Iran to Expel Germans Within a Week
Teheran reports say British and Soviet ministers conveyed Iran’s plea for a war end and expulsion of virtually all Germans within a week, with few kept in indispensable posts until substitutes are trained. Premier Ali Mansur claims Soviet bombardment nears Tabriz as Russian forces advance toward the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TEHERAN
Iran
Ali Mansur
Azerbaijan
Tabriz
DREW MIDDLETON
Associated Press
LONDON
Riza
Shah Pahlevi
Laval Wounded In Versailles Shooting By A Communist
In Versailles a Communist assailant wounded former premier Pierre Laval and three others during an anti Nazi registration ceremony. Laval received arm and chest wounds but likely survives. others including Marcel Dent and Colonel Durry were injured though not gravely. The attacker, 21 year old Paul Collette, was seized as the crowd cried for Laval’s death amid fears of harsher anti collaboration actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VICHY
France
Pierre Laval
Versailles
aval
Marcel Dent
Durry
Laval
Deat
Germany
Russia
Legionaires
Paul Colette
Associated Press
The Pitchfork myth on Hess’s capture debunked
Canadian doctor in Ontario receives documentary proof that Rudolf Hess was not captured with a pitchfork. David McLean of Floors Farm near Glasgow writes he had no pitchfork, was asleep when Hess landed, and that he and a friend posed for a photo instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolf Hess
Carleton
McLean
David McLean
Hess
RAF Bombers Strike Occupied France In Morning Attacks
London reports heavy overnight and daylight raids as Royal Air Force aircraft cross the Channel for two strikes on occupied France. Berlin says British bombers hit western Germany including Cologne with incendiaries and high explosives. three bombers were lost. Fighter planes machine gunned northern France airdromes. RAF claims 10 Nazi planes shot down with eight losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LONDON
Royal Air Force
English channel
France
Berlin
Germany
air ministry
Cologne
Le Hevre
Boulogne
Canada Launches Another Corvette At West Coast Port
At the Vancouver shipyard a new corvette named H. M. C. S. Vancouver was launched for the Royal Canadian Navy. The ceremony was sponsored by Mrs. W. R. Ayton, wife of a shipyard worker, and Mayor J. W. Cornett presented the vessel with a silver bell.
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H.M.C.S. Vancouver
Royal Canadian Navy
W. R. Ayton
J. W. Cornett
Vancouver
Liberator Bomber Sets Record Coast to Coast Flight
Consolidated Aircraft reports a Liberator bomber averaging over 300 mph completed a 2350 mile Atlantic delivery from Newfoundland to Ireland in 7 hours 12 minutes. Five crew including an American at the controls, high altitude with oxygen masks, cabin warmth noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SAN DIEGO
Calif
P.Consolidated ‘Aircraft Corporation
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Ireland
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Consolidated
Britain
New York
Slowdowners Fired at Caledonia Mine in Nova Scotia
Eight miners at the Caledonia pit of Dominion Coal in Glace Bay were refused lamps and laid off for not working a full shift as part of a Cape Breton slowdown affecting more than three months of activity. The Caledonia UMWA local will meet tonight to decide action while the rest of the 10 collieries continue normal production. Government pressure followed Labor Minister McLarty’s Aug. 15 warning to end the slowdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GLACE BAY
N.S
Caledonia
Dominion Coal company
Cape Breton
United Mine Workers of America
management
Labor
McLarty
Domestic Relations Court Suggested in Calgary
Calgary Aug 27 Alderman Reb G Smith urged the provincial government to establish a domestic relations court to handle marital differences during the civic unemployment relief committee meeting Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CALGARY
Reb. G. Smith
civic unemployment relief committee
Taken Prisoner But Is Awarded Flying Cross
Pilot Officer Donald C. Dougall of Montreal, a prisoner of war, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by the air ministry. Dougall, a Royal Canadian Air Force member, risked his life to save a squadron mate when a radio failed during an offensive sweep over France.
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LONDON
C.P. Cable
Donald C. Dougall
Montreal
air ministry
Dougall
Royal Canadian Air Force
France
D.F.C
Soviet Warns Japan Over Trade Routes To U S S R
Moscow announced that the Soviet government warned Japan it would treat any attempt to hinder normal trade between Russia and the United States via Far Eastern ports as unfriendly. Molotov conveyed the note to the Japanese ambassador in Moscow and Tokyo. The declaration said goods bought by the USSR in the United States are needed for Soviet defense and agricultural needs in the Far East, while Japan protested shipments to Vladivostok of oil and gasoline.
