Blizzard Toll Reaches Seventy Eight Across Regions
Arctic blast and winter storm sweep the north and south with at least 78 deaths. Minnesota and North Dakota report 66 fatalities as ice and snowdrifts trap and delay residents. Weather shifts from subzero in the Midwest to frigid Southeast with record lows in Atlanta and Jacksonville.
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Church census plans for Kingsport area next Sunday
Preliminary plans for a city wide church census in Kingsport involve about 400 volunteers from 22 churches. Lawrence Trivett directs takers to gather parish information, focusing on youth and students for church contact. Meanwhile a separate Erie rail crash in Windham, Ohio injures 40 to 125 workers at Ravenna shell plant, with several feared dead.
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Law Court Jury Returns Verdict Against F. Dykes
A Kingsport law court jury ruled late Monday against Fuller Dykes but favored his daughter on a petition to close his Long Island establishment as a public nuisance. Testimony described patrons leaving his home in a drunken state. Dykes counsel was given until Wednesday to seek a new trial.
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House Urges Quick Action on British Aid Fund
The House appropriations committee proposed swift approval of the 7 billion dollar British aid bill or risk being viewed as faltering. Secretary Hull urged full aid to resisting nations, with a clause allowing the President to retain defense articles for U.S. use if needed. The bill's total availability rises to 8.3 billion with existing disposals authority, and funds may be reimbursed to departments for disposed articles.
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Sherrod Offered Knox School Post
Dr. Charles C. Sherrod president of East Tennessee Teachers College Johnson City has been invited to become superintendent of Knoxville city schools. Forrest Andrews says Sherrod will decide after returning from Florida. Clark leaves June 1 to become a college professor. Andrews notes Clark earns 5000 annually and Sherrod 6000 at Johnson City, with likely higher offer to Knox.
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Planes Collide Over Pacific Kill Six Yorktown Crew
The Navy reports six men attached to the aircraft carrier Yorktown were killed in a collision of two planes over the Pacific Ocean. Names include Lieut JG Frank Mason Robinson Springfield Mass and Ensign Kirby L Berry Norman Oklahoma along with four other radiomen and air crew. The crash location and maneuver details were not released and the bodies of the two officers were recovered.
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Unicoi County Resident Killed
Johnson City Washington County report records the second traffic fatality of the year with Clarence W. Morrell 27 of near Unicoi killed after an Erwin highway crash last Friday night. A Fox Terrier entered Camp Murray hospital, was spared, and placed in a burlap basket as a medical officer intervened. Mother and six puppies are reported well.
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Aged Irishman Keeps St Patrick's Day Grave Tryst
In frigid 18 degree weather on Neversink Mountain Alvah O Schaeffer recalls a 1897 pact with Tom Hannahee to play his favorite tunes at midnight every St Patrick s Day. About 3000 mourners witnessed as songs failed to rise above the biting wind and frozen keys.
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TVA to Increase Phosphate Output at Muscle Shoals Plant
TVA chief David E. Lilienthal announced congressional approval for a 50 percent rise in phosphate production at Muscle Shoals. A new furnace costing 1 million dollars will lift annual output from 100 000 to 150 000 tons, funded from existing appropriations with deliveries likely next fall. Great Britain has ordered 40 000 tons, signaling efforts to conserve shipping by boosting home food production. Private output currently totals 246 000 tons, with a goal to raise national production further by 1942.
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Court Denies Bridges Appeal On Deportation Hearing
Judge Charles B Sears refused Harry Bridges request for 30 day postponement of his deportation hearing. Bridges, CIO Longshoremen's Union president, will face government witnesses March 31 in San Francisco.
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Medics Protest Veto by Cooper
Tennessee State Medical Association officials said they were granted only a five minute interview with Governor Cooper to discuss a basic science exam bill. Cooper vetoed the measure after a twenty minute session, with the doctors leaving without presenting arguments as the governor dominated the meeting.
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Area Eliminated As Air Base Site
Army officers inspection group left for Atlanta after eliminating East Tennessee for the proposed southeastern air depot. Lt. Col. Walter J. Reed said a 19 mile approach required from all sides disqualified East Tennessee due to rugged topography. The base would employ 2 800 to 5 000 men at an estimated cost of 14 000 000 dollars.
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Convoyed British Ships Untouched In Trip To Greece
British war fleet escorts large convoys from central and eastern Mediterranean ports to Greece with no enemy interference. Tankers and freighters carry vital war supplies and allied forces under armed escort as reports of troop movements to Greece circulate, though censored.
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Boy Quadruplet Outgrows Sisters in Louisville
John Porter Lashley, the only boy among quadruplets at Norton Memorial infirmary, outgrew his sisters and moved from the premature ward to a nursery bed with 15 other tots. He weighs 5 pounds 11.5 ounces as Martine 5'4.5 ounces, Mildred 5 pounds, and Beulah 4 pounds 14.25 ounces.
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Churchill warns fighters aiding subs in Atlantic
Churchill in London warned that Germany has sent U boats and battle cruisers to hunt shipping on the American side of the Atlantic. He cited sunk ships west to the 42nd meridian and noted three U boats were sunk yesterday while Britain pressed its convoy defenses.
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Greeks Exchanged From Belgrade Describe Valona Bombing
Legless Greek prisoners returning from wartime exchange told of British air raids on Valona Albania. They described near total destruction of the port and hospital targeting in a recent raid, as Italian lines held the area and King George II praised Greek efforts.
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British War Fleet Sculpts Mediterranean Seek for Italian Ships
Aboard a cruiser in the Mediterranean the British fleet swept a broad area of the Mediterranean and Aegean in a failed hunt for Italian warships. Royal Air Force bombers last night sank a large enemy supply ship off the Frisian islands and attacked Wilhelmshaven Bremen Rotterdam and Toldenburg, the air ministry announced tonight.
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Union Engineers to Decide on Strike at Three Power Plants
Members of the AFL Operating Engineers Union met to decide whether to strike three Union Electric Company plants in Saint Louis. Leaders warned a strike could tie up everything in the metropolitan area.
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