Supreme Court Allows Newspaper Salary Agreement
In a 5 to 4 ruling the Supreme Court upheld a wage plan by A. H. Belo Corp publishers of the Dallas Morning News and WFAA. The plan pays a uniform weekly rate for some weeks exceeding 40 hours, crediting one sixtieth of salary per hour with a guaranteed minimum. The government argued the device avoids overtime rules.
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Washington
U.P
Supreme Court
A. H. Belo Corp
Dallas Morning News
Texas Almanac and Industrial Guide
WFAA
View Tack Boy Wants Job
A collection of help wanted notices and personal requests from a local paper includes a 15 year old boy seeking delivery work and a 12 year old girl offering child care from 416 Madison Street plus other farm and housekeeping requests and a lost glasses appeal.
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Bobby Disday
Fillmore Street
Tack
Altha Lou
Madison Street
Call
Buchanan Street
Raymond Duggan
N. Hayes Street
Betty Floyd Waiting for Soldier to Wed After Pearl Harbor
Betty Floyd an Amarillo high school girl who volunteered for the navy after Pearl Harbor traveled 2,500 miles to marry Owen Colwell of Oklahoma City. In Lowell Massachusetts she seeks a waiver of a five day marriage notice law as Colwell returns to Fort Devens for another pass after his deadline passed. Betty is no longer connected with naval recruiting in Amarillo.
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Betty Floyd
Amarillo
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Lowell
Mass
Owen Colwell
Oklahoma City
Fort Devens
Massachusetts
Betty
Naval Recruiting Office
Private Airlines Keep Schedules Private
Braniff Airways vice president Charles F. Beard clarified the government’s wartime air transport move. He said private commercial lines remain under no general federal ban and that about half of domestic air equipment will stay with scheduled airlines, while the rest is transferred to army air forces for military use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Charles F. Beard
Braniff Airways
Beard
Civil Aeronautics ‘Board
Army Air Forces
Army
CAB
Allied Peace Terms Harsh
Lord Halifax told Syracuse University grads that Allied peace terms will be harsher on Germany than in 1919. He warned that German attempts to undermine the Anglo-Saxon world must be checked, while still providing an adequate place for the German people.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Lord Halifax
United States
Syracuse University
Germany
War Bond Sales Up In May Across Nation
May sales of war savings bonds totaled 634.36 million dollars, 57 percent above the 600 million dollar quota, the treasury department reported. Hawaii led, buying 60.3 percent of its quota, far ahead of the 48 states and five territories.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Hawaii
Chinese Praise Admiral Nimitz After Midway Victory
Report from Chungking notes a new American hero alongside General MacArthur as Chinese admiration grows for Admiral Chester W. Nimitz after the Midway victory. A commentator declares there are no limits to Nimitz, reflecting wartime morale.
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Chungking
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Midway
Nimitz
Farmers Buy Matches While House Burns
Wayne Neb June 8 The irony struck as Mr and Mrs Fred Lutt found their farm home southeast of town burned to the ground. They had just gone to town to buy matches.
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Wayne, Neb
Fred Lutt
Here
German Troops Fight Among Themselves In Belgium
The Belgian government in exile reported clashes between German troops from the Russian front and German occupation forces in Belgium. Five thousand Nazis, recently arrived at Binche from the Eastern front, joined the strife after front troops criticized the occupation in the town.
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London
Belgium
Binche
Soap Firm Indicted for Industrial Espionage Scheme
Boston June 8 The Procter and Gamble Co a Cincinnati soap maker was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of using the mails in a scheme of industrial espionage.
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Boston
U.P
Proctor & Gamble Co
Cincinnati
War Relief Funds Get Big Slice From Track
Belmont Park's Army Navy Day program raised a total of 207000 for relief agencies. Belmont contributed 107000, Jamaica pledged 100000, with further donations expected from horsemen to boost the fund. Attendance dropped to 29000 from 52000 the prior Memorial Day week, while mutuel handle reached 184637?0.
