Finland Seeks Armistice as Germany Agrees to Withdraw
London reports Premier Hantti Hackzell announced Finland seeks armistice with the Soviet Union. Russia has allowed allied terms. Finland asks Germany to withdraw within 14 days. Finnish parliament approved the plan to sever ties with Berlin and pursue a separate German evacuation.
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London
Finland
Hantti Hackzell
Russia
Helsinki
Stockholm
Germany
Moscow
Britain
United States
Hackzell
Berlin
City of Pisa Falls to Yankee Fifth
Allied forces launch a major drive across the Arno as the Gothic line weakens. American fifth army units and Canadian and Polish forces breach defenses, capture Pisa and push toward the Serchio river while British Eighth Army advances elsewhere on the Italian front.
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City of
Pisa
Rome
Arno
Eighth Army
Albert Kesselring
Brenner Pass
Adriatic
Serchio
Italy
Harold Alexander
Monte Pisano
Fred Quinn Cited Twice for Second Oak Leaf Award
Second Lt. Fred D. Quinn Jr. of Pocatello, a B-17 bombardier with 18 combat missions, received a second oak leaf cluster to his Air Medal for meritorious bombing over Europe. He is 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Quinn Jr., and married to Jean T. Quinn.
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A.af
England
Fred D. Quinn, Jr
Pocatello
Europe
United States
Leutenant Quinn
South Hayes
Jean T. Quinn
King Street
Wallace
Idaho
Pocatello High School
University of Idaho
Army
Idaho Wheat Harvest Reaches Fourth Largest On Record
Idaho produces about 30.296 million bushels of wheat with an average of 30.5 bushels per acre. Storage facilities in Camas Cassia Oneida Idaho Lewis and Latah counties are strained as farmers face delays shipping to terminals and consider ground storage.
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Idaho
Camas
Cassia
Oneida
Lewis
Latah
War Production Board
Vaught
Snake River
US Department of Agriculture Bureau of Economics
Richard C. Ross
Davao raid most destructive of Philippine targets
American Liberators launched a 110 ton raid on Davao in the southern Philippines destroying 38 Japanese planes on the ground. Two American planes were lost. Gen Douglas MacArthur announced a heavier 137 ton raid at Palau island, while Japanese claims of other bombardments remain unconfirmed.
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Davao
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Palau Island
Tokyo
Pacific Fleet
Bosquet Withdraws From Local School Board Race
C S Bosquet resigns as candidate in the district one school board election leaving eight nominees for the six seats. The consolidation of Pocatello with Blackrock created a six member board and two other candidates join the race. Voting is at Pocatello High School auditorium with patrons from Bonneville Roosevelt Tyhee and Blackrock schools eligible.
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C. S. Bosquet
School Board of Independent
Pocatello
Blackrock
Cc. H. Bohrer
Washington Lemmon
Harry Yearsley
LeRoy Jones
Pred
E. L. Dale
D. L. Roberts
B. A. McDevitt
Pocatello High School
Bonneville
Roosevelt
Tyhee
Russians Drive Deep Into Axis Lands as Front Blooms
Moscow announced a major red army push across a 65 mile front southeast of Bucharest reaching the Bulgarian frontier with a 150 mile inland front from the Black Sea coast to Giurgiu. The Balkan drive left Axis forces shattered with 418,600 killed or captured between Aug 20 and 31.
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London
Red Army
Danube River
Bucharest
Black Sea
Giurgiu
Moscow
Balkan
Stalingrad
Proaxis
East
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Germany
Budapest
Transylvania
Carpathian Mountains
Danubian
Us.s.r
Ismail
Ukraine
Second Ukraine
Danube
Third
Drobuja
Sofia
Bagdanov
Cairo
Britain
United States
Russia
Hitler plans sensational call to Nazis
London dispatch reports Adolf Hitler may deliver a Sunday speech calling the German people to battle on their “holy soil.” The plan mirrors Churchillian rhetoric, with no press advance notice, as Col. Gen. Guderian vows to prevent Allied advance into German soil.
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Hitler
London
Adolf Hitler
Lisbon
Georges. Patton
Churchill
Fuehrer
Heinz Guderian
Hitler Youth Movement
Final games of the Ninth Service Command district softball tourney
Tonight at Rainey Park the 7:30 and 9 oclock finals determine the district champion. Great Falls defeats Gowen 3-1 to advance, while Pocatello loses to Kearns 4-0 on Lemke single by Kearns. The winners meet for the title with Sgt Geissler making a key play.
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Service Command
Rainey Park
Pocatello Army Air Field
Great Falls
Kearns
Gowen
Pocatello
Lemke
Geissler
Farr Visiting Pvt Glenn Farr From Marine Corps
Private Glenn Farr of the Marine Corps arrives from San Diego to visit his parents Mr and Mrs R Parr at 1571 South Fourth and his wife and son Danny. Enlisting July 1 he trained at San Diego and will report to Oceanside California after furlough. He was secretary to the general superintendent at the Pocatello Union Pacific offices before enlisting.
