Court Upholds Life Contract For Teachers In Ohio
The Ohio Supreme Court on March 25 upheld the 1941 teacher tenure act as constitutional. The decision affirmed continuing contracts for teachers including those not employed on June 2, 1941, and ruled married teachers and those not resigning by Sept 1, 1941 retain rights. The ruling clarifies eligibility in districts with limits on age and school size.
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Columbus
State Supreme Court
Gilbert Bettman
Ohio
Oscar M. Bishop
Mt. Crab
John W. Craig
Cleveland Public
Verne Lynch
Springfield Township
Summit County
Louelle Brown
Elyria High School
Bricker
Cripps Seeks Wavell On Indian Problems
Sir Stafford Cripps met Gen Archibald Wavell and the Bengal governor in New Delhi to discuss Indian demands for dominion status. He planned afternoon talks with Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on the same issue.
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International News Service
New Delhi
India
Stafford Cripps
Archibald Wavell
Burma
Bengal
Stafford
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Maulana
Abul Karam Azad
All-India Congress Party
Industry Scrap Drive Organized in Canton and Massillon
A war production board scrap drive for Canton and Massillon was opened at the Onesto hotel. Carl W. Meyers of Republic Steel heads the effort with seven local industrialists on the committee to reclaim hundreds of tons of scrap from five key categories. The Canton Massillon Chambers of Commerce will coordinate, with contact details for local plants and industries.
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Canton-Massillon
War Production Board
Onesto Hotel
WPB
Carl W. Meyers
Republic Steel Corp
Canton and
Massillon
Cleveland
Canton
WPB curtails razor production under wartime limits
The War Production Board ordered reduced output of safety razors straight razors and razor blades for 90 days. Electric razors are excluded for now but may face controls later. Manufacturers may produce 70 percent of their 1940 monthly average safety razors, while straight razors and blades are capped at the 1940 monthly average.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Labor and War Production Clash Over Hours and Pay
Washington March 25 AP reports CIO and AFL readiness to modify overtime pay while House drives to suspend the 40 hour week in war plants. Proposals include a 48 hour civilian limit with overtime after 48 for war work, a 6 percent cost profit cap, union status freeze, and limits on initiation fees and dues amid efforts to curb double time and enforce wartime labor discipline.
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Associated Press
Washington
CIO
AFL
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
House Naval Committee
House
Naval Committee
Rep.Smith
Virginia
Air Raid Warden Setup Launched In Canton
Canton Civilian Defense launches drive to enroll about 1,200 men as air raid wardens. Ray F Warnock chairs the organizing committee to select wardens for 11 wards and set up 55 names per ward within 30 days. Felix Hinkle stresses wardens must know and lead their districts in emergencies.
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Canton
Ray F. Warnock
Warnock
Felix Hinkle
Robber Intercepted During Hoobler Drugstore Hold Up
A gunman entered Hoobler drugstore at 10 p.m. on Tuesday on 12th street NW and Falton road, forcing manager E W Sipp and clerk Sally Schiller into a back room. Four customers present were touched for about 133 dollars as the robber, who fled with cash from the safe and register, warned of an accomplice outside. Police reported the suspect, about 25, escaped with the money.
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Hoobler Drugstore
12Th St
Falton Rd
Sipp
Sally Schiller
12Th St NW
L. L. Webster
Fulton Rd NW
Americans Wreck Marcus Island Raid Off Tokyo Front
U S planes from a carrier in the Pacific dropped 12 tons of high explosives on Marcus Island 990 miles southeast of Tokyo. Eight days earlier Wake Island was hit as part of a broader strike against Japan’s fortified eastern outposts. Naval authorities said the raids likely disrupted links in Japan’s island defense chain for some time.
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U. S
Pacific
Japan
Marcus Island
Tokyo
Wake Island
Marshall Islands
Nippon
Marcus
No Man’s Land
Mid- Pacific
Midway
Hawaii
Two More U S Destroyers Lost At Java Sea
The U S Navy confirms 16 Allied ships sunk in the three day Java Sea battle. Destroyers Pillsbury Edsall and the Pope along with cruiser Houston are accounted for among wartime losses. A Dutch destroyer was beached. total Allied losses rise to twenty three ships. Chicken waffle supper advertised.
