Kingsport Meat Shortage Tied to Nazi Trade, OPA Says
An OPA official in Knoxville cites factory actions and suspensions at Kingsport and Johnson City causing a meat shortage in Upper East Tennessee. Some plants resume partial operations. packers pledge to divert more meat to the region while investigations into possible OPA violations continue. Notter from the State Health Department inspects rural slaughterers as an Atlanta OPA representative is brought in to advise Johnson City Kingsport providers.
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Thia Wera
Trythell
Upstate
Two Kingsport Teachers Resign Posts
In Kingsport, veteran educators plan resignations as K R Addington and Paul B Flick leave for war work. Superintendent Ross S Robinson announced no replacements yet. expected to find substitutes for junior high principal and science teacher at Dobyns Bennet High School. Addington served 38 years, Flick 21, both seeking new roles while the district searches for successors.
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Paul BR
Flick
Dobyns-Bennetl High School
Ross S. Robinson
Addington
Elliott
Wnlil
Adrington
Washington School
Holston Ordnance Works
Dobyns-Bennett
Miami Beacd
Fla
Army Air Corps
Seenadieutenant
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Ala
Restrictions Listed On Seed Beans Bales
Kings Port rationing board chairman H T Shonehats announced after a conference with the Knoxville OPA office that seed beans peas and lentels are free from ration coupons. The only rule is dealers must display used bags marked food beans.
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Kingsport
Laval May Shut French Colleges
A Vienna regime broadcast recorded by U S government monitors claims Pierre Laval considers closing all French universities to send students to work in Nazi war industries in Germany. Widespread French disorder follows protests against attempts to retina up the 409 009 workers Laval is said to have promised Germany.
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Office of War Information
France
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U S Wheat Reserve Holds For Two Years Says Hearing
Washington reports a two year wheat stock remaining at 1,757,050,000 bushels as of January 1 and 16,565,879 bushels of other grains as of January 31. Farm labor supply issues noted during hearing.
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Negro Arrested In Truck Theft
A Black man was arrested in a county town for truck theft and appeared in court on bond. The report notes the vehicle was found abandoned on Maple Street during the incident, with the suspect brought before the magistrate for arraignment.
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Clyde Cilahan
Eyouursald Nor
Beuird
Gircuit
Sun Bond
Ang Bird
Heney
Sporial
Veatleator Jamovlere
Tatra
Transportation groups to meet in Kingsport city hall
Transportation committees of 14 Kingsport industrial firms will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the city hall court room to discuss the easing of car sharing requirements. Bhanti Day Board clerks said notices of the meeting were visitors Thursday. T. Bhanti B. Maden, district OPA millage rationing officer at Knoxville, will meet with the transportation committees.
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City Hall
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Odd Fellows Confer Degrees at Octet Meeting
A meeting of the Odd Fellows at the Bellows Lovedale Udige 401 will be held Friday at 7 pm to confer initiatory degrees. All applicants are urged to be present. Degree team members should be at the hall for drill work. Visitors welcome. Applications for the May class are due March 2. About 20 applicants are now eligible for degrees.
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Night Session Friday To Aid Late Taxpayers
CCD Volunteer Office will host a Friday night session from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to help late filers before the March 15 deadline. Four women volunteers including Miss Geraldine Grace Near, Mrs. Vatce, and Mrs. Stacie Cray will assist in the city venue room as announced by Mrs. Dixon.
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Greeneville Soldier Honored With Air Medal Decorations
A Greeneville serviceman earned the Air Medal for meritorious achievement during aerial flights in the Southwest Pacific theater. The award highlights include notes on the air operations and commendations from service commands.
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Southwest Pacific
Burlnetic
N. Montgomery St
Memphis
Tenn
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Main St
Seville
Tin New Guinea
Kingsport WAAC Auxiliary Dodson Assigned for Training
Mary J Dodson of 1044 Gate City Highway Kingsport Tenn completed four weeks of basic training at the Third Training Center of the WAAC and was selected for specialist training in Administration at Arkansas Polytechnic College Rosville. She resides at 380 Glen Street Kingsport.
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Gate City Highway
Ixingsport
Tenn
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Waemen's
Army Auxiliary Corps
Arkansas Polytechnic College
Rosville
Dodgen
Glen Street
Kingsport
Brief Court Docket Takes Four Minutes
An unusually brief session at city court Thursday morning disposed of most cases in a few minutes. Defendants pleaded guilty to public intoxication, with four men and one woman fined $39 each. Three others forfeited bonds of $1 each for nuisance offenses. Three motorists faced oversize parking charges, posting bonds of $2.50 each.
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Mine Operators Reject Two Dollar Day Pay Rise
New York bituminous coal operators in the northern Appalachian district rejected United Mine Workers demands for a $2 daily raise claiming industry profits after 440 could not bear such extravagances. UMW President John L. Lewis urged a quick agreement while stressing no mine shutdowns. The dispute centers on inside and outside day rates, foremen inclusion, and wage classifications in the pending contract.
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Seemon Lewis
Standley Criticism Sparks Moscow Silence After Reports
Washington says Ambassador Standley spoke in a personal capacity and without government guidance. Moscow radio and papers note Americans were not told the full aid story, printing Standley’s remarks from New York dispatches. Welles and others reiterate the personal nature of Standley’s statements and the lack of prior government consultation.
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North Africa casualties rise as Rommel forces pushed back
Secretary of War Stimson reported Allied forces have the better of fighting in North Africa with substantial losses on both sides. American casualties peaked mid February with 9 killed and 2,764 wounded, while over 3,000 Italian troops were captured and German and Italian losses noted. Rommel’s mobile forces remained active in southern Tunisia, but outcomes favored the Allies as French and American units advanced near Gafsa and Mareth Line.
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LaGuardia Hinted For North Africa Post
Washington reports New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia may seek abroad assignment in North Africa. He has hinted at leaving his city job for a role possibly overseeing Italian colonies in Libya. A tentative staff of about six to twelve aides was mentioned, with names undisclosed pending Italian community awareness.
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Russians Defend South As Germans Press Near Kharkov
Moscow says German forces are throwing numerically superior units at Soviet lines south of Kharkov in a ferocious engagement. Red Army reports encircling German troops, destroying 16 tanks and wiping out 400 Hitlerites, with ongoing Soviet defense and advances near Vyazma Isakova and Rostov regions amid heavy German counterattacks.
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Crucial Struggle For Tunisia Near, Say Experts
Allied observers say the Mareth Line battle signals a turning point in Tunisia as Rommel faces dwindling Axis strength. British First Army and American air and naval power pressure Rommel while raids target El Aouina and nearby air fields amid ongoing heavy fighting in central Tunisia.
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Jurors Named to Value Land for U S War Dept Project
Federal Judge George Taylor appointed three land value jurors Len C. Broughton W Duggan and Charles Dooley to assess just compensation for about 6000 acres seized in Roane and Anderson counties. Government secrecy protects site plans tied to a War Department project by Tennessee Eastman for defense work.
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FDR Nominates Spaatz and Patton to Lieutenant General
President Roosevelt nominated Maj Gen Carl A. Spaatz commander of the Allied air forces in North Africa and Maj Gen George S. Patton Jr. commander of armored divisions there for promotion to lieutenant general, recognizing their leading roles in the North Africa campaign.
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Carl A. Spaatz
Aled Airy Force
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Coffee Rations Boosted by OPA
OPA administrator Prentias Brown announced a ration increase effective for the next six weeks, improving supply from the current one pound per week. The reform affects coffee and sugar allotments, with dates extending from March to April 25.
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