40 000 Sta ti On Strike in U S Plants
The Associated Press reports about 40 000 workers idle in U S labor disputes, with reductions forecast as yard and distillery stoppages ease. Detroit area lumber yards and Seagram distilleries show progress toward settlements, while 5 000 of 6 000 United States Rubber workers in Detroit remain off the job and related actions affect Midland Steel and other plants nationwide.
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Associated Press
Detroit
AFL Carpenter’s
War Labor Board
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons
Baltimore
United States Rubber Company
CIO United Rubber Workers
Midland Steel
Geneva Steelompany
Provo
Utah
AFL
Phelps ‘Dodge Corp
Morenci
Arizon
Nine
Mill
St. Ouis
Portland
Ore
WLB
Plywood Corp
Trikers
Springfield
Libby, McNeil and Libby Company
I International Moulders and Foundry Workers Union
Chicago
Joliet
Aurora
Batavia
Jack-Heintz Accused To Release of Veterans
AFL union official demands immediate conference with Jack-Heintz Inc president William S. Jack over layoff of 190 ex servicemen. Matthew Demore, district 54 IAM, seeks talks on layoff handling and veteran release to embarrass the union. Postpone pole elections in Moscow indicate Polish abroad voters must return home.
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Cleveland
Jack &Heintz, Inc
AFL
Matthew Demore
International Association of Machinists
William S. Jack
Moscow
Warsaw
Plenty of Cigaret Tobacco on Sale Despite Shortage Fears
In Valdosta Ga readers learn that more than a billion pounds of tobacco are on the market as a bumper crop ships out. The report notes tobacco requires aging and care and the current supply aims to replenish stockpiles hit by high consumption.
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Valdosta, Ga
War Labor Board upholds Miami WFTL closed shop ruling
AP dispatch reports the War Labor Board ruled Florida's Right to Work amendment cannot override federal labor law. The WLB said national labor union laws supersede state constitutions, allowing the closed shop at Miami radio station WFTL. The ruling ties into wartime labor disputes affecting the war effort. The issue arose after Florida voters amended the state Bill of Rights to protect the right to work. The decision emphasizes federal supremacy over state labor provisions during wartime.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Florida
Miami
WFTL
WLB
United States
Warren Labor Talks Nearing Solution In Ohio City
Tieup of Warren's communications and morning to afternoon transportation set the stage for a near-term settlement as 124 striking telephone operators faced the regional War Labor Board on why an eight-day walkout should end. Mayor Roberts urged drastic action to protect safety health and productive capacity of the 55 000 population city.
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Truman
U. S
Potsdam
Stalin
United States
Japan
Russia
Cleveland
Warren
Transportation Systems
Regional War Labor Board
Regional Board
Robert H. Roberts
Eastern States Swept by Floods Across Region
Flooding inundated New York New Jersey Massachusetts and Vermont as rivers rose and rain saturated the area. Damages topped 5.2 million in New York and Massachusetts with Paterson New Jersey at 1 million. Two drownings occurred in Massachusetts and a woman remained missing in New Jersey. Five deaths from drowning nationwide plus two heat deaths were reported.
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New York
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Vermont
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Paterson
N. J
Hancock River
Little Falls
Peckham River
Champaign
Nebraska
Malion
Seaboard
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Urges Check On Week End Service Leave
Two members of the Senate War Investigating Committee urged trimming week end leave for soldiers and sailors to ease rail traffic strain from troop redeployments. Senators Ferguson and Burton pressed the Army to review leave policies while Col. J Monroe Johnson cited a 10 month program drafted without defense transportation input, warning western railroads could be overwhelmed.
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Senate War Investigating Committee
Army
Navy
Europe
Pacific
Ferguson
Rmich
Burton
Ohio
J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Johnson
Russia Needs More Workers on Reconversion Drive
Soviet trade union leader Vassili Kuznetsov said in Washington that the USSR faces a severe reconversion shortage of workers. He noted 30 million current workers and planned use of German POWs for rebuilding, as he and nine others tour eastern and midwestern industrial centers with CIO hospitality.
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Washington
Russia
Vassili Kuznetsov
United States
Kuznetsov
Ssbor
All- Union
Central Council of Trade Unions
CIO
Ohio Miners Eligible For Extra Meat Rations
The Office of Price Administration announced about half the coal miners in the 24 county Columbus district would qualify for 50 extra meat points and a pound of sugar for every three days worked. The additional allotment is to arrive by August 4.
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Columbus
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Government To Sell Factories And Equipment After War
The four state Cleveland District RFC will offer government owned factories and equipment valued at over $2.0 billion as surplus property after the war. Deputy district RFC manager F E Brickel said in May about $69 million of surplus equipment is stored in 15 district warehouses awaiting sale and 125 federally owned war plants valued at $2 billion would be sold at war end.
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Cleveland
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
F. E. Brickel
RFC
Hamilton Plant To Be Working Next Summer
Hamilton plant of General Motors will be erected south of Hamilton and expected to operate by next summer. T P Archer vice president told officials that excavation contracts will be awarded soon. The plant is scheduled to employ 2700 people.
