Romans Shout Peace to Pope at Swiss-Italian Frontier
Italians gathered around Pope Pius XII amid alarms during his Rome visit after a second American air raid. Milan and Turin saw anti-government protests, while leaflets and explosives marked the raid. The pope prayed at St. John Lateran as Rome’s bombed zones were toured, with Mussolini ousted earlier and Churchill warning of wartime “scars from end to end.”
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Pope Pius XII
Rome
Milan
Pietro Badoglio
Turi
Poe
Ee Tara
Iiauan Wie
Puc
Mussolini
Stefani
Piazza Lodi
St. John Lateran Church
Luigi Maglione
Vatican
Sicily
Italy
North
Africa
Berlin
Hungary
Hitler
Swiss Telegraphis
Turin
Badoglia
Churchill
Did Duce Drown Mussolini Rumors Stir In New York
A New York newspaper reports rumors that Benito Mussolini, former Italian leader, drowned during an attempted escape. The paper claims his submarine was spotted by Allied airmen, bombed, and sunk.
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New York
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Aimen
Radios Off Air Signals New Allied Raid
Berlin and Paris radios went off air shortly after midnight yesterday signaling that Allied bombers were making another raid on Europe. London reported the shift as the alert spread, with cities bracing for potential bombardment and assessments of damage underway.
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Berlin
Paris
London
Europe
National League scoreboard hit by weather and extras
In a 10 inning game Boston defeated Chicago 5 to 4. Other major league games were postponed due to weather with American League results showing New York 4 over St. Louis 0, Cleveland 6 over Philadelphia 4, Washington 11 over Detroit 3, Chicago 3 over Boston 2. Eastern division games all postponed.
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Boston
Chicago
New York
St. Louis
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Washington
Detroit
Stack Named Executive Director of Rensselaer Campaign
Edward McDonald reports Martin B. Stack of Troy resigns as deputy welfare head to take on the post of executive director for the Rensselaer County Campaign Committee. He will direct the Republican campaigns in Troy and Rensselaer with Avery Hall assisting on county offices. Ahern notes Stack’s appointment was announced by Dean P. Taylor.
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Edward McDonald
Martin B. Stack
Troy
Rensselaer County
Stack
John J Ahern
Dean P. Taylor
Hall
Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors
Army Food Allowance Cut Sharply
Army plans to standardize meals by issuing field rations to most units and reducing total rations via a sliding scale based on unit strength. Deductions range from zero for 100 men or fewer to 12 percent for units over 1,000. The change aims to conserve food while keeping soldiers well fed.
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Chicago
R. F. Carter
Quartermaster General's Office
Carter
Army Service Forces
Goebbels Warns Air War Hurting Germany but Not Deciding War
German propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels wrote in the Voelkischer Beobachter that the Allied air offensive creates difficulties and sorrows for Germany yet cannot decide the war. A German radio broadcast quoted by the AP emphasized that victory remains within reach if air war problems are overcome.
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London
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Voelkischer Beobachter
Associated Press
Sweet Time Paramushiro Raid Targets Adak Alaska
Army bombers attacked Paramushiro in a 18 ton and 4500 pound incendiaries raid on Japan's northern base. Nine planes took part at 12 000 feet with two missing. some may have emergency landed on Kamchatka. Enemy fighters scrambled but several were shot down during a long aerial battle.
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Alaska
Japan
Paramushiro
Attu
Russia
Hamchatka Peninsula
Kurlie Island
Amchitka Island
Allied Forces Seize Randazzo as Sicilian Front Breaks
Allied troops storm Randazzo in northeast Sicily after brutal German rearguard fighting. Seventh Army pushes from west and north while British advance from south, opening lines toward Taormina and Messina. By nightfall Randazzo edge reached amid heavy combat. total Sicilian front now about thirty miles long with 130000 prisoners.
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Randazzo
Sicily
United States
Messina
Seventh Army
Highland
Taormina
Mount Etna
Tunis
Messina Straits
Pearhead
Bice
U S War Chiefs Arrive At Quebec
American chiefs of staff led by Gen. George C. Marshall Adm. Ernest J. King and Gen. H H Arnold arrived at Quebec city signaling imminent war talks with Prime Minister Churchill President Roosevelt and allied leaders. The party also included Adm. William D Leahy Gen Brebon Somervell and other senior officers as officials announced the delegation.
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Quebec
Roosevelt
Churchill
Britain
United States
George C. Marshall
Army
Ernest J. King
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
William D. Leahy
Brebon B. Somervell
Army Service Forces
John R. Dean
United States Chiefs of Staff
Forrest Royal
Navy
Jaeckle Calls GOP Leaders to Albany Meeting
Republican State Chairman Edwin F. Jaeckle of Buffalo announced a gathering at the Ten Eyck Hotel in Albany on Tuesday August 24 to discuss important party matters. He said the committee would nominate an associate judge for the Court of Appeals and consider Jessica Weis of Rochester to replace Ruth Baker Pratt as Republican national committeewoman.
