Two Allied Submarines Sink Japanese Cruiser and Two Merchant Ships
Allied submarines were credited with sinking a 7,100 ton Japanese cruiser and two merchant ships totaling 15,000 tons in the southwest Pacific. Nations planes knocked out 14 Japanese aircraft in attacks on bases in New Guinea and Timor. Gen. MacArthur's headquarters named the cruiser as Kako class, built 1926-27, with six 5 inch guns and a crew of 600.
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Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Timor
Douglas MacArthur
China War
Kinkwa
Japan
Chekiang Province
China
Navy probe cites mixups and calls for Inspector General office
Senate naval committee report blames carelessness, poor supervision, and lax safeguards for the Normandie fire and sinking during conversion to a troopship. It urges creation of an Navy Inspector General to prevent future mixups and holds higher authorities responsible for accelerated work and faulty guidance.
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Washiretoh
Senate Naval Committee
Navy
Gnal Committee
Normandie
Lafayette
Senate
James F. Culligan
New York
United States Navy Bureau of
Washington
Barter Theater Award Honors Mildred Natwick in Virginia
Mrs FOR Makes Barter Award honors Mildred Natwick for best performance of the year in Blithe Spirit trade by Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt on behalf of the Barter Theater of Abingdon Virginia. Natwick receives an acre deed in Virginia plus a Virginia ham and platter and rights to select two actors for the summer playhouse. Roosevelt vows visit and notes ancestral ties to Abingdon.
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New York
Mildred Natwick
Breadway
Virginia
Franklin DB. Roosevelt
Barter Theater
Abingdon
Mexico teeters toward war after Berlin rejection
Mexico City reports the nation stands on the verge of a formal declaration against the Axis powers after Berlin refused to receive Mexico's protest over the sinking of a Mexican tanker off the Florida coast. President Avila Camacho weighs a congress declaration as two more Mexican ships allegedly torpedoed.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Berlin
Florida
Manuel Avila Camacho
Congress
Lazaro Cerdenay
FDR Warns Steps May Be Taken
President Roosevelt said the government would take up to a dozen steps to curb unwarranted wage increases by private plants. He did not specify the measures but indicated efforts would align private plants with wage stabilization policy. He warned against a single plant granting raises that would anger workers at other plants.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ene
California
Foreign Agents Landed in Maine Warns OCD Leader
Augusta Maine Francis JH Farnum state director of civilian defense said accurate informados is in the possession of police and army authorities to show foreign agents have landed on the coast of Maine. He added agents may come from Canada or other US areas and are here to plot damage and destruction. He warned the enemy may attempt parachutists or airborne troops and that bands of fifth columnists could be organized.
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Augusta
Francis JH. Farnum
Maine
Canadian
United States
Farnum
Volunteer Defense Corps
Boston
Fifth Columon
New England
Seat
Young Democrats Endorse Roosevelt Policy At State Meet
Tennessee Young Democrats at their sixth biennial convention moved into business sessions with officer elections and resolutions. Governor Cooper Senator Tom Stewart and Secretary of State Joe Carr spoke, while James P. Nance of Alamo challenged Clyde Jones of McMinnville for the presidency of the organization.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Cooper
Tom Stewart
Joe C. Carr
Russell Kramer
Knoxville
Democratic Executive Committee
Roosevelt
James P. Nance
Alamo
Hed My
Clyde 5S. Jones
McMinnville
Registration For Youths 18 20 June 30
President Roosevelt announces June 3 and June 30 as registration days for males aged 18 to 20 and for those turning 20 between December 31, 1941 and June 30 next year. The move completes current manpower registration for war duty, with about 40 million aged 20 to 65 already registered in prior drafts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Poppy Day drive aids veterans with poppies sale
Poppies to aid war veterans and families are on sale Saturday in Hammond. The American Legion Auxiliary led by Mrs. E. B. Moore organized volunteers to distribute poppies made by disabled veterans in Johnson City. Donations received in exchange for poppies fund welfare work for disabled veterans and their families, with increased support sought for the present war.
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E. B. Moore
Hammond
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Auxiliary
Legion and
Auxilary
Typist Examination Set for Civil Service in Washington DC
John J. White secretary for the Civil Service Board of Examiners in Kingsport announced a stenographic typist examination for civil service in Washington DC. The test will be at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Civil Service office in the post office building. Applications may be obtained at the same office.
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Washington, D. C
Civil Service Office
Post Office
John J. White
Civil Service Board of Examifiers
Kingsport
President Roosevelt predicts a long war and warns against optimism
President Roosevelt told reporters the war could be lengthy and cautioned against fluctuating sentiment. He said overstatements by the public fuel swings in war news and urged reliance on official army and navy statements without overemphasis. He declined to judge last week’s communique and noted censorship only to prevent extra bad news.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Salé
CAP Red Cross Course to Start
The 20 hour Red Cross First Aid course for CAP members already certified will begin, not for new recruits, with open enrollment for others. Classes run Tuesday and Friday evenings 7 30 to 10 40 at the Civic Auditorium, taught by W R Burton. Registration via telephone to Biss Bernice Dalton at 1153.
