Government to Penalize Subversive Defense Strike Promoters
A Senate vote 46 to 25 backed penalties for defense industry strikes and defiant workers who reject mediation. Officials said the plan would strip rights under labor laws and press deportation for alien strike promoters while using wartime powers to curb subversive activity and safeguard essential production.
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Washington
Senate
Capitol Hill
Congress
National Defense Mediation Board
Roosevelt
Navy
Knox
North American Aviation
Selective Service Act
Wilson
CIO Chief Denounces Bills Limiting Stoppages in Defense Firms
Philip Murray president of the CIO denounces congressional proposals curbing stoppages in defense industries and defending workers right to strike. He calls the bills vicious and aims to destroy organized labor, condemns army use in labor disputes and compulsory arbitration. He urges union members to oppose these measures in a formal nationwide statement.
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Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
WYVIK
Defense Mediation Board
Murray
Planes Delivered in May by Military Manufacturers
Washington reports 1,334 airplanes delivered by military aircraft makers in May. The release does not specify plane types or distribution between the United States Army and Navy and Great Britain.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
United States Army
Navy
Great Britain
Retired Vinton Stock Dealer Ends Life in Wilkesville
Howard Wiseman aged 60 a retired stock dealer shot himself at his Wilkesville home using a shotgun. Coroner J E Strong reports ill health following a stroke last year. He left a wife and two children Shir ley Spires postmistress and Ralph Wiseman plus three brothers Hiram Ewington Hollis and Charles Langsville.
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Wilkesville
Howard Wiseman
J. E. Strong
Wiseman
Shirley Spires
Ralph Wiseman
Hiram
Ewington Rt
Hollis
Columbus
Churley
Langsville
Italians Convicted in Sabotage Case at San Juan
Captain Ettore Guigni of the Italian tanker Colorado and 25 crew members were convicted by a federal jury in San Juan Puerto Rico of conspiracy and sabotage.
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San Juan
P. R
Ettore Guigni
Colorado
Roosevelt nominates Harlan F Stone as Chief Justice
President Roosevelt nominates Harlan F Stone of New York to succeed Charles Evan Hughes as chief justice. Stone, 68, joined the court in 1925. Attorney General Robert H Jackson would fill Stone’s current seat, while Senator James Byrnes would be tapped for the McReynolds vacancy.
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Florlan F. Stone
New York
Roosevelt
Charles Evans Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Justice Stone
Coolidge
Washington
Harlan F. Stone
Charles Evan Hughes
Stone
Robert H. Jackson
James Clark McReynolds
James Francis Byrnes
South Carolina
Hughes
Jackson
Byrnes
RFC Gets Judgment Against Coal Grove Village
A default judgment for about $25,000 was entered in U S District Court against the village of Coal Grove Lawrence County in favor of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation late yesterday.
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Cincinnati
Coal Grove
Lawrence County
U. S. District Court
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Warplane Parts Disputes Ease Amid UAW CIO Actions
Several plants resume near normal work as CIO strikes subside. In California North American Aircraft at Inglewood reports 100 percent personnel and efficiency. San Diego AFL machinists consider undisclosed contract ratification, while Pittsburgh CIO steelworkers threaten strikes over wage demands. Detroit unions threaten 30,000 Chrysler and Briggs jobs. Bohn dispute heads to Washington mediation with a $25 million defense order tie up.
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Detroit
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Company
Aluminum Company of America
Cleveland
CIO
California
North American Aircraft Corp
Inglewood
San Diego
AFL
Consolidated Aircraft
Pittsburgh
Labor Department
Chrysler and Briggs Manufacturing Company
Bohn
Mediation Board
Washington
Court ruling favors miners in BUC issue
The district court dissolved an injunction blocking $287000 in unemployment benefits for about 6000 coal miners missing work during the 1939 bituminous shutdown. The BUC had said miners were entitled during contract talks, but operators argued the workers were on strike. The BUC will not issue checks until the court order copy arrives.
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Columbus
District Court of Appeals
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation Board of Review
BUC
Dispute Over Daughter Triggers Kill-Suicide in Oliphant
In Oliphant Pennsylvania a 46 year old coal mine motorman Steve Hosa killed his wife and then himself with a pistol after arguing about his 14 year old daughter's refusal to dance with him. The daughter Dorothy said she would not dance because she had to deliver a newspaper route early for her brother.
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Oliphant
Steve Hosa
R. L. Sharp
Dorothy
Aid to Britain advocates react to FDs report on lease leading
Washington reports displeasure and surprise from supporters of aid to Britain as President Roosevelt shows only 75.2 million dollars of lease lead equipment transferred through May 31. Senators express concern while others hail the small amount as evidence of limited need for convoys and continued resistance to broader arms aid.
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Washington
Britain
Roosevelt
Administration
Clark
Ida
Wheeler
Production of Eyes Reaches Record High
The Department of Agriculture reports farm flocks produced 53.5 eggs per 100 hens on June 1, a record high. Government efforts to aid Britain under lend-lease and price supports have boosted poultry activity and egg prices in Chicago by about 8 cents a dozen since February lows.
