Churchill rules out timing of second front talk
Prime Minister Churchill rejected questions about when and where a second Allied front would open. He warned against public statements or speculation, even if based on inference, as BBC French broadcasts claimed an offensive is in the making. Willkie’s Moscow call for an early front and Madagascar progress were noted.
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ONDON
C.P
Churchill
house of commons
BBC
France
Peter MacDonald
United Nations
N.S
MacDonald
Nova Scotia
WILLKIE
Wendell Willkie
The Left Hand Corner and Sullivan’s Straits Feat
Ottawa’s Twenty Thousand Gals Channel Swimming era is noted as war slows. Henry F Sullivan, third to swim the Straits, endured 2% hours and 563 miles of progress by shore, piloted by the late Captain N L Smith. The feat, praised as memorable, is contrasted with McNaughton’s cover crop remark and ongoing controversy.
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Ottawa
McNaughton
London
Ottawa Journal
Shickelgruber
Dover
Henry F. Sullivan
Straits
Captain Webb
Burgess
Sullivan
Calais pier
N. L. Smith
Boston
USA
Teller
Trooper Reilly Confirmed as Prisoner of War
Mrs. J. Reilly of Lethbridge received notice from Ottawa via the International Red Cross that her son Trooper Thomas Reilly, previously listed missing after Dieppe, is a prisoner of war at Camp Stalag, Germany. He has served about two years in the army.
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J. Reilly
Lethbridge
Ottawa
Thomas Reilly
Dieppe
Camp Stalag
Germany
International Red Cross
Canuck Flier Claims First Aleutian Air Victory
A Canadian pilot Wing Cmdr. Kenneth Boomer of Ottawa reportedly shot down a Japanese fighter in the Aleutian Islands during a joint American-Canadian raid on Hiska. Boomer, a Battle of Britain veteran, led Canadian airmen with U S fighters and bombers. He previously downed a German plane in November 1941. The Allied force also damaged two enemy submarines near Ricka Marbor.
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ALASKAN DEFENCE COMMAND
C.P
Aleutian Islands
Kenneth Boomer
Ottawa
Hiska
Boomer
Britain
United States army
Canada
Ricka Marbor
United States air force
RAF Attacks Benghasi Tobruk and Sidi Handish
Cairo report says RAF attacked Axis landing grounds at Benghasi Tobruk and Sidi Handish on Sunday night. El Alamein front again sees only patrol skirmishes with casualties reported.
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CAIRO
Bengass
Tobruk
Sidi Handish
RAF
El Alamein desert
Allies Go On Offensive In Pacific
Allied forces unleash air and ground power across Pacific fronts causing Japanese retreat in New Guinea and heavy losses in the Solomons and Aleutians. Over four days, raids destroy 49 Japanese planes and damage five ships as U S navy and air force leaders meet at sea to plan the campaign.
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New Guinea
Solomons
Aleutians
JOHN H. WIGGINS
Associated Press
WASEINGTON
Pacific war
Solomon and
Aleutian islands
Pacific
United States navy
air force
Hitler Fires His Generals Purge Reaches Stalingrad Front
London report details a new Nazi purge of top generals. Field Marshal Fedor von Bock is ousted from Stalingrad, Wilhelm von Leeb is replaced on the Leningrad front, and Siegmund List would take over the Balkan theater with Hermann von Hoth as second in command. The purge mirrors last winter’s dismissals after Moscow.
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WES GALLAGHER
Associated Press
LONDON
Hitler
Moscow
Fedor Vor Bock
Stalingrad
Wilhelm Ritter Von Leeb
Leningrad
Vichy
Siegmund List
Balkan
Von Bock
Sarx
Hermann Von Hoth
Georg Von Kuschler
Victory Loan Is Challenge Set Across Canada
Service clubs nationwide plan a service of Canada day in October to focus attention on the third Victory Loan opening October 19. G W Spinney, chair of the National War Finance Committee, praised service clubs for volunteering to promote the loan. About 500 clubs are expected to participate with a club member addressing the October gathering on the war finance drive led by Finance Minister Isles.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Isley
war finance
Prairie gas rationing in Ottawa announces annual prairie quotas
Prairie gas rationing figures released in Ottawa show annual allocations for motorists across the prairie provinces. Ration category allowances drop from five to four gallons, with A through E levels adjusted by car size and previous brackets.
Cabinet reorganization eyed in Ottawa call up plan
Ottawa Sept 28 Cabinet reorganization and completion of transfer of military call up machinery from the national war services department and the labor department were scheduled for cabinet consideration. Prime Minister Mackenzie King was expected to announce changes that may involve several ministerial shifts including Ernest Bertrand possibly becoming minister of public works. Maj Gen L R LaFleche, directing call up, may be shifted to cabinet rank with a Quebec seat, with reports of staff resignations to aid his election. Edmonton city council names Fort Edmonton as ship title.
