Yanks Down Japanese Raiders In New Guinea Skirmish
In New Guinea near Lae and Salamaua, P-39 Airacobras attacked a bombers and escort fight. The squadron destroyed ten of twelve bombers and several fighters, with only two P-39s lost and pilots rescued. First Lt. Robert Yeager and others reported dramatic air combat.
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Vern Haugland
New Guinea
Lae-Salamaua
Walnut Valley
Airacobra
Robert Yeager
Hebbronville
Tex
Yaeger
Schmalz
David Pardy
Goshen
N. Y
Grave Openings Tell Weird Tale of Orel
Allied correspondents witnessed a mass grave opening in Orel where Soviet authorities say about 5 000 bodies of Red Army men and civilians were dumped by German forces. Doctors from a state commission examined the remains, reporting executions and starvation in the grim prison complex behind the wall.
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Orel
Soviet Russia
Soviet Union
Germany
Russia
Nikolai Burdenko
Red Army
Dmitry Boropaev
Burdenko
British Official To Visit Amarillo
H. F. C. Walsh British consul general for Texas and New Mexico will visit Amarillo next Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Walsh and their two daughters. He arrives from Santa Fe New Mexico and will attend the Kiwanis Club meeting Monday at the Amarillo Hotel. Walsh has 28 years in the consular service with postings in the Far East and in Java Siam and French Indo China before 1942.
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H. F. C. Walsh
Texas
New Mexico
Amarillo
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Walsh
Baxter
Santa Fe
N. M
Kiwanis Club
Far East
Java
Siam
French Indo-China
Heat Wave is Broken in Pleasant Temperature Turnaround
The heat wave ended as cool air moved in and temperatures drop from 98 degrees yesterday to 68 this morning at 6 30. Observer H C Winburn calls this the turning point with cooler nights and little moisture expected. Four days reached 99 and three hit 100 during the week long heat spell.
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H. C. Winburn
Crochet Rose Pattern Cloth 5 Sizes Pattern 585
Expensive looking crochet rose pattern cloth offered in five sizes. Pattern 585 includes charts, stitch illustrations, materials list, and directions. Send eleven cents in coins for the pattern to Amarillo Globe Needlecraft Dept. New York address with pattern number and your address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Globe
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
Allied Planes Bomb Paris In Morning Raid
The Vichy Radio said Allied bombers attacked Paris for about thirty minutes with heavy damage and many casualties in two sections near Paris. Observers saw large bomber formations over the Channel that morning before returning. Grade labeling requirements for anti freeze were withdrawn by the Office of Price Administration to align with congressional action prohibiting compulsory labeling.
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London
Vichy
Paris
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Open City declaration seen as Badoglio trick
British papers questioned Italy’s Rome open city declaration as a sham to spare the capital from bombing. Lord Beaverbrook urged continued Allied air offensives until Italy quits the war, while Rome warned civilians that immunity would come only after Allied acceptance.
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London
Rome
Pietro Badoglio
Great Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
London Daily Express
Italy
Winston Churchill
Canada
Itsels
London Daily Mail
Resigns From Wood County Draft Board Over Fathers
Tom C. Wooden veteran and chairman of Wood County Selective Service Board No 1 resigns rather than draft Pearl Harbor fathers. In a letter to Col C W Goble he objects to a system taking family men from established homes. President Roosevelt returns to Washington after talks with Prime Minister Churchill at Hyde Park New York.
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Bowling Green
Ohio
Tom C. Wooden
Wood County
Selective Service Board No
Col. C. W. Goble
Selective Service
Wooden
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Hyde Park
New York
Mrs Gloria Gould Barker Drowns in Pool in Phoenix
In Phoenix Arizona on August 16 Mrs Gloria Gould Barker a member of the Gould family died by drowning after she slipped and struck her head on the pool edge at her desert home The body was found by her husband Wallace Barker and the butler and doctors could not revive her Paul V McCaw justice of the peace and ex officio coroner ruled the death an accidental drowning The Barkers daughter Gloria recently wed in New York last May 17.
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Gloria Gould Barker
Gould
Paul V. McCaw
Wallace MacFarlane Barker
Sheriff's Office
Porter Underwood Showing Signs Of Improvement
Porter R. Underwood, local attorney, who has been seriously ill at Northwest Texas Hospital, was reported to be resting slightly better this afternoon.
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Porter R. Underwood
Northwest Texas Hospital
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Oscar
Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Bryansk
Soviet Foreign Commissariat
By Henry C. Cassidy
By Laas Wheeler
Army Aircraft Laboratory
Wright Field, C
Barney Baker
Phoenix
Ariz
Mayo Dental Laboratory
Houston
Bill Adams
Texas Sheriffs’ Association
Organization
Bern
U.P
Switzerland
Nes
Ford
Ford Organization
Ford Motor Company
Victory
Ford Ma
Iss
Pratt & Whitney
Blue Network
Wees
Willow Run
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