Steel Stoppage Averted as Wage Talks Continue
United States Steel Corporation and CIO SWOC agreed to extend wage negotiations and keep mills running under current terms until April 15. A prior strike threat was set aside as talks proceed with a demand for a 10 cent hourly pay increase. Nine other labor disputes and factory walkouts are noted across steel and related industries as federal mediators push for settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
Washington
Perkins
House Military Committee
CIO
Philip Murray
National Steel Corporation
Big Steel
National Steel
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
Pace
Carnegie-Illinois
U. S. Steel Corporation
Allis-Chalmers
Defense Mediation Board
New York
Northern Soft Coal
CIO United Mine Workers
Southern
UMW
John R. Steelman
Federal Conciliation Service
U. S
Ford
River Rouge
James F. Dewey
Murray D. van Wagoner
Michigan
Labor Department
Cowles Tool Company
Cleveland
United Automobile
Standard Tool Company
the Seas Shipping Company
AFL
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Bayway
Elizabeth
N. J
Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corporation
Coatesville
Lukens Steel Company
Relief Slash Is Predicted In Ohio March Bill
State Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood predicted a March relief bill of 1 823 000 dollars, about 58 000 less than February and 536 500 below March 1940, based on reports from 105 of Ohio s 153 local relief areas. The forecast cites milder weather and defense program effects as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Ohio
Sherwood
Naval inspector probes death on submarine tender project
U S Naval inspector investigates the death of Carl Tomanek a 42 year old Avon Lake man and the illness of Jack Millis a Vermilion resident both workers on navy submarine net tenders built by the American Ship Building Co. Dr Leonard A Stack says Tomanek's death likely stemmed from cement fumes but a pathologist report is awaited before final ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
United States Naval
Carl Tomanek
Avon Lake
Jack Millis
Navy
American Shipbuilding Co
Leonard A. Stack
Air Board Blames Staff For Crash Last Year
The Civil Aeronautics Board blamed staff for a June crash near Washington Court House Ohio. Private Pilot Edwin Mayer and passenger Roy W Smith were injured when a stall at low altitude during a turn caused the crash as Mayer prepared to land at Wilson Emergency Field after departing Norton Field near Columbus. Mayer received an official reprimand on January 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edwin Mayer
Roy W. Smith
Washington Court House
Civil Aeronautics Board
Mayer
Norton Field
Columbus
Wilson Emergency Field
Explosion Injures 3 Capital U. Students
An explosion in a Capital University laboratory injured three students during the weekend. Clyde Kaffenberger, 21, of New Boston, suffered face lacerations from flying glass. Ruth Oberdorfer, 20, of British India, and Carl Sievert, 20, of Blue Island, Illinois, also were cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Capital University
Clyde Kaffenberger
New Boston
Ruth Oberdorfer
British India
Carl Sievert
Blue Island
Hitler’s Balkan offensive tests Allied resolve and risk
Mackenzie analyzes Hitler’s push into the Balkans driven by fear of Allied aid to Britain and hopes to crush Britain’s aid flow before U.S. production recovers. He notes Greek resistance near the Struma River Valley and predicts Belgrade may fall soon, while Yugoslavia fights in the southern mountains and Salonika fronts shift defense advantages to the Allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Hitler
Balkans
Yugoslavia
Turkey
Britain
Russia
Axis
United States
Struma
Balkan
Belgrade
Danube
High Command
Salonika
Bulgaria
Vardar
Berlin
Greece
Supreme Court Only Four Decisions Upheld in Split Vote
Washington reports the Supreme Court, through a rare 4 to 4 tie made possible by Justice McReynolds’ vacancy, upheld four lower court rulings. One case sustained the murder conviction of Robert S. James, a Los Angeles barber, where two live rattlesnakes were shown to the jury. The court also affirmed dismissals challenging the Justice Department’s authority to prosecute labor unions under the Sherman Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Courts
Robert S. James
Los Angeles
James C. McReynolds
Justice Department
Wheeler Predicts U. S. Will Send Convoys
Sen. Burton Wheeler urged Cleveland residents to unite for peace and oppose involvement in Europe. He charged antiwar critics with unamerican labels and predicted U S convoys would first go to the South Atlantic as trial balloons before entering combat zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Burton K. Wheeler
Europe
South Atlantic
Trainmen Blamed for March 18 commuter wreck
Columbus report cites human error in two factors for the March 18 wreck of a commuter train carrying Ravenna arsenal workers. Two killed and 201 injured. Inspector Harrington said dispatcher failure to warn passenger crew about a freight on a different track and passenger crew failure to station warning flags were main causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ravenna Arsenal
W. E. Harrington
Ohio Senate To Vote On Council Proposal
