Claim Reds Retreating Toward Sea
Berlin reports Nazi troops smashing the western Ukraine defence as Soviet forces allegedly retreat toward Black Sea harbors after being trapped between the Bug and Dniester rivers in the Odessa region. Germany predicts the surrender of Marshal Budenny and control of western Ukraine, including Nikolaev, while air raids on Berlin and London continue.
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Odessa
Ukraine
BERLIN
Hitler
Black Sea
Bug
Dniester
high command
Semeon Budenny
Dnieper
Nikolaev
London
Russians Silence Front In Major Danube Strike
Soviet war communiques report no significant front action and omit sector designations. They announce the destruction of the Danube River railway bridge at Cerve-Voda and a pipeline feeding the Black Sea coast from Romanian oil fields, isolating Romanian ports.
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MOSCOW
Danube River
Cerve-Voda
Bucharest
Black Sea
Romania
Europe
Britain Mulls Registering 3 Million For War Industry
Britain plans to register 3 million men and women between now and December to bolster essential war work. Men aged 44 to 46 and women aged 25 to 31 are to be registered, with possible extension beyond 50 for older men. Officials say women will fill engineering, aircraft, and munitions roles while men over military age backfill positions.
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HAROLD FAIR
LONDON
Britain
labor ministry
Glancy Returns From Britain After War Mission
Alfred R. Glancy former GM vice president and OPM chief special liaison officer between U S and Britain returned to Detroit after six weeks in England on a mission for President Roosevelt He toured tank production with Lord Beaverbrook met Winston Churchill and urged aid to England noting it helps the United States.
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Detroit
Alfred R. Glancy
United States
Britain
Glancy
General Motors Corp
ordnance
O.P.M
England
Roosevelt
Prestwick
Scotland
Montreal
Lord Beaverbrook
Winston Churchill
President Is Silent
Washington reports no word from President Roosevelt for four days as Potomac dispatches halt. Navy officials decline comment while the presidential yacht remains off New England. Speculation about a meeting with Prime Minister Churchill remains unconfirmed.
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Roosevelt Yacht
navy department
Potomac
Roosevelt
New England
the
Winston Churchill
Seek Bases In Brazil Seek Bases In Brazil
Washington reports a broad U S strategy to safeguard the hemisphere includes negotiating air base rights with Brazil to protect against a potential Axis jump off point at Dakar. State Department pressure aims to resume Italian airport control on a Natal island seaport, offsetting threats across the South Atlantic.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Brazil
Dakar
French West Africa
state department
Natal
South Atlantic
western hemisphere
congress
Fitler
North Africa
End Relations With Vichy Call From Hanson
Fredericton reports Conservative leader in the house of commons Hon R B Hanson says in a written statement that loyal Canadians will demand Ottawa terminate the status of Rene Ristelhueber as French minister to Canada. Hanson cites Vichys collaboration with Berlin and urges immediate action by the British government.
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FREDERICTON
R. B. Hanson
house of commons
Vichy
Berlin
Ottawa
Canada
Rene Ristelhueber
war committee
Hanson
Marshal Petain
France
Germany
Britain
Rene Ristelnueber
Kine
Coal Wheelers Go On Strike In Minto Mine
MINTO New Brunswick Aug 13 Production in the Minto Coal company slope mine was tied up today by a strike of 35 wheelers seeking a 50 cent day wage increase. The men, who went on strike yesterday, now earn $2.45 daily. William S Walker district board member United Mine Workers said the strike violated the union agreement and the strikers lost union support by overstepping the Minto local authority.
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MINTO
N.B
Minto Coal company
slope
William S. Walker
United Mine Workers
coal company
RAF raids destroy tanks and buildings in Italy raid
British air force said storage tanks and chemical plant containers at Crotone were set ablaze by direct hits. Military buildings at Gariati, 30 miles north, were demolished in Monday night raids.
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CAIRO
Egypt
Crotone
Gariati
Royal Air Force
DIES IN CALIFORNIA FORMER OTTAWA RESIDENT
Fred H Booth, former resident of Ottawa, died in Santa Barbara California yesterday after a brief illness.
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SANTA BARBARA
Calif
Fred H Booth
Ottawa
CALIFORNIA
Franco U S Ties At Critical Juncture Under Petain
In Washington Aug 13 officials weigh the Franco American relationship as Vichy shifts toward Nazi collaboration. Hull defers comment while noting concern over Admiral Darlan being placed in supreme command of France’s armed forces. Policy hinges on how fully Vichy’s regime aligns with Berlin and the fate of the French fleet.
