Agreement returns to production in U S coal mines
The United States coal mines resume output after a three day strike as the United Mine Workers accept a pact raising miners pay by at least 150 dollars per month equivalent and a 70 cent daily increase overall. The agreement sets new wage terms, with War Labor Board review expected, and notes longer underground travel time and possible higher coal prices.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ickes
U. S&s. Fuels
War Labor Board
WLB
Umun
WLE
Bohn and CIO Reach Contract Agreement
Representatives of Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corp and CIO Local 444 report progress on a plant contract after agreeing on all points except wages hours and vacations these are referred to the War Labor Board for mediation. A maintenance of membership clause remains in effect requiring new hires to join within 30 days or face dismissal. Negotiations began after CIO gained bargaining rights in August and followed a three day walkout in October. The plant remains under a gentleman’s agreement pending WLB decision.
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Bohn, Aluminum & Brass Corp
CIO Local 444
War Labor Board
WLB
Harley Harper
LG. Schull
Harper
CIO
War workers transport aid urged for Adrian plants
Rex B. Forrister of the Lenawee county ration board asks the Office of Defense Transportation to study bus service for war workers in Adrian. He cites tire and gasoline rationing, remote towns 12 to 20 miles away, and a rural county lacking adequate public transport. The board promises full cooperation and notes riders would not receive car gas if bus service is provided.
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Adrian
Office of Defense Transportation
Whee- Tor Whitney
Division of
ODT
Cleveland
Rex B. Forrister
Forrister
Lenawee County Praised for Nationally Noted War Fund Efforts
Gov Harrie Kelly commends Lenawee County for fund raising for the Lenawee County Patriotic League, calling it unmatched in the nation in a letter to Claude le Porter, campaign manager, highlighting the county’s achievement in the National War Fund efforts.
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Lenawee County
Lenawee
Three Fronts One Cause Urges Increased War Effort
Gov. Kelly praises Lenawee County for leading wartime service and urges renewed energy. R. H. Laramore reports 78 employees in one department totaling 371 dollars with an average of 7.32 per employer. B. F. Beath cites 34,110 from the division as progress. Independent union solicitation is underway by three women in the Vickys group.
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Lena- Wee County
Gov. Kelly
R. H. Laramore
Kewauneya Incal
AFL
B. F. Beath
Manufacturers
Bohn
A. W. Crane
P. T. Banyard
A. J. Sunjaulst
Vickys
Tech St Hamilton Killed Over Germany in Action
Technical Sergeant Louis A. Hamilton, son of Marion and Hamilton of Route 4, was killed in action over Germany on September 16 while serving as a machine gunner and engineer on a Flying Fortress. He completed 40 missions, had written hopes of returning after his 50th flight, and held the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster plus the Distinguished Flying Cross. Parents notified. War Department received the news via Red Cross from the German government.
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Louis A. Hamilton
Marion Hamilton
Route 4
Germany
Hamilton
Army Air Force
Ure Lough
War Department
Red Cross
Germans Lose Ground As War-Weary Army Falls Back
Soviet dispatches describe Field Marshal Von Mannstein s Ukraine troops becoming a disorganized war weary mob. Red Army columns press the retreat toward Kherson while Cossacks raid and supply dumps are seized. Casualties exceed 3,000 in the Dnieper sector as German infantry lines thin to isolated groups.
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Ukraine
London
von Mannstein
Wnogaisk
Russia
Bug River
Red Army
Kherson
Black Sea
Dnieper River
Moscow
Enieper River
Dnieper
Karkinit Bay
Red Army Cilwins
Dnepropetrovsk
Pulletin
Roussians
Ta Russia
Civilian butter supply to drop next year says expert
H A Rushe of the American Dairy Institute says civilian butter allotments for 1944 will be lower than earlier estimates due to maldistribution rising demand and production declines. He cites a per capita disposal possibly not exceeding 11 pounds versus normal 17, with total output around 1.73 billion pounds against a government estimate of 2.2 billion.
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Lansing
H. A. Rushe
American Butler Institute
Michigan State College
Hitler
Lend Lease
Red Cross
Bendix walkout lingers as peace talks fail
Approximately 1,060 Bendix Aviation workers stayed off the job after a five hour mediators led peace conference failed to end a walkout now in its second day. The CIO United Automobile Workers union and management sparred over discipline actions and plant rule violations as production of airplane carburetors remained on hold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owosso
Bendix Aviation Corporation
Labor Department
United Automobile Workers
CIO
WLB
LyJe Strang
UAW- Icra
Restrictions lifted on coal deliveries return to 30 day basis
Miners back at work as Adrian Coal Dealers Association announces removal of 10 day supply rule. Deliveries resume on a 30 day basis allowing coal to be delivered to any bin with less than a month’s supply, easing prior shortages and reopening normal trade.
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Te Matthes
Adrian Coal Dealers Association
British Officers With Guerrillas
Churchill reveals British liaison officers are with Albanian guerrillas fighting thousands in the mountains as Allied support expands to Albania Greece and Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Partisans seize Priboj cutting rail links from Dubrovnik toward the Aegean, aiding resistance against Axis forces.
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London
Churchill
Mediterranean
Albania
Greece
Yugoslavia
Commons
Guerrilas
Josip Broz
Priboj
Sarajevo-Nis
Riral
Mihailovic
Iadia
Lim
Sarajevo
Dubrovnik
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Bulgaria
Navy says ten Japanese ships sunk by U S submarines
U S submarines sank ten Japanese merchant ships and damaged three others, raising total Japanese losses to 487 ships sunk or probably sunk or damaged. A 1000 ton freighter was also sunk by a Navy reconnaissance plane off Ocean Island, 730 miles northeast of Guadalcanal, with the plane damaged and several crew wounded.
