Commanders Urge Defense as Nazi Pressure Mounts in Second City
Reported broadcasts warn Leningrad fate if defended. German reports claim gains near Kherson and Gomel with efforts to flood the lower Dnieper. Odessa under heavy attack as Leningrad battle escalates with key towns fell and Novgorod Narva Kingisepp captured.
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Second City
Berlin
U.P
Ukraine
Dnieper
Adolf Hitler
Leningrad
Kherson
Gomel
Dniepropetrovsk
Josef V. Stalin
Black Sea
Odessa
Russia
Novgorod
Narva
Kingisepp
Batum
Labor Holiday Threatened In Detroit Strike
Federal and state mediators with Mayor Edward Jeffries and Detroit street railway officials announced a drafted "peace formula" to resolve Detroit's day-old transportation strike.
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Detroit
U.P
Edward Jeffries
Detroit Street Railway Commission
Detroit Labor Holiday Threat Flanks Transit Strike
Unions in Detroit threaten a labor holiday to back demands of transit workers whose strike halts the city system. AFL building trades and teamsters pledge support as Mayor Jeffries suspends services and a CIO rival union seeks recognition. In New Jersey, Kearny shipyard workers appeal to President Roosevelt for mediation after a two week stoppage.
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American Federation of Labor Unions
Detroit
Defense Industries
Kearny
N. J
Roosevelt
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
AFL
Frank X. Martel
Wayne County Federation of Labor
AFL Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway
Edward J. Jeffries
CIO
John Green
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Defense Mediation Board
Warren
Ohio
Baseball scores and line results from MLB action
National League games show Lips 6 Brooklyn 1 and Cincinnati 8 Boston 5 with RBI by Walters Lombardi and others. Pittsburgh at New York and St Louis at Philadelphia in night slate. American League first game Philadelphia 11 St Louis 11. second game Washington 6 Detroit 6. New York Cleveland and Boston Chicago also play with noted pitchers and batting lines.
Congress Told Of Sea Meet By FDR
Berlin dispatch says total Russian losses were put at about 5,000,000 men as the war neared two months. Claims include 14,000 tanks 14,000 cannon and 11,000 planes captured or destroyed with 1,200,000 Russians reported captured and territory over 335,000 square miles conquered.
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Berlin
Germany
DNB
High Command
Bohemia-Moravia
British Bombers Hammer Nazi Bases Across France and Netherlands
British formations blasted north France and flew toward the Netherlands and northwestern Germany as RAF raids intensified. An authoritative source said Britain now has more planes over German cities at night than Germany ever had over England in the darkest winter days. The informant predicted much heavier attacks in the future and declined to disclose numbers. Royal Air Force daylight raids struck the invasion coast while observers along the southeast coast noted bombers and fighters heading toward the North Sea.
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London
U.P
France
Netherlands
Germany
Britain
England
Royal Air Force
English Channel
North Sea
United Press
English
Legion Hears Osborn Land Defense Work
Prescott August 21 The Arizona American Legion’s 23rd annual convention opened with Governor Osborn urging loyalty to leadership in the war effort and defending liberty and democracy The talk highlighted Arizona’s role in national defense and noted appointments of Ben Shimonowsky as veterans service officer and Sam Fowler as department commander plus ex servicemen in home defense roles The defense parade was described as the biggest ever seen in Prescott
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Prescott
Osborn
Arizona Department of the American Legion
United States
Arizona
Legion
Ben Shimonowsky
Phoenix
Veterans’ Service
Home Defense Council
Sam Fowler
Tucson
Roosevelt presses eight point plan for world order
President Roosevelt told Congress that Churchill talks would boost aid to democracies and warned opposition at home to the eight point program would invite Nazism. He added two new goals freedom of religion and information and linked the plan to lend lease strategy and Soviet relations.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Winston Churchill
Europe
Asia
Germany
American
Churchill
Soviet Union
Call for a British invasion to open a new front
British, Polish, and Norwegian strategists press for a continental invasion as the only way to defeat Germany. Editorialist Frank Owen calls for a second front beyond air raids. Polish and Norwegian officers urge landings along the European coastline to find a weak point and establish a new front.
