Goodyear Plants Seized by Navy Over War Labor Strike
President Truman ordered the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company plants in Akron to be occupied by the Navy to resume production of vital war tires after a 20 day strike by CIO United Rubber Workers. Captain H. K. Clark assumed command and urged workers to return to their regular shifts. The move followed wage and working condition deadlock and widespread labor stoppages affecting major defense suppliers nationwide.
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Truman
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Mr. Truman
Navy
CIO
United Rubber Workers
Capt. H. K. Clark
USNR
Clark
Goodyear
Armed Services
Washington
Edward J. Thomas
WLB
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
New York City
George W. Taylor
Republic Steel
Cleveland
United Steelworkers Union
Mack Manufacturing Corporation
New Brunswick
Plainfield
N. J
Allentown
Gulf Lubricating Corporation
Mobile
Ala
R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company
Chicago
Detroit
Texas Oil Company
Port Arthur
Tex
Nazi starvation station unearthed in Bavaria by AMG officials
Public health officials of the American Military Government uncovered a Nazi scientific starvation station in Kaufbeuren area Bavaria. Four German doctors and three hospital attendants were arrested for causing fatal harm to 211 children via intramuscular injections and other experiments. More than 350 people cremated since last November. other stations existed near Linz Austria and in Wuettemberg and Bavaria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Bavaria
AMG
Kaufbeuren
Austria
Marvin Linick
New York City
Loyal Murphy
Memphis
Franziska Will
Worle
U. S
Linick and Murphy
Harthausen
Linz
Grafeneck
Wuettemberg
Guensburg
Friendship Fire Company Meeting Announced
The Friendship Fire Company will hold its regular monthly meeting this evening at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to attend. A. Ryland Conner, Captain.
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The
Friendship Fire Company
A. Ryland Conner
Sarah Zane Fire Co. Meeting Notice
The Sarah Zane Fire Co. will be held Friday July 6 at 8 P M. All members are requested to be present. LORYN M. CRABILL Capt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Zane Fire Co
Loryn M. Crabill
Churchill Franco meeting doubtful amid Potsdam plans
A London report claimed Churchill would meet Franco before the Potsdam Big Three Conference, but a foreign office commentator doubted it. A July 14 or 16 Potsdam conference in Berlin suburb was anticipated with Truman, Stalin, and Churchill to discuss European issues and the Polish question.
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London
Churchill
Generalissimo Franco
Spain
Potsdam
Foreign Office
Truman
Hendaye
Bordeaux
Italy
World Security League
Warsaw
Charge County Man of Violating War Food Order
In Roanoke Virginia F S Tavenner Jr United States Attorney filed a criminal information against Leonard C Ellis of Frederick County charging violation of War Food Order 119 on chicken sales in freeze areas where fowls must first be offered to the army. The case is in Harrisonburg division with $2000 bond and opens October 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
F. S. Tavenner, Jr
United States
Leonard C. Ellis
Frederick County
Ellis
Harrisonburg
Washington
Oscar W Cordle
War Food Administration
War in Brief: Balikpapan Secured and Philippines Victory
Balikpapan in Dutch Borneo is virtually secured. General MacArthur says the Philippines are back after a 250 day campaign with 54,000 U S casualties and about 450,000 Japanese losses. American airmen bomb the Peiping Hankow railway area. Two U S destroyers were lost off Okinawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
MacArthur
U. S
MacArthur declares Philippines freed from Japanese
Manila dispatch reports General MacArthur announced that all Philippine Islands have been recaptured in the war against Japan. He cites a 250 day campaign with 17 American divisions defeating 35 Japanese divisions and claims millions of casualties, alongside plans to transform the archipelago into a network of bases for future operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Davis
Manila
Philippine Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Togo
16Th
Imperial Division
Bataan
MacArthur
British Isles
Germany
Collaase
Greater -East Asia
Far East
Rouss Fire Co. Meeting Called for July 6
The Rouss Fire Co. will hold a meeting Friday evening July 6 at 8 o clock. All members are urged to attend. President C. C. Dettra signs the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rouss Fire CO
C. C. Dettra
Britain Votes in Tight Clash Over Free Enterprise or Socialism
London July 5 Britain votes in a general election seen as a global indicator of postwar Europe s shift left or right Conservative Prime Minister Churchill defends economic freedom while Labour leader Clement Attlee pushes for nationalization of four key industries and a socialist Commonwealth Absentee ballots delay final results until July 26 with both campaigns claiming momentum Churchill predicting victory and Labour forecasts a strong swing to Labour as polls open.
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London
Britain
Europe
Churchill
Labor
Clement Attlee
Commonwealth of Great Britain
Churchhill
House of Commons
Laborite Daily Herald
Manchester
Parker Opens Hardware Store in City at 7 South Braddock
Lomax Parker of Stephens City announces Parker's Hardware Store will open Friday at 10 a.m. on 7 South Braddock Street. Store run by French T. Reed with Mrs. Parker in charge of an antique annex featuring chinaware glassware and furniture. Parker previously owned Parker's Grocery now Bailey's Food Center from 1935 to 1940.
