German War Criminals Indicted By International Tribunal
The International War Crimes Tribunal in Berlin begins with a 24 top Nazis named in a 35 000 word indictment charging crimes against humanity. Prosecution seeks to declare Nazi organizations criminal and to try both individuals and groups including the Reich cabinet SS SD SA and General Staff.
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Berlin
International War Crimes Tribunal
Allied Control Authority
Adolf Hitler
I T. Nickitchenko
Soviet Union
Nikitchenko
United States
Britain
France
General Staff Corps
Lawrence
Nuernberg
Reich Cabinet
Nazi Party
Schutzstaffeln
Sicherheitsdienst
Secret Service
Sturm Abteilung
Increased Wages Possible, Snyder States
New Haven report quotes Snyder as saying reduced production costs allow many industries to grant wage increases without price hikes. He cautioned a sizeable number of others will face high costs for several months before adjustments occur.
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Jnew Haven
Conn
John W. Snyder
Truman Eyes Broad Military Service Plan
Reports say President Truman may ask Congress to require all able bodied young men to be liable for a year of military oversight rather than mandatory service. He is expected to suggest training opportunities in scientific and medical fields while keeping options flexible for service. Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee furthers a tax bill aiming to end the excess-profits tax by January 1 and debates the U.S. Employment Service control between state and federal oversight.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Army
Navy
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
U. S. Employment Service
Ohio Hospital Titles Changed
The Ohio Welfare Department announced name changes for state mental facilities. Institutions for feeble minded will be the Orient Columbus and Apple Creek state schools, while the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics at Gallipolis becomes the Gallipolis State Institute. The shift aims to avoid stigma.
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Columbus
State Welfare Department
Frazier Reams
Orient
Apple Creek
Ohio Hospital
Gallipolis
Frank F. Tallman
Gallipolis Hospital
Labor approves lone wolf policy in Soviet stance
The AFL executive council in Mansfield pledged full support for an American foreign policy that stands firm on principle to promote the four freedoms worldwide. The report notes the Westinghouse appliance division announced early shipments of a new refrigerator. The piece links these events to reactions at the London foreign ministers conference and the phrase lone-wolf policy used by Soviet supporters.
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Mansfield
Westinghouse Manufacturing Corp
Vesterday
Soviet Russia
No Foreign Ministers
London
Executive Council
The
AFL
Merchants Await Supreme Court Ruling on Tie-in Sales
In Cleveland and Northern Ohio Food Terminal cases 18 merchants face trial for alleged evasion of OPA ceiling prices via tie-in sales. U.S. Attorney Don C. Miller said hearings are postponed until the Supreme Court clarifies how the price law applies to tie-in arrangements.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Supreme Court
U.S
Don C. Miller
Price control timetable outlines end dates from OPA
The House appropriations committee received from OPA chief Chester Bowles a timetable for phasing out price controls. It lists early lifts in rents and selected decontrol in 150 smaller areas, with many sectors slated for removal by spring 1946 and others stretched to mid-1946 for items like building materials and major metals.
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Washington
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
OPA
Chester
Bowles
Huge Secret Fortunes of Japs Seized
Allied forces in Tokyo seize hidden Japanese fortunes of diamonds and precious metals and move to cut off narcotics trade. Millions in gold and silver move to Bank of Japan while authorities confiscate arms and inspect the Emperor’s palace and government vaults.
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Associated Press
TOKYO
Japan
Allied Headquarters
Keres
Elliott R.thorpe
Counter
Hirohito
Imperial Compound
Bank of Japan
Toyohiko Kagawa
MacArthur
Kagawa
Mitsui Trust
Osaka
Washington
Fumimaro Konoye
Asahi Today
Konoye
Ross County Board Urges Induction of Strikers and Executives
CHILLICOTHE. Selective Service Board No. 2 of Ross County urges draft boards to induct all men lacking full effort to return the nation to normal peaceful conditions. Edwin H. Peniston, vice chairman, says the measure should apply to both strikers and industrial executives who take arbitrary stands.
