Analysis of the News by Mackenzie on Allied war effort
De Witt Mackenzie reports on Roosevelt and Churchill planning key talks amid strong Allied advances on all fronts. Soviet offensives threaten Kharkov while Axis defenses crumble in Sicily as Western air bombardment cripples German war industries and morale.
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DE Witt MacKenzie
Roosevelt, Churchil and Co
Atlantic
Britain
Orel
Belgorod
Kharkov
Messrs
Roosevelt
Churchill
Sicily
Strait of
Messina
Randazzo
Europe
Germany
Reich
London
Hitler
Nuremberg
Western
Phillies Seek Second Place in National League Race
The Philadelphia Phillies extended their seven game winning streak by beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 4 to 3. The win keeps the Reds tied for second with Pittsburgh while Frisch Klinger Gornicki and Rubeling were ejected for protesting umpire Dunn.
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Judson Bailey
Associated Press
Phillies
Burt Shotten
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Pirates
Buccaneers
Cincinnati Reds
Pirates
Gladiators
Pittsburgh
Frank Frisch
Bob Klinger
Hank Gornicki
al Rubeling
Tom Dunn
Sports Roundup by Hugh S Fullerton Jr
Seitor Dom and Soldier Joe Di Tolaggio seek active service rather than baseball. Dom applied for sea duty before and was turned down. Joe wants a gun not a bat. Alsab pulls up lame in a race last Monday. Enich to play in Halftime sand between halves. Turkey Thompson-Lee Savold bout buzzing for Los Angeles. Rudy York hits 20th and 21st homers. Ty Cobb back in Detroit for dental work. Savold stiffens Lou Nova in Chicago. Wayne Wright picks Widener's Lucky Draw as top two-year-old. Red Cross to entertain troops again. Lt Eldon Jenne crowned checkers champ at Del Monte Preflight.
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Sid Feder
Hugh Fullerton
New York
Seitor Dom
Joe di Tolaggio
Uncle Sam
Dom
Joe
Alsab
Steve Enich
Marquette
Hibbing
Minn
Tom Stidham
Hilltoppers
Turkey Thompson
Lee Savold
Los Angeles
Ty Cobb
Detroit
Minneapolis
Cullom
Lou Nova
Chicago
Nova
Savold
Wayne Wright
George Widener
Gee-G Wizards
Red Cross
Washington State
Eldon Jenne
Cougars
Ex Minnesota star set for Navy Pre‑Flight School
Disa and Data Bruce Smith an ex Minnesota All American slated to land at one of the Navy Pre Flight Schools. Coaches hold their breath as news notes mix with boxing and racing gossip. Frank Ward reports a spoof filled sports page with names and quips from various venues.
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Disa
Bruce Smith
Minnesota
Navy
Gus Wilson
Panama
Santiago Sosa
Ted Kid Lewis
Gus
Gunder Haegg
U. S
Gunder
Gil Dodds
Gayle Galloper
Brother Dodds
Market Report Poultry and Produce Chicago Aug 13
Poultry live sold steady with 17 trucks. butter receipts 460 525 firm with unchanged Chicago price current quotes. At National Stockyards hogs 6000 mostly steady to higher by weight, cattle and calves mostly steady in cleanup, lambs mixed. New York cotton futures dull with later prices mixed, Oct 19.91, Dec 19.78, Mar 19.63.
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Chicago
National
New York
Baseball roundup from two leagues with key wins and records
In the National League the Dodgers beat Cincinnati 3-0 while St Louis toppled New York 4-1. Bruce Cooper notches his 16th win as Ott hits his 15th homer. Boston edges Chicago 3-2 in 12 innings on Nieman’s triple. In the American League, New York defeats St Louis Browns 6-2 behind Wensloff. Rudy York hits two homers for Detroit in a 10-2 win, while Cleveland noses out Philadelphia 4-3 and Chicago sweeps Boston 7-6 after Appling’s 14th-inning triple.
