Riots Quiet Down After Appeal In Bristol Tennessee
Rioting and demonstrations in Bristol Tennessee subsided after authorities attempted to mobilize the Tennessee State Guard. A telegram to Governor Cooper requesting active duty for Bristol went unanswered. deputies and police had been patrolling through residential areas after a Sunday meeting of Jehovahs Witnesses was disrupted.
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Jack Wallace
Kingsport
Jehovah's Witnesses
Blountvilla
Wallace
Bristol
Fourth Street
Roperts
Robert Shoof
Ees
Sheritt J. D. Nowland
Sillivan
Mormbera
Belstol Company
State Guard
Keet
Goyttner Cooper
Fred V. Vance
W. J. Ropers
D. Newland
Jehovah's Witnesses Sock
Elyve
Sibaldea
Thea
Klagsport
Theta
Kristol Ripis
Mage
Reds Mobilize Drive for Russian Clothing Relief
Kingsport reports a local wartime drive urging housewives to assemble warm clothing for Russians evacuated from bombed cities. Donations, tied in bundles, are to be left on doorsteps by 4 p.m. with pickup by Boy Scouts and depots listed across the area. Russian frontline news notes the Red Army pressuring Kharkov, halting German counterattacks, and destroying tanks and planes as advances toward Poltava and Kiev continue.
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Kingsport
Russia
Don Self
Drive
Mr. Self
Oach
Watauga Street Cive Hall
Clvl
Lin Solvege Drive
Westview School
Lynn Garden School
Old Kigsport
Sullivan Gardens
Il Clckson Sehinol
Highlane Pass
Glenwood Heights
Hillcrest
Edgewood
Edgewood Village
Ot Vermont Store
Cedar Grove
Harvis
Storm
Kingsley
Harr
Brace
Lips Manon
Sele
United States of America
United States
Soviet Russia
Self
Russian War Relief, Inc
Mir
Roosevelt Addresses Canadians at Quebec on War Aim
President Roosevelt told Canadians that if Hitler and his generals had attended the Quebec war conference they would have realized surrender was wiser now than later. He spoke from the peace tower to praise Canadian effort and friendship, hinted at sharing Quebec secrets later, and praised Allied cooperation while avoiding battlefield specifics.
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Ottawa
Roosevelt
Canada
Hitler
Quebec
Hare
War’ Council
Queer
Europe
Peace Tower
United States
Churchill
Britain
Germany
Italy
Japan
Russia
Civilians Get Seventy Five Percent Of U S Food Supply
President Roosevelt told Congress that civilians are allocated 75 percent of the nation s food production for the current fiscal year while armed forces receive 13 percent and lend lease 10 percent The quarterly lend lease report notes domestic shortages stem from civilian and military consumption and not lend lease exports The WFA breakdown also shows 75 percent to civilians at home 13 percent to armed forces 10 percent to lend lease two percent to U S territories and special purposes
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Washington
r-Presideur
Roo
Congress
Russia
War Food Administration
WFA
WEA
U, & Territories
Jend Leasa
Likasy
Bombing Campaigns Drive Axis From Italian Coasts
Allied air squadrons met little opposition as they attacked southern Italy Tuesday using dive bombers fighter bombers and night bombers. U S S A 34 dive bombers hit an Italian cruiser off the south coast causing a blaze and stern damage while rail yards and bridges at Sapri Cantrovillari and Sibari were struck.
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Allied
North
Atenea
J/P
Allied Air Squadrong
Italy
Naples
Oif
Middle East
Ban
U. S&s
EGB
Sapri
Gulf of Foltenetto
Cantroviiari
Ite
Sicily
Reggio Calbrin
Ttgly
Messina
Tignan Skirz
Bari
U. S
Sichy
Enmany
Cirenat
Greece
Timia
Associated Press
Rome
Napier
Salerno
Yanks Complete First Shuttle Flight With Bordeaux Raid
American Flying Fortresses completed the first shuttle trip, landing in Britain after bombing an aircraft assembly plant in Bordeaux. The raid followed a night of attacks on Berlin and Paris as German reports claimed casualties in Paris and homeless Berlin residents. Brig. Gen. Fred L. Anderson termed the mission the greatest operational flight of the Eighth Air Force.
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London
Berlin
Briiain
Bordeaux
Britain
Ragensburg
Inight
Hiller
A&a
Corrithian
Paris
Borelin
Radio France
Atlantic
Regensburg
Alps
North Africa
Meane
British Isles
Fred L. Anderson
Eighth Air Force
Bordenmay
Allied Forces Push in New Georgia and Salamaua Fronts
Allied troops advancing in the Southwest Pacific report substantial progress near New Georgia and Salamaua. In New Georgia, U.S. jungle units move toward Bairoko harbor after capturing Munda, with artillery to hammer Japanese positions. in New Guinea, Australians near the Salamaua airstrip advance north of the Francisco River as jungle combat continues. A War Labor Board ruling rejects portal-to-portal pay for United Mine Workers, approving most terms of the Illinois Coal Operators Association contract while denying the extra underground travel time provision.
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Neygia
Batrelo
New Guinea
Salamaua
Igen
Douglas MacArthur
New Georgi
Munda
Bairoko
Kula Gulf
Galnes
Francisco River
Georgia
Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
Nis United Ming
UMW
Mlinois Coal Operators Association
Vetn
WLE
Matthew Woll
AFL
William A. Davis
Lewis
WLB
Hie
Board
Congress
WLEB
Illinols
Uling
Portal To Porta
Cohen
Galninum
Spy Plot Sensational Plot In Detroit
FBI detained four women and a man in Detroit on suspicion of planning an espionage plot tied to American munitions. A second man, linked to the American Merchant Marine, remained in FBI custody elsewhere. Investigators labeled two women as dangerous enemy aliens but gave few details.
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Detroit
Detrooit
Novi
Germany
Forem! Bureau of Investigation
FBI
American Merchant Marine
FBT
New Year
Prominent Deleolt family case developments unfold
The case centers on the Deleolt family with links to Berlin born individuals. Grice Buchanan-Dineen faces a 60 000 bond on espionage charges for supplying war information to Germany. Mrs Theresa Wassertonee Babron and Dr Fred Willieasy Thomas plead innocent, while Theresa and another defendant remain in custody as authorities review the affair. The group includes Canadian born and Yugoslav born defendants. FBI and Army Navy intelligence review all transactions.
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Deleolt
PBS
Berlin
Zounteas
Grice Buchanan-Dineen
Germany
ERY
J. Edger Hoover
Army
Navy
Fred Willleasy Thomas
Detroit
United States
Thomas
Tran Ima
Nis
Dr. Thomas
Buchanan-Dineen
Theresa Wassertonee Babrons
Yugoslavia
U. S
J Stanley Hurd
Seamah Bertrand Steuart
Offraaa
FBI
New York
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Thora
Jethey
Hell
AY Denzels, Dump ‘Owshey
Geas
Renny Botts
Geom
Ts! Veiamont eMployment Service
Reds
Nazis
Red Army
Kharkov
Poltava
Acilic
Weste
Litte
Dnieper River
iMosecow
Red
Kiev
Dnieper
Donets Sasin
Voroxhitovgrad
Rushinng
Isyum
Nagi
Auid
Hirty
Canadians
WA & Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics
Kiska Island
Corsica
Sopet
Jecy
New Georgia
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