US to Block Private Plant Wage Raises
President Roosevelt said the government would take steps to prevent unwarranted wage increases by private plants to align with wage stabilization. He warned a single plant raising pay could upset workers elsewhere and emphasized war demands over optimism. He supported selective censorship of bad news if it does not affect military operations and cautioned about overstatements fueling public mood.
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Washington
Roosevelt
California
Body of River Man Is Found
The body of Kenneth Peck aged 47 of Henderson West Virginia chief engineer of the Towboat G W McBride which sank after striking a pier at Cincinnati February 22 was recovered at Bromley Kentucky and brought to the Arnett Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 230 oclock Saturday afternoon in charge of Rev A H Perkins. He is survived by his wife Gladys Arnett Peck and three children. Peck was a notable river man a member of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and the Masonic Lodge. Sixteen persons were lost in the disaster with 13 bodies recovered. Strike called off Warren The CIO Utility Workers Organizing Committee today called off its threatened strike against the Ohio Public Service Co pending War Labor Board consideration.
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Point Pleasant
Kenneth Peck
Henderson
W. Va
G. W. McBride
Cincinnati
Bromley
Arnett Funeral Home
A. H. Perkins
Peck
Charleston
Newton Peck
Leona Burch
Gladys Arnett Peck
Robert
Eileen Fisher
Marcella Peck
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Masonic Lodge
Warren
CIO Utility Workers Organizing Committee
Ohio Public Service Co
War Labor Board
Torpedoed US Cargo Ship Sinks. 21 Die
New Orleans AP reports a U S cargo ship was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday May 16 after two torpedoes struck amidships. At least 21 crew and gun crew members died. 19 survivors spent about 30 hours in life-rafts before rescue. Five hospitalized in Galveston. Captain A Henry Rowe directed rescue efforts.
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New Orleans
United States
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
Tex
A. Henry Rowe
New Ersatz Method Found For Synthetic Rubber
New Jersey Standard Oil unveils a process to recover basic materials for synthetic rubber and aviation gasoline from petroleum, calling it the biggest development since starting experiments in synthetics. The method could double or triple capacity of plants under construction for artificial rubber, amid commerce secretary Jesse Jones urging a boost to 1,000,000 tons annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Jesse Jones
America
W. S. Farish
Standard
Cow Sets New Record For Milk Production
Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, a nine year old Holstein Friesian cow at Carnation Farm, set a world record with 41 943.4 pounds of milk produced in a year. The cow yielded a daily average of 115 pounds and a peak day of 146.5 pounds, an amount equaling nine ordinary cows, milked four times daily by Carl Cockerell.
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Seattle
Carnation
Ormsby
Madcap Fayne
Carnation Farm
Carl Cockerell
Solons Seek Agreement on Privates Pay
Washington AP reports that House and Senate conferees clash over pay raises for privates and apprentice seamen. May insists on $42 monthly, the Senate and House committee backing, while a large bloc pushes to raise to $50 for privates and apprentice seamen and to $48 for next grades. Current scales range from $21 to $40 monthly with $36 for second class seamen and first class privates.
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Washington
House
Senate
May
D.-Ky
House Military Committee
House Committee
30 Ton Tanks From Ford River Rouge Plant
The River Rouge factory of Ford Motor Company, a vast industrial complex, has been disclosed as producing 30 ton tanks for the army. The plant, historically peaking with automobile output by around 90,000 workers, will use a variant of the Ford V-8 engine to power the tanks.
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Detroit
River Rouge
Ford Motor Company
Dayton escape frees alleged kidnapper known as The Candy Kid
George Colley alias The Candy Kid, 22, described as very dangerous, escaped from Dayton State Hospital and is at large. Police seek him as authorities warn of ongoing danger and urge public vigilance.
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Dayton
George Colley
Candy Kid
Liberty
Dayton State Hospital
Warn Against Revealing Locale of AEF Troops
Washington reporting the War Department warned civilian employees returning from overseas assignments not to disclose their locations or what they had seen. Secretary Stimson noted American forces are stationed in many global spots, including the Philippines, Mindanao, the Central Visayan islands, northern Luzon, India, Eritrea, and other Middle East areas, but specifics remain secret to protect operations.
