Truman Urges Action to Shape Postwar Economy
President Truman pushes Congress to adopt fact finding boards for major disputes and a broad program including full employment, higher unemployment benefits, price controls, a permanent FEPC, and higher minimum wages. He cites housing as urgent and warns 1946 as a year of decision.
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House Group
Fair Employment Practices Commission
House
Ways and Means
United States
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Truman
Congress
GMC
General Motors Corporation
Cio-United Automobile Workers
Gerval Motors Corporation
Senate
President Signs Medical Bill To Aid Veterans
President Truman signed into law a bill creating a department of medicine and surgery within the Veterans Administration. He urged VA head Gen Omar Bradley to prioritize qualified veterans for medical staffing and to prevent discrimination by race or creed. Civil service officials had opposed giving VA direct hiring authority.
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Washington
Truman
Veterans’ Administration
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
European Relief Chief To Resign
British Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan, UNRRA operations head in Germany, reportedly resigns. An unnamed UNRRA official said the resignation would be announced tomorrow noon. Morgan drew sharp criticism from Jewish groups over claims about Polish Jews moving to the American zone.
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Washington
Frederick E. Morgan
UNRRA
Germany
Morgan
United States
Britain
Europe
New York
Joseph Tenebaum
American and
World Federations of
Oscar Lange
Poland
Lange
Dean Acheson
State Department
Frederick E.organ
Czechoslovakia
New Synthetic Drug Promises Faster Malaria Relief
American scientists report SN 7618 a new synthetic malaria drug superior to atabrine and quinine for rapid relief and weekly dosing with less side effects. A second drug shows definite promise as a cure for relapsing vivax malaria, though not yet identified. Neither drug available to the public. trials continue.
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Associated Press
Washington
Board For the Coordination of
Baby With Two Heads Dies in Birmingham Hospital
A two headed baby girl born to an English mother and American GI husband died tonight in Birmingham. The infant, born New Year’s Day with two fully formed heads and respiratory systems, had been kept on an oxygen tent and doctors had little hope for survival.
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London
Exchange
Birmingham
Political Riot in Mexico Kills 25
Leon Mexico January 3 The Red Cross reports 25 bodies recovered and over 300 treated from last night’s political clash as federal troops guard the city. Businesses are closed in protest after troops tried to disperse a crowd opposing PRM candidate Ignacio Quiroz whom the crowd says was imposed while rival Carlos Obregon is claimed elected. Forty arrested and police seek Obregon.
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Leon
Mexico
Red Cross
PRM
Party of the Mexican Revolution
Ignacio Quiroz
Carlos A. Obregon
Obregon
Adviser to Hess Reports On British Peace Feeler
Adolf Hitler’s secret papers claim “important English circles” sent a peace feeler to Hess’s representative a month before his 1941 England flight. Haushofer’s May 1941 account lists Britons seen as possible mediators and outlines a three point peace basis while noting past contact efforts and a September 1940 letter to the Duke of Hamilton.
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Hess
Daniel DE Luce Muernberg
Adolf Hitler
Rudolf Hess
England
Albrecht Haushofer
Obersalzberg
Hitler
Haushofer
Duke of Hamilton
Britain
Greece
Europe
Soviet Union
Gestapo
Berlin
Explosions Rock Tel Aviv Amid Police Searches
Three heavy blasts and machinegun fire hit Tel Aviv with no immediate official statement. Police conduct widespread searches for perpetrators while a prior week’s twin explosions and the Jerusalem HQ bombing are under investigation.
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Tel Aviv
Palestine
Criminal Investigation Division
Jerusalem
German war plotter Haushofer linked to 1941 death warrant
Depositions from German witnesses taken by Dr. Edmund A. Walsh tie the July 20 1944 bomb plot against Hitler to new Swiss peace talks. Haushofer's 1941 report is described as marking him in the Gestapo records as sympathetic to the English, marking a death warrant by association.
