Cease Firing Ends Finland Soviet War at Last
Finland’s three year war with Soviet Russia ended with a cease firing order. Guns along the 500 mile front from Viipuri to Salla quieted as both sides halted. German forces scattered through South Finland reportedly begin evacuation. Russian Tass criticized Prime Minister Hackzell for an apologetic tone toward Germany and for not pledging a break with Nazis or removal of German troops by September 15.
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Stockholm
Finland
Russia
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Salla
Karelia
Helsinki
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Tundre
Lapland
Sweden
Tr Owe Apel Fheb
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Tass
Atttude
Findland
Hantii Hackzell
Hackzell
Forge Phillippe
Belgium
Peter J. Carroll
Associated Press
Finland's Exit From Nazi Circle Shocks Budapest and Allies
London reports a strong reaction to Finland's move away from Nazi alignment, with Hungary pressed to respond amid concern over regional shifts. Budapest offers no official comment while ties with Finland are recalled as culturally linked. Soviet and Turkish reports add tension as Greece faces new German draft coercion.
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Finland
Hungary
Budapest
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Moscow
Istanbul
Greece
Germany
Eastern and National League Scoreboard Highlights
Baseball and basketball style scoreboard items show Albany over Hartford 4 to 3, Williamsport beating Elmira, Wilkes Barre and Scranton results, plus National and American league results with New York Philadelphia Brooklyn Boston Chicago and Detroit outcomes and scattered postponements and delays. Strong entities include Albany Hartford Williamsport Elmira Wilkes-Barre Scranton Binghamton Utica New York Philadelphia Brooklyn Boston Chicago Pittsburg St Louis Cleveland Detroit and Detroit.
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Williamsport
Elmira
New York
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Boston
Chicago
Pittsberg
Pitteburg
Washington
Cleveland
St. Louis
St Louis
Detroit
Seventeen Japanese ships sunk near Philippines by MacArthur
General headquarters announced sweeping new strikes in the Philippines theater. In Mindanao and Celebes area operations, the Far East Air Forces and allied units sank or damaged 25 ships, including a 3,900-ton transport and a 1,006-ton freighter, with many aircraft destroyed or damaged and several warehouses and air bases hit.
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Celebes
Dutch East Indies
Com. Munique
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Talaud Island
Haimahera
Beo Bay
Nazis Face Trial for Rome Deaths
The Allied control commission said 304 to 1,065 Romans were killed or beaten to death and more than 1,000 seriously injured during the Nazi occupation of Rome. Germans listed at Via Tasso will be held accountable, with three singled out to defend themselves if alive in Allied hands. The report notes the Ardeatine Caves massacre and the seizure of Marshal Badoglio’s son Mario for safekeeping.
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Allied Control Commission
Via Tasso
Ardeatine
Pietro Badoglio
Matio
Berlin
British Forces Sweep Across Belgium and Antwerp Falls
British Army drives through the Low Countries seizing Brussels and the port of Antwerp yesterday. Forces push five miles into the Netherlands while Belgium is split in half. Antwerp’s fall cuts rail links to Germany and provides the Allies with a major ocean pier to sustain offensives. American units may also be involved as Dutch frontier action begins. Continued on Page Eleven.
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Brussels
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Germany
Ninth Air Force
France
Pieter Gerbrandy
Allies Close In on Nazis Fleeing Lyon
Rome reports Allies press Nazi forces escaping Lyon from Bourg to Villefranche as American troops push northeast along the Saone river banks and French forces advance on the west bank. Tank clashes at Montrevel. Lyon airfield seized. final German units reported neutralized.
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Sade River
Lyot
France
Bourg
Lyon
Villefranche
Montrevel
Silk Center
Boy 12 Admits Strangling Girl With Jump Rope
Detective Sergeant Fitzgibbons said a Svearold boy admitted responsibility for the strangling of Ella Marie Aubin yesterday. He confessed tying one end of a jump rope around her neck and suspending her from a seven foot fence as her feet touched an old spring. The body was unclothed and the boy said he committed natural acts. No charge has been placed. the boy has been sent to a hospital for treatment.
Advances On Rocket Coast Bring Respite From Robots
Allied air power finally limited buzz bomb raids on England after a sustained assault lasting eighty days. Thousands of aircraft, including Beefs, heavy and medium bombers, fighters, and raiding crews, pounded the robot belt and depots. Since Friday there have been no robots over England, with about 30 in the past week versus 700 previously, despite weather permitting launches. Continued pressure aims to intensify offensives into the Reich and German forces.
