German Planes Return to Front As Moscow Rationing Looms
British and German reports describe shifting battle lines along the Baltic to Black Sea front with Red Army counter-attacks repulsed near Rogachev. Soviet rationing announced for Moscow with cards required for bread sugar and clothing as fronts remain tense and air operations continue over Ruhr and Ploesti.
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Associated Press
Dnepr
Vitebsk
Moscow
Stalin Line
Eastern Front
Red Army
Leningrad
Ploesti
Rogachev-Zhlobin
Bobruisk
Izvestia
Rogachev
Zhlobin
Japan Eyes Three Paths for Next Government Crisis
Observers cite a shaken Tokyo as cabinet resigns amid Russo German war. Three probable courses emerge: push south to French Indo China centered on Cam Ranh Bay. strike Russia in Siberia. or press China war to end the China incident. Western aides forecast Indo China as likeliest, with tensions over Indo China bases and possible oil and rice concessions. The move follows army Baghdad style pressure and precludes early public policy clarity.
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Harrison Salisbury
United Press
Far East
Tokyo
Japan
South Pacific
Indo- China
Camranh
Siberia
China
Vladivostok
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Indo-China
United States
Manila Bay
Subic Bay
London
East Asia
Shanghai
Vichy
Russia
Manchukuo
Inner Mongolia
Thompson
Nippon Driven To Act
Washington dispatch reports Japan's cabinet resignation signals possible shifts in East Asia policy.JP foreign minister choice and factions loom large. Shigemitsu may lead toward democracy-friendly ties while Konoye remains influential. Possible moves against Indochina or Russia hinge on a new premier, with Suetsuga representing extremist influence. French Indochina tensions spark naval base ambitions at Cam Ranh Bay.
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H. O. Thompson
Washington
U.P
Japan
Orient
Yosuke Matsuoka
Germany
Italy
Matsuoka
United States
Russia
Tokyo
Shigemitsu
Britain
San Francisco
Fumimaro Konoue
Baron Hiranuma
Hiranuma
Great Britain
Nobumasa Suetsuga
Suetsuga
Far East
Pampa Ex-School Leader Killed in Auto Crash
J Marvin Daugherty 58, former Pampa schools superintendent and long time school board member, died in an automobile collision 12 miles northeast of Pampa. W J Spicer of Amarillo, a U S Department of Agriculture employee, suffered a broken collar bone and was hospitalized.
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Pampa
J. Marvin Daugherty
Here
W. J. Spicer
Amar Illo
United Department of Agriculture
Convicts Offer Straw Lottery to Save Duchess Spinelli
At San Quentin California the prison warden said inmates may draw lots to substitute for Mrs. Juanita Spinelli in the lethal gas chamber if clemency fails. Convicts petition Gov Olson to spare her life arguing California should not execute a woman.
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San Quentin Prison
Calif
U.P
Juanita
Culbert L. Olson
Duffy
Olson
Los Angeles
California
Body found in well confirms Plainview murder case
The 52 year old W B Munger was shot last October 23 and dumped into a 50 foot irrigation well 17 miles southwest of Plainview. Jess Long former farm employee, admitted throwing the body after the killing. Claude Hutcherson helped raise the body in a sack. About 100 onlookers, Sheriff Cat Martine and Deputy Ted Andrews witnessed the recovery. Long faces murder charges after being located in El Reno and identified from a detective magazine.
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Plainview
W. B
Bill) Munger
Jess Long
Munger
Claude Hutcherson
S. C. Hutcherson
Long
Cat Martine
Ted Andrews
el Reno
British Sink Axis Vessel Off Libyan Coast
British bombers hit an Axis convoy off the Libyan coast near Cairo with two heavy bombs. One 8,000 ton ship was completely destroyed amidships and another ship sustained a direct hit and damage.
