CIO Wage Increase Fight Faces Likely Setback at Peace Parley
The CIO effort to place wage increases before President Truman's industrial peace conference appears doomed as AFL and management oppose discussion. The conference executive committee will decide, with AFL in the minority and CIO likely to be outvoted, limiting talks to strategies to curb work stoppages.
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CIO
Washington
Truman
APL
AFL
National Association of Manufacturers and
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congressional debates on atomic energy and wartime policy
Senators discuss basic facts of atomic energy and the potential U S involvement in war. A Senate committee will hear lectures and seek guidance on the bomb’s mechanics while focusing on effects rather than construction. The War Shipping Administration faces scrutiny over a 1942 ship purchase and a commission paid to a New York broker. Other items include debates on minimum wage, Congressional salaries, and foreign relief funding.
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Ation
Lindsay Warren
Senate
Brien McMahon
D- N
U. S
Dide Nator
Joe Ball
R-Minn
All
Roosevelt
Churchill
Pearl Harbor
Mwombers
U.S
Warren
Congress
Row
Comet
Meteor
F Warren
New York
Colonial Navigation Co
Robert Speck
D-Ga
House
Senatorohn Overton
D-La
White House
Strike move charged in union vote issue
Republic Steel Corp asks the National Labor Relations Board to dismiss a union strike vote petition, accusing CIO United Steelworkers of deceiving the public by suggesting federal government approval of a strike. The dispute centers on a potential strike and the union contract.
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Cleveland
Cio-United Steelworkers
Republic Steel Corp
National Labor Relations Board
Perry County Girl Killed by School Bus
Lydia Ann Shrider six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Willard Shrider Perry County was killed yesterday as witnesses say she stumbled under the rear wheel of a school bus while attempting to board it.
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Newark
Lydia Ann Shrider
Willard Shrider
Perry County
President Delivers Labor Parley Address Without Wages Mention
President Truman opens a labor management conference urging industrial peace and collective bargaining without addressing wage issues. He warns delegates to craft a policy, resolve disputes without production halts, and to negotiate in good faith while avoiding delaying tactics by management and labor.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Collec
Green
Wothing
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
Wallace
NAM
Ira Mosher
Schwellenyach
Las
Massacres At Manila Reported At Yamashita Trial
A Spanish priest and a Filipino laborer testified at Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita's war crimes trial about Japanese troops starving and massacring civilians in Manila. The priest described Feb. 5 confinement of 6,000 people in the St. Augustine church and later executions at Fort Santiago. The laborer said he survived being packed in a dungeon and witnessed others killed. an 11 year old girl showed bayonet wounds.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Belarmine Decells
St. Augustine
Fort Santiago
Juan Paloda
Gir
Rosalinda Andoy
Survivors Treated as Search Continues for Wreck Victims
Eight survivors of an army transport plane forced landing at sea are in a Honolulu hospital for injuries. One survivor reports a dead body of a WAC among seven corpses recovered from the wreckage. Search teams and Navy vessels scouted 460 miles northwest of Oahu for the missing. The Liberator transport carried 21 passengers and five crewmen en route from Honolulu to the mainland when it crashed on Saturday.
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Honolulu
Army Transport Command
Oahu
New French Legislature Opens After Five Years
Paris reports the first elected French legislature in five years convenes today with the task to replace the 1875 constitution and lay the groundwork for the fourth Republic of France under constitutional law.
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Paris
France
1946 Congress Voting Trends Are Expected
New York report notes politicians eyeing the first postwar elections for clues on the 1946 Congressional outlook and the 1948 presidential contest. Most races were municipal with some national overtones.
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Congress
New York
Wheeler Urges Soviets to Review Their Record
Senator Wheeler of Montana declared that Russia and its allies are the world’s greatest isolationists. He spoke after a Moscow radio broadcast condemned "American isolationists" and named Wheeler, Senator Taft of Ohio and former President Hoover.
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Washington
Wheeler
D-Mont
Russia
Moscow
Taft
Ohio
Hoover
Ohio Bank Chief Reports Defects in GI Bill
Ohio's bank superintendent Ir. E. Cook told Governor Lausche the GI Bill loan provisions are unsatisfactory for veterans and lenders. He said current law restricts business loans to equipment, blocks inventory financing, and causes red tape delaying loans. Cook warned propaganda misleads veterans into seeing GI loans as a bonus instead of repayable debt.
