Open Shop Stance At Roosevelt Echoed By Guild Leader
Critics charge Mrs Roosevelt backs compulsory union membership and open shop principles in contrast to the Wagner Act. The piece cites Guild leadership, a New York strike meeting, and later legal cases involving union officials to claim a pattern of coercion against nonmembers and alleged anti-union actions.
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New York
Mirror
Communist Party
Vs. Roosevelt
Poe Department
Ex- Cell-O
Detroit
Puget Sound
Laporte
Ind
Allis-Chalmers Manu
Hitler challenges U S aid to Britain over ship seizure
Washington May 9 German government reportedly challenged American aid to Britain in a formal note to the State Department as Congress debated new law authorizing requisition of foreign ships. The note objected to private property seizure and to Roosevelt’s claim of a shipping emergency. It also argued two German ships in custody would violate international law and a 1923 US Germany treaty. Officials expect a near showdown as cabinet emphasis grows on delivering British aid immediately.
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Washington
Britain
Hull
State Department
Germany
Roosevelt
United States
Wickard
Five Sentenced In Court Here For Various Offenses
District Judge David I Garrett sentenced Luther Bingham to one year in the state penitentiary for driving while intoxicated and causing personal injury. John Lacara was fined 25 dollars and jailed 30 days for assault. A B Geddardt and R B Work Ruston pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and were fined 25 dollars plus costs. Three Ruston men in the same case were released after posting bonds. Graham received 32 stitches for head injuries. W E Yeager pleaded guilty to larceny of an overcoat and got six months in parish jail. Luther Roberson, a Negro woman charged with arson, was declared criminally insane and sent to a state institution in Jackson.
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David I. Garrett
Luther Bingham
John Lacara
A. B. Geddardt
R. B. Work
Ruston
Calhoun
Gus Hilton
Gus Richards
L. E. Graham
Graham
St. Francis Sanitarium
W. E. Yeager
Luther Roberson
Jackson
Dr Cline resigns as Centenary head
Dr Pierce Cline has resigned as president of Centenary college in Shreveport Louisiana. He told the Associated Press he tendered his resignation two months ago to chairman Paul M Brown and would not comment further.
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Shreveport
Pierce Cline
Centenary College
Associated Press
Cline
Paul M. Brown
C. O. Holland
Centenary
Mr. Holland
Kress Donates Stock Worth 3.8 Million in March
Securities report shows Samuel H. Kress of New York gave away about 3.8 million dollars in S H Kress and Company stock during March. Gifts included 150000 shares and 1195 shares with other transfers and sales reducing his holdings to 95132 shares. Other notable gifts include Nash Kelvinator stock by Charles W Nash and a large GM purchase by Pierre S du Pont.
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Washington
Samuel H. Kress
New York
S. H. Kress
Kress Foundation
Kress
Nash- Kelvinator Corporation
Charles W. Nash
Los Angeles
SEC
Pierre S. du Pont
General Motors Corporation
du Pont
E. F. Euphrat
San Francisco
Pacific Can Company
Ralph S. Damon
American Airlines, Inc
Charles L. Beard
Buffalo
N. Y
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Beard
S. W. Winslow, Jr
Boston
Boston Herald Traveler
Lloyd H. Diehl
Detroit
Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company
J. H. Lawson
Nashville
British envoy outlines war aims in Midwest tour
Lord Halifax told Chicago's Commercial Club that Britain seeks a postwar order based on freedom and individual welfare. He warned there can be no peace with Hitler's regime and stressed destruction of the Nazi system before a new world order.
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Chicago
Great Britain
Lord Halifax
United States
Britain
Commercial Club
Middle West
Roosevelt says US already at war, except for troops
Captain James Roosevelt, observer with the US Marine Corps, says the United States is already in the war except for sending troops. From Cairo he notes the Iraq crisis is deep seated and not quickly resolved, while British forces in Iraq appear to have the situation in hand.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Egypt
James Roosevelt
United States Marine Corps
United States
Britain
Basra
Iraq
Middle East
Roosevelt
Baghdad
London
World War II fronts surge across Europe and Asia
The RAF pounds Berlin Bremen Hamburg Emden as Luftwaffe clashes rage over Britain Hull London English ports and Midlands. London admiralty says a German raider sunk in the Indian Ocean. Axis air attacks hit six British ships and three merchantmen in the Mediterranean. Captain James Roosevelt in Cairo says the United States is in the war. Rashid Ali Al Gailani flees Baghdad amid protests as fighting lags. Thailand and French Indo China settle border disputes with a Japanese brokered treaty as Japan acts as mediator.
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Berlin
Bremen
Hamburg
Emden
Britain
Hull
London
English
Midlands
London Admiralty
Italian High Command
Mediterranean
James Roosevelt
Cairo
United States
Rashid Ali al Gailani
Baghdad
Thailand
Tokyo
Japan
Roundup of Aliens Expands in New York
Federal immigration operatives who had seized 160 German seamen arrested more aliens in New York on May 9. Four Italian workers were seized in midtown hotels and six Italian waiters were arrested at the Ritz Carlton. A third wave with many warrants searched for others overstaying permits.
