Lewisframes UMW Return to AFL Ford Ford
John L. Lewis and five UMW executives joined AFL vice presidents to discuss the UMW bid to rejoin the AFL amid jurisdiction disputes with existing AFL unions in coal operations. Talks cover wage agreements and government controls with further sessions planned to resolve portal to portal pay issues.
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AFL
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor Today
State Chiefs Attend Wallace Last Rites in Schenectady
Governor Dewey led state leaders at a requiem for Lt. Gov. Thomas W. Wallace. The 43 year old Republican died of pneumonia six and a half months after taking office, traced to a chicken pox infection from his children. A private burial followed at Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery.
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Schenectady
Dewey
Thomas W. Wallace
St. John the Evangelist
Edmund Gibbons
Albany
Lester C. Higbee
State Senate
Gov. Wallace
Joe R. Hanley
William S. King
State Assembly
Fourth Judicial District
Oswald D. Heck
Irving M. Ives
Irwin Steingut
Abbot Low Moffat
Ways and Means
Wallace
State Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Edwin F. Jaeckle
Onondaga County
Rollin B. Marvin
Harold S. Schaff
OPA Cuts Cabbage and Lettuce Prices Nationwide
The Official Price Administration ordered price reductions of 23 percent for cabbage and 30 percent for lettuce at wholesale receiving points and to retailers. The move aims to curb excessive fresh fruit and vegetable prices with reductions reflected in consumer costs through established markups.
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OPA
Washington
Bookmaking Pupils Prove to Be Police Arrested Teacher
New York city July 20 Archie Carabba a mechanic was back at Norden bombright plant after instructing two detectives in bombsight making and betting tricks Naval intelligence said time was lost at the war plant Carabba was accused of teaching them bombsight construction and betting methods He pleaded guilty and faces sentence after employers allowed him to return to work until then
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War Labor Board
New York City
Lewis, Kennedy and Brennan
Ralph E. Taggart
Philadelphia
James H. Pierce
Scranton
William W. Ingliss
WLB
New York
Archie Carabba
Norden
Naval Intelligence
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Waiser
Hindenburg
Spa
Belgium
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Chateau
Rome raids shield Mussolini as Rome becomes fortress city
In a wartime account the Duce seeks safety in Rome amid Allied bombing. The piece contrasts his retreat to the capital with acts of aggression in Europe and notes Italian civilians fleeing to the capital. It recalls Hindenburg’s underground hideout at Spa as a parallel example of leaders seeking shelter from air power.
Trees for reforestation plunge due to manpower shortage
The State Conservation Department blames a manpower shortage for New Yorks reduced distribution of young trees from 11 464 000 in spring 1942 to 7 900 000 in 1943. Municipalities ordered 487 000 trees and industrial groups 26 000 this year versus 1 597 000 and 122 000 a year ago. State nurseries distributed about 4 800 000 trees to individuals, up slightly from 4 676 000 in 1942.
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Albany
I State Conservation Department
New York
Longville
Saratoga Springs
Soviet Drive Near Orel Reports Heavy Losses for Germans
Soviet communique says in Orel area the Red Army halted a German advance, recaptured 40 towns east of Orel and 70 villages to the north, while Germans withdrew from 20 towns in the south. It reports 72 German tanks and 96 planes knocked out yesterday, 3,516 tanks and 2,094 planes in 15 days, guerrilla actions aided the drive, and reconnaissance leveraged gains along the Kalinin and Leningrad fronts with continued shelling and sniper fire.
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Red Army
Belgorod
Novorossisk
Caucasus
Kalinin
Moscow
Leningrad
Synthetic Rubber Enough for One Tire A Second by 1944
F B Davis Jr of United States Rubber Co outlines wartime synthetic rubber output gains. He notes 1942 production of 22 000 tons, July 1943 projected to match that, 1943 total about 275 000 tons, and 1944 about 100 000 tons more than peak prewar use. He estimates 30 million passenger tires annually by end of 1944, one per second, with continued rationing likely.
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Los Angeles
F. B. Davis, Jr
United States Rubber Company
Lepke and two aides hear death sentence in New York
Louis Buchalter and two henchmen, Louis Capone and Emmanuel Weiss, appeared before the New York Court of Appeals in blue and gray as a death date of the week of September 13 was set for Sing Sing's electric chair. The trio, convicted of murder in 1941 for the Rosen killing, claimed an unfair trial while their federal custody complicated execution.
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Albany
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
New York
Buchalter
Louis Capone
Emmanuel Weiss
Irving Lehman
Court of Appeals
Sing Sing
Lehman
United States
Capone
Weiss
Samuel Rosen
Brooklyn
Arthur Garfield Hays
More Poultry in U S Than Can Be Fed Says Executive
Chicago report notes a poultry surplus with 1.5 billion chicks expected this year from 10 000 hatcheries an increase of 300 million over last year The shortage of corn to make protein feeds is blamed for feeding constraints and an official urges the public not to raise baby chicks.
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U.S
Chicago
Don M. Turnbull
Kansas City
International Baby Chicks Association
Frank E. Boling
Feed Industries Council
Canada Will Receive Full Sicily Credit
London reports Prime Minister Churchill told the Commons that Gen Eisenhower agreed to mention Canadian forces in Sicily. He praised the Canadian 1st Division and noted Ottawa’s appeal for broader recognition. Roosevelt reportedly agreed and initial communiqués named Britain Canada and the United States.
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Churchill
Commons
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sicily
F. C. R. Douglas
Laborite
MacKenzie King
Canada
Ottawa
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Eisenhower
Britain
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