GM Strike Shifts into High Gear as 100000 Workers Idle
Detroit February reports that General Motors resumed full pace but with over 100000 workers idled by strikes. Union officials in 20 GM plant cities met as Homer Martin announced 200000 auto workers in the industry, with payroll rising to about 215000 and expected to reach 235000 within 12 days. National guard troops in Flint began demobilization as sitdown actions caused disorder and liquor sales restrictions were lifted.
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General Motors
Waa
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Tureday
Rolliton
Wits Cam Greet
Martin
Green
A. F. of L
Flint
Wallpaper Mill Sit Down Strikes Hit Joliet Plants
JOIAET Feb 14 INS Four sit down strikes by Wallpaper Mill Helpers union disrupt production at Joliet Wallpaper Mill Co West and Standard Wallpaper Co.. detectives guard Stet Peerless Wallpaper Co plant as workers demand wage increases.
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Joiaet
iThis
Torley
WallPaper Mill Helpers’ Union
UN Joliet Wallpaper Mill Company
Mit- 2West
Wallpaper Company
Standard Wallpaper Company
Stet Peerless Wallpaper Company
Lutheran Men Start Radio Sermons Through Easter
Lutheran Men will begin a radio series of church services to be broadcast between 4:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. through Easter. Pastors Alfred O. Rast Arthur Rathjen and Arthur C. Repp of the Missouri Synod will preach. St Pauls Lutheran choir, under W Heintgen, will provide music. The Sunday sermon topic is The Foundations Must Stand.
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Lutheran Men's Lab
Tevs
Alfred O. Rast
Arthuy ‘Rathjen
Arthur C. Repp
Missouri Synod
St. Paul's Lutheran Choir
W. Heintgen
Tax revenues rise sharply in Alice and Wells counties
Tax offices report substantial gains over 1945 collections. City Clerk P S Anderson notes Alice Independent School District taxes exceed prior year due to aggressive delinquent collections. Assessors cite state and county ad valorem taxes for 1937 and 1936, with independent school districts showing strong gains, and a notable rise in current and delinquent tax receipts from October through January.
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Alice
Jim Wells
P. S. Anderson
Alice Independent
Childress
Luis Mora
John Lipos
Troops Guard Indiana Town in Civil Unrest
Rioting followed a sit-down strike with shots fired at a tavern. Two union organizers wound. others treated for injuries. Troops arrived after violence spread to a theater where 200 men gathered to celebrate the strike. Officials claimed order would be kept, while union leaders hailed the troop deployment as a victory.
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Chen
Evan Roberts
Roberts
Forest Worst
Flint
John J. Lewis
C, IG
Harold Reid
Anderson
Christian Fox
Middleton
Inn
Olike
No Nation
Michigan
Faw
Aon
Wwilon
Alexandria
Bald-win
Kerrville Benefit Comedy Scheduled
A musical comedy Coast to Coast will be presented Thursday and Friday at Tivy High School auditorium to raise funds for child welfare work. Leading roles include Grotze Cone Peggy Peterson Ross Lun Leroy Holarock Dorothy Dee Miller Martin Speiling and George Lamb with Esther Henekle directing.
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Tivy High School
The
American Legion
Grotze Cone
Peggy Peterson
Ross Lun
Leroy Holarock
Dorothy Dee Miller
Martin Speiling
George Lamb
Esther Henekle
Ire Pila
Director Denies Cruelty Charges in Divorce Case
Los Angeles report says Archie Judge, noted director West Joy Ruggiss, denied cruelty allegations in a divorce proceeding. He acknowledged a property attachment ordering $100 monthly for son Charles, age four, for support and education.
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Los Angeles
Cins
Archie
Segnen
West Joy Ruggiss
Charles
Wilkins Plans New Ige Tap
Polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins arrives in New York for a six week stay and announces final arrangements for a super submarine to dive under one hundred feet of Arctic ice. He says preparations for the June first start and hints at funding secrecy while noting his wife’s separate plans during his absence.
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New York
Sir Huber Wilkins
North Polar
Hubert
Houston Officers Freed of Charges in Seamen Strike
Report from Houston states seven members of the police force faced charges tied to a waterfront clash on Christmas Eve involving striking seamen. A second grand jury considered the allegations but adjourned without hearing the charges.
