Lend Lease Aid Should Continue Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt urged Congress to keep lend lease aid through June 30 1945 until Japan and Germany surrender. He defended the program as essential to unmixed victory arguing unity speeds peace and that the Allies must maintain strong supply and coordinated power. The quarterly report shows lend lease value at $28.27 billion through June 30 with $4.045 billion in supplies and services for the quarter ending June 20.
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Germany
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National Association of Manufacturers
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lendlease
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Johnston Lands Russian Courage
Seattle Aug 23 Pi Eric Johnston U S chamber of commerce president praised Russia as indomitable but urged that he rediscovered America. He spoke to 500 construction men describing civil liberties as a vague promise and religion as worship of Stalin during his Soviet trip aftermath.
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Eric Johnston
U. S. chamber of commerce
Russia
America
Spokane
Wash
Soviet union
worshp
Stalin
Roosevelt greets delegates at Dumbarton Oaks talks
President Roosevelt welcomed delegates to the Dumbarton Oaks conference in Washington as the Earl of Halifax reported that he stressed the need for a working plan for postwar world security. The British ambassador noted the president hoped wartime cooperation would continue after the war.
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WASHINGTON
Roosevelt
Dumbarton Oaks
Earl of Halifax
Trust Suit Filed Against Railroads
The Justice Department filed an anti trust suit in Lincoln Nebraska against the Association of American Railroads the Western Association of Railway Executives J P Morgan and Company Kuhn Loeb and Company and 47 railroads plus officers and directors and 31 others alleging collusive action to fix freight rates and hinder western railroad improvements The filing seeks injunctions to dissolve the two associations and prevent continuation of the alleged offenses and a plan to restrain trade under the Sherman act Officials said war and navy departments did not object to the filing and that 9 to 12 months would be needed to prepare the case
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justice department
Lincoln
Neb
Association of American Railroads
Western Association of Railway Executives
J. P. Morgan and Company
Kuhn, Loeb and Company
Francis Biddle
ACLU CULMOIVELY
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United States
western systems
Wendell L. Berge
antitrust division
war and navy departments
service departments
Berge
southern
commission
Bomber Crash Kills Children in Lancashire Village
An American B-24 Liberator crashed in Freckleton, Lancashire, today, killing at least 50 people including 34 children from a church and evacuees. American troops aided rescue amid widespread destruction, with estimates of higher tolls and several crew deaths.
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LONDON
Lancashire
Freckleton
The
Press association
England
Hitler
Minister Aranha Resigns as Brazilian Foreign Minister
Rio de Janeiro reports President Getulio Vargas accepted the resignation of Oswaldo Aranha the Brazilian foreign minister. The official announcement came today in Rio de Janeiro.
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RIO DE JANEIRO
Getulio Vargas
Oswaldo Aranha
Man Feeds Dogs Each Night And Helps the Butcher Out
In Kansas City Kansas Aug 23 Andrew C Miller 69 longtime Wyandotte humane society member began feeding neighborhood dogs nightly. To cover costs he arranged with local butchers to sharpen knives in exchange for bones and scraps. The 34 dogs approve.
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Andrew C. Miller
Wyandotte humane society
Allies Hammer At Fleeing Nazis
Allied columns tightened the net on German forces retreating toward the Seine. Patton’s 3rd Army pressed near Fontainebleau while Canadian and British units pushed the pursuit from Falaise toward the Lower Seine. Paris and surrounding pockets remained contested with rumors of liberation and ongoing riverine fighting.
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Le Javre
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Evreux
Vernon
Romania Accepts Red Peace Offer
SEW YORK Aug 23. Romania has accepted a Russian peace offer and will become an ally of the United nations, the Bucharest radio announced in a FCC recorded broadcast. A summary of King Michael’s proclamation notes a new national government, acceptance of peace terms, Romania joining the UN alliance, rallying around the throne, rejection of the Vienna award, and Romania taking its fate into its own hands and will fight the enemy.
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Romania
United nations
Bucharest
federal communications commission
Michael
FCC
Transylvania
Hungary
Federal Workers Out of Program
Washington August 23 The House Ways and Means Committee struck from the senate approved postwar demobilization bill a provision extending unemployment compensation to 3 500 000 federal workers The committee action followed a vote removing retraining and reemployment provisions and scrapping a program to pay transport costs for workers back home or to new jobs.
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Third Landing Reported Invasion Near Bordeaux France
A third French invasion landing was reported near Bordeaux after a night assault under naval and air bombardment. Berlin said a small force landed near St Jean De Luz while Hendaye officials claimed a coordinated ground attack closed on Bordeaux. American and French forces reportedly moved toward the harbor, with Spanish and Stockholm reports noting possible Allied activity in the Bordeaux area.
