Russians Battle Back to Hold Ground on Don Front
Report from Moscow on July 17 describes massed German infantry and heavy tanks advancing through wheat fields in the Don Steppes while Red Army withdrawals pull toward Stalingrad and Rostov. Dispatches say the Axis drive seeks to isolate the Caucasus with ground gained near Millerovo as Soviet forces fight at Voronezh and along the Don.
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Moscow
Don
Red Army
Stalingrad
Rostov
U.P
Maas
Donets
Varanach
Peeeuee
Report of parachutists seen near Hyde Park prompts wide search
In Rhinebeck New York authorities comb woods for six or seven parachutists reported near President Roosevelt's Hyde Park estate. Police broadcast an eight state alert. A caretaker and his wife reported seeing spots in the sky. investigations involve state police federal agents and cross state patrols from New Jersey Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
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Rhinebeck
N. Y
U.P
Dutchess County
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Army
Hudson River
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Holland and SchnecIn
New York
Connecticut
Clyde Swendson
John Jacob Astor
Swendson
Donald Haskins
Haskins
Federal Bureau For Investigation
W .Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
British Add American Lee Tanks To El Alamein Fight
Cairo reports say British forces amid a fierce and indecisive tank battle at El Alamein have brought in American made General Lee tanks to bolster defense. The bulletin notes losses on both sides with details pending while armored forces clash as a crisis in the Egypt battle nears.
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Cairo
el Alamein Desert Line
General Lee
General Grant
General Grants
Egypt
League forms committee to improve Texas Latin city ties
A Texas municipalities league announces a committee to foster better relations between Texas and Latin American cities. Mayors Tom Miller Austin A C McCaughan Corpus Christi Hubert Johnson Waco Hugh Ramsey Harlingen Robert Runyon Brownsville W P Hood Wichita Falls R L Rutan Port Arthur Leslie Lowry Beaumont J A Jenkins Amarillo Brantley Harris Galveston C E F Slaton Lubbock join in voting. Roger W Moore Seguin president FE EF McAdams Austin secretary named ex officio members.
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Austin
Texas
League of Texas
Tom Miller
A. C McCaughan
Corpus Christi
Hubert Johnson
Waco
Hugh Ramsey
Harlingen
Robert Runyon
Brownsville
W. P. Hood
Wichita Falls
R. L. Rutan
Port Arthur
Leslie Lowry
Beaumont
J. A. Jenkins
Amarillo
Brantley’ Harris
Galveston
C. EF. Slaton
Lubbock
Roger W. Moore
Seguin
League
EF McAdams
Much-Stabbed Mexican Is in Hospital Here
Felippe Nabarrite of 1308 Cleveland Street is hospitalized in Northwest Texas Hospital in critical condition after an axe like attack near a beer parlor in Southeast Amarillo. Police investigate the assault by an unknown assailant.
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Felippe Nabarrite
Cleveland Street
Texas
Amarillo
Demand Draft Stand in Senate Military Affairs Clash
Washington lawmakers demanded an estimate of the army size needed to win the war and proof that a sufficient force cannot be raised under the 20 to 45 year age limits. They urged delaying drafts for 18 and 19 year olds until all resources are exhausted. Secretary Stimpson touched off discussion by noting the army would dip into funds totaling 2 446 000.
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Washington
Senate
House
Henry L. Stimson
J. Parnell Thomas
Republican
New Jersey
Air Corps
Stimson
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
War Department
Roosevelt flags delay on 18 19 draft decision
President Roosevelt stated no immediate decision was expected on drafting youths aged 18 and 19 for military service, indicating a delay in action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Debate over lowering draft age stirs Congress and wartime leaders
Senators Reynolds and May oppose reducing the draft age without proven need. Thomas supports Stimson for unconditional draft, while Nye and others demand clear troop requirements. The controversy recalls earlier calls during World War I for 18 to 19 year olds and the impact on morale.
