Truman Names Gen Marshall Special China Envoy
President Truman designated General George C. Marshall as special envoy to China to ease the civil war crisis. The chooser follows Maj. Gen. Hurley’s resignation and signals emphasis on stabilizing China amid ongoing internal conflict and Japanese surrender concerns. The move underscores U S policy to support China while reassessing broader Far East strategy.
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Gen. Marshall
China
Washington
George C. Marshall
Trusman
Patrick J. Hurley
Marshall
Army
Hurley
Byrnes
State Departments
United States
Artemus Gates
Far East
Edwin A. Locke
Chungking
State Department
Asia
Trueman
UNO Fight Boils Over In Senate
In a heated session the Senate clashes over the United Nations participation bill as Tom Connally pledges interruptions to block amendments. McKellar and Connally exchange tensions while $550 million in funding faces vote amid ongoing House flood control projects. A separate House plan proposes a substitute war training fund matched by civilian schools and libraries. The Mead Committee probes peacetime army plans as Rep Sparkman is named Democratic Whip to heighten leadership.
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United Nations
House
Tom Connally
D- Ex
Foreign Actions Committee
U. S
Connally
Kenneth D. McKelar
D-Tenn
McKellar
Tates
Donald Dushane
Ashington
House Military Committee
Civnc
Dushane
National Commisson For the Defense of Democracy
Mead Committee
Army
John Sparkman
Huntsville
Ala
Bob Rarnspeck
Atlanta
Sparkman
Coumting
Rayburn
Son of General Discharged from Marine Corps
Pvt. Jack MacNider 28 son of Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider was discharged from the Marine Corps. He served two years in Iwo Jima and Pacific battles totaling 38 points. He received a special order discharge though the point requirement is 50. General MacNider, former American Legion national commander, announced in Mason City Iowa that Jack enlisted at 17 and wished to return from Japan to continue pre medical studies.
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Jack MacNider
Hanford
MacNider
Marine Corps
Navy Public Relations Office
Iwo Jima
Pacific
Roe
American’ Legion
Mason City
Iowa
Jack
Japan
Marines Fear North China Fighting After Feijiang Loss
The Chinese government admits losing Feijiang in Southern Hopei to the Communists, prompting grave warnings from Maj. Gen. Keller Rockey, commander of U.S. Marines in North China, as reported by Shanghai Central News.
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Hopei Province
Feijiang
Keller Rockey
U.S
China
Shanghai Central News
Two Major Diseases Reported Increasing in Ohio
Ohio welfare officials report rises of over five percent in syphilis and gonorrhea in the past five years. Dr. J. D. Porterfield attributes the hike to increased promiscuity and cites an almost perfect treatment as available.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio Welfare Conference
J. D. Porterfield
General Disease Control Division
Stete Hasith Deps
Health Chief Calls Sanitary Jail Abatement Plan
Dr J W Payne county health commissioner urged county commissioners to abate the nuisance at the county jail and provide a proper confinement for prisoners within 60 days after the jail was condemned as unsanitary and unfit for human habitation. Jenkins to speak in Columbus at the annual Ohio Chamber of Commerce meeting December 13 1.
Steel Workers Vote On Strike To Push Pay Demands
Pittsburgh AP report says about 650000 CIO United Steel Workers across 27 states vote in 766 plants to back a $2.4 daily wage rise. Ballots will lead to possible walkouts only after decisions by the union policy committee and officers.
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CIO
United Steel
International
Thétvote
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Murs
Hess Not Insane Says Trial Tribunal Evidence Shown
The trial tribunal described Rudolf Hess as not insane by psychiatrists. An affidavit by George Messersmith, former U.S. minister to Austria, cites Goering and other Nazi leaders discussing Austria's annexation. Film evidence showed concentration camp corpses and SS brutality, presented to defense counsel as potential trial exhibits.
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Rudolf
Hess
Hitler
Wes
R - Hermann
Goering
Austria
Reich
George 9 Messersmith
U. S
Mexico
Winnie Flays Rule by Labor
London report on Winston Churchill denouncing the Labour government for incompetence and feeble planning. He urges Conservative opposition to quick demobilization and reconversion in the American pattern and criticizes Aneurin Bevan for housing delays amid profiteer chasing. Churchill complains demobilization lags behind an efficient standard.
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London
Winston Churchill
Chucchill
Britain
Aneurin Bevan
Churchill
Sugar Coupon Cancellation Announced
Washington announces the OPA will end the sugar coupon program for home canning sugar on November 30, making remaining coupons invalid and affecting households relying on rationed sugar.
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Washington
OPA
Ford Motor lays off up to fifteen thousand workers
The Ford Motor Company began a layoff of 10 000 to 15 000 employees due to work stoppages at 15 supplier plants. Some officials expect as many as 40 000 affected before the weekend but hope many will be recalled by Monday. The move follows industry pressure on steel prices and wage controls as OPA reviews future pricing after January 1.
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Dethroit— UN
Ford Motor. Co
CIO Strikers Release Supervisors at GM Plant
In Saginaw Michigan 400 CIO pickets held 65 supervisory workers for over 18 hours at a GM plant until the union regional director intervened. The dispute involved 23 strikers and new wages, marking the first week of a strike idling 225000 Big Three employees across Detroit area plants.
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Detroit
CIO
Saginaw
Mich
House Group Studies Employment Measure
The Hours Expenditures Committee rejected resumption of the Administration's Full-Employment Bills and voted 17 to 3 to continue study of a substitute setting as a federal goal a high level of employment. The substitute was drafted by an expenditures subcommittee.
