Allies Move Up In Italy
Allied forces avancd inland from their initial beach head across Calabria into Aspromonte mountains as ten more towns fell. Prisoners rose to about 3,000 while Axis coast defenses withdrew. Straits of Messina opened for Allied navigation as Italians surrender with limited resistance.
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Melilo
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Messina
Europe
Messina Strait
Seventh Army
George 5. Patton, Jr
Naples
Italy
Viterbo
Rome
Italy Asks Assurance of 1919 Frontier
London UPI reports a Rome broadcast asking Britain and the United States if they will guarantee Italy’s 1919 frontiers. The message presses whether the Anglo Saxons intend to uphold Italy’s independence and unity amid disputed borders including Somaliland, Eritrea, Libya, and Fiume’s status, reflecting postwar peace concerns.
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London
UPI
Rome
British Ministry of Information
United States
Britain
Nhey
Italy
Tiain
Broadast
America
Haly
Somaliland
Eritrea
Livya
Fiume
Gabriele Trannunzio
Albania
Dodecanese Island
Ethiopia
Paratroops Cut Off Jap Retreat
Allied headquarters report successful paratroop landings behind Lae New Guinea completing the enclosure of about 20 000 Japanese in the Lae Salamaua area. American paratroops and Australian forces seized key positions as General MacArthur watched from a Flying Fortress, sealing the inland route for retreat.
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Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Markham Valley
Lae
New Guinea
Lae-Salamaua
MacArthur
Salamaua
Markham
Marshall to Lead Allied Forces in European Theater
The Evening Star reports General George C. Marshall will be commander in chief of Allied forces in Europe and direct invasions from England. The 62 year old chief of staff signals that preparations for cross channel operations are advanced. potential successors include Generals Somervell and Eisenhower, with Eisenhower favored.
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Washington i
George C. Marshall
Evening Star
England
United States Army
The
Star
English Channel
Marshall
Constantine Brown
Brehon Somervell
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Eisenhower
General Marshall
National and American league score totals from multiple games
The scoreboard lists varied results across leagues with teams such as Brooklyn, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, St Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Albany, Utica, Hartford, Springfield, Wilkes Barre, Scranton, Binghamton and Elmira. Highlights include Philadelphia beating New York 11 to 2 and a 14 inning Cleveland win over St Louis 3 to 2.
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Boston
New York
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St. Louis
Cincinnati
Chicago
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Cleveland
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Detroit
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Albany
Utica
Qe-Utica
Hartford
Springfield
Wilkes-Barre
Scranton
Scranton & Wilkes-Barre
Binghamton
Elmira
Fair Crowds Again Break Record at Schaghticoke Fair
Opening day brought record attendance with paid admissions over 23 000 surpassing last year by about 2000. Residents from the Troy area packed the grounds, food and drink stands sold out, and unusually large groups rode in together by car and truck to the event.
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Schaghticoke Fair
A. E. Danish
Danish Poultry Farm
Troy
Cudahy, Once Ambassador, Dies in Fall
Former ambassador to Poland and Belgium John Cudahy dies after being thrown from his horse on his Milwaukee estate about ten miles from the city. The body was found by Earl L. Kramer who reported a riderless horse and the spot. Dr T R Murphy pronounced death from a broken neck.
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John Cudahy
Poland
Belgium
Ireland
James Flailey
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office
Earl L. Kramer
Racine Wis
Kramer
Cudahy
T. R. Murphy
County Genenital
Esate
Labor Doing Its Part in War Effort Says Knox
Manchester New Hampshire Labor Secretary Frank Knox declared in a Labor Day speech that labor is fulfilling its duty to win the war and must have full cooperation. He stated the United Nations have taken the initiative and are advancing step by step until Japan is overwhelmed.
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Manchester
N. H
Frank Knox
Labor
United Nations
Japan
Churchill Says U S Must Share Global Responsibility
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told a Harvard convocation that the United States cannot escape responsibility in this global conflict and must share the burden in the peace that follows. He accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws from Harvard President James Bryant Conant, amid cheers from a mostly uniformed audience.
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Cambridge
Mass
Winston Churchill
United States
Harvard University
Churchill
James Bryant Conant
Harvard
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sanders
Red Army forces capture Konotop as Stalino fear grows
Moscow announced the Red Army seized Konotop and Novye Mіyny near Desna and Seim rivers, with Stalino expected to fall momentarily. Soviet gains pushed to outskirts of Stalino, Makіevka, Kramatorskaya, Slavyansk, and rail hubs as German troops retreated. Over 10,000 Germans killed in day, with vast captures of tanks, guns, and equipment.
