Reds Claim Guerrillas Snipe Nazis
Italian national Luizi Terzoni, 68, detained in Hawkins County jail after being found near a TVA substation west of Rogersville. He admitted failing to register and said he would fight for Italy if he returned home, while noting he did register in 1918 and the United States is a good place to live. He arrived in America 38 years ago and claimed to be en route to Bluefield West Virginia.
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Rogersville
East Tennessee
Curtis Combs
Luizi Terzoni
Italy
Hawkins County
FBI
Combs
TVA
United States
Terzoni
America
Bluefield
W. V
Two Prisoners Back In Custody After Jail Break
Two of the four inmates who escaped from Kingsport city jail Tuesday night are back in custody. Willis Hackney surrendered Friday at the jail and Sam Gentry was arrested Saturday morning. The other two escapees Floyd Hawkins and Willis Henry remained at large.
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Kingsport City
Willis Hackney
Sam Gentry
Blountville
Gentry
United States Army
Hackney
Floyd Hawkins
Willis Henry
Thirteenth Civil District
Carl Stevens
Elmer Robinson
Dewey McConnell
Tom Bragg
Buck Slaughter
Germans Press Offensive Across Stalin Line In Russia
Berlin reports breaking through the Stalin line at decisive points as blitzkrieg units advance toward Moscow Leningrad and Kiev. German troops drive to 125 miles beyond Minsk, near Kiev, with heavy fighting along the 2000 mile front and major Soviet losses including tanks and fuel depots.
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Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Red Army
Oskov
Leningrad
Vitebsk
White Russia
Novograd-Volynski
Ukraine
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
DNB
Bialystock
Minsk
Orsha
Smolensk
Dnestr
American Pilots May Ferry More Planes Over Ocean
Prospects of a surge in American aircraft production by October appear to support ferrying of combat planes to Britain. Officials say production will rise enabling large bomber output, with at least half of the 500 monthly bombers slated for Britain. Ferry tasks likely fall to the United States Air Force and Allied pilots.
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Washington
Atlantic
Britain
Defense
Atfero Corporation
United States
England
Olive Branch Extended as Syria Armistice Talks Begin
Cairo reports British terms accepted by General Dentz for suspension of hostilities with Vichy forces in Syria. A French delegation met British lines at Acre while DeGaullist authorities push for Free French occupation. German raids threaten to widen conflict as Beirut siege tightens.
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Cairo
Syria
Henri Dentz
Britain
Middle East
Suez Canal
Dentz
Beirut
Kingsport Shops Adopt Wednesday Afternoon Half-Holiday
Kingsport stores across groceries barber shops floral shops shoe repair and optometrists join in a summer half-holiday every Wednesday after noon. Grocers had already closed Tuesday afternoons and now Wednesday closings create a citywide Wednesday half-day. Optometrists Drs John C Patty C G Frye Oscar Silver and J L Supman will also close Wednesdays in July and August.
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Kingsport
John C. Patty
C. G. Frye
Oscar Silver
J. L. Supman
Johnson City Officer Appointed to Camp Forrest Recreation
Captain R. S. Ball, longtime head of the Johnson City Citadel Salvation Army, is named to lead the Salvation Army portion of the United Service Organization recreation program at Camp Forrest near Tullahoma. He starts August 1.
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Johnson City
Tenn
R. S. Ball
Johnson City Citadel
Salvation Army
United Service Organization
Camp Forrest
Tullahoma
Watchman Henry Humphrey Flags Crossroads Hero of Patriotism
In Gary Indiana Henry Humphrey 53 watches the U S Route 12 crossing at the dune edge carries a flagmast outside his shanty He raises and lowers the crossing gates then reads papers and reflects on America The flag he uses dates to the end of World War I and he calls for pride in Old Glory amid wartime prep It is a daily sight seen by hundreds and even a train passenger rose to attention on sight of the flag
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Henry Humphrey
Humphrey
Frankfort
Ill
America
Gary
Pawnee
Illinois
British Bomb Toll Surges in Germany as RAF Strikes Continue
British air offensive reports June and July tonnage surpassing April England drops and claiming 216 German planes down since June 22. Total Allied losses cited at 8,000 aircraft and 20,000 airmen with several German fighters shot down and more pilots failing to bale out.
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London
Germany
England
RAF
Arctic
Equatorial Africa
Britain
Germans claim Stalin line broken at decisive points
The German high command said the Stalin line was breached at all decisive points. Vitebsk fell, advancing toward Moscow from the north of Orsha. East of Lake Peipus Germans push toward Leningrad and northeast of the Dnestr river near Kiev, marking three main German drives in the war. The announcement ends five days of silence on progress.
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Dnestr
Dnepr
Dvina
Latvia
Baltic
Gulf of Finland
Estonia
Bosporus
Dardenelles
Black Sea
Mediterranean
Russia
Pinsk Marshes
Orsha
Baltic States
DNB
Berlin
Vitebsk
Moscow
Lake Peipus
Leningrad
Ukraine
Dnestr J
Kiev
Soviet Union
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Tennessee
S. E. Bryant
Atlantic City
N. J
International Christian Endeavor Society
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Tass
Pinsk
Aubrey Clay
Watauga Street
Jackie Cox
Watauga
Roland Young
James Moulton
Benny Helms
Hitler
Air Force Active
Galilee
Acre
Biblical Galilee
Palestine
Levant
Marshal Petain
Ind
Indiana
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