GM Offers Parts Plant Reopen to Avert Auto Strike
General Motors proposed reopening its parts and accessory division to build material for other manufacturers to avert a total auto plant shutdown. President C E Wilson sent the offer as CIO United Auto Workers press for a 30 percent wage increase. union leaders and GM officials held talks on picketing and broader issues, with new meetings planned in Chicago and Ottumwa.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Corporation
C. E. Wilson
Harry W. Anderson
Bernard Baruch
James B. Conant
Harvard
Beardsley Ruml
Hess Mission to Bring King George to Peace Talks
Rue dolph Hess parachuted into Scotland in 1941 to seek a peace conference with King George VI in Germany before the Russian front. He claimed to act from a wish to stop a world war as Hitler and Goering dismissed him as mad. British tribunal later ruled Hess sane after his dramatic testimony.
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Mernberg
Ruedolph Hess
Duke of Hamilton
George VI
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Russia
United Press
Hitler
Hess
Fuehrer
Hermann Goering
Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ernest Bohle
Foreign Office
Bohle
Duke
Lane
King George
Geoffrey Lawrence
Army eases discharge rules to let more doctors out
The War Department announced new point scores lowering discharge thresholds for medical personnel and others. Doctors and dentists may exit with fewer points, while exceptions apply to plastic surgeons and several specialist groups. Nurses also see reduced requirements, aiming to release more personnel without broad draft changes.
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Washington
War Department
Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
China-Burma-India
Europe
via-Burma-India
Pri
Army
Mavy
Medical Corps
Pearl Harbor
General Suron
Medical Administrative Corps
State to call Eldora trial workers as testimony resumes
The prosecution will bring several Eldora training school employees to the stand next week in the Carl Klatt second degree murder trial. Key inmates described the night Ronald Miller was beaten, with further witnesses including Robert Summers and Henrik Fauerby slated to testify. Medical testimony planned for week three.
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Fort Dodge
Eldora Training School
Carl Klatt
Jens Grothe
Ronald Miller
Des Moines
Robert Summers
Davenport
Miller
Klatt
Henrik Fauerby
A. P. Johnson
C. B. McKinley
Grothe
Bernard Ryan
OPA Sets Prices on 35 Housing Material Types
Des Moines report states the OPA issued price ceilings in dollars and cents for 35 housing and building material types. Prices generally held steady from March 1942 levels. The ceilings apply within Des Moines city limits and to customers within 10 miles. Dealers must post the new lists by Saturday to improve control.
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Des Moines
INS
OPA
Soviets Begin Evacuation of Tehran and North West Iran
Soviet forces pulled out of Tehran and evacuated key sites including railway hubs and military billets. The Azerbaijan governor arrived in Tabriz from Tehran aboard a plane provided by Soviet authorities. Iran’s foreign ministry warned that Iranian troops entering trouble spots could trigger fighting and invite more Soviet troops, while denying Soviet political or economic interference and denying support to regional Kurds.
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Tehran
Iran
Azerbaijan
Tabriz
Russia
Army Leads Navy 32-13 at Mid Fourth Quarter
Army's football Cadets led Navy 32-13 midway through the final period after a 26-point first period. Navy scored in the second quarter and again early in the fourth, but Army matched the latter touchdown to maintain the advantage.
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Army
Philadelphia
Navy
Cadets
Labor-Management Parley Ends With Goal Unreached
President Truman's postwar labor conference adjourned at 5:25 p.m. without creating a mechanism to curb industrial strife. Major disputes over wages and collective bargaining split labor and management, with CIO leader Philip Murray urging substantial wage hikes and AFL head William Green defending restraint. John L. Lewis charged leaders to unite and push for orderly policy, as the session ended in blocs voting down proposals.
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Washington
Truman
CIO
AFL
John L. Lewis
Labor
Philip Murray
Murray
William Green
People
British Nab 76 Ruhr Steel Magnates at Their Homes
In Isenrohl area raids by British security forces seized 76 Ruhr steel magnates across homes, with only eight of 84 named for arrest remaining at large. Detainees include Thyssen and Hoesch directors. some admired by champagne or private lullabies prior to arrest. Internees to be questioned in British zone camps for potential war crime charges.
