Turkey Holds Firm as Germany Moves on Russia
Ankara observers say Turkey will block Baltic access if Germany tries to reach Batum or move through the Bosporus. Premier Saracoglu cites 2000000 bayonets and 15000 tons of American wheat, boosting U S and British support. He pledges population growth and declares democracy a deep-rooted Turkish reality.
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United Press
Ankara
Russia
Black Sea
Turkey
Mediterranean
Sukru Saracoglu
Batum
Saracoglu
United States
Germany
Germans Advance on Armavir-Kropotkin Front in Don Loop
Soviet reports say German forces crossed the Kuban to seize Armavir and moved toward Maikop with Kurgannaya taken, while Red Army and Cossacks defend the Kropotkin sector. Fighting in the Kretskaya area yields small gains for both sides as Timoshenko’s tactics press the front.
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Kropotkin
Armavir
Kushchevka
Rostov-Baku
Kuban
Kurgannaya
Laba
Red Army
Krasnodar-Armavir
Kretskaya
Don Loop
Don River
Volga
Stalingrad
Don Curve
Voronezh
Don
Timoshenko
Power Pool Expands With 22 Companies Expected
Continued from page one the power pool grows as 22 companies are expected to join. Participating firms include Public Service Company of Oklahoma Southwestern Light and Power Oklahoma Gas and Electric Kansas Gas and Electric Nebraska Power Texas Power and Light Southwestern Gas and Electric Arkansas Power and Light and Louis- (text cut)
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Tose
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
Southwestern Light and Power Company
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company
Kansas Gas and Electric Company
Nebraska Power Company
Texas Power and Eight Company
Southwestern Gas and Electric Company
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Louis
Wall Street Draws In a Narrow Market on Aug 8
The Associated Press average of 60 stocks stood flat at 3623 for the day with a weekly loss of 0.3 as traders paused after a weak week. Transfers totaled 101,100 shares, the second smallest since August 1940. Several industrials posted gains while major automakers and finance names showed mixed moves. Commodities weakened as crop and war-signal concerns dampened sentiment.
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New York
Selers
Associated Press
Schenley
Liggett and Myers
Southern Railway
U. S. Gypsum
American Telephone
American Can
Air Reduction
Standard OilieJs
U. 8 Steel
Bethlehem, Santa Fe
Anaconda Chrysler
General Motors
Montgomery Ward
Dui Point
United Aircraft
Johns Manyilie
Chicago
Sherwin Williams
Pittsburgh
Cotton futures fall after large government crop estimate
New Orleans reports show cotton futures slipping nearly 2 a bale as government crop estimates weaken sentiment. Closing prices drop 37 to 39 points, with middling cotton at about 18.44 cents per pound in the five markets tracked, over the past 30 market days.
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New Orleans
New York
Linden
Nazi Threats and German Wartime Buildup Across Europe
Reports describe mounting tension in Norway with potential bombardment threats from American and British Bolshevik satellites. Germany allegedly builds a large airbase on Vesteraalen for Focke Wulf bombers to hit Iceland and Arctic convoys. Belgian hostages face Nazi threats as sabotage looms. Raeder tours fortified naval bases along the English Channel and Atlantic coast.
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London
Vesteraalen
Iceland
Russia
Arctic
Free Belgium
Belgium
Berlin
DNB
Erich Raeder
English Channel
Atlantic
Utility Companies Named in Regional Energy Discussion
Iana Gas and Electric, Mississippi Power and Light, and New Orleans Public Service are cited as key players in a regional energy discussion. The brief notes their roles and potential collaboration within the sector.
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Iana Gas and Electric Company
Mississippi Power and Light Company
New Orleans
At A Glance Stocks and Commodities
New York market summary shows mixed stock prices with narrow changes. Bonds uneven, rails strongest in a quiet session. Cotton falls on government crop forecast. Chicago reports steady wheat amid war news, corn down due to feed wheat sales. Cattle and hogs steady with hog price around 15 dollars.
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New York
Chicago
Fort Worth and Kansas City USDA Livestock Report Summary
Fort Worth market notes show cattle and calves strong to mixed, with fed steers and yearlings up 10-15 cents, cows steady to weak, and stockers steady. Hogs and sheep varied with hogs around 13.40 per 100 pounds for top weights and sheep largely steady. Kansas City prices are mixed with beef steers and yearlings up, stockers steady to higher, and vealers around 14.50. Cattle and hog offerings were modest, weekly totals reflect seasonal shifts.
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Fort Worth
USDA
Kansas City
Chicago Butter and Egg Receipts Report
In Chicago on August 7 the butter receipt total reached 1,179,633 pounds and eggs numbered 12,648 cases with prices not quoted.
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Chicago
Metal Scrap Drive Boosts War Effort in Lubbock and Slaton
Local residents led a metal and rubber collection drive praised by Sherrod and Lawrimore for aiding the national war effort. More than 100000 pounds arrived in Lubbock last week, with Slaton piling 300 to 400 pounds in the city square. Residents urged others to donate, promising trucks pickup for scrap metals to support government needs.