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Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Dodgers
Phillies
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Giants
Mort Cooper
Mel Ott
Redbirds
Browns
New York
Rudy York
Detroit Tigers
Washington Senators
Lou Boudreau
Cleveland
Philadelphia Athletics
Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox
Boston
Luke Appling
Chicago
Rye Leads Grain Price Rise in Chicago Trade
Rye gains more than a cent amid a small-scale recovery as wheat strengthens in Minneapolis and milling oats rarity supports a firm market. Wheat September futures at 1.43 3-8, December 1.45 1-4, oats 1.43 3-8 September, barley prices quoted, cash wheat unavailable.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Fights Last Night By The Associated Press
New York bout: Tami Mauriello knocked out Tommy Campanelli in New York. Fall River Frankie Nelson outpointed Andy Holland in Boston. New London Al Velez stopped Walter Cathey Lewis. Port Newark Eddie Dowl outpointed Babe Wilkins.
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Associated Press
New York
Tami Mauriello
Tommy Campanelli
Fall River
Mass
Frankie Nelson
Boston
Andy Holland
New London
Conn
al Velez
Walter Cathey Lewis
Cuba
Port Newark
N. J
Eddie Dowl
Newark
Babe Wilkins
Bloomfield
N.J
Cardinals fall to Cubs 13 to 5 in mirror notice
Sports summary recalls a game where the St. Louis Cardinals lost 13 to 5 to the Chicago Cubs with Calude Passeau earning a win and dropping further behind the Dodgers. It also notes three years ago Joe Hunt defeated Frankie Parks in a Newport Casino Tennis Tourney match and five years ago the US Olympic Team led Germany’s all Stars 58 to 49 after ten events.
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Sports Mirror
Associated Press Today
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago Cubs
Calude Passeau
Dodgers
Joe Hunt
Frankie Parks
Newport
Germany
All Stars
Youngsters Reach Finals in Golf Meet
In Evanston on August 13, Catherine Fox and Dorothy Germain advance to the semifinals of the Women’s Western Amateur at Evanston Golf Club. Fox 18 from Glen Ridge New Jersey and Germain 19 from Philadelphia have both reached semis in this season’s event, with Wall and Kirk advancing in the lower bracket. Germain beat Ann Casey 5 and 4 while Fox beat Marjorie Row one up and Wall beat Jeanne Cline by the same margin. Kirk defeated Betty Jean Rucker two up.
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Evanston
Catherine Fox
Dorothy Germain
Mary Agnes Wall
Peggy Kirk
Evanston Golf Club
Miss Fox
Miss Germain
Glen Ridge
N. J
Miss Wall
Menominee
Mich
Miss Kirk
Findlay
Ann Casey
Mason City
Marjorie Row
Detroit
Jeanne Cline
Bloomington
Betty Jean Rucker
Spokane
Wash
Gable's Ship Hit 15 Times by the Enemy
Capt. Clark Gable rode in the leading Flying Fortress of the U S 8th Air Force group that attacked Gelsenkirchen. The ship sustained 15 enemy anti aircraft hits but returned unhurt after a six hour mission. Gable and the crew shot movies for a gunnery training film.
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London
Clark Gable
U. S
8Th Air Force
Gelsenkirchen
Gable
Theodore R. Milton
Washington, D. C
John B. Carraway
Raleigh
N. C
Allied Drive Shrinks German Hold in Sicily Front
In Sicily the Seventh Army presses a final blow as Ranazzo’s last resistance collapses. Allied assaults rout rear troops without relief, with Cape Orlando and Naso fallen. Control of the southern lateral road to Randazzo tightens German escape options to the eastward highway.
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Seventh
Randazzo
Sicily
Cape Orlando
Naso
Record-setting duel precedes 60,000 at Berlin Olympic Stadium
A high-stakes dual meet draws an anticipated crowd of about 60,000 to Berlin's Olympic Stadium. Teams prepare for a landmark showdown showcasing top athletes and national pride in track and field.
