Allied Forces Close In On German Lines Near Rouen
American armor and infantry push 25 miles toward the mouth of the Seine scene of heavy fighting around Elbeuf and Rouen as Canadians advance from the Tonques toward the Seine. Allies aim to outflank and trap remaining German Seventh Army while preparing for clashes along the river east of Paris.
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Touques River
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Elbeuf
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Paris
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Reich
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Germany Orders Sixty Hour Week For Office Help
AP report from London says Nazi Germany issued a decree to extend the work week to sixty hours for office workers in public administration and industry. The austerity order restricts schools and entertainment and directs workers toward armament production or the Wehrmacht, with exemptions for women under fifty and those over sixty five.
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Germany
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Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Wehrmacht
Bombers Raid Yap And Paramushiro Again
Admiral Nimitz reported bomber strikes against Yap and Paramushiro on the eastern approaches to the Philippines, marking the fourth straight day of raids. Bombers also attacked Pareninsiing Island on the northern approaches to Tokyo for the seventh time this month, with a cargo vessel sunk and direct hits on northern naval installations. One interceptor was shot down.
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Pearl Harbor
P-Yap Island
Philippies
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Aleutians
Pareninsiing
Tokyo
Scoreboard roundup Eastern and National results
Eastern games include Albany 3 Williamsport 5 and Scranton 5 Otic 3 with Scranton 10 Gtcan, plus Wilkes Barre 4 Binghamton 2 and Harford Flinks 1. Elmira 4 Martioré 9. National shows St Louis 2 Chicago 1 with Philadelphia at Boston postponed. American has no games scheduled.
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Williamsport
Albany UH
Scranon
Otic
Scranton
Gtcan
Binghamton
Wilkes Barre
St. Louis
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Russia Demands Romania Fight German Forces for Armistice
London dispatch reports the Soviet government urging Romanian troops to join the Red Army against Germany as the price of Allied terms. It insists Russia seeks no Romanian territorial gain and would aid Romanian forces in liquidating German troops to hasten an armistice with the Allies.
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Romania
Germany
London
Red Army
Ropiania
Transylvania
Peoples’ Commissariat For Foreign Affairs
Moscow
Monitor
Hing Suhai
Kieg MichaFl
J.ondon
Hiuver
Reich
Bulgaria
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Finland
Sofia
Helsinki
Carl Gustav
Mannerheim
Stockholm
Sweden
George Gripenberg
Budapest
Rotundia
Nicholas Horthy
Humnarian
Lithualtia
Bulgaria Seen Next on List To Quit Axis
Rumors and reports indicate Bulgaria move toward leaving the Axis. Sofia officials said Bulgaria wished to exit the war while maintaining Allied contact. Finland and Hungary also act to destabilize their war positions as pressure grows.
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Bulgaria
Axis
Six Children Fall in British Bomber Crash Tragedy
UPI reports a Liberator bomber crashed into Preckton England stopping in a quiet Lancashire town. 35 youngsters and 19 adults were killed, including nine American service members. A mass funeral was arranged for the children in the village churchyard with burial set for Saturday.
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Preckieton
Eng
UPI
Authers
Lancashire
Britain
Miners Vote to Resume Work After Seven-Week Strike
Shenandoah Pa four thousand anthracite miners in the seven week strike against Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co voted to resume work this morning. Mines seized by the federal government were reopened. Action ratified at Knickerbocker St Nicholas and Mahanoy City collieries with Maple Hill cited as first to walk out.
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Shenandoah
Philadelphia
Reading Coal and Iron Co
Maple Hill
Heaviest Air Raid Reported on Halmahera Island
General Headquarters says the heaviest single raid on Halmahera Island, a key area guarding the Philippines, unloaded 315 tons of bombs on Japanese defenses. The assault also hit Halmahera with 156 tons, as more than 200 Allied fighters and attack planes conducted operations over Voxdikop Peninsula and Dutch New Guinea, destroying runways at Babo Nabire and Giawiri airfields.
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Ern Guardian
Philippines
Halmahera
Voxdikop
Peninsula
New Guinea
Runwars
Babo
Nabire
Giawiri
Pope Drafts Message for War Anniversary Broadcast
An unofficial report suggests Pope Pius XI is preparing a world broadcast for September 1 to mark the fifth anniversary of the war's start. The Vatican timing implies a major address amid ongoing global tension.
