Churchill in Canada for Roosevelt meeting in Quebec
Churchill arrives in Canada and heads to Quebec to meet President Roosevelt in a high level war conference. Accompanied by Mrs Churchill and top Allied leaders, the visit signals continued coordination against Germany and Japan amid postwar planning and strategic talks.
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Slavs Claim Croat Ruler Arrested Amid Balkan Advance
The report says Ante Pavelic, Nazi puppet leader of Croatia, may have been arrested by revolutionaries and handed to Marshal Tito's Partisans. London radio and a Yugoslav station offered conflicting claims as Tito's forces, aided by the Red Army, press toward Zagreb and ready to cut escape routes for Axis troops in the Balkans.
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Dover Gunfire Across Channel Reported Saturday Night
Reports indicate Channel guns opened on Dover with long range batteries from Germany firing salvos across the Channel on Saturday night and continuing into yesterday, details sparse but consequences feared.
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Eastern and American Baseball Scores From The Day
Scores from multiple games across leagues list Wilkes-Barre Albany Hartford Scranton Williamsport Utica Brooklyn Philadelphia Pittsburg Cincinnati St Louis Chicago New York Boston Detroit Cleveland Washington and others with varying results. Notable outcomes include Hartford defeating Scranton 9 to 0 and New York edging Brooklyn 10 to 3.
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Crowds Cheer Churchill Returns to Halifa x
A large Halifax crowd greeted Prime Minister Winston Churchill as he and Mrs. Churchill disembarked from a transport and later left for Quebec to confer with President Roosevelt. The welcome featured cheers, songs and a wave from Churchill after a display of victory signs aboard the ship.
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Nazis Order Death for Hitler Plotter Goerdeler
Berlin radio announced that Karl Goerdeler former mayor of Leipzig and seven others were sentenced to death for involvement in the July 20 1944 plot against Adolf Hitler. The People's Court ordered hanging for all seven, including Paul Le Jeune Jung Wilhelm Leuchner Josef Wirmer Ulrich Von Hassell Trout Stelz Count Helidorf and Gottdeler.
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Karl Goerdeler
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Adolf Hitler
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Wilhelm Leuchner
Josef Wirmer
Ulrich von Hassell
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Immediate Conversion urged for small plants to civilian work
Maury Maverick, head of the Smaller War Plants corporation, urged immediate reconversion of small plants to civilian production as war orders end. In a biemonthly Congress report he said small plants cannot wait for large plants to finish orders or face enforced idle time and potential bankruptcy.
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Bette Davis to Speak for Roosevelt Rally in NYC
New York speakers include film star Bette Davis and conductor Serge Koussevitzky at a rally for Roosevelt in Madison Square Garden on Thursday September 23 announced by the independent voters committee of the arts and sciences for Roosevelt.
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Bette Davis
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Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences
German Legation in Finland on Way Home
Members of the German legation staff and their wives left Helsinki by train for Turku and boarded a steamer to Stockholm. The group of about twenty women appeared distressed as they boarded quietly, with voices heard amid the crowd.
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Labor Unions to Intensify Drive for More Base Pay
Labor unions plan a stronger push for higher base pay as wartime controls ease and the 48 hour week ends. They seek 40 hour week parity with 43 hour pay, aim to cut withholding taxes, and may press for bond deductions cuts and renewed strikes. Workers face about a 23 percent earnings drop if hours fall from 43 to 40. Continued on Page Nine.
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Dewey Breaks Tour With Owosso Visit
Governor Thomas E Dewey and wife visited Christ Episcopal Church in Owosso Michigan on a sunny Sunday, greeted by crowds and flags. Police separated celebrants at his Silver Street home after a city hall reception as he urged a vigorous administration and warned against future wars.
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Fish and Crabs Flood Mobile Bay in Jubilee Event
Thousands of pounds of flounders crabs and shrimp washed ashore along Mobile Bay eastern shore near Daphne Baldwin County in a fish jubilee. Locals say fresh water from tributaries of the Yensas river mixing with Gulf salt water sparked the event, yielding three months of catches worth 68 dollars to a dealer.
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French Navy Lands 150000 on D Day and Claims War Endformidable Force
Paris reports on the first day of the invasion noting 150003 men landed. Louia Jacquinot states the French Navy now fields 53000 sailors and hundreds of ships including two battleships, six cruisers, torpedo boats and submarines. He vows the navy will help end the war.
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Narmienéy
Louia Jacquinot
Canada Records More Cornwall Earth Shocks
Ottawa Dominion Observatory officials report moderately severe aftershocks to Cornwall tremors. Instruments logged tremors beginning at 7 25 04 p m lasting about eight minutes causing concern in Cornwall districts.
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Paris Largest Air Raid Shelter Viewed by U S Air Force
The world’s largest air raid shelter, a 400 year old underground quarry near the Renault plant, is attracting interest from Eighth U S Air Force officers conducting a bomb damage inquiry. It was used to grow mushrooms and now houses about 30 000 workers with a vast network of timbered passages.
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U. S. Air Force
Renault Automobile
Navy Bombers Sink 10 000 Ton Jap Ship
Allied forces report a sequence of air strikes in the Southwest Pacific. Navy bombers sank a 10 000 ton Japanese ship and a 1000 ton tanker near Mindanao and Celebes, while airfields on Belmehera and Langoan were attacked. Catalina patrols near Zamboanga claimed additional hits as Liberators dropped explosives on Dutch Celebes.
