Soviet Races To Plug Escape Route
Govorov’s army veterans punch toward Tallinn from Narva and from Tartu as Riga front advances press German lines. Bagramian’s columns seize 100 settlements near Jelgava while Yeremenko Masiennikov axes push to cut the Baltic front in half. Malinovsky drives toward Belgrade threatening southern routes.
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Moscow
Leonid A. Govorov
Ted
Leningrad
Baltic
Stonia
Tallinn
Govorov
Narva
Rahlka
Tartu
London
Lake Peipus
Finnish Gulf
Riga
Ivan C. Bagramian
Jelgava
Bagramian
Govrov
Andrei Yeremenko
Genan Masiennikov
Estonia
Latvia
Red Army
Warsaw
Transylvania
Hungary
Vistula
Malinovsky
Timiso
Tunges
Belgrade
Older Group Asks Draft Older Group Asks Draft
Unusual number of men over 30 have asked draft boards to be sent into the armed forces. Selective Service said the figure is not large but some local boards filled quotas from volunteers, many older men. Officials deny data linking volunteer interest to GI Bill benefits. Col. Arthur V. McDermott notes older volunteers in New York motivated by benefits like education and unemployment allowances.
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Washington
Selective Service
Col
Arthur V. McDermott
New York City
New York
Polish Premier Thanks U S for Warsaw Airlift Support
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, head of the Polish government in exile, sent a message to President Roosevelt thanking the United States for supplies delivered by American bombers to partisans resisting the Nazi occupation in Warsaw.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajcczyk
Roosevelt
Warsaw
Greeks Push Toward Rimini and Santa Lucia in Italy
Greek and American forces advanced near Rimini with the Canadians breaking through southwest of the port to threaten Rimini from the west. Allied troops also drove Germans from high ground near Monte Montale and Monte Acuto, advancing toward Firenzuola and the Gothic line defenses.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Rimini
Fifth Army
Firenzuola
Bologna
San Lorenzo
Italy
Monte Montale
Monte Acuto
Monte Frena
Barco
Florence
Santa Lucia
Puta Pass
Wreck Victim Dies in Castle Rock Train Crash
Lorin Alvin Cosner, 31, a navy sailor from California, died in hospital after the Tuesday collision of a passenger train with the Governor Dewey special near Castle Rock. Jean Dolan, 23, of Omaha, Nebraska, remained hospitalized with non serious injuries.
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Longview
Wash
Lorin Alvin Cosner
Tuolumne
Calu
Governor Dewey
Castle Rock
Jean Dolan
Omaha
Nebr
Chinese Role Against Japs Subject of Rising Concern
Washington officials view China’s future role in the war against Japan as a growing concern. American aims include securing a supply route to Free China, ensuring continued resistance to Japan, and shaping a postwar East Asia under strong leadership, with Russia’s entry potentially altering calculations. The situation hinges on Allied European victories, manpower, and countering underground Communist influence in north China under Chiang Kai-shek.
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Washington
China
Japan
Central Pacific
Pacific
Germany
Europe
United Nations
Asia
Russia
East Asia
Nazis Plea to Troops Over Radio in Dire War Message
A German high command spokesman urged frontline troops by radio to grasp the gravity of the situation and halt Allied advances at any cost. He warned that Soviet and Allied victory could lead to death by one’s own hand and promised new weapons and reinforcements.
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London
Germany
Utahns Deny Authority in Mann Act Case on Polygamy
Federal district court lacked jurisdiction over plural marriage under a sincere religious belief, nine defendants convicted last May in a polygamy roundup argued in an appeal brief. They contend state law, not federal, defined the act and that plural marriage should not be treated as prostitution or debauchery. Copies will be sent to the 10th Circuit in Denver. defendants remain free on bail.
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Salt Lake City
Federal District Court
Congress
U. S
John S. Boyden
10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Denver
Military Situation in China Grows Grim Amid Allied Movements
Chinese spokesmen admit the military situation is very serious. US air forces recently destroyed their own advanced bases near Kweilin as Nipponese columns closed to 40 miles. British reinforcements push into southwest Burma while the fifth Indian division closes on retreating Japanese within 15 miles of Tiddim.
