German drive nears Odessa amid Ukraine battle report
DNB and Berlin dispatches describe German panzer forces advancing toward Odessa and Kiev, encircling Soviet units in southern Ukraine. Reports claim Soviet generals captured, heavy air clashes, and rail traffic disrupted as German lines push from Uman toward the Black Sea port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DNB
Ukraine
Odessa
Ochakov
Hitler
Black Sea
London
Semeon Budyonny
Rolf Hitler
Nikolaev
Uman
Kiev
Berlin
Red Army
Smolensk
Moscow
Leningrad
German Offense Moves Toward Leningrad and Kiev
German forces launched their third major offensive to avoid winter setbacks and push toward Leningrad and Kyiv, advancing on multiple fronts before Russian defenses halted their gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
U.P
Leningrad
Kiev
U S Worker Recruitment Case Tied to Nazi Efforts
John S. Bugas announces the arrest of Baecker in Detroit after a two year probe. Similar arrests occurred in Cleveland and Milwaukee. Baecker faces charges for taking orders from a German attaché and soliciting American workers for German factories during 1938 39. He allegedly promised high pay and a rosy Fatherland future. He entered the U S in 1928 and worked as a tool and die maker at Hudson Motor Co. He may be arraigned today before U S Commissioner J Stanley Hurd. The same day the treasury unfreezes about 60 million in Portuguese assets in the United States under Roosevelt policy linked to Axis concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John S. Bugas
Detroit
Baecker
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Wis
New York
Germam
Bugas
Germany
Berlin
Hudson Motor Co
U. S
J. Stanley Hurd
Washington
Treasury
United States
Roosevelt
News Tip Prize Is Won By Curtis Stevens
Curtis Stevens winnings of 5 dollars lead The Globe News weekly News Tip contest for information on a Amarillo boy in Palo Duro Canyon chase. Two second prizes go to Judith Elliott and Eugene Stevens for tips on a burglar’s wife clothing and a rabbit found at Pain Chemical Company. Third prize awarded to Mrs. W. B. Amaker for tip about Mrs. Sidney Lawrence visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Stevens
North West First Avenue
Amarillo
Palo Duro Canyon
Judith Elliott
Jackson Street
Elliott
Eugene Stevens
West Eleventh Avenue
Polk Street
Pain Chemical Company
Stevens
W. B. Amaker
Herring Hotel
Sidney Lawrence
Globe News
Globe-News
Vera Helman
Joe McElroy
West Ninth Avenue
Frank Abrahamson
Arthur Street
L. R. Rudkin
Tyler Street
Frank McLain
Fillmore Street
Parris Salamy
Hayden Street
Luella Hendricks
Prospect
H. L. Duniven
Alabama Street
B. M. Britain
Ong Street
Men Arrested With 200 Loaded Dice at Legion Convention
Three men entering a St Paul hotel hosting a state American Legion convention were arrested after police found 200 loaded dice and V Friden calculators in their possession. The items were linked to fast figure work and the Neely-Greenhill Insurance firm was named in connection with the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul, Minn
U.P
Friden
Neely-Greenhill- Con Insurance
Ing. Russell Stationery Company
Fighting Again on Peru Ecuador Border
A Peruvian government communique reports renewed fighting along the Peru Ecuador frontier. Ecuadorian troops attacked a Peruvian post at Pantoja on the Napo River at 4:30 A M. Monday. Ecuadorian forces near Zapotillo were repelled at Pampa Larga. Two prior outbreaks had occurred in recent weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Peru
U.P
Pantoja
Napo
Aguarico
Zapotillo
Macara
Pampa Larga
Monday Was Hottest Day This Summer
Amarillo marked the summer’s peak as temperatures reached 97 degrees the highest since 1940. A cool front from Canada followed a Minnesota storm, bringing a 24 hour eastward passage and cooler air across the plains. Fort Worth 101, Quanah 100, Laredo 103, Galveston 88, Topeka 3.27 inches rainfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
David Bruce
Bruce
Minnesota
New England
Canada
Great Plains
Panhandle
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
Topeka
Pueblo
Col
Laredo
Fort Worth
Quanah
Galveston
Grease Job Helps Cows Rout Flies
In Copeville Texas farmers use rock salt minerals in a wire enclosure and oil soaked sacks to grease cattle. Cows approach the salt triangle, duck under the sacks, and receive a new grease job that repels flies. George Longley leads the effort with the oil coating method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copeville
Tex
Texas
George Longley
Nation Slightly More Sober Says W C T U
EVANSTON Illinois August 12 The Women’s Christian Temperance Union reported the nation was slightly more sober in the year ended July 1. They cited legally sold liquor totaling 1 834 392 741 gallons for 1941 versus 1 849 970 467 in 1904, a drop of 1 577 726 gallons and a per capita fall from 1 077 to 13.96 gallons. The group noted defense spending boosted other business while liquor sales fell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston. Ill
Must Have Been Good Likeness
A postcard arrived with only a photograph labeled Salt Lake City and no address. It was delivered anyway, showing Postmaster I. A. Smoocts as the pictured figure.