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Chillicothe
Selective Service Board No. 2
Ross County
Edwin H. Peniston
Atom Experts Hearings Stir Capitol Hearing
Washington AP reports hundreds of scientists who worked on the atomic bomb urged their spokesmen to testify on President Truman's atomic energy bill. Five top scientists including Compton Oppenheimer Urey Szilard Anderson are to speak before the House Military Committee as a Senate committee prepares to review the measure creating a nine member civilian atomic commission. Magnuson praised scientists for shaping views on the atomic era and warned against abandonment of power dams railroads or cars to atomic power.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Arthur H. Compton
J. R. Oppenheimer
Har
C. Urey
Leo Szilard
H. L. Anderson
House
Senate
House Military Committee
Army
White House
Magnuson
D-Wash
Ohio Chamber Opposes Socialistic Full Employment Plan
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce joined opponents of the full employment bill. Arch D Schultz argued the issue is whether the U S should pursue a national socialistic planned economy or support private enterprise. He warned of a federal bureaucracy and loss of constitutional powers if enacted.
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Washington
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Arch D. Schultz
Chamber
Bil
U.S
Congress
U. S
Schultz
House Expenditures Committee
Truman Pushes 100000 Jews to Palestine Amid Debate
President Truman said he urged Prime Minister Attlee to admit up to 100,000 Jews to Palestine and Britain continues to consider the request. He noted no new Big Three meeting is planned to resolve the London foreign ministers stalemate. He also said Europe relief must continue via UNRRA unless the U.S. assumes the burden.
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Washington
Truman
Attlee
Mit
Palestine
Britain
London Council of Foreign Ministers
UNRRA
United States
Congress
Europe
New Hospital Sites Selected for Veterans Network
General Omar N Bradley announced presidential approval of 19 new veterans hospitals and 15 additions to hospitals and four soldiers' homes. The plan adds 15 276 beds with construction funds requested for the year ending June 30. Cincinnati 750 beds specified for the new general medical and surgery hospitals, plus Dayton 100 beds for soldiers' homes.
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Washington
Omar N. Bradley
General Medical and Surgery
Cincinnati
Ohio
Dayton
West Pacific Isles Cleared for Air Route to Orient
Vice Admiral George D. Murray announced Marcus Island, part of the proposed shortest all weather air route to the Orient, has been cleared of Japanese and will be ready to receive planes within a fortnight. He also said 1,600 starving Japanese were mercy evacuated from Woleai Island, where about 4,000 died last year. Operations aim to clear Japanese from Western Pacific isles as search teams bomb islands and atolls for shipwrecked or imprisoned survivors.
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Guam
Marcus Island
George D. Murray
Marianas
Woleai Island
Western Pacific
Admiral Murray
Espions Probed Japanese Breach at Tokyo Embassy
U S Embassy in Tokyo faced a border of prewar spy activity as Japanese agents searched diplomatic pouches. Evidence from Japanese records is being studied by American authorities, signaling a grave breach of international law.
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Tokyo
Japan
Manicott course damage tied to ride theory dismissed
Police suspect the dead man was taken for a ride robbed and thrown from a car after Peter Yopko’s body was found near Toledo. His brother Roger claimed the victim carried about 150 dollars while police recovered six on the body. Yopko had last been seen in Cleveland Tuesday night. City authorities report the theory being dismissed.
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Toledo
Peter Yopko
Cleveland
Roger Yopko
Yopko
Many Ohio Workers Fail to File Claims
In Ohio during August and September only 150000 of 300000 laid off filed unemployment benefit claims. Bureau administrator Charles H. Jones noted 15982 claims filed in September, the second highest total after January 1933's 120923.
