Unpreparedness Protests Spark Adm Leahy Testimony
In testimony before a Senate committee Admiral Leahy described Pearl Harbor as unmanned and unready, saying he was distressed by claims the fleet was ready. He recalled discussions with President Roosevelt and questioned the adequacy of staffing and oil supplies, while noting Richardson urged moving the fleet westward.
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Washington
J. O. Richardson
Roosevelt
William D.thy
Leahy
Senate House
Pearl
Japan
Puerto Rico
Richardson
Hawaiian
Ichardson
Sevelt
United States
Tappir
Crose
Ferguson
R-Mich
Veterans push for compulsory universal military training
Washington officials heard veterans groups press for how universal military training should work if Congress authorizes a program. Truman favors one continuous year for 18 and 19 year olds. Ketchum of the VFW supports compulsory training with a national guard method over years. Floyd of the American Legion proposes four months yearly for 18 to 21 for three years then reserve. Rice of the DAV backs one continuous year for 17 to 24 with prior credit for National Guard or ROTC training.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Congress
Truman
Omar
Ketchum
Veterans of Foreign Wars
National Guard
William N. Floyd
Regular Veterans Association
Millard Rice
The
Disabled American Veterans
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Truman Receives Medal and Bible
President Truman today received a Masonic medal for service to country and humanity from Melvin M. Johnson of the Supreme Council 33rd Degree Masons. He also was given a Bible for his desk by the American Bible Society.
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Washington
Truman
American Bible Society
Melvin M. Johnson
Supreme Council
Navy Discharge Score Reduced as Cuts Announced
The Navy plans gradual discharge score cuts starting December 1 from 41 to 38, with further drops to 37 on December 15 and 36 on January 1. About 150,000 additional sailors could be released under the new schedule, after earlier announcements of 39 on December 1 and 38 on January 1. A separate wreck in St Clairsville claims three lives and injures one, including Harold Robbins of Bridgeport and Madelyn K Crock and Ella Mae Helser of Wheeling, with Donald T Price injured.
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Washingston
Navy
Naxx
Wreck ST
Clairsville
Harold Robbins
Bridgeport
Madelyn K. Crock
Ella Mae Helser
Wheeling
W. Va
Donald T. Price
Truman Seizes Capital Transport After Rail Strike
President Truman moves to seize control of Washington DC transport after a strike by Amalgamated Association workers disrupts busses and streetcars. He orders the Office of Defense Transportation to operate lines and seeks war department protection and needed resources. The move follows a contract still in force through June 20, 1948 and cites arbitration as the pact preferred to strikes.
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Washington
Truman
Office of Defense Transportation
AFL
ODT
Secretary of War
Trunman
Transportation System
District of Columbia
International Union
State Patrol Officer Killed in Mount Vernon Crash
Mount Vernon Ohio officer Lieut. W. M. Andrews 43 died after his patrol car struck a culvert railing on U S Route 13. A longtime patrol member since 1933 he died from crushed chest injuries while en route to Mount Vernon station. Survivors include his widow and three children of Wooster and Westerville near Columbus.
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Mount Vernon
W. M. Andrews
Columbus
State Highway Patrol
U. S
Massilion
Findlay
East Liverpool
Wooster
Westerville
Gas Company Sued In Cleveland Blast
In Cleveland 26 suits seek 2,000,000 total for estates of 26 employees who died in the East Ohio Gas Co. fire and blast on October 20, 1944. The explosions at East Ohio's storage plant killed 134 people and caused 6,000,000 in property damage.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas Court
East Ohio Gas Co
East Ohio
Cold Wave Warnings Sweep Midwest With White Thanksgiving
The Weather Bureau reports a 20 mile per hour cold wave spreading across the Midwest. Wisconsin could see two to four inches of snow by tomorrow morning, with rain elsewhere turning to snow flurries later tonight. Minot North Dakota registered six below zero as a hard freeze is forecast toward Chicago and Northern Indiana. Governor Lausche announces veterans returning to state jobs receive raises given to others in their absence.
