Miracle Needed To Avert Mine Work Stoppage
In New York AP report the head of the U S Labor Department conciliation service says only a miracle could prevent a midnight stoppage in bituminous coal mines as miners and operators near a deadline. John L Lewis notes 330000 Appalachian miners will strike without a contract and benefits.
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NEW York
U. S. Labor Department Conciliation Service
John R. Steelman
Appalachian
Steelman
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Act
Ezra van Horn
Cleveland Coal
Adam Weber Dies Sunday At Age 72 In Athens
Adam Weber age 72 died at his home 320 West Union Street Sunday morning after a five month illness. He was the last of his immediate family and his wife had passed away years ago. He was in the Athens bakery trade for years and later ran a small fruit and truck garden farm. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 PM at his home with burial in the West Union Street Cemetery. Rev. Stanley Jeffrey will conduct the service. Friends may call at the home at any time.
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Adam Weber
W. Union St
Mr. Weber
Weber
Athens
Stanley Jeffrey
Elections to Determine Workers Union Choice in Ohio
The National Labor Relations Board orders two union elections in Northern Ohio within 30 days. Western Union Toledo employees may choose AFL Federal Union No 22460, and Brightman Nut and Manufacturing Sandusky production workers may pick CIO United Auto Workers or AFL United Auto Workers.
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Cleveland
National Labor Relations Board
Ohio
Western Union
Toledo
AFL
Brightman Nut and Manufacturing Co
Sandusky
Cio-United Auto Workers
Afl-United Auto Workers
Two Hurt in Charge Through Picket Line
Two persons injured when AFL unionists charged through a CIO picket line at the E. F. Hauser Co plant near Indian Head Maryland. The prefab steel houses factory, closed after six CIO Furniture Workers are said to have been discharged, had been operating under an AFL contract.
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Cleveland
AFL
CIO
E. F. Hauserman Co
Indian Head
CIO Furniture Workers Union
Five year old Gertrude Freed dies of yard fire burns
Five year old Gertrude Freed of R R 1 East Palestine died in a local hospital today from burns after her dress caught fire while she played in the yard at her home.
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Salem
Gertrude Freed
R.R. 1
East Palestine
CLC Blames Producers for Strike of 37
The Senate Civil Liberties Committee said the 1937 "little steel" strike stemmed from independent producers refusing to bargain. It warned that any company today refusing to sign a bargaining contract endangers national security and could disrupt production. It cited Bethlehem, Republic and Youngstown Sheet and Tube as earlier examples and urged avoiding repetition.
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Washington
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Bethlehem
Republic
Youngstown
Senate
FDR Speech Sparks Unity Debate Across Congress
President Roosevelt's Jackson Day address draws praise as a unity plea and criticism as bellicose. White House backers hailed the speech while Senate foes of aid to Britain labeled it risky and dangerous, with Senator Wheeler calling opponents dupes of propaganda. Senator George framed it as a non partisan call for national unity.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Jackson Day
White House
Senate
Wheeler
D-Mont
Defense boom blamed for rise in traffic toll
Chicago report cites national safety council findings from a 24 state survey. In January and February, 320 of 740 additional traffic deaths were attributed to military personnel and vehicles and to congested defense industry traffic.
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Chicago
America
National Defense
National Safety Council
Council
Army and Navy Contracts Pass 16 Million Mark
Washington reports defense awards through March 8 totaled 11.884 billion with Congress authorizations at 16.364 billion. The army held 7.098 billion authorized, with contracts totaling 5.9005 billion, while the navy showed 5.8935 billion awarded out of 9.268 billion authorized.
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Army
Navy
Washington
Office of Production Management
Congress
OPM
Two Freighters Open 1941 Navigation Season on Lakes
Freighters Crescent City and South Park hauling 600 automobiles from Detroit dock in Cleveland to start the 1941 navigation season. Heavy ice did not hinder their passage as spring arrives in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Crescent City
South Park
Detroit
Roosevelt mediation board ends vanadium strike and more
Dr. Frank P. Graham announced that 225 strikers would return to work as soon as jobs are available and the plant was to resume tonight or tomorrow. Other cases: Chicago CIO resolved at four International Harvester plants. Cornell Dubilier in New Jersey to negotiate wage increases. Bethlehem Steel Cambria Works in Johnstown ratified settlement. Universal Cyclops Bridgeville settled. Allis Chalmers Milwaukee strike remains unresolved with union shop demands.
