Strike Settlement Hope Rises Amid GM Wage Clash
The Associated Press reports efforts to end the General Motors walkout affecting about 200,000 workers. GM offers a 13.5 cent hourly rise to 25,000, while CIO UAW seeks a 30 percent boost, to be discussed in further talks amid optimism for a settlement. AWOL workers elsewhere prompt wage talks as Greyhound and airline cases loom.
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Walter Reuther
R. J. Thomas
New York
American’ Airlines
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Cleveland
AFL
Greyhound
Senate Views Relief Grant for UN Rehabilitation Aid
The Senate considers a 350 million relief grant to fund UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration operations for the next 18 months. The House passed the measure 327 to 0 yesterday with an attached substitute by Rep. Herter proposing broader media access and less censorship for American correspondents.
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Ibroad
Russia
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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation, ‘Administration
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Truman
Congress to Control U.S. Owned Companies
President Tru han signed the Byrd-Butler Bill giving Congress direct oversight of about 50 government corporations and their subsidiaries. The act requires these entities to submit budgets to Congress as part of enhanced fiscal control.
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Tru“han
Congress
yrd-Butler
Sugar Shortage Feared as Ration Changes Take Effect
Reports describe a large scale rescue operation in the Atlantic for missing bomber crews and a separate U.S. air accident off New Smyrna Beach. Officials warn of temporary sugar shortages after new ration stamps are validated January 1, with stamp 49 valid through April 30 and stamp 38 expiring December 31. Weather at Miami shows a turbulent storm system from Georgia with squalls and hurricane force winds aloft.
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U.S.S. Solomons
Martin
Atlantic
Gaines
New Smyrna Beach
Washington
OPA
Irport
Miami
Georgia
Jacksonville
Driver of Jumping Jalopy Fined $10
Forrest Grubb of Chillicothe was fined $10 and costs by Mayor Harold H Brown for driving an unsafe vehicle on Route 50. Patrolmen reported no brakes no lights no muffler faulty steering and a clutch that made the car jump 15 feet when gears were engaged.
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Chillicothe
Forrest Grubb
Harold H. Brown
Route 50
Brownell Predicts GOP Sweep to Congress Control
National Chairman Herbert E. Brownell, speaking at a midwinter GOP meeting in Chicago, said every sign points to Republicans winning control of both houses in the 1946 elections. He predicted a sweeping victory in the off-year elections during a news conference yesterday.
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Chicago
Herbert E. Brownell
Congress
Brownell
Nelsonville Exceeds Quota by $20 000
Nelsonville surpassed its Victory Loan quota by about 20000 dollars, with total sales reaching 93689.42. Subscriptions were distributed across four categories totaling the overage and highlighting the drive's first day turnout alongside city officials. A note from committee secretary Mrs William Campbell anchors the report.
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Nelsonville
William Campbell
Tardy Students Are Called by Schoolmates
Cleveland notes show John Adams High School student council cracking down on tardiness. Officers and peers coordinate shaming tactics and punctuality reminders, intensifying the disciplinary climate beyond teacher enforcement at the Cleveland campus.
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Cleveland
John Adams High School
Congress Debates 3.75 Billion Loan to Britain in 1950s Plan
U S officials and British negotiators reached a loan agreement for 3.75 billion dollars repayable at 2.1 percent over 50 years to fund wartime asset dollars into empire areas. Congress members including Chairman Wagner signaled a full-dress debate to study merits before voting. Evans Hughes, wife of the late Chief Justice, dies at 51 in Washington.
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O.K
Cillers
Congress
Great Britain
State Department
Capitol Hill
Britain
Empire
U. S
Wagner
Senate Finance Committee
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Celler
Tary
the Treasury
Vinson
D-Ny
Halifax
Hughes
Hill Washington
ULP
Joan
Es Evans Hughes
United
Aftweil
Four Athens Residents Unhurt In Chauncey Crash
Four Athens residents escaped injury when their car collided with a road scraper on Route 33 in Chauncey early Thursday, the State Highway Patrol reported. Occupants Joseph Fields, George Gloeckner, Robert Freie, and Martha Rove were uninjured.
