Defense plants to hire 3 million more this summer
Knudsen told the Senate Appropriations Committee that 3,000,000 additional workers would be employed in defense industries by summer’s end, with over half unskilled. Since last September 2,000,000 men found defense jobs, and non defense plants may have material flow cut as production expands.
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Washington
William S. Kfiudsen
Senate Appropriations Committee
OPM
Knudsen
Office of Production Management
CIO
Harvill Aircraft Die Casting Corporation
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Aluminum Company of America
Edgewater
N. J
Bethlehem
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Bethlehem Steel Company
Avian
SWOC
E.R.P
Campany
Chicago
McCormick Works
International Harvester Company
AFL
Harry O'Reilly
Irving Brown
26Th St
Western Ve
Hunt To Start for New Dial Locations
Radio prepares for Moving Day with a nationwide hunt to locate 795 of 883 broadcast stations on the new dial. Effective at 3 a.m. Saturday listeners will begin mapping changes as stations switch frequencies amid the reorganizing effort.
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Hunt
New York
Majority Loyal To Tax Bills Sought by Bricker
Columbus AP report says Bricker administration backs main items as Legislature nears adjournment. The $351 million biennial appropriation bill aims for an April 1 House vote while a two year fuel tax extension and a Ohio State Guard proposal move toward approval. The State Highway Patrol expansion faces potential clash with the guard measure.
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Bricker
Columbus
House Finance Committee
House
Senate
John W. Bricker
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
Glenford High Mourns Death Of Local Fan
Glenford High School honored its late supporter George Swinehart 72 who died while listening to Glenford’s second round win over Hicksville. His son Dwight played in the tournament, as the town prepared to celebrate at Wednesday’s athletic banquet in the school gymnasium.
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Glenford
Ohio
Glenford High School
Columbus
Perry County
George Swinehart
Hicksville
Swinehart
Dwight
FDR Signs Key Bills Amid Navy Funds Signing
President Roosevelt aboard the Potomac interrupted a fishing trip to sign the defense mediation board commissions for 11 members and approve a 100 million dollar appropriation for the navy and public works.
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U. S. S. Benson
Roosevelt
U. S. Defense Mediation Board
Potomac
Navy and
Public Works
Committees Tour Sites for Southeast Ohio Egg Auction
County committees will tour all recommended sites for the Southeast Ohio Egg Auction on Tuesday. Athens County participants include Alton Hope D M McIntorf Edgar Dixon Reece Cobb and County Extension Agent Ross Wright.
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Southeastern Ohio
Athens County
Alton Hope
D. M. McIntorf
Edgar Dixon
Reece Cobb
Ross Wright
Canton Masonic Leader George P. Craig Dies at 95
George P. Craig 95 known as Ohio s oldest Mason died Sunday. A retired grocer he was a lodge member 74 years.
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Canton
George P.craig
Ohio
Lodge
OSU Hosts Week-Long Police Administration Course
A weeklong police administration course opened at Ohio State University drawing law enforcement officers from across Ohio to study modern police methods and management practices.
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Columbus
Ohio State Unifor
Francis Cobb 89 Dies at Wilkesville Home
Francis Cobb age 89 died suddenly last night at his Wilkesville home. Funeral services will be held at ten o'clock Wednesday morning at the home with interment in Buffalo West Virginia. He leaves a widow and four children Nelle Wiseman McArthur Hilah Collins Radcliff Lisa Brown Charleston W Va Julia Grate near Wilkesville. son Earl preceded him in death.
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Wilkesville
Francis Cobb
Buffalo
W. Va
Prison Farm Fugitive Returns After 13 Years
Ivan Priscilla a 49 year old Cleveland forger who escaped from London Prison Farm on Sept 4 1928 is back to serve up to 17 more years after Kansas Supreme Court denied his appeal from an extradition order. He previously served two terms in Leavenworth Federal Prison while a fugitive.
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London
Ivan Priscilla
Cleveland
London Prison Farm
Priscilla
Kansas Supreme Court
Leavenworth
Eight Women Arrested For Sunday Gambling In Boston
Boston police report eight women became hysterical when officers raided a room Sunday. Sergt.Thomas P. Davin described taking them to patrol cars as they were charged with gambling on the Lord's Day. The women were playing poker.
