Estimates of Allied Losses and Soviet Deaths Reported
Berlin reports a German high command briefing claiming millions of enemy and Soviet casualties in the ongoing campaign. The agency cites figures of 2 to 4 million killed or wounded, with 395,000 prisoners reported, while noting uncertainty and political framing of the totals amid ongoing offensives.
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Berlin
DNB
High Command
Tsrough
Stalin
Russia
Timates
Soviet says Red army very much alive in counter-attacks
Moscow reports Soviet troops and planes pressing counter-attacks to shield Kiev Moscow and Leningrad. German claims of destroying Red forces ridiculed as propaganda. Nazis seen cracking only with repeated powerful blows.
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Moscow
INS
Red Army
Air Force
Kiev
Leningrad
Stockholm
Smolensk
Gulf of Finland
Gulf
Sortavala
Reuters
Stockfim
Germany
Petsamo
Adolf Hitler
A. Lozevsky
Hitler
James W. Ramsey Dies in Collision Near Barboursville
James Wallace Ramsey, 72, former Charleston oil and gas contractor, was killed when his car collided with a milk truck on U S Route 60 near Barboursville at 7 p m. The truck driver Lonnie Farneworth McAlister, 17, of near Barboursville, was reported in critical condition at a Huntington hospital. Ramsey had recently left Huntington.
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James Wallace Ramsey
Charleston
Huntington Oil and Gas
Barboursville
Lonnie Farneworth McAlister
Leslie P. Mullins
Huntington
Ramsey
Draftee Year Extension Defeated in Senate Vote
Washington August 6 Administration forces won a 50 to 21 Senate vote defeating Burton’s compromise to extend draftee, national guard, and reserve officer service by one year beyond twelve months. A later showdown looms over the administration plan to extend citizen soldiers to 18 months or more, with non-interventionists hoping to block a two and a half year maximum.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Burton
Teachers Wage Rise Approved for Kanawha County
The Kanawha County board of education approved a budget estimate of 3,915,090 for 1431 42, with about 186,000 set for teachers salary increases under the revised 1941 legislature plan. Supt Virgil L Flinn cited defense related population growth as driving the need for expansion including three new schools and major additions to two others in South Charleston Spring Hill and Saint Albans. the board also sought federal funds for these projects.
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Kanawha County
Spring Hill
Saint Albans
Flinn
Nylon Stockings End Near. Workers Face Few Losses
A New York report notes the silk stocking shutdown appears temporary and unlikely to cause mass layoffs among about 155 000 hosiery workers. Mills plan to switch to nylon rayon and cotton lisle, with nylon stockings already supplying about 20 percent of demand. Some mills hold three weeks of thread. others are depleted. Production shifts may pause briefly to retool, while demand spikes as stockpiles run down.
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New York
Eden Warns Japan Over Thailand Threat at Bangkok
Britain tightens alert as Eden warns Japan against intruding on Thailand, saying any move would trigger a most serious crisis with Britain and jeopardize Singapore’s security. The message echoed to Tokyo last Thursday via Ambassador Craigie.
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London
INS
Britain
Singapore
Burma
Anthony Eden
Japan
Thailand
Eden
Washington
Hull
U. S
Indo-China
Great Britain
Robert Leslie Craigie
Teijiro Toyoda
Tokyo
Carry Own Goods Save Gas Urges U S
Harold Ickes, defense oil chief, urged eastern shoppers to Carry their own purchases to cut gasoline use by delivery trucks. He outlined five proposals for commercial vehicle operators to curb consumption, including halting bulk deliveries on Saturdays and limiting retail deliveries to one per day per area.
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Washington
East
Harold Ickes
Defense Oil
Irkés
Atlantic Seaboard
Ickes
Gazette Ad Sparks Quick Cash Sale
An advertisement in The Gazette led a reader to place a purchase by 9:00 AM after the ad appeared at 2:30 AM. The ad offered a used Kelvinator electric refrigerator and urged selling any item by advertising.
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Gazette
Kelvinator
Monongalia Bt
Thai and Jap Forces Massing Along Frontier
Massed Teallach and Japanese forces faced each other along the Thai Indo-Chinese frontier near Batambong as Bangkok reported tank headquarters for the eastern Thai army. Japanese troops and equipment were said to be concentrated along the western shores of a large lake near Cambodia province, about 230 miles southeast of Bangkok.