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Associated Press
China
Kweilin
U. S
Burma
Fifth Indian Division
Tiddim
Snow Blankets Coeur D Alenes With Three Inch Peak Cover
Snow fell across the North region with three inches reported at one point in the Coeur D Alenes. Irwin Puphal Wallace district forest ranger said rain eased fire danger and six forest lookouts were recalled from their towers.
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Kellogg
Coeur D’alenes
Forest Service
Irwin Puphal
Wallace District
Road distances on fronts to Berlin and Bologna
The report lists 312 miles from outside Pulatsk on the Russian front toward Berlin and 580 miles from 25 miles below Bologna on the Italian front toward Berlin. The distances reflect wartime advances and geographic positioning of forces in Europe.
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Pulatsk
Bologna
Yankees Take Three of Palau Islands
On day seven of Peleliu fighting American forces held Aneir and Ngarmoked while a fourth Palau island Peleliu was near capture. Admiral Nimitz said enemy resistance remains bitter but progress continues as Marines report 7645 Japanese killed. A Liberator raid hit Davao with fires at the city’s airfield and depots. UK air action near Sigli showed limited opposition. Navy noted Hellcat strikes sunk three Japanese destroyers in the western Pacific.
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Palau Islands
Peleliu
Aneir
Palau
Ngarmoked
Chester W. Nimitz
Acion
Webley
Davao
Mindanao
Philippines
Sigli
Sumatra
Associated Press
Charles Grumich
Singapore
Pacific
Robot Attacks Halt Lights Over London and Countryside
London and southern England endured a fourth straight night of flying bombs as the blitz resumes with renewed robot attacks. Casualties include children recently moved from rural areas, with a damaged home leaving several residents bereaved and others seriously injured. Government warns that the battle is won but not over and evacuees should stay away longer. Dimout rules return as lights must be out during alerts, prolonging London’s darkness.
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London
Britain
Hitler Spends Days In Armored Train
New York correspondent Howard K. Smith reports from Bern that travelers say Hitler now travels in a heavily armed special train moving between stations by day and resting in guarded tunnels at night. He reportedly leaves only for brief forest walks and his Berchtesgaden villa is a guarded ghost, doors locked since the June 20 assassination attempt. A Swiss paper cited by Smith says Hitler is largely inaccessible except to his gestapo adjutant and receives only front-line communiques.
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New York
Howard K. Smith
Bern
Germany
Hitler
Smith
Fuehrer
Berchtesgaden
Gestapo
Neutral countries report sighting of Nazi V-2 weapon
London newspapers quote neutrals describing a rocket bomb seen as a flying telegraph pole with a flame trail. The vessel is said to be five feet in diameter, fifty feet long, carrying a ton of explosive and nine tons of fuel, with a high trajectory for long range. Propaganda Minister Goebbels claims the weapon is ready for use.
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London
Goebbels
Bombs Smash Railyards in Western Front Air Campaign
American air forces attacked Ludwigshafen and Mainz with heavy bomber fleets to support the Holland invasion. Coblenz and Ludwigshafen were hit as Patton’s forces pressed the German frontier near Trier. Thunderbolt and Mustang fighters escorted raids, while Calais and Brest remained focal targets for demolition.
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London
Siegfried Line
Ludwigshafen
Holland
Eighth Air Force
Mainz
Rhine
Frankfort
Trier
Coblenz
Aachen Ludwigshafen
Thionville
France
George S. Patton
Third Army
Germany
Calais
Dover
Brest
R.A
Japan Braces for Cold Winter Amid War Reports
A Tokyo broadcast warns of a harsh winter as labor and transport shortages cut production of firewood and charcoal for industry and home use. Reports claim military gains and counteroffensives across China and Formosa, with Japanese forces nearing Kweilin and fortifying the Shanghai to Hainan coast.
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Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Lungling
China
Ledo
Burma
Chuneking
Kweilin
U. S. Air Force
Claire L. Chennault
Formosa
Shanghai
Hainan Island
Canton-Hongkong
Gas Fumes Sickened 16 Firemen in Chicago Warehouse Fire
A Chicago fur furniture warehouse fire caused about 150 dollars in damage. Sixteen firefighters were overcome by carbon monoxide. eight stayed in hospitals overnight while the rest were released after treatment.
