Farm Groups Clash Over Roosevelt Freeze Edict
Washington April 10 farm leaders voiced support for the presidents price and wage freeze while major farm organizations criticized the order as impossible to execute. Senator Bankhead pledged good faith support while warning against unequal treatment and noted possible moves on parity calculations and farm labor costs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Bankhead
Senate
Congress
Aiken
R-Vt
Pershing Follows World War II as If on Active Duty
Gen. John J. Pershing, year old leader of America's World War I forces, watches World War II from Walter Reed Hospital. He remains keen on day to day war developments and receives visits from Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall who seeks his strategic guidance on current military problems.
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Washington
INS
Walter Reed Hospital
John J. Pershing
America
George C. Marshall
Army
Pershing
House Aecess To Hinge on Tax Scheme
Washington April 106 The House races to Easter recess as party leaders press to break the Ways and Means deadlock on pay as you go tax legislation. Speaker Rayburn and other leaders weigh concessions while Republicans demand an open rule to allow floor amendments. New compromise proposals surface retaining withholding taxes and spreading 1942 payments over several years.
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Washington
Victory Gardens
House of Representatives
Martin
House
Rayburn
D-Tex
Doughton
D-N. C
McCormack
D-Mass
Hebert
D-La
Representative Gearhart
Calif
Newsome
Dala
Compton
R-Conn
Bell Aircraft Adopts 54 Hour Week Team Plan
Bell Aircraft announces a 54 hour six day work week for assembly teams at its Niagara Falls plant starting now. The plan keeps team members on duty together on most days to improve efficiency, with one or more off each day and Sundays closed. Fabrication workers at Buffalo are not affected.
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Bell Aircraft
Buffalo
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Niagara Falls
Myewne Pnp
Small Shops Praised for Helping Build M 7 Tank Killers
Schenectady April 10 Dun can W Fraser president of the American Locomotive Company praised small shops for their postwar training and production efforts. He noted more than 500 sub contractors and dozens of small firms aided in building the M 7 tank killer and called this democracy in action. Fraser said many subcontractors employ five to 15 workers and under 200, highlighting a vast new army of trained machinists and manufacturers.
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Albert S. Goss
National Grange
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Ezra T. Benson
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
John L. Lewis
Charles W. Holman
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Schenectady
Duncan W. Fraser
American Locomotive Company
America
Fraser
Marine Back On Stand in Train Slaying
Marine Pvt. Harold Wilson testified again in Albany Oregon in the trial of Robert E. Lee Folkes for the murder of Mrs. Martha Virginia James on a Jan 23 speeding train. Wilson described hearing a scream and seeing a man flee lower berth 13 while Folkes was seen in dining car preparing breakfast as investigators seek motive.
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Albany
Ore
Marine Pvt
Harold Wilson
Robert E. Lee Folkes
Martha Virginia James
Norfolk
Wilson
Spokane Workers Return to Await Pay Boost
In Spokane nine woodworking plants vote to return to work while awaiting a War Labor Board decision on a 7 percent hourly wage increase. 1,250 idle workers will resume operations as plants reopen starting today and Monday after a telegram from WLBE official Dean Morse saying the case was laid before Byrnes and a resolution would come soon.
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Spokane
William Ransbottom
Spokane District Council
Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union
A.F. of L
War Labor Board
Ransbottom
Dean Wayne L. Morse
WLBE
Byrnes
James F. Byrnes
Ayrcaney Industries
Hawaiian Born Japs Join Army Training Unit in Mississippi
Twenty five hundred Hawaiian born Japanese volunteers are set to train with the Army to form a new Japanese American combat team. The War Department announced their arrival last night and they will be joined in Mississippi by an equal number of Japanese Americans from the mainland. More than 10,000 applicants were screened to select the volunteers.
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San Francisco
War Department
Mississippi
Wellesley Woman Named Emma Willard Associate Head Mistress
Miss Cleme well Lay will become associate head mistress of Emma Willard School July 1, announced by the board of trustees. She formerly directed publicity at Wellesley College and served as endowment secretary. Lay will assist Miss Anne Wellington who joined from Wellesley last spring.
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Wellesley
Troy School
Troy
Clemewell Lay
Emma Willard School
Courmerly
Wellesley College
Miss Lay
Anne Wellington
Anti Racket Bill Faces Senate Battle in War Forecast
In Washington the House passed the Hobbs anti racketeering bill 270 to 107 amid clash with labor leaders who call it anti labor. Celler urged protections under Norris LaGuardia and other acts. debate warned of threats to union rights. A separate report notes over 23 000 War Department civilian deferments amid push to reform Selective Service classifications to 1 A and end 3 B.