Germans Tell of Attack on Convoy
Berlin dispatch reports a Hitler HQ communique stating German submarines attacked a well escorted British convoy off Africa's west coast and sank six merchant ships totaling 39,500 tons. It adds other U boats have sunk ten ships totaling 68,500 tons recently in the Atlantic and near the Panama Canal and Arctic transport of 7,000 tons.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Africa
Atlantic
Mississippi
Panama Canal
Arctic
High Command
Weather notes forecast and highs in Panhandle region
The bureau reports lingering warmth and wind with a chance of thunder storms in the western Panhandle. Yesterday reached 96 degrees with a low around 72 this morning.
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Bureau
Panhandle
Japanese Zero Fighter Impresses Despite Allied Copy Origins
United Press reports from Australia describe the new Japanese Zero as a formidable fighter praised by Allied crews. The aircraft uses American engines and instruments with British armament, shows high speed and advanced aerobatics, and features a 1,000 horsepower Pratt and Whitney engine.
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Harold Guard
United Press
United States Airbase
Australia
U.P
Bryan O'Neill
San Francisco
O'Neill
Lev
O Neill
Japan
Pratt & Whitney
Aleutian Bombing Report Details Kiska Strikes
The Navy records 56 bombs dropped on Japanese shore installations at Kiska as part of ongoing Aleutian combat. U S losses total 44 killed and 49 wounded, with one civilian dead, following attacks on Dutch Harbor Fort Mears and Port Glenn. The Northwestern was lost to bombs at Dutch Harbor.
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Washington
Navy
Aleutians
Kiska
Dutch Harbor
Fort Mears
Port Glenn
Umnak
Northwestern
Army
Midway
Hawaiian
United States
Coast Guard
Fort Glenn
Bombing Raids Hit Luebeck Flensburg Shipyards
British Stirlings, Britain's largest bombers, attacked submarine yards near Luebeck and shipyards at Flensburg as daytime raids followed nighttime strikes on Ruhr targets. Two bombers reportedly missing. German claims of English factory damage noted.
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London
Britain
Germany
Luebeck
Flensburg
Air Ministry
Allied Bombing Raids Hit Hankow and Nanchang Bases
Allied planes escorted by fighters attacked Hankow on the Yangtze River in China with very satisfactory results. The U S communique from Lieut Gen Joseph W Stillwell headquarters cites July 2 dock and warehouse bombs 2640 pounds and July 3 airfield strikes at Nanchang destroying two hangars several planes on the ground and planes attempting to take off.
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Chungking
China
U.S
Hankow
Yangtze River
United States Army
Joseph W. Stillwell
Nanchang
Nancy trial opens for 38 accused in communist attacks
At Nancy a German military court begins work on 38 defendants including eight women charged with a series of attacks across the Meurthe et Moselle department since the movement formed last February at Auboué under the banner Chief of the Popular Army.
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Vichy
France
Nancy
Maerthe Et Moselle
Auboue
Popular Army
British Merchant Ship Torpedoed Off South American Coast
The Navy reported that a medium-sized British merchant vessel was torpedoed in the Atlantic off the northern coast of South America and that survivors reached an east coast port.
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Washington
Navy
Atlantic
South America
Help Wanted Ads Invite Job Seekers To Globe-News
New arrivals from farms and nearby towns flock to Amarillo to find work and read the Globe-News Help Wanted ads. To place an ad for next day responses, call 6262 before 6:30 tonight at the Globe-News office on Boor Time and Pease, Russell Stationery Company forms.
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Amarillo
Globe-News
Boor Time & Pease
Russell Stationery Company
Bill to outlaw commission fees on war contracts
The House naval committee approved unanimously a measure banning commission fees on government war contracts after hearings revealing sales engineers earned about 2 million dollars in fees over 18 months for obtaining contracts for manufacturers nationwide. The Navy urged swift action to curb profiteering.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Navy
Germany Delivers Some Rail Equipment to Turkey
Ankara reports Germany sent four locomotives and eighty freight cars toward a nine month old trade pact with Turkey. The shipments cover heavy goods pledged since months of negotiation, amid Turkish demands for full delivery or acknowledgment of shortfalls.
