Kursk Kurs War Rages as Nazi Losses Mount
Soviet Red Star reports massive Kursk battle with 200 plus German tanks knocked out over two days. Front lines say Red Army repulsed large tank attacks near Kharkov while Sevastopol defenses held after renewed German assaults.
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Moscow
Kursk
Kharkov
Red Star
Timoshenko
Hitler
Sevastopol
Soviet Information Bureau
Fedor von Bock
Government
Red Army
Black Sea Fleet
Perekop Isthmus
Fritz von Mannstein
Army Supply Bill Passes Congress in Record $42.8 Billion Pact
Congress quickly approves a record $42.8 billion War Department appropriation to fund 23,550 warplanes and about 190,000 tanks with the Army growing to 4.5 million by mid-1943. The bill includes funding for lend-lease, aviation, ordnance, and transportation, plus a WPA measure and DC war housing.
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Congress
Senate
Washington Y
House
War Department
Snyders
D-Pa
Roosevelt
Works Projects Administration
Addi
White House
District of Columbia
Woman's Auxiliary Corps
State, Justice and Commerce Departments
Federal Judiciary
Fountain Pens Used to Destroy German Trains in Lvov
An account from American Friends of Czecho Slovaaki a describes Czech saboteurs using six fountain pens to damage a German train near Lvov, injuring about 800 soldiers. the action is linked to a midnight operation in German occupied territory. Also noted are Churchill’s announcement of Auchinleck taking command of the Eighth Army and China thanking Flying Tigers Brig Gen Chenault as dissolution approaches.
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New York
Lvov
Chungking
China
Flying Tigers
C. L. Chennault
United States Army Air Force
Kingsport Board To Meet Tonight
The Kingsport Board of Mayor and Aldermen will meet in an adjourned session tonight at 7 30. Bids will be accepted for a winter coal supply for city buildings and the second reading of an ordinance granting a city bus franchise to City Transportation Incorporated.
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Kingsport Board of Mayor
City Transportation, Incorporated
Block Dies at 71. Last Surviving Inland Steel Founder
Chicago industrialist Philip D. Block, 71, last surviving founder of Inland Steel Co, died early today in Presbyterian Hospital after a monthlong illness.
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Chicago
Philip D. Block
The
Inland Steel Company
Presbyterian Hospital
Bremen Bombed Again by RAF in Fifth Night of Raids
London Bremen Germany's second port and submarine base was heavily bombed last night in the third raid here in five nights. The air ministry said a strong force of about 300 bombers attacked Bremen while airfields in occupied areas and intruder patrols targeted railway and shipping targets along France. Nine bombers were reported missing.
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London
Bremen
Germany
Air Ministry
France
East Midlands
East Anglia
Sugar Rationing Cards Available
Registration for canning sugar certificates continues through Thursday. Registrars accept applications 9 am to 5 pm at the post office, with Thursday as the deadline until October 1. Bring estimated fruit and vegetable canning quantities. ration rules allow one pound per four quarts plus one extra pound per person for preserves. London dispatch notes two German parachutists arrested by Turkish authorities on the Caucasian border.
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Rational Board
London
Reuters
Ankara
Rubber Drive In Sullivan Extended by Ten Days
Sullivan county scrap rubber officials extended the drive by ten days to reach the 246000 pound quota by July 19. A R Brashear said about 265000 pounds had been collected so far and urged continued household and business participation. Arthur Doggett noted Kingsport Boy Scouts will canvass again next week and called on residents to keep scrap piles growing for collection or drop off at local stations.
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Sullivan County
A. R. Brashear
Arthur Doggett
Sullivan
Kingsport
Doggett
Nazi Battleship Gneisenau Repaired In Polish Port
British aerial photos show the 26 000 ton German battleship Gneisenau anchored at Gdynia with three 11 inch gun turrets dismantled and about 30 feet of fore castle deck removed. British assessment says repairs would be impossible at Gdynia and the ship may be out for the duration.
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London
Brest
Gdynia
Air Ministry
Bombers Hit Wake Island In Long Range Night Raid
American bomber force conducted a likely record long over water mission striking Wake Island under a full moon. They set the main building afire and returned safely without losses, following a previous February naval air attack on Wake.
