Soviet Navy Halts German Cross Strait Action Near Azov
Soviet war reports say Red Fleet shore batteries and Marines repelled a German attempt to cross the Kerch Strait near the Sea of Azov. Russian forces counter attacked below the Don and near Bataisk while fighting intensified in the Caucasus region. Allies reported air strikes hitting Japanese ships and cargo vessels in the Banda Sea and near Guadalcanal as Pacific operations widened.
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Moscow
Sea of Azovy
Red Fleet
Kerch Strait
Kerch
Crimea
Sea of Azov
Caucasus
Vivny
Taman
Red Army
Lower
Don
Azov Sea
West Caucasus
Stalingrad
Police seek identity of man killed by train near Forest Glen
Montgomery county police seek to identify a man killed by a train near Forest Glen Maryland yesterday. Detective Lieutenant Theodore Veltten said fingerprints have been taken and are being checked with the FBI and War Department flag.
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Forest Glen
Montgomery County
Here
Theodore Veltten
FBI
War Department
Theron Rowe Arrested on Larceny Charges
Three West South street youths aged 12 to 15 were arrested yesterday at Merle Leathers radiator shop by city police investigators on charges of breaking and entering Stup Brothers store on West Patrick street. They allegedly stole ice cream Thursday night and attempted larceny of a cash register at the Leather shop. Arrestees named as Robert Lee Stevens 13 Charles Edward Stevens 15 and Douglas Richard Lydard 12. They were released to their parents for probation review by county officer Mrs. William C. Roderick.
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West South Street
Merle Leathers
Allen S. Bartgis
R. O. Six
James D. Marks
City Police
Stup Brothers
West Patrick Street
Robert Lee Stevens
Charles Edward Stevens
Douglas Richard Lydard
William C. Roderick
Deviation From Course Caused Transport Crash
The Civil Aeronautics Board reported that a deviation from the proper course caused a United Airlines transport plane to crash into a hillside near Salt Lake City on May 1. All 17 aboard died. The agency emphasized the need for precise operational procedures at airports where surrounding terrain makes deviations hazardous.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
United Airlines
Salt Lake City
Utah
Six Barreled German Mortar Debuts on Bryansk Front
Moscow reports a six barreled German mortar made its debut on the Bryansk front. The Soviet Information Bureau says one such mortar, likely to lay six mines in a pattern rather than fire a single shell, was found among damaged and destroyed Nazi equipment after a four day battle southwest of Moscow in which about 300 Germans were killed.
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Moscow
Bryansk Front
Soviet Information Bureau
Red Army
Beaverbrook's Son Receives DSO for Valor in War
London August 1 Wing Commander Max Aitken son of Lord Beaverbrook was awarded the Distinguished Service Order today for personally destroying 120 German raiders. His Czech squadron has a total of 15 confirmed victories. He already holds the Distinguished Flying Cross earned in 1940 and the Czech War Cross awarded two days ago.
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London
Max Aitken
Lord Beaverbrook
No Fuel Oil Guarantee, F. D. R. Says
President Roosevelt warned that there will be no guarantee of fuel oil supply for eastern users next winter. Petroleum Commissioner Ickes added that oil shortages may force prioritizing deliveries to homes converting from oil to coal and that up to 1,250,000 eastern homes could face no fuel or heat on some days.
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Washington
Roosevelt
East
Ickes
Jug Bridge Not Sagging Says Engineer
Robert Putman, resident engineer of the County Roads Board, says the temporary span at the Jug Bridge site is definitely not sagging. He explains the new span rests on piers from the old bridge with timber cambers on top to distribute weight, and notes observers may see a perceived dip over piers. Heavy trucks should stay 100 feet apart and obey load limits for safe crossing. guards to enforce speed and weight require state approval.
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Jug Bridge
Robert Putman
County Roads Board
Putman
Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Swimming Pool Issue in Kentucky Senate Primary
In ten hours of voting today Kentuckys Democrats will decide their nominee for the United States Senate with a swimming pool in the backyard of A B Chandler's Versailles home as the central issue. John Young Brown accuses Chandler of receiving the pool as a gift from Louisville contractor Ben Collings, while Brown and allies argue government contracts were improperly influenced by such ties.
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Kentucky
A. B. “Happy” Chandler
John Young Brown
Lexington
United States Senate
Brown
Chandler
Versailles
Ben Collings
Senate and War Production Board
Collings
Soviet Is Carrying Main War Burden
Izvestia reports that all freedom-loving people join against Hitlerite Germany but the Soviet Union bears the main war burden for 13 months. It states the Red Army fights the entire German war machine on the Soviet-German front as Hitler concentrates forces with vassals and allies. The enemy suffers heavy losses, yet danger grows as Hitler fears ultimate defeat.
