Wage Board Decision Sets 7 Cent Raise at Alcoa
The national war labor board ordered Aluminum Company of America to raise basic wages in the South by seven cents to narrow the north south differential, delaying complete elimination to avoid disrupting war production. The vote was 7 to 4 with employer dissent. Alcoa accepted the ruling under protest, citing inflation and adverse effects on prices of war materiel. The order affects Badin North Carolina and Alcoa Tennessee plants, while workers elsewhere gain a smaller pace toward northern levels.
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Associated Press
Washington
National War Labor Board
Aluminum Company of America
South
Alcoa
Pittsburgh
George R. Gibbons
Gibbons
C.I.0
Aluminium Workers Union
Badin
North Carolina
Wartime license plates to adopt sober colors
Washington reports next year's auto plates will be utilitarian, avoiding gaudy designs. The war production board weighs wartime specs to permit only black, white and earth tones like red oxides ocher and amber. Yellow road markings may be removed to conserve chrome yellow pigment.
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Washington
War Production Board
Wage board skill and war plant wage moves
The board shows a cautious stance as it nears a hearing on C.10's demand for a $1 daily raise in "little steel" and potential later pushes for wage boosts in war industries. It cites the Alcoa seven to five vote approving night-shift bonuses at New Kensington to lure workers for all-out aircraft and munitions production.
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General Motors
Alcoa
New Kensington
Pennsylvania
Negro Leader Links Skin Color to War Causes at UC Ceremony
At the University of California Lincoln birthday observance, Negro leader warns daily battles against white prestige erosion until Japan is defeated. Walter White of the NAACP asserts greed based on skin color fuels the war, cites Pearl Harbor era naval policy, and links U S attitudes to Japanese perceptions. Dr. Sproul notes Naziism is not confined to Germans, but present among Americans who tolerate ghettos for Negroes.
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A Serkeley
Cal
University of California
Lincoln
Walter White
New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Robert Gordon Sproul
University
Abraham Lincoln
Singapore
Pacific
White
Japan
United States
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Sproul
Va Still Wants State's Rights
Virginia's senate condemned federal pensions for congressmen and opposed moves to expand federal regulatory powers. It backed Wright's resolution urging Virginians in Congress to oppose Wheeler's bill on vehicle size and weight and Baldwin's resolution opposing full unemployment compensation federalization. Senator Wickham hailed the vote as Virginia expressing opposition to federal expansion.
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Associated P Mich
Virginia
Senate
Congress
William A. Wright
U. S
Burton K. Wheeler
Interstate Commerce Commission
Robert F. Baldwin
House
Henry T. Wickham
Hanover
Wright
Welfare Work Helps Defense in Charleston
Rabbi Ariel L. Goldberg, Charleston chairman of the state public assistance advisory board, urged D P A directors that social workers can aid the war effort by improving welfare for all. State Director Raymond Kenny criticized prior relief grants as intolerably low and said relief spending rose 37 percent, with 6,000 more classified cases aiding the blind, aged, and dependent children. General relief costs jumped to 320,759 this month from 261,911 last year.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Ariel L. Goldberg
State Public Assistance Advisory Board
D.P.A
Raymond Kenny
Kenny
Try to Save Boy's Foot Hand in Freezing Rescue
In Gunnison Colorado doctors worked to save the frozen hand and foot of 16 year old David Ebert after his role in a snowshoe and toboggan rescue of Bryan O Fallon 24 who was snowbound and stricken with pneumonia at his cabin in the mountains A New York glass boot for blood circulation treatment arrived shipped by A N Spanel who called the physician from New York O Fallon was weak but improving
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Gunnison
Colo
David Ebert
New York
Ebert
Bryan O'Fallon
A. N. Spanel
David
O'Fallon
Segregation Plan for Inmates at Pruntytown Industrial School
Charleston board weighs a plan to build ten cottages at the Pruntytown Industrial School for Boys to segregate and classify 263 inmates as of January 31. Reformatory chief Mollohan seeks immediate funds to start two cottages at about 30000 dollars each, housing 30 to 35 boys, with a dormitory remodelling funded at 9000 dollars for officers quarters. Governor Neely was absent and plans require more detail before action.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Board of Public Works
Industrial School For
Pruntytown
Robert Mollowan
Mollohan
Neely
Plant protection urged as duty of industry and civilians
West Virginia industry officials were urged that plant protection is the responsibility of industry and civilians, not police, and must begin immediately to win the war. J S Deutschle of Columbus warned there will be no show blackout and urged defense against sabotage as a major home effort. He warned token raids can be deadly. Jack Risty of Providence was fined $200 for removing "made in Japan" labels from merchandise.
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Charleston
West Virginia
J. S. Deutschle
Columbus
Deutschle
Jack Risty
Providence
Japan
Retonga relief praised in wife’s health recovery story
James Sims, a United Mine Workers member from Koppers Coal Co. in Kincaid, touts Retonga as dramatically improving his wife’s long battle with indigestion, nervousness, and constipation. He adds he’s using it himself, noting better sleep, appetite, energy, and strength. a money-back guarantee applies if relief is not found.
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Retonga
James Sims
United Mine Workers
Koppers Coal Co
Kincaid
Watkins Drug Store
Woman Flier Expected to Be Mata Hari of 1940s era
Laura Ingalls a speed flier testified in federal court she sought to be an unregistered Nazi agent and pictured herself as Mata Hari while claiming aims to expose subversive influences in the United States. She admitted receiving 300 dollars a month from the German embassy to campaign for neutrality, with payments linked to Baron Ulrich Von Geinanth.
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Associated Press
Washington
Laura Ingalls
Speed Flier
Today
United States
Britain
Miss Ingalls
State Department
Reich
Federal District Court
America First
Mata Hari
F.B.I
J. Edlgar Hoover
Hans Thomsén
Dr. Thomsen
Crete
Hood
Auto surveys to be checked by county boards
Charleston reports that inventories of new cars held by dealers must be checked by county rationing boards under a state order. The filing deadline is February 19. The note also mentions Argentina lacking an official census since 1914.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Argentina
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