Pickets Keep Richwood Plant Closed Amid Strike
Pickets blocked the Wallace corporation clothespin plant reopening, with about 200 workers employed locally and 150 pickets at the gates led by a man bearing an American flag. Police say no violence occurred as the UCW strike, tied to the Cherry River Boom and Lumber case, produced arrests and a padlocked shanty.
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Wallace Corporation
Bert L. Stewart
Charleston
Nearsea
Stewart
United Construction Workers
C10
Richwood
Thurman Farmer
UCW
Farmer
Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company
Youths Needed for Navy Ground Training and Pilot Path
Lt. W A Saunders announced in West Virginia that unlimited youths could enlist for aviation ground school training and later qualify as navy pilots. Recruits will be rated apprentice seamen on enlistment, with seven months to advancement, under new selective service rules allowing service in navy, army, or marine corps after physical exams and before induction. Dr J B Lutz is added to the state recruiting staff, transferred from Baltimore to Charleston.
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Navy
W. A. Saunders
West Virginia
Saunders
Army
Marine Corps
J. B. Lutz
Lutz
Charleston
Baltimore
Dover Shelling Reported From German Guns In Channel
A brief dispatch from London says German long range guns fired on Dover for a three hour period this afternoon. The incident occurred as tension rose over military actions across the English Channel with authorities noting shelling from across the water.
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Seland
England
London
Dover Channel
France
Dover
French Planning Factory Shutdown
A Vichy order directs most French factories to close for two weeks starting December 21 due to coal and power shortages. Blast furnaces and plants operating under government orders are said to be exempt from the shutdown.
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London
Reuters
Vichy
Petain
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