Capture Of Last River Stronghold Claimed By Nazis
Berlin announced the capture of Dnieperopetrovsk described as the last Russian bridgehead on the west bank of the Dnieper. German forces reported 83,596 prisoners and 465 guns in western Ukraine as Dnieperopetrovsk fell, and Luga near Leningrad was also claimed to be captured.
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Dnieperopetrovsk
Dnieper
Ukraine
Uman
Soviet Union
Luga
Leningrad
Simen
Peipus
Adolf Hitler
von Kleist
Kiev
DNB
Russia
Karelian
East Front
Dnieper River
Moscow
Novgorod
Soviet Information Bureau
Red Star
Klementi Voroshilov
Ussr
Staraya Russia
Lake Ilmen
Moscow-Leningrad
Red Army
People's Army
Red
Kingisepp
Pravda
Communist Party
Stalin
Gomel
Odessa
Opposition to Tax Bill Moves Fast in Senate Finance Panel
Washington Senate opposition formed swiftly to a finance committee plan to raise revenue by lowering personal exemptions and ending community property filing. The plan lowers exemptions to 1500 for individuals and 750 for single filers, widening the field of taxpayers by 7 million, while adding 303 million dollars in revenue and 51 million from removing community property returns. It also partially shifts tax burdens to lower brackets with notable examples and postpones joint return changes.
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Senate
Finance Committee
Texas
Louisiana
Arizona
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Idaho
California
Nevada
House
Clark
George
Senate Committee Opens Gasoline Shortage Inquiry
The Senate Commerce Committee voted unanimously to launch an immediate investigation into the gasoline and oil shortages crisis. In Paris, French guards around the railways are punished for sabotage, while Turkish radio criticizes the British Russian invasion of Iran as unfair. Prime Minister Fraser of New Zealand calls the Far East situation very critical and ready to any mutual defense with the United States. President Roosevelt to send a military mission to China, announced by Dr Hu Shih after a White House meeting.
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Senate Commerce Committee
Vichy
France
Paris
Peter Fraser
New Zealand
United States
Roosevelt
China
Hu Shih
Damaging Winds Sweep Across Regions With Fatalities
Severe windstorms moved through Pennsylvania and Kansas City, leaving one death and widespread damage. Squalls eased over the Great Lakes and Northeast as winds 15 mph lingered in New England. Rain fell across the northeast and Midwest, with temperatures peaking from 64 to 99 degrees in various cities.
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Pennsylvania
Kansas City
Great Lakes
New England
Ohio Valley
Missouri
West Virginia
Virginia
North Carolina
Florida
Gulf Coast
Texas
Oklahoma
Gulf States
Atlanta
Wichita
Kans
Oklahoma City
Savannah
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
Washington
Miami
Farm Women to Work Weekends on English Farms
English business girls and housewives will work on farms during weekends to help with crops. They will sleep in tents and caravans as part of the program.
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Wolverhamton
Eng
Brakeman Thrown From Freight Car In Yard Accident
Thurman E. McCrary, 34, of Johnson City, a Clinchfield brakeman, fell from a freight car beneath another car while near an overpass foot bridge. He had both legs amputated and was in critical condition at Holston Valley Community Hospital after a blood transfusion.
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Clinchfield
Thurman E. McCrary
Johnson City
Holston Valley Community Hospital
McCrary
Judge's Verdict Awaited in Slave Case in Georgia
Federal Judge Bascom S. Deaver heard arguments in Athens on whether Hamilton McWhorter and W. T. Cunningham should be moved to Chicago for trial on charges of conscripting enslaved Black workers on Cunningham's plantation. The Chicago grand jury indicted them for years of peonage and lack of wages, with three workers resisting extradition in Oglethorpe county on burglary indictments.