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Moscow
IzVestia
Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler
Hir
Red Army
Hitler
Air Raid Alert Reported in Bern Switzerland
Reuters dispatch from Bern says the city endured a 45 minute air raid alert starting at 4 15 a m this morning. The alert was issued in Bern and confirms a rare wartime disruption observed in Switzerland Friday morning.
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Bern
Switzerland
London
Reuters
U S Bombers Raid Ports Foe Convoys In Week
United States bombers damaged Axis supply ports in North Africa and Crete and attacked enemy convoys across the Mediterranean. In the desert west of Alexandria sand storms limited fighting to patrols with occasional artillery duels. The Axis bombed Cairo again, killing five and wounding twelve. Three enemy planes were destroyed. RAF activity was reduced by dust, but fighter bombers hit land convoys and a desert headquarters. A daylight strike targeted a large transport off southern Greece, with a direct hit reported. Tobruk saw a gasoline storage dump fire, while Suda Bay in Crete was hit. Eritrean repair facilities showed progress as many planes returned to service. US began building a vast supply and repair base in led Wung Ivins age. Italian broadcasts claim damage to railway and coastal road between El Alamein and Alexandria and British lines.
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Cairo
United States
North
Africa
Crete
Mediterranean
Ewin Rommel
U.S
Desert
Alexandria
Winston Churchill
Rome
Aso
Suez Cango
Upper
Egypt
RAF
Greece
Tobruk
Suda Bay
Eritrea
Stalingrad Factories Continue To Operate
Moscow August 1 Stalin grad dispatch to Tzvestia says tanks and trawlers continue to pour from factories in the Volga city. Navigation remains steady despite alerts and antiaircraft fire. No German planes breached defenses as Red Army men operate tanks and farm workers seize tractors while barges carrying oil iron and grain arrive as usual.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Tzvestia
Volga
Red Army
Baltimore Population Estimate Sparks Debate Over City Size
Postal officials place Baltimore at 1,110,900 residents in an estimate they call extremely conservative while suggesting 1,250,000 as a closer overall figure. Officials did not separate city from broader postal area in the figures.
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Baltimore
Ang
Post Office
Post Ofice
Japs Launch New Drive On Chinese
Japanese troops land anew in Chekiang province thirty miles south of Wenchow and push inland as Chinese high command reports, with further Japanese operations near Wenchow Lishui and Tsingtian. Casualties grow as the fleet attempts landings near Kwongfeng and Ao river mouth.
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Chungking
Chekiang
Wenchow
Mand Chekimiy
Lishui
Tsingtian
Kia
Kwongfeng
Ao River
May Revive Joint Tax Return Plan in wartime debate
Washington August 1 Senate Finance Committe may reverse a decision on joint income tax returns for married couples to boost revenues for war funding. Walsh urged full taxation by Treasury goal of 3.7 billion in additional taxes, while House measure would raise 3.2 billion. Rail shares rise in New York market as other stocks faltered.
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Treasury
Walsh
Uc-Mass
Senate
House
Ways and Means
Morgenthau
Treasury 5
Finance i
George D-Gad
Congress
Black Dragon Group Recruited in U S Says FBI
FBI announces arrest of Mima De Guzman a 42 year old Filipino in Washington for failing to return a draft questionnaire. They describe her as a central figure in forming a Black Americans Fifth Column for a Pacific movement aiding Japan, with ties to Harlem leader Leonard Jordan and the Ethiopian Pacific League.
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New York
United States
Japan
Black Dragon Society
FBI
Mima de Guzman
Wasi DC
America
P. Foxworth
Foxworth
de Gueman
Navy
Coast Guard
Washington
de Guzman
FBI Sai
Leonard
Robert O. Jordan
Ethiopian-Pacific League
Alien Registration Board
Jordan
U S Pilots Down Nine Nippon Planes
United States Army pilots destroyed nine Japanese Zeros in a major air battle over Liengyang near Chungking. A tenth plane was damaged and believed crashed. the action marked the largest air engagement in the theater since the Flying Tigers era. The raid raised Japanese losses to seventeen in two days at the Hunan province airfield, with four Zeros shot down before daylight and four more later. The night duel was noted as a first over China.
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Chungking
United States Army
Liengyang
Joseph W. Stilwell
Sunaimrecd
Flying Tigers
Ay Bane
China
French Freighter Is Released After Probe
The Milidia was seized by a British submarine crew July 26 in the Mediterranean while transporting cereal wine and minerals from Algeria to Marseille. It was freed by a French destroyer and naval planes and completed its voyage Thursday. The communique said the ship carried no war contraband. Details of the actions were described in the communiqué.
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Vichy
Milidia
Mediterranean
Algeria
Marseille
Mitidja
Dress Rehearsal Of Invasion Defenses On French Coast
Paris reported that Germany conducted a dress rehearsal of invasion defenses on the French coast. German circles praised the coordination of land sea and air forces and said the defense system along the European coast is completely in order.