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Washington
Navy
Tate
Wiliam F. Halsey
South Pacific
Ocean Island
Nauru
German morale and conditions worsen in Germany
Swiss weekly Die Nation says conditions inside Germany are much worse than 25 years ago. Allied air raids erode morale as eight million bombed out or evacuated citizens, about one tenth of the population, fuel defeatism. The piece notes panic in Berlin persists, radio bans rise, and Moscow radio gains attention through the Free Germany Committee, though support for Communism is not implied.
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Bern
Switzerland
Die Nation
Nday
Germany
Weinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Berlin
Himmler
Free Germany Committee
Moscow
Bethis
Roosevelt to deliver two radio speeches this month
The White House said President Roosevelt will make no speeches in the next two weeks. A ten minute radio address from the White House is planned around 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time next Tuesday tied to the signing of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation agreement. A second broadcast to be announced later will be delivered November 27 on the New York Herald Tribune Forum.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
New York Herald Tribune Forum
Chinese accuse Japanese of gas attack near Nanhsien
Chinese high command asserts Japan used poison gas in fierce fighting near Nanhsien a key town 70 miles south of Shasi on the Yangtze River. They report considerable casualties and say the United States and Britain have pledged retaliation in kind against any Axis gas use.
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Drungking
China
Nanhsien
Shasi
Yangtze River
United States
Great Britain
RAF Follows Up American Attack On Reich
A great fleet of RAF heavy bombers struck Duesseldorf and Cologne in a swift follow up to a daylight attack on Wilhelmshaven, with Mosquitos targeting Ruhr and Rhine land. Nineteen RAF aircraft were lost, four enemy planes destroyed, and mine laying and intruder patrols also reported while the invasion continued.
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London
Duesseldorf
Cologne
Wilhelmshaven
Reich
Ruhr
Hamburg
Rhine
Nineten
France
Low Countries
Stockholm
Social Demokraten
United States
Mediterranean
Wiener Neustadt
Austria
RAF
Battle off Bougainville Drives Off Japanese Fleet
Allied cruisers and destroyers repelled a Japanese force of at least 12 ships at the entrance to Empress Aug in Bougainville Bay early Tuesday. Tokyo admitted sinking at least one cruiser and two destroyers, while American officers reported heavier losses for the Japanese than Tokyo claimed. Admiral Halsey’s ships returned to base after driving the survivors back toward the Ra school.
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South Pacific
Empress Aligilsia Bay
Bougainville Island
Radio
Tokyo
Menjd
Douglas MacArthur
William F. Halsey
Baul
Halsey
Ats
Torokina Point
Solomons Sea
Solomon Sea
St. George
New Britain
New Ireland
Clark's Army Advances Near Rome on 40 Mile Front
Allied brief reports Gen Clark's Fifth Army pushing along a 40 mile Italian front gains five to eight miles, within 85 miles of Rome on the Garigliano river line. Montgomery's Eighth Army advances toward Isernia, seizes Castelpetroso, while coastal forces push along Massico Ridge as Axis positions retreat.
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Associated Press Allied
Algiers
Clark
Rome
Garigliano River
Montgomery
Eighth Army
Botato-Iserniaj
Castelpetroso
Isernia
Marshal Rommel
Massico Ddge
Lofty Sea Crete
Sessa Aurunca
Trigno
San Salvo
Elba
Araxos
Greece
Fifth Army
Italy
Your Share of Public Debt in World War II Echoes
Washington reports per capita public debt rising to 1 203.71 as of Oct 31 1949, with totals hitting 165 46 629 657. Army Air Forces officers describe improved global operations, noting fewer aircraft downtimes and better performance since six months ago.
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Washington
Allied air blitz sinks Japanese ships at Rabaul and Bougainville
Allied forces strike at Rabaul and Bougainville with mass air and sea power. MacArthur reports sinking three destroyers and eight large transports, plus crippling a heavy cruiser. Halsey’s units wreck airfields and defend approaches as 100,000 tons of shipping are damaged or sunk. Casualties and wreckage mount as island campaigns continue toward Tokyo.
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Southwest Pacific
Japan
Rabaul
Solomons
General MacArthur
William F. Halsey
Bougainville
Halsey
Mange
Empress Augusta Bay
Treasury Island
Choiseul
Sangigai
Tokyo
Truk
Uvo
Appropriations Bill Slashed In Economy Drive
Washington reports the six week review of a 1.196 billion appropriations bill trimmed 82 percent to 215,368,444. The Office of War Information kept a $5.1 million boost. Navy funds cut by 750 million redirected from ordnance. Farm Security denied 6.5 million for salaries and 7.2 million operating loans. Surplus war materiel disposal deemed urgent to avoid postwar pileups.
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Washington
Appropriations Committee
Tame i
Cannon
Office of War Information
Jn Re
Navy
Com Uittee
Thel
Farm Security Administration
Congress
Paul McNutt
Federal Security Agency
Office of Education
Interior Department
Treasury Department
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Normandie
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Norhandie
Manhattan
Diet
Kewaunee de
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Acton
Kolshoi-Kapany
Kherson- Perekop
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Bendix
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Carrie Weise
Goodell
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Army Air Forces
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Michigan
Wilvert EL. Juntuila
Calumet
Maurice Morrison
Schoojaralt
Bulletin
Dir Muustry
Rheinmetal. Iron and Steel Works
Daxcrmn
Ome
Suppes
U. S. Army Air Forces
AAF
Air Service Command Headquarters
Ciuadalcanal
G. McCoy Jr
New Caledonia
4. W. Martinstein
Lhak
England
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