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Olympic Stadium
Berlin
Solons Tour South Arkansas War Industry Tour
Arkansas industrial tourists tour Lion Oil refinery and butadiene plant at El Dorado and Crossett paper mill and chemical plant, viewing Monticello textile mill, war prisons camp, Pine Bluff aviation school, and arsenal. Delegates critique federal bureaucracy and pledge to push government returns to the people after the war.
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Col
T. H. Barton
Lion Oil Company
el Dorado
Lion Oil Establishment
Barton
Peter Watzek
Crossett Lumber Company
Industral
South
Arkansas
Crossett Industries
Crossett
Monticello
Pine Bluff Arsenal
Little Rock
Arkansas Ordnance Plant
Camp Robinson
Homer M. Adkins
State Capitol
Palmer
Crossett Plant
Bud Green
State Publicity Commission
Sam Wilson
Montrose
Dobie Taylor
Hamburg
South Arkansas
C. E. Palmer
Texarkana
O. C. Bailey
State Oil and Gas Commission
Pine Bluff
Bailey
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Congress
Arkansas Press Association
State Junior Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas Ordnance
Washington's Cherry Street Home as First Presidential Residence
The first official residence of a U.S. president while in office was George Washington's Cherry Street home in New York City, occupied from 1789 to 1790 during his presidency.
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U. S
Cherry Street
New York City
George Washington
Soldier Eats About a Quarter More Than Civilians
A U S soldier consumes roughly 25 percent more calories than a civilian. The finding highlights energy needs difference between military personnel and everyday civilians.
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U. S
British Advance Threatens Stalingrad? East Coast Ensnarement
The report notes a British push along the east coast as a mounting risk of surrounding the Nazi forces. The maneuver signals growing pressure from Allied operations threatening to corral German units from the sea to the shore.
Series of Evangelistic Services Start in Guernsey
The Rev. R. B. Moore of the First Methodist Church will lead nightly evangelistic services at the Guernsey Cross road on old Highway 67 beginning Sunday at 8 30 and continuing through August 21 with messages after each session. All are invited.
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R. B. Moore
First Methodist Church
Guernsey Crossroad
Old Highway 67
Adkins Seeks State Civil Service via Public Vote
El Dorado August 13 Governor Adkins failed to push a state merit system through the 1943 legislature. He plans to place the issue before voters in the November 1944 general election and has formed a six member committee to draft a constitutional amendment for a State Civil Service System.
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el Dorado
Govenor Adkins
South Arkansas
Arkansans
Clarence F. Burns
Fort Smith
Sebastian County
Heartsill Ragon
W. G. Ivey
North Little Rock
Missouri Pacific Railway
Pulaski County
John L. Sullivan
Little Rock
Bush Binley
Crawford Greene
Education Department
Adkins
Corn Grape Peach Crops Shrink Across Arkansas
Arkansas faces small corn grape and peach yields while rice and peanuts hold strong. Corn at 24.49 million bushels the smallest since 1934 due to drought. Rice 13.77 million, peanuts 20.4 million pounds, potatoes a record 4.758 million bushels, peaches 738 thousand bushels, grapes 7,200 tons, and apples 750 thousand. Senior Statistician Stu Bryant reports the mixed results for 1939 crop prospects.
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Little
Rock
Arkansas
Stuart L. Bryant
Bryant
Hand Cannon Use in Flemish History
Hand cannons were used by the Flemish as early as the 14th century, but the exact date of invention remains unknown.
Hope Soldier Writes From Jap Prison
Pvt. Douglas C. Cash, missing then prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, sends word from Camp No 1 that he is alive and well and asks his family to be cared for. He enlisted February 5 1941 and had worked at Hope Brick Works and Hope Basket Factory.
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C. E. Cash
West Eighth Street
Douglas C. Cash
Philippines
Pvt. Cash
Corregidor
Phillippines
Hope Brick Works
Hope Basket Factory
Phillipine Military Prison Camp No. 1
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Market Report
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Kelso M. Carter & CO
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Tenn
A. B. Patten General Agent
Hope, Ark
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