Badoglio Declares Martial Law To Prevent Civil War
Marshal Badoglio imposes dusk to dawn curfew and bans all public meetings as Italy moves to avert civil conflict between Royalists and Fascists. A manifesto centralizes military power, closes public venues, bans gatherings, arms sales, and requires ID cards while promising military trials for arrests.
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Badoglio
Banoglio
Pope Pius XII
Turkey
Sweden
Badgoglio
Raffaele Guariglia
Mussolini
Galeazzo Ciano
Guariglia
Radio
Rome
Ankara
Germans Wreck Orel As Soviet Forces Drive In
Soviet troops closed on Orel from three directions while Germans retreated toward a southwest dirt road. Fires roared in Orel Bryansk forests as villages along the advance were burned. Rail and highway cuts threatened the German hold as 2% to 5% miles of progress yielded 30 more villages.
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Orel
Henry Shapiro
United Press
Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Rzhev
Bryansk
Bever In C. C. Wood Death Probe Questioned
Federal agents and Kansas City police cleared the pistol used to kill C. C. Wood and renewed focus on Bever and two accomplices in a long crime spree. Bever, 27, born in Millgrove Missouri, had been sought nationwide after an armed bank robbery in Cincinnati in 1942 and a wounding of a soldier. His mother urged surrender.
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Wood
FBI
Kansas City
Bever
Amarillo
Kansas City Star
Star
Isaac Radkay
Samuel Ricketts
Amidor
East Thirty-third Street
Radkay
Ricketts
West Eleventh Street
Cincinnati
Millgrove
Blanche Bever
East Thirty-first Street
Mauldin Wins News Tip Contest Prize
Mrs. H. L. Mauldin of 1712 East 1th Avenue won $5 in the News Tip Contest for a tip about a pig rushing for milk and biting a cow. Second prize went to Mrs. L. D. Blackwell for a tip about a telephone repairman lifting a receiver for his wife. Third prize went to J. P. Morrow for a tip claiming he killed 102 rats in 20 days.
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H. L. Mauldin
Pontene
E. T. Baker
Pierce ‘Street
Dan Ferguson
Taylor Street
R. H. Hagan
Kentucky Street
J. B. Putman
East Sixth Avenue
Carl Bowlin
Amarillo Army Air Field
A. B. Fleming
North Madison Street
Sherman Rahill
Maryland Street
R. ©. Lovett
Tyler Street
Joe Martin
West 13Th Avenue
Douglas Husband
West 10Th Avenue
Joan Greene
Cheyenne Terrace
E. G. Williams
West
Ninth Avenue
Ernest Archambeau, Jr
Crockett Street
Stanley Sapp
North
Lincoln
C. R. Compton
Harrison
Gene Schulze
S. E. Eubank
Jack Cummings
Madison Street
Jack Culp
22Nd Avenue
Pauline Lakey
Court House
United Nations to Probe War Criminals Including Mussolini
London reports a UN commission on war crimes is to begin collecting evidence against a long list of suspects with Hitler and Mussolini topping the expected roster. No UN leader has declared plans to jail or execute, but the inquiry aims to investigate charges against war criminals regardless of rank.
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London
Benito Mussolini
Italy
United Nations Commission For
Hitler
Mussolini
United Nations
United Nations Commission
Kiska Bombarded Ten Times in Push on Island
U S planes attacked Kiska positions ten times last Saturday in a renewed effort to erode defenses. Warhawk fighters scored hits on runways and gun emplacements. One U S plane failed to return as the month saw 30 air attacks and seven naval shellings in a likely pre invasion softening campaign.
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Washington
U. S
Kiska
Navy
Postmaster Announces New Five Cent Stamp
Postmaster General Walker announced a new five cent stamp honoring the Netherlands. It is the fifth in a 12 stamp series commemorating resistance of countries overrun by the Axis and will go on sale in Washington August 24.
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Washington
Walker
Netherlands
Weather report for Amarillo and West Texas
Weather summary notes warmer afternoon with scattered showers and light winds. In West Texas little temperature change with scattered afternoon and night showers. New Mexico sees widely scattered light showers in northern mountains. 24 hour readings: high 89, low 68, noon 87. Vv City, Ranch Loans. Southern States.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Ranch Loans
Italians Demonstrate Against Hitler In Northern Italy
Stockholm reports large Italian demonstrations in Milan and Turin with shouts of down with Hitler out with the Germans and we want peace. German troops in Italy have been alarmed for three days.
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Stockholm
Iehanda
T Nots
Italy
Hitler
Milan
Turin
End of Mussolini Era Signals Italian Crisis
Public forces were ordered to disperse crowds ruthlessly as Badoglio's drastic measures deepen the sense that Mussolini's ouster was a palace coup and Italy nears internal collapse. The Fascist regime ends with his resignation after a 20 year era marked by imperial gambles.
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Germany
Badoglio
Radio Rome
Marshhal Albert Kesserling
Italy
Hans-Georg Viktor von Mackensen
Rome
Mussolini
Italy's Surrender Would Endure As Bloodless Second Front
Wes Gallagher argues Mussolini's downfall could trigger a rapid Italian collapse aiding Allied strategy. He cites airfields in northern Italy cutting bomber ranges, potential Balkans peace moves, and a swift eastern Mediterranean thrust, counterbalanced by supply, occupation, and garrisoning strains.
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Associated
Wes Gallagher
Eisenhower
Mussolini
New York
Italy
Germany
Hitler
Reich
Balkans
Greece
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Europe
France
Mediterranean
Russia
Brenner
Austria
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Axis drives Sicily retreat as Seventh Army captures 7000 prisoners
American Seventh Army reports 7,000 Axis captives in Sicily including six Italian generals and an admiral as Allied forces push from Mt Etna foothills toward San Stefano and the northern coast. British American Canadian units advance under heavy air support closing the escape bridgehead at the Straits of Messina.
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Sicily
Mt. Etna
Catania
San Stefano
Straits of Messina
Seventh Army
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Ger
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