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Hamilton
Fisher Body Company
General Motors
T. P. Archer
Woman Rescued After Fall From Cleveland Bridge
A woman fell from Cleveland's High Level Bridge into the Cuyahoga River and was saved by bridge attendant William Brenner who threw her a life preserver. She was hospitalized with injuries not yet determined.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga River
William Brenner
Philippines to be invasion launchpad for Tokyo says general
Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer, in a Pacific command interview, says the Philippines rapidly shifts from battleground to invasion hub for Japan. He projects nearly a million more tons of supplies into Manila and other ports during July to September, with service troops more than doubling to support logistics. Storage space equal to 205 city blocks will be needed as bases in Australia and New Guinea push supplies forward to the Philippines.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
Japan
Wilhelm $. D Styer
Western Pacific
Tokyo
Philippine
Europe
South Pacific
Australia
New Guinea
Philippines
Attack Halsey Fleet Units in Kure District
Allied forces report Japanese fighters attacked back over Kure district as Admiral Halsey’s armada raided Nippon coast. Nagata battleship damaged at Yokosuka. more than 700 aircraft involved from Marianas bases. Seventeen Nipponese vessels sunk, plus other small craft damaged from Chekiang to the Gulf of Siam. Australian troops drive toward Samarinda oil fields. Chinese forces threaten Hongkong road corridor. one fifth of 5,000 troops pocketed in Pegu area wiped out. New Zealand bomber squadron to join RAF-led attack. Missing Langley Field airmen include Raymond L. Ferriman of Galion, Ohio.
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Guam
Admiral Halsey
Kure
Nagata
Yokosuka
Tokyo
Chekiang Province
China
Pacific Fleet
Tuo
Shanghai
Okinawa
Balikpapan
Borneo
Fonland
Samarinda
MacArthur
Kwangsi
Hunan
Lingchwan
Kweilin
Hongkong-Hankow
Pegu
Burma
Southeast Asia Command
Wellington
F. Jones
New Zealand
Europe
Japan
RAF
Domet
Patamushiro
Kuriles
Tvo
Tokyo Bay
Chichihima
Nagoya
Osaka
Paramushiro
Tain
Suribachi
Shanghaii
Reynaud Testifies Against Petain in Paris Trial
Former French premier Paul Reynaud takes the stand in Paris as the Petain trial enters its second day. He accuses Marshal Petain of obstructing France’s fight and aiding Germany, recounting June 1940 events including a promised guns shipment from the United States and French high command’s misreadings of German moves.
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Paris
UPI
Marshal Petain
Paul Reynaud
France
Reynaud
Petain
Roosevelt
United States
Admiral Tartan
Germany
Belgium
Maginot Line
Sedan
Last Portrait of FD Displayed in New York
The portrait of the late President Roosevelt, sitting at his deathbed on April 12, was shown at Gimbel Brothers in New York City. Mrs. Roosevelt requested the portrait, and it may join the Roosevelt Memorial at Hyde Park. Also noted, Ohio Wesleyan University received a bequest of 200,000 dollars from Dr. Fimer Tor, a Cincinnati physician.
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New York
Roosevelt
Gimbel Brothers
Ehaahett Shoutmatoff
Hyde Dark
Ohio Wesleyan University
Fimer Tor
New York City
Cincinnati
Peace Feeler Inquiry Urged in Senate Debate
Senator Wherry urged the Senate to discuss whether the United States has received any genuine peace feelers from Japan. He planned to ask again if the State Department has received offers and to call attention to a compilation of purported feelers he said came from a high military source and was sent to President Truman at Potsdam.
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Washington
Wherry
Senate
Japan
State Department
Truman
Potsdam
Research Ts Most Vital Say Research Ts Most Vital
Washington report notes Fylleney stating peace-time conscription may be unnecessary if a front-crank research program is developed. Two senators introduce a bill to create a national science foundation to foster research. Kilgore says research is the key to military success and a future war could be won in the laboratory, not on the battlefield. Johnson supports lab-focused victory.
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Washington
National Science Foundation
Kilgore
Dw.va
Johnson
Tie Malo
Two German Generals Captured by American Forces
The U S Third Army announced capture of two more German generals in Germany. Gen Hoffmann of the Waffen SS and Col Gen Mans von Salmuth, former commander of the German Army in Northern France and Holland, were captured near Neustadt on 4 hp. In Ohio, Wooster reports a large wheat harvest of 1 590 000 bushels, one of the largest on record per Agricultural agent G A Priseman.
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Third Army
Germany
Oo Hoffman
Waffen SS
Mans van Salmoih
France
Holland
Hoffman
Manch von Salmush
Ert
G. A. Prisiman
U S Air Blitz Rages Over Japan From Carriers And Bases
American warplanes from carriers and land bases bombarded Kure naval base and cities Osaka Nagoya with thousands of tons of explosives. The 3rd Fleet unleashed 1000 to 1500 carrier planes over Honshu while Japanese defenses and air attacks followed. Reports cite direct hits on ships and widespread damage to industrial targets as the Marianas based Superfortresses led the assault.
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Guam
Tokyo
Japan
Kure
Osaka
Nagoya
U. S
Honshu
Associated Press
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Radio Tokyo
Kure Naval Station
New War Ration Books Set for December Issuance
Price Administrator Bowles announced December distribution of War Ration Book Five for meats fats processed foods sugar and shoes. A gas ration book, Book A, will debut December 22 with smaller stamps and color coding, usable into next year. Issuance will proceed through schools and public buildings. shortages in meats fats canned goods sugar and shoes are anticipated.
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WASHINGTON/P
Chester Bowles
Department of Agriculture
War Production Board
Rome
Bank Five
Gaenline Hank
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Newport News
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Cpl
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