Roosevelt Labor Day broadcast warns against appeasement
President Roosevelt called on Americans to stay ready to defend their rights against Hitler’s aggression in a Labor Day radio address from Hyde Park. He urged full national effort to confront the “forces of insane violence” and stressed the duty of free men to stand and fight.
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DOUGLAS R. CORNELL
Associated Press
HYDE PARK
N.Y
United States
Roosevelt
Hitler
De Gaulle Escape Through African Waterspout
General Charles de Gaulle's Cairo to Free French Africa trip faced a peril as his plane crossed equatorial Uganda at 5600 feet. Tornado formed a massive waterspout, with observers noting a column at least 1000 feet high. After a violent shaking, the pilot escaped the storm and landed safely, where de Gaulle praised the pilot's skill.
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Charles de Gaulle
Cairo
equatorial forest
Uganda
central Africa
de Gaulle
Vichy Sympathizers Fail to Seize Tahiti
News from Sydney reports Vichy sympathizers in Tahiti failed to seize control from the Free French who took over the island last spring. General Richard Brunot reportedly arrested several citizens, with deportations likely, and freed Gaullist prisoners held by a local governor as Free French support remains strong across the South Pacific territory.
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SYDNEY
Australia
C.P
Vichy
Tahiti
South Pacific
Richard Brunot
De Gaullists
Safety Zone Is Mooted In Pacific Amid Aid to Russia
Tokyo reports premier Konoye weighing an ocean safety zone around Japan as a US aviation gasoline carrier nears imperial waters and British reinforcements reach Singapore. Tokyo cites U S pressure on Japan while Kishi says talks with the United States are in a delicate stage and no official replies have been received.
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TOKYO
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
Russia
Vladivostok
Sentoro Hayashi
Asia development federation
Eonoye
United States
Jate
federation
Domei
Singapore
Malayan
Sea of Japan
Kishi
Britain
614 Persons Die Violently In U S
Chicago report notes 614 people killed violently in the Labor Day weekend in the United States. Traffic accidents caused 416 deaths among homebound vacationists and tourists, with 78 drownings and 125 deaths from shootings stabbings falls fires and other violent causes.
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CHICAGO
C.P
United States
Russians Reach Nome in Mystery Flight
In Nome Alaska a group of 47 Russians arrived by flying boats amid mystery about their purpose. Locals speculate they may ferry U S built warplanes home, as two PBY ships were seen en route to Washington D C. Russian officials and Consul Predotoff met Gen Mikhail Gromov while Seaplanes reportedly headed south to Sitka Seattle and San Francisco.
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NOME
Alaska
Fairbanks
Mikhail Gromov
San Diego
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Consolidated
Russia
U.S. navy
Nazis Push to Encircle Leningrad Front
German and Finnish forces press the Leningrad front as redoubts fall across the northern sector. Reports say Krasnogvardeisk is under threat while Odessa faces a siege on its waterworks. D.N.B. notes eight of ten Soviet batteries demolished as German columns advance north of Luga and seize vehicles and guns.
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Leningrad
Voroshilov
Crimea
Dnieper
D.N.B
Luga
Lake Imen
Lake Ilmen
Strikes Hill On Reaching Old Country
Montreal dispatch reports a Royal Air Force ferry command announcement that a trans Atlantic aircraft missing earlier has crashed into a hillside in the United Kingdom with no survivors. The ferry command lists the dead, including Comte de Baillet Latour and Capt. S. Picking, with notes tracing connections to the Belgian embassy and U.S. Navy.
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MONTREAL
KPl
Royal Air Force ferry command
United Kingdom
Ferry command
Comte de Baillet Latour
London
Guy de Baillet-Latour
Count Henry de Baillet- Latou
rof
R. Mowat
Bristol
British library of information
E. Taylor
Farnborough
Hampshire
Eng
British air
James Clement Dunn
Cordell Hull
United States
Flight instructor killed in Cochrane training crash
A Canadian flying instructor, Filet Officer D G McLeod, aged about 22, was killed when a Tiger Moth training plane from No 31 elementary flying training school crashed near Beddington Creek 20 miles west of Calgary. Leading Aircraftman B W S Wood of London England was severely injured. A court of inquiry will investigate the accident.
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CALGARY
D. G. McLeod
J. A. McLeod
Regina
Cochrane
Wood
London
England
No. 31
Municipal
E. P. Goulder
Beddington Creek
Pile
McLeod
Royal Canadian Air Force
R.A.F
LAC
Colonel Belcher hospital
Noel Smith
Duke of Kent Lands in Moncton Tour of Maritime RCAF Schools
The Duke of Kent arrived in Moncton aboard an RCAF amphibian for a brief tour of Commonwealth air training schools in the Maritimes. He greeted government and air force officials after traveling from Murray Bay Quebec where he spent a quiet weekend with State Secretary P. F. Casgrain.
