Americans Drive Into Reichs Wagen 29 Ships Sunk
A U S wartime bulletin claims Americans struck at Reich forces with 29 ships sunk and 20 damaged in Manila. Eisenhower supreme headquarters issue urges 12 million foreign workers in Germany to act, warning about Gestapo power and detailing plans for organized resistance and hiding strategies. The message stresses timing, safety, and resource needs after Hitler’s defeat.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
Germany
Gestapo
Reich
Hitler
Third Reich
Flashes Of Life From The AP In Brief News Snippets
A collage of short life vignettes from war and postwar days. A Hawthorne correspondent recalls Lt Herb Palmer injuring an ankle after world assignment, Kansas officers debate postwar mood, a Kansas City man travels with overseas cap, a New Mexico fair affection for Ferdinand the bull, and a San Francisco officer recounts a perimeter defense on a southwest Pacific island.
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Herb Palmer
Stars and Stripes
Hawthorne
N. Y
Holland
Parapet
London
Palmer
Francisco
Pacific
Debates Rise Over How to Shape Germany Peace
Washington leaders clash on a postwar plan for defeated Germany as Treasury Secretary Morgenthau backs destroying or selling German industrial machinery while Secretary Stimson and others resist. President Roosevelt and Churchill discussed the policy at Quebec amid pressure for a rapid Allied agreement.
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Ashington
Germany
Treasury
Presti Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Geray
Stimson
Etary
State Hall
Morgenthal
Desale
Arendy
Roosevelt
Quebec
Churchill
Arriv 1
Ormany
Andi
Great Britain
Russia
France
Orgenthau
Hopper
East Carroll girl Virginia Turnage dies from fire burns
Virginia Mattie Turnage 16 of Lake Providence died in a Monroe hospital after burns sustained Sept 11 when her father tried to use oil on a kitchen fire. Survived by parents Thomas and Jim Turnage two brothers Thomas and Jimny and sisters Evelene Gee Gene Pittman Agnes Mardella Leila Mae Betty Lee and Annette Turnage. Funeral arrangements to be set by Mulhearn Funeral Home Rayville with details incomplete.
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Monroe
Virginia Mattie Turnage
Tom Turnage
Lake Providence
Virginia
Charity Hospital
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Rayville
Thomas
Jimny Turnage
Evelene Gee
Gene Pittman
New Orleans
Agnes
Mardella
Leila Mae
Betty Lee
Annette Turnage
Mind Still Pretty Good Says Wallace on Roosevelt
Vice-President Henry A Wallace said President Roosevelt’s mind is still pretty good after an upstate New York tour. He dismissed accusations of senility and cited the soldier vote law as an “amazing maze” created by an ingenious man. Governor Dewey called the law the simplest state application form.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Henry A. Wallace
Roosevelt
New York
Wallace
Thomas E. Dewey
Union
Oil well blowout in Caldwell parish draws Monroe oil interest
Unusual activity in Monroe oil circles followed a Shell Louisiana Central Lumber No. 1 well in Caldwell parish that blew out 80 feet of drill stem and damaged the derrick. The test was kept confidential as drilling proceeded, with speculation the well could reach 15,000 feet. The massive New Mexico brought derrick underscored the operation's scale.
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Monroe
Shell Company
Louisiana Central Lumber Company
Caldwell Parish
Shell
New Mexico
Dewey accuses Roosevelt of borrowing from Hitler in speech
Governor Thomas E. Dewey blasted President Roosevelt as mudslinging and said Roosevelt used language from Mein Kampf in a Saturday night address. Dewey spoke to about 1,000 in Oklahoma City and promised to pursue the truth in tonight's campaign speech.
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Oklahoma City
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
The
United States
Dewey
New York
Mr. Roosevelt
Mein Kampf
Repub
Texans Face Three Choices in November Election
Texans may vote for Roosevelt Truman electors, choose the Dewey Bricker Republican ticket, or back a new anti Roosevelt party whose names will be certified if nominations are properly submitted. Secretary of State Sidney Latham will print the September Democratic convention electors on the ballot, following the Texas supreme court ruling upholding their status and purging May electors who were not bound to Roosevelt and Truman.
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Austin
Tex
Roosevelt
Truman
Dewey
Bricker
Sidney Latham
Texas
Planes Destroyed In Pacific Raids Hit Manila Hard
Adm Chester Nimitz announced American carrier raids on the Philippines destroyed or damaged 200 Japanese airplanes in two days and sank 29 ships in Manila Bay. He said the Third fleet forced Japanese forces to move bases and disrupted inter island communications as air power weakened in the Philippines. Japanese reports claimed further raids continued, while US actions also challenged reinforcements at Peleliu in the Palau group.
