Questioning of Marshall Continued in Pearl Harbor Probe
Senator Ferguson and Rep Keefe pressed General Marshall for details on the 1940 alert that preceded the 1941 war warning sent to Honolulu. With Marshall slated for a fifth day of congressional testimony, Ferguson aimed to probe the 1940 message to Lt Gen Charles Herron ordering immediate defensive preparations in Hawaii.
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Ferguson
Mich
Keefe
Wis
Marshall Tod
Hawaii
Honolulu
Marshall
Pearl Harbor
Charles B. Herron
Adjutant General
Herron
Carrier Losses Of Japs Fatal In Pacific War
Japan’s largest carrier Taisho sank six hours after a torpedo puncture during its first engagement in the Philippines. The 40,000 ton ship joined by the 30,000 ton Chokaku, both were lost in what was described as a decisive early Pacific campaign engagement. Headlines recount caution over alerts and prewar orders as President Roosevelt and Gen Marshall testifying on wartime directives and Pearl Harbor preparations.
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Japan
U. S
Gla
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Youth in Stolen Car Kills 11 Year Old Girl
An automobile driven by a 14 year old boy struck and killed 11 year old Joan Herbert in Akron. Police said the car was stolen and the youth was charged with delinquency. He reportedly lost control while turning to avoid another vehicle.
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Akron
Joan Herbert
Separate Air Force Proposed in U S Legislation
Washington news reports a draft bill introduced in the House by chairs of the military and new all committees proposing an independent air force. Chairman Vinson of Georgia and Chairman May of Kentucky say unifying army and navy is not the answer to modern warfare needs.
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Washington
Vinson
Havai
May
Supreme Court Stays Action on Yamashita
Washington reports the Supreme Court deferred action on Yamashita’s request to intervene in the war crime case. The case involves the conviction and death sentence of Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita. Authorities indicated no immediate ruling was issued.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Sudon Court
Tomoyuku Yamashita
Total Eclipse of Moon to Occur on Dec 18
A total lunar eclipse will occur the night of December 18 marking the first such event visible in the United States since 1942. Washington officials note anticipation for viewing sites and safety considerations. In other news, Miamianey exceeded its quota in the violin campaign.
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United States
Five Killed in Parkersburg Hotel Blaze
Parkersburg reports five dead after the Grand Hotel fire. Edward I Lewis, 36, and Garnett Lewis, 35, along with their two sons aged six and nine, were found in the wreckage. Ritchie Law of Elizabeth, Wirt County, was also identified among the victims. Hotel owner Thomas Soloman estimated losses at $50,000 as seven of nine hospitalised victims were treated after jumping into life nets when flames blocked the stairway.
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Parkersburg
Edward I Lewis
Garnett -Lewis
Ritchie Law
Elizabeth
Wirt’ County
Thomas Soloman
Marietta
Flood Claim Out Forecast
Ohio River Valley counties may recover about 62 percent of flood damage claims against the state for last spring. The state controlling board reviews $798,000 in claims though only $500,000 was appropriated. Scioto County seeks $131,150 with portions from Portsmouth New Boston and local schools.
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Columbus
Ohio River Valley
State Controlling Board
Scioto County
Portsmouth
New Boston
35 000 Service Men Are Returning Today
More than 35,000 servicemen aboard at least 35 troop carrying vessels are slated to arrive today at east and west coast ports. Five ships with over 3,500 men are due in New York, five with about 8,400 at Boston, and 1,100 at Newport News. Industrial equipment from 26 Western German factories worth about 93 million dollars has been allocated to the Allied powers as an initial reparations payment.
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Boston
Newport News
Berlin
Germany
Postwar Low Mood Warns Of Prolonged Economic Slump
Brig Gen Leonard P Ayres warned at Cleveland Chamber of Commerce that postwar gloom follows war, with unemployment rising and production falling. He predicted a turn upward by mid 1946 barring labor strikes, price controls, or wage increases that strain the wage structure.
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Cleveland
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Co
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
Ohio Schools Shut as Respiratory Illness Sweeps State
Thousands in Ohio fall ill as schools close in at least nine counties and many businesses slow. Health officials say current cases are mild, lasting four to seven days, with Cleveland reporting about 30,000 pupil absences while Mansfield and other cities also close schools.
