Canada Bares Soviet Plot to Obtain Black Market Uranium
Ottawa reports link between leak inquiry and Eldorado Gold Mines probe. Montreal Gazette says Russian agents tried to buy over $500000 worth of black market uranium. Ivor Gosenko, ex Soviet Embassy clerk, and his wife are in government custody after supplying information. Prime Minister Mackenzie King statement aired on Moscow radio.
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Canada
Ottawa
Eldorado Gold Mines, Ltd
Can- Baggs
Montreal
Montreal Gazette
Ivor Gosenko
Mackenzie King
Moscow
Davies says Russia may seek atomic secrets in self defense
Former U S ambassador Joseph E Davies argues Russia could morally pursue atomic bomb secrets if cut off by allies, while a Canadian uranium black market network worth 500000 dollars is exposed. Twenty two Canadian government employees were arrested in Ottawa amid the espionage probe.
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Havana
Russia
Joseph E. Davies
U. S
U.S.S.R
United States
Davies
Hirohito Tours Tokyo Wreckage After War Destruction
Emperor Hirohito toured bomb shattered Tokyo Yokohama areas under American guard. He observed miles of ruined industry and housing while citizens bowed in his presence. Premier Shidehara warned rebuilding would take 20 to 30 years and reliance on foreign trade. In Chungking Chinese officials met on Manchurian situation with Wang and Chiang Kai Shek.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Japan
Yokohama
Kijuro Shidehara
Chungking
Wang Shichieh
Nanking
Calang Kai-Shek
Labor To Test Power in East
The American Labor Party faces a three way race in Manhattan’s 19th District in a special congressional election. ALP drops its usual alliance and fields Johannes Steel against Army Capt. William S. Shea for the Republicans and Arthur G. Klein for the Democrats.
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New York
American Labor Party
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Truman
White House
ALP
Johannes Steel
Army
William S. Shea
Arthur G. Klein
Atomic energy to find few industrial uses
John C. Parker, vice president of Consolidated Edison, told the Senate atomic energy committee that atom splitting will yield few industrial applications. He cited large power plants and marine propulsion as the main potential fields and said broad economic changes from atomic energy in power production appear unlikely.
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Washington
Special Senate Atomic Energy Committee
John C. Parker
Consolidated Edison Company
Parker
Strikes Settled by Federal Conciliation Service
Edgar L. Warren announced that the Federal Conciliation Service settled 174 strikes and lockouts last month and aided 358 disputes with threatened strikes. The agency also resolved 553 disputes before labor management differences reached a strike vote. Also, Philippine Army troops were sent to Lubang Island to quell Japanese harassment of villagers.
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Washington
Edgar L. Warren
Federal Concciliation Service
Warren
Manila
Philippine Army
Lubang Island
Manila Bay
Most of State's Steel Men At Work After Long Strike
Ohio's steel industry resumes momentum as most workers return after a four week strike. In Cleveland 17000 of 20000 affected are back, with Jones & Laughlin and Cleveland Steel Barrel Co. reaching settlements. Pickets persist around Jones & Laughlin plants until official confirmation. Republic Steel and American Steel & Wire report near full return. Truscon in Youngstown stays closed amid ongoing disputes.
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State
Associated Press
Ohio
Cleveland
William F. Donovan
Pittsburgh
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Jones & Laughlin
Donovan
Cleveland Steel Barrel Co
Republic Steel Corporation
American Steel & Wire Co
Truscon Steel Co
Youngstown
Republic Steel
Cio-United Steelworkers
Airline Seeks 24 New Stops in Eastern Route
Eastern Airlines seeks civil aviation board approval for 24 additional stops on a postwar air service route. The proposal covers New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland Virginia Delaware West Virginia and Ohio. The Akron Roanoke line would add Clarksburg Elkins Fairmont Morgantown Wheeling Pittsburgh and Youngstown as part of Detroit Miami service.
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Philadelphia
Eastern Airlines
Middle Atlantic
Civil Aeronautics Board
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Virginia
Delaware
West Virginia
Ohio
Eastern
Akron
Roanoke
Clarksburg
Elkins
Fairmont
Morgantown
Wheeling W. Va
Pittsburgh
Youngstown
Detroit-Miami
Meigs County Night Club Robbed Tuesday
The Kel-Roy Nite Club on the outskirts of Pomeroy was robbed after 4 am. Between 3 and 10 cases of whiskey and 30 cartons of cigarets were stolen. Sheriff Ralph Welker and deputies link the theft to a prior series of robberies in Pomeroy from a few weeks ago.
