Wage Increase Seen For Steel Workers By War Labor Board
The War Labor Board was expected to announce a 44 cent daily pay rise for about 157,000 steel workers across Bethlehem Republic Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet. The decision grants maintenance of membership, union dues checkoff, and a minimum daily wage guarantee, with retroactive dates to February.
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Labor Board
Joseph A. Lofpus
Washington
War Labor Board
Hitle Steel
CIO United Siecesworkers
Philip Murray
Bethlehem, Republic, and Inland Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Pittsburgh
Murray
WLB
Bethlehem
Republic Steel Companies
Youngstown
Inland
Little Steel
Adequate Convoy System Achieved Along Atlantic Coast
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said during a Charleston visit that fighting submarines is very difficult but an adequate convoy system has been achieved along the Atlantic coast. He noted ship losses go down with adequate convoys and warned the enemy remains a stealthy foe while stressing competent crews for specialized U boat combat vessels.
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Charleston
S. C
Frank Knox
Atlantic
Knox
Charleston Navy Yard
Australian-rescued SSG Bogans reported safe with forces
Staff Sergeant David L. Bogans, grandson of Ida Johnson and nephew of Hazel Starr of Mangum Avenue, has been reported safe with American forces in Australia. A former William Penn High School student, he volunteered two years ago and is well known locally.
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Australia
David L. Bogans
Ida Johnson
Mangum Avenue
Hazel Starr
Bogans
William Penn High School
Ladies Circle No 1 meeting at St Mark's church home
Ladies Circle No 1 of St Mark's M E Church will meet at Mrs Lubertha's home Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. All members are urged to be present, with hoped transportation by car.
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Ladies Circle No
St. Mark's M. E. Church
Lubertha
Pearson's
X Memorial
M. E. Chareh
Talma Cole
Phenix Street
Lost Church pageant at St Stephen’s Friday night
A pageant drama titled The Lost Church will be staged at St Stephen's A M E Zion Church Friday at 8 30 p m The event is sponsored by the church's Young Peoples Club.
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St. Stephen’s A. M. E. Zion
The
Young Peoples Club of
Church
Local Swimming Meet At Colored Municipal Park
The lifeguards of Colored Municipal Park will host a local swimming meet this evening at 3 30. A small fee is charged for entrants and prizes will be awarded to event winners.
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Colored Municipal Park
Government seizes breakfast parcel due to fruit fly
Major James Roosevelt reports docked from the tropics with mangoes for his father. Quarantine authorities detain the package after discovering Mediterranean fruit fly infection. Friends express sympathy while the roving crowd queries the marine major’s identity.
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San Francisco
Tropics
James Roosevelt
Fifth Victim Is Claimed In Explosion
Waynesville dispatch reports the Standard Oil plant blast that killed five people. Plant manager W L Hardin died from burns after attempting rescues. Victims included Andrew Caldwell and his two children Betty and Jarvis. their home was destroyed. The blast released about 40,000 gallons of gasoline and scrap rubber.
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Waynesville
Standard OW Company of New Jersey
W. L. Flardin
Sre
Haywood County
Andrew Caldwell
Betty
Jarvis
Final Rites Held For Mrs Flythe's Mother In Durham
Funeral service for Mrs. Ellen Ayers Farnhardt 85 mother of Drs. L. W. Flythe of High Point was at Calvary Methodist Church in Durham. She was widow of Rev. D. L. Earnhardt born in Rowan County with Quaker ancestry. Surviving are seven daughters five sons 28 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. Interment Maplewood Cemetery.
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L. S
W. J
D. E. Earnhardt
Durham
G. N. Earnhardt
Tarboro
A. P. Earnhardt
Huntington
W. Va
Armed Forces of the
United States
H. E. Spence
B. H. Black
W. F. Craven
Maplewood Cemetery
Inmate Takes Life At State Hospital
RALEIGH July 16 Mrs Fannie Mae Wilkins 49 of Elizabeth City was found dead in a ward at the State Hospital for the Insane and the coroner ruled death by her own action. Attendants found the body about 7 am the coroner said the strip of bed sheet was used to suspend her. She had been admitted July 4 1941 and had begged attendants to kill her. This marked the hospital's third self inflicted death this year.
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Raleigh
Fannie Mae Wilkins
Elizabeth City
State Hospital For the
Roy M. Banks
Banks
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Mayview Manor
Blowing Rock
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Milton M. Chapman
Grayce D. Deberry
James Peebles
A. R. Peebles
James Gill Peebles
Master Peebles
Marion Cobb, Jr
Donree Yvonne Foster
Shirley Ann Foster
Winford Simpson
William Simpson
Betty Jean Fitzgerald
Maxine Simpson
Josephine Simpson
John Henry Simpson
Francis Spencer
Olga Street
Virginia Mae Keey
Catherine Shell
Elsie Dunlap
Dennie Reid
Margaret Pratt
Madgalene Ridley
Clarice Russell
Vivian Dunlap
Iris Ann Harris
Doris Harris
Aline Baldwin
Lucile Keey
Florence Alexander
Booker Street
Laurinburg
Pearson's Memorial A. M. E. Church
West Point
Ace
Germany
Alrs
Annie Belle Mactey
Evans Street
20Th Century-Fox
Academy
Center Theatre
George Montgomery
Maureen O'Hara
John Sutton
Laird Cregar
John Sheppard
Victor Francen
Ward Bond
Harry Davenport
Douon Dimbrille
Ralph Byrd
Thiam Perlberg
Henry Hathaway
Babett
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Sweet
North
South Carolina
Lois Byrd
Raleigh Times
Jane Cox
Columbia Record
Margaret Elliott
Marjorie Hunter
Raleigh News and Observer
Ellen Jensen
High Point Enterprise
Lucy Deerin
State Hospital
Burtner
Bartner Furniture Co
Green Street
High Point
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