Heated Debate Greets Bill On Unionization In Virginia
In Virginia the senate wrestles with a Moffett Norris joint resolution opposing unionization as state policy. An amendment to weaken it prompts heated debate before sending it to the general laws committee. Senator Mor ett proposes a measure banning picketing by force. A third bill targets reemployment of public workers who strike, while a tax and tobacco-related measure moves forward.
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Richmond
Vas
Senate
Moffett-Norris
Virginia
General Laws Committee
W. Stuart Morett
Staunton
Moncure- Locher
House General Laws Committee
Chairan C. G. Quesenberg
Wayesboro
Hasen
Staples
Abingdon Burley Tobacco
DeJarnette
Hospital Board
House
T. George
Patrick
Edward Lea
Oga Jr
Norfolk
Commonwealth
Troop Carriers Arrive At Ports
About 28 478 veterans debark at six U S ports from 31 vessels as ships arrive from Bremerhaven Manila Le Havre Marseille and Le Havre The arrivals include units from the 893rd tank destroyer battalion 356th field artillery battalion 94th division and 302nd infantry regiment among others with hundreds of troops nurses civilians and WACs.
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U. S
New York
Vassar Victory
Bremerhaven
West
Point
Manila
Antioch Victory
le Havre
3525Th Ordnance Company
3516Th Ordnance Heavy Automotive
India Victory
376Th Infantry
94Th Division
la Crosse
376Th Infantry Regiment
302Nd Infantry
301St Infantry Regiment
319Th Engineer Battalion
General Homma admits ordering Bataan death march
Manila February 6 Gen Masaharu Homma testified at his war crimes trial that he issued the orders for the Bataan death march and knew 100 U S and Filipino prisoners were dying daily at Camp O Donnell He said he was morally responsible for events under his command and confirmed he knew about 70 000 prisoners of war after the fall of Bataan
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Manila
Masharu Homma
Bataan
U. S
Camp O'Donnell
Idaho
Homma
Balanga
San Fer
O'Donnell
Meek
Winds Code Controversy Over Pearl Harbor Note
Navy Captain A D Kramer testified that only one apparent winds code message before Pearl Harbor suggested a break with Britain not a war warning. He disputed Capt. L F Safford’s claim a message indicated war with the United States and England, noting the winds code was for false weather broadcasts to mislead Japan’s agents abroad.
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Washington
Navy
A. D. Kramer
Pearl Harbor
Eng
Senate
House
Japan
Kramer
L. F. Safford
Safford
England
Russia
Salford
Sellantas
United States
Thomas C. Hart
Hart
Connecticut
Navy Department
Murray
Britain
Tokyo
Bluestone Reservoir Funds Recommended in West Virginia
Washington reports proposed appropriations totaling 4 552 million for Bluestone reservoir flood control projects at Bluestone Parkersburg and Elkins WV. An Elk River dam at Sutton was not funded Bailey WV congressman to seek 12 million supplementary allotment for the Elk River project. The Bluestone project would receive 3 5 million continuing construction from a 1942 halt and bring total to 15 923 million of the 26 950 million eventual cost.
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Washington
Bluestone Reservoir
Parkersburg
Elkins
West Virginia
Congress
Elk River
Bailey
D-Wva
Sutton
Bluestone
Hin
Break Near in FEPC Filibuster Says Russell
Senator Russell of Georgia, chief strategist for foes of the FEPC permanent fair employment practices commission bill, said a break may be imminent. He noted a plan submitted to other leaders could push the issue to a head tomorrow and likely end the four week filibuster within a week. Chavez and Taft lead and oppose the bill in its current form but back limits on debate.
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Washington
Russell
Satisfield
Fry
Chavez
Taft
Ohio
Fuse Blast at Yorktown Depot Injures Three Navy Men
Three navy enlisted men were critically injured in an explosion at the naval ammunition depot in Yorktown as they handled an obsolete fuse from a freight car for disposal at sea. Authorities said damage was negligible and names were withheld temporarily.
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Norfolk
Fifth Naval District
Naval Ammunition Depot
Yorktown
Naval
Pauley Selection May Be Cancelled
Washington reports a possible cancellation of Edwin W. Pauley’s nomination as undersecretary of the navy amid questions raised by Ickes testimony. The White House has signaled the nomination may stay, while senators weigh the conflicting accounts and potential political funding claims.
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Pauley
Washington
Congress
Edwin W. Pauley
Navy
Interior
Ickes
Senate
California
Truman
White House
Capitol
Senate Naval Committee
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Judiciary Committee
Tidelands
Toirman Walsh
Tee Samien
President Truman Orders Wheat Use for Beer Curbed
President Truman issued emergency measures to conserve wheat and limit its use in alcohol and beer. He outlined nine steps including a vigorous campaign to save food, restricting wheat and flour holdings, rail shipment priority, and export controls to aid famine areas while balancing relief to liberated and former enemy countries.
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Washington
Truman
Europe
Mr. Truman
Germany
Japan
Dr James M Smith Released On Parole
Dr James Monroe Smith former head of Louisiana State University and linked to Huey Long was released on parole from a federal prison after serving 10 months of a 30 month sentence for mail fraud and income tax irregularities. He and his wife fled to Canada in 1939 and left reporters behind as they drove away in a car with a North Carolina plate.
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Atlanta
Huey P. Long
Louisiana State University
James Monroe Smith
Canada
Smith
Shortage Of Sugar Hampers Moonshiners In 1945 Report
The 1945 report by Robert E. Tuttle, district supervisor for the alcohol tax unit, notes sugar shortages hindered moonshine operations across Maryland Virginia West Virginia and North Carolina. He credits the OPA and enforcement for tightening supplies, though arrests fell compared with 1944, with 1,841 seizures in 1945 and 1,921 in 1944.
