Pay Protest at Plum Brook Ordnance Plant
About 1,800 workers at the Plum Brook ordnance plant in Sandusky joined a wage protest with a sympathy stoppage. Carpenters led the walkout, seeking double time for overtime and a raise. 2,200 other construction workers were affected indirectly. Plant officials expect 4,000 construction workers back Monday, while 1,800 had been scheduled elsewhere.
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Associated Press
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Ohio
Plum Brook
Sandusky
A. F. of
Frank Ray
Carpenters Union
Ray
Washington
L. Internationals
Ravenna Arsenal
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Ordnance Plant
Iron and Steel
Arsenals
E. B. Badger and Sons' Company
Boston
Chicago
John Coyne
A. F. of L. Executive Council
Building Trades Department
National Defense
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Gulf Coast Metal Trades District Council
Tampa
Fla
Gulf Coast
C. I. C. Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
Sidney Hillman
Office of Production Management
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Great Lakes
Atlantic Coast
C. O
Pacific Coast
OPM
Gulf Zone
Gulf
1. O. Shipbuilders
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Kearny
N. J
Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York City
Consolidated Edison Company
Hugh D. Friel
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Conte Temen Trattan Danntena i. O
Timken Roller Cearing Company
Columbus
National Steel Car Corporation
Hamilton
Ont
Barber Carves V For Victory On Navy Vet Head
Merele Schlicher, a former Navy man, asks barber George Kovacic to cut a large V on his head to show support for victory. The barber agrees and soon the radial V is shaved prominently atop Schlicher's head as he leaves the shop in Cleveland.
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Ratron Cleveland
Merele Schlicher
Navy
George
George Kovacic
Schlicher
Kovacic
Berlin says battle on as Russians suffer massive losses
Berlin reports a sweeping push against Russian forces with heavy equipment captured including 737 tanks and 1200 machine guns. Germans claim to have split Soviet lines in the south and halted a troop train near Kiev while rail gauge changes improve supply routes. Norway sends 700 volunteers from Oslo to Finland for the war effort.
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Dniester
Odessa
Leningrad
Kiev
Germany
Russia
Norway
Oslo
Finland
60 000 Nazis Annihilated Reds Claim Front Actions
The Soviet communique reports heavy but not decisive action as German forces attempt a push along the Smo lensk front. The 137th Division was rushed to stem the Soviet advance but was cut off and pummeled as encirclement closed. Moscow endures a ninth air raid with limited penetration. The 99th Division praised for piercing German lines and opening gaps for flanking attacks. Soviet tank crews claim destruction of German units and immobilized tanks repurposed as pillboxes amid oil shortages. Russia calls Sunday a vosk resnik day to aid war effort with rail labor funding.
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Red Army
Moscow
99Th Division
99Th
Russia
Bail Frees Men Accused by Model in Westchester
Robert Decker and John March posted bail of 2500 each after being charged with assaulting 17 year old model Claire Beringer and with rape claims. The men, from Miami and Pelham Manor, await Westchester grand jury action next week as details of the auto mobile incident and country club dance emerge.
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Yonkers
Robert Decker
Miami
Fla
John March
Pelham Manor
Liberty
Westchester Grand Jury
Decker
Claire Beringer
March
Nazi Girls to Serve In War Aid Corps
German girls must spend a half year in auxiliary war service after six months in the Reich Labor Service. The decree also orders an increase of feminine conscripts to 130,000 by October 1, with the current strength around 100,000.
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Berlin
Reich Labor Service
Molly O Daniel and Husband Honeymoon in New York City
Molly O Daniel Wrather daughter of Governor O Daniel Texas and her husband Jack Wrather oil executive were honeymooning in New York after their Austin wedding. They planned sightseeing from a Fifth Avenue bus to Radio City Times Square Central Park and more and would depart Monday for Washington to see Governor O Daniel sworn in as senator followed by three weeks in California.
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Molly O’daniel Wrather
W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
Jack Wrather
Wrathers
Austin
Molly
Wrather
Fifth Avenue
Radio City
Times Square
Central Park
the Aquarium
Empire State Building
Chinatown
Washington
O’daniel
California
Churchill to Speak on War in Commons Statement
London sources say Prime Minister Winston Churchill will deliver a detailed war statement to the House of Commons soon. He is expected to review the conflict's course, declare Britain's position, and discuss aid to Russia as well as Japan and possible German moves.
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Churchill
London
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Russia
Japan Seeks to Maintain Grip as U S Bans Oil to Japan
Reports from Vladivostok say the United States embargo on aviation gasoline to Japan increases pressure while Japan denies seeking military bases in Thailand. Papers critique Sumner Welles and discuss implications for Asia, Malaya, and Dutch East Indies, with calls for self sufficiency in the Western Pacific.
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Vladivostok
United States
Japan
Germany
London
Foreign Office
Japan Times and Advertiser
Sumner Welles
Pacific
Feen
Malaya
South America
Nichi Nichi
Thailand
Jap Transports Stream To New Saigon Base
Japanese transports continued arriving at Saigon in an endless stream. Troops trucks horses bombs and gasoline flowed ashore as aviation fuel stocks surprised observers. Warplanes lined the airport awaiting hangar space while troops moved inland to garrison towns.
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Saigon
Indo-China
Manchuria
Chinese Claim Japs Already in Thailand
Foreign Minister Quo Tai-Chi said Japan’s spearhead is in Thailand as aggression extends southward. He urged the Netherlands Britain and the United States to tighten an economic noose on Japan, stating the sooner the better.