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Pomeroy
Ralph Welker
Army Not To Release Kuhn Spokesman Says
FRANKFURT Germany UP A United States Army intelligence section spokesman said today the army has no plans to release Fritz Kuhn deported former leader of the German American Bund. He is described as one of the greatest security threats in the American zone. MEET IN NEW YORK LONDON The United Nations Economic and Social Council has agreed to summon an international trade conference late in 1946 and to hold its next meeting in New York on May 25.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States Army
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
New York
London
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Taxi Drivers Battle Monopoly March on Capital Massillon
A modern Coxey's Army of about 350 Chicago cabdrivers and families, in 148 taxis, heads to Washington to challenge a city cap on Chicago cabs and seek Justice Department action against monopolistic control by two firms. They plan to camp until they gain relief, citing similar conditions warned by Edgar Sirles, 26, and noting 91 year old Coxey's historic protest for non-interest bearing government bonds.
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Massillon
Coxey’s Army
Washington
Here
Chicago
Edgar Sirles
American Cab Drivers Association For
Department of Justice
Sirles
Jacobs
Coxey
Congress
Capitol
Pennsylvania
Union Demands Longer Hours Prompt Transit Strike Threat
Bus and streetcar operators in Columbus threaten a public transportation strike over shortened hours. CIO union spokesman says contract allowed AQPR hours per half month while Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company allegedly restructured schedules. Strike date set for March 1.
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Columbus
CIO Transport Workers Union
AQPR
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company
Loan Planes Wanted for Pacific Area
Washington AP report says Pearl Harbor investigators heard 1900 planes were distributed to other nations under lend lease in 1941 as American forces in Hawaii sought more aircraft. Seth Richardson counsel testified he received this information from the War Department.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Seth Richardson
Flowers Strewed Over Iwo Jima After Battle
At Iwo Jima on 1945, dawn thund ered with the force of American guns as naval transport planes from Pearl Harbor dropped flowers over graves. Rep Keefe urged revising naval practices to promote more intelligence officers, citing two years at sea out of six. Capt Layton testified the public disclosures on code breaking weakened US national security.
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Pearl Harbor
Iwo Jima
Maxine Graves
Keefe
R.wis
Edwin T. Layton
Sering
Pacific Fleet
United States
Ohio Soldier Testifies In Slaying of Russian Captain
At a Vienna trial Sgt. Shirley B. Dixon of Toledo is accused of murdering Capt. Vassily Kiementiev on a Salzburg Vienna Express train. Richard Reed of Canton testified the captain and a companion tried to scare the sergeant while another witness said Kiementiev waved a pistol under Dixon’s nose and spoke in a threatening manner. Dixon guarded the train and was ordered to keep unauthorized people off board.
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Vienna
Richard Reed
Canton
Shirley B. Dixon
Toledo
Vassily G. Kiementiev
Dixon
Shipyard and Farm Equipment Workers Win Pay Boost
Eighteen-cent-an-hour hikes for shipyard workers covering about 450,000 employees and for 30,000 farm equipment workers on strike at International Harvester plants were approved by the Stabilization Board. The move, retroactive to December 4, aligns with wage-price policy aims and awaits final approval by the National Wage Stabilization Board. The administration proposes broader OPA continuance amid a Republican push for ceilings reform and gradual liquidation.
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Washington
Wagel Stabilization Board
Shipbuilding Stabilization Conference
Ciomarine and Shipbuilding Workers
AFL Metal Trades Department
International Harvester Company
Stabilization Board
War Labor Board
Truman
National Wage Stabilization Board
CIO
AFL
AT&T Labor Dispute Settled After 13 Hour Talks
Philadelphia settlement ends a 13 hour conciliation for 1050 AT&T workers over promotions. Union says three employees were moved to better jobs without seniority consideration. Local talks continue to address grievances and a written statement expected by Thursday. Nationwide disruption feared if issues not resolved.
