Dewey Warns Wartime Labor Rules Could End Free Labor Move
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey warned in a Labor Day proclamation that wartime labor restrictions left to government control after the war could destroy the free labor movement and end collective bargaining. He praised labor’s patriotism, noted no major strikes in New York since Pearl Harbor, and designated Sept. 4 as Labor Day urging public appreciation for workers.
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Kirtland
King United Press
Albany
Thomas FE. Dewey
New York State
Pearl Harbor
New York
Tuscany
Normandy
Tangy
Provence
Dewey
James C. Hagerty
State Federation of Labor
Syracuse
N. Y
Pawling
FDR Churchill Meeting Story Branded Untrue
White House secretary Stephen Early called a New York Times report of a planned Roosevelt Churchill meeting in London or Paris before the November election untrue. He said the president would confer with Churchill soon but did not specify timing or place, and rejected the abroad meeting claim, including Mrs. Roosevelt’s possible travel.
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Washington
Stephen Early
White House
New York Times
Roosevelt
Churchill
London
Paris
Times
Hunt On For Bomber Missing For Year
In Chicoutimi Quebec August reports say hundreds of troops search through Laurentides park lands for a Liberator bomber missing nearly a year with 24 aboard. Two woodsmen claim to have found wreckage believed to be the missing aircraft in the remote district.
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Chicoutimi
Que
Laurentides Park
Nazi sailors arrested after sabotage at Oslo shipyards
The Royal Norwegian information services reported that several German naval personnel were arrested in connection with acts of sabotage at the Aker ship yards in Oslo Norway. The sabotage involved blocking a lubricating oil feed pipe with sand and was announced today.
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Washington
Royal Norwegian Information Services
Aker
Oslo
Norway
Rege
Birth Announcement and Local Briefs In Porter clinic
A daughter was born to Mrs. E. H. Clements and the late F. H. Clements at 2 35 a m Saturday in Porter Listrand clinic weighing 6 pounds 12 ounces. A 21 year old negro woman attempted shoplifting at Franklin's and Penney's leading to a police call after a tug of war with a Penney manager. A Geranium and a fern were reported stolen from 2118 Broadway. A man claimed he was rolled for $20 while drunk. Gasoline spilled at Magnolia Petroleum Co yards sparked an explosion but caused no damage. firemen and units fought the blaze and Chief W E Twitty could not determine a cause.
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E. H. Clements
F. H. Clements
Twenty-second Street
Porter-Listrand Clinic
Franklin's
Penney's
E. J. Parsons
Penney
Parsons
Ferdinand
Maude Smith
Broadway
Donald Stewart
M. L. Brothers
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Avenue H
Central
No. 2
W. E. Twitty
Russian Front Drives Deep Into German Pockets Near Vistula
Marshal Ivan S Konev's First Ukraine Army closed on three pocketed German divisions by taking seven localities and fending off attempts to relieve them. Moscow reported German losses climbed to 1 084 tanks and 383 planes in a week, while Polish plains and East Prussian border fronts showed intensified fighting. Estonian and Latvian fronts seized 80 localities toward Riga as Gen Maslennikov's forces pressed toward Tartu and threatened the Riga railway.
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Vistula
Ivan S Konev
Ukraine
Moscow
Riga
Ivan Maslennikov
Tallinn
Warsaw Revolt Said Doomed To Failure
Pravda reports the Warsaw uprising by Polish patriots is doomed to failure from the start. The Soviet paper defends Red Army actions, denounces foreign criticism, and blasts the Polish government in exile for perceived political motives.
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Warsaw
Moscow
Pravda
Red Army
Joseph Stalin
Bor
London
Lublin
Committee of National Liberation
Rome
Mediterranean
Hussein Dravid Yalichkin
Konstantin Demidov
United States
England
British reply to plea on war debts deal
The Sunday Times comments on U S senators proposing British islands as partial payment. It argues for less emphasis on sovereignty and more on joint staff and continued common use of bases.
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London
The
Sunday Times
United States
Solon In Favor Of Lighter Tax Load
State Sen. George Moffett of Chillicothe urged a lighter tax burden and rejected new taxes. He joined a growing anti tax bloc aiming for tax relief at the January legislative session as unemployment looms and wartime surpluses fade. He called for private and public efforts and for leveraging science to reduce synthetic substitutes and expand agricultural markets.