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DUKE
MONCTON
NAB
air force
Duke of Kent
Royal Canadian Air Force
Commonwealth air training
Maritimes
Murray Bay
Que
P. F. Casgrain
Appointment of A. H. Williamson as controller of supplies
Ottawa announces the official appointment of A. H. Williamson of Vancouver as controller of supplies after prior unofficial disclosure. Williamson already operates an office within the munitions department, confirming the role.
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OTTAWA
Howe
a A. H. Williamson
Vancouver
Williamson
munitions department
Canadian Vice-Consul Named for St Pierre and Miquelon
A Canadian diplomat has been appointed vice-consul for the department of external affairs and assigned as vice-consul to the French islands of St Pierre and Miquelon. The appointment is noted with a Meyers Studio photograph.
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department of external affairs
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Meyers Studio
CARDSTON
N. E. Tanner
W. Wood
Ottawa
Alberta lands
J. W. Stafford
Wood
University of Alberta
bureau of statistics
Laval Shows Progressive Improvement After Wound At Versailles
Vichy Sept 2 AP Pierre Laval, gravely wounded by an assassin in Versailles last Tuesday, is reported by his physicians to be showing progressive improvement. Marcel Deat, Laval's newspaper friend, is said to be so improved that no bulletin was issued.
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VICHY
Pierre Laval
Versailles
Marcel Deat
Laval
Iran Reaches Agreement in Tehran Talks
British and Russian ministers along with the Iranian government reported broad principles for settling the Iran situation in Tehran after three days of talks. Iran announced it had replied to admittance terms and would publish details later. The Tehran cabinet shift placed General Mohammed Nakhjevan as war minister replacing Amhad Nakhjevan. Shops operated under military governor pressure amid supply concerns. An Iranian air force adjutant died from a neck wound. Russian troops in Kazvin hosted two unidentified American visitors as the US legation sought to verify safety of missionaries in Russian-occupied areas. A British mechanized column withdrew after overnight engagements with the Red Army near Kazvin.
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LONDON
Iran
Teheran
Mohammed Nakhjevan
Amhad Nakhjevan
Akshami
Kazvin
United States
Senator David LEsperance Dies Near Perce Que
Montreal reports Senator David Ovide LEsperance Conservative senator since 1917 died suddenly Sunday night in a forest near Perce Quebec. He was 77 years old. Ottawa notes his death creates five vacancies in the 96 seat Senate and shifts Liberal appointees to a one vote majority.
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MONTREAL
David Ovide L'Esperance
senate
Perce
Que
OTTAWA
David L’Esperance
Gulf
U S Cavalrymen Reach Britain in Convoy Arrival
Some 200 United States born soldiers including cavalrymen serving with the Canadian army arrived in Britain today. Twenty two Red Cross nurses were among the Americans in the convoy. The nurses staff the Harvard Red Cross hospital at Salisbury, bringing total to 63. Depth charges were dropped during the ocean voyage to protect the convoy.
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LONDON
Britain
Red Cross
Harvard Red Cross
Salisbury
Day Night RAF Raids Against German Coast
London reports another heavy RAF attack on the German held coast of northern France in a day and night campaign. Explosions rumbled across the channel as fighters returned skimming the waves to avoid cliffs. Cologne endured a severe RAP night raid.
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LONDON
Royal Air Force
Gernan-held
France
channel
Dover Strait
Cologne
Red Army counterattacks rout German regiment near Smolensk
Moscow reports say Soviet forces repelled a German 161st division unit rushed from Toul near Nancy. The daily communique notes Russian counterattacks and preparation to strengthen lines from Leningrad to the Dnieper as Soviet ships sink Axis shipping in the Baltic. The night bulletin claims massive German armor losses amid heavy fighting on an unnamed front sector.
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MOSCOW
Red army
Leningrad
Dnieper
Fessel
Baltic Sea
almos
smic
mueidtts
Australian home forces get new commander in chief
Sept 11 AAP reports Sir Iven Mackay will take over as commander in chief of the Australian home forces. The move accelerates intensified training and faster delivery of modern equipment for home defense.
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MELBOURNE
Australia
s. home force
Australian home forces
Iven Mackay
Canadian troops return to corps area for training
Refreshed after duty on the coast, soldiers of the 2nd Canadian Division have returned to the Canadian Corps area to continue training for whatever action the war may bring.
RAF raids hit Tripoli and Bengasi as war moves
Across Sept 1 2 reports from Cairo and New York describe night raids by the Royal Air Force Middle East command damaging an Axis merchant ship at Tripoli Aug 31 and leaving another ablaze. Similar raids hit Bengasi, Bardia, and Gambat storage dumps.
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R.A
TRIPOLE
BENGALT
CAIRO
Egypt
Royal Air Force
Middle East command
Tripoli
Bengasi
Bardia
Gambat
NEW YORK
British Broadcasting Corporation
Moscow
Germany
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BERLIN
Krasnogvardeisk
Soviet union
Odessa
Black Sea
Pskov
Tallinn
eastern front
Kharkov
Dnieperopetrovsk
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Perce, Que
ESSEN
Toul
SUEZ CANAL
A.P
DNB
trafic
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ISTANBUL
Axis
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Turkey
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