Auto Union Proposes GM Arbitration Amid Strike
The UAW asked General Motors to submit the dispute to a presidentially designated arbitrator with a 45 day limit for a ruling. GM would reportedly reject the plan while union leaders said a return to work would follow the arbitrator’s award. The bid came as GM workers stay on strike into its 102nd day and politics within the UAW were cited by GM officials as a barrier to settlement.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Truman
UAW
C. E. Wilson
Wilson
R. J. Thomas
George F. Addes
Walter P
Toffer
GM S
Auto Workers
Harry W. ‘Anderson
Exauto Workers
Anderson
Jap Food Price Ceilings Restored
Tokyo government reimposed price controls on daily necessities to support new income and withdrawal ceilings. Fresh foods including fish are pegged at one third of black market prices, nonfood daily items at half, rice and coal remain under separate controls.
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Tokyo
Imperial Order
Red Cross Drive Opens in Linn County With $86,500 Goal
The 1946 Linn County Red Cross campaign launches Monday aiming to raise 86,500. Volunteers will canvass businesses, factories, and homes over five days to support armed forces services veterans disaster relief and community programs. Campaign chairman Reginald B. Figge notes a peacetime pullback from last year’s quota and references the national goal of 100 million dollars.
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Red Cross
Linn
Reginald B. Figge
Figge
Kaldenberg Surpasses Red Cross Drive Quota
C section mercantile division captain C. C Kaldenberg reported on Saturday that his group reached its quota and turned in 631 dollars to auditors at campaign headquarters.
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C. C Kaldenberg
Mercantile Division
Red Cross
Kaldenberg
Red Cross Drive Urged by Linn County Leader
C. V. Shepherd newly elected Linn County chapter chairman cites the Red Cross slogan Your Red Cross Must Carry On and stresses continued aid for war victims and overseas service members as the drive proceeds.
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C. V. Shepherd
Linn County
Red Cross
Rubber firms and union reach 184 cent wage deal
Washington dispatch reports four leading rubber firms and the CIO rubber workers union agreed on an 18.34 cent hourly raise covering about 100000 workers with 12 cents retroactive to November 1 1945. Agreement awaits National Wage Stabilization Board approval and local ratifications at 40 plants.
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Washington
CIO Rubber Workers Union
L. S. Buckmaster
Goodrich
Goodyear
Firestone
U. S
Buckmaster
South Carolinan Spends 100th Birthday Working
William Miller celebrated his 100th birthday by working on the streets of Columbia selling wares. Born March 2, 1846 in Catawba County North Carolina he served as a guard over Union soldier prisoners at Charleston during the Civil War. He said he is ready for the next hundred years.
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Columbia,s. C
Ins
William Miller
Columbia
Catawba County
N. C
Miller
Charleston
Hirt Acquitted Of Spy Charge By Army Court
S/Sgt. Frank Hirt 31 an air force mechanic was acquitted by a army court martial of conspiring with Nazi agents to transmit U S secrets. The four hour and seventeen minute deliberation found no intent for a worldwide espionage network after his return from Germany before Pearl Harbor. Hirt fainted as verdict read. his wife Jean cried out in relief. He will be returned to the guardhouse for signing out and may resume his post at Fairfield-Suisun airbase.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
Frank Hirt
Air Force
U S
Reich
Germany
Pearl Harbor
Hereford T. Fitch
Seattle
Wash
Hirt
Jean
Fairfield-Suisun
Greenwich Voters Oppose UNO Capital Site
Greenwich residents vote 5505 to 2091 against locating the UNO capital in Greenwich. 8084 turnout with 580 undecided or confused. Local committee says Greenwich will aid UNO only if a site minimizes suffering and dislocation and is mutually agreeable. UNO plans to study sites in Westchester or Fairfield counties and possibly both areas.
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Willie Bushby
New York
Greenwich People’s Committee
Greenwich
UNO
Eduardo Zuletta Angell
Columbia
Bushby
Peoples of
Connecticut
General Assembly
Westchester County
N. Y
Fairfield County
Conn
Hudson and Auto Union Reach 184-Cent Wage Boost Agreement
Hudson Motor Car Co and UAW Local 154 reached a contract settlement covering about 10 000 production workers. The 184 cent hourly pay boost awaits ratification this week. Negotiators included Norman Matthews and Claude Bland with mediation from E M Sconyers and Joseph Wueliner. Hudson produced around 400 cars daily and over 15 000 since civilian output began in October.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Company
CIO Auto Workers Union
R. G. Waldron
Hudson
UAW
Norman Matthews
Claude Bland
Couple Found Dead in Home in Excelsior Springs
In Excelsior Springs Missouri a couple identified as 40 year old restaurant operators Robert Williams and his wife were found dead in their bed room. The house windows were tightly sealed and stove burners were turned on but not lit as investigators probed the deaths.
