War Today Views on Ukraine War and Weather Limits
The piece presents a wartime discussion with a native Ukrainian garage attendant and the narrator about Hitler's invasion of Ukraine. It estimates distances to the Volga and Persian border, weather limits, and the likelihood of German success before winter, noting Ukraine as the pivotal theater and questioning Nazi claims about Red Army disintegration.
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Euler
Volga
Caspian
Caucasus
Berlin
Catman
Ukraine
Uat
Nerth
Nouth
Weather and time notes from August notice
Tuesday entry cites Daylight Time at 7:40 PM and next sunrise at 5:56 AM. Evening moonrise 8:43 PM and later 10:15 PM. Also mentions make and model references with a vehicle note for 8:10 PM.
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Houde
Areuse
Invasements Legals Cartoon 4 Listen World Classified
Today's Herald presents a compact page of legal notices, cartoons, and classified items. It lists Newfields, Cider vill fit Nawington, Newmarket, Ogunquit, and other towns alongside several personals. The page includes radio and sports tidbits for Berwick, York, Hampton, and Kittery Point.
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Newfields
Newmarket
Berwick
York Hampton
York Reach
Fis St
York Village
York Harbor
Kittery Point
Seabury
Japanese deny holding Americans as hostages
Tokyo reports cabinet spokesman Koh Ishii says Japan does not intend to hold Americans as hostages. He urges U S delicacy in Far East policy while Ambassador Grew hints at discussions with Japan on restrictions for Americans leaving Japan and related citizen issues.
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Tokyo
Japan
Koh Ishii
Cabinet Information Bureau
United States
Far East
U. S
Joseph C. Grew
Ishii
Home Office
Soviet Russia
Vladivostok
Orient
Painter Falls 30 Feet At Gas Plant
James Carroll of Chelsea Massachusetts was critically injured when he fell 30 feet from a staging at the Portsmouth Gas Company generator house. He was employed by J H Tredernick of Malden Massachusetts and taken to Portsmouth Hospital where his condition was too critical for X rays.
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Portsmouth Gas Company
James Carroll
Chelsea
Mass
Portsmouth Hospital
J. H. Tredernick Company
Malden
Gaz Company
Carroll
NAM urges sales tax as federal revenue source
Washington Aug 19 AP A spokesman for the National Association of Manufacturers urged Congress to lower individual income exemptions and levy a general sales tax arguing it is the economy’s best funding source for today’s national emergency. Livingston W Houston NAM finance committee chair presented the view to the Senate Finance Committee weighing the House tax bill. He said it is unjust to impose large new taxes without cutting nonessential spending.
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Washington
Congress
Association
Livingston W. Houston
NAM Committee On
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt appeals to bank shipyard to end strike
Reports say President Roosevelt urged Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock to accept National Mediation Board recommendations ending a 12 day strike at the Kearny New Jersey yard delaying 293 million dollars of work. If rejected the government may take over the yard. CIO demands a union loyalty clause. Yard head L H Korndorff calls it an enclosed shop. A separate strike hits Pullman Standard Car plant at Michigan City affecting 1,400 workers. Union seeks seniority terms and forced union affiliation.
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Associated Pres
Roosevelt
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
National Mediation Board
Strice
Kearny, N. J. Yate
CIO
Mediation Board
L. H. Korndorff
Navy
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
Michigan City
Ind
Pullmen Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Carmen
SFL Building Trades
Nazis Gain Small Navy At Nikolaev
Berlin reports Nazi forces have captured Nikolaev and surrounding Black Sea ports, seizing a 35,000 ton battleship a 19,000 ton cruiser four destroyers and two submarines under construction as Russian Black Sea naval units in service are tallied. Western Ukraine largely in German hands as operations focus on Odessa and Dnieper river bridgeheads between Kiev and the sea.
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Berlin
Nikolaev
Russia
Soeutar
Black Sea
Porte
High Command
Dnieper
Odessa
Kiev
Ukraine
Moscow Reds Fight From Lakes To Seaport
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army holding firm positions after strategic retreats from Smolensk and Nikolaev as German offensives push from Lake Ferp us region toward Odessa. The latest notice confirms Kingissepp rail gate ban on Leningrad and a newly stabilized front line, with Soviet forces applying retreat tactics while maintaining a defensive stance.
