Scapegoat Claim Marks Pearl Harbor Hearings
Gen Walter Short testifies before a Senate committee that the War Department scapegoated him over Pearl Harbor. He accuses Washington of passing the buck, saying security secrecy hid the truth and that misjudgments by Marshall and Gerow contributed to the disaster.
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Marshall
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Congressional Committee
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Army
Soviets Blame Yanks For Korean Protests
Tass accuses the United States military command in Southern Korea of stirring reactionary protests against the Moscow conference of foreign ministers. A Heijo dispatch says Southern Korea press attacks the tripartite trusteeship decision.
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Tass Today
United States
Korea
Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers
Heijo
Tass
United, States
Russia
Great Britain
Taft Attacks Budget as Deficit Forecast Nears 14 Billion
Washington reports show Senator Taft calling the budget misleading and warning the deficit could reach 14 billion rather than 34 billion. Congress contemplates limited price-control extensions amid mixed reactions to Truman's domestic program.
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Washington
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Truman
Ohio
Bretton Woods
Bridges
Deride FEPC Bill as Unfair To President
Senator Russell of Georgia condemned the FEPC bill amid a Senate filibuster, saying it would make a lackey of the President by authorizing a board to order presidential action without opinion. He argued the measure would remove executive discretion and demanded voters understand what is in the bill as Southern colleagues resist.
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Russell
D-Ga
FEPC
Senate
Fair Employment Practice Commission
Morse
Truman
of the Union
Ohio Hospital Rejected by VA
Washington CPI reports most wartime Army hospitals are unsuitable for Veterans Administration use. Gen Omar W Brassley testified a list shows 10 could be used and 35 cannot. Fletcher General Hospital Cambridge Ohio is among the 35 deemed unsuitable. Portsmouth High School principal H W McKelvey receives a new three year contract at 4200 dollars annually. Sheila Ryan sues Cowboy Actor Allan Lane for divorce alleging extreme cruelty.
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Veterans Administration
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House Appropriations
Veterans’ Administrator
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge
Veterans’ Administration
Fletcher
Portsmouth
H. W. McKelvey
Portsmouth High School
Los Angeles
Sheila Ryan
The
Allan Lane
Japanese Hens Are Recovering Poise
A Hiroshima dispatch in the Asahi reports a hen that had laid no egg since the atomic bombing of the city has started laying again. Combs on two other birds about three kilometers from the blast center have begun to regain their natural color and are expected to start laying soon.
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Hiroshima
Asahi
Kyushu
Army To Begin Flood Control In Ohio Valley
Army engineers announce tentative bid dates for 18 reservoir and floodwall projects in the Ohio Valley as part of a 160 million program resumed after wartime suspension. Projects include Wolf Creek Reservoir, Dewey Reservoir, Parkersburg floodwall, and various dam and wall works across Kentucky Ohio West Virginia with dates set through February and March 1946.
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Parkersburg
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Sylvania
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Zanesville
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Hinton
Cincinnati
Delaware
Newport
Japanese Government Ordered to Reveal Zaibatsu Data
Tokyo report says the government must disclose detailed information on 14 zaibatsu family monopolies and 18 major holding companies. The purge of Japan's Old Guard by General MacArthur continues with over 20 prefectural governors and 33 top Home Ministry officials resigning this week.
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Zaibatsu
Japan
Old Guard
MacArthur
Home Ministry
Wolfe Will Leaves 100000 to Charity
Columbus reports the late H P Wolfe publisher of The Columbus Evening Dispatch and Ohio State Journal Co vice president left 100000 to Franklin County religious and charitable groups without regard to race color or creed. The will disperses 490000 to 46 former business associates and various sums to family and friends, with the remainder to be divided equally among his three sons Robert H Preston and Richard S Wolfe.
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H.P. Wolfe
The
Columbus Evening Dispatch
Ohio State Journal Co
Franklin County
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Rift Deepens in UN Over British Actions in Greece and Java
London observers warn the Soviet Ukraine led move at the United Nations Security Council to denounce Britain may crack the five powers unity. Britain silent as Greek unrest and right wing uprisings, backed by alleged British arms, push a government ultimatum. The UNO dispute marks a rare cross member clash among permanent members and tests the world body’s peace efforts.
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Java
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Soviet Ukraine
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Iran
Russia
UNO
Urge Socialist Head French Ruling Group Urge Socialist Head
Paris The Socialist Party backed Vincent Auriol for president of the provisional government after a party vote. The move followed the Communist withdrawal of Maurice Thorez and a failed push for a Communist led government with support from Conservatives and Socialists. The Communists then endorsed Felix Gouin, the former Socialist president of the Constituent Assembly.
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Socialist Party
General de Gaulle
Vincent Auriol
Auriol
Felix Gouin
Constituent Assembly
Maurice Thorez
iThorez
Communist Party
Gouin
Seek 30 Nazis In Mass Killing
Allied authorities seek thirty Nazi doctors for charges of mass murder of 600000 unproductive people and useless eaters from 1940 to 1945. Papers in wartime trials show killings began with German insane patients and later required only inability to work. The Dresden attorney general alleged many victims were “only a little crippled.”
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Mernberg
Dresden
Heavy Army Trucks Offered to Vets in Sale
Veterans in Ohio Kentucky West Virginia and western Pennsylvania will have a window from January 24 to February 1 to buy more than 2300 heavy-duty military trucks. The War Assets Corporation regional office announced the sale to ex servicemen.