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Washington
Triple anniversaries marked in unusual Long Beach ceremony
Fifty years after a triple wedding at St Marys in Dunnington the Kirsch Martins and Pitstick sisters reunited for a Solemn High Mass of Thanksgiving at St Matthews. Priests, relatives in Dominican nun orders, and three couples now aging 73 68 77 observed the milestone with daughter and several granddaughters among attendees.
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Calif
St Mary's
Kirsch
Martins
van ‘Nuys
Pitsticks
South Charleston
Ohio
Kirschs
Martins & On
Navy confirms near miss in 1943 voyage with president aboard
The Navy acknowledged that the battleship Jowa escaped damage while carrying President Roosevelt to the Cairo conference in November 1943. A Navy spokesman confirmed the incident occurred on November 14, 1943 when a torpedo strike from a destroyer was narrowly avoided.
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Washington
Jowa
President Rivett
Cairo
Navy court to convene at Navy Yard for McVay charges
July 30 court proceedings for McVay to be read in open session after Navy Department delays details. The Indianapolis, carrying atomic bomb material for Guam, sailed July 16 from San Francisco and was sunk by enemy action near Leyte, Philippines, during return to the United States.
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Navy Yard
McVay
Navy ‘Department
Indianapolis
San Francisco
Guam
United States
Leyte
Philippines
Canton Couple Killed When Auto Overturns
Canton residents Rober Sherrard, 40, and Marguerite Bardin, 22, were killed yesterday when their automobile overturned on a Canton street. Police said both occupants died at the scene.
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Canton
Rober Sherrard
Marguerite Bardin
Peace Parley Attempted In GM Strike
Detroit reports federal conciliators arranged the first peace talks to end the week-old General Motors strike. CIO United Auto Workers leaders left Detroit for Washington while executives could not confer with Warren. Secretary Schwellenbach noted both sides planned to confer today. Warren canceled attendance at the national labor-management conference due to the strike.
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Detroit
General Motors
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Washington
Warren
Schwellenbach
Wilson
R Company
Clevelander Fatally Struck by Four Cars
George Meyer, 71, was killed last night in Cleveland when struck by a car and run over by three more vehicles. Police report none of the drivers stopped or slowed after passing the body, witnesses told investigators.
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Cleveland
George Meyer
Ohio fair dates await AAF clearance for state fair
Ohio agriculture officials limit county fair plans until they receive written confirmation from the Army Air Forces about state fairgrounds. Bryan P. Sandles says verbal assurances exist but no tangible promise yet for readiness next August.
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Columbus
UPI
Army Air Forces
Bryan P. Sandles
AAF
War Labor Board To Drop 1 500 Employes
War Labor Board to release about 1 500 staffers with pink slip notices on Saturday as wartime jobs end. About 1 000 will be let go by January while the Wage Stabilization Division chief not yet exposed by the act will likely prevent wage cuts until next June 30. An appraiser says stamps presented to President Roosevelt by foreign dignitaries have been appraised for sale as part of his estate.
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Jack Bianter
Guadalcanal
Roosevelt, Plaza
Camden
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Washington
War Labor Board
New York
Roosevelt
Bystander Yamashita Guards Silence in War Crimes Trial
In his defense Yamashita claims a subordinate role in the Philippines defense and denies ordering atrocities. He says Manila was indefensible, troops were withdrawn last December, and air force and naval units were not under his control. He defends himself before the U.S. tribunal.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
U.S
Ibunal
Yamashita
Hisaichi Terauchi
Southwest Pacific
Air Force
Marine Transportation Corps
Herbert Seeks Ohio GOP Aid In GOP Nomination Bid
Former Ohio Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert, candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, publicly solicits views from state and county GOP readers on his candidacy and victory plans. He says his plan avoids a fixed program until replies are gathered. In Pittsburgh, the 23rd annual Pittsburgh Livestock Show highlights include 16 year old Dale Crozier winning the grand championship with a 955 pound Black Angus steer and Denslow Eversole taking reserve titles with a 1,005 pound Angus.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Pittsburgh Lives
State Central Committee
Con Dale Crozier
Zanesville
Wongress
Denslow Eversole
Basil
Jenkins Urges Flood Control Funds In Bill
Rep. Jenkins of Ohio supports adding soil and beach erosion control on the Great Lakes to the deficiency supply bill. He argues flood control reconstruction is a continuous normal government activity and should not be broken up.
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Washington
Huber
Konoye Blamed for War in Boisterous Diet Session
In Tokyo today former premier Fumimaro Konoye was named by the Diet floor as one of two men predominantly responsible for the war. Premier Shidehara faced heckling as he spoke on reforms while war minister Shimomura apologized for the war.
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Tokyo
Fumimaro Konoye
House of Representatives
Kijuro Shidehara
Tojo
Shidehara
Gov
Sadashi Shimonura
Japan
Merge of Rocky Fork Reservoir Projects in Highland County
A merger of state and federal plans for a Rocky Fork Reservoir in Highland County emerged today. William Owens of the state conservation division said the Ohio River Division Engineer’s office agreed to reconcile its $2,000,000 flood control project with a broader base for a combined flood control and recreation lake near the Rocky Fork mouth.
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Columbus
Rocky Fork
Paint
Highland County
William Owens
Ohio River Division
Raise American Flag Over Truk Naval Base
The stars and stripes were raised formally over Truk Atoll as Marines and naval officers observed. Brig. Gen. Robert Blake led the occupation force while a color guard hoisted the flag before natives and about 1,000 Japanese prisoners. President Truman nominated Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. for promotion to five star rank.
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Truk Atoll
Robert Blake
Berkeley
Calif
Carolines
U.S
Washington
Truman
Flay
Willam F. Halsey, Jr
Admiraf A
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