Australia Mounts Fury In Battle Over New Guinea
Allied air attacks on Japanese positions across northern Australia and New Guinea sparked fresh combat reports. German missionaries and pupils allegedly aided Japanese forces at Fingchhafen and Alexishafen, while raids targeted Port Moresby Darwin Tulagi and Rabaul as Allied ships claimed hits on Japanese vessels.
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Australia
Hitler
Melbourne
Soro~ton Islands
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Fingchhafen
Alexishafen
Lae
Markham
Cane York
Torres Strait
Park Moresby
Darwin
Tulagi
Florida Island
Solomons
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Rabaul
New Britain Island
New Gainea
Darwin J
Japan
New Guinea Sea
New Britain
Australis
Sydney Sun
Rapaul
Southwest Pacific
United States
Kingsport Groups Join For Defense Anniversary
Kingsport marks its twenty fifth birthday with a defense luncheon led by the Kingsport Merchants Association and civic clubs. C P Edwards Jr outlines city defense plans, urges payroll plan adoption, and stresses morale and civilian training with about 200 to 500 people to be trained in first aid and drills.
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Kingsport
Kingsport Merchants Association
Kiwanis and
Civitan
C. P. Edwards, Jr
J. Bred Johnson
C. B. Hay
Kngsport
Johnson
Mgr. Edwards
W. EH. McCorklz
America
John Patty
Tm Civitan Clud
H. Anderson
R. E. Greer
Allen Dryden
Defense Organization
Air & Warning
Unicoi Sheriff Killed Two Deputies Wounded in Shootout
In Erwin, Tennessee, Sheriff Blake W. Head was fatally shot as he and deputies confronted an armed man, Love. Deputies Grover McNabb and Clyde McIntorff were wounded, and McNabb later killed Love after a running gun battle near Love’s home.
Crump Seeks Mississippi Bridge for Defense Need
Crump of the Tennessee Arkansas bridge commission will travel to Washington to urge building a new bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis. He plans to press the project as a defense necessity and seeks federal support.
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Crump
Mississippi
Memphis
E. 4. Crump
The
Tennessee~Arkansas Bridge Commission
Washington
Mississippi River
Nazi Chief Seeks Aid For Drive
Adolf Hitler reportedly abandoned his direct command role and called back generals to plan a spring offensive. Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and other officers were recalled after the Moscow setback, while Soviet forces pressed on the Kerch peninsula and near Kharkov. Russians claimed regaining 6000 square miles behind German lines near Leningrad, with Estonia likely in play. Britain reported only patrol activity in Libya.
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Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Basel
Switzerland
National 2Eitung
Hitler
Walther von Brauchitsch
Moscow
Kerch
Crimea
Do Inets
Ukraine
Kharkov
Leningrad
Estonia
Germany
Moscow News
Kuibyshev
London
Washington
Congress Favors Women's Auxiliary Corps Approval
Senate debates suggest smooth passage for House approved bill creating a 150000 member women’s army auxiliary corps. War Department backs the measure authorizing a uniformed group to serve in air warning centers and other civilian roles at army pay. Women would live in barracks under military discipline.
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Athington
Senate
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
House
War Department
Army
Giscinline
Attacks Reported Against Japanese Airdromes in Burma
British headquarters in Burma said yesterday that a 7can volunteer group and British pilots may have destroyed about 75 enemy planes in attacks on Japanese held airfields in southern Burma. Other items note TVA politics and labor debates in Washington.
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New Delhi
India
Can
Burma
U S to Set Up Rigid Rationing On Motor Fuel
Washington administrator Ickes announced a forthcoming rigid gasoline coupon system for the East and Pacific Northwest within six weeks to replace the 20 percent delivery cut at about 100,000 filling stations. The plan aims to conserve fuel amid sinking tanker ships and war diversions. About 10 million motorists are affected by the reduction.
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Washington
Tcke
East
Pacific Northwest
Tekes
Ickes
Smith Pushes War Profits Cap and Overtime Ban
Representative Smith urged Congress to pass a bill limiting profits on war contracts to six percent of cost and suspending federal overtime rules for navy contract work for the duration of the war. He testified before the House Naval Committee, opposing the released shop and advocating government power to enforce wartime needs. Pepper proposed voluntary codes on wages hours and profits to guide labor relations, with NRA-like standards.
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Washington
Smith Dval
Congress
Administration
Smith
House Naval Committee
Senate
Pepper
D-Fla
Pepner
NRA
Pael Federspiil
MacArthur aims to crush Japan and aid Philippines
In Melbourne, General MacArthur says his swift aim as southwest Pacific supreme commander is to build an offensive force to smash Japan while relieving beleaguered forces in the Philippines. He spoke to Brigadier General Hurley, now New Zealand minister, at a press conference. A separate Indianapolis item notes a passerby helped a Negro man who tumbled down Saengerbund Club steps near police HQ.
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Melbourne
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Philippines
Indianapolis
Saengerbund Club
Police
General Stilwell Takes Command of China Armies
Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell is named to command the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies allied with British forces against Japan in Burma. The move, approved by Chiang Kai-Shek, marks the first time an American army officer leads a major Chinese force. Stilwell, 59, has long ties to China including a Peiping military attaché post.
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Washington
War Department
Joseph W. Stilwell
United States Army
Burma
MacArthur
Stilwell
China
Chiang
Kingsport 25 Years Ago Sees 500 Buildings Going Up
Kingsport on the brink of city charter as of March 1917 with 500 buildings under construction and 27 brick structures. Plans show industry boom hopes with Kingsport Brick, dye plant, cement, pulp, and casket plants expanding, plus auto mail service Bristol to Kingsport and water from Bays Mountain. Public works, street paving, and a hopeful outlook label Kingsport as future industrial center.
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Mary Pickford
Strand Theatre
Main
Shelby
Kingsport
Times
United States
Tennessee
J. W. Dobyns
Holston
Tne
Johnson City
Kingsport Brick Corporation
Clinchfield Portland Cement Company
Kingsport Pulp Corporation
DeCamp Glass and Casket Company
The
Africa
Wingsport
Birmingham
South
Bristol
Sacre
Bays Mountain
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Moresby
John Curtin
Naval Station
For Defense
Edwards
Navy
Winston Churchill
Jonathan M. Wainewright
Bataan Peninsula
Douglas Maccarthur
Wainwright
Bataan
Unicoi
Bulletins
Mc Kellar
D-Tenn
TVA
Joseph C. Swidler
William W. Goodman
Nelson
Donald M. Nelson
War Frauction Board
Atlantic
Cairo
RAF
Mediterranean
U.S
Labor
NEA Telephoto
Pearl Harbor
Thomas HM. Taylor
Lima
Otto
Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knoz
Taylor
Washington Navy Yard
M'Arthur
Hurley
Samaritan
U. S
Palatka
Fla
15Th Infantry
Tientsin
Peiping
Chautauqua
Brrs
Emmett Dalton
Southwest
Bakersfield
Calif
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