1500 Wave Goodbye To New Selectees
Approximately 1,500 people gathered on Broad Street and Cherokee Street for Kingsport’s largest contingent of selectees leaving for army duty under the Selective Service. Led by the Dobyns-Bennett high school band, the group departed from the draft board office to the bus terminal amid tears and pride.
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Kingsport
Sinc
Dobyns-Bennett
American Legion
Lepion Auciliary
Broad Street
Tor Kingsport
Selective Service Progres
Dobyns-Bennett High School
Cherokes
Legion
Hammond
Bill Jack Pandletor
Donnelly
Torpedoed Ship Quickly Goes Down
A small freighter sank within five minutes after a single submarine torpedo struck off the Atlantic coast. Forty-three crew. thirty-seven rescued after two hours adrift. six feared dead. Survivors landed at Lewes as a 35 year old chief officer reported the attack occurred about 9 30 a m and the submarine did not surface.
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Lewes
Del
Atlantic
Fourth Naval District
Bill to Hike Soldier Pay Before House
Washington Dull views on wartime pay reform show a committee approved measure to double buck private pay to 42 dollars a month and raise a second lieutenant’s base pay to 1510 a year. The bill, costing the government about 282 million annually, also boosts nurse pay and adjusts allowances while banning commissions to untrained civilians.
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Washington
RAF Raids Taper Off As 11 Nazi Bombers Fall
RAF missions reduced to armed reconnaissance after eight nights of strikes on German bases and supply centers. A total of 11 German bombers were destroyed over England and France, with three shot down over French bases and eight lost along the northeast coast and eastern England. Casualties reported include a small number killed.
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London
RAF
England
France
Tome
Airfeld
Derwent
York
Report Japs In Force In Marshalls Amid Pacific Tensions
Western observers note Japanese concentration in the Marshalls around Jaluit and Saipan, sparking speculation of a major strike on the Australia supply line. Analysts say Japan could threaten from multiple routes, with blockading being a likely move to bypass frontal assaults.
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Washington
Marshell Islands
South Central Pacific
Australia
Jaluit
New Caledonia
Hawaii
Mandated
Bay of Bengal
India
Jis
Japan
Mar Jshall
Gilbert Islands
Australia braces for Japanese assault says Blamey
General Sir Thomas Blamey warned of a Japanese threat to Allied outposts in Darwin Port Moresby and northern Australia while noting Allies are building up forces. He said increased enemy activity could signal plans to seize outposts or cut US supply lines and stressed Australia would not be easily threatened.
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Australia
Sir Thomas Blamey
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Blamey
United States
Darwin
Port Moresby
New Gaines
Governor Cooper Tours East Tennessee Visit
Governor Cooper is on an East Tennessee tour including a look at the construction project at Eastern State Hospital in Knoxville and a luncheon at Kingsport. Secretary James Hardin says the chief executive will travel across East Tennessee and won’t return to his desk until the schedule ends.
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Nashvlle
James Hardin
Cooper
East Tennessee
Eastern State Hospital
Knoxville
Kingsport
Hardin
US Drops Plan for Voluntary Wartime Women Registry
President Roosevelt announced that voluntary registration of women for war jobs would not proceed now. About 1.5 million women are registered at labor employment offices, with 1,500 offices nationwide. He noted not all registrants seek industrial or machine tool work, but sufficient applications exist for current needs. The advisory council urged preserving and expanding state labor laws on women’s working conditions, including hours, days off, rest and safety provisions.
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Washington
Ree
Wome
Bis
McNutt
Social Security Bnart
Federal Advisory Council
Roosevelt
Laval Employment Service
Advisory Council Group
Flat 94 Per Cent Excess Profits Rate Agreed On
The house finance and ways committee today agreed on a flat 94 percent excess profits tax rate for corporations. It kept the invested capital or average earnings base and doubled the $8,000 personal exemption for corporations to create. Officials explained the rate would leave 6 percent of excess profits to corporations, not subject to normal taxes as now. The panel reviewed current corporate tax structures and discussed possible surtax levels, aiming to match Secretary Morgenthau’s requested revenue.
