Portsmouth Naval Base Bombed Amid Heavy Casualties
London dispatch reports massed Nazi air attacks over the Channel with four raids and heavy losses on both sides. British fighters halted most German planes reaching a southern port. 55 of 200 released planes hit targets near Portsmouth as anti air fire and civilian damage followed.
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Portsmouth
London
English Channel
Royal Air Force
DNB
England
Berlin
Channel
Air Ministry
Thames Estuary
Associated Press
Dover
France
Norris Attacks Draft Bill Threat to U S Democracy
Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska accused the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill of tearing the United States from its democratic moorings and driving the nation toward dictatorship in a Washington press briefing on August 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George W. Norris
Nebraska
United States
Italy accuses Greece over aid to British forces
Rome reports Italy charging Greece with supplying oil to British ships and planes and aiding with plots along the Albanian border. The Beheading of an Albanian minority leader is cited to fuel a nationalist press campaign.
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Rome
Italy
Greece
Albania
Germany
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Election yells and political notes in Amarillo columns
The column surveys Electoral College yells submitted by Amarillo residents Gordon Fuqua and W. R. Jenkins with a Parker entry awaiting classification. It notes Panhandle campaign HQ for Culberson, a runoff with Pierce Brooks, and a run of absentee voting nearing August deadlines. Rural Plains schools prepare for cotton harvest season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Jenkins
Taylor Street
Fuqua
Mr. Jenkins
Graham O. Parker
Amarillo
Jack Culp
Olin Culberson
Fisk
Italian Air Raids Advancing Into British Somaliland Berbera
Italian forces bombed the port and air field of Berbera in British Somaliland and claimed advances toward Aduein on the Camel Caravan Highway. Reports cite air strikes on Marsa Matruh and Sidi Barrani in Egypt, and British attacks on Harar Gaza Massawa. The communique also notes damage to the British battleship Resolution and a destroyer off the Balearics.
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Rome
U.P
Berbera
British Somaliland
High Command
Aduein
Marsa Matruh
Egypt
Sidi Barrani
Harar
Gaza
Ethiopia
Massawa
Eritrea
Resolution
Balearics Islands
Addis Ababa
Camel Corps
Protectorate
Royal Air Force
Tobruk
Libyan
Air Force
Hargeisa
Italian Eritrea
Maiga Daga
Gura
Neghelli
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Scattered showers tonight with a warmer Tuesday and scattered afternoon showers. West of 100th meridian fair tonight and Tuesday with scattered thunderstorms in the panhandle and higher elevations of the southwest. New Mexico shows scattered thunderstorms over mountains and occasional valleys this evening and tonight with increasing clouds Tuesday and warmer conditions. Temperature extremes for the 24 hour period ended 6:30 AM: max 87, min 61, noon 76.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
Panhandle
Southwest
New Mexico
Prediction Defense Work To Put 2.5 Million To Work
The AUTO RENTAL SERVICE of the American Federation of Labor predicted today that the defense program will within a year employ about 2,500,000 people currently unemployed. The forecast was released from Washington on August 12.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Flood Stricken Southwest Louisiana Faces Hunger and Looting
Weary relief workers and state police guard flood zones as disease fears rise after 24 inch rainfall in 24 hours. Crowley Gueydan area among hardest hit with 30,000 displaced. Health officials rush doctors and serum. typhoid and diphtheria reported. Governor Jones warns worst may come as evacuees flood Lake Charles and Abbeville areas.
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Lafayette
Louisiana
Crowley
Gueydan
Here
Louisiana-Texas
Sam H. Jones
Coast Guard
Sxiffe
Lake Charles
Abbeville
Kossuth P. Landry
Vermilion Parish
Rain Forecast Sketches Toward Warmer Weekend Weather
Mr. Collman forecasts increasing showers today and tomorrow with a forecast high near 85. Weekend rains dampen plains regions with moisture totals ranging from sprinkles to over an inch in various towns including Amarillo and Lubbock.
Guardsmen Dig Way Out of Mud To Drill
National guardsmen from 13 states began extended order training at Camp Beauregard under Gen. Embrick. Regular army divisions augment drills as Red and Blue forces prepare for maneuvers from the Sabine River to western Mississippi.
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Beauregard
Stanley D. Embrick
U. S. Army
Sabine River
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi
Texas Border
Lees
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Britain
Il Popolo di Roma
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Popolo di Roma
Dwight Newby
Lewis Nordyke
Roosevelt
Gordon Fuqua
Globe
Jim Farley
Parley
Yankees
New York
Plains
Ll Duce
Kovno Fortress
Louise Brough
Beverly Hills
Cal
Rye
N. Y
John Maynard Ltor, Co
A. Regal Co
North America
Hull
Mass
Nantasket
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