Strikes, Defense Talks Highlight War Time Labor Turmoil
United labor actions dominate the holiday period as 1,500 AFL trades strike at Jefferson Barracks delaying Army Air Corps training for 11,825 recruits. Other stoppages target the Trona chemical plant and Connecticut brass works while mediation and federal efforts avert broader walkouts.
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St. Louis
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Trona
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Alton
Federal Conciliation Service
Connecticut
American Brass Company
Trenapotash
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
High A. F. of L
Mediation Board
A. F. of L. Chemical Workers Union
Reynolds Schedules Senate Panel On Property Seizure Bills
Chairman Reynolds announces he has summoned the Senate Military Affairs Committee to decide Tuesday on two property seizure bills from the War Department. Most members back Patterson’s compromise, while others plan a push for the original, harsher measure amid the debate.
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Washington
INS
D-N. C
Senate Military Affairs Committee
War Department
Patterson
Gondar Expected to Fall as Debra Tabor Surrenders
British sources say Gondar in northern Ethiopia is poised to fall after Debra Tabor's unconditional surrender of Italian and native troops. Debra Tabor, about 90 miles from Gondar, marked a decisive blow with around 4,200 defenders. The Gondar force size remained unestimated.
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Egypt
Cuty
Gondar
Ethiopia
Debra Tabor
Middle East
Court of Peers To Try Children For Mild Mischief
Kokomo Indiana July 4 four children charged with minor misdeeds will face a Court of their peers. City Judge William Naftzger and Sgt Carl Smith set up the Children s Court naming a high school boy and girl to preside its jurisdiction not iron clad. Youngsters may go to Judge Naftzger or appeal. The court is an experimental approach to juvenile delinquency.
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Ind
William Naftzger
Sergt. Carl Smith
Police Juvenile Division
Naftzger
War production cuts loom for civilians in 1944 plan
Friday, July 4, 1944 Syracuse Herald Journal reports a potential 50 percent drop in civilian auto and truck output. Officials press War Department to speed new material contracts, renegotiate existing deals, and expand facilities. The plan calls for earlier deliveries, larger labor forces, and two to three shifts.
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Twax
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Yee Ee Rence
War Department
Army Outlay Of 5 Billions More Planned
Washington July 4 The administration plans to ask Congress for a supplemental appropriation near 5 billion dollars to equip an Army of 3 million men. Funds would double or triple orders for tanks heavy artillery anti tank guns and ammunition as production expands. Defense costs would exceed 55 billion dollars and rise further once cantonments uniforms subsistence and pay are added. The move accompanies talks on a new lend lease program and reflects a broader push to mobilize industry for defense.
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Germany
Russia
Siberia
OPM
William S. Knudsen
Shaw Admits Error Over Nazi Russian War Prediction
G B Shaw said in the New Statesman that he had blundered about Hitler and Russia. He noted his Munich era forecast that Hitler would not attack, and admitted losing his infallibility while apologizing to readers.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Fuehrer
Hitler
Shaw
The
New Statesman
Russia
Munich
Europe
Britain
Elmira Glider Meet Marred by Mists in Chemung Valley
Heavy mists in Chemung Valley dampened the Elmira glider meet the U S reported Inde pendence Day flights kept to a minimum. Lyman Wiard of Ypsilanti Michigan flew 10 miles to Corning and Ed Laine of Detroit reached Addison twenty miles away after climbing to 3000 feet. Most takeoffs yesterday aimed toward Buffalo where thermal currents were described as fair.
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Ypsilanti
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Youths injured in alleged stolen car crash in Marcellus
Deputies investigated an automobile crash in Marcellus in which two youths, believed to have been driving a stolen car, were injured when the vehicle left the road and crashed into a ditch. One youth escaped before deputies arrived. Deputy Thomas Cooper took into custody one youth as the other fled the scene along the highway.
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Marcellus
Thomas Cooper
Surplus in Budget Hailed by Moffat Albany
Assembly ways and means chairman Abbot Low Moffat praised Governor Lehman for a seven million dollar surplus in the State treasury. He urged a sound pay as you go policy to finance expenditures and conserve New York State credit amid postwar economic concerns and the expected need for extensive public works.
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Albany
Abbot Low Moffat
Assembly
Ways and Means Committee
Lehman
New York
City Republican
Trio of Kennard Brothers Marry Evans Sisters in LA
Carter Kennard 27 wed Stella Evans 19 last night. Months earlier Stamey Kennard married Mary Evans and Clarence Kennard married Frances Evans confirming a three brother six year union with the Evans sisters in Los Angeles.
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Kennard
Evans
Carter Kennard
Stella Evans
Stamey Kennard
Mary Evans
Clarence Kennard
Frances Evans
French Troops Seen Heading for Syria
Ankara July 3 French forces were sighted boarding ships in Sal onika en route to Syria amid reports of a regiment joining the colonial army against the Free French British invasion of Lebanon and Syria. British sources noted continued reinforcement of the French air force flying from North Africa and France via Greece and the Dodecanese. A Soviet plane carrying eight British officials left Ankara for Moscow and returned with wireless instructions. its mission arrived from Cairo last night. The British and Russian ambassadors in Turkey discussed Near East interests.
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Cairo
Sergei Vinogradoff
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
Near East
British Planes Raid Beirut Three Times at Night
British planes raided Beirut three times last night dropping bombs that set six houses afire and wounded six persons. The action occurred in Beirut, Syria, with reports attributed to the Associated Press.
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Beirut
Syria
British Tanks Forced Back Near Tobruk Says Italian High Command
Rome reports British tanks thrusting outside Tobruk defenses in Libya were repulsed by Fascist fire. Italian planes bombed fortifications and a railroad center near Matruh. Tripoli was raided by British aircraft and Bengal region targets suffered bombing. Casualties and civilian damage acknowledged.
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Tobruk
Libya
Matruh
Egypt
Tripoli
Wooden Cross Honors Padre of the Desert
In Kern County California a simple white wooden cross marks the spot where Father J J Crowley known as The Desert Padre died in a 1940 automobile crash while en route to a Mass at a CCC camp. His 11 000 square mile parish was famed as the world’s largest. At his Lone Pine funeral near Mt Whitney 3000 mourners filled the streets.
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California
Kern County
Father Crowley
Desert
CCC
Lone Pine
Mt. Whitney
United States
Iran Balks Over Allied Troop Passage
Tehran reports that Britain and Soviet Russia sought permission to move troops through Iran but the government remains firmly determined to maintain absolute neutrality.
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Rome
Il Messaggero
Tehran
Great Britain
Soviet
Russia
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