The Ohio Senate plans a vote tonight on a bill to create a state defense council with district and local councils. Senate leaders expect passage and referral to the House for concurrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Senate
Columbus
Senate
House of Representatives
Propaganda Cartoons Claim U S Backing Yugoslav Abuses
Front page cartoon in Der Angriff accuses the United States of backing mistreatment of Volksdeutsche in Yugoslavia, depicting Uncle Sam urging a dog labeled Serbia against a peasant woman and child. Other items note British air action, Italian troop movements, and Himmler forbidding dancing nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Goebbels
der Angriff
United States
Volksdeutsche
Yugoslavia
Serbia
Uncle Sam
Barbaric Balkan invasion prompts U S munitions rush
Secretary Hull denounces Germany's Balkan invasion as barbaric and orders swift U S military aid to Yugoslavia and Greece. Shipments including 75 mm guns machine guns mortars and medical supplies valued over a million dollars move from American ports toward the Balkans as Allied plans anticipate further dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Greece
Germany
Balkan
Atlantic
The
Roosevelt
United States Army
Britain
RAF
Bathurst
Belgrade
Balkans
Perkins Testifies On Labor Roles In Defense Production
Secretary Perkins told the House Military Affairs Committee that labor and employers must cooperate to avoid delays in defense production. As the first witness in an inquiry into labor conditions, he warned against over or under emphasizing the labor situation in defense industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Perkins
House Military Affairs Committee
Woman Dies By Own Hand In Cincinnati Hotel
In Cincinnati a 31 year old Canadian born nurse Mrs Gladys I Andrews was found dead in a hotel room. Coroner Frank M Coppock Jr said the death was caused by a self administered hypodermic injection and that a note directed all belongings to bundles for Britain. Her husband arrived from Indianapolis to identify her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Gladys I. Andrews
Frank M. Coppock, Jr
Indianapolis
Coppock
Canada
Britain
London Prison Fugitive Captured in Kentucky
Olaf Murray, 31, who escaped London Prison Farm on November 8, 1937, has been recaptured at Maysville Kentucky and extradition granted. Murray began his sentence at Ohio Penitentiary in 1935 for burglary and larceny, moved to the farm in August 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Olaf Murray
London Prison Farm
W. F. Amrine
Murray
Maysville
Ohio Penitentiary
Gallia County
French Honor Forbids Action Against Allies
In a radio address from Vichy Marshal Petain said French honor forbids any action against former allies. He urged unity and did not mention General Charles De Gaulle whose Free French forces continued to fight with Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
Marshal Petain
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
Allied and Axis Clash in Aegean and Yugoslav Fronts
Turkish and Greek reports note Greek infantry holding lines as Nazi forces press in Macedonia and Yugoslavia under heavy assault. Berlin acknowledges poor weather may slow German advances while Athens cites fierce air battles costing at least 11 German planes amid new thrusts from Romania and Bulgaria toward Belgrade and Zagreb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Hitler
Aegean
Yugoslavia
Athens
Macedonian
Greece
Struma
Macedonia
Berlin
Turkey
Zagreb
Rumania
Belgrade
Bulgaria
Vardar River
Nish
Sofia
Balkans War Escalates As Yugoslavia Attacks Albania
Yugoslav artillery opens fire along the Albanian frontier signaling an attack on Italian held Albania. German and Italian air forces strike Yugoslav and Bulgarian targets as Greece and Turkey react. Berlin reports progress while Berne cites heavy bombing of Belgrade. Yugoslav bunkers on the Mur River fall to blitz artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Albania
Berlin
Hitler
Balkan
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
DNB
Sofia
Kustendil
Bulgaria
High Command
Italy
Split
Spalato
Cattaro
Turkey
Greece
Germany
Balkans
Nish
Vardar
Russia
Izvestia
Soviet Union
CBS
Ankara
Mur
Fires and warfare widen in Belgrade and Belgrade fortress area
German reports say fires rage in the fortress of Belgrade with the railway station area hit and bridges blown. Yugoslav resistance is described as weak though strategic retreat planned to southern mountains. British, Australian, and New Zealand troops land in Greece to support allied defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Rome
Belgrade
Fran Kulovic
Yugoslavia
Romania
Britain
New Zealand
Greece
Athens
Germany
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Associated Press
Harris-Seybold-Potter Company
U. S. Naval
Air Board
Capital U
Supreme Court
Wheeler
Air Ministry
Brest
Schaarnhorst
Geneisenau
Addis Ababa
England
Scotland
Heinrich Himmler
Adriatic Sea
Hungary
Rozaje
Miles
Pehoevo
Negotin
Kavadar
Prilep
Bitol
I Florina
Bansko
Nevrokop
Hens Plovdiv
Stanimaka
Dovien
Sidero Kastron
eXanthe Sarishaban “Kavallas
Edessa
Giannitsa
Aegean Sea
Pasmakli Iridere
Porto
Lagos
Raska
Kailaria
Mussolini
Melnik
Strrma
Military Affairs Board
Kentucky
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