Miracle Seen as Only Hope to Avert Coal Strike
Labor officials warned a midnight strike deadline loomed in the Appalachian bituminous coal fields as miners and operators pressed for a $7 daily wage, 200 guaranteed working days, and two weeks paid vacation. Union leader John L. Lewis urged action while maintenance crews prepared to keep mines from flooding.
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New York
U. S. Labor Department Conciliation Service
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of Amer
CIO
Appalachian
John R. Steelman
Ezra van Horn
Cleveland Coal
Kingsport Man Dies of Injuries
The body of John Comer Jacobs, employee of the Mason-Dixon Lines, arrived in Kingsport from Washington D C where he died at the Emergency hospital from injuries in a Fairfax County Virginia traffic crash a week earlier. Burial is set for English Cemetery, Fackle Alabama. He leaves wife Flora B. Jacobs two sons Comer Dean and Donald Ray Jacobs his parents Mr and Mrs Oscar Jacobs Ben Alabama and a brother Herman Jacobs of Kingsport.
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John Comer Jacobs
Mason-Dixon Lines
Washington, D. C
Fairfax County
Virinia
English Cemetery
Fackle
Ala
Kingsport
Flora B. Jacobs
Comer Dean
Donald Ray Jacobs
Oscar Jacobs
Ben Ala
Erman Jacobs
Gate City
van Luther Bryan
Duke” Mosley
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Kermit
Don Wills
Brook Street
Bellamy Town Church
Cavin
Burrial
Hattie Mosley
Catawba
N.C
Claude Mosley
Cassard
Four U S Strikes Quickly Settled By New Mediation Board
A new defense labor mediation board announced that its first four strikes were settled or near settlement. At Bridgeville Vanadium Corp four men returned to work while wage and other issues remain under negotiation. Other plants including International Harvester and Cornell Dubilier also moved toward talks to settle demands.
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U. S
New Mediation Board
Defense Labor Mediation Board
Roosevelt
Frank P. Graham
North Carolina
Mediation Board
CIO
Bridgeville
Vanadium Corporation of America
Vanadium Company
Labor Department
Chicago—Cio
International Harvester
Little Steel Strike Blamed For Prods Stand Against Unions
The Senate Civil Liberties Committee blames the 1937 Little Steel strikes on independent producers拒 refusing to bargain with workers. It warns firms refusing signed contracts endanger national security and urges swift adjudication of bargaining disputes to avoid production disruption.
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Little Steel
Washington
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Bethlehem
Republic
Youngstown
Senate
Stat
LaFollette
Prog-Wis
Thomas
Utah
Probers Urge Decentralization to Curb Concentration of Power
The monopoly committee told Congress that concentration of economic and political power threatens free enterprise and government. It backs permanent decentralization, limits on corporate mergers, patent law revisions, and stronger anti trust rules. It rejects government spending to sustain enterprise and warns against fascist and socialist traits in the economy.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Nazis Move to Enforce Ultimatum in Yugoslavia
German officials warn of an imminent ultimatum demanding demobilization of Yugoslavia’s 1.2 million army as mass axid migrations surge. Viktor von Heeren heads to Berlin while Ivo Andric arrives from Germany as Axis nationals rush to depart before midnight deadline.
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Viktor von Heeren
Berlin
Germany
Ivo Andric
Adolf Hitler
Yugoslavia
Péter II
Hitler
Rome
Italy
Legation
Serbia
Croatia
Slovenia
Maribor
Spielfeld
van Heeren
Momtchilo Nincic
Hawkins Youth Dies In Jail Cell
Henry Clyde Trent 23 died in a Hawkins county jail cell from accidental suffocation after a fire proof cell heated and smoke filled the room. Doctors found no bruises and burns could not explain death. Trent, arrested Saturday on drunkenness, died Sunday morning. funeral held at Justice cemetery. Surviving are widow Lula Bowlin Trent, father Henry Trent, brother C D Trent, sister Mrs Ruby Bass.
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Rogersville
Henry Clyde Trent
Hawkins County
J. S. Lyons
O. M. Swaney
Trent
Pressman
Curtis Combs
Combs
Justice Cemetery
Lula Bowlin Trent
Henry Trent
C. D. Trent
Ruby Bass
Pressman's
Court rules government cannot sue for treble damages in trust case
The Supreme Court held the federal government cannot sue for treble damages under the Sherman Act for price fixing in 1936 and 1937 by 17 rubber tire companies. Justice Roberts delivered the decision addressing the Justice Department suit for $1,053,474. The ruling sides with earlier dismissals that the suit was not a "person" eligible to sue.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Department
National Defense Program
Justice Roberts
Hughes
New Hampshire
Jehovah's Witnesses
Manchester
Congress
Five Italian Warships Sunk in Mediterranean Battle
The British admiralty claimed a major victory in a three day Eastern Mediterranean clash, reporting the sinking of five Italian warships and about 1500 Italian seamen dead. Italy acknowledged three cruisers and two destroyers lost, with British forces suffering no casualties.
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Admiralty
Mediterranean
Italy
Royal Navy
Mussolini
London
Fiume
Pola
Zara
Vincenzo Gioberti
Maestrale
Italians in Yugoslavia to be moved by tomorrow
Rome based Stefani reports that all Italians residing in Yugoslavia will be evacuated and removed by tomorrow. The official agency states the order applies to Italian nationals currently living in Yugoslavia.
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Rome
Yugoslavia
Stefani
Supreme Court splits 4 to 4 on coal price fixing exemption
The court held that a company supplying coal from mines leased but run by others under contract was exempt from the Federal Bituminous Coal Act price fixing provisions. An order stated the Fourth Circuit ruling was affirmed by an equally divided court.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Fourth Federal Circuit
Roosevelt Declares Personal Orders Seizure of Axis Ships
President Roosevelt, en route to Washington on the Roosevelt train, suggested he personally ordered seizures of axis ships in U S ports to speed a 7 billion aid program. He refused comment on weekend seizures of German, Italian and Danish vessels but indicated reporters could assume the action was directed by him.
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Admiralty
British
Air Ministry
Brest
France
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Britain
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Washington
U. S
Fort Jackson
S. C
Hull
Agent Retires After 33 Years Then Railroad Shuts Down
A Wrightsville and Tennille railroad station agent Mr. W. Fitzgerald of Eastman Georgia retired after 33 years. The day after his retirement the railroad immediately shut down. The column notes odd local anecdotes from across the country.
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New York
Special News Service
W. Fitzgerald
Eastman, Ga
Wrightsville and Tennille
Klamath Falls
Ore
Indianapolis
United States Seizes 70 Ships Amid Sabotage Allegations
US forces seize 70 ships including 28 Italian 2 German and 36 Danish vessels totaling 296655 tons in ports across the United States Panama Canal and the Philippines to forestall sabotage. Hull says action legal with potential protests from embassies and no immediate war, while crews are removed and ships placed in protective custody.
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Treasury
Coast Guard
Army
Navy
United States
Panama Canal Zone
Philippine
The
Hull
Great Britain
Central America
Costa Rica
Esinach
Fella
Punta Arenas
New York
Italo E. Verrando
Verrando
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New Defense Mediation Board
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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Msgr
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Toledo
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