Russian Planes Halt Tank Assault Near Berlin Front
Reported June 16 from London says Russian planes repelled German tank attacks near Berak and another near Mitsensk. The Soviet front section notes 12 Russian midday communiques, hits on tanks and four German planes downed, with Russian scouts taking prisoners and killing several Germans. Reg army and other air units bombed German lines. a German train was derailed and Polish patriots reportedly destroyed a railway bridge.
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Relatives Challenge Woodward Will in Houston Suit
In Houston on June 16 7 the City National Bank was named temporary administrator of the Woodward estate valued near 10 million dollars after relatives filed suit to contest wills. The petition by brothers William Woodward Oran Woodward and sister Mrs Con M Nue argues subsequent wills revoked 1936 documents leaving assets to a grandson and to two sisters. The decedents were killed in a May 22 car train collision near D Hanis Texas.
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Texas
Fort Worth druggists honor Collier at Texas association banquet
Jacki Collier of Fort Worth, president of the Texas Pharmaceutical Association, received a pair of cowboy boots from John Seibert of San Antonio at the sixty fourth annual convention in Austin. Officers elected include John W. Allen president, Virgil Walker and F. W. Thompson as vice presidents, with Mrs. Herbert Dowd as secretary.
Negro Teachers To Get Equal Pay in Galveston Decree
Federal Judge Kennerly signed a consent decree for Galveston to achieve gradual compliance with the Supreme Court mandate that Negro teachers be paid equally with whites. The district is enjoined from racial discrimination but the order is suspended until September 1945. Negro teachers will receive one third of the pay gap now, with the remaining two thirds added in successive years.
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Tf. M. Kennerly
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United States Supreme Court
Walkout Slows Work at Plant
In Springfield on June 1, a partial walkout by part of Allis-Chalmers employees slowed production at one plant while the other ran at full capacity and a second operated with reduced force. The stoppage was voted by workers in District Act of the United Mine Workers in protest of an ALNERD ruling denying an election.
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United Mine Workers
Navy Father Sees Som Get Command
In Virginia Beach on June 18 Chief Radioman Farle O. Schnelder, U.S. Navy, proud today as his son begins a career in service. The elder Schnelder retired in 1933 after 40 years but returned to duty when war was declared. His son, now Commander Earle O. Schnelder, wears the Biliver Star and has been named commanding officer of the new submarine, with Lieutenant Commander Bernt in support.
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Schnelder
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Earle O. Sehnelder
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Governor's Wife Loses Gas Ration
Baltimore dispatch reports a special Baltimore ration board revoked Mrs. Herbert R. O Conor's personally issued gas ration book for a state car after she informed the OPA of a trip to South Carolina. The panel ruled the ration was issued in error and also canceled her three day personal ration.
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FDR Forecasts Stronger Red Ties
Moscow radio quotes President Roosevelt sending a message to Soviet leader Kalinin on the Russo American treaty anniversary. He expresses conviction that friendship and cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union will be strengthened by decisive steps to come.
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