Roosevelt warns against forced union shop in coal mines
President Roosevelt urged CIO United Mine Workers and steel executives to keep negotiations over captive coal mine labor peaceful. He stated the government will not compel non-union miners to join a union and indicated Congress would act only if needed to keep coal production moving. The White House meeting ended after 30 minutes with no immediate action announced.
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Roosevelt
CIO
United Mine Workers and Steel Company
United States
Congress
Conferes
Union and Steel Conferes
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Steel
White House
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UMW
Ion
Philip Murray
Thomas Kennedy
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Steel Company
Defense Mediation Board
CSO
Mediation Board
Ark Royal Sunk by Submarine Near Gibraltar
The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal, three years old and valued at about 16 million dollars, was torpedoed late yesterday east of Gibraltar by an Italian submarine and sank early today. About 1,600 sailors were aboard. many were rescued while losses were reportedly not heavy. The event followed claims by Germany and Italy that they sank the ship, which had been en route to Gibraltar and was not in combat when torpedoed.
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Ark Royal
Gibraltar
Admiralty
Rk Royal
Graf Spee
South Atlantic
Fairy Tale Romance Sparks Over Dinner Date
Josephine Phillips, hungry and crying on a New York park bench, is helped by sailor Bill Langford. After they plan a rendezvous, Bill ships out and Josephine is jailed for vagary. A Philadelphia producer buys their story for 200 dollars, shaping a fairy tale ending.
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Josephine Phillips
New York
Bill Langford
Bill
Josephine
Philadelphia
Plane Carrying U. S. Diplomat Still Missing
Teheran dispatch reports a plane carrying U. S. Ambassador to Moscow Lawrence A. Steinhardt and Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov missing. Soviet sources could not confirm a landing at Pahlevi Iran, suggesting possible landings elsewhere to wait out bad weather in southeastern Russia.
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Teheran
Iran
Laurence A. Steinhardt
U. S
Moscow
Maxim Litvinoff
Washington
Pahlevi
Russia
Akron 14 Year Old Girl Jumps From Viaduct
Geraldine Cook, a 14 year old Akron high school freshman, leaped 135 feet to her death from the North Main Street Viaduct. Her father Theodore L. Cook, assistant secretary-treasurer of Ornamental Iron Works, said a note read I can't stand to be laughed at by everyone.
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Geraldine Cook
North Main Street
Theodore L. Cook
The
Ornamental Iron Works
Escape Sets Back Parole for 1944 Consideration
Florence Sheline of Gallipolis who escaped from the Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville with Velma West and lived free two years will again be considered for parole in January 1944 by the State Pardon and Parole Commission. Velma West was recaptured 40 days after the June 1939 escape. Sheline surrendered in Denver, Colorado last month. Sheline is serving one to 20 years for breaking and entering. The commission also revoked Lenora Leach’s parole for failing to stay on a state job. she is serving one to three years for smuggling hacksaws into a jail.
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Columbus
Florence Sheline
Gallipolis
Ohio Reformatory For Women
Marysville
Velma West
State Pardon and Parole Commission
Lenora Leach
Congress Okays Arming of American Ships in War Zone
The House and Senate ended neutrality restrictions by approving ship arming and cruising freedom for cargo vessels. The vote was 212 to 194 with 189 Democrats, 22 Republicans, and one American-Labor party member for the measure. Opposition included 53 Democrats, 137 Republicans, one Farm-Laborite and three Progressives. The Ohio Republican bloc led the opposition with 12 votes.
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Roosevelt
House
Senate
Navy Department
Hull
Senator Wheeler
D-Mont
Wheeler
Rayburn
Germany
United States
American-Labor Party
Ohio
Hitler presses attack along Russia line in War Today analysis
The War Today notes Hitler cannot halt assaults along the Russian front, with England growing stronger and Russia unbeaten. German thrusts from Leningrad to the Crimea meet fierce Soviet counterattacks, while the Crimea advances hint at aims on the oil rich Caucasus and Middle East gateways.
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Moscow
Red
Leningrad
Far East
Japan
Tokyo
Tokyo War Office
Crimea
Adolf Hitler
Kerch
Caucasus
Rostov-on- Don
Kerch Strait
Dewitt MacKenzie
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Fuehrer
H. S. Sewell
Germany
England
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Igshis
Black
Caspian Seas
Middle East
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India
Athens Council Member L. W. Kelley Dies at 65
Lewis Wetzel Kelley, 65, longtime Athens City Council member, died at his home after months of ill health. He survived by his wife Caroline, two daughters, a sister, and a brother. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 PM at First Methodist Church with burial in West Union Street Cemetery.