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Hawaiian Air Force
Wake Island
Art W. Meehan
West Point
Wake
Pearl Harbor
Midway Island
Virginia Law Officials Shot To Death In Lynchburg Building
Virginia House member P. Franklin Daniel and Lynchburg city attorney T. Gibson Hobbs were killed after 1 p.m. in a law building. Warren Myers, 51, a salesman, was arrested and charged with murder after the double shooting that left Hobbs dead on the first floor and Daniel dying in his third floor office.
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Lynchburg
T. Franklin Daniel
Virginia House of Delegates
T. Gibson Hobbs
Warren Myers
Daniel
Hobbs
Virginia Baptist Hospital
Kemp, Hobbs and Davidson
Illinois
Myers
Virginia
Virginia House
Young Democratic Clubs of
Shot&s
Warren
E. Lewis Mee Cutcheon
Municipal Court
Malcolm Burrues
Merchants Set Period Aside To Sell Bonds
Kingsport merchants plan a 15 minute war bond and stamp sale at noon tomorrow with all stores closing to focus on selling stamps. Officials expect large crowds as citizens are urged to buy at least one stamp, with clerks busier than ever from 12 to 12 15. Meanwhile Paris officials sentence five to death by guillotine for food riots and others to life or shorter terms.
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J. W. Stephenson
Kingsport Merchants Association
Stephenson
Kingsport
Treasury Department
C. B. Hay
The
Merchants Association
Vichy
Paris
Japs Claim Advance In China Amid Rain Battle
Japanese invasion forces reportedly gained about 20 miles along the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway in eastern China as three Chinese armies retreated southward. A Chinese spokesman noted six Japanese columns pressing from Shansi and Honan, with the next moves unclear. In Australia, Gen. Douglas MacArthur received the Congressional Medal of Honor for leadership in the Philippines.
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Japan
Tokyo
Chekiang-Kiangsi
China
Fukien
Shansi-Honan
Shansi
Honan
Douglas MacArthur
Allied
Australia
The
Philippines
Shortage Cuts Death Rate Reports Traffic Decline
The National Safety Council credits a 25 percent drop in May traffic deaths to less driving and greater caution. May toll fell to 2,290 from 3,050 in May 1941, with January–May 1942 deaths down 11 percent to 12,450.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
House votes again to end Civilian Conservation Corps
Washington reports the House approved a second time to terminate the Civilian Conservation Corps program tonight. A drastic curtailment of bicycle production is under review by the War Production Board despite expected demand to replace cars.
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Washington
House
War Produuction Board
Argentina Seeks Clarification on Rio Tercero Sink Probe
Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu said Germany sent a reply to Argentina's protest over the sinking of the freighter Rio Tercero. He did not reveal contents or whether the response satisfied Argentina and gave no timeline for further action.
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Buenos Aires
Enrique Ruiz Guinazu
Germany
Argentina
Subsidies Urged to Block Ceiling Price Breakthrough
Washington officials propose vast government subsidies to buy farm products and raw materials and resell at a loss to prevent price ceiling violations. Price Administrator Leon Henderson and Secretary Wickard estimate costs between 300 and 400 million dollars. Congress faces a jammed calendar as funding bills loom, with night sessions planned to finish appropriation measures before the new fiscal year. The Civilian Conservation Corps remains a point of disagreement, with the House voting to end it and the Senate opting to continue.
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Leon Henderson
Wickard
Roosevelt
Senate
House
CPA
State, Commerce and Justice Departments
WPA
Washington
Interior Department
Civilian Conservation Corps
Axis Forces Nearer Alexandria in Desert Battles
British reports say Axis tanks and vehicles pushed east to the Fuka area near Matruh as American air power and New Zealand troops bolster the defense. RAF raids set fires among armor and transports while American observers note improved morale despite reverses.
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Cairo
United States Army
Tobruk
Fuka
Alexandria
Matruh
Erwin Rommel
New Zealand
United States
RAF
Britain
Foreign Legion
el Daba
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U.S
Reds
Russia
Churchill
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
Middle East
Eighth Army
Neil M. Ritchie
Ritchie
Alan Gordon Cunningham
House of Commons
Egypt
Auchinleck
Archibald P. Wavell
India
Malaya
Singapore
Mediterranean
Wavell
Cunningham
Kingsport Board
Steel
U. S
Marine Corps
Virginia Salon
Associated Press
Bulletins
CCC
E.S. J. Grubb
Kingsport Plant Employe
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