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Athens
Chauncey
State Highway Patrol
Joseph ‘Fields
George Gloeckner
Robert Freie
Martha Rove
Yamashita Convicted and Sentenced to Hang
Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was convicted by a five-general military commission of permitting atrocities and high crimes by Japanese forces in the Philippines and received the death sentence. The verdict came after weeks of testimony describing mass rapes and brutal killings, with Yamashita maintaining innocence and planning appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. His wife declined to appeal to MacArthur for help, and further appeals were noted.
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
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United States Supreme Court
Ory
Hitler Attack In 39 Delayed By Weather Facts From Trial
War crimes evidence shows invasion plans for the Low Countries and France were prepared as early as 1939 but postponed for six months due to bad weather. German records cited by British prosecutors accused top Hitler leaders of deception about attacking Holland Belgium and Luxembourg while Norway and Denmark were used as a prelude.
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Low Countries
France
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Luxembourg
Norway
Denmark
Physicist Denies Nazia Near Atomic Bomb Secret
A. S. Goudsmit, head of a U S Army intelligence unit, testified before the Senate House atomic committee that Nazis never approached the secret of the atomic bomb. The hearing featured a vivid account of lingering rays from atomic blasts that killed Japanese weeks after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Washington
A. Goudsmit
Germany
University of Michigan
Senate House Atomic Committee
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Canton Youth Hangs Himself in City Jail
Police reported John D. Hutchinson an 18 year old Canton former inmate of the boys industrial school at Lancaster Ohio was found dead hanging from his belt in a city jail cell He was arrested earlier after a fight in which a 22 year old man was stabbed.
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Canton
John D. Hutchinson
Boys Industrial School
Lancaster
Marshall Tells Congress Own Account of Preattack Hours
Gen George C Marshall testified before congressional investigators on the hours before Pearl Harbor Dec 7 1941 detailing intelligence and warnings. He argued Hawaii could have resisted the attack with better alertness and warned Short should have been more proactive. The hearing also heard questions about State Department policy in Iran and a capital budget substitute bill for unemployment relief.
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Patrick J. Hurley
China
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Dean Acheson
Iran
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Pearl Harbor Remembers Four Years After Sneak Attack
Pearl Harbor honors the December 7 1941 strike as soldiers sailors and civilians gather to remember fallen ships and crews. The ceremony marks four years since Japan’s raid and Hawaii asks for peace and homecomings amid rusting harbor wreckage and white crosses.
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G.l’s
Flu Epidemic Closes Dozens of Ohio Schools
An influenza outbreak has led to the closure of 65 schools across 13 Ohio counties and forced the shutdown of theaters, bowling alleys, and recreation centers in Portage County. Absentee rates reached 39 percent in Kent, 34 percent in Ravenna, and higher in Trumbull and Belmont counties, prompting widespread district suspensions.
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Green Township
Medina County
Medina City
Lake County
Japanese general Yamashita sentenced to death by U.S. court
The doomed general, aged 60, faced a U.S. military court that condemned him to death. Once feared for conquering Malaya and Singapore in February 1942, his prestige collapsed after being moved to the Philippines in March 1942 and failing to hold the islands.
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U.S
Malaya
Singapore
Philippines
Recalled OPA Ration Plans Could Include Clothes And Milk
Former OPA official Pat French recalls improvised ration schemes that might have covered clothing soap milk and even auto batteries and coal. One plan proposed A B and milk cards for adults children and babies and pregnant women with special diets.
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Washington
OPA
Pat French
Budget Bureau
French
Explosion at King Powder Plant Wrecks Building
An explosion at King Powder Company in Kings Mills, Lebanon, injures one worker and causes $25,000 in damage. Fire of undetermined origin preceded the blast which destroyed a powder mixing building. Workers inside escaped before the blast. the shock reached 15 to 20 miles. A jail window in nearby county seat was shattered.
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Lebanon
King Powder Company
Kings Mills
R. Eugene King
Warren County
Gerald W. Gooden
Mrs. Lucy Downing of Middleport Dies at 92
Mrs. Lucy Downing, 92, died at her South Fifth Avenue home after several weeks illness. Survived by daughters Mrs. August Albreicht of Chicago and Mrs. W. T. Grant of Kansas City Kansas, three sisters Mrs. Emma Dunlop of Peoria Illinois, Mrs. Ella Crowell, and Miss Alpha Somerville. Husband J. F. Downing died last year and son Hart died two months ago. Private funeral services will be held.
