Bethlehem Steel Walkout Cuts Open Hearths at Johnstown Plant
CIO led protest at Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown over ballot boxes in ERP faction plans. About 5,000 of 15,000 workers reportedly walked out with gates manned by pickets. ERP fight persists despite court orders, while several open hearths and mills were down or delayed.
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CIO
Bethlehem Steel Steel
Sieieeienay
Walter Anderson
Employes Representation Plan
A For
Pos Iatacee
Anderson
James Gent
Swwoc
National Labor Relations Board
Circuit Court of Appeals
Bethlehem
Gent
Andrson
Gautier
Oast
Bethnehem
Little Steel
George H. Mare
National Guard
Hoffman Bill Proposes Military Action to End Work Stoppages
A House measure by Rep Huaman would mobilize troops to end defense work stoppages by holding a quick vote at the strike site on whether to return to work. If the majority says yes, an army commander ensures resumed production. Violators could face prison or fines. A federal mediation board for defense disputes is planned with Willkie and Baruch linked as potential members.
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Associated Press
Congress
Huiman
R-Mich
Justice Department
Rturn
Federal Mediation Board
Defense Industries
White House
Labor
Perking
Sidney Hillman
Associa
Office of Production Management
Wendell Willkie
Bernard Baruch
New York
Washington
Wright Field
Army Aviation Center
Dayton
Ohio
CIO Threatens To Strike At East Boston Shipyard
The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America CIO said it notified federal officials that failed negotiations with Bethlehem Steel at the East Boston shipyard have led its executive board to authorize action to reach a settlement. The yard has 700 workers in ship repairs. Bethlehem Steel officials declined to comment.
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Boston
A_ shipbuilding workers’ union
Bethlehem Steel Company
East Boston
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
CIO
Defense
Sidney Hillman
Car Hits Truck on Turnpike in Somerset Interchange
Miss Esther C. Montgomery of Souderton drove east on the Pennsylvania turnpike when her coach collided with a maintenance truck driven by Ira Lafferty of R D 5 east of the Somerset interchange at 8 05 Monday morning. The impact caused $40 damage to the Montgomery car. the truck sustained no damage.
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Esther C. Montgomery
Souderton
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Somerset
Ira Lafferty
Mrs. Lulu Hostetler Named Recorder of Deeds for Somerset
Mrs Lulu Getty Hostetler of Meyersdale was appointed recorder of deeds for Somerset County to succeed her late husband Eugene C Hostetler who died February 16. Governor James appointed her and the Senate unanimously confirmed 44 to 0. She serves until January 1 1942 and the post will then be filled by election.
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Lulu G. Hostetler
Meyersdale
Somerset County
Eugene C. Hostetler
Arthur H. James
State Senate
Harrisburg
W. H. Beachy
William S. Livengood, Jr
Hostetler
Ofice
Mr. Hostetler
George A. Carr
Hazel McGilvery
Alice Hostetler
Ethel Miller
Louise
Walter Campbell
Greensburg
Eleanor
Hubert Newman
Salisbury
Alice
Senate
Somerset American
Dies probe under Geltz bill in Pennsylvania senate
March 17 report from Harrisburg states Republican leadership in the Pennsylvania Senate seeks a state Dies committee to probe un American activities. Senator James A. Geltz proposes a nine member panel to thoroughly investigate matters hindering national defense, with appointments by the governor, speaker, and president pro tempore. The House had earlier considered a four by three panel to study un American propaganda and a similar Defense of American Freedom Commission plan.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Pennsylvania
James A. Geltz
Allegheny County
House
Geltz
Commonwealth
Defense of American Freedom Commission
Bremen In Flames Aboard Nazi Liner Bremen
Fire raged aboard the German liner Bremen worth 20 million dollars near its home port Berlin. The cause was undetermined with reports suggesting a British air raid. The ship had a storied Atlantic dash and returned to a German port after escaping Allied forces.