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Vern Haugland
United States Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States
Philippines
Tokyo
Island Air Force
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Manila
Manila Bay
Luzon
Minidanao
Central Islands
Third Fleet
Nimitz
Fifth Fleet
Philippine Sea
Peleliu Island
Palau
Captain Carlisle Found Dead in Canal Near Greenville
The body of Captain Silas M. Carlisle a Franklin Tennessee native and quartermaster corps officer who had been missing from Selman Field since Wednesday was found Sunday near Greenville Mississippi Half submerged in a drainage canal with two knife wounds to the throat authorities believe possible self inflicted death The body was sent to Selman Field and funeral plans remain unannounced Carlisle is survived by his parents two brothers and a sister
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Silas M. Carlisle
Franklin, Tenn
Selman Field
Greenville
Miss
W. H. Reid
Carlisle
Quartermaster Corps
Captain Carlisle
Selman
Sheriff's Office
Monroe
The
Hall Funeral Home
Walter O. Carlisle
Franklin
Fourneuf platoon suffers near Brest with one survivor
On the Brest battlefield, a platoon held high ground against strong German defenses and achieved its objective while the rest were killed or wounded. Maj. William F. Kernan and Capt. Robert J. Hitt describe the grim scene as Sgt. John W. Hadaway recalls issuing calm orders to his men before the final push.
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Hal Boyle
Fourneuf
Brittany
America
Brest
Maj
William F. Kernan
Washington, D. C
Reds Close In Upon Riga Amid Baltic Offensive Climax
Red Army forces narrowed the gap toward Riga as part of a broad Baltic advance. Govorov’s Leningrad army moved south along the Gulf of Riga while Cherniakhovsky’s units on Prussia’s edge prepared a powerful early strike. Soviet forces also reported captures in Paidiski and incursions from Poland into Czechoslovakia.
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Moscow
Red
Riga
East Prussia
Junker
Estonia
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Gulf of Riga
Baltic
Paidiski
Estonian
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Prussian
Reich
Red Army
Cherniakhovsky
Poland
Lupkow Pass
Czechoslovakia
Humenne
Republic
Bucharest
Szczed
Hungary
Slovakia
Transylvania
Romania
Wehrmacht
Hitler
Count Hulzen
Central
South Ukraine
Texas Democrats Challenge Electoral Party Labels
Ed Clark of Austin protested to Secretary of State Sidney Latham against any variation of the term Democratic in filing presidential elector nominees by other parties. A new anti Roosevelt party formed in Austin announced plans to seek certification for electors, with its label to be filed later. Clark warned legal action could follow if a party uses Democrat or Democratic in its slate.
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Austin
Tex
Ed Clark
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Sidney Latham
Latham
J. Hart Willis
Dallas
Clark
Saloons to Close After War Ends In Ouachita Parish
Ouachita parish police jury in special session with A E Montgomery ordered saloons and liquor stores outside West Monroe and Monroe to close for 24 hours after news that Germany fell. Violators face a 100 dollar fine. copies of the ordinance will be given to affected dealers.
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Ouachita Parish
A. E. Montgomery
West Monroe
Monroe
Germany
British American wedges drive toward Kleve bridgehead
Allied forces push across the German border toward Kleve threatening a Ruhr sweep. British Second Army and American parachutists seize Beek near Nijmegen, cross the Rhine at Arnhem, and expand a bridgehead while fighting in the Reichswald. Eisenhower urges action as German counterattacks and civilian trench lines rise along the frontier.
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Germany
Siegfried Line
Arnhem
Nijmegen
Rhine
Scherpenseel
James M. Long
London
Kleve
Ruhr
Second Army
Deurne
Eindhoven
Volkel
Northern
Reich
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Reichswald
Beek
Slone
Courtsney H. Hodges
U. S. First Army
Aachen
George S. Patton
Third Army
Baccarat
Nancy
Strasbourg
Epinal
Moselle
Belfort
Beele
Arnehem
Bombers Raid 3 Nazi Cities
Allied air forces struck Frankfurt Coblenz and Ludwigshafen in the German west, using heavy bombers with escort to target rail yards and key hubs. The raid came as U S Eighth Air Force reported clouded objectives and multi type aircraft from Britain and France reinforced the attack amid continued actions along the Siegfried line.
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London
Frankfurt
Coblenz
Ludwigshafen
Germany
Luxembourg
Diekirch
Rhine
Moselle
Belgium
Metz
Reich
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Britain
Straits
Perih
Munster
Boch
Reily Resigns His Elector's Place
New Orleans businessman J W Reily resigns as one of Louisiana's 10 Democratic presidential electors saying he has not decided how he will vote individually. The move precedes a Baton Rouge meeting of the Democratic state central committee to consider binding electors to the party nominees. Reily, from the Second district, argues electors voting against their party's wishes threaten the political system.
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New Orleans
J W. Reily
Louisiana
Reily
Second
Roosevelt
Dewey
John Fred Odom
Baton Rouge
State Committee
Odom
Governor Davis to visit Bogalusa Rotary and YMCA drive
Gov. James H. Davis will attend a Bogalusa Rotary Club luncheon and possibly stay for the YMCA drive opening. He will also join Rep. William Rainach for Junction City’s 30th anniversary on September 27. Additional plans include a state guard inspection in Shreveport on September 28.
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Baton Rouge
James H. Davis
Rotary Club
Bogalusa
Junction City
William Rainach
Claiborne Parish
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Furance
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Charles
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Senate House On Committee
Ighton
East Carroll
Virginia Turnage
Monroe Hospital
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Hague
Amsterdam
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Rotterdam
Antwerp
Brussels
Zuider Zee
Leeuwarden
Cologne
Mighty Gasser
By Jack Bell
Canal
S. M. Carlisle
Robert J. Hitt
Norman Avenue
Los Angeles
John W. Hadaway
C. A. Hadaway
Lufkin
States
Hadaway
REDS
Paldiski
Siegfried
Red Devil
Davis
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