Allied Breakthrough Across Holland Threatens Siegfried Line
Allied forces launched a major surprise operation behind German lines in southern Holland, crossing into Dutch territory and pushing toward the Rhine. Over 1,000 transports and gliders carried American British and Polish troops, with Nijmegen and Tilburg reported as landing sites. German defenses breached along the Siegfried Line while counterattacks formed near Aachen, Metz, and Nancy as Third Army repelled waves.
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Holland
Germany
Second Army
Sky Warriors
Tilburg
Nijmegen
Rhine
Kleve
Berlin
Paris
The
Hague
Lower
Luxembourg
Aachen
Duren
Cologne
Metz
Nancy
AFL President Sees Poll Tax Abolition as Vital Reform
Cleveland AP reports AFL President William Green urged immediate abolition of the poll tax, condemning racial barriers in six southern states and white primaries. He spoke to the AFL Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, urging postwar reforms to guarantee voting rights for Negro citizens and those of low economic status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
America
William Geen
American Federation of Labor
AFL Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Green
South
Candidates Will Take to Air For Campaign Speeches
The Associated Press reports Governor Dewey and President Roosevelt will broadcast campaign speeches this week. Dewey heads to Seattle Monday at 7 30 P M Pacific War Time to address issues facing workers while Roosevelt speaks from Washington on Saturday.
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Associated Press
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Dewey
Seattle
Mr. Roosevelt
Washington
Paul E. Lockwood
War Today predicts grim but decisive end to German resistance
War Today argues Allied victory in Europe will come through direct, brutal pressure on Germany. It urges mass Allied offensives, street fighting, and bombing as a necessary pathway to crush German forces and teach a harsh lesson to German leadership and populace.
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J. M. Roberts, Jr
DeWitt MacKenzie
Germany
Europe
Holland
Reich
Pacific Islands
Hitler
Herrenvolk
UMW May Consider Four Year Officer Terms
Cincinnati report says the United Mine Workers convention faced over 100 proposed constitutional changes with a key proposal to extend officers' terms to four years from two. John L. Lewis and Thomas Kennedy have opposed longer terms, but Lewis signaled possible floor consideration. If approved, existing terms stand, and December elected officers would serve through 1948.
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Cincinnati
United Mine Workers Convention
John L. Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
Lewis
Constitution Committee
Prison Terms Drawn By Bank Employees in Toledo Case
Harold B. Wright and O Carl Kaufman both of Union Bank and Savings Co Bellevue Ohio were sentenced to six years each by Judge Frank L. Kloeb for violations of federal banking laws Wright charged with making false entries and allegedly stealing 48415 over 11 years Kaufman charged with embezzlement amounting to 28742 63 per Openlander assistant U S district attorney
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Toledo
Harold B. Wright
O. Carl Kaufman
Union Bank and Savings Co
Bellevue
Frank L. Kloeb
Wright
Gerald P. Openlander
U. S
Slayer of Family Faces Grand Jury
NEW LEXINGTON, O. The Perry County grand jury will start hearing a murder case against Vincent Nash, 50, accused of killing his wife and all three daughters and a son with an axe last Sunday. If indicted, he faces 30 days of sanity observation at Lima State Hospital. sane means trial here, insane means continued confinement.
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New Lexington
Perry County
Vincent Nash
Nash
J. L. Meenan
Lima State Hospital
Meenan
British peer killed in action in France
The Marquis of Hartington, husband of Kathleen Kennedy Kennedy daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, was killed in action in France on September 10.
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London
Marquis of Hartington
Kathleen Kennedy
U. S
Joseph P. Kennedy
France
Misfortune Strikes Family Of Mine Fire Victim
New Lexington Ohio reports Ralph McGonagle 44, one of 66 killed in Powhatan mine fire July 5, had body brought for burial. A brother in law Clarence Johnson 52, from Chicago, died of a heart attack at the funeral home where the body lay. Johnson was a former Perry County resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Lexington
Ralph McGonagle
Powhatan
McGonagle
Clarence Johnson
Chicago
Johnson
Perry County
Pershing Shows Further Improvement Despite Illness
General John J. Pershing, aged 84, has “further improvement” after several days of illness, according to the War Department. He is recovering at the Army medical center in Washington where he makes his home.
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Pershing
Washington
John J. Pershing
War Department
General of the Armies
Army Medical Center
Pvt James Fling Killed in Action in the South Pacific
Pvt James Fling aged 18 son of Mr and Mrs David Fling former Haydenville residents listed as killed in action in the South Pacific. Word of the loss reached his maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Eli Booth of Logan. The Flings have lived in Toledo for six years and Pvt Fling enlisted from Toledo.
