Delay in German Prisoner Exchange Delays Channel Talks
London reports the planned exchange of wounded prisoners across the channel is delayed as Germany seeks return of certain prisoners. An authoritative source says Hess is not among those involved, noting the issue concerns categories of medically unfit prisoners, not individuals. If unresolved, ships miss the noon tide and may not depart until after midnight, amid Allied German communications hinting at bombs or an olive branch.
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LONDON
CP4
Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Gritein
NEWHAVEN
Eng
Axis Siege Ring Around Tobruk Raided By British
British Middle East command announced successful raids on several sectors of the Axis siege ring around Tobruk in Libya. Axis strong points and ammunition dumps were seized or exploded, and British fire silenced Axis heavy machine guns as enemy patrols were engaged and driven back in frontier areas between Libya and Egypt.
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GAIRO
Tobruk
Middle East
ines
Libya
Egypt
Left Hand Corner Man Heads to Moscow for War Material Talks
Liam Batt of Philadelphia OPM materials division leads a U S mission to meet Soviet officials on war material needs. Sidney Weinberg of New York heads clearance of defense industry advisory committees, presenting Batt with gifts blessed by a rabbi, priest, and minister. A D Whiteside also gives a gold mounted foot. Batt plans to collect rabbit’s feet, echoing his brother’s WWI carry.
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LIAM BATT
Philadelphia
OPM
Moscow
United States
Sidney Weinberg
New York
bureau of clearance of defense industry
Tiffany's
A. D. Whiteside
steel
Hull denounces sinking of U S oil tanker I C White
Cordell Hull denounces the sinking of the United States owned oil tanker I C White by a submarine in the South Atlantic. He calls it lawlessness and piracy and frames it as part of a conquest movement. He reiterates self defense as a guiding principle and notes U S aid to Britain remains a policy priority.
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WASHINGTON
Hull
I. C. White
South Atlantic
United States
Britain
New Australian Prime Minister John Curtin Takes Office
Canberra reports John Curtin, 56, former trades union official and newspaperman, becomes Australian prime minister. He wears the badge of the Australian Journalists' Association, the oldest union of its kind. Curtin edited West Australian Worker for 11 years until 1928 and entered parliament that year. He led his party in 1936 on a platform for stronger air force and an aircraft industry, arguing labor stands to lose most from a Hitler victory.
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CANBERRA
John Curtin
Curlin
Australian Journalists’ Association
West Australian Worker
Curtin
Earthquake Shakes Los Angeles County Beach Areas
An earthquake rattled Los Angeles County last night, causing ceiling lighting fixtures to sway. Residents across Palos Verdes Redondo Beach Hermosa Beach Manhattan Beach and Inland Inglewood reported the tremor. In Tokyo officials pegged Japan’s 1941 rice crop at 59,130,000 koku about 302.7 million bushels, 12 percent below five year average due to bad weather.
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LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles county
Palos Verdes
Redondo Beach
Hermosa Beach
Manhattan Beach
Inglewood
TOKYO
Japan
Zero Hour In Far East Signs of Imperial Japanese Maneuvers
Imperial Japanese units in French Indo China began grand maneuvers with observers believing the long-anticipated zero hour for southern Asia may be at hand. Details are censored but disclosures note troops tanks trucks and other gear adequate for full battle. Diplomatic pressure on Thailand and a pro British tilt are discussed in Tokyo and Bangkok press reports.
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SAIGON
Indo-China
Indo- China
Asia
Thailand
Japan
Tokyo
Asahi
Bangkok
Malaya
Burma
Canadians Progress In Secret Radio Field War Report
Ottawa reveals Canada is advancing secret radio work through a National Research Council team of about 100 technicians and mechanics. The 1940-41 report notes prototypes under development and details limited, while also noting NRCs physics and electrical division aided the British Admiralty and Royal Canadian Navy in selecting young university men for a covert war service. two selected officers later killed in battle.