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New York
Belmont Park
Herbert Bayard Swope
American Turf Committee
Belmont
Jamaica
Swope
Army and Navy
USO
Alsab Running Out of Gas in Belmont Stakes
New York dispatch notes Alsab, the Chicago express, finishing three lengths back in the Belmont Stakes as top rivals race for relief funds and a large purse. The program raised at least 207000 dollars in Belmont and Jamaica events, boosting hopes for the three year old championship with Alsab earning 44520.
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New York
U.P
Association of Turf Experts
Alsab
Little Sab
Shut Out
Atlantic Seaboard
Little
Chicago Express
Gee-Gee
Belmont
Jamaica
Headache for Durocher To Pick All-Star Team
Chicago reports a dozen Brooklyn players in contention for the National League All-Star squad Leo Durocher will manage. With many Dodgers infield and outfield possible selections and Mickey Owen favored for catching the team faces a tough choosing process for the midseason showcase.
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Durocher
Chicago
Brooklyn
Leo Durocher
Flatbush
Dodger
Mickey Owen
Youthful defendant wears coat in theft case
In San Diego, Robert Dillie Duke, a youthful Black man, faced a courtroom scene as he wore the coat he was charged with stealing. The owner exclaimed, "That's mine," and the coat became the decisive piece of evidence in the case.
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San Diego
Cal
U.P
Robert Dillie Duke
Hayes seeks legal name change to Thar midsbe Praghustapondgifee
Edward L. Hayes of Oakland California asked the San Francisco superior court to change his name to Thar midsbe L Praghustapondgifee citing business and economic reasons.
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San Francisco
U.P
Edward L. Hayes
Oakland
Cal
Superior Court
Tharmidsbe L. Praghustapondgifee
Missing Texas Navy Men Safe Two Texans Found Safe
The navy announced that two previously missing Texans are now safe. They are James Edgar Jarrell radioman third class of Houston and Granville Cook Stone yeoman third class with Mrs May C Stone of Happy.
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Washington
U.P
Navy
James Edgar Jarrell
Houston
Granville Cook Stone
May C. Stone
Japan reports capture of Basilan Island in the Philippines
Tokyo reports Basilan Island, the southernmost Philippine island, captured May 25 aboard a Japanese warship. Domei says enemy remnants fled into the hills after the surrender of Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright at Corregidor, but were captured quickly.
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Tokyo
Domei
Basilan Island
Philippines
Jonathan M Wainwright
Corregidor
Children Stand Offers Free Lemonade to Soldiers
In Phoenix on June 8 the Pryor siblings Mary Ellen Eddie Nancy Lee and Ernest ran a lemonade stand for service men. As thirsty sailors and marines took drinks the children posted a sign declaring Sailors and marines drink free Soldiers have to pay.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Pryor
Mary Ellen
Eddie
Nancy Lee
Ernest
Playful Gun Duel Kills Playmate in Connecticut
In Putnam Connecticut two Woodstock schoolmates aged 16 Norman Clifford Basho and John A Dodge fatally exchanged shots in a playful gun duel. Basho died from a .22 caliber chest wound as coroner Louis A Woisard described the pair as frequenting a wild west style feud and stalking each other while firing rifles.
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Putnam, Conn
Woodstock
Norman Clifford Basho
Louis A. Woisard
Danielson
Basto
John A. Dodge
Japanese Deny Using Poison Gas
Tomokazu Hori the Japanese official spokesman denied today that Japan was using poison gas against China. President Roosevelt had asserted at a prior press conference that he had information of such gas use and warned the United States would respond if Japan continued. the report notes war charges and conflicting claims regarding gas warfare in the region.
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Tokyo
Tomokazu Hori
Roosevelt
Japan
United States
China
Firemen Overcome In Four Alarm West Philadelphia Fire
Twenty seven firefighters were overcome by smoke in a four alarm blaze that wrecked a five story Victory Storage warehouse on Market Street near 37th. Fireman John McNally, age 36, was hospitalized after the incident while others were treated at the scene. The fire, reported by a pedestrian, was under control about 5 30 Eastern War Time, nearly three hours after the alarm. No damage estimate was immediately available.
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Philadelphia
37Th
Market Streets
John McNally
Victory Storage
Coee
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