World War II Leaders Kept Informed On Italian Invasion Progress
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill maintained ongoing briefings as Allied forces advanced on the Italian mainland. War Department updates linked supply concerns to central talks with Baruch Somervell and King, while Brendan Bracken and Henrik De Kauffmann joined discussions on information and Danish resistance. Secretaries Hull and others noted the evolving ally status of Denmark amid the Messina thrust. Sun spot interference hindered radio reports of the landings.
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Washington
Brendan Bracken
Roosevelt
Henrik de Kauffmann
Kauffmann
Hull
United Nations
Straits of
Messina
Nine Heroes Awarded Oak Leaf Honors in Pacific
Allied Headquarters in the southwest Pacific awarded Oak Leaf clusters to nine American air heroes led by Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney. Highlights include Arch ie L. Leazer and Harold K. Layhee completing 200 operational hours, Layhee earning a second Oak Leaf, and Charles Andrews and Wesley Grow earning significant DFC equivalents after a May 1942 mission over Lae with a damaged aircraft and a combat victory. Francia L. Schneiders and Stanley Poole flew fifty missions dropping supplies and transporting troops in adverse weather, while James W. Miller of Roebuck shot down three enemy planes over Lae during a 1942 bombing run.
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Southwest Pacific
Upi
George C. Kenney
Fifth Air Force
Archie L. Leazer
Greensboro
5. C
Harold KF. Layhee
Dannemora
Layhee
Wesley R. Grow
Bib Lake
Wis
Charles Andrews
Grenada
Miss
New Britain
Andrews
Grow
Powell Point
Francia L
Nazis Strip Danish King of All Power
German authorities report King Christian IX of Denmark has been deprived of all political powers and personal liberty restricted, per Stockholm dispatch quoted by the Danish press service. VEGETABLES GROW HIGH. Tolland Colorado resident White cultivates one of the nation's highest victory gardens at 9,200 feet, yielding peas lettuce carrots and potatoes. ELEVATORS HAUL MOST. New York City residents increasingly use elevators, surpassing combined surface cars trains taxis buses and subways.
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London
Christian IX
Denmark
Exchange Telegraph
Stockholm
Tolland
Col
W. BE. White
C. J. Ownsby
Walden
New York City
Terrain in South Italy Favors Allies
The terrain map favors Allied invasion across southern Italy with a flat toe and low hills easing landings. It notes Monte Vulture and the Apennine spine, vast Campania and Apulia plains, and a northern Alpine barrier posing the strongest obstacle between Italy and Germany.
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United Press
Eighth Army
Messina Straits
Italy
Monte Vulture
Melfi
Venosa
Campania
Apulia
Tyrrhenian Sea
Adriatic
Naples
Apennine Range
Alps
Germany
Talmud Torah Opens Tuesday At Synagogue
The Troy Community Talmud Torah begins term Tuesday Sept 7 at 4 pm in Beth Israel vestry rooms. New students register through Thursday. Elementary classes run daily 4 to 8 pm and Sundays 9 am to 1 pm. High School meets three times weekly. Sabbath services accompany school hours. Rabbi Isaac J Teicher serves as principal along with named officers Frank Schwebel Morvis Adler and others.
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Troy Community TalmudTorah
Beth Israel
Isaac J. Teicher
Sharah Tephilah
Frank Schwebel
Myer Lazer
Morvis Adler
Philip Koyitz
Wailiam Lapides
U S Army Has Important Task In Italy Invasion
The London Star speculates the Seventh Army, not named in the communique on the Italian invasion, has been assigned a very important task by Eisenhower. Gen Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson notes the army may land in Italy soon with Messina as just the beginning, suggesting broader Allied strategy beyond a single landing.
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London
London Star
the Star
Robert Gordon-Finlayson
Eisenhower
Italy
Messina
Evening Standard
Italy Sways Toward Political Chaos As War Deepens
Observer reports Italy in a mood of deep despondency and looming political chaos as the British Eighth Army advances in the south. Marshal Badoglio reportedly arrests key military figures. reports say emissaries seek Allied contact while Rome endures food shortages and disrupted services.
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Harrison Salisbury
London
Italy
Eighth Army
Rico Avello
Barcelona
Rome
Daily Express
Bern
Pietro Badoglio
Mussolini
Emilio Debono
Ugo Cavallero
Enzo Galbiati
Avello
United Press
Spain
Popular Front
Father Roses
Enrico Pietro Galeazzi
Vatican City
Lispon
New York
Vatican
Lisbon
Dino Grandi
Portugal
Invasion Is Threat To Germany outlook by Virgil Pinkley
Virgil Pinkley United Press European manager explains how the Italian invasion threatens Germany and could pivot Allied offensives into Southern France the Balkans and beyond. He notes possible German defense lines across Calabria central Italy the Apennines and the Po River axis and the impact on shipping and supply routes in the Mediterranean.
