Battleships of the air loom to blast Axis Europe
General Henry H. Arnold says giant bomber planes with half carload bomb loads and extended range will soon be deployed. He describes revolutionary automatic gun turrets, blisters on bomber skins, new sights, and bombs with incendiary rounds and anti personnel fragmentation with parachutes for low flying. New fighters and heavy aircraft cannon developments are anticipated.
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Washington
Europe
America
Ral
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Army Ordnance
Army Ordnance Association
Atlantic
Arnold
Germans Reel on 600 Mile Red Front Push Warns Churchill
The Allied and Russian fronts show renewed pressure on Germany as Churchill in Quebec warned of a final push. German setbacks persist from Smolensk to Mariupol while Denmark and Italy teem with unrest and British air power targets Rhineland and Italy. Japan's war effort suffers heavy losses in New Guinea and the Solomons.
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Churchill
Axis
Associated Press
Germany
Europe
Reich
Italy
Denmark
Winston Churchill
Quebec
France
Adolf Hitler
Poland
Britain
Balkans
Hitler
Greece
Yugoslavia
Russia
Pearl Harbor
United States
Ukraine
Mariupol
Rhineland
Japan
New Guinea
Solomons
Douglas Mage Arthur
Ickes Answered: Gas Shortage Blamed on Policies
In Austin on August 31 Lieut Gov John Lee Smith faulted Ickes for a gas shortage claim. He argued bungling methods by custodians of power and questioned 1942 refinery output, CPA rules, and OPA orders. Smith cited Texas daily petroleum production and U S war needs to challenge the shortage claim.
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Austin
Washington
John Lee Smith
Smith
Harold L. Ickes
Southwest
Ickes
Texas
New Yorker
Mith
Allied report says Japanese losses near 600 planes in month
Allied headquarters in the Southwest Pacific report Japanese air losses in New Guinea and the Solomons totaling about 600 for the month. The Wewak raid added at least 37 to 49 more planes, with 12 grounded by Liberators and 25 to 37 Zeros shot down by Lightnings.
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Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Wewak
Kahiki
Solomons
Dutch New Guinea
Salamaua
MacAr
Roosevelt and Churchill Eye Tri-Party Talks with Stalin
President Roosevelt said progress is being made toward a three power conference with Russia and Britain and dismissed a critic in the press. Churchill in Quebec supported a meeting with Stalin but warned an Allied second front would open only with sure military chances, free of political pressure.
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Quebec
Churchill
Roosevelt
Marshal Stalin
Minchin Named Vice President of Santa Fe
George H. Minchin, long a Santa Fe official, is named vice president in charge of operations with the Amarillo headquarters. He succeeds W. K. Etter, who died August 16 in Los Angeles, and will keep Chicago as his headquarters. Minchin has held multiple Santa Fe posts since 1902 including Amarillo division head and Illinois Missouri superintendent. The timetable notes his rise after succeeding Colonel Gillies and he previously served as division superintendent at Chillicothe. The notice closes with an unrelated August 31 budget sales report from Washington noting July retail sales up from last year but down from June.
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George H. Minchin
Santa Fe
Western Lines
Amarillo
Topeka
Kan
Minchin
W. K. Etter
Los Angeles
la Junta
Colo
Illinois
Missouri
Chicago
Chilicothe
F. L. Myers
J. A. Gillies
U. S. Army
Mr. Minchin
Gillies
Defiant Danes Strike In Face of Nazi Guns
Refugees in Sweden report German patrols firing on groups in Copenhagen as thousands rally against the Nazi occupation. Denmark sees widespread strikes and demobilization of soldiers while authorities seize arms and arrest leaders. King Christian X appears in Lyngby amid crowds. News notes Jewish leaders detained and journalists jailed.
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Reggio Calabria
Sweden
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Denmark
Reuters
Svenska Dagbladet
Gestapo
SAS
Christian X
Lyngby
Sorgenfri Castle
Skodesborg
Aarhus
Hjverring
Saeby
Aalborg
Viborg
Skagen
Grenaa
Fredericia
Sveaborg
Hermann von Hannecken
Weather Amarillo and Vicinity Outlook and Temperatures
Cooler Wednesday with moderate to fresh winds from the west. Notably warmer in parts of New Mexico north and northwest. El Paso Pecos Valley and Big Bend Country may see local thundershowers. 24 hour precipitation 0.04 inch. Sunrise 7 20 AM sunset 8 14 PM. August 31 1943 Amarillo Daily News circulation 25795.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Big Bend
el Paso
Pecos Valley
Pecos River
New Mexico
Peperenures
Tg. Gr
Cain
Isdce
Swarms of Nazi Fighters Blasted In Bitter Italian Air War
Allied air forces battled German fighters over Italy in a day of heavy raids from Aversa north of Naples to Civita Vecchia and Viterbo. Allied p-38 escorts and bombers hit rail yards and airfields while German losses mounted with several aircraft shot down and ships sunk.
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Italy
North Africa
Aversa
Naples
Viterbo
Civita Vecchia
Rome
Reggio Calabria
Associated Press
London
Foreign Office
France
Oran
24-Hour Blast Ends Fourth Year of War
United States Flying Fortresses battered Amiens Glissy in daylight to end a near 24 hour air assault on Axis airfields and industry. Typhoon bombers hit near St Pol while RAF raids on the Rhineland targeted Mennchen Gladbach and Rheydt. The day left one Fortress, one medium bomber, and six fighters down.
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London
U. S
Amiens-Glissy
France
Channel
Mazingarbe
Bethune
Rhineland
Mennchen-Gladbach
Rheydt
Duisi
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Alexishafen
Bogacjim
Stalin
Great Britain
Tary Hull
State Department
Madio
Cenfir Bureau
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Surcess
Russell Stationery Co
Moscow
Yelnya
Dorogobuzh
England
Ludwig Sertorius
Taganrog
Gilukhov
Rylsk
Sevsk
Leghorn Railroad
Mitchells
Chemical Works
St. Pol
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Berlin
Muenchen- Gladbach
Eighth Air Force
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