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London
Germany
Frank Owen
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Owen
Italy
Production Of Autos Will Be Pared In Half
The government announced a 50 percent cut in national passenger car production for the new model year. Specific reductions of 26.5 percent apply to August through November as the office of production management and the office of price administration implement the plan. The priorities division will issue a blanket order to speed materials to truck makers to boost output for transportation and military needs. In the first four months of the 1942 model year only 817,000 cars will be produced versus 1,113,000 the prior period.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
Office of Price Administration
OPM
Berlin Area Again Bombed by Russia
Moscow reports the Soviet air force bombed military targets in the Berlin area last night starting fires and explosions. No Soviet aircraft were lost according to a late today announcement.
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Berlin
Russia
Moscow
Hitler Cuts Own Threat By Invasion Of Supply Source
DeWitt Mackenzie surveys wartime durations and the Roosevelt Churchill pledge to destroy Nazi tyranny. He contrasts Roosevelt and Gayda forecasts predicting a possible ten year or longer war with his view that longer horizons depend on access to resources and production.
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Hitler
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Signor Gayda
New Nazi Troops Threat To Turkey
Ankara reports authentic information that fresh German troops and air units have arrived in Bulgaria. The dispatch notes Italian activity in Thrace and near the Aegean, signaling possible German demands for troop transit through Turkey or a move by force. Experts say winter combat could push Hitler to seek a new front in the region.
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Ankara
Turkey
U.P
Bulgaria
Germany
Thrace
Aegean
Russian
Caucasus
Near East
Russia
Adolf Hitler
German attack on Turkey would force war crisis
An impending German strike on Turkey could pull Turkey into the war against Germany, creating a serious crisis for the Axis and Allied powers, with officials noting the potential global impact.
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Turkey
Istanbul
U.P
Two Millions Nazi Loss In Russia Reported
Moscow reports nearly two million German dead and wounded in two months of war with Russia. Soviet vice-commissar S A Lozovsky says over half are dead, notes German gains but says no alarm in Soviet ranks. He states eastern areas are large but Russia remains vast with difficult conditions and ongoing resistance.
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Moscow
Germany
Russia
S. A. Lozovsky
Hitler
East
Lozovsky
Cuban Consulates Closed By Germany
Berlin Aug 21 The German government ordered the closing of Cuban consulates in the Reich effective Sept 15 in retaliation for Cuba expelling the Italian consul general. The move follows Italy’s closing of Cuban consulates in Rome.
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Berlin
The
Reich
Italy
Cuba
Soviet City Leningrad Under Immediate Threat in War Push
Reports from Moscow and New York say German forces close in on Leningrad from the north and west while central front battles halt near Smolensk. Russian leaders urge mass defense, warn of possible gas use, and call on workers and women to mobilize for the siege.
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New York
Stockholm
Gatschina
Leningrad
Russia
Moscow
U.P
Klementi Voroshilov
Smolensk
Gomel
Black Sea
Odessa
High Command
Karelian Isthmus
Kingisepp
Novgorod
Ukraine
Semyon Budenny
Kiev
Dniester
Voroshilov
Andrei A. Zhdanov
Communist Party
Latin America to avoid Nazi rule urged by Hull
Secretary of State Hull said Latin American nations must avoid a semi slavery Germany imposed on 15 European countries. He rejected a Madrid report quoting Goebbels that South American states would become United States colonies if they did not act against intervention.
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Washington
Hull
Germany
Europe
Madrid
Joseph Goebbels
United States
Delinquent Taxes Waiver Explained
Phoenix August 21 The waiver of interest on taxes delinquent Oct 1 1940 and paid before Dec 1 1941 applies to all taxes on personal and real property including levies of towns cities and irrigation districts Attorney General Joe Conway ruled Bryant W Jones Greenlee county attorney asked for clarification of the statute passed by the 15th legislature
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Phoenix
Joe Conway
Bryant W. Jones
Greenlee
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