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Frank P. Graham
Labor Department
Chicago—Cio
Inter
National Harvester
AFL
Cornell Dubilier Corporation
South Plainfield
N. J
CIO
Cambria Works
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Johnstown
Universal Cyclops Corporation
Bridgeville
Allis Chalmers
Milwaukee
Knox
Office of Production Management
Allis-Chalmers
Commuter Pies Gatekeeper in Ferry Dispute
New York report says Frank Donadio, Staten Island Ferry gatekeeper, blocked William Walsh. Walsh bought a lemon meringue pie at a bakery during the trip and returned to hurl it at Donadio, earning a 10 day jail sentence but remaining cheerful.
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New York
Frank Donadio
Staten Island
William Walsh
Walsh
Donadio
Cars Must Sport New Plates by Tomorrow
Columbus dispatch reports state motor vehicle officials warn no extension to the March 31 deadline. By midnight tonight old blue and white plates must be replaced with 1941 maroon and white as enforcement officers statewide will confiscate 1940 licenses starting tomorrow.
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Columbus
Cylan W. Wallace
State Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Wallace
Six Plants Resume Work in Cincinnati
Scattered strikes in Greater Cincinnati iron plants ended in six factories and continued in three. Fifty miners from another firm joined a wildcat walkout but resumed work at 10 a m. About 140 workers stayed away while 500 returned to duty.
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Cincinnati
Greater
Wildcat
Propeller Plant to Start Operations in July at Dayton
General Motors Corp says a new airplane propeller plant at Dayton under the aero products division will begin work in July. The facility will employ about 1,800 workers and will initially produce propellers for army pursuit ships.
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New York
Bellevue Train Death Takes Wife and Mother in Collision
Mrs. Carl Kegereis, 42, mother of two, was killed when her car was struck by a Wheeling and Lake Erie freight train at Bellevue. The accident occurred near Munits.
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Bellevue
Carl Kegereis
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Farm Product Prices Go Up Brighten War Time Outlook
Chicago reports a surge in farm commodity prices the brightest since France fell. Strong hopes Europe will regain demand drive higher sales for key crops. Expectations hinge on lend lease aid to Britain and expanding war needs impacting American agriculture.
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Chicago
France
Europe
Britain
Toledo Refinary Fire Claims Two Workers
Elmer Chance 32 an employee of the Sun Oil Company refinery died four days after a fellow worker succumbed to burns from a fire and explosion at the plant. Four others were injured in the incident.
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Toledo
Elmer Chance
Sun Oil Company
New Ohio Plane Plant To Be Opened in July
Columbus reports rapid progress at Curtiss Wright’s new $10 million airplane factory. One fourth completed now, it will begin aircraft production by July 1 with first ships rolling off lines in October or early November.
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Ohio Plane
Columbus
Curtiss Wright Corporation
Williams
Sabotage and Axis Strategy Echoes in War Update
The piece links Italian sabotage of Fascist ships in American ports to the Axis stance after the lend lease act. It warns sabotage signals wider trouble as Hitler aims to hinder Allied aid to Britain while risking US entry. It notes spies and fifth column threats and questions Italy's endurance under Hitler’s drive to exhaust Britain.
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United States
Britain
Herr Hitler
America
Hitler
Italy
Rome Admits Vessels Lost During Battle
The British Admiralty claimed a decisive sea victory in a three day clash in the eastern Mediterranean with Italy reporting the loss of three cruisers and two destroyers. About 1,500 Italians died and over 1,000 survivors were rescued as Royal Navy forces claimed a major triumph.
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Admiralty
Mediterranean
Italy
Royal Navy
Mussolini
London
British
Air Ministry
RAF
Brest
France
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Addis Ababa-Jibati
German Ultimatum To Yugoslavia Expected
German sources in Belgrade say Berlin will issue an ultimatum after most Germans and Austrians abandon Yugoslavia by tonight. The demand will order rapid demobilization of the Yugoslav army of about 1.2 million men, with failure triggering hostilities.
