Turks Face War Brink As Turkey Moves to Break With Germany
London reports Turkish government plans to sever diplomatic and economic ties with the Reich. DNB cites Soviet sources and says Ankara will seek Allied air and naval base access, with Turkish entry into the war likely. Istanbul jitters rise as editors summoned and German officials rush to depart.
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London
Turkey
Ankara
DNB
Turkish National Assembly
Sofia
Bulgaria
Istanbul
Bosporous
Berlin
Europe
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Transocean
Aegean
Black Seas
Masterpiece of Destruction B 29s in daylight raid on Anshan
Aboard the Monsoon over China a B 29 raid on Anshan factory district was described as a masterful destruction. Maj William C Kingsbury led the flight with calm orders as the squadron struck repeatedly, facing booming ack ack and enemy fighters. The crew recounts the long daylight mission from western China to Japan occupied territory with detailed crew actions and plane condition.
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Clyde A. Farnsworth
China
Japan
Anshan
Mukden
Iowa
Maj
William C. Kingsbury
Redlands
Cal
Kingsbury
Donald Barton
Harlan
Gulf - Po
Yellow Sea
Clarence R. Hazleton
St. Mary's
Pennsylvania Hills
Oscar
Cpl
George D. Smith
Baton Rouge
Vacherie
Smitty
Bangkok
Thailand
Barton
Brown
Boeing
Wichita
Kan
Gulf of Po
Pro-Roosevelts Lead in County Delegate Race
Texas Democrats report 93 Roosevelt Truman delegations and 29 for regular electors as county meetings spread influence for the September 12 state convention in Dallas. Uncommitted counties total 44 with 54 of 254 counties still unheard. dual conventions noted in El Paso Dallas Harrison and Tarrant. The split shapes which delegates are seated and impacts future party organization and elector choices.
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Austin
Texas
el Paso
Dallas, Harrison
Tarrant Counties
Dallas
Roosevelt
Truman
Youth Drowns In Ranch Lake Near Fourways
Bob McCarty age 16 son of Mr and Mrs Elmer McCarty of Channing drowned yesterday afternoon in a lake on Terry Thompson’s ranch seven miles east and four miles south of the Fourways intersection He tired while crossing a narrow stretch and drowned before help came His body was recovered at 8 pm after 1 1 2 hours of artificial respiration Ambulance from Boxwell Brothers Dumas transported the body to the Dumas funeral home Pending funeral arrangements
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Bob McCarty
Elmer McCarty
Channing
Terry Thompson
McCarty
Boxwell Brothers
Dumas
Bivins
Bob
Weather and financial note from Norway loan repayment
The weather section reports mixed conditions across Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico with warmer, partly cloudy and scattered thunderstorms. A separate United States note states Norway will repay the final 1 239 000 installment on a 25 million dollar loan contracted in 1924.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Reeves Gow
Vseneeee
Seevnee
Hs Es Akiaen
Bais Ns
Norway
Sam Washington
United States
Secret Weapon Aids Marines in Tinian Assault
On July 30 Marines of the Second and Fourth Divisions advanced across Tinian, pushing the island’s front and reducing Town to rubble. A secret weapon, described as extraordinarily deadly, aided the assault as transports moved wounded and supplies from Ushi Point airfield. Japanese retreat to Aguijan Island appears unlikely as bombardment tightens the island’s southern end.
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Expeditionary
Tinian
Marianas Islands
Navy
America
Tinian Island
Tinian Town
Ushi Point
Saipan
Aguijan
Marshalls
Bombers Strike Nazi Targets Across Europe In Major Allied Offensive
London reports a massive Allied air push with over 1,000 heavy bombers striking south of Caen in Normandy. Mediterranean forces also hit Budapest oilfields and Yugoslav targets while U S Ninth Air Force and Italian-based bombers pound lines and airfields. In seven days Allied planes claim 221 enemy kills, with ground damage from concentrations across southern Europe.
