Knox Pleads For Unity To Avert Defeat
Secretary Knox appeals to the American Legion for national unity to fight a war where defeat is possible. He cites submarine threats and the need for a second front in Europe while praising Allied gains from the Coral Sea to Midway and urging continued effort to vanquish the Axis.
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Knox
Kansas City
Secretary of the Navy
Europe
American Legion
United Nations
Western
Pacific
Russia
China
Secretary of Navy
Legionnaires
Navy
Bethlehem Shipyards Grant Pay Rise in Strike-Barring Pact
Bethlehem Steel and the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers signed a strike prohibiting contract granting wage increases averaging eight cents an hour for 78 000 employees across eight Atlantic coast ship yards. The pact sets minimums of 1 20 and 80 5 cents for skilled and unskilled workers and covers repair yards in Brooklyn Hoboken Boston Baltimore and construction yards in Staten Island Sparrow Point and Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Coast
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
National War Labor Board
Brooklyn
Hoboken
N. J
Boston
Baltimore
Statens Island
Sparrow Point
Rations Due On Eight More Commodities
The Office of Price Administration drafted plans to ration eight more everyday items including clothing. By early 1943 Americans may carry coupons for more than ten articles, with sugar and gasoline already rationed. Clothing could be added before Christmas if demand spikes, while coffee tea and cocoa may be considered. supplies have already been cut 35 percent through wholesales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Defense Shop Shut As Workers Strike For Pay Arbitration
A CIO strike shut the National Battery Company plant in Depew New York affecting about 300 United Automobile Workers members. The walkout seeks arbitration of a 17 cent hourly wage increase for men and equal pay for women, amid disputes over arbitration clauses and War Labor Board involvement.
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Buffalo
CIO
National Battery Company
Depew
Harry G. Barnes
United Automobile Workers
Barnes
Joseph Eicheldinger
U.A.W
Eicheldinger
War Labor Board
Patient dies after fall at hospital
Buffalo report states Anthony Lewandowski, 36, leaped from a second floor window at Memorial Hospital last night and died. The incident occurred at Moor window area, authorities said.
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Buffalo
Anthony Lewandowski
Eee Memorial Hospital
Nazi Ouster of Quisling Under Study in Europe
Extensive analysis describes Quisling's plan to legalize his powers in Norway, including a puppet state with a Reichsting and German bases. German hesitancy grows as Norwegian opposition widens and conscript edicts backfire, suggesting Berlin may roll back influence rather than expand Quisling’s authority.
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Chicago Daily News, Inc
Europe
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Reich Ministry of the Interior
Berlin
Quisling
Hitler
Germany
Il Duce
Quisting
Oslo
der Fuehrer
Sweden
Stockholm
Dr. Stuckart
Basler National Zeitung
Nasjonal Samling
National Union Party
Shipyard workers return to jobs after walkout over ferry fee
Thousands of Alabama Drydocks and Shipbuilding Company workers resume day shift after a two day layoff to arbitrate a five cent ferry charge. Brig Gen Ben M Smith reports about 60 percent of normal crew back at duty as National Guard remains on Station. The Bankhead tunnel ferries will continue operating until Maritime Commission directs otherwise. The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America will represent employees before the commission.
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Mobile
Ala
Federal Maritime Commission
Alabama Drydocks and Shipbuilding Company
Ben M. Smith
Bankhead
Pinto Island
Charles A. Baumhauer
Maritime Commission
Industrial Union of Marineland
Shipbuilding Workers of America
George Goddenow
Smith
Cargo Ship Damaged by RAF Bombs
Allied bombers attacked a 2000 ton merchant vessel in the central Mediterranean bringing it to a halt with a heavy port list. Torpedo carrying planes scored hits on one large ship and smaller vessels off Tobruk. On the El Alamein desert front only patrols and artillery activity were reported.
