Labor strikes loom as unions call for wider walkouts
Compiled by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS new calls for strikes spread across industry. President Truman urged Congress to act on curbs on work stoppages while thousands more join idle rolls. Chicago CIO unions threaten 30,000 in wage protests at International Harvester. Goodyear in Akron eyes Sunday action. Nationwide telephone walkouts could affect 450,000 if NFTW joins. AFL Western Union Telegraph balloting hints acceptance of War Labor Board directive for a Jan 7 strike. Yale & Towne demonstrations in Stamford show no settlement after nine weeks. CIO Electric Workers plan a nation wide strike of 200,000 at GE, GM, Westinghouse. GM faces a 200,000-workforce walkout begun Nov 21 demanding 30 percent raises.
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Associated Press
Truman
Congress
Chicago
CLO
Linion
International Harvester Company
Akron
CIO
United Rubber Workers of America
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Western Electric Company
New York
New Jersey
NFTW
AFL
Western Union Telegraph Company
Metropolis
War Labor Board
Stamford
Conn
Yale & Towne Mrs. Co
United Electrical Workers
General Electric
General Motors
Westinghouse Electric
CIC
United Auto Workers
Homma Ordered Death March in Bataan, Witness Testifies
Lt. Gen Masa Homma allegedly gave the order for the Bataan to Camp O Donnell death march in April 1942, with Lt Col Michio Kitayama testifying that Homma bore responsibility for the action though Japanese law reportedly excludes him from criminal liability.
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Manila
Masaharyu Homma
Bataan
Camp O'Donnell
Homma
Michio Kitayama
Kitayama
Aeronca Expands Output To 35 Aircraft Daily
MIDDLETOWN ILL September 14 The Aeronca Aircraft Corp announces an expansion plan to raise light plane output from 20 to 35 daily. The move aims to meet rising demand and boost production capacity at its Middletown facility.
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Aeronca
Middletown
Aeronca Aircraft Corporation
UMW Demands Insurance for Mine Workers
UMW District 30 President Sam Caddy says no workers will report to mines lacking workers compensation insurance protection. He cites the Pineville disaster where 24 miners died and warns next week may be too late. Kentucky officials note the Kentuky Straight Creek Coal Company operated the mine with optional coverage, while Caddy accuses any employer who diverts funds of cheating widows and orphans and the public.
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Lexington
Sam Caddy
United Mine Workers of America
OPA
Cleveland Financier Donates Stadium for Heights High
Cleveland Heights High School will gain a $100,000 stadium funded by Harry W. Hosford, a local financier who rose from telegraph messenger to wealth. He announced the gift at a school assembly, praising youth who fought to preserve democracy and will uphold it in the future. Also, about 37,000 servicemen to return home on 33 troopships across East and West Coast ports today.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Heights
Harry W. Hosford
New York
Truman Drops Sights on Jobless Pay Legislation
President Truman narrowed his demand for unemployment benefits to a Senate accepted plan, but House Ways and Means opposition remained. The Senate measure offers 26 weeks of aid with dollar limits tied to state payments, while the House stalls. A White House briefing suggested the Senate let him down and signaled likely House inaction, risking a broader agreement on extending wartime workers’ coverage.
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Washington
Truman
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
House of Representatives
Ways and Means
Tates
White House
One
Ways and Means Democrat
Surprise phase debate marks Pearl Harbor inquiry
Rep Gearhart pressed the surprise issue in the Pearl Harbor probe. Adm Stark and former President Roosevelt disputed whether Hawaii’s commanders were caught off guard. Stark cited warnings to Kimmel while Pentagon chiefs prepare for public testimony after a recess through Jan 15.
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Washington
Gearhart
R . Calif
Pearl Harbor
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Senate House
Pacific
Stark
Adm
E. Kimmel
Hawaii
Emergency housing plan initiated by Truman
President Truman announces an emergency goal of 5,000,000 new homes and names Wilson Wyatt Jr. to lead the effort. He says government will use every agency and resource to break bottlenecks and supply housing when private enterprise cannot. The plan marks an emergency method to address a housing shortage.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt, Jr
Wyatt
Secrest Likely To Run For Congress In Ohio’s 15th District
Predictions say Bob Secrest may pursue the Democratic nomination for Ohio’s 15th District after his Navy release in about three weeks. The former House member, who left to join the war effort, was once considered for a Senate appointment but Gov. Lausche chose James Huffman. The article also notes a Veterans Administration bill to hire 1,500 doctors 1,200 nurses and 100 dentists by bypassing civil service rules, stirring civil service objections.