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Lubbock
Sherrod
Lawrimore
Slaton
Roosevelt Defends Isolationism Amid Primary Fights
Roosevelt, answering a press question, said Mead would be an isolationist as well. New York headlines center on the intra party bid to unseat Hamilton Fish while primaries set for Idaho Ohio Nebraska with Arkansas run off between McClellan and Hiatt for the Senate nomination.
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Roosevelt
Mead
New York
Hamilton Fish
Mr. Roosevelt
Idaho
Ohio
Nebraska
Arkansas
John McClellan
Jack Hiatt
U. S. Senate
Homer M. Adkins
John W. Bricker
U. S
George W. Norris
Dwight Griswold
Chase A. Clark
Grain Market Mixed as Wheat Steady and Corn Declines
Chicago prices show little net change in wheat after wide swings while corn and rye slip about half to full cent. Selling reflects expectations of higher Monday crop estimates. cotton weakness and hedging influence grains. Fort Worth reports No 1 hard winter wheat around 1.92 to 1.94, corn No 2 white near 1.15 to 1.18, oats No 2 red about 0.62 to 0.64.
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Chicago
Fort Worth
Official Records Show Licenses and Property Transfers
Four marriage licenses listed including J R Lee 21 and Rosa Vera Hall 18 of Post and Lieutenant Edward Campbell 23 of Oak Mit Ohio with Betty Arm strong 25 of McCook Nebraska. Warranty deeds record transfers of parcels in McCrummens Second and Wheelock additions with amounts from 150 to 5,239 dollars and assignments involving J M Armstrong and W A Yeager.
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J. R. Lee
Rosa Vera Hall
Post
Edward E. Campbell
Oak Mit
Betty Genevieve Armstrong
McCook
Nebr
Eugene Petty
Birdie Oats
Lubbock
Robert E. Spear
Eoldier
Alhambra
Calif
Mise
Margaret E. Hendershot
Los Angeles
BH. Fondy
B. M. Duncan
McCrummen
R. OH. Tudor
Ira H. Burrus
P. C. Mitchell
O. B. Lafon
Parkland Place
Green Acres Development Co
B. M. Keene
Green Acres
Kate Scharbauer
Tull Thornton
Wheelock
I. C. Enochs
J. F. Tapp
F. R. Friend
Fred E. King
Chas. C. Burns
Overton
Oscar Killian
Claire Doak
McCrummens
Wakefield Jones
J. L. Thomas
Simmons
Australia brace for invasion as Japan readies seaplanes and guns
Australia faces a grave crisis warned by Army Minister Francis M. Forde who says Japan may try to invade the continent. An Allied report says a Japanese submarine shelled an Allied passenger ship off southern Australia, marking a second such attack in a week. Berlin says Japan claims 300 000 Allied troops and 500 planes in Australia with 75 000 soldiers and 250 planes in New Zealand, while Nichi discusses defense limits and widened operations in the Arafura Sea.
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Australia
Francis M. Forde
Commonwealth
Forde
Berlin
New Zealand
Nichi
Arafura Sea
Detroit student priest drowns in Rio Grande
The body of Victor Francisco, 20, of Detroit Michigan, a student priest at a novitiate near Mission, was found in the Rio Grande after drowning Monday. The body will be sent to San Antonio tomorrow for burial.
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Mcallen
Victor Francisco
Detroit
Mich
Mission
Rio Grande
San Antonio
Mrs. R S Lusk Spends Two Weeks at Fort Sill
Mrs. R S Lusk of 2513 Dallas Street is visiting her husband for a two week stay at Fort Sill Oklahoma.
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R. S. Lusk
Dallas Street
Fort Sill
Okla
Navy Strikes in Solomons As Australia Warns of Invasion Threat
American forces report attacks on Solomons installations in force while bombarding enemy ships and shore posts at Kiska. The admiralty offers few details as joint operations with Army and possibly Australian units are hinted. Australian officials warn Japan may attempt invasion of the commonwealth as Prime Minister Francis M. Forde calls the crisis unparalleled.
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Washington
North
South Pacific
U. S. Naval
Solomon Islands
U. S
Kiska
Solomons
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Gandhi Leads Indian Campaign for Independence Across Nations
Gandhi asserts full control of the civil disobedience plan and urges immediate action toward independence. He asks Indian papers to halt publication and teachers and students to cease work, while prince rulers are urged to act as trustees and desists autocratic rule. He appeals to the United States to back the Allied cause and warns Britain to trust Indian liberty or face disaster in Asia.