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New York (P
Edwin F. Jaeckle
Buffalo
Ten Eych
Albany
Anti fascist leaders arrive in London from America
The Daily Herald reports Harvard professor Gaetano Salvemini and Count Carla Sforza, both leaders of the Free Italian movement in America, arrived in London with a small group of exiles.
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London
The
Daily Herald
Gaetano Salxemini
Harvard University
Carla Sforza
New York
America
OPA May Lift Curbs Sept 1 Amid Regional Gasoline Cuts
The Office of Price Administration slashed Midwest and Southwest coupon values to 3 gallons and floated a September 1 lift for the Northeast pleasure driving ban. Eastern states may gain higher allocations later in September if supplies rise. Bowles urged strict observance to enable East Coast recovery by September. The move excludes Rocky Mountain and Pacific regions, keeps current levels there. OPA will restore hardship home-to-work driving allowances in 12 northeastern states.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Midwest
Southwest
East Coast
Chester Bowles
Bowles
OPA
Easternet
East
Atlantic Coast
District of Columbia
Rocky Mountains
Petroleum Administration For War
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Twin slayer leads police to Bay Village double loss
Henry Hagert an 18 year old parolee from reform school confessed to shooting Charles and James Collins both 13 after luring them while they caddied at a suburban Cleveland area club. Bodies found face down in a Bay Village wooded area with back head bullet holes. He also confessed to an attack on 9 year old Jack Buchanan in Westlake Village.
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Cleveland
Reform School
Charles
James Collins
Hodie
Bay Village
Frank W. Story
Henry Hagert
Lancaster O. Boys’ Industrial School
City Hospital
Story
Hagert
Jack Buchanan
E. B. Buchanan
Buchanan
Westlake Village
George Co. Collins
Central
Swedes Describe Red Rocket Bomb From Lagg-3 Study
A Swedish technical report translated in London describes a lightweight rocket bomb codenamed Red Rocket capable of piercing seven inches of armour. Weighing about 30 pounds, the missile reportedly launches from a three rail rack under each wing of the Lagg monoplane with a length of two to three feet and a thickness of six to seven inches. The data came from an examined Finnish captured aircraft and the weapon’s existence was first raised about a year ago.
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London
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Soviet Drive Opens New Offensive Against Smolensk
Soviet forces smashed through a 31 mile front near Smolensk in a bold offensive. Troops reached within a mile of Kharkov and moved toward Bryansk as 2,000 Germans died at Spas Demensk. The Moscow communique said 4,000 Germans killed in a Kharkov sector and 42 German planes were downed.
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London
Smolensk
Tottering Kharkov
Bryansk
Moscow
Russia
Dnieper
Spas Demensk
Smotensk
Spang J Demensk
Pavlino
Anothes
Veltskie Lukie
Monitor
Kharkov
Bolshaya-Danilovka
Great Ukraine
Loseve
Ogan
Ickes seeks release of anthracite miners for fuel goals
Secretary Ickes told the War Manpower Commission to release anthracite miners from military duty to boost home heating fuel production. He ordered 90 percent of last year’s deliveries to dealers amid a looming shortage. He cited a manpower gap in the Pacific northwest and urged cooperation from operators and workers as coal production trends upward but uncertain.
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Washington LP
Secretary of Interior
Ickes
War Manpower Commission
Armed Services
Armied Services
Pacific Northwest
Vermont State Coal Committee
War Labor Board
Coal Mines Administration
Smith-Connailly
Republic Steel Walkout Spreads at Buffalo Plant
A rapidly spreading walkout by United Steelworkers at Republic Steel Buffalo plant halted rifle and machine gun barrel production. District Manager Frank Farrell reported 1,500 workers on strike by 5 pm ET and up to 800 more expected before midnight, with full production expected down between now and midnight.
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Buffalo
CSO
United Steelworkers of America
Questerday
Republic Steel Corp
Frank €. Farrell
Veterans parade marks solemn Fifth Avenue tribute
Greying World War I veterans who helped smash the Hindenburg line in 1918 marched down Fifth Avenue with their sons and daughters now serving in World War II, in an American Legion parade noted for its lack of laughter.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Prison Inmates Riot Over Food In Denver Jail
Eighty inmates rioted at Denver County jail during an afternoon meal protesting food quality. Thirty police quelled the outbreak as furniture was wrecked, windows broken, water pipes loosened, and part of the jail flooded. Warden Edmunds Young said the hash meal of bologna sparked the disturbance.
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Denver
Denver County
Robert J. Kirschwing
Edmunds. Young
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