Allied Forces Cross Into Germany In Major Blitz Push
Allied forces led by Lt Gen Courtney Hodges press into Germany from Luxembourg and France. The First Army and Third and Seventh Armies drive deep past the Moselle and reach the Rhine while British forces seize Le Havre. Red Army reports probe East Prussia as Patton’s Third Army engages along the Moselle and Maginot defenses. The invasion consolidates a broad front from the North Sea to the Vosges with semakin advance toward the Siegfried Line.
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Associated Press
Courtney H. Hodges
U.S. Firs
Germany
Hitler
Moselle
Th Rhine
Luxembourg
Gemany
Cated Press
William Smith White
le Havre
Seine
Atlanti
France
North Sea
Vosges
Siegfried Line
Moscow
German East Prussia
Lambernon
Dijon
Burgundy
Alexander M. Patch
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
George S. Patton
Maginot
Tiny War Day Coincidences Brighten Assigned Lives
In wartime dispatches two Neal Shaw sons, William and Tod, meet in the Pacific after enlisting at Athens in 1940 and 1941 respectively, reuniting far from home. Also recounted is Cpl Jim Mock's English bride craving a frock, her mother-in-law buying it, and a $6.40 import duty that drew smiles as she paraded in fashion from The Strand to Logan's Main Street.
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Neal Shaw
William
Mateh
Tod
Far Pacific
Athens
Bill
Ted
Oriental
Jim Mock
Harry Mock
The
Daily News
Cpl. Jim
la Elberfeld
Crown
Logan
Maine GOP sweeps statewide as Hildreth leads Jullien
In Maine, Horace A. Hildreth leads Democrat Paul Jullien by more than a two to one margin as 27 precincts report. Rep. Robert Hale wins easily in the first district over CIO shipyard union president Andrew Pettis, while Margaret Chase Smith and Frank Fellows post decisive wins. In Texas, Democrats debate binding electors to Roosevelt Truman at a state convention.
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Maine
CIO
Texas
Dallas
Horace A. Hildreth
Paul J. Jullien
Robert Hale
Andrew A. Pettis
CIO Shipyard Union
Hale
Pettis
Margaret Chase Smith
Frank Fellows
Spray Gun Marauder Terrorizes Illinois City
In Mattoon Illinois a gas spray marauder has fired a mysterious substance into a dozen homes over two weeks, triggering mass hysteria as residents avoid nighttime streets. Police including state troopers hunt the prowler while dozens report effects such as nausea and mouth burns. authorities urge calm and warn against self help.
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Mattoon
Illinois
Thomas J. Wright
Wright
Convoy Warfare Expands as Allied Attacks Hit Philippines
Tokyo radio reports American carrier planes struck the Philippines for a second time after a first strike that sunk 52 freighters and sampans off Mindanao. Allied air and sea forces also hit Palau and a Burma convoy, described by the British as the greatest single air and sea victory in Southeast Asian waters.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Philippines
U. S
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Mindanao
Suriago
Buayan
Zamboanga
Douglas MacArthur
Nimitz
U.S
Tokyo
Manila
Palau
Burma
Andaman Sea
Asiatic
Oppose U S Road Building Program
Washington September 12 A group of Republicans led by Senator Taft opposed a bill to authorize a 3 375 250 000 road construction program. They argued Congress cannot responsibly decide on such spending until the postwar budget size is known and suggested pairing the bill with other public works to gauge total expenditures.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Body Sought in River After Bridge Fall
Firemen dragged the Muskingum River at Marietta Ohio for the body of Fred Kelly an 81 year old retired merchant who officials believe fell from the Putnam Street bridge.
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River Marietta
Muskingum River
Fred Kelly
Putnam Street
See High Divorce Rate in Country In Postwar Period
Cleveland report quotes Dr. Carl R. Rogers of Ohio State University warning the postwar era may bring a high divorce rate as war veterans struggle to readapt to marriage. He cites difficulties in affection and the view that many couples will become strangers, with some estimates predicting about forty divorces per one hundred marriages.
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Cleveland
Carl R. Rogers
Ohio State University
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Convention of Miners Opens in Cincinnati
The United Mine Workers of America opened its biennial convention in Cincinnati with over 2500 delegates. President John L. Lewis planned to attack the administration while a convention endorsement of the Republican candidate remained uncertain amid a caucus clash involving autonomy forces and a Lewis ally. Edmundson, a Lewis appointee and rival, led the disputed caucus before leaving the scene as anti-Edmundson speakers spoke.
