Red tag on 13 CIO union leaders by House group
The American Activities Committee linked 13 CIO officers to Communism, while noting CIO steps to purge itself. It named four union presidents including Harry Bridges and Ben Gold, and listed multiple CIO affiliates alleged to be Communist controlled in 1944.
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Washington
House
UN American Activities Committee
CIO
Harry Bridges
Longshoremen’s Union
Ben Gold
The
Fur and Leather Workers
Abram Flaxer
United Public Workers of America
Donald Henderson
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers
United Electrical Workers
U. S
Electrices
American Labor Party
American Communications Association
Union of Fishermen and Allied Workers of America
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
International Woodworkers of America
Marine Cooks and Stewards Association of the Pacific Coast
Julius Emspak
James Lustig
William Sentner
James Matles
Electrical Union
Irving Potash
Fur Workers
Maurice Travis
Philip M. Connelly
Los Angeles Cio Council
Samuel Burt
Julius Fleiss
Laundryman in Custody Locks Up Milwaukee Holiday Shirts
In Milwaukee a dispute over a shirt laundry leaves dozens without holiday shirts. Sam Lee was taken by police for mental evaluation after being deemed incapacitated. Officials say only Sam's Chicago cousin can unlock the shirts, with release promised sometime after Christmas.
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Milwaukee
Beau Brummells
Miami
Sam Lee
Sam
Chicago
Bell workers avert strike with 10.55 cent raise
In St. Louis the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co and the Communications Workers of America reached a labor deal. The agreement covers 50,000 workers across five states and includes a 10.55 cent hourly wage increase.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Independent Communications Workers of America
Desert fighting shatters Holy Land truce in Negev
In a break from a U N peace order, heavy fighting erupts in southern Palestine. Israeli and Egyptian forces clash across the Negev with armor, infantry, and air actions, severing communications to cut off settlements and signaling intense ground and aerial engagements. An Egyptian column near Nirim is confronted by Jewish forces.
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Tel Aviv
Palestine
Holy Land
Negev
U. N
Faluja
Nirim
Mme Chiang Kai-shek Leaves Marshall Home
Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrived Dec 1 seeking U S aid for Nationalist China but her plea failed. She moved from the George C. Marshall residence at Leesburg to a Washington address, likely the Soong residence, with embassy officials offering unclear updates on her next move.
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Washington
Chiang Kai-shek
George C. Marshall
China
Truman
Marshall
Leesburg
T. Soong
Mme. Chiang
Soong
Yule Carolers Surprised by Burglar Alarm Theft Attempt
In Sutton England Keith Ransom and Frances Snape both 16 went Christmas caroling and sang Silent Night for a neighbor. Four burglars fled from a window when the neighbor startled them with a coin response. No items were stolen as the neighbors scared them off.
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Sutton, England
Keith Ransom
Frances Snape
No Politics in Cedar Rapids Postmaster Protest
The VFW post 788 protested the appointment of William McLaughlin as acting Cedar Rapids postmaster saying the move was not politically inspired. Commander Wilbur P. Matus denied the charge by State Democratic Chairman Jake More, noting a majority favored reconsideration and that veterans preference regulations were at issue. The Cedar Rapids postal job opens January 31 as Postmaster Frank Baldwin retires.
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Cedar Rapids
VFW
William McLaughlin
Wilbur P. Matus
Jake More
More
McLaughlin
John F. Greenlee
Frank Baldwin
Matus
Central Committee
Greenlee
Cedar Rapids Awards Two School Contracts in Separate Bids
Cedar Rapids school board let general contracts for Kenwood and Cleveland elementary schools and approved a lighting renovation contract for Fillmore Johnson Tyler and Van Buren. Stadium bids were rejected as too high, leaving low bids for the two new schools and related subcontracts within bond estimates.
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To Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Kenwood
Cleveland
Fillmore
Johnson, Tyler
van Buren
Morehead Construction Company
James Leck Company
Minneapolis
Norman Hatton
Chilard Smith
Chicago
E Avenue
Thirtyseventh Street
Iranian farmer age 138 celebrated by Tass report
Tass reports in London that Iranian farmer Safar Gussein Ogly turned 138 and remains sturdy. His family includes 10 children, 43 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren according to the agency.
