Sharpshooting Fort Crew Sinks Nazi Planes in Europe
The Flying Fortress Argonaut III crew at a US bomber station in England officially cataloged 11 enemy fighters destroyed and likely one more, averaging better than one German plane per mission across nine sorties. Notable members include Lieut. Theodore Argiropulos, Lieut. Richard Bohney, and Sgt. Kenneth L. Huts. Their most successful raid hit a Ruhr region rubber plant at Huts, yielding multiple Focke-Wulf 109s.
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Leo Px Anam
United States
England
Flying Fortress Argonaut TT
Nazi Europe
Pitt
Theodore Argiropulos
Redding
Calif
Berond
Richard G. Bohney
Scherevillé
Ind
Huts
Ruhr
Kenneth L. Huts
Perkins
Okli
Roscoe Pierson
Chinese Civilian Slayings Reported in Eastern Chekiang
Chungeling July 2 report cites high command stating nearly 100 Chinese families were slain by top police units in Eastern Chekiang last year for sustenance after aiding crews of American bombers that landed along the east China sea coast following Tokyo bombing. Several thousand homes were destroyed in the sector. Morgenthau said a message from Chang Kai-shek reported Japanese troops attacked coastal China where many airmen were killed, with casualty numbers not released.
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Chungeling
Chekiang
China
Henry A. Morgenthau Ut
the Treasury
Missoula Police Question Black Man in Slaying Case
Sheriff Maclean announced the arrest of Lewis Brown a 39 year old black man from Harrington Kansas for questioning in the fatal bludgeoning of Carl Pearson and his wife Roslyn at their home near Missoula. Brown denied involvement though discrepancies exist. Another man Philip Cleman 29 of St Louis Missouri is held in Idaho connection. Police say robbery motive.
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Missoula
Mont
R. D. Maclean
Lewis Brown
Harrington
Kaw
Carl W. Pearson
Roslyn
Philip “Blim
F Cleman
St. Louis
Tolsbo Falls
Idaho
MacLeananf
Pearson
Richard
McLean
Symbols of Fascism Fall Reported in Italy and Bern
Unconfirmed reports from Bern say Milan birthplace of Fascism burned along with the Popolo d Italia building. Chiasso frontier safety officials ordered removal of insignia, travelers told to remove buttons, and Italian workers in Germany arrived at Chiasso and celebrated Mussolini's fall. Army troops reportedly occupied Fascist militia barracks.
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Bern
Switzerland
Italy
Milan
Popolo d Italia
Tlatign
Chiasso
Germany
Mussolini
Axis Internal Crack Seen By Eleanor
Washington July 26 Mrs Prinkle Roosevelt declared the ouster of Premier Mussolini as head of the Italian government was a break in the Axis’s internal assurance and might signal the beginning of internal cracks. She said she could not speak for the president but called the upheaval surprising and a potential shift in power.
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Washington
Prinkle
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Mire
Foosevelt
Knife Bandits Rob Man At San Pedro Bridge
Gil Ibert Hernandez reported three masked men held him up at knifepoint near the San Pedro creek bridge on Dolorosa Street and took $12. Each suspect wore different colored clothing, including a green shirt with gray trousers and a yellow shirt with green trousers, with a pink shirt and black trousers among them.
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Atees
Gil Ibert Hernandez
South Laredo S
San Pedro Creek
Dolorosa Street
Hernandez
Taxco Picturesque Mexican City Explored in Vivid Detail
In Taxco, Mexico, a scenic city with terracotta roofs and flowering courtyards awes with narrow cobblestone streets and arched porches. The Santa Prisca church stands as a pink stone jewel, while Cabrera paintings in the church sacristy reveal rich gold altars and centuries of crafts. Chicago report notes Dorothy Olson and her brother Thomas saving their father’s life in a high school incident.
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Taxco
Mexico
Uny
Casa Telva
Santa Prisca
Atric
Cabrera
St. Joseph
Chicago
Dorothy Olson
Miguel Cabrera
Collections Of Many Taxes Show Decline In Income Taxes
Treasury reports for the fiscal year ending June 30 show total receipts of 22,371,306,406, up overall but with declines in 33 of 86 internal revenue sources. Income taxes rose sharply, aided by higher profits, while manufacturers excise taxes and gasoline taxes fell notably.
