Women Quit In Garment Pay Dispute Across Cities
Labor strikes span Southern California to Florida Keys with wage demands and unionization drives. In Los Angeles 3000 workers seek 15 to 25 percent raises and unionized shops. Key West defense projects face Navy takeover if 50 cent hourly offers fail. Other posts note taxi drivers, air industry, Chicago rail, and wage talks yielding raises and arbitration.
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Associated Press
California
Florida Keys
Los Angeles
A.F. L
Key West
U. S. Navy
Albert J. Fay
Naval Station
Washington
Navy
Alanby
National Labor Relations Board
Air Associates, Inc
Bendix
N. J
NLRB
C.I.0
United Automobile
Defense Mediation Board
Chicago
Union Railroad
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Strateliner
Transcontinental and Western
Kansas City
East Alton
A. F.L, Chemical Workers
Western Cartridge Company
National Mediation Board
Mediation Board
Marlin-Rockwell Corporation
Plainville
Conn
Reds Claim Nazi Planes Beaten Off Despite Ground Pressure
German forces claim control of Smolensk but Russians contest the loss. Heavy fighting rages near Porkhov and Zhitomir as fronts in Ukraine show little wide-scale advance. Moscow endures nighttime air raids with most fighters shot down. Russian air defense reports 58 German planes down with 19 Soviet losses. Lozovsky notes low German success rates and cites effective barrage balloons night fighters and ground batteries.
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Moscow
Smolensk
Porkhov
Zhitomir
Leningrad
Kiev
Ukraine Front
DNB
S. A. Lozovsky
Lozovsky
Informants Predict German Warsaw Tactics if Key Soviet Cities Fall
Reports claim Germans plan to bomb defended cities without mercy while ground forces push past. They state Leningrad Moscow and Kiev would be defended or open towns as Moscow aims to avoid heavy losses, with rapid advances and high casualties described on the Kiev Front and southern areas.
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Warsaw
Leningrad
Moscow
Kiev
Russia
Zhitomir
Stalin
July 6 1944 Herald-Journal history notes Allied supply gains
The article recalls Allied and German actions in World War II history. It mentions a German regiment capturing 180 trucks 23 guns and hundreds of rifles and machineguns. It also reports the United States Army assuming mail service for the American Expeditionary Forces in France on July 25. Informants say German bombing damaged a 2,880 foot railroad bridge in the Southern Ukraine trapping thousands of Russians as they fled across it.
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Osee Herald-Journal
United Stat
Ukraine
Swastika Stamped On Silver Quarters
Secret service agents reported in the metropolitan area silver quarters with a swastika stamped on George Washington’s face. Investigators are confident the same machine stamped all mutilated coins and expect the culprit to be apprehended.
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Dow Work
Toay
Secret Service
George Washington
Senate group endorses draft change with Western Hemisphere limits
The measure would expand use of restricted troops outside the Western Hemisphere, with Marshall opposing retention limits on selectees and guardsmen and any volunteer bounty. Multiple proposals remain before Senate and House committees, including emergency declarations, extended service, and incentives for volunteers.
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United States
Senate
House
Congress
War Department
George C. Marshall
Being a Soldier No Cinch
Fort Benning Georgia July 25 1941 Army training test shows recruits must drop to prone and fire within three seconds then rush forty yards to prone position in eight seconds. They must chin up six times reach overhead bar pull to chin three times with rifle slung and jump an eight foot ditch and march five miles within an hour.
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Fort Benning
Snow Plow Salvages Peas After Truck Spill
Wenatchee report details a truck overturn spilling seven tons of peas. The highway department sent a snow plow to salvage the mushy cargo, preventing it from turning into soup under a 90 degree sun.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Highway Department
Biddle Nominated for Yugoslav Exile Government Post
President Roosevelt named Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. as minister to the Yugoslav government in exile in London. He already serves as ambassador to the exiled Polish Belgian Norwegian and Dutch governments, which were established abroad.
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Biddle
Yugoslavia
Washington
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
Roosevelt Jerday
London
Orister
Poland
Belgium
Norway
Netherlands
Circus Town Pays Tribute to Rosselli Greatest Trouper
Bloomington mourns Rex Rosselli famed Cole Brothers Circus publicist and idea man. He died Monday in East St Louis while preparing a circus arrival. Funeral services held as Barker Harry Thomas urged silence and clowns paid tribute in Bloomington.
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Circus
Rosselli
Bloomington
Ill
Rex Rosselli
Cole Brothers Circus
Red
East St. Louis
Harry Thomas
Big Top
Ros-selli
God
Defense camps for women urged in resolution to Marshall
A resolution approved by 600 members of the Women's Defense Corps at Willys-Overland urged Gen George C Marshall to establish army type defense training camps for women. It supported a draftee army for women to perform semi military tasks such as driving ambulances supplying trucks field kitchens first aid urban evacuation and repair work.
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Marshall Toledo
INS
George C. Marshall
U. S. Army
Women's Defense Corps
Willys-Overland Company
RAF Attacks Hit Scharnhorst and Brest Bays
British air forces claimed 33 German fighters shot down in daylight strikes on the battleship Scharnhorst at Brest La Pallice and another base. RAF used American flying fortresses with U S explosives. A Mediterranean convoy suffered a heavy attack. a destroyer was sunk and a merchant ship damaged. Italian claims of four British ships sunk were reported, including the destroyer Fearless.
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Air Ministry
Scharnhorst
Gniesenau
la Pallice
Brest
RAF
United States
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Fearless
Nazis Claim 33 RAF Planes Down Over Channel
Berlin reports a costly RAF defeat as 33 planes were shot down along the Channel coast including nine four motor bombers. German High Command says only four German fighters were lost and claims no military damage from the raid. Cherbourg bombardment reportedly killed 45 civilians and injured 130.
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Berlin
English Channel
High Command
R.A.F
Channel Coast
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Cherbourg
Ruth Evans Hosts Sister Ema Line Birthday Party
In Canastota on July 24 Miss Ruth Evans entertained at her South Main Street home for her sister Ema Lines seventh birthday. Guests included Joyce Seeber Marjorie Schied Helen Eaton Barbara Genge Suzanne Mason Dolores Jones Betty Calhoun John Haas Doris Cordell Mary Capparelli and the guest of honor.
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Canastota
Ruth Evans
South Main Street
Emaline
Joyce Seeber
Marjorie Schied
Helen Eaton
Barbara Genge
Suzanne Mason
Dolores Jones
Betty Calhoun
John Haas
Doris Cordell
Mary Capparelli
Ambuance Drivers Escape From German Captors
Five of 21 American drivers held after the Zamzam sinking in the South Atlantic escaped from guards before release talks concluded. James W. Stewart of Oneonta and Thomas O. Greenough of Staunton led the first breakout near St. Jean de Luz, and four others followed via France and Switzerland as the group prepared to depart aboard the Excalibur and West Point.
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New York
Zamzam
South Atlantic
St. Jean de Luz
Lure
Department
Haute Saonne
France
James W. Stewart
Oneonta
Thomas O. Greenough
Staunton
Excalibur
Ambulance Corps
S. HE. West Point
Ray Colcord, Jr
Tulsa
Theresa Supervisor Again
Orin S. Wilcox of Theresa Republican announces renomination and reelection to a third term as Theresa town supervisor. He chairs the board publicity committee and has led the St. Lawrence Seaway hydroelectric committee for the past two years, with no expected primary opposition.
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Theresa
Watertown
Orin S. Wilcox
Theresa Republican
Wilcox
St. Lawrence Seaway
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