Pacific air raid sinks ships and downed planes boost war morale
American carrier planes swept Manila area striking for two and a half hours and destroying 205 Japanese planes and 37 ships. The first daylight raid caught the enemy by surprise. Martial law spread in the Philippines as military rule was ordered. Nimitz reported heavy damage to Cavite, Clark and Nichols airfields.
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Associated Press
Manila
Tokyo
U. S
Manila Bay
Adm
Chester W. Nibitz
Philippines
Bataan
Jose P. Laurel
Clark
Nichols
U.S
Cavite
Nimitz
Tokyo Radio
Marc A. Mitscher
William Halsey
Halsey-Mitscher
Autumn Reflections From Logan on Coincidence and Leaves
A narrative piece from Logan blends curious anecdotes with local life as three Logan boys report overseas casualties, a grocer at 31 East Main Street faces future recruits, and residents observe autumn rituals of raking leaves, wind, and gatherings while pondering seasonal change and local sentiment.
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Roy Comly
Mel. Harbaugh
Logan
Charles Starcher
Jack Smith
Tom Nash
East Main Street
Editor Arrested In Argentina Over Alarmist Brazil Rumors
Buenos Aires on September 22 AP reports Pascual Aloiso editor of the pro Nazi Momento Argentino was arrested by order of the interior ministry. The paper had published alarmist rumors concerning Brazil's internal affairs, prompting the action.
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Buenos Aires
Pascual Aloiso
Momento Argentino
Ministry of Interior
Brazil
Japs Call Manila Raid Brutal and Inhuman
Japanese controlled Manila radio condemned Friday’s air strikes by U S carrier planes on Manila area. Four waves of about 200 carrier based aircraft hit harbor facilities and airfield while Japanese naval aircraft claimed to have hit the U S task force and set two carriers afire. The broadcast offered no Allied confirmation.
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Associated Press
Manila Radio
U. S
Manila
Federal Communications Commission
U. S. Naval Task Force
Grumman
Nazis Withdraw From Peloponnesus In Southern Greece
Cairo dispatch reports the Germans abandoned the greater Peloponnesus, a 8,356 square mile region now effectively an island linked by a narrow land bridge west of Athens. Defenses there were made untenable after the Soviet advance in Romania and Bulgaria and Tito’s Yugoslav offensive severing rail links.
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Cairo
Peloponnesus
Greece
Athens
Romania
Bulgaria
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Hitler Brats Under Parental Control In Occupied Germany
In American occupied Germany Hitler youth members are set to face renewed parental supervision. Parents can now discipline children branded as Nazi loyalists, potentially exposing past spying within families. The piece notes Nazi propaganda fostered loyalty and the risk of children acting as home spies.
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Germany
Fritz
Brunnhild
War Today outline of V day timing in Europe
The piece weighs the timing of V day in Europe based on unofficial reports from Quebec and the front. It notes Allied drive ahead of schedule five days per prior word, with a latest month estimate viewed for two angles. It cites German resistance and the need for better ground, supplies, and reserves for the final battle.
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Europe
Quebec
Front
Blonde Ex-maid Freed of Triple Slaying Charge
Mercer, Pa. September 22. Tall blonde Janice Graham former maid on the Everett Wilson dairy farm was acquitted of three murder charges in the shotgun slayings of Mrs. Catherine Wilson and Robert McKay and the strangling of Mrs. Helen Wilson on the farm last October 7. She testified Morell forced her to Ohio after the killings.
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Mercer
Janice Graham
Everett Wilson
Pennsylvania
Miss Graham
Catherine Wilson
Robert McKay
Helen Wilson
William Morell
Morell
Ohio
Nazis Cracking In Italy Reds Push Forward
Allied airborne troops have entered Arnhem and British American forces drive north of Nijmegen. Allied forces win Rimini and Firenzuola in Italy while Patton’s armor sinks Tiger tanks. German resistance cracks on the Gothic Line as Eisenhower reports gains in Holland and Italy.
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Arnhem
Nijmegen
Holland
Neder Rhine
Italy
Rimini
Firenzuola
Kesselring
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Western Front
George S. Patton
Moselle
Nancy
Eisenhower
Smoking
Berlin
WPB Plans Reconversion For Civilian Goods Plants
The War Production Board directs rapid reconversion by asking its industry divisions to submit by Saturday plant lists to end war work after X-Day. VP Hiland G. Batcheller seeks plant by plant data to guide contract cancellations by War and Navy Departments, targeting products such as automobiles radios refrigerators sewing machines and more.