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Vichy
Germany
Welles
Admiral Darlan
WASHINGTON
United States
France
Cordell Hull
Marshal Petain
Darlan
Hull
Hitler
Great Britain
high seas
state department
Turks Swing To Allies
LONDON Aug 13 Britain and Russia pledged to aid Turkey if attacked by a European power, signaling preserved Turkish neutrality and closer Moscow London cooperation. Tass quoted ambassadors in Ankara saying Russia and Britain would respect Turkish territorial integrity and assist if Turkey comes under attack. Observers say Turkey has swung toward the Allies since they moved into the Levant and expelled Rashid Al Al Gailani’s pro Nazi regime in Iraq. Iran is expected to align with Britain and Russia now that both powers vow to oppose any German incursion through Turkey.
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LONDON
Britain
Russia
Turkey
Moscow
Tass
Ankara
Dardanelles
Levant
Rashid Al Al Gailani
Iraq
Iran
British ships sunk by German planes off Faroe and Scotland
Aug 13 Berlin reports German high command claiming German planes sank three British merchant ships totaling 19,000 tons in day and night attacks off the Faroe Islands and the east coast of Scotland. Confirmation not available.
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BERLIN
Faroe islands
Scotland
Britain Ready To Collaborate With United States
Alfred Duff Cooper, Britain’s new Far East co ordinator, said Britain is eager to collaborate with the United States on parallel lines worldwide after a conference with Cordell Hull. He stressed Britain would not let Japan run the Pacific and noted Britain’s ratifications with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand for a peace advancing treaty.
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WASHINGTON
Alfred Duff Cooper
Far East
Cordell Hull
Britain
United States
Japan
Pacific
Cooper
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
dominions
Great Britain
Hull
Home Wrong
Bombers Hit Berlin and German Cities in Night Raid
In a wide foray from Norway to France, the Royal Air Force heavily bombed Berlin and 11 other German cities. Berlin fires worsened as bombers departed and Essen Krupp works faced a massive fire. Other targets included Magdeburg Hanover and Cologne. Outside Germany, RAF ships attacked shipping harbors and airfields in occupied Norway and the Netherlands, with Le Havre docks hit as thirteen bombers were lost. The Nazis answered with a daylight raid on Britain.
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LONDON
Norway
France
Royal Air Force
Berlin
Magdeburg
Hanover
Essen
Krupp armaments works
air ministry
Krupp
Stettin
Kiel
Bremen
Osnabruck
Duisburg
Cologne
the
reich
R.A
Netherlands
Le Havre
Britain
Rumors Of Navy Takeover Of Coastal Steamers
Vancouver August 13 Capt Oliver Williams marine superintendent for Canadian Pacific Steamships said no official word on reports the coastal steamers Princess Kathleen and Princess Marguerite would be taken over by the Royal Canadian Navy He noted a wartime possibility since the war began and commented on remarks by James Thompson Inland Boatmen's Union official who said rumors hinder wage talks for workers on the Vancouver Victoria Seattle run.
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VANCOUVER
Oliver Williams
Canadian Pacific Steamships
Royal Canadian Navy
James Thompson
Inland Boatmen's Union of the Pacific
Vancouver District Labor Council
Death of Rev John Sherry OML in Vancouver
Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Rev. John Sherry OML 62 a widely known Canadian ecclesiastic who died here yesterday.
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VANCOUVER
John Sherry
O.M.L
Ban Crowds To Children In Alberta Public Spaces
Alberta Board of Health orders banning children 17 and under from all public assemblies to curb infantile paralysis after four new cases raise the season total to 22. Cases include a 15 year old Edmonton girl with patients in Edmonton Calgary Red Deer and Lomond. Three cases treated in Edmonton Isolation Hospital and seven in Calgary.
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EDMONTON
Alberta Board of Health
Alberta health department
Calgary
Red Deer
Lomond
Much Worse In States
Washington August 13. War department officials expressed grave concern over a pronounced increase in strikes at plants holding United States army contracts. In the last week thirty strikes affecting army production were reported to the war department with 23 400 men cut idle levels rising from 14 000 the prior week. Strikes at Curtiss Wright Caldwell New Jersey Mack Truck Allen town Pennsylvania and Ampco Twist Drill Jackson Michigan were described as particularly serious for warplane tank and machine tool output.
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WASHINGTON
War, department
United States army
war department
North American Aviation Corporation
Inglewood
Calif
A.F.L. International Association of Machinists
Curtiss-Wright
Caldwell
C.S.O. United. Automobile
Allen
Mack Truck company
C.1.O.USA.W
Ampco Twist Drill company
Jackson, Mich
Duke of Kent Arrives in Edmonton on Inspection Tour
The Duke of Kent reached Edmonton at 3 p.m. MLST to resume his inspection of Canadian units within the Commonwealth Air Training plan. Reports note ongoing military engagements and regional operations in Canada as part of war efforts.
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DUKE OF KENT
EDMONTON
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Red army
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C.P
Pietro Castelleni
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A.P
Cordell Hall
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