Battle in Java Unabated as Indonesians Hold Soerabaja
British Indian troops pressed the attack in Soerabaja entering justice and government buildings used as Indonesian nationalist headquarters after a bitter six day battle. Sjahrir issued a peace principles pamphlet from Batavia while fighting continued with Indonesians better organized. Reports from North China and Manchuria warned of open warfare as Communist and nationalist forces clash and a separate town, Twaoyang, saw renewed street fighting. US intervention accusations fueled by the New China Daily News added tension.
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Soerabaja
223Rd Indian Infantry Brigade
Soé¢rabaja
Sutan Sjahrir
Batavia
Sjahrir
Sovra
Seersbaja
P 23Rd
Kali Mas
China
Manchuria
Cam‘ Paign
Twaoyang
Han Kow
Chungking
New China Daily News
News
America
Chiang Kai Shek
Tientsim
Shanhaixwan
Inner Mongolia
Chahar
Tokyo
Asahi
River Canal Projects Weighed by Engineers
Engineers weighed the merits of a river development project urged by Rep. May to bolster national defense. The rivers and harbors board heard two days of argument on channeling the Big Sandy River and its Tug and Levisa Forks across Kentucky West Virginia and Virginia.
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Bineers
Rep
May
D-Ky
Board For Rivers and Harbors
Big Sandy River
Kentucky
West Virginia
Virginia
Huntington Induction Center Closes Nov 30
Huntington Induction Center in Huntington West Virginia will close November 30. About 800000 men pass through for five year service exams at the station, per today’s report.
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Huntington
W.va
Holiday liquor supply boosted in Ohio this season
Columbus Ohio State Liquor Director Robert M Sohngen cut the next liquor ration period to two weeks from the usual three weeks. The upcoming period opens Monday and ends December 1. He indicated the shorter cycles could continue through Christmas if supplies hold.
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Columbus
Robert M. Sohngen
Nevta
Sohngen
Dachau Trial Opens as 40 Germans Face Charges
In Dachau Germany a U S Military court began a high profile trial of forty German defendants charged with torturing and killing prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp. The proceedings featured SS officer Martin Weiss presenting a defiant bearing while the prosecution includes Captain Richard G. McCuskey of Canton.
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Dachau
Germany
U. S
Martin Weiss
Weiss
Richard G. McCuskey
Canton
Seismograph Planned At Crater Lake Rim
The Interior Department reports slight volcanic action at Mount Mazama in Crater Lake National Park Oregon. The National Park Service plans to place a seismograph near the crater rim to monitor activity.
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Washington
Mount Mazama
Crater Lake National Park
Oregon
Interior Department
National Park Service
Non German Rule in Ruhr Dominates Allied Talks
U S and France began talks on governing Germany, focusing on France first for non German control of the Ruhr and Rhineland. President Truman and Secretary Byrnes consider a sweeping review of German administration to avert escalation as Eisenhower warns of possible revolt. calls grow for civilian-led reform while maintaining occupation.
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Washington
United States
France
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Amod
Truman
State Byrnes
The
Reich
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Eisenhower
Berlin
Plan Doctor's Release Soon
Maj. Gen. George F. Lull said civilian status plans may allow 13,000 army doctors to return to civilian life between now and year end. He noted the army has already released more than 12,000 medical officers, as stated at the Southern Medical Association meeting.
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Cincinnati
Upi
George F. Lull
Washington
Army
The
Southern Medical Association
Lull
Eisenhower urges postwar universal military training
General Eisenhower told Congress that a postwar universal military training plan is essential to world peace. He warned that rapid advances in atomic and electronic warfare would leave the US little time to prepare after any future attack and urged maintaining a trained reserve with ongoing modernization.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
United States
Eisenhower
House Military Committee
Hischower
United Nations
Overseas Mail Rules Expand for Shipments to Overseas
Latger of War Department announces new overseas mail limits effective today. Packages may reach 42 inches in length or 72 inches in length and girth combined and weigh up to 11 pounds. Previous limits were 15 inches by 36 inches and 5 pounds. A specific request from a soldier overseas is still required to send any package weighing more than eight ounces.
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Washington
Latger
War Department
College Plan Opens Educational Partnership With IH
The University of Chicago and International Harvester announce a cooperative program expanding education for IH employees. Grants totaling 125000 fund five years of participation. The plan will study adult education on a large scale with a temporary instruction center in Chicago and programs at over 190 company branches nationwide.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
International Harvester Company
iChicago
Historic Cigaret Box Gifted to Ross County Museum
A wartime item linked to President Truman at Potsdam, a Russian cigaret box that served at the conference, was presented to the Ross County Historical Society in Chillicothe. Lt. Gen. J. E. Hull attended the event and sent the box to his brother, who then donated it to the museum.
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Truman
Potsdam
Ross County Historical Society
J. E. Hull
J. R. Hull
Chillicothe
Marietta Register Publisher A Dean Alderman Dies
A Dean Alderman, 81, publisher of The Marietta Register for 40 years, died yesterday in Cleveland. He inherited the paper from his father and remained chief until his retirement in 19?22.
