Labor dispute lebened by Cedar Rapids strike and politics
A Cedar Rapids packinghouse labor dispute prompts a public stance on law and order. Local union leaders assure officials the strike will remain orderly, while civic leaders urge restraint and focus on livestock market stability. Senate passes HSAA reform bill. house in committee. Reports claim Russia may aid Turkey vs Nazis, with cautious optimism. Martin remains GOP national chair as Roosevelt plans mobilization talks. Mrs. Roosevelt hints at M-day style national defense.
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Fo Ereone
James D. Cooney
Raymond Norton
Robert Anderson
Frank Severa
Frank Hahn
Wes Benesh
Striking Bethlehem Steel workers clash with police
The Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem Pa faced a riot as police used tear gas to disperse CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee pickets. Several strikers were injured and Northampton County Sheriff W Cabin Nickel requested more manpower to control the situation. The plant, a defense contracts site, kept operating with far fewer workers than the normal 8000.
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Arthur H James
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlehem
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
W. Cabin Nickel
Northampton County
McCormick Works
International Harvester Company
Chicago
AFL
CIO Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee
FEWCC
Harvester
McCormick
International Harvester
Graziani Quits As Italian Chief In North Africa
Rome reports Premier Mussolini accepted the resignation of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani as commander in chief North Africa governor of Libya and chief of the army staff. Gen Italo Garibaldi becomes governor and commander while Gen Mario Roatta takes Roatta as chief of staff. Francesco Rossi succeeds Roatta as vice chief of staff.
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Rome
Remin Mussolini
Rodolfo Graziani
Africa
Libya
Hngh
Pietro Badoglia
Greece
Graziani
North
Italo Garibaldi
Mario Roatta
Francesco Rossi
Roatta
Grazani
Ethiopia
Italy
Garibaldi
Tripolitania
Youth Is Injured In Auto Collision
Cedar Rapids youth Dick Reeder sixteen of 430 Thirty third street NE suffered bruises on his right side about nine p.m. Monday when the car he rode in driven by David Battin sixteen of Cottage Grove avenue SE collided with Estel Foster thirty ninth avenue NE at Twenty first street and Bever avenue SE. Car damage was considerable but Reeder's injury not believed serious.
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Cedar Rapids
Dick Reeder
Thirtythird Street
David Battin
Cottage Grove Avenue
Estel Foster
E Avenue
Twentyfirst Street
Bever Avenue SE
Reeder
Senate Action Moves Ellis Park Golf Course Expansion
Cedar Rapids moves to enlarge Ellis Park golf course from nine to 18 holes after the state senate approved special legislation clarifying park department bond proceedings. The measure resolves an ambiguity in state law that left the council unsure who could authorize the adjacent land purchase. The city planned to buy 43 acres for 12000 dollars in 1940, with a similar bill in the house at the council’s request.
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Cedar Rapids
Ellis Park
State Senate
Park Department
Park Commission
Senate
House
Council
Jap Navy Unready For Quick Thrust
Passengers aboard the S. S. President Jackson bound for San Francisco observed the bulk of Japan's heavy striking power tied up in Ariake Wan bay off Kyushu, indicating the Japanese navy is not prepared for an immediate southward thrust.
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S. S
Jackson
San Francisco
Calif
Ariake Wan Bay
Kyushu Island
Japan
Yugoslav Boys Out of Class Parade Against Axis
Police riot squads hauled away several hundred boys aged 14 to 19 in Belgrade after they left two schools to march and chant anti Axis slogans. The youths sang Down with Hitler and Down with Mussolini during the display.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Hitler
Mussolini
Wilson Plant Picketed As Strike Declared
A large picket line gathered at the Wilson company plant as PWOC strike action began. Company officials reported 700 of 1,890 workers at work while predicts of production in several departments continued. Union agent Otto Carstens claimed the strike was 100 percent effective with about 75 workers in the plant and possible professionals. Pickets moved up entry times after two men with suitcases entered, and livestock trucks were admitted through gates with inspections.
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Wilson and Company
Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee
CTO
McMillan
Otto Carstens
Carstens
PWOC
Was
Trio Captured in Missouri Auto Theft Ring
Missouri state police arrested Bob Huston 28 and two companions, Billy Barnett 24 and Betty Stein Hayes 18, in a car theft case connected to Mar 4 assault on Dick Albert and a Des Moines auto abandonment. Woody Gallagher 24 remains jailed as an accomplice. Detectives also arrested John Huston 23 on receiving stolen property charges. loot linked to Huston’s car robberies was seized at his Shaver road address. The group had traveled together since Mar 5, with an 18-year-old local furl not held.
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Cedar Rapids
Missouri
Bob Huston
Huston
Billy Barnett
Betty Stein Hayes
Dick Albert
First Avenue FE
Des Moines
Woody Gallagher
L. B. Marshall
Tom Condon
John Huston
Shaver Road
Cedar County
John
Barnett
Hayes
Senate Passes Bill Regulating Iowa High School Athletics
In Des Moines the Iowa Senate approved a bill to regulate high school athletics, sending it to the House by a 41 to 3 vote. The plan places supervision over the Iowa High School Athletic Association board of control under the state superintendent of public instruction, with annual audits by the state auditor. The measure would divide the state into five districts and set three-year terms for board members elected by the superintendent from district-named candidates.