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Excelsior Springs, Mo
INS
Robert Williams
Excelsior Springs
Satuday
Onions and Garlic Demonstrate Bacteria Killing Claim
Washington diary notes report fifth annual Westinghouse science talent search finalists testing onions and garlic against bacteria. Abraham Schweid of New York City proves germ-killing effect while Marilyn Rohrer of Elizabethtown and Marina Prajmovsky of 22 discuss brain and nerve research. Scholarships worth 11000 awaited final awards.
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Washington
INS
Westinghouse
Abraham Schweid
New York City
Schweid
Marilyn Rohrer
Elizabethtown
Marina Prajmovsky
Harvard Biological Laboratories
Science Clubs of America
Westinghouse Educational Foundation
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Franco Regime Says Communist Offensive Aimed at Spain
Madrid reports the Franco government denounces a new international Communist offensive to topple Franco and end in chaos. It cites French mistreatment of Republican exiles, border clashes, and support for Spanish guerrilla groups as evidence of foreign aggression and interference.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Spain
France
Franco
Vichy
Henri-Philippe Petain
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Pierre Laval
Muscatine Man Killed By Passenger Train
Muscatine, IN. George Thauren, an elderly Muscatine resident, was killed Saturday afternoon when struck by a westbound Rock Island passenger train while walking along the tracks. Ernest Moore, of Muscatine, said both men stepped aside for an eastbound freight and did not hear the approaching passenger train.
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Muscatine
George, Thauren
Rock Island
Ernest Moore
Thauren
Soviet Denies General Told of Grab in Manchuria
London AP reports Moscow radio denied a Russian general said Soviet troops were moving industrial equipment from Mukden Manchuria. Gen Kovtoun-Stankevich allegedly dismissed AP claims as fabrication and cited Big Three decisions possibly made at Yalta or Berlin.
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London
Moscow
Mukden
Manchuria
Tass
Changchun
Andrei) Kovtoun-Stankevich
Associated Press Agency
Kovtoun-Stankevich
Associated Press
Yalta
Berlin
Steady Voice of Bandit Lingers With Taxi Driver
Don Wilson a 35 year old Y M C A. taxi driver describes a vivid masked hold up by a youth wearing a combat jacket with a ruptured duck button. The robber directed Wilson from Grand Hotel corner to Fifth Avenue and Second Street SW then fled on foot after demanding money. Police hunted the suspect, a blond youth about 18 to 22 years old, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches tall, 135 to 140 pounds, armed with a gun. Wilson, a World War II veteran, kept driving and gave a spoken account of the encounter. The night’s receipts were left short by seven to eight dollars.
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Cedar Rapids News
Don Wilson
M.C.A
Cedar Rapids
Wilson
Tenth Street
Tenth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Fourth Street
Second Street
Card Game Gun Victim Identified As Cafe Bandit
Iowa City police identified Gatton 47 as the man who held up William Barnes in Iowa City Feb 20 and robbed him of 269 dollars. Gatton was killed in Clinton after a card game shooting by George Sager 40. Gatton had a prior record including a 20 year Ft Madison sentence for forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Guy Morely Gatton
Clinton
William T. Barnes
Gatton
University Hospital
Love Notes Tied to Quarry Slaying of Two in Indiana
Police in Bloomington reveal a choir singer Phyllis Coleman and Russell Koontz were found slain in an abandoned quarry. Both married, they were beaten and strangled, with Coleman's slip found in Koontz mouth. Love notes addressed to Coleman surfaced, hinting at an affair that sparked church gossip.
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Bloomington
Ind
Phyllis Coleman
Russell Koontz
Christian Church
Clear Creek
Here
Koontz
Colmar
Kenneth
Albert Skirvin
Monroe County
Ray J. Hunkle
Indiana
Mystery Echoes Hall Mills Case In Bloomington
Reports in Bloomington link the Koontz and Coleman killings to the Hall Mills murder in New Jersey. The 1922 Hall murder involved Rev Wheeler Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills shot and slashed, with arrests only attempted later and acquittals for Frances Hall and her brothers.
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Bloomington
Ind
Russell Koontz
Phyllis Coleman
Hall- Mills
New Brunswick
Edward ‘Wheeler Hall
Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist
Eleanor Mills
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