Tire Strike Leaders Demand Investigation of Labor Situation
Akron AP leaders of about 33 000 CIO United Rubber Workers at two major tire plants urge an immediate Senate committee inquiry into the Akron labor scene. They claim no tires are being produced in Akron and appeal to investigate the defense portion of the industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AKRON
CIO United Rubber
Senate Committee
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Senate
Akron Rubber Strike Flares as Goodyear Walkout Persists
Defiant actions by Isaac H. Watson of Firestone Local and Goodyear union chief C. Wheeler push for immediate talks on disputed points. Goodyear strike enters 17th day with 16,700 idle workers as War Labor Board suspends shift premiums and vacation rights. Draft boards discuss converting workers to Army duty while Gov Lausche orders immediate induction. Firestone plant and other Akron producers halt operations. Goodyear aircraft production unaffected. Authorities seek to end the stalemate amid threats to cancel union contract rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac H. Watson
Firestone
C. ¥. Wheeler
Goodyear
Akron
Semerling Rubber Co
National War Labor Board
WLS
Wheeler
Summit County
Frank J. Lausche
WHLB
WLB
Ohio State Restaurant Association
Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton Anderson
Clarence V. Wheeler
WSE
Pennsylvania Glass Workers End Strike
Ford City Pennsylvania three thousand workers returned to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. plant ending a strike by three thousand employees. Workers at five other struck plants also resumed work yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford City
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Youngstown Man Elected President of Ohio Eagles
Harold E. Snell of Youngstown was elected president of Ohio Eagles at a meeting of the war emergency committee in Columbus Saturday afternoon. The meeting replaced the annual state convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Harold E. Snell
Ohio Eagles
Columbus
Veterans Authorized Small Tire Stock Program
Washington OPA announced that veterans may start small businesses and obtain limited tire stocks. Effective Friday, eligible veterans can stock 10 passenger tires four small tires two large truck tires and six tractor tires for business use.
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Washington
OPA
Miami U Instructors Will Go to Europe
Two Miami University faculty members Dr Willis Jones and Dr W J MonNiff departed for New York to sail to Europe for participation in the War Department University training program for the army of occupation. The report also notes recovered bodies of 12 American soldiers from a train wreck near the area on Sunday night and mentions former President Oscar Raimondo Benevides of Peru who died after a heart attack.
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Oxford
Miami University
Willis Jones
W. J. MonNiff
New York
Europe
War Department
Army of Occupation
Here
Cles Lima
Peru
Oscar Raimondo Benevides
Speaker Sees Loopholes in Peace Charter
Dr. Ray ford W. Logan, dean of Howard University, warned 300 at Antioch college that the San Francisco Charter could allow a new Hitler to persecute Protestants Jews and Catholics and abolish trade unions. He urged tightening the clause limiting UN intervention in domestic affairs during a 10 day institute on enduring peace.
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Yellow Springs
San Francisco
Hitler
United Nations
Rayford W. Logan
Howard University Graduate School
Antioch College
Poultry Ceilings Set by City Official Notice
City welfare director announces state restrictions on poultry price ceilings and travel limits cancel statewide welfare conference. Regional meetings will replace the state event in Cleveland Cincinnati Columbus Akron Toledo Youngstown Dayton Canton Lima Portsmouth Marietta dates pending. George Fetter of Springfield named commander of Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars at 25th annual meeting in Columbus.
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Cleveland
Frank D. Celebreeze
Yester
Columbus
Ohio
Leorne
Frice
Ord- Frazier Reams
Cincinnati
Akron
Toledo
Youngstown
Dayton
Canton
Lima
Fortsmouth
Marietta
George Fetter
Springfield
Ohio Veterons
Thomas H. Feltz
Hamilton
Army Deserter Caught After Two-Year Hunt
Clifford Hart, 29, Army deserter who hid in the Ozark Hills for over two years was captured after a shootout with a highway patrolman. FBI agent Gerald B. Norris said Hart ignored an order to surrender and reached for a rifle, receiving buckshot wounds during his apprehension.
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Poplar Bluff
Clifford Hart
Ozark Hills
Gerald B. Norris
FBI
Hart
Many Rallies Scheduled for Fourth in Ohio
Ohioans prepare for Independence Day with patriotic rallies in Columbus and Cleveland. Lt. Comdr. Joseph T. O Callahan will speak in Cleveland and Gen. Jacob L. Devers will address a Columbus rally at Franklin Park. Many war plants suspend operations. Dayton plants close, Wright and Patterson Fields stay open.
