Yanks Launch Powerful Offensive Across Danube to Yugoslavia
News report from London details the Red Army crossing the Danube toward Yugoslavia to join Tito’s partisans. Moscow said Turnu-Severin fell and linked the advance with Tito’s forces, signaling a widening Soviet push toward Belgrade and the Hungarian frontier.
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London
Red Army
Danube
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Turnu-Severein
Yugo Slavia
Tito
Moscow
Turnu-Severin
Associated Press
Eddie Gilmore
Romania
Narew
Ostroleka
Warsaw
East Prussia
Balkans
Assistant Fire Chief Seitz Retires in Butte as O'Donnell Takes Post
Butte city council held a meeting Wednesday to approve the retirement of Assistant Fire Chief John C. Seitz after 45 years with the department and the elevation of Fireman Private John O'Donnell to the position. Seitz retires effective September 1 on half pay. O'Donnell, a Ireland native who arrived in Butte in 1911, has served 12 years with the department and previously held roles at local mines and belts. The mayor lauded Seitz for his ability and honesty and welcomed O'Donnell, who comes from the mining and military service background.
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John C. Seitz
John O'Donnell
Butte
Seitz
Barry O'Leary
O'Donnell
Ireland
Diamond
Belmont
J. H. McCarthy
Stodden
Archie McTaggart
Allied bombers strike western Germany and Brest fronts
Allied air forces unleashed high speed destruction on road and rail networks in western Germany while 750 heavy bombers from Italy struck Balkans targets. Thunderbolt fighters swept Low Countries and western Germany, with little German opposition reported. Bremen and Brest faced intensified bombardment as Ninth Air Force Marauders and Liberators targeted gun positions, supply dumps, and concentrations of troops along the Danube corridor toward Belgrade and Skoplje.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
U.P
Eighth Air Force
Germany
France
Italy
Balkans
Thunderbolt
Low Countries
Brest
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Ninth Air Force
Danube
Mediterranean Air Force Liberators
Leskovac
Belgrade
Skoplje
Greece
Rome
Montana Forecast Clears With Warm, Local Thunder
The forecast calls for clear and warm conditions in Montana Thursday afternoon, except for a few local thunder showers over western mountains.
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Montana
Western Mountains
Allied Raids Target Davao Airdromes and Dutch New Guinea
Allied aircraft kept neutralization raids on Davao airdromes in the Philippines and sank three small freighters. Bombers and fighter-bombers struck enemy positions in Vogelkop northwestern New Guinea, dropping 38 tons of bombs on supply and bivouac areas despite bad weather. Night patrols targeted the Susa airdrome near Davao while East Indies air operations hit Boela, Ceram, and Tanimbar island targets with bivouac and defense installations attacked.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
U.P
Davao
Philippines
New Guinea
East Indies
Douglas MacArthur
Vogelkop Peninsula
Dutch New Guinea
Today
New York Daily News
Susa
Boela
Ceram
Te Tanimbar
Vogelkop
Utarom
Kaimana
Jefman
Samate
Sorong
Geologist Dr Walter H Wood Dies at 82
Dr Walter Harvey Wood, 82, geologist formerly with General Development Co and Miami Copper Co in Arizona, died Wednesday in Altadena California. An authority on copper mining, he served with the U S geological survey from 1883 to 1906 and later worked with mining concerns in Canada and Mexico. He edited the Handbook from 1914 to 1925.
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Altadena
Calif
Walter Harvey Wood
General Development Co
Miami Copper Co
Arizona
U. S. Geological Survey
Canada
Mexico
New Handbook
Peace Terms Never Yet Sent to United Nations
London reports that no German peace plea has been made to the United Nations. A British government spokesman said rumors of talks are false. Any emissary must go through General Eisenhower, who will not order a cease fire without an unconditional surrender backed by the German general staff. The terms would cover all enemy affairs and require total military defeat. The cease fire would only come after acceptance of these conditions.
