Security Council to discuss Iran Greece Indonesia at next meeting
The United Nations Security Council agreed to consider Iran Greece and Indonesia at its next meeting while preparing to activate its military staff committee. Russia challenged council jurisdiction and urged bilateral talks with Iran, denouncing Tehran's alleged propaganda and asserting bilateral settlement as preferred.
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London
United Nations Security Council
Iran
Greece
Indonesia
Russia
Council
N. J. O. Makin
Tehran
Army Experts Contact Moon In Radar Test
Army signal corps scientists announced radar contact with the moon from Evans signal laboratory Belmar New Jersey. First contact Jan 10 and repeated several times using high frequency pulses at light speed with echoes about 20 seconds later. Potential peacetime and wartime uses include radio control of long range missiles and studying ionosphere effects. Lt. Col. John H. DeWitt Jr led the experiments.
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Washington
War Department
Army Signal Corps
Evans Signal Laboratory
Belmar
N. J
Harry C. Ingles
Earth
St Louis Truck Accord Ends 18 Day Strike
An agreement to end an 18 day strike by 1,500 truck drivers was reached in St Louis. Leaders of two AFL Teamsters locals and the St Louis Team and Truck Owners association secured pay raises from 5.10 to 7.60 dollars per week and vacation benefits while preserving the 48 hour work week.
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ST. Louis
AFL Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ Union
Gouin Seeks 2 Billion Dollar U.S. Loan
Paris AP reports President Felix Gouin told his Socialist party that only a two and a half billion dollar loan from the United States could save France from chaos. Gouin described France's financial and food situation in dire terms to party members.
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Paris
Felix Gouin
Socialist Party
United States
France
Gouin
Rival Candidate Tamborini Arrested in Jujuy Shooting
Argentine police arrested Dr. Jose Tamborini and his running mate Dr. Enrique Mosca amid riot violence in Jujuy province. They were jailed with 100 campaign supporters as potential material witnesses in the fatal shooting of a 12 year old during a political demonstration.
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Buenos Aires
Jose Tamborini
Juan Peron
Argentina
Jujuy
Tamborini
Democratic Union
Enrique Mosca
Severe Cedar Rapids cold wave headed east this weekend
A harsh cold wave grimly moves toward Cedar Rapids with 5 to 10 below zero forecast Friday night and very cold conditions through Sunday. Northerly winds bring snow flurries and drifting as winter's chill deepens across the state with Pem bina, North Dakota already recording 14 below and Canada air mass moving south.
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Cedar Rapids
Pembina
N. D
Canada
Chambers Inskeep
Mason City
Bevin seeks approval for British loan to Greece
London on Friday Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin asked the commons to approve a forty million sterling loan to Greece to stabilize its currency and hasten economic rehabilitation.
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Bevin
Greece
London
Ernest Bevin
Commons
Navy Atomic Bomb Tests Cost Near Half Billion
Cost estimates for the Pacific atomic experiment show 230 million for hulls and engines of 47 US combat units plus more than 100 million for navy transports. Officials project about 100 million in operating expenses, with unknown costs for one German and two Japanese ships. Vice Admiral Blandy says ships are older and of little fighting value, yet the experiment’s data could be invaluable for national defense.
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Navy
Washington
Pacific
United States
W. H. P. Blandy
Steel Tieup To Make Ford Shut Down Within 10 Days
Ford Motor company warned a complete shutdown within 10 days due to the CIO steelworkers strike. About 15 000 manufacturing workers to be laid off Friday, with 25 000 more within a week, while assembly lines run briefly. Production curtailment threatens plants nationwide.
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Ford
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
M. L. Bricker
United States
River Rouge
Bricker
John S. Bugas
Ford J
Packard Motor Car J Company
Packard
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred Vinson
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
Reuther
Challenge to Hershey seniority ruling in veteran rehiring
Federal Judge Charles G Briggle ruled that an employer need not reinstate a veteran if doing so would displace a non veteran with greater seniority. The decision arose in a declaratory judgment from Olin Industries Western Cartridge plant East Alton TI. It supports company arguments that rehiring many veterans with short wartime tenures could displace longtime workers.
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Springfield
Ill
Selective Service
Lewis B
East Alton
Byrnes Arrives Back in Capital in Sacred Cow
Secretary of State Byrnes returned to Washington on President Truman's Sacred Cow with Mrs. Byrnes. The flight included stops at the Azores Stevensville Newfoundland and return to the capital.
