Local weather outlook and marine forecast excerpt
Noon weather summarized with yesterday high and last night low. North Carolina remains partly cloudy with cooler tonight after light showers in extreme southeast. Sun day fair and cool. Marine forecast from Hatteras to Jacksonville and Block Island to Hatteras notes moderate to fresh winds, scattered showers tonight and Sunday, with varying northwest to northeast directions and advancing fair conditions inland.
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Igland
Gloria’s time stands in shallow clock race at nationals
Gloria’s impressive swim fails to count in official records due to only one clock registering. A. A. U. officials settled her time at 1:18 flat while rivals like Helen Perry and Marion Falconer advanced in heats. Riviera Club swimmers dominated breaststroke finals and Riviera's Bets Bemis led a forthcoming team title bid.
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Crystal Plunge
San Francisco
Prince Nafer
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Multnomah Athletic Club
Portland
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Riviera Club
Indianapolis
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Multnomah Club
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Helene Rains
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Hershey
Ruth Howard
Whitinsville
Mass
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Goldsboro
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June
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Darkhorse Riviera
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Ann Hardin
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Nancy
Riviera
George Tullidge
Staunton
Tullidge
Ed Shumate
S. Eat George Hiles
Atlatila
Woodson Venable
Durham
Long War to Vladivostok and Allied Supply Lines
Informants say Russia the United States and Britain seek to secure the northern front and protect a supply route to Vladivostok. A second path via Besra Iran Turkey and the Caucasus is raised if governments consent. London editors note Britain and the US aim to aid Russia for 1942 campaigns and bolster Stalin's plans.
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Caucasus
Moscow
London
Daily Mail
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Babson sees inflation risk and stock cushion amid deflating demand
Babson reports a 0.3 percent gain in the composite index and notes business 28.8 percent above normal, with expansion now in a restricted consumer phase. He warns of upcoming readjustment as defense production rises, prices lift wholesale and retail, and inflation supports stock prices while long-hold investors may profit.
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Roger W. Babson
Washington
Mob Attacks Raleigh Jail As Sheriff Uses Tear Gas
A mob stormed the Raleigh jail twice, firing into the building and hurling stones while tear gas from second story windows drove them back. Sheriff and highway patrolmen, plus Durham officers, arrived as Negro CCC workers near the courthouse. No one was believed shot. injuries were limited to flying glass and red eyes from gas.
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Winstead
Latte
Raleigh
Durham
Gilbert Oakley
Roxboro
Governor seeks immediate CCC probe into Roxboro march
Governor Broughton said he asked the head of the Civilian Conservation Corps to launch an immediate investigation of a Negro CCC youths march toward the Person County courthouse during Mob violence after a rape case. He described the Roxboro disorder as very serious with shooting and noted it might have caused bloodshed.
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Broughton
Civilian Conservation Corps
Washington
CCC
Person County
Roxboro
Cy Winstead
Russians Fight On As Germans Dig In In Smolensk
The article notes continuing heavy fighting in Ukraine with Germans in Smolensk central sector digging in for a pause, Finnish forces around Lake Ladoga reported as captured by Germans but contested by Russian voices, and London rumors of British aid possibly securing a northern theatre in Russia.
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Arices
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Russia
War fears of Siberia attack prompt Arctic supply routes keep open
Reports from Japanese German and neutral quarters in Shanghai say Japan may strike Russia in Siberia within two weeks if at all this year. A successful push could cut Vladivostok as a U S supply port, underscoring the need to keep Archangel and Murmansk open. Moscow and Berlin logged air raids overnight with mixed results.
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Lana Archangel
Shanghai
Japan
Russia
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Archangel
War policy questions probe for postwar plan
The text shows discussion of a lease lend appropriation and whether Russia will subscribe to the Roosevelt-Churchill eight point postwar policy. It notes uncertainty if the President will answer the questions posed.
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Russia
Bombing Report Across British Regions Last Night
Two planes dropped bombs in northeast England East Anglia and the southwest and east of Scotland causing damage and a few casualties at one location the air and home security ministries said.
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East Anglia
Scotland
Air and Home Security
Sadi
Gasoline rationing aims to sustain essential services says Ickes
Ickes advocates full gasoline supply for health safety commercial and agricultural needs and for workers relying on autos. He urges continuation and tightening of voluntary curtailment and the 7 pm to 7 am filling station curfew with OPACS warning that stricter cuts may come.
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OPACS
Mackey Not Killed in Plane Crash, RAF Lists Error
Montreal report says Mrs. Joseph C. Mackey learned her husband, a 31 year old Kansas City pilot, survived after RAF ferry command advised his name was wrongly listed among crash victims. The British Atlantic plane crash occurred last Thursday in England.
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Joseph C. Mackey
Kansas City
Mackey
Royal Air Force Ferry Command
England
Proposed doubling aviation gasoline refining capacity
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes announced that the oil industry is drafting plans to double its 100 octane aviation gasoline refining capacity to prevent shortages for Russian, British, and American warplanes. He said conferences with industry reps are under way to map surveys and the needed cracking and equipment, stressing the need to boost refining capacity to meet future demand.