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MOSCOW
Japan
Russia
United States
U.S. S.R
west
Soviet Union
Soviet Far East
Yoshitsugu Tatekawa
Vyacheslav Molotov
Tokyo
Vladivostok
That Old Sock
Winnipeg Aug 27 After John Smith 84 year old pensioner fell down stairs and suffered possible fractured skull he was taken to hospital where authorities removed three pairs of trousers the last containing an old sack stuffed with 2500 in English and Canadian bills
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINNIPEG
John Smith
Police Charge Attempt To Destroy Kitchener Gas Works
Three men are charged with conspiring to commit mischief to destroy Kitchener municipal gas works. Bail is denied. Harry Schust, Herman Walters and Thomas Roberts are in custody. Police say a reserve gas tank was rigged to release gas and air to trigger an explosion that could have destroyed city mains. Schust was arrested in Toronto. others are Kitchener residents. Police Chief Hicks called the plan a serious wartime disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitchener
KITCHENER, Ont
Harry Schust
Herman Walters
Thomas Roberts
public utilities plant
Schust
Toronto
Hicks
Last Ditch Fight Looms For Big City
Moscow reports from Izvestia say Red Army counter-attacks pushed Germans back from approaches to an undisclosed city as heavy fighting rages near Odessa and Leningrad. 101 of 156 German planes were shot down in aerial battles around Leningrad and near Odessa while defenders claim not a bomb fell on the city itself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MOSCOW
Red army
Tzvestia
Odessa
Leningrad
Izvestis
Czars
Luga
Turks Fear How Threat From Berlin Looms Over Thrace
London reports Turkish leaders with a German force along the Thracian frontier fear Berlin may demand expelling Russian and British engineers as a countermove to the British Russian invasion of Iran. If Turkey refuses, Germany could move into Thrace, seize the Dardanelles, and control the Black Sea coast, concern shared by neutral diplomats awaiting Ukraine outcomes.
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LONDON
Berlin
Iran
Iks
Turkey
Thrace
Dardanelles Strait
Black Sea
Germany
Rusalia
Ukraine
Hello Strike Is Averted
Washington Aug 27 The threat of a nationwide telephone strike ended as union installation workers and Western Electric settled. The deal includes a six cent per hour wage increase for about 9000 employees, union recognition, new seniority rules, an arbitration pact, and a right to reopen wage talks on March 1, 1942. Backdated to July 2 the raise adds about 1.5 million dollars yearly cost. The current wage scale was not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
United States
Western Electric company
French Police Round Up Jews and Reds in Paris Raid
In German-occupied Paris police block off part of the fourth arrondissement around the city hall and detain several Jews and Communists. Residents were ordered to stay indoors and present identification as raids follow previous arrests in the 11th and 20th arrondissements. Germans also probe sabotage on railways tied to possible British parachutist activity.
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PARIS
fourth arrondissement
arca
Seine
Huns Claim 40,000 Reds Are Slain In Central Front
Berlin reports the German high command says it annihilated the 22nd Russian Army in a pincer encirclement on the Smolensk to Lake Omen front. More than 40,000 Russians killed and 30,000 captured with Velikiye Luki taken, as the line extends northwest of Moscow and south of Leningrad.
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BERLIN
Smolensk
Lake Omen
Velikie Luki
Moscow
Leningrad
Novgorod
Vyazma
Communist Sentenced to Death After Laval Assassination
A secret French court sentenced one Communist to death and gave long prison terms to four others after the Laval assassination. In related reports, heavy RAF raids hit Axis bases near Tripoli, and ships were sunk or damaged in the central Mediterranean. Dutch liner Slamat reportedly sunk by axis bombers. Huntziger to command Vichy African troops in North Africa. US observers urged to join the Russo German front as fighting intensifies. The Red Star cites 86000 Nazi casualties at Gorath in the continuing eastern front battle.
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VICHY
France
A.P
Pierre Laval
Marcel Dent
Germany
CAIRO
Egypt
Tripoli
Libya
Middle East
Royal Air Force
COLYER
WASHINGTON
OTTAWA
C.P
D. B. Colyer
Trans-Canada Airlines
F. H. Kilbourn
Howe
Mediterranean
Malta
Sicily
BERLIN
DN.D
Brussels
Belgium
BATAVIA
N.EL
Netherlands
HUNTZIGER
LONDON
Charles
French North Africa
British Broadcasting Corporation
U.S
Navy
Frank Kner
United States
GOMEL
MOSCOW
Aus
Gorath
Red Star
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Lindbergh
Mr. Churchills
LEFI
R . F. thaws
CANADA
Big City
People’s Army
HMNS
Izvestia
Amy
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