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Virgil Finkley
United Press
Germany
Pinkley
London
Sicily
Virgil Pinkley
Balkans
France
Italy
Sardinia
Corsica
Calabria
Reggio Calabria
Naples
Rome
Leghorn
Florence
Pesaro
Ancona
Adriatic
Apennines
Genoa
Venice
Russia
Genoa-Turin-Milan
Mediterranean
Tran
Berlin says invasion of Italy is expected by defenders
Berlin radio said the Allied invasion of Italy is expected by Italian defenders who resist while watching for fresh American landings and that the Axis is prepared for two or three blows against the continent. Capt. Ludwig Sertorius warned that Americans will not remain idle in Sicily and that more landings are likely in an adjacent sector as heavy fighting continues. Prime Minister Churchill signals Allied potential, with Italy becoming a battlefield and fear of a second front elsewhere fading. The Allied strength in Sicily is estimated at 16 divisions, though only a portion has entered Italy.
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London
Berlin
Italy
Axis
Ludwig Sertorius
DNB
Reggio Calabria
Sicily
Ministry of Information
Sertorius
Europe
Battlefeld
France
Balkans
Churchill
Italian Saboteurs Reported Aiding Allied Invaders
Reports reached here claim Italian saboteurs aid the Allied invasion of continental Italy by targeting communication lines supply dumps repair shops and airfields. The sabotage is said to supplement Allied bombings and hasten the war’s end with Italians risking firing squads to ease invasion plans. Railroads and rolling stock are said to be hit, leaving locomotives scarce in Southern Italy as German guards protect remaining assets.
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Madrid
Italy
Funeral of Air Crash Victim To Be Today
The funeral for Lieut. Edward A Branen killed in a Lockbourne Ohio plane crash will be held today at 9 am at J W Burns Sons Fifth Avenue Funeral Chapel 1819 Fifth Avenue and at St Paul the Apostle's Church at 9 30 am. A solemn requiem mass will follow and interment will be in Gloveravilia.
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Edward A Branen
Lockbourne
J. W. Burns’ Sons, Inc
Fifth Avenue
St. Paul the Apostle’s Church
Gloveravilia
Mass Schedule At Cohoes and Churches Listings
St Agnes St Bernard St Joseph St Marie St Michael 71 Patrick Sacred Heart St Rita churches list daily low masses and high masses with specific times and reverends. Also notes promotion of Germain Giroux of 137 Main Street from petty officer third class to second class in the Navy with current posting as aviation mechanic at Pensacola Air Base Florida.
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St. Agnes
Joseph A. Franklin
St. Bernard’s
William P. Brennan
St. Joseph's
Louis A Lavigne
St. Marie's
Adrien Bechard
St. Michael's
Valentine W. Gierlac
Patrick’s
Thomas A. Flanagan
Sacred Heart
Raymond J. Robert
Germain Giroux
Main Street
Navy
Dearborn
Mich
Pensacola Air Base
Fla
Republicans Aim to Forge Unified Foreign Policy Plan
Mackinac Island Mich Republicans convene postwar advisory council sessions. Chairman Harrison E Spangler of the National Committee predicts the group will set direction and unite divergent views into a single campaign platform.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
Advisory Council
Harrison E. Spangler
National Committee
Advanced Guard
Eighteen Flyers Die in Fort Worth Plane Crash
Eighteen flyers were killed when two four engined bombers from Fort Worth Army Air Field collided over the Birdville community eight miles northwest of Fort Worth. The planes fell apart and crashed in a field. Names of the deceased were withheld while relatives were notified.
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Fort Worth
Tex. P
Forth Worth Army Air Field
Birdville Community
Woman Falls From Roof Into Victory Garden
Mrs. Claire Friedman, 31, mother of a three month old, fell from the roof of a five story New York apartment building yesterday and landed in a newly spaded victory garden. She apparently was uninjured as concrete paving surrounded the seven foot square plot.
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New York
Claire Friedman
Conference Talks Roosevelts Churchill and Stalin
UPI reports a high level conference in Concord New Hampshire with President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Joseph Stalin amid long delayed plans as Wendell Willkie the 1940 Republican nominee was named last night in a political update with multiple party leaders and foreign heads of state present.
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Concord
N. H
Continue School urged for Cohoes youths to beat war wages
iDe F. Herrick Connels Cohoes superintendent urged parents to keep high schoolers in class, saying government policy favors ongoing education to aid the war effort and improve future earning potential. Albert A. Gendron, son of Mr and Mrs Albert Gendron, was promoted to corporal in the Army after service began in March and is stationed at Athens Georgia.
