Broad Street Fire Destroys Two Businesses in Kingsport
Fire at the rear of the Kingsport Fruit and News Company on Broad Street, with an explosion, damaged the Tipton building and neighboring rooms. Estimated losses reach $25,000. Four occupants fled via stairs. no injuries. Fire spread resisted by cold. a high blast shattered many windows on the second floor. Insurance covered some stock. landmark Tipton building heavily damaged but some offices escaped.
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Broad Street
Explosion Nation
World
Kingsport Fruit and News Company
Tipton
Dobyns-Taylor Hardware Company
Roy Pyle
Shaeffer
E. O. Degen
Snavely
C. G. Frye
Three of Four Quadruplets Fight for Life
Michigan City Indiana AP quadruplets born to Eva Swanson a 35 year old mother weighed 98 pounds three girls and a boy delivered by Caesarean section. One girl died shortly after 11 a m at St Anthony's Hospital. The remaining three children were reported in fair condition with the last born girl described as not in very good shape. The father said he had anticipated the birth for some time and was too sleepy to be excited.
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Michigan City
Ind
Eva Swanson
St. Anthony’s Hospital
R. A. Gilmore
British Rout Duces East Africa Army
British forces have occupied Sabderat and Tessenei near the Italian Eritrea border. They routed two Italian divisions around Kassala in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with about 24 000 Italian soldiers suffering 2 000 casualties. British advances, aided by Ethiopian tribesmen, pursued Fascist forces eastward along the Sudan border as Hitler’s command reported raids on the Suez zone and southeast England. Casualties in Britain’s air siege for December were listed as 3 793 dead and 5 044 wounded.
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Cairo
Egypt
Sabderat
Tessenei
Italian Eritrea
Sudan
Associated Press
East Africa
Kassala
London
Mussolini
North Africa
Hitler
Suez Canal
Britain
Far East
Catania
Sicily
English Channel
High Command
Southampton
English
Empire
Laval Opens Way For Negotiations
French premier Laval and Marshal Petain reached a dissipated misunderstanding after a train coach conference. Domestic and foreign policy would not change due to their reconciliation, though Laval’s cabinet status remains unsettled.
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Vichy
France
Pierre Laval
Laval
Philippe Petain
Substitute Bill To Give Britain Funds Proposed
Wendell Willkie backs a substitute to provide Britain with 1 to 2 billion dollars in aid, aiming to defeat lease-legislation. He met Roosevelt and Hull in Washington before flying to England, delivering a note to Churchill urging unity in defense policy. Willkie proposed a time limit, congressional purse string retention, and section by section review of authority.
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Britain
Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Willkie
Hull
England
Roosevelt Willkie
Churchill
White House
Roosevelt Frames Democracy as Four-Year Goal at Inaugural
President Roosevelt, sworn in for a third term before about 75 000 at the Capitol, urged Americans to protect and perpetuate democracy. He called democracy not dying, vowed forward action, and stressed the spirit of America and the free will of the people guiding a government by a free majority.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Capitol
Mr. Roosevelt
America
United States
Cab Drivers Save Cripple from Fire in Kingsport
William E. Bruner, a crippled Kingsport newspaper salesman, was rescued from a blaze at the Tipton building by three taxi drivers Earl Marcum C L Smith and Marvin Ramey who carried him from the room above the Kingsport Fruit and News Co Bruner lost his clothes a new bedroom suite and a canvas bag with 285 in nickels but escaped unharmed despite exposure Another resident on the second floor escaped by ladder Jerusalem Palestine experienced two strong earthquakes early today shaking the region in two series
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William Bruner
Mco
Bruner
Kingsport Pruitt and News
William E. Bruner
Kingsport
Tipton
Kingsport Fruit and News Co
Earl Marcum
C. L. Smith
Marvin Ramey
Fordtown Child Critically Burned Near Fordtown
Four year old Dorothy Jean Fair, daughter of Mr and Mrs John H Fair, was reported in a critical condition at Community hospital after severe burns from her clothing catching fire near an open fireplace. Her mother also suffered minor burns while trying to help. The incident marked a second similar fire in the Kingsport area in a week.
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Dorothy Jean Fair
John H. Fair
Fordtown
Community Hospital
Kingsport
Long Island
Four Hurt In Weekend Wrecks On Local Roads
Two separate crashes left four people with painful injuries. Luther Stokes of Scott County Virginia and W M Jones taxicab collided at Gate City highway and Carter's Valley road as the taxi turned left. Stewart Fugate of Johnson City overturned his car south of Sullivan Gardens after a wheel brake locked, suffering a possible collar bone fracture.
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Gate City
Carter's Valley Road
Luther Stokes
Scott County
W. M. Jones
Gate City Highway
Stokes
Kingsport
Legion Meeting at 7 P.M. In Civic Auditorium
Ham mond Post of American Legion holds its regular meeting at 7 p m today in the Civic Auditorium. Members are asked to note a one hour shift to finish business in time for Legion sponsored boxing and wrestling events featuring Jack Dempsey. Sam Bartholomew, former UT football star, will referee preliminary bouts.
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Hammond
Parham pushes Madison general sessions court plan
Rep W H Parham of Madison announced he would introduce a bill to create a general sessions court for Madison County replacing 26 magistrate courts. A single elected judge would hear cases seven days a week from 9 am to midnight, adopting features from Hamilton and Shelby plans, with the county to pay the sheriff bond.
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Nashville
W. H. Parham
Madison
Madison County
Parham
Hamilton
Shelby County
Tennessee Tax Returns Expected To Reach 200000 Mark
Nashville internal revenue collector Lipe Henslee estimated that three times as many Tennesseans would file income tax returns this year as in 1940. He said more than 200,000 returns would be made, attributing the rise to exemption reductions.
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Nashville
Internal Revenue
Lipe Henslee
Henslee
Axis leaders meet amid claims of vast Mediterranean offensive
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at an undisclosed location as fascist sources claimed a large new German Italian attack against Britain in the Mediterranean war theater. A German communique spoke of close alliance and full accord between leaders.
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Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Britain
Mediterranean
Hitler
Italy
United States
Roosevelt
Rome
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Axis
Fuehrer
Sailors Freed From Psyc Ward After Nazi Flag Incident
Two enlisted sailors involved in tearing down a Swastika at the German consulate in San Francisco were said to be under observation in Mare Island naval hospital’s psych ward but at liberty. The State Department issued regrets to Berlin after German protests, with Berlin seeking punishment of the sailors and assurances the consulate could complete its display removal.
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San Francisco
Psycopathic
Naval Hospital
Mare Island
Calif
State Department
Bcond
Berlin
Four Year Term For Attorney Put In Hopper
Nashville Senator William A. Buckles of Kingsport proposed in the senate a bill to extend Sullivan county attorney’s term from two to four years. Buckles also filed measures to let Mark H. Whitcomb practice veterinary medicine in Sullivan, and to amend 1939 voting precincts in the county eleventh district. The latter would redraw the south precinct boundaries. A similar county attorney term bill had been filed in the House by Sneaker Joba EA QDel.
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Nashville
William A. Buckles
Kingsport
Senate
Sullivan County
Buckles
Mark H. Whitcomb
Sullivan
Joba EA Qdel
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