Politics and public policy mix in wartime concerns
President asks John L. Lewis and coal operators to settle wage disputes without work interruption and within the wage ceiling policy. War Labor Board sticks to its 15 percent boost limit as inflation fights loom. The piece notes potential labor gains but warns against production crippling moves and possible anti labor legislation, plus local council raises and city finance plans, civilian defense gear, and Ruml tax plan reactions. It ends with jokes about castor oil for potential belly aches from wartime food plans.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Lewis
Congress
Tests Faked on Steel Plate at Carnegie Illinois Works
The Truman committee released statements from four Irvin works employees admitting to faking tensile tests and altering records on steel plates used for navy, maritime, and lend-lease orders. Complaints of bad laminations and ineffective quality control are noted, with executives denying broader fault.
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Washington
Truman Committee
Irvin
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company
Navy
Maritime Commission
Hugh Fulton
Senate
United States Steel Corporation
Truman
D-Mo
J. Lester Perry
Carnegie-Illinois
Perry
Michael Tarella
Irvin Works Metallurgical Department
J. H. McConnell
D. B. Ireland
Irvin Works
George E. Dye
United States Navy
United States Maritime
United States Treasury
British and Yanks Bomb Enemy Bases
A force of 300 British four engined bombers attacked St Nazaire on the French coast, with hundreds of tons of bombs while American air forces hit Wilhelmshaven. The RAF and USAAF reported minimal losses, strong fighter opposition, and notable daylight victories for Mosquito fighters.
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London
St. Nazaire
Germany
Atlantic
Wilhelmshaven
United States Air Force
St Nazaire
France
England
Clough
North Sea
Boeing
Consolidated
Clemens K. Wurzbach
San Antonio
Texas
Vegesack
Joseph M. Strickland
Liberty
Miss
R.A.F
Maassluis
Rotterdam
RAF
Holland
The
Air Ministry
Fighter Command
Bay of Biscay
Prices Slashed for Vegetables by OPA in Sixth Region
OPA Director Raymond S. McKeough ordered 20 percent price cuts on carrots cabbage lettuce and spinach for the Sixth region including Iowa. Prescribed markups over base were also reduced for tomatoes peas and snap beans.
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Chicago
Sns
OPA
Raymond S. McKeough
Iowa
Remove Barriers on Coal-Burning Stoves
Washington official relief eases stove limits. The Office of Price Administration allows any buyer to purchase a coal burning stove to supplement central oil heating equipment.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
American Attacks on Kiska Fire Rages in Aleutians
The navy said army bombers raided the Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutians twice Sunday starting a large fire. The attacks were announced on Tuesday.
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Washington
Navy
Kiska
Aleutians
U S Envoys To Latin America Elevated To Ambassador Rank
President Roosevelt raised seven U S envoys in Latin America to ambassador status pending Senate confirmation The moves promote current ministers to ambassadors and name new postings in Nicaragua El Salvador Honduras Dominican Republic Haiti Guatemala and Costa Rica with Boaz Long to Guatemala and Robert M Scotten to succeed him in Costa Rica
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Senate
Boaz Long
New Mexico
Ecuador
Guatemala
Robert M. Scotten
Detroit
Costa Rica
Long
Fay A. Desportes
Winnsboro
S. C
James B. Stewart
Nicaragua
Walter Thurston
Arizona
el Salvador
John E. Erwin
Chattanooga
Three Gas Tank Tops Stolen From Cedar Rapids Car
Cedar Rapids report says a man on First Avenue NE admitted frustration over gasoline rationing. His car, parked in an alley between Sixth and Seventh streets NE, had its gas tank top stolen three nights in a row with no other items disturbed.
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Cedar Rapids
Cr. Franks
First Avenue
New Indictment Against Viereck
George Sylvester Viereck of New York, a Nazi propagandist, was indicted on six counts for violating the foreign agents act by failing to disclose his role for the Nazi foreign office in the United States. The indictment follows his recent release after a retrial order by the Supreme Court and aims to shore up weaknesses cited in the prior case.
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Washington
George Sylvester Viereck
New York
Foreign Office
Viereck
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Biddle
Justice Department
Pacific quiet may mask coming storm Knox warns
Secretary of the Navy Knox said the Pacific is very calm now but warned this may be the calm before the storm as the war continues. He noted tensions in Martinique due to US supply cuts and dismissed German claims of a diesel oxygen powered super submarine as an exploded idea.
