Kingsport Honors 1500 Graduates With City Gifts Parade and Program
Ready for Tuesday’s celebration, Kingsport prepares 1500 high school graduates for a city event sponsored by the Kingsport Merchants Association. Dobyns notes the day will feature a noon show with Mack Riddle and Frank Taylor, a Ziegfeld Girl screening, band parades led by Dobyns-Bennett and Pennington Gap, a luncheon, a Tusculum College Glee Club performance, and remarks by Judge Shelburne Ferguson and UT President James D. Hoskins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack Riddle
Frank Taylor
Civic Auditorium
Mack
Fort Story
Frank
Dobyns-Bennett
Pennington Gap High School
S. T
Frank and
Tusculum College Glee Club
Thomas Pyle
Evelyn Carter
Kingsport
Margaret Deck
Fordtown
Margaret G. Smith
Church Hill
Violet Rodifer
Blountville
Virgil Self
Shelburne Ferguson
Ferguson
Tennessee
Sullivan, Hawkins
Hamblen
Fentress
Greene
Morgan
James D. Hoskins
University of Tennessee
Kingsae Merchants
J. N. Hillman
Emory and Henry College
No 3 Nazi Vanishes In Plane
Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy and second choice as leader, is reported missing after a flight against Hitler's orders. Luftwaffe raids on British airfields continue as Allied forces strike Hamburg Bremen Emden Rotterdam Ijmuiden and Texel.
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Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Luftwaffe
Hess
Hermann Goering
Berlin
Vichy
France
Mussolini
Russia
Joseph Stalin
London
Empire
Germany
Hamburg
Bremen
Britain
Emden
Holland
Rotterdam
Ijmuiden
Texel
Dock Workers Strike Paralyzes Navy Dry Dock in Boston
More than 900 AFL skilled craftsmen walked out at the South Boston navy dry dock halting a $3,000,000 defense project about half finished. The strike protested hiring of 1,200 WPA and Civil Service workers, with 300 yard workers ready to join if no settlement.
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American Federation of Labor
Navy Drydock
South Boston
Mass
Navy Yard
E. A. Johnson
Building and Construction Trades Council
WPA
Civil Service
United States Court of Appeals At
Washington
Labor Relations Board
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Bethlehem
NLRB
Rep
Woodruff
R-Mich
CIO
Defense Mediation Board
AFL
Smoot Sand and Gravel Company
William Green
National Defense Mediation Board
Southern Coal Mine
United Mine Workers of America
New York
General Motors
Britain
America
Senate panel approves ship seizure measure amid debate
The Senate Commerce Committee voted 11 to 4 to authorize government seizure of idle foreign ships in U S harbors. A proposed ban on transferring seized Axis vessels to Britain was rejected 10 to 6, with debate expected to resume on the Senate floor. Secretary Hull urged no restrictive provisions in the bill.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Clark
D-Mo
Belor
Italy
Britain
Senate
Bailey
D-Nc
Hull
Department of State
Economist Katharine Baldridge Teaches All Electric Cooking
Kingsport women attended the opening session of the All Electric Cooking School at the Utilities Auditorium with Mrs. Katharine Baldridge, a nationally known home economist. Two Tuesday sessions and a Wednesday morning finale will cover trimming time and waste in cooking as baskets of new products are distributed daily.
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Kingsport
Katharine Baldridge
Kingsport Utilities
New Hampshire
Okalhoma
Aniff
Gladden
Memphis Church Call Accepted By Dr. J. G. Hughes
Dr. J. G. Hughes resigns as pastor of First Baptist Kingsport after eight years to accept a call at Union Avenue Baptist Church in Memphis. He will move with family in about two weeks and leaves Kingsport as a prominent denomination figure and pastor of a 2000 member church.
