Wage Dispute Lands In Lap Of WLB Panel
Washington May 19 The three man fact finding panel of the Wet Labor Board handles the coal wage dispute with a report due this week The Labor Board plans a final decision before May 31 The UMW refuses panel representation and seeks a new contract with wage demands and concessions The War Labor Board must approve any contract per interior secretary Ickes A mass miners meeting near Johnstown Pa votes to walk out 1800 workers affected
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Washington
Wet Labor Board
Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
WLB
Ickes
Levis
War Labor Board
Johnstown
United Mine Workers of America
Byrnes
Wayne L. Morse
Frank P. Graham
White House
Marvin McIntyre
Tension Between Ickes and Board Over Coal Talks
The Daily Mail reports a clash between Fuels Administrator Ickes and the Board as telegrams reveal Ickes seeking assurances of coal production after midnight and a push for immediate collective bargaining conferences. Lewis responds that miners are hopeful for prompt talks already awaited.
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THE
Daily Mail
Hagerstown
Ickes
Lewis
Recruits Sought for Maryland State Guard Training
The Maryland State Guard offers high caliber military training with Army manuals and specialized features from the Third Service Command. Recent demonstrations include a “pude” by Bay of Military Police experts and comprehensive Chemical Warfare instruction with gas mask use. Weekly sessions cover drill, map reading, scouting, guard duty, and infantry education. many Guardsmen progress to the U S Army. Enlistment is open at the Armory each weekday evening.
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Maryland
United States Army
Third Service Command
763Nd Bay
Miliary Police
Maryland State Guard
Guard
U. S. braces for counter stroke on Attu Island
U S forces landed at opposite ends of Attu Island and press a two-pronged assault closing in on Japanese holdings at Holtz Bay. Navy briefings confirmed army units sealing a trap on main Japanese positions as Tokyo radio hints at overwhelming American strength. Rostock, a German port, is noted as a Hanseatic leader in medieval times.
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Attu
Tokyo
North Pacific
Washington
Navy
Holtz Bay
World Food Conference Opens In Hot Springs
The United Nations food conference began in Hot Springs Virginia with a keynote message from President Roosevelt urging that every person receive at least minimum nutrition. Judge Marvin Jones chaired the opening session and urged global cooperation to make the next century the people's century. Chairman P W Kuo outlined three achievable results including shared views on conditions and policies, general postwar food and agriculture principles, and plans to maintain conference work.
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Hot Springs
United Nations Food Conference
Roosevelt
Marvin Jones
United States
Jones
P. W. Kuo
Kuo
Our Hospital Chain Reaches Halfway Around the World
Field to hospital flow shows 97 percent of wounded survive as O W L soldiers are moved from front lines to large U S hospitals. The system begins with the soldier’s first aid packet and sulfadiazine, then corpsmen provide emergency care and mark the patient with a tag and gauze.
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Sait O.W.L
Ldster
Allied fliers say superiority in air over South Pacific
Captains Kenneth G. Dempster and Edgar Graham Gammon Jr. report U S Allied air dominance in the South Pacific as Marauder bombers claim several Japanese ships in Alaska and the SW Pacific. Dempster earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Silver Star. Gammon describes tactics against Kiska and Rabaul and notes Japanese pilots are skilled though gunners weak.
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South Pacific
Baltimore
Tropics
Kenneth G. Dempster
Oakland
Calif
Edgar Graham Gammon, Jr
Hampden-Sydney
Urmerg
Dempster
Gammon
Glenn L. Martin Company
Alaskan
Martin
Wiska
Kiska
United States
Australia
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
Buna
Gona
Salamaua
Milne Bay
Alaska
Southwest
Pacific
Service updates and new Army assignments in midwar notes
The column lists soldiers newly promoted or entering training, with home addresses and units. Parvin L. Kindler becomes private first class and platoon guide. Richard H. Smart reports for airplane mechanic training. Walter R. Beakle promoted to corporal at Camp Santa Anita. Other notes cover Harlingen aerial gunnery graduate James W. Schindel, John Edward Harms Jr. commissioning at Fort Belvoir, and various soldiers awaiting mail at Seattle, Camp Grant, and nearby posts.
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Parvin L. Kindler
Charles Kridler
Pic
Kridler
Co. A
303Rd Infantry
U. S Army
Camp Swift
Texas
Richard H. Smart
L. L. Smart
Oak Hill Avenue
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command School
Gulfport Field
Miss
Pic. Smart
Pennsylvania State College
Walter R. B Eakle
Hagerstown
Army of the
Harlingen
James W. Schindel
Schindel
Highland Way
Harlingen Army Air Field
John Edward Harms, Jr
Army Engineers Training School
Fort Belvoir
Fort Richmond
Geiger Field
Washington State
Aviation Engineers Battalion
Lieut
Harms
J. Edward Harms
Air Medal Awarded to Major Francis A. Smith
Major Francis A. Smith of Northeast Maryland was awarded the Air Medal for extraordinary achievement during an aerial engagement over enemy territory, announced by the War Department. The item also contains unrelated and garbled text about stomach pains and patent remedies.
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Washington
Francis A. Smith
Northeast
War Department
Dam Break Flood Devastates Ruhr and Weser Regions
Allied reports describe a mine dropped by RAF near a large reservoir south of the Moline dam causing seepage and widening floodwaters. Reconnaissance shows heavy damage in Froendenberg and Kassel areas as waters rise and thousands are displaced. Berlin acknowledges civilian losses but expects partial repair.
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London
RAF
Moline Dam
Don Hollenbeck
NBC
Air Ministry
St. Fenger
Port Fraton
Saumur
Angers
Nantes
Les Andelys
Seine
Ruhr
Duisburg
Kassel
Weser
Berlin
Tenden
Hohne
Rhine
Froendenberg
Dortmund
Eder
Member of Trio Dies Sudden
Bernard J. O Gonor a 32 year old Boston musician and pianist in the Milt Herth trio died in Baltimore shortly after arriving for an engagement following a New York restaurant appearance at Jack Dempsey s. He was to perform at a night club in Baltimore with the trio.
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Baltimore
Bernard J. O’gonor
Boston
Milt Herth
O’gonor
New York
Jack Dempsey
Germany's Atlantic Wall Proves Superior In Strength
Stockholm May 19 With invasion looming Hitler and his advisers shift focus to the Maginot line complex as the Atlantic wall extends from Norway to France. German war reporters claim the Atlantic wall is the strongest defense, boasting interconnected forts, bricked openings, barbed wire, and layered artillery with reserves ready to counter any breakthrough.
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Germany
Atlantic Wall
West Wall
Edwin Shanke
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Maginot Line
France
Norway
Hitler
Albert Speer
Berlin
Channel
Atlantic Front
United Nations
Atlantic
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