Truman proposes government housing drive to build five million homes
In his fireside chat President Truman pledges government action to supply five million new homes if private builders cannot. He assigns Wilson Wyatt Jr. to lead the effort and warns Congress to act on reconversion and strike controls. He stresses keeping prices steady and delaying major strikes with 30 day fact finding boards.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt, Jr
Wyatt
Labor strike wave threatens national shutdowns across industries
Negotiations stall as union leaders map strategy for shutdowns in meat packing steel electrical appliance and shipbuilding. If walkouts occur two million more workers could join 411000 already idled with possible government plant seizures or a nationwide telephony tie up from Western Electric.
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United Press
U.S
Edgar L. Warren
U. S. Conciliation Service
Western Electric Co
America
New York
New Jersey
Western Electric
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Washington
D. C
Truman
Drouth in Meat Here Forecast
Amarillo faces a potential meat shortage if the CIO United Packing House Workers Union strike, set for January 16, lasts a week or more, though local packers report they are not striking. Meat products could vanish quickly, with live beef less affected but harmed by prolonged inactivity.
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Amarillo
Typhoid Carrier Found in Houston Woman After 35 Years
Houston health officials report a middle aged woman is a typhoid carrier nearly four decades after recovery in 1910. Under provisional quarantine she cannot leave home without approval and hosts must be warned when she visits.
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Houston
Austin F. Hill
Hill
Attack Was Fully Expected Before Pearl Harbor Strike
Congressional investigators heard that Hawaii’s defenders expected the Japanese to return after Pearl Harbor and pleaded for more fighters and anti aircraft guns. Knox’s secret memo to Roosevelt says Kimmel and Short were surprised. the first wave met only ineffective fire and the third was turned back.
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Washington
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Roosevelt
Ferguson
Michigan
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Husband FE. Kimmel
Walter C. Short
Oahu
Estranged Wife Seeks Court Order in Mauldin Case
Norma Jean Mauldin, 22, estranged wife of cartoonist Bill Mauldin, asks a Los Angeles Superior Court for an order to prohibit him from taking their two year-old son Bruce out of state. She says he threatened to remove the boy and seeks support pending divorce proceedings.
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Los Angeles
Norma Jean Mauldin
Bill Mauldin
Abilene
Bruce
Mauldin
Weather Outlook for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
Cloudy with intermittent showers through mid afternoon and cooler by afternoon. West to northwest winds 25 mph. Tonight partly cloudy and colder. Saturday fair with little temperature change. In West Texas cloudy with rain from Pecos Valley eastward. cooler tonight and Saturday partly cloudy. In New Mexico partly cloudy this afternoon with scattered showers or snow flurries in northern mountains. colder tonight and Saturday. High 65, low 45, noon 52.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
War Plots Predated Fuehrer
Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg testified at the war crimes tribunal that the German general staff planned war and rearmed for a decade before Hitler's rise, with about 90 percent of Germans backing war aims on the Polish Corridor Memel and the Ruhr. He said some generals later opposed Hitler but faced punishment. he also recounted recommending Hermann Goering as successor, which Hitler rejected. Amarillo police transfers and pension questions are noted, with veterans reassigned to school and park patrols to meet age rules.
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Blomberg
Hitler
Memel
Ruhr
Hermann Goering
A. P. Hancock
Police Department
George Hayden
Amarillo
C. S. Lambie
R. J. Boger
E. J. Broderlin
H. L. Mauldin
Hayden
Mauldin
Joe Jenkins
Ross Rogers
North East Eighth
Buchanan
Horace Mann
Tenth
Roberts
Sanborn
East Second
Amarillo Police Department
East Eighth
Morgan Fired by UNRRA
London report says UNRRA dismissed Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan chief of operations in Germany after he accused organized Jewry of planning a mass migration to Palestine. He was offered resignation, refused, and was removed with loss of authority and pay.
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London
U.P
UNRA
Frederick E. Morgan
Germany
Morgan
The
United Press
UNRRA
Amarillo Sees Rain and Warmer Temps Amid Moisture Swell
Rain moved through Amarillo early today with .11 inch at English Field and up to .25 inch downtown. The weatherman warned of more showers as south winds collide with a cold front, bringing a warming high of 65 yesterday and a low of 45 this morning before a predicted 29 tonight.
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Amarillo
English Field
Fort Worth
Denver Railroad
Washburn
Claude
Childress
Texline
Santa Fe Railroad
Canyon
Miami
Clovis
Western
Panhandle
8000 Godfathers for Triplets but No Diaper Washer
Mrs. Robert H. Glass and eight thousand eight hundred GI Godfathers welcomed their 7 month old identical triplets aboard the Queen Mary. The babies born in Louth England are part of the 82nd Airborne Division adoption moving the soldiers to support the family in Springfield Ohio. Father Robert Harold Glass is en route from France to join them. The division held a baptism on New Year’s Day aboard the ship, the first since the war began. Mrs. Glass humorously noted the lack of diaper washing help amid the large military support network.
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Health Department
Hill
H. D. Quigg
New York
U.P
Robert H. Glass
82Nd Airborne Division
Glass
Southampton
South Bend
Ind
Robert Harold, Jr
Stephen Franklin
Shaun William
Springfield
82Nd Airborne
Louth
England
Sgt. Glass
France
Truman Accepts Resignation of Navy Official Land as Maritime Chief
President Truman accepted the resignation of Vice Adm. Emory S. Land as chairman of the Maritime Commission and administrator of the War Shipping Administration. The note mentions Neely Cheenbill Lowndes and A Regal Co in real estate and loans as context.
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Truman
Adm
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
A. Regal Co
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