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J. G. Hughes
First Baptist Church
Memphis
Kingsport
Hughes
Union Avenue
West Tennessee
Quanah
Tex
Tennessee
Lebanon
Union City
Carson-Newman College
Jefferson City
Royce Brown Hughes
Kingsport Records Traffic Fatality
Kingsport reports its first traffic fatality since November with the death of James William Calhoun on Saturday at Holston Valley Community Hospital. Calhoun, 67, was injured two weeks earlier when struck by Mrs. Jim Jackson on the Bristol highway at Walnut street. no charges filed to date.
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Kingsport
James William Calhoun
Holston Valley
Jim Jackson
Johnson City
Charles Lineback
Bristol
Walnut Street
Wheeler accuses U S of forcing Ireland toward war like Yugoslavia
Senator Wheeler contends the administration tries to pressure Ireland into war by promising aid it cannot deliver. He claims Ireland seeks food and military supplies while being given the run-around, and hints Britain seeks U S pressure to cede bases for Royal Navy use.
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Washington
Wheel¢@ er
D-Mont
Ireland
Yugoslavia
Wheeler
Eire
Britain
United States
Royal Navy
London under attack as bombs hit Westminster Abbey and Parliament
Bombs from German warplanes struck Westminster Abbey the Houses of Parliament and the British Museum during a revenge raid. Firefighters saved the Abbey as Big Ben and the clock tower were damaged. Captain E L H Elliott of the House of Lords was killed while battling fires.
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London
Westminster Abbey
British Museum
Houses of Parliament
Big Ben
House of Commons
Westminster Hall
Jocelyn Henry Temple Perkins
America
Hitler
William the Conqueror
George VI
Edward V
Edward VIII
Abbey
E. L. H. Elliott
House of Lords
Mighty Hawaii Force Opens 1941 Spring Maneuvers
About 40,000 soldiers begin the army's spring maneuvers at Honolulu. The operation tests and demonstrates the defenses of the Pacific fortress as seasoned troops participate in the largest exercise yet for Hawaii.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
United States
Pacific
Hoover says convoys would force US entry into war
Former president Herbert Hoover argues that sending naval convoys to protect Britain would plunge the United States into total war and hinder aid to Britain. He spoke on NBC and warned a navy backed shipment program would risk a dictatorship of our own and future bankruptcy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herbert Hoover
United States
Britain
Hoover
Red
National Broadcasting Company
Island Captured Berlin German Troops Seize Melos
German sources announce Melos Island in the Cyclades group about 75 miles north of Crete has been occupied by German troops. The report states Melos was captured as part of operations near Crete. No further details on forces or dates are provided.
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Berlin
Melos Island
Cyclades
Crete
U. S. Ambassador Returns To Desk
London reports Ambassador John G. Winant back at his desk after aiding Friday night fire watch. He escorted a volunteer fire warden through rain and bomb raids and helped sandbag incendiaries while visiting major blazes and encouraging fire crews amid ongoing danger.
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London
United States
John G. Winant
Winant
Russia Recognizes Iraqi Government
Moscow reports that Soviet Russia has established diplomatic relations with Iraq and recognized its government. Iraq asked Russia to also recognize other Arab states, a request Moscow could not fulfill. The Soviet press avoids comment on the British Iraq conflict and limits dispatches to brief notes.
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Moscow
Russia
Iraq
Tass
London
Aged Smith Blocks Ranch Home In Double Slaying Stand
Louis C. Wilson a 65 year old blacksmith barricaded his ranch house near Quemado New Mexico while declaring he would not surrender He and his wife resisted authorities as a coroner's jury tied Wilson to the deaths of J M Garrison and his son Arthur in a long running quarrel A preliminary hearing was postponed awaiting more officers and equipment
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Socorro
N. M
Louis C. Wilson
Quemado
Little Cowtown
New Mexico
Wilson
Quemada
James
C. Enloe
J. M. Garrison
Arthur
C. E. Waggonner
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RAF
England
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Iraq General Staff
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Persian Gulf
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Ethiopia
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U. S
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