Mayor Lausche Targets Cleveland Gasoline Black Market
Cleveland mayor Frank Laushe appeals to FBI director J Edgar Hoover for aid in probing a 5,000,000 gallon gasoline diversion into the black market tied to a wartime coupon scheme. Police report theft of 55000 DDT gas coupons and misuse of shoe sugar and food coupons. DA seeks records as federal grand jury inquiry looms.
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Lausche
Cleveland
Frank J. Lausche
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
OPA
District Attorney
Service Votes Blocked in Primary Elections
Washington report notes the states rights bloc blocked mass voting by service members. In Florida, of 200,000 servicemen, only 9,000 ballots were cast under the federal plan and fewer than 3,000 counted. Sen. Claude Pepper won outright amid party tensions and GOP funding.
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Washington
Armed Services
America
Florida
Congress
Claude Pepper
D. Fla
Blood donors praised after union members respond
A union members drive sparked a rapid blood donor response. Mrs. Martina Moser of 2121 Colerain is recovering at General Hospital after an operation, and her husband Orville Moser works as a third shift steward for UE Local 757.
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Martina Moser
Colerain
General Hospital
Orville Moser
Lausche Named On Fair Labor Practices Committee
President Roosevelt appoints a special committee to press fair labor treatment for African Americans on 14 southern railroads. Mayor Frank J. Lausche of Cleveland serves as a member with Judge Walter P. Stacey as chairman. The panel seeks direct agreements on railroad employment practices after some companies resisted Fair Employment Practices rulings. Discrimination is cited as an issue.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Frank J. Lausche
Cleveland
Walter P. Stacey
Stewart
Glove Prices May Rise As Ceiling Prices Set
Higher prices for work gloves are in the offing as OPA allows manufacturers to raise prices. Retail ceilings apply starting June 6 with specific limits: 21 to 26 cents for flannel knit-wrist gloves and 45 cents for leather palm gloves, uniform across stores.
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New York
OPA
S-Rays Battle Internal GOP Lines On Cincinnati Voting
A local GOP split threatens minority ballots in Cincinnati as Mayor James Garfield Stewart’s Metropolitan Housing Authority pick Ray Skirvin draws Negro leaders’ opposition though he touts slum clearance. Rival Frank Lausche fights discrimination and backs housing, while national figures like Taft and Dewey show mixed signals. Roosevelt’s appeal looms amid a shifting Democratic Party.
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Cincinnati
James Garfield Stewart
Ray Skirvin
Metropolitan Housing Authority
Skirvin
Stewart
Davis Warns Employers To Behave After War
Davis told the Society for the Advancement of Management that after the war labor relations would resume with rights to strike but not a return to jungle law in industry. He warned that unilateral wage setting by employers is unlikely to return, urging leadership in collective bargaining or government regulation.
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Society For the Advancement of Management
Nati War Labor Board
William H. Davis
Davis
Bond aid drive seeks union bondadiers again
Officials of Formica Insulation Co. ask Local 757 United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers stewards to serve as bondadiers in the Fifth War Loan drive with full union support pledged.
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Formica Insulation Co
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers
Plead Against OPA Crippling
Washington reports Republican lawmakers join Rep Brent Spence to urge against crippling amendments to price controls. Spence says most favor wartime controls while Vinson warns of inflationary trends in clothing and calls for avoiding rationing through careful regulation.
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Washington
Brent Spence
D. Ky
Spence
Fred M. Vinson
Economics Stabilization
Vinson
OPA
Guild To Observe Its 10th Birthday
Celebration of the Cincinnati Newspaper Guilds 10th anniversary on June 17 will be a downtown hotel gridiron show. Frank Koester entertainment chairman says the Guild cast includes Eddie Donnelli on, Eleanor Bell and Burl Russell of the Post and Wally Ballinger of the Times Star. A vaudeville presentation contrasts Managements ideal working conditions with the Guilds comic view.
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Cincinnati Newspaper Guild
Frank Koester
Guild
Eddie Donnellion
Eleanor Bell
Burl Russell
the Post
Wally Ballinger
The
Times Star
Guild In
French Workers Readied for Armed Uprising on D-Day
In Philadelphia Lucien Midol, French railway workers leader, warns of a 175,000 strong underground army and a general French uprising timed for the invasion. He details daily resistance, strikes, and sabotages led by the CGT as Germans fear a broad battlefront.
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Philadelphia
International Labor Organization
Lucien Mido
French Federation of Railwaymen
Midol
North
Africa
Free France
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Italy
Mido
Con
CGT
General Confederation of Workers
Michel
Paris
Germany
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Robert A. Taft
National Association For the Advancement of the Colored People
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Reinhardt
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Betty Goldstein
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