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Flyers Rescued From Romania On Way Home
Rome reports over 1000 American airmen evacuated from Bucharest to Italy after freed from Romanian camps. At an embarkation port 138 were honored. most will soon return to the United States for thirty day furloughs. Eighteen enlisted men received the Soldiers Medal for heroism in evacuating wounded under fire during a bombing run beginning August 24, carrying wounded to shelters and delivering medical supplies and essentials from burning buildings.
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Bucharest
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United States
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Miss America Has Only Three Pairs of Rayon Hose
Nineteen year old Venus Ramey of Washington DC moved into the glamour spotlight after being crowned Miss America of 1953. She plans a Treasury Bond selling tour to the nation's fifty largest cities and will promote war bonds while pursuing Hollywood and television possibilities. Born in Ashland Kentucky, she is five feet seven, 125 pounds, wearing size 34 bathing suit and 12 dress, with English French ancestry and a secretary past. She jokes about eating candy bars and wearing three pairs of rayon stockings as her wardrobe limit.
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First Shots Fall On German Soil Near Aachen
American First Army artillery opened fire near Aachen as U S forces reached the Siegfried Line, signaling a push toward breakdown of German defenses. The advance followed the breakout from France and Belgium with Belgian towns largely freed.
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French Fight Near Belfort Delivers Bitter Battle in 1944 Front
Allied HQ reports French troops close to Belfort in a fierce clash with German defenders near Blamont as operations push from the Jura Alps. American units move toward Belfort from the southwest along the Doubs River, while French advances press along the Saone River toward Dijon.
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Allied Bombers Hit Nazi Targets in Heavy Dawn Assault
Allied air forces from Britain and Allied bases blasted targets from the Channel to Austria in a massive dawn to dusk operation. More than 1,200 Britain based bombers and fighters reached deep into Germany targeting motor plants at Gaggenau, aircraft and tank facilities in Stuttgart Nurnberg and Cim areas, and a major airport at Giebelstadt. RAF and USAAF units also hit Le Havre in morning and afternoon raids.
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Britain
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Austria
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Broken Main Destroys Hospital Instruments
A burst water main dumped millions of gallons over Reconstriction Hospital for 16 hours, damaging medical equipment and drug supplies. Officials say the flood began from a small crack after midnight Saturday and flooded the administration building with about forty feet of water, causing about 100000 dollars in losses.
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Headquarters Seized by Spanish Falangists in Paris
The Spanish national union an anti Franco group active in the French resistance took over the headquarters of the Spanish Falangists in Paris yesterday. The action reflects ongoing tensions within exile and resistance circles as WWII disruptions continue in occupied Europe.
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Miles from Berlin Front Lines Distances Reported
The Allied dispatch lists distances to major fronts and target areas. Russian front 322 miles from furtusk, Western front 355 miles from Verviers, Eastern France about 400 miles midway between Besancon and Belfort, and the Italian front 383 miles from Rimini.
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Russian Attack Nears Cluj in Transylvania Front
Soviet forces push toward Cluj and Budapest as Malinovsky directs a wide offensive in Romanian territory. Transylvania advances include capture of Sfantul Gheorghe and 15 miles north along the Brasov Turgu Mures line, with 250,000 Axis troops reportedly cut off in the region.
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Heavy Rain Floods Hit Mexico Amid Mounting Death Toll
Rains drenched most of Mexico as flood-stricken areas counted the dead, expected to exceed 200, with Parral in Chihuahua isolated by flood waters and a death toll reaching 100 there. Chihuahua City reported 42 dead, 200 miners trapped, and 1,900 houses damaged as rescue crews worked to reach miners trapped in a flooded mine at San Francisco Del Oro near Parral.
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OPA Creates Sleuth Bureau for Violators
The Office of Price Administration announced a new secret service like division to tackle stamp counterfeiters and distributors. The move followed the New York City arrest of four alleged counterfeiters and the seizure of a press to print almost 5 million illegal gasoline coupons worth about 3.3 million on the black market.
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Gibson Girl Creator Suffers Heart Attack
Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson girl, suffered a heart attack at his Maine summer home last week and was brought to Decot's Hospital by plane Saturday. His condition was reported satisfactory yesterday.
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New York
Charles Dana Gibson
American and British Forces Push Toward Siegfried Line
American First Army advances toward the German border and the Siegfried Line while reaching near the Luxembourg area. British Second Army reports 12 235 prisoners in three days as American and Allied units cross into German-occupied zones and Luxembourg border areas amid a wide 160 mile front.
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Siegfried Line
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Metz
De Gaulle backs underground in new eleven-post cabinet
De Gaulle’s new cabinet allocates eleven portfolios to French resistance groups including the Paris underground and the Algiers national committee. George Bidault becomes foreign affairs head, succeeding Rene Massid, with plans for further reshuffles as France reconstitutes after German battles.
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Amoret
Allies Bomb Nazi Coastal Holdouts
Allied air forces pounded German coastal strongholds along the channel forts at Brest Le Harve Boulogne and Calais and targeted areas near Haven by night seeking surrenders from German defenses.
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