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London
Tass
Dispatch
Safar Gussein Ogly
Rep Thomas Stricken Resting Satisfactorily At Home
Allendale New Jersey UP reports Rep Thomas Stricken Republican chair of the House Un American Activities Committee is resting satisfactorily at his home after a gastro intestinal hemorrhage. He was stricken Wednesday a year after a similar attack aboard the S S Ancon en route to Panama. He is under indictment by a federal grand jury investigating staff actions.
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Allendale
N. J
Thomas
R-N. J
House
UN American Activities Committee
Panama
Rutledge Announces Willing Extradition To Iowa
Dr. Robert C. Rutledge plans to surrender to Linn county authorities in Cedar Rapids as soon as doctors say confinement is safe. His attorney Leo Laughren says Rutledge is ready for speedy trial and believes Iowa will provide a fair process. Rutledge is charged with first degree murder in the Hartman case at the Roosevelt hotel.
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Gazette
Blake Shipton
Leo F. Laughren
St. Louis
Robert C. Rutledge
Rutledge
Howard B. Goodrich
Hannibal, Mo
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
William W. Crissman
Roosevelt Hotel
the Gazette
Iowa
Dr. Rutledge
Byron C. Hartman
Crissman
Dave Elderkin
Hartman
Australian delegate compares Dutch policy to Hitler actions
Paris delegate W. F. Hodgson told a U N meeting that the Dutch should be expelled for their Indonesia policy. He criticized The Netherlands government as carrying out what he called a Hitlerlike act, calling the Dutch actions a clearcut deliberate violation.
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Paris
W. F. Hodgson
U.N
Indonesia
Hitler
Netherlands
Australia
Security Council
Hodgson
Dutch report slow Dutch advance in central Java front
Batavia says Indonesian republican forces slowed the Dutch advance on four fronts in central Java. Re publicans used scorched earth tactics blowing up roads bridges and other installations along the line. First official report of appreciable resistance since the campaign began Sunday.
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Batavia
Java
Tojo and Six Others Hanged After Banzai Shouts
At Sugamo prison four of seven condemned war leaders met death with banzai cries and defiant words. Hideki Tojo, three companions, and four others shouted for a greater Nippon before the gallows. Tojo requested sake, left a world message and a translated farewell poem from the Buddhist priest.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Sugamo
Shinso Hanayama
Tojo
Buddha
Gold Rush Kills Seven in China
In Shanghai a bank gold sale at 2000 yuan an ounce triggered a deadly rush. Seven killed and over 100 injured as 30,000 people overwhelmed banks, police struggled, and city traffic ground to a halt. Black market price ranged from 3000 to 4000 yuan per ounce.
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Shanghai
Second monthly drop in cost of living reported
The November consumer price index fell 0.8 percent with food prices leading the decline as clothing and house furnishings edged down. Meat, dairy, fruits, vegetables, fats and oils contributed to the drop while egg prices rose and overall levels remained well above prewar figures.
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Washington
INS
Bureau of Labor Statistics
General Motors
OPA
Nazi Official Bertsch Sentenced to Life in Prague
Dr. Walter Bertsch the German economy minister in occupied Czechoslovakia received a life term for ordering 1924 birth cohort transfers to Germany for forced labor and for robbing the Czechoslovak Nation Bank of 152 billion crowns plus asset transfers. He was captured in Prague during liberation and held in prison since.
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Prague
Walter Bertsch
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Bertsch
Czechoslovak Nation Bank
People’s Court
Plane Crashes Into Car At Air Field Injures Eleven
At Stout Field Indianapolis a National Guard fighter plane plunged into an automobile carrying children returning from a parish Christmas party. The pilot Lt Victor A Kelly 24 Indianapolis and the car driver were listed in critical condition. Seven children and two other adults were also hurt.
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Indianapolis
National Guard
Stout Field
Victor A. Kelly
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Russia
Marshalls
Chiang
C.R
the Post
Carl Kesler
J. W. Darragh
Cedar Rapids Electric Supply Company
Kutchera Lodding and Fuel Company
Hennessey Brothers
First Avenue
Thomas Stricken
Cedar Rapids News
Laughren
Hannibal
C. L. Hsia
Philip C. Jessup
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