Race to Rescue Isolated Airborne Unit
Allied troops fight to cross the Rhine at Nijmegen to reach the surrounded airborne force in the Arnhem pocket. The pivotal bridge holds for now as Germans tighten the noose, while air attacks and supply drops continue around Arnhem and Nijmegen.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Second Army
Rhine River
Nijmegen
Holland
Arnhem
Waal Rhine
Eindhoven
Rhine
First Army
Courtney H. Hodges
Greseenich
Stolberg
Germany
Normandy
Siegfried Line
First
Aachen
DNB
Soviets Drive 44 Miles Into Estonia
A fourth Soviet army joined the Baltic drive into Estonia advancing 44 miles through weakened Nazi lines to reach 62 miles from Tallinn. Govorov’s Leningrad army pushed in two sectors north of Estonia, liberating over 1,800 towns and crossing the Vistula near Warsaw, as German defenses weakened.
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London
Baltic States
Tallinn
Moscow
Estonia
Gulf of Finland
Berlin
Vistula
Warsaw
Latiia
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Lake
Peipus
Govorov
Narva
John Steadman Taken by Death
John F. Steadman age 42 former Butte mining engineer died Wednesday in Washington DC after months of illness. He was a Montana School of Mines graduate and superintendent of Butte Highland Mining since 1937, later with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Born in 1902 at Mount Carmel Pennsylvania he left Butte two years ago to take his current post. He leaves brothers David Steadman and Mrs Gundry Hill of Butte and many friends in the mining city.
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John F. Steadman
Butte
Washington
D. C
Montana School of Mines
Steadman
Mr. Steadman
David Steadman
Gundry Hill
Webster
School of Mines
Butte Hill
Mining
Dayton Consolidated Mining Company
Virginia City
Nev
Government must reverse wartime industry concentration
Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge told the Seattle Bar Association on September 20 that reconversion policies are needed to reverse the wartime trend toward concentration. He pledged to use the anti trust division to keep trade channels open for new enterprises after the war and to make government financed plants and surplus materials available to independent enterprises on fair terms to ensure reasonable profits.
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Seattle
Wendell Berge
Buzzbomb Factory Captured By U S Third Army
The Third Army reports capturing a vast underground buzzbomb factory at Thil near the Luxembourg border. Built deep in an iron ore mine, it was to employ 15,000 workers and churn out hundreds of bombs daily, with 5,000 workers already producing buzzbomb carcasses as Germans fled.
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U.S
Third Army
Thil
Luxembourg
Finns Break With Balkan Countries
Finland breaks diplomatic ties with Hungary Croatia and Slovakia while accepting armistice tasks with Russia. Report states Finland to intern remaining diplomats and hand them to the Allies. A Russian control commission arrives in Helsinki as terms are disclosed and sea traffic with Sweden is halted.
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Helsinki
U.P
Finland
Russia
Hungary
Croatia
Slovakia
Germany
Stockholm
United Press
Sweden
Japanese Move on Strategic Port of Wuchow
Chungking dispatches report Japanese forces advancing toward the strategic port of Wuchow as part of a plan to sever eastern China. In Yunnan frontline updates, Japanese troops pushed from Lungling toward Burma road positions while near Kweilin Chinese defenses brace as 40,000 tank-supported troops reportedly hold 45 miles away.
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Wuchow
Chungking
China
Sikiang
Yunnan
Lungling
Burma
Kweilin
United Press
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Kunming
Kwangsi Province
Pacific
Hunan- Kwangsi
Chuansien
Hingan
Albert Ravenholt
Ford to Campaign in Every County
Helena Sept 20 Governor Sam C Ford will campaign in every Montana county for reelection. Ashton Jones Republican central committee chair said Fred Gibson Livingston attorney and GOP speaking bureau chair is in charge of tour arrangements. Ford will make several daily addresses while other Republican nominees are addressed by state party leaders.
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Helena
Sam C. Ford
Montana
Ashton Jones
Republican Central Committee
Jones
Fred Gibson
Livingston
G. O. P. Committee
Ford
Allied planes hit Davao in daylight raids Philippines
Allied bombers dropped 120 tons on Davao and struck Talaud Celebes Ceram and Amboina islands in a broad daylight operation from the Philippines to the East Indies. No Japanese planes intercepted the raids. Fires started in oil tanks and airfield targets were hit as Morotai forces push to complete Pitu airstrip.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Philippines
East Indies
Davao
Talaud
Celebes
Ceram
Amboina
Douglas MacArthur
Indies
Padada
Sasa
Morotai
Pitu
Gotasalamo
Gila Peninsula
Mindanao
Adm
William F. Halsey
MacArthur
Buayan
Sarangani Bay
U. S
Morotai Island
Allied Forces Hit Crete and Melos in New Baltic War Push
Allied air and naval forces launched a mounting attack on Nazi transport and airfields on Crete and blockaded the island. Land and carrier aircraft also pounded Melos harbors and radio sites as part of a broader strike against German-held Aegean islands near the Balkans. The Crete assault followed a September 17 naval air attack from an escort carrier, which destroyed vehicles without losses to the attackers.
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Rome
Crete
Aegean
Melos
Balkan
Funeral services planned for George R. Shepard
MISSOULA Sept 20 Funeral services for George R Shepard prominent attorney who died from injuries after an automobile accident near Bozeman on September 2 will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o clock at the Methodist church of Missoula on East Main street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
George R. Shepard
Bozeman
Methodist Church of
East Main Street
Dewey Urges Full House Cleaning With GOP Victory
Governor Thomas E. Dewey told about 3,000 at a Eugene depot rally that the United States must undergo the most complete house cleaning in history by electing a Republican Senate and House in November. He pledged a capable administration aligned with American development and tied his message to the campaign train stop.
