Strikes Hit Defense Plants From Texas to Alabama
CIO led walkouts halt work at Texas San Jacinto and Texarkana ordnance sites as AFL unions push for recognition and higher wages. Fairfield steel mills near Birmingham face a standstill over card inspections while Consolidated Aircraft workers vote on a wage plan after a mediator’s proposal.
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Associated Preas
Buffalo
N. Y
CIO Steel Workers
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
San Jacinto
Texas
AFL
Texarkana
Birmingham
Ala
AFL Teamsters
Tnion
Teamsters Union
Texarkana Project
AFL Building Trades Union
Bryce P. Holcombe
Fairfield Steel Mills
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
National Labor Board
Fairfield
Gulf Coast
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
Calif
Consolidated
United States
Britain
Helen Morgan Dies After Prolonged Illness in Chicago
The teary-voiced singer Helen Morgan died after an operation for liver and kidney ailments. She lay in a Henrotin Hospital room with her mother and husband nearby as more than 3000 messages of cheer arrived from across show business. Funeral services are planned in La Grange, with burial there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Helen Morgan
Henrotin Hospital
Lulu Morgan
High Falls
N. Y
Lloyd Johnson
Los Angeles
Danville
Ill
Danville Corn Country
Johnson
la Grange
Four Keys Lost in McCarty Case Find Caller Pending
Classified notices reveal Mrs Nina Good of Pampa Texas seeks a stable farm living arrangement and desires marriage. A reader offers to work in a boarding house or private home calling 24105. Four Studebaker car keys in a celluloid McCarty Motor Company case are missing with a call to 8826 requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Frieda
8Th and
North Fillmore Street
Nina Good
General Delivery
Pampa
Texas
Studebaker
McCarty Motor Company
S. Fillmore Street
Proclamation Urges Use of Southern Made Products
Amarillo mayor Joe A Jenkins proclaims a campaign to stabilize prosperity by promoting Southern-made goods. He calls city institutions to pref erence Southern products and urges broad consumer support for Southern industry development. The proclamation dated October 15, 1941, asks residents to buy locally produced items when values are equal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe A. Jenkins
Amarillo
A. D
Government May Tighten Installment Credit Rules
The Federal Reserve Board plans to tighten consumer instalment credit, with possible higher down payments and shorter repayment terms on 24 goods including autos and furniture. Banks may be required to obtain written promises not to misuse cash loans to evade rules. The move aims to curb easing buying habits since Sept. 1. Uncle Sam becomes a major insurer as Roosevelt marks a year of the National Service Life Insurance Act. VA figures show 610,000 applications worth 2.077 billion with 419 claims filed and premiums totaling 7.381 million.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
Uncle Sam
Roosevelt
National Service Life Insurance Act
Veterans’ Administration
Army
Navy
Funeral today for Mrs. Mary Estelle Sides
Funeral services for Mary Estelle Sides 54 wife of J C Sides were held in Boxwell Brothers Chapel at 2 30 p m Bishop E C Seaman officiated Pallbearers included J E Dodd Grady Dodd W J Hamilton S J McCradley Carl Hoag and A L Harrison She died Tuesday after a long illness The family has lived in Amarillo five years coming from Dalhart She was a native of Kingston Tennessee a member of St Andrews Episcopal Church and the United Daughters of the Confederacy Survivors include her husband and a daughter Mrs Earl Dodd
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Mary Estelle Sides
J.C. Sides
Boxwell Brothers
E. C. Seaman
Sides
Amarillo
Dalhart
Kingston
Tenn
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Earl Dodd
R. S. Troth
Thomas A. Troth
Carolina Street
Baton Rouge
Troth
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Tack
van Buren Street
H. V. Robertson & CO
Accountants & Auditors Income
Oliver-Eakle
Ameritio
Yong Colors
Pn. cl
Kentucky
Proof
Schenley Distillers Corp
N.Y. C
WMT
Vea Lee
Betty Rose
Esa
Levine
Amarillo, Texas
Olars
Evine
Mussolini
Mediterranean
America
E. Dodd, Grady Dodd
W. J. Hamilton
S. J. McCradley
Carl Hoag
A. L. Harrison
Llano Cemetery
Americas
Elinor
Levine's
Rocom
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