War Today Outlook From Front Lines And Neutral Refugees
Allied forces push into France threatening a chaotic German collapse if divisions fracture. Observers fear Hitler may seek refuge in neutral countries while the war on multiple fronts remains fluid and strategic, with a possible rep for a renewed push toward the Oder and renewed fighting in the Ruhr. A helicopter mail flight near Boston marks a new aviation milestone as the war unfolds.
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France
Paris
Reich
Washington
Thatler
Showkl Witler
Germany
Hitler
Hardenrg
Almanac Snippet Shows Sunrise and Tides Aug 30 1984
Daily almanac fragment notes sunrise at 8 05 am and high tide at 9 30 am with references to upcoming Saturday. It also mentions sunset timing and weather cues for the day. The text is incomplete and reflects a brief calendar style entry.
Local Herald Brief Highlights Hampton And Nearby Areas
A compact roundup from the Herald notes activity across Hampton and surrounding towns including Kittery New Castle Newington Somersworth and nearby coast. Mentions classifieds personals radio rationing and sports glimpses across towns and events.
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Hampton
Uttoan
Kittery Coiney
Rittery Point
New Castle
Newington
Rockingham to Close Portsmouth Jail Sept 7
Rockingham county commissioners voted unanimously to close the Portsmouth jail effective Sept 7 and move all prisoners to the county house of correction at Brentwood. The decision follows hearings and a committee review, with final authority resting with the commissioners.
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Rockingham
Brentwood
Rockingham County
Portsmouth
County House of Correction
Kelland blames Roosevelt for Pearl Harbor disaster
Clarence Budington Kelland, Arizona author and Republican official, told the Vermont Republican convention that President Roosevelt failed to prevent Pearl Harbor. He said poor precautions lengthened the war, and criticized a Bremerton speech for politicizing the war effort. Kelland forecast a Dow Bricker victory in November.
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Pearl Harbor
Kelland
Arizona
Bremerton, Wash
Belland
Dow Bricker
Navy reveals 65 thousand vessels built in five years
Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the United States has built 65 000 vessels of all ages in five years, totaling about 9 000 000 tons of naval shipping. Warships fill roughly 35 percent, landing craft 22 percent, with about 1 160 fighting ships among the combatant total.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
United States
Grees
Military paper access tightens amid waste restrictions
Stop Retail Paper Supply reports Boston Aug 30 that military paper shortages will end the widespread use of paper cups bags wrapping paper and cartons. John T. Kiley New England WPB salvage manager predicted tight restrictions reserve cups only for battle-stained soldiers and sailors in war theaters, signaling widespread rationing.
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Boston
John T. Kiley
New England
WPB Salvage
Free French pledge aids Pacific War effort
The Free French and the American Navy unite to threaten Japan with new power blows. Radio France says Free French forces will join the Pacific war after Hitler's defeat, with eyes on the French Trader China. Vice Admiral عباس Breon Fisch notes nearly 100 US aircraft carriers in action, including 14 Essex ships, enabling swift advances toward Guam, the Philippines, and China.
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Associated Press
Japan
Radio France
Hitler
China
Asia
Adm
Anbrey W. Fisch
United States
Guam
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Yap
Palau
Halmahera
Poles Struggle For Rebirth Of Nation
In Lublin Poland after five years of war a provisional Polish government operates with Catholicism as state religion. Guerrilla veterans drill in streets as a half million awaited army forms. Jews remain few but welcome in a new Poland with no barriers. Anti air and Majdanek loom as reminders amid ruins of Warsaw.
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Lublin
Poland
APIA
Red Army
Moscow
Ghureh
Atosh Jof Shem
Majdanek
Flooded oil stove causes smoke damage at Clinton Street home
Richard Blake of 2 Clinton Street faced fire and smoke damage after a flooded oil stove ignited in his kitchen. Fire Chief George T. Cogan estimated losses at about 25 dollars. Earlier, the department responded to a grass fire by the city dump on Jones Avenue and a garage fire on Lafayette Road, with garage damage around 50 dollars.