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Rome
Adams County
All Bible Bar
Harold J. Knapp
Cleveland
Manisfield
Galion
Washington D.H
Athens
Reds To Allow Chinese Move To Manchuria
Russia agreed to permit Chinese government troops to fly into Manchuria and seize key cities. Central News Agency says Chungking won permission to plant forces in Changchun Mukden and Harbin, the major towns vital to China’s recovery from war.
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Russia
Manchuria
China
Changchun
Mukden
Harbin
Seek Chicago Maniac Victim Frances Brown Seen as Slaying Pattern
Chicago detectives intensified the hunt for a maniac responsible for the ninth murder in a week. Frances Brown a 33 year old former WAVE stenographer was slain in her Pine Crest Hotel apartment with an eight inch bread knife after a Monday morning attack. Her nude body was found in a blood spattered room with a lipstick message on the wall urging the killer to be caught before he kills again.
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Chicago
Frances Brown
Frank Reynolds
Miss Brown
Pine Crest
Butler County Judge Proposes Case Probe
Butler County Probate Judge Oscar R. Leiser offers to request another judge be appointed to hear disputed cases amid affidavits alleging bias. Justice Weygandt had previously ruled the affidavits insufficient. Attorney Charles A. Williams cited Leiser's refusal to grant extra fees in two estate matters as basis for charges. In Erie Sandusky the Erie County Democratic committee endorsed Gov Lausche and Sen Huffman for 1946 reelection.
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Columbus
Butler County
Oscar R. Leiser
Carl V. Weygandt
Weygandt
Charles A. Williams
Hamilton
Leiser
Williams
Erie Sandusky
Erie County
Democratic Executive Committee
Frank J. Lausche
U. S
James Huffman
Nazi Agent in U S Army to Be Deportd
Frederick Emil Bauer, 40, labeled a trained Nazi spy who did not act on spying, joined the U S Army and served as a sergeant. He was discharged without honor and interned as an alien enemy in Indianapolis as the Justice Department moves to deport him. Born 1905 in Germany, naturalized 1935, he joined the German Army in 1940, trained as a spy, and returned to the United States in 1941, enlisting in May 1942. No overt acts reported. he faces repatriation hearings with a full due process.
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Ion
eTee Marshall
Short
Hawaii
Japan
Herron
Marshall
Roosevelt
Walter G. Short
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Pear Arbor
Washington
Justice Department
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U. S. Army
Indianapolis
Las
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Pit
Germany
Helenge
U. S
Patton Shows Slight Improvement in Injury
Frankfurt report says General George S. Patton, partially paralyzed from spinal injuries in a Sunday car crash, had a good night and showed slight improvement according to an army medical bulletin from Heidelberg.
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Frankfurt
George 5. Patton
Heidelberg
Nelsonville Schools Close at Noon Today
Nelsonville city schools closed today as attendance reached 76.8 percent. All classes were suspended for the remainder of the week with work set to resume next Monday if the illness epidemic abates.
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Nelsonville
Vote Near in House on Union Restriction Measure
A test vote forms on labor legislation to curtail union political activity and penalize violations of no strike contracts. The measure aims to set floor rules, with key lawmakers debating labor policy, fact finding boards, and possible air force merger issues.
Steelworkers Meet in Pittsburgh Plan January Walkout
The CIO United Steelworkers 175 man wage policy committee met in Pittsburgh to decide the date of a possible nationwide steel strike. A spokesman, unnamed, said a January walkout could be announced, with 700,000 steelworkers affected across 27 states seeking a $2 daily wage rise.
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Associated Press
Cio-United Steelworkers
Pittsburgh
UIW
Urey
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Philip Murray
CIO
Ford Motor Company
Automotive
United Auto Workers
Ford
Uaw-Cio
General Motors
New York
Western Electric Employer Association
Western Electric
New Jersey
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Granger Urges New View on U S Problems at Ohio Grange Meet
Joseph W. Fichter of the Ohio State Grange calls at the 73rd annual convention for rethinking labor dispute methods and stresses farm income parity with other groups. He warns subsidies are preferred to uncontrolled supply and demand that cause surpluses and low prices.
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Joseph W. Fichter
Ohio State Grange
Fichter
Grange
Beightler and Bucks To Dock in California
Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler, Columbus Ohio, and 5,000 Buckeye Division troops arrive in California. Shipments come 24 hours ahead of schedule after months in the Pacific theater.
