Railway Hit In English Raid on Italy
British planes damaged Catanzaro Marina station and tracks on the Jonian coast. Civilians suffered two deaths and 12 injuries as bombs hit the railway area. A raid on Bengasi Libya caused damage and fires rose in Matruh and Tobruk in North Africa.
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Rome
Catanzaro Marina
Italy
High Command
Jonian Seacoast
Catanzaro
Bengasi
Libya
North African
Matruh
Tobruk
RAF Night Raids Hit Denmark and Northern France
British air ministry reported overnight raids from Denmark to Northern France targeting Rotterdam Antwerp Dunkerque and Brest with coastal command attacks on Aalborg and RAF fighters in Northern France using aerial cannon and machine gun fire. Axis forces offered limited activity over Eastern England and Scotland with no reported casualties. Cairo said Tobruk siege sectors saw successful raids and Axis positions weakened with ammunition dumps exploded and heavy fighting foregrounded by artillery and mortars.
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London
Denmark
France
Air Ministry
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Dunkerque
Brest
Aalborg
England
Scotland
Cairo
Tobruk
Harriman Report on Religious Freedom and Stalin Talk
The President plans to push Harriman's report and discussions with Stalin amid debates on religious freedom. Critics mock Harriman’s aim to win Stalin to religion while Roosevelt cites consistency in supporting freedom of worship despite Churchill talks at sea.
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Httle
Harriman
Russia
Myron C. Taylor
Vatican
Pius Xil Smith
Senate
Stalin
Churchill
Nye
Roosevelt
Cripps Urges Tolerance in Russia Rival Religions Questioned
Sir Stafford Cripps British Ambassador to Russia raised the issue of religious tolerance in talks with Soviet leaders. British officials believe suppressing atheistic propaganda could strengthen both Russian and Allied positions, aligning with Averell Harriman and Myron C. Taylor's missions to Moscow and Rome.
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Cripps
Russia
London
Stafford Cripps
United States
Latin America
Spain
Averill Harriman
Moscow
Vatican
Myron C. Taylor
Roosevelt
City Manager Warns Of Future Economic Strain
Rochester city official Cartwright warned yesterday that rising welfare costs and expanded utilities could burden municipalities. The message highlighted anticipated financial pressures amid ongoing public services strains.
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New York
Cartwright
Rochester
War Warms To Slaughter In Europe Across Occupied Nations
Reports from wartime dispatches describe harassment and executions across occupied Europe. Rexist leader killed by Belgian bomb. Otokar Klapka among 14 executed in Czecho Slovakia. Norwegian patriots clash with German troops. mass arrests and confinements tied to Nazi rule. Churchill portraits altered with Hitlerian markings in Belgian posters. Polish agency reports 150 Poles executed since invasion of Russia. Dutch scouts report 100 arrested and one killed trying to escape.
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Ante Pavelic
Croatia
Czecho-Slovakia
Otokar Klapka
Prague
Berlin
London
Steinkjaer
Jensvold
Belgium
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Germany
Russia
Holland
Greek Revolt Quelled by Bulgarian Forces in Drama District
Berlin reports that Greek insurgents who crossed from Greek territory into eastern Macedonia’s Drama district were killed after several hours of fighting. Bulgarian army and police suppressed the uprising aimed at inciting Greek villagers and seizing public institutions.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Berlin
Drama
Macedonia
Bern
I C White Tanker Torpedoed In Neutral Zone
The tanker I C White, operated under the Panama Transport Company a Standard Oil of New Jersey subsidiary, was torpedoed Sept 27 in the neutral zone about 450 miles east of Pernambuco. 18 survivors were rescued from a single lifeboat. The ship, sailing from Curacao to Cape Town, is one of 80 American vessels aiding Britain. crew includes Jens Christensen Ben Oleen John Powers Timothy Dunn Manuel Lago Bernard Brady all of New York or Brooklyn. The vessel had left Newport News Sept 7 for Curacao after refitting from Cartagena to Halifax.
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Pernambuco
New York City
Panama Transport Company
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
United States
New York Shipping Register
Capetown
South Africa
Curacao
West Indies
I. C. White
Newport News
Cartagena
Colombia
Halifax
Robin Line
Standard Oil
New York
Jens Christensen
Brooklyn
Ben Oleen
John Powers
Timothy Dunn
Woodside
N. Y
Manuel Lago
Bernard Brady
Neutrality Act revision debate brightens after I C White sinking
Washington observers urge bolder action as the torpedoing of the American owned tanker I C White heightens fears of Nazi reach in the Western Hemisphere. Senator Hill calls for outright repeal while Roosevelt plans consultations with lawmakers on possible changes.
