Administration Buildings Dedicated at Holton Ordnance Plant
A ceremony Monday afternoon marked the dedication of the Administration Building at the Holton Ordnance Works main plant site. Lieut. Chol We BL Ryth spoke on the plant’s contribution to the war effort as workers, Kingsport officials, Army guards, and the Jcobyase Bennett high school band observed as the flag was raised at 1 pm.
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Honals Kael Old Glony
Holston Ordnance Works
Rastrian Kodak Company
Tennessee Esatrian Corporation
Army
Holtton Ordnance Works
Works Administration
Chol We
Ryth
Nfficiata
Kingsport
Paitimie
Ordnance Guards
Jiobyase Bennett High School
T. J. Hargrave
Eastman Kneis Compainy
Kookes N.Y
Two-Way Traffic Across Channel By Big Bombers
Allied air power intensified raids across the Channel with heavy bomber formations and fighter escorts striking targets in Europe. An East Anglian town suffered a German bombing raid that killed eleven Auxiliary Territorial Service girls and wounded several, as ground-attack flights and air combat continued with American P-51 Mustangs engaging German fighters and damaging several aircraft.
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Channel
London
Enalivh
Swune Aeroas
France
Bart
Digeelinn
Boulogne
Mersing
Focker Wuil
Expios
Bowsine
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Deuat
Hamel
Reds Battle Furiously For Gains In Novorossisk Front
Red army forces push forward yard by yard in brutal fighting near Novorossisk as German defenses stiffen. Red air attacks target supply lines along the front while German counterattacks reinforce positions in the Caucasus corridor. Casualties and equipment losses reported on both sides amid ongoing trench and mountain warfare.
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Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Novorossixk
Red Air Force
Fwrenky
Kuhan
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Partie Zone
Rostov-Bataisk
Caucasus
City Voters To Register This Week At City Hall
Kingsport voters register at City Hall from 1 am to 11 pm Wednesday through Thursday for the June city election. New residents since the last registration and those who changed address must register. The election will choose three aldermen to replace Jennings, Goerde, and Stone whose terms expire in July.
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Kingsport
Sidermen
Alflermien Jennings
Goerde and
Stone
Ten Miners Die in Alabama Coal Mine Blast
Ten miners were killed and five injured in an explosion at Placo Coal Mine No 10 Alabama By-Products Corp about twenty miles west of Birmingham. Rescue teams recovered the bodies after four hours. seven miners escaped uninjured. Survivors delivered to Birmingham hospitals included Willie Miller Charles W Tuggle George E Crawford Lest Cost and Olin Quinn with severe burns.
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Birmingham
Ala
Placo
Alabama By-Products Corp
Herr
P. A. Neal
Neal Tad
Willie Miller
Charles W. Tuggle
George E. Crawford
Lest Cost
Olin Quinn
Neal
WLB Says It Was Keeping Line Before FDR Order
The War Labor Board told the Senate it was holding down inflation before the April 8 hold-the-line order. In a Monday report with a Davia letter, the board said price effects were seen in eight of 3,000 cases and wage increases since stabilization have had only a tiny impact on the cost of living.
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Washington
Baldthelins
War Labor Board
Senate
William H. Davia
Wellavey Maddle Test
Davia
Davis
Ordoner 3
OPA Expands Local Ration Boards Power to Revoke Rations
Local ration boards gain authority to revoke gasoline and other ration items with hearings, reducing need to refer cases to district offices. Officials emphasize public hearings on request when a holder risks losing all or part of rations. Boards may act without district input in specific speeding or abuse cases if facts show ineligibility.
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ODA
OPA
District Ofa
Allied Planes Bomb Japanese Targets Across New Guinea Coast
Allied bombers hit the Japanese airdrome and wharf area at Babo Dutch New Guinea in a night raid causing heavy damage. 20 fires burned aircraft and fuel depots while hits were reported along the water front. Strikes also damaged shipping near Milingimbi Darwin and Kaimana, with several enemy planes destroyed or driven off.
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Australia
Babo
Dutch New Guinea
MacArthur
McClure Gulf
Port Moresby
Kaimana
Abs. Mylarginabi
Darwin
Millingimhi
Mline
Bay
Nappi Post
Bach
Pairta
Andrews And Party Memorial Service Noted In London
Memorial services were held for Frank M. Andrews and 13 others killed May 5 in a plane crash at the Royal Chapel of Wellington Barracks. Attending U S and British leaders included Lieut Gen Jacob Devers Admiral Harold Stark John G Winsor and Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten among scores of senior officers.