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Chicago
Crop Reporting Board
Department of Agriculture
Great Britain
Map Strategy For Defense
Washington announces assignment of Lt. Col. William F. Lee to Governors Island to map wartime defense staff duties with the Northeast Defense Command. He joins others forming defense plans for the South Atlantic, West Coast, and central states.
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Washington
Army Defense Commands
United States
William F. Lee
Amherst
Mass
Governors Island
N. Y
Northeast Defense Command
Northeast Command
New England
Middle Atlantic
West Coast
Central States
Expansion of Sandusky Factory Is Announced
The Plum Brook ordnance works near Sandusky, a $30 million explosives factory, will be expanded to a $50 million plant. The War Department in Washington announced late yesterday a $20,287,000 expansion authorization.
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Sandusky —(P
Plum Brook
Taxes on Huge Estate Solve City's Problem
TIFFIN This city entered June with less than $500 in the general fund but received $27,954 in personal property taxes and $16,635 inheritance taxes from the Ralph D. Sneath estate. The funds covered the June payroll and other bills.
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Ralph D. Sneath
Nazi Stukas Sink Gunboat And Monitor
British reports state the gunboat Ladybird and the monitor Terror were destroyed by Stuka dive bombers off Tobruk and the Libyan coast. The 625 ton Ladybird went down in Tobruk harbor after a May 12 attack. the 8,000 ton Terror, struck off the Libyan coast, was abandoned and later sunk by a British cruiser.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Britain
Italy
Libya
Libyan
Tobruk
United States
Yangtze
New Plane Factory Dedicated in Mill Creek Valley
In Cincinnati a 50 acre Wright Aeronautical plant worth 37 million dollars was dedicated on a site previously cultivated land. William S. Knudsen was to give the principal address as the industry opens the facility which will produce up to 1,000 aircraft motors monthly. About 3,000 of 12,000 workers are on pilot lines during maximum production.
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Cincinnati
Mill Creek
William S. Knudsen
Office of Production Management
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Million-ton expansion planned for Republic Steel mill
An addition to Republic Steel Corp's 98 inch ship mill in Cleveland will boost output by about 220000 tons annually and will be built immediately, officials said today.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corporation
U S Steel Plans Major Expansion at Pittsburgh Plant
United States Steel announces a $50 million expansion at its Homestead works near Pittsburgh with possible government financing. Work could begin soon as options on adjacent land near Homestead and Duquesne works expire June 30. The move aligns with a new OPM request to boost steel capacity by 10 million tons annually from about 80 million tons.
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Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
Homestead
Duquesne Works
Office of Production Management
Ohio Editors Praised at Chillicothe News Papers Dedication
Gov. John W. Bricker praised Ohio editors and publishers for informing the public as he dedicated the new home of Chillicothe News papers, Inc. He stressed that a free press underpins the representative government and that publishers share responsibility for shaping public opinion.
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Chillicothe
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Chillicothe Newspapers, Inc
Bricker
Outline of Wheat Loan Program in Ohio
Elmer F. Kruse, state AAA chairman, outlined steps for 1941 wheat marketing quotas in Ohio. Farmers with 15 acres or less must have their county committee issue quota cards to certify eligibility to sell or feed all wheat produced. Despite a 47.8 percent favorable vote in Ohio on May 31, farmers must follow federal marketing regulations.
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Columbus
Ohio
Elmer F. Kruse
State Agricultural Adjustment Administration
County Aaa Committee
Kruse
Ohio defense orders climb to over half a billion
Contracts totaling 17 629 781 were awarded to Ohio industries in the two weeks ending May 31 raising defense orders placed in the Buckeye state since last July 1 to 558 559 230.
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Washington
Ohio Industries
Buckeye
Public Aid to Needy Ohioans in 1940 Averaged $20.70
The Ohio Institute reports 1940 public aid totaled $143,011,276, equal to $20.70 per resident. WPA earnings led with about $75 million, aged and general relief followed, plus surplus commodities, dependent children aid, soldiers relief, and aid to the blind. Local share varied from half a cent to 14 cents per dollar.
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Columbus
Ohio Institute
Columbus Governmental Research Agency
Ohio
Morgan County
Hamilton County
WPA
Evidence Is Studied by Washington
Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, said the Robin Moor was sunk by a German submarine whose commander knew it was an American vessel. He noted survivors were questioned and that cargo contained no war material. Britain and allies reaffirmed resolve to continue the war, while Churchill promised to purge Hitler’s “infected fingers” from the earth.
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United States
London
Britain
Welles
Pernambuco
Brazil
South Atlantic
Washington
North Freeland
Canada
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New Zealand
South Africa
Belgium
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Yugoslavia
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Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Damascus
Syria
Kissone
Middle East
Palestine
Mediterranean
Beirut
Lebanon
Sidon
Canton Civil War veteran William H Little held for services
Military services will be conducted tomorrow by the Sons of Union Veterans for Captain William H Little a 98 year old Civil War veteran in Canton.
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Canton
Sons of Union Veterans
William H. Little
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