Wage Talks Resume After Truman Anti-Strike Plan
The article reports on Truman proposing fact finding machinery to settle industrial disputes and GM and UAW resuming wage talks at 30 percent demand. It notes CIO opposition and a Pittsburgh secret meeting shaping settlement prospects. Marshall testifies on Pearl Harbor warnings and Short's readiness, with broader pre war Allied strategy.
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Westinghouse
General Electric
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Washington, D. C
Philip Murray
Fat Stock Record Sale at Chicago Market Show
Grand champion Tomahawk Shorthorn steer, raised by Carl A. Henkel and Joseph Duen, sold for 11100 to John R. Thompson in Chicago. steer weighed 1100 pounds at $10 per pound. High prices also for 15 Hereford steers, and 26 Berkshire hogs. 4 H congress in Chicago NJ awarded about 32000 in awards. 1220 delegates attended with scholarships and travel funds. Secretary Anderson urged youth to pursue progress as farming mechanization rises.
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Mason City
Iowa
Joseph Duen
Belmond
John R. Thompson
Chicago
Karl Hoffman
Ida Grove
George E. Hoffman
George Jr
Stevens Hotel
Anderson
Yamashita War Crimes Trial Ends With Court Ruling
Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita faced the death sentence in a landmark case as the U S Supreme Court denied his appeal arguing the military commission lacked proper authority Gen Douglas MacArthur acted as the final arbiter. Yamashita was charged with complicity in atrocities though not directly accused of committing them. He praised the U S for providing able lawyers and for fair hearings.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Douglas MacArthur
Yamashita
U. S
Limited Two Lane Roadways Dominate U S Rural Highways
Engineer Charles M. Upham reports only 6 percent of the United States 333000 miles of primary rural highways have more than two lanes. In 1943 just 20879 miles exceeded two lanes with 14661 being three lanes. Kansas Minnesota Nebraska New York and Texas lead in mileage of four lanes or more.
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Charles M. Upham
American Road Builders’ Association
America
Upham
Kansas
Minnesota
Nebraska
New York
Texas
Farm Problem and GOP Platform Highlight Postwar Plans
The Committee for Economic Development urges broader rural training and a shift of manufacturing to country areas to use surplus farm labor and stabilize prices. It calls for three federal payments to aid depressed regions, compensate operators, and uphold farm price supports after the war. GOP platform favors budget balance, reduced bureaucracy, collective bargaining, farm price support, and strong UN and aid policies.
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Chester Davis
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
CED
Cotton Belt
GOP
Congress
United Nations Organization
Wartorn
Goering Leads List of 20 Nazi War Crimes Defendants
Hermann Goering tops the list of twenty Nazi leaders on trial in Nuernberg. Report says Goering, noted for his cocky demeanor, relaxed between sessions by playing with animals in his mini zoo at Karin Hall, while he claims responsibility for all official acts and clings to national socialism. The trial enters its second phase with British prosecutors focusing on violations of international treaties.
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Nuernberg
Hermann Goering
Palmier
Karin Hall
Goering
Britain Wins Loan Backing in Trade Pact Deal
The Truman administration approves a 4.4 billion dollar loan to Britain, payable over 50 years at 2 percent interest with first payment in 1951. The loan funds wartime debt relief and continued imports, while both nations agree to reduce tariffs and remove quotas to boost world trade.
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Britain
Troop Transport Shifts From Atlantic To Pacific For Japan
The army orders 32 American troop transports with 83 000 capacity moved from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Panama Canal by December end en route to Japan or the Philippines. Seventeen are fast troopships including West Point, with 15 converted Victory ships. The note also recalls the death of Charles Coborn at 93, author of The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo. Twenty thousand quarts of champagne found in the German embassy cellars are impounded for entertaining purposes. John Bull references the trial of a wine salesman.
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Pacific
Panama Canal
Japan
Philippines
West Point
U. S
Monte Carlo
The
Jordan
Charles Coborn
London
Bank of
von Ribbentrop
John Bull
Butter and War collides in Eva Braun diary excerpt
A fragmentary diary passage presents Eva Braun describing her wartime life with Adolf Hitler through months of 1939. The entries mix domestic comforts like butter with grandiose plans and light romantic touches, ending with praise of Hitler and hints of conquest.
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Eva Braun
Hitler
Adolf
Germany
France
Norway
Poland
Belgium
It Could Only Happen Here at the Paramount
In Times Square crowds of bobby-sockers spot Frankie Sinatra at the Paramount theater causing a tremendous stir. One spectator on the curb asks who the large Statue of Liberty replica across the street represents.
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Paramount Theater
Times Square
N. Y
Frankie Sinatra
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