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OTTAWA
Canada
National Research Council
Dean C. J. Mackenzie
British admiralty
Royal Canadian Navy
R. W. Boyle
divisit
Report on RCAF Casualties In War
Ottawa report shows two airmen missing after operations over Scar. Two men listed as POWs who were previously missing and one man listed as dead for official purposes after being missing. Official casualties since war began total 826 dead or missing.
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OTTAWA
Royal Canadian Air Force
iest
SCAR
air force
British war coordinator arrives in Rangoon en route to India
Alfred Dutt Cooper, a British war coordinator in the Far East, arrived today from Singapore in Rangoon Burma. He planned to confer with Burma's governor Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DUFF COOPER
RANGOON
Burma
Alfred Dutt Cooper
Far East
Singapore
India
Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith
Unexplained dynamite blast at Rio plant causes damage
An explosion at the Fabrica De Explosives De Seguranca plant across the bay from Rio de Janeiro detonated six long of dynamite. The blast caused about 10,000 in damage and carved a crater roughly 150 feet by 30 feet. No casualties were reported.
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RIO DE JANEIRO
Brazil
Fabrica De Explosives De Seguranca
Yanks Triumph 2-1 Four Marines Convicted in Iceland
In Reykjavik Iceland a US naval court convicted four American marines of assaulting an Icelandic woman. Sentences range from 10 to 20 years with Joan Freeman and Raleigh Roses each given 20 years, Earl Pharr 15 years, and John Marx Junious 10 years.
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REYKJAVIK
Icelan
United States
Joan F. Freeman
Raleigh N. Roses
Earl W. Pharr
John Marx Junious
Yankees Take Game Three In World Series Duel
Southpaw Mare lus Teusss pitched a four hit gem to lead the Yankees to a 2-1 win over the Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The victory puts New York ahead in the Series as Fred Fitzsimmons left the game in the seventh inning with an injury, shocking the Brooklyn crowd of 33,100.
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GAYLE TALBOT
Associated Press
EBBETS FIELD
Jooklyn
A.P
lus Teusss
Yankees
Dodgers
Fred Fitzsimmons
Brooklyn
Executions Continue Across Balkans and Bohemia
Reports from Zagreb say a German mechanized division around 12,000 men moves toward Belgrade to quell Serb guerrillas as Laskovan and Nishumka are bombed. Serbia’s coal shortage cripples industry, blamed on sabotage and Luftwaffe raids worsening prewar output. In Berlin, executions of Bohemia Moravia plotters rise as Heydrich hastens to hear Hitler’s address amid death sentences previously noted.
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ZAGREB
Croatia
Berlin
Serbia
Belgrade
Yagoslavia
Laskovan
Nishumka
Bohemia-Moravia
Feinrich Heydrich
Dodger Fan Dies in World Series Grandstand Incident
An unidentified about 35 year old baseball fan seated in the Brooklyn Dodgers grandstand behind home plate collapsed and died during the first inning of the World Series game against the New York Yankees. No companion was with him.
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BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Yankees
Yankees Rally In Eighth Break Dodgers After Seven Scoreless
A line drive struck an batter on the knee ending his outing after seven scoreless frames. Yankees tally all runs off Hugh Casey in relief of Fitzsimmons as Red Rolfe, Tommy Henrich, Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller single in order. Larry French raced in to halt the Dodgers' surge.
Argonauts Beat Ottawa Rough Riders 7-3
Toronto Argonauts defeated Ottawa Rough Riders 7-3 in a hard fought game here today. The win lifted the Argonauts to the top of the Eastern Rugby Football Union as Ottawa mounted a late charge.
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TORONTO
C.P
Toronto Argonauts
Ottawa Rough Riders
Ottawa
Rugby Football Union
Military leaders hold conference in Manila Far East forces
British and United States commanders in the Far East and the Philippines held a general conference on the poetic situation today. Sir Robert Brooke Popham, commander in chief of the British forces in the Far East, Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur, commander of the US army forces in the Far East, their staffs, and Brig. Gen. Harry B. Cligelt, chief of the US air force in the Philippines attended.
