Steel Walkouts Raise Alarm Over Defense Plant Safety
The Associated Press reports walkouts at Republic Steel in Youngstown and Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna plant may signal wider labor issues across Bethlehem's defense contracts worth 1.5 billion dollars. Crane operators at Republic and electrical workers at Lackawanna walked off amid transfer protests and layoffs. A potential settlement at Motor Wheel, Lansing, could end a 12 day strike that idled 3,000 workers with 4 million dollars in defense orders at stake.
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Associated Press
Republic Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem
Youngstown
Electrical Construction Department
Lackawanna
NM. L
Yale
van A. Siiiner
5 0.C
Bittner
Farkard Motor Car Company
Detroit
Eleven Men Drown When Truck Plunges Into St Lawrence
Eleven men die when a truck topples from a quay into the St Lawrence river near Longueuil Quebec as workers were ferried to a field site. Earlier tolls listed nine. two more men were found dead in the dark water.
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Longueul
Quebec
St. Lawrence
House Names Five To Investigate Montana Hospital Move
Montana's House voted to appoint a five member committee to probe conditions at the Warm Springs state hospital for the insane after the Senate refused an upper chamber investigation. Signers urged inquiry into food quality fire hazards patient admissions, farm operations, potential business manager for the hospital and related facilities. The inquiry is to report by March 16.
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House
Montana Hospital
Senate
Warm Springs
Montana
Senate Amoniments
Ile
State Hospital
House of Representatives
State
Grant Hammond
Yellowstone
J. T. Newell
Carbon
D. F. James
Liberty
John Zuck
Roosevelt
Jerry Clifford
Deer
Boulder
Lease Lend Debate Roils Senate As War Fears Rise
Senator Wheeler vows a coast to coast campaign to keep the United States from entering war if the lease lend bill passes. Critics from La Follette Clark and Danaher warn the measure means war while urging rejection and a return to prewar aims. Speaker Rayburn and Barkley signal possible House action by weekend with continued Senate debate and possible Tuesday vote.
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William FR. Spear
Washington
Senate
Wheeler D Mont
United States
Tam
Hoston
California
Lalolette
Clark
Tale
Danaher
People of
America
LaFollette
City Churches Prepare Ash Wednesday Services
Special Ash Wednesday services were announced by four Helena churches. St Helena Cathedral will bless ashes before mass at 7 and distribution at 7, 7:30, 8. Parish schools receive ashes at 8. Evening services include Rosary and sermon. St Marys blesses ashes at 8:30 with distributions after masses and evening services. Episcopal Holy Communion at 7:30 and 10, Lutheran services through Good Friday, and a St Johns sermon titled What Shel ls Do With Jesus.
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Helena
St. Helena Cathedral
St. Mary's
J. J. Sullivan
Guhes
First Lutheran Church
St. John's Lutheran Church i
Jesus
Landon vows to defeat lease-lend bill
Lawrence Kansas reports that A J E M Landon called the lease-lend act the most dangerous proposal before congress and urged the public to contact their senators saying there is still time to stop it. He warned the measures against war and appealed for action in a radio prepared speech.
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Lawrence
Kan
Ieh
Aje M. Landon
Congress
United States Senate
British leaders arrive in Cairo for pivotal Near East talks
Gen Sir John Dill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrived in Cairo for momentous conferences with empire commanders and authorities that may shape Britain's military strategy and political policy in the Near East.
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Sir John Dill
Imperial General Staff
Anthony Eden
Nazis Deny Attacks on Earle in Sofia Resort
Officials in the United States seek to trace reports that a German man injured by Minister Warle is dying from a fractured skull after a restaurant altercation over music at the American envoy’s Freduest area. The injured man was not a legation staff member or German officer, a spokesman said.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
United States
Legaton
George H. Warle
Max
Harle
Regation
Freduest
Ge Gelimentigation
Legation
British Airmen Hit Addis Ababa Airdromes in Ethiopia
Gabo Egypt Feb 24 Royal Air Force bombers smashed Ital ian air bases at Addis Ababa while reinforced British land columns seized two more posts on the Juba river front in Somaliland and moved within 40 miles of closing a pincer against Cheren in Eritrea. An RAF communique at Aden said extensive damage occurred to Italian base buildings in Addis Ababa.
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Gabo
Egypt
Royal Air Force
Itelan
Addie Ababa
Ethiopia
Juba
Somaliland
Cheren
Eritrea
Addis Ababa
Aden
Kentucky quadruplets doing pretty well
Louisville report says the Jynsley quadruplets are doing pretty well. John, the only boy, who had trouble breathing after arriving by ambulance from Leitchfield, Ky., was said to be much better, with the others improving as well.