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Byrnes
Sacred Cow
Washington
State Byrnes
London
President Truman
Azores
Stevensville
Newfoundland
Russia Joins Jap Tribunal In Allied War Crimes Case
The Soviet Union along with France and the Netherlands joined the international tribunal to hear the Allied case against Japan's top war crime suspects. Trials may start in March with U S China Britain Canada Australia and New Zealand among participants. In Yokohama a camp commandant Kaichi Hirate was hanged by a U S military commission for the deaths of four Allied prisoners. General Krueger bid farewell as U S Sixth Army is inactivated in Kyoto and personnel move to the Eighth Army.
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Associated Press
Russia
France
Netherlands
International Tribunal
Japan
Gen. MacArthur
United States
China
Great Britain
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Yokohama
Kaichi Hirate
Hirate
Walter Krueger
Sixth Army
Kyoto
Honshu
Sixth
Eighth Army
Time Extended for German Prisoners
President Truman announced that all German war prisoners in the United States will be repatriated by the end of June, extending the schedule by 60 days. Return for contract prisoners will start April 1, with equal monthly installments to clear all by June’s end due to a temporary labor issue in agriculture and wood pulp sectors.
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Washington
Truman
Senate Foes Of Filibuster Battling Odds
Nearly 40 senators signed a petition to limit debate on a FEPC bill to outlaw racial and religious employment discrimination. The move looked doomed as 26 supporters may not meet the two thirds needed to end the filibuster. Senators Bankhead and McClellan spoke hours in favor of delaying cloture while Chavez urged kindness to win over southern opponents.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Morse
R-Ore
FEPC
Sen. Chavez
D-N.m
Chavez
Truman
Barkley
D-Ky
Lewis Rejoins AFL to Reunite Labor Forces
American Federation of Labor President William Green announced the reaffiliation of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers with the AFL. Lewis will join the next AFL Council session, after leaving the AFL in 1936 to form the CIO, and the Mine Workers paid January dues for 600,000 members. Green said the move signals labor unity and may draw other ex AFL unions back into the federation.
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Miami
Fla
American Federation of Labor
William Green Friday
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
AFL
Lewis
Carvey W. Brown
Machinists
Green
CIO
Federation
The
House of Labor
United Labor Movement
Armed Services
William Tell Incident Cited in Connecticut Divorce Case
Elliott C. Beardsley, a farmer and former cowboy, testified in Bridgeport that while both drank, he shot a tin can balanced on his wife's head as a William Tell stunt. He said he allowed his wife to shoot the can from his own head during the incident cited in a cruel and intemperate divorce suit filed after their 1928 marriage and four years apart.
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Bridgeport
Beardsleys
James E. Murphy
Woman seeks breach of promise suit in divorce rift
In Vancouver a wife of 18 years tells police she and her husband never got along and he promised divorce but never filed. She asks whether she can sue him for breach of promise, describing their strained marriage and unresolved separation.
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Vancouver
New Fighter Acclaimed as Most Powerful of Aircraft
GE announced a revolutionary XP-81 fighter powered by a propjet gas turbine and a rear I-40 jet. The plane, built by Consolidated Vultee, is described as the world’s most powerful aircraft with over 500 mph speed and extraordinary maneuverability. Tests at a California Army base showcased power from propjet alone and in combination, signaling advances for both military and civilian transports.
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New York
General Electric Company
War Department
Consolidated Valtee Aircraft Corporation
Army Air Forces
California
Labor dispute brinkmanship as plants seized
A CIO United Packinghouse Workers leader accuses President Truman of strikebreaking as the government moves to seize meat plants. The UPW vows to defer wage talks until after seizure while urging workers to return only with guaranteed wage increases and fair treatment.
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Department of Agriculture
United Packinghouse
Workers of America
Local Union Plans Friday Night Meeting at Z C B J Hall
Cedar Rapids local No. 3 will meet Friday at 8 p.m. in the Z C B J hall to vote on work resumption as the federal government prepares to take over the meat packing industry Saturday. Joe Nemec said members will follow the national committee and express their stance at the meeting.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
United Packinghouse Workers
Third Street SE
Joe Nemec
National Strategy Committee
Chicago
National Committee
Nemec
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James Doolittle
Carl Spaatz
James Stewart
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Stewart
Eighth Air Force
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Hsehess
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Raw Deal
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