Allies in Paris Face Problem Of Feeding City And Clearing Streets
Paris faces food shortages and street disorder after its liberation. Allies plan to supply 75 000 tons monthly with 3 000 trucks while maintaining control over Maquis and French interior forces. De Gaulle’s safety concerns delayed events as resistance and civilian casualties rise.
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Allies Prepare Harsh Peace Terms for Bulgaria
Allied leaders signal stiff surrender conditions for Bulgaria to relinquish seized Greek and Yugoslav territories. Romania moves toward Moscow armistice as pressures mount on Finland Hungary and Slovakia amid German withdrawals near Bucharest. News notes German reinforcements promised to Hungary while Romanian troops reportedly waver.
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European Advisory Commission
Washington
Moscow
Bulgaria
Greece
Yugoslavia
Germany
Romania
Bucharest
Finland
Hungary
Slovakia
Stockholm
Afton
Tidningen
Minai
Easton Schedule Report Postponements and Scores
The scoreboard lists postponements for Electra at Williamsport and Scranton at Wilkes-Barre due to rain. National League notes St Louis 3 Cincinnati 2 and Pittsburgh at Chicago postponed by cold. American League shows Boston 4 New York with only one game on the slate.
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Williamsport
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Willkes-Barre
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Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Chicago
Boston
New York
Peace Talks Advance Amid Secrecy Debate
Washington delegates to the world security conference agreed to meet the press today, seeking a more liberal information policy after closed sessions at Dumbarton Oaks. Senator Bridges criticized secrecy and pledged plain talk, as undersecretary Stettinius and diplomats Cadogan and Gromyko prepare today’s briefing with the press.
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Alexander Cadogan
Andrvei Gromyke
Hull
Childhood Friends Keep Rendezvous With Death
Privates Recco Gurrieri and Peter Fodor were longtime friends from Bethlehem who served together through training, overseas duty, and furloughs. The War Department reports Fodor was killed in action on July 8, with Gurrieri listed among the casualties on the same date.
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Recco Gurrieri
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Americans Crush German Hold on Marseille and Rhone Trap
Allied offensives in southern France push German forces toward a closing Rhone Valley pocket. Paris reports heavy losses as American columns press from Avignon and Marseille, with Toulon’s fall yielding thousands more prisoners. Marseille surrenders unconditionally. 27,000 prisoners captured, including German generals, amid scenes of jubilation and continued gunfire along the harbor.
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Vieux -Port
WPB Boss Krug Promises Clean House Amid Crisis
William J. Knudsen era changes at the War Production Board as J. A. Krug pledges to fire those at fault and unite the agency. Sidney Weinberg resigns as WEB vice chairman citing demagogic intrigues behind the high command split. Krug supports Nelson's civilian output plan while Weinberg refrains from naming the intruders and describes them as termites in the ivory tower.
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War Production Board Urges Full Labor Day Schedule
Acting chairman AL Krug urged full working schedules on Labor Day in all war plants producing critical military items. He warned programs remain behind schedule and emphasized continuing to boost output for heavy trucks tires forgings castings heavy artillery and ammunition to meet armed services needs.
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Washington
UPJ
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War Production Board
Christmas Present Montfest Admiral Keyes Speech
Admiral Lord Keyes asserted that the European war would end by early winter and that the Japanese campaign would finish much sooner than some expect. He spoke yesterday on wartime prospects and urged calm as Allied efforts pursued decisive victories.
Nazi Protest Over U S Treatment of Prisoners
Berlin radio reported Germany’s foreign office protested to the United States via Switzerland claiming German prisoners were placed on American tanks on August 14 during the St Malo assault. The broadcast cited St Malo commander Col Andreas-Vos Auloch and warned the incident breaches of the laws of war and demanded measures to prevent recurrence.
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Germany
Goering and Wife Reported Under Arrest
Time magazine’s Stockholm correspondent reports Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and his wife under house arrest in Germany. The dispatch cites Goering’s push to hush the Hitler assassination attempt to avoid an army scandal, overridden by Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, with Hitler enraged and ordering Goering’s arrest.
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New York
UPI
Stockholm
Time Magazine
Hillman Says CIO PAC Spent 35000 Primaries With No Purge List
Sidney Hillman testified that the CIO Political Action Committee spent 35000 in congressional primaries this year but none of it went to contests that unseated Starnes Costello and Hkleberg. He defended the group saying results matter and denied backing only one party, noting it endorses Roosevelt Truman and opposes Dewey.
