Overtime Not For Employers Says Roosevelt Letter
President Roosevelt stated the governments' intention to renegotiate contracts so savings from relinquishing double time go to the nation. He warned that double time for weekend and holiday work hinders wartime production and helps the enemy. Delegates from 600 local unions met at a UAW CIO war conference to consider waiving double time for Sunday and holiday work and other measures in an equality of sacrifice program.
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Detroit
Roosevelt
The
United Automobile Worker's (Cio
R. É. Thomas
Uaw-Cio International
Thomas
International Executive Board
Uaw-Cio
National Cio
Uaw-Cio International Board
FDR
Donald B. Nelson
Brazilian freighter Cabedello reported missing after voyage
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry announced the disappearance of the 3537 ton freighter Cabedello sailing from Philadelphia February 14. Four Brazilian ships had been sunk by Axis submarines, and anti Axis riots followed. The ship carried 4100 tons of coal, commanded by Capt Pedro Vellosa de Silveira, crew of 55. Officials fear torpedo strike at night and sinking. The vessel was the former Prusia, built in 1912 and acquired by Brazil in 1917.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Cabedello
Philadelphia
Brazil
Germany
Italy
Japan
Pedro Vellosa de Silveira
Lloyd Brasileiro
Prussia
British Push Raids of German Territory Reported
British raids on German territory were claimed with heavy losses to Nazi aircraft. The Associated Press notes Soviet forces broke into German lines southeast of Staraya Russa as Hitler redirects warplanes into ongoing actions. Soviet dispatches claim 415 German planes down in eight days, with 84 Soviet losses, and Easter Sunday saw 119 German aircraft destroyed in air and airfield attacks. A Berlin broadcast reports Russian forces advancing in the Lake Timan sector despite German claims of adjusted lines.
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Associated Press
Lake Hman
Staraya Russa
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Red Army
Lake Timan
16Th Army
Hitler
War Today Aims at Invasion and Indian Solidarity
The piece discusses Japanese bombing around Ceylon and India's coast as potential preludes to invasion. It notes Tojo's warning to Hindustan, Indian press calls for unity, and Hitler’s possible push toward Siberia or India to stretch Allied forces.
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Ceylon
Madras
India
Britain
Tojo
Hindustan
Herr Hitler
Russia
Siberia
Iraq
Iran
Middle East
Australia
New Guiana
Hitler
War Bonds Now as Treasury Renames Defense Bonds
Washington reports the Treasury advises buying two bonds today as War Savings Bonds, the new official name for Defense Bonds. Savings Stamps also adopt the war designation, a change urged since Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
Treasury
Defense
Fearl Harbor
Ousted Local Starts Suit for Reinstatement
An ousted New York local 12 165 of the Chemical Drug and Cosmetics Workers filed in state supreme court a suit for reinstatement in the United Mine Workers. Vice president of Local denounces Union President John L Lewis as a would be labor fuehrer. Justice McGreh an orders Lewis and others to show cause why the charter revoked March 12 should not be reinstated.
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New York
United Mine Workers
State Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
Fuehrer
John E. McGrehan
Lewis
Wallace Advice Stirs Senate Labor Talk On Capitol Hill
Senatorial leaders met in off the record palavers about the Labor problem urging the President to back legislative revisions raising working hours on war contracts. Some Republicans dismissed mixing in administration scraps while others warned Wallace to carry his cautions to the President.
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Ashington
Ray Tucker
Henry
Wallace
Bureau of Education
John Nance Garner
Capitol Hill
Senate
F. D
Jones Denies Rubber Delay In Synthetic Production
Secretary of Commerce Jones testified before the Senate Defense Investigating Committee that there was no delay in synthetic rubber development. He announced domestic facilities with over 700,000 tons annual capacity and said production could rise if needed. He urged civilian tire and rubber conservation to support military needs, disputing Batt’s charge of overruling defense commission recommendations.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Jones
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
William L. Batt
War Production Board
Defense Commission
Jeommierce
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Six Jap Warships With 13 Transports Sighted Off Amoy
CHUNGKING China April 7 Thirteen Japanese transports and six warships have been sighted off Amoy on the south coast of China a military spokesman said. Three Japanese divisions are concentrated on Mosaic Island but their destination was not ascertained. Chinese forces in Burma face the Japanese striking force south of Kyi buangan in the Toungoo region. The Japanese are constructing defenses and not advancing. In the Premier front the Japanese push northward along the Irrawaddy River toward British defenders aided by 100 trucks and tanks. The spokesman asked for more aircraft for Burma.
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Chungking
China
Amoy
Formosa
Burma
Kyibuangan
Toungoo
Irrawaddy River
Navy reports drop in U boat attacks off U S coast
Secretary Knox said German submarine raids along the Atlantic coast fell off last week, possibly due to new navy methods. He noted waves-based U boat patterns and cited 14 announced attacks in the Western Atlantic and nearby waters, with only two along the coast. He discussed merchant marine staffing and the idea of navy ownership of ships, as a possible solution.