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Sdangrok
Teallach
Japan
Far East
Bangkok
Great Lake
Thailand
Cambodia
Batambong
German Swiss Die In Britain as Spies
London reports two men executed at Wandsworth prison for treachery acting as German and Swiss secret agents. Theo Drucke and Werner Waelti were landed near Edinburgh by seaplane, seized with wireless gear, English money, and emergency rations.
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London
Kerl Theo Drucke
Werner Heinrich Waelti
Wandsworth
Germany
Edinburgh
Scotland
FDR to seek doubled lease lend funds in new request
President Roosevelt plans to ask Congress to raise the lease-lend program to about fourteen billion dollars after his return from the North Atlantic voyage. Hopkins reports guide the size, with Britain Russia and China needs shaping the final request as defense officials drafted a tentative expansion from seven billion. The timing depends on Roosevelt’s return and Hopkins’s accompanying briefing.
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Cecil B. Dickson
Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Congress
North Atlantic
Hopkins
Great Britain
Russia
China
Harry L. Hopkins
Moscow
London
France vows own defense in Vichy note to U S
In unoccupied Vichy France a note delivered to U S Ambassador William D Leahy stated France intends to defend its empire in its own way. The message, not public here, responded to U S remarks about defending empire from the Axis and to Leahy’s requests for information on France’s defense plans.
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Vichy
France
U. S
William D. Leahy
Sumner Wells
Thai Envoy Says Thailand Will Resist Japanese Aggression
Thailand pledges to preserve independence amid Japan’s pressure on the border with Indo China. Thai minister to the United States, Mom Rajawongse Seni Pramoj, states the policy is historical and unchangeable, aiming for self reliance and equal friendship with all nations.
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Japan
Thailand
Far East
Tokyo
Indo-China
Britain
Malayga
Hix
Mom Rajawongse Soni Pramoj
U. S
Washington
Mom Rajewongse Seni Pramoj
United States
Hull Declares Move Into Thailand Threatens U S Security
The United States warns Japan against further East Asia expansion as Hull says Thailand moves threaten American security. First war supplies cargo to Russia seen as defiance of Tokyo warnings, with Britain backing efforts to curb Japanese occupation of Thai bases. Page 2, Col. 7.
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Russia
Shincton Ae Ofs
United States
Japan
East Asia
Cordell Hull
Tokyo
Thailand
U. S
Far East
Aguarbarg
Far
Eusaia
Siberian
A .Hull
Washingpton’s
Anthony Eden
Britain
Eden
Sumner Welles
Welles
Indo-China
Bec
British Bombers Hit Calais and Boulogne Coast Targets
RAF launched midnight raids across the English channel striking the German occupied coast near Calais and Boulogne with heavy explosives as part of a widening offensive. Earlier German shelling damaged Dov er 20 houses and injured five people while anti aircraft fire repelled an attempted eastern Thames estuary strike. The day opened with renewed punitive blows on Mannheim Frankfurt Karlsruhe Ludwigshafen by Britain's latest bomber force.
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London
INS
Europe
Reich
Calais
Boulogne
Channel
Royal Air Force
English Channel
French
England
Continent
Dover
Thames Estuary
RAF
Mannheim
Frankfort
Karlsruhe
Ludwigshaven
Britain
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Price Fixing Bill Faces Congressional Blockade
Washington August 6 price fixing legislation faced a congressional blockade as leaders postponed House consideration until early September amid pressure and hearings. Secretary Morgenthau will testify before the House Banking and Currency Committee while Leon Henderson cites silk stocking price increases as profiteering urging swift action.
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Washington
PNS
House
Office of Price Administration
Washington Bombed Lloyds Odds Clash in London
Lloyds of London quoted odds of 1000 to 1 that Washington would be bombed, offering 1 dollar per 100 dollars on bombing risk for non manufacturing commercial risks and higher rates for manufacturing risks excluding armament works. The agency in Ayr noted rates around 1.56 and 2 dollars per 1004 dollars for different risk categories.
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Washington
Ayr
Lloyds of London
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Gazette Ad
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Hopkine
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