Akron Strike Defies WLB as 16000 Goodyear Workers Stand Firm
Akron strikers at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co defy the War Labor Board orders threatening production of Navy Corsair fighters and B-29 sub assemblies. C I O United Rubber Workers President Wheeler vows broad resistance while Ohio Selective Service orders draft checks. Private utility supply keeps three plants operating. Firestone workers may join action. 35,000 at risk. Child drowns in Canal in Waterford.
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WLB
Selective Service
Akron
Ohio Selective Service
Washington
Summit County
Draf
Chester W. Goble
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
United Automobile Workers
U.E.W.A
Fireone Tire & Rubber Co
National Labor Relations Board
Firestone
Contract Bridge By Josephine Culbertson turn misplayed game
The article critiques a habitual overbidder and a passive East in a bridge hand. South makes a two clubs contract easily, then North-South reach game after a single Notrump. East should have bid or pressured to avoid a costly misstep, but passes lead to a poor result and a civic lesson in enterprise.
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East
South
North-South
Basi
West
She
Rescued Paratroopers Enjoy Hot Showers
In a remarkable Pacific rescue, three survivors from a Dutch New Guinea crash were lifted from an improvised valley sanctuary by glider to Hollandia. Corporal Hastings and two Army men endured 47 days with radio contact and jungle sustenance before their rescue. They recalled natives mistaking them for women and craved showers and a permanent wave after their ordeal.
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Dutch New Guinea
Slider
Margaret J. Hastings
Owexo
John S. McCollem
Trenton
Kenneth W. Decker
Kelso
Wash
Paradise
Lke
Hollandia
Pacific
Hastings
the Valey
Waco
American Broadcasting Company
McCollum
McColum
Wac Felé
Elmira
N.Y
Wac Corp
Margaret Hastings
Shangri-La
New Guinea
Patrick Hastings
Owego
John Steele
Corp
John Callahan
Johnson City
Wac
Margaret
Comfortable Li In Tokyo Is Aim For Living Quarters
Domei News Agency reported plans to shelter Tokyo residents by converting surviving buildings into mass living quarters. The dispatch noted underground or air raid shelters are unbearable in summer heat and will be repurposed to provide more comfortable housing as possible.
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San Francisco
Ja Domei
Tokyo
Asia
Federal Commissions Commission
Domei
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Spurn
EN Canal
Waterford
Josephine Culbertson
A&s Ye
Canad
Commission
New York City
Goldstein
Mary Goode
Krone
Miscellaneous Tax Bureau
Ciggie
Albany
ADV
Hma
Cubera
Mendace
Leoren
Giese
Chappells
Young-in
Pat Hartly
Syracuse
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