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Louisville
Jynsley
John
Leitchfield
Hitler Says German Naval Offensive Near, Massive Shipping Sinkings Cited
Adolf Hitler announced in Munich that German sea raiders sank about 215000 tons of shipping in the past two days as a prelude to a sweeping naval offensive to reach full swing in the next two months. Italy’s role in tying up British forces in the Mediterranean is noted while Germany readies for intensified U boat operations and surface raiding. The British threat of invasion is not dated and Hitler remains confident about future victories in 1941.
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Sun
Munich
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Ueum
DNB
Grim Paintso
Furmer
Ytalians
Hiller
Ualy
Eea
Mediterranean
Italy
North Sea
England
Excess Profits Tax Revision Aims to Ease Hardships
Washington February 24 Treasury and the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill to revise the excess profits tax to relieve hardships of the present law. The measure retroactive to 1940 would save corporations millions on 1949 payments through an alternative base income method and two year carryover of credits. Estimates suggest substantial future savings, with potential total reductions around 101 million from the two main provisions.
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Washington
Long
House
Treasury
Ways and Means
Doughton
N.G
Coughton
Senate Finance Committee
Cooper
Teno
Treasury Unien
Axilayera
London Report Says U S Joins Warning On Singapore East Indies
London reports claim the United States and Great Britain advised Japan to stay away from Singapore and the Netherlands East Indies. Washington reportedly denies any new word. Churchill conferred with Japanese envoy Shigemitsu amid talks.
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U.S
Washington
Singapore
East Indies
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Netherlands East Indies
Churchill
Shigemitsu
Verdict Rendered in Schneider Death Case Under Advisement
A coroner jury returned a verdict that George Schneider 47 died Friday from an intracranial hemorrhage caused by a blow to the skull. The blow was linked to either a fall during intoxication or violence between George and his wife Lillian Schneider with reasonable ground to suspect Lillian of delivering the fatal blow. County Attorney J Miller Smith said he would take the case under advisement and examination of details would continue.
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George Schneider
Lillian Schneifer
Lillian Schneider
J. Miller Smith
M. Hall
Schneider
Greeks vow to remain fighting until Albania is clear
Athens reports Greek forces have held a line for four months and captured 20 targets. A government spokesman said Greece will not cease fighting until Italians are expelled from Albania, pushing back against Mussolini’s portrayal of Greek losses. Observers note German hopes for a Greek peace by July.
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J. Reilly O'Sullivan
Athens
Albania
Mussolini
Italy
Greece
Alaura
Roosevelt ends HI weekend at Rome in Hyde Park
President Roosevelt finishes a quiet Hudson River weekend and departs Hyde Park for Washington to confer with congressional leaders about completing legislative action this week on the British aid bill. He aims to advance passage with the Senate and House facing key deadlines this week.
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Hyde Park
N.Y
Roosevelt
Washington
The
Hudson
Turkish Press Warns Nation Expect Worst
Bulgarian front pages and Istanbul Ikdam warn of German plans to occupy the Mediterranean and Greece as British citizens depart Sofia. Diplomatic figures Rendel and staff may quit Bulgaria amid anticipated invasion. Police hunt former Deputy Dimitroff amid anti Nazi sentiment. Nazi air formations hover along the Danube as tensions mount.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Artin
Mediterranean
George W. Rendel
George Dimitroff
Istanbul
Ikdam
Axis
Greece
Drcw
U.S
George H. Earle
Danube
Romania
German Raiders Continue Their Darts at British
London reports indicate German raiders swept the channel before blackout, with air alarms in East Anglia and Scotland and little RAF activity. London remained quiet as anti air defenses stayed silent. An evening raid over Brest docks was later confirmed.
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London
Sterlit Skier
English Channel
East Anglia
Scotland
Wast Anglia
North Seotland
Shakeup at Vichy Indicates Petain Leaning to Hitler
Vichy France Feb 24. A new government with 15 secretaries of state under Marshal Petain was announced. Five cabinet ministers are anticipated. names floated include Admiral Darlan, Yven Boutilier, Gen Charles Huntalger, Prof Joseph Barthelmey, and Pierre Caziot. Petain remains chief of state and government. Laval seeks only a figurehead role. observers note potential delegate-general for negotiations with Germany.
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Vichy
France
Marshal Peain
Yen Darlan
Yven Boutilier
Defense
Charles Huntalger
Joseph Barthelmey
Ralphaer Albert
Agriculture
Pierre Caziot
Marshal Petain
Pierre Laval
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Anthony Hden
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Kentucky Quadruplets
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