State and Federal Mediators Aim to Avert Ford Strike
Mediation efforts by Michigan officials and the federal Labor Department seek to prevent walkouts at three Ford plants in the Detroit area. A state ruling says strikes cannot become effective for 30 days after the call, while unions push for overtime and Sunday pay terms. Meanwhile other labor actions affect defense prep projects, including a North Carolina anti aircraft range strike and a six week CIO stoppage at Allis-Chalmers Milwaukee.
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Washington
Hollyridge
AFL
Tim
CIO
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Milwaukee
Office of Production Management
Cold Spell Briefly Eases Across Ohio
Freezing temperatures appeared in Ohio with Cleveland at 31 after a high of 52. Columbus recorded 25 with a 12 hour drop of 80 degrees from Monday’s high. Rain sleet and snow affected several cities including Cambridge East Liverpool Dayton Akron and Cincinnati.
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Columbus
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Cleveland
Mercury
Cambridge
East Liverpool
Dayton
Akron
Camidge
Cincinnati
Rules Committee Defers Mines Inspections Bill
The House Rules Committee postponed a vote on a bill to authorize the Bureau of Mines to inspect coal mines. Chairman Sabath said action was deferred while negotiations on a two year contract between operators and miners were under way and the inspection issue might affect those talks.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Bureau of Mines
Sabath
Ill
Dynamite and Fuse Found at Wade Park School
James Dwyer, assistant janitor, discovered a stick of dynamite and fuse wire in the Wade Park School coal pile. Cleveland Public School Director James F. Brown blamed mine negligence for the incident and ordered a careful inspection of the coal supply.
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Cleveland
James F. Brown
Cleveland Public School System
Wade Park
James Dwyer
British papers to print four pages for two days
London editors agree to reduce editions to four pages on two days next week to conserve newsprint amid shortages. The plan affects major titles and regional papers seeking to maintain readership with shorter issues.
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London
Aged Widow Amanda Brown Dies in Letart Falls
Mrs. Amanda Brown age 90 widow of John M. Brown dies at her Letart Falls home after a stroke of paralysis. Funeral services set for Thursday at 2 PM at Letart Methodist Church. Survived by grandson John Farra and two other grandchildren of Huntington. last of a family of eleven.
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Pomeroy
Amanda Brown
John M. Brown
Letart
Letart Falls
Letart Methodist Church
Giant Fostoria Charcoal Plant on Defense Plan
The War Department negotiates a $1,000,000 government owned gas mask charcoal plant to occupy 16 acres beside the National Carbon Company in Fostoria Ohio as part of defense preparations.
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Washington
War Department
National Carbon Company
Fostoria
Templeton Sues Parents and Attorney Over Earnings
Alec Templeton, noted blind pianist, filed suit in circuit court against his parents and their attorney seeking an accounting of about $200 000 of his earnings.
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Chicago
Alec Templeton
Local Governments Favored in Sales Tax Plan by GOP
In Columbus GOP senators urged first consideration of any surplus sales tax funds for cities and counties after welfare needs are met, with a bid for a 5 million dollar boost. The House approved a 12 million dollar yearly allocation and hearings began on the plan while a rival auto license tag tax measure stalled.
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Senate
House
Frank E. Whittemore
Grant P Ward
Whittemore
Whitte
Soggy Pacific Coast Faces New Rains
A fresh wave of heavy rains drenched the California coast, flooding Santa Barbara areas with 12 inch water depths and evacuating 20 families by Red Cross rowboats. The coast highway and inland ridge route faced closures as mountains pounded by a blizzard disrupted rail and road links.
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Los Angeles
California
Santa Barbara
Red Cross
Here
San Francisco
Akron Strike Prolongs as Negotiations Stall
Akron's gasoline drought deepens with five day old truck drivers strike. Most Summit County filling stations are closed while operators rely on railroad tank cars. Federal mediator Michael Crosette said no settlement is in sight though city officials remain hopeful. Drivers seek an 8 percent raise. operators offered 2 percent before walking away. In Ravenna, three hour strike ends with a five cent per ton raise for slag haulers at Youngstown Cartage Co.
