Dirksen Plans to Fight Labor Mediation Bill
Rep. Everett Dirksen denounces the Vinson compulsory labor mediation bill as cumbersome and vows a simplified substitute when it reaches the House. He objects to outlawing new closed shops and supports ending labor disputes to prevent production delays. Hearings continue as the rules committee weighs floor action.
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Washingtion
Everett M. Dirksen
Vinson
Congress
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Carl Vinson
House
Naval Affairs’ Committee
Rules Committee
Naval Affairs Committee
Adolph “J. Sabath
Administration
Feaders
Chase by off duty troopers ends arrest in Neb bank holdup
In St Louis on April 24 two Missouri state highway patrolmen in civilian clothes chased a car for 15 miles and nabbed a man who allegedly confessed to robbing Home State Bank of Louisville Nebraska of 1200 dollars yesterday. The suspect Orville L Skinner 26 was released from prison in 1939 for auto theft. A pistol a revolver and the 1200 dollars were found in his car. He exchanged shots with cashier H J Koop before fleeing in a stolen auto. The officers had stopped for breakfast near Jefferson City when they spotted a Nebraska registered car and recalled the robbery broadcast.
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Harry Thuner
Orville L. Skinner
Missouri State Penitentiary
Joplin
H. J. Koop
Thuner
Jefferson City
Nebraska
Fulton Firm Grants Second Wage Rise
The Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. in Fulton Missouri announced a further wage increase of seven cents an hour effective May 1, in addition to the three-cent rise granted April 1. The raise brings pay to 55 cents per hour, claimed as the highest in Missouri fire brick production. The firm runs plants in Fulton and Vandalia and operates mines and clay pits in nearby counties.
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Harbison-Walker Refractories Company
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Vandalia
British Have Chance For Successful Evacuation
British and Greek troops may be evacuating Greece along a shortened line with new rear positions west of Athens holding against German pressure. Evacuations could draw in more Greeks and British than the original force, aided by fishing craft and large transports, while Germany must scatter planes to attack multiple exits.
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United Press
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Italy reports heavy losses in Epirus battle front lines
Rome April 24 AP Italian high command reports 6 600 dead and wounded in the Greek front during the Epirus battle. Stefani says about 300 000 Italians and 400 000 Greeks fought along a 150 mile front in 10 days. Mussolini praises troops in an armistice era order. Sugar ban in Germany and US nickel nearing 75th year noted.
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Pass of Thermopylae Now Wide Marsh From Erosion
German Panzer divisions driving toward Athens met a far easier route at the Thermopylae Pass than Leonidas and his Spartans did in 480 B C. The National Geographic Society reports the narrow defile has eroded into a marshy plain now spanning one to three miles.
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National Geographic Society
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O Y E A R - O L D A U T H O R D i e s I n W a s h i n g t o n
Charles Edward Russell an 80 year old author and newspaperman died at his home of heart disease. A prominent muckraker of the turn of the century he shared the era with Lincoln Steffens Ida Tarbell and Henry Demarest Lloyd. He won the 1927 Pulitzer for The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas. Russell from Davenport Iowa began in journalism in 1881 and held top roles at the New York World New York American and the Chicago American.
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Charles Edward Russell
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Ray Stannard Bakrer
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Theodore Thomas
Russell
Davenport
Old New York World
New York American
Chicago Ameri
Charles E. Russell
The
New York World
Chicago’ American
Examiner
Hungarians and Rumanians Mass on Red Border
Neutral diplomats reported heavy Rumanians and Hungarians concentrations on the Russian frontier and most German troops sent to that front. Food shortages in Bucharest worsened, with sabotage rising as French prisoners repaired an oil pipeline leaks. Germany allegedly told Turkey Thrace would be turned over to Bulgarian troops for preservation of order. No Turkish comment yet.
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Turkey
Rumania
Romania
Bucharest
Germany
Grecian Thrace
Deaths reported by Associated Press last night
Obituaries list Stanley Fields Walter Agnew stage and screen veteran born in 5 7 died. Robert H Hemphill 64 inventor and former Hearst writer, Miami utilities executive. Charles E Russell 80 socialist former New York World editor and Chicago American publisher. General Martin Moreno 61 chief of Spanish army staff. William B Bulmer 80 Canadian credited with Canada’s first motor car in 1907. Article notes geopolitical Turks agitated by reports of German positions in Aegean islands Samothrace Lemnos and the Dardanelles.
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Robert H. Hemphill
Miami
Fla
Robert Herman Hemphill
Hearst Newspapers
Three Children Die In House Fire At Independence Ma
In Independence Massachusetts a fire killed three Jones children aged 12 8 and Jefferson Judith and Janice as flames swept their home. Their father Robert B. Jones 31 suffered serious burns and survived with possible smoke inhalation while a second floor collapse trapped him. The mother escaped with Caroline, the couple’s other child. The blaze began from defective wiring.
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Robert Jones , Jr
Judith Jones
Jan‘ice Jones
Robert B. Jones
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