General Motors Threatened by CIO UAW Strike Action
The Labor Department reported General Motors received notice the CIO United Auto Workers may strike if a new wage pact isn’t reached by April 20. About 130,000 GM workers would be affected. UAW demands include a 10 cent hourly wage increase, 80 hours vacation pay, grievance reforms, draft worker compensation, and broader umpire authority.
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Associated Press
Federal Labor Department
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers’ Union
General Motors
Labor Department
James F. Dewey
Detroit
Ford River Rouge
Npo
Nightall
Junior Maids to Queen Shenandoah XVIII Named
Two English students Bren da Carter and Betty Edmonds of Handley High School Winchester England will serve as Junior Maids of Honor to Queen Shenandoah XVIII at the Apple Blossom Festival May 12. They will visit the White House Monday afternoon to pay respects to Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Brenda Carter
Betty Edmonds
Queen Shenandoah XVIII
Handley High School
Winchester
Eng
White House
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jolliffe Eto
Damage to Washington HQ grounds prompts call for training
MA Winchester appeals after youths vandalize George Washington Headquarters flowers shrubs and grass. He notes earlier church window damage and urges steps to protect sacred property through proper training of children.
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George Washington
Majority Ruling Over Honesty Majority Ruling Over Honesty
CITY Mo April 11 Honesty may pay but majority rules. After legislators had been on $1 a day since March 10 a raise bill passed the House to grant $125 a month. Opposition arose with one member saying we aren’t doing dollars worth of work a day now.
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City
House
Ford Strike at Rouge River Settled After Talks
Detroit April 11 Governor Van Wagoner announced Ford Motor Company strike settled after peace talks with UAW CIO officials. Plant to reopen as much as possible Monday. The shutdown had idled about 200000 workers nationwide.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
Dewey
Pittsburgh
Murray D. van Wagoner
Michigan
Detroit
United Automobile Workers
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor
U. Aw.c.lo
I. A. Capizzi
Ford Company
Ford
Uniforms Bought For Home Guards In Virginia
Winchester citizens and local businesses contributed 887.50 toward uniforms for 70 members of Co. 115 Virginia Protective Force under Capt. W. A. Baker. About 300 more is needed for shoes ties and insignias. uniforms cost 810 and were ordered from Richmond. A donor list appears on an inside page.
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Winchester
Virginia Protective Force
W. A. Baker
Richmond
Major Barton To Speak On Memorial Day
Turner Ashby Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy announced that Major Robert T. Barton of Richmond will deliver the Memorial Day address on June 6 at Stonewall Cemetery. The meeting at Mrs. Clarence Hardy’s home on South Braddock Street was chaired by the first Vice-President in the president’s absence. May 10 was set for the Fourth District meeting in Leesburg with an invitation for all district chapters to send representatives.
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Turner Ashby
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Clarence Hardy
South Braddock Street
Robert T. Barton
Richmond
Stonewall Cemetery
Colbert
Leesburg
Dr E T Clark to Speak at National Red Cross Meeting
The Rev E T Clark pastor of the First Baptist Church accepted an invitation to speak at the National American Red Cross convention in Washington. He will address the Round Table Discussion on Roll Call at the Mayflower Hotel on April 23 with the subject Special Gifts. He chaired the local Special Contributions committee last year and plans to attend the national event with at least ten other local members.
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E. T. Clark
D. D
First Baptist Church
Washington
Clark
Mayflower Hotel
Winchester-Frederick County
Italy Pauses In Her Killing For Good Friday Mourning
Rome marks Good Friday as wartime burden pauses. Catholics climb sacred stairs at St John Lateran while Vatican rites occur in the Sistine Chapel. Bells of 420 churches are stilled and public venues stay closed amid communications restrictions and wartime blackout.
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Italy
Rome
Vatican
Pius XII
Sistine Chapel
Greenland Bases To Be Erected By U S Quickly
Roosevelt backs a Havana accord restricting transfer of Western Hemisphere lands and plans for rapid fortification of Greenland. War concerns rise after German flights over the island prompt urgent naval and military readiness.
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U.S
Hingto
Roosevelt
Havana
Western Hemisphere
Martinique
Guadeloupe
Trinidad
British Guiana
United States
War Department
Atlantic
Americas
Hull
One Killed Four Hurt In Belvidere Powder Plant Blast
An explosion at Hercules Powder Company's smokeless powder plant in Belvidere New Jersey killed 21 year old Charles Haycock and injured four other workers. Initial reports of two deaths were corrected. only one fatality occurred. The blast damaged one building with minimal property loss and occurred around 9 a m. The plant had just begun scheduled production after prior experimental powder making.
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Belvidere
N. J
Hercules Powder Company
Wilmington
Del
Charles Haycock
Phillipsburg
Explosion at Woodward Iron Co Furnace Blasts Loud
Ten miles away a boiler at the Woodward Iron Co blast furnace shattered in an explosion in Birmingham Alabama. Initial reports said at least ten people were seriously injured as ambulances and police swarmed the plant. The plant employs about 500 workers and is a major independent producer with a 500000 ton yearly capacity. Cause was not established.
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Birmingham
Ala
Woodward Iron Co
Woodward
National Defense
Clashy Battle of Greece Develops Between British and Germans
Athens reports British expeditionary troops clashed with Nazi invaders for the first time in northern Greece near Mount Olympus as the struggle for Greece expands. Yugoslav refugees say Slav forces fought valiantly but were hampered by poor communications amid the German advance.
