Bank Robbery Captures Two After Nighttime Heist
Two suspects, Paul Bibee and Chester Don Peeler, 31 and 33, robbed the Arkansas Valley State Bank of 12000, holding bank president E M Rowe and his wife, plus six others, in a Ponca City area escape. Police recovered nearly 4000 and seized two guns as an Oklahoma manhunt unfolded with 25 patrol teams.
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Broken Arrow
Okla
Arkansas Valley State Bank
Ponca City
Oklahoma
U.S
Whit Maury
Tulsa
Paul Bibee
Chester Don Peeler
E. M. Rowe
Rowe
Hosiery Industry Declared Essential Only Under Government Contracts
North Carolina officials say hosiery plants are essential only if under military contracts. Dr J S Dorton of the War Manpower Commission explains civilian producers lose essential status after August 1. All mills have operated under a stabilization plan since May 13, with a new order differentiating contract mills from non contract ones.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
J. S. Dorton
War Manpower Commission
Dorton
Dr. Dorton
Bankers to hold streamlined war service meeting in New York
The American Bankers Association announced a limited attendance meeting in New York from September 13 to 15. The event will replace the usual annual convention and focus on banks work related to the war and the financial issues of the present and postwar era.
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New York
American Bankers Association
Radio Schedule Snapshot Shows Diverse Morning to Evening Lineup
A fragmented listing details WSJS radio programs across a day from 7:30 morning melodies to evening concerts and church services. It includes News segments, orchestra programs, religious services, and variety shows featuring The Catholic Hour NBC Symphony, Paul Whiteman, Dinah Shore, and more.
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Newse
Upton
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Catholic Hour
Carolina Chate
Carl Goerck
A. F. of
Paul Whiteman
Dinah Shore
Movie and World News
C.I.0
Red Cross
Whbe
Dhes
Arthur Gaeth
Rupert
Hughes
Nbc
Biu
N. Y
Mbe
East Lutheran
Mbs
West
Coast Guard Orches
Lands of the Free Drama
Nbe
Chautauqua Symphony Orches
Andre Kostelanets
Irene Rich
CBS
Gene Autry
Cbs Upton
Dancing Music Orchestra
Drew Pearson
Jerry Lester
Edward Tomlinson
Joe Kelly
the People
Britain
P. Whiteman
Blu
America
Bob Trout
Alexander and Medation Board
Uosophy
Gabriel Heatter
Walter Winchell
Conrad Nagel
Basin Street
James Melton
Joan Brooks
Jimmy Fidler
Hollywood
Phillitalny & Girl Orch
Phil Baker
John B. Hughes
Vocale
Bob Crosby and Company
Wm. L. Shirer
Dhs
John Stanley
Bobby Hockey
Maryland Crop Crisis Strains Eastern Shore Tomatoes
Fishermen, farmers, and canners on Maryland's eastern shore face a dire tomato season with 250 000 tons expected and 500 000 extra baskets needed in Wicomico county. Efforts to recruit migrant labor fail as Army and Coast Guard help lags, while local volunteers prove scarce and uneven, leaving plants at risk of waste and lost income.
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Salisbury
Maryland
Pennsular
Wicomico County
Coast Guard
Ocean City
Salisbury Five
Baltimore
Dulaney Packing Co
G. H. Mezisk
Capaci
Radio program listings and migration notes from wartime era
Radio schedules list numerous programs across networks with wartime content and commentary. The article notes migrant labor shifts in the peninsula, detailing 9 migrant categories and 5,000 workers last season versus an expected 2,000 this year, including 1,200 Bahamian Negroes under government contract. It recalls earlier Jamaican workers in Maryland, who were moved beyond the Mason-Dixon line to avoid racial tensions.
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Peninsula
Maryland
Mason-Dixon Line
Biddle Rules Any Union Group Can Demand War Plant Vote
Attorney General Biddle holds that any union group representing a majority or minority of workers at a war plant may demand a strike vote under the Smith Connally act. The ruling follows NLRB first strike ballot set for Aug 4 at Allis Chambers Springfield LI, after a United Mine Workers challenge to a CIO bargaining agent.
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Washington
Biddle
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Congress
Roosevelt
Allis-Cham
Bers Manufacturing Company
Springfield
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers, District 50
CIO
Secretary of Labor
Secretaries of War and Navy
Ments
House Military Committee
FDR Plan For Service Men Praised By Senator George
Senator Walter F. George commends Roosevelt six point plan to aid returning service men but cautions Congress to slow expansion of social security. He links taxes to capital levies and argues social security depends on prosperous business, urging restraint on benefits unless the economy improves.
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Vienna
Walter F. George
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
George
United States
America
Army air forces reach two million men on eve of 36th birthday
Washington notes the air corps history from one captain and two enlisted men to two million in a salute to its birthday. In Delaware, 300 volunteers fought a labor shortage and harvested the state's bean crop as Col. Robert E. Phillips said no passes would be issued until the emergency ends.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
War Department
Air Corps
Signal Corps
Lewes
Del
Delaware
Robert E. Phillips
Phillips
Wartime Trades Offered by Tomlinson Foremen
Tomlinson invites men and women to learn a profitable lifetime trade under foremen who are masters of their craft. Gain security of permanent government work in clean airy factories with excellent conditions.
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Tomlinson
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FDR
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