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Akron
Summit County
Michael J. Crosette
Ravenna
Youngstown Cartage Co
Ravenna Arsenal
War Boosts Export Sales
The Commerce Department analysis shows wartime effects on 1940 exports. U.S. normal export sales to Europe were cut by about 200 million dollars due to Germanys blitzkrieg and Britain's blockade, while shipments to the British Empire and Latin America rose enough to push total exports beyond four billion dollars.
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Washington
Germany
Europe
Britain
United States
Commerce Department
British Empire
Latin America
Watch Found In Cement After Thirty-Six Years
Attica Indiana reports Mrs. Thornton Hunt recovered a gold watch lost thirty six years earlier. Workmen at a Danville Illinois power plant found the watch embedded in concrete while moving equipment. A jeweler testified it still kept perfect time.
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Attica
Ind
Thornton Hunt
Danville
Ill
Married Six Times Woman Goes to Jail
Mrs Madelyn Veltrie Smith Jesse Jessmer Van denburg Martin was sentenced to three months in jail for marrying six times without divorces. The case surfaced in Spokane with authorities reporting the six nuptials across multiple years.
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Spokane
Madelyn Veltrie Smith
Jesse Jessmer Vandenburg
Martin
Census Finds Small Farms Averaged Seventeen Acres
The Census Bureau reported that the average American farm was about seventeen acres in the 1930s and 1940s. This reflects a period of farm consolidation and changing agricultural practices across the nation.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Harvey Wade Dies While Vacationing in Florida
Harvey Wade 52 owner and manager of the Wade Carnival Company died suddenly in Eustis Florida while wintering with his wife Mrs Wade. The body returns to Millfield for funeral arrangements. He was son of the late J R Wade and leaves a brother Ed Wade and sister Irene Truitt. Wade operated a widely known Ohio carnival for years.
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Chauncey
Harvey Wade
Wade Carnival Company
Eustis
Fla
Amendment on British aid bill would bar US troops in delivery
Washington reports say Senator O Mahoney proposed a guarantee that US land or naval forces would not deliver defense articles to Great Britain outside the Western Hemisphere without Congress consent. White House aides push for a final Senate roll call by Saturday, facing opposition from Senator Clark who blocked a unanimous consent to limit debate.
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Washington
Great Britain
O'Mahoney
D-Wyo
Hull
Wallace
Senate
United States
Congress
White House
George
D.-Ga
Foreign Relations Committee
Clark
D.-Mo
Indiana Governor Signs Blue Law Amendment
Gov Henry F Schricker signs an amendment passed by the General Assembly legalizing Sunday fishing and Sunday baseball and ice hockey in Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
Henry F. Schricker
The
General Assembly
Far East and Europe Linked by Club Speaker
Dr. Wilfred J. Smith of Ohio University spoke to the Athens Kiwanis on Far Eastern conditions and how events in Japan and China may presage developments in Europe. He cited Japan’s moves, Rome Berlin Axis ties, and U S Britain defense links via Singapore and the Philippines.
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Far East
Europe
Wilfred J. Smith
Ohio University Department of History
Athens Kiwanis Club
Smith
China
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Dr. Smith
Germany
England
Italy
France
Pacific
United States
Great Britain
Singapore
Philippines
Dexter Woman Emma Bowles Dies After Heart Attack
Emma Chalfan Bowles 78 died at her Dexter home after a heart attack. Funeral at Church of Christ Dexter Wednesday at 2 pm with burial in Chalfan Cemetery. Survived by husband J E Bowles two daughters Helen Jones Lima and Adrienne French Harrisonville two grandchildren two sisters Mira Musser Cora Penny. taught eight years, ran a Dexter hotel over 40 years and helped establish Dexter Church of Christ.
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Pomeroy
Emma Chalfan Bowles
Dexter
Church of Christ
Chalfan
Bowles
S. B. Chalfan
Harrisonville
J. E. Bowles
Helen Jones
Lima
Adrienne French
Mira Musser
Cora Penny
Meigs County
Atwood Institute
Albany
Requests Exhaust 1941 Low Number Licenses
The State Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Columbus said about 70 000 sets of special 1941 automobile license tags were mailed and requests for low numbers or unusual letter and number combinations could not be filled due to exhausted supply. New tags may replace 1940 plates March 10 and must be used by April 2.