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London
Red
Konotop
Ukraine
Kiev
Moscow
Stalino
Donets
Novye Miyny
Desna
Seim
Pynieper
Noyye Milyny
Bakamach
Russia
Makeevka
Great Steel Center
Red Arm
Kramatorskaya
Slavyansk
Voinov
Philadelphia Wreck Crashes Congressional Limited in Northeast
The Pennsylvania Railroad fastest flyer the Congressional Limited broke on a curve near North Philadelphia causing a massive derailment. By 10 pm hospital morgues counted 47 dead with hundreds more injured or trapped as rescuers labored through the night. Officials cited a burned off journal on the lead track as the crash cause.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Congressional Limited
Luke Barrett
Matthew Ross
Frankford Hospital
Isaf
Lei
Leo Palmer
Aver
Wi York
Trents
W. C. Higginbottom
North Philadelphia
Frankford
Bernard Samuel
Norman Ebinger
Harry S&s McDevitt
McDevitt
Army
Navy
Missi Christiana Nix
Long Island City
Wreck Sidelights in Philadelphia After Disaster
Reports describe 2nd 2h manpower aiding embalmment of victims from the Congressional Limited wreck. Police and service members collected body parts in baskets for morgue. A wallet with 380 identification papers recovered by a Coast Guardsman. Marine Private Joseph Kolb linked to NYPD. Red Cross disaster relief teams, doctors, nurses mobilized at Frankford Hospital. Hospitals at capacity prompted transfers to Hahnemann Hospital as injured flowed in.
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Disaster Relief Committee of the Red Cross
Frankford Hospital
Washington
Watervliet Soldier Dies In Wreck
A Watervliet soldier died in a wreck reported Sunday. Details are unclear due to damaged text and continued coverage on page five.
Holiday Deaths May Set Record
The Labor Day holiday toll rose sharply as Sunday night brought the death count to 205 from accidents with 118 auto fatalities and 67 other accidents. A Philadelphia railroad wreck added dozens more, while California led with 23 traffic deaths followed by Ohio and Georgia. The National Safety Council had forecast 309 to AMG deaths.
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America
Philadelphia
National Safety Council
California
Ohio
Georgia
Earthquake Noted Cruiser Replaced St. Louis
Severe earthquake shocks lasting long were recorded about 400 miles from St. Louis toward Timor on the St. Louis University seismograph yesterday. The Shropshire cruiser was presented to Australia by Britain after the sinking of the Canberra cruiser in the Solomon Islands last summer.
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Timor
Australia
St. Louis University
London
Shropshire
Britain
Canperra
Solomon Islands
Soldier dies after wreck of Congressional Limited in Philadelphia
A soldier injured in the Congressional Limited wreck lay on a table in Frankford Hospital emergency ward last night. A nurse performed an emergency operation as a priest and a woman volunteer stood beside the table. The wounded man, in his final moments, whispered a plea to be cared for and asked his mother if she wanted it that way. he died.
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Philadelphia
Frankford Hospital
Theo
Train wreck toll rises as cars crash into embankment
Reported wreck injured and killed many aboard a passenger train returning from Labor Day travel. Lin Yutang and another passenger escaped unharmed but are unaccounted for, as the eight car train carried 541 people. Two derailed cars rolled toward a embankment. one splintered against a signal tower while a second crumpled.
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Lin Yutang
Nese
Commander of Irish Base Killed
Commodore James Alexander Logan commanding officer of the United States naval operating base at Londonderry Northern Ireland was killed in an airplane crash Saturday. Logan had been promoted to Commodore only eleven days before the crash. No details of the accident were reported by the Navy.
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Washington
James Alexander Logan
United States Naval Operating Base
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Navy
Logan
Known Dead in Wreck List of Names
The list of known dead from last night's wreck at the Pennsylvania Railroad Congressional Limited includes Harold Becker Brooklyn Isadore K R Chagarman St Albans N Y Clarence Diskin 08th Parachute Infantry missing home address given Reymond J Flanders New York Samuel Godoffy New York Lester A L Kraushwar Maplewood N J Samuel New York Pvt George Ryan Rochester Harry Wechslar Brooklyn Grace Ward Brooklyn Henry Kuster Tech 5th Grade ith Medical Depot Camp Vickett Va Maj Alfred F Coleman Washington D C Summer Babriant Brooklyn Joseph Kolb U S Marine Corps Reserve home address ungiven John Roefus Hurlburt Washington Calvin Oberdorf Washington.
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Hiladelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Congressional Limited
Harold Becker
Brooklyn
Isadore KR. Chagarman
St. Albans
N.Y
Clarence Diskin
08Th Parachute Infantry
Reymond J. Flanders
New York
Samuel Godoffy
Lester AL Kraushwar
Maplewood
N. Samuel
George Ryan
Rochester
Harry Wechslar
Grace Ward
Henry Kuster
Tech
Ith Medical Depot
Camp Vickett
Alfred F. Coleman
Washington
D.C
Summer Babriant
Joseph Kolb
U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
John Roefus Hurlburt
Calvin Oberdorf
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Watervliet
Pesul & EU
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Beapie Radin
Paicolliers
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