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Moscow
Red Army
Lake Ferpus
Odessa
Kinglsepp
Leningrad
Smolensk
Nikolaev
Theouthwest
Mrs Gamester Dies At Portmouth Hospital
Mrs Mildred Martin Gamester of 6 Salter Street died at Portmouth hospital after two weeks as a patient. Born in Portsmouth to William Martin and the late Charlotte Johnson Martin, she belonged to the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Ladiesauxiliary of Frank E Booma post American Legion. Survived by husband Walter William Gamester, daughter Jacqueline, and father William Martin, all of Portmouth.
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Mildred Martin Gamester
Salter Street
Portsmouth Hospital
Portsmouth
William Martin
Charlotte (Johnson) Martin
Church of the Immaculate Concepcion
Frank E. Booma Post
Gamester
Walter William Gamester
Jacqueline
Willam Martin
Bridges Reports Gas Reductions For New Hampshire Tourists
Dr. John W. Frey of the Federal Petroleum Administration told Sen Styles Bridges that New Hampshire’s tourist trade will shape fuel supplies. He indicated New England stations may get 75 to 80 percent of normal deliveries, with a current 10 percent cut likely adequate to meet the program. He warned that tighter rationing could come, but a full shutdown was unlikely.
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New Hampshire
John W. Frey
The
Petroleum Administration
Frey
Sen
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire Hotel Association
White Mountain Regional Association
New England
Fifteen Congressmen Tour Navy Yard in Ports mouth Visit
Fifteen Republican Farm Study Committee members toured Ports mouth Navy Yard escorted by Captain John J. Brown USN. They were briefed on New England agriculture with 1940 cash income over 263 million and its 3 percent share of national farm income from two percent of farms. The tour continued to Maine for potato industry study.
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Portsmouth Navy Yard
John J. Brown
USN
Tne
New England
Republican Farm Study Committees
New England Council
Commissions
Agriculture Departments
Navy Yard
Maine
Death Toll Climbs In Brooklyn Pier Fire
Five dead and at least five seriously injured as a massive blaze rips through the Cuba Mail Line steamer Fanuco and the New York Dock pier in Brooklyn. Firefighters fear many more may be trapped in the ship’s holds as flames race along the 875 foot pier. Officials cite possible hemp bale origin and note Sabotage unlikely. Cuba Mail Line reports 12 crewmen unaccounted for and dock workers’ status unclear. Police and fire units rescued swimmers and evacuees from the river amid the blazing scene.
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New York
New York Dock Company
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cuba
Exeter woman urged as civilian defense air raid guide
Mrs. Robert H. Lees of Exeter is cited as a potential civilian defense air raid warning helper. Her Berwick on Tweed kin survived a raid with 108 homes destroyed and 11 killed, though no one was injured. The piece notes war relief links and Legion activity in Berwick and Berwick, Pa.
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Robert H. Lees
Exeter
Berwick-on- Tweed
Scotland
Berwick-on-Tweed
American Legion
Lees
Berwick
Sherif
Weekenders Use New Bridge Traffic Soars This Weekend
The Interstate Bridge authority reports 34,500 cars crossed the bridge from Friday morning to Sunday night. Sunday alone saw 14,028 vehicles at the toll gates, with weekend totals roughly on par with the previous week.
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The
Interstate Bridge Authority
New Citizens Born at Portsmouth Hospital Aug 15
Birth notices record three newborn girls at Portsmouth hospital on August 15. The first child is a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dalla Mara of 308 Thornton Street. The second is a girl to Mr. and Mrs. William Yeaton of 197 Myrtle Avenue. The third is a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Staples of Mor Mor.
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Portsmouth Hospital
Bert Dalla Mara
Thornton Street
William Yeaton
Myrtle Avenue
Euipene Staples
Santa delivers early in Brentwood as boy gets repaired cart
Four year old Frank Clancey of Brentwood road Exeter believes in an early Santa Claus. His father Forrest W. Clancey heard a child cry from an upstairs room after a cart toppled on the pavement. That evening a man arrived on the porch leaving a new shining cart and departed before being identified.
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Santa Claus
Frank Clancey
Brentwood Road
Exeter
Frank
Forrest W. Clancey
Hislop
Frank. But,the Sounds Were Not Unusual, According To Mr. Clancy
Lhfe
Fire Prevention Week In N H Starts Oct 5
Concord, Aug 19 AP Observance of National Fire Prevention Week in New Hampshire will start with a spectacular demonstration Oct 5, the State Defense Council announced. A meeting of fire chiefs will call apparatus from many cities within a 50 mile radius as if on an emergency. Pumpers will draw water from the Merrimack River in one test and 16 hydrant streams near the State House will be used in another.
