Nazi Forces Reach Objectives in Estonia and Leningrad Front
German drives land, sea, and air capture Estonian cities and push near Leningrad with about 5 000 prisoners taken. Tanks and guns seized while Russian air and ground resistance collapses. In Ukraine, German artillery stalls counterattacks south of Kiev as the Dnieper floods hinder advances.
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Luga
Leningrad
Leningrad Front
Kiev
Zaporozhe
Dnieper
Europe
Ukraine
Semyon Budenny
Wanda Loses New School Shoes In Street Theft
Wanda Lou Mitchell 11 will not wear her brand new school shoes to start at Horace Mann next Thursday. She told her mother two girls about 14 took one shoe each during play on the school grounds, one wearing white and the other dark. The shoes were taken last night at 7 o'clock from 400 North Lincoln Street, and Wanda may wear a different pair unless the thief returns them.
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Herschel Caplan
Polk Street
Wanda Lou Mitchell
Wanda
Horace Mann
C. E. Mitchell
Mussolini Says Axis Saved Europe From Bolshevism
Premier Mussolini in a formal note to Hitler declared that Germany and Italy have saved European civilization from Bolshevism. The leaders reviewed troops on the eastern front with Goering and von Rundstedt and outlined Axis aims for a postwar order to prevent future European wars.
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Mlussolinis
Russia
Mussolini
Hitler
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Ukraine
Europe
Axis leaders meet in dual conferences amid war aims talks
A communique reports August meetings at northern and southern fronts with Axis leaders vowing to continue the war to victory. Ribbentrop Anfuso Keitel Cavallero attended with other officers as Hitler and Mussolini weighed postwar aims opposing Bolshevik danger and plutocratic rule. The talks stressed unity among Axis partners.
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Filippo Anfuso
Galeazzo Ciano
Wilhelm Keitel
Supreme Command
Ugo Cavallero
Gierman
Ciano
Weather notes and odd accident tale shared from Raleigh
The weather forecast calls for mostly fair conditions tonight and Saturday with warmer temperatures up to 87 today and 65 tonight. Amarillo reports the state's coolest low while Crystal City records a 39 degree chill and Big Spring sees rain. A plant engineer in Radford, Virginia claims a river fish exploded when fried after being energized by nitro cotton from a nearby powder plant.
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Crystal City
Big Spring
Abiene
Panhandle
Crosbyan
Portand
Beckley
W. Va
Radford
Amarillo Weather Outlook with warm Saturday
Variable cloudiness this afternoon and tonight with local fair conditions tonight and Saturday. Warmer Saturday across West Texas with considerable clouds and scattered thunderstorms, lower Rio Grande region mostly dry. New Mexico sees little temperature change and mild conditions with occasional showers possible. Temperatures ranged from 64 to 85 degrees, noon reading 80.
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Amarillo
Vicing
West Texas
Rio Grande Ney
New Mexico
FDR Awaits Inkling on Japanese Talks and Pacific Peril
President Roosevelt hinted at further talks with Hull and Nomura after discussions with Japan’s ambassador, while Prime Minister Konoye opened negotiations with the United States to ease tensions. Domei reported the cabinet studying Konoye’s message on the Pacific crisis and aim for a permanent peace.
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Kichishaburo Nomura
Hull
Prince Konoye
Fumimaro Konoye
United States
Pacific
Domei
Konoye
Germany
Soviet
Japan
Real Blond Heart Throb Sought From 300 Pledges
Berkeley students stage a Sigma Chi sweetheart contest. A blue-eyed blonde will be chosen from 300 sorority pledges. The prize reflects campus pageantry and social tradition at the University of California.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California Sigma Chi
Thieves steal watchdog after repeated room robberies
San Antonio report says J. W. McGlin’s room has been broken into several times and now thieves have stolen his watchdog. The incident follows multiple thefts at the same location.
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San Antonio
Tex
J. W. McGlin
24th Avenue Becomes Main Cross-Town Thoroughfare
Southwest Amarillo residents are warned as 24th Avenue gains right of way from Polk to Washington. Stop signs at Tyler and Harrison are swapped. new signs at Van Buren and Jackson. boulevard designation from Polk to Washington. Police note traffic flow prompted changes.
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Tyler
Harrison
van Buren
Jackson
Polk
Washington
Tyler and
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Sixteenth
Buchanan
Lipscomb
Sid Harper
Emergency operation sought for Pierre Laval after assassination wound
Doctors planned late day surgery to remove an assassin's bullet below Laval's heart amid fears of infection and peril to vital organs. Laval's high fever prompted the move as authorities barred officials from the hospital room. Meknes military tribunal meanwhile sentenced two men in Morocco.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
France
Laval
Paul Colette
Marcelle
Empire
Meknes
French Morocco
Housing Board To Be Named for Amarillo Project
Amarillo housing authority will be served by a five man board likely named this afternoon or tomorrow by Mayor Joe Jenkins who just returned from Washington. He conferred with Nathan Straus office on Amarillo's million dollar project and said formal application must come from the local housing committee. Asphalt Tile Sold at Newby's.
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Amarillo
Joe Jenkins
Washington
Nathan Straus
Amarillo Delegation Praises Worley For Defense Prospects
Amarillo's Washington delegation welcomed defense prospects with praise for Congressman Gene Worley. Col. E A Simpson and Mayor Joe Jenkins credited Worley with work and access to top army, War Department, and OPM officials. The group returned with no formal statement, but a survey ordered by Lt Gen Emmons began, exploring bombing range possibilities and potential industrial allies, including four ammonia plants costing fifty million dollars each.
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Amarillo
Washington
Gene Worley
Worley
Joe Jenkins
Army
War Department
OPM
R. Thomson
First Citizens’ Committee
Col. Simpson
Jenkins
Ed Hardin
Arthur Ware
R. E
Chamber of Commerce
Barges Could Alleviate Oil Shortage Says Land
Chairman Emory Land of the Maritime Commission said reinforced concrete barges could haul oil to the Eastern seaboard and be built faster than pipelines. One hundred barges would require 10,000 tons of steel versus 750,000 for pipelines, with first deliveries possible in January at about 20 a month. He noted 26 South American tankers could aid the East Coast shortage, while 80 idle vessels exist abroad.
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George E. Reedy, JR
Washington
U.P
Emory
Land of the Maritime Commission
Senate
Land
United States
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