W R Jennings Named Mayor By City Board
Kingsport's new mayor for the next two years is W R Jennings after the City Board and Aldermen named him Tuesday night. Alderman J B Armitage was elected vice mayor, with J M Fuller sworn in on the council alongside him. Jennings pledged to work with the board to uphold high standards and protect citizens' interests.
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W. R. Jennings
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Russell Stone
Karl Goerdel
Pecktal
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Bristol Highway
Market Street
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Cherokee Streets
Seach
City Recreation Commission
City Board
Strikers To Hear Confab's Results
New York reports on a Washington meeting where 1700 striking Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union members will receive the attorney Louis Weldman’s report. The plan is to present findings to the union's executive council and then to the members for a vote on ending the walkout that has halted distribution for 14 major papers. Weldman said no meeting could occur before Sunday, delaying any settlement.
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New York
WLB
Washington
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Louis Weldman
Waldman
Street Scene Unclear Alley Fixes and Teens on Broad Street
A small crowd watches a lively scene as a pin monkey clambers over a fence beside a familiar pickup truck. Cleanup crews clear Broad Street of litter from the night before while a teenage girl shows a tan marked by a tape V pattern.
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Pin Monkey
Kingsport Observes Quiet 4th at Legion grounds
Quiet Fourth crowds esti mated 10 000 to 12 000 attended the Kingsport Independence Day events at the Legion carnival grounds. No major incidents. talent contest prizes split between the North Carolina Hillbillies and Robinson Sisters. Winners included Hattie Wailene for largest family, James Mitchell 100, Arlene Franklin reddest haired girl, and Mae McSee for fattest woman among a day of awards and contests.
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City Fremen
Radio Hospital
Bristol Highway
North Garatina Hilbillies
Robinson Sisters
Mrs
Moon" Mullins
Perry Limeberger
Mary
Betty
Patsy Allen
Jorita Kay Batley
Wanley Simms
Maces Springs
Audrey Freenor
McMurray
Ray Peters
Glynn
James Mitchell
W. W. Wine
Arlene Franklin
Kathryn Hart
Pauline
Death of Prime Minister John Curtin shocks Australia
Canberra reports Prime Minister John Curtin died at 60 after a lengthy heart ailment with lung complications. Deputy Premier Francis M. Forde and others are named as potential successors, with Forde to continue as premier until a party decision next Thursday. Tributes from Parliament praised Curtin's leadership and wartime resolve.
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Australia
John Curtin
Labor Party
Francis M. Forde
Joseph B. Chiffey
Herbert V. Byatt
San Francisco
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Curtin
Roosevelt
Fromtier Curtin
America
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John
Doug
MacArthur
Commonwealth
Big Three Conference Hopes For Settlement In Potsdam
London circles expect rapid agreement among Truman Churchill and Stalin at Potsdam on Germanys economic future and the cost of aggression. Recognition of the Warsaw Provisional Government within 36 hours may remove the Polish question from the agenda.
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Warsaw
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Churchill
Stalin
Seven From Area Reported As Wounded In Action
War and Navy Department casualty lists released Thursday show seven area servicemen affected. Three killed in action, three wounded, one missing. individuals include Lt. James Edward Barlow Oak Ridge Navy dead and Sgt Claude Honeycutt Johnson City Army missing.
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USMCR
Juliet H. Bartow
Oak Ridge
Tennessee
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Claude Honeycutt
Mary E. Honeycutt
Johnson City
John Furge
Mary Purge
Bristol
Daniel Ray Arlington
Julia Cooper Arlington
Haysi
George B
Australians Break Through at Balikpapan Invasion Push
Allied infantry breached last Japanese footholds at Balikpapan Bay in Borneo as engineers seized mined entries and began reconstruction of Sepinggang air strip. Australian forces advanced on Manggar and Panda niari while naval gunfire aided against entrenched Japanese positions.
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World War II Casualty Totals Rise to 1 038 937
Washington reports an increase of 6 258 in military casualties over the past week, bringing the total for U S armed forces in World War II to 1 038 937. Navy casualties stand at 125 540 and Army at 611 397 through late June based on names reported to the War Department. Okinawa losses through late June include 44 198 American casualties and 137 624 Japanese. Details show all theaters totals by category with prior-week comparisons.
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Yanks Uncover German Murder Station Seven Charged
AMG authorities announced the uncovering of a Bavarian murder station masking as a sanatorium. Four German doctors and staff were arrested at Kaufbeuren with 211 deaths confessed by a nurse. The facility housed 578 people on June 3 and a branch near Irsee held 468 in varying malnutrition stages.