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Lewis Wetzel Kelley
Athens
Mound St
Chesapeake & Ohio
Veterans’ Association
First Methodist Church
Knights of Pythias
Kelley
Caroline
Arnold Williams
Crooksville
Louise Kelley
Jeffersonville
J. W. Hudson
Harry Kelley
Albany Road
John W. Danford
W. Union St
Warns Ohio Towns of Malnutrition Dangers
Columbus State Welfare Director Charles L Sherwood appealed to Ohio communities to combat malnutrition in low income families. He noted 62 000 needy children in 953 schools receive lunches through community cooperation and said postwar security depends on preparing children for future challenges.
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Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Ohio
Logan Man Suffers Severe Burns at Home
Allen R. McBroom a 39 year old resident of West Logan sustained serious burns on the left side of his body this morning after rolling against an open fire in his home near the Hocking River He was moved to the home of neighbor John W. Six in Falls Mill where a physician treated him.
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Allen R. McBroom
West Logan
Hocking River
McBroom
John W. Six
Falls Mill
Vinton County Man Killed by Falling Tree
Jonah McClain age 45 of near Wilkesville was killed when a tree fell on him at Buckeye Jackson County where he worked cutting timber. He is survived by his wife and four children. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday after two o'clock.
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Dexter
Jonah McClain
Wilkesville
Buckeye, Jackson Co
Congress Reacts to Neutrality Act Revision Amid Axis Warning
The article reports Berlin warning that U S neutrality repeal risks danger as Congress reverses two year ban on US ships entering combat zones. Britain hails repeal with measured optimism while press rushes to speculate on lend lease material flow to Britain. Willkie cites administration muddling over labor policy as weakening foreign policy.
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Axis
Berlin
United States
Congress
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Daily Express
Britain
Wendell L. Willkie
Marines to withdraw from Shanghai Tientsin and Peiping
President Roosevelt announced the United States will withdraw about 750 Marines stationed in Shanghai Tientsin and Peiping China. He avoided commenting on links to improved U S Japan understanding and expressed hope that war could be avoided in the Pacific.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Shanghai
Tientsin
Peiping
China
Japan
Pacific
Los Angeles Sees Third Quake In Five Months
The 12:42 a.m. tremor, the most violent since the 1933 temblor that killed 130, rocked the LA area. A Long Beach 12-story building cracked, a shipyards transformer blew with blue flames, and suburbs darkened within 30 seconds to five minutes.
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Los Angeles
Long Beach
Los Angeles Shipyards
Gallia Man on Attacked Kearny Escaped Injury
Harold Neal son of Clyde and Mrs Neal of Garfield Ave and Charles Neal aboard the torpedoed U S Destroyer Kearny report they escaped injury during the attack. The brothers are stationed at an Iceland naval base and the letter reached Gallia via England after a month with portions censored.
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Gallipolis
Harold Neal
Clyde Neal
Garfield Ave
U. S
Kearny
Dorothy White
Charles Neal
Neal
Iceland
England
Woman Dies After Streetcar Hit Near Sister's Home
Margaret Karnu 57 died after a truck struck her as she stepped from a streetcar in front of her sister's Cleveland home. Police said the incident occurred after a visit and the driver remained at the scene.
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Cleveland
Margaret Karnu
Armed American Ships Face Attacks By U Boats and Bombers
Washington reports 1941 merchant ships must brace for new naval warfare as German U boats and bombers threaten sea lanes off the British coast. Earlier battles in 1917 18 showed U boats firing many rounds while cargo ships fought back with damaged engines and fires. Modern submarines strike at night using muffled engines and sound detection, testing the arming of cargo carriers.
Picketing Warns of Bloodshed at Curtiss-Wright Plant
Grover C. Kreglow, head of the Columbus Aircraft Independent Union, warns President Roosevelt that a CIO picket at the Curtiss-Wright airplane plant could trigger bloodshed. He cites plans to pull a key department on strike to halt production and pressures national defense needs.
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Grover C. Kreglow
Columbus Aircraft’ Independent Vertical Union
Roosevelt
Curtiss-Wright Airplane
CIO
Curtiss
McArthur Draft Clerk to Report for Induction
Roger G. Haynes 26 of Hamden, clerk of the Vinton County Selective Board, who helped send over a hundred men to the army, will be inducted next week. Haynes works at the draft office in McArthur as a local draft official.
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