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Concord
New Hampshire
State Defense Council
Mertimsck
State House
Auto Death Rate Drops This Year
Fatal automobile crashes last week in New Hampshire killed several people. The year to August 16 shows 43 deaths from car crashes, up from 34 in the same period last year.
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New Hampshire
Army Plans Release Of 200000 Men Before Christmas
The War department announced that about 200,600 men will be released from active service in 1941 to reach homes before December 10. Priorities favor dependents, hardship, then men 28 and older, followed by married men seeking early discharge. Enlistees with expiring terms may also leave or reenlist under new rules. Releases aim for uniform rate to maintain unit efficiency amid ongoing maneuvers and training.
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Washington
War Department
Department
Roosevelt
Regular Army
Regnar Army
Army
Council Balked By Lack Of Working Quorum
The Ports mouth City Council postponed a meeting due to a missing working quorum though Mayor Stewart E Rowe and several members attended. First readings of several ordinances were planned, requiring six votes. a brief finance meeting was held and a new session was scheduled for later in the week. Absent were Councilmen Frank Hersey John Burkhardt Louis McNeil and Edgar Wood. Burkhardt is recovering from measles.
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Portsmouth
Stewart E.rowe
Edward Hopley
Frederick D. Gardner
Joseph. Katkin
Walter Hervey
William Palfrey
Mary
Dondero
Frank Hersey
John Burkhardt
Louis McNeil
Edgar Wood
Burkhardt
Local Union Buys $1000 Defense Bonds
Local Union No. 453, Plumbers and Seaméillers of Portsmouth, spent $1,000 for defense savings bonds. Ten $100 bonds were delivered to union officials today. President M. A. Siteman of Rye leads a union established in 1916 that grew during wartime, shrank postwar, and expanded again with World War II, choosing defense savings over a bank.
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Portsmouth
M. A. Siteman, Rye
Hinman Renamed To Bridge Authority In Maine
Sen. William H. Hinman of Skowhagen was reappointed by Gov. Lumner Sewall to the Maine New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority. The group oversees construction and operation of the new bridge over the Piscataqua River at Kittery Maine and Portsmouth New Hampshire.
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Augusta
Alig
William.h. Hinman
Skowhagen
Lumner Sewall
Manning Remick In Boston Hospital
Police chief A Manning Remick of Rye is hospitalized at Palmer Memorial in Boston for several days. He is expected to return home at the end of the week.
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A. Manning Remick
Rye Police Department
Palmer Memorial Hospital
Boston
Roosevelt weighs plans to unify defense setup
Washington reports President Roosevelt studying plans to unify defense agencies. A policy board proposed to oversee the budget bureau and Samuel Rosenman, an intimate adviser, may head a streamlined defense structure. Other sources suggest seeking a single overall head.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Budget Bureau
Samuel I. Rosenman
Rosenman
Defense Administration
Charles S. McDaniel Dies in Pittsburgh After Illness
Charles Stanley McDaniel formerly of this city and New Castle died Saturday in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania after a long illness following an operation last December. A native of Lakeport he moved to Portsmouth in 1902 with his parents and attended Portsmouth High School where he played football was on the championship debating team and sang in the Glee Club. He studied at Brewster Academy Wolfeboro and entered Dartmouth in 1909 as a Pal
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Charles Stanley McDaniel
New Castle
Pittsburgh
Lakeport
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Bigh
Brewster Academy
Wolfeboro
Dartmouth
Pal
Nineteenth Century Satire on Axis Alliances
The piece mocks wartime alliances with mock headlines and names, mentioning Marshel Petain, Comrade Joe, and Benita while hinting at deception and double crossing. It references an air raid on Beri and a decency claim about placing an admiral in charge of scuttling France, in a satirical tone.
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Petein
France
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Senate
Kearny
N. H
Cuba Mail Line
Paruce
Brooklyn Pier
Buttermilk Channel
New York Harbor
Lower
Manhattan
Berwick American Legion
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Hinman
Bridge Authority
Boston Hospital
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Retimo Ds Tre
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Agelf
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