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Pvt
Glenn Farr
Marine Corps
San Diego
R. &. Parr
South Fourth
Danny
Oceanside
Calif
Former Deputy Dies in Salt Lake City Hospital
Raf faele Maio, 60, longtime deputy sheriff formerly of Pocatello, died Friday in a Salt Lake City hospital. He had resided recently in Bingham Canyon, Utah, and will be buried in Ogden. Sheriff Alma Marley stated he recalls no deputy by that name serving in the county in the past 30 years.
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Salt Lake City
Raffaele Maio
Pocatello
Bingham Canyon
Utah
Ogden
Alma Marley
Malo
Former Pocatellan Visits With Aunt
First Lieutenant Jack Leishman formerly of Pocatello now based in Salt Lake City visited his aunt Mrs. B. D. Reese of 455 North Lincoln this week. Leishman served with the air force in Italy from D-day, completed 50 missions, and received the air medal with five oak leaf clusters. A Pocatello High School graduate, he attended Idaho Southern University and graduated from the University of Idaho at Moscow. He will report to Santa Monica for rest and reassignment.
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Jack Leishman
Pocatello
Salt Lake City
B. D. Reese
North Lincoln
Leishman
Air Force
Italy
D-day
Pocatello High School
Idaho Southern University
University of Idaho At
Moscow
Salt Lake
Santa Monica
Calif
Pfc Paul Goddard Reported Missing in Action in France
Pfc Paul Arnold Goddard son of William Goddard of 329 South Eighth has been missing in action in France since August 12. He was a Pocatello native and Pocatello High School graduate who worked at People's Market before enlisting at Buckner North Carolina and was sent overseas in May 1944.
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Paul Arnold Goddard
Wiliam Goddard
South Eighth
France
Goddard
Pocatello
Pocatello High School
People’s Market
Buckner, N. C
Patch's Army advances in Rhone Valley toward Lyon
American seventh army units drove through the Rhone valley capturing Vienne and Beaurepaire as they pressed toward Lyon. The push clusters enemy defenses along road blocks and patrol clashes with German holds retreating toward the Reich. Prisoner totals exceed 55,000 as forces sweep toward Nice and the Mediterranean.
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Rome
Lyon
Rhone Valley
Vienne
Alexander M Patch
Beaurepaire
France
Reich
Rhone
Montfaucon
Torunon
Seventh Army
Mediterranean
Contes
Nice
Grenoble
Brussels
Saar
Lorraine
Allies Make Ready for Axis Collapse
Allied leaders believe Germany may fall apart piece by piece rather than surrender as a whole. Armistice terms agreed by Russia the United States and Britain would place Germany under indefinite military occupation. The fate of postwar Germany and its role in Europe loom as topics for Roosevelt and Churchill at their upcoming conference.
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Washington
Germany
Russia
United States
Britain
Reich
Europe
Roosevelt
Churchll
Storm Ignites Fires Across Two Forests
Lightning sparked at least 20 fires in the Clearwater National Forest and 12 in the Nez Perce National Forest, with light rain and forecasts for more blazes. Officials said parachute fire crews would be deployed if fires threaten communities or terrain.
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Lewiston
Clearwater National Forest
Nez Perce National Forest
Orofino
Grangeville
Briefness Fatal to Aged Veteran
McCook Neb. Former Sen. George W. Norris 83 a veteran of 40 years in Congress and a leading liberal died at his home Saturday afternoon after a cerebral hemorrhage August 29. Public funeral services set for 3 p m Monday at First Congregational church with Dr. Bryant of Doane college delivering the sermon. Burial in Memorial Park under Masonic lodge. six McCook pallbearers. Norris, an insurgent who left the GOP in 1922, supported Roosevelt and liberal causes and warned of a tragedy if Roosevelt was denied a fourth term. He had recently chaired the National Citizens Political Action committee and remained a persistent liberal voice.
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McCook
George W. Norris
Congress
Norris
Tennessee Valley Authority
First Congregational Church
M.W.T
Bryant
Doane College of
Crete
Neb
Memorial Park
Masonic Lodge
National Citizens’ Political Action Committee
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Senate
United States
American Columns Reach Belgium as Germans Retreat Fast
Allied forces broke into Belgium with two American columns capturing Tournai just inside the border. Additional U.S. units advanced toward Mons and the northwest while pushing toward the German frontier near the Saar. Belgian civilians celebrate liberation as German retreats accelerate, with Patton’s Third Army pressing toward the Siegfried Line.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Belgium
Tournai
Brussels
U. S
France
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Mons
Berima Unt
Sweden
Rhine
Explosive packed aircraft fall on English countryside
London reports two explosive packed aircraft attacked England last night in a first known use of a new terror weapon. Officials say the devices caused no casualties and little damage though one landed in an open field with a heavy blast.
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London
England
Air and Home Security
France
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Domei
Chichi Jima
Haha Jima
Bonins
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Yap
Mille Islands
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Seventh Air Force
Bosquet
By Richard Kasischke
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Fitzpatrick
Merrick
Kotarski
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Mallory
Chizman
Williams
Pocatellan
Pfc
Paul Goddard
Patch
George Norris
Luxembourg
Flanders
Radio Atlantic
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Holland
Channel
Pas de-Calais
Pernes
Dunkerque
George S. Patton
Third Army
Siegfried Line
Verdun
Moselle
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