Allies halt major U boat assault as ships move to Britain
British warships and air forces repelled a three day U boat attack by 25 to 30 submarines in the North Atlantic. A joint communique says at least two submarines were sunk and 150 to 200 American merchant ships are being transferred to Britain, at 15 to 20 vessels per month, to bolster the Allied merchant fleet.
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London
Britain
United States
Admiralty-Air Ministry
Alliantic
Lutte Sassreas
Ean Coast Guard
Churchill
House of Commons
America
Germans Retreat Near Orel As Soviet Drive Advances
Soviet forces push within five miles of Orel with heavy losses to German units. Russians seize Domnino station and several key roads while Germans suffer casualties and equipment destruction. Moscow reports purge of generals including Von Kluge and notes German failures at Kursk.
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Orel
London
Sush
Pilatovka
Domnino
Moscow
Red Army
Monitor
Moscow Radio
Stockholm
Guenther von Kluge
Kursk
Adolf Hitler
Donets
Bryansk
Red Star
Bolkhov
Karachey
Orel Setor
Sea of Azov
Mius River
Available Meat Gains Sharply
Great daughter of beef accounted for two thirds of a 6,000,000-pound increase in the nation's meat output last week. Total slaughter reached 325,000,000 pounds, up 6,000,000 from the week prior and 18 percent above the 1942 week. Beef output 111,060,000 pounds. pork 186,000,000. mutton 19,000,000. lamb 9,000,000. Roosevelt sent Birthday greetings to King Haakon VII of Norway expressing hope Norway's liberation will not be long delayed.
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Chicago
War Meat Board
Haakon Washington
Roosevelt
Norway
Haakon the VII of Norway
Synthetic tires for civilians in Goodrich plan
J. W. Frasche of B. F. Goodrich discusses civilian access under wartime rules to synthetic tires from Texas Panhandle plant near Borger, the nation’s only synthetic rubber unit. He notes 5 million tires this year with 30 million more planned for 1944, and that earlier Ameripal tires showed comparable performance to natural rubber.
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Texas
J. W. Frasche
B. F. Goodrich Company
Borger
Panhandle
Goodrich Company
Phillips Petroleum
Frasche
B. F. Goodrich
Ameripal
National Defense Insurance
Far East
Dalhart Hosts 7th XIT Reunion Rodeo Show
Dalhart closes two day XIT reunion with a 106 degree heat wave. Buck Jones Iowa Park timed five and one fifth seconds in steer roping, near record pace. Dub Phillips San Saba bulldogged in eight and one fifth seconds. Winners include Royce Sewalt Priddy in calf roping thirteen and one fifth seconds and Vic Schwarta Wichita Falls top bronc rider. Other place getters listed with times and towns. event ends with rodeo and dancing.
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Dalhart
Sol
Mercury
U. S
Buck Jones
Iowa Park
Paul Zumalt
Red Bluff
Mont
Dub Phillips
San Saba
Hershell Ross
Dumas
Homer Pettigrew
Springer
N. M
Royce Sewalt
Priddy
J K. Harris
Longview
Jack Skipworth
Clovis
L. N. Sikes
Mexia
Vic Schwarta
Wichita Falls
Ernie Barnett
Leakey
Ralph Collier
Coleman
Wart Baughman
Archer City
Virgil Earp
Abilene
Johnny Spive
Weather Amarios Amarillo And Vicinity Wednesday
The Amarillo area forecast calls for no strong warmth on Wednesday with gentle to moderate winds. In New Mexico and West Texas expect little temperature change. Showers and thunderstorms are possible over most mountain sections Wednesday afternoon. Sunrise is at 6 59 AM and sunset at 8 47 PM with a cooler afternoon high near 98 and evening low around 62.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Mountain Section
Actes Veess
Ai Bivican
Yveet
Wrest
Yeast
Axis Center Cracks as Allied Forces Break Through Sicily
Allied forces breached the center of the Axis line in Northeast Sicily as American and Canadian troops advanced toward Messina. Troina fell to the Yanks, with Capizzi Cerami Regalbuto and Centuripe captured, while Catania faced pressure from western flank operations. Hamburg and Naples endured heavy Allied bombing amid a broader strain on Axis resources.
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Associated Press
Sicily
Gateway
Italy
Oittaino River
Catania
Troina
Mt. Etna
Messina
Capizzi
Cerami
Regalbuto
Centuripe
Badoglio
Hamburg
Naples
Ploesti
Romania
U.S
RAF
Air Ministry
Mediterranean
Greece
Turkey
Germany
Allied drive nears Mount Etna in Sicily breakthrough
American and British troops crack the Mount Etna line at two points and push toward Catanias east coast trapping German forces. Patton's Seventh Army occupies Troina within striking distance as fresh divisions enter the offensive including the British 78th and Canadian Regalbuto forces. The left hook through Troina Taormina threatens western German positions on Etna slopes and Bronte.
