General Motors strike threat grows as talks fail
The GM walkout looms with 61 plants and 160000 workers at risk after a fruitless weekend of mediation. The CIO UAW seeks a 10 cent hourly raise while GM offers two. picketing continues at Packard electric in Warren Ohio and arbitration pursues a settlement amid broader labor action nationwide.
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General Motors
CIO United Automobile Workers
Defense Mediation Board
Packard Electric
Warren
Lynn B. Griffith
Arthur Garfield
CIO
United Electric Radio and Machine Workers Union
Promise of New Aid in Roosevelt Virginia Speech
President Roosevelt in Staunton Virginia pledged a faith in democracy and hinted at broad aid to nations resisting aggression. Washington debate grew on war shipments to Britain with Senate action expected. Nye and Pepper voiced differing views on possible war involvement.
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Virginia
Washington
Roosevelt
Staunton
Woodrow Wilson
Nye
Rnd
America
Britain
Senate
Mr. Roosevelt
Capitol
Pepper
D-Fla
Tobey
R-Nh
Congress
Barkley
Willkie
Illness Believed Cause in Coed's Bed Asphyxiation
Coroner E E Smith says illness caused the accidental bed asphyxiation of June Culley 19 year old OSU freshman of Ashtabula Ohio. The tragedy occurred while she rested at the OSU campus in Columbus.
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Columbus
E. E. Smith
June Culley
Ashtabula
Ohio State University
Ohio Solons Decide Fate Of 3 Major Bills Tonight
Ohio legislators in Columbus move to vote on three major bills as the 94th biennial session nears adjournment. Senate action on unemployment insurance and coal mine safety could send measures to the House, while the House aims to approve a bill boosting the State Highway Patrol and expand police powers. A $352.8 million budget appropriation goes to conference committee to resolve Senate House differences.
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Columbus
Ohio General Assembly
Senate
House
iState Highway Patrol
Hold Youth in N Y Murder
Less than 24 hours after advertising executive Harry V Maxwell was slain in a parked car a young ex convict Morris Mardovich 23 was charged with the crime. He says he is a plumber's helper but prosecutors say he and another man shot Maxwell in a holdup outside the upper east side home of Mary Jane Cassidy 24 after a night at a fashionable club.
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New York
Harry V. Maxwell
Morris Mardovich
Jacob Rosenblum
Maxwell
Upper East Side
Mary Jane Cassidy
R. C. Maxwell
Taft Says U S Aids to Britain Are Sufficient
Cincinnati Taft asserts the United States does all it can to aid Britain and doubts defeating Germany for years. He tells an American First Committee picnic that only a few intellectuals want war and those calling for convoys are seeking to draw the U S into conflict. He frames the question as whether the U S should go to war with a non attacking nation.
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Cincinnati
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Germany
Britain
American First Committee
Taft
United States
Britain Receives 414 U.S. Planes in March
The Commerce Department reported airplane deliveries to the British empire and Egypt rose to 414 in March from 258 in February, with total exports at 481 that month. The Dutch East Indies received 35 planes. lend-lease share not disclosed.
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Washington
Commerce Department
British Empire
Egypt
Dutch East Indies
U S Steel Outpaces German Steel Output in 1939 Benchmark
United States Steel Corp. chairman Irving S. Olds told stockholders in Hoboken that the firm is producing steel faster than all German mills and that U S Steel’s early 1936 output equalled the combined 1939 production of Great Britain France and Belgium. He said first quarter 1936 results reached 100.9 percent of prior capacity estimates.
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Hoboken
N. J
United States Steel Corp
Germany
Irving, S. Olds
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Olds
U. S. Steel
U S Trade Data Show Japan Seeks Oil Supplies
Washington reports commerce department statistics indicating Japan increased oil purchases from the United States. In March U S exports reached 1,553,000 barrels, up from 1,279,000 in February and 1,491,000 in January as Japan seeks fuel for military and industrial needs.
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Washington
Japan
Commerce Department
United States
Oldest Mason in Ohio Dies at 94
George Bennett, claimed as Ohio's oldest Mason, died yesterday at age 94. He joined Masonry in 1868 at Willoughby, Ohio, leaving a long clerical record and community ties.
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Cleveland
George Bennett
Ohio
Willoughby
Hitler asserts Axis stronger than any possible coalition
In a 70 minute Reichstag address Adolf Hitler declares the Axis a mightier coalition than any other in the world. He vows not to yield and promises ongoing armament and unity of the German people, while noting losses in the Balkans and signaling future weapon improvements.
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Hitler
Axis
Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Reichstag
United States
Winston Churchill
Balkans
Reich
House Panel Weighs Higher Defense Profits Tax
House Ways and Means members debated steeper excess profits levies on defense contractors to raise 3.5 billion dollars with small taxpayer impacts likely. Advocates point to defense program gains and past concessions on shipbuilding and aircraft contracts. John L. Sullivan pushes for 400 million more revenue as the committee awaits guidance.
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Washington
House
Waysand Means Committee
Congress
Rep. McKeough
D.-Ill
John L. Sullivan
Treasury
Sullivan
Joint
Congressional Taxation Committee
British Planes Down Germans Over Crete
Cairo bulletin reports four Nazi raiders shot down by Royal Air Force over Crete as Germany begins a major attack on Greece. Anti aircraft guns claimed additional German planes destroyed on the island where King George II and his ministers had fled after Athens fell.
