General Fickel Visits Amarillo Army Air School
Major General Jacob E. Fickel commands 3rd District Army Air Forces Technical Training Command and visits the Amarillo Army Air Forces Technical School by plane this morning. The long career spans ground and air commands from Des Moines to Wright Field with roles including instructor, staff officer, and aviation advocate.
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Jacob E. Fickel
3Rd District
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Amarillo
Air Corps Tactical School
Command and General Staff School
Army War College
Fickel
Marion Allison
Arthur Allison
Stanton Livingston Fickel
U.S Army
U. S. Army
Command Flying School
Air Corps
Spruce Production Corp
Wright Field
9Th Corps
Walkout Threatens $100 Million War Projects in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on July 17 AFL Building Trades Union members threaten a walkout that could halt over 100 million dollars of wartime construction. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners Business Agent W D Cashdollar says the stoppage began yesterday in protest of the War Production Board refusing a 25 cent per hour pay raise. The walkout, described as unauthorized, spread quickly and may shut down all work on key projects in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
AFL Building Trades Unions
W. D. Cashdollar
United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners
War Production Board
Recreation Groups Meets Tonight
Members of the Inter Church Recreation Council will meet Tuesday night at 8 14 o clock at the Y M C A headquarters in the Municipal Auditorium to complete plans for recreational activities for the remainder of the summer. Sra Elisa Godinez de Batista wife of Cuba s president distributed food and other gifts to 25 000 poor families in Havana.
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Inter-Church Recreation Council
Municipal Auditorium
Sra
Elisa Godinez de Batista
Cuba
Havana
Chicago Union Bosses Shot
Chicago reports two painters union leaders wounded and the wife killed in an early morning shooting on the West Side. Loretta Youngblood lies dying from a breast wound. her husband Charles Youngblood and Arthur Wallace are central figures in the dispute. Wallace was found wounded at a hospital lawn later. Authorities note prior tensions and a 1939 ambush incident involving the couple. In Sacramento, Attorney General Warren rules teachers with conscientious objector status may perform non military work under government direction without violating oath.
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Chicago
Painters’ Union
Loretta Youngblood
West Side
Charles
Painters’ District Council
Marvin Nelson
Arthur Wallace
Painters’ District Council No. 14
Wallace
Franklin Boulevard Hospital
Youngblood
Council
Nelson
Daniel Gilbert
State's Attorney's Office
Union
Sacramento
Cal
U.P
Farr Warren
Lend-Lease Aid Reaches New Monthly High in June
President Roosevelt announced that lend-lease aid to the United Nations and eligible nations totaled 708 million dollars in June, the highest monthly figure yet, with 59 percent of the sum goods actually transferred, 24 percent in process, and 17 percent as services. A separate Census note reported a reunion of brothers after 29 years, and Filberts in Turkey weighed 27,500 tons.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Nations
Census
Brothers Crockett
Cal
Anton Kocher
U. S Bureau of Census
Charleston
W. Va
WAAC Housing Approved for Five Southwest Units
The War Department authorized construction of housing and facilities for five WAAC companies in the Southwest. Two military installations in Oklahoma and Texas were approved at $2,000,000 each. WAAC buildings include barracks, mess halls, and admin facilities at Fort Sam Houston Fort Bliss Fort Sill and Fort Huachuca.
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Dallas
Tex
War Department
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Southwest
Stanley L Scott
Southwestern Division
Scott
Oklahoma
Texas
WAAC
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Bliss
Fort Sill
Okla
Fort Huachuca
Ari
Jugoslav Guerrilla Forces Fight Italians Near Fiume Frontier
Reliable sources report Gen Draja Mikhailovitch guerrillas engaging Italian troops along the border six miles from Fiume and conducting three night raids near Trieste. Army concentrates in Croatia amid Italian fears. barbed wire grows around Ljubljana Selje Kovac Delnice and Vhrnika towns to curb raids. Polish guerrillas kill Franz Wald Gestapo chief near Lublin. London exile HQ maintains unusually fast links with Mikhailovitch.
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London
U.P
Draja Mikhailovitch
Fiume
Italy
Trieste
Mikhailovitch
Montenegro
Ljubljana
Selje
Kovac
Delnice
Vhrnika
Franz Wald
Gestapy
Lublin
Gestapo
Jugoslav
Scout Executives Meeting Scheduled in Capitol Hotel
The Llano Estacado Council Boy Scouts executive board meets at 4:30 PM at the Capitol Hotel. President Lon D. Edwards will preside as committee reports are heard and plans for summer activities are drafted.
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Llano Estacado Council of Boy Scouts
Capitol Hotel
Lon D. Edwards
Unhappy unions protest 44 cent raise at Bethlehem Little Steel
The CIO United Steel Workers local unions say the War Labor Board 44 cent daily increase for Little Steel workers has created a tense explosive atmosphere in Bethlehem. They telegrammed President Roosevelt CTO President Murray and WLB chairman Davis to express unrest and demand action. A side line notes W plywood has high tensile strength and resistance properties.
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Bethlehem
CIO
United Steel Workers
War Labor Board
Little Steel
WLB
Bethlehem Steel
Roosevelt
CTO
Philip Murray
William H. Davis
Ford plant strike halts work in Iron Mountain
About 400 workers at Ford Motor Company's No 2 body plant in Iron Mountain joined a walkout today. Five chemical department workers also joined as union demands include weekly wage payments at the plant and an end to the staggered employment system. Prices for U S automotives rose $96 to $135 in Columbia this year.
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Iron Mountain
Mich
Ford Motor Company
United States
Columbia
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Methodist Church
Army and Navy Club
Washington, D. C
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Pyes
Hyden
Panhandle
West Seventh Ave
Vigor
Gwe
Panhandle Plains
Chaapil Ik
Onemaan
Turkey
Calvert's
OLD Quaker
Kentucky
Seagram
King Arthur
William IV
Johnnie Walker
Gallagher & Burton
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Old Lewis Hunter
Seagram's
Doc
Teacher's Highland Cream
OLD Forester
Old Crow
Waterfill & Frazier
Cascade
Ron Caliente
Lord Calvert
Yellowstone
Croatia
Scout Executives
The
First National Bank of
Fisk
Ford Strike
Russell's
Paone
Taylor
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