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Washington
War Production Board
Germany
Hiland G. Batcheller
WPB
War and Navy Departments
Goodyear tire plant walkout ends. production to resume
Akron Ohio September 22 AP officials announced a two day walkout by band builders at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has ended and production of military and passenger tires would return to normal tomorrow.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Oil Executive Earl Westwood Sinclair Dies in New York
Earl Westwood Sinclair, 70, president of Sinclair Refining Co and Sinclair Oil Corp, died last night in New York. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, he led the Sinclair Oil empire founded by Harry F. Sinclair.
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New York
Earl Westwood Sinclair
Sinclair Refining Company
Harry E. Sinclair
Sinclair Oil Corporation
Wheeling
W. Va
Bricker says FDR campaign in CIO PAC hands
Governor Bricker declares the Roosevelt bid for a fourth term is now controlled by the CIO Political Action Committee. He accuses the New Deal of abdicating leadership to the Browder Hillman group and warns it harms free voting. He notes Maine residents rejected two Democratic congressmen backed by the Maine United Labor Committee.
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Bricker
CIO Committee
E.E
Portland
Debm
W. Bricker
Roosevelt
CIO Political Action Committee
New Deal
Ohio
PAC
Baltimore
Maine
Maine United Labor Committee
Sidney Hillman
OFL Ends Convention Endorses F D Roosevelt Amid AFL Rift
Ohio Federation of Labor closed its 60th annual convention with a Fourth term endorsement of Roosevelt that sparked concerns of a split with the AFL. Dayton official John Breidenbach warned the AFL tradition may fracture as internal members resent political involvement. President Michael Lyden downplayed sizable discontent while a slate of about 60 resolutions was handled, including a postwar labor program proposal and state tax repeal motion referred to the executive board.
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Columbus
Ohio Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
John Breidenbach
Dayton
AFL
Michael Lyden
Execute Chief of Roman Police By Nazi Collaboration Pact
Pietro Caruso, chief of police during the German occupation of Rome, was executed by firing squad at Fort Bravetta. The Italian court had condemned him for delivering 50 hostages for execution in caves near Rome and for other acts of collaboration.
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Rome
Pietro Caruso
Fort Bravetta
Caruso
Italy
Coddling Charges Unheeded by War Department
Rep Weichel Ohio charges War Department ignored his claim that Italian prisoners of war were pampered and entertained nationwide. He cited a department letter saying prisoners were taken on planned excursions yet not given individual liberty. He argued coddling used cars tires and gasoline while American soldiers fight.
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Washington
Weichel
Ohio
War Department
Brussels government resigns in shock move
London dispatches report the government of Premier Hubert Pierlot has resigned. Berlin radio claims American troops entered Remiremont on the Moselle northeast of Belfort but says German forces drove them out after heavy combat.
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London
Brussels Radio
Hubert Pierlot
Berlin
Remiremont
Moselle
Belfort
Italian Relief Voted Huge Sum
The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration conference at Montreal is set to approve a $50,000,000 relief expenditure for Italy. The U S proposal faced strong European opposition. Norway seeks an itemized Italy supply list to assure non rationed aid. Lehman’s office to supply it. Dean Acheson praised delegates for magnanimity amid debate.
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Montreal
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Conference
Italy
United States
United Nations
Herbert H. Lehman
Dean Acheson
U. S
Russians Contact Polish Patriots
Moscow reports rapid advances on the eastern front with German resistance broken. Russian forces near Tallinn and the Hungarian frontier threaten key towns Arad and Tapa. Inside Warsaw contact with the Polish partisan force claimed and supplies dropped. Riga, Latvia, is besieged as Red Army closes to six miles.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Tallinn
Bor
Warsaw
Vistula
Estonia
Arad
Hungary
Tapa
Latvia
Riga
Baltic States
Red Army
Lightning strikes farmer driving tractor in Ashtabula
Garland Carr aged 27 was killed when a bolt struck his tractor on a farm near Ashtabula Ohio on September 22. The fatal accident occurred while he tended fieldwork, police said. Local authorities described the incident as a direct lightning strike with no survivors.
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Bolt
Ashtabula
Garland Carr
Wallace and Dewey clash over liberalism and planning
Wallace campaigns across the nation arguing for inclusive planning under liberalism while Dewey accuses rising regimentation and pushes for tax cuts, old age pensions, unemployment insurance, and farm support. Roosevelt tours AFL meetings as his campaign emphasizes labor and judiciary independence.
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Los Angeles
America
San Francisco
Dewey
Roosevelt
AFL
Union
Washington
John W. B
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Baltimore
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