Race Issue Parade Tests Democratic Platform Makers
The race issue drives the Democratic platform debate as Negro groups press for equal opportunity planks while Southerners plan a campaign against racial equality language. The platform committee, led by John W. McCormack, also weighs agriculture, women’s rights, and the Palestine question as it prepares for a convention fight and unity efforts. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Tom Connally may push a permanent peace plank. Democratic Chairman Robert E. Hannegan cites FDR as the matching platform.
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Francis le May
Chicago
John W. McCormack
E. B. Germany
Dallas
Tex
Loop
Germany
Republian Platform Committee
Fir Employment Practices Committee
FEPC
South
Roosevelt
Tom Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committees
British and American Forces Press Toward Caen Front
Allied forces report intense combat across Normandy with British and American units advancing toward Caen and St Lo. Street fighting flares as Noyers falls and Ponts and Lozon River actions continue while air and naval support intensifies the push against German defenses.
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Novers
Leghorn
St. Lo
St Ie
Lessay
Cherbourg
Omar N. Bradley
Poriers
Remilly-Sur-Lozon
Lozon
le Mesnil
Reilly
Second
Caen
Oden
Orne
Noyers
Rammell
Curtin Signals Increase in Pacific Troop Strength
Prime Minister Curtin told Parliament that troop transfers to the Pacific must wait for full force of land and air power. He insisted Australia needs stronger balance and cannot act without broader support, while noting Japan’s potential defeat is near.
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Astrala
Curtin
Parliaat
Sively
Tstenthy
London
Reds Advance on Broad Front Near East Prussia
Soviet forces pushed along a wide front from the Baltics to the Pripyat marshes after capturing the German stronghold of Grodno, described by Stalin as key to reaching East Prussia. Russians crossed the Niemen, pressed toward Kaunas, and claimed 340 towns retaken while driving toward Brest Litovsk and Sebezh near the Latvian border.
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Red Army
Baltics
Pripyat
Grono
Stalin
East Prussia
East Prussian
Niemen
Grodno
Abysus
Wilno
aAlytus
Kaunas
Lithuania
Dorsunishti
Latvia
Bialystok
Brest Litovsk
Mstikovo
Wilno-Warsaw
Berez Kartshkaya
Pinsx
Issa River
Qopochka
Sebezh
Seduction Case Opens Session Of Law Court Here
July term of Kingsport Law Court opened Monday with jury panels formed and testimony in a seduction suit brought by Miss Ruth Walker 26 Sulphur Springs against J C Lyon Jr of Kingsport. Walker seeks 15000 for birth expenses lost wages and related damages connected to a relationship with Lyon a married father of two. Defendant pleads not guilty as testimony proceeds and jury selection continues amid a light docket in the opening week with other docketed cases and upcoming divorce hearings.
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Kingsport
Shelburne Ferguson
Six Nations Back Postwar Prosperity Fund Plan
At Bretton Woods delegates from six nations raised reservations to an eight billion eight hundred million postwar fund while agreeing to support a ten billion world bank to finance rebuilding for forty four nations. Morgenthau praised the fund as stabilizing world trade despite uneven quotas and ratifications.
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Postwar Prosperity Fund
Bretton Woods
N. H
United Nations
World Bank
Treasury
Morgenthau
Ienty
United States
Ain
Russia
China
France
Liberia
Panama
Egypt
India
New Zealand
Byrnes In Race Fox Second Spot
Democratic vice presidential race centers on James Byrnes with Wallace and Barkley, as Roosevelt weighs a personal appeal. Byrnes seeks backing on a wartime ticket while Roosevelt may refrain from dictating delegates, leaving choice to the convention starting Wednesday.
