Kursk Front Battles as German Drive Aims at Caucasus
German forces mass hundreds of thousands of troops and 1,500 planes in a Kursk to Caucasus push. Reports say a Don river bridgehead exists, with Moscow Rostov railway lines threatened. Russian defense fights back around Belgorod and Volchansk as the offensive widens.
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Kursk
Caucasus
Heinz Guderian
Don
Orel
Kharzov
Black Sea
Kerch Feninsula
Restov
Ukraine
Moscow
Voronezh
Fedor von Lock
Stalinograd
Russia
Don River
Moscow- Rostov
Kursk-Kharkov
Kharkov
Belgorod
Volchansk
Ships Sunk Off Alaska On Holiday
United States submarines in the Aleutians on July 4 sank three Japanese destroyers and damaged others, with a fourth destroyer sunk at Attu as enemy transports and escorts were located. Navy reports say five Japanese ships were sunk or damaged in operations near Kiska Attu and adjacent waters. Evacuation of natives continued from western Aleutians and Pribilofs to Tunment Alaska amid ongoing air and sea strikes.
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Washington
Navy
United States
Aleutian Islands
Infore Intalion
North Pacific Area
U. S
Kiska
Apattu
Montay
Jaspan
Tunent
Alaska
Tidian Bureau
Attu
Dimond
Standard Wages Urged By Group
Washington, FP In shaping the policy of labor priorities the commission frees a lever to push wage standardization in plants. Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt urged the U S employment service to apply stricter wage criteria to industries with poor working conditions and low pay levels before placing workers in plants with higher ratings.
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Washington
Munpart
Commission
Paul V. McNutt
U. 8
Western Nations Study Agricultural Problems at Conference
Delegates from 24 American Republics including ministers of agriculture gathered for the second Pan American agricultural conference to study problems facing Western Hemisphere farming amid wartime and the push toward peace.
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Csahs Agricultural
Viscole
Rome
Tveekmerican Agricul Wral
Nelson Protests Program to Make Synthetic Rubber
War Production Chief Donel M. Nelson protested a prepaid program to produce synthetic rubber from grain. He warned copper and steel needs would hinder the war effort and that placing production under an agency could strip the president of control. The committee deferred action pending new objections within a week.
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Vwashington
War Produce Inn
Donel M. Nelson
Nelson
Senate
Gillette ‘Tawal
Selion
Norris
War Production Board
Three More Ships Sunk By U Boats In Atlantic
The Associated Press tally shows 20 more Western Atlantic sinkings, raising total losses since Pearl Harbor to 340. Reports say a large American merchantman, survivors from two torpedoed ships, and another American vessel were sunk off South America and near the Dominican Republic and a Canadian port received 19 survivors from a third UN merchantman. Casualties include 18 dead from a large U S ship and 8 missing from a smaller craft. at least 278 seamen and passengers have perished in the week.
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Atlantic
Associated Press
United and
Neutral Nations
Pearl Harbor
South America
Tominican Republic
United Nations
Sisinga
U. S
Crat
German Geologist Bergmann Faces Citizenship Review
German born geologist Friedrich Walter Bergmann who took the oath of allegiance in 1937 may be deprived of his U S citizenship amid charges by Attorney General James L. Ford. Bergmann reportedly said Hitler is a man who wants only what is good, reflecting alleged disloyal remarks from the era.
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Los Angeles
Friedrich Walter Bergmann
Alliance
U.S
Atanta Alintney
James L. Orford
Hitler
Ueman
Kingsport Guard to Take Course at Dobyns Bennett
Kingsport unit of the Tennessee State Guard will hold an instruction period at Dobyns Bennett High School starting 7 p.m. Monday led by Capt Louis J Harant. Officers and enlisted men should report at 6:45 p.m. to begin promptly. If rain the session moves to the high school gym. The course then continues in Greeneville Tuesday and Wednesday and rolls into Johnson City Saturday, with further instruction planned for the third battalion at Elizabethton Hampton Roan Mountain and Mountain City in the following week.
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Tennessee State Yard
Dobyns-Bennett High School
W. J. Donnelly
Compains Keare
Dohynse Bennett High School
Greeneville, Tenn
Pam
Donnelly
Greeneville
Fr Harant
Johnson Gily
Harant
Elizabethton
Hampton
Roan Mountain
Mountain City
Salt Water Sample From Tennessee Navy Recruiting Row
Tennessee naval officials accuse Alabama recruiters of fraud after a bottle of so called salt water sent to Nashville proved to be Tennessee river water. Lt. Robert Warner and Lt. Walker cite the water’s lack of iodine and river silt. Tennessee trails Alabama in enlistments but Chief Recruiter E. H. Keith says the state will surge ahead in the July drive.