Mayor Baldwin describes disorder after GM sit-down strike
Anderson officials report a cafe shooting and rioting driven by anti union sentiment following General Motors sit-down action. Martial law was proclaimed after police and sheriff appeals, amid clashes between nonunion workers and the industrial committee.
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H. Baldwin
Anders
Wietele
General Motora
Marry BR. Baldwin
Anderson
Ind
General Motors
Madison Gunty
National Guard
Guide Meh
Delev-Remy
G. M
Sit-downers End Strike At Wahl-Eversharp Plant
In Chicago on February 1, about 300 sit-down strikers evacuated the Wahl-Eversharp Pen company plant at 12:05 p m after the firm announced it would arbitrate differences until they did so. Negotiations for a permanent settlement will begin Monday.
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Pen Company
Chicago
INS
Wahl-Eversharp Pen Company
Five Story Plunge Fatal to Woman in Despondent Act
Mrs. Cecil Reams a 42 year old interior decorator died after a fall from a downtown office building roof. Police say she was despondent over unemployment and had reported trouble finding work. The incident occurred in Damlas Fen with the victim dying several hours after the plunge.
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Damlas
Fen
Cecil Reams
Fingers ay solve case in lower Rio Grande valley
Identification expert Graw received ten severed fingers believed tied to the disappearance of the Blanton brothers near Brownsville. Fingerprints cannot be rolled due to advanced decomposition. photos will be used for comparison with files, results due tomorrow. Frank Blanton identified the body of a 25 year old man found on Laguna Madre shore.
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Austin
Rio Grande Valley
State Department of Public Safety
Graw
Laguna Madre
Brownsville
Frank Blanton
Knox Trophy Awarded to Battery D at Fort Bam Houston
The Fifth Artillery Battery commanded by Captain John M. Works received the Henry Knox trophy from Major General Herbert I. Brees at Fort Bam Houston. The award honors the best fifth artillery battery in the United States regular army, named for Henry Knox, first secretary of war under Washington, presented by the Society of the Sons of Revolution in Massachusetts. Previous winners include a Honolulu battery and a Philippine unit.
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Henry Knox
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Brees
Fort Bam Houston
United States
Washington
Society of the Sons of Revolution
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Honolulu
Philippines
Marlene Dietrich Returns From Europe to Work
Hollywood dispatch reports Marlene Dietrich arriving in Pasadena after a four and a half month European vacation. She denies rumors of a quarrel with husband Rudolph assur and confirms they did not separate, saying she is ready to resume work as rain dampened the scene.
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Marlene Dietrich
Europe
Hollywood
Pasadena
Miss Dietrich
Rudolph Sicher
Alan Tay
Fireman on Duty Chooses Duty Over Fire Alarm Call
Premise of Fire Department member Pat Forester of Alamo Heights, serving 9 years postal carrier, faced a siren alert while on parcel route. He stayed at post, drove to the scene, extinguished two small blazes, and postponed leaving his route until a division from Postmaster Dan Quill.
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Pat O. Forester
Alta Avenue
Alamo Heights
Forester
Post Office Department
Parcel Post Cartier
Alamo Heelghts
Jon
Yelintrer Fire Department
Alamo Reiehts
Woreater
Dan Quill
Twentieth Century Fox Players In New York Halved
New York report notes Tyrone Power arrives in Hollywood to begin work on Cute Metropole and Sonja Henie leaves for an exhibition skating tour, leaving a reduced Fox company in New York with Arline Jidge and Anthony Martin among the rest.
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New York
Film Players
Tyrone Power
Hollywood
Sonja Henie
Twentieth Century-Fox Players
Arline Jidge
Anthony Martin
Alice Faye Chosen for Wake Up and Live Lead
Hollywood dispatch reports Alice Faye selected for the lead in the Ben Bernie Walter Winchell film Wake Up and Live. Miss Faye earns the role after star turns alongside Madeleine Carroll and Dick Powell in On the Avenue, Irving Berlin musical.
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Homlywood
Alice Faye
Ben Bernie
Walter Winchell
Miss Faye
Madeleine Carroll
Dick Powell
Snowbound families rescued in Trinity Alps region
In California near AESGUERG and OTDAK to home thanks to a relief party for six weeks snowbound near Trinity Alps. Mrs. Roland Daly, an expectant mother, was visited by rescuers and a physician stayed to await birth. Supplies and firewood were ample, snow depths said to be the deepest since 1890.
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Calif
Roland Daly
Trinity Alps
Denny
New River Country
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