Observers Cite Three Probable Courses Open For Next Government
Tokyo reports say a strong centralized war cabinet may take power as the cabinet resigns. Three paths cited are a drive to the South Pacific via Indo China and Cam Ranh, a Siberian move against the Russians, or intensified war in China. Most expect Indo China action, with army tensions and anti-Russian press mood shaping the crisis.
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Tokyo
Harrison Salisbury
United Press
Far East
Japan
South Pacific
Indo- China
Camranh
Siberia
China
London
Washington
Fumimaro Konoye
Yosuke Matsuoka
U.P
East Asia
Tony
United States
Shanghai
Indo-China
Vichy
Vladivostok
Russia
Manchukuo
Inner Mongolia
Nippon Crisis Seen From Tokyo Cabinet Resignation
Washington dispatch analyzes Japan's cabinet resignation as a signal of future policy. Thompson notes potential shifts toward better US relations or new expansion moves, depending on who succeeds as foreign minister and the influence of Konoye. Also mentions a mid July warning of a French Indo China focus and a planned war of nerves. Six miners were burned seriously in an underground explosion at Samples Mining Co. coal mine.
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United States
Tokyo
United Press
Thompson
China
H. O. Thompson
Washington
Japan
Orient
Far East
Yosuke Matsuoka
Germany
Italy
Matsuoka
Russia
Shigemitsu
Britain
San Francisco
Fumimaro Konoue
Konoye
Baron Hiranuma
Hiranuma
Great Britain
Nobumasa Suetsuga
Suetsuga
Mcalester
Okla
Samples Mining Company
MccAlester Penitentiary Land
Germans Admit Heavy Tracks But Declare Russians Beaten
British and Soviet dispatches describe a grim eastern front. German pressure on the Stalin Line is said to be repulsed with losses, while Soviet counter attacks north and west of the Dnepr push back German advances. Izvestia notes 1500 German casualties as Rogachev and Rogachev’s recapture firm up a 20 mile west bank line. Moscow imposes rationing for bread sugar oils meat and textiles to ensure continuous supplies.
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Associated Press
Dnepr
Vitebsk
Moscow
Stalin Line
Eastern Front
Red Army
Leningrad
Ploesti
Rogachev-Zhlobin
Bobruisk
Izvestia
Rogachev
Zhlobin
Pampa Ex-Superintendent Daugherty Killed in Auto Crash
J Marvin Daugherty, 58, former Pampa schools superintendent and longtime school board member from 1919 to 1940, died yesterday 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 in Pampa.
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Pampa
J. Marvin Daugherty
Here
W. J. Spicer
Amarillo
United Department of Agriculture
Convicts Offer to Draw Straws for Duchess Spinelli
San Quentin inmates propose a lottery to substitute for Mrs. Juanita Spinelli in the lethal gas chamber if clemency fails. Warden Duffy says 11 signatures on a petition to Gov Olson, with 300 convicts showing willingness, while Spinelli’s co-conspirators face their own death sentences.
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San Quentin Prison
Calif
U.P
Juanita
Culbert L. Olson
Duffy
Olson
Los Angeles
Spinelli
Mike Simeone
Gordon Hawkins
California
Body recovered in Plainview murder case
The 52 year old W B Munger body was pulled from a 50 foot irrigation well southwest of Plainview after Jess Long confessed to throwing the corpse following Munger's October 23 murder. Claude Hutcherson aided in lowering the body in a sack. Sheriff officials reported a crushed skull and minimal remaining flesh as about 100 onlookers watched. Long faces murder charges after identification from an El Reno arrest.
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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
Cairo July 16 The RAF Middle East command said British bombers hit an Axis convoy off the Libyan coast early today destroying at least one 8 0 0 ton ship amidships and damaging another with a direct hit in the same attack.
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London
Germany
Air Ministry
Duisburg
Ruhr
Coastal Command
France
RAF
England
Ond
Margate
Mildings
Sologne
Bremen
Cairo
Egypt
Weather forecast and notes from London for Iceland
Weather outlook covers Amarillo, West Texas and New Mexico with fair skies and scattered thundershowers mainly in southwestern areas. Temperature highs near 86 and lows around 62. In London, Eden said British troops will depart Iceland as Americans take over, amid Churchill statements.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Pecos Valley
News Tip Prize Is Won By Mrs. H. E. Bobbitt
A weekly prize is awarded to Mrs. H E Bobbitt of 2405 West Third Avenue for a weather tip. Second prize goes to Odella Taylor for naming Amarillo’s first woman cab driver and third to Don Curl for a near drowning tip. Several honorable mentions noted for various tips amid a mixed weather update and city notes.
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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
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
Italians Move Train of Consuls Near San Remo
A special train carrying 76 U S consular officials lingered at San Remo on the French frontier while Italian authorities awaited word of a U S naval transport sailing from New York with Axis consuls aboard. Virginio Gayda, a Fascist editor, charged that Roosevelt plans 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
Cantonments Spotted At Three Texas Points
Washington July 16 announced three Texas sites for new cantonments if Congress funds army expansion. Representative Poage named Waco as a site with a probable motorized division, Lyndon Johnson named Bastrop, and Patman named Paris. The plan depends on funding.
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Washington
Texas
Congress
Poage
Waco
Lyndon Johnson
Patman
Paris
Running Gauntlet of Death to Tobruk
Inside besieged Tobruk, July 14, a British naval effort moves food ammunition and reinforcements into the desert garrison under night cover. Destroyers unload amid bombs and spray while lighters dodge wreckage to bring supplies ashore. The Tobruk line holds with South Australia Queensland Tasmania and England troops defending a tight 30 mile perimeter. A bush artillery unit of cooks and ordlers uses captured Italian ammo while a German recon plane prowls above firing on any target.
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Godfrey H. P. Anderson
Tobruk
Libya
North African
Royal Navy
South Australia
Queensland
Tasmania
England
France
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Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
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John Maynard Lbr. Co
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