Wage Boost Ends Hard Coal Strike Ends
Operators and the United Mine Workers of America reached a tentative wage deal for about 100000 anthracite miners. Basic pay rises 7 12 percent on contract and day rates, rising to 10 percent on October 1. Union seeks additional increases and a return to work amid related shipyard talks in California.
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United Mine Workers of America
CIO
John L. Lewis
San Francisco
AFL
AFL Metal Trades Council For
Bay Area
John P. Frey
The
Metal Trades Council
Culbert Olson
Seventeen Local Men Named For Draft Call Next Week
Cedar Rapids news reports seventeen men named Monday by two draft boards for one year’s army service. East side will send fourteen men to Fort Des Moines May 26, west side three to May 28. Names include Frank E. Fulkerson 600 Fourth Ave SE and Edward L. Smith 219 Eleventh St NW among others.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
East Side Board
Fort Des Moines
West Side Board
East Side
Frank E. Fulkerson
Fourth Avenue
Francis O. Benson
Seventeenth Street
Melvin C. Soppeland
Dakota City
Carl R. Jass
Tillman J. Smith
Mercury Climbs Through 80 Degree Mark In Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids area sees a rapid temperature rise with the day opening at 58 degrees and reaching 81 by 2:30 pm after a morning low. Pleasant picnic weather continues as sun boosts the mercury before a cooler trend late Tuesday with unsettled skies and chances of showers or storms.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers
Martha Raye Finalizes Divorce From David Rose
Hollywood Martha Raye obtained her final divorce decree from Chicago musician David Rose and became free to pursue a third marriage, marking the end of their marriage.
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Hollywood
INS
Martha Raye
The
Screen Monday
David Rose
Chicago
Hull Outlines Peace Aims and War Aid for Britain
Secretary Hull declares America’s stance fraught with danger and pins five guiding peace points for postwar settlement. He insists open trade and non-discrimination are essential while warning against totalitarian economic spoilation. Wickard echoes threat of dictatorship alliances and armed response to defend the United States.
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Washington
Hull
America
Great Britain
Britain
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Hutchinson
Kaw
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr Injured In Car Smashup
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr was injured when a tire blowout sent his new convertible into an embankment near Walpole Massachusetts. He suffered cuts but was not seriously hurt and anticipated returning to his ship after treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Walpole
Mass
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Roosevelt
Naval Training Station
Newport
R. I
Phillips House
Massachusetts General Hospital
John
Arthur F. Chaisson
Chaisson
Camp Good Health Benefits Mother and Daughter
A health camp arrangement aids a mother needing a major operation by placing her six year old daughter Mary in Camp Good Health for three weeks this summer. Mary gains health while the mother can focus on her operation, with Mary under care and no worries for the parent.
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Mary
Camp Good Health
Public Health Nursing Association
Rail Unions Seek 30 Percent Wage Rise Across Big Five
Representatives of five major railroad unions totaling about 350000 workers announced a national campaign for a 30 percent increase in basic pay. They aim for at least $1.80 daily gains, with demands to be filed June 10 under the National Railway Mediation Board. The unions include Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Railroad Trainmen, Switchmen, and the Order of Railway Conductors.
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Chicago
National Railway Mediation Board
Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers
Switchmen’s Union
Order of Railway Conductors of America
al Johnson
A. F. Whitney
D. B. Robertson
J. A. Phillips
Order of Railway Conductors
T. C. Cashen
Officials At Convention Leave Pay Raise Unstated
Top officials of the O. R. C. attend the forty second annual convention in Chicago this week. No comment was available here on the pay raise proposal as President J. A. Phillips and officers Harry Fraser F. H. Nemitz G. H. Oram and J. R. T. Rives are in Chicago.
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Chicago
J. A. Phillips
Harry Fraser
F. H. Nemitz
G. H. Oram
J. R. T. Rives
Railway Conductor Magazine
Four-born quadruplet dies in Hiawatha birth tragedy
The fourth quadruplet born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Baker died Sunday in Hiawatha Kansas. The baby’s brother and two sisters died shortly after birth on Saturday.
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Hiawatha, Kan
Joseph Baker
Italians Fall Back as Amba Alagi Surrenders in Ethiopia
About 7,000 Italian soldiers were surrendering at Amba Alaji and their commander the Duke of Aosta would surrender at noon Tuesday. The capitulation ends Italy's last major holdout in northeast Ethiopia, with Gondar remaining as a distant unconquered position. British reports say mass surrenders and growing Axis losses across the region.
