Pittsburgh Union Demands Lifting of Gas Sale Limits
The Pittsburgh Central Labor Union urged removal of gas sale restrictions in Western Pennsylvania. It proposed zoning to limit controls only where needed and cited a 10 percent supply cut causing shifts in transport and unemployment among attendants.
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Pittsburgh Union
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Central Labor Union
AFL
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Central Union
Harold L. Ickes
Ohioans prepare veto response on wheat marketing bill
Ohio lawmakers plan early next month to push a measure if President Roosevelt vetoes the bill. Rep. J Harry McGregor writes legislation to aid farmers angered by a 49 cent per bushel penalty for wheat beyond federal quotas. The proposal would let growers use excess grain for feed and seed, opposing government storage provisions.
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Washington
Riculture Department
U Alumni Named In Charge Of New Army Hospital
Edward McCall of Sciotoville Hillcrest region, a University of Ohio graduate and Columbus child specialist, is stationed at Fort Bragg North Carolina and placed in charge of a new 1100 room hospital. He directs medical staff and oversees construction and maintenance crews. More than 500 employees, soldiers and civilian, fall under his supervision.
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R. Edward McCall
E. A. McCall
Hillcrest
Sciotoville
Ft. Bragg
N. C
Plac
R. McCall
Uhioiversity
Lumbus
Army
McCall
Emyes
Ilian
Ervision
Bidding Restrictions To Be Eliminated In New Law
In Columbus an new law will end competitive bid limits for township road work. Bids will be required for costs over $1,000 per mile but trustees may reject bids without stated reason.
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Columbus
Farm horses flee attack kills county man
A team of farm horses ran away and struck Hard Yee, age 60, a former county home resident who was working in the fields. The incident occurred in Marion, resulting in his death.
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Marion
Hardyee
Smaller Drinks Likely Under New Tax Hike
Timothy P. Guiney of New York City told the Senate Finance Committee that a proposed $1 per gallon tax hike on distilled spirits would force bartenders to serve drinks in one-ounce glasses instead of the current one and one half ounce sizes.
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Washington
Timothy P. Guiney
New York City
National Tavern Association
Senate Finance Committee
Expect Normal Fresh Class at Ohio State
Dean Bland L. Stradley of Ohio State University predicts a normal freshman class of about 3,000 for this fall. He notes slow applications as students weigh defense jobs versus college, with current figures showing only 6.4 percent fewer first year applicants than the prior year.
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Columbus
Bland L. Stradley
Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences
Ohio State
President Defends War Production Against Byrd Claims
President Roosevelt rebutted Senator Byrd’s charges that defense production lagged. He cited War Department checks showing tanks planes and anti aircraft gun output higher than Byrd claimed and noted training planes rose while overall aircraft output remained steady amid design updates.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Byrd
D-Va
Roosevelt
Washington
War Department
England
Egypt
William S. Knudsen
OPM
Brine Project for Nelsonville
State geologists grant permits to convert abandoned Nelsonville gas wells into brine pits. Wells Frank O Mara No 2 and Brewery Well will be opened to fill with brine, enabling possible near by plants to manufacture magnesium soda ash bromine chlorine and alkalis for defense industries.
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Columbus
State Department of Mines
Nelsonville
Ohio
Wilber Stout
Frank O'Mara
Lick Run
Ohio's Junior Fair Needs More Space for Exhibits
Ohio State's Junior Fair faces crowding with 32 000 entries during state fair week. Manager B P Sandles says no more room until a new $350 000 three story building with two dormitories is completed next year. Early arrivals include the White Brothers of Carroll with Jersey cattle and H D Saxton of Logan High School with 264 entries.
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Columbus
Ohio State
Sonny
B. P. Sandles
Charles
Thomas
James
Carroll
Jersey
H. D. Saxton
Logan High School
Logan
Future Farmers of America
Sandles
6000 Jews Sent to Labor Camps in Occupied Paris
In Vichy France more than 6000 Jews were arrested in Paris over two days and sent to labor camps. In Nancy ten Communists were arrested for posting posters and moved to Toul prison, 15 miles away. No further updates on the Paris roundup were reported today.
