Westinghouse Office Force End Strike Revival
United Press reports a back to work movement reversed today as white collar workers resumed a strike that began yesterday. about 12 000 workers across six Westinghouse offices idled after a flareup while national totals are under 90 000 out of work. new labor threats loom in Minnesota and New York milk and utilities sectors with Edison Co. employees voting on a strike and decorators threatening action. Recall at Ford with 22 000 workers brightening Detroit the Murray production line faced a 3 000 worker strike echoing overtime pay cuts.
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United Press
Estinghouse Electric Corp
Westinghouse
Elec
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minnesota
York
Brotherhood of Consolidat Edison Co
Brotherhood
Thousand Union Paint and Decorators
Association of Master Inters and Decorators
Ford Motor Comny
Detroit
Iire
Murray Ration
CIO United Autoion
Parker could be named to the Supreme Court
President Truman may announce John J. Parker as a candidate for the Supreme Court. Parker, once nominated in 1930, is now chief judge of the Fourth U S District Court of Appeals and is to confer with Truman. Senators Hoey and Bailey pressed for Parker if a Republican candidate is chosen, while indicating party lines may guide the vacancy.
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Washington
Truman
E John J. Parker
Charlotte
U. S. Supreme Court
Parker
U. S. Divt Court of Appeals
Clyde R. Hoey
Josiah Bailey
N. C
Supreme Court
Owen Jrts
Roberts
Hoey
Walter P. Stacy
North Caro Supreme Court
Veteran Appoints Sgt Shumate to ES Office in El Dorado
Little Rock Sept 11 announc es that Sgt William Shumate released from the army will report to El Dorado tomorrow to take duties as manager of the U S Employment Service office. The report notes prior army service and future assignments.
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Little Rock
C Lalmer Patterson
U. S. Employment Service
William Shumate
Seven New Oil Producers Spark Mississippi Field Output
Mississippi reports 564 total oil completions with seven new producers. Highlights include Heidelberg Field Gulf Refining No. 1 Sallie E Dantzler flowing 87 barrels, Magnolia No. 6 G E Stanley swabbing 75 barrels per day, and Cary Field British Ocean No. 3 B Houston estate yielding 100 barrels with 400 barrels salt water. Field locations span Laurel, Eucutta, Baxterville, Cary, Cranfield, and nearby areas.
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Southport
C.C. McDonald
Eucutta Field
Magnolia Petroleum Company
G. E. Stanley
Baxterville Field
Gulf
Jonathan Davis
Cary Field
British- Ocean Oil Company
B. Houston
Cranfield Field
California
A. M. Ratcliffe Lease
Lanphier Named Pilot Who Shot Yamamoto
Washington reports Lt. Col. Thomas G. Lanphier Jr. of Washington DC shot down and killed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1943. Lanphier piloted a P 38 Lightning and located Yamamoto over Bougainville in the Solomons after naval codebreaks. The Army Air Force says the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox helped relay movement details from the naval code breach.
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Washington
UPI
Army
Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr
Washington, D. C
Isoroku Yamamoto
White House
Lanphier
Yamamoto
War Department
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Army Air Force Headquarters
U. S
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Southwest Pacific
Waiting Period of Marriage Law Lets Some Change Minds
In Pulaski County Arkansas the three day waiting period law reduced marriage licenses. County Clerk R S Peters notes 168 of 962 applications since June 7 remained unused. One man applied for three licenses in six weeks, each for a different woman, with a license issued only on the third attempt.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Pulaski County
R. S. Peters
Peters
FHA post filled in Arkansas appoints examiner
Warren man A. L. Green has been named credit examiner for the Federal Housing Administration in Arkansas by W. S. Daniel the state FHA director. Green will handle credit work and mortgage processing in the state.
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FHA
Little Rock
A. L. Green
Warren
Federal Housing Administration
Arkansas
W. S. Daniel
The March of Science in Atomic Research
The article traces Fermi leaving Fascist Italy for Columbia where slow neutrons aid fission, and Meitner Hahn Strassmann and Frisch extending the work in Berlin. It notes exiles of Meitner and Frisch, Meitner’s calculations of energy release, and early American replication at Columbia with a 75 ton cyclotron. The piece discusses chain reactions, Bohr and Wheeler explanations, and the need for pure U-235 to sustain fission, ending with a note on tomorrow’s hunt for U-235.
