French Pleased by Recognition Applies to National Liberation Committee
Washington reports say French leaders in North Africa welcomed the recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation as a basis for broader understanding. The move was noted by officials after the Quebec talks as the United States Britain Canada acknowledged the committee’s authority over overseas territories. Russia China Peru and the Dominican Republic also extended recognition. In London, officials said the recognitions ended any Vichy hopes of dealing with the Allies.
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Washington
Committee of National Liberation
North Africa
State Hall
Friay
Algiers
Quebec
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Russia
China
United States
Peru
Dominican Republic
London
OPA Lifts Gas Ban on East Coast Pleasure Boating
The Office of Price Administration will allow servicemen on furlough five gallons of gasoline in the East and lifts the ban on east coast pleasure boating effective September 1. Officials caution the move is not official assurance of a broader lift but aim to remove the pleasure lid before Labor Day.
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OPA
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Daughter of Late Montana Solon Leaves Big Estate
Mary Clark de Brabant, daughter of the late U S Senator Clark of Montana, left an estate valued at 5 571 137 in an appraisal filed in New York. She died December 15 1939. Fabric of the estate includes inherited property from her father and bequests to a cousin Josephine Moore Heft and to Katherine Addison and Isabel Horn. The will also assigns 5 000 to St John Episcopal church Butte 2500 to St Thomas chapel Clarksdale and the remainder to her daughter Kathleen Williams of New York City.
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New York
Mary Clark de Brabant
U. S
Clark
Montana
de Brabant
Josephine Moore Heft
Irvington
N. Y
Katherine Addison
Isabel Horn
New York City
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Butte
St. Thomas Chapel
Protestant Episcopal Church
Clarksdale, Ariz
Katherine Williams
Another Heavy Night Raid on Nazi Cities Indicated
London reports a massive RAF night raid with hundreds of giant bombers across the Channel toward Axis Europe. The operation followed Friday daylight and dusk strikes by U S Flying Fortresses and Allied bombers on French Nazi airfields, with potential targets possibly including Berlin.
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London
Europe
U. S
France
Berlin
Jones Pledges Farm Support and Price Measures
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones promised a definite support price to encourage production and cover added risks. The plan includes government purchases of surplus if needed and controlled distribution possibly extending to licensing processors and handlers. Details on the 1944 food program would be announced step by step to aid farmer planning.
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Washington
Marvin Jones
F. D. R. Churchill to Resume Talks Next Week
In Quebec on Friday a British spokesman said Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt will renew war strategy talks in Washington next week. Churchill is set to address an international broadcast next Tuesday at 11 a.m. MWT for about 30 to 40 minutes.
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Quebec
U.P
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Washington
the Citadel
Churchill
United States
Citadel
Flathead Project Is Abandoned in Northwest Water Plan
Dr. Paul Raver of Bonneville told a congressional subcommittee that plans to raise Flathead lake level for power were abandoned. He cited revised shortage timing and called Fort Peck dam a floor control project not for power, endorsing Hungry Horse dam on the Flathead river instead. He praised Northwest States Development for progress.
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Kalispell
Paul R. Raver
Bonneville
Flathead Lake
Raver
Compton White
Idaho
Northwest
War Production Board
WPB
Sandpoint
Fort Peck
Sixteen of Germans Who Escaped Prison Camp Captured
Kingston Ontario August 27. Sixteen of the nineteen German POWs who tunneled from Fort Henry were recaptured by Friday night. A vast search involving U S Army Coast Guard detachments and civilian police stretched along the St Lawrence river as authorities said the men had no outside help.
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Kingston
Ontario
Fort Henry
U. S. Army
Coast Guard
St. Lawrence River
Canada
St. Lawrence
Highway Death Toll Low in Montana Six Months
Helena August 27 Thirty eight traffic fatalities on Montana highways in the first six months of 1943 marked the lowest toll in nine years. State highway patrol supervisor Charles L. Sheridan cited a comparison to 52 deaths in 1942 and the prior low of 45 in 1935. Five deaths occurred in car train collisions.
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Helena
Montana
Charles L. Sheridan
Sheridan
Bombers Strike Italian Airfields In New Offensive
Allied bomber armadas hit Capua and Grazzanise near Naples as part of a concerted drive to destroy German and Italian air power in southern Italy. British ships pounded bridges and railways near Messina while remnants of the Italian navy were split by Allied advances in Sicily.
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North Africa
Capua
Grazzanise
Naples
Sardinia
Loch
Messina
Navy
Sicily
la Spezia
Taranto
Tunisia
Sweden Prepares Protest to Nazi Attacks
Sweden's foreign office said a protest to Germany is being prepared after Nazi minesweepers sank two Swedish fishing boats in international waters without warning. Twelve men are presumed lost as five Swedish vessels were attacked off Denmark's northwest coast. The protest follows a prior August 18 firing on a Swedish torpedo boat and air force plane by Nazi gunners.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Foreign Office
Germany
Denmark
Solon Calls Release of Skilled Men From Army
Rep Randolph of West Virginia urged freeing skilled workers from the Army to ease shortages in aircraft factories. He argued production of fighting planes should take priority over expanding land forces and noted nationwide manpower strains in essential industries including shipbuilding.
