Auto Workers Waive Holiday Premium Pay
United Automobile Workers delegates approve unanimously a plan to waive premium pay for weekend and holiday work during wartime. President Roosevelt says premium time “puts a brake on” production and harms the nation, urging contracts renegotiation to funnel savings to defense. The measure includes proposals for labor to accept bonds and wage limits as part of broader wartime policy.
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United Automobile Workers
CTO
Congress
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Roosevelt
Uaw-Cio
Senate Votes War Profit Limitation
The Senate unanimously passed a $19,062,373,260 military appropriation bill authorizing near total wartime profit control by War Navy and Maritime bodies. The measure funds 3.6 million enlistments by year end, 31,000 additional aircraft, and 17.59 million for forest fire protection, while the House had favored a 6 percent profit cap rejected by voice vote.
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Soviet Claims Air Victories And Ground Advances
Soviet dispatches report destruction of 79 German planes for a nine day total of 494 and stockade advances west and northwest of Moscow. Zhukov fronts push in Smolensk province and near Kalinin with a daring upper Dnieper crossing between Dorogobuzh and Durova. Rebels seize a large railroad station and reported booty as 20 populated points liberated on Smolensk front and 11 recaptured on Kalinin front amid heavy losses to German forces.
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Moscow
INS
Soviet High Command
Red Army
Gregory K. Zhukov
Smolensk
Kalinin
Dnieper
Dorogobuzh
Durova
Zhukov
Kalinin Front
Berlin
Mexico and U S To Pool Efforts For War
Mexico and the United States agreed on a six point wartime collaboration plan in a joint statement by Mexican Foreign Minister Padilla and acting Secretary of State Welles. They cited whirlwind conferences lasting a week and highlighted Mexico's pledge to help build merchant shipping.
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Mexico
United States
Padilla
Welles
Butyl rubber hope rises in Senate hearing
Secretary Jesse H. Jones told the Truman committee he would consider large scale production of butyl rubber from Standard Oil of New Jersey. He noted the British-Dutch rubber combine resisted expanded crude rubber, urging profit motives amid wartime shortages.
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Jesse Jones
Washington
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
INS
America
Truman Senate Committee
Jesse H. Jones
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Standard
Germany
Jones
United States
British-Dutch Rubber Combine
Oakes Wins Sixth Term As Mayor In South Charleston
South Charleston Mayor L Henry Oakes secures a sixth term with a 5 3 vote lead over Republican A V Fitzwater in unofficial returns. Oakes total 2098 to Fitzwater 1555, with 3653 votes about 55 percent of registered voters. An all-Democratic slate also wins, including City Recorder J W Londerce with 2101 to 1490 for George E Thomas.
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South Charleston
A. V. Fitzwater
U. S
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Fitzwater
J. W. Londerce
George E. Thomas
Montrose
Spring Hill
48 Hour Week Believed More Productive Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt announced studies showing a 48 hour work week outproduces a 60 hour one. He cited British and European surveys and Henry Ford’s views that extending beyond 48 or 49 hours does not increase output. The war time wage hour law debate looms, with an announcement possible soon.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Henry Ford
Congress
Losses Mount As U S Sub Sinks Two Nipponese Ships
Navy says a lone American submarine sank two Japanese merchant vessels in the China Sea, bringing total enemy ships sunk or damaged since Dec 7 to 211, including 63 warships. No further details were released.
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U. S
Japan
China Sea
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U. S. Navy
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Caroline Islands
Depan
Dutch East Indies
Durable Goods Output to Halt in War Era Plan
Washington April 7 193- War Production Board chief Donald M Nelson announced two new orders to halt most durable goods production by May 31 They include a civilian construction stop order and a ban on iron and steel in hundreds of civilian items Also other metals scarce plastics will be banned as substitutes The aim is rapid conversion to defense needs and a smooth wartime transition with expectations of a swift changeover to new production priorities.
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Donald M. Nelson
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Tempest submarine declared lost by British admiralty
London April 17 The British admiralty announced the submarine Tempest is overdue and must be considered lost. Earlier today the destroyer Havock was wrecked off Tunisia with no casualty details. Havock, completed in 1937, displaced 1,340 tons and carried 145 men.
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Rome
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Indians Reject Compromise Giving Them Defense Chief
NEW DELHI April 7 Despite a British offer to appoint an Indian defense minister the Congress party appears to have rejected Britain's amended plan for self government after the war. The door remains open for talks as Roosevelt envoy efforts hint at a possible compromise acceptable to all sides. Nehru urged Indians to organize for defense against the Japanese invasion and voiced opposition to foreign invasion while pledging sympathy with democracies.
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Congress Party
Britain
India
Roosevelt
Enemy Bombed On New Guinea by Allied Air Attacks
Royal Australian air force and American planes mounted a third straight low level strike in New Guinea targeting Lae. Bombs hit grounded aircraft and airdrome facilities while fires sparked. Allied fighters shot down one Japanese fighter attempting interference. Australia Strengthened, says Navy and Munitions Minister J. M. Makin.
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Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
New Guinea
Lae
Port Moresby
U S Seeks Sugar From French Isle
U S officials consider purchase of Reunion Island sugar in the Indian Ocean as Vichy France negotiates with Washington. Paris editors urge Franco American rapprochement, with one predicting a cabinet fall unless France concedes to U S aims.
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Marshal Petain
Reunion Island
Indian Ocean
United States
Paris
Jean Luchaire
Les Nouveaux Temps
Roosevelt
Reunion
Japanese Push On in Burma
British reports describe a northward Japanese push along Burma’s Irrawaddy valley with Thayetmyo and Alanmyo retaken and docks and oil facilities damaged. Japanese columns were reported near Kama and Nyaungbinzelk and advancing northeast toward Mandalay. Allied forces fall back 40 miles north of Prome as Minbu oil fields lie ahead.
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India
Irrawaddy River
Burma
Prome
Thayetmyo
Alanmyo
Kama
Irrawaddy
Nyaungbinzelk
Sinjol
Mandalay
Minbu
Chungking
Sittang River
Toungoo
War Council Sees Encouraging Arms Flow to Pacific
President Roosevelt told the Pacific war council that U S reinforcements in weapons and men are already at battle stations in the southwest Pacific. A new decision will speed additional munitions to Gen Douglas MacArthur in Australia as Allied officers shape the offensive against Japan. British Ambassador Lord Halifax and other UN representatives reported optimism, and council recommendations will go to the joint American British staff for action based on munition availability and global theatre needs.
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Roosevelt
Pacific War Council
United States
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Lord Halifax
Great Britain
United Nations
McCarthy
Japanese Drive Deep on Bataan Front Amid Heavy Fighting
Japanese forces with bombers tanks and artillery pressed into American lines on Bataan as Lt Gen Wainwright's army fights back in brutal combat. The war department reported an American field hospital bombed with heavy casualties while Corregidor holds and Cavite guns pound island garrisons.
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INS
Bataan
Jonathan ‘Wainwright
War Department
Wainwright
Manila Bay
Corregidor
Cavite
Decline in U-Boat Attacks Reported
Washington reports a sharp fall in Atlantic coastal U boat attacks. Secretary Knox cites new combat methods and wave patterns as possible causes while noting only two attacks last week. He mentions studying merchant shipping operations and potential navy control of long voyage vessels.
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Atlantic
Knox
Caribbean
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