Congress Overrules Roosevelt Veto on Anti Strike Bill
The piece notes Congress swiftly overrides the President’s veto on the anti strike law in wartime. It argues the law is flawed yet reflects public desire for a firm wartime stance, while urging price and wage policy to ease labor disputes and maintain harmony between White House and Capitol Hill.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Riday
Hopkins
Frankfurter
Cohen, Et al
White House
Capitol Hill
Rollbacks Doomed by Subsidy Ban
The Senate joined the House in repudiating OPA food subsidy rollbacks and moved subsidy operations to the War Food Administration under Chester C. Davis. The vote, 46 to 29, kept inflation in view as Prentiss Brown warned of financial strain from large cuts.
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Washington
Senate
House
OPA
Office of Price Administration
War Food
Chester C. Davis
Congress
Roosevelt
Prentiss Brown
O’mahoney
D-Wye
Higher Butter and Meat Prices Seen If Subsidy Ban Passes
Washington AP reports housewives may face higher butter and meat prices if Congress forbids further subsidies by the Office of Price Administration. Prices would likely revert to pre rollback levels, butter from 49 to 54 cents per pound and meat up about 10 percent. Outcome depends on House Senate reconcilement and Roosevelt's veto.
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Washington
Congressional
Office of Price Administration
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Commodity Credit Corporation
Union Leaders Pledge Backing to Roosevelt Amid Anti-Strike Law
Washington header reports Philip Murray and William Green of CIO and AFL pledge to keep workers on the job to aid the war effort despite opposition to the anti-strike law. Meanwhile the United Mine Workers stay silent on the law as coal production declines with thousands idle under government operation.
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War Labor Board
Washington
America
Roosevelt
Philip Murray
William Green
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
UMW
John N. Lewis
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Alabama
Organized Labor
Labor
Murray
Green
CIO
AFL
National Lawyers Guild
Martin Potter
Guild
Potter
OPA Sets Trains Meal and Snack Price Ceilings
The Office of Price Administration caps train meal prices effective July 1 with 15 cent sandwiches and 10 cent coffees and snacks. Economy breakfasts at 85 cents, lunches at $1, and dinners at $1.10 are standardized, with limited coffee and butter portions still in effect. Operators should offer varied entrees while maintaining reasonable quantities, easing traveler costs overall.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Anna Seghers In Grave Condition After Hit and Run
Mexican clinic reports of Anna Seghers the anti Nazi author show grave condition after a Friday night hit and run. Doctors say little hope remains for her recovery as she fights injuries at the orthopedic clinic of Dr Alfonzo Ortiz Tirado.
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Mexico City
INS
Anna Seghers
Alfonzo Ortiz Tirado
Doctor Karl Landsteiner dies opening way to transfusions
Dr Karl Landsteiner 75 Vienna born scientist who identified the four main blood groups and made blood transfusions possible died of a heart ailment after lab work at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. He joined the institute in 1922 and received the Nobel Prize in 1930 for blood classifications.
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New York
Karl Landsteiner
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Landsteiner
Institute
University of
Vienna
Holland
United States
Six Indicted on War Fraud Count in Indiana Case
Six individuals face federal charges for conspiracy to defraud the government in equipment rental for an ordnance plant in Charleston Indiana. Bonds total 42500 with Lieut Col Wayne O Hauck and Charles N Hikes among the defendants. Other named defendants include the Corum brothers Kyle and Arthur and Ray Gorrell. Arraignment set for July 10.
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Indianapolis
Robert C. Baltzell
Charleston
Ind
Kentucky
Virginia
Pennsylvania
U. S
B. Howard Caughran
Wayne O. Hauck
Charles N. Hikes
War Department
Ashby and
Arthur Corum
Corum Brothers
Madisonville
Kyle Corum
Ray Gorrell
F. C. Gorrell and Sons
Russellville
Gorrell
Baltzell
Hauck
Fort Belvoir
Hike
Mt. Lebanon
Justice Department
Washington
Strike of Italians At Turin Prompted By R A F Bombings
British radio reported a strike of 40 000 to 50 000 Italian war workers in Turin last March. The walkout followed RAF bombings and unpaid promised bonuses for workers in bombed areas, organized by anti fascists. Police and troops were used to quell the strikes.
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Turin
R.A.F
Italia Libera
London
Fiat
Twins Born Four Days and Ten Miles Apart
A London woman gave birth to twins four days apart and ten miles apart. The first baby boy was born at home to Mrs. C. S. Moffatt, later complications sent her to a hospital ten miles away where a baby girl was born four days later.
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London
C. S. Moffatt
Dies Proposes Nationwide Probe of Growing Race Antagonism
Chairman Martin Dies of the House Un American Activities Committee said he will recommend a nationwide investigation into growing racial antagonism. He cited un American propaganda and coddling of races as factors and warned the issue could impede the war effort if ignored.
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Washington
Martin Dies
Texas
House Committee On un-American Activities
Carter Manasco
D-Ala
House Civil Service Investigating Committee
Roosevelt
Committee On Fair Employment Practices
Manasco
Attack on Allied Convoy Reported off Sagres
A U boat attacked an Allied merchant convoy off Sagres in southern Portugal. The Vedetta Azevia searched Portimao for survivors and found only three empty lifeboats. Other ships reportedly picked up remaining survivors.