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Beightler and Bucks
California
Sam Francisco
Calif
Robert S. Beightler
Teletypes Link Highway Department Offices Statewide
Teletypes will connect 12 division and four regional offices of the State Highway Department via a trial circuit linking the main office, Ohio State University lab, and Lima and Toledo divisions. Full installation planned by next spring. Supreme Court rules federal tax law requires including all community property in an estate. Iron ore shipments total 75,714,750 gross tons for 1945, down 5,455,788 from 1944.
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State Highway Department
Perry T. Ford
Ohio State University
Lima
Toledo
Supreme Court
Washington
So- Ea Spreme
Cleveland
Upper Lake
General Patton in hospital after severe auto crash
Surgeon Maj. Gen. A W Kenner, chief surgeon in the European Theater, attends Gen. George S Patton at Heidel Opera Hospital near Tannheim Germany after a serious automobile collision. Patton, badly injured and partially paralyzed, remains under care.
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George S. Patton
15Th Army
Neae ‘Tann
Heim
Germany
Patton
Heidel' Opera Hospital
Bowles Says Price Control Still Needed
Washington report notes OPA chief Chester Bowles says price controls remain necessary as de-control lags due to stronger than expected pressures. He cites unemployment far below forecasts and retail sales up about 12 percent this quarter from 1941, delaying anticipated declines.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Navy to Grant Christmas Release for Eligible Servicemen
The Navy announced a December deadline change letting many personnel be discharged immediately to return home for Christmas. Those in ships at U.S. ports become eligible, with retention limited to those whose services cannot be spared or whose release would delay others.
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Washington
P!—Navy
Navy
U.S
Deadliest Gas In World Said Nazi Devised
Washington Senator hearing reveals Col. Bernard Bernstein says Germany developed the deadliest poison gas by testing on concentration camp inmates. He cites I G Farben officials at Huppertal Elberfeld and notes gas could bypass any existing mask. Gas experiments began with monkeys and later humans.
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Washington
Germany
Bernard Bernstein
U.S
Senate
Bernstein
I.G. Farben
Huppertal-Elberfeld
U.S. Officials Deny War Promise to Britain in 1941
Washington reports that Gen. George C. Marshall and Adm. Harold R. Stark told British leaders in July 1941 they could not bind the United States to enter war if Japan attacked British or Dutch territories. The memo was sent to observers in London for relay to Britain. Hull and other witnesses deny any such wartime pact existed.
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Pearl Harbor
George C. Marshall
Harold R. Stark
United States
Japan
Marshall
Stark
London
Haseen
Hull
Wartime employment rules to end December 15
Cincinnati Governor Frank J. Lausche rejects proposals to modify the December 15 end date for wartime relaxations on women's and children's industrial employment. Some urged allowing 21 or 18 year olds in the next calendar year to keep night shifts if day work was unavailable.
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Cincinnati
Frank J. Lausche
Cincinnati Police To Aid in House Hunting
Cincinnati police begin a search for vacant houses and apartments to ease the city housing shortage. City Manager Kellogg said officers will report findings within days and any vacancies will be referred to deserving parties.
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Cincinnati
CPI
W. i. Kellogg
Atomic Bomb Tests Planned Against Warships
Washington announces joint Army Navy tests to study atomic bomb effects on naval vessels and cities. The plan includes many ships, recording instruments, and personnel, with civilian and military impact measured in forthcoming reports. A separate strategic bombing survey notes fire as the major killer in German air raids and cites Nagasaki and Hamburg as case studies of bombing effects.
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Washington
United States
French Underground Freed 5,000 Airmen
The U S Army reveals the wartime underground network that guided about 5 000 Allied airmen to freedom. An Army bureau spokesman says in France alone some 40 000 civilians aided the effort, helping Americans and British soldiers reach the Spanish Pyrenees for escape.
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Paris
U. S. Army
Army
Bureau of Research
France
Pyrenees
State Patrol in Ohio Adds Post at Luray
Ohio's State Highway Patrol expanded with a new post at Luray in Licking County, replacing the Hebron post abandoned during the war. Patrolmen G. E. Littrell of Lancaster and W. Combs of Franklin (Warren County) are assigned to the post.
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Ohio
Luray
Columbus
Licking County
Hebron
G. E. Littrell
Lancaster
W. Combs
Franklin
Warren County
Pomeroy Closes Schools Amid Illness Epidemic
Pomeroy's schools closed today due to pupil illness. Two Panthers basketball games scheduled for today were cancelled. Classes to resume next Monday if the epidemic allows, officials announced.
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