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Lucy Downing
South Fifth Ave
August Albreicht
Chicago
W. T. Grant
Kansas City
Kansas
Emma Dunlop
Peoria
Ella Crowell
Alpha Somerville
J. F. Downing
Hart
Frivatn
Laborites Bungling Is Churchill Charge
London. Winston Churchill charged the Labour government with confidence killing policies in debate with Clement Attlee. He accused Labour of bungling revival of industry housing and demobilization with Socialist projects and said he would have sought a new coalition for postwar unity if re elected prime minister.
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Winston Churchill
Clement R. Attlee
Laborites
Churchill
Two Britons Propose Rejection of U S Loan
Cincinnati report notes Hamilton County surpassing Victory Loan quota by over 17 million dollars while London Conservative MPs propose disapproval of a 4.4 billion dollar U S loan and rejection ofBritain's role in the Bretton Woods accord. The motion comes from Robert Boothby and Christopher Hollis as Miami University coeds survey housing for returning servicemen.
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Hamilton County
County War Finance
London
United States
Oxford
Britain
Miami University
Bretton Woods
Robert Boothby
Christopher Hollis
Trial of Japs In Tokyo Set For January
Tokyo’s chief prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan announced wartime crime trials would begin in January. Defendants include Hideki Tojo and his Pearl Harbor cabinet as offenders. death penalty sought for some. MacArthur’s orders push rapid trials and broad arrests, including Marquis Koichi Kido, with aims to strip Japan of resources aiding war.
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Joseph B. Keenan
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Ree Nation
Eae Area 2
Presman
General MacArthur
MacArthur
Koichi Kido
Keenan
Kido
Hirohito
Victory Loan Goal Surpasses Target in War Bonds Drive
The Victory Loan exceeded its 11 billion dollar goal as the push winds down. E bonds totaling 1.165 billion were sold, against a 2 billion dollar E bond target, with current sales at 58 percent of the goal. The drive began October 29 and ends tomorrow, with final accounting through December 21.
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Washington
UPI_The_treasury today
Harvey Baker Rites To Be at Middleport
Burial rites will be held in Middleport Hill Cemetery around 2 pm Saturday for Harvey Baker a Middleport native killed when struck by a automobile near Columbus Wednesday night Funeral services are set for 9 30 am Saturday at J J Simons funeral home in Columbus Clyde Baker Akron a former post office worker here is his nephew Also reported Geneva coroner ruled Hugh R Withington 52 of St Louis died of exposure after his body was found near Geneva yesterday
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Middleport
Middleport Hill Cemetery
Harvey Baker
Columbus
J. J. Simons
Geneva
Harry ‘Taggart
Hugh R. Withington
St.Louis
Green Flags Truman at GOP Meet in Chicago
Illinois Governor Dwight Green denounces the Truman administration as suffering the most humiliating defeat on the international front and urges the GOP to press for louder action. He hints at a 1948 presidential bid while calling for budget cuts and a firmer stance against lend lease debates and aid to liberated nations.
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Chicago
Dwight H. Green
Illinois
Republican National Committee Today
Truman
Java
Wounded Vet Fund Stolen at Cleveland
More than 200 dollars in veterans Christmas gift contributions were stolen yesterday from Crile General Hospital. A five gallon jar collected by customers over seven months vanished, police said.
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Cleveland
Crile General Hospital
Proposing Limiting Gas Tax to Road Use in Ohio
The County Commissioners Association of Ohio adopted a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict gasoline and motor vehicle taxes for road and bridge use only. About 10 million dollars a year now flow to the state general fund and the measure seeks submission at the November 1946 election.
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Columbus
County Commissioners Association of
Ohio
State General Fund
Reams Says Crime Worse Than Atomic Threat
Mansfield Ohio welfare director Frazier Reams warned that a resurgent wave of crime and juvenile delinquency poses a greater threat than the atomic bomb. In a radio address he argued a child raised amid crime feels a deeper insecurity than any fear from nuclear attack.
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Ohio
Wellfare
Frazier Reams
Reams
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