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Robert E. Tuttle
Tuttle
OPA
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Northma
Russell County Man Dies with 262 Descendants Listed
A Russell County man who lived there his whole life died leaving 262 surviving descendants. A long life as a farmer, he was married three times with his first two wives predeceasing him. He was survived by his widow Elizabeth Honaker and numerous children and grandchildren including Myrtle Price, Lawson Hess, Leonard Hess, and Irvin Hess, among others.
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Severa
Elizabeth Honaker
Asu Hess
Myrtle Price
Lawson
Leonard
Meade
Welhington
D. C
John H. Hess
Saeger
Irvin Hess
Cliffield
Corbett Hess
U.S. Army
House Approval Of Case Bill Seen
Washington reports the House tentatively approved a broad new strike control bill by 197 to 115 but adjourned before final action. Rep Hoffman blocked a conclusive roll call demanding a full reading. Speaker Rayburn said a copy would not be ready before midnight.
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Washington
House
Hoffman
R-Mich
Rep
Case
R-Sd
Rayburn
D-Texas
Jap Gen Shimomura Arrest Ordered by MacArthur
General MacArthur ordered the arrest of Gen Sadashi Shimomura Japan's war minister who demobilized the army on suspicion of war crimes. The order targets 19 suspects including Lt Gen Tadaichiro Morimoto. Shimomura denied wrongdoing and said evidence was lacking.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Sadashi Shimomura
Japan
U. S
Shimomura
International Bar of Justice
Tadaichiro Morimoto
Philippines
Shiura
Associated Press
Bride Liner Santa Paula Sails With Wives and Children
The Brentano ship Santa Paula sailed from Southampton carrying 352 wives and children of American servicemen. A nine-car special train departed London. The liner is expected to reach New York in eight or nine days.
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London
Southampton
New York
MacArthur Upholds Yamashita Death Sentence in Manila
General Douglas MacArthur confirmed the death sentence for Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita for allowing atrocities by Japanese troops in the Philippines. Yamashita lost appeals to the U S Supreme Court and the Manila military commission, with execution to be announced by Lt Gen Wilhelm D Styer.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Western Pacific
Malaya
Yamashita
Amashita
Philippines
Philippines Supreme Court
Military Commission
U. S. Supreme Court
Coal Shipments To Army Camps Stopped
The Solid Fuels Administration ordered coal shipments to army camps stopped for February to ease a national shortage. The agency said camps have enough coal for winter but households face fuel shortages, and halting camp shipments would free coal for retail dealers.
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Washington
Solid Fuels Administration
SFA
Revercomb to Display Civil War Relic in Office
Senator Revercomb announced plans to preserve and exhibit a war relic presented by the Dye Elkins family. The stump carries two cannon balls and irregular iron fragments from a cannon, believed to date to the Civil War era, originally belonging to Stephen B. Elkins, former secretary of war.
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Washington
Win
Ee Va
Elkins
Stephen B. Elkins
Revercomb
Speed up of 1945 tax refunds announced by official
Washington announces accelerated 1945 income tax refunds. Commissioner Joseph D. Nunan Jr. reports over 27 million dollars already returned to about 600000 taxpayers in January and expects most refunds settled within three months after March 15.
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Washington
Joseph D. Nunan, Jr
Internal Revenue
Nunan
Wage-Price Plan Agreement Drugs
OPA Administrator Chester Bowles said no new wage-price policy formula could be announced yet and a congressional hearing on price moves was postponed. A government official predicted a simultaneous wage and price framework with a ceiling on increases, tying settlement to specific figures and relief for industries. President Truman asked U S Steel to resolve its CIO steelworkers dispute with an 18 1/2 cent hourly increase.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
White House
John Roche
Oliver Iron and Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh
Truman
U.S. Steel
CIO
Accused War Criminal Jumps To His Death
Belgrade reports General Jan Nedic former premier during the Nazi occupation killed himself by leaping from a third floor prison window while escorted to the military prosecutor. The interior ministry cited fear of punishment for crimes committed during the occupation. A Vienna dispatch noted the death occurred two days earlier. He had been turned over to Yugoslav authorities by American forces.
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Belgrade
Jan Nedic
Serbia
Ministry of Interior
Nedic
Vienna
Strikers Refuse Return To Jobs In New York Harbor
New York harbor faces fuel and cargo disruption as strikers vote against returning to their tugboat jobs. The Office of Defense Transportation orders 45 Army and Navy tugs to operate tomorrow, while Mayor O Dwyer declares a state of emergency and imposes a citywide brownout and heating curbs. Federal manager Turner announced government tugs will run in ice, with about 400 union men to be reassigned.
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New York
Office of Defense Transportation
Army and Navy
New York Harbor
William O'Dwyer
Lawrence C. Turner
Waterways Transportation Division
ODT
Army
Navy
Turner
U. S. Employment Service
O'Dwyer
Ee Marine Division
National Longshoremen’s Association
We Net
Excha
Britain and Russia End Greece Dispute at UN Security Council
The United Nations Security Council closed the Greek crisis as Soviet vice commissar Andrei Vishinsky yielded to British charges. Bevin accepted a US drafted formula, the council dropped the case, and President Norman J. O. Makin announced closure as Bevin and Vishinsky shook hands amid applause.
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London
United Nations Security Council
Greece
Russia
Andrei Vishinsky
Council
Ernest Bevin
Britain
United States
Norman J. O. Makin
Australia
Bevin Previ
Bevin
Makin
Vishinsky
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Aval
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Portsmouth
American Federation of Labor
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James M. Smith
Russell County
National Mediation Board
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Senator Revercomb
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