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Byrnes
Henry A. Wallace
Algen W. Barkley
Roosevelt
Whalface
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Burnett Maybank
South Caroline
Samuel Jackson
Indiana
Jackson
Wallace
Joseph Guffey
Pennsylvania
Jake More
Guffey
Barkley
Mr. Roosevelt
Kentucky
Thomas EB. Dewey
Scott Lucas
Illinois
Sherman Minton
Joseph 0. O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Claude Pepper
Florida
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Street Scene Portraits of Street Scene Characters
A man on a garbage truck absorbs a discarded letter as a woman with a haughty air returns a deadpan greeting on the street. Nearby two plump four year olds in bathing suits and grass skirts wait along the curb, swaying.
Allied daylight air strikes strike Belfort and Rheims routes
Allied four engine bombers escorted by up to 300 fighters attacked river bridges near the Normandy front and Belfort yards in eastern France and a supply dump near Rheims in one of the largest raids of the invasion. Night Mosquito and heavy bomber raids targeted the Ruhr Smederevo and Vienna areas to cut fuel and disrupt German transport.
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Normandy
Belfort
France
Rheims
Radi Berlin
Ruhr
Smederevo
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Vienna
Officers of Election Named for Sullivan County Ballots
Election officials for Sullivan County were announced on Monday by the county election commissioners for the general election and the Democratic state primary. Voting will occur at all regular precincts from 9 am to 4 pm on election day, with separate ballots used.
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Econouet
Sullivan County
the Times
Kingsport News
Guam Gets 12th Raid In 12 Days
The Pacific command reports 12 straight days of American sea and air attacks on Guam and Rota in the Marianas. Carrier bombers hit Guam and Rota, with buildings damaged and fires started. One bomber was downed but crew rescued. Admiral Nimitz announced Iwo Jima air strikes as part of ongoing operations near Saipan.
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Pearl Harbor
Guam
Reta Islands
Marianas
Tokyo
Chester We ‘Nimitz
Pacific
United States
Rota
Nimitz
Iwo Jima
Saipan
Fleet Airwing
Ssipan
Lieutenant Zoerb Seizes Seven German Planes Over Vienna
Lt. Daniel J. Zoerb, son of Kingsport, Tenn., ferried into a bomber escort mission to Vienna in an F-51 Mustang and downed seven German planes, bringing his total to seven for the First Tactical Air Force. He recently helped his fighter group set a Mediterranean theater record by destroying 102 enemy aircraft in 20 days, and has flown nearly 100 missions in 10 months earning the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters. He described engaging ME-109s that veered toward the sun and broke off their attack after he dropped his belly tanks.
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Fifteenth Air Force
Italy
Viena
Daniel J. Zoerb
Archie S. Zoerb
Watsugs Street
Kingsport
Tenn
Zoerb
Vienna
Thay
Dewey Maine Leaders Plan To Boost GOP Senate Bid
Governor Thomas Dewey meets Maine GOP leaders in Congress as part of conference rounds to coordinate presidential and congressional campaigns. Wallace H. Waite leads the delegation with Ralph Brewster and Rep. Hale, Fellows, and Margaret Chase Smith among others. Dewey plans no meeting with running mate Bricker this week. speculation grows on Senate pick and August State Committee actions.
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Albany
N. Y
United States Senate
Thomas
Dewey
New York
Maine
Congress
Wallace H. Waite
Senate
sHal Atbeat
Republican Campaign Committee
House
Halleck
Deltie
Robert F. Wayne
Republica State Committee
Pawling Farm
John
John W., Bricker
Ohio
Canada
St.Louis
Chicago
Tokyo Navy Minister Resigns Amid Shakeup
Tokyo radio reports Admiral Shigetaro Shi resigns as Navy Minister and Admiral Naokuni Nomura named successor. The investiture occurred this afternoon in the presence of the emperor. Shi had been appointed by Premier Tojo in November amid a broader high command overhaul.
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Tenyu Radio Today
Shigetaro Shimade
Naokuni Nomura
Federal Communications Commission
Mbajesty
Shimada
Seselet Tojo
Cavinet
Navy
Bia
Nomura
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Timor
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U. S. Senate
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