Labor Drive to Alter Bill on Unions Under Anti-Racketeering Law
Detroit AP report on wage negotiations across GM Ford and UAW CIO as unions face anti-racketeering bill. Richard Leonard cites 30 percent wage demand while job idle at 215,000. fact finding board to meet in Washington. Ford notes production lag and possible reduced wage offer. President Truman proposes a government inquiry, GM lukewarm, UAW aims to speed settlements.
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Detroit
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IO United Automobile Workers
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UAW
R. J. Thomas
Walter P. Reuther
Washington
Ford Company
Leonater
House
New York
Teamsters
Top Earners in 1943 44 Treasury List Names Mayer Durbin
The highest paid individuals in 1943 and the 1944 fiscal year are Louis B. Mayer earning 908 070 and Deanna Durbin with 326 491. The Treasury release places Mayer as top earner for the seventh straight year and Durbin among the highest women in the country.
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Treasury
Louis B. Mayer
Is¢Reen
Deanna Durbin
Mayer
Deanna
Pearl Harbor Inquiry Details Hull and 14 Part Message
The Pearl Harbor investigation revealed Cordell Hull may have met Japanese peace ambassadors on December 7 1941 and not learned their diplomatic reply. Army affidavits show a 14 part war tipoff delivered to the State Department before Hull’s meeting with Isburo Kurusu and Kichizaburo Nomura. Marshall testified the 14th part and the message signaled imminent hostilities and questioned Hull’s prior knowledge.
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Pearl Harbor
Cordell Hull
Army
State Department
Isburo Kurusu
Kichizaburo Nomura
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Hull
Agriculture Department forecasts 1946 first quarter meat decline
The Agriculture Department expects a nine percent drop from current meat consumption in the first quarter of 1946. Civilian per capita usage is projected at about 150 pounds, with recent civilian intake near 165 pounds. Civilians may receive more pork, similar lamb and mutton, but less beef and veal as hogs move to market and beef cattle sales fall.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Ciyils
Ohio Court Rules Member Subject to Union Policy
Ohio court involvement centers on whether a worker must accept non union work to qualify for unemployment benefits. Harvey E. Chambers, an idle AFL carpenter, refused a job at a non union firm and was denied benefits. The courts split, with the Supreme Court ultimately reviewing the matter on its merits.
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Common Pleas
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Supreme
Japanese Election Reform Proposals Expand Voter Base
Tokyo reports near term measures to enact broad relief programs and sweeping election reforms. The plan aims to double the electorate to about 45 million by granting women suffrage and lowering voting age to 20, with redistricting and wider candidate choice for the House of Representatives.
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Anése Riatoey
Sapec
Fox Linem
Ye Shuichi Susuk
Ipof
Home Ministry
House of Representatives
Aid Speeded To Troopship Off U S Coast
New York The troopship Joseph Hooker carrying 562 service men was pressed to the Atlantic off Nantucket Light Vessel as nearby ships rushed to answer a distress call. The Air Sea Rescue Office said she was 276 miles east southeast of Nantucket last night. The Hooker reported taking water in Number Three Hold and pumps were being kept running as vessels stood by. The vessel charted a westerly course but pitching could affect the route. Among those aboard is the 141st Field Artillery Battalion.
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New York
Joseph Hooker
Atlantic
Nantucket
Air Sea Rescue Office
Eastern Sea Frontier
Nanttucket
Rescue Office
Army
141St Field Artillery Battalion
Con/Estate Forger Suspect Tied to Cremation Deaths
San Francisco authorities report Alfred Leonard Cline, an ex convict, is detained on forgery charges tied to an estate case. Investigators note a possible pattern linking cremations of three elderly women across several cities, complicating the case. The arrest follows a Chicago demand over the estate of Eva Delora Krebs.
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Alfred Leonard Cline
San Francisco
Debra Krebs Cline
Chicago
NEA
Edmund
Gérald Brown
Brown
Cline
Eva Delora Krebs
Senate weighs sale of surplus ships and terms
Washington reports a tense senate debate over disposing of about 16 billion dollars worth of surplus ships. The record bid for a Guernsey bull sale broke at 37 thousand dollars, while terms for selling the ships remain to be set. creditors include Curtiss Candy and Franchester Farms.