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ARMY
Edna Mae McMurray
Troy
Station Hospital
Gulfport Field
Miss
Army Nurse Corps
Army Air Forces Eastern Technical Training Command
William D. McMurray
Seventh Avenue
Frances Asher
Trenton
iDe F. Herrick Connels
Cohoes
Conners
Albert A. Gendron
Albert Gendron
Breslin Avenue
Athens, Ga
Substandard Pay May Be Raised Up to Forty Cents
Employers in Troy and vicinity may raise substandard wages by up to forty cents an hour without War Labor Board approval. Price adjustments may follow to cover higher wages, as Price Administrator Prentiss Brown argues wage standardization aids economic stabilization and does not unduly burden the community. The action impacts local vendors such as a soda fountain, which could raise ice cream cone prices from five to ten cents to offset wage increases.
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Troy
War Labor Board
WLB
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Planes Hammer Aircraft Factory In Allied Bombardment
Allied air forces blasted the Caudron Renault factory on Paris outskirts and a nearby assembly plant with sky darkening fleets of Flying Fortresses Marauders and fighters. Five northern France airfields were hit as heavy bombers targeted Nazi air strength during the Italian invasion, and 20 enemy planes were shot down in the day.
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London
Caudron-Renault Aircraft
Paris
Europe
Berlin
Calais
France
Italy
Army Wins Priority Fight
A War Production Board directive meant to shield civilian production from military raiding has been withdrawn after civilian objections. It will appear shortly in a weakened form. The directive would have extended emergency Trinie-A priority to goods produced under civilian steel quotas unless the military order carried the priority rating.
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Washington CP
War Production Board
Manufactur
Farvade
Armed Services
Taborton YPL Meeting Reports Luncheon and Church Events
Taborton YPL met at the home of Mr and Mrs Lester and Miss Rendert of Averill Park on Wednesday for devotional and business. The Ladies Aid of Zion s Evangelical and Reformed Church Taborton plans a luncheon at Mrs Lottie Rendert s home today. A bake sale sponsored by the Ladies Aid will be held at Sowolskies ice cream parlor next Saturday. Holy Communion and Harvest Home Day will be observed tomorrow at the Zion s Evangelical and Reformed Church, with church decorations for harvest.
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YPL
Lester
Misence Rendert
Averill Park
Ladies Aid Society
The
Zion's Evangelical and Reformed Church of
Taborton
Lottie Rendert
Ladies Aid of
Zion's Evangelical and Reformed Church
Sowolskies
Ica
Zion's Evangelical and Reformed Cn Oh
Induction Notices Sent Out at Cohoes
Cohoes Selective Service Board 345 issued induction notices for the September contingent. Final physicals will occur at the area induction on Monday September 13. August inductees will depart Thursday after brief farewell ceremonies. The board continues reclassification and issuing supplementary questionnaires to fathers, over 100 sent last week.
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Cohoes
First Aid and Nursing Classes Start Soon in Cohoes
Cohoes War Council sponsors home nursing and first aid sessions to begin in about three weeks pending enough registrations. Miss Arlene Shaw will lead home nursing at the Cohoes YWCA, Sylvester Mosk will teach the first aid class at an announced site. Mrs. Ethel Brown will register attendees at City Hall Wednesday evening. If turnout allows, a men’s first aid class may be added to the women’s program.
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Cohoes
Sermon Topics Shared Across Cohoes Churches
Cohoes congregations near 10:30 a.m. services feature sermons on Resistance at First Baptist under Rev. George F. McHivern, The Christian Church and Labor under Rev. Francis L. McCauley at Silliman Memorial Presbyterian, and Rev. Victor J. Blekkink at the Reformed Church. St John’s Episcopal holds communion at 8 and 10:30 a.m. and church school resumes. First Methodist and St James’ offer sermons on siting in another’s seat and Sun Spots respectively. Three men hurt in minor workplace incidents at Beaunit Mills, Textile Printing Co, and National Automotive Co.. all treated and discharged.
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First Baptist Church
George F. McHivern
Christian Church
Labor
Francis L. McCauley
Silliman Memorial Presbyterian Church
Victor J. Blekkink, DD
the Reformed Church
St. John's Episcopal Church
Schuyler D. Jenking
Donald R. Lewis
First Methodist Church
Earl C. Fryer
St. James’ Methodist Church
Cohoes Hospital
John Yors
K.F. D. No
Elnora
Beaunit Mills
Cohoes
Donald Campbell
Liberty Street
Textile Printing Co
Joseph Pachoik
Olmstead Street
The
National Automotive Co
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James W. Miller
Roebuck, S. C
Lae
New Guinea
Ohachive
James H. R. Cromwell
Canada
Doris Duke Cromwell
Duke
Cromwell
Robert Treat
Newark
Talmud Torah
U.S. Army
Gulf of
Santa Eufemia
Tropea
Eggio
Calabri
Pizzo
Miletof
Bianes
Serace
Ionian Sea
Strait of
Scilla
St. Rita's
Metelo A. Galanti
Happy Landing
Planes Hammer Aircraft Factory
Bausch & Lomb
T. Brandon Timpane
D.D
Optometrist
Remsen St. Cohoes
Neowspa Peek Mh
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