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Ohio
Colummbus
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Charles H. Jones
BUC
Wage Demands Trigger Plant Walkout Across Michigan
A 30 percent wage claim sparked a widespread walkout by Michigan utility workers threatening to cut power to over two million residents and hundreds of factories. Milwaukee plant operators at the Saginaw facility stayed away, while others kept the plant running with remaining staff. Nationwide, about 460,000 workers were idle, including 216,000 soft coal miners ordered to return to work after a month-long dispute.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Milwaukee
Saginaw
Saginaw Valley
Detroit
Michigan Utility Workers
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
AFL
New York Harbor
Chicago
United Steel
Hollywood
Eric Johnston
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America
J. A. Krug
War Production Board
Krug
Johnston
Fairfield County Steer Is State Champion at Ohio Show
Nigel Mast of Fairfield County entered Bud a 1110 pound Aberdeen Angus steer that won grand champion at the ninth Central Ohio Junior Livestock Show and Sale. The animal, also Fairfield County Fair grand champion, topped 330 entries from 4 H and FFA members and sold to Albert Pick for 85 cents a pound to the Fort Hayes Hotel. A second item notes Dr Kart Lee brick, former Kent State president, traveling to Tokyo as special assistant to the political adviser of General Douglas MacArthur.
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Columbus
Bud
Nigel Mast
Fairfield County
jSale
Farmers of America
Albert Pick
Pick Hotels
Fort Hayes
Tokyo
Kent
Dr. Kart €. Leebrick
Kent State University
Seave
Douglas MacArthur
Truman asks Congress for 221 million in public works funds
President Truman urged Congress to appropriate 221,842,000 for resuming wartime public works. He proposed 128,475,000 for the corps of engineers and 93,367,000 for the Bureau of Reclamation. The flood control program would finish 32 deferred projects and resume 21 others.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Corps of Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation
Army Engineers
Peron Returns To Take Reins In Argentina
Juan Domingo Peron surged back to power in stormy Argentina as military rulers reshaped the cabinet to favor his supporters. President Edelmiro Farrell dismissed the Alvarez cabinet and reinstated members while praising Peron. In clashes, two people died and six were wounded in attacks on Critica and La Prensa offices.
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Buenos
Adm
Hector Vernengo Lima
Peron
Critica
Farrell
la Prensa
Bank Robber Held By Columbus Police
A man wanted on charges of robbing a Grand Rapids bank was held for questioning in the slaying of George Boyer a 51 year old gasoline attendant. Louis Holliday 29, identified by FBI agent Frank C Hollowman, was detained after entering a hospital for knee wound treatment.
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Ccolumbus
Grand Rapids, Mich
George Boyer
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Frank C Hollowman
Louis Holliday
Allied policy in Germany lags behind tougher rhetoric
The United States has spoken tougher than it acts in defeating Germany as Potsdam and Eisenhower policy aim to disarm industry and set occupation terms. Fraternization bans fade as Allied leaders push to restore German life while maintaining military control.
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Eisenhower
Germany
Truman
Attlee
Generalissimo
Stalin
Locals Must Vote on Lewis Order to End Strike
The coal strike ended by order of UMW President John L Lewis but miners must vote on returning to work after meetings called by their officials. About 216,000 idled miners face a wait as most were away fishing or on vacations and it may take days to resume full production. The government expressed relief at Lewis's move.
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Associated Press
UMW
John L. Lewis
Frank
Lewis
Truman Happy Over Outcome Ends Soft Coal Strikes
President Truman expressed happiness as John Lewis called off the soft coal strikes in the public interest. He noted unions may resume production with 216,000 miners returning to work, easing pressures on steel and autos amid a broader labor and reconversion context.
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Washington
Truman
John
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Jose
Solid Fuels Administration
Schwellenbach
Coal Industries
U.S
U.S. Convlation
Iohn W. Snyder
Jihe Truman
West Virginia
UMW
Mononogaha County
Morgantown
W.va
U S Sect Corporation
Xeer
Pennsylvania
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Alisquippa
Pamili
Mings
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporaion
U. S. Steel
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