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Vaticanlity
Alfange says Dewey fears Willkie over Dewey policy
Dean Alfange, Liberal Party vice chairman, accuses Governor Dewey of fearing Willkie and using the Dumbarton Oaks conference to court the hyphenated vote. He asserts Dewey aims to shed isolationism and to align rail policy with Willkie’s stance.
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Dean Alfange
Thomas E. Bewes
Dumbarton Oaks
Wendell Willkie
Alfange
Dewey
Willkie
Wilkie
Patriots Free Priests From Warsaw Jail
Polish underground forces raided German police HQ in Warsaw and freed eight priests held under Nazi pressure. Thirty Germans were killed and sixty captured in the attack. Germans also set fire to Warsaw’s Holy Cross church during the raid.
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New York
Warsaw
London
Holy Cross Church
Argentine Gifts Food Aid to Paris Residents
The Argentine government announced it would send 1000 tons of wheat and 5000 tons of meat to Parisians. The decree states the aid will be immediately placed at the disposal of French authorities in the Buenos Aires port.
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Buenos Aires
France
Seventh and Third Armies Draw Near Rome
Highly mobile American task forces advance toward Rome from Grenoble as Allied columns meet up with Eisenhower’s forces in northern France. Patriots control the Grenoblo region north to the Swiss border while German resistance crumbles in southern and central France. Over 17,000 Allied prisoners taken. further advances push toward the Rhone delta and Aries as the war crosses Italy’s border.
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Grenoble
Eisenhower
France
Associated Press
Geneva
St. Julien
Pawiss
Rhine
Germany
Amerisat
Paris
Grenobie
Italy
Toulon
Stevi
Alexander AL Pateh
Seventh
Two Villages Ban Gatherings As Polio Check
Western New York communities move to curb infantile paralysis spread. Wellsville officials vote to open county schools before Sept 21 and restrict public gatherings for under 18s. Warsaw orders pools closed and bans under 13 from churches and theaters.
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Buffalo
New York
Wellsville
Allegany County
Boards of Health
John H. Moore
C.&. Truesdale
Warsaw
Truesdale
Civilian Butter Pinch Expected This Fall
Dr. Ho A. Ruehe executive secretary of the American Butter Institute predicts a civilian butter shortage this fall. He says weekly creamery butter production may drop 19 to 20 percent by late September compared with 1943, averaging about six pounds per capita. Civilians used thirteen pounds per capita in 1932 and about 9.7 pounds in 1943.
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Chicago
Ho A. Ruehe
American Butter Institute
Ruehe
Buenos Aires suppresses Paris Liberation celebration
Police in Buenos Aires dispersed a large crowd gathered in Plaza Francia to celebrate Paris's liberation. Uniformed and plainclothes officers beat pedestrians with night sticks and charged strollers on horseback to break up the demonstration. Several demonstrators were injured and many were arrested.
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Buenos Aires
Paris
Plaza Francia
Hiker Dies After Fall From Mount Baker Cliff
A hiker identified as 1-year-old Larry Strathdee died after plunging from a Mount Baker cliff during a hiking mishap near Bellingham Washington. The incident occurred last Thursday and is being investigated by local authorities.
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Bellingham
UPI
Larry Strathdee
Absentee Ballot Demand Surges in Election Forecast
An Associated Press survey estimates about 9 percent of the national vote will come from armed forces voters. Some 2,000,000 absentee ballot applications have been received from battlefronts ships and camps as plans for November unfold. New York led with over 335,000 applications and Pennsylvania New Jersey also report large totals.
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New York
Associated Press
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Dulles Hull Talks Enter Third Day Progress Toward Bi partisan Pact
Dulles and Hull continued their discussions on American participation in a world security organization for a third day. Foster Dulles, foreign affairs adviser to Thomas Dewey, said the talks aim for a meeting of minds and a clear program. The exchanges extended beyond a typical session as both sides work through many issues.
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Washington
Foster Dulles
Hull
Dulles
Thomas Dewey
Dewey
Buffalo Girls Bike Trip to New Orleans Ends in Port City Stop
Thelma Popp and Vorny Ray, college girls from New York, cycled from Buffalo to New Orleans on a 3600 mile South tour. They started June 22 with light bikes and sleeping bags, rode to Cleveland Cincinnati and Louisville, then signed as maids on the Mississippi steamer The Corregidor in Louisville, storing bikes in staterooms for the river voyage to New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Atlanta
New York
South
Thelma Popp
Vorny Ray
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Louisville
Corregidor
Wilson Resigns WPB amid Unfair Attacks Row
Charles E. Wilson resigns as WPB executive vice chairman accusing aides of Nelson of biased attacks. Roosevelt accepts resignation and names J A Krug as acting chairman. Wilson plans to testify before the Senate war investigating committee while Mead denies unfounded Nelson Wilson rumors.