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Richard Blake
Clinton Street
George T. Cogan
Jones Avenue
Lafayette Road
Cogan
Fire damages bandages at Kendall Bills plant
A fire damaged rolls of unfinished gauze at the Kendall Bills company plant in Golrain Mass yesterday. The blaze impacted medical military use materials during manufacturing. No injuries were reported as firefighters contained the flames.
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Golrain
Mass
Kendall Bills Company
Boy with Thorn in Foot Helps Foil Car Theft Gang
A 13 year old boy in Atlanta Aug 10 spotted trouble when a car to a nearby filling station pulled in and a man with a shotgun entered. He drew the license number in sand and alerted police. Thirty minutes later officers stopped the car and arrested three men on a Tonbery charge.
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Yeggs
Atlanta
Billy Duncan
Alling Station
Billy
Poling Oyer
Four power air corps eyed at Dumbarton Oaks talks
Washington reports growing possibility of a four power recommendation to create an international air force. The idea clashes with the American preference for national forces to police peace, yet Russia Britain and others support a quickly available force based on existing forms.
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Washington
Dumbarton Oaks
Russia
Britain
World War I shell kills boy in Detroit
A 11 year old boy, Daniel Broush, died after a World War I 75 millimeter shell exploded while playmates got injured in the Doran backyard. Det Lt James Payne noted the blast caused compound fractures, multiple lacerations, and flying shrapnel as others were treated at hospital for injuries and transfusions.
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Delon
Sid Tires
Daniel Broush
Bats
John Stiejin
Ramond Ostrowski
Daniel Doran
Scme
Doran
James Payne
Newfields Officer Missing in France
A Newfields officer, son of Mrs Helen Merrill, reported missing in action in France by the War Department. He had lived in Epping with Mr and Mrs Herbert W Smith before enlisting nine years ago.
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Helen Merrill
Newfelds
War Department
France
Merrill
Epping
Herbert W- Smith
Army
Presidential Campaign Gains Momentum
The Associated Press reports a momentum build for the Roosevelt and Tru man ticket as Dewey gains with three GOP governors attacking Hillman and party machines. Vice President Wallace plans speeches for the ticket while Hannegan pushes three day regional conferences to strengthen organization across the Northeast and Mid Atlantic.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
AFL Teamsters Union
Washington
Democratic National Committee
Pey
Ea Warren
California
Dwight G. Green
Ilinois
Connecti
Dewey
Sidney Hillman
Big City
Heke
Green
Esecuwon
New Deai
Kelly
Hague
Flynn
Hannegan
Warren
Republican Party
Hillman
Congressional Campaign Funds Committee
CIO
Republican National
Thert Brownell
Army Navy Grid Clash at Annapolis
Army Navy football will be played Dec. 2 at the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis with attendance strictly limited to residents within 10 miles. Ceremonies will be omitted to save transportation costs and gasoline and tires, following wartime economy rules similar to last year at West Point where Navy won.
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Washington
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Navy
Forrestal
Army
West Point
Danish Count Seeks Full Custody of Lance Hutton
Haugwitz-Reventlaw moves to Boston to win complete custody of Lance from Barbara Hutton. The nine year old boy is at issue in a Los Angeles court action while a London court decision is cited by his father. He says attorneys advised him he is legally entitled to keep Lance.
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Hub
San Boston
Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlaw
Tormey
Dime Stote
Barbara Hutton
Boston
Lance
Boston Americas
Cary Grant
Revention
London
Australian Forces To Release 45,000 for Labor Needs
Canberra reports Prime Minister Curtin announced 30,000 soldiers and 15,000 air force personnel will be released by June 30 to ease critical labor shortages. The plan aims to preserve military strength while freeing workers for high priority industry.