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Senate
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Chicago
Guernsey
Otto Schnering
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Russia
England
Norway
Deat
Curtiss“Candy Com
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Charles B. Bolton
Franchester Farms
Cleveland
Bull
Charles G. Lang
Glen Arm
Parkersburg Fire Claims Life Of Harold Beckwith
The Grand Hotel inferno in Parkersburg left six known dead as firemen pursued three missing persons relatives say were in the building. Coroner O D Barker identified the most recent body as Harold Beckwith, 30, of Parkersburg, who apparently died of suffocation.
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Parkersburg
O. D. Barker
Harold Beckwith
Portsmouth Man Plays Santa Hurt in Downtown Crash
A 50 year old insurance salesman Frank Jordan wearing Santa suit was thrown from a jeep after a collision with another vehicle at a downtown street corner in Portsmouth. He suffered head cuts and possible internal injuries and was hospitalized. A second brief item notes Hungarian Jews deemed unfit for slave labor were reportedly sentenced to death in Nazi gas chambers per a Budapest Zionist leader at the international military tribunal.
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Rosy-j
Frank Jordan
Santa
Gefier- 2
Santa Claus
Ordan
Muernberg
Germany
Budapest
Navy approves merger in vague War Department plan says Hensel
Cincinnati report quotes H. Struve Hensel assistant secretary of the Navy who says the Navy favors unification of national defense forces but finds the War Department's merger plan extremely vague. He notes Army officers are instructed not to discuss details during a Cincinnati Rotary Club address. Denison University adds two days to Christmas vacation due to colds and influenza reducing attendance in Granville.
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Navy
War Department
H. Struve Hensel
Granville
Denison University
Firestone Raises Salaried Wages and Enacts 40-Hour Week
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co announces that all salaried workers at Akron plants will move to a 40-hour workweek while retaining their current salaries for the 44 hours previously worked. The change takes effect this week as part of a company policy update. In Sydney, Australia, eleven Japanese nationals are convicted by an Australian military court for the crucifixion of three Australian and one American airmen.
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Akron
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Sydney
Australia
Bill To Fix Prices on All Sales of Houses Opposed by Building Groups
The administration endorsed housing price ceilings but faced strong opposition from real estate interests and home builders. The House Banking Committee indicated many members believed Truman already has authority to address housing costs, while the National Association of Home Builders urged against ceilings citing materials priorities. Frank W. Cartwright warned ceilings would hinder production as builders fight for materials and aim to reach 300,000 new homes in 1945. Rep. Patman praised the steps but noted more stimulus may be needed.
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Flouse
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Outland
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Patman
Texas
Truman
Capitol Hill
Mouse Banking
National Association of Home Builders
Frank W. Cartwright
Association
National Housing Agency
Lmits
Cartwright
Producers’ Council, Inc
D-Tex
Qhioan Says Revolution in U S Planned
A. Greven Williams of the Columbus Chamber warns at the 52nd annual meeting that a coordinated revolutionary movement aims to unseat the current American system of industrial and commercial enterprise. He says the chamber supports maintaining the present system as the best path to a dynamic economy and notes a disciplined effort to undermine competitive enterprise in favor of centralized autocracy. The chamber restructured postwar efforts to stress research and factual analysis on legislation and taxation.
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A. Greven Williams
Commerce
Chamber
Williams
Manchuria Occupation Moves Toward Harbin
Chiang Kai-Shek appearing in Peiping signals the push of government forces toward Manchuria. Troops reportedly 40 miles beyond Mukden roll toward Harbin, the industrial hub, indicating Manchuria may fall under Chiang’s government within weeks. In Washington, the U.S. invites 14 key nations to a roundtable to reduce tariffs and expand world trade.
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Tientsin
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Peiping
Mukden
Harbin
Manchuria
Chiang
Washington
United States
Bong Memorial Wilt Award Scholarships
New York aviation leaders of two world wars headline the Richard Ira Bong Memorial Foundation based in Poplar Wisconsin. The group funds 50 high school seniors with 1000 dollar annual scholarships for four years to study engineering at accredited colleges and universities.