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United Nations
Gandhi
India
United States
Malaya
Singapore
Burma
Britain
Great Britain
Gaines Pioneer To Be Buried Today
Mrs. Winnie Louise Ramsey 75 native of Argentina and widow of Ed Ramsey will be buried Sunday morning in Seminole cemetery after 8 a m rites at the family residence. Rev. Fred Tyler and Rev. R P Kelly will officiate Single ton Funeral home handles arrangements Survivors include two sons Ben of Weed California and Ed in the Army at Cheyenne Wyoming two daughters Mary D Sherman of Roswell New Mexico and Carrie Ramsey of Abilene A J Roach wife of the county judge died about two months ago
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Seminole
Winnie Louise Ramsey
Argentina
Ed Ramsey
Fred Tyler
Presbyterian Church
R. P. Kelly
Singleton Funeral Home
Ben
Weed
Calif
Cheyenne
Wyo
Mary D. Sherman
Roswell
N. M
Carrie Ramsey
Abilene
A. J. Roach
Costa Rica Allocates 20 Percent of Budget to Free Schooling
Costa Rica devotes twenty percent of its national budget to education with free compulsory schooling. The policy underlines emphasis on universal access to schooling and state support for students and teachers.
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Costa Rica
Marbut Named New Assistant County Attorney
S E Marbut was appointed to succeed S E Croslin as assistant county attorney. Croslin will leave Aug 17 to join Bean Evans and Croslin, while Bean and Evans join as partners. Marbut, longtime Lubbock attorney, has been active in Optimist clubs and regional law practice since 1932. He is married, with two children, and resides at 2005 Ninth Street.
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Lloyd Croslin
Bean & Evans
Bean, Evans and Croslin
Symian E. Marbut
Croslin
Ralph Brock
United States
Naval Training Station
New York
Robert H. Bean
William H. Evans
Bean
Plainview
Evans
Air Corps
Miami Beach
Fla
County Commissioners Court
Marbut
Brock
Texas Technological College
Law School
Georgetown University
Washington, D. C
Cong
George Mahon
Texas
Twenty-seventh Street
University of Oklahoma
Lubbock
Oklahoma
Episcopal Church
Optimist International
Ninth Street
News Briefs From the City and County
A 43 year old man was charged with aggravated assault in county court after beating his wife repeatedly. A mass meeting of colored citizens convenes at 3 30 pm at the Colored Methodist church to discuss war efforts with short speaking times. Del Mar Thomas Diffey faces a forged check charge for $20 at Clark's Drug Store. A two wheel trailer with fishing gear was stolen from Fourteenth street. Three white girls held in county jail for shoplifting downtown. Mrs. Hugh Critz and daughters visiting the Austins on Fifteenth street with social events planned in their honor. Open air gospel services continue near Seventeen street and Avenue E with nightly services through Aug 15. Flames from gasoline fumes ignited at Hate the Tailor on Broadway but were quickly extinguished before flames spread.
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Colored Methodist Church
T. A. Amos
Amos
del Mar
Thomas Diffey
Clark’s Drug Store
Broadway
Walter Davies
Fourteenth
First Lubbock Union Gospel Mission
Seventeen Street
Avenue E
B. B. Huckaba
Morton First Baptist Church
Avenue D
Dogs Debate Friendship as Boston Gets Whisked Away
In the early hours of Saturday, patrolmen J D Klepper and L E Byrd found Alonzo Boston asleep amid barking dogs on the 100 block of Twenty second Street. The 25 year old was taken to city lockup and billed $15 for the stay.
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Alonzo Boston
J. D. Klepper
L. E. Byrd
Twenty-second Street
Boston
City
Board names and votes in railroad commissioner race
Demo Committee 421 and State Sen. John Lee Smith of Throckmorton garnered 189 200 votes. P Pierce Brooks of Dallas had 227 625 and Beauford Jester of Corsicana 163 745. The committee adopted a resolution declaring vacant Jerry Sadler's railroad post after he announced his resignation to enter the Army on June 8. Sadler later withdrew the resignation but the committee extended the filing deadline.
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John Lee Smith
Throckmorton
P. Pierce Brooks
Dallas
Beauford Jester
Corsicana
Jerry Sadler
Railroad Commission
Sadler
Executions of Nazi saboteurs approved by President
The eight Nazi saboteurs tried by a military commission were sentenced to death by electrocution. President Roosevelt affirmed the verdict and commuted two others to hard labor life and thirty years. Six executions occurred at noon, with bodies transported to Walter Reed for burial considerations.
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Roosevelt
Military Commission
Burger
Dasch
District of Columbia
White House
Stephen Early
United States
Dasc
Walter Reed Hospital
Sixteenth Street
Sowces
Norfolk
Aviation Cadet Dunn Killed in Training Crash Near Selma
Aviation Cadet Wiley M. Dunn of Austin Texas died when his plane crashed 17 miles west of Selma during a routine training flight He was part of a flight class at Craigfield and the incident was reported today in Selma.
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Selma
Wiley M. Dunn
Austin
Texas
Craigfield
Taxes on commercial vehicles totaled 546 million in 1941
Special federal state and local levies on commercial vehicles in the United States reached 546,290,000 dollars in 1941. The figure reflects combined tax receipts from all levels of government under wartime financing measures.
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United States
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