Task Force Strikes Philippines Sinks 52 Ships
A U S carrier task force of the Third Fleet under Adm William Halsey Jr destroyed 52 ships in Mindanao raids, blasted five airfields and downed 68 Japanese planes. The operation extended about 500 miles beyond prior positions with further attacks on Pararoushira and Volcano Islands.
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U.S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
U. S
Mindanao
Pararoushira
Volcano Islands
Navy
Japan
Southwest Pacific
U.S
Adm
William S. Halsey, Jr
Mindando
Yap
Palau Islands
Matitia
Cagayan
Surigao
Saragani Bay
Davao Gulf
Communiqte
U S Fighters Break Up Jap Attack Over New Guinea
General Headquarters said night fighters stopped the largest Japanese air assault in months. Two rein engines were downed during raids on Biak and Noem Island airfields as Allied bombers continued unopposed. The report noted the effort contrasted with last year’s bomber raids and signaled a shifting war tide.
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General Headquarters
Southwest
Dutch New Guinex @r
Biak
Oil Islands
New Guinea
Heavy Rains Predicted to Break Drought in Northeast
Benjamin Parry, principal meteorologist for the New York weather bureau, predicted heavy rains within two days to end drought in New York and New Jersey. Rain regions over the eastern Gulf states and western Lake region were expected to move into the northeastern states within the next few hours, alleviating a long drought that has continued since July 1.
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New York
Gpi
New Jersey
Benjamin Parry
New York Weather Bureau
Parry
Gulf States
Western Laké Region
Flainiali
305 American Soldiers Freed From Bulgaria
Three hundred five American soldiers including 125 officers arrived yesterday in Istanbul from Bulgaria where they had been interned.
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Bulgaria
Astanbul
Istanbul
National Scoreboard Baseball Update
Cincinnati leads Chicago 6 to 3 in ten innings while Pittsburgh at St Louis is postponed by rain. American league actions noted with brief status.
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National
Cincinnati
Chicago
Fittsburg
St Louis
Nazi Air Battle Leaves 175 Planes Lost In Frontline Clash
Allied forces report heavy losses on both sides as American fighters and bombers engaged over Germany. Elite Luftwaffe counterattacks followed, with 175 Nazi planes destroyed and many American aircraft missing or shot down in fierce air combat near Berlin and central German targets.
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Lantos Apiae
Gerda
Europe
Germany
Rome
Conva
Ars
Berlin
Reich
Geers
Earetime
Mersburg
Litzkerdorf
Misburg
Central
Maine Republicans Win Over C I O Democrats
With more than half the vote counted, Republicans led Democrats in Maine election results. Hildreth defeated Jullien for state senate president, Hale led in the first district, Smith led in the second, and Fellows appeared likely winner in the third. Pettis, Steples, and Graham trailed in their races.
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Portland
UPI
C. L O S
Maine
Wes Enpecleu
Hildreth
Senate
Paul J. Julllien
Waterville
American Legion
Jullien
Robert Hale
Renblinan
United Labor Committee
Andrew AL Petth
Pettis
Hale
Soundix
U. S
Margaret C. Smith
David H. Staples
Mrs
Smith
Steples
Fellows
Ralph E. Graham
Texas Democrats Reject Compromise at State Convention
Texas Democrats rejected preliminary compromise proposals on binding electors for Roosevelt and Truman at the state convention. Leaders from rival factions clashed over whether May 23 nominating slates should be placed on the November ballot and pledged to the national ticket or bound by unmet conditions. The pro Roosevelt faction resisted moving from its demand to substitute electors pledged to Roosevelt and Truman.
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Dallas
Tex
UPI
Texas
Roosevelt
Timiman
Coke R. Stevenson
Stainebly
Dellors
Truman
Mme Chiang Hospitalized in New York Medical Center
Mme Chiang Kai shek wife of Generalissimo Chiang, is a patient at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Harkness Pavilion in New York. Hospital superintendent John McCormack said her illness details cannot be disclosed. She had been in Brazil recently for medical treatment after injuries in China years earlier.
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New York
Mme
Chiang Ket ‘Shek
China
Harkness Pavision
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
John McCormack
SirCormack
Chiang Hai-shek
Brazil
United States
Mme Chiang
Columbia- Presbyteryart Hes.ial
G O P Charges Branded As Untrue At Chicago Press Confab
Democratic national chairman Robert Hannegan labeled a claim that President Roosevelt directed him to purge remarks as absolutely untrue. He said Gov Bricker spread the false weaponized tale during the Chicago convention and urged rivals to repeat the fiction until election day.
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Chicago
Robert
Hannegan
Yyesterday
Roosevelt
Sidney
Shiney Hulngan
C. SO. Political Action Committee
Hennegan
John W. Bricker
City of Brotherly Love Wears Halo over Philadelphia
The Philadelphia sky displayed a solar halo yesterday. The bloom, explained by the Fels Planetarium, was not a rainbow but light refracted through ice crystals at a precise angle, creating a perfect halo.
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Philadelphia
Buread
Angie
Fels Planetarium
Boy Bit by Dog Causes Tooth Pulling News
A boy aged eleven from Indianapolis had a tooth pulled after biting a dog's tail. The dog jerked and the boy claimed it did not hurt. Local dentist noted the incident as a routine bite event and advised caution with animals.
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Indianapolis
Donald Schafer
Donald
Donal Joain
Yanks on German Soil as 7th Army Joins Patton
American forces from the Third and Seventh Armies merge to trap German troops in eastern France. Dijon falls under French control as U S units push within 15 miles of the Belfort Gap. The historic meeting occurs as Patton and Patch armies unite to drive toward southwest Germany.
