Ruml Urges Jobs in Postwar Era at Chamber Dinner
Ruml, famed for pay as you go taxation and Macy’s banker, told the Chamber of Commerce dinner that eliminating unemployment is essential for the postwar period. He urged that 55 million workers must earn 140 billion dollars to prevent mass unemployment, noting peace time employment remains challenging but rewarding. The event drew over 400 attendees.
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New York
Chamber of Commerce
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York
R. H Macy & Co, Inc
Troy Chamber of Commerce
Hendrick Hudson
John J. Ahern
Samuel W. McCochrane
Chamber
Everett J. Decker
Beardsley Ruml Addresses Troy Chamber Dinner
Beardsley Ruml spoke at the Troy Chamber of Commerce annual dinner urging long range public works planning and opposition to spending for its own sake. Samuel W. McCochrane introduced him, noting the chamber’s quiet, ongoing efforts and future tasks for Troy.
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The
Troy Chamber of Commerce
Ruml
Samuel W. McCochrane
Chamber
40 000 Idle In British Coal Strike
Forty thousand coal miners and sixty pits were idle as a walkout in Monmouthshire and South Wales expanded last night. The stoppage cost Britain about 35 000 tons of coal daily. The South Wales miners executive committee announced 43 pits closed and urged miners to return to work to facilitate wage negotiations.
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London
Monmouthshire
South Wales
Gwitm Lloyd George
National Negotiating Committee
Britain
Abergerkt
South Wales Miners Executive Committee
Nazis Seek to End Lombardy Strike at Frontier
Nazi military commander General Zimmerman and Fascist provincial chief Pietro Parini met Milan workers to end a walkout before a fixed deadline. The Wehrmacht warned of severe measures if the strike persisted, while reports noted protests over deportations of Italian workers to Germany for Nazi industry.
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Zimmerman
Pietro Parini
Milan
Wehrmacht
Chiasso
Basler Nachrichten
Avanti
Germany
Death of former assemblyman at county GOP meeting
Horace M. Stone former assemblyman from Onondaga County died last night while addressing a meeting of county Republican leaders. He was pronounced dead by a hospital ambulance intern.
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Horace M. Stone
Onondaga County
FCC Chair Says Pearl Harbor Warnings Kept Japanese Broadcasts Under Watch
Federal Communications Commission Chairman James L. Fly testified that authorities distrusted Japanese broadcasts in the Hawaiian area months before Pearl Harbor and found no subversive content. He denied blocking Armed Forces requests to take over foreign broadcast intelligence, noting Army Navy and FBI praised FCC cooperation and entrusted it with tracking enemy transmitters in Hawaii, none found. Rep Miller challenged accountability and cited potential testimony from Hooper and Hoover.
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Federal Communications Commission
Pearl Harbor
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hawaii
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Hooper
J. Edgar Hoover
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Rome Rail Yards Again Bombed
Allied air forces based in Italy struck German railway yards and airfields near Rome and at Littorio Ostiense Pontine in the Rome area. Heavy bombers with escort attacked Toulon and Med targets while ground fighting on the Italian peninsula remained bogged by mud with clashes at Cassino and along the Anzio line.
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France
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Ostiense
Pontas
Sieve
Cassino
Anzio
Veterans Bonus Bill Turns Up In Senate Setback
The veterans bonus bill, backed by five service groups and offering up to 4500 for overseas service members, got a rough start in the Senate. It was sent to the Finance Committee for study rather than the military affairs panel Reynolds leads. Reynolds favored immediate 30 billion dollars, while Johnson questioned whether the bill would cost 107 billion or 30 billion.
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Senate
Johnson
D-Col
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Finance Committee
Military Affairs Committee
Finance
Clark
DMO
The
American Legion
Legion
G. I
Republican Wins In Colorado Special Congressional Victory
Denver voters elect Republican Dean N. Gillespie a 38 year old businessman to Congress on the basis of unofficial returns from yesterday s special election. Gillespie margin 2378 votes over Maj Carl E B Wuertele wounded veteran of South Pacific war. The vote Gillespie 41418 Wuertele 38440.
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Dean N. Gillespie
Congress
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Carl EB. Wuertele
Gillespie
Wuertele
Food Prices Jump In Larger Cities
An OPA survey shows food prices in New York City Newark Buffalo Baltimore Philadelphia Pittsburg Rochester and Scranton have risen 42 to 50 percent since August 1939. Baltimore leads with a 50 percent increase while Rochester records the smallest rise at 42 percent.
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New York City
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Buffalo
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Rochester
Scranton
OPA
Pittsfield Case Skin on Noxon Baby's Arms Was Cooked
Dr Moritz testified in the Berkshire County murder trial that Lawrence Noxon Jr. caused the infant’s arms to suffer electrothermal injuries. He described multiple skin lesions as burned and cracked from an electric current passing between forearms, finding death due to acute heart failure from the shock.
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Pittsfield. Mass
Lawrence Noxon
Alan R. Mortiz
Berkshire County
Harvard Medical School
Moritz
John F. Noxon, Jr
Charles R. Alberti
Marines Land Near Talasea on New Britain Front
Allied forces push across the Admiralties. Marines land near Talasea on Willaumez Peninsula as First Cavalry and Army troops advance on Momote and Amhorning. MacArthur reports Japanese losses and seventy plus hundred buried as fighting continues eastward toward Los Negros airstrip and Seadler Harbor.
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Allies Plan Oil Conference in Washington
An Anglo American conference on world oil problems is set for Washington, announced by acting Secretary Edward R. Stettinius. It is the second in a postwar economic policy series with Britain and other United Nations on monetary matters, trade, aviation and shipping. Hull will lead the six American policymakers, with Harold L. Ickes as vice chairman of the petroleum talks committee.