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Getala
AMG
Kaufbeuren
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Austria
Maj
Marvin Linick
New York
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Memphis
Irsee
Valentin Faithauger
Franziska Viil
Yankees Hit Japan In July Fourth Air Raids
About 800 American planes bombed four mainland Japanese cities and rained 3,000 tons of incendiaries as B-29s and fighters pressed the Pacific war. Mustangs attacked hundreds of miles of target areas, destroying planes, damaging installations, and hitting airfields from Kyushu to Tokyo amid a wide array of strikes.
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Truman Signs Three Year Tariff Extension Into Law
President Truman today extended the reciprocal trade program for three years and granted new executive authority to cut tariffs in trade agreements. The measure allows selective reductions up to 56 percent below prewar rates, with prior Hawley Smoot levels guiding the scale, aiming to boost world trade while protecting key American industries.
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Truman
Congress
State Department
Navy Takes Over Five Striking Goodyear Plants
The Navy seized five Goodyear tires plants in Akron at 11 15 am under President Truman's order and ordered 36700 CIO United Rubber Workers back to work tomorrow. Captain H K Clark U S NR assumed command and directed resumption of war vital tire production while warning workers to return or face sanctions. The move followed a breakdown in wage and working condition negotiations, with an estimated 16000 litres daily production loss and broader service item impacts.
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San Francisco
Thomas
Naval
Conscription Gets Committee's Okay
The House postwar military policy committees endorsed universal military training in peacetime and urged Congress to enact a program this session. Sixteen of twenty two members approved, with Rep Bradley the sole noted dissenter among those who opposed the final report. The committee will not draft legislation, deferring to the House Military Committee after summer hearings.
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Careful Driver Award Given to Miss Ann Buckles
Kingsport Safety Council honors Miss Ann Buckles of 1373 Catawba Street for careful driving on city streets. Buckles, license 55505, receives two Chester tickets by mail for safe operation amid traffic.
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Kingsport Safety Council
Ann Buckles
Catawba Street
Mish Buckles
Chester
MacArthur claims Philippines victory as worst Jap loss
General MacArthur hailed a harsh Philippine campaign ending in 1942. He described 115,800 square miles transformed into bases comparable to British Isles, with 17 American divisions destroying 25 Japanese divisions. He cited 420,000 Japanese casualties, 11,921 killed, and 64,394 total American losses and highlighted aims to reseize bases for future operations and a path to democracy in the Far East.
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Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
16Th
Imperial Division
Batean
MacArthur
British Isles
Germany
East Asia
Far East
Tin
Lee Philippines
Britain Votes In Bitter General Election Contest
London voters cast ballots in a high tension race between Conservatives led by Churchill and Labour headed by Attlee over free enterprise versus socialism. Results due July 26 due to absentee counts. pundits hint at Conservative gains or a possible leftist majority.
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London
Britain
Europe
Churchill
Labor Party
Clement Attlee
Commonwealth of Great Britain
House of Commons
Laborite Daily Herald
AML
Labor
Manchester Guardian
Six Youths Seek Navy Enlistment
Six area youths reported to the Navy Reception Center in Nashville to enlist in the U S Naval Reserves. Named are Lymn Marshall Shetterly 17 Dale Street Fred Gray Childress 17 Route 3 Kingport Edgar Doyle Shupe 17 Mube Va Lewis Coolidge Jarvis 17 Route 4 Rogersville Dan Fierce 17 and Nathaniel Dawes Jarvis 17 Route 4 Rogersville.
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Navy Reception Center
Nashville
U. S. Naval Reserves
R. R. Watson
Navy
Lymn Marshall Shetterly
Dale Street
Fred Gray Childress
Kingaport
Edgar Doyle Shupe
Mube
Lewis Coolidge Jarvis
Dan Fierce
Nathaniel Dawes Jarvis
Rogersville
Sub Trigger Overdue Believed Lost in War Patrol
The submarine Trigger with 85 officers and men is overdue from patrol and presumed lost. Next of kin have been notified. Commander David R. Connole led the 4125 ton submersible built at Mare Island and commissioned January 4 1942.
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Washington
Trigger
Navy
Cornnole
Henry Connole
Madison
Annapolis
Payless Paydays In Jeopardy From FEPC Funding Fight
Federal workers face paydays delayed as a $752 million 1948 operations bill stalls over Fair Employment Practice Committee funding. House action opts to curb armed agencies and a Senate restoration pattern could reallocate funds, impacting 11 war agencies and several offices.
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Fair Employment Practice Committee
Senate
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