War Today: Mackenzie Reports Allied Advances in Northern France
DeWitt Mackenzie notes Allied gains in northern France with Patton leading armor north of Laon near the Somme defenses. Eisenhower elevates Omar Bradley to overall commander in northern France, Montgomery remains in command of British forces. The tempo seeks to shorten the war before winter.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Goodnews
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Fance
Patwa
Laon
Somme
Fanepanc
Jowe Lmne
Rhrus
SOR Ars
Satis
Ust
English Channel
Eisenhower
France
Hinev
Omar Bradley
Amerien
Lemard “Montgomery
Montgomery
England
New Hampshire Gazette Almanac and Notices
The 1925 June edition of The New Hampshire Gazette features a Day's Almanac along with listings for funerals seating and community notices. Readers are directed to Thursday content including puzzles and crosswords and notices for local residents such as Deanne Bonner.
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The
New Hampshire Gazette
Bombs and Jokers Shake Boston Court Case
An epidemic of explosive devices planted in car spark plugs spurred police to seize 483 bombs. Joke shop operators John P. Mahoney and Louis Kavatchonick, both Bromfield street merchants, were summoned to municipal court on charges of keeping for sale a device containing an explosive substance under a new fire department permit statute.
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Boston
John P. Mahoney
Daddy & Jack's
Louis Kavatchonick
Jack & Jill Fun Shop
Bromfield Street
Paper Collection Set for Saturday in Portsmouth
Portsmouth salvage chairman Ira Brown urges all households to prepare paper and cardboard for the war effort. City trucks will begin rounds Saturday at a specified time to collect materials placed at the curb with rubbish.
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Chaiman Ira
Brown
Portsmouth
Salvate Committee
Brown Tod
French Form Provisional Government Formed in Paris
Paris Aug 31 AP The French National Committee of Liberation announces a provisional French government headed by Gen Charles de Gaulle as president of council. It includes communists and others using war noms. Prisoners and deportees are to be returned. elections planned. Gunfire and clashes reported near Paris around Champigny. Arrests of collaborators continue including Madame Taitayna and Francois Lehideux. Key posts listed for liberated territories and Moslem questions.
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Paris
French National Committee of Liberation
Charles ‘de Gaulle
Germany
Vule
Champigny
Madame Ti+tayna
Francois Lehideus
Vichy
Automobile
New
Andre Je Troquer
Socialist Party
Quartus” Gerat
Henry Quenille
Germans Told of Losses To Spur War Activity
London reports an AP analysis of Nazi high command communiques showing German outlets inform on Allied eastern and western gains to spur homeland defense. Dittmar warns of space for time, while Goebbels pushes a desperate theme of self preservation or annihilation to rally factory workers.
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London
APJ
Inch
Naz
Uri Dittmar
West
Olttmar
Germany
Ana Wesy
Sears
Dittmar
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Truman to Get Nomination Tonight in Lamar Missouri
Truman will learn tonight at the Barton County courthouse that the Democrats have chosen him as vice presidential candidate. Sen. Tom Connally will relay the news in a brief speech, after which Truman will thank supporters and launch his campaign with a 20 minute remarks and radio broadcasts to follow.
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Lamar
Aus
yars—Lemars
Truman
Barton County Court House
Harry S$. Truman
Tom Connally
D-Tex
Trumen
Farragut Kindergarten Opens September Eleventh Panic
Portsmouth schools Superintendent Harry L. Moore announced the Farragut kindergarten will begin September 11 due to uncertainty about this year's class size.
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Farragut
Harry L. Moore
Portsmouth Schools
Two Somersworth Men Wounded in Action in France
Two Somersworth families report their sons wounded in France. Pic reward J McGuinness, hospitalized in England after an Aug 3 operation, is a 1935 Somersworth High graduate who attended Saint Anselm and worked at Portsmouth Navy Yard before enlisting in March 1943. He trained at Camp Croft Camp Blanding and Camp Pickett before going overseas last fall. William Cantin 20, son of Mr and Mrs Napoleon Cantin, was seriously wounded Aug 7. his parents, unaware of his location, have no details. Cantin, a 1942 St Martin's School graduate, worked at a Somersworth dairy before enlisting in March 1943, training at Camp Croft and Camp Pickett before overseas deployment in September 1943.
