Fall Of Great Soviet Seaport Claimed Near
Moscow reports the Red Army falling back on the Leningrad and Ukraine fronts while counterattacks push Nazis back beyond Smolensk on the Moscow front. Kin gisepp abandoned as German forces drive toward Leningrad, with offensives fanning from Estonia to Staraya Russa and near the Dnieper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Army
Moscow
U.P
Leningrad
Ukraine
Smolensk
Kingisepp
Estonia
Karelian Isthmus
Staraya Russa
Dnieper
Semyon Timoshenko
Black Sea
Tallinn
Kiev
Berlin
Odessa
High Command
Dnieper River
Nikolaev
Russia
Four Million Tons Of Axis Shipping Is Destroyed To Date
London reports total Axis shipping sunk, captured, or scuttled through August 16 reaches about 4,007,000 tons. German losses total 2,321,000 tons, Italian 1,533,000 tons, Finnish 34,000, with 119,000 tons listed as useful to the enemy. RAF strikes on German shipping boosted the tally along the Norwegian French and Netherlands coasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
Netherlands
America Will Take Strong Jap Stand
United States may couple protest with retaliation by requiring exit permits for all foreign nationals, blocking departures from the U S without special permission. The plan follows a Tokyo conference between Grew and Toyoda, amid strained U S Japan relations and ongoing economic tensions in the Far East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Reichmann
Washington
United States
Japan
High Administration
Tokyo
U. S
Joseph C. Grew
Teijiro Toyoda
Coolidge
Cordell Hull
Grew
Toyoda
Far East
Roosevelt
White House
Churchill
Russia
Council Rows Over Unsound Police Pension
City council debated funding for pensions amid a $30 000 budget shortfall. Mayor and five council members previously backed an actuarially unsound police pension plan. Prof. R M Howard was criticized as potential pension board chairman. The panel postponed decisions on payment timing and methods. See COUNCIL on Page 7.
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J. O. Niemann
William Stuart Nicholas
Niemann
R. M. Howard
University of Arizona
City Civil Service Commission
William H. Codd
Howard
Pension Board
Codd
Nicholas
Council
German Vacationists Urged To Avoid Big Resorts This Year
German government urged the public to favor less crowded vacation spots and spread holidays through the year. Convalescent soldiers and evacuated children have cut resort capacity by about half, with travel restrictions due to transport and personnel shortages from military mobilization.
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Berlin
U.P
Germany
Voelkischer Beobachter
Black Forest
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Silesia
Reich Tourist Association
President to plead for end to shipyard strike
Defense officials expect President Roosevelt to issue a final appeal urging acceptance of national defense mediation board recommendations. He aims to secure a maintenance of membership clause in a new contract with the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers, amid a 12 day strike at the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co in Kearny New Jersey.
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Defense
Roosevelt
Mediation Board
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Kearny
N. J
California
Shipbuilding Company
National Defense Mediation Board
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
CSO
Byrd demands unified defense production authority
Senator Byrd blasts two year arms output failure and calls for a single program head. He accuses Washington of confusion between the Office of Production Management and the Office of Price Administration Civilian Supply and urges suspension of the 40 hour work week during the emergency.
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Washington
United States
Byrd
D-Va
America
Senate
Office of Production Management
Office of Price Administration
FDR
Soldiers Will Be Freed After 18 Months Duty
The War Department plans to release selectees and National Guardsmen after 14 to 18 months of service unless the international situation worsens. By December 10 about 150000 guardsmen, 20000 selectees, and 10000 reserve officers are slated for release, with releases at a uniform rate to maintain Army efficiency.
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Washington
U.P
War Department
Roosevelt
Mery
National Guard
Regular Army
Department
Reserve Corps
New Atlantic Ferry Speeds Aid To British
The United States plans a south Atlantic ferry service to shuttle American warplanes to West Africa and the Middle East, via Pan American Airways. The move could neutralize Dakar if captured and signals renewed Mediterranean activity. Routes avoid active warfare zones with West African terminals likely at Freetown and Bathurst.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Middle East
West Africa
Roosevelt
Dakar
Mediterranean
White House
Africa
Pan American Airways
Pan American
Freetown
British Sierra Leone
Bathurst
British Gambia
Trinidad
U. S
Bulge
Petain vows to crush all opposition in France
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain declared he would crush opposition to his regime and urged officials to take oaths of allegiance at Royal. He said hedging is past and that the national revolution serves France, Europe, and the world, adding that citizens must choose for or against him amid domestic and foreign perils.
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Ralph Heinzen
Vichy
U.P
Henri Philippe Petain
Royal
Petain
France
Europe
Yaqui Killer Reaches Trail's End in Uprooted Legacy
Vincente Gonzales a 37 year old full blood Yaqui confesses to killing a Indian boy near Chandler twenty three years ago after a decades long manhunt that spanned California Nevada Utah and Arizona. Detected as a youth he fled across states while living under many names and became a legend among Yaqui Indians long denied federal protection.
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Pima County
Chandler
Vincente Gonzales
Tucson
Gonzales
California
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
United States
Mexico
Flood Control Pledges Pressed by Tucson Merchants
About 10 downtown businessmen stormed city hall and won pledges from councilmen to speed flood prevention steps. Plans, nearly complete, should finish within 30 days and funding talks will summon property owners. The August 13, 1940 cloudburst caused $50,000 in damage in North and East Sixth and Seventh avenues.
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Tucson
North Sixth
Seventh Avenue
East Sixth
Seventh Street
Santa Cruz Cuts Tax Rate in Two
Santa Cruz county sets its tax rate at 1.4329 per 100 with a 1940 41 comparison of 2.826. Nogales city rate rises to 2.63 up 36 cents. Total levy reaches 7.00 per 100 as state county city and school district No 1 share the burden. The school tax reflects pre shift indebtedness and new auto lieu tax reduces valuation after July 1.
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Nogales
Ariz
Santa Cruz County
Board of Supervisors
Baseball results from early editions show varied scores
First game New York lost to Detroit 3 to 12 after a sluggish start. Second game Detroit dominated despite no major rally. Phillies and Chicago games produced close scores, while Boston and St. Louis also posted fractional wins. Cleveland chased with strong innings.
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New York
Detroit
Breuer
Stancey
Silvestris Newhouser
Sullivan
Baseball score report with weather delays and lineups
A fragmented box score shows Pittsburgh and Brooklyn with pitching lines and player abbreviations. Mentions rain postponements for Chicago New York night games and postponed Cincinnati at Philadelphia due to wet grounds.
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Cincinnati
Philadelphia
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Adolf Hitler
Dniester
Uman
Korosten
Robert Brooke-Popham
Kenya
Sugiyama
Japanese Supreme War Council
Army of Japan
China
G. J. Berenschot
Netherlands’ Indies
Indies
Husband Edward Kimmel
United States Fleet
Annapolis
U.S.S. Arkansas
United Press
Semeon Budyonny
R. E. Stallings
Wis
H. O. Jaastad
Citizens Committee
Oliver Drachman
Tucson Laundry and Dry Cleaners
William Bell
Santa Cruz
Russo
Dickey
Benton
Tebbetts
Chicago
McCrabb
Hayes
Lee
Tresh
Babich
Wagner
Humphries
Turner
Aia
Wilson
Peacovrk
Gatehouse
Swift
Boston
St. Louis
Johnson and Peacock
Muncrief and Ferrell
Cleveland
Chase
Zuber
Evans
Dean
Milnar
Hemsley
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
Dietz
V. Davis
C. Davis
Owen
Franks
Heintzelman
Lopez
Drake
Chicago, Ne
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