Strike Roundup as Goodyear Plant Seizure Faces Union Demand
Government moves toward seizure of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Akron Ohio where 26 200 workers have been on strike for 12 days The War Labor Board directed cancellation of occupational deferments for strikers registered for selective service and ordered 17 000 Firestone workers to return to work The strike involves 33 700 rubber workers across the nation, with widespread stoppages and broader labor tensions in industries nationwide.
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Hy Abe
Goodyear
Iva and Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Senate
Firestone
Alison
Wheeter
Goodyear Unnion
Eis
WLE
Baters
William Mape
the Publishers Association of New York
Glaga
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Ford City
Litbey-Owens-Pord Company
Charleston
W. Va
New Jersey
Pepunsylvania
New York
WLB
Texas CO
Texas S Company
Detroit
B of L
Memphis
Tenn
Dixie Greyhound Lines
Waukesha
Wis
A. F
Interurban Strike Ends in Dallas Break
Dallas July 3. Texas Electric Railway Company interurbans and buses resumed operations today after a weeklong work stoppage. Employees who had walked out voted yesterday to return to work at 6 a.m. today.
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Dallas
Texaslectric Railway Company
Inter Urbans
Jan Valtin Publishes New War Memoir Japs Die Hard
Manila dispatch reports Jan Valtin author of Out of the Night, serving with the 24th Infantry on Mindanao, wrote a new book titled Japs Die Hard during the division’s advance. Proceeds may aid relatives of KIA soldiers. Verity has served two years.
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Jan Valtin
Manila
INS
Firmg
Minvanod
Walthi
Flo
Richard Frebs
Mindanao
Verity
Ex-Seaman Held In Wife Slaying
A former 8-year-old seaman, sought in Detroit for questioning in his estranged wife s murder, was taken into custody by Columbus police after he voluntarily surrendered himself. Marie Beavers, 25, a former Columbus girl, was found bruised and strangled in a Detroit rooming house last Friday.
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Columbus
Ung 2 Cins
Mershal Seaman
Detroit
Himelf
Donald Berridge
Cold City Police
Marie Beavers
Empty Hands Embarrassing: Newspaperless New Yorkers Forlorn
A 1947 New York period piece notes a strike harming newspaper delivery leaving about 13 million metropolitan readers without daily papers. It describes subway scenes of readers improvising, street vendors hawking papers, and New Yorkers coping with the shortage while waiting for over the counter copies and substitutes like magazines and ads. Distinct entities include New York, newspapers, the Communist Daily Worker, Herald Tribune, and Tribune office.
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New Yor
New York
Tha
Jissif
Communist
Daily Worker
Atrikel
Wall Street
The
Herald Tribune
Tribune
Brooklyn
Washington Roundup Senate May Unanimously Ratify Pact
Washington reports the Senate moved toward ratification of the United Nations charter with Foreign Relations committee members hopeful of approval by a near unanimous vote. Testimony from Edward R. Stettinius Jr is planned as the first witness. FEPC funding debate stalls progress on war agency appropriations. A heat fatality is reported at Camp Lejeune, with PFC J. Korberhan, 45, dying from heat exhaustion during training.
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Washington, Aly
UPH
Senate
Chamber
Groth
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
FEPC
House
Cannon
D.mo
House Appropriations Committee
Pilot Killed While Saving Panicked Crew in Bomber Flight
In Romania a Liberator bomber attacked oil fields. Pilot First Lt. Donald Pucker of Boulder Colorado died after guiding the stricken aircraft. He refused to abandon three hysterical crewmen, tried to regain control, and opened the bomb bay doors for bailout. The Medal of Honor will be awarded to his widow Lorena Purker.
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Washingson
Guy
Donald Pucket
Boulder
Cole
Priests
Romania
Tay
Lorena
Purker
War Department
Pucket
Tirstaid
Army
Colonels Raised to General Rank In Western Pacific
Manila July 14 Lieut Gen Wilhelm B Styler commander Western Pacific announces promotions of two colonels to brigadier general Wanamaker of Denison Texas and John Woodbury of Johnsonville Be Gener Woodbury chief ordnance officer Half of Sweden censorship ends Stockholm July 3 wartime press control lapses
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Manila
Wilhelm B. Styler
U.S. Army
Western Pacific
Wanamaker
Denison
Texas
John Woodbury
Johnsonville
Mtd
Woodbury
Shief
Sweden
Stockholm
Fross
Plane crew clings to wreck on long daylight flight
Joy GalNawa reports that naval airmen from a Privateer survived a midair mast strike over the Tsushima Strait. With the belly ripped open, Lieut G E Miller and co pilot Lieut Robert Littman held on as the damaged bomber skimmed toward Okinawa. They recovered a mast fragment and a ragged flag as proof of the attack. The crew grappled along a narrow deck space, fearing a sea plunge until they reached safety.
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Galnawa
Joy Leon Fleven
Tshushima Strait
Okinawa
G. E. Miller
Long Beach
Calif
Caida
Edeut
Robert Littman
San Mates
Pair Indicted For Torturing Boy In Baltimore Case
In Baltimore on July 3 a 21 year old mother Mrs Carla Schautzmann and her friend Gail B Sadler were indicted on assault charges for allegedly buying with Algarets the four year old son of Schautzmann. The child bore more than twenty scars and showed a knitted fracture of the right arm. The pair were ordered held on bail of 1000. The case was heard by Police Magistrate Michael J Lucey.