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Salt Lake City
I. A. Smoocts
Taxpayers Plan Protest Over City School Valuations
Potter County Taxpayers Association schedules a noon luncheon at Amarillo Hotel to rally against increased values after a Dallas based appraisal survey. County assessor Miss Jewell Davidson notes county changes did not raise total valuation, while city and schools push 8,000 and 6,000 notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Stubbs
Potter County Taxpayers’ Association
Amarillo
D. W Owen
Henry Beverly
A. N. Olver
L. E. Lyles
Bill Clifford
Miss Jewell Davidson
Miss Davidson
George H. Ehrenberg Company of Appraisal Engineers of
Dallas
Ehrenborg
San Antonio
Britain Says If Japs Want War There’ll Be War
Tokyo papers warn against anti Japanese pressure and vow grim resolve toward East Asia sphere. Journal Kokumin notes U S and Britain pressure and cites British efforts to disturb Pacific peace. Washington debates severing commercial ties with Japan if it advances in the southern Pacific or against Russia. Japan notes U S shipments to Vladivostok prompt concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Associated Press
London
Japan
Pacific
Tokyo
Kokumin
United States
Britain
East Asia
Far East
Germany
Koh Ishii
Cabinet Information Bureau
Vladivostok
Soviet Russia
Washington
George
Foreign Relations Committee
Southern Pacific
Russia
Siberia
Upi
Thomason Warns Hitler May Target England Next
Rep Thomason of Texas urged extending citizen soldiers' service citing expert opinion that Hitler intends to conquer Russia and then England. He cited Germany’s 260 field divisions plus 40 in training, compared with the US 33 divisions, and warned of German schools in Argentina and Germans in Brazil aiding propaganda with air bases near the Panama Canal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomason
Texas
House
Adolf Hitler
Russia
England
Old
Hitler
Germany
Thomson
Argentina
Brazil
Latin America
Panama Canal
Police Bomb Squad Investigates Clam Chowder Find
New York police bomb squad inspected a suspicious package near the Queens Electric Light and Power Company plant. They treated the parcel with care and opened it to reveal a bushel of oily clams instead of powder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Queens
Women May Trade In Old Stockings in Hosiery Proposal
Philadelphia August 12 report on a plan to have women trade in old silk stockings when buying new ones. The proposal aims to reclaim worn stockings stored in closets to relieve hosiery shortages, presented to Washington committee on regulations and proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Washington
Charles P Broome
Pennsylvania Wearing Apparel Board of Trade
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity Snapshot
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Wednesday with warmer conditions. Scattered thundershowers expected this afternoon and evening across West Texas and New Mexico. Cooler in the south, warmer in the north, little temperature change with extremes 66 to 97, noon reading 79.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Plead For River Dam Hearing Dates Set In Texas
Hearings in Washington before the U S Army Engineers discussed the Pease River reclamation and a dam on the South Canadian River. Worley urged action and a flood-damage resurvey while Hinton and the Panhandle Water Conservation Authority presented site options, costs, and dam plans near Amarillo and Sanford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
South Canadian River
United States Army Engineers
LonXressnall muRgene
Worley
Carl Hinton
Panhandle
Sanford
U. S. Army Engineers
Panhandle Water Conservation Authority
Texas
Hinton
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France
Stockholm
Demokraten
Korosten
Kakisalmia
Soltsi
Federal Bureau of Investigation
August Baecker
Kansas City
Duncan Dallam
Dallam
BE. K. Bullard
Bullard
Peru-Ecuador
Taxpayers Association
Manila
Cambodia
Thailand
Texas Solon
Newby
Budd Now
Jonn Maynard
Texas Panhandle
General Goethals
Austin
C. 8. Clark
State Board of Water Engineers
Clark
Houston-Galveston
Winter Garden
Fl Paso
West Texas
Pade Handle
East Texas
William Broadhurst
Longview
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