Germans Claim 8 Destroyers Damaged Near Baltic Sea
German sources say eight Soviet destroyers were damaged in a Gulf of Riga air strike as German forces push toward Moscow from Smolensk. The report notes heavy Luftwaffe activity against Soviet naval and ground targets and mentions renewed German advances on multiple fronts around Leningrad and southern Ukraine.
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Berlin
Moscow
Smolensk
Luftwaffe
Russia
Ong Front
U. S
Gulf of Riga
Leningrad
Marella
Lake Ladoga
Pnester
Weather Forecast San Antonio Region Sunday Update
Partly cloudy Sunday with scattered afternoon thunder showers. Light to moderate variable winds. Temperatures range from around 74 degrees Sunday morning to near 98 degrees Sunday afternoon. East Texas and Went Texas sections show similar partly cloudy conditions with scattered showers and light to moderate winds.
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San Antonio
East
Texas
J. Hemry Jathoe
Franco's Blast to Stop U S Aid
Washington reports Franco denounces the United States in a Spain Latin alliance context. He praises Argentina while pledging allegiance to the axis and warns against U S aid to Britain. U S officials deny coercive demands and note grain and medicine gifts previously sent via the Red Cross.
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Washington
Spain
Francisco Franco
United States
Boaln
American Red Cross
Argentina
Franco
National Council of the Palange
Axis
State Department
U.S
Britain
Europe
Western Hemisphere
Curb Orders Slashed Vehicle Output In War Drive
Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson announced drastic cuts in civilian consumption and auto output due to raw material shortages. Auto production will fall to about 2.4 million passenger cars and 200,000 trucks this year, with broader curbs on air conditioning heating and other appliances. A Wichita Falls birth is noted, and Henderson promises full enforcement via the priorities division to back the economy and employment.
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Wasitington
INS
Ise
Leon Henderson Tanight
Mie
Henderson
Near U
Ture
Wichita Falls
John Pack
Jate
Wichita Palls General
P. L. Blevin
Pack
Mather
Oklahoma
Office of Production Management
Ex-Red Leader Bela Kuhn Captured by Ukrainians
The Berlin radio says Bela Kuhn, former Bolshevik ruler of Hungary in 1919, fell into counterrevolutionary Ukrainians. A broadcast claims Kuhn was sent to Ukraine on a mission to restore order and that he executed many Ukrainian counterrevolutionists before a German advance. An engine failure forced Kuhn’s plane to crash, and his fate remains unknown.
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Ukraine
Black Sey Park
Jesse
Markarov
Hlov
Red Army
Flag
Smolensk
Cherkassy
New York
Gily
Ins
Berlin
Bela Kuhn
Hungary
Thas
N. B. Ou
Kulm
Meh
Kuhn
Pastor Freed on Hit-Run Charge in Houston
Houston July 19 Pastor Jerome A Rapp of Sacred Heart Church was cleared of hit and run charges in a case involving a 9 year old boy injured May 24 The Harris County grand jury did not indict him and said another driver may have taken the priest s car.
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Houston
Jerome A. Rapp
Sucred Heart Church
Alco GC
Roberts
Ught Watchman
Harris County Grand Jury
Free French Troops Move Toward Middle East Front
Dispatches from Reuters say British and Free French troops are massing in Syria as a new drive aims at the Near East. Rumors place 26 Bulgarian divisions under German command along the Turkish frontier, with 10 000 German troops sent to Samos to bolster about 7 000 Italian forces. Allied forces are reported spread along a ten mile front from the Mediterranean toward the Iran Iraq frontiers.
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Syria
Tallan Ogeupatiett
Samos
Aegean
Asis Min_or
Hasheen
Homanel
Fe Balkans
Ankara Ismrees
Aan
Trani
Meditteranean
Iran
Iraq
Stalin takes personal command of Red Army in Moscow area
In Moscow on Sunday July 20 Premier Stalin assumed personal command of the Red Army. Marshal Semyon Timoshenko shifts to central Soviet armies defending Moscow as deputy commander. The move follows a decree by the Supreme Soviet and is approved by Kalinin and the secretary of the Supreme Presidium.
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Moscow
INS
Stalin
Red Army
Semyon Timoshenko
Russia
Stefénak
Timoshenko
Mikhail Kalinin
Gerking
Supreme Prealdium
Two Missing Girls Bodies Recovered
PORT ARTHUR reports two girls missing from a swimming party were washed ashore and identified as Mary Jones of Nacogdoches and Novis Partin of Beaumont. The event occurred as authorities noted Italy cancelled holidays and a Tealian decree reduced observances amid the Sabine river surf area.