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Columbus
G. I
E. Cook
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Washington
Cook
Joana
Italian Armistice Terms Revealed After Months of Secrecy
The Alles released the Italian armistice terms and related documents in Washington London and Rome. The unconditional surrender provisions remain technically in effect though not all provisions were invoked or applied as written. Officials describe the terms as harsh sweeping and more detailed than those for Bulgaria Hungary or Romania.
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Washington
London
Rome
Italy
Brynes
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Pacific Veteran Held On Charge of Murder
Clinton Daniels a 32 year old Pacific war veteran hunted for 10 years in a milkman killing in East Liverpool Ohio faced federal charges. He pleaded innocent to unlawful flight and was bound over to a grand jury in Akron with a 25000 dollar bond as he awaited action. Fire caused at least 100000 dollars damage to the Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Youngstown.
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Cleveland
Clinton Daniels
Federal Bureau of Investigation
East Liverpool
Cuyshoga County
Akron
Veterans Lose
Youngstown
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Clinton H. Daniels
Albert Jones
Clarence Dickey
Milkman
Southwest Pacific
FSI
Japanese combines target of MacArthur crackdown
General MacArthur ordered Japan to dissolve the four major zaibatsu Mitsui Mitsubishi Sumitomo and Yasuda and to form a holding company liquidation body under Allied oversight. The move aims to decentralize fiscal control and promote democratic economic development, with international financial implications for American and other foreign firms linked to the prewar giants. A survey notes deep Western ties involving Westinghouse Tidewater ITT Aluminum Libby Owens Ford and others with Mitsubishi and Mitsui, including prior patent and joint venture arrangements challenging postwar disentanglement.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Mitsui
Mitsubishi
Sumitomo
Yasuda Zaibatsu
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Westinghouse
Tidewater Associated Oil Co
International Telephone and Telegraph, Aluminum Co. of America
Libby
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
Japan Sheet Glass Co. Ltd
Libby-Owens Sheet Glass Co
Toledo
Ohio
Libby-Owens-Ford
Overcharge at Ohio cafe sparks inquiry into prices
A Cleveland cafe owner testified that an OPA inspector paid 10 cents for a bottle and was charged 50 cents for a bottle of coke. The waitress reportedly defended the price as within ceiling limits, saying it was 10 cents to the inspector and 50 cents to others. The testimony raised questions about price enforcement.
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Cleveland
OPA
Municipal Fudge
Joseph H. Silbert
Veteran Finds Infant Son Strangled in Crib
Cleveland police report Donald Gulshow 28, recently discharged from the Army Air Forces, entered his bedroom last night and found his six month old son William wedged between the mattress and headboard of the bed, strangled to death.
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Cleveland
Donald Gulshow
Army Air Forces
William
Dutch plan to grant Indonesia self rule within Dutch commonwealth
The Netherlands East Indies government released a rapid development plan aiming for Indonesians to have self government and independence within a Dutch commonwealth. AVM H. J. Van Mook cited guarantees of racial equality and full partnership with the Netherlands while preserving Dutch control. Also notes the Warren-Lordstown Depot returning to Army control with Lt. Col. C. Rewey replacing the Ordnance Department. Sears Roebuck operated the depot for two years.
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Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
Indonesia
Avmpel-Peoples
H. J. van Mook
the Indies
Netherlands
Warren
Lordstown
Bomb Factory Workforce Drops as Uncertainty Persists
Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves disclosed a large wave of quits from the atomic bomb project. At the peak 1,700 operationals and 67,000 others, now 1,400 and 49,000 remain. Since V-J Day more than 6,000 workers have left with about 3,000 more planning to quit. Permanent policies await a wartime law clarifying peacetime energy production and the project’s executive setup.
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Washington
Leslie R. Groves
General Groves
Oak Ridge
John Moynahan
Groves
Vo-doy
Food Aid Sought to Feed Germans in American Zone
In Germany the American military authorities urged the War Department to ship 800000 tons of food for civilians in the American zone with Germany to pay later in reparations. Lt Gen Lucius D Clay said European supplies are scarce and projected harvests will be below normal.
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Washington
Germany
War Department
Lucius D. Clay
Europe
Clay
More Fathers Are To Escape Call of Draft
Washington report notes Selective Service bans induction of men with three or more children under 18. In practice this covers men aged 18 to 23, as older sons were already exempt from the draft since the end of the war.