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France
Bordeaux
Handaye
Charles S. Foltz
Associated Press
Madrid
Feliz
Berlin
St Jean De Luz
Biarritz
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Hendaye
St. Jean De Luz
Marseille
Mediterranean
Loire
Mantes
Spain
Record Raid Made On Enemy Island
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS Southwest Pacific Aug. 23 Unchallenged Liberators and Mitchells began to strike Halmahera, the last island barrier between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the Philippines. A record 135 ton bombing destroyed eight parked planes, supply dumps, and defense and sank a freighter. A 110 ton strike had been announced yesterday. Halmahera’s rugged, jungle interior makes these blows significant in reducing Japanese coastal and air defenses.
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Southwest Pacific
Halmahera
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
General Wessels Receives Silver Star for Burma Capture
Brig. Gen Theodore F Wessels was awarded the Silver Star in Kand y Ceylon for gallantry in the Myitkyina operation in north Burma. Gen Joseph W Stilwell presented the decoration after Wessels led the final assault on the Japanese base, repeatedly exposing himself under fire.
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Ceylon
Theodore F. Wessels
Myitkyina
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Wessels
Frank Merrill
Americans Reach Grenoble Deep in Southern France Front
Seventh Army thrust into Marseilles and Grenoble signals rapid Allied advance in southern France. American troops of the Tenth Army enter Grenoble, with French interior forces aiding, narrowing the gap to the Italian frontier and isolating German units fleeing toward the Rhone valley.
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Grenoble
Mediterranean
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Alexander M. Patch
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Lyon
Rhone valley
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Gap
St. Bonnet
L'Argentiere
Radio France
Algiers
Tito Captures Nazi Stronghold near Nis
Tito's partisans seize the fortified German stronghold of Lebani, 25 miles south of Nis, at the Belgrade Sofia railway junction. The broadcast says the enemy war was trapped and wiped out with heavy losses and 100 truckloads of war materials were captured.
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Marshal Tito
Lebani
Nis
Belgrade-Sofia
Tito
Land Purchases Hit High Mark During War
Washington reports the federal government acquired more than 34 million acres of land during the war excluding defense plant areas. Senator O'Maloney said the total value is undetermined yet the government has paid about 565.3 million dollars for the properties.
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defense plant corporation
O'Maroney
D.-Wyo
Paris Freed After Four Day Street Fighting
Paris was liberated by 30,000 organized French interior forces and hundreds of thousands more joining with improvised weapons. Public buildings were seized and Vichy officials captured. De Gaulle met Eisenhower amid the capital’s restoration as Paris returned to French control four years and 74 days after German entry.
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Charles de Gaulle
La Marseill
Ile de la Cite
De Gaulle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
committee of national liberation
Rennes
Brittany
Coutances
Avranches
DNB
federal communications commission
Montmartre
Montparnasse
Russians Drive Against Romania and Baltic Push
Soviet offensives push 150 miles across Romania toward Bucharest and Ploesti, with the Red Army reaching Riga beaches. Casualties mount as 25,000 German troops are reported killed in three days as Tolbukhin and Malinovsky drive toward the Danube, while Bessarabia buckles and Warsaw outflanks.
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VPIL
Romania
Hitler
Balkans
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Bucharest
Riga
Baltic states
Red army
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Fedor I. Tolbukhin
Danube
Iasi
Tolbukhin
Bessarassi
arion
Malinovsky
Gelati
Balkan
Chisinau
Poland
Warsaw
East Prussia
Lemza
Flying Bombs Hit In South England
London reports the heaviest dawn barrage of flying bombs on the southern coast as Allied forces push toward Pas de Calais. Antiaircraft fire roared in a continuous thunderstorm along the coast. Bombs struck residential areas causing casualties. Shelters withstood the assault.
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Pas-De- Calas
Seine
Vienna attacked by American bombers from Italy
German radio claimed American bombers based in Italy attacked the Vienna area with air combats reported over Wiener Neustadt, the nearby aircraft center.
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Italy
Vienna
Wiener Neustadt
OPA Chief Gets the Word About Hamburger and Onions
OMAHA Neb Aug 23. D B O'Brien district OPA price executive stopped at an Omaha restaurant and ordered a hamburger with. A waitress said the OPA wont let us serve hamburgers with onions. O'Brien challenged the claim and the waitress admitted a shortage of onions and blamed the OPA for the dilemma while trying to satisfy customers.
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Neb
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OPA price
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OPA
Churchill FDR May Attend Paris Parade Under Arc
The London Daily Herald reports plans for President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to attend the Paris Allied parade led by French troops with General Charles de Gaulle likely to receive the place of honor. The march awaits deeper German destruction as newsreel operators prepare and bands rehearse. a Roosevelt Churchill meeting on French soil could occur within weeks.
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Churchill
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