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Chicago
Holland May Turn Tide Against Axis
War dispatches describe fighting in the Siegfried line and Holland as Allied skirmishes tighten, Arnhem reports imply German forces surrounding troops, and airborne units south of Arnheim link with British forces signaling progress. The plan envisions pressure south of Holland and a northwestern push toward German ports to envelop western defenses.
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Germany
Rhine
Siegfried Line
Holland
Arnhem
Europe
Arnheim
France
Patton
Hodges
Patch
Airborne army advances as Siegfried line defenses weaken
Secretary of War Stimson said the first airborne army crossed coastal fort barriers and flooded lands to reach a point where Siegfried line defenses may be less formidable. The airborne force has a fight near Arnheim, while British troops support eight miles away.
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Washington
Stimson
Arnheim
Holland
West Wall
Aachen
Luxembourg
Cologne
Rhineland
Third Army
Nancy
Weather Forecast for Pocatello Area Briefed
The Weather Bureau at Pocatello Municipal Airport reports showers in the east portion Friday with little temperature change. Data cover 24 hours ending noon September 21 showing high 81, low 37, mean 59. Deficiency to date 53, precipitation 25 for the month so far, and sun set 7:30 with sunrise 7:17.
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Pocatello
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Germans Prepare For Next War
New York report claims the German high command urged Nazi officers from generals to company commanders to form a nucleus for a new war aimed at world leadership. War correspondent Joseph Driscoll says a secret document bearing the Reich supreme command imprimatur outlines the plot to reconstruct the army.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
Joseph Driscoll
Germany
Supreme Command
Armed Forces
Reich
Hall Testifies Dorsey Threatened Life in Balcony Fight
Jon Hall testified before a county grand jury that Bandleader Tommy Dorsey menaced him and struck him during a violent balcony altercation at Dorsey’s apartment on August 5. Hall said Dorsey’s wife Pat Dane slashed his nose. other witnesses described the scuffle and charges of felonious assault against Dorsey, Dane, Allen Smiley, and Hollywood figure Wines.
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Los Angeles
Jon Hall
Tommy Dorsey
Dorsey
Hall
Pat Dane
Allen Smiley
Hollywood
Superior Court
Doi‘ey Apt. Wines
Jane Churchill
Kansas City
Tommy
Burley girls killed and injured by wind blown pole
Burley Idaho 15 year old Lucille Egley died instantly and 15 year old Nadine Holmes was seriously injured when a gust toppled a tall aerial pole behind the Burley post office as the girls walked to Burley junior high. The accident occurred shortly before 1 p m as they crossed a vacant lot en route to afternoon classes. The St Louis Cardinals clinched the National League pennant by defeating the Boston Braves 5 4 in the first game of a double header. In Washington the Philippine resident commissioner Col Carlos FP Romulo announced he will soon join Gen Douglas MacArthur on a return to the Philippines.
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Burley
Lucille Egley
Nadine Holmes
Burley Junior High School
Boston
St. Louis Cardinals
Boston Braves
Washington
Carlos FP. Romulo
House
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
British and American Forces Seize Nijmegen Bridge in Holland
Allied troops captured the Nijmegen bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem and advanced toward the last river crossings into Germany. German broadcasts claimed 2,800 British paratroopers were captured while U S Third Army tank battles near Nancy reported 134 enemy tanks destroyed.
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London
Nijmegen
Holland
Germany
Arnhem
Sky
Second Army
First Airborne
Rhine River
Moselle
U. S. Third Army
France
Nancy
Upper Rhine
Genca
Third Saily
Flin
Bacarrat
Waal
Rhine
Emmerich
Ruhr
Miles C. Dempsey
Native of Salmon Returns After Winning Air Honors
Salt Lake City Utah's ranking ace Col Ches ley Gordon Peterson returns home with actress Audrey Boyes after shot down twice over the English Channel. The 24 year old full colonel holds the distinguished service cross air medal purple heart and British flying cross. He flew over 200 missions as a fighter pilot and now awaits next assignment while hinting at potential combat against Japan.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Chesley Gordon Peterson
Audrey Boyes
Peterson
Salmon
Idaho
Royal Air Force
Ninth Air Force
England
Brigham Peterson
America
Randolph
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