Poetry Likes and Readers Speak Up at The Globe
A playful page features readers names and tastes from Mrs Wales Madden to PFC Jerry Rendy. They list top interests from New York Times best sellers to Zane Grey, Reader's Digest, pioneer tales, Bronte and Hemingway works, and brief notes on newsweek readings.
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Pulse Feeler
Blondie
Wheaties
Pulses
Wales Madden
New York Times
Zukav
Iman
Allene Graft
Zane Grey
Ginger Owens
Reader's Digest
PFC
Jerry Rendy
Shreveport
Bronte Sisters
Milton
Hemingway
Emer
Howard Trigg
Houser
Newsweek
Churchill outlines flying bomb impact and counter measures
Churchill told Commons that about 2,750 flying bombs were launched from French coast sites since June 13, with many failing to cross the channel or being shot down. He cited London air raid deaths and injuries totals, outlined seven government actions, including evacuation trains, repair work, penicillin for robot bomb casualties, and a new subcommittee chaired by him to handle offensive and defensive measures.
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Churchill
Commons
Min- Churchillister
France
Germany
Peenemunde
Baltic
Lord Leathers
London
Roderick Hill
Air Defense of
Great Britain
Frederick Pile
Anti-Aircraft Command
Arthur Tedder
Home Security Ministry
Bomb Rain Marks Second Day Of Wide Continental Air Offensive
The U S Eighth Air Force and the RAF pressed a large scale daylight bombing raid across northwest Germany Pas de Calais and French air fields with about a thousand heavy bombers from both air forces. The operation reported clear skies and low fighter opposition. In a separate item sheriff's deputies hold Charles Oliver on a Brooks Arizona warrant for issuing bogus checks.
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Continent
Arizona
Sheriff's Department
Charles Oliver
Brooks, Ariz
Oliver
British Hate Stirred Anew as London Faces Bombardment
London endures three weeks of sustained bombing that deepens hatred for Hitler and the Nazis while civic life continues. AP correspondent recalls shattered buildings, emergency shelters, and resilient shopkeepers amid a practiced calm and shared resolve.
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London
Hitler
Red Army opens new push toward Pinsk and Wilno
Moscow reports a major Soviet thrust in the Pinsk and Brest Litovsk direction with Cherniakhovsky’s Third White Russian Army nearing Wilno and 140 miles from East Prussia. Stormovik raids strike German lines while Minsk area mopping up continues and analysts see potential drive toward Brest Litovsk and Warsaw.
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Moscow
Red Army
Pinsk
Brest Litovsk
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Wilno
Baltic Republics
Cherniakhovsky
Smorgonie
East Prussia
Minsk
39Th
Molodeczno
Vileika- Nesvizh
Minsk-Vilno
Polotsk-Lida
Gorin River
Hitler
Warsaw
Woman Screams at Local Theater as Cat Scare Terrifies Crowd
A theater audience in Amarillo was startled last night when a woman screamed after a gray cat dashed through the dark aisles. The incident occurred as she settled into a seat, prompting frightened reactions from onlookers.
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Java
Amarillo
Harry Hopkins Returns to White House Post After Illness
Harry Hopkins is back as special assistant to President Roosevelt after a six month illness and convalescence. Secretary Stephen Early told reporters Hopkins returned to duties this morning. He had been recuperating in a government hospital at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Hopkins
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Lieutenant Swancutt Kills Self in Army Hospital
Lt Beauford Swancutt executed by hanging in the Letterman Hospital after being sentenced to death by a court martial at Camp Anza for slaying two young women a commanding officer and a policeman. He was wounded prior to capture and later hospitalized.
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Beauford Swancutt
Army
Letterman Hospital
Swancutt
Camp Anza
Swedish anti-aircraft unit downs Nazi plane over Helsingborg
A 19 year old Danish laborer hijacked a German Heinkel 111 at Copenhagen airport and flew toward England. Swed ish anti aircraft unit knocked it down over Helsingborg and rescued the uninjured pilot from the water before placing him in military custody. The aircraft was destroyed.