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Austin
U.P
George Moffett
Chillicothe
Texas
House
General Revenue Fund
Moffett
French Patriots Rally in Roving War News
The piece reports a French Resistance action in which the FFI halted a German munitions train in a tunnel and killed hundreds. A German assault near Cluny with mortars and 37 millimeter guns produced 270 dead and equal wounded, per Koenig. A Transocean interview claims half the Pyrenees Maquis are Spanish communists and describes aid arriving from American planes and rifles.
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FFI
Poitiers
Cluny
Koenig
Transocean Agency
Pyrenees
World Security talks set pace for four power peace plan
United States Russia Britain seek no serious obstacles to a peace organization. Talks begin Monday with Hull and Dulles meeting Wednesday. A US Britain China follow up next month is planned, with Hull opening the Soviet American British phase as host.
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United States
Russia
Britain
Hull and Dulles
China
Hull
Moscow
Pacific war updates threaten Japanese supply route
In Kwangsi province the provisional capital reports danger to Japan overland supply lines from Hankow as Chinese offensives hit Kingmen, 55 miles northeast of Ichang in Hupeh. In Burma Gen Stilwell says Allied forces despite heat and monsoon are advancing about one mile daily, driving Japanese toward Mandalay.
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Kwangsi
Japan
Hankow
Kingmen
Nippon
Ichang
Hupeh
Burma
Joseph Stilwell
Mogaung
Mandalay
Yanks Tightening Noose on Nazis Near Paris Front
Allied forces push through northern France as German retreat collapses along the Seine. Reports say Paris fell close to evacuation while Allied air power destroyed hundreds of barges and vehicles, with Canadian and British units spearheading advances toward Le Havre and Caen.
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Seine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Paris
France
RAF
Germany
Channel
Dieppe
le Havre
Phone Workers Turn Down Meager Raise
In Dallas on August 19, union representatives rejected wage increases of 21 to 5 cents per hour for about 33,000 Southwestern Bell Telephone Company workers. The Southwestern Workers Union Local 3251 and James C. Persons deemed the offer insufficient after the company proposal fell short of the requested 17 and a half cents hourly rise. The Texas workforce totals around 5,000 employees.
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Dallas
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
St. Louis
James C. Persons
Southwestern Workers Union
Texas
Canadians Capture German Division Chief in Normandy Gap
Canadian army forces took a German divisional commander and his staff south of Trun and may have captured a second German general in the Normandy gap. German troops surrendered in batches of 30 and 40 to Polish forces moving south of Trun, about 10 miles southeast of Falaise.
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France
Trun
Normandy
Falaise
4-H Encampment At Tulsa Opens Monday
About 200 South Plains 4-H club boys prepare for the district 2 encampment from Monday to Wednesday near Tulsa at Cedar Glen. Activities include baseball rifle shooting swimming motion pictures wildlife demos and talks by A&M officials and 4-H leaders. Lubbock county’s representatives were named and will be joined by county agent Jason O. Gordon and assistant Manuel Ayers.
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South Plains
Cedar Glen
Tulsa
A&m College
Lubbock
Jason O. Gordon
Manuel Ayers
Solons Seek Tight Reins On Surplus Property Sales
Senate Military Committee backed a plan to require quarterly reports to Senate and House on government surplus war property. The move follows acceptance of an amendment to the Murray-Stewart-Taft disposal bill, substituting an eight member board to direct disposals rather than a single administrator.
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Ashington
Senate Military Committee
Senate
House
Murray-Stewart-Taft
Marine warns U S to be wary of Japanese
Lt Col Evans F Carlson, famed Marine raider, warns from La Jolla that Japan will press the American public in coming months with crafty peace overtures. He says Americans must not be deluded by a "cheeky and crafty" enemy offer and urges vigilance.
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San
Crosby Grand Jury Reconvenes Monday at Crosbyton
Crosby county 72nd district February grand jury will reconvene Monday in Crosbyton to review forgery cases and two or three burglaries, according to District Attorney Burton S. Burks. He said the session will last one to two days.
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Crosby County
Crosbyton
Burton S. Burks
Burks
British troops crush near Falaise and push German retreat
British forces fire on a fleeing enemy column south of Falaise destroying 150 transport vehicles. Hundreds of enemy corpses dot roads and fields as German troops retreat east. Prisoners flood in including an entire company with commander surrendering. Hitler's Elite divisions ordered to move in daylight for the first time. Northern Brittany pockets at Lannion and Paimpol crushed as SHAEF reports liquidation of German resistance.