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Chungking
China
Quo Tai-Chi
Thailand
Siam
Japan Seeks Bases and Materials in Thailand Amid Pressure
Tokyo probes Thai cooperation in the so called co prosperity sphere demanding bases and control of rubber rice and tin with offers to restore Laos and Angkor. Reports say pressure builds near Bangkok as Japanese planes mass in Cambodia and tension rises for crisis within a month. In China Japan tightens curbs on American trade and blocks licenses at Tientsin and Chefoo while prices rise in Peiping for staples. Marjorie Harvey 16 Kenmore was killed in a collision with a truck near Buffalo with four others injured.
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Tokyo
Thailand
Japan
London
Laos
Angkor
Indo
China
Cambodia
Thai
Bangkok
Chefoo
Swatow
Tientsin
Federated Reserve Bank
Russia will surprise world say former U S Moscow envoy
Joseph E Davies former United States ambassador to Moscow says Russia will be Germanys featherbed it is easy to enter and hard to exit he adds Russia has just begun to surprise the world including Germany in a Chicago interview last night
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Russia
U.S
Chicago
Joseph E. Davies
United States
Moscow
Germany
Silk Substitutes Sought as Silk Supply Tightens
The United States tightens controls on silk and oil to Japan amid war effort. Leon Henderson raises price ceilings and suspends silk trade while nylon and rayon ramp up. Government orders limit silk hosiery production and push substitutes. workers face displacement and calls to conserve stock.
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NYK
U.S
Japan
Tokyo
New York Commodity Exchange
Leon Henderson
OPM
Henderson
OMP
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers’ Union
United States
Defense
R. E. McConnell
Conservation Division
McConnell
Harriet Elliott
Japan Faces Oil Embargo Crisis and US Controls
The Roosevelt order tightens export controls on petroleum products including aviation fuels. Licenses will be issued on pre war quantities for non aircraft fuels, with bans on exports outside the Western Hemisphere except to Britain, Russia, and China. The move aims to curb Japanese fuel access amid tension over Indo China and the Burma Road.
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Japan
Western Hemisphere
British Empire
Russia
China
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
Indo-China
Sumner Welles
South Pacific
United States
Burma Road
Export Control Administration
Commerce Department
Yangtze River
E. Degolyer
Dallas
Texas
Oil Authority
Nationl Petroleum Association
Mexico
Venezuela
Britain
State Department
Arrest Imminent In Slaying Of Frances Cochran
Lynn police chief said a suspect in the slaying of 19 year old Frances Cochran was believed to be arrested soon. The battered body was found two weeks earlier near a lokiery lane at the Salem Swampscott line. Police had focused on a man who left with Cochran from her escort but identity had not been released.
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Lynn
Mass
Pretty Frances Cochran
Edward D. Callahan
Lokiery Lane
Salem-Swampscott
Callahan
Moth Balls End Raids on Garden by Hungry Deer
In Warroad Minnesota ranger Wayne Henderson tried a 10 cent moth ball remedy to deter deer raiding his vegetable garden. He scattered a dime worth of moth balls around the plot and reports crops remaining for picking after the method proved effective.
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Warroad
Minn
State Forest
Wayne Henderson
Bucking bronco tale and concert rumpus in brief
Fred C. Tatton tried biting a donkey's ears to stop a bucking mount and was knocked down, hospitalized after the incident in California. Eugene Zeibler asked about service pistol notches, a sergeant called them bullseyes during target practice in camp. Philadelphia Orchestra caused a stir with the Hut Sut Song encore after a Robin Hood Dell concert, responding to criticism of neglecting contemporary music.
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Marysville
Calif
Fred C. Tatton
Tatton
Camp Robinson
Ark
Eugene Zeibler
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Orchestra
Robin Hooddell
Farmer Bernard Wendt crashes after long drive and injuries
Detroit Lakes Minnesota August 2 farmer Bernard Wendt aged 56 drove a 1941 model car 160 feet before crashing into a tree. He and five others including the car salesman were injured. Wendt described the scene from a hospital bed saying things happened awfully fast.
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Detroit Lakes
Minn
Bernard Wendt
Wendt
Mexican Bloc Demands Ouster of Nazi Minister in Mexico
In Mexico City a coalition of senators and deputies plans to urge President Camacho to expel German Minister Rud von Collenberg Boedigheim for his protest note against the U S blacklist of pro Axis firms. They say the note insults Mexican sovereignty and merits persona non grata status. Chile warns of possible gasoline rationing due to tanker shortages between Chile and the United States.
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Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
Rud von Collenberg-Boedigheim
Collenberg- Boedigheim
United States
Latin America
Senate
Camacho
Universal
Germany
Europe
America
Ultimas Noticias
Sumner Welles
Washington
Wide Margin For Selectee Bill In Senate Vote Outlook
In Washington on August 2, Senators backed extending Army service for selectees Guardsmen and reserves to beyond one year with a potential two and a half year total under a bipartisan Military Committee plan. Taft challenged the measure proposing six extra months for selectees and a longer period for guardsmen. A House-Senate conference approved freeing selectees 28 or older from the Army as private citizens, while striking a provision giving the President power to seize defense plants during labor disruptions.
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Washington
Senate
House
Thomas
Utah
Military Committee
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Wheeler
D-Mont
Vandenberg
R-Mich
House Military Committee
Roosevelt
George C. Marshall
Senate House
Joint Committee
Anti German Riots On Belgian Independence Day
On July 21 Belgium’s independence day anti German demonstrations spread across Nazi occupied areas with street fighting in Brussels and other cities. Protestors paraded in major boulevards shouting insults at Nazis and Belgian fifth columnists as German authorities criticized police for not dispersing the crowds.
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Belgium
Brussels
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