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Cairo
Egypt
Crete
British
Royal Airforce
Greece
George II of
Athens
Detroit salesman Dies as Car Overturns Near Dunkirk
John Roman, 25, of Detroit, was killed when his car overturned near Dunkirk today. Police reported the fatal crash and clean up crews were on the scene.
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Kenton
John Roman
Detroit
Dunkirk
Plane displays record speed at Los Angeles air show
Lockheed C 38 interceptor wowed 50 000 spectators as Test Pilot Milo Burcham flew it at a world beating 458 miles an hour on a level course before it vanished beyond the horizon. He later sent it straight upward at 300 miles an hour and performed dramatic rolls and dives.
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Los Angeles
Lockheed Aircraft
Milo Burcham
Burcham
Higher Milk Prices Seen Due to Drouth
Cleveland milk producers warn prices will rise sharply in four to six weeks unless rain falls in the next ten days. C. F. Christian secretary of the Cleveland Milk Producers Association says farmers have exhausted winter feed and cattle have been pasteurized earlier to pasture as pastures fail to grow.
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Cleveland
C. F. Christian
Cleveland Milk Producers’ Association
Christian
Ohio ramps defense training as 18000 workers trained
Ohio's defense training drive gains momentum as about 18,000 workers have been trained since July and another 18,000 are in instruction. State education officials seek 1.5 million dollars in federal funds to expand the vocational program amid new defense plant activity. E N Dietrich says expansion will be rapid to meet growing needs as plants come on line.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Department of Education
E. N. Dietrich
Ohio Vocational Board
Labor Board Orders Vote in Ohio Factory
The labor board ordered within 30 days elections among employees at the Youngstown Steel Door Company in Youngstown Ohio to choose a bargaining agent between CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee AFL Federal Labor Union or neither. A second election was ordered at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co Cincinnati service shop to determine if employees want AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers representation.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines
Washington
New York
Norfolk
Chicago
St Louis
AFL Amalgamated Association of Street Electrical Railway and
Columbus
Cincinnati
Canton
Ohio Power Co
CIO Utility Workers Organizing Committee
Bakers
Akron
AFL Inside Bakers Union
Illinois
Alabama
Labor Board
Youngstown Steel Door Company
Youngstown
CIO
Steel ‘Workers Organizing Committee
AFL
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Ohio plants churn defense goods from spinach to locomotives
Ohio factories feed Navy and Army orders across a wide range of products. Contracts include $418,420 for fibrous glass cloth, $183,068 in bolts and nuts, $128,418 in steel nuts, $46,937 for diving gear, and $36,800 for soccer balls and gloves. Ordered items cover soap to railroad tack and parachute gear.
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Cleveland
Navy
Army
Ohio
Furjishing
Indi
Sours Seeks Federal Funds for Highway Repairs
State Highway Director Hal G Sours instructs planning engineers statewide to prepare projects to improve highways bearing heavy truck traffic for defense materials. He cites Route 14 near Ravenna and Route 42 near West Salem and Route 18 west of Medina as needing work, noting no state funds are available now.
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Columbus
Hal G. Sours
West Salem
Medina
Spuis
Goering Demands Proof of Air Victories
Berlin report states German pilots must provide an acceptable witness or photograph to credit destruction of planes or ships. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering ordered a new system to ensure accuracy for judging the war, awarding medals, and recording the history of air victories.
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Berlin
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Traffic Fatality Ends Cleveland’s Three-Week Freedom
An automobile killed 38 year old Lawrence Faust yesterday, the 49th road victim in Cleveland this year, ending a three week stretch without fatal crashes. This surpassed the 41 deaths recorded by the same date last year.
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Lawrence Faust
Ohio
Cleveland
Faust
British Strikes and Axis Advances Across Europe and Near East
Nazi raids hammered Belfast and Liverpool while RAF targeted Rotterdam Antwerp Le Havre Cherbourg St Nazaire Brest and Querqueville. Oil lines from Iraq reduced Mediterranean fuel but Britain asserts reserves shield Mediterranean fleet. In Near East Iraq cuts oil flow. Iraq garrison near Lake Habbaniyah looms as Baghdad reports air attacks. North Africa braces for defense near the Suez Canal as To bruk endures siege. Tokyo denies plans for a US visit as Berlin contemplates a possible war lasting into 1942.
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Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
Fuehrer
Reichstag
Germany
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Liverpool
United States
Rotterdam
Antwerp
le Havre
Brest
Cherbourg
St. Nazaire
Querqueville
London Air Ministry
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Air Ministry
Near East
Britain
Iraq
Mediterranean
Lake Habbaniyah
Baghdad
Haifa
Palestine
London
Hitler
Iran
Persia
Rashid Ali al Gailani
Abdul Ilah
North Africa
Suez Canal
Tobruk
Salum
Tokyo
Japan
Yosuke Matsuoka
Far East
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Orient
Berlin Dienst Aus Deutschland
Dienst
Roosevelt to Speak Before Pan American Union May 14
President Roosevelt will address the Pan American Union governing board in Washington on May 14. The speech is expected to cover regional cooperation and international relations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
The
Pan American Union
Coast Guard Boards Yugoslavian Vessels in New York Harbor
U S Coast Guardsmen boarded Yugoslav ships in New York harbor as a precaution after rumors. Authorities denied seizure and said vessels were placed in protective custody or watched closely.
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New York
U. S
New York Harbor
Coast Guard
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Solons
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