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Dewey
Eugene
Ore
U.P
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
Senate
House
Wayne L. Norse
United States Senate
New York
America
Dunkerque style evacuation attempt crushed by Dover guns
German efforts to evacuate from Boulogne on September 1 were halted by British coastal artillery. Eleven German ships were sunk as Dover coast guns opened fire at 11 30 p m and held for nearly three hours in a dramatic two week gun duel across 22 miles.
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London
Boulogne
Cap Gris Nez
Dover Coast Artillery
England
President names Lane envoy to exiled Polish government
President Roosevelt named Arthur Bliss Lane as ambassador to the exiled Polish government in London. The move signals U S support for the London regime amid Russo Polish diplomacy. Lane joins seven other ambassadors awaiting Senate confirmation as Europe deals with liberated states.
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U. S
John M. Hightower
Washington
Roosevelt
Arthur Bliss Lane
Poland
United States
Russia
Lane
Senate
London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Moscow
Butte Council Revokes Silver King Beer License
The Butte city council revoked the Silver King bar beer license effective at midnight with Chief Bart Riley to serve notice on owner John Geremia. The bar has been unlicensed since January 1.
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Butte
East Park Street
Bart Riley
John Geremia
Riley
O'Leary
John X. Newman
St. James Hospital
P. J. Driscoll
Thomas F. O'Leary
George Stanich
J.C. Gilman
Norman C. Jones
Utah Avenue
David Cushing
Lottie L. Cushing
West Broadway
Lloyd Hamilton
John G. Johnson
Johnson Pool Hall
East Park
Fred Martin
General Election Registration Deadline Pushed to Friday
Silver Bow county clerk Addis A. McGrath reminds Butte residents that general election registration closes at 5 p m Friday. The clerk’s office in the courthouse will stay open until 8 p m Wednesday and Thursday to accommodate last minute registrants for November.
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Addis A. McGrath
Silver Bow
Butte
Bricker accuses New Deal of spending millions to confuse voters
Gov. John W. Bricker charged the Roosevelt administration with wasting taxpayers money to push a fourth term and to intimidate voters. He spoke in Wilkes-Barre arguing New Deal claims confuse the public and promote centralized power over self-government.
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Wilkes-Barre
Democratic National Administration
John W. Bricker
Roosevelt
Bricker
New Deal
Republican Party
Washington Administration
State Pioneer Resident Dies
TWIN BRIDGES Sept. 20 Thomas J. Bird 89 Madison County pioneer who first attended Twin Bridges school died Tuesday at Mrs Edith Smith home near Whitehall He crossed plains by ox team in 1863 born in Truxton Missouri April 2 1855 He married Matilda Everson in 1879 and had eight children survivors include three sons and two daughters Funeral services Friday at 2 30 pm at Raper funeral home Twin Bridges with interment in Twin Bridges cemetery
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Twin Bridges
Thomas J. Bird
Madison County
Edith Smith
Whitehall
Truxton
Ernest North
Milwaukee
Vern Dillet
Raper Funeral Home
Twin Bridges Cemetery
Army transport plane crash kills five officers near Redmond
A two engine C-45 transport crash near Redmond Oregon killed five Army officers including Col Earl L Naiden commanding officer of the 317th Wing Fourth Air Force. An enlisted man suffered a broken ankle and severe shock. The accident occurred early Wednesday near the home base.
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Portland
Ore
U.P
Earl L. Naiden
317Th
Fourth Air Force
Redmond
Loss of Minesweeper 409 Reported After East Coast Hurricane
The Navy announced on Wednesday the loss of minesweeper 409 at sea during last week’s hurricane along the east coast. The vessel’s loss marks the fifth death attributed to the storm.
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Washington
Navy
Supplies Flown to Paratroopers Amid Harsh Weather
Britain based Allied air forces pressed operations over Europe with missions in Holland and Calais while heavy Italy based bombers struck targets in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Up to 750 bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked airfields and oil depots at Bratislava Budapest Szob Hatvan and Gyor as well as the Malacky airfield near Vienna.
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London
Holland
Calais
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Apollo
Bratislava
Budapest
Szob
Hatvan
Gyor
Vienna
Channel
English
Airborne Army
Britain
Oil men to seek 35 cent per barrel price rise
The general counsel of the Independent Producers' Association of America told the House small business committee that oil men will revive their request for a 35 cent per barrel general price increase.
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Austin
Texas
Independent Producers’ Association of America
House
Small Business Committee
Solons Complete Major Bills Before Dismissal
Washington September 2007 Congress finished the last of four major bills as it readies for a postwar demobilization. The package includes states rights reform and an unemployment policy shift leaving unemployment insurance to the states. House negotiators stripped back home travel pay provisions up to 200 dollars per family for war workers.
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Washington
Congress
Germany
Roosevelt
Rayburn
Texas
War and Navy Departments
House
Senate
American Legion Sets Postwar Policy at Chicago Conference
The American Legion closes its twenty sixth annual convention in Chicago with Edward N. Scheiberling named national commander. It backs unconditional surrender and disarmament of Germany and Japan, a strong peace force, universal one year military training after the draft ends, continued bases for security, a capable Navy, opposition to scrapping first line ships, support for free enterprise with limited government control, and prompt GI Bill of Rights implementation.
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Chicago
American Legion
United States
Edward N. Scheiberling
Albany
N. Y
Legionnaires
Germany
Japan
Association of Free Nations
Montana Weather Forecast Clouds and Showers
Montana forecast calls for considerable cloudiness on Thursday with scattered light showers near the western mountains and increasing showers in the west. Cooler conditions in the north and east. Winds mainly from 15 to 25 miles per hour.
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Montana
Western Mountains
West
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