UN orders ceasefire in Indonesia conflict
The United Nations moved quickly to halt hostilities between the Netherlands and Indonesia. A Security Council decision called for cease-fire, arbitration or peaceful settlement and authorized possible sanctions or force if needed. Britain France Belgium abstained. Russia and the United States split on a Soviet demand to withdraw Dutch and Indonesian troops.
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United Nations
Weikly
Indonesi
Netherlands
Security Council
U. N
Britain
France
Belgium
Russia
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
U N Atomic Group Urges Shared Nuclear Facilities
At Lake Success Aug 2 United Nations atomic delegates urged sharing of stockpiles and production facilities among nations to deter aggression. The papers previewing the second report of the U N Atomic Energy Commission warn that seizure of such assets would signal intent to wage atomic war. Russia did not participate in drafting.
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Lake Success
United Nations
U. N. Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
Dutch Doubt Natives Can Enforce Order
Batavia Java August 2 UPI Acting Gov Gen Hubertus J Van Mock welcomed the US mediation offer on the Indonesian conflict but doubted the Indonesian Republic could enforce the UN cease fire. He said the Dutch could stop hostilities but questioned the other side’s discipline. He had not yet received Hague instructions on a cease fire and would learn the government stance soon. Republican circles in Batavia were disappointed the council did not demand Dutch forces cede gains.
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Eelco N. van Kleffens
van Kieffens
Hague
Council
U.S
Batavia
Britain
France
Belgium
Alexandre Parodi
Netherlands
China
India
T. F. Tsiang
B. R. Sen
van Kleffens
Australia
Hubertus J. van Mock
United States
United Nations Security Council
Netherlands East Indies
Security Council
Dies Removed From Murray Plant Amid Ford Dispute
Detroit August 2 Sheriff officers and city police guarded as dies used for Ford Mercury cars were taken from the Murray Corp of America plant on an 11 day strike by United Auto Workers. The union did not halt removals though local president Lloyd T Jones warned they would question the destination. Drivers held writs of replevin to move the dies despite picket lines. The strike has hampered Ford production and followed two earlier failed attempts by Dearborn Machinery drivers to passage through pickets.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company Mercury
Murray Corp. of America
CIQ
United Auto Workers
Lloyd T. Jones
Dearborn Machinery Company
Murray
Ford
Reds Operate 13 Prison Camps In German Zone
Berlin report claims 15 large concentration and forced labor camps run by the NKVD operate in the Russian occupation zone. It says tens of thousands are jailed, including many German Social Democrats and Communists deemed undesirable by the Soviet backed Socialist Unity party.
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Berlin
Social Democratic Party
Germany
NKVD
Secret Police
Socialist Unity Party
Youth Loses Diploma Fight Over Secret Society Pledge
John Theodore a Grand Rapids Central high school athlete lost a mandamus bid to get his diploma without signing a pledge denying affiliation with secret societies. Judge Thaddeus Taylor rejected the request noting state law requires seniors to sign such statements before graduation. Theodore, 19, had refused to sign and the board of education withheld his diploma.
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Grand Rapids
John Theodore
Grand Rapids Central High School
Thaddeus B. Taylor
Theodore
Grand Rapids Board of Education
Board of Education
Doctor Obrist Shot Dead in Portsmouth Ohio
Dr George Obrist a 45 year old Portsmouth physician was found shot to death behind his home early today the shot likely fired from long range a 22 caliber bullet entered behind his left ear investigators have not determined a motive the body was found by his son George Obrist Jr 23 shortly after midnight coroner Virgil Fowler said no reason for the shooting has been determined
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Portsmouth
Ohio
George Obrist
John Smith
Obrist
George Obrist Jr
Virgil Fowler
City bus workers get five cent hourly wage rise
Aug 2 Bay City reports that Arbitrator Benjamin W. Calvin granted a five cent hourly wage increase to UAW-CIO drivers and mechanics at Gaber Brothers Motor Coach Co. He noted the raise is below general industrial patterns but the best possible at present.
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Bay City
Uaw-Cio
Benjamin W. Calvin
Gaber Brothers Motor Coach Co
State Employee 21 Admits Drug Smuggling Into Prison
James C. Moore, 21, of Lansing, admits smuggling common nasal inhalers containing drugs into Southern Michigan Prison while supervising inmate bonus form processing. He sold them for two dollars after buying at a Lansing drug store for sixty cents, previously claiming four dollars. Investigations followed discovery of a twenty foot pipe with a hook in Moore’s office and a whisky bottle found in the prison. Moore says he was reassigned to a Lansing supervisory job and is preparing to move his family.
