Janitors Strike Vote Sparks City School Union Push
A newly organized union of school janitors seeks recognition from the city board after electing Benjamin Turner president and H R Turney as AFL organizer. The group plans to postpose action until the board meeting next week and raises contract terms while jurisdictional tensions grow with other unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R
John P. Baker
Turney
Weldon W. Slater
Givet
Union of Operating Engineers
Brotherhood of Firemen and
Lers
Turner
James Dodson
Wilson School
Carl Spoert
Munson School
Lary
John ‘Tanner
Roosevelt
Nempster Chapman
Wilson
Tustee
Elmer’ Abele
Norval Park
British Fight For Upper Hand In Libyan Front
British reinforcements push to regain initiative on the Libyan front south of Tobruk as German armor dominates the corridor from Sidi Rezegh toward Tobruk. Cairo said the battle front remains fluid while British hopes hinge on sea-borne arrivals to bolster the counter drive.
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London
Touruk
H Ague
Cairo
Sidi Rezegh
Tobruk
Atte
Alan Cunningham
Rezegh
Ie Rezegh
Bir
Homed-Zaatran
Lady Aster Criticizes Prime Minister in Commons Speech
In London today Lady Nancy Astor sharply criticized Prime Minister Churchill for not advancing conscription proposals, urging equal treatment for all women while warning married women could provoke discontent. Also reports a rabbit fever outbreak in Ohio with four cases in Hamilton and a total of twenty-two cases nationwide.
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London
Nancy Astor
Churchill
House of Commons
Asl
Labor Party
Pariament
Columbus
Onto
Hamilton
R. HH
Markwith
Ravenna shell plant strike shows limited worker walkout
A strike at Ravenna’s $57 million government arsenal shell loading plant drew limited participation. Officials reported less than 10 percent of 1,500 production and maintenance workers stopped work while full-time construction crews, about 12,000 total, remained on the job. Union leadership and AFL factions disputed the scope and impact of the walkout.
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Ravenna
Arsenal
Thejera of America
Nance
Walker
Atlas
Howlers
R. R. Walker
The
Brotherhood of Firemen
AFL
AFL Building Trades
Sixty Under Arrest in Italy Over Mussolini Plot Trial
In Trieste a fascist court opened a trial charging 60 people with forming an anti-Italian terrorist network aiming at a northeast revolt and a Soviet styled republic. Prosecution cited espionage, powder factory blasts, railroad sabotage, and an attack on Mussolini at Caporetto in 1938.
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Rome
Mussolini
Trieste
Italy
Austrian
Carinthia
Yugoslavia
Caporetto
Piacenza
Bologna
Zanesville Man Heads New Ohio Elevator Inspection Division
Heery Stehmeyer of Ed Putnam Avenue was named chief of Ohio’s new division of elevator inspection. The appointment announced in Columbus by George A. Strain of the Department of Industrial Relations notes Stehmeyer’s prior role as head of the division of steam engineer examiners and his salary of 3600 dollars annually. A German native, he has long worked as chief engineer at plants including the American Rolling Mill company in Zanesville and Middletown and mills at Dresden and Steubenville. He assumed duties immediately and has served as assistant chief of steam engineer examinations for two years.
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Heery F.stehmeyer
Ed Putnam “S Avenue
State Division of
Columbus
George A. Strain
State Department of Industrial Relations
Stehmeyer
Department of Industrial Relations
Strain
Germany
Zanesville
Middletown
American Rolling Mill Company
Dresden
Steubenville
New State Department
Engine Plunges Into Ship Canal During Accident
East Chicago Indiana engineer of a streamliner died when he reversed the locomotive to stop derailing coaches near an open bridge into a harbor canal. Six derailed cars stayed upright. fireman escaped. The crash buried the locomotive under water. the strike and wage dispute affecting railroad operations was noted.
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Chicago
Ind
Indiana Harbor Ship Canal
Jack O'Conner
Garrett
En- Tacoma
Wash
Chicago-to-New York
Shenandoah
Baltimore
International Union and Ohio Road of Operation Engineers
AFL
A. E. McCurdy
Pittsburgh
Rush B. Moody
McCurd
O'Connor
Howard Fog
R. Gould
Atr
Seatle
Signal and Times Recorder Start Santa Search
The Signal and The Times Recorder plan a North Pole expedition to verify Santa Claus amid high reader interest in the letter-writing contest. Editors seek an experienced reporter to witness Santa’s activities and residence and explain how gifts are delivered in one night.
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Signal and Times Recorder
Santa
Signal
Times Recorder
Santa Claus
Myn
North Pole
Oll Santa
Harn
Knudsen Questions Strikes Amid National Emergency
William S. Knudsen, co-director of the Office of Production Management, told a Waldorf Astoria gathering that strikes during an unlimited national emergency are foolish. He cited coal strikes and disputes over jurisdiction as labor challenges while praising general production upgrades and ongoing wages and conditions in industry. A second note from Crestline reports Mary Siatto’s death after a dress ignited by flames from paper in a furnace.