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W. Lomax Parker
Stephens City
Parker's Hardware Store
South Braddock Street
French T. Reed
Parker
Winchester
Parker's Grocery
Bailey’s Food Center
Winchester council rejects 90 day poultry extension
The Winchester Common Council voted seven to three to deny requesting City Solicitor James P. Reardon hold action for another 90 days against poultry firms violating a city ordinance. The Hanover Dressed Poultry Company seeks a permanent site and an enclosed facility, while the Winchester Poultry Company moved to Stephens City to comply. A 30 day extension previously granted expires today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Common Council
James P. Reardon
Winchester
C. F. Nicholas
Winchester Poultry Company
Charles R. Bish
Hanover Dressed Poultry Company
Stephens City
Hanover
Delaware
Spaatz to lead new U S Army Air Force in Pacific
General Carl A. Spaatz is named supervising general of the new U S Army Air Force in the Pacific reporting to General of the Army Henry H Arnold. The 8th Air Force under Lt Gen James Doolittle and the 20th under Maj Curtis E Lemay will form the two main bombing wings in the expanded command as B 29s target Japan’s major and secondary cities.
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Spaatz
War Department
Robert P. Patterson
U. S. Army Air Force
Pacific
Army
H. H. Arnold
8Th Air Force
James Doolittle
Curtis E. Lemay
Patterson
La Guardia Sister Receives Food Aid in Berlin
In Berlin on July 5 1944 American GIs shared rations to feed Mrs Gemma La Guardia Gluck sister of New York mayor. Lieutenant Alvin M Shapiro presented groceries to the New York born grandmother freed by Soviet forces. She sheltered with a German family as troops donated milk for her grandson and meals for her daughter Jolanda.
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Berlin
Gemma la Guardia Gluck
New York City
Gluck
Alvin M. Shapiro
Brooklyn
N. Y
Second Armored
Hell On Wheels
Cluck
Richard
Jolanda
Clifford Stoll
Buffalo
Soap
Glucks
Twin Air Attacks on Tokyo and Nagasaki Reported
SAN FRANCISCO July 5 Three hundred American fighters and bombers from Iwo Jima and Okinawa attacked Tokyo air fields and Nagasaki port. Okinawa based fighters and Liberators hit Nagasaki Omura. Mustangs from Iwo Jima struck airfields north and east of Tokyo. About 800 American planes conducted Fourth of July strikes across four Japanese cities with widespread damage and fires.
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San Francisco
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Tokyo
Nagasaki
Radio Tokyo
Omura
Hyushu
Japan
Federal Communications Commission
Guam
Yellow Sea
Army
Navy
Marine
Nippon
U. S. Seventh Army Air Force
Will
Musangs
Imba
Nobara
Kashi
Disposition of Units In Europe Are Announced
Paris reports the ETO lists status of ten infantry divisions as they redeploy from Europe to the Pacific or be reassigned. Units include the 13th Armored 86th 95th 97th 104th with several others at sea or en route home. Sails planned this week for several divisions as they shift to ETOUSA or permanent occupation roles.
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Robert Eunson
Paris
Pacific
United States
High Seas
ETO
America
13Th Armored
European
USA
Germany
Supreme Headquarters
Etousa
Ansbach
Salzburg
Austria
Seventh Army
United
Bremen
Mayen
SHAEF
Ulm
Kitzbuehel
Britain
Wuerzburg
Linz
Marseille
France
Leipzig
SHAEP
Limburg
Auegsburg
Gera
Bad Wildungen
Beer
Czechoslovakia
Kaufbeuren
Deerendorf
Mannheim
Welden
Holiday Deaths Show Decrease Across Nation
The nation reported 138 accidental Fourth of July deaths, mainly from traffic and drownings, with 53 traffic deaths and 50 drownings. Ohio led with 16 fatalities. New York and Illinois had five and three respectively. No accidental deaths were recorded in 10 states.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Ohio
New York
Ilinois
Public Sale of Household and Kitchen Furniture Albin
Household and kitchen furniture to be sold Friday July 6 at 10 am at Albin. Carrie L. Hattie listed in notice. Auction notice appears in local public sale column.
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Albin
Carrie L. Hattie
Notice to Customers as Plant closes for Vacation
We will close our plant from July 9 to July 16, rest and vacation for employees. Call for garments before that date as none will be available during the closed period. CAMMERS QUALITY CLEANERS 118 S. Braddock St. (6-28-30, 7-3-5-6-1p-5t) CLEARANCE HATS $1.00 & $1.95 RET to $7.95 MARGARET L. HODGSON Hat & Dress Shop (1-2-5-1p-2t)
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Cooperaon
Cammers Quality Cleaners
S. Braddock St
Margaret L. Hodgson
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Goodyear Tire
Navy Force
By A. I. Goldberg
Stalin
Franco
Leonard Ellis
Borneo
Balikpapan
Dutch Borneo
China
Yellow River
Indo-China
Peiping-Hankow
U. S. Navy
M’ Arthur
Winchester Evening Star
Lomax Parker
Council
Loudoun Street
North Cameron Street
Henry
E. E. Baker
Carl A. Spaatz
Laguardia
U.S
Nagasakia
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