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OTTAWA
national war services department
national selective service branch
labor department
Mackenzie King
Ernest Bertrand
Montreal Laurier
LAFLECHE
L. R. LaFleche
national war services
selective service branch
Quebec
house of Counmuns
Plan Ration Boards Here Across Canada
Ottawa reports that more than 300 ration boards will be established soon across Canada under local supervision to place consumers in closer contact with wartime prices and trade board administration of rationing. The move follows a wartime committee meeting.
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OTTAWA
Canada
prices and trade board
London Times Backs Wilkie In Demand For Second Front
The Times editorial calls for a second front as essential to victory. It lauds Wendel Wilkie for his testimony on military strategy affecting Allies including the United Nations. The piece notes his views on timing, gravity of contingencies, and the need to balance aid with strategic planning.
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London Times
Wilkie
ONDON
C.F
The Times
Germany
Wendel Wilkie
iit
Middle East
Monen
United Nations
Soviet Union
Prairie gasoline ration cut to four gallons per unit
Ottawa reports the gasoline ration in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta will drop from five to four gallons per unit effective tomorrow closing Sept 30. The measure aligns prairie provinces with Ontario Quebec and British Columbia while Maritime provinces retain three gallons per unit. Oil Controller G R Coltrelle cites war demand and bumper crop harvest as drivers of lower inventories and the switch from tractor distillate to gasoline by farmers.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
munitions and supply department
prairie provinces
Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Maritime provinces
praire
G. R. Coltrelle
Toronto
northwest
New Alberta judge appointed after chief justice death
Sr. Justice Campbell C. McLaurin of Calzary receives appointment to the Alberta trial court though the vacancy is paused by the death of Chief Justice C R Machel. McLaurin has taught law in Medicine Hat, while his father was a Baptist missionary superintendent in the West for many years.
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CAMPBELL C. McLAURIN
Calzary
Alberta vial court
C. R. Machel
McLaurin
Nazis Inch Forward In City Itself
Russian forces skirmished near Stalingrad as they pressed northwest of Rzhev and along the Don-Volga corridor. Soviet troops gained heights, claimed several German losses, and recaptured a Nazi stronghold and two villages as the 36th day of the siege unfolded with bold night assaults and front-line gains.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
OSCOW
Rzhevr
Upper Volga
Lower Volga
Don bend
Stalingrad
Wield
Timoshenko
Don-Volva
Rzhev
Liberals in Britain Hope for a Stronger Party
Lord Meston told the Liberal party conference that Munich and appeasement have boosted Liberalism and that state socialism's foretaste under government controls also helps recruit. The London gathering drew over 600 delegates, the largest since the war began, as postwar role debates dominated proceedings.
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DOUGLAS AMARON
LONDON
Munich
Lord Meston
Liberal party
Violet Bonham-Carter
Russians claim capture of height near Rzhev in heavy fighting
Soviet information bureau dispatches report the seizure of a strategically important height north of Rzhev, with 500 Germans killed in the assault and 2,500 Germans declared engaged in the theatre. Russians pressed other sectors including Sinyavino and the western Caucasus while sharp battles continued near Voronezh and on the upper Don between Moscow and Stalingrad. A mortar battery commander was cited for drawing fire to allow explosives that wrecked three tanks and killed over 30 Germans. Volga gunboats supported Red Army infantry in a local attack driving back Romanian riflemen.
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Soviet information bureau
Voi&& Basit
Rzhev
Moscow
Sinyavino
Caucasus
Voronezh
upper
Don
Stalingrad
Volga
Red Star
Aberhart urges NL to back Alaska rail route
Premier Aberhart urged extending Northern Alberta Railways as part of a proposed US rail line to Alaska with Fairbanks as terminus. Separate items report CBC salary cuts, Lloyd George’s tribute and other wartime notes as Ottawa and New York dispatches.
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ABERHART
N.LF
ALASKA
EDMONTON
Northern Alberta Railways
United States railway
Fairbanks
Albertz
CBC
OTTAWA
C.P.i
pew
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Major Murray
WERE
NEW YORK
Maine
deinz
VISHS
NAVY
KNOX
BRAZIL
RIO DE JANEIRO
Frank Knox
United States
Bary spoeiary
DENIES VISTOL
CONGRESS
WASHINGTON
ALP
Tresaient
Roosevelt
Barkley
senate
ATI
SenereS
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