29 Apr 1941
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1941
Page
1
Reports say coal mines will reopen Thursday as operators in Dixie raise wages by $1. A parley is planned to resume talks, with Jones predicting a $90 billion U.S. debt and urging sacrifices. The campaign also notes fighting across the English Channel as Nazi long-range guns bombard the French coast.
London reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill rejected forming a streamlined supreme war cabinet and announced a House vote on his conduct of the war. He urged debate on Greece aid and Middle East operations with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to play a key role.
A tobacco maker from Winston-Salem urged Congress to tax sugar coffee and other products before raising tobacco taxes to fund defense. Harry P. Taylor testified to the Ways and Means Committee warning a double tax on tobacco could destroy the industry and arguing chewing tobacco supports some workers.
Lee and Wise counties in Virginia prepare to restart mining as a 28 day idle period ends. About 12 000 miners plus 200 railroad workers are expected back at work with a $1 daily basic wage increase and retroactive 40 cent differential under a southern wage agreement.
In a Times interview, Paul Whiteman credits a record Civic Auditorium turnout last night with signaling blues edging back to replace swing in popular taste.
The United States and Britain move toward a pact to govern use of axis and other foreign ships commandeered by American republics as the House Rules Committee grants priority to legislation enabling government takeover of idle foreign vessels in U.S. ports.
Officials survey thousands of incendiaries and oil bombs in Plymouth, England, and designate a large part of the seaport as an evacuation area following late night and early morning air raids.
The War Department announced today that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's resignation as a reserve air corps officer has been accepted.
Kingsport announces its annual Clean-Up Paint-Up Fix-Up parade will now occur Wednesday afternoon at 3:30. Irvin Fuller, chairman, cites school festivals Thursday and Friday as the reason for the shift. Prizes for costumes banners and floats remain. all participants bring ten tin cans for free admission to the Strand to view Young People with Shirley Temple and Jack Oakie.
Eleven Kingsport men are drafted for one year military training with induction set for May 16 at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. Six volunteers may substitute if additional volunteers arrive before departure, per the draft board. Names, addresses and draft numbers of the eleven men listed.
Stephen Early accused Charles Lindbergh of returning his aviation service decoration after resigning from the Air Corps Reserve and questioned whether the move reflected loyalty to Hitler. Early noted Lindbergh released a letter to Roosevelt before its White House receipt and discussed potential acceptability if the War Department acts.
Negotiators from General Motors and the UAW CIO push for national defense mediation in Washington. Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey and union leaders plan to file issues after today’s session as a Friday hearing looms, with demands including a 10 cent wage rise and a union shop clause.
Frank D. Peterson, a state finance department official and recent University of Kentucky business manager appointee, must repay the state $1,000 of salary drawn. The order targets his legally insane brother-in-law.
Commissioner Dr. W. O. Baird, a Henderson physician, is named the new State Commissioner of Institutions by Governor Cooper to succeed the resigning Andrew T. Taylor Jr.
Report from New York describes refugees arriving from Brest France including twins Henry and Peter Rouzic living with their aunt. They say British bombs hit Brest nightly and sometimes in daytime. A Pan American Airways clipper carried 254 Europeans to New York, along with a Greek resident of London who survived a torpedoed ship.
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