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Washington
I. C. White
Administration
Roosevelt
Congress
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Senate
Hill
High Seas
United States
North Atlantic
U. S
Frank Knox
American Bar Association
Germany
British Isles
City of
Rayville
Charles Pratt
Robin Moor
Morgenthau tours after Coast Guard plane crash near land
Secretary Morgenthau remained calm as a Coast Guard plane skimmed tree tops in fog en route to Fishkill. The aircraft scraped treetops near New Hackensack before climbing away. He praised the pilot Lieut. William Linton and continued to New York for a weekend at the country residence.
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Morgenthau
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Moregenthau, Jr
Fishkill
Coast Guard
New Hackensack
Philadelphia
Lieut
Wiliam Linton
Danish ship Pink Star sinks. 12 missing from 26 crew
The former Danish ship Pink Star was sunk on Sept. 11 and 14 or 12 crew members were missing, while 12 still unaccounted for as of reports, none American. The American flag Steel Seafarer was sunk by aerial bombing in the Gulf of Suez on Sept. 5, with no loss of life.
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Pink Star
Gulf of Suez
Zero Hour in Asia Nears as Japan Conducts Indo China Maneuvers
Imperial Japanese forces began grand drills in French Indo China amid signals that the southern Asia crisis nears. Details are censored, but forces include tanks and trucks ready for a full campaign. Diplomacy pressures on Thailand rise as Konoye meets Hirohito in Tokyo.
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Saigon
Indo-China
Asia
Thailand
Japan
Tokyo
Fumimaro Konoye
Hirohito
Malayan Radio
Singapore
Japs Claim Capture Of Chengchow In Honan
Japanese forces claimed to have occupied Chengchow a key railway hub in Honan in a new offensive. The capture was described as a step toward a western Luanghai railway advance against Chinese troops.
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Chengchow
Honan
Shanghai
Honan Province
Luanghai Railway
Hitler Speech and European Hope Amid War
The piece cites Hitler extolling military might while accusing enemies, contrasted with a rare glimpse of mercy as German and British POWs may be repatriated. It urges turning from hate to consider humane steps possible, hoping for wounded soldiers to return home and for Europe’s future.
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Russia
High Command
America
Hitler
Germany
Brittany
Ukraine
Europe
English Channel
Miners Ready to Return to Work Amid Wage Disputes
Union vote in Hazelton clears a three week strike with 11,071 miners set to return Monday after dues and annual assessments hike from 1 to 150 dollars and 2 to 6 dollars. AFL President Green signals resolve. separate mediation talks move forward on aircraft plant and brake shoe disputes with details undisclosed.
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William Green
Hazelton
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
U.M.W
Green
Seattle
A.F.L
National Defense Mediation Board
Consolidated Aircraft
San Diego
Calif
International Association of Machinists
Mahwah, N. J
American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company
A.F.L. International Molders and Foundry Workers
Alabama Soft
Pittsburgh
30 Nazi Soldiers Reported Killed by Polish Guerrillas
Report from official Polish refugee sources states 30 German troops died in two Polish guerrilla clashes in Poland. Fifteen died in separate actions near Sledice and a forest ambush on a German cavalry detachment. Additionally, Polish youths were sentenced to eight years hard labor for building a radio to listen to British broadcasts. A German food train en route to Smolensk reportedly lost 12 cars in an attack near Ostrolenka.
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London
Poland
Sledice
Warsaw
Russia
Gdynia
Ostrolenka
Smolensk
Alleged Slayer Of Buffalo Girl Nabbed In Detroit
Police say Henry Kuzlemkowski, 24, confessed to slaying Mary Szarpa, 21, in August 1937 in Buffalo. Arrested in Detroit after a four year manhunt by two Buffalo officers, he faces first degree murder charges for firing rifle shots that killed Szarpa as she hung laundry outside her home. her mother and sister witnessed the fatal shot.
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Buffalo
Detroit
Pollice
Mary Szarpa
Kuzlemkowski
Mead Urges Study of Postwar Transport Needs
Senator Mead proposes a special commission to study postwar transportation after the emergency ends. He warns that railroads and other facilities are expanding and questions how to use them, fearing unemployment and wasted capital if planning is delayed.