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Hitler
Edmund A. Walsh
Georgetown University
Haushofer
Gestapo
New York Publisher William T. Dewart Jr. Dies in Plane Crash
William T. Dewart Jr., 36, publisher of The New York Sun, died from injuries after a private plane crash. Scrap books, albums and supplies of Russell Stationery Company mentioned in the report.
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Reno
William T. Dewart Jr
The
New York Sun
Russell Stationery Company
Stockmen Face Winter Feeding Crisis in Cake Shortage
Panhandle Plains stockmen face three hard winter months as Amarillo feed firms report major delays and cancellations in cottonseed and soy bean cake supplies. Seven major dealers say orders placed months ago remain unfilled, with shortages of brains and molasses alongside rising prices. Non cotton areas lose surplus stock, hurting cattle production and feeding plans across the region.
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Panhandle-Plains
Amarillo
Cote Ton
Homma Trial Details Link to Death March Evidence
Testimony by Maj. Gen. Toshimitsu Takatsu places Homma’s headquarters near the Death March route in 1942. Takatsu described seeing the march pass while he reported shortages at Camp O’Donnell and noted medicines and food were inadequate. Prosecution says Homma faced discipline for war crimes while the defense notes Home has not been discharged.
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Manila
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Homma
Philippines
United State Military Commission
Toshimitsu
Takatsu
Camp O'Donnel
Paul W. White
White
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
The U S Weather Bureau reports Friday will be mostly cloudy and cooler with a slightly lower afternoon temperature. West Texas shows mainly cloudy skies with showers and colder conditions Friday into Saturday. New Mexico expects partly cloudy weather Friday with intermittent showers or snow flurries and a colder west portion. Highs reach about 50 to 70 degrees with varying temperatures across regions. Sunrise 7 56 a m. Sunset 5 49 p m.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
West
Bor Te Erin
Birtte
Cate
Alain
Vest
MacArthur Orders Clean Sweep of Japanese Government
General MacArthur directs Japan to purge ultranationalist and militarist groups and remove from public office anyone who led Japan into war. The order targets both officials and societal leaders and intents to erase war enabling influence.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Imperial
Tricycle Boy Demonstrates Over Housing Crisis in Detroit
Five year old Karl Woolfenden rode a tricycle beside his mother at Detroit City Hall as the city council debated housing shortages. He carried a sandwich sign reading I m no GI but gee I need at home while the Woolfendens faced eviction by January 31 after their rental was sold to an Army veteran and wife.
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Detroit
Karl Woolfenden
Mary Woolfenden
Military surplus to be destroyed in mid Pacific
In Honolulu on January 31 an Army spokesman told a U S Senate sub committee that more than 100 million dollars worth of surplus and obsolete military aircraft and spare parts have no sales value and may be destroyed in the mid Pacific area.
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Honolulu
mid-Pacific
Army
U. S. Senate
Prominent Americans Form Group for GM Strike Families
A coalition led by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and church leaders from multiple faiths forms to provide financial aid to families of General Motors workers on strike. The announcement was made in New York on January 3.
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New York
U.P
Eleanor Roosevelt
General Motors
Byrnes Confined to Home with Cold in Washington
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes was confined to his apartment today with a cold in Washington. His condition was not described as serious.
Telephone Workers Urge Sympathy Strike Against Bell System
A national sympathy strike against Bell system fallout looms as Joseph A. Beirne calls 48 federation unions to authorize walkouts. Western Electric plant walkouts in New York and New Jersey affect 17 000 workers. federation claims 260 000 members and warns 450 000 Bell System staff could be involved.
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Associated Press
Joseph A. Beirne
Independent National Federation of Telephone Workers
Western Electric Company
New York City
New Jersey
Beirne
Bell System
Western Electric
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone System
Western Electric Employes Association
West Coast
Hawthorne
Tfl
Baltimore
Haverhill
Mass
J. R. Mandelbaum
U. S
William Allen
AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union
Allen
The
Telegraphers Union
WLBE
CIO
Western Union
Stamford
Conn
Yale & Towne Company
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