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Ubi
War Production Board
Charles E. Wilson
Donald M. Nelson
General Electric Co
Nelson
WPB
Sel JSON
WPS
China
Roosevelt
iLieut
J. A. Krug
Nelson-Wilson
House Group Submits New Reconversion Bill in Congress
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a reconversion bill after rejecting the administration’s broader unemployment benefits plan. It backed War Mobilization Director Byrnes’s proposal, which would limit benefits to 34 weeks up to 320 dollars weekly, and kept jobless compensation under state control. The measure dropped Senate retraining provisions and excluded 2,500,000 government workers from benefits.
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Washington LLP
House Weys and Means
James F. Byrnes
Senate
Russians Near Last Barrier In Romania
Russian forces press toward the Galați Gap as Romanian and German units retreat. Soviet reports claim 47 000 prisoners in a blitz offensive and describe the collapse of Axis defense with Romanian deserters aiding. Russian detachments push along the eastern Carpathians while rail lines to Bucharest and Ploiești remain keys to escape. Continued on Page Seventeen.
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Capiriac
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Seret
Foy
Romania
Jebar
Carpathian Mountains
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Focevani
Galati Gap
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Ploesti
Poland
Gabreski Reported Prisoner of War in Reich
U.S. air ace Gabreski, missing since July 20 while on volunteer duty, is confirmed prisoner of war in Germany. War Department announced the capture. prior notice had said he was missing, with family in Ci City and Prairie Du Chien, Wis, awaiting details. His combat record lists 25 enemy planes shot down and three on the ground.
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Washington
Litut
Gabreski
America
War Department
Ci City
Pal
Kay Cochran
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Hancee
Robert 5. Johnson
Lawton
Oklo
Europe
Richard L Bong
Poplar
Pacific
E. Johnson
RAF
Von Papen Captured in London Reported by AP
A communique broadcast from Moscow claimed Lieut. Col Adolf von Papen, a cousin of German diplomat Franz von Papen, was captured. The report appeared in a Moscow supplemented bulletin today.
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London
Marseille Resistance Fights On In Street by Street Combat
Reports describe fierce house to house fighting as French forces clear Marseille of German troops. Patriots resist near Fort St. Jean and Fort San Nicolas with tanks and infantry, while Canebière and Vieux Port areas see heavy shelling and scorched hillsides.
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Sifeder
France
Ferty Todey
Nc i
Boulevard de la Madeleine
Fort St. Jean
Fort San Nicolas
Vieux Port
Fort St Jean
Foreign Legion
aAubegne
Allies Press Into Suburbs Near Paris Amid Fierce Front
Allied columns led by French armor push toward Paris from west and south as German batteries answer. Paris radio claims Le Clerc fighters have entered the capital with American support, while De Gaulle’s troupe expected to arrive tomorrow. Germans shell sectors including the Eleventh District near Place de la Republique as French and American troops contend for control.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Edward D. Salh
Associated Press
Paris
Jacques le Clerc
FLF
le Clerc
Pont de Sevres
Radio de la Nations Francaise
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Paria
Suderban Clamarh
Place de la Republiqque
Republican Guard
Faris
Snoring Birds Multiply To Dismay of Sleepers
In Philadelphia residents complain of a persistent barn owl duet keeping them awake for weeks. A district game warden says the owls cannot be destroyed, and observers note the birds have multiplied from a pair to a quartet near the waiter tower where the noise originates.
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Philadelphia
Downts
British Open Invasion Coast Reopened to Public
The War Office said the last stretch of England’s invasion coast on the east and southeast would be reopened to the public though the army remains in control along the shore. The warning stated danger of flying bombs persists as bombardment continues.
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London
British War Office
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Information Service
X. Declarins
Civilian Travel Warned on Labor Day
Washington AP report says Col. Monroe Johnson head of Defense Transportation warned civilians to abandon trips on trains or ships unless directly connected with the war. He urged restraint for Labor Day travel to support wartime needs.
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Monroe Johnson
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