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Mead
Washington
Senator Mead
D-N.y
Rey Mead
Soviet Claim Victory Near Leningrad Amid Odess a Donets Calculus
Soviet information bureau reports Red Army infantry and air units crushing 25 German tanks and 300 trucks in a sector near Leningrad while fighting across the front. British planes claim four Messerschmitts shot down. Berlin says German pressure centers on Donets Basin Kharkov. Soviet sources note submarine loss, parachute detachments disrupting Odessa and Rumanians, plus heavy German attrition in Leningrad region.
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Odessa
Crimea
Donets
Soviet Information Bureau
Red Army
Berlin
Kharkov
DNB
Sone
Hitler
Fedor von Bock
Red Fleet
Black Sea
Ines
Bogdanov, II
Ivan Nagreba
Nagreba
Ime
Leningrad
Roosevelt chat helps girl to land plane factory job
Martha Gallanter, 23, quit her stenography job to learn welding at a National Youth Administration center in New York. After a August visit by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and a publicized chat, she secured a 35 cent an hour welder position in the fuselage section at Piper Aircraft in Lockhaven, Pa. She has logged 26 solo flight hours toward a pilot license.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Martha Gallanter
Miss Gallanter
National Youth Administration Center
Piper Aircraft Corporation
Lockhaven
Man Held for Trial In Double Slaying
Fred de Paolis, 41, remanded to await trial after pleading not guilty to first degree murder in a shotgun killing of Thomas McNerney, 55, and Joseph Idzier, 19, outside a Lackawanna restaurant following a cigarette dispute. Helen Morgan in critical condition after abdominal surgery at Henrotin Hospital.
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Buffalo
Fred. de Paolis
Meee de Paolis
Thomas McNerney
Joseph’ Idzier
Lackadwanna
Helen Morgan
Chicago
Henrotin Hospital
Nazis Admit New Attack Is in Making
The High Command said a new assault is being prepared. British warplanes bombed Rotterdam killing over 60 and injuring about 300. DNB reported damage to homes and two churches, a hospital ship sunk, with higher casualty figures possible. The British also hit docks at Rotterdam Antwerp and Dunkerque.
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Donal
High Command
Rotterdam
Netherlands
DNB
Antwerp
Dunkerque
Great Britain
Prisoners Arrive as Nazis Return Home This Night
Nazi prisoners from a two ship exchange arrive at Newhaven after unloading under heavy guard. Among them are Luftwaffe pilots, submarine officers, army personnel, and stretcher cases. British nurses tend them as they settle in onDinard and St Julian. Some salute cameras while others appear subdued, hopeful to return home.
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Red Cross
Luftwaffe
Merchant Navy
International Red Cross
Dieppe
Dinard
Dieppe-Newhaven
St. Julian
Weymouth
Jersey
Newhaven
Clement V. Conole Named Deputy Industrial Commissioner
Clement V. Conole was named deputy industrial commissioner in New York. He previously served as assistant industrial commissioner in Binghamton and Rochester under Frieda S. Miller.
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Clement.v. Conole
New York
Clement 'Y
Conole
State Department
Frieda S. Miller
Binghamton
Rochester
2000 Join In Hunt for Missing Girl in New Hampshire
A large search effort in the White Mountains mobilizes nearly 2000 volunteers from Lowell and New Hampshire. Pamela Hollingsworth has been missing since Sunday, with temps falling to 25 below zero and night searches using lanterns continuing as authorities fear for her safety.
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Conway
N. WH
Pamela Hollingsworth
White Mountains
Lowell
Mass
Joseph E. Hollingsworth
Lowell Lumber Company
Community Chest
Lions Club
Joe
Federated Sportsmen's Clubs
New Hampshire
C. L. Graham
White Mountain National Forest
CCC
Ty Acres
American Legionnaires
Hollingsworth
Posse
Boy Grid Player Proves He's High Voltage Athlete
A football kick sparked disaster when the ball struck a 110 volt line feeding the home of Andrew Potpinko in Pottstown Pennsylvania. Sparks flew as the wire tore down causing a blackout while 500 onlookers and responders crowded the scene. Fire trucks and an ambulance rushed to the incident.
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Pottstown
Andrew Potpinko
Potpinko
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