Naval and land campaigns span Europe and Africa
Reports from multiple fronts show Vichy France centralizing military power under Vice Premier Admiral Darlan while Moscow and Berlin fronts reveal Nazi efforts to encircle and cut off Russian forces around Odessa and Kiev. Battles rage along Smolensk, Kiev, and the Black Sea, with significant German air and naval operations impacting supply lines and troop movements.
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VICHY
France
Jean Darlan
Darlan
Marshal Petain
Berlin
Odessa
Black Sea
Arca
Ochakov
High Command
Luftewaffe
Moscow
DNB
Ewhiah
Grein
Ukraine
Dnieper
Kiev
Bel Tser
Kov
Nikolaev
Bug River
Government Brings Limits on Easy Credit for Domestic Goods
President Roosevelt issued an executive order to curb the 10 billion dollar instalment credit system. The set of regulations aims to limit purchases of consumer durable goods by requiring larger down payments and shorter repayment periods to conserve materials for defense and curb inflationary pressure. Violations carry penalties up to 10 years in prison or a ten thousand dollar fine.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve System
Marriner 8
Eccles
Aey Pres Prvog aAtasAr
Uiadit
West Penn Co. testifies on rural line plans in West Virginia
C H Leatham of Fairmont testified in Charleston that Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co is able ready and willing to serve all rural customers in counties where Harrison Rural Electrification Association seeks to build miles of lines Leatham testified in support of the protest against HREA's application to construct electric lines in Gilmer Ritchie Lewis Doddridge and Upshur counties calling the HREA project uneconomic
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Charleston
C. H. Leatham
Fairmont
Monongahela
West Penn Public Service Company
Harrison Rural Electrification Association
Leatham
West Penn
HREA
Gilmer
Ritchie
Lewis
Doddridge
Upshur
Public Service Commission
Night at Strand or Dixie Prompts Special Invitation
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Mary V. Kines of 1007 W. Washington Street to tonight's screenings, Love Crazy at the Strand or Man Hunt at the Dixie, with identification possibly required.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Mary V. Kines
Washington Street
Strand Theatre
Dixie
Vernon R. Moore
St. John Street
Opera House Theatre
Tax brackets to be lowered as Treasury urges
Senate Finance Committee chairman George says exemptions likely cut to 750 for singles and 1500 for married couples, from 800 and 2000, with possible rate readjustments before finishing the 3.2367 billion tax program. Nye suggests a 15 percent supertax to fund British aid, with an additional levy on individual returns.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Senate Finance Committee
House
Washington
George
D.-Ga
Treasury
Nye
R.-N.d
British and Japanese tensions sharpen pacific stance
Tokyo dispatch notes Kokumin daily warning that US and Britain risk a worst outcome if anti Japanese pressure continues while Japan insists on a broader East Asia sphere. London sources counter warn of war if Japan seeks conflict. The piece accuses Britain of stirring friction between the United States and Japan and pursuing measures to disrupt Pacific peace.
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Tokyo
Kokumin
United States
Britain
Japan
East Asia
London
Pacific
Far East
Brital
Legless Ace Missing As Wartime Aces Fail To Return
London dispatch reports Wing Commander Douglas R. Bader and Flight Lieutenant E. Lock missing after their aircraft incidents. Bader, 30, famed Battle of Britain veteran with multiple honors, and Lock, 21, known as Sawnoff Lockie, both credited with high victory totals, are unaccounted for. In another item, a CCC truck in Rainelle park crash killed 18-year-old Marshall Epperly of Fayetteville with several injured.
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London
Douglas R. Bader
Britain
E. 8. Lock
Bader
A. G. Malan
Camp
C. P. chief engineer dies of heart attack
Alfred Whitmer Faber Jr., 43, chief engineer of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of West Virginia, died yesterday of a heart attack. The body will be sent to Danville, Virginia, tomorrow for burial.
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Charleston
Alfred Whitmer Faber, Jr
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
West, Virginia
Danville
RAF Bombs Cologne in First Daylight Raid on Rhine City
British bombers conducted a bold daylight attack on Cologne today, the first such raid on the German Rhine city, as waves of RAF planes also hit the coasts of German-occupied France. The assault followed a prior night raid on Feldkirch, Munchengladbach, and Reydt.
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London
Rhineland
Cologne
France
Rhine
Germany
Netherlands
RAF
Dover Strait
Continent
Krefeld
Munchengladtach
Reydt
Belgium
Daymond of Los Angeles Downs Nazi Bomber Over Channel
Gregory A. Daymond, 20, nicknamed baby of the American Eagle Squadron, shot down a Dorner 17 bomber over the English Channel. It marks the squadron’s first bomber victory and brings their total confirmed Nazi planes to six among American volunteers.