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London
INL
Sagres
Portugal
Reuter
Lisbon
Vedetta Azevia
Portimao
Labor Conciliator Transfer Announced
Dr. John R. Steelman announced that Ewing R. McDonald, regional director for the Midwest, will be transferred to Chicago from Washington to decentralize the conciliation service. The Midwest region covers Arkansas Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North and South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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Chicago
John R. Steelman
U. S. Department of Labor
Ewing R. McDonald
Midwest
Washington
Midwest Region
Arkansas
Mllinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Six Nazi Sub Crews Mutiny in Northern Norway Port
Report says six German submarine crews mutinied in a northern Norway port and refused to sail. All were sent to a military prison. Disaffection among naval personnel cited as a historical parallel to WWI German collapse.
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Stockhom
Norway
Estate of Arthur Curtiss James Valued at 34 Million for Charity
New York AP Arthur Curtiss James industrialist who died June 4 1941 left an estate of 34 771 702 with more than 25 000 000 to charitable religious and educational institutions per a state appraisal disclosed Saturday.
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New York
Arthur Curtiss James
Italian Fleet Sails as Axis Tensions Mount
Rome reports in Arriba that Italy's battlefleet set sail for an unknown destination amid speculation of a new Mediterranean foray. British sources question the Madrid dispatch, warning it may be a wartime nerves tactic while Mussolini weighs a risky move against Allied air power.
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London
INS
Rome
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Arriba
Reuters Madrid
Italy
Mussolini
High Seas
Turkey
Madrid
Adolf Hitler
3 Day Loan Drive Opens Monday to Raise 2 Billion
Secretary Morgenthau asks for 2.5 billion dollars in a three day war loan campaign starting Monday. The offering will be managed by the Federal Reserve Bank and uses 114 percent treasury notes of series A 1947 priced at par with $500 minimum.
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Washington
LLP
Federal Reserve Banks
Treasury
Morgenthau
Axis Probes in Med as Invasion Signals Grow
London reports weekend Axis nerves rise over a near zero hour invasion in the Mediterranean. Goebbels stresses national discipline while Goering and other leaders anticipate Allied landings, with Britain massing forces from Syria to the front in Europe.
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London
Mediterranean
Balkans
Italy
Norway
Jan Smuts
United Nations
Europe
Joseph Goebbels
Count Reinbach
Goebbels
Berlin
Gibraltar
Syria
Hitler
Reich
Russia
Pioneer Auto Dealer George H Doty Dies at 62
George H Doty longtime Cedar Rapids automobile dealer died Friday in Long Beach California at 4 pm Funeral services set for Tuesday 1 30 pm at Mortell Mortuary Long Beach He was proprietor of Overland Doty Co a major local car seller He also owned the garage building at Third Ave and Light St later used by Collins Radio Survived by wife a son and a daughter.
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George H. Doty
Cedar Rapids
Long Beach
Calif
Mortell Mortuary
Doty
Overland-Doty Company
Overland
Third Avenue
Lighth Street
Collins Radio Company
Chevrolet
Corn Refinery Closures Idle One Third Nation Capacity
The United Press reports three major corn refining plants shut down last week, idling 3,200 workers and halting 140,000 bushels daily. Roby Indiana, Clinton Indiana, and Pekin Illinois facilities suspended operations amid War Food Administration seizures and futures trading ban.
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United Press
Roby, Ind
American Maize Products Company
Clinton, In
Clinton Company
Corn Products Refining Company
William Sample
Ralston Purina Company
Allied daylight raid devastates Ruhr and targets in France
Large force of American heavy bombers attacked airfields and industrial sites in France amid a busy Allied week of air operations. RAF Typhoons and Allied fighters supported attacks on Bernay Le Havre and Ruhr coal and steel belts, with several bombers and fighters lost and many enemy targets hit or destroyed.
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London
France
Ruhr
Hitler
U. S Army
Air Ministry
Continent
R.A.F
Dominion
Sky Fleet
RAF
Ministry
Bernay Airfield
le Havre
le Treport
Boston
Abbeville
Royal Air Force
Bochum- Gelsenkirchen
North Sea
Straits of Dover
Conferees Save Jobs Of Lovett And Two Others
Washington reports that House and Senate conferees agreed to preserve the positions of Dr. Robert Morse Lovett and two others tied to Dies committee subversive activity charges. The deal requires presidential submission for Senate confirmation by January 1, 1944 for any federal post. Lovett heads the Virgin Islands secretaryship. the others are Dr. Goodwin Watson and Dr. William E. Dodd Jr. of the FCC.
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Washington
INS
House
Senate
Robert Morse Lovett
Dies Committee
Lovett
Virgin Islands
Goodwin Watson
William E. Dodd, Jr
Federal Communications Commission
Weather notes from Cedar Ravplds as heat peaks at 94
The weather desk reports a high of 94 degrees between 5 and 5:30 pm, then a cooling to 84 by 11 pm. Havelock Ellis the weather pigeon delivered the update at 11 pm, quipping about heat.
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Havelock Ellis
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Commodity Credit Corp
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Duce
Cedar Rapids News
War Food Administration
Corn Industries Research Foundation
Secretary of Agriculture
WFA
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Kansas City
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