South America On Japs' List
Rio de Janeiro reports outline Japan planned invasion of South America after Australia falls. Experts note goals to seize Galapagos to threaten western South America and the Panama Canal zone. Fifth column operatives in Chile, Argentina, Peru coordinate with potential landing forces. Japanese officials claim rights over Peruvian lands near airports and ports.
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Robert T. Bellaire
Rio DE Janeiro
U.P
Japan
South America
Australia
Equatorial
Galapagos Islands
Panama Canal Zone
United States
Foreign Office
Peru
Chile
Argentina
Pearl Harbor
North America
Alaska
Aleutians
Colombia
Ecuador
Allied Shipping Losses Decrease
Allied shipping losses decreased in July according to Britain’s minister of production Oliver Lyttelton who said the toll taken of U boats over the last three weeks was well above the average. He cautioned that the next 80 days would be the gravest in history.
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London
Oliver Lyttelton
Britain
Lyttleton
United States
Livestock market and blast furnace note from Kansas City
Kansas City livestock reports show hogs 2,000 salable with top $14.75 per 100 pounds for 190-250 lb hogs and cattle totals around 4,700 with Missouri fed steers at $14.00 to $14.75 and Kansas grass-fed steers up to $13.75. Sheep 3,800 total with lambs near $14.00 to $14.25. Chicago prices list hogs $15.00-$15.25 for 180-240 lb, cattle to $16.50 top for choice 1400 lb. notes on market activity and price ranges. A late line mentions the iron industry needing 74 new blast furnaces at 1,000 tons daily to use pig iron alone in steelmaking.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Chicago
Tulagi Harbor 戮blow to Japanese strategic bases
U P report notes capture of Tulagi Harbor by U S Marines would be a major disaster for Japan. Naval experts say seizure would offset Allied base losses in the Southwest Pacific and deprive Japan of a key strategic point near shipping lanes and Australian cities. Tulagi would complement Pearl Harbor as a prime Pacific base, potentially replacing Singapore Cavite Hongkong as regional harbors.
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Washington
U.P
U. S
Tulagi Harbor
Tulagi
United Nations
Southwest Pacific
United States
Navy Yard Man Held For $100,000 Fire
A Puget Sound navy yard employee was detained in the investigation of a 100000 fire that destroyed five dormitory units and left 207 sailors homeless in Bremerton Washington. Police said an arson attempt was made at another dormitory unit and the detainee lived there. Shore patrols and officials guarded the housing area as repairs and relief efforts provided shelter for most of the homeless by nightfall.
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Bremerton
Wash
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Arthur Morken
Navy
Naval
Transportation talk slated for noon by Amarillo Chamber
Amarillo business leaders plan a noon meeting at the Capitol Hotel to discuss transportation problems. Jesse A. Rogers chairs the transportation committee which met for the first time last Friday. A sub committee meeting yesterday failed to materialize due to members being out of town.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Capitol Hotel
Jesse A. Rogers
Transportation Committee
Hollywood Spends $5.8 Million on Yankee Doodle Dandy Premiere
Hollywood bought war bonds totaling $5.8 million for the film premiere of Yankee Doodle Dandy. The Treasury Department controlled the theater for the night and admission required a war bond purchase.
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Hollywood
Treasury Department
High Portuguese Officers Visit Germany Flight
Berlin reports that the first of twelve high Portuguese army officers flew from Lisbon to Germany by air invitation from the German high command to observe activities in Germany.
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Berlin
Libsen
Germany
Wheat Hoard Grows As Government Loans Drive Storage
Chicago report shows Uncle Sam’s wheat stock rising weekly as farmers pledge grain as collateral for federal loans. Loans exceed last year’s pace, with millions more bushels stored to curb market dumping, as the ever normal granary program mirrors rising August prices since 1929.
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Franklin Mullin
Chicago
Uncle Sam
Granary Stock Projections for 1942 43 Season
Estimates show granary near 700 million bushels, well under the 1.5 billion surplus for 1942 43. Remaining free stock exceeds 806 million bushels, with domestic use under 700 million. War conditions could alter exports, and more wheat may feed livestock than usual.
Price Ceilings Sought on All Livestock by OPA
Washington Aug 13 U P Leon Henderson asked Secretary Wickard for permission to set price ceilings on all live stock under the price control act. OPA would need approval before ceilings on unprocessed farm products. Officials believe livestock ceilings could ease meat shortages in eastern states.
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Washington
U.P
Leon Henderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Department of Agriculture
OPA
Chicago Area Has Largest Blackout
The large area blackout affecting about 12,600,000 people in a 50,000 square mile industrial region around Lake Michigan was declared 95 percent effective by army and civilian defense officials. Traffic halted and lights went out as sirens sounded in Chicago Detroit Milwaukee and northern Indiana steel centers.
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Chicago
United States
Lake Michigan
Detroit
Milwaukee
Indiana
Political advertising paid by Tom L. Tyson and friends of Beauford Jester
Pol. Advt. paid by Tom L. Tyson and other friends of Beauford Jester appears across stations KGKO Dallas Fort Worth KTSA San Antonio KXYZ Houston KRGY Wesla Co KRIS Corpus Christi KGNC Amarillo with bids tied to the political race.
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KGKO
Dallas-Fl. Worth
KTSA
San Antonio
KXYZ
Houston
KRGY
Weslaco
KRIS
Corpus Christi
KGNC
Amarillo
Tom L. Tyson
Beauford
Goebbels Calms Nerves With Planned Propaganda Tour
Moscow radio reports Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, to lead a personal propaganda tour of western Germany after heavy British bombing. The broadcast says German morale worries Hitler leadership as a second front threat grows closer.
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Moscow
Moscow Radio
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Peace Officers Seek Escapee From Granite Reformatory
Panhandle peace officers are on the lookout for a man who escaped the reformatory at Granite Oklahoma today. The prisoner stole a car and was last reported heading west on Highway 66 at about 75 miles per hour. A pickup was relayed by police radio across the Panhandle.
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Panhandle
Granite
Okla
Pampa Contractor Killed in Ditch Crash
T W Spangler a Pampa contractor died when his sedan crashed into a ditch five miles from town. The incident was reported in the local Globe News with a humorous livestock Want Ad pitch immediately following the obituary note. The ad promotes selling cows pigs and other stock via the paper for fast cash.
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T. W. Spangler
Here
Globe- News
Mr. Veazey
Jack Robinson
Black Jersey
Lamar
Globe News
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