Nazis Break Through Toward Maikop Oil Fields
Moscow dispatches report German columns pressing toward Maikop oil fields from north and east after a Red Army defense breakthrough. Soviet efforts to halt the advance faltered near Armavir and Kurgannaya with heavy fighting around Kretskaya and Armavir, while Berlin claims gains along the Kuban river and Laba tributary.
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Moscow
Maikop
Caucasus
Red Army
Red Star
Kuban
Armavie
Krasnodar
Rode Plar
a.Vasnodar
Takesman Rse
Armavir
Joop
Kurgannaya
Laba
Russia
Kretskaya
Stalingrad
Kotelnikovski
Stelingrad
Kushchevka
Volga
Red
Berlin
Kuban River
Maikop Armavir
Black Sea
Maneuvers Reported for Vichy Armed Forces
A German broadcast hints at Vichy Army maneuvers amid fears of a second front. Admiral Jean Darlan notes earlier training for French soldiers to boost the army as a moral leader, with references to the second division’s maneuvers.
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New York
Aus
Vichy
Jean Darlan
Withdrawals In Primaries Reported By County Board
The County Bard of Election Supervisors states there were no withdrawals among county aspirants as of late morning. The deadline for withdrawals under the current law is midnight tonight.
Canton Area Bombers Hit Canton Again in Morning Raid
United States Army warplanes raided the Canton area again early this morning. Two Japanese planes were shot down and several more destroyed on the ground. Stilwell headquarters said another enemy aircraft was probably shot down. The raid followed a three day pattern with earlier claims of ten grounded planes destroyed. Japanese broadcast claimed two American bombers were shot down near Samshui.
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Chungking
United States Army
Canton
Joseph W. Stilwell
Tokyo
Nae ~Ee Beay
Samshui
Langton
Stilwell
White Cloud
Scattered German Raids Reported Across England and Scotland
German air raiders dropped bombs at scattered points in eastern England and the eastern Midlands overnight. Casualties were light overall, with a lone raider dropping bombs on the northeast coast of Scotland killing three and injuring ten. One night raider was reported shot down. Bad weather over the continent limited RAF operations, which had attacked German targets on the three preceding nights.
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London
England
Midlands
Scotland
RAF
Germany
French Volunteers Fight Beside Nazis in Russia Rewards
The French government announced that the Tricolor Legion, made up of volunteers serving with German forces against Russia, is placed on par with the regular French army for rewards. The volunteers receive higher pay and are eligible for the Legion of Honor and the military medal for service in Russia.
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Vichy
France
Tricolor Legion
Russia
Norwegian Coast in State of Alert Under German Occupation
The Norwegian coast is in a state of alert under German occupation authorities. Evacuation plans are ready to move civilians at short notice. The Social Demokraten reported that Germans warned Norwegians aiding any Allied invasion area would be executed.
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Stockholm
Social/ Demokraten
Gandhi Asks America To Act While Still Time
In Bombay the All-India Congress endorsed Gandhi's Britain must quit India resolution by a wide margin 23 against. Gandhi urged America to recognize Indian independence and permit Indians to use liberty for the Allied cause in a letter to American friends delivered to correspondents. He warned that Britain must withdraw to avoid world conscience disapproval and urged India be trusted to act for wartime justice.
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Bombay
India
All-India Congress Committee
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Britain
America
Gandhi
Pandit Balkrishna Sharma
Congress
Manne Nak Ge
Great Britain
Singapore
Malaya
Burma
Boy Held After Questioning In Confectionery Theft
City Police report 16 year old Alvie Stake of South Market street has been picked up by Sewickley police for questioning in the alleged theft of about thirty dollars from Snyder Confectionery Shop. Special Investigator Bartgis and Lt Strausburg left for Sewickley to bring the youth back to Frederick, after teletyp e notices were sent to state police in neighboring states following the August 4 missing money report.
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Alvie
South Market Street
Snyder
Sewickley
Frederick
Allen S Bartgis
Herbert Strawsburg
Pittsburgh
Bartgis
Survives Landing In Swamps Of Jamaica
Dr John M Dyson a captain in the U S Army Medical Corps survived a forced landing along Jamaica swamps during an insertion tour of Cuba Jamaica and Haiti. He endured seven hours waist deep wading and 24 hours without food or water. The plane was demolished but no one was killed. Dyson aided the crew and helped pull injured comrades to shore on rubber rafts. He is on 30 days sick leave and plans to visit his father in Hazelton Pa. His wife Virginia Dyson also served as an Army nurse. The couple married in 1941 at Norfolk Virginia. He is a Princeton and Penn medical graduate and former chief of medical service at Hazelton State Hospital. A small craft warning was issued for Block Island to Virginia Capes and Chesapeake Bay.
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Jamaica
John M. Dyson
U. S. Army Medical Corps
Emory B. Shipley
West Patrick Street
Dyson
Cuba
Haiti
U.S. Army
Puerto Rico
Virginia Shipley Dyson
Army Nursing Corps
United States
John R. Dyson
Hazelton
Norfolk
Fort Story
Church Home and Infirmary School For Nurses
Baltimore
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Hazelton State Hospital
Army
Charles W. Dyson
U.S. N
Washington
Big Battle Raging as U S Attacks in Pacific Theater
The Navy announced heavy U S naval air and surface assaults against Japanese installations in the Solomon Islands and Aleutian chain. Air and surface forces pressed the fight in the southeast Solomon Islands while bombarding ships and shore positions at Kiska following Japanese landings.
