WLB Calls Hearing In Coal Dispute
The War Labor Board schedules a hearing on Wednesday morning to resolve a stalled coal contract dispute involving miners and operators. A tentative plan and wage adjustment proposal were under discussion, with talks seen as near an eleventh hour effort guided by Labor Secretary.
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WLB
Lge
Co Purmil
Sles
Svén Pus
John Sha
George
Teylor
I3s
Nis
Missna
Kingsport Kids Finalize Contest Kite Entries
Kingsport youths prepare for a kite flying contest at River ing Project across Drive crossing. Entries in two classes old and under include Donnie, Mary Kate, Jimmie, Billie, Carl, Tommy, Bobbie, Fred, J. D., Billy, Carl, Goodman, Huddy, J.B. Smith, Ray, Jack, and many others from Lincoln, Bennett High School, and Junior High. If weather turns foul the event opens in a week.
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Rivering Project
McHarris
Lincoln
Bennett High School
Donnie Jean Fleenor
Mary Kate
Jimmie Anderson
Billie
Carl Durham
Tommy Wayne Boyd
Carl Kirkpata
Kirkpatrick
Bobbie McAufus Cupp
Fred Archer
Bacon
Junior Ennis
Victor Bobby Davenport
J. D. Fred Loughlin
Billy Callarvin Goodman
Huddy Deck Todd
J.B. Smith
Ray
Jack Pepper
Smith
Bobbie Juther
C. Graves
Floyd Freeman Morrison
Nathan Illiam Long
Joseph Myers
Hall
Ralph Welton
Roy Ht
William Brown
Wal
Jennie L. Wood
Charles Jmimie Myers
Levens
Walter Miller
Laura Lee
Aith
Philip Horton
Elizallar
Leon Wagstaff
Eugene Bravell
McClintock
Paul Gwendolyn Burnett
5 Gilmore
Street Scene Shows Turbulent Alley Wind Traffic Interruption
A chaotic street scene unfolds as a man mutters while sowing grass seed, a youth on a bike dodges traffic, and a hound chases through a red light. A second black hound overruns the trio, a city officer wheels a broom to sweep up debris after a minor car collision.
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Saa
Black Hound
Kck City
Pleeern
Americans Invasion Expands in Philippine Islands
General MacArthur reported Maj Gen William H Arnold's Americal Division crossed from Cebu City to seize Opon Mactan. Japanese wrecks burned a coconut oil refinery on Mactan while airfields at Naga and Lahug fell under American control. Heavy bombers hit Legaspi and Formosa targets as Japanese losses rise to about 297,000 in thePhilippines.
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Philippine Islands
Mactan
Cauit Islands
Cebu City
Douglas MacArthur
William H. Arnold
Americal
Opon
Philippines
Yanka
Jon Cebu
Couit
Cebu
MacArthur
Naga
Lahug
Luzon
Legaspi
Formosa
Ching Sea
Hianan
Nine East Tennessee Soldiers Named on Casualty List
War Department reports nine East Tennessee servicemen, including two Kingsport soldiers Corporal Nelson V. Parks wounded in Europe and Technician Sergeant John R. Pannell a prisoner of war in Germany. Also listed are First Lieutenant John B. Slaughter and others wounded in Europe or the Pacific.
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War Department
East Tennessee
Kingsport
Nelson V. Parks
Kathryn H. Parks
Europe
John R. Pannell
Maxie L Pannell
Dorothy Street
Germany
Tennessee
Weyne A. Livingston
Julia McKeehan
Elizabethton
John RB. Slaughter
Perry W. Slaughter
Fordtown
Lawrence F. Wilson
Maggie Salts
Johnson City
Pacific
Luther Burdine
Louise G. Burdine
Pressman's
Grover C. Karr, Jr
Corris P. Kerr
Morristown
OPA Order Aims to Lower Prices for Merchants
H F Woodruff an associate OPA price executive told about 100 Kingsport merchants that the new clothing and furniture order MPR 680 will bring cheaper goods to retail counters. He explained the measure seeks to replace March 1942 price baselines with current value by date pricing to ease merchant pricing.
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OPA
H. F. Woodruff
Kingsport
Woodruff
B-29s Hit Singapore Area Again
B 29 Superfortress bombers moved against the Brest area oil storage facilities at Singapore yesterday. A force of about 40 bombers from Brig Gen Roger M Rameys 20th Bomber Command in India struck the target for the third time this month. Further operational details will be released when reports are complete.
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Singapore
Brest
Japan
Roger M. Ramey
20Th Bomber Command
India
20Th Air Force
Powerful British Task Force Joins American Naval Assault on Ryukyus
A British task force including the battleship King George V and carrier Justrious joined Admiral Spruance's fleet in the Ryukyu campaign. The force attacked targets around Okinawa, bombing and strafing installations while destroying grounded planes and damaging vessels. Nimitz reported Japanese counterattacks at sea with planes and torpedo boats, noting losses on both sides.
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Guam
Tas
Ryukyu Island
Okinawa
Japan
Ryukyu
Tokyo
Berlin
London
King George I
Justrious
Pacific
Amerian
Ryukyu Chain
Ohama
Chester W. Nimitz
Atmnet
Red siege looms as Tolbukhin tanks reach near Vienna
Soviet reports say Tolbukhin's tanks penetrated toward a hill range just inside the Austrian frontier and threaten to siege Vienna. Sopron near Hungary's border, a key German-held town, faced a frontal attack as Soviet artillery moved to threaten the Vienna railway line.