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United Press
Washington
Java Sea
United States
Navy
Pillsbury
Edsall
Pope
Houston
United Nations
Esdall
Atlantic
Pacific
Apple House Ad: Sweet cider served daily in Fulton NW
Local ad announces fresh sweet cider available at Apple House in Fulton NW from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Daily hours listed for visiting customers.
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Apple House
Fulton NW
Wives and Children of Stark Men Welcome Home at Burnpur Plant
A group of ten travelers from Burnpur India arrived in Canton today to a joyous homecoming. The Stark County party included Mrs. Herman Culler and others, who left India 31 days ago to seek safety in America. Relatives gathered at the Pennsylvanian depot after months apart, though only about half of the expected 18 to 20 travelers were on the westbound train. Judy Robertson was among the first to be embraced by awaiting family.
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Dad
Pennsylvania
Burnpur
India
America
Calcutta
Bombay
China
Burma
Stark County
Herman Culler
Clair E. Keough
Raynor
J. B. Karn
Andrew Robertson
Canton
Pennsylvania Depot
140000 Nazis Falling Weeks
Soviet front line dispatches report Hitler’s invasion armies with 600000 extra troops in a meat grinder, Germany suffering 140000 killed in seven weeks on fronts from Kalinin to Leningrad, while Romania and Hungary clash on the Transylvanian frontier. Moscow radio cites heavy German losses on multiple fronts as Hitler stresses defense.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Kalinin
Leningrad
Moscow
Rumania
Hungary
Hitler
Transylvania
Central
Northwest
Most Bombed Place In World Malta Holds Off Hitlers
Malta, just 58 miles from Sicily, remains a crucial Allied base in the African campaign. RAF and Royal Navy operations disrupt Axis traffic to Rommel in Libya. The island has endured repeated attacks as British convoys reach Valetta. Axis ships have struck, but Malta's defense persists amid heavy fighting and material losses.
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Malta
Sicily
Italy
Africa
Erwin Rommel
Libya
Royal Air Force
Two Pacific Raids Sink, Destroy and Damage Japanese Installations
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports two U S raids on Japanese held territory. Patrol boats dredges fuel barges sunk. One four engined seaplane shot down. Two more four engined seaplanes destroyed with fuel storages underground hangars magazines. A few prisoners captured. U S losses include one plane. Radio station hangars storages ammunition and fuel damaged.
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Wake
Wilkes
Peale Islands
Anchorage
Marcus Island
South Shore
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
United States Pacific Fleet
United States
Japan And Allies Race To Prepare Offensives
The United Nations and Japan race to launch new Pacific offensives as fighting slows. In Burma Japanese advances threaten Toungoo while British Chinese forces defend. Port Moresby remains on 24 hour alert amid air and naval actions.
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Japan
United Press
United Nations
Pacific
Burma
New Guinea
Australia
Toungoo
Kyungon
Port Moresby
Chiengmai
Scarsdale Jack” Newkirk
Moresby
Katherine
Darwin
New Caledonia
United States
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Wavell
Weather Report
State Highway Department
Atlanta
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Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Denver
Detroit
Grand Raids
Indianapoli
Kansas City
Louisville
Mpis.-St. Paul
Montgomery
Nashville
Oklahoma City
Pittsburgh
Glenn L. Logan
Green
William Green
Philip Murray
Donald M. Nelson
Mr. Green
International Harvester Co
War Labor Board
Clifton Ridgeway
R. C. Brady
E. W. Sipp
Tuscara
St W
U.S
Rown
Judy Robertson
Judy
Center
Bobby
August Lippert
Allen Robertson
Java
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Plant
Moscow Front
Kerch
Crimea
Donets River
Ukraine
Kharkov
Europe
Yokohama
United States Marines
Peale
Wilkes Islands
Teries
Valetta
Cyrenaica
Port
Damon Runyon
Paul Mallon
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