Navy authorizes clasps and stars to indicate battles
Navy announces authorization for wear of campaign clasps and bronze stars on the service ribbon to mark participation in major WWII campaigns. Citizens are informed of clasp series for Central Pacific Asiatic and Pacific battles including Pearl Harbor Wake Island Makassar Straits Midway and Guadalcanal among others, with later citations for Cape Esperance and Santa Cruz Islands.
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Washington
Navy Department
Central Pacitie
Asiatic
Corregidam- Bataan
Atewian Islands
New Orimea
Northwest Africa
Pearl Harbor
Wake Island
Makassar Straits
Lombok
Marcus
Crab Sea
Midway
Kinoraid
Work Halt at Canadian Ford Plant in Windsor
About 15,000 United Automobile Workers members halted production at Ford Motor Company of Canada in Windsor in a sit-down protest over alleged speed-up orders. The stoppage began with 5,000 day shift workers and spread to all shifts, prompting a police request and conciliator Louis Fine to travel from Ontario to broker a settlement.
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Windsor
Ont
CUP
United Automobile Workers
C.lq
Ford Motor Company of Canada
Dominion
Roy Enghind
U.alw.c.l
No. 2
Land 4
Georgia Pen Clean-up Is Mighty Task
A state legislative committee details the Piney Woods prison riot at the Marble penitentiary where 25 inmates seized control, hacked bars, and looted liquor and narcotics. Leaders Harv ey and Turner remained at large as guards were overpowered and a prison truck and official car driven off during the breakout. The new warden H R Duvall is credited with uncovering the scope of corruption and beginning reforms.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Piney Woods
Marble
Ellis Arnall
Leland Harvey
Forrest Turner
Claude Pittman
H. R. Duvall
Duvall
Malone Aviator C J Thompson Graduates At Seymour Johnson
C. J. Thompson of Bloomingdale known as Malone Aviator is graduated from the Army Air Force Technical School for Specialists at Seymour Johnson Field North Carolina. He enlisted November 13 1942 and trained as an aviation mechanic at Atlantic City New Jersey. He will be sent to another field for further specialized training.
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C. J. Thompson
Malone
Bloomingdale
Corp
Oakley John Thompson
Oakley Thompson
Army Air Force Technical School
Seymour Johnson Field
N. C
Thompson
Atlantic City
N. J
Have Faith in Democracy Soldier Writes Unborn Child
Montgomery Alabama April 23 CAP Aviation Cadet Robert A Keyworth of Norwalk Connecticut awaiting the birth of his child with the belief that a soldier must face death. He directs his unborn son to have faith in democracy and notes true freedom emerged only after America entered the war. Keyworth, at Maxwell Field, writes while his wife Dorothy Reeves Keyworth once of Heights town New Jersey waits for the baby. His letter was published by the Maxwell Field publication Prediight.
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Montgomery
Ala
Robert A. Keysworth
Norwalk
Conn
Keyworth
America
Maxwell Field
Prediight
Health Panel Denies Extra Diabetic Ration Points Appeal
New York April 23 A panel of the district Office of Price Administration considers a 65 year old diabetic woman's request for 1 823 ration points a month beyond the standard allotment. Her physician backed the diet plan including bacon meat bread eggs milk cream and alcohol but 93 cans of chicken broth would be excluded by Dr Maximilian Ramirez panel member and NY County Medical Society president.
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OPA
New York
District Office of Price Administration
Maximilian Ramirez
New York County Medical Society
English railway workers strike over missing waker men
Employees halted work after the company withdrew its wakers men who woke railway staff for shifts. Unable to replace these human alarm clocks with metal devices, the workers walked off, disrupting service.
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