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Ankara
Germany
Turkey
Germans storm Voroshilovgrad in Donets region
German forces reported capturing Voroshilovgrad after days of heavy combat in the Donets region. The bulletin said large parts of the town were ablaze and that fighting was intense as German infantry entered the city.
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Donets
Voroshilovgrad
Axis forces cross Donets to push Russian flank
Nazi communique claims Axis troops crossed the Donets River to the east bank near Kamensk about 80 miles north of Rostov and pressed toward the lower Don River while a railroad from Kanesh to Stalingrad was also crossed. Russian reports say units held in the southern front and counterattacked, with thousands of enemy casualties and German hospitals overwhelmed in Orel Kursk regions.
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Briansk
Donets
Kamensk
Rostov
Don River
Sea of Azov
Caucasus
Kanesh
Stalingrad
Red Star Army
Orel
Kursk
Stalin reportedly leaves for Russian front to reshuffle command
An Ankara dispatch from the Swedish Telegraph Bureau says Premier Josef Stalin has left for the Russian front to join the chief of the Russian general staff. The report is unconfirmed and no authority was given. Stalin is believed headed to Stalingrad for major army command changes.
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Stockholm
Swedish Telegraph Bureau
Ankara
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Stalingrad
Russians Hit Voronezh as Germans Move Toward Rostov and Stalingrad
Russians hammer the Voronezh area even as Hungarian and Romanian troops reinforce the flank. The Nazi high command concentrates on pushing toward Rostov and Stalingrad while main German forces advance southeastward. American-made Bell aircraft support Russian defenses.
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Voronezh
Rostov
Stalingrad
Weather and War Notes From Across Regions
Amarillo area forecast shows continued warmth with brisk winds and scattered thunderstorms mainly west of a station, with little tonight. West Texas expects more storms west of Pecos River, warm again. New Mexico sees showers and thunderstorms and moderate temps. Temperature extremes over 24 hours reached 91 and 72. In war news, a Dutch merchant vessel torpedoed weeks ago off the northern South American coast. survivors landed on the East Coast. In another report, 50 German policemen including a Gestapo chief were killed in Lublin during clashes with Polish guerrillas.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos River
New Mexico
London
Reuters Today
Storkholm
Ny Dag
Gestapo
Wald
Lublin
Roosevelt studies broader wage controls to curb living costs
President Roosevelt said he is studying plans to ask Congress for more effective controls to keep the cost of living down, including wage controls. He refused to discuss specific points but reiterated his policy against any action that would raise living costs and said a general program may be communicated to Congress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Three Held In Nazi Sabotage Case In New York
Two men and a woman were held in 50000 bail each after arraignment in Federal court on charges of aiding Nazi saboteurs who arrived by submarine. They allegedly assisted John Kerling who landed on a Florida beach June 17. Kerling faces trial in Washington with seven others.
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New York
Helmut Leiner
Astoria
N. Y
Athony Cramer
Hedwig Engeman
Bascom 8
Deaver
John Kerling
Florida
Kerling
Washington
Homes of 65 German Aliens Are Raided
In Newark New Jersey FBI raids target 65 German aliens as wartime contraband is seized. Special agent Conroy confirms arrests and transfers to Ellis Island for processing.
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Newark. N
New Jersey
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bund
Conroy
Newark
New York
FBI
Ellis Island
Prosecution Ended for Four Suspected Nazi Saboteurs
Washington July 17 The prosecution completed its case today against four of eight submarine landed Nazis on trial before a military commission here.
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Washington
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Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
House Military Affairs Committee
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Ruhr
DNB
Leamington
Warwick
England
Flenderwerke
Reds
Geo
Russia
Poland
Fort Devens
Mass
Aloysius Arturo Nakomiecazny
Philadelphia
Vladimir Wojnhecki Nakonieczny
Repa
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