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Ruhr
Iserlohn
Germany
August Thyssen Steel Works
Fritz
Essen
Walter Eichorst
Thyssen Works
Karl Lipp
Hoesch Steel Combine
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Allied Control Commission
Nazi Party
AFL Lumber Strike Nears Settlement on West Coast
The American Federation of Labor lumber workers moved toward a settlement after nine weeks of work stoppage. AFL officials said compromise wage agreements were signed by union and operator representatives covering about half the industry. Strike leaders indicated fir operations could resume Monday and negotiations would begin immediately with pine operators in Montana Idaho central Washington and parts of Oregon.
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American Federation of Labor Lumber Workers
Coast
AFL
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Nazi General Dostler Executed by U S Firing Squad
Gen Anton Dostler of the German army was executed by a 12 man American firing squad in Aversa Italy for the murder without trial of 15 OSS men caught behind German lines in March 1944. He admitted ordering their death but said he acted on Hitler's orders.
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Aversa
Italy
Anton Dostler
OSS
Dostler
Office of Strategic Services
Gence
Adolf Hitler
Housing Canvassers Asked To Keep Findings Confidential
Cedar Rapids. James F. Scolaro supervises a house to house survey for veterans and families. He asks emergency housing interviewers to turn in questionnaire cards to precinct captains so veterans can call on owners. He warns not to fill vacancies with friends and urges use of the Veterans Information and Service Center for occupants.
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Cedar Rapids
James F. Scolaro
Scolaro
Veterans Information and Service Center
One Yank Killed 26 Hurt in Arms Blast
An explosion at a Japanese ammunition dump in Kunsan Korea killed one American army captain and another person, injuring more than 325 people including 26 Americans. The blast occurred Friday, with cause not immediately determined and it marked the second such explosion in the area within three weeks.
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Seoul
Korea
Kunsan
Christmas Toy Fire Destroys Santa Claus Worth of Goods
A fire at Four Star Manufacturing in Chicago on Friday night destroyed a quantity of Christmas toys valued at Santa Claus levels, leaving damage and investigation pending.
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Chicago
Four Star Manufacturing Company
Packer Strike Approved by 25 to 1 Vote
National Labor Relations board tallies show CIO United Packinghouse Workers backing strike 25 to 1 to press for a 25 cent an hour wage increase. Cedar Rapids employees vote 1301 to 44 in favor with 1349 of 1611 eligible ballots cast. Union officials plan negotiations in Chicago with Wilson representatives Monday and Tuesday.
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Lewis J. Clark
Cedar Rapids
United Packinghouse Workers
Ralph Helstein
James Stanton
Chicago
Cudahy
Wilson
Swift
Armour
John Morrell and Company
Ottumwa
Iowa
Sioux City
Swift, Armour and Cudahy
Des Moines
Iowa Packing Company
National Labor Relations Board
CIO United Packinghouse
Wilson and Company
Third Street SE
William C. Auer
Minneapolis
Auer
George Scurlock
Joe Nemec, Jr
Company
Unanimous Memphis Plant Votes for Nationwide Strike
The Armour and Co. meat packing plant in Memphis voted one to nothing in favor of a nationwide strike. Of 62 eligible employees, only one cast a ballot.
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Memphis
Armour and Co
Industrial Ball crowns Sebern queen and Sills king
Seven thousand attended the ninth Allied Industrial ball at the Memorial Coliseum in Cedar Rapids. Joanne Sebern 18 an Iowa Steel and Iron Works welder Richard Sills 32 were crowned queen and king after six industrial age scenes and musical performances.
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Joanne Sebern
Universal Engineering Corporation
Richard R. Stils
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Allied Industrial
Memorial Coliseum
Cedar
Defense cross examines Lahousen on anti Hitler leaders
Major General Er win Lahousen testifies about Canaris and Papen opposing Nazi policies while briefing on the wartime resistance. He denies knowledge of RAF airmen murders and discusses Keitel's defense attorney probing possible treachery.
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Omaha
Robert R. Rissman
NLRB
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Kansas City
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Sen
Revercomb
R-W. Va
Eldora
Ryan
Merchant Marine
South Gate
Calif
George Clayton
Today's Index
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Catia Ingen
Catia
Baron Sadao Araki
Sgt
Robert Oske
Buffalo
N. Y
Araki
Nippon
Japan
William Needham
Santa
Packer
Jack Ferring
M. R. Swanson
Richard Winkler
Aina Dorheim
Miss Sebern
John L. Sebern
Third Street NW
Roosevelt High School
Aristotelian Society
Sebern
Sills
Tenth Avenue SE
Papen
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