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Cleveland
Dean Alderman
Marietta Register
Alderman
Register
Mason County Girl Killed In Auto Crash Near West Columbia
A car plunged over an embankment one mile north of West Columbia at 10 p m Wednesday killing 16 year old Marcelhine Hoffman of Letart Route 1 and injuring two others Miss Hoffmans body was taken to Foglesong Funeral Home in Mason City State Trooper Coyner and Sgt Thomas investigated the crash and noted the auto owned by Doris Grinstead The Associated Press report also covers nationwide wage disputes with Ford Motor Co asking for wage security and 30 percent raises and other strikes affecting communications shipping and manufacturing including Illinois long distance telephone workers and Seattle Alaska Steamship Company disputes plus San Francisco bakeries resuming operations after a walkout
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Point Pleasant
West Columbia
Marcel- Hine Hoffman
Letart Route 1
Route 62
Ohio River
Miss Hoffman
Foglesong Funeral Home
Mason City
Harry D. Coyner
Paul F. Thomas
Doris Grinstead
Associated Press
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Automobile Workers’ Union
Illlinois
Chicago J
Illinois
Indiana
San Francisco
William Burke
CIO American Communications Association
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Seattle
Alaska Steamship Company
Buick
Fisher
Flint
Mich
Ohio
General Motors
AFL
Wage plan eyed as talks stalemate steel price fight emerges
Washington UPI reports labor management conference awaits a promised industry statement on wage issues. A reconversion official hints government cannot meet full price hike demands from United States Steel. Senator Knowland proposes tying wage raises to industry earnings and consumer prices with a staged plan and annual bargaining to split income. Schwellenbach declined immediate comment.
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Washington
UPI
Laboru
Steel Corpora
Ndt
Krowlant
Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach
Labor
Indictment of 45 firms over artificial limb price fixing
Attorney General Clark announced the indictment of 45 corporations 34 individuals and a trade association for conspiring to fix non competitive prices for artificial limbs used by amputees The case claims the scheme deprived the Veterans Administration state agencies and buyers of fair prices and stopped charitable groups from supplying free limbs to the needy It also hindered development and comfort of artificial limbs
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Washington
Clark
United States Veterans Administration
Veterans Administration
Police Set Bear Traps To Catch Eerie Beast
Police in Sheep Hill Pottstown set bear traps to capture a mysterious beast that stalks the countryside. County Game Protector Peter Filkowsky warned residents to stay away from the area as residents report nocturnal, man sounding screams.
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Eerie
Pottstown
Sheep Hill
Peter Filkowsky
Koreans Return Home As 257000 Japs Ousted
Amid mass relocations, thousands of Koreans return from Japan while about 257000 Japanese, including 99000 troops and 158000 civilians, are ferried back to Japan. UPI report notes massive displacement after 35 years of Japanese rule, with hundreds of millions in yen and bundled possessions carried by embattled families. Soldiers guard crates, search for hidden currency, and confiscate money while deposits are frozen in Korean banks.
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Fusan
Korea
UPI
Japan
Japa
John M. Wilson
iPhiladelphia
Granville Bushy
Roa Snoke
Tech
Tony Segovia
San Leandroe
Calif
Pearl Harbor Probe Opens in Joint Congressional Hearing
Spectators packed a Senate House committee hearing as Maj. Gen. Walter Short arrived early to testify. Counsel William D. Mitchell opened with a 253 page intercepted Japanese diplomatic messages covering July 1 to December 8, 1941, revealing that U S cryptographers read Japanese codes before the attack. Senators Ferguson and Brewster protested the rush of more than 1,000 exhibits handed over in two days.
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Washington
A. Joiint
Senate House Committee
Walter C. Short
William D. Mitchell
Ferguson
R-Mich
Brewster
R-Me
Riots in Tel Aviv Leave Three Dead and Wounded
British military headquarters reported large scale street demonstrations in Tel Aviv with one person killed and two wounded as police opened fire on rioters. Looting and fires were noted near the light industries building while thousands milled in defiance of a strict curfew. Paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Division remained on duty after rioting that caused two fires and numerous injuries.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Ight Industries
Sis
6Th Airborne Division
Bowles opposes lifting poultry price ceilings now
Washington administrator Chester Bowles opposed a congressional plan to suspend poultry price ceilings. He argued abandoning ceilings now would not meaningfully cut retail prices or raise consumption, noting poultry prices remain well above meat prices and would require a large drop to affect demand.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Great Lakes Shippers To Adopt Radar System
Great Lakes shippers plan to convert wartime radar to peacetime use. The Lake Carriers Association invited five leading radar manufacturers to help develop a system for 324 member vessels for close quarter navigation in fog, darkness and rough weather.
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Cleveland
Great Lakes
America
Lake Carriers’ Association
Stella Walsh Crash Accident Suit Filed
In Cleveland former Olympic track star Stella Walsh is named as the defendant in a $2,492 damage suit filed by Howard Bartell. He claims Walsh’s car struck his truck.
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Cleveland
Stele Walsh
Howard Bartell
Belt saves cleaner from 28 story fall in NYC window
New York window cleaner Max Berkowitz dangled for 35 minutes after a belt hook slipped while cleaning a 28 story building on 28th street. A crowd of hundreds watched as a supervisor pulled him to safety. Berkowitz, 56, remained uninjured and took the day off.
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New York
Max Berkowitz
28Th Street
Garment District
Berkowitz
Youth Prays in Rain for Sign at Bronx Lot
New York report describes nine year old Joseph Vitalo Jr praying in rain for 16 nights at a Bronx vacant lot where a crowd of about 25 000 gathered around a rock altar seeking a miracle. The child claimed another vision of the Blessed Virgin with stars over blue robes.
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New York
Joseph Vitalo, Jr
Bronx
Theresa Campone
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