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Washington
Aug
United States
Solomon Islands
Southwest Pacific
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Kiska
Dr McCuskey Dies After Long Illness in Frederick County
Dr Alexander Ewing McCuskey of Buckeystown died at Frederick City Hospital at 10 15 am after an eight month illness Born November 17 1870 near Wheeling West Virginia he practiced medicine in Pine Grove West Virginia about 40 years He was active in West Virginia Democratic politics served on the State Central Committee and helped education boards He moved to Buckeystown for health reasons in 1929 He is survived by his wife two daughters a sister one grandchild and two nephews The body lies at 8 East Patrick Street and will be moved to his Buckeystown residence for calling and services Monday at 3 pm Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery Co E Cline & Son funeral directors
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Alexander Ewing McCuskey
Buckeystown
Frederick City Hospital
McCuskey
Wheeling
W. Va
Alfred and
Mary Ewing McCuskey
Marshall County
Ohio Medical University of Columbus
Pine Grove
Mc. Cuskey
Harriet Johnson McCuskey
William A Hallam
Buckhannon
W Va
Casper E. Cline, Jr
Frederick
I. A. Wise
Mount Olivet Cemetery Co
E. Cline & Son
Shore Lights Aided Sub To Link Ships
Berlin broadcast cited by the Evening Standard says a German submarine commander boasted of sinking 21,000 tons of shipping in ten days at the St Lawrence. He claimed shore lights aided his bearings and that, leaving, he witnessed an American coastal patrol and anti-submarine force testing with searchlights, turning night to day, while they watched and noted American tactics.
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London
Berlin
Evening Standard
The
St Lawrence
Germany
America
Navy Plane Crashes Near Alexandria Virginia
Two alien men died when a Navy training plane crashed into woods three miles south of Alexandria Virginia. The Navy Department will announce the victims’ names after relatives are notified. The aircraft was en route to Norfolk from Philadelphia.
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Washington
Aug
Navy
Alexandria
Navy Department
Norfolk
Philadelphia
U S Bombers Hit Axis Convoys In Mediterranean Raids
U S air force in the Middle East said its bombers destroyed a 1000 ton transport in a large Axis convoy in the Mediterranean and attacked a polar convoy. Direct hits were reported on one transport by American Consolidated B-24s while two other ships faced hits and a second convoy was struck by daylight jets. RAF bombers supported the raids and targets included a motor repair depot at Matruh and Tobruk dock areas.
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Cairo
United States Airforce
Mediterranean
Lewis W. Uverdon
United States Air Force
Middle East
Elght
Dayligh
Matruh
RAF Wellington
Tobruk
Sir Barrani
Lepeladd Airliney
Andi Baby
Army Aviator Rescued After Greenland Ice Cap Rescue
Col Robert W C Wimsatt of Washington DC was among 11 stranded Army airmen rescued from the Greenland ice cap in a two part evacuation credited to Col Bernt Balchen and Lieut A Y Patunak. Wimsatt, injured in a forced landing, was removed to Walter Reed Hospital as Balchen and Patunak earlier rescued 13 B 17 crewmen. Wimsatt, a District native born November 6 1899, is tied to Georgetown and Johnson and Wimsatt lumber firms and has five children. A Japanese broadcast from Miyako cites Stefani that Burma ex premier U Saw died in an Egyptian prison.
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Robert W. C. Wimsatt
Washington, D. C
Army
Greenland
Navy
Bernt Balchen
A. Y. Patunak
Wimsatt
Walter Reed Hospital
Col. Balchen
Lieut
Parunak
Col. Wimsatt
Balchen
Fort Leavenworth
Kans
Georgetown
Westminster
Two Nazis Executed. Two Commuted To Life and Thirty Years
White House announced six of eight Nazi saboteurs were executed by electric chair in Washington DC. Ernest Burger and George Caseh received life and 30 years respectively for aiding the government, while the others were put to death. The record will be sealed until war’s end.
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Washington
Ave
White House
Ernest P. Burger
George John Caseh
United States
District of Columbia
Vicvida
Long Island
Burger
Dash
Edward John Kerling
Herbert Ans Haupt
Richard Quirin
Werner Thiel
Terman Otto Neubauer
Henry Harm Heinck
Destroyer Sunk Nazi Claim Says
The German high command said an American destroyer and seven ships totaling 49 000 tons were sunk from a convoy in the North Atlantic. Eight other ships were sunk elsewhere, including a vessel with munitions and a ship with tanks and aircraft bound for Alexandria, as the comminique claimed a severe blow to American supply shipping.
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Berlin
High Command
North Atlantic
mid-Atlantic
West African
Alexandria
Hand Grenades Used in Channel Battles
German high command reports heavy clashes in the English Channel with torpedo boats and minesweepers at close range. One British vessel sunk, several damaged or lost, with fires started, amid a convoy escort battle. The report notes no German losses.
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Berlin
English Channel
High Command
Communiue
Jap U Boat Shells Ship No Injuries
Allied announced a medium passenger ship was shelled by a Japanese submarine off Australia's southern coast but escaped without damage and no personnel were injured. This followed another shelling earlier in the week near the Australian theater.
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General MacArthur
Australia
Australlian
Rabaul
New Britain
Lae
New Guinea
Vunakanau
Raid alarm sounds in London during first daylight alert
London reports an air raid alarm in the evening marking the first daylight alert since March 16. No incidents followed and security measures remained in place as residents monitored the skies.
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London
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By Henry C. Cassidy
Canton Area
U.S
Norwegian Coast
J. M. Dyson
New York, Aug
Weather Bureau
Block
Virginia Capes
Chesapeake Bay
John Milnes Dyson
West Virginia
Braddock Heights
Miyako
Stefani
U Saw
Egypt
Tsthmus
Montiana
Soviet Union
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