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Somersworth
France
Charles McGuinness
Main Street
Pic
J. McGuinness
England
Somersworth High School
McGuinness
Sc. Anselm
Manchester
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Camp Croft
S.C
Cantin
St. Martin’s School
S. C
Camp Pickett
Remick Renamed To Welfare Board Appointment
The governor and council yesterday reappointed Frank C Remick of Portsmouth to the New Hampshire Board of Public Welfare. Remick’s term will expire June 1, 2947. A Portsmouth merchant and recently retired president of the NH Seacoast Regional Development Association, he first served on the state welfare board.
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Frank C Remick
Portsmouth
New Hampshire Board of Public Welfare
Remick
New
Berm
N. H. Seacoast Regional Development Association
Stave Welfare Board
Nashua Mulls City Manager Plan in 1946 Change
Nashua plans to seek legislative change to adopt a city manager system. A four member manager would run the city under an elected board, with a $5000 salary, while the mayor becomes a ceremonial figure at $1000 annually. Backers cite lower taxes and better purchasing as benefits, with the reform slated to take effect in 1946.
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Nashua
Cig
Sidermen
Cty
Plane Head Quits Job as WPB Dismantles Unit
Washington August 31 The Aircraft Production board created two years ago to ease the wartime plane bottleneck is slated for dissolution as Charles E Wilson retiring executive vice chairman announces the unit’s discontinuance. Other WPB leaders reportedly submit resignations as Krug weighs the move.
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Washington
Aircraft Production Board
Dohe
Washington Seene
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
Krug
WPB
Wilson
War Agency
Boulware
Plang
Plan Band Concert In Portsmouth Square
Portsmouth's long awaited band concert is set for tonight at 7:30 in Market square. The Portsmouth city band directed by A Roland Hinckley will present a prop grat with entertainment and block dancing by Tra A Brown. Ralph A Newton will publicly present an American flag in honor of the band, its director and Mr Brown.
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Portsmouth
Market Square
Roland Hinckley
Tra A. Brown
Ralph A. Newton
Sfr. Brown
FDR Churchill Conference Expected Soon
Washington indicates President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill will meet within the month to map plans for Germany’s defeat and postwar western world security. They aim to discuss Britain's role in final phases of the campaign and other allied security arrangements. Churchill may brief Italy and Tito before return to England. This would be their 11th summit with advisers since 1940.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill Wil
Germany
Britain
Churchill
London
England
Italy
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Middle East
Gairo
Chiang Bal-shek
Stalin
Teheran
Cairo
Ismet Inonu
Turkey
Boston Teenagers Face Sanity Test in Murder Case
Five 15 year old defendants charged with first degree murder and robbery in the strangling death of John F. Prouty 40. They are John J. Donovan Thomas D Durant Francis J Muller Francis Jaceman and Gerard F Shields. Mental health officials plan sanity examinations next week at Boston Psychopathic Hospital under Drs Clifton T Perkins Harry Solomon and A Warren Stearns. Roe 3126 was stolen during the attack.
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Postet
AUE
LAPJ
U. S
Clifton T. Perkins
Perkins
Harry O. Solomon
Boston Psychopathic Hospital
A. Warren Stearns
Tufts Medical School
Navy
John F. Prouty
John J. Donovan
Thomas D. Durant
Francis J. Muiler
Francis Jaceman
Gerard F. Shields
Willkie May Keep Both in 1944 Election Guesswork
New York reports that Willkie may back both major candidates as election approaches. Friends say the 1940 GOP nominee aims to shift postwar policy toward liberal foreign and defense stances while avoiding a clear endorsement. He withholds a firm candidate preference, awaiting what Dewey and Roosevelt say and do on key issues.
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New York
Wenver L. Wilkie
GOP
Wil Stick
Willkie
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Broad Street
Jack
Democratic
Dewey
Blueberry Omelet Scrambles Eggs in Maine Collision
Nearly 10 000 eggs were scattered when two trucks collided in Freeport Maine. Henry H Knight of Union headed for Boston with 280 cases of eggs and 180 cases of blueberries while Garnet Scott of Bridgewater drove beef to Presque Isle. Both drivers escaped injury and a town crew spent hours clearing the sticky mess from the road.