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Vichy
France
Paris
Nancy
Toul
Mystery baby prompts wide adoption bids across four states
Hundreds of families in Ohio West Virginia Indiana and Illinois offered to adopt the mystery baby carried by Mrs Herbert R Kirby of Springfield Missouri who said hitch hikers forced the child on her Miss Helen Richardson of the State Department of Welfare suggested placing the child in a boarding home to await any claims
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Springfield
Ohio
West Virginia
Indiana
Illinois
Herbert R. Kirby
Helen Richardson
State Department of Welfare
Pomeroy Girl Escapes From State Institution
Two inmates escaped from the Girls Industrial School during the night. Charlotte Landers 17 of Pomeroy who fled June 3 was captured by state patrolmen and Teresa Tubbs 16 of Sidney remains at large.
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Delaware
Girls’ Industrial School
State Highway Patrol
Charlotte Landers
Pomeroy
Teresa Tubbs
Sidney
Nazis Round Up 36 in Buenos Aires Arrests
Judge Ramon Vasquez ordered the arrest of 36 persons including German nationals and alleged Nazi sympathizers in Buenos Aires amid anti Argentine activities.
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Buenos Aires
Ramon Vasquez
Auto Output Slashed For 1942 Model Year
Washington defense officials say 1942 model passenger car production will be cut 50 percent after a 26 percent reduction in the first four months of the model year. 1941 output was 4,297,000 cars. the cut would reduce annual total to about 2,148,500, the lowest since 1934. The curtailment, announced by the Office of Production Management and the Office of Price Control and Civilian Supply, begins with August through November.
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Washington
Defense
Office of Production ‘Management
Office of Price Control
Officer Dies in Fire Aboard Finnish Vessel Aurora
A fire of mysterious origin on the Finnish freighter Aurora raged five hours at Hudson River anchorage. The first officer suffocated while asleep as crew of 18 and two women passengers were rescued by police and private boats after dawn.
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New York
Aurora
Hudson River
Reverend William B. Taylor Dies at 76 in Jackson
The Rev. William B. Taylor, 76, retired pastor of the Christian Church in Jackson, and former Bethany College president in Bethany West Virginia, died yesterday from a heart ailment.
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Jackson
William B. Taylor
Christian Church
Bethany College
Bethany
W. Va
Curtailed Gas Sales Start In Washington
Washington stations limit fuel to five or three gallons per sale as the cap tightens amid reports of a nationwide oil shortage. Ralph K Davies denounces doom prophets while stations push for a nationwide curtailment extending to Sundays and beyond the Atlantic coast.
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Washington
Ralph K. Davies
Philadelphia
Atlantic Seaboard
Russian Loan Plan Attacked
Washington lawmakers split over a war loan to Russia with Senator Danaher urging full disclosure before any Soviet military aid credits. He cited Jesse Jones saying the Reconstruction Finance Corporation would lend cash for war aims if required, arguing American taxpayers should not bear costs when Russian resources match ours.
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Washington
Russia
Danaher
R-Conn
Congress
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Connecticut
Drouth Causes Lower Ohio Corn Forecast
Dry hot weather in early August lowered Ohio corn production. The Agriculture Department reduced its mid month forecast by 6.504 million bushels, to 152.844 million from 159.348 million.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Ohio
Germany Builds for Wider War Across Fronts
The war report argues Germany remains intent on new offensives in the Mediterranean and West while needing to finish with Bolshevik forces. It notes rushed defenses in French Africa including Dakar and possible plans to seize the Dardanelles as German activity increases along the Turkish frontier toward Bulgaria and Greece.
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Near East
Fuehrer
Hitler
France
Dakar
Bulgaria
Greece
Dardanelles
Turkey
Deadlock Deepens in Detroit and Jersey Strikes
The two major strikes remain unresolved with night talks failing to reach a deal. In Kearny New Jersey eighteen thousand workers stay idle as shipyards halt work on two cruisers six destroyers and merchant ships. In Detroit the municipal transit strike enters its third day as rival unions clash over bargaining routes leaving drivers and riders without bus or streetcar service.
