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increased tempo of German bombings of Brit discussed
Hamburg hit with new heavy explosives
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11 -- More than 500 San Francisco police were ordered to strike duty tomorrow as 1,900 striking machinists of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations prepared to throw picket lines around eleven shipbuilding plants in the Bay area to implement a strike called at midnight Friday. Similar precautions were being taken in Oakland, where six of the plants are located.
police to guard plants during picketing; union leaders protest; Bay Area Shipbuilders Negotiating Com and Rear Adm Greenslade deny asking guard; Keenan urges work during conf; council conf with AFL unions
Parliament Houses bombed
1941Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.[†]
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.