Truman Calls Congress to Act on Reconversion
President Truman blasted Congress for needless delay in reconversion legislation and urged the public to demand prompt action as time runs out. He warned of long term economic damage, pressed for fact finding boards, and targeted General Motors for noncooperation while outlining needs for price controls and expanded unemployment protections.
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Truman
Congress
General Motors Corporation
Mr. Truman
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Hull Did Not Tell Army of Note to Japs
Washington Admiral Stark testified before Congress that secretary Hull handed the November 26 1941 note to Japan without informing the army or navy. He questioned whether President and war council were updated and noted Hull’s later claims that Japan was hell bent for war. The testimony also touched on the Roberts commission file missing from official records and Knox’s December 7 assessment of Pearl Harbor.
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Harold R. Stark
Pearl Harbor
Hull
Navy
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War Council
Rep
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Calif
Army
Stark
Naval Operations
Marshall
George C. Marshall
Earl Harbor
Roberts Commission
William D. Mitchell
Roosevelt
Mitchell
War Department
The
State Department
Justice Roberts
Ir ” Z
Knox
Hawaii
Housing in Cedar Rapids Two Vets in One Two Room Slot
A wounded private asks at the Veterans Service Center for housing for his wife and child. He shares that a veteran brother and wife expect a child and are living with them after losing their home. Miss Austin notes 325 names on the veteran housing list and asks readers to call Howard McLaughlin at 32602 with any housing leads.
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Cedar Rapids
Veterans Service and Information Center
Paramount Building
Daryl Austin
Austin
Triplets Win 8800 GIs As Godfathers For Babies
NEW YORK (UP) A British bride says the 8800 GI godfathers are great but none knows how to wash a diaper. The Glass triplets arrived aboard the Queen Mary with their mother and nine other children as 82nd Airborne veterans adopted them. The babies, born in Louth England, join a plan for an education fund of about 8000 dollars. The father, S Sgt Robert H. Glass, will move to Springfield Ohio. The baptism aboard the Queen Mary marked the division’s first wartime christening.
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U. S
Robert Glass
South Bend
Ind
82Nd Air Borne Division
New York
Chris Schirmer
Shaun Glass
Robert Smart
Stephen
Howard Martin
Robert
Glass
Robert H. Glass
Southampton
Robert Harold, Jr
Stephen Franklin
Shaun William
Springfield
Ohio
Queen Mary
Camp Shanks
N.Y
Louth
England
Set
France
Major Welles to Wed Cyn thia Aitken in London ceremony
London report says Major Benjamin Welles son of Sumner Welles will marry Cynthia Aitken on Tuesday. She is the former daughter in law of Lord Beaverbrook and widow of his son.
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London
Ins
Benjamin Welles
Sumner Welles
Cynthia Aitken
Lord Beaverbrook
Truman pledges full aid to housing chief for 5 million homes
President Truman announced an emergency goal of 5,000,000 new homes and pledged to use every government agency and resource if private enterprise cannot meet the need. He named Wil on W Wyatt Jr as housing expeditor, stressing homes must be affordable for veterans and renters.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt, Jr
Wyatt
Louisville
Mr. Truman
No Change Likely In Iowa Weather
Weather outlook for Cedar Rapids region remains cloudy mild with occasional rain and fog tonight and Saturday. Des Moines bureau notes temperatures near 35 with varied district reports on fog rain drizzle and icy or wet highways. Cedar Rapids saw a -38 degree reading at 2 30 p m with about a third inch rainfall. state low near 16 at Spencer. high Thursday reached 41 at Atlantic and Sioux City.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Central
Mercury
Chambers
Spencer
Atlantic
Sioux City
Tenant suit on nuisance claim over attempted death by own action
Justice W A Ball ruled that an attempted death by own action alone does not justify ouster for nuisance. In the case Mrs May Speedling versus Everett Moir, testimony showed Moir attempted self harm, with his wife cleaning the apartment afterward and no other tenants present. Moir was hospitalized after police found him bleeding on a bed.
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W. A. Ball
May Speedling
B Avenue NE
Everett Moir
Moir
Rall
MacArthur Orders Purge of War Leaders in Japan
General MacArthur ordered Japan to purge war leaders from public office and government service. He directed abolition of 37 ultra nationalists and militarist groups and barred formations that resist occupation or promote aggression. Government records and assets of dissolved groups will be seized and opened.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Imperial
U S Axis Ships To Be Atom-tested
Rep Vinson disclosed that American German and Japanese warships would be targets in joint army navy atomic bomb tests. He said ships of nearly every type including battleships carriers cruisers destroyers and submarines would be used, with many vessels and several tests planned. American ships would be surplus vessels declared to be of further use.