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Mount Etna
Sicily
George S. Patton, Jr
Seventh Army
Troina
Catania
Troina-Taormina
Bronte
Regalbuto
Tunisia
Centuripe
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Sicilian
Cesaro
Randazzo
Ca Stiglione
Tri
Allied Drive Breaks Axis Grip on Sicily Cap Bon Zone
Allied forces led by Patton and Montgomery smashed through the Mount Etna line in Sicily. Troina and Capizzi fell as American and British air fleets carpeted roads with explosives and the Catania plain was pressed toward Messina.
Congress Likely to Tangle With Draft Order
Washington reports indicate lawmakers may challenge McNutt's draft rule that pre Pearl Harbor fathers be drafted after Oct 1 without regard to number or ages of dependent children. Representatives Sabath Gossett and others oppose the policy while debate over aid to dependents and Kilday bill provisions continues in Congress.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Sabath
Illinois
Rep. Gossett
Texas
Gossett
Congress
Kilday
Rep
House
Senate
Gurney
South Dakota
MacNutt
Railway Strike Ballot Debated
Washington August 3 Union leaders of 15 railroad unions representing over a million non operating workers prepared to authorize strike ballots. They oppose Stabilization Director Vinson’s eight cent wage increase and seek settlement with government officials and carriers to avoid seizure. Some unions plan to seek AF of L exemption from no strike pledge as maintenance of way workers consider withdrawing from the pact.
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Washington
Fred M. Vinson
American Federation of Labor
German minister seeks Swiss villa deal in wartime bid
London report says Joachim von Ribbentrop is pressing to gain a villa in Switzerland. Sir William Davison told Parliament he would ask Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden if he knows of the plan and whether neutral nations answered Allied notes warning asylum seekers accused of war guilt.
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London
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Switzerland
William Davison
Macnn
Tony
Davison
Anthony Eden
von Ribbentrop
Legislator Plan Abandoned Cuts Property Tax Rate
Governor Coke R. Stevenson canceled plans for a special legislative session. The automatic tax board set a 10 cent rate per $100 for the school fund, reducing overall property taxes by 28 cents and saving taxpayers about 9.1 million dollars. The Confederate pension fund rate dropped to two cents while the general revenue rate stayed at 35 cents. The 1943 total tax rate will be 47 cents per $100 in October, down from 75 cents last year.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Automatic Tax Board
Confederate Pension Fund
Munda Rim Reached By Yanks
Allied forces report reaching the east end of Munda air base on New Georgia after yard by yard fighting. In the New Guinea New Britain area Allied planes destroy or damage 29 barges, with total near 200 in 10 days. bombers strike at Dampier Strait and near Finschafen and Bergen Bay. Ground forces also advance along the coast and seize the northeastern slopes of Biblio Hill while bombers attack targets at Bairoko Harbor.
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Southwest Pacific
Munda
New Georgia Island
United States
Mac
Arthur
Solomons
Pacific
New Guinea-New Britain
Dampier Strait
Bargen Bay
Bergen Bay
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Finschafen
Biblio Hill
Bible Hill
Bairoko Harbor
New Georgia
Allied forces pierce Axis center in Sicily amid Italy peace rumors
Americans and Canadians break through Axis center in Sicily while rumors of peace and denials swirl from Italy. RAF strikes Hamburg, Russians tighten ring around Orel defenses, and a new U boat assault in the Atlantic is repelled. British Commons discuss peace negotiation angles and losses in key raids.
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Sicily
Churchill briefing Sicily advance and Allied reinforcement push
Prime Minister Churchill told the Commons that our general offensive in Sicily opened well. American forces press the north coast despite extensive demolitions as large reinforcements move to the fighting front.
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Churchill
Commons
Sicily
Italy’s Peace Proposals Stir Mix of Hope and Doubt
The report cites Radio Rome and Berlin on a Rooseveltian peace plan rejected by many, with terms including ceasefire and an Anglo American Soviet govern ment. As Allied pressure mounts and Sicily looms, Italian radios speak of disorderless calm while Badoglio’s government faces German influence and ongoing war aims.
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Italy
Rome
Berlin
Roosevelt
Germany
Land
Ita
Bom
Sicily
Badoglio
Axis
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University of California
Goodrich Plan
Duds Weather Bureau
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
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Montgomery
Oittaino
Algiers
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Milazzo
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