Nazis Fall Back On All Fronts In Ukrainian Drive
Russian forces widened the Kharkov push hitting 70 towns and forcing German withdrawals toward Kharkov while advancing on the Bryansk line. Soviet bombers disrupted rail traffic as 100 villages fell west of Orel and reports from Paris radio claimed heavy tank and air activity across multiple fronts.
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London
Kharkov
Graivoron
Owithin
Belgorod
Moscow
Chugiev
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Bryansk
Bryanak
Kharlov
Balgorod
Tts
Udiableh
Zolochev
Syennoe
Khartov
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Zolochey
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Orel
Shamardine
Gnelzdilovo
Slakhanskaya
Paris
Associated Press
Unclear text fragment about work trust and vacation
The readable parts show a jumble about work hours trust and a request related to photos and quitting a job. No clear event, names, or entities present to summarize with precision.
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DELL
Germans Hint Something Big About To Happen
Reports from Berlin say a number of important military and political discussions have been held in the Fuehrer’s headquarters in recent days. The German International Information Bureau and the DNB agency note speculation that a major event or change could be in motion, possibly a coup to replace Hitler.
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London
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Wuehhtar
German International Information Bureau
4 Propaganda Agency
DNB
Berlin
Fuehrer
Crawford Resigns As Chief Of Police
Crawford resigns after 18 years with Kingsport Police Department and six mayors served under. Chief since 1981, he cites health and plans for the future. City manager Cloud says no immediate replacement. captains will run shifts.
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Police
Clay G. Crawford
Kingsport Police Department
Force
Land
F.zak L
Cloud
Ality
Fall Branch
Kingsport
Military
Army of Ovacupation
Germany
Crawfford
Pillseurga Fitates
Tenor's
Sporta
Alf
Jack
Dobyns-Bennett
Erid Hennaninboshe
Mr. Cloud
Glass Calls On Americans To Think War Not Politics
Virginia Senator Carter Glass urges Americans to set aside partisan politics and rally behind the war effort. He condemns name-calling of President Roosevelt, urges unity, and praises wartime achievements from destroyers to Sicily and Munda Bay, while defending presidential leadership and urging economy and efficiency at home.
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Glass
Washington
Carter Glass
Virginia
Saturn
Legislater
Roosevelt
Sicily
Munda Bay
Hatch
America
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Donaldson Leads In Kentucky Demo Primary
Donaldson of Carrollton led in the Kentucky Democratic gubernatorial primary with 13,558 votes from 352 of 4,293 precincts, ahead of Kilgore and Myers. Lieutenant Governor candidates saw William May of Prestonsburg atop a field of five others.
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J. Lyter Donaldson
Carrollton
Rurmming
Donaldson
Ben Wilgore
St. Matthews
Rodes 1. Myers
Bowling Green
John J. Thobe
Cayington
Kentucky
Keen Johnson
Kilgore
Myers
William HA
May
Frestersburg
Brazilian Ship Sunk In Attack Near Sergipe Coast
The 250 ton Brazilian steamer Bage was torpedoed and sunk off Sergipe state on July 31, with at least 78 missing, including women and children. Of 129 passengers and 37 crew, 69 crew and 419 passengers have arrived at Acacaju. The ship, formerly the German Nevada, carried rubber fibers Brazil nuts and cotton and had called at Recife Bahia Rio de Janeiro and Santos.
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Sorgipe
Acacaju
Sergipe State
Bage
Sergipe
Brazil
Linvd Brasileira
Belem
Slink
Recife
Bahia
Santos
Hage
Nevada
Hamburg
Wallace favored as head of new food power agency
Washington sources report a campaign to place former Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace at the helm of a proposed combined food production, price control and rationing agency. The plan would replace the War Production Administration and the Office of Price Administration, with supporters from the Agricultural Adjustment Agency hoping Wallace would guide the 1964 program amid shifting wartime food policies.
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War Fund Administration
Wira
Office of Price Administration
OPA
UN Uofficial Authority
Spade
iAgricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
Marvin Jones
FDR
Henry Wallace
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Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Speaker
Roosevelt
Washington
AAA Committee
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Agriculture Wickard
Jones
Ten Day Illness Proves Fatal To C Bascom Slemp
Campbell Bascom Slemp dies at 72 after ten day illness in Knoxville reaching Big Stone Gap Virginia held by two nephews at his bedside. Slemp, former secretary to Calvin Coolidge, had returned from Florida for rest and death occurred February 2 193? with plans for mausoleum burial in Big Stone Gap and Knoxville crypt. Slemp twice served Virginia’s Ninth District in Congress and led the state GOP.
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Campbell Bascom Slemp
Assa
Calvin Coolidge
White House
Slemp
Big Stone Gap
Florida
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Atlanta
Campbell Edmonds
Virginia
James E. Slemp
Long Beach
Calif
Amarillo
Tex
California
Edmonds
Tomain
Louisiana
Congress
Republican Committee
Slamp
Herbert Hoover
Turkey Grove
Campbell
Narime B. Slemp
Allied Bag Of Prisoners Soars To 125000 In Sicily
Allied Headquarters reports U S troops seized Troina in Sicily threatening to split Nazi forces. British units captured Biancavilla as Italians surrendered, shrinking the front to 46 miles. Prisoners totaled about 125,000 as German Twenty-ninth Motorized Division regrouped near the Messina Strait.
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North Africa
U. S
Sicily
Troina
Biancavilla
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Straita of
Messina
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Randazzo
Ustica
Palmero
Admiral King Forecasts Powerful and Crippling Stabs At Jap Positions
Admiral Ernest J. King forecast powerful and crippling stabs at Japanese positions in the Pacific, asserting the key to final victory lies in China. He outlined a two-fold strategy: pressuring Japan while keeping China in the war, with supplies to China largely by air from India and plans to reopen the Burma Road. He emphasized holding operations and coordinated offensives to cramp enemy communications and push retreating German forces on other fronts.
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Washington
Ernest J.king
Pacific
Vitaly
Japan
China
Russia
Germany
Europe
Burma
India
United States
Navy
Guadalcanal
Navy Department
Italy
Navy Bays 3 Japs Ships In Solomons Area
Allied forces sank a Japanese cruiser and two destroyers in a night battle near Vila and Kolombangara in the Solomons, likely sinking a third destroyer. The action, part of the Vila supply run, left no American casualties and raised the enemy ship tally to 23 or 26. American troops advance from Munda toward Vila as aerial and naval actions continue around Bairoko Harbor and Rendova.
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Kula Gulf
Bairoko Harbor
Bairoko
Rendova Island
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