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Berlin
Bremen
Germany
DNB
British Broadcasting Corporation
New York
CBS
RAF
Hamburg
Poland
U. S
Washington
Murmansk
Salmon
Norway
Germany deploys sixteen divisions toward Bulgaria and Greece
Belgrade dispatch reports Germany moving about 240000 troops toward Bulgaria’s Green frontier as Bulgaria stocks to feed Nazi forces. British expeditionary forces in Greece grow to about 90000, while Turkey eyes possible support. Greece, Yugoslavia, and Romania tighten travel curbs to aid the war effort.
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Robert ST. John
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Germany
Bulgaria
Greece
Hungary
Romania
Connecon
Bulgarian Food Ministry
Rumania
Airtclion
Ismet Inonu
Puehrer
Adolf Hitler
Turkey
Naz
Hitler
Yugolavia
Miller Guilty Of Conspiracy
Uniontown reports a 63 year old Brownsville spiritist Clayton Miller convicted on conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder in an insurance for murder plot aimed at tavern keeper Albert Santelli. Jury verdict followed by anticipated sentencing and forfeiture of Miller bail.
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Brownsville
Albert Santelli
Uniontown
Clayton Miller
H. S. Dumbauld
Miller
Amelia Santelli
York Run
Archie “Red” Negleman
Greene County
Santelli
$13 000 000 For Guam And Samoa
President Roosevelt approved a supplemental appropriation of 1 533 000 000 for the army and navy including about 13 000 000 for development of naval bases at Guam and Samoa. The bill provides 1 376 464 602 in outright appropriations split between services for expansion of camps cantonments and aviation expansion in the Panama Canal Zone.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Guam
Samoa
Roosevelt
Panama Canal Zone
Zimmerman Jailed On Fornication and Bastardy Charge
Harry Zimmerman, 36, of Stoystown RD 1 was committed to the county jail Monday on an information charging fornication and bastardy filed before Justice H. S. Whipperman of North Center Avenue.
Sisters Sent To Muncy School
Two sisters pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder in Waynesburg and were sentenced to 2 to 5 years and 2 to 4 years at the Muncy state industrial school for women. Mrs. Otis Cumberledge and Mrs. Elizabeth Pettit turned state's evidence in the attempted murder of Ada Headley, 44, wife of a gas field worker, who survived five bullet wounds and later died by suicide.
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Waynesburg
State Industrial School For Women
Muncy
Otis Cumberledge
Elizabeth Pettit
Ada Hubb Headley
Pine Bank
Challen W. Waychoff
Cumberledge
Pettit
Headley
W. Robert Thompson
Britain Warns Axis Rome Will Suffer If Athens Is Bombed
The British warned the Axis that bombing Athens would provoke a retaliatory bombing of Rome. Vatican channels reportedly conveyed the threat, with Rome or Athens having seen no major bombardment so far. British undersecretary Butler cited London targets and Italian air activity from Chan nel bases as context.
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Rome
Axis
Athens
Ood
Vatican
Italy
Greece
Piraeus
Rome Radio
R. A. Butler
Berbera Reoccupied by British Forces in Somaliland
British troops and air support retook Berbera, capital of British Somaliland, by sea landing and armored car aid. The move links to Ethiopia Eritrea campaigns, enabling faster supply lines to a British column toward Jijiga and Harar, while Cheren measures press the Italian front near Asmara.
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London
Channel
Rome
France
Cheren
Albania
CBS
New York
Ime
Tepelini
Alma
Cairo
Berbera
British Somaliland
Royal Air Force
Somaliland
Agaist Jijiga
Harar
Ethiopia
Italy
Ber’vera
Kadan
Sire
Eritrea
Asmara
U.S.Newsman In Nazi Hands
Berlin reports Jay Allen, correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance, was arrested by German military officials for attempting to re cross the Paris to unoccupied France demarcation line without proper papers. Another American was arrested with him. The U.S. embassy in Paris declined to take diplomatic steps after investigation.