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Cairo
Mediterranean
Tobruk
el Alamein
Rome Claims Sinking of British Submarine
The Italian high command said a torpedo boat sank a British submarine in the Mediterranean, though Allied quarters offered no confirmation. Axis air actions reportedly hit British targets in the Egyptian front area, with three fighters shot down and tank columns attacked. Tobruk suffered a night raid and a Berlin report claimed British cargo ships were damaged or sunk near Dartmouth.
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Rome
High Command
Mediterranean
Berlin
Dartmouth
England
Upstate CIO Head Shifted to Buffalo
John McMahon, sub regional director of the CIO, was transferred to Western New York with headquarters in Buffalo. His new territory includes Rochester and Lockport along with Buffalo and other western cities. Fred Krokenberger of Riverside New Jersey was named to succeed McMahon upstate.
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Amsterdam
John’ ‘McMahon
New York
Buffalo
McMahon
Rochester
Lockport
Fred Krokenberger
Riverside
N. J
Mee Mahon
India Debate Fails to Yield Unity Result
In New Delhi four days of legislative debate on India's internal situation ended with no formal plan. Congress boycotted, while Sir Syed Sultan Ahmed urged a nationally formed wartime government and Hindu Muslim unity. Liagat Al Khan of the Moslem League pressed for Pakistan as a basis for agreement, calling for Hindu Muslim settlement for independence.
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A.tlsteele
Chicago Daily News, Inc
New Delhi
India
Legislative Assembly
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Congress Party
Congress
All-India
Moslem League
Gandhi
Liagat al Khan
League
Pakistan
Pla
All-India National Congress
Taxicabs Provide Service For Defense Plant Workers
Hundreds of New York taxicabs will operate under wartime gas and tire conservation orders. They will transport Long Island aircraft workers to plants within 10 days, mostly women drivers, under Nassau and Suffolk councils. Fares will be $3 to $3.50 weekly, rental arranged by fleet owners and councils.
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New York
Long Island
Office of Defense Transportation
Nassau and Suffolk County
Defense Transportation Councils
Benjamin Botwinick
Taxicab Bureau, Inc
Engineer Killed as Boiler Blast Hits Listie Freight
A boiler on a Baltimore and Ohio freight double header exploded near Listie in Somerset County killing the locomotive engineer John L. Berkley, 55, and injuring four crewmen. A merchant witness said two engines pulled and one pushed a long coal train. the second engine’s boiler flew about 1000 feet. The front engine was wrecked.
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Somerset, Pa
Baltimore & Ohio
Somerset County
Listie
Paul Wolford
Listle
Wolford
Pittsburgh
John L. Berkley
Kaiser Begins Building Big Cargo Planes
Henry J. Kaiser and Howard Hughes receive official authorization to build three experimental super cargo planes. The project aims for wood or wood-composite construction with seven engines and 60 tons weight, potentially mass producing a twin-hulled airlifter within ten months of sanction. Kaiser predicts beating cost and schedule estimates.
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Washington
Henry J. Kaiser
Eniine
Howard Hughes
New York
West Coast
Kaiser
Defense Plant
Hughes
Culver City
Calif
Donald M. Nelson
Army
Navy
Glenn L Martin
Baltimore
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Legion
Japan
Egypt
Atlantic
Coral Sea
Midway Island
Pearl Harbor
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
Charles E. Wilson
G. E. Head
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
Bethlehem Shipyards
Avo
Yorktown
Caroline IS
Australia
Smarshall
Gilbert Aa
New Zealand
Melbourne
Atulagi
Guam
Coral
Solomon
Dwi
Sydney
Marin
Eterna
Hawaiian
Honolulu
United States
Midway
W. O. Burch, Jr
Paducah
Southwest Pacific
Makin Island
Salamua
Lae
Tulagi
Coral Sea Battle
Puppet
Bragman
Maritime Board
Upstate C.I.0
Woods
Edward Carl Dux
Juneau County
Mauston
Wis
Walton Packing CO
Walton
SAM Share CO
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