Senators Seek Demonstration of Safe Plutonium Denaturing
Senatorial inquiry into denaturing plutonium for peaceful use and the feasibility of restoring explosive qualities. Questions centered on a practical demonstration of the denaturing process and the risk of reviving bomb potential. Debate touched on international control versus domestic authority and possible State Department support.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Dean Acheson
Experts Study Depth Change for Bikini Atoll Blast
Experts preparing for the Bikini Atoll test report a plan to drop a bomb at a depth of 25 to 50 feet rather than on the surface. The depth change would likely increase the explosion's effect on ships, with government branches and the state department involved in the assessment.
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State Department
Bikini Atoll
Green Opposes Strikes Ban and New Economic Policy
Washington AP William Green AFL president urged continuation of price controls and a hands off stance on labor disputes. He attacked Baruch's one year ban proposal and the new stabilization policy as provocative to labor and warned against abandoning price controls. He backed extending OPA and rent ceilings and criticized the patchwork policy as harmful to workers. Representatives from 20 organizations backed extending OPA, while Green said the policy would raise prices and hurt working people.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Bernard M. Baruch
Green
House Banking Committee
Congress
OPA
Baruch
Truman
Shoplifters Use Broken Arm Sling in Theft Ring
Evansville stores eyed youths with slings as a seven member gang exploited a broken arm sling to steal small items. One boy pretended injury while others borrowed the sling to hide cigaret lighters and flashlights, evading suspicion at local shops.
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Evansville, Ind
Ins
Evansville
Draft Hearings Set To Open Thursday
The Senate Military Affairs Committee delayed a final vote on extending the draft beyond May 15 for two weeks and will hold public hearings starting Thursday. Army and Navy witnesses are expected to argue for a one year extension, with other witnesses limited to 15 minutes. The request for a year extension came from Byrnes Patterson and Forrestal after a closed three hour meeting.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Joseph C. O’mahoney
D-Wyo
O'Mahoney
Army
General Marshall to Testify in China Diplomacy Followup
The testimony resumes in the next few days and continues for about two weeks with Gen. Marshall available as a witness. He plans to return soon to his diplomatic post in China and will assist for the two week window.
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Marshall
China
Mediators Say Westinghouse Talks Blocked By Company
Two mediators who withdrew from the 75 thousand worker Westinghouse strike charged the company made mediation impossible. They cited March 22 refusal to negotiate unless wage demands were met in full and a failure to extend the contract, noting the dispute began January 15 over a 25 cent hourly rise later cut to 18 34 cents.
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Washington (Lp
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Labor Department
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
William H. Davis
War Labor Board
Arthur S. Meyers
New York
State Mediation Board
United Electrical Workers
CIO
Westinghouse
General Electric Company
General Motors Corporation
Union
Davis
Meyers
Ambiguous Wage Offer Terms Cited in Classifications
A quoted phrase notes no across the board offer or an offer of 18 percent or 17 percent an hour in any classifications to which it applies. The language implies disputes over wage scale adjustments across job categories without a defined rate set.
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Armstrong Sportswear
Labor-Saving Device Helps Dairy Burglars
In Chicago burglars robbed Sunnybrook Farms Cooperative Milk plant of 324 pounds of butter. They used the conveyor belt system to move the butter to the loading platform where they had parked their car.
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Chicago
INS
Sunnybrook Farms Cooperative Milk Company
Turkey Support Prices Planned for Emergency
DES MOINES UP A J Loveland state director of the Production and Marketing administration announced that the agriculture department will support turkey prices during the feed emergency. The plan aims at 90 percent of parity with an average price of 20.3 cents per pound.
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Des Moines
A. J. Loveland
The
Production and Marketing Administration
Department of Agriculture
Loveland
Army Kin To Sail For Europe Soon
Some 1200 family members of 676 officers and 24 enlisted men will sail for Europe in mid April to join occupation forces in Austria and Germany. Mrs Mark Clark and Mrs Lucius D Clay among those listed. War department said all eligible dependents were approved and enlisted dependents delayed awaiting assignments.
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Washington
Europe
Mark Clark
Austria
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
War Department
Priorities Set for Dependent Travel Eligibility
The department will decide eligibility to send for families based on overseas time, with additional dependents transportation requests filed with Gen. Joseph T. McNarney theater commander for May and subsequent months. Tuesday's list did not include any eastern Iowans.
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Department
Joseph T. McNartney
Czechoslovak actress Zorka Jana dies by own action
Prague AP reports Zorka Jana, noted Czechoslovak film actress, committed suicide by jumping from her sister Lida Baarova’s fashionable Prague home. Jana had been ill. Baarova, once hailed as Europe’s most beautiful woman, is prisoned as a possible collaborator with Nazi officials.
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Prague
Zorka Jana
Lida Baarova
Zorka
Lida
Europe
Josef Goebbels
Warm-blooded Animals Origin Theories Rooted in Permian
The belief that warm-blooded animals originated during the Permian period reflects longstanding geological and biological debates. Scientists examine fossil records and physiological traits to trace the evolution of endothermy across early amniotes and synapsids.
Harvester Reconsiders Farm Tractor Plant Plans
CHICAGO AP Internation al Harvester says it may shift tractor production from Wood River to the former Curtiss Wright aviation plant in Louisville Kentucky due to current and future industrial construction difficulties. If approved by the government the Louisville plant would operate as a tractor factory replacing the Wood River site for now. The Wood River location remains intended for a future farm equipment plant employing 3000 to 3500 workers after market conditions stabilize.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
Wood River
Ralph C. Archer
Curtiss-Wright Aviation
Louisville
Archer
Tojo Losing Memory as U S Questions Guilt
Tokyo AP reports former premier Hideki Tojo awaiting war crimes trial may be losing memory. Japanese sources say American prosecutors doubt his condition and suspect he is feigning. He allegedly cannot recall dates and moments of recent events during questioning.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Tojo
Marshall Stark To Testify Again
The Pearl Harbor investigating committee decided to reopen public hearings for additional testimony by Admiral Stark, former chief of naval operations. Committee members said Gen. George C. Marshall, former army chief of staff, would be called back if Stark’s testimony required his appearance.
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Washington
INS
Pearl Harbor
Admiral Stark
Naval Operations
George C. Marshall
Army
Stark
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