14 Jul 1941
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1941
Page
1
Churchill told 6,000 London veterans and civil defenders that Britain has intensified large scale bombing of German cities and military targets. He forecast continued air power growth until the Nazi regime is extirpated or the German people tear it apart. London rallies praised resilience as Britain vows harsher retaliation.
A three day Good Neighbor tour organized by the War Department TVA and the Office of Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between American Republics began in Tennessee Valley Authority sites. Delegates observed Vultee Aircraft plant Muscle Shoals nitrate plant No 2 and will visit Alcoa Aluminum plant to foster Latin American friendship and collaboration.
The Soviet information bureau said front activity was largely unchanged as fighting flared with the fourth week of the war. Soviet aviation attacked Iasi Ploesti and Roman while raiding German airfields and armored columns. Ninety four German and twelve Soviet planes were destroyed in air clashes. Britain and the USSR pledged a mutual aid pact with Lozovsky calling it a fraternity of arms and noting U S support while Russia kept its neutrality pact with Japan.
President Roosevelt and congressional leaders discussed prompt action to extend the service term for selectees and National Guard members in training beyond one year. The plan targets troops at distant posts such as Alaska and Hawaii to avoid frequent reassignments. Senate leaders delayed a vote on subsidizing private defense property at the president’s request. In Virginia, an earth slide at Bonny Blue mining camp damaged 12 homes but moved slowly with no additional damage reported.
German sources label the British Russian joint pact as a doomed move while reporting a heavy German push toward Kiev and Leningrad. DNB notes losses and retreats on the Stalin line as German forces advance across the Dnepr and upper Dvina fronts.
One of the lightest Monday morning dockets in months faced Judge Napoleon Bond. Four men were fined 15 dollars each for public drunkenness and two cash bonds of 15 dollars were forfeited for similar charges. Roosevelt returned to the White House after a weekend cruise on Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River.
Atlantic City N J Leon Henderson head of the Office of Price Administration warned that the defense boom will end in material rationing not by store cards but at the raw materials level. He said aluminum copper steel and other metals for armaments will limit civilian goods and inflation is a real danger requiring higher taxes savings and controlled consumer credit. More American working time must shift to defense.
Secretary Knox, veteran head of the navy, urges realism about U S aid to Britain and warns war would be infinitely preferable to surrender to Hitlerism. He stresses that aiding Britain may risk war but defends it as essential for freedom and American welfare. He says no sane man wants war yet supports defense against Nazism.
Ask Knox Removal Chicago A resolution adopted by 118 America First Committee chapters urges Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox be removed for recommending using the navy to clear the Atlantic of the German menace. Knox made the call in a Boston address. Winchester Tenn Sunday schools suspended amid infantile paralysis spread. seventh county case in three days. Agriculture Department extends wheat storage loan period to April 30 1943 after growers protested 49 cents a bushel excess allotment penalty.
The National Defense Advisory Commission reports Tennessee firms won contracts totaling 3 554 846 during June 16 to 30. Major award was 2 970 140 to Walters and Prater Morristown and Mark K. Wilson Co Chattanooga for a Memphis quartermaster depot. Other awards included Brookside Mills Knoxville 485 000 yards cotton tent duck 166 113 and 537 000 yards 183 922 Dempster Bros Inc Knoxville hoisting units with detachable buckets 4 709 Slumber Products Corp Memphis 5 000 cotton mattresses 23 500 Oryan Bros Inc Nashville 100 000 khaki trousers 68 000 Pittman Auto Co Brownsville hydraulic dump trucks 3 984 General Shoe Corp Nashville 24 984 service shoes 94 689 Slumber Products Corp Memphis 7 500 cotton mattresses 29 625 Springfield Woolen Mills Springfield 2 000 wool blankets 10 164 Forcum Jones Co Dyersburg awarded 497 150 to construct paved runways at East Baton Rouge Parish Airport Louisiana.
The State Finance and Taxation Department reports 444 069 dollars in income tax from stocks and bonds allocated to Tennessee's 95 counties and numerous municipalities for the year ended June 30. Largest share went to Chattanooga at 101 741, followed by Memphis 74 717 and Nashville 27 880. Davidson County led counties with 36 416. other counties included Shelby 32 689 and Knox 19 216.
Britain proclaims a strengthened position in the Middle East following the Acre armistice with General Dentz. The settlement allows potential Turkish cooperation, freed Free French troops, and possible aviation bases in Cyprus, while civil rule may stay French. Random fighting briefly resumes after the truce.
Gov Eugene Talmadge wins board support to dismiss Dr Walter D Cocking dean of the University of Georgia College of Education in Athens. The regents voted 10 to 5 against re-employment after alleging advocacy of racial co education.
Lee Beberstein Jr. 26 and his 17 year old brother Richard of Ponca City Ohio drowned in the Tennessee river near Pickwick Dam Tennessee when a boat capsized. Companion B B Herrod of Nashville was saved after a bystander tossed him a timber to cling to until pulled from the water. TVA safety service said waves from the dam spillways overturned the boat.
Fairchild Publications reports June saw the largest monthly retail price advance since 1933 at 1.5 percent. Beginning today Label Wool Products requires labels showing wool content and whether it is reprocessed or reused wool.
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