West Virginia Senate Primary Busy Amidname-Calling and Signals
West Virginia 1942 Democratic primary heats up with attack campaigns between Governor M. M. Neely and former Governor H. G. Kump. Kump accuses Neely of policy failures, interrupts on WMMN radio prompt investigations, and Neely plans a long Saturday night broadcast across 13 states from Charleston. Voters also pick Republican and Democratic nominees for a short Senate term and other offices on August 4.
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Neely
Speec
Max Fullerton
Charleston
W. Va
U.S. Senate
West Virginia
M. M. Neely
Senate
H. G. Kump
Kump
Wheeling
Fairmont
WMMN
Carl Bachmann
Liquor Commission
Ernest Bailey
Morgantown
Bluefield
U. S
Russia's Plight in WWII Deepens Since Last Year
The piece argues Russia faces intensified peril a year after July 1941 with Nazi forces sweeping from Baltic to Caspian and threatening Moscow. It notes Soviet oil and breadbasket control by the enemy, while Japan presses in the east, and recalls Roosevelt's envoy to Moscow.
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Rimov
Russia
Istory
Baltic
Caspian
Moscow
Rostov
Siberia
China
Malaya
Hitler
Volga-for-Moscow
Leningrad
Roosevelt
Harry
London
O Daniel Leads Texas Democratic Senate Vote as Moody Trails
In Dallas on July 25 Senator W Lee O Daniel led the Texas Democratic senatorial race with about 54 312 votes to Allred 45 445 from 89 of 254 counties. Moody and Ferguson trailed, while Governor Stevenson widened his lead in the gubernatorial contest and Ernest Thompson led the Texas regulatory commission race.
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Dallas
Tex
W. Lee
Pappy
O’daniel
O'Daniel
Shepard
James V
Texas Election Bureau
Texas
Allred
Dan Moody
James BE
Jim Ferguson
Coke Stevenson
H. Collins
Collins
Ernest O. Thompson
Jerry Sadler
FBI Warns Saboteurs May Be Loose In U S
The FBI issued a nationwide alert asking officers and the public to watch for three trained Nazi saboteurs possibly in the United States. J Edgar Hoover said the men had extensive sabotage training and orders to destroy war industries though latest information placed them in Europe.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Investigation
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Europe
Lorient
France
Long Island
Florida
Hoover
Walter Kappe
Walter Kappel
Berlin
New York
Cincinnati
Detroit
Rheinhold Rudolf Barth
Oseph Schmidt
Canada
Mexico
Merger Airport Site Inspected Near Elgood
A five army officer group inspected the 800 acre Elgood site near Bluefield and Princeton eyed for a regional airport. Mercer County and Kanawha County cooperation, cost estimates around 1 5 million, and county funding hurdles were discussed as the project seeks CAA approval.
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Elgood
Bluefield
Princeton
War Department
Army
Beckley
V. Christensen
Third Air Force Division
Tampa
Fal
J. &. Albert
J. H. Quirk
Pittsburgh
U. S. Army Engineers
H. O. Webb Jr
Army Engineers
Huntington
Paul Vogel
R. R. Sanders
Cincinnati
Albert H. Wessel
Harrisburg
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Elwood
Frank McKenzie
Regional Aeronautics Committee
Lewis Tierney
R. T. Phelps
J. Tavilor Frazier
Eddie Steele
Princeton Chambers of Commerce
CAA
Mercer County Court
T ‘Thement
Kanawha County
American Bomber Raids Tobruk Bengali and Crete Ports
American air forces in the Middle East report seven bombing missions over Tobruk in Libya Bengali and Suda Bay Crete last week inflicting major damage to docks and merchant ships. RAF also claims damage to El Daba airfield reducing Axis aviation.
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Cairo
Tobruk
Libya
Crete
Suda Bay
U. S. Air Forces Command
Middle East
Lewis H. Brereton
Bengass
Rae
Oes Aker
Vane
Brereton
Desert
Mediterranean
Mont Erwin Rommel
RAF
el Daba
Florida Fliers Die in Maryland Mountain Crash
Two Florida civil air patrol members from Fort Lauderdale died when their monoplane crashed into an apple tree on Mill Creek Mountain five miles east of Burlington West Virginia. Piloted by William Cardell with Russell Nelson, the wreckage spread over 50 yards. Bodies were taken to Romney, West Virginia for burial.
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Cumberland
Florida
Mill Creek Mountain
Burlington
W. Va
Mexico Farm
West Virginia
Romney
Civil Air Patrol
Fort Lauderdale
William Edward Cardell
Russell A. Nelsom
Austin Loy
Hazelton
Fort Lauderdar
Staunton. Va
Writer rides U. S. bomber on raid on Japanese Aleutians
Keith Wheeler Chicago Times correspondent in the Aleutians reports from aboard a U S bomber during a raid on Japanese invaders. Wheeler, the first accredited Alaska correspondent, joined the U S fleet shortly after the Dutch Harbor attack, bringing a front line view of action in the Aleutians.
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Aleutians
Keith Wheeler
Chicago Times
Aleutian Islands
Wheeler
Alaska
U. S
Dutch Harbor
Dune 3
Bombing Run Over Kiska in Aleutian Fog
A World War II diary from June 26 aboard a fortress bomber en route to Kiska describes cat and gunner injuries, aircraft damage, and treacherous Aleutian weather. The crew, exposed in a glass nose, faces low visibility, near-misses, and perilous flight conditions as they press toward the target.