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Washington
CPL
Congress
Senate
House
Representative Hobbs
D-Ala
Representative Celler
D-N. Y
Celler
Norris- LaGuardia
American Federation of Labor
Judiciary Committee
Walter
D-Pa
Labor
Organized Labor
Sumners
D-Tex
America
Furlong
Sadowski
D-Mich
INS
War Department
Intergovernment
Costello Committee
War Manpower , Commission
Civil Service Commission and
Selective Service
Department
War Manpower Commission
National Draft
Gas Masks Arrive for Waacs in Northwestern New York
Consignment of military issue gas masks reaches Waac personnel in the Northwestern New York Army Recruiting District. Masks arrive this week and undergo a training sequence including a gas chamber as part of the Defense Against Chemical Attack course.
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Waac
New York
Waacs
Army Doctor Calls 3 Month Trial for Inductees
Army medical officer Lt. Col. Olin B. Chamberlain urged a three month trial for new recruits to assess emotional fitness for service. Speaking at a conference, he said basic training and evaluation should occur during probation and those unable to endure would be weeded out.
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Salt Lake City
Olin B. Chamberllain
American College of Surgeons
Chamberlain
Surprise Blackout Drill Tests New Jersey Cities
Civilian defense officials in New Jersey studied last night’s surprise blackout that darkened every community. The drill began at 9 42 P M with a blue signal and ended at 10 25 P M with an audible all clear, a first under new Army regulations.
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Trenton
N. J
INS
New Jersey
Garden State
Share Ride Plan Generates Attention but No Increase in Carpooling
In Oakland on April 10 the Civilian Defense Council reviewed a Bay Area share the ride program featuring auto placards and ride-thumbing stations. After two weeks, Chief Coordinator John Marr reported average occupancy remains 1.76 persons per car, unchanged from before the system.
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Oakland
Calif
San Francisco Bay Area
Civilian Defense Council
John Marr
The
Defense Council
Senators May Share War Front Trips
Senate war investigation and Military Affairs subcommittee may rotate visits to the North Africa front. Representative Davis suggests that joint tours would ease ocean lane congestion. Chandler resists joint trips, stressing the Military Affairs Committee’s exclusive fighting program oversight.
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Washington
Senate
Davis
D-Tenn
House
Military Affairs Committee
North Africa
Truman Group
War Investigation Body
New York
Truman Committee
Military
Chandler
D-Ky
James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
Reynolds
D-N. C
War Department
Truman
Driving Mishaps Cost Lost Time in War Work
The State Motor Vehicle Bureau reports 160,563,204 lost man hours from automobile accidents in the state last year. About 40 percent affected war industry directly, enough time was lost to build 600 heavy bombers, two battleships or 8,000 trainer planes.
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Albany
State Motor Vehicle Bureau
French Held Fire as Yanks Made Landing
French sailors at Oran and Casablanca recount the quiet U S landings last November. Leaflets warned of American arrival as crowds toppled the German consulate swastika in Casablanca and mobbed the Italian armistice commission in Oran. Jean Bart crewmen refused to fire. S O L armbands were removed before shore.
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Welen Kirkpatrick
Chicago Daily News, Inc
London
Oran
Casablanca
North African
England
Charles de Gaulle
North Africa
United States
Britain
France
New Cracking Unit Boosts Aviation Gasoline Output
J Frank Drake president Gulf Oil announces completion of a Houdry catalytic cracking unit in Port Arthur Texas with Government approval. The unit speeds production of 100 octane aviation gasoline for bombers and fighters, funded by Gulf and supported by War Production Board directives.
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Port Arthur
Texas
Houdry
J. Frank Drake
Gulf Oil Corporation
War Production Board
Colgate Alumni to Aid War Bond Sale Drive
Colgate University's 18th annual alumni fund campaign opens Monday to aid War Bond sales totaling 13 billion dollars. Alumni Secretary Carlton O. Miller announced the effort aims to establish a university War Bond insurance fund for the future with H Hastings Reddall of New York directing for the third year.
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Colgate
Hamilton
Colgate University
Carlton O. Miller
H. Hastings Reddall
New York City
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