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Solon
Washington
Randolph
D-W. Va
Bombers Sink or Damage 10 German U-Boats in Atlantic
U S Army bombers patrolling up to 1000 miles from bases sank or damaged 10 German U boats and forced three more to dive to avoid Allied shipping. Five boats were believed sunk and five damaged. crews faced heavy anti aircraft fire with several dramatic depth charge attacks.
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New York
U. S. Army
Atlantic Ocean
Army Air Force
Gas station owner fatally wounded in stamp dispute
Lawrence Smith, 39, a service station employer in Phoenix, was wounded fatally Friday in a dispute with a customer who did not present a ration stamp for four gallons of gasoline, according to sheriff's deputies.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Lawrence Smith
Sheriff's Deputies
Soviets Break Through in Bryansk Area
Soviet forces punched through south of Bryansk overrunning Sevesk and 20 other localities, within 20 miles of the Bryansk Kiev railway line. Moscow said 5,000 Germans were killed, 700 captured, as Red tanks breached Sevesk. Other units advanced toward Poltava and Kharkov, with continued offensives south of Voroshilovgrad and Donets basin.
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London
Bryansk
Sevesk
Moscow
Kiev
Dnieper River
Monitor
Red Army
Kharkov
Poltava
Dnieper
Kolteva
Donets Basin
Voroshilovgrad
Mrs Roosevelt Visits New Zealand on War T roop Hospital Tour
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt arrived in Auckland on a tour of American troop hospitals and Red Cross centers. She thanked New Zealanders for hospitality to U S service men and noted the journey added 6500 miles to her travels before heading to Wellington.
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Auckland
N. Z
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Red Cross
United States
White House
New Zealand
King Boris of Bulgaria Improves After Illness
A German broadcast from Sofia reported King Boris of Bulgaria has improved after a four day serious illness. The Aug 27 dispatch notes the monarch's condition as better following the illness onset.
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London
Sofia
Boris
Bulgaria
Welles Won’t Take Special Assignment After Resignation
Washington reports indicate Sumner Welles will not receive a new diplomatic post after leaving as undersecretary of state. Farewells to South American envoys confirm his departure, while speculation about a Russia or Latin America mission fades. Norman Armour and Breckinridge Long are named as possible successors.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Moscow
South America
Roosevelt
Russia
Latin America
Welles
Norman Armour
Argentina
Breckinridge Long
Capitol Hill
Stilwell May Get New Post
Washington reports Mountbatten nears appointment of Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell as deputy commander in the proposed Southeast Asia command. Announcement likely after Chungking talks with Chiang Kai-shek. Mountbatten also to appoint a British chief of staff and an American deputy chief of staff, with Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark as a possible candidate for the latter post.
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Washington
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Priday
Joseph W. Stilwell
Southeast Asia
Mountbatten
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Mounbatten
Stilwell
Vinegar Joe
Burma
China
Mark W. Clark
U. S. Fifth Army
North Africa
Clark
London
Chiang
New Delhi
India
War Department
John J. McCloy
George C. Marshall
Weekend Quiet With Small Temperature Tweaks
A light pattern of little change in temperatures is expected Saturday and Saturday evening. Friday highs reach 81 degrees with a low around 41 degrees as the system moves through the area.
Paratroopers Struggle After U.S. Plane Crashes in Burma
Eric Sevaried reports the life and death ordeal of 20 men who jumped from a crippled transport over northern Burma. The group, including embassy official John Davies Jr and officials from the Office of Economic Warfare, survived the crash and reached a village in India days later as they race toward civilization amid jungle and mountains.
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Burma
U. S. Transport Command
Eric Sevaried
CBS
Sevaried
U. S. Air Transport Command
India
Columbia Broadcasting System
Associated Press
India-Burma
U. S
Air Transport Command
China
John Davies, Jr
Chungking
William L. Stanton
U. S. Office of Economic Warfare
Davies
Allies tighten grip as Bairoko position falls in New Georgia
Allied headquarters said Japanese resistance ended at Bairoko on New Georgia Island as ground troops completed liquidation of the position and defenders evacuated by night. MacArthur reports Allied advances around Salamaua as air bases and depots face intensified bombardment and attrition.
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Australia
New Georgia Island
Solomons
Bairoko
Vila
Kolombangara Island
Douglas MacArthur
Salamaua
New Guinea
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Jap Says Allied Plans to Fail at Burma and Japan
Tokyo radio quoted Maj. Gen. Nakao Yahagi claiming Allied air raids on Japan and attempts to retake Burma were key Quebec conference topics but would fail. Yahagi said Roosevelt and Arnold predicted action from China, yet results were not realized and that Allied plans to retake Burma are a dream.
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Tokyo
Nakao Yahagi
Japanese Army
Japan
Burma
Quebec
Yahagi
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Henry H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
China
Chungking
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