French Leaders Held as Hostages Amid Paris Protests
Reports say two French leaders Masse and Valensi were held as hostages after anti German demonstrations in Paris. Authorities note three communists shot by Germans for retaliation, while Laval and Deat survived an Aug. 28 attack linked to an anti Communist force formation. Police seek Paul Colette’s accomplice as shootings mirror rising occupation tensions.
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Acy
Porte St. Denis
Paris
Masse
Valensi
Poincare
Democratic Alliance
Moscow
France
Reich General Staff
Soviet Defenses Hold Kiev and Odessa Amid Heavy Battles
Soviet forces defend Kiev and Odessa as grinding combat continues on the Leningrad Kiev Gomel front. Russian youth aid drives include 536000 at Leningrad and 10000 at Kiev. Red Army claims key gains west of Smolensk and pressure on German lines around Gomel with heavy air power and manpower.
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Svir
Stalin Canal
Leningrad
Smolensk
Gomel
Ukraine
Kiev
Odessa
Black Sea
Red Army
National Defense Fund
Daecly
National
Izvestia
Neva
Lake Ladoga
Gulf of Finland
Barents Sea
Jane's
Law Front
Red Air Force
Red Star
Westin
Germany
Britain
Russia
How Many Hens Are a Nuisance
Vandalia council grapples with poultry limits part of nuisance ordinance. They fail to agree on a fair hen ceiling amid hogs dogs and goats. clause scratched from the ordinance. In separate note thieves return a stolen truck. tires stripped from two other trucks and a drum of oil lifted. The truck has 10 miles on it.
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Philadelphia
Sept
Leningrad siege and Baltic front chatter from wartime bulletin
German and Finnish forces push near Leningrad as heavy cannon fire marks a widening front. Finnish communiques claim progress northeast of Lake Ladoga toward the Svir River, threatening the Stalin Canal. German air and naval units claim hits on transports near Estonia and Odessa as fronts stiffen and mud slows advances.
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Leningrad
Lake Ladoga
Adolf Hitler
Helsinki
Lake
Ladoga
Sykaeri
Svir
Stalin Canal
Lake Onega
DNB
Gulf of Finland
Estonia
Odessa
Black Sea
Dnieper
Sea of
aAzov
Moscow
German Sub Captured After Air Attack in Atlantic
A German submarine was captured in the Atlantic after an aerial assault forced it to surface. A Hudson bomber and a Catalina patrol plane aided by ships brought the prize into harbor. The incident occurred amid unclear links to the Greer clash with U‑boat force.
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London
Atlantic
Admiralty
Air Ministry
Greer
Iceland
United States
Hudson
Lockheed
Coastal Command
Catalina
Consolidated
J Pierpont Morgan Marks 74th Birthday in Lattingtown
J Pierpont Morgan observed his 74th birthday with a quiet Sunday routine. The financier drove in an open car to St. John's Episcopal Church in Locust Valley where he serves as senior warden and passed the collection plate unaccompanied.
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J. P. Morgan
Glen Cove
J. Pierpont Morgan
Episcopal Church of
Soviet Decree Orders Swift Volga German Exile
A Kremlin signed decree dated August 28 under Premier Stalin orders rapid resettlement of ethnic Germans from the Volga region. The area holds about 600,000 people across 10 300 square miles with Germans about 65 percent. Catherine the Great invited 8000 German families to settle earlier in the area.
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Kazakhstan
Kremlin
Michael Kalinin
National Defense Council
Josef Stalin
Volga
Catherine the Great
Peter
Russia
Export Demands Include Vast Milk and Meat Volumes for 1942
The U S Agriculture Department projects 1942 export needs huge dairy and food shipments. Milk 5 42 billion pounds eggs 509 million dozen pork 1 35 6 billion pounds lard 640 million pounds. Britain would receive about a quarter of animal protein from these exports under lend lease terms, officials said.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Britain
ANN
Britain
Plane sighting at Wiley Post Airport draws questions
Glenn Brauninger moored his plane outside the Wiley Post airport hangar. It was later observed parked in the middle of a road beyond a fence. Airport officials seek to determine what occurred.