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Washington
Bob Secrest
Congress
Ohio
Secrest
House
Navy
P. W W. Griffiths
Harold H. Burton
Supreme Court
Frank J. Lausche
James Huffman
Senate
Sujel Uus
Veterans Administration
Buls
Paul R. Hawley
Exile Plan Hints at Jewish Exodus to Palestine
Gen Sir Frederick E Morgan declares at a Frankfurt press conference that Jews in Europe appear to have an organized plan to mass exit to Palestine. He says reports of atrocities in Poland may be exaggerated and used to pressure the United Nations to grant Jews a homeland.
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Frederick E. Morgan
Germany
Frankfurt
Europe
Palestine
Poland
United Nations
Church Rebuff by Nazis in Atrocities
In Nuremberg the Vatican’s pleas against atrocities in Poland were rebuffed by the Nazi foreign office. American documents show official Vatican communications were refused delivery to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, signaling a harsh rejection of Rome’s protest.
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Mernberg
Germany
Vatican
Poland
Foreign Office
Holy See
Jochim von Rib
Bentrop
von Ribbentrop
Father Shoots Children Then Dies in North Philadelphia
Emil Scheutz, a 57-year-old father, shot and killed four of his five children as they slept in a second floor North Philadelphia apartment on New Year’s Day and then killed himself with a rifle. Police Lieutenant James Kelly reports the bodies were found yesterday.
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Philadelphia
Emil Scheutz
James Kelly
Clothing and Medical Relief Reach Chinese Ports
Fifteen vessels carrying 100000 tons of food clothing and medicine have arrived at Chinese ports marking the first major relief shipment to China in years. In Cincinnati Charles Kelly begins his 65th year with The Cincinnati Times-Star after an early rejection as too thin for the composing room.
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Washington
China
Cincinnati
Charles Kelly
Cincinnati Times- Star
MacArthur Purges Jap Politicians
General MacArthur orders sweeping purges of ultranationalist groups and wartime figures, disqualifying candidates tied to former totalitarian blocs. By targeting leaders of rightist parties and Tojo allies, the move aims to dilute entrenched bureaucrats and accelerate democratization while leaving administrative machinery intact.
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Black Dragon
Tojo
House of Representatives
Pearl Harbor
Hideki Tojo
MacArthur
Two-Headed Child Born To War Wife Is Dead
A two headed baby girl born to Mrs. Joseph Govro 21 of Festus Missouri died after 50 hours and 35 minutes. The child was born New Year’s Day to the English wife of a former United States soldier at a Birmingham hospital. Mrs Govro had been told partially the facts about her child and had believed she was mother of twins.
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Birmingham
England
United States
Joseph Govro
Festus
St. Louis
Govro
Hess Tried for Peace Bargain in Fall 1940
Confidential papers reveal Rudolf Hess sought to end the war by contacting "reasonable Englishmen" in fall 1940. The plan is recounted in a 1400‑word Hitler report by Hess aide Dr Albrecht Maushofer dated May 25, 1941, after Hess flew to England.
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Mernberg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Rudolf Hess
Fuehrer
Hitler
Hess
Albrecht Maushofer
England
Milk Producers Vote On Market Order In Columbus
Milk producers who served the Columbus area last September will vote Tuesday on a marketing order for minimum prices. The USDA dairy branch sponsorship is noted.
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Columbus
U. S. Department of Agriculture
S Production and Marketing Administration
Start Work on Licking River Dam in Spring
The Dillon Dam on the Licking River moves closer to construction after engineers confer with Baltimore & Ohio officials on track relocation. Congress released $900,000 for the $10,000,000 project to create a 1,500 acre lake spanning about ten miles, with a flood basin to protect Zanesville and the Muskingum Valley.
