24000 Telegraph And Phone Workers Strike Threatens Halt
The Associated Press reports a nationwide strike wave across telegraph and telephone firms. About 6 000 installation workers may trigger a general toll and dial service disruption within days. Western Union, Independent National Federation of Telephone Workers and Western Electric employees are involved, with 17 000 and 7 000 members respectively on halted work.
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Associated Press
New
New Jersey
Ohio
Indiana
New York City
Western Electric Company
Ernest Weaver
Independent Association of Communications Equipment Workers
Independent National Federation of Telephone Workers
Western Electric Employes Association
New York
Weaver
Western Union
War Labor Board
International Cable Communications
Western
Truman
Washington
United Steelworkers
OPA
CIO
Chicago
Edgar L. Warren
Federal Conciliation Service
AFL
General Motors
Oil
C. A. Knight
John W. Snyder
John C. Collet
Chester Bowles
Disabled Vets Get More College Pay
The Veterans Administration announced simplified schooling benefit payments for disabled war veterans and increased allotments. An amendment to the GI Bill of Rights recently approved by Congress enables a disabled veteran to draw pension plus subsistence allotment while attending school.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Congress
H. V. Sterling
Homma Named in Bataan Death March Testimony
An American sergeant testifies Lt. Gen Masaharu Homma rode the route of the Bataan Death March. M Sergeant James Baldassarre a survivor places Homma on the road where 1 200 American and 16 000 Filipino prisoners died from torture starvation or murder during the war crimes trial.
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Manila
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
James Baldassarre
Haven
Conn
Homma
Baldassarre
Enrollment Record Seen at Ohio State
A new all time enrollment record was expected at Ohio State University as the registrar's office opened the winter quarter with 13,074 students, 153 shy of the fall 1939 record of 13,227.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Vandenberg Byrnes Meet Over Atomic Secrets
Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Secretary James Byrnes planned talks to seal safeguards for atomic bomb secrets to avert a rift in the U S delegation to the United Nations Assembly. They discussed the United Nations Commission’s access to secrets and U S veto power in the Security Council. Byrnes stressed the issue rests with them and pledges a solution.
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London
James F. Byrnes
Arthur Vandenberg
United Nations Assembly
Byrnes
Sele
Vandenberg
United Nations Commission
United States
Security Council
Senate
Note Shows Germans Plot Industry Rebirth
A secret German memorandum dated Sept 8 1945 from Hans Verchemeyer former Schering A G chairman indicates industrialists sought to rebuild the Reichs industrial empire despite occupation authorities. The memo was found among Verchemeyers files in Cincinnati by the American military investigations division amid OPA cartel and asset probes. A separate note reports W D Creaseys Sons Inc suspended six weeks for sugar stock shortage of 46442 pounds.
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Berlin
UPI
Germany
Reich
Hans Verchemeyer
Schering, A. — G
Verchemeyer
Cincinnati
W. D
Kave Creasey’s Sons, Inc
Ernment
OPA
Protests Over Demobilization Roil Yokohama Occupation
Soldiers in Yokohama protested a demobilization slowdown with a planned mass demonstration before Eighth Army HQ. Lt. Gen. Hall warned subversive forces may exploit morale issues as 191,163 troops redeploy from Japan and 53,373 replacements arrive. Col Mahoney defended disciplinary actions and derided protesters, while demonstrations also occurred in Hawaii and Seoul with discontent across occupied zones.
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Yokohama
Charles P. Hall
Eighth Army
Stars ‘and Stripes
Charles A. Mahoney
Service Command
Hall
Japan
Mahoney
Patterson
Hondlui
Orice
Robert C. Richamison, Sr
Hawaii
Seoul
Korea
Associated Press
Robert Myers
American Capital Said Invested in Palestine
A committee of inquiry on Palestine heard testimony that at least 45.8 million dollars in American private capital has been invested in Palestine and 110 million dollars sent as gifts by American Jews. Robert Szold of New York, vice president of the Zionist Organization of America, said these funds created employment for many new immigrants.
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Washington
Committee of Inquiry On
Palestine
Robert Szold
New York
Zionist Organization of America
Five Year Old Sinking Reported by Navy
The Navy announced the 3260 ton SS Carolyn, missing 300 miles east of Norfolk since March 1941, was on a shakedown cruise as a Q ship camouflaged merchant vessel with heavy armament. Three days from Norfolk she radioed torpedo damage and then disappeared. The RSRC also offered for sale or lease Car plants at Newton Falls and Mount Vernon, Ohio.
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Washington
PiThe
Carolyn
Norfolk
Cleveland
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Newton Falls
Mount Vernon
Janitor Named Slayer in Degnan Child Case
Chicago police pressed a relentless 48 hour manhunt for the killer of six year old Suzanne Degnan. Two North Side janitors, Edgewater Beach district workers, were questioned as police sergeant Jack Hanrahan accused one janitor of the crime.
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Degnan
Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
Ox & Showdown
Adustic
North Side
Edgewater Beach
Jack Hanrahan
Butter Price Hike Proposed by 18 Cents by May 1
Washington reports officials proposed an 18 cent per pound butter raise to stimulate production. The move, backed by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, would lift dairy prices while the administration struggles to hold food costs and possibly extend the war era subsidy program beyond June 30.
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Washington
IPI
Anderson
Ribbentrop Proposed Lynching Allied Fliers
Evidence at the International Military Tribunal shows Joachim von Ribbentrop urged the lynching of captured Allied airmen who bombed German cities. British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe presented documents indicating the German high command rejected the plan as too drastic and that Ribbentrop pressed Japan to declare war on the United States.