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Gregory A. Daymond
Los Angeles
Baby
Eagle Squadron
English Channel
Navy weighs offer to seizure of New Jersey shipyard
Secretary Knox considered a proposal by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock president L H Korndorff to turn the Kearny plant over to the Navy for immediate operation to resume work on 493 million dollars of naval and merchant ship construction. Korndorff framed the move as preserving an open shop while CIO Local leader Peter Flynn condemned the strike and countered the plan.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
New Jersey
L. H. Korndorff
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Kearney
N. J
Korndorff
Peter Flynn
CIO
Seeks Halt to Washington Wave of Murders and Rapings
Rep Cochran of Missouri pledges to introduce a bill to add 100 police for Washington after a surge of murders and 19 rapes since January. He argues Congress must act immediately to address conditions described as the worst in the country and to restore public safety in the capital.
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Washington
Cochran
D-Mo
Congress
United States
Chain stores to join West Virginia price reporting plan
West Virginia price reporting service adds chain and industrial stores to its list to curb living cost increases. Agriculture Commissioner J B McLaughlin announced the move as Dr W W Armentrout assumed temporary leadership of the department's consumer research division in Morgantown.
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Charleston
West Virginia
J. B. McLaughlin
Two of Six Prisoners Nabbed In Farm Break
MOUNDSVILLE Aug 12 P Two of six prisoners who escaped while at work on the state prison farm yesterday were quickly apprehended and returned to cells in the penitentiary Warden M E Ketchum reported Roy Smith 18 Cabell county and Ray Underwood 25 Mercer were recaptured the warden said while still at liberty were Truman Wilson 25 and Jack Donlin 28 both of Cabell county Pred Reed 25 Berkeley county and Steve Buckhaman 20 Mercer
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Moundsville
M. E . Ketchum
Roy Smith
Cabell County
Ray Underwood
Mercer
Liberty
Truman Wilson
Jack Donlin
Pred Reed
Berkeley County
Steve Buckhaman
Will Propose Limited Duty In Army Service Vote
Democratic house leaders move to restrict additional army duty to 18 months to win votes. Chairman May says he will sponsor the measure with Speaker Rayburn and McCormack backing it, aiming to secure passage. Nye doubts an extension will be approved, and a provision may allow dismissal from training for hardship cases if release does not conflict with duty.
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Washington
May
Nye
R-N. D
House
Stimson
Man Held In Connection With Welch Fatal Slaying
Deputy Sheriff W L Mills said Howard Mitchem age 34 has been taken into custody for questioning in the fatal shooting of Walter L Lambert age 36 of Big Four last Saturday. The men argued after Lambert urged Mitchem to apologize to Mrs Lambert for remarks attributed to Mitchem.
Tennessee Man Killed In Crash Near Sutton
A vehicle veered into a tree at Duck Creek near Sutton killing driver William F. Edwin 54 of Johnson City Tenn. Sheriff Guy L. Warner said identification was established by papers carried by the victim.
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Sutton
Duck Creek
William F. Edwin
Johnson City
Tenn
Guy L. Warner
Reynolds 10 Wed Heiress Reynolds 10 Wed Heiress
Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina, 57, engaged to Evalyn W. McLean, a 20 year old Washington heiress. Reynolds, chair of the senate military affairs committee, plans an Iceland inspection trip before a wedding likely after his return. Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean is the mother of the bride to be.
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Washington
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Evalyn W. McLean
Bob
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Iceland
Reynolds
Senate
Miss McLean
Hope
Edward B. McLean
County School Boards Face Budget Trouble Amid Aid
Charleston Aug 12 County school boards report budget troubles despite record state aid. State Superintendent W W Trent cites higher teacher salaries voted by the 1941 legislature, rising maintenance costs, and other factors. Seventeen county budgets were approved, others delayed, many counties yet to submit estimates.
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Charleston
Pi— County
W. W. Trent
Trent
State Board of School Finance
U S May Cut All Jap Trade
Senator George says it is in the realm of possibility the United States could sever all commercial relations with Japan if Tokyo takes further aggressive steps in the southern Pacific or against Russia in Siberia. Nye notes the doubt but offers no specifics on additional actions under consideration.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Japan
Nye
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Admiral Darlan
Petain
Central Front
Red Army
Leningrad
Daily War Bulletin
Smolensk
Kakisalmi
Karelian
Solsui
Russia
Red Air Force
Korosten
Uman
Black
West Penn CO
Pace
Asia
Strand
Nippon
SCC
Douglas Bader
French
Yanka Hero
Navy Studies
Kearney Shipyards
See
Welch
Tennessee
Evalyn McLean
Hsotoo
Opera Baer
Peniicntion
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