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Vichy
Paris
Arguments complete in saboteurs case before military commission
Arguments were completed today before a military commission trying eight alleged Nazi saboteurs to whom the Supreme Court has refused access to the civil courts. The commission recessed until 2 p.m. EWT, when deliberations were expected to begin on the fate of the men.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Niles Named Special Assistant To F D R
David K. Niles of Boston was named as a presidential administrative assistant today. He previously advised Wendell L. Lund head of the War Production Board labor division and once served as assistant to Harry Hopkins in the Works Progress Administration.
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Washington
David K. Niles
Boston
Roosevelt
Niles
Wendell Lund
War Production Board
Harry LL Wopkine
Work Projects Administration
Forbid Travelers To Carry Food To Eire
London Aug 1 Britain today forbade travelers in carry food to Eire, however small the quantity. The regulation apparently was intended to prevent any drain of Britain's foods in Eire, where food conditions have been reported steadily poorer.
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London
Britain
Eire
President Roosevelt Accepts Foley Resignation
President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of Edward H. Foley Jr. as general counsel of the Treasury to allow the 37 year old Syracuse lawyer to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel in the Army.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Edward H. Foley, Jr
The
Treasury
Syracuse, N.Y
Missing in Desert Near Qugit
Alexandria reports RAF Pilot Officer Thomas Walker Prentice aged 25 from Ponca City Oklahoma listed missing in the western desert after taking off in Qugit to fly over enemy lines.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Thomas Walker Prentice
Ponca City
Okla
Western Desert
Qugit
Most Concentrated RAF Raid Destroys Duesseldorf
Aug 1 report says RAF dropped 150 two ton bombs and hundreds of incendiaries on Duesseldorf in about 50 minutes. Weather aided a rapid attack with strong defense, fires lit the city, and many fires burned as searchlights and anti-aircraft fire clashed overhead.
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RAF
87 Enemy Aliens Held By FBI In New York Raids
Federal agents seized eighty seven enemy aliens in metropolitan New York area raids. One Japanese leader tied to Ho koku-Dan and described as part of a Japanese Imperial service group possessed American, Chinese and Japanese maps along with navigation charts showing depths near the Aleutian Islands.
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New York
Pacific Ocean
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hokoku-Dan
PAL
Imperial Service
PE. Foxworth
FBI
Aleutian Islands
Lightning strikes hit Philadelphia area killing eight
A severe electrical storm in the Philadelphia area killed eight people and disrupted transport. Gardeners on Alfred DuPont s Rockland estate were killed by a bolt as they sheltered near a transformer. Lifeguard William Kempton was the eighth victim. Thomas Neville vanished in floodwaters and search efforts continued. Several central city buildings were damaged and a house was struck by lightning delaying fire crews.
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Ded Fry
Philadelphia
Suigie Bolt
Alfred DuPonte
Rockland
Del
Buddlurt
Sharp and Dohme Chemical Laboratories
Glenolden
William M. Kempton
Tully-Seecane Country Club
Thomas Neville
Cubans Begin Military Registration Amid Unclear Timeline
In Ilavana on August 1, about 409000 Cubans aged 15 to 25 started registering for military service. The process is linked to a regime change likely to occur in October. Registration will run through August.
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Ilavana
Cubs
German Tank Expert Dies in Action on Russian Front
Berlin reports Major General Julius Von Bernaum, a noted German tank expert, killed in action on the Russian front. He was decorated with the Iron Cross Knight’s insignia and had recently been recognized for his contributions to armored warfare.
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Berlin
tFgram
Julius von Bernaum
Red Torpedo Planes Raid German Convoy
Moscow reports two Russian planes attacked a German convoy in a Norwegian fjord. A 1afldd-ton ship was hit despite escorting warships, according to a dispatch in the Navy newspaper Red Fleet.
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Moscow
Red Fleet
Prisoners Released to France and Workers Return to Germany
A Berlin radio report says a group of 300 German prisoners released from camps arrived in France yesterday while 299 others moved toward unoccupied France. The report also notes about 1000 French workers left Paris in recent days to return to work in Germany.
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Berlin
France
Paris
Germany
Grand Duchess Marie of Luxembourg Dies at 81
New York August 1. The dowager Grand Duchess Marie Anne of Luxembourg, 81, died at Doctors Hospital after five weeks of serious illness following abdominal surgery. Two of her five daughters, Grand Duchess Charlotte and the Princess of Scharenberg, were with her. Charlotte now rules the duchy and heads the Government in Exile in London.
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Marie Anne
Luxembourg
Iland
Germany
France
Doctors Hospital
Charlotte
Princess of Scharenberg
Londo
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