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Washington
United States Army
War Department
War Stimson
Department
Northern Ireland
Philippines
Corregidor
Mindanao
Visayan
Luzon
India
Eritrea
Middle East
Maine Host to Spies Warns of Foreign Landings
Augusta based state civilian defense chief Francis H. Farnum said authorities have accurate information that foreign agents have landed on Maine's coast. He warned more may cross from Canada or elsewhere and that enemy parachutists or fifth columnists could be organized in the state.
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Maine
Augusta
Francis H. Farnum
Canadian
United States
Farnum
Mexicans on Verge of War After Berlin Rejection
Mexico moves toward possible war with Axis after Berlin rejects protests over the sinking of the tanker Potrero Del Liano off the Florida coast. President Avila Camacho awaited a statement as reports said two more Mexican ships were torpedoed, with Germany declineing to receive the protest note.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Berlin
Florida
Manuel Avila Camacho
Foreign Office
Germany
Potrero del Liano
Freighter Irving S. Olds Launched For Ore to Build Planes
A Lake Erie shipyard launching honors National Maritime Day with the iron ore freighter Irving S. Olds, aimed to supply steel for 2,000 airplanes. A second vessel, A. H. Ferbert, was also launched at the Great Lakes yards in River Rouge.
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Great Lakes
Ohio
Irving S. Olds
American Ship Building Co
A.H. Ferbert
River Rouge
Mid
Government Seizure of Autos Forecast for War Needs
Brookings Institution predicts next year may require requisitioning several million privately owned automobiles to maintain essential wartime transportation. A nationwide gas rationing plan would help, aiming to spare tires and cars for critical uses and potentially immobilize millions of vehicles to limit civilian driving.
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Washington
Brookings Institution
Charles L. Dearing
Brookings Survey
Harlan County Killer Slain During Courtroom Verdict
HARLAN Ky Manzo Shepherd 24 was fatally shot in a courtroom drama after being convicted of killing taxi driver Joe Christian. A circuit court jury sentenced Shepherd to death in the electric chair and Jack Heaton 26 surrendered to officers nearby. The shooting occurred moments after closing arguments.
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Harlan
Manzo Shepherd
Shepherd
Joe Christian
Jack Heaton
Louellen
Christian
Clint Ball
James S. Forester
Youths Exonerated By Victim's Father Knoxville shooting case ends in exoneration
In Knoxville Tennessee a city judge dismissed four man slaughter charges against two youths after their former scoutmaster John Leinart Sr tearfully said they did not mean to do it. The three year old son of Leinart was killed by a rifle bullet when the youths fired at tin cans.
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Knoxville
Tenn
John Leinart, Sr
Salvage Prospects For Normandie Sailed by Navy
Secretary of the Navy Knox told President Roosevelt the former French liner Normandie may be salvaged after being taken over for a troop carrier. The vessel burned and keeled over in New York Harbor following the incident.
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Washington
Knox
Roosevelt
Jover
New York
Ohio To Tend Children For Working Mothers
Columbus report that Ohio plans to care for children of women in war industries. Courtney Burton, head of the State Defense Council, will form a committee to study child care for mothers on war production duty. One idea is to integrate daylong kindergartens into public schools so mothers can work machines.
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Columbus
Ohio
Courtney Burton
State Defense Council
Young Rockefeller and Morgenthau in Army
New York reports David Rockefeller jr 26 son of John D. Rockefeller Jr and Henry Morgenthau III 30 son of the Secretary of the Treasury have been inducted as back privates in the Army.
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New York
David Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Henry Morgenthau
Secretary of the Treasury
Unnecessary Bus Travel Is Checked by WPA Survey
MEMPHIS Tenn The WPA is checking travel on trains and buses in 100 metropolitan areas to determine how much is unnecessary. District Administrator Holt Peel said the information is being compiled for the Office of Defense Transportation, likely aiming at travel rationing. The survey will ascertain the number of travelers and the purpose of their trips.
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Memphis
Tenn
WPA
Holt Peel
Office of Defense Transportation
Unprecedented Post War Suffering Warned by Educator
Dr Hugh C Stuntz vice president Scarritt College Nashville Tenn told the closing session of a four day meeting of the Women s Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church that suffering on an unprecedented scale will follow the war He urged plans to feed millions and salvage ruins of national life in many lands.