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Adolf Hitler
Greece
Mount Olympus
Yantiza
Olympus Range
Yugoslavia
Strumica
Struma
Vardar
Berlin
Drava
Gel Baron von Weichs
Ey ‘Reeter
Lowser Yugoslavia
Neeen
London Radio
Aegean
Bitolj
Monastir
Slavia
Belgrade
Nis
High Command
Rport
Budapest
Istanbul
Turkey
Peter II
Birmingham and Coventry Hit Again In Night Raids
London reports Coventry and Birmingham suffered heavy damage and probable casualties in new German air raids last night. British night fighters claimed nine German planes destroyed while London and the South Coast remained under alert for five hours.
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London
Coventry
Birmingham
Midlands
Britain
Ruhr
Germany
Brest
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Luftwaffe
Berlin
England
French Frontiers Closed to Men Aged 17 to 40
VICHY April 11. Marshal Petain's cabinet announced frontiers are closed to Frenchmen ages 17 to 40 to prevent flight to join De Gaulle's Free French forces. The note said consuls in Spain and Normandy coasts search for volunteers at British ports.
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Vichy
France
Marshal Petain
Charles de Gaulle
Spain
Normandy
Brittany
de Gaulle
Opening Of Sea Is Pleasing
Semi official British sources said today that opening of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to United States shipping showed the promptness and the effectiveness of American assistance in the cause which all the free peoples have in common. Page 7 sale bill of Dolen I. Bailey property.
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London
Red Sea
Gulf of Aden
United States
Easter Bake Sale Notice at Stephenson Church
Easter bake sale scheduled for Saturday April 12 at 9 30 a m. in the Stephenson Church hall at 8 East Piccadilly featuring chickens eggs and rolls.
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Piccadilly
Stephenson Church
South End Hose Company to Attend Funeral of Michael Lillis
The South End Hose Company members meet at the hall at 9:30 Saturday morning to attend the funeral for the late Michael Lillis. Captain Howard Hart directs the procession.
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South End Hose
South End Hose Company
Michael Lillis
Howard Hart
Correction: Gold Medal Plant pricing corrected
In yesterday's United Food Stores ad a pricing error appeared for Gold Medal Plant. The correct price is 12 for 53 cents. This correction updates page one.
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The
United
War Today in Greece Yugoslavia and North Africa
British troops clash with Germans in northern Greece as panzer columns advance toward Bitolj. Allied forces report resistance in eastern Macedonia while Yugoslavia collapses and Zagreb falls. Axis strikes hit Tobruk and Coventry with raids as Bangkok rumors swirl about Thailand.
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Greece
Bitolj Pass
Lower
Yugoslavia
Macedonia
Axis Planes Shot Down in North Africa Air Raids
In a Cairo report dated April 11 the RAF said more than 30 Axis planes were shot down or destroyed by ground strafing in the past week. It cited an amazing two days with 22 German aircraft destroyed and one British Hurricane loss amid raids on Derna Gazala and Acroma with destruction of motor transports and armored vehicles.
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Cairo
Egypt
North Africa
RAF
Derna
Gazala
Acroma
British bombing raids hit factories and docks in Europe
London reports that British bombers struck large factories at Düsseldorf and air field facilities near Bordeaux last night. Missiles designed to pierce armor were dropped on the Brest docks where Germany's battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are berthed.
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London
Duesseldorff
Bordeaux
Brest
Germany
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Air Ministry
Turkey Holding Key To Safety Hope of Britain
London observers say Turkey may determine Britain's safety in the Middle East as Germany presses into Greece Yugoslavia and Libya. Despite Ankara's cautious stance, officials see Turkey Soviet Russia and the British navy as a potential barrier to Nazi advance toward Iraq and the Caucasus gains.
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London
Turkey
Great Britain
Middle East
Russia
Suez Canal
Iraq
Winston Churchill
Churchill
House of Commons
Ukraine
Caucasus
Rashid Ali el Ghailani
Berlin
Bright Skies For Easter Likely
Extended forecast for the Middle Atlantic states from 7 30 p m April 11 to 7 30 p m April 16 calls for fair mild weather Saturday and Sunday then cloudy conditions Monday followed by light showers Tuesday and cooler Wednesday temperatures will run well above normal for the period Weather likely to affect Easter plans with above normal temperatures and scattered showers.
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Washington
Middle Atlantic States
Large bomber sighting and spring trout stocking notes
A large four-engine bomber-like plane flew over the city at 38:30 this morning. West Virginia reports trout season openings with 1500 legal rainbows stocked in Hardy County streams and larger efforts in Shenandoah and Frederick counties. George Washington Headquarters to reopen to tourists around April 15, with several thousand visitors last season.
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West Virginia
Waites Run
Moore's Run
Trout Run
Hardy County
Petersburg
W. Va
Frederick
Shenandoah
Back Creek
Cedar Creek
Big Stoney Creek
Shenandoah County
F. N. McCormick
George Washington
United States
Valuable Residence for Sale Public Auction Notice
Public sale of W. Fred H s property set for Saturday April 1941 at 11 o clock in front of the County Court House in Wa ter Virginia. Auctioneer is Harry R. Kern Jr trustee. Awnings for porch and windows advertised by E W Armstrong Co. Phone 639. Terms include auction details.
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W. Fred H S
Front County Court House
Water
Virginia
Harry R. Kern, JR
E. W. Armstrong CO
E. Piccadilly St
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