Travel Cut In East by Bus Strike
Thousands of bus passengers faced delays as 4000 AFL employees stopped work halting Greyhound lines from Chicago to New England and the south. Western Union mail workers also threatened a nationwide walkout after failed wage talks, while San Francisco area machinists staged a major strike affecting dozens of plants and milk deliveries.
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Greyhound Bus Lines
Chicago
New England
AFL
Greyhound Lines
New York
Cleveland
Columbus
Washington
Boston
AFL Amalgamated Street Railway and Motor Coach Employee Union
St. Louis
Central Greyhound
New England Greyhound
Pennsylvania Greyhound
Canadian Greyhound
Illinois Greyhound
Eastern Greyhound
Central
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
San Francisco Bay Area
CIO
San Francisco
Early Soviet Exodus Seen In Manchuria
A semi official Chinese dispatch from Tientsin says Soviet forces in Manchuria will begin a large scale withdrawal on Friday and finish by December 1. Chinese troops may take over garrison duties as the area is handed over, while Communists resist Chiang Kai shek forces entering Manchuria.
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Chungking
Tientsin
Manchuria
Changchun
Chiang Kai Shek
United States
China
Chou En-lai
Kuomintang
United States Seventh Fleet
Chinwangtao
Peiping
Peitaiho
Peiping-Mukden
Chiang
Chou
Restrictions on Deliveries Ended
Washington reports unrestricted milk deliveries resumed as wartime controls are lifted. The Office of Defense Mobilization ends major rationing affecting milk every other day laundry and dry cleaning twice weekly perishable meats vegetables bread ice multiple items. J Monroe Johnson cautions full restoration may take months.
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Washington
INS
Office of Defensetion
Board
DDT
J. Monroe Johnson
Union man reenlists after quitting AFL union
SALT LAKE CITY AP It was not mere nostalgia that drove veteran Ron Foa to rejoin the Army after being discharged Oct 12. He served five and a half years, 16 months in the Pacific, and chose to reenlist rather than stay in a job with a sheet metal shop offering a BS. He objected to paying an initiation fee to an AFL union and discussed the decision with his wife before returning to service.
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Salt Lake City
Myron Foa
Army
Pacific
AFL
Oliver
Enterprise Joins Navy Hall of Fame
Washington UPS Secretary of the Navy announced that the aircraft carrier Enterprise will be preserved as a historic naval ship, joining the Constitution, Constellation, Hartford and Olympia in the Navy Hall of Fame. President Truman authorized the preservation, honoring the carrier for its World War II service and the pilots who flew from its deck.
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Washington
Enterprise
Pacific
Navy
Truman
Naval Hall of Fame
Constitution
Constellation
Hartford
Olympia
United States
Secretary of Navy
James Forrestal
Death of Fuehrer Reported Definite
Berlin dispatch says British HQ cites intelligence that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun died April 30 in the Reich Chancellery bunker. The report claims Hitler shot himself and Braun took poison, their bodies burned in the garden nearby.
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Berlin
Hitler
Eva Braun
Reichschancellery
Goebbels
Bormann
Strike by Marshall Field workers blocks store entrances
About 1,000 maintenance and non selling employees of the Marshall Field and Company department store in Chicago walked off the job, forming picket lines at the store entrances. The AFL Building Service Employees threatened to unionize Merchandise Mart workers if wage demands were not satisfied.
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Chicago
Marshall Field and Company
AFL Building Service
Merchandise Mart
Release for Enlisted Air Force 50 Pointers
Washington agency announces that Army and Air Force enlisted men with 50 through 59 points and two years service qualify for discharge. Also eligible are those with 33 points and one year of service. Fifty pointers overseas will be discharged on return to the United States.
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Washington
Army Air Force
United States
Ifty
Navy Flying Might thrills 15000 at municipal airfield
Sky-gazing spectators at the municipal airport watch 13 Navy pilots perform the Navy's Flying Might show. Marine Capt. W. J. Thomas from Los Angeles wowed the crowd with a Tigercat fighter bomber routine after a combat career from Guadalcanal to Tokyo.
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Navy
W. J. Thomas
Los Angeles
Calif
Thomas
Guadalcanal
Tokyo
Iowans Buy $1.1 Million in Victory Bond Quota
Iowa bond officials report Americans have purchased 1.1 million dollars of the states 46.0 million dollar Victory loan quota in four days. Executives say individuals are meeting quotas and accepting responsibility in this campaign as W L Clark thanks supporters for the victory.
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Des Moines
Aerial Show Opens With Fighter Squadron Display
The formation of 13 Hellcats Avengers Helldivers Corsairs and Thomas Tigercat lifts off as Gerard Eder of West Atlantic City New Jersey leads the airborne sequence. Navy pilots climb quickly at near stall speed to begin the display.