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Washington
Ickes
Russia
Britain
Office of Petroleum Coordination
Ihope
Turks approve passage of axis naval tanker after long controversy
Ankara, Aug 15. After a heated dispute over Dardanelles treaty interpretations by Britain and Italy, Turkey allowed the Italian tanker Tarvisio to pass to Romania for oil but with a firm pledge that no further exceptions would be made. The tanker previously passed with waived rules, and again appeared as a naval vessel, prompting Britain to object.
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Turkey
Dardanelles
Tarvisio
Rumania
Italy
Nacionalista Party Reaffirms Independence Stand 1946
Manila Aug 16 AP The Nacionalista party reaffirmed its 1946 independence goal in the platform adopted at its national convention. The keynote emphasized loyalty to America and democratic principles while noting wartime readjustment delays. The platform proposed invoking the independence act to permit negotiations on economic provisions to allow continued preferential trade with America after independence.
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Nacionalista Party
Philippine
America
More Japanese Troops En Route to Indo China
Forty eight transports bringing additional Japanese troops to Southern Indo China are expected off Cape St Jacques tonight. The force likely will disembark Sunday and complete the occupation base contingent agreed between France and Japan in this region.
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Saigon
French
Indo-China
Cape St. Jacques
Call for War Services of Women in England
Newcastle audience hears War Secretary Margesson plead for 100000 women to join the war effort. He notes Germany has far greater manpower and asserts victory rests on mobilizing women alongside men.
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Newcastle-On-Tyne
H. D. R. Margesson
War Services
Germany
RAF Raids On Catania Take Heavy Toll Of Life
Rome reports that new RAF night raids on Catania Sicily caused heavy civilian casualties as dwellings were wrecked by bombs and incendiaries. The high command said three raiders were shot down and that British planes also attacked Italian steamers near Tripoli in Libya.
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Berlin
Red Air Force
Germany
England
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France
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Sicily
Tripoli
Tobruk
Libya
British Isles
Rome
High Command
Murder in Convoy A W OBriens Serial Story
Lieutenant Rollins faces a murder case aboard the ship as Captain Tees is found stabbed. The court of investigation hears testimony from Captain de Watt, Lt Miley, and others about time of death and drink tests, with Lance Corporal Slater recounting the missing bayonet. The chapter ends with Rollins admitting a lie and the verdict pending.
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Mur
Tees
Stephenson
Vincent Murdoch
Toronto
Harry Miley
de Watt
Ees
Timmins
Murdoch
M. O
Miley
Slater
Gregory Rollins
Captain Tees
Mr. Rollins
Rollins
Moonshiners In Mountain District Turn to Farming Amid Prohibition Pressures
In Brevard on August 16, Ed Patton, chief of the federal alcoholic tax unit in North Carolina, says mountain moonshine distillers are fading as defense industry wages rise and raw material costs climb. Blockade runners now average only two to three dollars daily, with higher legal fees cutting profits and risk increasing, pushing many back toward farming.
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Brevard
National Defense
America
Ed Patton
Charlotte
Federal Alcoholic Tax Unit
North Carolina
Patton
Allen Jay Resident Victim Of Beating In Hospital
A. Reed Grubb of High Point route 3 was beaten about the head and taken to Guilford General Hospital in a semi conscious state. Hospital attendants described his face as a pulp and a pool of blood noted at the scene. No suspect information was immediately available.
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High Point
Guilford General Hospital
Grubb
Alton Jay
Missionary safe at post in China confirmed
Shanghai August 16 The Presbyterian Church in the United States informed the American consul general that a telegram from the Chiakiang mission station said Miss Lillian Wells 33 of Johnston City Tennessee is alive and well after earlier unconfirmed reports of death from violence. Also reports from Gastonia say O C Helms a hosiery mill worker was killed when his car left the Gastonia Clover highway near the South Carolina line. In 1941 aviation exports totaled 124,363,803 dollars.
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Presbyterian Church
United States
Tate
Chiakiang
Lillian Wells
Johnston City
Tenn
C. Helms
Gastonia
Gastonia-Clover, S. C
South Carolina
German Bombers Sink Two Merchant Ships Off British Coast
Berlin reports that German bombers sank two merchant ships totaling 7,500 tons off the British East Coast and damaged a larger vessel near the Faroe Islands. The communique adds that Cambridge targets were hit with heavy bombs and a patrol boat downed a British chaser plane in the channel.
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Faroe Islands
Adolf Hitler
Cambridge
Channel
Tobruk
Libya
Germany
Stalin agrees to joint wartime conference with US UK Russia
Stalin agreed to a United States British Russian conference on joint opposition to Nazi Germany. Roosevelt and Churchill sent a joint invitation, proposing discussions including distribution of raw materials and arms. Molotov attended as Foreign Commissar, with arrangements to be expedited.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stafford Cripps
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Vyacheslaft Molotox
Davidson Opens 1941-42 Year With Record Enrollment
Davidson College will begin the 1941-42 school year on Sept. 11 with a record enrollment surpassing 650 students. The campus gains two new buildings totaling 30 000 dollars in value to bolster facilities.
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Davidson College
Vote on ABC Stores in Franklin County Oct 11
Franklin County residents will vote for or against ABC stores on October 11, as ordered today by the county dean of elections.
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Louisburg
Franklin County
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