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Chicago
Midwest
U. S. Weather Bureau
Wisconsin
Weather Bureau
Minot
N. D
Canada
Indiana
Baptists Debate Truman Gambling Charge at DC Convention
District of Columbia Baptist convention voted to urge earnest prayers for President Truman after debating his attitude toward gambling and drinking. Texas Baptist action cited. Baylor University to award an honorary degree to Truman opposed by the Texas convention. Thirty four churches representing over 26 thousand members attended.
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Washington
Texas Baptists
Truman
District of Columbia Baptist Convention
James P. Rodgers
Petworth
Texas Baptist General Convention
Baylor University
United States
District of Columbia
Lausche Urges Surplus Unit Headquarters in State Aid
Governor Frank Lausche told department heads that the Surplus Commodities Corporation should establish headquarters in the state to aid distributing surplus to state counties and subdivisions. J. J. Wadsworth acknowledged a shift in how surplus goods are disposed of, with emphasis on helping governmental units avoid high ceiling prices and risks of bidding.
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Columbus
Surplus Commodities Corporation
Frank J. Lausche
J. J. Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Fradviebie
Lausché
War tensions mount across Asia and Iran report
Reports outline nationalist advances in Manchuria threatening the port of Hulutao while Communist forces sweep into inner Mongolia and rails of tension mount near Karaj and Azerbaijan in Iran. Indonesia Java clashes erupt Ambarawa internees camps amid fighting and political shocks as Dutch and British forces react.
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Java
Iran
Chungking
National List
Manchuria
Huiutao
Ho Ping Pao
Hankow Pass
Inner Mongolia
Hulutao
Chinhsign
Mukden
Ambarawa
Miens
Allit Soer
Soer
Columbus
Frankabaja
Ambar
Ambari
Canawa
Semarang
Batavia
Amir Sjarifuddin
Mohammad Roem
Rct
GM-CIO Wage Battle Shuts Up Automobile Plants
Detroit AP report says the CIO United Automobile Workers struck 200,000 workers in about 20 states after a 30 percent wage increase demand. By early Wednesday production lines halted at roughly 75 GM plants where UAW-CIO members labor.
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Gm-Cio
U.S
Detroit
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Uaw-Cio
General Motors
Ford
R. J. Thomas
National Cio
Walter P. Reuther
Geneva Motors
Police Push Strong-Arm Squads After Brookyln Crimes
New York police plan "strong-arm" squads as they combat a surge of violence. Al Davis, a boxing former contender, was killed during a botched robbery in Brooklyn, while 16 year old Susan Scarga was found brutalized on a Brooklyn lot. An eight-state alert seeks a 16 year old suspect nearby.
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NEW York
Bummy) Davis
Susan Scarga
Brooklyn
Davis
Scarga
Albert Davidoff
Arthur W. Wallander
Ward Company Strike Called by United Retail Union
Samuel Wolchok president of the United Retail Wholesale and Department Store Employes Union revealed a nationwide strike of Montgomery Ward & Co. employees for one week starting next Monday. The union seeks to drop a closed shop demand and submit other issues to arbitration, and warns of possible repeat actions. The union accuses the company of lockouts and dispersal of workers in Chicago and Albany, aiming to disrupt future deliveries to customers.
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New, York
Samuel Wolchok
United’ Reta
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward Board
Wolchok
Chicago
Albany
Major strike developments across the nation
The nation faces a labor surge with over 500000 idle as General Motors workers walk out in 100 plants across 20 states. Other actions include Montgomery Ward 75000 workers planned, Washington DC transit strikes, Illinois telephone deadlock, and four minor settlements in Reading Seattle.
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Associated Press
General Motors
Washington
D. C
CIO Union
Montgomery Ward & Company
Illinois
Reading
AFL Teamsters Union
Seattle
Marine Cooks and Stewards Association
Columbus
Reno
Newbakers
Frank J. Laus
New York
AFL
Matthew L.crease
Brown
Springfield
Ohio
Detling
Orson
Netling
Frank Cullitan
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Alva J. Russell
Summit County
Akron
Joel S. Rhinefort
Lucas County
Toledo
Fane
Horace Mill
Ruby A. Mill
Harold R. Horn
Alcon
Radio Requirements Bill Introduced in Congress
Chairman Wood of the House Committee introducing legislation to require radio broadcasters to distinguish news from opinions. The bill mandates a legal agent in the District of Columbia and applies within 500 miles of the broadcast point, with identifying disclosures for every regular opinion or propaganda broadcaster.