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Nashville
Para- Parma
Tennessee
Robert Warner
Tennessee River
Gulf of
Walkee
Gulf
E. BH. Keith
Alabama
Panta
Keith
iTuly
Japs Increase Aerial Attacks on Port Moresby
Allied reports say Japanese aircraft pressed raids on Port Moresby with 33 planes in the initial assault, followed by a second wave of 10 bombers. The raid targeted the airfield with rail damage described as light, while MacArthur's forces continued attacks on bases in New Guinea Timor and the Solomons. Elsewhere, about 2,000 French workers left Marseille for Germany in response to Laval's call for labor in Nazi industry per German radio from a Vichy dispatch.
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Port Moresby
New Guinea
Timor
Solomon Islands
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Mondas
Marseille
Germany
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Moasay
No Auto Deaths Are Reported In Four Tennessee Areas
No traffic fatalities were reported in Memphis Chattanooga Knoxville or Nashville last week. Yearly traffic deaths stood at 78 with injuries down in counties to 41 versus 71 a year ago. Also noted are unrelated obituaries of stuntman Harry M Teter and Dr John R Shannon sphthalmologist in Richmond.
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Memphis
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Nashville
Witty
Richmond
John R. Shannon
Monroe Terrace
Bayonets At El Alamein Describe Desert Moon Battle
British Maori troops struck German infantry with bayonets near El Alamein as Rommel faced fresh pressure within 70 miles of Alexandria. Reports say a strong point was taken and heavy Axis casualties occurred while Britain prepared artillery for open-sight assaults. Italian and German sources note renewed Allied offensive, with armored units and Grant tanks redistributed to the front.
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New Zealand
el Alamein
Alexandria
Middle East Command
Erwin Rommel
Rommel
Asis
Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Basel
National Zeitung
Egypt
Rome
Geneva Tribune
Senate Moves Quick Approval Of Farm Bill
The Senate appropriation committee unanimously approved stop gap legislation to free 82.9 million dollars for the Agriculture Department for July with the condition that any spending be recaptured from regular appropriations later. If both Houses pass, the measure would be in effect for two days while conferees seek compromise on the larger 690 million farm appropriations bill.
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Washington
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Barkley
Kentucky
House
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Wallace
Bund leader held on Selective Service charge
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze described by federal authorities as former leader of the German American Bund in the United States was held on a federal charge of violating the Selective Service Act. Confirmation of the action came Monday in Washington as part of ongoing wartime enforcement.
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New York
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
Fuehrer
Bund
Americans Urged to Work Like Hell Keep Mouths Shut
A group of wounded Dutch Harbor veterans arrived in Seattle to convalesce as they urged the public to keep silent and continue war production. Pvt Bob Milam and Corp Bruce Richardson described bombs and a long fall during the Aleutian raid. Corp Lewis Prentice recalled being knocked out for 36 hours and swerved by a steel drum shielding him from debris.
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Seattle
Andy
Dutch Harbor
Bob ‘Milam Af
Chicago
Brathar
Milam
Corp
Bruce Richardson
Hot Springs
Arkan
Sas
Aleutian
Lewis R Prentice
Tokechita
Okla
Prentice
Army
Announcement on Want-Ads desk change in wartime
Due to communication and mechanical problems incident to the war Want-Ads will no longer be taken over the telephone. Copy must be taken to the office. Kingsport Times.
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport Welcomes New Morning Paper The Kingsport News
Kingsport readers welcomed the Kingsport News with praise from local business leaders and subscribers. Store managers B G Dunning Henry Lipman Sam Anderson Maurice Sobel and Mrs Robert Delius all praised its front page appeal readability and new features marking a progressive addition to the city’s press landscape.
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Kingsport
Kingsport News
B. G. Dunning
J. ©. Penney Company
Times
Kingspact
Henry Lipman
Jawél
Sam Anderson
Fred Jobson
Newsr
Maurice Sobel
Sobel
Robert Delius
Catawba Street
Ln the
Newny
Hospital Treats Child and Youth After Bicycle Accident
Robert Allieon son of Ruth Allison of 1434 Willow Street was taken to Holston Valley Community Hospital Sunday for treatment of a deep laceration on the right leg from an automobile strike Friday night in Highlands Park while riding a bicycle. The boy sustained a fractured skull fractured right arm multiple lacerations and bruises and a serious wound on the back. The hospital reported his condition as only fair and he was returned home after treatment.
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Robert Allieon, & Son
Ruthr Allison
Willow Street
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Lale Ramey
Highsland Park
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