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Amba Alaji
Ethiopia
Duke of
Aosta
Mussolini
Addis Ababa
Gondar
Lake
Phillips to retire as head of O R C
James A Phillips announced retirement as president of the Order of Railway Conductors at its forty second annual convention in Chicago. The 68 year old chief will step down after seven years with 700 delegates attending from the United States and Canada plus 400 delegates to the O R C Ladies auxiliary.
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James A. Phillips
Order of Railway Conductors
Chicago
America
International Labor Organization
Phillips
United States
Canada
O. R. C. Ladies
Railway Labor Executives Association
Ohio and
Mississippi
B. and O
Mediation by F r asked by Paris papers
Paris newspapers now dominated by Germany urge President Roosevelt to mediate the war. They claim a looming axis victory risk if the United States stays out, and say US mediation could lead to peace terms or a prolonged conflict with Britain.
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Vichy
France
Paris
Germany
Roosevelt
Britain
United States
Gibraltar
Suez
Mediterranean
Italy
Africa
Europe
Congo
Chad
Ingenious Rigging Nearly Traps This Window Peeper
Dr. J. D. Houser reported a window peeper to police after a trap he set using a rope and tin cans pivoted into a noose. The incident, tied to prior harassment, ended with the intruder escaping as the cans rolled and he fled.
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J. D. Houser
Twentyfourth Street
Howard Walsh
Daniel Boone
Japan denies seeking U S mediation in China conflict
Reports from Moscow that Japan asked the United States to mediate in the China conflict were called unthinkable by an authoritative source. Japan would not make such a request due to the U S past attitude toward Japan, and Kumataro Honda, ambassador to the Nanking regime, has rejected mediation by third parties.
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TOKIO
Russia
Japan
United States
China
Kumataro Honda
Nanking
Pravda reports Japan seeks U S mediation on Far East issue
A New York dated Pravda dispatch claims reliable Japanese sources say Japan asked the United States to mediate the Far Eastern crisis. Tokyo would withdraw troops in China if the U S recognizes Japan’s dominant position, with possible economic concessions and a loan. Public opinion in Japan reportedly splits between understanding with Chiang Kai-shek and continuing the war.
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Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
New York
Japan
United States
China
South Seas
Chiang Kai-shek
British Major Glubb, famed as King of the Desert, Killed
Baghdad dispatch says Major John Bagot Glubb, 44, successor to Lawrence of Arabia, died in action for the British forces in Iraq. The report from General Headquarters confirms his death Monday. The Bedouin warriors had long known him by his desert title.
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Bagdad
Iraq
John Bagot Glubb
Lawrence of Arabia
Egyptian liner Zamzam reported sunk with 323 feared dead
New York reports that the Egyptian passenger liner Zamzam, sailing March 20 from New York to Alexandria via Recife and Capetown, was sunk likely by enemy action in the South Atlantic. Some 203 passengers and 120 crew were aboard including 24 young Americans and at least 36 missionaries. Official passenger lists remain unsettled as authorities pursue details of the fate and possible survivors.
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Salum
R.A.F
Iraq
Ethiopia
Greece
Crete
Suez Canal
Libya
New York
South Atlantic
Egypt
Great Britain
Alexandria
Recife
Brazil
Capetown
South Africa
Middle East
Africa
United States
Mombasa
Kenya
Indian Ocean
Thomas Cook and Son
State Department
Washington
Roosevelt weighs special message to Congress on war
President Roosevelt told legislative leaders at their first meeting in three weeks that he may send a special message to Congress on the international situation. It could include recommendations for new action, though it would not be a full emergency proclamation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United Press
Grace Byron Listed Aboard Zamzam Missionary Ship
Grace Byron, about 50, a missionary of Pleasant Grove Brethren church near Williamsburg Iowa, was listed among missionaries aboard the Egyptian steamer Zamzam reported sunk in the South Atlantic. Mary Emmaert said Byron never lived in Iowa. Byron joined Pleasant Grove during a visit in Illinois. An illness kept Byron aboard. she planned to return earlier.
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Dallas Center
Grace Byron
Pleasant Grove
Stella Myers
French Equatorial Africa
Miss Byron
Detroit
Long Beach
Calif
Traffic And Trouble For The Brothers Hennessey
The Hennessey brothers John 21 and Robert 17 of 1007 Thirtieth Street NE face charges after a May 8 accident. John allegedly failed to yield. Robert was blamed for driving without a license as police pursued reckless driving for Cletus D. Galleger. Crissman, Crissman, Crissman.
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Fifth Avenue SE
Hennessey
Cletus D. Galleger
Thirtieth Street
John
Galleger
Harry Johnson
Robert
Robert Hennessey
John Hennessey
Crissman
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