Thousands Leave Pacific Northwest Lumber Industry Strike
Thousands of lumber and logging workers join about 18,000 idle as wildcat walkouts paralyze mills across Washington and Oregon. Mills, mills and log operations in 20 cities face shutdowns while unions deny authorization. Draft status changes warned by state director Col. Walter de Long and fuel rationing chief Al Whitman cites broad economic impact.
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Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Washington
Ion
Genana
AFL
CIO
Walter de Long
Washington State
Selective Service
al Whitman
OPA
Northwest
London Black Markets Surge Amid Wartime Shortages
War correspondent notes London’s extended black markets for food clothing and liquor driven by prolonged shortages. Reports detail sugar meat and tea scarcities, high prices, and rationing while residents describe tipping for under-counter meat and clothing costs.
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London
Chelsea
Canoen
War Labor Board rules on American Supplies case in Wisconsin
Chicago attorney E. L. Warren announced the sixth regional War Labor Board decisions affecting seven Wisconsin firms and 467 workers. The American Supplies Inc. ruling for Viroqua Soldiers Grove Stoughton and Sparta partially approves modified rates and ranges for various job applications retroactive to January 24, 1944.
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Chicago
E. L. Warren
Sixth Regional War Labor Board
Wisconsin
American Supplies, Inc
Virogua
Soldiers Grove
Stoughton
Sparta
Sparta Gray Ladies Meet At USO
Gray ladies affiliated with the Monroe County Red Cross will meet at the USO building near 2 p.m. Mrs. A. E. Frederi and Mrs. Dale Fink, chairman and vice chairman, announce the gathering.
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Sparta
USO
Wis
Monroe County
The
American Red Cross
A. E. Frederi
Dale Fink
Deaths Last Night
Mrs. John Dyneley Prince of New York aged 75, widow of the former American minister to Denmark and Yugoslavia. Willard Church of Montclair New Jersey aged 69, former owner and editor of the Army and Navy Journal founded by his father Col William Conant Church. born in New York.
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New York
John Dyneley Prince
Denmark
Yugoslavia
Montclair, N. J
Boys Find $766 Wind Up With Tummy Aches
Atlanta cops report three boys aged 7 8 and 13 found 766 dollars in a grocery store. They spent the money at Grant Park Zoo feeding elephants and monkeys and eating ham burgers hot dogs and ice cream. The spree caused stomachaches and a later fruitless search for the cash.
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Atlanta
Grant Park Zoo
Prospective Monroe County Selectees Go For Induction Exam
A Sparta Wisconsin dispatch reports a Monroe county group left Monday at 6 30 a m for physical pre induction examinations led by Francis Sorenson of Tomah The group’s orders were canceled for about two thirds due to age over 30 in line with recent selective service policies
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Tribune Sparta Bureau
Sparta
Wis
Monroe County
Francis Sorenson
Tomah
Roosevelt Receives British Honor for North Africa Work
Col. Elliott Roosevelt, commander of an 8th Air Force photo reconnaissance wing, is awarded the British CBE for outstanding work in the North African campaign. His unit, with flyers from many Allied nations, supplied reconnaissance photographs preceding the Sicily invasion.
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Elliott Roosevelt
London
8Th Air Force
Roosevelt
Sicily
Two Texas Democratic Delegations Headed to National Convention
Texas will send two Democratic delegations to Chicago with one pro Roosevelt and one uninstructed. The split follows two state conventions. Republicans in Houston endorse Bricker and Dewey split with uninstructed Texas delegates. Bricker rant against New Deal and economic autocracy. Dewey gains solid support in several states.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Chicago
Bricker
Houston
John W. Bricker
Ohio
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Poe
Dewey
Florida
Millard Caldwell
Gressman
Lex Green
Dwight L. Rogers
Forterdale
L. L. Stuckey
Georgia
New Officers Join Engineer Topographical Unit at Camp McCoy
Four new officers and one chief warrant officer joined the Engineer Topographical this week at Camp McCoy Wisconsin announced Maj. Montgomery Webster battalion commander. They are Lieuts Field Conrad Krendel Clifford Bacigalupi and CWO Frank Yates. Capt John Councilman and Lieut Sanders were transferred to another post.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Engineer Topographical
Montgomery Webster
Lieuts
Field
Conrad Krendel
Clifford Bacigalupi
CWO
Frank Yates
John Councilman
Sanders
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Hal Boyle
United States
Porter
U. S
U.S. Army
Italy
WLB
Case
Mom and Pop
Tribune
Associated Press
Pitzner’s
North Tih St
P'Get
Maé
Ashland
Standard Oil
Milwaukee
Demos
al Washington
Taft
Roy D. Moore
Maryland
Montgomery
S.A.E
Orme
Gverd
Riverside Tires
Riverside Ist
Riversides
Montgomery Ward
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