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Baltimore
UPI
McE
Carla Schautzmann
Transman
Gail B. Sadler
Little Walter James Schauermann Jr
Michael J. Lucey
Sadler
Schavermann
Navy Aid Takes oath on ship in ceremony aboard flagship
John Lawrence Sullivan, 46, sworn in as assistant secretary of the navy for air on the flight deck of a task force flagship. Vice Admiral Fitch administered the oath as patrol planes droned overhead. Sullivan, a former Manchester, New Hampshire, district attorney, pledged to build sea air power and prevent future wars.
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Gulilivan
Seaman
Sullivan
Manchester
N. Ba Wan
Senate
Artemus K. Gates
Tay
Timberwolf General Expected In U S Navy Arrival
New York July 3 Major General Terry Allen commander of the 104th Timber Wolf division is due to arrive aboard the transport Monterey with GI troops including the 8th Infantry. Other ships, the Samuel Adams and Luceria B. Mott, are listed for reassignment as 363 and 365 troops depart for Camp Kilmer New Jersey for reprocessing.
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U.S. New York
Vpi
Terry Allen
104Th
Timber Wolf
Monterey
G. I
Eigt
Samuel Adama
Lucretia B. Mott
Camp Kilmar
NM. J
Army Returns Ward Plant to Private Control
Springfield July 3 The Hummer Manufacturing Company once under Army seizure since May 20 194? was restored to private management under a War Department directive. Col Nelson S Talbott said military controls were lifted after labor tension and production efficiency concerns prompted withdrawal.
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INL
Hummer Manufacturing Company
Montgomery Ward Auber
Army
Bestiz
Stimson
Nelson S. Talbott
War Department
Roosevelt
A. F. Lu
Perales Returns from San Francisco UN Conference
Alonso S. Perales, Nicaragua’s San Antonio consul general, returned from the San Francisco United Nations conference where he contributed to committees on preuble purposes and principles and on economic and social cooperation. He helped with 44 charter-writing committees and was joined by his wife Mayle.
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Alonso S. Perales
Nicaragua
San Antonio
San Francisco
Ourselor
Mayle
Peter de Perales
New Pacific Commands Announced in Tokyo and Pacific
Honolulu dispatch reports new command assignments under General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz. Lieutenant General Richardson becomes army commander in the Middle Pacific, while Stilwell and Steyer head Western Pacific operations. Rear Admiral Cobb leads Ryukyus naval forces, with Woods and Wallace in air and Okinawa commands.
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General MacArthur
Adroivel Nimits
Tokyo
Naval
Robert ©. Richardson Js
U. S. Army
Paciic Ocean
Nimitz
MacArituir
Nimits
Macarius
Wihrim
Stayer
Western Pacific
Richardson
Steyer
Heacie
MacArthur
Tenth Army
Ryukyu Rovers
Stilwell
C. J. Cobb
Ryukyus
Corporal Burns From Wire At Family Home Repair
Corporal Charles E. Dudley of Fort Sam Houston was hospitalized Tuesday after a former burn incident at his parents home 1630 East Garson Street. While repairing a rain gutter on a ladder under the eaves the contact with a live wire caused a shock that knocked him to the ground. He received scalp burns and bruises and was treated at Tracks hospital center.
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Charles E. Dudley
Fort l
Sam Houston
Tracks Hosplink Center
East
Garson Atreat
E. G. Dullalg
Dudley
Hawaii Asks Statehood Debate Opens in Congress
Delegate Farrington urged quick action in Washington to authorize steps for Hawaii to qualify as a state. He submitted a bill to the House and asked the Territories Committee to consider the issue during a planned winter visit by Hawaiian leaders.
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Washington
Hewall
Congress
Farrington Uz. Haweil
House
Farrington
Hause
Negro fliers acquitted by all Negro court martial
Fort Knox Ky July 3 UP Col B O Davis says two negro Army Air Force officers were acquitted of disobedience charges by an all negro court martial. Second Lieuts Marsden Thompson and Roger Terry of Los Angeles freed last night. Bhisley Clinton of Freeman Field Ga ment Navy will face trial today. Incident stemmed from a Freeman Field club entry dispute between students and instructors last spring.
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Fort Knox
B. O. Davis
Godman Field
Marsden Thompson
Roger Terry
Los Aneles
Davis
Bhisley Cinton
Gameden
J. T
All
Hegrouni
Freeman Feld
vInd
Negra Flers
Freeman Field
Jap Floating Anchorage Wrecked by Corsair Lighters
Aboard an aircraft carrier off Rakishima Japan, Major Blaine H. Baesler and a Corsair unit attacked a camouflaged flotation island, mistaking it for land. After rockets and machine guns, the drifting mine island burned, two other vessels were sunk, and another island was neutralized. The raid involved Lieutenants Moss, Shipp, Mueller, McCain, and Spielder, with additional crew confirming the target’s destruction.
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Rakishima
INS
Blaine H. Baesler
Lake City
Mina
Japan
Bacsler
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