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Freeport
Henry H. Knight
Union
Boston
Garnet Mr. Scott
Bridgewater
Presquesle
Duchess of Windsor Hospitalized for Appendectomy
The Duchess of Windsor underwent a successful appendectomy at Roosevelt Hospital New York Aug 31. Surgeons were Dr Henry Cave and Dr Joe R Clemmons reported no complications. Privacy measures included police guards and restricted access to the information desk.
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New York
Duchess of Windsor
Roosevelt Hospital
Joe R. Clemmons
Henry Cave
Lay Martin
Baltimore
Clemmons
England
Wallis Simpson
Dr. Clemmons
Associated Press
Dirksen Attacks Roosevelt In Dual Role Campaign
Rep Everett Dirksen denounces President Roosevelts Hawaii trip as a campaign stop. He says a candidate must face voters in one role and accuses Roosevelt of seeking the presidency under false pretenses by using the navy to assist during the campaign.
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Old Orchard Beach
Everett Dirksen
Wjnitea
Dirksen
Ilinois
Roosevelt
Stalin Jos
Hun
Three Rubbish Fires Suspected Deliberate Near Vaughan Street
Three small rubbish fires occurred last night and early today near Vaughan street. Fire Chief George T. Cogan said the fires were likely started deliberately since they were reported within an hour and a half. First blaze on Vaughan and Schoyl streets at 11 38 pm, then another on Hill Street, and about an hour and a half later a third in a YMCA parking lot on Vaughan. A minor grass fire also burned at Prescott park on Mechanic street at 2120 yesterday afternoon.
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Vaughan Street
George T. Cogan
Vaughan
Schoyl
YMCA
Valghan Street
Prescott Park
Ships Knocked Out Japanese Losses in August
Nearly 380 ocean going ships were knocked out of the Japanese merchant and fighting fleets in August. At least 175 ships sunk including 18 combatants, with 96 ships destroyed or crippled listed in communiques. American bombers hit Halmahera as MacArthur reported heavy, widespread damage.
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Aled
China
Navy
Forrestal
United States Navy
Philippines
Halmahera
Douglas Macarthur
Milton Firemen Quell Blue Hills Timber Blaze
A woodsire fire in the Blue Hills reservation near Milton Massachusetts was brought under control by Milton firemen and Metropolitan District Police who supervised the tract. The blaze scorched about 20 acres of standing timber and was contained by late today.
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Blue Hills
Milton
Mass
Blue Hills Reservation
Metropolitan District Police
Americans Within 83 Miles Of Reich
Allied forces pressing across northern France and into Belgium near the German border with advances toward Laon Reims and Paris. American armies within 83 miles of the Reich as Bradley leads combined American British operations nabbing targets near Dijon and Nice while Polish and Italian fronts push Gothic line and Gothic targets. Red army reports cross Romanian oil hubs and Bucharest outskirts as Eastern fronts surge.
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Seine
Belgium
Amiens
Somme
Germany
France
Maginoy Line
Eisenhower
13Th Army
Yemnante
Rhone
Lyon
Nice
Italy
Pesaro
Bucharest
Cairo
Hitler
Slovakia
Berlin
U. S. Third Army
Reich
Rantred &J. Dizier
Vitry-l-Francois
Marte
Paris
Laon
Throst
Reims
Soissons
Aisne
Senlig
Crespy
Omar KL. Bradley
Bernard L. Montgomery
Foglia
Seventh Army
Italian Riviera
Red Army
Romania
Ploesti
London
Transylvania
Arrest of Dr Alexis Carrel by French forces
French interior forces arrested Dr Alexis Carrel on August 31, a 1-year-old Nobel Prize winner and former scientific associate of Charles A Lindbergh in the invention of the heart. The disclosure came yesterday.
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Peris
French Forces of the Interior
Alexis Carrel
O'Hara Remarks on Nazi Regime and Goebbels Delays
Neal O'Hara satirically questions Nazi tactics and leadership. He mocks Hitler’s fortress Europe concept and accuses the regime of inconsistency while speculating on Hitler’s fate and Goebbels’s timing amid harsh reich decrees.
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New York
Hitler
Europe
Adolf
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Portsmouth Herald
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Duchess of Windsor In Hospital
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