Tardy alert message linked to Pearl Harbor radio failure
New evidence shows Gen. George C. Marshall sent an alert to Lt. Gen. Walter Short in Honolulu on December 7 1941 as Japan prepared a strike. The message arrived in Hawaii about 45 minutes before the attack and was delivered only hours after it began, due to faulty Army radio links.
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George C. Marshall
Hawaii
Aftacr
Pearl Harbor
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Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Philipepines
Walter C. Short
Honolulu
Short
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Sherman Miles
Solons Open Hearings on Atom Power
The Senate atomic committee opened a long series of public hearings to study atomic energy and its scientific industrial economic and social aspects. Chairman Brien McMahon said the aim is to make atomic energy a blessing and not a scourge. The House Military Committee also held hearings on the May-Johnson atomic energy bill to set up a governing commission.
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Atomic Energy
Congress
Senate Atomic Committee
Brien McMahon
Conn
McMahon
House Military Committee
House
Senate
United Nations Organization
UNO
Wheeler
Burton Wheeler
Af Gertance
Tom County
Texas
Bill Fulbright
Joe Ball
Vant Hotee
Connally
U. S
Pact-Finding Strike Board Is Proposed
The labor department and Secretary Schwellenbach push a fact finding board to resolve the oil workers wage dispute that sparked a major postwar strike. Fifty three refineries were seized by the Navy as government officials weigh reactions from CIO unions and Bren oil companies before a test run.
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Washington
Schwellenbach
Navy
Labor Department
CIO of Workers Union
Bren
Union Demands 30 Hour Week and Pay Increase
In Cleveland the AFL United Automobile Workers convention hears demands for a 30 hour work week and a 30 percent increase in take home pay for 300 delegates. The opening session includes a telegram from President Truman urging cooperation among all groups. The report notes mobile workers advocating shorter hours and higher wages.
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Cleveland
Afl-United Automobiles Workers of America
Truman
Police and citizens Rescue Toledo Man From River Marsh
Caroll Jordan Brodbeck, 30, of Elmore Ohio, was pulled from a Maumee River marsh to the Fassett Street Bridge by police, firefighters, and bystanders after nearly freezing. He remained unconscious at Mercy Hospital, making it unclear how he came to the swamp 150 yards offshore.
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Caroll Jordan Brodbeck
Elmore
Maumee River
Fassett Street
Mercy Hospital
Modify Demands GM Tells Union As Government Action Is Forecast
The Associated Press reports intensified GM UAW talks with government intervention possible to settle the 225000 idle workers. GM rejects union wage demands tied to profits and selling prices while warning further negotiations may be futile. A separate strike at Montgomery Ward expands with varied union impact across cities.
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General Motora Corp
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Walter F. Reuther
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Montgomery Ward and Company
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Irving Abramson
CIO United
Supewan SD
Ertecsies
Iteago
Kansas City
Denver
Albany
N. Y
Barre
Trenton
N. J
Ates
Missing Youth Girls and Detroit Escort Rumors Spark City
Detroit detectives questioned an 18-year-old son of a former Michigan representative in Columbus after he was found with $19,112 and two traveling companions, Betty Ann Mackey and Kathleen Conricade, on a Florida-bound train. The trio allegedly left a train to eat at the Columbus station leading to escort arrangements back to Detroit.
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Jesse Wilson
Malcolm McLeod
Clarence J. McLeod
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Betty
Ann Mackey
Wayne University
Kathleen Conricade
AFL machinists walkout hits Southern Railway shops
The Southern Railway reported about 1,900 AFL machinists quit work yesterday in a jurisdictional dispute at shops in Birmingham Alabama Spencer North Carolina Atlante Greenville and Hayne Shop North Carolina Macon Georgia Princeton Indiana and other points.
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Champlain Sets Atlantic Crossing Record
The aircraft carrier Lake Champlain arrived here yesterday establishing a world record of 32048 knots per crossing. The previous westward crossing record was held by the Queen Mary at 30.99 knots.
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Norfolk
Lake Champlain
Byworld
Atlantic
Col Hall to Receive High Service Medal
Col Charles L Hall, Army Ohio River division engineer in the war, will receive the Distinguished Service Medal for aiding national and state war effort. He supervised construction of ordnance plants camps airfields and hospitals in the Ohio River Valley and handled 80 000 in engineering supply orders while stationed there.
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Columbus
Charles L. Hall
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Ohio River Division
Ohio
Hal
Ohio River Valley
US Airlift Rushed 700 Planes to China Aid
Reports from Chungking say 700 American aircraft are being flown into China to aid Nationalist forces as Central Government troops near Mukden. The 10th and 14th Air Forces are moving transports and fighters amid crashes and fatalities, with Russians reportedly pledging safety of garrisoned Nationalist troops in Manchuria.
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China
Mukden
Manchuria
Associated Press
Richard Cushing
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India
Burma
Kunming
Cushing
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14Th Air Force
Air Force
Ttis
United States
Changchun
Russia
Ohio flood control plan hangs after committee cuts funds
The Ohio Valley flood control and water use program faces doubt as the House appropriation committee rejects Truman's request to restore flood control and navigation work on a peace time basis. The $1.13 billion bill omits $128.475 million for rivers and harbors, with further investigation urged on large dam projects. Ohio projects listed include Muskingum $1.3 million and floodwalls in Massillon $500,000.