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Cairo
Egypt
Libya
RAF Middle East Command
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas area
Weather outlook shows fair conditions with little temperature change for Amarillo, West Texas, and New Mexico. Scattered thundershowers likely over the southwest, Pecos Valley, and eastern regions this afternoon and evening with clearing tonight and near normal temperatures.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Pecos Valley
Eden Says British To Leave Iceland
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that British troops will depart Iceland in time for U S replacements. He noted questions had arisen after Churchill said they would stay despite American dispatch.
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London
U.P
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Iceland
United States
Winston Churchill
News Tip Prize Is Won By Mrs. H. E. Bobbitt
Mrs. H. E. Bobbitt wins the weekly news tip contest first prize and $5 for reporting a mad dog. Odella Taylor takes second prize and $3 for claiming Amarillo's first woman cab driver. Don Curl earns $2 third prize for tipping about a Fourth of July near drowning. Honorable mention goes to Betty Roberts for a tip about a wreck near North Fillmore Street.
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H. E. Bobbitt
West Third Avenue
Odella Taylor
North West
Eighth Avenue
Amarillo
Don Curl
Tennessee Street
Betty Roberts
North Taylor Street
North Fillmore Street
English Field
Italians Halt Consul Train At San Remo
A special train carrying 76 members of a United States consular party was held at San Remo while Italian authorities awaited word on a naval transport sailing from New York with Axis consuls aboard. Virginio Gayda, a Fascist editor, accused President Roosevelt of planning to exploit the Axis war against Soviet Russia.
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Rome
United States
Italy
Greece
San Remo
New York
Germany
Virginio Gayda
Roosevelt
Russia
Rain Follows Coleman in Amarillo Weather Report
Rain is forecast for the Amarillo area with fair conditions elsewhere. A 1.11 inch shower fell in St. Joseph Missouri where Mr. Collman was transferred while Panhandle Texas saw little moisture with only light showers. Boise City reported .07 inch, Crosbyton .35, Clayton .27 and Waynoka showers. Temperatures in Amarillo yesterday ranged 62 to 86 degrees. today’s high near 86 and low around 62. Winds 10 to 12 mph shifting from northeast to southwest by day end.
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St. Joseph
Collman
Panhandle
Texas
Weather Bureau
Boise City
Crosbyton
Clayton
Waynoka
Amarillo
Cantonments Spotted At Three Texas Points
Washington announced three Texas sites for new cantonments if Congress funds expansion of the army. Rep Poage named Waco as a site, Rep Johnson named Bastrop, and Rep Patman named Paris. Poage said a motorized division would be stationed at Waco.
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Washington
Texas
Congress
Poage
Waco
Lyndon Johnson
Patman
Paris
Running Gauntlet of Death to Tobruk
Inside besieged Tobruk in Libya on July 14, a British force battles to supply food ammunition and reinforcements as destroyers work under night cover through a harbor mined and shelled by Stuka bombers. Australian South African and British troops defend a narrow trench system amid constant attacks and a famed noncombatant bush artillery unit fires captured Italian ammunition.
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Libya
North African
Royal Navy
Tobruk
Six miners burned in underground mine explosion
McALESTER Okla July 16 six miners were seriously burned today in an underground explosion at the Samples Mining Company coal mine on Alester penitentiary land.
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Mcalester
Okla
Samples Mining Company
Alester Penitentiary
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Ruhr
Coastal Command
France
RAF
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Sologne
Bremen
Fumimaro Konoye
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United States Naval Area
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Nippon
Konoye
San Quentin
Eden
Russell Sta
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Newby's
W. L. Hickerson
Tyler Street
Dorothy Mason
North Roberts Street
Katie Beets
North Johnson Street
R. M. Gardner
Alabama Street
E. R. Hill
West
Ninth Avenue
D. L. Brooks
Jackson Street
Elsie Brown
Fillmore Street
Gordon Williams
Monroe Street
W. H. Galbreath
Coleman
By Godfrey H. P. Anderson
Rial
South Australia
Queensland
Tasmania
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