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Rome
U.S
Sesterasy
France
Bijon
Dijon
Belfort Gap
Germany
Seventh Army
Riviera
Normandy
Sauxe Valley
Visoul
Alexander MM. Paich
S. Seventh
Rougemont
U S Host for Global Air Route Talks
Washington reports the United States invited all United Nations members and neutrals to a world aviation conference beginning November 1 to outline future air routes. The meeting would form an interim council to advise on creating a permanent international aeronautical body and agree on principles and a treaty governing economic and technical aspects of international aviation.
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Washington
United Sates
United Nations
Stalin Busy On Front Yet May Aid War Against Japan
In Quebec’s Citadel Roosevelt and Churchill discussed Pacific war strategy while Stalin, absent on multiple fronts, sent word he is too occupied to join the talks for now. A conference spokesman said they understand his duties abroad and that he has not closed the door to future participation. Tass filed a Moscow note reporting continued cooperation after Germany’s defeat. Continued on Page Eleven.
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Quebec
Roosevelt
Churchill
Britain
Japan
United
Wations Triumvirate
Jouseph Stalin
Russia
Pacific
Stalin
Associated Press
Moscow
Germany
Tass
Nikolai Zhivaynov
Mattoon Faces Night Gas Prowler Scare
Mattoon residents and officials deal with a gas spraying prowler active in the northwest neighborhoods. Police urge calm as vigilante groups are ordered disbanded amid rising hysteria. Victims report nausea and throat and mouth irritation from a mist sprayed under doors or through windows.
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Mattoon
John Dillinger
Thomas W. Wright
C. E. Cole
Stresig
Wright
Frances Smith
Soviets and Nazis Lock In East Prussia Battle
Soviet and German forces clash across East Prussia as Red Army patrols push from Lithuania toward Lomza and western fronts report new offensives. Berlin cites heavy artillery and tank assaults near Warsaw while American troops enter western Germany amid mounting pressure on multiple fronts.
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London
Lomza
East Prussia
Mostow
Lithuania
Berlin
Warsaw
Narew
Lomzdarid
Polard
Hungary
Krosno
Beskidy
Carpathian
Germany
Moscow
Poland
Baltic Sea
Lesape River
Ivan
Dewey Attacks New Deal on War Readiness in Farm Belt
Thomas E. Dewey, in Des Moines campaign swing, assails Roosevelt administration as incompetent for war readiness and accuses the New Deal of doing nothing to prepare the country for war. He questions Wendell Willkie’s world security plan and warns of vast postwar food stock challenges and the need to manage agricultural reconversion.
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Des Moines
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Corn Belt
New Deal
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
International Peace Organization
New York
Maginot Line Found In A-1 Shape With American Troops
Allied forces advanced toward the German border as Third U S Army units reached within twenty miles of the frontier after capturing Aumetz. They reported the Maginot Line segment intact with functioning electric rail and guns. A near-by power plant was repaired and lights restored as the advance continued through Lorraine and toward Esch in Luxembourg.
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Lorraine
Allerigan Oughboys
Aumetz
Germany
Ailler
Greater Reich
AL Sace
U.S
Festerday
Esch
Luxembourg
Omar XN
Bradier
Grand Duciy
George
Patton
Abmetz
Magnot
Aymetz
Oscar Drake
Long Island City
Book Falling From Plane Nearly Hits Librarian
A librarian in Mountain Home narrowly escaped injury when a book fell from a bomber overhead. The incident prompted inquiry as crewmen awaited charges and a formal statement for the record, with receipts showing the book had been borrowed previously.
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Mount
Idaho
Mountain Home
Hbrarc
Berry
Byer
Heavy Fighting Reported in Burma
Army troops have opened an offensive against Japanese forces in the Arakan sector of lower Burma. Heavy fighting reported on a ridge southwest of Buthi daung and north of Akwab on the Bay of Bengal with Japanese casualties noted.
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Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
UPI
Srits
Ith
Arakan
Lower
Burts
Maja Rance
Buthidaung
Shouy
Mites
Burma
Akwab
Bay of Bengal
Aghting
Beng
First Army Spearheads Across into Germany After Belgian Push
Five U S Army units stormed into Germany driving toward Trier Coblenz and the Siegfried Line amid heavy artillery fire. American forces crossed Luxembourg freed its capital and pressed toward the Rhine while British and French units engaged along the frontier as Allied momentum surged.
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Hitler
Germany
Reich
Trier
Rhine
Coblenz
United Nations
Rhig Pore
West Wall
U. S
Prench Maginot
Moselle
Holandang
Bleve
Berlin
Siegfried Lina
Aachen
Luxembourg
First Army
New Technique Revives Soldiers Using Gasps of Life
Pravda reports a new Moscow backed method by Dr. V I Negovsky combining artificial respiration with arterial blood transfusions to resuscitate soldiers in deep coma from battle wounds. The treatment, effective in limbs injuries, cannot save mortal heart or lung wounds, but can revive those who appear dead for minutes between stopping of heart and breathing and actual death.
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Moscow
Red Army
Pravda
V. A. Negovsky
Air Union Institute of Experimental Medicine
Segovsky
Nexo
Sayl
Daihy
Puerto Rican Women to Enlist in WAC Start Today
San Juan announces that Puerto Rican women will be enlisted in the Women's Army Corps beginning today, expanding service eligibility and marking a new chapter for local personnel in the military effort.
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WAC
San Juan
PS GP
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New York Hospital
G.O. P. Charge
7Th Army
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
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Citadel of
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Dolleck
Maginot
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