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Philadelphia
WU. S
Peter J. Manno
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Manno
Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers
Ind
J. E. Dingman
Assoc Ned
Local 203
Federation of
Long Lines Telephone Workers
John A. Moran
Memphis
A.t.&t
Traitors Face Trials in United States
Attorney General Tom Clark said 22 Americans suspected of war time treason are being pursued in Europe with a plan to send an emissary for evidence collection. Six others remain indicted. Ezra Pound among previously charged. Four of the 1943 defendants are held by the Army in Europe.
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Washington
Tom Clark
Justice Department
Europe
Clark
District of Columbia
United States
Ezra Pound
Edward Delaney
Olney
Douglas. Chandler
Baltimore
Constance Drexel
Philadelphia
Robert HH. Best
New York City
India Rioters Burn US Flag in Bombay Street
A mob in Bombay tore the U S Information Service Office flag from the building and burned it in the street. Walter Shackleton led the office, while Ralph Block awaited instructions from New Delhi. Observers link the protest to a Royal Indian Navy sitdown strike demanding better rations and pay.
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Bombay
Royal Indian Yeavy
United States
U.S. Information Service Office
Walter D. Shackleton
Ralph Block
USS
New Delhi
Royal Indian Navy
Widow Receives Medal of Honor for Bravery in Iwo Jima
The widow of Corporal Tony Stein of Dayton Marine Corps receives his Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for singlehandedly killing 20 Japanese and other acts of bravery that cost him his life during the Iwo Jima battle a year ago.
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Columbus
Corp
Tony Stein
Dayton Marine
Ivodima
GM Negotiations Dragging Workers Happy Over Contracts
The NFTW threatens a strike over wage demands of 10 a week and a 65 cent minimum hourly wage with a return to 40 hours. NFTW represents AT&T and Western Union workers plus maintenance and research staff. Nationwide labor disputes ease idling to about 1,050,000 as other wage talks unfold. Federal mediators plan talks while unions push for faster plant operation and new contracts for steelworkers and transportation crews amid broader strikes and pay fights.
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NFTW
American Telephone and Telegraph System
CIC
International Harvester Company
General Motors
James F. Dewey
CIO
United Auto Workers
John Murray
Lancaster
AFL Bus and Tralley
Conestoga Transportation Company
Increase in Output of Needed Tires Predicted
Akron citizens report Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co officials expect faster tire production as tire-building machines are installed.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rupher Co
Wallace Urges Pay Hike For White Collar Worker
Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace urged higher wages for white collar workers at the United Office and Professional Workers of America convention in Cleveland. He noted 2,000,000 white collar workers earned under 65 cents an hour and called for government action to curb inflation while business adjusts pay without raising prices or cutting profits. The talk emphasized research on pay and broad industry adjustments to improve living standards.
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Cleveland
Henry A. Wallace
United Office and Professional Workers of America
CIO
U. S
Wallace
America
Congress
Smirnov paints Nazi retreat horrors at tribunal
Colonel L N Smirnov described to the international military tribunal the frenzied slaughter during 1943 as Nazis forced victims to haul wood to a cremation pyre then shoot them. He said further victims were laid on the pyre and torch lit after the wood was piled and soaked. The tribunal refused defense requests for a three week adjournment after the prosecution rested.
Lockbourne Air Unit Will Be Transferred
Army officers announce the movement of the all weather flying station from Lockbourne Air Base to Clinton County Airport Wilmington Ohio and Wright Field Dayton Ohio. The 4477th composite group formerly at Godman Field Kentucky will be moved to Lockbourne in about 10 days and includes airmen from the 99th and 332nd units overseas. ENTERS GUILTY PLEA CLEVELAND- Common Pleas Judge Alva R. Corlett awaits a Prohibition Department report before sentencing Mary Grassi 22 unwed mother who pled guilty to manslaughter in her newborn daughter death last July.
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Columbus
Army
Lockbourne Air Base
Clinton County
Wilmington
Wright Field
Dayton
Edward J. Timberlake
Continental Air Forces
Washinon
4477Th Composite Group
Lockbourne
Godman Field
99Th
Cleveland
Common Pleas
Alva RK. Corlett
Probection Department
Mary Grassi
Daugh
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Wolcott
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A. T. & T. Wrangle
Tated Press
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Tenn
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No- Workers
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Verone Horeno
Washington, D. C
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Guadalcanal
Pennsylvania State Senate
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Tri-State Industrial Association
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