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London
Edward R. Stettinius
Britain
United Nations
Hull
Harold L. Ickes
Dutch Documents Zealously Guarded
London officials hurriedly moved secret papers to photographer Owen Thomas for reproduction while he worked blindfolded. The Dutch text could not be read as Thomas noted they were written in double Dutch, implying the documents were inaccessible to him and the public.
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London
Owen Thomas
Thomas
De Gaulle Reviews Troops in Italy First Europe Visit Since 1940
General Charles De Gaulle toured French positions with the Fifth Army in Italy, reviewing regiments behind the lines on his first European visit since the June 1940 disaster.
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Italy
Charles de Gaulle
Europe
Finns Reply To Russian Peace Terms
The Helsinki correspondent of Aftonbladet reports Finland sent an answer on Russia’s six point peace plan to Moscow and awaits a reply. The Finnish Diet met but showed no word on Moscow's response. London sources suggested Finland asked for clarification rather than full acceptance or rejection, and censorship passed the dispatch.
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Finland
Moscow
Helsinki
Aftonbladet
London
Kremlin
Russia
Jury Disagrees in Kidnapping Trial at Steuben County Court
A Steuben County jury could not reach a verdict in the kidnapping trial of Samuel Stott a 64 year old former Hornell railroad worker. The jurors were discharged at 10 20 pm and Stott was remanded to the sheriff’s custody as the acting district attorney said he would be retired at the next term of court.
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Samuel Stott
Hornell
Stott
Benjamin H Balcom
John W Hollis
Dog Woodsie Follows Young Master To Death In Bonfire Tragedy
In Conshohocken Pennsylvania a six year old boy Lee Scott Campbell suffered severe burns when his cowboy suit caught fire at a bonfire on February 24. He died Sunday night after eleven blood and plasma transfusions. His dog Woodsie refused to eat and died two hours later at the Campbell home.
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Lee Scott Campbell
Lee
Woodsie
Campbell
Buffalo Truckers End Strike After War Board Action
Buffalo truck drivers, who had halted work, agreed yesterday to resume duties after a War Labor Board assessment that the stoppage seriously disrupted essential war material transport. Capt Bert Bytell of the US Army said an agreement was reached to return to work this morning with no further comment.
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War Labor Board
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Second Transportation Zone
US Army
Wor
Compromise Service Smash Vote Bill Completed Nazi Attacks
Congress resolved on a compromise federal war ballot bill with state control for armed service voting while Green condemned the plan. In Europe the Soviet drive near Tarnopol pushed German forces back, claiming dozens of tanks and large punitive losses as they seized Polish border towns and disrupts.
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Sharzhintsy
Berdichev
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Red Army
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Estenia
President's Files on REA Sought
Senate investigators pressed for White House files on the Rural Electrification Administration. President Roosevelt directed aide Jonathan Daniels to handle questions on REA actions including the Slattery resignation. Daniels balked at releasing presidential papers but would seek permission to request the records.
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Earler
Carroll L Beedy
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
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Lucas Raps Dewey Plan Opposing Federal War Ballot
Senator Lucas denounces Gov. Dewey for attacking the federal war ballot proposal. He notes Dewey favors a four point NY plan to aid absentee ballots for servicemen and accuses GOP leaders of fraud charges over Eastland amendment. Lucas calls the Dewey stance politically profitable and misleading to armed forces voters.
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GPI
Lucas
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Congress
Mickey Boone Drops 1-A Draft Status Resigns to Army
Pi-Screen actor Mickey Boone was reclassified 1-A by his draft board yesterday. Rooney shows 12, previously 1-A, but was rejected by the Army on March 15 last year.
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Wos Angeres
Mickey Boone
Rooney
WPB Faces Loss of 238 Key War Production Board Officials
United States War Production Board officials, 245 deferment requests of fathers pre Pearl Harbor, were denied. The 245 includes J A Krug, vice chairman and WPB production chief, and E A Locke, Donald M Nelson aide. The denial signals a major disruption to WPB operations and policy leadership.
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Big
Little War Production Board
WPB
Pearl Harbor
J A Krug
Office of War Utilities
E A Locke
Donald M Nelson
WPBE
Bureau
Seaman Knute Raustad Declared Accidental Death
Lake Placid coroner ruled the death of Norwegian seaman Knute Raustad accidental after an inquest. Raustad bled to death in freezing temperatures while using a knife to cut a ped of boughs for a shelter work at Mount Whitney section following a New York consulate arrest.
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Essex County
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Knute Raustad
Mount Whitney
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Raustad
New York
Nimitz predicts Japanese fleet may retreat after submarine pressure
Admiral Chester W Nimitz said submarines have driven the Japanese fleet to retreat and undersea warfare could reshape the Pacific War. He noted heavy losses to Japanese tankers and supply ships at Truk and suggested Tokyo may withdraw heavy units to preserve what remains. He stated Allied forces have enough assets to meet Japan at any time and that losing ships would disrupt overseas communications.
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Truk
Haleve
Pacific
Admial
Southern Schools Asked to Enroll Negro Students
Washington reports the U S Office of Education urged equal educational opportunities for Negroes to safeguard democracy. It noted few Negro colleges offer graduate or research facilities, urging white Southern colleges to provide access and states to ensure Negro education funds are protected and expanded at college and pre college levels.
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U.S Office of Education
South
Female crooners irk British Conservative MPs
London reports in the House of Commons Earl Winterton, a Conservative, criticized female crooners on the government's British Broadcasting Company's programs for troops. He said they resemble no known American accent and reminded him of a caterwauling inebriated cockatoo.
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Earl Winterton
House of Commons
British Broadcasting
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