Negro Is Held For Slaying
Winston-Salem August 2 Chief of Police Walter F Anderson said Nathaniel Shadd a 27 Negro would be charged with the pistol slaying of Policeman Gurney Royall and stabbing Officer P T Blackburn Friday night Royall died during a struggle as they tried to arrest him for disorderly conduct Shadd seized the officer s pistol fired five times one shot killed Royall Blackburn slashed in the face and throat but held Shadd until other officers arrived Royall had served four years on the force leaving a wife and one child
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Winston-Salem
Walter F. Anderson
Nathaniel Shadd
Gurney Royall
P. T. Blackburn
Anderson
Royall
Blackburn
Shadd
Shad
Gasoline supply plan to ration east coast demand
Harold L. Ickes aims to regulate eastern consumption by priorities from industry fuels to gasoline. Tanker pools will be used but can only cover half the need, prompting 500,000 barrels daily shipped by rail and truck at higher freight costs. A 250,000-barrel-a-day East Texas to New York Philadelphia pipeline is planned, funded by oil companies without government loans, to begin within 12 months.
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Harold L. Ickes
East
Cecal
Texas
New Jersey
East Texas
Salem
New York-Philadelphia
Standard Oil Co
N. J
Consolidated, Oil, Tidewater
Sun Oil
Atlantic Refining
Nazis seek control by French defenses and fleet handover
British radio reported that Germany pictured Dakar as threatened by the United States and resumed talks with Vichy to pressure France into handing over the French fleet and African ports of Dakar Casablanca and Algiers. The plan aimed to extend Axis influence in North Africa and defend territories against Allied advances.
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France
Germany
Dakar
United States
Vichy
Casablanca
Alsiers
War Weekend Push Aimed to Save Gasoline and Rail Traffic
War coverage notes a stay-at-home push by the transport ministry to ease rail congestion and conserve gasoline. Despite rationing, many city residents flocked to Blackpool and North Wales for a holiday weekend. Leicester factories closed. many women of the 23 class prepared for national service with vacation plans.
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Blackpool
Lancashire
North Wales
Transport Ministry
Leicester
Native Tar Heel Improves On Bomb
Private Robert R. Stubbs of Mac Dillfield received public commendation for an improved bomb device described as a Molotov bread basket. Brig. Gen. Pinker and Col. Young praised the device, endorsed by War Department officials after tests at Aberdeen proving grounds. Stubbs, a Charlotte native and civilian construction superintendent, conceived the idea three years ago and assigned rights to the War Department.
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Tampa
Fla
Robert R. Stubbs
MacDillfield
Stubbs
Clarence L.pinker
Harry H. Young
44Th Bombardment Group
War Department
Aberdeen
Charlotte
N. C
Bombardment Threatens Odessa as German Drive Advances
German forces push toward Odessa with artillery within range while land attacks and air raids broaden. Reports claim 52,000 Soviet prisoners and vast captured materiel, including 737 tanks, artillery, machines guns, and thousands of vehicles. Allied bombing of rail hubs and Suez incursions also noted.
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Odessa
Black Sea
Lower
Dniester
High Command
Moscow
Upper Volga
Ukraine
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Smolensk
DNB
Germany
England
Scotland
Britain
Soviet Counterblows Halt German Drive On Moscow
Soviet forces exploited a German offensive near Smolensk and Moscow, mounting organized defense then counterattacks that repelled tanks and infantry. Pravda described German losses and Red Army tactics shifting from defense to consecutive counterblows as air raids continued and Moscow ordered fireproofing for wooden roofs.
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Boris Andreyev
Red Star
Red Star Disputch
Red Air Force
Lozovsky
Moscow
Russia
Red Army
Communist Party
Pravda
Leningrad
Kiev
99Th
Theg
Sth
Smolensk
Gus
Soviet Union
Reas
Nevel
Zhitomir
Bolivians in Third Reich Arrested on Suspicion
Berlin dispatch reports that several Bolivian citizens in German-occupied Europe were arrested on suspicion of hostile intrigues. The action follows Germany’s protests over Bolivia expelling its minister, Ernst Wendler, a move Bolivia says was forced by a Nazi plot against President Jenrique Penaranda.
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Berlin
Aus
DNBI
Europe
Hstile
Germany
Bolivia
Ernst Wendler
la Paz
Jenrique Penaranda
President backs tax reform clues in joint returns debate
The President agreed with treasury opposition to joint returns unless substantial relief raises earned income for both spouses. He urged Congress to study letting low income filers use local post offices. Coughton defended joint returns in principle but warned against inequitable excess profits tax, while debate over personal exemptions and corporate tax plans intensified as House votes approached.
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Coughton
Treasury
Rep
Cooper
D-Tenn
Doughton
Woodruff
R-Mich
Ways and Means Group
Congress
House
Roosevelt
Rayburn
Campbell Arrives to Take Halifax Duties in Capital
Ronald Campbell, newly appointed British minister to the United States, arrives by Clipper and says Lord Halifax will likely take a leave of absence to vacation at home. Campbell notes Ameri can troop participation is rarely discussed in England, stressing it is for the U S to decide. The Atlantic Clipper carried 47 passengers, 13 trans-Atlantic travelers. A new speedometer shows distance to stop a car and can be set for wet or dry roads.
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New York
Ronald Campbell
United States
Lord Halifax
Ronald
Jugoslavia
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Birmingham
Third Reich
Campbell
Halifax
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Hartlee’s
Jeans
Chatham
Giwvey
Chatham Mills
Brest
Carilee
Oset
Dubonnet
Harllee
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