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Stockholm
Helsingborg
England
Hoest
Copenhagen
Kattegat
Denmark
Allied push extends across Normandy frontline gains in multiple sectors
Western Normandy sees slow progress with U S forces advancing in several sectors while German counterattacks Press reports heavy fighting around La Haye and Carentan The First Army pushes from the west coast toward Carentan and the La Haye rail area as Mt Castro appears within reach and La Butte changes hands.
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Carentan-Periers
Culot
Carentan
la Haye
Normandy
U. S
Glatigny
Scorman
la Butte
Mt. Castro Heights
Mt. Castro
La Haye-Carentan-Periers _ triangle
St. Jores
France
Allies Press Rosignano Stronghold in Italian Front Drive
American armored forces fought into Rosignano a key German stronghold before Livorno as Allied units pushed north toward Florence and Ancona despite rain and mud. On the coastal front near Castiglioncello and Rosignano Germans counterattacked four times but were driven back by American tanks and infantry, while coastal bombardments and anti aircraft fire tried to halt the advance.
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Moscow
Baranowicze
Minsk
Reuters
Moscow Radio
Kolodeczno
Rome
Rosignano
Livorno
Florence
Ancona
Castiglioncello
Weather Sun and Nearby Regions Report
The Amarillo area and vicinity see partly cloudy conditions tonight and tomorrow with little temperature change. West Texas and New Mexico expect partly cloudy skies, scattered thundershowers into Friday. A 24 hour period ends with highs near 88 and a low around 65.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Amarillo bonds near quota as three days remain
Bond buying in Amarillo tops 906 026 64 yesterday with 35 043 75 E Bonds. Present total 5 146 773 20 of which 681 139 50 is E Bonds. Final quota 6 585 000 with 1 490 000 in E Bonds.
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Wayne O'Keefe
Amarillo Life Underwriters
Amarillo
Slaughter on Saipan Island
Across Saipan and Noemfoor forces push to finish Japanese resistance as Marines and infantry tighten the trap. Tokyo reports raids on Guam Tinian Rota and Pagan while U S bombers aid the Saipan campaign and a third Noemfoor airfield falls under American control.
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Saipan
Noemfoor Islands
Pacific
Tokyo
Philippines
Howard Handleman
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Garapan
Tanapag
Tokyo Radio
Guam
Tinian
Rota
Pagan
Navy
Radio
Berlin
Bonin Islands
Bonins
Volcano Islands
Noemfoor
Kornasoren
New Guinea
Invasion Weather and Hengyang Battle Update
The report notes clear skies and heat haze over the Straits of Dover with light southerly wind. It states Hengyang faces a brutal assault from all sides, with Chinese reports claiming about 6,000 Japanese fatalities in the past ten days.
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London
Straits of Dover
Hengyang
Aunt Nan
China
Bracken says Germans set up public slaughter houses for Jews
British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken accused Germany of forcing thousands of Jews into public slaughterhouses across Europe. He called the act the greatest scandal in human crime and blamed the German people during a memorial luncheon for Eric Gen. Kisch, a Jewish officer killed in North Africa.
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London
U.P
Brendan Bracken
Europe
Bracken
Eric Gen. Kisch
North Africa
8Th Army
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Jeannine
Globe News Business Office
Texas
By Robert Bunnelle
Bunnelle
Associated Press
Chernigippowsky
S~wge
Ivan Bagamian
Lithuania
Latvia
Kowel
Harry Hopkins
San Francisco
le Haye
Allied Supreme Headquarters
la Haye-Du Puits
Supreme Headquarters
Neely-Greenhll
Lowndes Insurance
Russell, Stationery Company
Saipan Island
J. B. Krueger
Canton
Lungmoon
South China
Hankow-Canton
Burma
Mogaung
Stilwell
SSAL
John Maynard Lbr. Co
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