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New York
Ritz-Carlton
Noe Critics Deal With Patronage Promise
New Orleans May 9 James A Noe told supporters at two ward meetings that they had received an awful deal in patronage He refused any amalgamation with Governor Sam Jones forces and urged keeping the Jones administration’s promises to Louisiana voters He said they elected the Jones administration to make it successful.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Sam Jones
Jones
Louisiana
Kessler Rites Announced After Van Buren Plane Crash
Maurice Foots Kessler 24 and Lloyd Davenport 23 died when their plane crashed near Van Buren Arkansas. Kessler’s body will travel by train to St Louis for funeral and burial at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery. The article notes the victims resided in West Monroe and details the planned funeral in St Louis.
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Maurice (Foots) Kessler
W. L. Kessler
North Fifth Street
West Monroe
van Buren
Ark
Lloyd Davenport
Kessler
St. Louis
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery
Government defense bonds and stamps sales total $114.88 million
The first week of the government campaign to sell defense bonds and savings stamps yielded 114 million 880 thousand dollars. Stamps from 10 cents to 5 dollars added 1.554 million, while Series 6 bonds priced 100 to 10,000 produced 80.13 million.
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Washington
Defense
Treasury
Workers Return to Talks as Strikes Pivot Across Industries
Fourteen hundred Pennsylvania Greyhound workers resume work under arbitration amid broader labor actions. Alabama coal miners prepare to restart May 1 after a contract raises daily pay from four to five dollars. A separate 2400 Bethlehem shipyard machinists threaten a midnight walkout demanding higher wages and overtime pay.
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Pennsylvania Greyhound Bus Line
Alabama
San Francisco
Bethlehem
Perkins
National Defense Mediation Board
C. I. O. United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corporation
New Orleans Detectives Chief Placed Under Restraint
Judge Paul E. Chasez restrained Chief of Detectives John J. Grosch from disposing of assets amid separation proceedings filed by wife Viola Livandais Grosch. She alleges threats and public humiliation. requests include partition of community property, alimony, and attorney fees. Hearing set for May 16.
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New Orleans
John J. Grosch
Paul E. Chasez
Viola Livandais Grosch
Grosch
Police Department Credit Association
Chasez
Government price controls loom for consumer goods
New York May 9 The government plans to keep living costs reasonable by imposing controls on prices for food clothing fuel and sundries a year from now. Merchants may earn reasonable profits but must grow sales rather than raise markups Mehl head of the agriculture department’s CEA ordered action to curb excessive speculation as cottonseed oil and other staples spiked in price.
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Paul Gesner
John Beckley
New York
News-Star Special News Service
J. M. Mehl
Agriculture Department
CEA
O. P. M. Price
Leon Henderson
Harriet Elliott
Mehl
Russia withdraws recognition from Yugoslavia Belgium and Norway
Soviet Russia announced it no longer recognizes Yugoslavia Belgium and Norway as sovereign states a move seen as easing tensions with Germany. Stalin’s premiership shift noted Molotov remains foreign commissar and vice premier. London sources say the move may please Germany without significant cost to Russia.
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Yugoslavia
Belgium
Norway
Moscow
Russia
Germany
Berlin
Joseph Stalin
Vyacheslav Molotov
Molotov
London
Morrison to stand trial in Orleans on libel charges
James H. Morrison an attorney from Hammond and three others must face trial in Orleans parish on criminal libel charges. The defendants were indicted over articles in Farmers' Friends and overruled in their pleas of exception to jurisdiction.
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New Orleans
James H. Morrison
Hammond
Orleans Parish
William J. O'Hara
Bee
Morrison
Allen Dunnington
R. M. Singletary
George
Norwegian court martial sentences on raid aid near Svolvaer
A Norwegian police official was sentenced to life imprisonment and five other Norwegians received several years each on German court martial charges for aiding the British in the March 4 naval raid on Austvangoey near Svolvaer in the Lofoten islands of northern Norway.
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Oslo
Norway
Berlin
Austvangoey
Svolvaer
Lofoten Islands
Bombing Raids Hit Hamburg Bremen and London Reports
Royal Air Force claims to have probably finished destroying Iraq's air force after raids near Baghdad. Britain reports its largest nocturnal raid, with hundreds of tons of explosives on Hamburg and Bremen and a major attack on Hull as RAF bombers reach Posen in the longest foray to date.
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Cairo
Royal Air Force
Iraq Air Force
Kakuba
Shahnaban
Baghdad
Associated Press
Hamburg
Bremen
Berlin
Posen
Poland
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
Mediterranean
Indian Ocean
Hull
London
Hitler
Reich
British Air Ministry
Germany
Cason Requests Postponement in Perjury Trial
Former State Labor Commissioner B W Cason asked for a delay in his federal perjury case, citing two key defense witnesses prevented by ill health. U S Attorney Lafargue opposed the request as Judge Dawkins ordered further proof of the witnesses’ anticipated testimony.
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Lake Charles
B. W. Cason
Marjorie H. Dial
Labor Department
Jimmy David
United States
Malcolm Lafargue
Ben Dawkins
Cason
Grand
American Progress
Richard W. Leche
J. G. Palmer
Shreveport
Lafargue
1941 Safety Record Highlights City Accidents
Accidents to date this year 181 compared with 166 last year. Personal injuries this year 26 versus 29 last year. Deaths this year 0 versus 4 last year. Traffic rule of the day enforces clear view from vehicle with rear vision mirror required to ensure safety.
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