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Washington
Wood
House
District of Columbia
Ohio Observes Thanksgiving With Religious Services
Ohio families mark Thanksgiving with religious services as the main observance. Turkeys fill tables as about 20 percent more birds are available due to cancellations. Gov. Lausche and wife prepare a modest meal with honey on pumpkin pie, while penitentiary inmates will have turkey on Christmas.
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Ohio
Frank d. Lausche
Lausche
Ohio Penitentiary
Ex-Champaign Official to Stand Trial in Clark County
Burleigh Woodruff former deputy treasurer of Champaign County must stand trial in Clark County on charges of embezzling county funds and making false entries. The Supreme Court ordered a new trial after a hung jury and granted a change of venue to Clark County for a fair trial.
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Columbus
Burleigh Woodruff
Champaign County
Clark County
Supreme Court
Woodruff
Clack County
Indicted for Murder in Lorain Slaying
Gordon E Welm, 23, was indicted on two counts of first degree murder in the slaying of Mrs Helen Duffield, 34, of Lorain, in October. The case tensions center on the October incident and theLorain district court proceedings.
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Elyria
Gordon E. Welman
Harge
Helen Duffield
Lorain
Actor Holmes Death Unsolved by Autopsy
New York police and medical examiners report Ralph Holmes found dead in his East Side apartment. Autopsy fails to reveal cause of death though listed as apparently natural. sleeping tablets found nearby and chemical tests ordered to determine organ condition.
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Holmes
New York
Ralph Holmes
Libby Holman
Robert C. Fisher
Bellevue Hospital
East Side
Fisher
Secret pledge to return Allied soldiers to Japan revealed
Secretary Byrnes disclosed secret assurances to Japan that Allied forces would ensure surrender and return of Japanese troops, surpassing Potsdam terms. He said progress depends on transportation as Marines remain in China, with updates mirroring Lieutenant General Wedemeyer’s two week prior report.
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Washington
Japan
Byrnes
U. S
China
Potsdam
Albert C. Wedemeyer
War Crimes Court To Quiz Jap Officer
Gen Sadao Araki, once a top Japanese war leader, said he will have plenty to say about past events when he stands trial before a War Crimes Court. He is among 12 top Japanese leaders slated for questioning.
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War Crimes Court
Tokyo
Sadao Araki
Araki
Jackson says Teutonic traits will convict Nazis at trial
U S prosecutor Robert H Jackson argues the 20 top Nazis will be convicted by their own recorded plans and crimes, citing teutonic thoroughness and Nazi documents. He says the case relies on documents rather than witnesses to avoid prolonging the proceedings.
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Jackson
Ernest Kaltenbrunner
Troat Cararity
Mernberg
Robert H. Jackson
Red
Seiberling
U. S
cro-United
Workers of America
Hitler
Seiberling Company
Bormann
Germany
Japan
Fuehrer
Mondsy
Americal Division Begins Inactivation After Pacific War Service
Advance elements of the Americal Division landed in Seattle to start activation ending. The unit saw action in Guadalcanal Bougainville Cebu and other Southwest Pacific battles. The War Department said the 37th Buckeye Infantry Division was en route home to begin inactivation.
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Washington
Americal
Seattle
Guadalcanal
Bougainville
Cebu
Southwest Pacific
War Department
Buckeye
De Gaulle Forms Coalition Government Uniting Armed Forces
Paris France reports President De Gaulle ends a cabinet crisis by creating a coalition government that unifies all armed forces under his command. A new minister of armaments is appointed with Communist support, and ministers of the navy and army are abolished.
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Paris
de Gaulle
France
de Gaule
Charles Tillon
Armand Michelet
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Navy
Army
Communists
Socialists
Constituent Assembly
Foreign Affairs
Georges Bidault
Andre Malraus
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Ward Company
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Clark Co
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