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Mernberg
International Military Tribunal
Joachim von Ribbentrop
David Maxwell Fyfe
von Ribbentrop
David
Japan
United States
Germany
British Empire
Soviet Russia
Record Floods Ravage South
Flood waters raging at the highest levels ever recorded in some sections of the South have brought death to at least 21 persons, caused multi million dollar property damage, and left thousands homeless. Torrential rains continued two days as the weather bureau in Atlanta said the worst was over with 5,000 homeless in Kentucky alone as Big Sandy and Cumberland River Valleys began to improve.
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Cincinnati
South
Weather Bureau
Atlanta
Kentucky
Big Sandy
Cumberland River
Federal Official Seeks To End Press Strike
Conciliator Thomas W. Robertson awaits a reply from publishers and striking AFL Pressmen to end the five day dispute halting publication of Cleveland three daily papers The Plain Dealer Press and News News dealers report locals buying out of town papers to keep up
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Cleveland
Thomas W. Robertson
AFL
Chiang and Communists Fail to Reach Civil War Truce
In Chungking the Chiang Kai shek government and Communist representatives failed to finalize a truce in China's civil strife. They adjourned until tomorrow with General Marshall, President Truman's envoy, present at the talks.
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Chungking
China
General Marshall
Truman
Indian tribes seek wampum from British loan in 140 year claim
Washington reports two tribes the Pottawatomie and Ottawa press a 140 year old debt as a condition on a projected 3.75 billion dollar loan to Britain. Frank Tom Pee-Saw leads a petition asking the Senate to deduct 1.6373 million dollars representing principal and interest due Indians over 140 years.
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Washington
Frank Tom- Pee-Saw
Tom-Pee-Saw
Legislative Council
League of North American Indians
Great Britain
Senate Banking Committee
Tom Pee-Law
Lake Erie
United States Senate
Britain
Britons Doubt Russian Atom Bomb Report
Sources close to the British government expressed skepticism of claims Russia developed a new atom bomb making Western weapons obsolete. The Londonderry center’s Dr Raphael Armattee cited test results and staff ties to Russian societies. Weisskopf in Cambridge dismissed the report as foolishness.
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London
Russia
Raphael E. G. Armattee
Lomesse
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Armattee
Raphael E
G. Armattee
New York
the Herald Tribune
Victor F. Weisskopf
Los Alamos
N.M
Cambridge
Reds Invited to Join Far East Commission Again
U S Maj Gen Frank R McCoy said on arrival that Washington has invited Russia to participate in the Far Eastern Commission. He noted Moscow conference expanded the commission power by removing its advisory status and increased authority.
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Reds
Far East
Yokohama
State Department
Russia
U.S
Frank R. McCoy
McCoy
First Class Mail by Air Under Discussion
Washington officials meet to discuss moving all first class mail and parcel post by air. The postal service and aviation leaders examine feasibility, costs, and logistics of an air mail system for bulk correspondence and parcels.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Air Transport
Col Boyington Denies Report In Love Tangle
Reno dispatch reports Lt. Col. Gregory Boyington a war hero and Medal of Honor recipient denied plans to marry Lucy Malcolmson who announced an intent to wed after a divorce. Malcolmson skipped her divorce hearing and was advised by her attorney not to proceed if marriage depended on the action.
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Reno
Nev
Pappy
Lucy Malcolmson
Gregory Boyington
Colonel Boyington
Flying Tiger
Black Sheep Squadron
Pafiic
Stewart Malcolmson
General Motors
Australia
San Diego
Boyington
Arthur G. Miller
British Hold German Witness of Hitler Will
Reuters dispatch from Bad Godesberg reports British security officers arrested Gen. Nicholaus von Below described as probably the only surviving witness of Adolf Hitler's private will. Other witnesses named in the testament, released December 30, are Martin Bormann and Paul Joseph Goebbels, both believed dead.
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London
Reuters
Bad Godesberg
Germany
Nicholaus von Below
Adolf Hitler
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Zanesville Man Fined In Impersonation Case
In Denver a federal court sentenced John S. Borman, 45, of Zanesville to four months in jail for impersonating an army officer and securing hotel accommodations under false pretenses. He told his wife and daughters back home he was in the army.
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Denver
Colo
John S. Borman
Zanesville
Homman
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Truman Presented Protest List On Demobilization Policy
President Truman received a six inch stack of documents from Drew Pearson alleging 30 000 GIs in the Philippines protested the army demobilization policy. Pearson said Truman had no comment on the list when shown.
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Washington
Philippines
J Truman
Drew Pearson
Pearson
Truman
Grief and Suspicion After Kidnap Slaying of Suzanne Degnan
Police seize two Belgian janitors in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Suzanne Degnan. Blood stains and body parts found in a Winthrop Avenue basement. Coroners say death from strangulation and dismemberment with signs of sexual abuse.
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Hector Virburgh
Narative
Belgium
Hans Trahan
Winthrop Avenue
Kenmore Avenue
Suzanne
James E. Degnan
Office of
Price Administration
Hanrahan
Edgewater
Milk Producers Vote on Marketing Program in Central Ohio
Central Ohio milk producers vote on a marketing program that would set minimum prices paid by handlers. A. J. Ballard of Gahanna was reelected president of the Central Ohio Cooperative Milk Producers Association.
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Columbus
Central Ohio
Pmill
A. J. Ballard
Gahanna
Central Ohio Cooperative Milk Producers Association
Mass Protests Overpossible Intervention Spark Philippines Dissent
In Manila soldiers protest delays in demobilization and warn American troops may be used to quell unrest. They challenge the War Department policy and fear postwar deployment to protect property, while urging frankness from Washington leaders.
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Hal Boyle
Manila
Philippines
Far East
86Th Infantry Division
Army Command
America
Pacific
China
War Department
Waahington
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