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vVeterans
The
War Assets Corporation
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Congress Cold Toward Truman Military Plans
Congress showed little enthusiasm to speed action on President Truman's three point military program and draft extension beyond May 15. House Military Committee Chairman May indicated limited progress while Senators pledged careful review over the next 60 days amid doubts about wide universal military training and fusion of services.
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Congress
Truman
P Rygeoss
May
Senate
Austin
Elbert D. Thomas
Dutah
Seize Student As Suspect in Degnan Death
Detectives prepared to transport a 21 year old Northwestern University student and his wife for questioning in the Degnan kidnapping slaying. Arrest followed a tip at a Toledo private home. Chicago detectives would take the suspect to Chicago.
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Chicago
Degnan
Ralph Murphy
Toledo Homicide Squad
Murphy
John Olsen
Chicago Police Force
Northwestern University
Olsen
Marines May Stay in China Stabilizing Force Explained
In Tientsin Representative Bates of Massachusetts said American marines likely will remain in north China as a stabilizing force after repatriation of the Japanese was turned over to the Chinese. Bates sits on the House naval affairs subcommittee and is in Tientsin with the group.
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North China
Bates
Massachusetts
House
Naval Affairs
Veteran Charged With Illinois Girl Murder
Beardsstown Illinois police say Ivan De Silva a 21 year old Army veteran was charged with murder in the death of Jeille Rife 30 found dead in a hotel room with lipstick writing claiming he killed her while drunk State's Attorney Glen Colburn said the charge would be filed and De Silva was jailed in Cass County Virginia Illinois
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Ill
Lajeille Rife
Glen Colburn
Ivan de Silva
J Army
Cass County
Virginia
Ohioan Asked to Aid In Tracing Yanks Ring
Principal Hamilton Mollenkopf of Harding High School urged to help locate owner of a ring engraved Warren High School found in Europe on a dead German soldier. It was given to Mrs. Walter Engle of Erie Pennsylvania by a brother who just returned from overseas.
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Hamilton Mollenkopf
Harding High School
Warren High School
Europe
Walter Engle
Erie
Federal Meat Industry Seizure Debated at Capital
The White House signaled possible government seizures in the meat industry as strikes expand. Officials weigh price increases and a federal purchase plan while steelwork stoppages loom and wage hearings begin for AFL CIO workers.
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Chicago
AFL
CIO
Ford to Offer Higher Wages in Settlement Push
The Detroit News reports Ford Motor Co will offer the CIO United Auto Workers a wage increase soon likely to set a nationwide settlement formula. Sources say the offer could be 1812 cents an hour, aligning with Truman steel dispute guidance. Current CIO demands include 1744 cents at Packings and 20 cents for Meat Cutters, with Swift & Co proposing 10 cents.
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Detroit News
Ford Motor Company
United Auto Workers (Cio
High Company
Onion
Truman
CIO United Packinghouse
AFL
Swift & Co
Steel Shortage Signals Deep Wage Strike Impact
The steel strike's first effects emerge as production drops to under five percent of capacity, a 53 year low. Picket lines form in 29 states with two violent incidents in Ohio. CIO President Murray blames an "evil conspiracy" by big business to destroy unions and provoke strikes, while President Truman cautions about turmoil yet remains optimistic about the nation's progress.
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Jpicket
Ohio
CIO
Philip Murray
Walkouts push U S workers to record high 1.62 million
New protests lift total idle workers to 1,622,000, the highest since WWI. CIO United Auto Workers threaten 19 12 cents per hour wage hike as Detroit strikes widen. Ford Chrysler talks resume with attempts to end the big electrical appliance industry walkout affecting General Electric and Westinghouse plants.
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International Harvester Company
CIO
Utah
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Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
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General Electric
Westinghouse
Ci United Electrical Workers
General
Legion Flags Surplus Snags in Property Deals
The American Legion announced major obstacles for veterans buying surplus government property. Ralph H. Lavers, director of the Legion's employment division, cited a lack of organization in surplus disposal and too many agencies involved, including the RFC and the Smaller War Plants Corporation.
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Washington
American Legion
Ralph H. Lavers
The
Legion
Congress
RFC
War Plants Corporation
Lavers
Truman Labor Plan Praised by Hillman
Sidney Hillman chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee telegraphed President Truman praising his labor program and his efforts to avert a nationwide steel strike.
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New York
Sidney Hillman
CIO Political Action Committee
Truman
Columbusite Dies in Auto Collision Victims Named
COLUMBUS UP William H Harris 39 of Columbus died from injuries suffered in an auto crash last Thursday, becoming the second fatality. His father William G Harris 70 of Bellaire also died in the same collision.
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Columbusite
Columbus
William H. Harris
Hisather
William G. Harris
Bellaire
Biggest steel strike idles 750,000 as Stassen urges action
The CIO United Steelworkers strike keeps about 750,000 idle for a second day, closing 1,300 plants in 29 states. Production falls to a 53 year low, with under five percent capacity. Harold E. Stassen says early settlement hinges on the President. Public works deferred as rail and utility effects spread nationwide.
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CIO
Stassen
Pittsburgh
America
Cio-United Steelworkers
U.S
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
United States
American Iron and Steel Institute
Charles H. Sells
New York
Missioner of Public Works
Washington
Civilian Production Administration
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