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Enrico Fermi
Italy
Columbia University
Columbia
Berlin
Germany
Meitner
Frisch
Labora
Fermi
George B. Pegram
Niels Bohr
Copenhagen
J. A. Wheeler
Princeton
Dempster
Chicago University
DDT Not a Cure All for Roaches Says Army Navy
In New Orleans experts warn DDT kills flies and mosquitoes but roaches defy it. Port and hospital officials say DDT helps but is not a universal solution requiring continued cleaning and caution in use.
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Eleanor Nicholson
New Orleans Times—Picayune
Army
Navy
New Orleans
John D. Milton
New Orleans Port of Embarkation
Camp Planche
D. E. Stack
Navy Medical Csrgs
Naval Hospital
Milton
Jack
Orlando
Fla
Bureau of Entomology and
Stack
POE
Naval Hopital
Y. Guillory
Navy Hospital Corps
Restless Hollywood star eyes world travel and early film ideas
Hollywood veteran Ernie Pyle project aside, Bogart era actor Tom Breneman discusses roaming the globe with 16 mm films and overseas shoots. He recalls starting on Ben Hur as a 25 year old extra, then moving to radio fame with Breakfast in Hollywood and craving new challenges alongside Breneman’s crew.
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Thomas Holywood
Burgess Meredith
Ernie Pyle
Ernie
Meredith
Benedict Bogeaus
Europe
France
Palestine
Persian Gulf
Brier
British Isles
Army
Navy
Hollywood
San Pietro
McCoy
Breneman
Robert S. Golden
Harold Schuster
Edward A. Golden
Angel
Brain Trust
Preston Sturges
Central Casting
Tom
Tom Breneman
MacArthur Orders 39 Japanese Officials Arrested
General MacArthur directed American forces to detain 39 people including Shigenori Togo and Lt General Homma. The list spans wartime leaders from Tojo’s cabinet to puppet Philippine and German envoys with orders to replace Japanese in government roles in Korea and the Philippines as feasible.
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Tokyo
API
MacArthur
Shigenori Togo
Tojo
Poor Harbor
Masaharu Homma
Philippines
Togo
Qokinori' Kawa
Shigetaro Shimada
Nobusuke Kishi
Ken Terashima
Michiyo Iwamura
Kunihiko Hashida
Hiroya
Warmer Weather Predicted Across Arkansas Tomorrow
Prospect of another warm spell in Arkansas follows a recent cool spell with temperatures dipping to 52 degrees at Batesville and 54 at Brink. The U S Weather Bureau forecasts a slight statewide rise today and warmer weather tomorrow as rain subsides.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Batesville
U. S. Weather Bureau
APL's Electricity Production Trebled During War
Arkansas Power and Light nearly trebled its electric distribution in the war period. President C. Hamilton Moses said at a stockholders meeting in Little Rock that kilowatt hours rose from 523 million in the year before Pearl Harbor to about 1.5 billion in the year ending Aug 31.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Power and Light Company
C. Hamilton Moses
Moses
Pearl Harbor
Britain Seeks 3 Billion Aid Pact From U S A
Washington aims to secure at least 3 billion dollars in financial help over three years at an Anglo American economic conference. British and American delegates discuss aid as the core issue while negotiating trade restraints and postwar economic patterns.
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Washington
United States
Lord Hall
Wilcax
Kiam L. Clayton
Aliso
Yank Seeking German Bride Is Told No
Berlin dispatch reports growing numbers of American soldiers seeking permission to marry German women. Welfare officials say approvals will come only after strong restrictions and possible delays. Army chaplains oppose shotgun marriages while urging careful handling of couples who insist on wedlock.
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Daniel DE Luce
Berlin
Welfare Department
Eisenhower
George B. Woods
B2nd Airborne Division
Trial Date Set for Lord Haw Haw on Treason Charge
The treason trial of William Joyce known as Lord Haw Haw is scheduled for next Monday. Joyce, a 39 year old American born Nazi radio propagandist, faces trial in London.
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London
William Joyce
Lord Haw Haw
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Columbia University Physics
Guillory
Baird and McGuire, Inc
St. Louis
Joseph H. Duval
Louisiana Paper Company
Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company
Kansas City
Geigy Company
Hollyood
APL
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Virginia
America
Hope Appliance Co
East 3Rd St
Harry
Hippe, Ark
Calvin E. Cassidy
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Coca-Cola
Coke
Coca-Cola Company
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