National Guard unit to leave early Thursday
The 191st field artillery Battery E and Battery F of the Kingsport National Guard will depart Clinch field station at 5 45 am Thursday with final roll call at 10 30 tonight. Guardsmen will sleep in armory quarters until 3 am and depart for Chattanooga by train, arriving later at Camp Forrest. The roster of officers and men includes Maj. McLendon and Lt. Philbeck along with numerous battery personnel listed, as they move to the field site.
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191St
Field Artillery
Kingsport
National Guard
Clinchfield Station
Armory
Sagihern Railroad
Johnson City
Byron N. Mallis
Y B. Ross
Stanley V. Tal
Paul C. Triplett
George K. Williams
John C. Wooten
Howard Bales
Gerald R. Begley
Earl L. Bloomer
George W. Bowlin
Fred J. Britton
Jerome Broyles
Lee K. Buckingham
James J. Burton
Ancel P. Carmack
Robert K. Carter
Henry C. Clark
Grady V
Warren Wright
Roy Bowen
Jack V. Boyd
Walter D. Cox
James P. Dean
Lloyd L. Edwards
Fred G. Hale
James W. Hurd
Howard W. McNiel
Joe S. Surgener
Frank M. Ker
Joe N. Tipton
Howard Anderson
James M. Beard
Philip Blum
Irby J. Breeding
William B. Browning
Grady Bryant
Henry E. Buchanan
Hunter L
Pact With Mexico Protects U S Southern Flank
Washington announced a mutual defense talks with Mexico creating a continental frontline from the Arctic to the Isthmus of Panama. US and Mexican experts will draft cooperative defense plans including possible naval and air bases for U S use. The accord parallels the US Canada pact and follows Havana 1940 talks toward broader hemisphere collaboration.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Arctic Circle
Panama
Canada
State Department
U. S
Havana
Panama Canal
Workers Return To Nooga Plant After Strike
Four hundred CIO employees at Combustion Engineering Company's Chattanooga plant went back to work, ending a strike that had delayed production of nitric acid tanks for ordnance plants. The walkout centered on which union would serve as bargaining agent.
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Chattanooga
CIO
Combustion Engineering Company
Senate OKs Britain aid bill amendment to end July 1 1943
Washington reports the Senate approved an amendment to the British aid bill ending the measure on July 1 1943 or earlier if both chambers agree. Bucharest notes former Romanian King Carol escaped from a Seville hotel guarded stay and crossed into Portugal using a Polish passport.
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Washington
Senate
Bucharest
Carol of
Romania
Seville
Spain
Portugal
Panamanian Leader Proclaims U S Defense Ties Over Canal
President Arnulfo Arias declares Panama's solidarity with the United States on Canal defense and announces an agreement to host U S air bases on Panamanian territory.
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Panama
Arnulfo Arias
United States
Panama Canal
Actress Myrna Loy Reconciles With Husband Hornblow
Hollywood reports show Myrna Loy and producer Arthur Hornblow reconciling after four months apart. Friends say the couple, long described as the industry’s perfect pair, have ironed out marital troubles and resumed their life together.
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Hollywood
Myrna Loy
Arthur Hornblow
New Board to Oversee Aid Set Up
Washington reports Roosevelt will form a super committee including four cabinet members and likely Harry Hopkins to coordinate U S British defense needs. Key members Hull Stimson Knox Morgenthau and Hopkins eyed. production chiefs Knudsen and Hillman remain central. The panel would guide arms orders and asset releases pending a new lending bill.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harry S. Hopkins
Office of Production Management
William S. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
Hopkins
Hull
Stimson
Knox
Morgenthau
WPA
Secretary of Commerce
England
Congress
United States
Army and Navy
Beaselead
Mr. Roosevelt
Production Planning Board
Harry L. Hopkins
OPM
National Defense Advisory Commission
Telegram Halts Girl's Marriage In Nick of Time
Bristol Pretty June Wilson, 21, and Ernest Jones, 17, secured a license in Beckley West Virginia but a sheriff from the same state sent a telegram to stop the ceremony. Magistrate Walter Baumgarden paused the pronouncement as authorities sought the father. The father and Jones’s parent then notified and the couple prepared to travel.
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Bristol
June Wilson
Beckley
W. Va
Miss Wilson
Ernest Jones
Walter S. Baumgardner
West Virginia
W. J. Rogers
Jones
Army Area Studies Task of Spending 6 Million Monthly
Quartermasters of the fourth corps area met in Atlanta for the streamliner conference to discuss expediting supply delivery. By June the feeding bill reaches 6 million dollars monthly with boneless beef substitutes and a new field ration in use at Fort Benning Camp Sheraton Camp Livingston and Fort McClellan. Temporary storage of cotton khaki cloth for summer uniforms planned for May issuing.
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Atlanta
Fourth Corps
Fort Benning
Camp Sherotoen Miss
Camp Livingston
Fort McClellan
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
State to Ask Bids For Paving Road to Airport
The Tennessee highway commission will seek bids this spring to pave a four mile road linking the Tri Cities airport with the Kingsport Johnson City highway. Bristol airport commission counsel Joe K Brown announced. The project will use asphalt and federal funds. Specifications aim for a 22 foot wide paved highway.
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Tri- Cities
Kingsport
Johnson City
Tennessee Highway Commission
Joe K. Brown
Bristol
Airport Commission
Borden Workers and Officials Tied in Wage Dispute
About 900 employees sit idle at Borden Mills Inc as a plant shutdown stretches into a second week. Management and workers report proposals exchanged after a pay rate shift from hourly to piece work, with no mutually acceptable agreement yet.