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Boston
Thomas P. Davin
Gavin
Big Six Meet Long Island in Final Showdown
Ohio University faces Long Island University in the Madison Square Garden final of the invitation tournament. The Bobcats, led by coach Bill Trautwein and senior core of the Big Six, hope to cap their college careers with a landmark victory. Long Island is favored, with Ohio fans packing the Garden for the decisive game.
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Long Island
New York
Ohio University
Long Island University
Blackbirds
Madison Square Garden
Bill Trautwein
Trautwein
Ohio
City College
Bobcats
Gotham
Duquesne
GOP Chairman Sees U S on Road to War
Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, as Republican National Committee chairman, warned the United States was moving toward war and facing possible national bankruptcy. He urged policing and auditing the New Deal to avert financial and social collapse while stressing unity without destroying the two party system.
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Washington
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Mass
Republican National Committee
United States
Republican Party
New Deal Administration
National Committee
Martin
House
WPA Increase Reported By Social Security Board
The Social Security Board reported January gains in the WPA workload and public relief. Public assist payments and earnings for Federal work programs totaled 221,654,000 dollars, up 1.8 percent from December 1940. WPA employment rose to 1,858,000 from 1,826,000, while general relief cases increased to 1,256,000 from 1,240,000.
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Washington
Social Security Board
WPA
Legion Seeks Physical Fitness of Ohio Youth
The American Legion plans a Saturday drive in Columbus to improve Ohio youths fitness to meet draft requirements.
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Legion Seeks
Physical Fitness of
Ohio
Columbus
The
American Legion
Ohio University Faces Long Island In NIT Final
Telegraph wires from Madison Square Garden to the Ohio University Gymnasium and Hotel Berry will provide Athens residents with free information tonight on the Bobcats NIT final against Long Island University. Action starts shortly after 9 30 with no planned radio broadcast except possibly final minutes. Bobcats have won strong local support ahead of the nationally televised showdown.
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Madison Square Garden
Ohio University
Berry
Athens
Long Island University
Wage Code To Get Final Public Hearing
Ohio moves toward final hearing on a wage code for 25000 beauty operators. A nine member board set the scale with a 44 hour week and pay from 11.50 to 16 dollars based on population and experience. George A Strain directed this code into voluntary effect.
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Columbus
Ohio
George A. Strain
Naval Bases Will Be Acquired Soon
The United States will gain formal title to hemisphere base sites from Great Britain with 99 year leases signed in London by Prime Minister Churchill and Ambassador John G. Winant. Sites include Trinidad Jamaica Antigua St. Lucia British Guiana and the Bahamas from a WWII destroyer swap. Newfoundland and Bermuda were a free gift.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
London
Churchill
John G. Winant
Trinidad
Jamaica
Antigua
St. Lucia
British Guiana
Bahamas
Newfoundland
Bermuda
Truck Drivers Block Market in Detroit Terminal Blockade
A blockade of all entrances to the Detroit Union Produce Terminal halted perishable food valued over 250 dollars. Louis R. Shamie of the Detroit Retail Grocers Association labeled the action a bold-faced move against grocers. About 200 trucks from a newly organized Teamsters union local blocked entry and exit.
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Detroit
Detroit Union Produce
Louis R. Shamie
Detroit Retail Grocers Association
Teamsters Union
Japan’s Matsuoka Visit and Japan Axis Ambitions
DeWitt Mackenzie discusses Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka’s Moscow stop en route to meeting Hitler and Mussolini. He suggests Moscow talks could shape Japan’s stance toward Britain and the United States, weighing peace or war with the Anglo‑American powers. He warns of Russia’s possible fear of war and the prospect of Axis unity driving Japan toward full involvement.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Matsukoa
Moscow
Hitler
Mussolini
Nippon
Britain
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan
Matsuoka
John Bull
Uncle Sam
Molotov
Axis
Europe
Axis Brotherhood
Siberian
Russia
Ohio Medical Aid Bill Clears House Committee
A bill to create a low income medical care program through licensed nonprofit corporations backed by the Ohio State Medical Association advances to the House Rules Committee. It would provide subscribers with physician services and supplies, requiring at least 51 percent physician approval in a covered territory before licensing. The plan mirrors a prior measure and includes hospital facilities for subscribers.
