Oil Strike Parley Seen as Key to U.S. Labor Problem
The government moves to ease widespread labor disputes as Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach urges success at a Chicago conference on postwar wage policy. Oil industry unions and major producers convene while Detroit auto talks head toward a strike vote. The nationwide disruptions push idle workers toward 350000, with a New York City building service strike paralyzing commerce.
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Truman
Labor Department
Gulf
Socony-Vacuum
Cities Service
Globe
Shell
Standard of
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Ohio
New Jersey
Pure Oil
Texas
Sinclair
Union Oil
California
Great Lakes
Stanolind Pipe Line Company
O. A. Knight
Union
Odessa
Tex
CIO
New York City
AFL
Metropolis
Empire State
Woolworth
Secretary Seeks 65 Cent Minimum Wage Increase
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach urged a 65 cent minimum wage to strengthen purchasing power during reconversion. He testified that raising from 40 cents to 65 in year one, 70 in year two, and 75 in year three is needed for justice to low paid workers and to include agricultural processing under wage laws.
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Washington
U.P
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Schwellenbach
Senate Education and Labor
Schnellenbach
Congress
Occupation of Japan May Last Many Years Says MacArthur
General MacArthur issued a statement saying occupation could extend for years though with a minimal force. Palau veterans landed at Aomori as U S Navy reports 42 warships in action and 20 000 service personnel returning home for discharge from Pearl Harbor today. Domei News Agency president said it will quit under a presidential order.
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Japan
MacArthur
Palau
Aomori
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Dallas News
Daley
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Truman Striker Wave Triggers Unemployment Bill Rebuff
The House Ways and Means Committee shelved the administrations unemployment compensation bill by a 14 to 10 vote. The panel will postpone indefinitely to study reconversion impacts as strikes surge and jobs remain scarce. Senate action previously limited federal funding and extended benefit duration to 26 weeks.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Truman
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas
Harold Knutson
Minnesota
Robert l L. Doughton
North Carolina
Senate
Irma Grese Described At Nazi Camp Trial
At Luneburg a British court hears testimony from Dora Szafran, a former inmate of Oswiecim and Belsen, detailing Irma Grese striding through the camps and lashing inmates with a riding whip. Szafran recalls Grese as one of the few SS women armed at the camps.
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Irma Grese
Oswiecim
Belsen
Dora Szafran
Miss Szafran
Grese
T Belsen
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
The U S Weather Bureau reports partly cloudy conditions across Amarillo and vicinity this afternoon through Wednesday with continued warmth. West Texas and New Mexico show similar partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Low tonight around 30 in mountains, 40 to 50 in northern and western portions, 50 to 60 in southeast. Highs Wednesday range 70 to 80 in the northwest and 85 to 95 in the southwest. 24 hour high 87 and low 51 at noon 69.
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Texas
New Mexico
Dealey Clarifies MacArthur Quotation On Occupation
Ted Dealey, president of the Dallas Morning News, says his quotation about MacArthur’s Army of Occupation came from diary notes written after a luncheon. MacArthur’s spokesman in Japan today denies that withdrawal within six months was ever stated, saying the occupation might last many years with minimal forces.
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Dallas
Ted Dealey
Dallas Morning News
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Dealey
MacArthur
Truman Urges Speed on Full Employment Bill
President Truman pressed for rapid passage of the full employment bill at a White House meeting with Representatives Outland Patman and Manasco as the measure faced Senate and House committee action. Senators warned the bill could spark inflation, while advocates favor a national budget for production and jobs and possible public works efforts when job shortages loom.
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Washington
Truman
Outland
California
White House
Patman
Texas
Manasco
Alabama
Senate
House
Genvea Barker Free on Bond and Argentina Rebel Arrests
The report notes Geneva Barker freed on a $1000 bond in a homicide case awaiting juvenile court review next Tuesday. It also covers Gen Arturo Rawson and Gen Oswaldo Martin arrested in Argentina on inciting rebellion, with details limited to Córdoba province and no further explanation.