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Lquor
Washington
Treasury
War reporter's legs fractured in naval attack near Guadalcanal
War correspondent Osman White of Melbourne Bar and Sydney Telegraph sustained fractures to both legs when bombs struck a small naval vessel near Ren Devasland two nights earlier. He was evacuated to Guadalcanal hospital for treatment after becoming the first casualty in the New Georgia campaign. Earlier, AP correspondent William F Boni was wounded by shell splinters during a Jap attack on an American landing barge at Nassau Bay, New Guinea.
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Act
Coureal
Pranne
Peter Provenzale
Broollys
Nuyicalor
Arphopoulos
William C. King
Vernal
Utah
King
Knife
Wurdalcanal
Osmar White
Melbourne
Sydney Telegraph
Rendevasland
White
Cas“Talty
New Georgia
Guadalcanal
Associated Press
William F. Boni
Nassau Bey
New Guinea
Fugitive Charged With Texas Murder
Amarilla July 26 A murder charge pending against Harry Ralph Bever sought by the FBI links a Cincinnati bank robbery in October and a later escape from Cincinnati jail. Bever, a cook by occupation, was arrested here after the fatal shooting of Clint Wood a Amarillo resident in his driveway last Thursday.
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Amarilla
Murtler
Harry Ralph Bever
Cincinnati
Jai
Clint
Wood
Amario Cale
Bever
Cook
Old Folks Aid Society Organized in Dallas
The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Old Folks organized at Sullivan Park with over 300 attendees signing as charter members. Speakers including State Representative Dan Kirby of El Paso urged a special legislative session to increase funds and pension appropriations for aged care.
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Dallas
Society For Prevention of Cruelty
Sullivan Park
Dan Kirby
el Paso
Allied Ship Losses Rise in Western Atlantic
The Associated Press count reaches 675 announced Allied ship losses since Pearl Harbor as two more merchant vessels are reported sunk in the western Atlantic. The navy confirms two deaths from an unnamed United Nations vessel torpedoed in the Caribbean earlier this month. Stockholm reports survivors from the Swedish freighter Scandinavia, sunk in the South Atlantic, with Guinea as the landing point.
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Wg Vor
Associated Kteer
Western
Atlantic
Associated Press
Pearl
Harbor
United Nations
Scandinavla
Stockholm
Guinea
Scandinavia
Pearl Harbor
Hatfields McCoys Hunt Japs in South Pacific
In the South Pacific on July 26, Marine Pic Edward Laport, 29, of Matewan West Virginia, a fourth generation Hatfield, and Pic Cabell Hatfield, joined the Marines on March 1, 1842. Laport hunts Jap planes with a light anti aircraft machine gun while Hatfield works in the Signal corps and then sea duty after school.
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Pacific
INS
Hatfields
McCoys
United States Marine Corps
Marine Pic
Edward Laport
Matewan
W. Va
McCoy
Pic
Cabell Hatfield
Marines
Nm Mateiwan
Laport
Hatfield
Signal Corps
Oia
Steinways in war the Steinway family fights world war
In New Guinea, Art Cohn profiles Lieut Theodore Steinway and his brothers serving in different branches while the Steinway piano name becomes gliders for war. The 29-year-old Harvard grad leads as aide to Brig. Gen MacNider, with brothers in private and navy roles. The piece links the family’s immigrant history and factory origins to wartime service and resilience, noting the factory turned to aircraft work and the family’s enduring commitment to liberty.
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Art Cohn
Carreanensens
New Guinea
INS
Hoss
Helbreich Engelhard Steinweg
Grand Duchy of Brunswick
William
Steinwegs
Steinway
Theodore Steinway
Manford E. MacNider
Ted
Harvard
Army
Buck
Henry
John
Air Transport Command
Africa
Pritz
Navy
Longsland
Tod
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Jack F. Sanderson
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Eldridge G. Shelton Jr
Plainview
A. P. Phate
Service Watch
Alan
Avis
WAAC
E. Houston
Eee
Ieee
Eleanor
Knife Bandits
Itaxco
Conchita Sepu
Pignatelli
Texas
Old Folks ‘Aid Society Organized
Ner Rsa
Frederick
Hatfields. McCoys
Cohn
Young Steinway
Ripley
Steinway Sons
Glee Club
America
Queensborough Bridge
Meyer
New York
Tom
Russia
Pususnen
Treamer
John Follard
Levinsky
Placid
Lake Merritt
Oakland
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Selah
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