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Columbus
Ohio House Committee On
Ohio State Medical Association
House Rules Committee
Aid Bill Fees Are Silenced
Washington reports opposition to the seven billion dollar Aid to Britain bill dwindling as administration leaders forecast a three to one Senate vote. Nye predicts only a handful of skeptics remain while several former critics may side with the majority.
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Washington
Britain
Capitol Hill
Senate
Roosevelt
Nye
R-N.d
Police Question Suspects In Youngstown Murders
Police questioned suspects in Youngstown seeking clues to the third unsolved slaying in two weeks. Esley A. Lumpkin, 28, died a day after being shot. Oscar Braeley, 30, was fatally wounded in an altercation. Alphonsus Foley, 36, was killed mysteriously.
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Youngstown
Esley A. Lumpkin
Oscar Braeley
Alphonsus Foley
Philippine troops kill Moros in jungle battle on Jolo Island
Philippine constabulary soldiers engage Moros in Jolo Island jungle war. Twelve Moros dug graves and dressed in white for burial under Muhammadan rites, challenging the soldiers to fight. All 12 were killed. a 13th fighter, a woman, was seriously wounded.
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Manila
Philippine Constabulary
Jolo Island
Fire destroys Queen City Yacht Club clubhouse
Capt John Gettle reports volunteer firefighters lacked equipment to pump river water, 200 feet from the Ohio River, as the club house in Cincinnati burned down.
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Cincinnati
Queen City Yacht Club
John Gettle
Ohio River
Four-Year-Old Rescued From Bomb-Wrecked Home
A four year old was rescued from a bomb damaged London home where he had stayed three days after his parents were killed.
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London
British flier dives on Nazi lines in street
British daylight raid reports an air crew diving to 100 feet over Barfleur near Cherbourg. A Blenheim machine gunned German troops during a pre breakfast parade outside barracks on the outer mole after bombing Cherbourg docks.
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London
Cherbourg
Berlin
Air Ministry
Barfleur
Wage Issue In Coal Negotiations To Replace Expiring Contract
In New York a joint sub committee for bituminous coal miners and Appalachian area operators began detailed wage talks after preliminary work. Spokesmen said they aim for bed rock discussions on wages. Miners demand a blanket $1 daily wage bump, which operators rejected.
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New York
Appalachian
Uncle Sam Insures Farmers Wheat Crop Scale
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation reports 420,077 farmers insured and 110,591,000 bushels of wheat protected. Premiums paid amount to 14,358,958 bushels, covering 10,946,284 acres, about one sixth of total wheat land.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
British Warship Reported Heading to Norfolk Yards for Repairs
The Baltimore Sun cited unnamed official sources claiming a British warship, described as a heavy cruiser, was bound for Norfolk Virginia navy yards for repairs. The ship’s name was not released and its draft reportedly prevented work at Baltimore facilities.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Sun
Norfolk, Va
Ironton Man Shot After Family Quarrel Ends Fatal
Police Chief Dennis Callahan says a family quarrel sparked the weekend fatal shooting of 54 year old Jess Gammon in Ironton. The death is ruled a homicide investigation with details pending.
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Ironton
Tronton
Dennis Callahan
Jess Gammon
Nazi Troops Start March in Bulgaria
Nazi units move through the Struma River Valley toward Greece as Yugoslavia signs toward the Axis. Russia hints at backing Turkey with a mutual aid declaration while Greece warns Belgrade and Italians mark the 22nd Mussolini anniversary amid Africa front shifts.
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Russia
Turkey
Germany
Istanbul
Berlin
Moscow
Poland
Great Britain
Greece
Dardanelles
Mediterranean
Hitler
Balkan
Struma River
Yugoslavia
Paul
Struma
Adolf Hitler
Reuters
British New Agency
Belgrade
Adriatic
Italy
Mussolini
Africa
Addis Ababa
Kenya
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