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Pvt
James Fling
David Fling
Haydenville
South Pacific
Eli Booth
Church Street
Logan
Flings
Toledo
Fling
Military Government To Destroy Nazi Rule
A spokesman for General Eisenhower announced in a broadcast to western and southwestern Germany that an Allied military government has been established in occupied Reich territory and will commence ending Nazism. The message was released by the Office of War Information.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Reich
Office of War Information
Truman Bricker address World War II veterans at Legion meet
At the American Legion convention in Chicago Harry S. Truman and John W. Bricker outlined veteran security plans from their platforms. Truman praised the GI Bill of Rights as preventing repeats of World War I veteran hardships and education loans, while Bricker called for freeing business to create jobs and urged a climate of opportunity for discharged soldiers.
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Chicago
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
John W. Bricker
Ohio
American Legion
Truman
G. I
Bricker
Arenes
Missourian
Roman Jail Director Beaten to Death by Mob
In Rome a mob dragged former jail director Donato Carretta from a courtroom and killed him, strung him feet-first from a prison window, and cast his body into the Tiber after he allegedly turned 50 hostages over to the Germans. The lynching followed the postponement of Pietri Caruso’s trial as Allied officers delayed court proceedings. Carretta had been to testify for the state in the Rome trial.
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Rome
Donato Carretta
Tiber
Caretta
Pietri Caruso
Caruso
Finns Ready to Declare War on Reich in War Move
STOCKHOLM Sept 18 formal Finnish declaration of war against Germany appeared imminent as cabinet met in Helsinki. Finnish fury grew over German troops burning villages and farms during withdrawal from northern Finland. Russian terms for peace with the Soviet Union reportedly conditioned war action and air bases in northern and central Finland.
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Stockholm
Germany
Finland
Helsinki
Russia
Soviet Union
Gunnar Mullern
Finnish Gulf
Mullern
Enare
Norway
Ivalo
Vuotso
Green To Address Labor Convention In Columbus
William Green president of the AFL was the main speaker at the 60th annual Ohio State Federation of Labor convention in Columbus. About 750 delegates from 400,000 members attended as sessions opened and continued through Thursday. The Ohio Conference of Teamsters backed Roosevelt for a fourth term and endorsed Tobin's call for cooperation with the CIO Political Action Committee.
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Columbus
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Ohio Conference of Teamsters
Roosevelt
Daniel Tobin
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
CIO
Polio May Set Record in Ohio This Year
Columbus reports infantile paralysis cases surge toward a new state high. Health Director James Bauman said 14 new cases over the weekend raise the total to 714, threatening the 1927 record of 1350 cases.
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Columbus
Ohio
James Bauman
Yank Lieutenant Effects Capture of 20 000 Nazis
In Romorantin France on September 14 delayed report cites 24 year old Lt Samuel Magill of Ashtabula Ohio as the force behind surrendering 20 000 German troops in Southern France without American losses. Magill led 18 men patrolling a 1200 square mile area below the Loire River, aiding Maj Gen Erich Elsner's surrender terms to the three American army groups trapped near the Loire.
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Romorantin
France
Lawrence of Arabia
Loire
Erich Elsner
Samuel Magill
Ashtabula, O
Loire River
Publisher Dies in Marysville Tribune Co publisher obituary
Funeral services set for Walter M. Otte 70 co publisher of the Marysville Tribune at Marysville. He dies at home after a long career in local journalism.
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Marysville
Walter M. Otte
The
Marysivile Tribune
Americans in China Destroy Own Airfields
Associated Press report by Leonard Milliman says American forces in China destroyed a major air base near Kweilin as Japanese offensives intensified. The piece cites Chinese reverses blamed on command ineptness and poor coordination, with Chungking issuing orders that showed disregard for field conditions.
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China
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Satsua
Peleliu
Army
81St “Wildcat
Angaur
Palau Islands
Manila
U. Ss
Morotai
Kweilin
Clyde A. Farnsworth
Chungking
Lungling
Navy Vessels Sink in Storm
The destroyer Warrington and two Coast Guard patrol boats sank in the week’s hurricane off Virginia. The Warrington carried 230 aboard. the 125 foot Jackson and Bedloe each had 35. Jackson survivors drifted 58 hours before rescue. Officers Quarles, Call, and Hess were among those aboard. fate of the officers not disclosed.
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Washington
Warrington
Coast Guard
Navy
Jackson
Bedloe
Virginia
Samuel Frank Quarles
Nathalie
J.g
Norman D. Call
Lakewood
Hess
Lohrville
Wis
German born women held in mail fraud case
Chicago authorities report the arrest of a German born, middle aged woman accused of a marriage swindle over four years. Assistant Postal Inspector M L Goldsmith said she used multiple aliases to solicit husbands and extracted at least fifty thousand dollars from about a hundred one admirers who replied to her marriage plans.
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Columbus
Harry H. Herron
Ardella May _ Brobst
Herron
Chicago
M. L. Goldsmith
Goldsmith
Germany
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Switz
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UMW
Legion
William J. Conway
Roman
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