, 23, arrived from Wilmington NC to volunteer for induction. He and his wife saved gasoline coupons for the baby to stay with her parents in Arkansas. A telegram said his wife and infant were killed in a road accident en route from North Carolina. he then went to Fort Benjamin Harrison and was rejected by the local draft board.
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COLUMBUS
Ind
William Jo Gressel
Wilmington
Gressell
Little Rock
Ark
Cressell
Arkansas
Carolina
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapoli
Nazi Planes Raid Britain Hits English Coast
Nazi bombers carried out two raids on southern England in the early hours. Planes dived low dropping flares and bombs, causing several casualties. In a southwest coastal district most blasts struck residential areas. A hospital building section was hit while unoccupied. a police station sustained damage.
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LONDON
England
Alcoholic Deaths In Montreal Inquest Heard
Detectives Willam Pitvopatrick and Russell Senegal testified at a coroner inquest in Montreal on Wednesday that a group of youths from Cote St Paul drank diluted rubbing alcohol with canal water, linked to the deaths of Marcel Rov 14 and Marcel Jean de Pole. The inquest was postponed to Friday for further evidence.
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MONTREAL
Willam Pitvopatrick
Russel Senegal
Cote St Paul
Marcel Rov
Marcel Jean
Pole
Reds Tighten Kharkov Vicinity Amid War News From Sicily
Russian forces closed to within seven miles of Kharkov from the northeast and cut the Poltava Kharkov line, while a major push near Bryansk, and fresh German reinforcements, underscored the broad Soviet offensive. In Sicily, Allied landings established a bridgehead east of Cape Orlando after a sea assault, with continued fighting along the north coast and near Randazzo.
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HENRY C. CASSIDY
Associated Press
MOSCOW
Kharkov
Red amy trops
Poltava
crive
Bryansk
Orel
Nazi
high command
transocean
Vyazma
Cmolenk
Stoward Kharkov
Lub
Berlin
Randazzo
Sicily
U.S
North Coast
North Africa
Cape Orlando
Bronte
Cesaro
MOUNT ETNA
Prajiola
Zafferana Etna
8th Army
New York
Prajola
iThe
Guy Simonds
Pachino
San Agata-Cesaro
aisnatch
Nazo river
Messina
Terni
Reme Fightir
Catauma
Taorrua
Steir
Rineeto
Taormina
Yanks Raid Kurile Isles
New York Aug 12 American fliers reportedly attacked the northern Kurile approaches to Japan from Aleutian bases. Tokyo radio said eight heavy bombers conducted the raid. Japanese warnings followed of more raids from the north.
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NEW YORK
hye
federal communications today
Kurile island
Japan
Tokyo
North America
United States
Attu
T-land
thit
A’tu
Kishi
Aleutian
SUdl
Lay Vines London Aus ff Cre Cable
Canadian bomber group laid mines in waters last night according to un headquarters while frontier forces near TACKOC YUMay Latera 1 northern border. None of the planes massing.
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LONDON
RCAF
Escape plot uncovered at POW camp near Monteith
Eckhert Brong a 22 year old German parachutist escaped Sunday from a POW camp 40 miles east of Timmins. Guards uncovered plans for a mass escape. Officials said prisoners labored in tunnels with improvised shovels digging from Uncans Elis break. More than 100 food kits from Red Cross parcels were found.
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Monteith
Timmins
Eckhert Brong
Brosig
Elis
Red Cross
News Bullets From War Fronts United States Bombers Hit Europe
Reports from London and Washington describe RAF and USAAF daylight raids on German targets Gelsenkirchen Wesseling and Bonn with heavy bomber losses. Additional raids strike the Kurile Islands and Italy while Kharkov nears danger. Civilian casualties rise in Britain. Montreal aircraft plant strike ends.
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LONDON
C.Po
Gelsenkirchen
Wesseling
Bonn
Germany
Rhineland
U.S. trias
ir force
ascault
ELIERS
KURILES
WASHINGTON
Two ways department
United States army
Kure iland
KHARKOYY
Kharkov
Chugusev
Moscow
snd
ROME
ALLIEQ
North Africa
Teral
VERLIAN BYMIBASSY
ITALY
C.P.1
Radio France
ino Agiers
Istanbul
Lurkes
Uaty
DE MARIGNY
OAKES NASSAL
Bahamas
Alfred De Marigny
Uatly
Harry Oakes
BRITAIN
MONTREAL
C.P
International Association of Machinists
Ottawa labor department
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Lower Arch Bridge
AW Caerun VF PALS
Inglis
Breen Queen Victoria Park
Table Rock House
Horseshoe falls
Charlotte Barton
park commission
Barton
Maxim T. Grey
paths commission
Queenston Heights
Niagara
Lake Ontario
Ruhr Valley
de Gioro
Brittany
Belgium
Jan
JAP SHIPPING
Kharkovka
Sever
ONDON
Reuters
frenter
7th Atv
San Mareo D'Alunzio
San Agata
Nas
vniar
Kurile Isles
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