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Jackson
Lansing
Moore
James C. Moore
Jackson County
Southern
Michigan
William H. Burke
Ralph Benson
Benson
Edward Cooper
Corrections Department
Cooper
Chea
Burke
Adjutant General's Office
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Lehr Resigns to Lead Maccabees Fraternal Group
Detroit district attorney John C. Lehr after 11 years resigned yesterday to take a $10,000 a year post as rent commander for the Maccabees fraternal organization in Michigan. It was unclear when he would depart. Acting successor likely Thomas P. Thornton, Lehr's chief assistant. Lehr, 68, a Monroe native and University of Michigan Law School graduate.
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Lehr
Maccabees
Michigan
Thomas P.thornton
Monroe
University of Michigan Law School
French unions and employers back 11 percent pay rise
Paris reports an 11 percent average wage increase agreed by France's major union the CGT and the National Council of French Employers. The accord asks for government authorization and includes modest price boosts in certain industries. The government controls wages and prices as negotiations unfold.
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Paris
France
General Confederation of Labor
National Council of French Employers
National Association of Manufacturers
Soviet General Morozov Dies, Hero of Leningrad Campaign
The death of Lt. Gen. G. F. Morozov, a Soviet war hero and assistant chief of military training in infantry, was announced. He died July 31 and was cited in February 1942 for his troops role in smashing the German 15th Army below Leningrad.
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Moscow
G. F. Morozov
Morozov
Leningrad
Youths Sentenced in Kalamazoo Robbery Ring
In Kalamazoo on August 2 circuit Judge Lucien F. Sweet sentenced two 19 year olds who confessed to at least 40 robberies totaling about $1,100 over seven months. Vern Trainor received two to 15 years and Arthur Willis two and a half to 15 years.
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Kalamazoo
Lucien F. Sweet
Vern Trainor
Arthur Willis
Fall is Fatal in Detroit Horse Accident
Virginia McDevitt, 17, daughter of a former Martin Parry Corp. executive, died at Receiving hospital after injuries from a fall from a horse on Belle Isle.
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Detroit
Virginia McDevitt
Martin Parry Corp
Belle Isle
Marsupial Sabre-Tooth Tiger Bones Found in Nebraska
Lincoln Nebraska August 2 Fossilized bones of a marsupial sabre tooth tiger like creature that lived in the western hemisphere about one million years ago have been found in North America for the first time. Dr Bertrand Schultz announced today. A skull lower jaw and other bones were uncovered in a test excavation northwest of Cambridge 12 miles in a flood control reservoir site due to be inundated in 1949. The find provides important evidence on the evolutionary cycle of western hemisphere animal life. The pit also yielded bones of prehistoric giant bear dogs tapirs rhinos and ground sloths.
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Lincoln
Neb
Hemisphere
North America
Bertrand Schultz
University of Nebraska Museum
Cambridge
Schultz
Fireman’s strange plan lands him in jail for arson
In Gardens California Richard H Ross a 24 year old Los Angeles County firefighter admitted starting nine grass fires then helping to fight them to “build myself up with the chief.” He pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Justice Frank Do Carrell to pay a 90 fine and serve 60 days in jail.
Two GOP Soldiers Found With Toy Rifles in Malang Fire
In Malang Java on August 2 two Republican soldiers were shot by Dutch fire. They were found to be armed only with dummy wooden rifles. One man lay dead and the other dying in a street wrecked by Indonesian scorched earth tactics.
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Malang
Java
Foremen Seek Void Taft Hartley Labor Act
The Foremen's Association of America sues in federal court to declare the Taft-Hartley Labor Act unconstitutional. The complaint, filed yesterday, targets a provision removing employers obligation to bargain with supervisory unions, asserting discrimination and limits on government power to restrain strikes affecting public health and safety. The suit also challenges curbs on strikes from jurisdictional disputes and certain political expenditures by unions.
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Washington
CPI
Foremen’s Association of America
Federal District Court
German plants making war goods in Berlin sector
Police guard two Askania units in Berlin U S sector ordered shut for producing war materiel for a foreign power. Five officials detained, to stand trial. guard says equipment must not be removed by Russians. Plant ties to another Askania unit under Soviet control. Trial expected to be open to press and public.