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Hellcats
Avengers
Helldivers
Corsairs
Thomas’ Tigercat
Gerard Eder
West Atlantic City
N. J
Eeri Des
Georgia Pardons Fugitive Burns After 23 Years
Georgia granted a state pardon for Robert Elliott Burns, commuting his 23 year chain gang sentence to time served and restoring civil rights while denying a full pardon. Burns, author of I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, sought clemency with Gov. Ellis Arnall's support after years abroad.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Robert Elliott Burns
State Pardon and Parole Board
Burns
New York Daily Mirror
Ellis Arnall
Union
N. J
Clara
Franz
Robert E
Caroline
Arnall
Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles
Harry Moore
New Jersey
Tax Bill Goes To President
The senate approved a 5.92 trillion dollar tax reduction bill and sent it to President Truman for signature. It promises universal income tax relief, exempts 12 million earners, gives veterans tax preferences, repeals excess profits and capital stock taxes, lowers business rates, ends the use tax on cars, and freezes the social security payroll tax at 1 percent for 1946.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Truman
Rails Blasted In Holy Land By Extremists
In coordinated attacks overnight and into Thursday, Jewish extremists railway lines were cut at 50 places from Dan to Beersheba, trains wrecked, and police boats blown up. Casualties reported include four or five killed and eight wounded, among them a British soldier, policemen, and railway staff. The heaviest strike hit Lydda station with signal box and locomotives set ablaze.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Dan
Beersheba
Britain
Lydda
Jaffa
Haifa
Ina Hibbard Dies Beloved Cedar Rapids Teacher at 81
Ina Hibbard longtime Cedar Rapids teacher for 52 years died after a lingering illness at 81. Services set for Saturday at Turner Chapel with burial in Linwood Park Cemetery Boone. Former Washington High students recall her teaching style discipline through kindness and fellowship.
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Ina Hibbard
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
Linwood Park
Boone
Washington High
Miss Hibbard
Byrnes Endorses Monroe Plan for East Europe
Secretary Byrnes told a New York Herald Tribune forum the United States will not join hostile intrigues against Soviet unions regional interests in eastern and central Europe. He urged integration of regional systems into a world UN framework while opposing forcible imposition of any system and warning against regional isolationism in the atomic age.
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New York
James F. Byrnes
United States
Russia
Europe
Americas
Byrnes
New York Herald Tribune Forum
United Nations
Soviet Union
America
Fighters Go Into Action At Java City
RAF fighters bombed Magelang to clear the way for British troops to recapture most of the interior strong point in Java. Supplies were dropped to Ghurka troops inside the city as reinforcement units moved in from Semarang. Dutch and Indonesian delegates began informal talks in Batavia to seek a political understanding while Sukarno urged Java to cease fighting.
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Batavia
Java
Magelang
Ghurka
Semarang
Soerabaja
A. W. Mallaby
Dutch East Indies
Hubertus J. van Mook
I. R. Sukarno
Sukarno
R.A.F
November Signals Weather Policy Shift for Cedar Rapids
November brings a shift in drouth policy as Cedar Rapids reports only .23 inches in October, with statewide drought records. the Iowa weather bureau predicts colder conditions, rain and a cooler November ahead as temperatures swing from 46 to 60 degrees in morning readings.
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Drouth
C. R
Cedar Rapids
Chambers -Inskeep
Sioux City
Iowa
Sibley
Polish Czech Border Friction Intensifies Clashes Reported
Mutual tensions rise along the Polish Czech border as reports of clashes increase in the disputed zone. Polish and Czech authorities exchange statements amid ongoing friction and patrol activities.
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Warsaw
Laborites To Run Aviation
Britain’s Labor government outlined plans to nationalize civil aviation and the empire communications system of Cables and Wireless. Three government owned airlines would operate, and all airdromes in the British Isles would be monopolized under a national plan adaptable to Commonwealth or international schemes.
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London
Britain
Empire Communications System of Cables and Wireless, Ltd
House of Commons
Cables and Wireless
British Isles
Discharge Scores Cut Spark Broad Soldier Releases
Washington AP reports the army lowers the enlisted discharge score by two points to 34 for Wacs and to 60 for enlisted, enabling about 900,000 more soldiers to be released. The changes reduce eligibility thresholds and reflect ongoing postwar demobilization.
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Washington
Army
Reds Resist Press Censorship Request in Moscow
Foreign Minister Molotov answered by voice through a press attaché that Russia would not accept censorship demands from Anglo American powers. The envoy quoted Molotov dismissing the pressure during talks in Moscow.
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Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Russia
United States
Britain
Molotov
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