Johnson Park Named For Kingsport Founder J. Fred Johnson
Kingsport’s municipal stadium will be named J. Fred Johnson Park after action by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Plans include an industrial wire fence and shrubs, with grading nearly finished and stands to begin once contracts are let. Johnson, a Kingsport founder and longtime civic leader, helped attract major industries and shaped the city’s growth.
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Recreation Center
Johnson City
Bristol
Mr. Johnson
Tennessee
Perkins Criticized For Action Over Coal Delays
Coal operators and the United Mine Workers blame Secretary Perkins for delaying soft coal mine returns to operation. War department reports say the stoppage hurts defense output with blast furnaces and ammonia plants ready to shut.
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War Department
Charles O'Neill
John L. Lewis
UMW
New York
Defense Mediation Board
Perkins
Question of U S Convoys Again Raised As Extended Defense Zone Proposed
Sullivan County Board of Education discussed replacing the Piney Flats burned school with a new combined elementary and high school building. A cost study will precede a county court recommendation. The board also elected 264 teachers for 1941 42, with assignments to be announced soon.
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Piney Flats
Sullivan County Board of Education
Lewis I. Chase
Chase
Mary Hughes
Stick-up Foiled Die in Chase at New York Athletic Club
A chambermaid was beaten and a veteran traffic patrolman shot as three bandits attempted a holdup on 59th Street near Seventh Avenue. One robber killed himself, a companion captured, and a third escaped. Police tied the episode to a broader security patrol report and naval defense talks following remarks by Mayor La Guardia.
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Frank Erickson
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Fiorello la Guardia
Malayan Defense Force Bolstered By New Arrivals
Singapore reports a great transport arrived with Australian imperial force reinforcements including transport services and auxiliaries. Gen Bond says defense in men guns and planes nears peak as Axis moves threaten Singapore and the Dutch East Indies.
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Escaped convict Hopson believed hiding near Knoxville
Knoxville officers continued search for Frank Hopson 27, who escaped Brushy Mountain prison in Petros after a 1937 bank robbery and gun battle that left Sheriff Hutchinson dead. A Clinton woman reported a man resembling Hopson seen at a grocery store wearing overalls. Police halted a Clinton to Knoxville freight train and alerted Claiborne, Anderson, and Union counties.
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Herbert Russell
Claiborne
Anaerson
Union Counties
Penitentiary
Tazewell
L. B. Hutchinson
Union County
Russell
Vast Defense Plant Buildout Drafted by War Department
The War Department drafted a plan costing about 1.5 billion dollars to expand U S defense plant capacity. It envisions over 30 ordnance factories and expanded bomber engine plants to equip up to 2 million soldiers and supply critical munitions for Britain, subject to OEPM and presidential approval.
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First Chrysler Tank Delivered to U S Army
The Chrysler factory near Detroit delivered the first M 3 tank to the United States Army. Major General Charles M Wesson accepted the 28 ton vehicle driven by a 400 horsepower aviation engine with a top speed over 25 mph and a 100 mile cruising range. It carries a 77 mm field cannon a 37 mm cannon and multiple machine guns.
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Guard to Stress Peace and Quiet
Knoxville Col. James A. Gleason named by Gov. Cooper to organize two units of the state guards said the semi military organization would emphasize peace and quiet. He stated the group would avoid excitement and trouble and work to neutralize potential sabotage at the source, largely separate from industrial dispute activities.
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James A. Gleason
Cooper
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British China Pact Reported Sealed For Burma Defense
A dispatch from Amoy to Asahi claims a secret military agreement between England and the Chung King government for Burma defense. It says 2000 Chinese troops crossed the Burma frontier recently and more are positioned along the Burma Thailand border. Preparations were made to store war material including airplanes in Burma for the central Chinese government.
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Asahi
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Morgenthau Seeks Higher Taxes to Boost Defense
Secretary Morgenthau asked Congress for about 3.5 billion dollars in new taxes and safeguards against profiteering to finance a larger defense program. He urged reduced non defense spending and reallocation of resources to defense as the nation nears full employment.
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Rail lines warn of local train suspensions in coal shortage
Virginia State Corporation Commission said Southern Railway notified potential suspension of 40 local passenger trains in the south to conserve dwindling coal supplies.
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Virginia State Corporation Commission
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Army camp construction on schedule for 1.418 million mobilized
A Washington based general staff witness told Senate investigators that the army’s camp construction program was brought up to schedule ensuring quarters would be ready for all 1,418,000 men to be mobilized by July 1.
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P—A
Senate
Berlin denies Scandinavian reports on Athens status
A German military spokesman at 5:30 p.m. CST stated Athens is not in German hands and that the high command had not yet passed Thermopylae, denying Scandinavian reports.
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German Battleships Scharnhorst Gneisenau Damaged in Brest Raids
The 26 000 ton Scharnhorst is believed out of commission for some months and her mate Gneisenau also damaged in recent British raids on Brest, according to the Press Association.
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