New Strike Halts Major Detroit Steel Plant
A wildcat strike halted operations at the Great Lakes Steel Corporation plant in River Rouge Michigan affecting 8 000 workers and defense orders. Pickets formed as wage adjustments were criticized, while a separate Pascagoula shipyard stoppage saw 2 800 workers idle before a recommendation to resume work.
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Pascagoula
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Great Lakes Steel Corporation
River Rouge
Orville Kincaid
CIO
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
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Steel Company
National Defense Mediation Board
Washington
CIO United Mine Workers
Pennylvania
West Virginia
Alabama
Kentucky
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Mediation Board
Pennsylvania
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
R. H. Fleet
Turkey Youth Dies in Crash in Florida Training Flight
Aviation Cadet John P. Winyard of Turkey Texas, 24, was killed when his training plane crashed about 28 miles southwest of the Jacksonville naval air station during a three plane formation near Bostwick Field. The tail was nicked in a minor collision, the ship dived and crashed from about 500 feet. his body was recovered 100 feet from the wreck with parachute partly opened. He was a Texas Tech graduate of 1940.
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Jacksonville
Fla
John P. Winyard
Turkey
Tex
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
Bostwick Field
Winyard
A. Winyard
Texas Tech
FDR to Speak at Arlington Armistice Day Rites
President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to address memorial exercises at Arlington National Cemetery on Armistice Day November 11. He has previously laid a wreath at the unknown soldier's tomb and will give his first speech at these services in several years. The president also plans a October 27 address for Navy Day events at a local hotel now called Navy and Total Defense Day.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Lynn Stambaugh
American Legion
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington
Navy
Total Defense
Nudge Your Lazy Liver Tonight From Dr Edwards Olive Tablets
An old Globe-News want ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to relieve constipation by stimulating bile flow. It claims the tablets aid digestion of fatty foods and elimination and lists prices 15 30 and 60 cents, urging readers to buy at drugstores.
Amarillo Weed Fire Hazard Warns Officials
The U S Soil Conservation Service warns Amarillo residents that weed growth from a wet season threatens public health fire safety and property. Mowing now could reduce future spread while burning looms as a major hazard. officials urge ordinances to curb trash fires on vacant lots and promote native grass restoration. The piece also notes 62 textbooks selected for Texas schools for 1942 43 with a near 2 million dollar annual cost including first time elementary Spanish texts.
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Amarillo
Texas
Fire Department
Austin
U.P
Texas State Board of Education
Board of Education
Auto Crash Victims Are Resting Well
The five members of the Lee family from Vallejo California and Glenn Holt were injured when their car overturned on U S Highway 66 near Groom. They arrived at Northwest Texas Hospital with a passerby motorist A F Hawthorne of Pampa. Guy Lee was discharged after first aid. others remained under observation.
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Lee
Vallejo
Cal
Northwest Texas
Groom
Guy Lee
Glenn Holt
State Receives 76999 in Leases for School Land Areas
The state treasury gains 76999 from leases on 8304 acres of school land submerged areas and river beds in eight counties. Leases awarded to high bidders with bids opened Oct 7 in Andrews Aransas Crockett Ector Gaines Pecos Terry and Victoria counties. Additional excess land sales totaled 345 acres in Feard County 82.7 in Ochil tree County 237 in Kent County and 1510 in Mason County.
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Austin
School Land Board
Andrews
Aransas
Crockett
Ector
Gaines
Pecos
Terry
Victoria
Feard
Ochiltree County
Kent County
Mason County
Sunday Class To Begin Broadcasts At First Baptist Church
The Bible Only Sunday School Class will start regular broadcasts of its lessons on Sunday mornings. Rev. E. T. Smith announces the lesson will be broadcast by KFDA from 10:15 to 10:45 o clock each Sunday.
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First Baptist Church
E. T. Smith
KFDA
Sheppard Field Dedication With Dignitaries Named
Brig Gen Ralph P. Cousins will deliver the dedicatory address at Sheppard Field's opening as the air corps training school. Maj Gen Rush B Lincoln Col Edward C Black and Senators Connally and O DanieI participate. Rep Red Gossett to eulogize Senator Morris Sheppard. Mrs Sheppard to present a portrait to Col Black.
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Wichita Falls
Ralph P. Cousins
Air Corps
Sheppard Field
Rush B. Lincoln
Air Corps Technical Training Command
Edward C. Black
Tom Connally
W. Lee O'Daniel
Morris Sheppard
Rep Red. Gossett
Sheppard
Colonel Black
Local Society Names Read at Card Party
Mrs. Margaret Ely Clifft and Mrs. Nell Livingston hosted a gathering listing guests including Jerry Hodge Virginia Mulvey Majorie Bruce Jewell Upp Marjorie Vineyard T. W. Doud Durell McClahan E N Armstrong and Lena Brandt as attendees at the social event.
Russian Chutists Drop in on Greece
The German radio in Salonika announced Soviet agents were parachuted into northern Greece the night of October 5 6. A high reward was offered for their arrest and death was ordered for anyone aiding them.
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New York
Salonika
Greece
Miss Louisa Chung Brought Back to College by Sophomores
In Walham Massachusetts on October 16 Miss Louisa Kun Sil Chung of Honolulu T H heads Middlesex University as the class secretary. Sophomore medical students raised funds to cover her tuition after illness in her family prevented registration. The university matched with an NYA position and a $100 scholarship.
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Louisa Kun Sil Chung
Walham
Mass
U.P
Honolulu
T. H. Middlesex University
Chung
The
University
NYA
Miss Chung
Water Power Control Urged in Western Projects
John J. Dempsey, undersecretary of interior, urged that control of western water power projects remain in the interior department. speaking before the National Reclamation Association, he warned against ceding power oversight and stressed irrigation and power should cooperate within the same department.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Department of Interior
John J. Dempsey
Interior
New Mexico
National Reclamation Association
Dempsey
West
Unclear excerpt on nautical miles and fuel use in 1940
The fragment notes a nautical mile equals 6080 feet and a land mile 5280 feet, and cites U S petroleum product usage at about 150 million gallons per day in 1940. It appears as a miscellaneous or reference passage rather than a complete news item.
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United States
Hawaii graduate thanks Pitt on route home
A University of Hawaii recipient of a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh wired thanks last night and said she was en route.
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University of Hawaii
Th University of Pittsburgh
Wired
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