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Columbus
Europe
Cleveland
Joseph T. O'Callahan
Franklin
Jacob L. Devers
Sixth Army
Germany
Franklin Park
Youngstown Steel Mills
Dayton
Wright and Patterson Fields
Tradition May End Deadlock In FEPC Funding Fight
Washington leaders hope for a break in an FEPC funding stalemate delaying 16 home front war agencies. Chairman Cannon aims to move a war agencies bill without FEPC financing, while FEPC supporters vow to seek a floor amendment to fund the agency preventing employment discrimination based on race creed or color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
FEPC
Cannon
DeMa
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Rules Committee
Marine Band May Play At Columbus in Fall
A bill authorizing a U S Marine Corps band trip to Columbus Ohio for the GAR national encampment in September passed the Senate and was sent to the White House for approval by the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Band
Columbus
Washington
U. S. Marine Corps Band
GAR
Ohio
Senate
White House
Senators Hope Charter Vote Is Unanimous
Senator Green notes growing support for ratifying the United Nations Charter with hopes for unanimous approval. The Foreign Relations Committee prepares to dissect the seven pound document as Edward R. Stettinius, former secretary of state, is named as the first witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Green
D-Ri
Itp
League of Nations
Associated Press
Foreign Relations Committee
Sll
Edward R. Stettifius
Truman
United States
Food May Be Issue in 1946
Chicago report quotes Herbert Brownell Jr, Republican National Committee chair, saying food policy could dominate the 1946 congressional race. He notes Truman administration rejected GOP suggestions for a food czar and changes to the price control act, asserting the admin has assumed responsibility and time will tell if its plan works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Truman
Brownell
Boy Drowns in YMCA Pool at Painesville
Lake County Coroner W R Carle reports eight year old Jerry Flangan drowned yesterday in the YMCA pool at Painesville. Officials say he and his six year old brother were ordered from the pool by a custodian but may have returned after the custodian left the room.
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Painesville
Jerry
Flangan
Y.C.A
Lake County
W. R Carle
Dealers Demands for Trade In cars illegal says OPA
COLUMBUS Automobile dealers who demand a trade in car from buyers of used vehicles violate Office of Price Administration rules, says H L Masters OPA price specialist. Veterans complained dealers refused to sell cars due to no trade ins. KILLED AS CAR OVERTURNS PIKETON A 59 year old Clinton Marion Woodruff of near Piketon died and his two sons were injured when their car overturned on Route 23.
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Columbus
Office of Price Administration
H. L. Masters
Columbus District
OPA
Masters
Piketon
Clinton Marion Woodruff
First Yankee in Berlin Is Indian Hero Breaks Nazi Center
The Second Armored Division’s advance into Berlin saw the first U.S. soldier enter the Russian-held heart of the city. Private First Class Harvey Natchees of the Ute Nation, a Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient, rode a Jeep down Unter den Linden as women cheered the arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Second Armored
Unter den Linden
Harvey Natchees
Ute
Japs Told to Tighten Belts Amid Food Shortage and Bombing
Allied air raids targeted Nippon oil refineries and shipping as Tokyo warned a ten percent cut to basic food supplies. Meantime scientists pursued starching methods to substitute foods as B 29s struck the Maruzen refinery and other targets, with raids continuing toward Osaka and Malaya.
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Tokyo
Japan
Guam
Maruzen
Osaka
Vesverdas
Ant
Nippon
Malaya
Sailor Returns With Mast Relic From Japanese Ship
An Okinawa based Navy privateer came home after a Yellow Sea bombing raid, carrying a three foot mast fragment and a damaged Rising Sun flag. His 11 man crew clung to the inverted bath tub craft to avoid a fall, yet all survived without injuries.
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Okinawa
Yellow Sea
Pacific
Governors Outline Aid for Small Business and Farmers
At the 37th conference of states chiefs, Gov. Lester Hunt urged quick help for small business in postwar reconversion and for farmers to gain parity with big industry. Chauncey Sparks criticized federal aids as weak and called for boosting food production and distribution. Harald Stassen urged a mediator role in foreign policy. Hunt proposed a government backed 10-year program and nonexclusive licenses to use wartime patents for small firms. Sparks pushed farm mechanization and rural electrification with millions of new farm homes needed.
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Bahik-|Papan
Borneo
Manggari
Balikpapan
Leslie J. Morshead
Mackinac Island
Mich
Chauncey Sparks
Alabama
Harald E. Stassen
Minnesota
Hunt
Federal Housing Administration
Sparks
Fan
Japs Claim New San Francisco Aerial Breakthrough
Japanese radio boasted of new fighter planes and an infallible air force for the coming homeland battle. B 29s suffered losses. raids over Monji Sasebo Shimonseki and Noheoka burned about two square miles. MacArthur's forces reported heavy Formosa alcohol production cuts and widespread Allied bombing targets in Kyushu and Shanghai area.