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Washington
Knox
United States
Atlantic
North Atlantic
Navy
Caribbean
Atlantic Coast
Pearl Harbor
Canada
Caribbean Sea
South America
Merchant Marine
Eist
Marin
Britain to appoint India defense minister Mohammed Ali Jinnah report
Mohammed Ali Jinnah president of the Moslem League said Britain agreed to appoint an Indian as defense minister. In Curacao, Governor G J d Wouters told the legislative council that the Dutch West Indies may face new hostilities and the government is taking military measures.
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Britain
India
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Willemstad
Curacan
Dutch West Indies
G. J. d. Wouters
Legislative Council
Durable Goods Production To Halt May 31
AP reports war production head Donald M. Nelson announced that most consumer durable goods will stop by May 31 as civilian industries are converted to wartime needs. He warned of sweeping impacts locally and globally, saying orders will bar building activity and restrict iron and steel use, part of a planned shift to an economy leaner for the war effort.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
WPE
Arkansas Rows With Truckers
Arkansas Governor Homer M. Adkins opposed permitting transports to carry more than legal weights amid a dispute over jeep overloading. Highway officials reported four ton overloads on two trucks and nearly five tons on a third as they coordinated with transport firms in West Memphis and Little Rock amid wartime demands.
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Little Rock
Ark
VPI
Arkansas Highway Department and Transport Company
Homer M. Adkins
H.W. Zass
Highway Department
Highway Commission
Jim Crain
West Memphis
Adams Field
W. W. Mitchel
Adkins
Quartermaster Depot
Cripps Plan in India Faces Growing Opposition
New Delhi April 7 AP President Roosevelt’s envoy Louis Johnson has conferred with leaders of the All India Congress Party amid signs that Cripps proposals for Indian dominion status may be headed for rejection. Nehru reiterated that any plan must include all Indian peoples, a stance seen as breaking down talks with Britain.
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New Delhi
India
Roosevelt
Louis Johnson
White House
Johnson
Maulana
Abul Karan Azad
All India Congress Party
Pandit Muawaharlal Nehru
Congress
Sir Stafford Cripps
Nehru
Britain
Stafford Cripps
Maulana Kalan Azad
Congress Party
Thanu Pillay
Fires Rage Across Virginia as 10000 Acres Burned
An Associated Press report from Richmond describes widespread wildfires in Buckingham and surrounding counties. Firefighters battled at least 20 homes destroyed and timber damaged as Fred Pederson, state forester, estimated over 10 000 acres burned in the rural stretches of Virginia with flames seen from Willis Mountain.
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Richmond
Associated Press
Russell Moon
Willis Mountain
Buckingham County
Moon
Piedmont
Virginia
Fred Pederson
Charlottesville
Vichy Role In European Affairs Stirs British Worries
London observers on April 7 raised fears over Vichy France as Laval reappears and pressures grow to surrender all or part of the French fleet to Germany. Petain and Laval reportedly conferred while Bern reports Petain will not reinstate Laval. Madagascar and Dunkerque’s movements amplify Axis strategic aims in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean amid Japan’s advances.
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Drey
Ws Vdlell
London
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Dunkerque
Algiers
Toulon
Madagascar
Indian Ocean
Laval
Petain
France
Otto von Stuelpnagal
Germany
Bern
Switzerland
Mediterranean
Caucasus
Russia
Great Losses Suffered By Both Armies
AP reports heavy casualties on both sides along the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines with the center line under pressure. Aerial attacks on rear areas and the south coast were severe. an anti aircraft battery destroyed a Japanese amphibian plane in Manila Bay. Cavite shore artillery shelled Corregidor and Fort Hughes with no damage or casualties. A conference in Australia linked MacArthur with Dr. Hubertus van Mook to discuss continued resistance in Java amid fierce jungle fighting.
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Washington
War Department
Bataan Peninsula
Philippines
Bataan
Manila Bay
Cavite
Corregidor
Fort Hughes
Department
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Hubertus van Mook
Netherlands Indies
MacArthur
Java
Philippine
de. Hubertus van Mook
Alac Arthur
Netherlands
Western Burma Defenders Take New Positions
NEW DELHI April 7 British forces defending the oil field region of Western Burma report falling back to new positions about 65 miles from Minbu after destroying oil and cement works at Thayeuye and Allanmye Thayeuye lies 40 miles north of Prome on the Irrawaddy River while Allanmye sits just north across the river From the communique British forces are now north of Thayetmye and Japanese movements show patrols along the Irrawaddy with enemy forces moving toward Kama Nyaungbinzeik and the Sinjek Valley air activity was light though a town in Central Burma was bombed with little damage or casualties.
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New Delhi
India
Burma
Minbu
Thayeuye
Allanmye
Thayelmye
Prome
Irrawaddy
Bay of Bengal
Thayetmye
Kama
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