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Cincinnati
United Mine Workers of America
UMW
John L. Lewis
Ray Edmundson
Lewis
Illinois
Edmundson
Draft Call Handed To Cause of Strike
Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co employee whose discharge triggered a six day strike and army seizure was ordered to report for pre induction physical amid union claims the company maneuvered the draft call in Cleveland on September 12.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co
Shuffling of Allied Power in Pacific Is Talked at Quebec
In Quebec Roosevelt and Churchill discuss realignment of American and British land sea and air forces in the Pacific and Asiatic areas. The talks focus on a potential thrust across Japan's lifeline to the Netherlands East Indies and isolating the Japanese homeland for Allied assault.
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Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Quebec
Canada
Pacific
W. L. Beale, Jr
Asiatic
Japan
Philippines
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Chateau Frontenac
Netherlands East Indies
Hurricane Heads Far East Coast
A great Atlantic hurricane drifted toward the United States with warnings for the Bahama Islands. The weather bureau urged East Coast residents from Miami to Cape Hatteras to stay alert as the storm could recur and possibly affect the coastline, though forecasters said it may not.
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Miami
Fla
United States
Weather Bureau
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Grady Norton
Bahama Islands
Urges Formation Special Agency For Water and Parks
COLUMBUS Ohio September 12 A postwar plan urged creating a state agency to harness federal water projects for Ohio. Water engineer C C Chambers told the conservation committee that without state federal cooperation federal projects would serve only flood control, missing water supply and park benefits. He cited flood control plans costing about 15 million dollars including Muskingum District reservoir on the Licking River at Dillon eight and a half million, a dam on the Olentangy River at Delaware for four million two hundred fifty thousand, and a Sunday Creek dam near Chauncey in the Hocking Valley for seven hundred fifty thousand.
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Columbus
Ohio
C. C. Chambers
Ohio Postwar Program Commission
Conservation Committee
Uncle Sam
Chambers
Muskingum Conservancy District
Licking River
Dillon
Olentangy River
Delaware
Suneday Creek
Chauncey
Hocking Valley
Supreme Court Losing Esteem, ABA Resolution Says
The American Bar Association at its 67th annual convention considered a resolution declaring the Supreme Court is losing if not already lost the high esteem of the people. The proposal, by J Cleo Thompson of Dallas, cites court decisions reflecting the administration's philosophy rather than established law.
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Chicago
American Bar Association
Supreme Court of the United States
Association
J. Cleo Thompson
Dallas
Tex
Woman killed in road crash near Toronto Ohio
Violet Schaeefer aged 25 of East Liverpool Ohio died and four others were seriously injured when an automobile collided with a truck on a state highway near Toronto Ohio. State patrol reported the crash occurred yesterday.
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Steubenville
Violet Schaeefer
East Liverpool
Toronto O
Curtin Denies Australian Knowledge of Pearl Harbor Warnings
Prime Minister John Curtin rejected claims that Australia alerted Washington about a Japanese fleet headed for Pearl Harbor before December 7 1941. Curtin said the allegation is pure invention and that Australian cables contained no data on the fleet.
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Canberra
Australia
John Curtin
Pearl Harbor
United States Congress
Washington
Curtin
Warning to Austrians as German defenses crack
The War Today analysis warns Secretary Hullely’s warning to Austrians that the time for revolt against Germany is almost up. It notes Hitler's defenses cracking with Luxembourg frontier crossings by American forces and Red Army patrols into East Prussia, signaling Allied advance and an eleventh hour for Austria to act.
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Associated Press
Hullely
Germany
Austria
Hitler
First Army
East Prussia
Fuehrer
Hold Ex convict In Death of Wife
Chester Czuba an ex convict was arrested by Cleveland police after his wife Mary 22 a sandwich shop waitress was shot to death as diners watched. Police Lt Hussman said Czuba admitted the shooting and quoted him that quote That was the only way I could stop her attentions to other men.
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Cleveland
Chester Czuba
Mary
William Hussman
Czuba
Schools Close as Paralyzing Disease Hits Ky County
Ashland authorities report a second death from infantile paralysis prompting Russell Jr Boyd County health director to issue a school closing order.
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Ashland
Russell, Jr
Boyd County
Democrats Attack Middleman's Profit At Ohio Convention
Ohio Democrats at their state convention marked the issue of the cost of food as the middleman’s profit. Nominee Lausche urged coopera tive protection by law and the platform committee debated how far to back protective legislation. Cleveland’s mayor opened the campaign to end six years of control as the party framed its platform.
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E. E
Columbus
Ohio
Lausche
Cleveland
Thelatil
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