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New York
W— Wiliam S. Knudsen
Office of Production Management
Iife
Waldorf-Astoria
OPM
Crestline
Mary Mar
Siatto
Driver Pleads Not Guilty to Manslaughter
David Hadwin 79 of Assumption Illinois faces a second degree manslaughter charge after the fatal collision with 10 year old Dick Sawyer near his Hopewell home as he alighted from a school bus. Bond set at 1000 with his son to post cash. boy died at Bethesda hospital from a broken arm skull fracture and internal injuries. The incident marks Muskingum county's 28th traffic fatality this year. The bus involved carried 16 passengers and was traveling east. Hadwin passed on the left as children were exiting. The boy was struck by the right front fender while crossing toward his home. Survival details include his parents and three sisters. funeral planned at Mt Sterling Methodist church with burial pending.
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David Hadwin
Assumption
Dick Sawyer
Hopewell
West Pike
Common Pleas
P. H. Tannehill
J. Donald Kincaid
Hadwin
Bethesda Hospital
Keck
Muskingum County
Hopewell School
P. E. Rathburn
Minnie
Caldwell
Owen Stanberry
Toboso
F. H. Sawyer
Helen
Jean
Lucille Wharton
Newark
Mt. Sterling Methodist Church
C E. Bulen
L. C. Wills
Brownsville
Willia Thompson and Son Funeral
White Cottage
Roosevelt awaits Japan reply on Indo China forces
President Roosevelt seeks Japan's explanation of military, air, and naval concentrations in French Indo China as a condition for continuing Pacific peace talks. The United States demands substantial withdrawal of Chinese and Japanese forces as a first step toward settlement, warning no negotiations if Tokyo resists. Tokyo silence persists while Japanese officials discuss Indo China with Hanoi authorities. Derringer signs Reds contract for 1942 in Jacksonville after brief talks with GM Gilex.
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Washington
INS
United States
Japan
Indo- China
Pacific
Roosevelt
Nippon
Indo-China
Tokyo
Thailand
Shigeru Kuriyama
Hanoi
Plan Storm Sewer On Virginia St
City engineering department completes plans for a 44 000 storm sewer on Virginia street in the Brighton district. A 3 000 foot, 48 inch line from Luck avenue to Chaos Run will be built with WPA funds, creating work for about 150 city WPA workers for four months starting early 1942.
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Virginia Street
City Engineering
WPA
Brighton
Luck Avenue
Chaos Run
Another Nazi Slain in Paris
The German command in Paris announced a German medical corps officer was shot last night on Boulevard Magenta and imposed a 6:30 p.m. curfew on the tenth arrondissement. Streets pubs and subway stations were closed and further measures warned if terrorist attacks repeat.
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Paris
France
Boulevard Magenta
Tenth Arrondissement
Montmartre
East Statim
Latin Quarter
Mont
Defense Funds Win Approval
The House Appropriations Committee approved an outlay of 3,243,839,031 dollars nearly all for defense and lend lease to boost tanks and guns for British and Russian forces. The total defense cash and contracts since July 1, 1940 would reach 67,990,254,096 dollars, with Navy additions and war material for merchant ships and patrol vessels also funded. General Marshall insisted large production is essential to gain temporary Axis superiority.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Ee Army
vInstead
Army
George C. Marshall
War Department
KIU
Navy
Two Youths Are Slain and Waitress Wounded in Jealousy Shooting
In Wheeling West Virginia Richard Benson, 19, killed Clarence Eugene Winesburgh, 17, then fatally shot and wounded Vera McKnight, 17, of St. Mary, before dying by own action. The crime occurred in an underpass on U S Route 40 and witnesses two attendants who rushed the wounded waitress to a nearby detective’s home.
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Wheeling
W. VA
Richard Benson
Clarence Eugene Winesburgh
Mra Vera McKnight
St. Mary
Benson
Wiresburgh
Mra. McK
Annual Christmas Toy Show Set at Weller December 13
The Weller theater will host its annual Christmas Toy Show on Saturday December 13 organized by the American Legion. John Woodward announces committees for the event with toys donated by underprivileged children to be distributed by the Legion after the show. More than 1 800 children attended last year.
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Weller
Weller Theater
Fred Quigtes
Legion
John Woodward
Theat
Japuliren
Woodward
American Legion For
Kandy
Counter Blows Halting German Drive on Moscow Front
London reports German infantry and tank spearheads struck Moscow from three directions but Soviet dispatches say Red Army holds two fronts and counter-attacks on a third south of the capital. Russian gains up to 30 miles from Moscow and villages recaptured near Stalinogorsk are cited amid heavy German losses. Radio Moscow notes tanks and cavalry recaptured villages as winter weather hinders German operations. Meanwhile Russian forces reportedly push into Taganrog suburbs west of Rostov as Marshal Timoshenko’s forces strike back at the Nazi advance toward Moscow.
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London
Moscow
Red Army
Kulbyshev
Radio
Stalinogorsktula
Volokolask
Klin
Peattson
Moecow
Taganrng
Rostov
United States
Taganrog
Japanese Radio Broadcast From Tokyo Reported
Los Angeles dispatch notes a Japanese radio broadcast from Tokyo covering U S Plews Indien Ocean Salas. The report cites U S Plews and Indien Ocean Salas in a brief update on wartime communications from the Pacific theater.
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U.S
Plews Indien Ocean Salas
Los Angeles
INS1
Tokyo
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