Move to Annex Pacific Bases Sparks Policy Shift
The article notes U$. move to allow foreign troops into an inland Pacific zone and to prepare operations against allied nations. It links the move to President Rosevelt's gas and oil shipment embargo targeting Japan, Spain, and Portugal, signaling a shift away from restraining Japan and toward defending Western alliance interests as Japan expands in French Indo China and threat to Singapore and the Dutch East Indies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eskind
Erogire
France
Rousryell
Westen
Japur
Japan
Spain
Portugal
China
Southern
Pacific
French Indo-China
Tooiland
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
United States
Kerosene Poisoning Warning From San Antonio Health Officials
Reports from Robert B. Green Hospital show four kerosene poisoning deaths in July among 100 cases last year. Health officials urge immediate treatment, stomach pumping, and hospital care for swallowed kerosene and call for parents to keep harmful substances away from children. Dr. Aileau leads the hospital team and Dr. W A King warns parents to supervise household substances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.ileau
Robert B. Green
Japan
Priscilla Lane
Dutch East Indies
John Batey
Pubisher
W. A. King
San Antonio
Japan Attack Justified by Oil Curtailment Claim
The United States deems Japan’s move an aggressive act to secure a new order in Asia and refuses to supply oil for that aim. It argues Japan has ample oil for peaceful use, about a three year supply at current consumption, and questions Japan’s justification for attacking the Western Indies due to oil shipments reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
8 000 Reds Taken In Week
Berlin Aug 2 In a raw dispatch the Soviet front report says the Russians lost 82 000 men captured during the past week. Other Red losses include 127 tanks 132 amphibious craft 770 artillery pieces 161 anti aircraft guns 1 210 machine guns 1 000 motor vehicles 1 200 railway cars 2 armored trains and more
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Berlin
Cyclist Injured After Vehicle Collision in City
Louis Torres a 13 year old resident of 612 West Houston Street suffered minor injuries when a bicycle he rode was struck by a car at Houston and Flores streets. Police identified the driver as Feix Chaps of 404 Marshall Street. Torres received treatment at Robert B. Green Hospital.
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Louis Torres
Houston Street
Houston and
Flores Streets
Feix Chaps
Marshall Street
Torres
Robert B. Green Hospital
A. F. L. Walkout Slows Five Army Plant Work
Washington reports a 12,400 member American Federation of Labor walkout as overtime pay cuts trigger a one day work holiday at five big army ordnance plants. Plants at Ravenna near Louisville large in Kentucky St Louis Weldon Springs and near Kansas City idle. most workers to return Monday except Plum Street plant near Indiana.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor Union
Ravenna
Anducky
Ohio
St. Louis
Weldon’ Springs
Kansas City
War Department
Ace
Cording Theinion
Warde
Russia
Tass
Red Army
Communist Party
Prav«da
Smolensk
Leningrad
Kiev
Monec
San~ Idusky
Weldon Springs
Gt Tours
British ships sunk and damaged in North Sea raid
Berlin reports three British merchant vessels totaling 20 000 tons sunk during a daylight bombing near Orfordness. A 5 000 ton tanker was gravely damaged, with one 6 000 ton cargo ship and a 6 000 ton tanker also hit. Totals show 28 000 tons destroyed and 24 000 tons damaged in the last 24 hours. Additional 6 090 ton tanker and 3 000 ton vessels reportedly sunk, plus another 10 000 ton tanker and 9 000 ton carrier damaged in prior raids.
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Berlin
INS
Sca
Orfordness
Thames
Luftwaffe
Suadron
High Command
Germans claim deep pockets threaten Smolensk route
Berlin reports new German pocket east of Smolensk on the road to Moscow with thousands of Russian troops cut off. Nazi mobile units penetrate the Heart of Ukraine as Panzer forces seize a crossroads town between Smolensk and Vyazma, creating a death trap for retreating troops. Ukrainian capital Kiev faces renewed encirclement risk as motorized units push south of the city in a sixth week of battle.
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Berlin
INS
Smolensk
Moscow
Germany
Loniebt
Ukraine
Vynerna
Hievy
Hkivv
Farmers Invade To Argue Federal Wheat Quota
Anderson Ind August 2 Five hundred western wheat farmers invaded Anderson in a campaign to break opposition from central Indiana growers to the 49 cent federal wheat quota. The visiting farmers from Kansas Nebraska and the Dakotas traveled by special train to press for withdrawal of the opposition. They had earlier toured Dayton Ohio and Indiana areas urging a vote against the federal government's wheat quota penalty.
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Anderson
Ind
Western Wheat Farm
Ars Ivaded
Frem Central Indigna Frarmers
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakotas
Walt Agriculturists
Dayton
Ohio
Indiana
Onlo
Lost boy Tommy Argo reunited with mother in Chicago
Chicago Herald American reports a year old boy known as Tommy was found abandoned three weeks earlier at Brookline and identified as Tommy Argo of Me, with Mrs Walter Argo of Detroit. The mother cried when shown her son and the paper notes the boy had been in another family for two years and was not previously known to his Chicago guardians.
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Ghugago
Chicago
Tommy
Brook
Chicago Herald American
Tommy Argo
Walter Argo
Detroit
Herald American
Argo
War news from twenty five years past report
The article notes German forces yielding ground while French troops push along the Meuse retreating to Colefie-Polvre. It mentions an Italian torpedoed in the Atlantic and Russian attacks continuing. A year ago today Japan protests Britain over arrests. Sabotage raids hit Reich fuel centers at Emilen and Hamburg. A church warns of invasion danger and urges vigilance.
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Meuse
Cole- fie-Polvre
Sapan
Britain
KAP
Reich Ofl
Emilen
Hamburg
Church
Okines
Hopkins Leaves Russian Capital in Moscow Visit
Hopkins, coordinator of America’s lease program, left Moscow after a five day stay. He held talks with Premier Joseph Stalin and met Soviet officials during the visit which included two conferences and several discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkins
Moscow
UINS
Harry L. Hopkins
America
Jease-tend Progeram
Josef Stalin
A and M College Airport Funds Reportedly Allocated
Texas A and M engineer dean Olbb Ollehrist announced no word from Senator Gonnady on civil aviation authority funds. Berlin reports Soviet embassy guarded while $75,000 allocated for lighting and field improvements. $303,000 mentioned in query but breakdown unclear. Authorities declined to detail exact spending for the field improvements.
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College Station
Olbb Ollehrist
Texas A
M. schWol
Ing
Tom Gonnady
Civil Aeronautics An
Berlin
INS
Berlitz
Ively Wood
College Airport
Rayon supply distribution forces silk price controls
Continued from page one, a government order fixes a maximum price for basic raw silk at 3.08 per pound. Officials say mechanical problems from substituting rayon for silk can be solved. Silk orders stand as government price announcements. confiscation and court-ordered pricing possible for noncompliance. Trading on the New York commodity exchange remains suspended as policy details are aligned with defense agencies.
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FRICE
Commodity Exchange
New York
OPACE
German Women to Work More in Nazi Labor Drive
Berlin Aug 2 The chancellor Hitler decreed a six month extension of work for women in the compulsory labor service and called 20,000 more to duty. About 190,000 women now enrolled are affected as the total female labor service strength is raised to 150,000. Extended service will operate in government and defense offices hospitals and social administrations for destitute families with many children.
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Berlin
INS
Hitler
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