Marines Question Chinese Assignment in Tsingtao
Hal Boyle reports Marines in Tsingtao China grow restless over their China duty. They question what they are doing there, noting only their equipment is protected while coal and local trade concern the area. Two sailors recalled Okinawa service and cited comfort issues like missing wicks for stoves.
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Tat Shan
Shanghai
Navy
Okinawa
China
Frank McCormick
Rutherford
N. J
Bill Martin
Richmond Hill
N. Y
Companies Deny Goods Held Back
Westinghouse and General Electric rejected union charges that the industry withholds radios washers and other consumer goods from the Christmas trade. The CIO United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America had urged Congress to investigate. Westinghouse said its appliance division ships 14 carloads daily. GE urged immediate inquiry and full disclosure of delays.
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New York
Westinghouse Electrical Corporation
General Electric Company
Washington
CIO
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Albert J. Fitzgerald
J. H. Ashbaugh
Westinghouse
Mansfield
Ohio
Commerce
Wallace
H. L. Andrews
General Electric
MacArthur tightens civil appeal ban for Jap war crimes cases
In Manila Gen. MacArthur enacts regulations blocking civil court appeals by accused Japanese war criminals in the Philippines and names himself as final reviewer of verdicts. He will appoint a law member for each military commission to decide admissibility of evidence. Homma to be arraigned next week for the Bataan Death March. Seven Japs in a separate case face varied sentences from death to acquittal. Yamashita precedent cited.
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Manila
Japan
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Homma
Corregidor
Jonathan Wainwright
Bataan and
Paul Mansella
Harold Scott
Vanderbilt and Murray Wed in Philadelphia City Hall
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt 33 of New York and Jeanne Lourdes Murray 22 cousin of Mrs Henry Ford II were married by Judge Charles Klein in Philadelphia City Hall chambers after eloping from New York by private plane. Judge Klein served as best man.
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Philadelphia
Charles Klein
Nathan A Beife
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
New York
Jeanne Lourdes Murray
Henry Ford II
City Hall
Judge Klein
Divorce Petition Filed in Linn County Court
Roy Lavern Stewart petitions for divorce from Frances Elizabeth Stewart on grounds of desertion for over two years. Defendant must appear in Cedar Rapids court by January 4, 1946, or a default judgment will be entered. Attorney R S Milner, 635 Higley Building, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Linn County
Roy Lavern Stewart
Frances Elizabeth Stewart
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Father Flanagan urges parole for Nebraska boy
The Rev. Edward Flanagan of Boys Town told Missouri lawmakers he will plead for 10 years if needed for a 14 year old serving a 20 year sentence for murdering his foster mother. He criticized Gov Donnelly for denying parole as ridiculous and said the governor fears outside influence.
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Jefferson City
INS
Edward J. Flanagan
Boys
Missouri
Father Flanagan Criticizes Missouri For Punishing Boy
Father Flanagan argues Missouri should not send a boy to prison after a crime. He cites Boys Town seeking to assist him and calls for care, rehabilitation, and participation in outside programs. The reference is tied to Frank Raymond De Ford, jailed a year for killing Mrs. Gertrude Kley.
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Father Flanagan
Missouri
Flanagan
Frank Raymond de Ford
Gertrude Kley
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Hal Boyle
Tsingtao
Confucius
Sage
Shantung Peninsula
Shantung
Boyle
Kelly
Red
Killian’s
Doug
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Ford
R. S. Milner
Higley Bulldine
California
Wine Advisory Board
Second Street
San Francisco
Philip Murray
van Bittner
Clinton Golden
War Labor Board
Steel Industry
American Iron and Steel Institute
Fifth Avenue
New York, N. Y
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