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Washington
WFI
Candidate Killed Day Before Election in WAUSEON
Ex-town clerk candidate Mrs. Alice Chamberlain, 25, was killed in a car train collision near WAUSEON. The unopposed clerk candidate died the day before the election and will not assume office. Meanwhile in Cincinnati scouts plan to award Eisenhower Medals for collecting waste paper.
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Fionor Boy Scouts
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Clermont
Brown Counties
General Eisenhower
Itive
Army to Close 23 Hospitals by Year’s End
The Army plans to close 23 hospitals by Jan 1 next year due to patient discharge declines. Venues may be offered to the Veterans Administration or returned to former owners where leased. Notable closures include Darnall Hospital in Danville Kentucky and Wakeman Convalescent Hospital at Camp Atterbury Indiana on December 15.
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Washington
Army
Veterans Administration
Darnall Hospital
Danville
Wakeman Convalescent Hospital
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Lard Supplies Increased for Civilian Use
The Agriculture Department announced a reduction in the amount of lard that federally inspected packers in 19 states including Ohio must set aside for government purchase. The cut lowers the requirement from 4 to 3 1/2 percent of live hog weight slaughtered due to a seasonal rise in hog slaughtering.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Ohio
Small Boy Dies Under Wheels of Dad s Truck
In Columbus seven year old Robert Tor flan, son of Mr and Mrs Minard Jordan, was crushed beneath his father s running truck wheel as he tried to jump on the running board. Charles Elsworth Schaff, 89, native of Licking County Ohio, died in Miami Beach after a long career from railroad fireman to railroad president.
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Columbus
VPI
Robert Torflan
Minard Jordan
Basilroader
Miami Beach
Fla
Charles Elsworth Schaff
Licking County
Tor
Massauri-Kansas- J Texas Railroad
Ohio off year elections see record bond issues and taxes
Ohio voters in many communities face a record total of bonds worth about 104 million dollars and roughly 600 tax levies as they cast ballots on school, street, sewer, fire and police projects. Municipal races also loom with turnout expected to be modest in most cities.
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Associated Press
Ohia
Ohio
Cincinnati
Board of Education
Cleveland
Columbus
Youngstown
Toledo
Dayton
Montgomery County
Lewis Defies Picket Lines at Truman Conference
John L. Lewis walked past independent pickets at the Truman administration peace conference, pausing to speak with Edward G. Wilms. Wilms said the protests object to excluding independent unions from the meeting while labor leaders urged bargaining and warned against threats to the right to strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Labor Management Conference
Washington
John Lee Lewis
Truman
Edward G. Wilms
Wilms
Lewis
Labor Departement
White Ribboners Urged To Increase Members
Miss Mary B. Ervin, president of the Ohio Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, urged the state group to participate in a nationwide drive for 1,000,000 followers as the 72nd annual WCTU convention opened in Columbus.
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Columbus
W.c.tu
Mary B. Ervin
Ohd Women's [Christian Temperance Union
WCT
Ohio convict mocks parole board as tough cook
Clifford Parker, a 38 year old Newark fugitive, said the Ohio parole board was “tough” and implied they were short of cooks. His parole request was denied while he served as a trusted cook for Governor Lausche.
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Miami
Murdered Cleveland Wife of Gambler Dolin Found
Mrs Dorsathy Bolin 37 wife of Louis Dolin was found dead in their Cleveland Heights home with head and neck wounds. Coroner Samuel S Gerber ruled the death a murder. In a separate note, about 200 homemakers attend a Columbus convention of the National Demonstration Council to discuss rural projects.
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Cleveland
Dors Athy Bolin
Louis
Yackey" Dolin
Cleveland Heights
Samuel S. Gerber
Dolin
Homemakers
Columbus
National Demonstration Council
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Capital, Transit Company of
C. Giddings
Greyhound Lines
Southwestern Greyhound Lines
Mississippi
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N. S
General Cable Company
Maine
CLO
New England
Lewiston
Salt Lake City
Sy Mak Wall Shington
Welt
Amer
Tively
Yenmacoe Management
Ohio Bank
G. L Bill
Cal
Alva C. Carpenter
Fort Wayne
Douglas MacArthur
Java
Gamber
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