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MANILA
United States
Far East
Philippines
Robert Brooke Popham
Douglas A. MacArthur
Harry B. Cligelt
U.S. air force
More Seamen Are Rescued After Tanker Torpedoing
Rio de Janeiro October 4 United States consulate said thirty four crewmen from the American owned tanker J. C. White were rescued with four missing after a torpedoing in the South Atlantic. The West Niles and Delorte reported rescuing crews near Recife and off Maceio Brazil. The vessel sailed under Panama flag in British service with 38 aboard.
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RIO DE JANEIRO
J. C. White
Ubak
South Atlantic
United States
Panama
West Niles
Recife
Brazil
Delorte
Maceio
T. ©. White
Ameri
Red Army Recaptures Key Karelian Isthmus Junction
Moscow dispatches report the Red Army recaptured the city and rail junction on the Karelian isthmus, a decisive Leningrad front sector, with heavyFinn casualties and successful artillery and tank actions. Soviet brief also notes 25 German tanks and 80 trucks destroyed and 306 trucks, 100 motorcycles captured in the southwest drive toward Odessa Crimea and Donets basin. British fighters allegedly shot down four German Messerschmitt pilots with no losses.
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MOSCOW
Red army
Karelian
Leningrad
Tavestia
walle
Red
Odessa
Crimea
Donets
Soviet information bureau
Red arm
Hiller
Pact
Fed von Bock
Night air raids strike docks and airfields in Europe
London reports Allied bombers blasted docks at Rotterdam Antwerp and Dunkirk in Nazi held regions. New Hurricane fighters strafed occupied France airfields and coastal anti aircraft ships. German air activity was limited with minor engagements over eastern England and Scotland. Casualties were not reported.
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LONDON
Haval
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Dunkerque
Holland
Belgium
France
French
Engeand
Scotland
Ostend
davytleht
Help Find Missing Plane Joins RCAF
Vancouver dispatch reports Harold Engelson a six foot two former provincial constable joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a pilot after discharge. He operated a portable radio for a search party that found three RCAF airmen killed when their bombing plane crashed into a mountain near Yale British Columbia during a flight from MacLeod Alberta to Vancouver.
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VANCOUVER
Harold Engelson
Royal Canadian Air Force
Engleson
E.C.A.P
RCAF
here
Yale
B.C
Macleod
Alta
Vartcouver
Wings at No 15 Service Flying Training School
Duke of Windsor to present wings to the third graduating class at No 15 Service Flying Training School, RCAF, in ClareSHolm. Other items report sinking of a German supply ship in the Atlantic and missing John Bowes-Lyon, eldest son of Lord Glamis.
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DUKE OF WINDSOR
CLARESHOLM
Alta
No. 15
Service Flying Training school
Royal Canadian Air Force
norrow
ATLANTIC
admiralty
LORD GLAMIS
LONDON
John Patrick Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth
Middle East
Scots Guards
ILAAKON
Haakon of
Norway
ecrsa
BERLIN
Rexist I
Brussels
Jean Oedekerke
HUNS
PRAGUE
A.P
ECUADOR
PERU
QUITO
foreign office
BRITAIN
RUSSIA
JAPAN
TOKYO
RUSS NAVY
MOSCOW
red army
Lake
Ladoga
C.P
Braenn
Moravia
Eduard Kadlec
TURKEY
ONL
NEW YORK
BBC
ENGLAND
United States
CALGARY
Victor Ramberg
Keoma
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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Rabbit
LERHANS
FREDERICK P. VARCOE
Frederick P. Vartee
W. Stuart Edwards
Lapointe
Cordell Hull
CORDELL HALL
R.C.A.F
HUNGAR
elaske
KGE
ENSK
keanstante
aga
apyenk
atyesk
Zorxt
SARATOV
HGRAD
taspra
Mekbech Kola
IRAN
Yanks Triumph
Bohemia- Moravia
Rage Three
DODGER
YANKS
Argonauts
Ottawa Riders
U.S
R.A.F
R.C.AF
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