Edison Raps U S Control Of Shipyard
Edison opposes the government taking over the strikebound Kearny New Jersey shipyard amid talks with Navy and Defense leaders. Gov. Charles Edison urges restraint as labor and capital resist nationalization. The CIO Local backs government takeover despite the strike. The article also notes major wage strike activity in Army contract plants and looming defense industry labor tensions.
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Associated Press
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Kearny, N. J
Navy
Asanemara
Borndomf
Edison
Knox
Peter Flynn
Ci.o
Defense Mediation Board
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Canton
C.I.O
War Department
Joe
North American Aviation Corporation
Inglewood
Calif
A. F of L. International Association of Machinists
Curtiss-Wright
Caldwell
N. J
C.S.O. United Automobile Workers
Allentown
Mack Truck Company
C.so.uaw
Ampco
Strike prompts Detroit plant move to Michigan
Rural workers adopt a resolution opposing plant relocation from Detroit to Greenville Michigan after Detroit union leader Harry Weaver warns against letting big city companies seek cheap labor. Defence Mediation Board reports wage increases totaling about 5 million 600 annually for 20 000 Armour and Company workers with a master contract for 15 plants. Tren ton Nova Scotia Steel plant halted by a 1 000 worker strike among 1 500 employees guarding naval shell production. Negotiations continue on a cost of living bonus.
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Rural Implement
Detroit
Greenville
Mich
Harry Weaver
Defense Mediation Board
Armour and Company
Trenton
Nova Scotia
State Guardsmen To Get Training In New Camp
Oneida Aug. 18 Capt Harold J Dowling and First Lieut Paul E Froass of Company G State Guard leave Sunday by car for Camp Smith Peekskill to join other officers of the Third Regiment headquartered in Syracuse for a week of training under Army officers.
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Oneida
Harold J. Dowling
Paul E. Froass
State Guard
Camp Smith
Peekskill
Syracuse
Roosevelt Cruise Mystery Deepens In Atlantic Voyage
The Roosevelt Potomac cruise stretches into August with cryptic updates and missing officials. Churchill Hopkins Marshall Stark and Knox are unaccounted for as the president sails remote northern waters amid rumors of high level talks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
North Atlantic
London
Churchill
Ielse
New London
Conn
Potomac
Ross T. McIntire
Edwin M. Watson
John R. Beardall
Mall
Lord Beaverbrook
United States
Commons
Harry Hopkins
Moscow
Hopkins
Atlantic
Navy
Commander In Chief
Atlantic Fleet
George C. Marshall
Harold R. Stark
Henry H. Arnold
Frank Knox
Knox
New England
Sumner Welles
James H. Burns
Welles
Calypso
Woman Reduces Weight Under Medical Supervision
A 35 year old woman whose weight reached 419 percent of normal shed 300 pounds in 18 months under careful medical supervision. Dr James J Short of New York reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that the process was safe, with nine months in a nursing home.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical
James J. Short
New York
War Today Extended Note On Allied Strategy In War
The report discusses U S negotiations for an air base in Brazil to counter a Nazi move on Dakar. It notes French resistance under Petain and Weygand’s possible stance, plus Hitler’s Ukraine drive toward Odessa. It outlines Budyonny’s forces, the Dniester region, and Hitler’s aim to reach the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus for oil.
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United States
Brazil
Dakar
South Atlantic
Weygand
Vichy
Germany
France
Petain
Hitler
Ukraine
Berlin
Odessa
Black Sea
Marshal Budyonny
Bug
Dniester
Moscow
Dnieper
Budyonny
Russia
Caspian Sea
Caucasus
Near East
Methodist Parley Rescheduled for Central New York Conf
The Central New York Conference of the Methodist Church moves to September 24 in Oneida replacing September 25 in Cazenovia. Bishop Charles Wesley Flint also shifts the Genesee Conference to October 8 from October 2. The meetings will be at the Asbury-Delaware Church in Buffalo.
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Central New York
The
Methodist Church
Oneida
Cazenovia
Charles Wesley Finit
Finit
Genesee Conference
Asbury-Delaware Methodist Church
Buffalo
Bishop Flint
Ralph Stoody
Methodist Church Commission
Cosmn
Wavell Urges Safe India In First India Broadcast
General Sir Archibald Wavell in his inaugural broadcast as British commander in India urged continued effort to prevent enemy action on Indian soil. He praised Indian troops in Middle East campaigns and noted 750000 Indian personnel under arms with rapid recruitment. he also clarified British losses were higher in proportion, and Indian casualties accounted for 15 percent of British imperial losses in the Middle East from 1940 to 1941.
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Bombay
Archibald P. Wavell
India
Iran
Afghanistan
Burra
Grandma Offers To Go To Draft Camp For Youth
Indianapolis August 13 two letters enliven Indiana selective service headquarters The Marion County brandmother offered to go to a camp instead of her grandson She can cook I can sew I could help with the washing Please let me go The other letter from a wife wished her draftee husband had been sent to Alaska or far-off place instead of Fort Knox across the river The piece notes a separate card from Mile Wee s Re Doar iolere and mentions CPL Farmer James Gift at Macomb Illinois describing money found in a hog lot noted as folding money
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Indianapolis
Indiana Selective Service Headquarters
Marion County
Mile
Alaska
Fort Knox
Housewives Report Peddler Ring Runs Slick Scam
Seattle residents recount a scam where a smooth talking peddler calls offering no peg or agents signs then returns with household gadgets. A wallet is chewed and money scattered as he shifts to new ploys, highlighting a pattern of clever distraction and quick exchanges.
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Seattle
Wash
Soldier Shaves In Parade Truck In Front Of Civilians
Brig. Gen. Lous A. Ledbetter oversees the 45th Division as it rolls by, when a soldier in one truck is seen calmly shaving, drawing a gasp from onlookers in Longview Texas on August 13.
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Longview
Tex
Lous A. Ledbetter
45Th
Patrolman Tags Car. Believes It Is Nonsense
Rookie Patrolman Emil Kluge tagged a car parked overtime in Belleville. The owner, Walter Magin, a two year police member, admitted guilt and paid a total of 3.40 dollars. Magin remarked he would pay up.
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Belleville
Emil] Kluge
Rae
Walter Magin
Polie Department
Kluge
Magin
Thieves Loot Robert Jones' Store in Philadelphia
Looters backed a truck to the storefront in Philadelphia on August 1 and plundered Robert Jones' store. Police pursued suspects as witnesses described the apparent organized burglary.
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Philadelphia
Robert Jones
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