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Columbus
Hugh C. Stuntz
Scarritt College
Nashville
Tenn
Women's Society of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Stuntz
Air Raiders Sink 14 Enemies and Two Merchant Ships
Allied submarines credited with sinking a 7,100 ton Japanese cruiser and two merchant ships totaling 15,000 tons in the Southwest Pacific. United Nations warplanes destroyed 14 Japanese planes in attacks on bases in New Guinea and Timor. MacArthur’s HQ identifies the cruiser as a Kako class ship built in 1926 to 27 with six 8 inch guns and a 604 man crew.
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Southwest Pacific
United Nations
New Guinea
Timor
Douglas MacArthur
Kinhwa
Japan
Chekiang Province
China
Chekiang
Shanghai
China East
Italians Claim To Have Sunk American War Ship Off Brazil
Axis claims of sinking a Maryland class battleship off Brazil on May 20 were disputed by Rio de Janeiro and Washington as no naval action occurred there. The report said submarine Barbarigo attacked 100 miles west of Fernando de Noronha, while U S destroyers allegedly failed to react. In Kharkov, Soviet counters and German reinforcements shaped a tense 11 day battle as Allied observers note improved American training in Northern Ireland.
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Russia
Kharkov
United States
Fernando
Rio de Janeiro
Brazlian
Berlin
Crimea
Ireland
Sir Alan Brooke
Britain
Imperial General Staff
Alan
U. S
Maryland
Colorado
West Virginia
Hitler
U S Observes Maritime Day Amid Ship Launches Nationwide
Washington marked National Maritime Day with vessel launches and ceremonies in many cities. The commission noted a two a day ship production, rising to three daily in the fall, as the merchant ship program targets about 23 million dead weight tons by year end 1943, with 8 million tons this year and 15 million tons next year, potentially 20 million.
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Washington
United States
Nazis Quick To Conceal Damage by RAF Raids
A wartime report details German efforts to hide RAF bombing damage. It notes police cordons and selective tours for foreign journalists to mask destruction, while war communiques downplay disruptions. Cities such as Kiel Hamburg Bremen Lubeck Rostock are cited as heavily damaged yet not openly acknowledged.
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Propaganda Ministry
Muemster
Kiel
Hamburg
Bremen
Luebeck
Rostock
Southern congressmen win pledge to shift war crop funds
Southern lawmakers secured a promise from the Agriculture Department to drop plans to divert up to 125 million dollars in government benefit payments from cotton and tobacco to so called war crops under the next AAA farm program. The pledge followed Senate approval of a measure allowing the sale of up to 125 million bushels of government owned wheat for livestock feed below parity prices. The plan had aimed to repurpose part of the 500 million dollar soil conservation fund as incentive payments to boost soybeans peanuts flax and other crops.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
AAA
Senate
Varied Speed Limits Illegal Ohio Ruling
Ohio Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert ruled that night and day speed limits must be the same on state roadways. The opinion to Highway Director Hal G. Sours says no authority exists to set different limits for night versus day at any location. The remedy, if changes are needed, lies with the General Assembly to amend the law.
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Columbus
Ohio
Atty
Thomas J. Herbert
Hal G. Sours
Herbert
General Assembly
Federal Guards Put On Ohio River Bridges
Ohio guards aiding West Virginia state guards on five Ohio River bridges could be arrested for carrying firearms if they cross into West Virginia. Major General Daniel Van Voorhis proposes placing federal guards on the interstate bridges to prevent legal conflicts.
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Ohio River
Charleston
Ohio
West Virginia
Daniel van Voorhis
Fifth Corps
WPB To Put Limit On Merchants Stocks
The War Production Board announced it would issue regulations to prevent merchants from amassing large stocks. A plan under consideration would bar any merchant from holding more dollars worth of stock this year than last year, with details to be issued soon.
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Washington
War Production Board
Jany
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Solons
Ford
AEF
Canada
Arthur B. Newhall
Harlan County
Young Rockefeller and
Morgenthau
THE
Associated Press
Tokyo
Aspeed
Chiang Kai Shek
Hill
Alaska
Brazil
Kerch
U.S
Louis P. Jochner
Louis P. Lochner
Lisbon
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