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Washington
Coughton
Cooper
Imaost
Treasury
Morgenthau
Congress
Inergt
Missing Bomber Found In West Albuquerque New Mexico
A four motor bomber missing from the Albuquerque base since April 32 with seven men aboard was located 15 miles southwest of Cimarron New Mexico after an aerial search. The aircraft disappeared while returning to Albuquerque from a training flight that had taken it to Kansas City. The fate of the crew was not immediately known.
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Albuquerque. N. M
Albuquerghan
Cimarron
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Kansas City
Russian Baltic fleet claims sunk German battleship
Moscow radio reported a German battleship sunk by Russia's Baltic fleet, marking the first destruction of a German capital ship. It also claimed Baltic operations sank 447 German ships overall in the war. London reported Lenin grad fronts saw heavy losses for German forces in April.
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Masteip
Moscow
Russia
Baltic
Germany
Sullivan County Republicans Set To Meet In Blountville
Sullivan County Republicans will convene in Blountville on Saturday at 2 pm to reorganize and approve candidates for the county general election in August, it has been announced.
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Sullivan County Republicans
Sullivan County Republicana
Blountville
Mussolini and Hitler Meet at Salzburg Conference
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a two day Salzburg meeting described as a display of Axis unity. British reports suggested Mussolini was kept in line to keep the alliance moving, while Stalin warned of German defeat as Soviet forces gain support from the Allies.
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Adolf Hitler
Benito Massalini
Salzburg
Austria
London Daily Mail
Germany
England
Europe
The
Daily Mail
Berlin
Journal du Geneve
Hitler
Mussolini
Axis
Puehver
Il Duce
United States
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Humman
Btalin
Britain
Belgian Plant Explosion Kills 250 in Tessenderloo Factory
London reports a chemical plant at Tessenderloo in Northern Belgium destroyed by an explosion. German radio claims 250 killed and about 1,000 injured, while Belgian sources cite destruction of a factory producing artificial fertilizers and washing preparations. Local sabotage ties to the White Brigade amid German occupation.
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London
Tessenderloo
Industriel
Nouthern
Belgium
Berlin
Fnactory
la Societe Anonyme Des Froduits Chimiques
Antwerp
Limbourg
White Brigade
Burma Front shrugs off Lashio fall amid renewed Burma Road fears
British troops pull back to defend India links as Japanese forces drive toward Lashio and Mandalay. Chinese officials say Lashio collapse will not stop Chinese reinforcements or alternate routes from India to China. Losses include 500 Japanese casualties in Kyatkee area while a bridge at Kyaukse is blown. reports describe Japanese mobile columns near Tashlo and confusion on the Shan States front.
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Burma
Mandalay
Lashio
India
China
New Delhi
Manasluy
Irrawaddy River
Myingyan
Irrawaddy
Sommunique
Kyaukse
Shan States
Tashlo
U S Planes Raid Rangoon in Burma Night Action
United States planes based in India carried out a night raid on Rangoon in Japanese held Burma on the night of April 29. It was the third Rangoon assault by American bombers under Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, following raids on April 6 and April 18 that hit supply bases and started large fires. Earlier actions in the Bay of Bengal began April 4 with Port Blair raids damaging a Japanese cruiser and a troopship.
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New Delhi
India
United States
Rangoon
Burma
Lewis H. Brereton
Bay of Bengal
Port Blair
Andaman Islands
Allies Fight to Keep Burma Road Open to China
Allies vow to maintain supply routes to China as Lashio falls, risking Japanese air bases that could threaten American freighters. Rugged terrain and rains may slow Japanese advance, forcing Americans to bear most ferrying duties while British lines struggle. Pack animals and light trucks move supplies 400 miles through one of the world’s roughest mountain terrains.
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New Delhi
Burma
China
Lashio
India
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Roy White
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Willis J. Heney
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Arethough
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Lashlo
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