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Berlin
U. S
Mariendorf
Askania Works
Askania
Friedenau
Manorf
Ford Strike Decision Expected Today
Detroit reports the fate of a Ford Motor Co strike hinges on a UAW CIO executive board vote. Negotiators seek to avert a walkout that could idle over 100,000 workers amid disputes over Taft Hartley and a pension clause. If approved, a strike could begin next week.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
Ford
United Auto Workers
Uaw-Cio
International Executive Board
UAW
Ford Department
Honeymoon Couple Arrive Niagara Falls in Cement Mixer
Honeymooners visit Niagara Falls in vehicles of all vintages, sizes and shapes. Parking attendants said a honeymoon pair showed up in a cement mixer.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Arvidson Named Head of New Electric Construction Unit
Jackson August 2 Carl E Arvidson named head of a newly established electric construction department at Consumers Power Co announced by VP Dan E Karn. Frank G Boyce previously led the electric construction work plan for a Flint river bridge approved for $250000 over the Flint river with a 44 foot span.
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Jackson
Carl E. Arvidson
Consumers Power Co
Dan E. Karn
Frank G. Boyce
Flint
Flint River
Theodore Mass
Public Works
Government seeks fleet of war planes headed for foreign country
Washington reports seven surplus U S Army war planes, two P-38s and five P-51s, may have illegally departed Florida and headed toward a foreign country. Officials said an alert is in effect to stop them from leaving the United States and intercept possible buyers among civilians.
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Washington
Florida
Edson J. Shambart
Bureau of Customs
U.S
Caribbean
Forg-Euseaical
Dominican Republic
Port-Au-Prince
Julio Ortega Frier
Cuba
Guatemala
Venezuela
Puerto Rico
Anti-British Slogans Appear On Consulates
Anti British slogans appeared on British consulates in New York Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago and Los Angeles. Philadelphia youths Daniel Tapper and Sid Troy were arrested for malicious mischief as painters smeared slogans on the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society building housing the consulate. In Liverpool tensions rose as red anti Semitic signs appeared near docks and Jewish shops following Palestine events. London police searched the foreign office after a warning of imminent blast by an Irgun member. no explosives found.
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New York
Palestine
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Chicago
Los Angeles
Daniel Tapper
Camden
N. J
Sid Troy
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society
Lower Broadway
Great Britain
Liverpool
Eng
London
Foreign Office
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Baby dies in bath infant tragedy reported by coroner
Grand Rapids authorities say eight month old William Wayne Kuhlman drowned or suffocated in a bathinette while his mother, Betty Kuhlman, was occupied with housework. The child was found face down in two inches of water.
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Grand Rapids
Kent County
Paul W. Bloxsom
Wiliam Wayne Kuhlman
Betty Kuhlman
GM Price Increase Triggers Auto Industry Debate
Detroit August report notes General Motors raised prices by two to six percent affecting all five passenger car models and Chevrolet trucks. Rival firms' responses uncertain, with industry chatter of further increases. GM says higher costs from wage hikes and steel price rises drove the move. union leader Reuther calls it a step toward inflation and unemployment.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
General Motors
Chevrolet
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers
C. E. Wilson
Wilson
Auto Executive
Roosevelt guest-entertainment charges raise inquiry
John W. Meyer, publicity chief for Howard Hughes, contests Senate war investigation claims he spent over $5,000 entertaining Elliott Roosevelt during 1943 to 1945 as part of a probe into $40 million in Hughes airplane contracts. The witness identified expense vouchers and noted many entries lack payer details.
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Elliott Roosevelt
Boston
Mass
Faye Emerson
Hyde Park
N. Y
Senate
Howard Hughes
Washington
John W. Meyer
Senate War Investigating Committee
Hughes
Meyer
Ferguson
R-Mich
Col
John Meyer
Statler
William P. Rogers
Eliott Roosevelt
Miss Emerson
Col. Roosevelt
Baye Emerson
Paul Franklin
Valle
Ariz
Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt
William Powell
John Hoover
Patricia Clark
John R. Boettiger
James Roosevelt
John Roosevelt
War Department
Henry J. Kaiser
Interior Krug
Mon Wallgren
Army
Krug
Brewster
R-Me
Los Angeles
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Ore
Francesca V. Bruch
Bureau of Immigration
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le Havre
Richard Moczkowski
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