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Port Arthur
INS
Fort Arthur
Anna
Bolivian Naz Plot Crushed With Arrests
Buenos Aires July 14 An INS report says Bolivia uncovered a Nazi plot to overthrow the government and install a totalitarian regime led from La Paz. Martial law was declared nationwide, the German minister expelled, and many arrests made including politicians and editors. The decree stressed democratic principles and order amid reports of further roundups.
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Nac
Ibhder Sa
Boelivinan
Miost
Roundp
Olivia
South America
German Busch
Busch
Me Q
Enrique Pounranda
Minister, Author and Painter Dies at 80 in Framington
Framington Mass July 19 Dr Wallace Nutting 80 former minister and noted author artist photographer and collector died today at his home after a long illness His collection of furniture made by pilgrims in the early seventeenth century is regarded as one of the finest of its kind in the country
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Framington
Mass
Wallace Nutting
Sign of V to Rally Conquered Europe Unites Britain
London reports Britain's mobilization behind the V symbol as Churchill urges a covert underground army of 125 million people to wage a nerve war against Nazi and Fascist conquerors. Voice of Col V Britton previews a mounted V army across Europe with millions ready to act.
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INS
Britain
Norway
France
Mie Batkans
Mediterranean
Churchill Istmsell
Europe
Brith Broadcasting Company
Landg
Gestapo
Col. V. Britton
Wilack
V Army
Nazi Germany
Hitler Mussolini plan parley in Moscow report
Moscow radio cited a Central European source saying Hitler and Mussolini planned a meeting in a few days at Brenner Pass to discuss Eastern Front strategy and possible replacement of troops by Italians in parts of occupied territories. The broadcast also mentioned potential Corsica and Savoy moves and war prospects with Britain and France.
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Moscow
Hitler
Mussoni
Russia
France
Mussolini
Corsica
Savoy
Brenner Pass
Nazi Division Moved Across Sweden to Finland
Stockholm reports that an entire German division has been transported across Sweden from Norway to Finland without incident. The relocation was announced today.
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Stockholm
Germany
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Body of Soldier Found Hanged at Camp Claiborne
The body of Pvt Albert V. Johnson 32 of Gentinel Baltic Wisconsin discovered hanging from a tree at Camp Claiborne Iowa. Johnson had been under treatment at the main camp hospital when found.
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Claiborne
Albert V. Johnson
Geritinel Baltic
Army Affisiais
Johnson
Girl Slain Reading High School Junior Found Dead
Constance Shipp a 15 year old Reading High School junior who vanished four days earlier was found stabbed to death in a Baptist church parsonage near her home. Police offered no comment on a possible motive or criminal link. Detected near the parsonage closed for a month minister away on vacation. State detectives entered the parsonage and found the body after an apparent savage stabbing. Police suspect a sex maniac possibly involved. Attention also on Lynn where 10 year old Fennera M. Cochrane vanished under similar circumstances yesterday.
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Reading
Mass
Constance Shipp
Ase
Minnister
Arting On
Poce
Lynn
Fennera M. Cochrane
Warning of rationing urged as gasoline use to fall
Harold Ickes petrolean co-ordinator appealed to motorists across the Atlantic states to voluntarily cut gasoline consumption by one third. He told governors and agencies that compulsory rationing may be needed if cooperation fails. He urged motor owners to fix faulty motors drive reasonably and reduce speeds to aid the patriotic effort and lessen defense demands.
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Washington
Harold J. Ickes
Petrolean
District of Columbia
Tcken
Atlantic
Becauer
Tekes
de Sald
Soviet Victory Claim As Red Defenses Hold Gap To Moscow
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet naval and air units sank 11 German transports and a tanker in the Baltic as land forces pressed stubbornly to halt a major German thrust toward Moscow Leningrad and Kiev. The communique notes losses and ongoing counterattacks by Russian cavalry and infantry with guerrilla activity hitting German concentrations and lines of supply.
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Moscow
Sundiy
INS
Russia
Baltic
Leningrad
Kiev
Ous
Red Army
Pskov
Polatsk-Nevel
Smolensk
Novograd-Volynsk
Nevel
Vitebsk
Ukraine
Army of Marstal Klementi Voroshilov
Army of Defense
Marshel Gemeon Timoshenko
Germany
Polotsk
Ured
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