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Dozule
Vire
Notre Dame-D’efstrees
St. Julien-Le Faucon
Lisuex
Rouen
St. Marguerite-Des-Loges
Supreme Headquarters
Trun
Falaise-Argentan
Forest of
Gouffern
H. G. Crerar
First Canadian Army
Falaise
Hitler
Brittany
Lannion
Brest
Paimpol
Births in West Texas Area Announced for Service Families
A roundup of birth notices from West Texas hospitals lists Lt Cmdr Grigg and Mrs Grigg in Fort Worth area with a son weighing 5 pounds 3 ounces born Saturday night at a West Texas hospital. Other notices include Sgt Malin A Cook with a son. Sgt William R Thaman with a daughter. Mr John V Smith with a son. Mr S M Cunningham with a son. Pvt Ernest Cotton with a son. Mr W W Hamzy with a son. Mr Troy Ira Petty with a daughter. Fathers stationed in Pratt Kansas Hobbs New Mexico Camp Robinson Arkansas El Paso and at Lubbock Army Airfield. Son weights range 5 to 9 pounds with times listed Saturday or Friday mornings and afternoons.
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R. C. Grigg
Fourteenth Street
West Texas Hospital
Fort Worth
Malin A. Cook
Morton
Lubbock General Hospital
Pratt
Kans
William R. Thaman
Route 6
Lubbock
Porter- Listrand Clinic
Hobbs
N. M
John V. Smith
417 Avenue E
Swift and Company
S. M. Cunningham
Hub Homes
Ernest Cotton
Route 5
Camp Robinson
Ark
F O
W. W. Hamzy
Abilene
el Paso
Troy Ira Petty
Levelland
Lubbock Army Airfield Station
Triple Launchings Of Warships In Philadelphia Ceremony
Three ships the carrier Antietam and cruisers Chicago and Los Angeles will be christened in a triple ceremony at the Philadelphia Navy yard. Undersecretary Ralph A. Bard will speak as the ships, built in large drydocks, are flooded with 55 million gallons of water before the event.
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Philadelphia
Antietam
Chicago
Los Angeles
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Ralph A. Bard
Platform Breaks And Many Fall In River
In Salem New Jersey a loading platform on a river steamer tilted sending up to 50 people into the Delaware River near Riverview beach. Salem Hospital treated 22, one victim died. identifications included Bessie Kirk 58 of Chester Pennsylvania.
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Salem
N. J
Delaware River
Riverview Beach
Salem Hospital
Bessie Kirk
Chester
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Abernathy Man Dies In Hospital
Ray Burfield of Abernathy died Saturday morning at Lubbock General Hospital after a 10 day admission. Burfield, 29, leaves a wife and two children Charles D 5 and Gay Dean 3, plus five sisters and one brother. Funeral services will be held at Abernathy Baptist church per Rix Funeral Home.
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Abernathy
Ray Burfield
Lubbock General Hospital
Burfield
Charles D
Gay Dean
Abernathy Baptist Church
Rix Funeral Home
Gallup Poll shows Missouri GOP lead in one border state
George Gallup reports in the border states Missouri favors Dewey while Kentucky Oklahoma West Virginia and Maryland favor Roosevelt. Missouri hosts Truman, Roosevelt's running mate, as the survey tracks voter intent to a mid campaign reading.
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Gallup
Missouri
Dewey
George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Rinceton
N. J
Thomas E. Dewey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kentucky
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Maryland
Harry S. Truman
Roosevelt
Institute
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Dewey F.D.R
Nebraska
Kansas
Sc. Dakota
No. Dakota
Michigan
Indiana
Town
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Colorado
Vermont
Illinois
Ohio
Idaho
Minnesota
Maine
New York
Oregon
Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Florida
Tennessee
No. Carolina
Virginia
Arizona
Montana
Utah
Nevada
New Mexico
Washington
California
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Eight Carriers Operate Off Riviera Beachhead In War Update
Nine aircraft carriers seven British and two American were disclosed as operating off the Riviera beachhead. Warplanes from the carriers attacked road and rail traffic and communications. The communiqué said there was considerable anti aircraft fire but no air opposition.
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Riviera Toehold
Rome
Riviera
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Roater
Herwin-Williams
Style Guide
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