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STATE
Senate
Iowa High School Athletic Association
House
DES Moines
State Senate
Iowa
George A. Brown
Lh.s.a.a
Brown
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Iowa High School Athletic Association Board
Centrol
Association
Board of Control
J. T. Dykhouse
Rock Rapids
Dykhouse
G W, Hunt
Guttenberg
State Athletic Control Board
Fairfax man held for reckless driving after crash
Traffic police booked George Klimesh of Fairfax for reckless driving after his car rammed a stopped vehicle at Mount Vernon avenue and Twentieth street SE. Klimesh, reportedly drinking but not intoxicated, faced additional charges of no driver’s license as the car was held at the station for steering apparatus repairs.
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Cedar Rapids
George Klimesh
Fairfax
Mount Vernon Avenue
Twentieth Street
Klimesh
Oil Ship Blows Up And Burns Off Cape Lookout
A tanker with 150000 barrels of crude oil exploded 80 miles south of Cape Lookout NC. Nineteen crewmen were unaccounted for and feared dead after the Cities Service Denver fire consumed the vessel. W. W. Bruce and Cities Service Denver assisted, rescuing 22 survivors including a severely burned man. The W. W. Bruce proceeded to Beaufort NC.
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New York
Cities Service
Deaver
Cape Lookout
Cities
Denver
Texas
W. W. Bruce
Denvers
Beaufort
N C
City talks with truck drivers ease into short suspension
Civ officials and AF of L locals held informal conferences Tuesday and agreed to an informal suspension of negotiations for a few days. Mayor Hahn and Street Commissioner Williams met separately with J D White, business agent, who said six local agreements remain pending. The city legal department notes no written contract can be formed by statute.
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Cedar Rapids News
Civ
IL. Teamsters and
Frank Hahn
Dave Williams
J. D. White
A F of L
White
City Legal Department
Ready To Fly Aid Bill To Roosevelt
Vice president Wallace and Speaker Rayburn signed the seven billion dollar British aid bill completing congressional action. The measure will be flown to Miami on a commercial plane then by a special plane to President Roosevelt on vacation for his signature. A postal inspector will carry it in a pouch with White House mail.
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Washington
Wallace
Rayburn
White House
Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Russians pledge assistance to Turkey amid war tensions
Russia pledged benevolent neutral aid to Turkey if attacked by Germany and increased forces on land and sea opposite German masses in southeast Europe. Moscow halted oil supplies to Germany since March, signaling a shift as Turkey’s Dardanelles security becomes linked to Soviet support.
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Ankara
Turkey
Russia
Germany
Europe
Soviet Union
Dardanelles
Mediterranean
Black Seas
Airmania
Prut River
Black Sea
Greece
Thrace
Yugoslavia
England
Mercury Remains Near Freezing as Cedar Rapids Feels Mixed Skies
A Cedar Rapids weather note shows temperatures fluctuating through the day with morning readings around 36 degrees, a midday climb to 44 degrees, and a late evening drop to 28. Forecasts call for mostly cloudy skies with light rain or snow and little temperature change, with west wind around 28 degrees at night.
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Cedar Rapids
West
Mercury
Chambers
Nazis Clear Path for Major Mediterranean Push
Compiled cable dispatches claim Germany swept Yugoslavia into the axis and cleared a path for a large Nazi offensive from the Aegean to the mid Mediterranean. Britain would face a combined Mediterranean African Balkan conflict with a likely attack on Greece and massed troop buildups along the Balkan front. A reliable London source says 800000 troops may be moved to execute a blitzkrieg while Turkey aligns to protect its borders with Thrace.
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Yugoslavia
Aegean
mid-Mediterranean
Britain
Germany
British Isles
Greece
Greeces
Bulgarias
Strumaio
Salomika
Rumania
Archibald Wavells
Nile
Coriec
Salonika
London
Balkans
Hitler
Bian
Turkey
Russia
Thraceust
Welles Praises Soviet Turkish Pact Move
Secretary of State Sumner Welles voiced U S satisfaction after Ross issued a new declaration of friendship with Turkey. He stressed the United States would uphold Roosevelt’s point about protecting small nations and noted relief that a great power like the Soviet Union reaffirms understanding with a neighbor.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
United States
Ross
Turkes Welles
Roosevelt
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Welles
Soviet Union
Roosevelt freezes Yugoslav assets in the United States
President Roosevelt ordered a freeze on all Yugoslav funds in the United States after Yugoslavia joined the Rome Berlin Tokyo axis. The measure blocks use or removal of cash and securities totaling about 1 million dollars, with indirect effects on roughly 36 million dollars of American investments in Yugoslavia.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Yugoslavia
United States
Treasury
Commerce Department
Berlih
Brteh
Church
Rumam
Bualawa
Balkans
Yagoslavia
Berlin
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Yugoslavia Joins Axis With Guarded Commitments
Yugoslavia signed to join the Rome Berlin Tokyo axis as a junior partner with pledges that no axis troops would cross its frontiers and no active military aid would be provided. The ceremony in Belvedere palace featured Dragisa Cvetkovic and Aleksandar Cincar-Markovic.
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Vienna
Yugoslavia
Berlin
Churchill
Roosevelt
Yellow Hall
Belvedere Palace
Dragisa Cvetkovic
Alesander Cincar-Markovic
Rumania
New Canteanis
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New Order
Joseph W. Martin
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War Department
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The
United Press
Clarence A. Dykstra
New Defense Mediation Board
Dykstra
Step
Marshal Graziani
Ellis Golf Course
Trio
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Yaroslav
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Pacific
Murmans
Adolf Hitler
Hotel Imperial
Engeland
America
Intellixentsia
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