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London
Caumont
Normandy
Messerschmitt
Budapest
Yugoslavia
U. S
Ninth Air Force
Italy
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Hungary
Cerricks
Lipse-Budalapuszta
Lake Balaton
Duna Works
Tokol
Mediterranean
Allied Air Force
Europe
Germans Dig In To Fight For Florence
Allied forces press the Florence battle as German divisions enter the front near San Michele with tanks and troops. New Zealand fighters recapture San Michele after a heavy counterattack, while British patrols push toward Empoli and the Arno river line holds.
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Florence
Dante
Michelangelo
Petrach
Boccaccio
Savonarola
Medicis
San Michele
Empoli
Arno
Montelupo
Pesa
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
The War Front Distances to Berlin and Italy
The AP notes 1 Russian front 335 miles to Berlin from Kolbiel while Normandy front stands 630 miles from Troarn and the Italian front 605 miles from Senigallia. The distances map the advancing Allied lines across Europe.
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Associated Press
Kolbiel
Normandy
Troarn
Senigallia
Warplanes land on Guam. Apra harbor ships anchor in historic base
U S warplanes began operating from Orote Peninsula on Guam while American ships anchored in Apra harbor, restoring a strong presence at a former Pacific base. Admiral Nimitz announced ships now use Apra harbor as the western Guam base. On nearby Tinian, Marines captured the town and pressed toward southern Japan defense lines.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Orote Peninsula
Apra Harbor
Orient
Chester W. Nimitz
Tinian Island
Marianas
Tinian
Allied Drive Accelerates Across Normandy Front
British Second Army punched a seven mile front movement toward Caen while American armor widened a 20 mile front from the Cherbourg area. Dempsey’s breakout pressed into Caumont as Bradley’s forces reached toward Granville and Vire, with 8,000 prisoners taken and 386 tanks destroyed or damaged in six days.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Second Army
Normandy
Cherbourg
Brehal
Gavray
Percy
Miles C. Dempsey
Roger Greene
Associated Press
Dempsey
Caen
Caumont
Normany
William Smith White
St. Jean-Brecu Des Essartiers
Les Loges
Omar N. Bradley
France
Coutances
Roncey
Atlantic
Granville
St. Lo
Avranches
Breton Peninsula
Brest
Tessy- Sur-Vire
Second Armored
Bradley
Vire
One Dead Three Hurt In Guymon Crash
A collision near Guymon, Oklahoma left 50 year old Mrs. Lilly Louise Conway dead and four others injured. Clement Conway the driver was hauling a coffin bearing to a funeral when his car and a heavy truck collided. The auto carried seven passengers including Ethel Conway, 18, and Vera Conway, 20. Virginia Mae Cooper is in critical condition at the time.
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Virginia Mae Cooper
Archie Cooper
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Cleveland Street
Lilly
Louise Conway
Keyes
Okla
Guymon
Clement Conway
Conway
Conways
Ethel
Vera
Rommel Reported Dead by French Civilians
An American staff officer cited French civilian accounts and German prisoners claiming Field Marshal Erwin Rommel died from wounds after a Caen front strafing. He cautioned the report was not certain but stressed Rommel no longer commands any army regardless.
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U. S. First Army
France
Erwin
Rommel
Caen
Russian Offensives Smash Deep Into East Prussia and Latvia
Soviet forces under Ivan Cherniakhovsky surge into East Prussia overrunning hundreds of towns as a Baltic push nears the Gulf of Riga. German defense claims of river crossings are disputed while German media denies Pisa’s leaning tower use as an artillery post.
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Shlyanova
Kaunas
Bobixiy
East Prussia
Giby
Suwalki
Stalingrad
Latvia
Lithuania
Ivan Bagram
Gluda
Jelgava
Gulf of Riga
Baltic
Estonia
London
Platone
Lielvirgava
Vistula
Moscow
Warsaw
Berlin
Eriest von Hammer
Germany
Litovsk
Fseid
New York
DNB
Pisa
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Poland
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Red Army
Rome
Tuscan
Eighth Army
New High New York
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Suwalki Triangle
Cherniakhovsky
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