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Canberra
Australia
Air
John Curtin
House of Representatives
Neeks
Purtan
Flag Set Drive Aims To Uniform City Displays
The Parzemouth Chamber of Commerce maps show eight businesses have bought sidewalk flag sets. Gaps remain on streets like Pleasant where only two flags appear. James W. Tucker urges nonparticipants to order flag sets. city will provide receptacle installations.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Powers Son Wounded in Action In Pacific
Worcester residents Mr and Mrs John J Powers received a Navy telegram announcing that their son Seaman Lc Richard F Powers was wounded in action while serving with a Navy gun crew in the Pacific. He was at home recovering when the message arrived and went to the door to accept it.
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Worcester
Mass
John J. Powers
Navy Department
Richard F. Powers
Navy
Awards Presented At Yard During Shipboard Ceremony
In a shipboard ceremony Rear Adm. Thomas Withers awarded the Navy Cross and three Silver Star medals in the name of the President. Cmdr Batford 3 Lewellen USN received two Navy Crosses for a well planned attack that sank four enemy ships totaling over 21 600 tons and damaged two freighters totaling 11 000 tons. A Silver Star went to Lewellen for a bold torpedo attack that heavily damaged a 4 000-ton freighter and sank an enemy fleet unit. Lt John P. Bientz USNR earned a Silver Star for gallantry as engineer and division officer during a war patrol of a US submarine. Ensign Donald Gaither USN received a Silver Star for gallantry as chief machinist’s mate aboard a submarine during a war patrol totaling 23 000 tons sunk or damaged. Gaither, born in Washington DC, resides at DenNet street Portsmouth. Lewellen was born in Alabama and resides at Kittery Point. Bientz is from New Bedford Massachusetts.
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Thomas Withers
USN
Portsmouth Navy Yard
United States
Comdr
Batford
Lewellen
Gort
Alabama
Naval
Will Plan Labor Relations Course Here
Plans for an industrial USO sponsored course in labor relations will be discussed tomorrow night at 7 30 at the YMCA building here at a meeting called jointly by the USO and by the Metal Trades council of the navy yard. Representatives of eight labor unions in Portsmouth are expected to attend to voice their views and desires for courses. Joseph Noia said suggestions for courses this winter include public speaking and parliamentary procedure funding correlating and use of facts stewards' training with help from the University of New Hampshire and the American Federation of Labor.
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YMCA
USO
Metal Trades Counccil
Navy Yard
Portsmouth
University of New Hampshire
American Federation of Labor
Joseph Noia
Industrial
Allied advance presses toward Reims and Epernay
American forces storm across the Vesle reaching Reims about 50 miles from Belgium and 107 from the German frontier while another column drives ten miles north of the cathedral city. A southward thrust crosses the Mare at Epernay and western actions claim Chatons sur Marne and Les Grandes Loges. Vitale-Francois on the upper Marne is being mopped up as a second Aisne crossing places another Yankee column in action.
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France
Scissors
Paris
Laon
Sedan
Germany
Mantes
Seine
Vesle
Reims
Belgium
Aisne
Third Army
Mare River
Epernay
Chatons-sur-Marne
Les Grandes Loges
Vita- le-Francois
Upper
Marne
Verdun
Bradley To Be Equal Of Montgomery In France Command
AP reports a new French command would grant Lt Gen Omar N Bradley equal status with Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery as an army group commander. Britain viewed this as a potential demotion for Montgomery, who previously led all Allied ground forces. The shift aimed to streamline command as American strength grew after the invasion.
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Washington
France
Omar N. Bradley
Bernard J. Montgomery
Eisenhower
Britain
Bradley
Montgomery
Wanightion
New York Delivers Satirical panorama of Nazi moves
Neal O Hara mocks Nazi boasts in a column mixing jokes and observations about Germany. He notes Hitler opening a Berlin station for Mussolini, troops roaming as tourists, trucks flooding the Reich, and looming air raids. The piece ends with a bleak forecast of looting and worsening conditions by November.
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Hitler
Berlin
Mussolini
Musse
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