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Hamilton McWhorter
Georgia Senate
W. T. Cunningham
Oglethorpe County
Chicago
Bascom S. Deaver
Athens
Deaver
Wallace Miller
Cunningham
McWhorter
Three Injured In Auto Wrecks In Kingsport Area
Traffic accidents Monday afternoon near Rotherwood bridge and Sullivan High School left three people injured. Mrs. Harry Bateman of Norfolk Virginia suffered a fractured right shoulder and leg bruises in the first crash. Carl Wilson of Fordtown and Luther Crawford of the same address were hurt in the second incident with head and hand lacerations and a knee injury. The Holston Valley Community Hospital reported Bateman as the only treated case.
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Kingsport
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Harry Bateman
Norfolk
Rotherwood Bridge
Sullivan High School
Carl Wilson
Fordtown
Luther Crawford
Wilson
Crawford
Nazis Mum On Action In Near East
Berlin and Iran are in active contact over the British Soviet invasion of Iran. An authorized spokesman refused to disclose negotiations. British Soviet moves are described with varying German opinions and no clear German response.
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Near East
Berlin
Germany
Iran
Turks Expect German Action as Iran Crisis Deepens
Ankara notes world powers push to end Iranian dispute as Britain and Russia warn of potential German moves. Turkish officials, including Sukru Saracoglu, report cordial yet tense talks amid fears of a swift Allied response and a possible land route from Singapore to the Aegean.
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Turkey
Iran
Germany
Aegean
Black Sea
Egypt
Suez
Sukru Saracoglu
Reza Kahn Pahlavi
Saracoglu
Persia
England
Asia
Middle East
Singapore
Suez Canal
Ukraine
Miss Kate Peters Appointed New Deputy Clerk
Miss Kate Peters a Radford State Teachers College graduate is named deputy clerk in the clerk and masters office at city hall announced by clerk and master H M McNeil. Peters is a native of Blackwater Va and holds a B S degree with commercial training.
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Kate Peters
Radford State Teachers College
Radford
City Hall
H. M. McNeil
Miss Peters
Blackwater
Duke of Kent Seen as Just a Joe in Norfolk Interview
Reporter portrays the Duke of Kent as a practical, approachable figure. He praises American labor’s defense effort, rejects Scotch for bourbon, and recalls a grueling fifteen and a half hour Atlantic bomber flight.
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Duke of Kent
Joe
Norfolk
Atlantic
Sharp FDR Veto Likely to Stick
Washington House members predicted no attempt would be made to override President Roosevelt's veto of a bill freezing government loan stocks of wheat and cotton and relaxing penalties for over quota production. Rep Cochran and Rep Michener said the measure is dead after a 176 to 162 House vote and would not reach the two thirds needed to override.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Rep. Cochran
D-Mo
Vichy Denies German Presence in Dakar Defense
An official statement from Vichy France declares there are no Germans in all French West Africa including Dakar. The reply comes amid foreign radio charges that German forces are taking over the defenses of the west African naval base.
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Vichy
France
Dakar
French West Africa
Milk Ordinance To Be Discussed By City Council
Kingsport dairymen from 28 firms will meet the Board of Mayor and Aldermen tonight to discuss a newly passed first reading milk ordinance. All suppliers have been notified and invited to participate in the discussion.
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Kingsport
Board of Mayor and Aldermen
Navy resumes control at vast Kearny yards after strike
At Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock in Kearny New Jersey the navy took over operations after a CIO strike halted work for 19 days. Local 16 estimates about 10 000 workers on the day shift, as 493 million dollars of naval contracts were under way with cruisers destroyers and merchant ships on the ways. President Korn dorff offered to transfer assets to the navy to simplify accounting and to comply with Roosevelt’s order.
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Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
CIO
Navy
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
Local 16
Atlanta
Union and Company
Korndorff
Roosevelt
CSO
Knox
Navy Department
Accord May Be Sought With Allies
Tehran signals possible agreement with Britain and Russia as German agents are expelled from Iran. British Indian operations seize Bandar Shapur Abadan and other key sites, paving a route to Teheran while Russian advances pressure Iranian defenses.
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