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Washington
Knox
Pacific
Martinique
Caribbean
United States
Robert
Atlantic
F R Recovered Returns to Office After Cold
President Roosevelt, sidelined by a weekend chill, returned to the White House Tuesday to resume his schedule. An official said he had apparently recovered completely and was back in his office.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Reds Claim 50 Towns as Smolensk Push Intensifies
Soviet dispatches report Red forces seized more than 50 towns and villages in 24 hours in the Smolensk drive and repelled fresh German assaults on the Kharkov front. Berlin and London sources spoke of a local breach near Moscow and advances toward Yartsevo, with heavy German losses noted.
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Associated Press
Keystone
Smolensk
Moscow
Kharkov
Donets River
Red Guns
Chuguev
Berlin
London
Yartsevo
Durovo
Tass
Dorogobuzh
Moscow-Smolensk
Ludwig Sertorious
Kursk
Zhizdra
Bryansk
War Labor Board Rejects Little Steel Cost of Living Hike
The War Labor Board voted 8 to 4 to deny AFL and CIO backed proposals to raise the 15 percent Little Steel cost of living ceiling. The board then pursued a wage policy addressing inequalities and substandard wages to aid the war effort.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Labor
AFL
CIO
Wayne J. Morse
Jaber Gratis
WLB
James F Byrnes
War Tabor Board
William Ho Davis
Davis
U S Sets Up Navy Base at Casablanca
The United States has a naval operating base at Casablanca Morocco and a West African sea frontier force, with Rear Admiral John L Hall Jr as commandant. Details of the base and force uses are not disclosed. Casablanca previously served as a French naval base and can accommodate small ships to modern battleships.
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Washington
United States
Casablanca
Morocco
Navy
John L. Hall, Jr
Williamsburg
Sea Frontier Force
Roosevelt Urges Miners and Operators to Avert Strike
President Roosevelt telegraphed John L. Lewis and coal operators urging a wage dispute settlement without work interruption. He advocated retroactive wages to April 1 and compliance with the Price Stabilization Act and executive orders, endorsing peaceful methods under the 1941 no strike plan and National War Labor Board.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Charles O'Neill
Appalachian
Edward R. Burke
Roose
Velt
National War Labor Board
Illinois Governor Seeks Coal Strike End To Avert Walkout
Gov. Dwight H. Green calls a conference with coal operators and union officials in Chicago to avert a threatened April 1 strike by about 45,000 Illinois coal miners.
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Chicago
Dwight H. Green
Illinois
Americans Hold Maknassy After Luftwaffe Bombardment
A U S patrol led by Lieut Mervin Sneath enters Maknassy near dawn amid mines and booby traps. Stuka raids followed as Italian and German garrisons resisted, with locals noting tension between German and Italian officers.
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Maknassy
Lancaster Pa
Mervin Sneath
Sneath
Monntors
Leigt Pete Parts
New York
Instrator
Army
Yank
Detectives Seize 4 Cases of Illinois Liquor in Arrest
Police patrolman saw a car parked near the Roosevelt hotel and uncovered four cases of Illinois liquor plus bonded bourbon Scotch California port wine and ros sing wine valued at 117. The owner Thomas B. Dawson 32 Hills Ia was arrested for illegal possession with 642.81 on his person. He pled innocent and was released on 500 bail. His car was held by the sheriff.
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Cedar Raunds News
Jerry Navratil
Illinois
Bill Kudina
Thomas B. Dawson
Hills
Navratil
Roosevelt Hotel
Headquarters
Leonard Stusak
Harley Simon
Dawson
California
J. E. Heiserman
Rock Island
Ten die in crash of army bomber at Harlingen
Ten officers and men were killed when a medium bomber crashed at the Harlingen army gunnery school. The army announced the disaster, noting that no Iowa servicemen were among the victims.
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Harlingen, Texas
INS
Harlingen Army Gunnery School
Army
Ukrainian Writer Korniechuk Named Vice-Commissioner
Alexander Korniechuk, Ukrainian writer who attacked Polish claims to western Ukraine as part of the Soviet Union, was named vice-commissar of foreign affairs on Tuesday in Moscow.
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Moscow
Alexander Korniechuk
Ukraine
Soviet Union
Maknassy Taken by Allied Forces Near Mareth Line
Allied headquarters report United States troops under Lieut General Patton seized Maknassy in central Tunisia and pushed toward the sea. British Eighth Army forces had penetrated the Mareth line, with Montgomery directing a wheeling movement around the southern tip as German defenses collapsed.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Eighth Army
Mareth Line
Maknassy
Tunisia
Algiers
el Hamma
Rommels
Morocco
Adolf Hitler
el Guetar
Hadjebec] Aioun
Pichon
Sbeitla
Reuters
Nefsa
Bizerte
Djebel Abeid
United States
Georges. Patton, Jr
Bernard L. Montgomery
Morocca
Mareth
United Press
Phil Ault
Montgomery
Medicine-Mareth-Gabes
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