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Germany
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Peter II
Belgrade
Reich
Berlin
Viktor van Heeren
Dusan Simovic
Albania
Greece
Salonika
RAF Fliers Reinforce Far East Stronghold at Singapore
Veteran RAF fliers arrived in Singapore to bolster the British Far East defense. This is the first air reinforcement to reach the front since the war began.
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RAF
Far East
London
Singapore
Cincinnati couple found dead in suspected gas leak
Charles Tolle aged 52 and Lulu aged 50 were found dead in their Cincinnati home. Police report the deaths as accidental due to a duet gas leak in an open kitchen.
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Cincinnati
Charles Tolle
Lulu
Charles Chase
Farm Leaders Push For Large 1941 Agriculture Bill
Farm leaders urged the Senate to approve a massive 1.34 billion dollar agriculture bill for 1941, surpassing Roosevelt budget estimates. Administration support was expected to allow the bill to pass with minimal reductions, while parity payments funding was raised from 212 million to 450 million dollars.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Co-Ops Seen As Stabilizers For National Defense
John E. Brown president of the Louisville Bank for Co-operatives told Ohio cooperative executives that financially sound co-ops can aid defense as price stabilizers. The bank, in its eighth year serving Ohio Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee, has loaned $40,000,000 to co-operatives in seven years.
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Columbus
Ohio
John E. Brown
Louisville Bank For Co-operatives
Brown
Ohio Cooperative Associations
Louisville Bank
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Three Year Study Links Power Concentration to Erosion of Democracy
The Monopoly Committee told Congress that a concentration of economic and political power is undermining free enterprise and free government in the United States. It submitted its final three year study and urged a policy of permanent decentralization to halt consolidation.
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Washington
Congress
Noonatatrasifn
United States
Murder for insurance ring member executed in Pa.
Paul Petrillo was electrocuted at Rockview Penitentiary in Bellefonte Pennsylvania as the state put to death its first participant in Philadelphia's murder for insurance ring. Officials say the ring reportedly claimed upwards of 100 victims.
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Bellefonte
Paul Petrillo
Rockview Penitentiary
Philadelphia
Freighters Set Afire by Own Crews at Punta Arenas
In Punta Arenas two freighters, the German Esinach and the Italian Fella, were reportedly set ablaze by their own crews this month while anchored off the Costa Rican port of San Jose. The incident highlights rising tensions aboard merchant ships during wartime.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Esinach
Fella
Punta Arenas
Government Seizes Over 60 Axis Vessels in U S Ports
In a sweeping move, the United States, with Coast Guard involvement, took over more than 60 German Italian and Danish merchant ships in American harbors to prevent departure or sabotage. Many Italian vessels were found sabotaged. 300000 tons of shipping were placed under federal custody from New England to the Pacific Northwest.
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Washington
United States
Foreign Office
Coast Guard
New England
Gulf Coast
Pacific Northwest
Ranise Ernesto
Mongolia
Galveston
Texas
Chile
Germany
Italy
Hemisphere
Villaperosa
Wilmington
N. C
Judge protest over parole of Cleveland arsonist
Ray I. Turk, convicted of manslaughter for the Ellington Apartment fire deaths of 13 in Cleveland on June 7, 1932, will be freed on parole from the Ohio Penitentiary tomorrow despite protests by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Frank Merrick.
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Columbus
Ray I. Turk
Ellington
Cleveland
Ohio Penitentiary
Cuyahoga
Cross Tie Fatality Claims Child in Portsmouth Yard
Three year old Roland Lee Fugitt wandered into railroad yards and was struck dead by a falling cross tie. Authorities reported the accident occurred in the yards causing the child’s death with no other injuries noted.
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Portsmouth
Roland Lee Fugitt
Civilian Conservation Corps Marks Eighth Birthday
Washington notes the Civilian Conservation Corps celebrates its eighth birthday with more than 275000 enrollees in about 1500 camps nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
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CLC
Fdr
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Bethlehem, Pa
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Rome
THE
Associated Press
Fraulein Hanna Reitsch
Adolph Hitler
CCC
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