Wage boost of 18 cents in car pact
Ford Motor Company and the CIO United Auto Workers reached a wage settlement of 18 cents an hour, about 15.1 percent, with an early date for the increase undecided. The accord affects nearly 100,000 Ford workers and comes as GM and Chrysler talks continue unresolved amid broader industry wage disputes.
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Ford
Chrysler
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto
UAW
General Motors
John &. Bugas
Richard T. Leonard
Clark Warns Labor and Business in Tug of War for Power
Indiana Attorney General Clark told the Indiana Bar Association that big labor and business interests hold too much power. He urged them to settle differences for America’s sake or risk government intervention, noting strikes disrupt the public. He also warned government would act to curb unrest.
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Indianapolis
Clark
Indiana Bar Association
America
Fire Gut Staten Island Piers and Warehouses
A spectacular windswept blaze destroyed four Staten Island piers two barges and three freight warehouses owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company. Officials estimated damage over 500000 dollars. Locomotives moved 350 freight cars to safety from yards nearby as sparks flew.
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New York
Staten Island
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Charles Karban Declared Dead
Staff Sgt. Charles W. Karban Jr. 27, reported missing near Yugoslavia Jan 21 1945, declared presumed dead by the War Department. An engineer-gunner on a Fifteenth Army Air Force bomber based in Italy, he had his Air Medal already awarded. Survived by wife at 375 Nineteenth St SE and son Billy, father at 818 Thirteenth St NW, and sister Lt. Anna Louise Karban a flight nurse at Hickam Field.
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Charles W. Karban, Jr
Yugoslavia
War Department
Billy
Nineteenth Street
Sef Karban
Fifteenth Army Air Force
Italy
Coe
Colonial Baking Company
States
Mediterranean
Charles W. Karban
Thirteenth Street
Anna Louise Karban
Hickam Field
Honolulu
Hawaii
Winant Harriman May Resign Soon
Washington AP report says two top U S envoys Averell Harriman ambassador to Russia and John Winant ambassador to Britain are ready to quit. Possible successors include Fiorello LaGuardia for Harriman and Joseph Davies or James Dunn for Winant, with Dunn linked to a UN social and economic council post. Harriman left Moscow for home while Winant’s plans remain unclear.
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Washington
United States
Averell Harriman
Russia
John Winant
Britain
Harriman
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
LaGuardia
South America
Truman
Brazil
Moscow
Joseph Davies
James Dunn
Winant
United Nations ‘Social and Economic Council
Attlee says no positions offered to Duke of Windsor
London report states Prime Minister Attlee declared on Saturday that the Duke of Windsor has not been offered any diplomatic or official post. No further details or official sources accompany the claim.
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London
INS
Attlee
Duke of Windsor
Agreement Sealed Between Railroads and 18 Unions
The nation's major railroads and 18 of 20 railroad labor unions agreed to arbitrate wage demands for 1.25 million workers, about 85 percent of rail employees. Management said the deal was reached after three weeks of talks facilitated by the National Railway Mediation Board.
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Chicago
National Railway Mediation Board
Rail unions plan strike vote despite wage arbitration
Cleveland AP reports that A F Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, said on Saturday that an agreement by major railroads and 18 unions to arbitrate wage demands would not change the brotherhoods plan to hold a strike vote.
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Cleveland (Ap
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Rail unions consider wage hikes and arbitration pact
Talks between railroad unions and management move toward binding arbitration after 15 non operating unions demand 30 cent hourly gains while three operating groups seek 2.50 a day. Two boards, six and three members, would settle disputes with decisions binding. Leaders from the Order of Railway Conductors involved in Chicago negotiations.
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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Order of Railway Conductors
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Chicago
H. W. Fraser
Fred H. Nemitz
R. O. Hughes
Fraser
Labor Dept Demoralization Seen in Tracy Departure
Washington and labor circles report Daniel W. Tracy resigned as first assistant secretary of labor amid White House veto powers over Secretary Schwellenbach. Tracy, in office since 1940, was said to be discouraged by the triple authority dominated by Snyder and Steelman, with Lubin’s ouster adding to morale decline.
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Washington
Labor Department
Daniel W. Tracy
Labor
Truman
White House
Schwellenbach
Tracy
John W. Snyder
John R. Steelman
Isador Lubin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Frances Perkins
E. Carl Moran
Maine
Moran
Department of the United States Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
War Labor Board
AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
AFL
A. Ford ‘Hinrichs
Lubin
Asaoa
McCollum loses bid to ban religious classes in public schools
A three judge circuit court in Urbana Illinois refused to issue a mandamus to stop non sectarian religious education classes in Champaign public schools. Mrs Vashti McCollum mother of three argued her son faced embarrassment and time loss but the court found no constitutional rights violated and denied the petition.
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Urbana
Ill
Champaign
McCollum
James Terry McCollum
Terry
Wyatt Will Head Housing Agency
President Truman named Wilson W. Wyatt administrator of the National Housing Agency succeeding John B. Blandford Jr. Blandford heads to China to set up a budget system for the Chinese government. Wyatt, ex Louisville mayor and housing expeditor, will take the post February 1. White House press secretary Charles G. Ross noted the Chinese government had asked for an American to establish their budget system.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt
National Housing Agency
John B. Blandford, Jr
China
Wyatt
Louisville
Blandford
Charles G. Ross
White House
You Can Listen in On Moon Tonight
New Jersey Belmar radar contact with the moon will be broadcast nationwide at 11 Iowa time via Mutual Broadcasting. The army again uses radar to reach the moon, with listeners invited to tune in tonight.