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C. I. C. Group
Washington
Sidney Hillman
C. I. 0. Political Action Committee
Starnes
Alabama
Costello
California
Hkleberg
Texas
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House Committee
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Democratic National Committee
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Thomas RE. Dewey
C1 O. Grole
Mysterious Calls Plague Police In Museum Killing
Police probing the strangling death of blonde Phyllis Newmark received numerous mysterious calls. One caller claimed to have killed the 40 year old, while another offered to surrender an attractive bronze woman seen with Newmark before she left Berbetel. A merchant seaman and a sailor were questioned as detectives pursued a letter found in the victim's handbag.
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Phyllis Newmark
American Museum of Natural History
Chinese Peace Delegate Arrives in Washington
Dr. Wellington iKoo chief Chinese delegate to the Dumbarton Oaks security conference arrived in Washington by plane from New York. He stressed China’s determination to do its share for world peace and was greeted at National Airport by a large crowd of British Chinese and American officials.
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Washington
Wellington iKoo
jDumbarton Gaks
New York
Koo
Na‘ional
War Ballot Applications Rise in New York
The New York State war ballot initiative sees applications climbing as a citizen non-partisan committee reports strong turnout among service members. Officials note 490 million applications processed to date, signaling broad veteran engagement and potential impact on the vote.
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New York
MacArthur Strategy Pays Off in Lives
A Southwest Pacific observer praises General MacArthur’s New Guinea plan, saying retaking the Philippines with fewer casualties is possible. He cites the Aitape campaign where Japanese losses and American casualties were high, and emphasizes using jungle terrain and next objective deception to force frontal attacks.
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Werk
Madang
New Guinea
Hollandia
Wewak
Aitape
Kurile Islands Bombed Again by Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor reports a carrier strike into Japan’s Kurile Islands with Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announcing attacks on Omekotan and Ontekotan. Allied forces bombed small surface craft and set fire to warehouses and buildings near Paramushito.
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Pearl Harbor
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Chester W. Water
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RAF Sinks Unfinished Battleship Clemenceau at Brest Harbor
London reports the RAF sank the unfinished French battleship Clemenceau in Brest harbor to deny the Germans use of the 235000 ton Richelieu class vessel. The ship was incomplete since France fell in 1940, and the action aimed to block the harbor’s use by enemy forces.
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Brest
Air Ministry
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R.A. FL
Red Armies Sweep Into Transylvania
Soviet forces breached the Carpathians and pushed into Transylvania while Black Sea units seized Sulina and advanced toward the Danube region. Romanian defenses along Ploesti and Bucharest resisted as Malinovsky and Tettukhin’s corps pressed near Brasov and Chisinau, with Axis casualties surpassing one million since June.
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Galati
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Bucharest
Moscow
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Romania
Hungary
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Allied Planes Strike Hard At Rail Lines
Allied air forces carried out extensive raids across the Franco German border Belgium and Holland targeting rail junctions equipment and fuel depots. Ninth Air Force Marauders joined later in the day attacking Amiens LiEigi and other targets while enemy trains were hit hard with hundreds of locomotives and cars damaged or destroyed. Many German trains were derailed and stocks of fuel and ammunition diminished as the offensive continued with heavy losses on both sides.
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London
Eignin
Belgium
Hallend
Ninth Air Force
France
Amiens
LiAigi
Nijmegen
Holland
Frankfurt
Germany
Hitler
Hiars
First Born of Boy Quadruplets Dies
A baby boy, the first of quadruplets born to the wife of an Army sergeant, died in Gainesville Georgia hospital last night. The other three newborns weighed about three pounds and were reported doing fine. The dying infant weakened two hours after birth and could not be saved despite two hours of efforts.
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George Karelas
J .Karelas
Tajima
Americans Reach Key Marne Front Near Chateau Thierry
Allied dispatches report powerful American columns breaking from Meaux and pushing east toward Chateau Thierry. British units cross the Seine at Vernon and Mantes Elbeuf as a wide arc forms toward Reims and the Reich border, signaling a major renewed push and a third Battle of the Marne.
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Republicans Open Campaign Tonight
Republican chairman Herbert Brownell Jr said radio addresses by three GOP governors will launch the campaign for Gov. Thomas Dewey. Speakers include California’s Earl Warren, Tennessee’s Dewey Green, and Connecticut’s Raymond Baldwin.
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Herbert Brownell, Jr
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Dewey
Zaki Warren
California
Deizhi “Sl Green
Tenais
Rayismond E. Baldwin
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