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Berin
DNB
Paris
Jay Allen
Alliance
France
NANA
New York
Allen
Vichy
United States
U S Seeks To Aid Hottelet in Berlin Detention
The American embassy in Berlin urged the German foreign office to allow a staff member to visit Richard C. Hottelet an American correspondent held by the German secret police. The embassy also asked that he be allowed to engage counsel. Hottelet a United Press reporter was arrested Saturday on suspicions of espionage.
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Washington
Berlin
Richard C. Hottelet
State Department
Hottelet
United Press
DNB
Murray Calls Unions to Defend Bridges
President Philip Murray of the CIO urged all unions to defend Harry Bridges against deportation to Australia on a charge of communism. Bridges leads CIO longshoremen and Murray warned labor cannot idle witness persecution of its leaders or members.
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Murray
Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
Harry Bridges
Australia
Bridges
Unen
Mussolini Personally Directed Albania Offensive, Greek Reports Say
Greek sources claim Mussolini arrived in Albania March 3 and directed the spring offensive through March 7 before the operation collapsed. They report Italian losses of 40 to 50 percent in the 20 mile front, 25,000 to 30,000 casualties in a week, six hospital ships evacuating wounded, and widespread Albanian hospital conversions.
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Athens
Almocom
Italy
Conigatti
Bon Mussolini
Albania
Seventh Army
Viosa
Mount
Comoros
Figh Ing
Orthiery Werances
Mussolini
Supreme Council
Spa
King George II Thanks Greek Army For Defeating Italian Offense
Athens reports King George II expressed personal thanks to the Greek army for a smashing blow against Mussolini directed offensive in Albania. He praised Greek feats of arms and linked victory to Marathon and Thermopylae, saying the army showed granite will against enemy tanks.
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Athens
George II
Greece
Mussolini
Albania
George
King George
Marathon
Turk Radio Praises Roosevelt Speech Amid War Coverage
In Ankara on March 17, Turkish radio praised President Roosevelt's aid Britain speech as the largest in scale since the war began. It dismissed Hitler's Sunday talk as routine, noting he repeated Versailles terms and barely lifted Italian morale.
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Ankara
Turkey
Roosevelt
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
German sailors arrive at Fort Stanton New Mexico
More than 300 German sailors from the scuttled liner Columns arrived at Fort Stanton in Sierra Blanca foothills in a snow storm. They traveled by special train from San Francisco to Carrizozo and by bus through Lincoln National Forest to the marine hospital reservation, smiling as locals waved.
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Fort Stanton
N. M
CCC
Sierra Blanca
San Francisco
Carrizozo
Lincoln National Forest
Fort Stanton Marine Hospital Reservation
Nazi submarine threat rumored near American shores in Atlantic waters
A rumored Nazi U-boat is said to be en route to operate near the U.S. coast, possibly within the Pan American neutrality zone, as Washington weighs lend lease aid to Britain amid mounting tensions and war warnings. The report cites intercepted messages and remarks from Senator Wheeler, with no official confirmation from U.S. departments. Historic context recalls similar wartime submarine incursions such as the 1916 Deutschland visit to Norfolk.
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Washington
United States
Atlantic
Britain
State Department
White House
Navy
Wheeler
Army
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Reich
Germany
Europe
Norfolk
Somerset Daily Weather Report Summary
Daily weather summary by David Grove reports a 24 hour period from Sunday 5:30 pm to Monday 5:30 pm. The record notes a maximum 52 and minimum 21 with 2.2 inches of precipitation. Details on snowfall and other measurements are incomplete in the OCR text.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
West Virginia and Mid-Atlantic Fair Weather Outlook
Forecasts show generally fair skies in West Virginia with gradually rising temperatures Tuesday afternoon. Western Pennsylvania and Maryland expect fair, cold conditions Tuesday with snow flurries in the north and a warmer, fair Wednesday.
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West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Portion
Maryland
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