Labor contract nears signing to avert coal stoppage
A draft labor agreement for the CIO United Mine Workers and Southern soft coal operators moves toward signatures after weekend study and a postponement for further review. Progress noted by John L. Lewis and operator representative L Ebersole Gaines, with key wage and union shop issues resolved.
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CIO United Mine Workers
Southern Soft Coal
UMW
John L. Lewis
L. Ebersole Gaines
July 4 brings a wave of injuries across Kingsport area
A 24 hour Fourth of July period left many injured in Kingsport and vicinity. Four Sullivan county officers were hurt in a Lynn Garden wreck while others suffered burns, lacerations, and fractures from fights and incidents. Local hospital treated most, including several soldiers and civilians, with three seriously hurt in the Lynn Garden crash.
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Kingsport
Sullivan County
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Lynn Garden
Virginia Bickley
Virginia Street
Mildred O'Neal
Norton
Paul Templeton
Gate City Road
Robert Gilbert
Gilbert
Lage Frazier
M. H. Witt
J. E. Upchurch
Tom Bragg
Chestnut Ridge
Frazier
R. L. Minnis
Georgia
Striking Dairy Farmers Seek Unified Plan With Governor Lehman
About 55 thousand milk shippers from New York Vermont and Pennsylvania press for a unified plan to raise prices amid a five day strike that reduced New York City supply. After a six hour closed session with Owen D Young the group will meet Governor Herbert H Lehman in Albany to pursue a living price with a target of three dollars per hundredweight. An early survey showed roughly 2.46 million quarts held back, about a third of local output.
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van Mornesville
N. Y
New York City
New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Owen D. Young
Young
Lehman
Albany
Purchase
Dairy Farmers Union
Vermont
Pennsylvania
Joseph O. Eastlack
Metropolitan Milk Distributors Bargaining Agency
Roosevelt Hears Reports on U S Defense Activity
President Roosevelt, back in Washington after a week at Hyde Park, held a defense and foreign relations briefing with advisers. The discussions covered expulsion of consuls from Denmark, Marshall urging wider draftee deployment, Knudsen’s inspection tour of production centers, rescued marines from a torpedoed ship, and eased tankers oil load rules along the eastern coast to offset shortages.
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Washington
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Denmark
George C. Marshall
Army
William S. Knudsen
Office of Production Management
Detroit
Navy
London
Secretary of Commerce
Jones
Defense Spending To Reach Billion A Month By Autumn
Budget director Harold D. Smith predicted defense expenditures would hit 1 billion dollars per month by September as defense costs for the year are seen at 15.5 billion. He cited a June rate of 807 million and noted defense work also occurs in non-defense agencies.
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Washington
Harold D. Smith
Smith
Heavy Downpours End Heat Wave Across the Southeast
Four days of nearly continuous rain end the season's heat wave and drought in the Southeast. More than four inches have fallen since Wednesday, with 2.18 inches in the 36 hours Friday to Saturday, dropping temperatures to a high of 74 and a low not seen in three weeks. Rain fills depleted hydroelectric reservoirs and eases power shortage fears.
July Fourth Weekend Toll Tops 349 Across Nation
AP report notes 349 deaths in first two days of July 4 weekend across 39 states. 219 died in car crashes, 130 in aviation, drownings, shootings and other causes. Pennsylvania led traffic deaths with 26, New York 30, Ohio 25, California 33. incidents include a stray bullet in New York state and a pyrotechnic fatality in Indiana.
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Union
Upstate
New York
Cannesville
Ind
New York City
Missouri
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Ohio
California
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Montana
New Jersey
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Carolina
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
British Open New Drive in Syria Files Reported
British forces from Iraq bases pushed toward Syria and claimed the town of Kamedhlie on the frontier as their first objective. Reports said Kamehkle had not fallen but strong forces were engaged at Mosul while Deir-Ez-Zor fell to Euphrates advances. A night raid north of Jezrine failed and Beirut was bombed. a French communique disputed some gains. Agronsky in Ankara cited British circles saying Syria war in final decisive stage.
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Lepel
Borisov
Dobruisk
Tarnopol
Constanta
Silvia
Ploesti
Moscow
Stalin Line
Russia
Dnepr
Berezina
Napoleon
Drut
Vichy
Iraq
Syria
Turkey
Kamedhlie
Mosul
Euphrates
Deir-Ez-Zor
New York
Britain
Martin Agronsky
National Broadcasting Company
Ankara
Agronsky
Lille
English Midlands
RAF
Eden Predicts Nazi Peace Plea In Near Future
British foreign secretary Anthony Eden warned in Leeds that internal pressures in Germany during the Russian campaign could drive Adolf Hitler to propose a peace offer to Britain. He said the move would be a false gesture using a theatrical mask of peace, and Britain would not be swayed. He linked Hess's flight to German turmoil and cautioned against outright optimism.
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Leeds
Eng
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Anthony Eden
Eden
Scotland
Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Fuehrer
Russia
Miracle sight returns to Mrs Galloway in Vancouver
Vancouver reports Mrs. Dav id Galloway aged 62 says her 16 years blindness ended by a nature miracle. She recounts seeing red squares in linoleum at her daughter's Aldersyde home after a Brent station platform moment and a porter as proof she can see. Ora Nida named chief of police of Pennington Gap succeeding long time chief John Clark in Pennington Gap, Va.
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Vancouver
B. C
David Galloway
H. J. Wilks
Aldersyde
Alta
Lethbridge
Brent
St. Charles
E. E. Parsons
Pennington Gap
Ora Nida
John Clark
Nida
Students to Take City in Army Fifth Column Drill
Colonel William L. Roberts announced Clemson College cadets will stage a fifth column drill in Anderson South Carolina next Friday. A civilian-dressed battalion will infiltrate a day early to seize public buildings and utilities followed by a uniformed force. Police and officials will enact a simulated dictatorship as 20 000 residents are warned by plane drops.
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Anderson
S. C
William L. Roberts
Fourth Corps
Clemson College
United States
Anderson County
Germany Fights Back Against Smashing Raids
British raids press on German held territory with direct hits on Lille and German shipping. RAF losses admit 75 planes in the period, while Germany claims high attrition. Coastal daylight strikes hit Belgian coast and Norwegian docks.
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Germany
London
Lille
France
Coastal Command
Air Ministry
Norway
Haucesund
Kristiansand
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Western Cartridge Company
Alton, Til
Defense Mediation Board
J. Fred Johnson Park
Latvia
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William F. Young
Bristol
Tenn
Wendell E. Hutcher
Gerard
Fred Chase
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Buna Marcum
Waller Street
Commerce
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James Barnett
T. N. Barnett
Route 4
Cele
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Dvina River
Polotsk
White Russia
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Dvina
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Berebina
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Orsha
Smolensk
Luftwaffe
U. S
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Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
Pictorial
Lord Beaverbrook
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