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Borden Mills, Inc
Aluminum Union Calls Strike Vote Secret Ballot
Aluminum Workers of America Local 16 at the Aluminum Company of America plant in Edgewater New Jersey began a secret strike vote at 6 p m to decide if the union executive committee may call a strike over overtime and pay terms for air craft material work.
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Edgewater
N. J
P—Cio
Aluminum Company of America
Aluminum Workers of America
North Carolina
AFL
Wright Field
Ohio
Camp Davis
Frank Sheehan
North Carolina Labor Department
Italian Officers Seized by Signal Section in Somaliland
British military spokesman reported that 469 Italian officers and troops were captured by a small signal unit numbering 20 to 30 men in the Juba river district Italian Somaliland. The ambush occurred as the advance section sought a new headquarters location and surprised the Italian unit.
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London
Juba River
FDR Improves From Cold but Keeps Schedule Busy
President Roosevelt’s cold is described as better today though he continues to maintain a reduced but active appointment list. He remains under doctors’ care and will keep essential engagements while recuperating.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Puzzle Baffles British Workers
Four wartime production workers in Watford England asked the Cincinnati Enquirer for the correct answer to a crossword from last Sept 8. They found the paper packed around a Cincinnati machinery shipment and wondered what meat is roasted on a skewer and why. The Enquirer’s solution identified it as kabor or city chicken.
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Cincinnati
Watford
Staffordshire
England
Cincinnati Enquirer
the Enquirer
New Airliner christened at Tri-Cities in ceremony
Miss Tri Cities was launched in 33 degree weather at Tri-Cities airport with about 200 attendees. The Boeing airliner will soon go to Pittsburgh for a call to colors on the Pittsburgh Birmingham route of Pennsylvania Central Airlines.
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Tri-Cities
Knoxville
Pittsburgh
Colors
Pittsburgh- Birmingham
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Johnson City
C. Bedell Monro
PCA
Kingsport
Bristol
E. W. Palmer
Monro
Pittsburgh-Birmingham
Adalene
Cox
Tobey Attacks FDR Europe War Lord Over Aid Bill
Senator Tobey charged the administration's British aid bill could plunge the nation into war overnight and make Roosevelt the war lord of Europe. Senate convened early as leaders prepared to debate House changes and consider Ellender's troop-prohibition proviso. 20 to 30 amendments expected before final vote.
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Washington
Tobey
Roosevelt
Europe
Senate
New Hampshire
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ellender
D-La
Western Hemisphere
Barkley
Kentucky
Convict Says He Will Be Hung March Seventh
William Heard, one of four convicts who escaped Cummins prison farm during Labor Day, warned a Little Rock paper that he will be hanged on March 7. He said unreadable future address could end their relations. The letter references the Gartman killing near Columbia, Louisiana.
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Columbia
William Heard
A Little Rock
Ark
Heard
Cummins, Ark
Labor Day
Frank Gartman
Here
All Volunteers No Drafttees For Hawkins County
Hawkins county is asked to furnish 10 men for the fourth draft call, all volunteers. Volunteers outnumber drafts as the county reports 40 white and four colored men in service, with five of 24 men sent to Fort Oglethorpe two weeks ago rejected.
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Hawkins
Rogersville
Hawkins County
Ethel Roller
Fort Oglethorpe
Elmer Lee Starnes
Storm Emory Davis
Fred McLain
T. J. Hamblen
Sherman Trent
Sullivan drafts set for March induction
Sullivan county plans for its next draft call between March 21 and 28 with 26 white men and two Negroes. Kingsport board No 1 gets 14 whites and one Negro, Blountville No 2 gets five whites, Bristol No 2 gets seven whites and one Negro. Tennessee's fifth quota totals 800 whites and 300 Negroes to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. White registrants go March 21 28 and colored March 22 24. Other East Tennessee counties list their white and Negro allocations.
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Sullivan County
Kingsport
Blountville
Bristol
Tennessee
Fort Oglethorpe
Hitler and Stalin Seen Drawing Closer to Balkan Clash
The piece argues Russia and Germany push toward a Balkan confrontation with the Dardanelles as the strategic flashpoint. It cites a Bolshevist note to Sofia opposing Bulgarian policy under German occupation and mentions a German airplane delivering a message to Ankara.
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Hitler
Stalin
Balkan
Sofia
Germany
Bulgaria
Ankara
McKenzie
Turks and Greeks Stand Firm Against Germany Threat
Soviet demand for immediate cession of Black Sea naval bases unsettles Romania as Antonescu seeks Hauser Goering talks. Turkish leaders vow loyalty to Britain while Greece readies defenses. Britain cuts ties with Bulgaria and presses Atlantic war effort. German forces mass near Greece with large air fleet deployed in Bulgaria and Macedonia. Rome notes British troop landings at Salonika.
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Belgrade
Soviet
Russia
Germany
Rumania
Black Sea
Romania
Ion Antonescu
Vienna
Reichsmarshal Goering
Balkan
Turkey
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Nazifuehrer
Bulgaria
Athens
Anthony Eden
John C. Dill
Imperial General Staff
Greece
Italy
Sofia
Macedonia
Thrace
Yugoslavia
Parliament
French
Morocco
Gibraltar
Rome
Virginie Gayda
Gayda
Salonika
Aegean Sea
George W. Rea
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Balkans
Dardanelles
Mediterranean
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Dorothy Dix
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