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Genvea Barker
Northcutt
Buenos Aires
U.P
Arturo Rawson
Oswaldo Martin
Cordoba
Rawson
Ramon Castillo
Argentina
Pedro Ramirez
Edelmiro Farrell
Dainty
Geneva Barker
North Bowyer
Thomas Barker
Ernest O. Northcutt
O. W. Moore
Uprising in Saigon Triggers French Troop Assault
In Saigon on Sept 25 heavy shells and machine guns hit Annamite rebels as a broader struggle through the Indo Chinese capital escalates. French casualties include several missing and a stabbing of a French civilian. The city’s power and water were disrupted, and an attempted kidnapping ended with the assailants stopped by Japanese onlookers.
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Saigon
Annamite
Annamites
Committee Prepares To Visit Pearl Harbor
A Senate House committee decided to visit Pearl Harbor in its probe of the sneak Japanese attack that drew the United States into war. Chairman Barkley of Kentucky said the group would go to Hawaii after a preliminary study of evidence and a hearing likely there to hear witnesses who could not travel to Washington.
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Washington
Senate
House
Pearl Harbor
United States
Barkley
Kentucky
Hawaii
Drizzle Yields Trace Moisture. Five Day Forecast Shows Warmth
Fog blankets the Panhandle with light drizzle only, producing trace moisture and no precipitation. Weatherman H. C. Winburn notes temperatures will stay above normal in the bureau's five day outlook.
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Panhandle
H. C. Winburn
Bureau
Navy relaxes release rule for enlisted men with three plus children
The Navy will release any enlisted man with three or more children under 18 on his own request effective immediately. The change exempts officers and keeps the point system unchanged, with about 93,000 service members released under that system to date.
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The
Navy
Quail Invade Water Department Vehicle Yard
Jack Hoggard at the water department warehouse 1900 West Ninth reported a covey of quail running about the yard. He described the birds as bob whites and noted the intrusion during morning hours.
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Jack Hoggard
Water Department
West Ninth
Hoggard
Australia Faces Crisis In Industrial Strikes
Sydney faced a grave industrial crisis today as a wave of strikes involving 20 000 workers hit iron and steel coal meat electric light and printing sectors. Most stoppages stemmed from disputes over working conditions.
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Sydney
Australia
Iron
Possible second Big Five meeting eyed to seal Europe peace
London reports suggest another Truman Stalin Attlee session may be needed to resolve Europe peace issues as foreign ministers close two weeks of talks with no major accords. Deputies face tasks on German plans, inland waterways, Soviet repatriation, and Chinese claims on Italy.
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London
Truman
Stalin
Attlee
Europe
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Germany
Italy
China
France
Soviet envoy urges Franco tried as war criminal at rally
Nikolai Novikov acting head of the Soviet embassy in Washington tells a Madison Square Garden audience that Generalissimo Franco should be prosecuted as a war criminal. He likens Franco to Hitler and Mussolini for aggressive acts against the Soviet Union and says he will face justice.
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New York
Nikolai Novikov
Washington
86 Mile Gale Breaks Plateglass Windows
Winds at 86 miles per hour disrupted services in Wichita Falls with downtown plateglass windows shattering. Sheppard Field reported .9 inch rainfall as Electra Iowa Park Vernon Quanah and Bowie also saw storms and hail in the day.
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Wichita Falls
Sheppard Field
U. S. Weather Bureau
Electra
Iowa Park
Vernon
Quanah
Bowie
Truman denies plan to send advisers to MacArthur
White House press secretary Charles G. Ross said President Truman has no plans to send a delegation of State and War Department officials to Tokyo to confer with General Douglas MacArthur. He stated clearly that the answer to such a request is no.
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Washington
White House
Charles G. Ross
Truman
State
War Department
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Ross
Senate approves Acheson as undersecretary of state
Washington reports a 69 to 1 Senate vote confirming Dean G. Acheson as undersecretary of state. The decision seen as backing the hard line on Japan accompanies President Truman’s clarification of General MacArthur’s authority. The move follows Wherry’s criticism of Acheson for rebuking MacArthur over policing Japan with 200,900 troops in six months.
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Washington
Japan
White House
Senate
Dean G. Acheson
Capitol Hill
Acheson
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Wherry
Nebraska
MacArthur
Nomura says Japan foresaw draw in war with US
Tokyo interview with former ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura in Yomiuri Hachi reveals he believed Japan never had a chance against the United States and that some naval officers opposed 1941’s decision to go to war. He notes Japan expected at best a draw and recalls warning Japan’s people during the war about US manpower losses.
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Kichisaburo Nomura
Japan
United States
Nomura
Yomiuri Hachi
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