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Kearny
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
John Green
CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
L. H. Korndorff
Washington
Roosevelt
Green
Detroit Transit
CIO
Edward J. Jeffries
AFL
Bureau Head Defends Rise In Food Price
In Hot Springs Arkansas President Edward A O Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation argued there is no valid basis for complaints about higher food costs. He said farmers have lacked two billion dollars a year of parity for a decade and that parity achieves fair farmer returns.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Fiery O'Neal
Southern Farm Bureau Training School
Farm Bureau
O'Neal
Canton Home Project Walkout Over Layoffs Causes Halt
About 200 carpenters failed to report at the 300 unit Canton housing project amid a grievance with management over layoffs. Three hundred other craftsmen and laborers continued work. AFL Carpenters spokesman said a crew of 12 was broken up and the foreman, a local resident, was asked to do regular carpenter work. The walkout centers on demotion of out of town foremen in favor of local men.
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Canton
AFL
Three Year Old Found Unharmed in Brushland
Howard Moon III, a three year old Ohio boy, vanished into Adirondack foothills last night with his dog and reappeared unharmed today. Two women searchers located him wandering in underbrush about a half mile from his grandfather Howard Moon Sr.'s home after thirteen hours in the woods.
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Gravesville
N. Y
Howard Moon
Ohio
Adirondack
Rescue of Four Adrift Crew Off Vermilion From Airliner Radio
An airliner pilot spotted a cabin cruiser crew of four adrift off Vermilion Ohio and alerted rescuers. They were rescued without injury after the alert.
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Cleveland
Vermilion, O
Twelve workers adrift on dredge in Pacific gale
Twelve defense workers aboard a $500000 dredge owned by Standard Dredging Co were blown free by a gale off California. The rudderless craft towed by S S Chippewa was torn loose at 1 a.m. and drifted 1240 miles east of Honolulu en route to a navy project in Honolulu.
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San Pedro
Calif
Honolulu
Pacific
Standard Dredging Co
New York
Dueeast
Home Builders Feeling Pinch of U. S. Priorities
Private home builders feel the pinch of defense priorities as contractors search the job markets for hardware nails copper gutters and piping. They press the Office of Production Management the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply and their trade associations for guidance on future supplies.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
Office of Price Administration
Snow Falls in Uintah Mountains Reported in Wyoming
Snow fell last night in the high elevations of the Uintah Mountains near Green River Wyoming as cold air settled over the region.
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Wyoming Mountains
Green River
Wyo
Uintah Mountains
Bricker Seeks to Halt 19-Gun Salute at Camp Perry
Gov. John W. Bricker asks that the traditional 19 gun salute be omitted during his inspection of the state guard encampment at Camp Perry to conserve ammunition for national defense.
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Camp Perry
John W. Bricker
State Guard
Nazi Advance Halted as Leningrad Defenders Rally Help
Russian dispatches report Leningrad held after four days of heavy fighting as citizens volunteer for an apolchenie to join the regular army. Soviet bulletins say Red Army checked main Nazi drives around Novgorod and Kingisepp while German claims of heavy losses are disputed. Britain and Russia threaten intervention in Iran over German presence, and Allied air forces drive off a German Heinkel bomber in Iceland.
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Germany
Frankfurter Zeitung
Hitler
Mediterranean
Leningrad
Moscow
Tass
Opolchenie
Red Army
Novgorod
Kingisepp
Karelian
Adolf Hitler
DNB
High Command
Iran
Persia
London
Great Britain
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Wehrmacht
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Smolensk
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Ukraine
Semeon Budyonny
Dnieper
Odessa
Far East
Japan
Russia
Vladivostok
Soviet Pacific
Singapore
Koh Ishii
Tokyo
United States
U. S
Iceland
Harvester Plant Shuts Down Amid Parts Shortage
The International Harvester Company shut its truck assembly line today and laid off 300 workers due to a shortage of motor parts. Parts were supplied by its Rockford Illinois plants where a strike is ongoing.
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Springfield
International Harvester Company
International
Rockford
Ill
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