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New York
INS
Iowa
Belmar
N. J
Mutual Broadcasting System
Clark-Kerr Takes Washington Ambassadorship May 1
London reporting British foreign office announces Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr will become ambassador to the United States on May 1, succeeding the Earl of Halifax. Clark-Kerr currently serves as ambassador to the Soviet Union.
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London
Archibald Clark-Kerr
Washington
Earl of Halifax
Foreign Office
Archibald
Soviet Union
U S War Casualties Compared World War II and I
Washington report shows U S World War II casualties at about 1,068,388 with 283,149 dead and an expected rise toward 300,000 as missing may be found. In World War I U S casualties totaled 364,800 with 126,000 killed and 234,000 wounded.
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Washington
United States
Army
Navy
War Department
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Daily Record Index Fragment
Partial readable index page items include sections for Courthouse Deaths Marion Movies Radio Sports and State events with scattered phrases and broken OCR like Men Women in Service outlining generic content without full details. Entities such as Marion and State appear, but no clear events dates or outcomes are readable from the fragment.
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Iran Premier Pick May Stall Iran Russia Talks
London AP reports Ahamed Qavam's selection as Iran premier could yield a temporary victory for Russia in the UN Security Council dispute over the Soviet occupied zone in northern Iran. Iran may shelve the case while negotiating with Moscow. In the General Assembly, Spaak won the presidency over Trygve Lie, despite Ukrainian and Soviet opposition to nominations.
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London
Ahamed Qavam
Iran
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Council
Qavam
Moscow
Security Council
Ukraine
United States
General Assembly
Paul-Henri Spaak
Belgium
Assembly
Trygve Lie
Norway
Philip Noel- Baker
Spaak
Dmitri Manuilsky
Andrei ‘Gromyko
Frank Walker
Terje Wold
Temperatures Dive in Iowa Cedar Rapids Forecast
A weather notice reports sharp temperature drops in Cedar Rapids Iowa with evening lows expected around seven o clock. Forecasters warn of wind chills and possible frost keeping residents indoors tonight.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Cold Wave Grips Cedar Rapids and Midwest Region
Cedar Rapids and much of the Midwest faced an historic cold wave. Temperatures fell to 17 below zero in Cedar Rapids with 22 below in Decorah and 34 below in International Falls. Roads iced across the state, motorists warned to drive with care as highs lingered near zero in several areas.
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Cedar Rapids
Decorah
Elkader
Garner
Estherville
Mason City
The
Highway Commission
Commission
Texas
New York State
Midwest
Iowa
Minnesota
Pakotas
International Falls
Minn
St. Louis
Oklahoma City
Pampa
Michigan
Denver
Colo
Petrillo May Face Diplomatic Action
Dr. Oscar Presmanes Cuban consul warned of diplomatic action against James C. Petrillo president of the American Federation of Musicians for banning the Le cuona Cuban Boys at the Orpheum theater. He argued the group arrived under Cuba's department of education cultural mission and were not union members.
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Los Angeles
Oscar Presmanes
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Petrillo
Orpheum Theater
Musician’s Union
Department of Education of Cuba
United States
Dr. Presmanes
Japs Accused of Trying To Evade Fishing Restrictions
Tokyo AP Gen Mac Arthur's HQ accuses Japanese officials of a system to break fishing area limits after surrender. Six requests for revision in 4.5 months, four denied. some aims tied to world market. Also notes food rationing raid, Communist Nosaka critique, and cabinet reshuffle with Murakami as transportation minister.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Hubert G. Schenck
Schenck
Australia
Indian Ocean
Mexico
Sanzo Nosaka
Yenan
China
Kijuro Shidehara
Nosaka
Shidehara
Giichi Murakami
Meat Strike Isn't Ended By CIO Act
CHICAGO AP The CIO United Packinghouse Workers urged its 193000 members to return to work Monday in government controlled plants but did not end the strike. AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters said 55000 striking members were back or ready to return. If carried out the CIO move would push meat production next week. President Lewis J Clark said locals would withdraw pickets by 5 p.m. if the Agriculture secretary would seek approval for any wage increase a fact finding panel might recommend. He said retroactive payments were expected. Clark warned the strike would resume if the wage increase rejected. Government operation head Gayle Armstrong praised cooperation and said shipments should be orderly to avoid gluts. Clark’s statement quoted assurances from Secretary Anderson of cabinet commitment to fair treatment and to implement the fact finding report.
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Chicago
CIO United Packinghouse Workers Union
AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
CIO
Uncle Sam
Lewis J. Clark
Anderson
Clark
National Wage Policy Committee
Phil Murray
Gayle G Armstrong
United States
Wilson Seized But Picket Lines Remain
The Cedar Rapids Wilson and Company plant was seized by the government at midnight Friday. Harry A. Palmer named plant manager under new setup. Thomas E. Wilson named company manager. Notices posted. first Cedar Rapids plant seizure in a labor dispute. Picketing continues as usual per United Packinghouse Workers Local No. 3 and union leadership.
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Cedar Rapids
Wilson and Company
Harry A. Palmer
Palmer
Chicago
Thomas E. Wilson
Gayle C. Armstrong
United Packing House Workers Local No. 3
Wilson
ICBJ
Third Street
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Windsor
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Carl A. Spaatz
Army Air Forces
G.I
Clark-Kerr
U.S
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