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New York
Richard Ira Bong
Poplar
Wis
America
Rickenbacker
Chainstore Probe Planned by Patman
The House small business committee led by Chairman Patman plans an investigation into the alleged injurious effects of chain store competition on small independent merchants. In Washington the move signals a fresh congressional focus on retail competition. Also noted is PLAN COUNTY MERGER KENT: Portage County to merge four welfare agencies on January 1 to form a new county welfare department.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Patman
D-Tex
House Small Business Committee
Kent
Portage County
Marines Stay in China Until Japs Surrender
President Truman said U S Marines would stay in China until surrender terms with Japan were carried out. The move implies keeping forces in place while any major Japanese units remain, as Byrnes has spoken of assisting the surrendered Japanese to return home.
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Truman
United States
China
Byrnes
Uni
Refrigerator plant shuts down over rubber shortage
Frigidaire Division of General Motors halted production last night due to a rubber shortage for door seats. The shutdown idles 1,500 to 2,000 workers after Miller Rubber Co. in Akron faced a processing department shortage two days earlier. SOVAGH IN RACE CLEVELAND State Rep Joseph W Kovach announces bid for Democratic nomination in 1946 primaries.
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Frigidaire
General Motors
Frank Lyons
Miller Rubber Co
Akron
Sovagh
Cleveland
Joseph W. Kovachi
Cuyahoga
Labor strikes loom as unions push for wage hikes
The CIO United Steel Workers declares a nationwide strike planned for January 14 backed by legal opinion and a wage demand of two dollars per day. Phillip Murray says no delay likely, while government mediation could postpone if GE, Westinghouse, and GM unions vote to strike after January 1. Ballots by NLRB cover about 198,000 workers in GE, Westinghouse, and GM units. Plants include Mansfield and Warren, Ohio.
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CIO
United Steel Workers
USW
Phillip Murray
Steel Workers
Murray
U. S. Steel Corporation
General Electric
General Moetors
Westinghouse
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
General Motors
National Labor Relations Board
Westing House
Mansfield
Warren
Ohio
Army Private Elza McIntire Found in Guernsey County
Elza McIntire a 39 year old army private AWOL for twenty months surrendered to Sheriff Wilmer Oliver in northern Guernsey county after being found chopping wood. He admitted running away from Fort Meade Maryland saying he disliked army life and survived on small game and trapped animals while living in caves shelters and an abandoned cottage.
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Cambridge
Guernsey County
Elza McIntire
Wilmer Oliver
McIntire
Fort Meade
Oliver
Meintre
Auto Production Slows to One-Tenth of Plan
The Detroit News reports the U.S. auto industry has produced about 50,100 passenger cars this year, one tenth of the planned 500,000, due to curtailment of essential parts tied to strikes. In China, supplies were air-dropped to a village where six Marine fliers are held by Communists. In Japan, war crimes trials are delayed to give 300 defendants time to prepare defenses.
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The
Detroit News
Tientsin
China
Yokohama
tPi
Japan
Patton In Stated Satisfactory Condition After Accident
General Patton's doctors report a good night and satisfactory overall condition with no complications. No marked change in paralysis from a broken neck caused by last Sunday's automobile accident near Mannheim is noted.
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Heidelberg
Doactors Iml
George 5
Patton
Mannheim
Hoover Co predicts 1.3 million vacuums in 1946
Hoover officials in Canton predict 1.3 million vacuum cleaners for 1946, refuting CIO union claims of 600,000 units with 60 percent more jobs. The firm earlier rejected a union request for a $2 daily wage rise. Waters resigns as director of the State Conservation Commission effective immediately. Six male inmates escape Lima State Hospital by sawing out of a washroom.
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Hoover Co
North Canton
Hoover Igcal
CIO
United Electrical Workers
Lima Lima
Lima State Hospital
Jobless totals may reach 5 million in 1946 postwar
Washington economists forecast unemployment peaking near 5 million by next March, far below the 8 million predicted earlier. Factors holding joblessness down include firms retaining workers and resilient consumer buying, while inflation pressure could rise as prices resist controls.
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