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London
Frank M. Andrews
Tceland
United Nations
Royal Chapel
Wellington Barracks
Jacob I. Devers
Andrewa
U. S
Harold‘ R. Stark
John G. Winsor
U. 5
Britain
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Wag
City Judge Hears Docket of 27 Assorted Cases
City court Tuesday before Judge Napoleon Bond heard 27 cases largely traffic and public drunkenness offenses. Six people paid 3.50 for parking, five more paid 3.50 for similar violations, and one parking after midnight was dismissed. Speeding tied up two motorists at 15 each, another 15, plus 5 for no license. Stop sign runs cost 4.7 and 3.50 for a left turn. DWI involving one person led to a 50 fine and year license revocation. Three individuals paid 15 each for public drunkenness. another pleaded guilty and was fined 15 as well. Two more paid 25 for public drunkenness and whiskey possession, with another 15 forfeiture on possession.
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Napoleon Bond
Tax Bill At What Stage In Senate Clash Over Abatement
In a Senate cloakroom clash over tax relief, supporters back the Ruml Carlson plan to cancel 1942 or 1943 taxes and impose a 20 percent withholding on wages, while opponents lament a sole issue of amount. Senate action seemed likely as conferees eyed a prior vote to align with the Senate version after a House defeat by four votes.
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Ington
IOU
Senate
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Finance Committee
CIA
George D-Gai
Hcuse
House
Twenty six applications received for Tennessee State Guard enlistment
Twenty six applications for enlistment in the Tennessee State Guard were received Monday, with six sworn in Monday evening at the Civic auditorium. Col. W. J. Donnelly announced the schedule for bond booth operations at Broad and Market streets from 3 to 8 p.m. through Friday and 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday. The State Guard band will perform a concert Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the bond booth in recruitment efforts.
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Tennessee State Guard
Civic Auditorium
W. J. Donnelly
Broad
Market Streets
Donnelly
State Guard
British Armor Breaks Through on Cap Bon Peninsula
Allied Headquarters announced that British armor completed a breakthrough on the Cap Bon peninsula in North Africa. The move closed the neck and mouth of the peninsula, with enemy forces still resisting at southern and western positions as they were pocketed.
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Cap Bon Peninsula
North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cap Bon
Lae Hamman Lit
First Army
Oullskirts
Hammamet
Sollman, Grombella
Menzel Bou Zella
Cental
Reuters
Kammernet
British First Army Suffered Few Casualties
Britain reported 1 200 casualties in final Tunis and Bizerta advance and 8400 since April 17 while the Eighth Army had about 2400 casualties from April 20 to May 3. Axis prisoners exceeded 50 000 since May 5 as Attlee praised Allied cooperation under Generals Alexander and Bleenhower.
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London
Clement R. Attlee
House Off Commons
Britain
First
Tunis
Bzerte
Eighth Army
Trent
Casablanca
Adane
Attlee
Dwight D. Bleenhower
Sirharold R. L. Alexander
Alexander
Tunisia
Elehth
Value Of Air Power Demonstrated In African Campaign
The Allied air forces in North Africa have shown decisive power with heavy losses to the Axis. Since November 8, 1942, about 1,700 enemy planes were shot down and hundreds more destroyed on the ground. Over 75 ships sunk or damaged by air attack, and Allied air power paved the way for ground victories while suffering significant Allied losses including more than 600 planes.
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North Africa
Berth African
Luftwaffe
Britain
Crete
Germany
Europe
Africa
Novemaker
Deteniver
Axis
Mediterranean
Campaigen
Amalpa
Oly
Aries
Sicily
Sardinian
Italy
American cargo planes in East speed supplies to Asia
New Delhi reports several high American cargo planes speeding equipment and men eastward to aid Americans fighting Japan. The first three arrived two weeks earlier to augment the growing airlift with 2000 horsepower Uwo engines and capacity for 40 passengers plus freight. Dutch patriots executed by German authorities, 26 more shot in retaliation, per London P-Anela dispatch.
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New Delhi
United States
Uwo
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