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Oklahoma City
Glenn Brauninger
Wiley Post
Kentucky merchant rides 7000 miles with son on ramden
In Los Angeles on September 8, 70 year old Jake Koenigstein of Eminence Kentucky travels back from a long journey riding a motorcycle ramden guided by his 20 year old son Alvin. They cover 7000 miles on the trip and share the ride as they return.
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Los Angeles
Jake Koenigstein
Eminence
Alvin
Townsfolk Reel In 150-Pound Pet Pig From Carthage Sewer
In Carthage neighbors chased a 150 pound hog that swam the town sewer from a mill race. They lowered an ear of corn on a string through a manhole to lure it out and succeeded. In Sullivan two year old Donald McMahon swallowed 16 straight pins but survived after a doctor removed one pin and he coughed up the rest.
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Rushville
Ind
Carthage
Sullivan
Donald McMahon
Donald
Two Army Air Pilots Killed in Indiana Crash
In Rockville Indiana a training plane crashed during a violent thunder storm near Vivalia. Lieut. Col. Rufus B Davidson 45 and Maj. Fred M Murchison 43 of Scott Field Illinois were killed. They had flown from Scott Field Saturday night en route to Patterson Field Ohio. Local authorities and state police investigated the crash.
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Rockville
Ind
Army Air Corps
Vivalia
Here
Rufus B. Davidson
Fred M. Murchison
Scott Field
Davidson
Murchison
Patterson Field
Ohio
Air Corps
Putnam County
Dionne Quints Face Tooth Imprint Mystery
Los Angeles reports dentist Dr. Arnold D. Mason, longtime to the Dionne quintuplets, says plaster casts of their teeth are virtually identical with only thousandths of an inch variation. He notes one missing tooth possibly swallowed and mentions the sisters have created a mixed French English pidgin language that baffles nurses.
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Los Angeles
Arnold D. Mason
Southern California Dental Association
Emilie’s
Mason
State Publishers Told Americans Get True War News
Charles E. Honce of the Associated Press told the New York State Publishers' Association that Americans are well informed about war news. He discussed censorship and transmission difficulties, but said most significant items already appeared in dispatches from Europe. He cited conversations with reporters returning from the front as evidence.
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Boston Landing
New York State Publishers’ Association
Charles E. Honce
Associated Press
Honce
Europe
Meteorites Found Beneath Colorado Crater Floor
Dr. H. H. Nininger of the Colorado Museum of Natural History reports meteorite fragments located 40 to 50 feet under the floor of a mesquite covered crater in the San Luis Valley near Crestone. Magnetometer tests pinpointed the minerals, and a bore hole is planned to analyze composition.
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Colorado
Denver
H. H. Nininger
Colorado Museum of Natural History
San’ [Luis Valley
Sangre de Cristo Range
Crestone
Nininger
Two English Women Fly Home Believing Worst Is Over
Two British mothers Mrs Thelma Leigh and Dr Pearl M Goldman with children aboard the American Clipper head to Europe. They say the bombings of England are past and invasion unlikely as they travel from New York. Leigh’s daughter Carol Diana and Goldman's son Anthony John travel with them.
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New York
England
Germany
Europe
Thelma Leigh
Carol Diana
Pearl M. Goldman
Anthony John
Leigh
Canada
Ruth Drake Named Leader of De Ruyter Auxiliary
Mrs Ruth Drake appointed president of the Re Ruyter Post American Legion Auxiliary with Mrs Viola Haas as first vice president and Mrs Edna Nortz as second vice president. Other officers include Mrs Jane Woodin treasurer and Mrs Sadie De Mott. County committee members are Mrs Drake Mrs Lulu Reynolds and Mrs Edna Spaulding.
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Ruth Drake
de Ruyter
Ruth
Drake
ReRuyter Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Viola Haas
Edna Nortz
Jane Woodin
Sadie de Mott
Lulu Reynolds
Edna Spaulding
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