Survivors Claim U boat sank tanker then rammed lifeboats
Four survivors from a U S medium sized tanker say a submarine shelled their ship in the Caribbean on February 28, sinking the vessel within five hours and then ramming two lifeboats and a liferaft. They report firing about 200 shells and say the ship was not torpedoed. Survivors floated on two liferafts nearly a week before rescue in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
U.S
Caribbean
Fourth Naval District
Washington
Oregon
Bahamas
Nassau
Cuba
Puerto Plata
Dominican Republic
Baracoa
Survivors of two ships sunk in war action recount voyage
In an account from Argentina to Puerto Rico, 83 survivors, all crew of two ships sunk in a convoy attack, recount details of a submarine rendezvous and rescue. Captain Henney of the tanker and Captain Cronberg of the Ipswich rescue crews describe hours in lifeboats and radio messages for help while the Idaho aided one group and the Ipswich saved another.
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Puerto Rico
A Henney
Henney
Lfe
Idaho
Ipswich
Sven Cronberg
Him
Volunteers Seek Farm Labor Registration
Street Md March 12 Volunteers for farm labor should be registered, says Dr T B Symons dean and director of the University of Maryland Extension Service. The call emphasizes organized volunteer support for agricultural work across the area.
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U. S. Employment Service
Dublin
Parent-Teacher Association
Symons
Maryland
Normandie Probe In New York Completed
The House Naval Affairs sub committee finished hearings in New York on the Normandie case and said it would reconvene next Tuesday in Washington Rep Patrick H Drewry.
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Adolphus Andrews
Thrd Naval District
Drewry
House Naval Affairs Committee
Normandie
U.S. S Lafayette
New York
House
Naval Affairs
Washington
Patrick H Drewry
D Va
CIO Demand For Union Shop Rejected By War Board
The War Labor Board rejected a CIO bid for a union shop affecting 1540 employees at Bower Bearing Co Detroit. The board allowed voluntary union dues check off with employee consent and cited three reasons for not granting a union shop, marking the first hearing admission on the issue.
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Washington
War Labor Board
CIO
Bower Baller Bearing Co
Detroit
United Automobile Workers
New Chief of Staff to Chiang Kin-shek Mentioned in Union Case
A hypothetical danger to unions during organizing is discussed in relation to Aids Chiang Maj Ger Joseph W Stilwell serving as chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The panel notes uncertainty about its impact on union shop rulings amid a dispute between CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee and four Little Steel companies.
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Ger Joseph W Stilwell
Chiang Kii-shek
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Little Steel” Companies
Union and Bower Company Labor Dispute Mention
Fragmentary text notes a union and the Bower Company with no evidence of competing labor organizations. It mentions a possible future development or consideration by the union regarding current employees.
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Bower Company
Public sale at Mt Airy fetches 2117 dollars on machinery
The sale of O. T. Davis near Mt. Airy on Thursday totaled 2117 dollars with no dairy cows sold. Machinery and horses brought good prices. a used manure spreader sold for 130 dollars. Glenn Trout acted as auctioneer and R. L. Kelly as clerk.
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O. T. Davis
Mt. Airy
Glenn Trout
R. L. Kelly
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Argentina
Taborda
Paul Damonte Taborda
Enrique Rottjer
Buenos Aires
Rottjer
Bell's Millinery
New York Market
America
Bell’s Millinery
Noor
Rosenour
North Market Street
ESPAY
Normandie Probe
Rosenour’s
Milan
Paris
Sarah
Freeman
Shoe Dept
Nucur Caucus
JmViCks Fou
Superior
Windsor
Rockers
Sears, Roebuck and CO
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