Russia Claims Germans Checked Drives On Moscow
Washington reports the United States enrolls 750000 men into the 1941 draft class. All citizens or aliens turning 21 since last October must sign up. The War Department expects many to be called for the 900000 trainees Roosevelt authorized for the next year. A lottery will set questionnaire order and mix new registrants with existing enrollees.
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Selective Service Headquarters
Army
Roosevelt
Midnight Deadline On Driver's Permit
Sullivan county motorists face a midnight deadline for new driver licenses. Police may check from 12:01 a m, and those without renewals will be cited to court on sight. County offices stay open to midnight for last minute renewals before exams.
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Sullivan County
Local Board Signs Over 100 Before Noon
A second registration under the selective service act drew between 300 and 500 youths in Sullivan county. Registrars worked in shifts from 7 am to 2 pm with 34 local businessmen assisting. By noon, over 100 had registered as Sgt Edward McDermott commended the board’s efficiency.
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Sullivan County
Elmer Strait
Edward McDermott
Nashville
Kingsport
Upper East Tennnessee
W. J. Donnelly
R. N. Runion
Safety Officials Urge Caution For Fourth of July Travel
Kingsport safety director Charles Lineback police chief C G Crawford and Tennessee State Highway Patrolman Frank Williams issue a joint appeal to motorists and pedestrians to observe extreme caution during the July 4 holiday weekend. They warn travelers to watch the three cars in play: the one ahead the one behind and the one they are driving. Pedestrians should walk on the proper side of highways heed traffic signals and use crossings to avoid being struck. Officers vow strict enforcement against drunken driving and ask citizens to cooperate for a safe sane Fourth on Kingsport roads and Sullivan County highways.
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Kingsport
C. G. Crawford
Frank Williams
Tennessee
Eir
Sullivan County
Boy describes three slayings in four day crime spree
Bernard Sawicki a parolee from St. Charles School of Boys confessed to killing farmer Henry Allain 72 in Momence Trl. and Chicago man John J. Miller 19 in a park while wounding Charles J. Speaker 58, a Park Policeman, and shooting Charles Kwasinski 17 who was with him. He stated he did the killings without remorse.
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Hugh McCarthy
Bernard
Knifey) Sawicki
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McCarthy
Henry Allain
Momence
St. Charles
John J. Miller
Charles J. Speaker
Ol’ Bernie
Charles Kwasinski
Call Blocked By Deferments Affects July Draft List
Local draft board efforts to fill the July army call were stopped when Washington announced all men 28 and older will be deferred. Mrs Elmer Strait said at least one third of the men already chosen for July 27 may be struck from the list, with 6 of the first 20 deferred. The source indicated that today’s registrants will be affected.
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Draft Board
Washington
Elmer Strait
Ohio expects 12000 aliens to receive citizenship papers
Columbus Ohio native plant WPA administrator Dr Carl Watson says about 18000 aliens in Ohio attend naturalization classes and 12000 are expected to receive citizenship papers in the next six months as the state advances naturalization efforts.
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Ohio
Carl Watson
WPA
Russia Probes U.S. Supply Link via Welles Disclosure
Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles announced that Russia had made its first overtures to obtain supplies from the United States signaling a potential shift in wartime or postwar procurement relations.
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Sumner Welles
Russia
United States
Turkish Press Shifts Tone Over Soviet Air Loss Claim
The Turkish government controlled press and radio altered their stance as a radio commentator disputed Nazi claims that 4,700 Soviet planes were destroyed in the ten day Nazi eastern drive.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Axis Recognizes Wang Regime As Allies Expand
Tokyo Berlin and Rome formalized recognition of the Japanese backed Nanking government led by Wang Ching-wei. Romania Slovakia and Croatia joined the three power alliance in extending support to Japan’s East Asia ambitions.
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35 Feared Dead In Explosion Of Pleasure Boat
Six bodies were found and a seventh identified as Earl Decker of Rumford as searchers concluded the Rumford picnic on the 44 foot cruiser Don likely perished after an explosion amid fog in Lower Casco Bay off Harpswell Maine. Coast Guard Lieut. Thomas Sampson reported the vessel probably blew up while returning from Monhegan Island. The first five confirmed victims were women: Miss Elizabeth Howard Ruth Hemingway Bessie Strople Anne Stasulis Arlene Sheffield.
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Monhegan Island
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Orr's Island
Earl Decker
Carlton Smith
Elizabeth Howard
Rumford Bank
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Ruth Hemingway
Bessie Strople
Anne Stasulis
Arlene Sheffield
O Daniel Victor Wins Tight Texas Senate Race
O Daniel Victor led Lyndon Johnson and others in a razor close Texas senatorial contest with an unofficial 87 vote lead as ballots remain to be counted. A state canvass by the governor attorney general and secretary of state will formalize the result after the death vacancy of Morris Sheppard.
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Lee O'Deniel
United States
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
New Deal
Martin
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O'Daniel
Johnson
Vast Power Grid Linked For South
The federal power commission ordered the southeast electric facilities linked into a vast grid to bolster defense industry power. The interconnection would add about 200 000 kilowatts, more than TVA’s Wilson dam. It spans Florida to Illinois and Texas to Virginia, with study urged on a Watts Bar to Columbia line via Wolf Creek site in Kentucky.
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Virginia
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Tenn
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Columbia
Ohio
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Cumberland River
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United States
City Aldermen To Select New Mayor At Session
Kingsport will elect the new city chief executive in regular session. Glenn Bruce and J. E. Myers will take the oath as aldermen and a vice mayor will be named. Bruce is seen as a likely successor to retiring Mayor E W Tipton while Kincheloe did not seek another term.
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Kingsport
Glenn Bruce
J. E. Myers
Bruce
E. W. Tipton
J. E. Kincheloe
Bruce and
Myers
Sergeants Fall Ill After Camp Bowie's General Visit
Two sergeants at Camp Bowie in Texas became ill after a general's arrival. They gulped tobacco before the general walked in and two hours later the pair were sick, prompting medical attention.
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Tex
Heat Wave Pushes Thermometer Past 92 in Kingsport
The Kingsport area sweltered for a fifth day as temperatures climbed past 92 at 2 00 today and rose toward 95 with a season high previously set at 93 degrees on Sunday authorities warned of continued heat through the week
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Kingsport
Four Billion Appropriations Await Roosevelt OK
Congress cleared major spending bills totaling nearly 40 billion dollars. The measures include relief, farm, labor, security, and a two year Commodity Credit Corporation extension raising lending to 2.65 billion. President Roosevelt, at Hyde Park, could sign today to avoid funding lapses.
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Hyde Park
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Don’t Be Tagged As A Glamour Girl Brenda Weds Shipwreck Kelly
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier the heiress to over 3.5 million dollars marries Shipwreck Kelly, leaving nightlife fame behind. The couple plan a two week Honolulu honeymoon then a Mexico City road trip before returning to New York. Brenda says glamour brought unwanted publicity and she prefers a quiet married life away from night life.
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the Times’ Special News Service
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John Simms
Kelly
University of Kentucky
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Mexico City
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Crooklyn Dodgers
East River District
Ways and Means Committee Backs New Excise Taxes
The house ways and means committee tentatively recommended excise taxes on slot machines office and store machines and optical instruments to raise 3.5 billion dollars to fund the defense program.
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House
Ways and Means
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