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Dauenen
Re— Minsuar
Tolbukhin
Vienna
Moscow
Graz
Austria
Slovenia
Croatia
Yugoslavia
Szambathely
Zagreb
Vienna-Italy
Sopron
Hungary
Hitler
I Szambathely
Germans Announce Fall Of Danzig To Soviet Units
German high command announced the fall of Danzig to Soviet forces amid siege since March with Moscow dispatches signaling Marshal Stalin’s expected salute to victory. The city of 239000, linked to Gdynia, faced bitter fighting along the Vistula estuary as Russians encircled both ports.
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Danzig
London
Vanazig
Red Army
Moskow
Stalin
Vasilevnsky
Zoppot
Hitler
Nazia
Norway
Lynn Heinzerling
Associated Press
Europe
Westerplatte
Kingsport Guard To Display Rolling Stock Saturday
Weather permitting, Kingsport units of the Tennessee State Guard will open a public display of their rolling stock at Midtown Parking Lot Broad and Center Streets. The display comes as equipment arrived this week bringing the Kingsport unit to six trucks two ambulances and one command reconnaissance vehicle.
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Kingsport
Tennessee State Guard
Careful Driver Award Goes to Mrs Carter in Kingsport
Mrs John W Carter of 905 Forest Street wins the Kingsport Safety Council care ful driving award for careful school zone driving and proper signaling. She receives two theater tickets as a prize.
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Kingsport Safety Council
John W. Carter
Forest Street
Carter
World War II Bulletin, Japs Plan Evacuations and More
Japs make plans for evacuating Japanese cities per Tokyo radio broadcast recorded by the FCC. Stettinius optimistic on San Francisco wartime world organization. discusses Big Three vote ratio. B 29s hit Nagoya, major Japanese city and aircraft hub. Stalin reports Russian capture of Komarno across the Danube, closing on Komarom. U.S. First Army reaches Paderborn with little resistance. State Department says it has German documents outlining postwar Nazi plans. Senator Brooks attacks manpower control bill as empowering future government edict. Three German U-boats captured by Ninth Army under Col Edwin Van Bibber. details on condition not disclosed.
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Tableet
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Stettinius
Washington
Steltinius
Watts
Nagoya
Japan
Reds
Komarno
London
Stalin
Hungary
Komarne
Danube
Komarom
Paderborn
State Department
Brooks
Bill Washington
R-Hi
Ninth Army
Edwin van Bibber
Bel Air
First Step Taken To Centralize Welfare Services In Kingsport
A Public Welfare Commission meeting on Thursday night formed a committee to study expanding the service men’s center into a centralized clearing house for all welfare agencies in Kingsport. Miss Bertha Mears Mrs Ella Dixon and James Wright were named to report findings.
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Kingsport
Public Welfare Commission
W. J. Still
Service Men's Center
Bertha Mears
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Ella Dixon
James Wright
The
American Red Cross
Welfare Services
Yanks Abandon Laoho kow Air Base in China Theater
U S forces evacuated the Laoho kow air base 200 miles northwest of Hankow on March 26 amid a Japanese push estimated at 80 000 men. An American bomber attack near a town five miles northeast suggested the foe may have reached Lao hokew, with potential threat toward Sian or Chungking as the drive continues.
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Laohokow
Hankow
U.S
Laohokew
Idth
Sian
Shensi Province
Lachokew
Chungking
Allied Drive Spreads Across Ruhr Front in 1945 Push
American First and Ninth Armies surged toward a Ruhr junction to seal Germany's last major arsenal as 60,000 Germans surrendered in 48 hours. Frankfurt, Mannheim and Heidelberg fell with little opposition while British forces moved toward Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven.
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First
Ninth
Ruhr
Germany
Bad Windurgen
Kassel
Berlin
Frankfurt-on the-Main
Mannheim
Heidelberg
Third
Rhine
Emmerich
Courtney H. Hodges
2St
Westphalia
Paderborn
Dorsten
Road to Berlin Front Distances Reported
The Associated Press lists distance progress on major fronts: Eastern front 82 miles from Zein, Western front 186 miles from near Paderhorn, Italian front 544 miles from the Reno River corridor. The figures map travel toward Berlin with monthly pacing and geographic markers.
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Associated Press
Zein
Paderhorn
Reno River
Eighth Air Force Attacks German North Sea Ports
More than 1300 American heavy bombers and 900 fighters hit Bremen Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven in a major North Sea port assault aimed at cutting seaborne supplies to German forces. Target areas included submarine yards oil depots harbor installations and shipbuilding facilities. Concurrent reports noted Italian bases bomber formations over Vienna and Mosquito aircraft striking Berlin for the 37th time in 38 nights.
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London
Eighth Air Force
Vienna
Berlin
Germany
Court and Senators Challenge OPA Pricing Rules
Court rules packers of fresh beef cannot profit under current OPA ceilings while processing packers, makers of by products, face fair limits. Senate and House probes press OPA for changes amid shortages as agencies and committees push for revisions and concessions to business.
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Wasningwa
OPA
Emergency Court of Appeals
Senate
House
Ita
Buainess
Voting Ratio Pact Sparks US Balloting Power Debate
Washington reports a secret agreement on voting ratios for a proposed world peace keeping assembly. Chairman Bloom urged equal US influence with major powers, suggesting three votes for the United States, USSR, and Britain, while others criticized altering sovereign equality.
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British Empire
United States
Russia
Bloom
D-Ny
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Wich
Dom
Canada
Australia
India
New Zealand
South Africa
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Peace League
Dumbarton Oaks
Iua
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