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Fortress
Kiska
Catalina
Serena
Navy
Bluefield Flier Lionel Burks Die in Nova Scotia Crash
Lionel Burks known as Beans, a Royal Canadian Flyers pilot from Bluefield, died when his aircraft crashed Friday near Nova Scotia while teaching a cadet. He leaves his parents and sister, with funeral planned in Bedford, Virginia.
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Lionel ‘Beans’ Burks
Royal Canadian Flying Force
Nova Scotia
Lionel L
Beans) Burks
Royal Canadian Wing Force
J. L. Burks
Washington One
Lane
W. H. Stuart
Stanley Fpilying
Canada
Lionel
Beans” Burks
Bluefield
Harvey Amos
Royal Canadian Flyers
Burks
Coca-Cola Company
Lionel Burks
United States
Ensign Ulvert
Fuzzie) Moore
L. E. Moore
Union Street
Moore
Midway
Miss the Burks
Eastern Air Lines
Washton
D. C
Bedford
Candidates File Election Expenses in West Virginia
Charleston July 25 reports show H G Kump filed an expense account of 1969.80 with a payment of 900 held up pending investigation. Other filings list contributions from George Ward Lee Ohio Prominent P Morgan Charleston and Andrew Thomas Jr Charleston with numerous district party disbursements.
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Charleston
W. Va
Ee H. G. Kump
Secretary of State
Mond E. Bright
Promelent
Pn P. Morgan
Andrew Thomas Jr
Philip P. Gibson
Huntington
U. S. Senate
Robert L. Beanery
A Schffler
Andrew Edminston
W. Johnson Romer
William D Curry
E. H. Hedrick
T. E. Wilkison
Richard E. Devis
Atelican
Don J. Eddy Demora
Moscow Admits Rostov Outskirts Penetrated By Nazi Hordes
Internees reveal grim life in Japanese camps as war begins. Jennifer White recalls five months of internment with thousands of Americans in Manila after war outbreak. Relman Morin reports on life in Saigon as hostilities start.
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Moscow
Rostov
East Asia
Lourenco Marques
Portuguese East Africa
United Nations
Jennifer White
J. D. White
Associated Press
Pieping
Manila
United States
China
Relman Morin
Saigon
German forces surge toward Rostov as reserves pour in
German troops aided by a steady influx of reserves push toward Rostov and the Don river, amid heavy fighting along the lower Don toward Tsimlyansk. Russians report fighting to push Germans back near Novocherkassk and Voronezh, while claiming German attempts to breach Don fortifications have been slowed.
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Moscow
Rostov
Don
Tsimlyansk
Reeserves
Voronezh
Novocherkassk
Don River
Gulf of Pinland
Lower
Stalingrad
V River
Russia
Edwin Koons Missionary Endured Water Cure in Korea
The Presbyterian missionary Edwin Koons, imprisoned by Korean authorities, described being subjected to the water cure, a semi drowning method, during interrogation. He recounted fainting after the first attempt and noting officials briefly considered continuing before ending. He recalls overhearing his captors comment on his request for water.
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Lourenco Marques
Koons
War Production Chief Sees Record June Output But Warns
War Production Chief Nelson reported June production of planes tanks ships guns ammunition and other equipment nearly triple November totals and said early 1942 output is 1.5 times all of 1941 but warned against undue optimism. He cited raw material shortages and bottlenecks while noting the arsenal of democracy is doing a good job.
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Washington
Ald M. Nelson
Nelson
War Eduction d
Daylight RAF Raids Reported Across Europe
London reports daylight raids by the RAF attacking Heim and Frankfurt. British forces say they destroyed nine locomotives in Belgium with machine gun and cannon fire. Air ministries claim three German planes shot down today including fighters off the south coast and bombers off the east and southwest coasts.
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London
Oeheim
Frantfurt
RAF
All Ministry
Belum
Cortemarck
Air and Home Security Ministries
Trial delay ends in Taylor Gage murder case
The Taylor Gage murder case jury was unable to reach a verdict after hours of deliberation and was ordered held over until tomorrow morning. The trial in the criminal court, led by Special Judge Ajax Smith, featured closing arguments from prosecutor Roscoe H Pendleton and defense attorney James Kahle with F Morton Wagner assisting. Taylor claims intoxication affected his memory of the May 30 incident near the Truckola on the Bluefield Princeton road. the prosecution argues he knew his actions.
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Board
Ajax Smith
Roscoe H Pendleton
James 8. Kahle
F. Morton Wagner
Taylor
Truckola
Bluefield - Princeton Road
Sullivan
U S Submarines Sink Five Japanese Ships
U S submarines sank a large new Japanese destroyer and four other ships in western Pacific waters. A sixth vessel was damaged, probably sunk, as the destroyer went down in nine minutes after torpedoes hit. The periscope shot from under the sea marked the first combat photograph taken from a U S Navy submarine.
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Washington
Pacific
Ank
U. S. Navy
Anautics
Japan’s New Guinea Offensive Face Behind-the-Lines View
Observers describe Japanese operations at Buna and Gona as an effort to seize sea control between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands rather than a direct push on Port Moresby. Analysts note rough terrain may hinder a larger push, with about 2,500 Japanese troops involved and a focus on defense by Allied air power.
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Buna
Gona
Australia
Austrial
New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Port Moresby
Malaya
Fort Moresby
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Kieth Wheeler
Copywright
Chicago Times, Inc
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Four Mountains
Carlisle
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Bluefield Flier
THE
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