Bloodshed and Rioting in India After Gandhi Seized
Bloodshed and rioting erupted in India after Mohandas Gandhi was seized by British authorities. Police used guns and tear gas in Bombay and Ahmedabad as mobs looted, set buses aflame, and conflicted with officers. casualties were reported in multiple cities as arrests neared two hundred. Gandhi’s followers faced internment, while Pakistan’s leader warned against mob action.
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Bombay
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Ahmedabad
Audia Congress Party
Mohammedan
Yusuf Meher Ali
Congress
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Battle for Caucasus Oil and Stalingrad Decisive Stage
Russian forces vow to halt the German onslaught as the Caucasus oil fields and Stalingrad industrial center enter a decisive phase. Front-line dispatches detail tank battles near Kletskaya Kotelnikovski and Kropotkin while Don and Kuban Cossacks resist near Armavir and Voronezh.
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Moscow
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Kropotkin
Armavir
Maikop
Kretskaya
Kotelnikovski
Volga
Don
Krasnodar
Haikop
Black Earth
Voronezh
The
Red
Kuban
Red Army
V. Matveiev
Red Star
Kletskaya
British Link 20 Axis Lighters Sinking Raids Reported
Cairo Aug 9 British bombers continued a three week assault on Rommel's supply lines sinking 20 Axis self propelled lighters off Libyan and Egyptian coasts. The lighters equate to at least 1,500 three ton trucks, per Middle East News Service. RAF also bombed Tobruk harbor Friday night targeting jetty areas ships and alerted enemy positions in the northern sector engaged by British artillery.
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Cairo
Erwin Rommel
Middle East
Tobruk
Her Ouarters
Fifth Columnists Guides to Enemy Planes Discovered
U S soldiers in Britain are assigned to defensive roles but will provide picked combat divisions for a potential second front. Major General M W Clark says Americans are in Britain to defend and to train for invasion, while coordinating with British plans. Tass reports German units in Vichy uniforms arrive in occupied France amid rising unrest. Clark notes six months more training would help but could be shortened if needed and stresses integrating American equipment with British methods for coordinated air and ground attack. Eisenhower places air cooperation under his European theater command.
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Wes Gallaghe
England
Britain
M. W. Clark
U. S
Europe
Tass
Geneva
France
Clark
Dwisht D. Eisenhower
Air Cooperation Command
Robert C. Candee
Newcomer Week Opens With War Time Events
Ama rillo hosts Newcomer Week with public glider viewing invited by Col. E A Underhill. Week advances with dances, baseball, a Mrs Miniver premiere, rodeo, horse show, and a barbecue for new Masons as residents mingle and greet newcomers. Col Cache M Reeves reports eradication of enemy marker gadgets near eastern bases with FBI aid, photos released. schemes for guiding bombers are dismantled and dangers addressed. Mayor La Guardia proposes NYC advance funds to soldiers’ families until government allotments start in November to reduce hardship.
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Amarillo
Col. E. A. Underhill
Army Air Forces
Army and Navy
Army-Navy
New York
New York City
F. H. LaCuardia
Department of Welfare
Atlantic Sub Toll Growing in Western Atlantic War
Axis submarines in the Western Atlantic sank 12 Allied and neutral vessels last week. At least 62 crew and passengers were killed, 52 reported missing, while over 740 rescued by Allied craft and landed at Caribbean and U S ports. The AP tally cites 419 ships lost since Aug. 2, including U S, Norwegian, British, Russian, Panamanian, and Uruguayan vessels.
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Atlantic
United Nations
Caribbean
United States
Associated Press
America
U.S
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
South America
Battlefronts Reported Across Asia and India On August 9 1942
The Associated Press notes a combined U S and Australian offensive against island strongholds off northeastern Australia while reporting Gandhi arrested as riots spread in India. Russian forces retreat in the Caucasus as German pressure mounts near Stalingrad and along the Volga.
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Associated Press
U. S
Australia
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Volga
Tough Fighting Ahead for Army Glider Pilots
Pilots graduating from Amarillo Army Air Force Advanced Glider School were urged to be prepared for anything. Lieut. Guy C. Wood advised maintaining peak fitness and learning hand to hand defense as war fighting grows tougher. Col. Underhill noted the uncertain timing but certain imminent demands, with graduates including First Lieut. Victor R. De Grasse of New York City and Second Lieut. P. L. Hough of Lebanon Missouri.
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Amarillo Army Air Force
Guy C. Wood
Wood
E. H. Underhill
Victor R. DeGrasse
New York City
P. L. Hough
Lebanon
Underhill
Italians Claim Atlantic Toll Sinks 24 675 Tons Of Ships
Italian submarines in the Atlantic have sunk two ships and a tanker totaling 24 675 tons according to a high command announcer. The exact sinking period was not specified. The item also notes demand for antiques in Globe News Want Ads with a furniture set selling fast.
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Rome
Atlantic
Want Ad
Globe‘News
33 Enemy Aliens Are Arrested by FBI
FBI announced the arrest of 33 enemy aliens in New York including a photo-engraver with navigation maps of New York harbor and Long Island Sound. Contraband such as two telescopes and a German radio instructor for NYA were seized. Aged 23 to 25, they were sent to Ellis Island for internment hearings.
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Trailroad
Congress Party
Poona
Gandhi
Madelein Slade
Birla House
Bue
Jawaharlal Nehru
Gandhi Id Mat'san Abul Kelay Azad
Yeravda
Azad
Congress
Argas
Bambec
New York
New York Harbor
Long Island Sound
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Hudson River
P. E. Foxworth
PBI
National Youth Administration
Ellis Island
Weather Amarillo And Vicinity Forecast Details
Amarillo area shows little temperature change from Sunday with scattered showers or thunderstorms in New Mexico and West Texas Panhandle South Plains and Peens Valley Mon day. Hourly readings show temperatures in the mid 60s to mid 80s with no precipitation in the last 24 hours. Circulation noted from August 9, 1942 edition of the Amarillo Sunday News Globe.
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Amarillo
New Mexico
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Peens Valley
Opica Ds
Secrecy Shrouds Progress of Bitter Battle
United States Pacific Fleet and Allied forces pound Japanese bases in the Solomon Islands as part of America's first major offensive in the Pacific. Nimitz reports favorable progress amid land-based opposition while Japanese claims of heavy Allied losses are uncorroborated. MacArthur’s forces also hit Salamaua with air and sea operations continuing in the region.
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United States
First Air Force
MacArthur
Australia
Pacific
Solomon Islands
America
Solomons
Coral Sea
Japan
Pacific Fleet
Kiska
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Washington
Ite Tose
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Southwest Pacific
John Curtin
Solomon Island
Midway
U.S
Nimita
United States Pacific Fleet
Aleutian
MaceArthur
Salomons
Bismarck Archipelago
New | Guinea
Salamaua
New |Guinea
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New Delhi
Das Birla
Isles
Russia
East
Mitchell Field
N. Y
First Ground Air Support Command
Cache M. Reeves
Reeves
Air Force
Ground Air Support Command
Himmler
Finn
Berlin
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Finland
Risto Ryti
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
War Department
Bryan Field
Bryan
Tex
William Beaumont General Hospital
el Paso
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