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London
England
Hirag
Buts
Nazi Poets Ordered to Arm After Propaganda Push
A wartime decree forced Germanys poets to abandon verse and focus on making arms. Goebbels praised a sacred Reich motive as radio and press urged mass mobilization to defend the homeland against invasion. Fransocean reported only 4.9 percent of poets worked in poetry in early and wartime years.
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Fransocean
Erder
Nazis Preparing To Flee Denmark Evacuation Ordered
Stockholm radio reports German forces plan to evacuate Denmark. They are burning documents in Copenhagen and have ordered all German women and children to leave by Friday.
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Denmark
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Eighth Army Nears Rimini in Gothic Line Drive
Allied forces led by Canadians push toward Rimini piercing the Gothic Line defense. The breakthrough places British, Polish, Indian, and Canadian troops within seven miles of the Po valley highway and sixty miles from Bologna as they seize a bridgehead over the Conca River. Rimini’s capture would open a direct route toward Bologna and advance on Nazi fortifications described as highly elaborate and formidable.
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Rome
Eighth
Rimini
Conca River
Bologna
Russians Sink Nazi Supply Ship in Baltic
Moscow announced a midnight communique that Jesterdar sank a Nazi supply ship of 6,009 tons in the Baltic Sea and also sank one high speed landing barge while damaging two others in the Gulf of Finland as Soviet forces attack German vessels withdrawing men and supplies from Finland.
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Finland
Jesterdar
Baltic Sea
Gulf of Finland
Moscoe
Labor Day Death Toll Tops 1943 Record in AP Report
The Labor Day weekend death toll rose to 210 across 34 states and D C, beating 1943 figures. Last year 250 died. 1942 near 350 and 1941 over 600. Traffic deaths numbered 121, drownings 44, miscellaneous 45. California led with 31. Pennsylvania 17, New York 14, Virginia 24.
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Minoia
Pennsylvania
New York
Virginia
Eight Mines Taken Over in Nationwide Seizure
Washington reports the government seized eight more bituminous coal mines as supervisory workers strikes spread. The move aims to keep operators running while the United Clerical Technical and Supervisory Employees Union seeks bargaining recognition. Total idle mines rise to nineteen, with 9,000 workers affected across Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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Dir
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
WLE
Ickes
President Calls For Puerto Rico Home Rule
President Roosevelt urges Howse passere of the Senate's Puerto Rico home rule measure in a letter yesterday. He states islanders have reached political maturity but only rudiments of democracy. House reaction signals hope for immediate action on popular governor election and gubernatorial appointments.
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Roosevelt
War Prisoners Held In U S Total 243 848
Washington reports total wartime prisoners in the United States at 243 848 with Germans 182 846 Italians 50 272 and Japanese 20. The prisoners are confined in 195 camps and 243 branch camps across the country.
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U. S
Washington
War Department
Tremor Shocks Troy Area Residents at 12:40
Residents across Lansingburg and surrounding Troy area awoke to a strong quake at 12:40 am. Phone lines flooded as hospitals and hotels reported tremors and minor damage while residents saw broken dishes and toppled pictures. Some feared an explosion before confirming it was an earthquake.
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Lansingburg
Very Severe Earthquake Felt Across Northeast and Canada
The Associated Press reports a very severe quake rattled homes from Canada to New Jersey and inland to northern Ohio around 17 49 am. Shocks were strongest along New Jersey beaches and parts of New York, with tremors loosening lights in Toronto and causing a Brooklyn resident to say his five story building swayed like a tree. No damage reported.
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Canada
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Ohio
Fordham University
New York
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Montreal
Waterbury
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Long Islands
Brooklyn
Allies Fear Nazis May Go Underground
Washington reports Allied officials fear defeated Germany’s Nazi leadership may build underground networks and concentrate camps to seed an underground movement in exile. Allies plan to counter by preserving party structures and relying on intelligence from Poles, Russians, Czechs, French, and others who endured wartime German labor camps.
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Washington
G¢iaix Planning Administration
Germany
Iup
Tremor Strikes Upstate New York Cities
A distinct earthquake tremor around 12 40 pm rattled windows and beds in Gloversville Oneonta Binghamton Utica and Buffalo prompting flood of calls. Hotels reported guests tossed from beds while appliances toppled. Fort Edward and Glens Falls areas noted water and power effects with minor damage reported.
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