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Columbus
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Night Fighters Develop Sharper Air Vision
Night fighting in the air has advanced so pilots can now distinguish one aircraft type from another at night the air ministry news service reported from London The improvement promises clearer target recognition and safer engagements for British pilots.
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London
Air Ministry
Girls Escape from Delaware Reformatory
Six inmates fled the State Girls Industrial School early today according to state highway patrol. Three escaped in one group and three in another, prompting a statewide lookout and ongoing searches.
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Delaware
State Girls Industrial School
State Highway Patrol
British Say Raid One of Greatest of War
British officials describe a Cardiff incendiary raid as one of the war’s greatest fire attacks as RAF bombers strike Cologne. The Balkan crisis tightens with Bulgaria in danger of breaking relations, while German troops stream into Bulgaria via three passes toward Sofia. A German mission reaches Ankara to present a message to President Ismet Inonu.
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Cardiff
South Wales
Cologne
Rhineland
Red Cross
London
Balkans
Britain
Bulgaria
Sofia
Ankara
Turkey
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Arms making now first in Britain
The British government plans to shut down or consolidate over 50 civilian industries employing about a million workers to redirect manpower and materials to arms production. A Yugoslav report notes talks on a potential Greece Italy armistice, while London says Eden and General Dill are coordinating with Athens to aid Greece if Germany invades.
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Adolf Hitler
Turkey
Belgrade
Greece
Italy
Britain
Anthony Eden
John G. Dill
Imperial General Staff
Athens
Russians Rebuke Bulgaria and Strengthen Border Defenses
Soviet Russia denounced Bulgaria for allowing Nazi legions to overrun the country and warned King Boris its policy may widen the war. Russia reinforced troops on the Prut frontier against Romania as Bulgaria’s mobilization continued under German supervision.
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Russia
Prut
Rumania
Bulgaria
London
Berlin
Wemevy “Yzeee
Ev Terday
Moscow
Balkans
Boris
AFL Strikes Halt Major Wright Field Construction
Col. Lester B. Miller announced a new AFL building trades strike at Wright Field Dayton halting about 5.9 million dollars in construction. Roughly 200 craftsmen walked off the wind tunnel torque stand radio laboratory dynamometer lab and administration building in the second strike in six weeks. The War Department called the strike essential to the Air Corps expansion at a key military aircraft center.
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Dayton
Lester B. Miller
Wright Field
AFL Building Trades Union
Army
Air Corps
Miller
War Department
Washington
United States
Unregistered German Propagandist Indicted
Dr. Friedrich Ernest Anhagen labeled a Nazi propagandist by the Dies Committee indicted on failing to register as a paid propagandist for the German government. He was released on a $5,000 bond in Ottawa Illinois.
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Ottawa
Ill
Friedrich Ernest Anhagen
Dies Committee
Liberty
Washer Free Cat From Tail In Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne police on an ambulance run to Fred Stoop's house found the family cat tail caught in the gears of a washing machine. The cat was released unhurt and the machine required repairs.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Fred Stoop
British Advance in Africa Occupies Somali Towns
Nairobi dispatch reports British forces have occupied Isola Baidoa and Buloburu in Italian Somaliland as announced in a communique.
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Africa
Nairobi
Kenya
Isola Baidoa
Buloburu
Italian Somaliland
President Begins First Day of Third Term
Franklin Delano Roosevelt starts his ninth year as president on a routine day focused on defense and aid to Britain with no public observance planned. The move makes him the first U.S. leader to serve a third term.
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Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
America
United States
Roosevelt
Britain
Lewis Returns To Head United Mine Workers
Washington report says John L. Lewis resumed active leadership of the United Mine Workers after a two and a half month illness absence. He returned to his office today and will oversee CIO affiliated miners.
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Lewis
United Mine Workers
Washington
John L. Lewis
CIO
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
Highest paid New York craftsmen under new 35 hour week
Diamond cutters in New York reach top pay under a new union scale set for a 35 hour week. The scale ranges from 120 to 195 dollars, establishing the nation's highest wages for the trade.
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New York
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