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Washington
INS
Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Affairs Committee
Patterson, Patterson stunned by discharge points halt
Honolulu AP report says Secretary of War Patterson was completely surprised to learn on Guam that overseas discharge points had stopped accumulating since V J day. He toured Tokyo on a world trip and noted the army transportation corps was strained by shipping limits in the Pacific.
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Stars and Stripes
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War Department
George C. Marshall
Pacific
Navy
Thev Army Transportation Corps
Two Soldiers Killed in Iowaa Crash Near Knoxville
AP reports George Rayl a 25 year old from Dearborn Michigan and John Westrick an 18 year old from Grosse Pointe Michigan both soldiers died in a collision six miles west of Knoxville Iowa at 7 am Friday. Truck driver Forrest C Hoover from Indianola told Sheriff Jim Van Hemert he saw the car veer onto the shoulder and collide with the truck. Rayl suffered a fractured skull and Westrick a broken neck while Hoover had only light bruises. The highway was icy though no fog was present. The pair were en route to Des Moines. Hoover was heading to Knoxville.
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George Rayl
Dearborn
Mich
John Westrick
Grosse Pointe
Here
Forrest C. Hoover
Indianola
Jim van Hemert
Rayl
Westrick
Hoover
Des Moines
Munitions Vessel Blast at Okinawa Explodes LCT 560
A navy court of inquiry prepares to probe the explosion and fire that destroyed the munitions laden landing craft LCT 560 at Okinawa. The incident caused moderate casualties among naval personnel and damaged three other vessels, with LCT 891 and 1414 heavily damaged and LST 783 slightly harmed. casualties names will be released after next of kin notification.
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Pearl Harbor
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Okinawa
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Gushigawa Chimu Wan
Wife Seeks Ban on Mauldin Taking Son
Norma Jean Mauldin, 22, wife of cartoonist Bill Mauldin, asks a superior court for a temporary order to prevent him from taking their 2-year-old son Bruce out of California. She says he has threatened to remove the boy and seeks support pending divorce. Her petition cites Mauldin's reported $200,000 income for last year and requests $710 monthly.
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Los Angeles
Norma Jean Mauldin
Bill Mauldin
Bruce
Mauldin
Walkout Calls Hit Frisco as Train Men Strike Looms
Tulsa reports the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen called a strike of all brakemen switchmen and train men on the Frisco railroad starting Sunday evening Local officials said The AFL meat cutters union executive board urged a nationwide strike against meat packing Jan 16 unless President Truman intervenes The move would affect about 135000 AFL members with 90000 in packing plants and others in retail butcher shops The union seeks a 90 cent hourly minimum wage or a 36 dollar weekly guarantee and a meeting with the President is urged to set wage talks before Jan 11-12
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Tulsa
Okla
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Frisco
Chicago
AFL Meat Cutters’ Union
Truman
CIO Packinghouse
Earl W Jimerson
Patrick E. Gorman
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America
AFL
Jimerson
International
Armour
Swift
Cudahy
Wilson
CIO
AFL Telegraphers Cancel Nationwide Strike Plan
Washington AP reports the AFL Commercial Telegraphers union canceled a nationwide strike of 50,000 Western Union employees that had been set to begin Monday. The move follows a War Labor Board wage award accepted by most local units. a separate 7,000 CIO Western Union workers in New York still plan to strike Tuesday.
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Washington
AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union
W. L. Allen
International
War Labor Board
CIO Western
New York
Allen
WLB
Junion
DC telephone operators stage one hour sitdown strike
Washington Reuters reports District of Columbia local and long distance operators conducted a one hour sitdown strike. They remained at switchboards but did not answer calls and left a recorded message for callers. Operators cited supervisor workload as the reason, with normal dialing service briefly unaffected.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Western Electric Company
Government Seizure Possible if Meat Strike Proceeds
Labor department forecasts that mediation and fact finding may fail to avert a threatened meat packing industry strike. Edgar L. Warren, chief of the Federal Conciliation Service, announced this after a conference with Secretary Schwellenbach Thursday evening.
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Washington
Labor Department
Edgar L. Warren
Federal Conciliation Service
Schwellenbach
Czech Officials Nab Fugitive SS Agent
Prague AP Willie Kinze an SS agent escaped Moravian prison and was trapped Friday in a manhunt by Czechoslovak security authorities for a fugitive identified by police radio as Hermann Goering's son. No trace of the man said to be Goering's son was found.
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Willie Kinze
Moravian
Hermann Goering
Goering Ison
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