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Dillon
Licking River
Muskingum Conservancy District
Corps of Engineers
Baltimore
Ith
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Licking Valley
Congress
Zanesville
Muskingum Valley
Licking
Muskingum
Communists Back Peace Talks With Marshall Panel Plan
In Chungking negotiators from the Chinese Communist Party and the central government examined ceasefire terms in response to Chiang Kai-Shek. They agreed in general with Truman envoy George C. Marshall’s role on a three person committee to set procedures for stopping civil war and endorsed including prominent figures from all sectors in investigation groups. The Communist spokesman said their conditions align with the government's three concrete items in principle.
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Chungking
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
George C.marshall
Truman
Truman urges urgent action to curb strikes and aid reconversion
President Truman appealed to the American people to pressure Congress for decisive action to curb strikes and advance reconversion measures. He warned that time is running out for full production and employment, stressing concerns over auto, steel, electrical, and meat packing industries and the nation's world leadership.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Nation
Senate
House
Pawenegey Wees
Mr. Truman
Labor Department Warns on Meat Packing Strike Last Resort
The Labor Department says mediation should precede government seizure as a last resort to avert a threatened meat packing strike involving 20,000 CIO United Packing House Workers. Congress and industry groups urge decisive leadership to avoid postwar drift in 1946.
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Washington
Labor Department
Congress
Industry
Pressure groups urge extending price and rent controls
The chief executive said price controls and rent limits must be renewed beyond the June 30 expiration, along with controls on scarce materials. He warned inflation pressures now exceed those after World War I and the 1940 slump, urging action to curb strikes and labor disputes. Federal mediators planned talks with operating Brotherhoods and non operating unions to resolve wage issues for 130 Class One railroads and 1.4 million workers, as he pressed Congress to pass needed legislation without delay.
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Chicago
Mediation Board
Cone Congress
Truman urges action on strikes and labor rights
President Truman calls for Congress to back fact finding and stricter measures to curb inflation. He urges lawmakers to convene, support boards with subpoena power, and reject bills that would curtail labor’s right to strike. He says production remains the key to fighting inflation and warns against delaying action.
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Truman
Congress
Youngstown replaces pay-at-your-convenience traffic fines with court hauling
Youngstown police end the pay-at-your-convenience traffic fine plan and revert to hauling violators into a traffic court. The change ends a wartime measure that let motorists pay fines at their convenience to save defense workers time.
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Youngstown
Vet Killed in Toledo Hotel Seeks Assailant
Police seek an assailant after a disabled discharged soldier Charles E. Miller 26 Toledo was found dead yesterday in a downtown hotel room with a slashed throat and battered head. He registered with an unidentified man and two women.
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Toledo
Ralph Murphy
Charles E. Miller
Lausche to Convene Conference of State University Presidents
Gov. Frank J. Lausche has called a Saturday meeting in his Columbus office with the six state university presidents. The aim is to discuss problems in student enrollment and housing.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Forgotten Pacific vets ire at War Secretary Patterson
Soldiers in Hawaii and Guam press for clear demobilization details as Secretary Patterson’s Pacific tour raises questions about discharge points and two year service releases. Anxious troops urge Congress to demand concrete timelines and policies on demobilization and furlough authority.
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Secretary OF War
Honolulu
Patterson
Pacific
Guam
Hawaii
Associated Press
Stars and Stripes
Army
Japan
Vet Entrances Push Cincinnati U to Peak
University of Cincinnati opens mid year classes with capacity for 450 students in engineering commerce and applied arts programs. Dean Robert Gowdy says no new enrollments are being accepted.
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Cincinnati U
Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
College of Engineering and Commerce
School of Applied Arts
Veter
Robert C. Gowdy
Butter Supply Cut In This Quarter
Butter supplies will be leaner by 30 million pounds in the January through March period compared to the last quarter of 1945. Early morning runs were set as Central and Pennsylvania Greyhound lines activated portions of their bus fleets for the first time since a strike began November 1. Rev Carroll H. Lewis named superintendent of White Cross Hospital in Columbus succeeding the late Rev Frank Wy Fowler.
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Cleveland
Central
Pennsylvania
Greyhound Lines
Columbus
Dre Carroll H. Lewis
White Cross Hospital
Dry Frank Wy Fowler
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