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Civil Air Patrol
Red Cross
CAP
Civic Auditorium
W. R. Burton
Biss Bernice Dalton
No Diversion of Cotton Tobacco AAA Benefit Payments Is Assured
Southern congressmen won a promise from the Agriculture Department to abandon plans to divert up to 125 million dollars in government benefit payments from cotton and tobacco to war crops under the next AAA program. The pledge came as the Senate approved a measure to sell 125.09 million bushels of government wheat at below parity for livestock feed, with support from southern lawmakers and opposition from corn and wheat states. Cotton will be listed as a war crop and incentive payments will be offered for a slight production rise.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
AAA
Chicago
Italians Claim U S Battleship Sunk in Atlantic
Rome reported in a special Italian communique that the submarine Barbariga sank a United States Maryland class battleship with two torpedo hits off the Brazilian coast. The claim lacked independent confirmation and stated the attack occurred at 2:50 a m Rome time about 100 miles west of Fernando de Noronha.
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Rome
Barbariga
United States
Anto
Fernando Noronha
Wampest
Brazil
Steel Workers Blame Giant Firms For Failures
United Steel Workers of America blame a few giant steel corporations for industry failures to expand production and for inadequate steel flow for ships. The CIO federation calls for congressional inquiry into steel capacity and war production board expansion efforts and the absorption of smaller firms. Demonstration hike from Fastman parking lot starts Saturday at 3 p.m. ending six weeks of scout leader training. Halston District roundtable meeting tonight at 6 30 p.m. in Halston Taig Store announced by James Hamlett Jr district commissioner.
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Cleveland
United Steel Workers of America
CIO Union
Congress
Tho Sovalfed Steel Expansion Committee
War Production Board
Stee
Fastman
Kingsport
R.A. Parrack
Halston
Halston Taig
James Hamlett, Jr
Peppers Found Guilty in Jones Killing at Circuit Court
Blountville in Kingsport area jurors convict Pop Peppers of voluntary manslaughter in the February 17 fatal stabbing of Kenneth Dodge Jones, 19. Edith Price acquitted. Peppers faces seven years in state penitentiary, sentencing to follow. Witnesses described a roadhouse altercation ending with Jones dying at the hospital.
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Blountville
Pop) Peppers
Kenneth
Dodge) Jones
Kingsport
Peppers
Petentiary
Edith Price
Jones
Mrs. Price
Beth Peppers
Cleve
Clay Shipley
Ernest Whetsel
Blair’s Gap
Tom Ala
Pop
Am Fath
Harl Price
No Battle Report Clarifies Brazilian Waters Sinking
Bulletin cites no naval engagement off Brazil as claimed by Italian report. In Detroit, Attorney General orders treason indictment for Max Stephan over aiding German air force lieutenant Peter Kruz after Canada camp escape. War Production Board eases lumber sale freezes for defense housing projects deemed vitally needed.
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Bio de Faneiro
United States
Offfioif
Brazil
Washington
Biddie
Detroit
Max Stephan
Peter Kruz
Canada
Washington —P
War Production Board
Hitler Announces Large German Reserves In Kharkov Fight
Nazi high command says German reserves surged into action and check Soviet offensives near Kharkov while Red Star reports mixed results with gains for both sides. British officials note American troops prepare to join future operations as U boats claim Caribbean and Gulf merchant ships sunk.
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Russia
Kharkov
Hitler
Red Star
London
Lake Timen
Leningrad
Germany
Ani
Izyim-Barvenkova
Kharkey
Northern
Ireland
Alan Brooke
Britain
Imperial General Staff
Alert
United States
Caribbean
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Government May Seize Autos to Move War Workers
Washington reports that the U S government may requisition privately owned cars to transport workers to and from war plants if tire resources are wasted. Officials insist no current need for tire requisitioning in 1942 or 1943, and cars would not be ground for rubber. A Brookings Institution survey predicts possible government seizure next year and urges nationwide gasoline rationing to preserve tires and cars for essential war use.
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Washington
Arthur B. Newhall
Newhall
War Agency
Donald M. Nelson
Defense Transportation
Joseph EB. Hastman
Price
Leon Henderson
Brookings Institution
Charles L. Dearing
Brookings Survey
Senate and House Close Gap on Soldier Pay Raise
Conferees from Senate and House clash over lower pay scales for army privates and apprentice seamen. House aims at 60 dollars monthly for lower grades, while Senate backs 42. Rates for other ranks remain 214 initial, 30 next eight months, 49 after year. Debate spans army navy marine corps coast guard and related services.
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Washington
House
Senate
May
House Committee
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Public Health Service
Nursing Service
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Teachers Endorse Plan for Pensions in Sullivan County
The Kingsport Teachers Association gave unanimous endorsement to a new retirement plan for Sullivan County teachers at their year end meeting in the Dobyns-Bennett auditorium. R Addington was elected to represent Kingsport teachers on the plan's administration, with Paul Elliott as alternate. The board also includes county, Bristol, and Kingsport superintendents and teachers from other systems. The plan provides retirement with salary after several years, funded by teacher contributions and county supplements. Newly elected officers Lucy Buford, Blench Kennedy, Elizabeth Brabson, and HB Chambest were introduced.
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Sullivan County
Kingsport Teachers Association
Dobyns- Bennett
R. Addington
Kingsport
Paul Elliott
Dokyns-Bennett
Bristol
Lucy Buford
Blench Kennedy
Elizebeth Brabson
HB. C. Chambest
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OCD
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