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San Francisco
Japan
Crewe
Maruzenot
Cpl
W .H. Power
Carrollton
Chester C. Gibbon
Hayward
Calif
Twenty-first
Bomber Command
Monji
Sasebo
Shimonseki
Noheoka
Singapore
Borneo
Tokyo
MacArthur
Formosa
Kumamoto
Kyushu
Kaisan
Osaka
Batha
Admiral Nimitz
Fleet Air Wing One
Okinawa
Philippines
Shanghai
East China
Chinese High Command
Singeng
Canton
Lincheng
Lanchowway
U.S Air Center
Shapesu
Balikpapan Beachhead Advances Amidst Japanese Resistance
Allied forces led by tanks landed ashore with about 7 000 troops reported by Touko radio as operations push toward Balikpapan heart. Japanese air support of 170 planes and more ships, including five cruisers and 50 transports, are cited. Australian advance within 1500 yards of the city center as carrier planes and Seventh Fleet guns hammer entrenched positions. Light Australian casualties reported. Japanese cave and tunnel defenses remain fierce inland. American pilots observe enemy trucks fleeing northward. strafing stops 15 of them.
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Touko
Associated Press
Russell Brines
Balikpapan
Seventh Fleet
Americal
Everlasting tires envisioned by chemists at Akron lab
John W. Thomas of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co announces a new $2,909,000 laboratory in Akron aimed at creating tires that wear as long as the car, resist punctures and skids, and could one day allow driving until the car falls apart. He cautions many details remain formative and market timing uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
John W. Thomas
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Thomas
British Vote On Thursday Leads Campaign Push
Churchill and Attlee rally supporters in a final political push ahead of Britain's national election. Churchill of the Conservative Party and Attlee of Labour address crowds from rostrums, highlighting concerns over Labour executive committee controls and voter accountability in the looming vote.
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London
Churchill
Clement Attlee
Britain
Alisee
Pation
Labor Party
Lahorites
Australian publishers call for conference in Australia
Sydney reports the Australian publishers association proposing a conference of newsmen from English speaking countries in Australia within a year to declare their public service and responsibilities and to acknowledge benefits of freedom victory. Also reports on the currency comptroller calling for a statement of condition of all national banks as of June 30. Federal grants totaling over 2 billion for hospitals schools and public works approved for seven states and the islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australian Newspaper Proprietors Association
Australia
Issue Bank
Washington
Comptroller of the Curpency Today
Federal
Ageno
Wawajan Islands
Sullivan sworn in aboard fleet flagship
Sullivan, a 46 year old former district attorney from Manchester New Hampshire, was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for air aboard Admiral McGains flagship on a Western Pacific tour. The ceremony was the first of its kind in Navy history as he succeeds Artemis J. Gates, who becomes Under Secretary of the Navy.
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Admiral McGains
Western
Pacific
John Lawrence Sullivan
Navy
Sullivan
Manchester
N. H
Senate
Artemus J. Gates
Akron Strikes Reflect Postwar Wage and Condition Fears
Labor observers say fear of postwar wages and conditions drives a 33 000 strong CIO United Rubber Workers strike wave at Goodyear and Firestone plants in Akron. Anonymous union leaders note workers seek higher pay and better conditions before wartime limits end, anticipating take home pay losses from overtime cuts. Unrest spans Goodrich Co. as well, with a strike vote possible over an 11 cent raise for 1509 to 2000 maintenance workers and a two cent rise for 700 female printers and pressmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Goodyear
Firestone Tire and Rubber
Ramessians
Akran
Tuhs
Firestone
UAW
B. F. Goodrich Co
War Labor Board Goodrich
Jah Sailor
War Labor Board
Tew
Saylor
Last White Man Out of Shangri La
A fragmentary World War II note recalls Captain Cecil Walters leading a rescue in New Guinea's Shangri La valley. A glider carrying Walters and allied troopers failed to halt on Hollandia air strip.
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Sneee
Hiddenley
Shangri-La
New Gainea
Kenneth W. Decker
Kelso
Wash
Margaret Hastings
Owego
Hollandia
New Guineas
New Guinea
Walters
Hig
Hellannia
Kenneth Ray to Take New Position in August
Dr Kenneth C Ray state director of contraction accepted a post as educational director for Greher Rogety Inc publishers of general and environmental books. The move takes effect August 1A with headquarters in Columbus.
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Kenneth Ray
Columbis
Kenneth C. Ray
Contraction
Greher Rogety, Inc
Geneal
Dr Ray
Ferny
Ohio
Columbus
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Ske
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