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London
United Nations
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Hitler calls urgent meeting of all party chiefs
The British Broadcasting Company said in a broadcast heard by NBC that Hitler has summoned all party chiefs to an urgent meeting to discuss the war’s crisis.
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New York
British Broadcasting Company
Adolf Hitler
Anti Hitler Riots Break Out in Reich Newscard
Soviet and Swedish press report anti Hitler riots erupting in several German cities as reported by Stockholm Tidningen and quoted by the Office of War Information. The message appears in the New York bureau update with continuation on page three.
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Hitler
Reich
New York
Office of War Information
Stockholm
Tidningen
Decisive Fight for North Italy Nearing, Allied Push Advances
Rome dispatch reports the Eighth Army within five miles of Rimini as Canadian forces guard the coast and Americans seize Lucca near Pisa. Allied forces breach defenses around Coriano while naval and air power target German batteries. Fifth Army fights through minefields as Clark’s forces press the front toward northern Italy.
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Rome
Italy
Eighth Army
Rimini
Adriatic
Lucca
Pisa
Harold Alexander
Mediterranean
Albert Kesselring
Rimin
Coriano
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Battle Develops Near Frontier of Nazi Homeland
News dispatches report Bulgaria declaring war on Germany after German troops tried to disarm Bulgarian forces withdrawing from Yugoslavia. Allied forces push toward the Siegfried line with the U S Third Army driving toward the German frontier while First Army tanks move toward Liege and meet stiff German resistance near Namur and Metz.
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Ankara
Bulgaria
Britain
Russia
United States
Germany
Yugoslavia
Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
Third Army
Siegfried Line
Reich Frontier
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
First Army
Liege
Meuse
Namur
Siegfried Line Doom Assessed as Weaker Than Atlantic Wall
A Supreme Headquarters staff officer said Germany's Siegfried line is no stronger than the overrun Atlantic wall and predicted it will be broken. He noted manpower shortages and that the best attack could strike anywhere from the Swiss frontier to Cleve, with the line built for counterattacks and not modernized for air power.
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Siegfried Line
Atlantic Wall
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Germany
Cleve
Rhineland
Dusseldorf
Siegfriend
France
Rhine
Maginot Line
Metz
Moselle
Dewey Praises Peace Talks With Hull and Dulles
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican nominee, sends a letter to Secretary of State Hull expressing deep gratification at the talks with John Foster Dulles. He calls the exchange a new attitude toward peace and says a beginning is made toward waging peace as we wage war. Hull calls the discussions a national unity sign on international peace and security.
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Dewey
Dulles
Hull
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Washington, D. C
Cordell Hull
Early Postwar Shift to Civilian Goods Warned
Washington September 6 The War Production Board chairman J A Krug said American industry can simultaneously produce war materiel to defeat Japan and civilian goods up to prewar 1939 levels. He forecast that after Germany's defeat every needed civilian item will return to stores and noted reconversion aims to minimize red tape while industry carries the load. Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones asked 586 Defense Plant Corporation plants about postwar civilian use.
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Japan
War Production Board
J. A. Krug
Krug
Germany
WPB
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Defense Plant Corporation
Russians Learned of Allied Advances in France and Lowlands
Soviet newspapers and radio report great Allied successes in France and the Low Countries. High ranking Russian officials privately praise the western offensive. No suggestion of belittling Allied victories. Four page Soviet newspapers limit coverage. western front news fills about half the back foreign page.
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Moscow
France
Lowlands
Americans Knife Way to Rear of Fleeing Nazis
Allied forces push into retreating German 19th Army along the Swiss border with advances toward Belfort and Germany. American units reportedly operate with Seventh Army in the Saone valley while French troops seize Chalon sur Saone, narrowing the gap between northern and southern Allied forces. Swiss reports claim linkage in central France as operations continue.
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Rome
19Th Army
Belfort
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lons-ie-Saunier
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Pontarlier
Lons-le-Saunier
U. S. Army
Stars and Stripes
Saone
West Bank
Chalon-Sur-Saone
Reeduce
France
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