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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1945
Page
1
The report notes hundreds of American aircraft striking Japan, with Sunday and Monday raids including pre-dawn returns to Nagoya, delivering thousands of tons of high explosives. It cites at least two major missions and extensive fire damage across multiple areas, reflecting a sustained allied air offensive.
Lennesseans from Kingsport among those reported killed in Pacific and European theaters. Families notified, including Pic Painey of Kingsport, Gringstaff, and Eugene Ord, husband of Payllis Sydrack. others named from Watagua Street and Elizabethton. A stray local note mentions a dance hall venue and spring flowers.
Allied announcements describe a 337 ton bombing around Baguio in northern Luzon aimed at neutralizing Japanese command after carrier and B 29 air raids on Formosa and the Heito air bases. MacArthur says heavy bombers struck Taihoku and nearby targets, with fires and grounded aircraft observed and two American planes lost.
Washington impatient opponents pressed for a Senate vote on Audrey Williams nomination for Rural Electrification Administrator. Senator Bankhead sought to replace the treaty with the confirmation as votes appeared enough, while Republicans linked support to a timely oil vote. Williams backers delay, fearing a likely rejection.
The German high command reported a Russian push north of Mar 39 miles west of Budapest and 9 miles from Vienna. In southern Silesia the First Ukrainian Army under Marshal Ivan Sonyev advanced 18 miles toward Neustadt near the Czechoslovak border, attacking around Neisse, 15 miles NW of Neustadt, as Breslau remains besieged. In the north Marshal Gregory Shukey redirected divisions from Kolberg to bolster the battle for Stettin and the Oder mouth.
American Third Army and Seventh Army thrust toward Mainz and Wissembourg as German forces retreat across the Saar and Palatinate. Patton and Patch command about 389,000 troops in a large armored and infantry assault threatening Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe with a widening breach toward the Ruhr.
Captain Robert KE Philbeck of the 216th Field Artillery Battalion earns the title ace artillery aerial observer in the ETO. He guided three-battery fire to hit a German town, vehicle, and tanks, later locating and destroying a heavy gun troubling infantry supply routes. A Virginia Tech graduate and engineer, he holds the Bronze Star and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. He resides with his wife Kathleen and son in Kingsport.
Negotiations resume between coal operators and United Mine Workers as Congress weighs banning royalty payments to unions. Senator Bailey plans a hearing on a bill to outlaw royalty demands amid looming strike votes and a contract expiry on March 31. Negotiators seek to measure impact of Lewis demand on a $65 million annual cost and a proposed $60 million rainy day fund for miners.
Mra Gillenwater appointed temporary chief clerk of the War Prices and Rationing Board to replace Miss Whittaker who resigned. Obenshain, board chairman, announced the move as Mrs Gillenwater had previously run supplementary gasoline rationing. She will serve until a regular Knoxville office appointment is approved.
U S Army officials believe the Ludendorff bridge over the Rhine can be repaired and back in operation within seven days, maintaining the First Army’s bridgehead. About 200 engineers were involved when the central 512 foot span collapsed, plunging some into the Rhine.
R. Johnson of 034 Dale Street received the Careful Driver Award after safely navigating a school zone and helping children cross. He was mailed two theater tickets as the citation, license number 51700.
A British war council source at a press conference claimed Allied air power had crippled German industrial capacity. He cited limited operation of key Nazi plants and ovens amid massive Allied bombing, including 1,800 American bombers and fighters striking southern Germany and RAF raids on Ruhr viaducts after a record Berlin daylight attack. The official, unnamed, said German shortages constrained movement inside Germany.
Richmond Virginia governor Darden urged a special General Assembly session to appoint forty delegates from Senate districts to create a constitutional provision for voting by armed forces personnel and propose a public school funding plan of about 4.78 million dollars annually with roughly 2.2 million for teacher salaries while debating poll tax repeal and voter qualifications. A nine to five member commission from the Assembly and four from the state at large would study changes and present them with repeal provisions for public vote. He also called for overhauling the absent voters law and asked the advisory council to handle the poll tax task.
Rogersville Tennessee farm boy Seaman Paul Begley serves on a light carrier in the Pacific as Ernie Pyle recounts his wartime life. Begley, one of the deck crew known for his soft Southern speech, reflects on monotony and the hope of surviving the long war.
Government officials warned of tighter home front squeezes on food shoes tires and manpower as Allies close on Berlin and Tokyo with little relief expected while the two front war continues. Meat and tire quotas fall sharply amid adjustments to boost armed forces and push deferments in steel coal mining and transport.
A Silver Star was awarded to Ralph Dingus, a discharged veteran, at his Kingsport Tennessee home by Major Leo S. Jobe. The ceremony was attended by his mother Mrs Dora B Dingus. The citation commends his bravery during a May 14 mission in Italy with the IV Corps, where under direct fire he helped clear a German mine field despite injuries from a nearby mine explosion.
A San Francisco Tokyo radio report, recorded by the FCC, says Allied submarines moved from waters off Indo China into the China Sea to disrupt Japanese supply lines. Nipponese planes attacked the undersea fleet as Tokyo claimed American carriers raided southwestern Japan and that several U S ships and carrier planes were sunk or damaged.
Finland's Social Democratic party held a 5,877 vote margin over the Democratic People’s Union in parliamentary elections, with 1,563,200 of about 2.5 million votes counted. Social Democrats had 334,838. Democratic Union 328,881. Agrarian League trailed with 197,006.
Western front shows 249 miles from Remingen bridgehead and 544 miles on the Italian front to Reno River as fall and rate adjustments are noted by the Associated Press.
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