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Ohio Valley
House
Truman
Appropriations Committee
Ohio Hiver Division
Army
Corps” of Engineers
Chelan Bus Tragedy Claims SixTeen Lives In Lake Chelan
Chelan mourns as a bus plunges into Lake Chelan after hitting a rock near a waterside road. Fifteen youths and one adult perish, while six escape, including Mrs. Ted Brown who recalls driver Jack Randle fighting the wheel before the vehicle slid into the lake.
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Chelan
Wash
Ted Brown
Jack Randle
Java Rebels Launch Drive In Soerabaja
British report details new attacks in Ambarawa and Bandoeng as Indonesian forces strike Soerabaja with a 50 man unit aided by a Japanese tank. In Batavia Dutch leaders and Red Cross workers urge evacuation of 200000 vulnerable locals until normal times resume. Aron Gutwirth appeals to America for a raid.
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Batavia
Java
Soerabaja
Ambarawa
Bandoeng
Red Cross
Netherlands East Indies
High Pointers Leaving European Area
The Army announced that soldiers with a critical score of 70 points must depart the European theater by December 1. Those scoring 65 to 70 are set to leave in the first week of December. Personnel with 55 to 65 points should be on their way home by New Year.
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Paris
Amny
City Council seeks emergency housing proclamation in Cleveland
Cleveland city council passed a resolution urging Mayor Burke to issue a proclamation declaring an extraordinary emergency due to housing shortage. Burke was in Washington appealing to Congress for federal funds to address the city’s critical housing problem.
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Cleveland
Thomas A. Burke
Burke
Washington
Congress
Ohio official urges veteran voting plan during session
Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel proposed that returned war veterans discharged 28 days before an election and unregistered be allowed to vote. He sent a letter to Governor Frank Lausche urging amendments to registration laws at a special Ohio legislative session.
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Columbus
Edward J. Hummel
Hummel
Frank J. Lausche
Hull cites unverified Pearl Harbor attack report in 1941 hearing
Former Secretary of State Hull told a Senate committee he had only an unverified report of the Pearl Harbor strike when he met Japanese envoys at 1 pm on December 7 1941. He said the White House informed King at noon of the attack, but the informant could not confirm it. Hull noted Japanese delegates discussed peace as signals were interpreted from Tokyo broadcasts.
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U. S
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Joint
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Pearl Harbor
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Pacific
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MacArthur
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Army
Short
Hirohito Urges Diet Reform As Japan Arms For War
Tokyo dispatch reports Emperor Hirohito reading a rescript that names election reform as the Diet’s top priority and signals limits on peerage changes. The edict also calls for labor law measures, land reform, and end to repressive rules. The Emperor appeared in a ceremonial non military uniform.
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Panama Canal
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Secret Service Guesstimates on Pearl Harbor Ahead of Attack
A 1941 memo by Brig. Gen. Sherman Miles, acting chief of intelligence, disclosed to the Senate House committee, noting a possible surprise Japanese attack and advising secrecy. Stark’s telegram warned that negotiations with Japan were unlikely to succeed and a move against Philippines or Guam was a possibility.
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Tom Shafer
NEA Service
Acme Newspictures
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NEA
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Senate House
Pearl Harbor
Butter Demand Seen Rising 50 Percent in Months
CHICAGO. RE. E. Haskell, president of the American Butter Institute, forecasts demand for butter will rise by about 50 percent within a few months above wartime consumption levels.
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RE. E. Haskell
The
American Butter Institute
Nine Killed and Seventy Five Hurt in Palestine Rioting
Unofficial tolls report nine Jews killed and at least 75 wounded in disturbances in the Jewish area of Palestine. The Jewish National Council called a half hour work stoppage as mourning. The General Federation of Jewish Labor protested to British and U.S. labor groups as tension eased after British troops withdrew north of Tel Aviv.
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Palestine
Jewish National Counci
General Federation of Jewjis Labor
Labor Party
United States
Tel Aviv
Plans for aerial reconnaissance of Truk and Jaluit
The adjutant general advised Short on Nov 26 to dispatch two planes to photograph Japanese bases at Truk in the Caroline Islands and Jaluit in the Marshalls. Instructions urged self preservation if attacked and to equip planes with ammunition.
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Short
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Caroline Islands
Jaluit
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Hull
Marshall
General MacArthur
Philippines
Japan
German Schemes of Aggression Told to Tribunal
American prosecutors told the international military tribunal trying 20 Nazi leaders that German plans to tear up the Versailles Treaty and spread aggression began soon after World War I. They described rearmament, secret air force plans, and the high command underestimating Soviet strength. A key German defense theme was acting as Hitler’s unwilling servants.
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Gustav Jodi
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Hitler
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Royal Air Force
Germany
Philospher Alfred
Tree Rosenberg
Portsmouth
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Frank Reed
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