Victory Aluminum Assembly Looted in Amarillo Theft targets wartime donations
Stolen aluminum from Amarillo defense drive taints patriotic effort as 12 rotors and related components vanish from the V pile on the courthouse lawn. Officials estimate the loss at about 30 dollars in melt value, while the total local quota exceeded by 2,500 pounds.
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Amarillo
V (For Victory
A. K. Baracat
Mr. Baracat
Uncle Sam
G. F E. Jones
Electrical Company
West Sixth Avenue
Mr. Jones
Beaumont
Wichita Falls
Lubbock
Victory
Smolensk Front Battles Reported Still Active
German forces reportedly encircled and destroyed Russian units south of Smolensk with thousands captured as the battle extends into its seventeenth day. Soviet air and ground counterattacks claimed gains near Kiev and Vyazma while Stalin and Hopkins voiced optimism Hitler will lose the war.
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Associated Press
Smolensk
DNB
Adolf Hitler
London
Moscow
Harry Hopkins
Hitler
Stalin Line
Vyazma
Kiev
DNH
Red Army
Dniester
High Command
Leningrad
Soviet Russia
East Front
Zhitomir
Novorzhev
Porkhov
Red Air Force
Baltic
Harry L. Hopkins
U S
Joseph Stalin
Hopkins
U. S
Russia
Kremlin
Risto Ryti
Berlin
Finland
America
Europe
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White House
Gaulight
Air Ministry
Japan presses for bases in Siam as war spreads
Tokyo presses Thailand for military bases and control of rubber rice and tin. Britain fears bases near Singapore Burma and India. RAF bases built in Burma with American bombers. China and Russia plan joint action if Japan strikes Siberia. Japan gains 10 million baht credit from Thailand amid funds freeze. US protests Tutuila incident. courts consider libel actions against Japanese ships.
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Thailand
Siam
London
Laos
Angkor
Britain
Singapore
Burma
India
Bay of Bengal
London Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Shanghai
Siberia
Manchukuo
Indo-China
Jjapan
U. S
Washington
Tokyo
Matsune Ogura
United States
China
East Asia
Ogura
Seattle
Honolulu
San Francisco
New York bound honeymooners Molly and Jack Wrather depart Dallas
Molly and Jack Wrather, freshly married at the Governor's mansion in Austin, left a Dallas hotel for the east on their first plane trip. Molly, excited and wearing orchids, spoke of learning to fly as Jack noted her new boss and plane travel.
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Dallas
Molly
Jack
New York
Mrs. Wrather
Austin
Lovefield
Amarillo Weather Outlook with Scattered Thunder Showers
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers in Amarillo and West Texas. New Mexico mostly fair with similar shower risk. Temperatures steady with a noon reading of 86 and a 24 hour low of 61 high 89. Rain at the airport 0.5 of an inch. Built Up Roofing by Dwight Newby Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Airport
Dwight Newby
Albert Hester
Weath Bureau
English Field
Spearman
Clarendon
Miami
Pampa
Panhandle
Guyman
Beaver
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Florida
California
Blythe
Calif
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Airports program expands defense runway plan to four
Washington announced an $134000 addition to Amarillo’s $234000 project boosting airport class to four. The plan adds northwest and southeast runways 150 feet wide, 5750 feet long with lights, taxi strips, grading, and seed landing. Bids due in 60 days as Moor Construction builds another northeast–southwest runway.
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Washington
CAA
Joe Jenkins
Tom Connally
United States
Moor Construction Company
el Paso
Amarillo
Associated Press
Texas
Arlington
Beeville
Brownsville
Clovis
N. M
Corpus Christi
Tex
Eagle Pass
Enid
Okla
Galveston
Georgetown
Greenville
Hobbs
Kerrville
Kingsville
Laredo
Longview
Marfa
Mathis
Midland
Mineral Wells
Palestine
Santa Fe
Shawnee
Socorro
Sweetwater
Temple
Tucumcari
Tulsa
Vernon
Waco
Big Spring
College Station
Tyler
Welles Denounces Nazi Note to Mexico Over Axis Blacklist
Secretary of State Sam Welles blasted a German note to Mexico demanding Mexico protest the United States blacklist of Axis firms in Latin America. He called Germany’s actions bare-faced impudence and praised Latin nations’ anti Axis efforts in line with Inter American solidarity from Havana.
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Washington
King
Sam Welles
Mexico
United States
Latin America
Welles
Germany
Havana
Police raid in Rosario arrests 30 at German culture center
Police raided the German Culture Welfare Association in Rosario on August 1, arresting 30 people and seizing books and pamphlets including copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
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Rosario
Argentina
German Culture Welfare Association
Adolf Hitler
Producers Wonder What Makes Rubber Bounce
Akron Ohio August 1 Union press dispatch The B F Goodrich Co a major rubber maker with a laboratory that tests rubber properties admits there is one thing about rubber it does not know namely what makes it bounce A bettor challenged the company and it consulted chemists physicists and experts but could not provide an answer
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Akron
U.P
B. F. Goodrich Co
Goodrich
Weather Briefs Showers Spread Across Panhandle
A weather summary reports scattered showers in the Panhandle with a forecast of partly cloudy skies and afternoon and evening showers. Temperatures range from mid 80s to low 90s with light southwest breezes. rainfall amounts vary across towns, and Texas heat dominates elsewhere.
Roosevelt says Nazis fooled Washington on Russia aid
President Roosevelt praised Russia's resistance as magnificent and beyond German military experts. He clarified U S aid to Russia remains payment based and not under lend lease, while discussing a possible priority delivery plan and Hopkins' limited Moscow communications. He noted a second lend lease request would wait for Hopkins to return.
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Germany
Adolf Hitler
Great Britain
Red Army
United States
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