Travel Cut In East by Bus Strike
AFL led walkout halts Greyhound service east of Chicago to New England and southern states. About 4,000 drivers and station workers in New York Chicago Cleveland Columbus Washington Boston and other cities walk off at midnight. Lines affected include Central Greyhound New England Greyhound Pennsylvania Greyhound Canadian Greyhound Illinois Greyhound and Eastern Greyhound. Daily passenger volume for Central and Pennsylvania Greyhound runs in the September about 40 000 to 50 000. Across the nation 255 000 workers idle due to continuing disputes with Western Union and other unions also pushing wage increases. Milk deliveries and a San Francisco plant closure threat add local disruption but milk remains available in most stores.
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Associated Press
Greyhound Bus Lines
Chicago
New England
AFL
Greyhound
New York
Cleveland
Columbus
Washington
Boston
AFL Amalgamated Street Railway and Motor Coach Employes’ Union
St. Louis
Central Greyhound
New England Greyhound
Pennsylvania Greyhound
Canadian Greyhound
Illinois Greyhound
Eastern Greyhound
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
Frisco
San Francisco Bay Area
Cial
San Francisco
Restrictions on Deliveries Ended
Washington dispatch reports the end of wartime delivery controls across milk laundry dry cleaning meals vegetables bread ice and most groceries and merchandise. DDT chief J Monroe Johnson cautions it may take months to restore prewar service levels.
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Washington
INS
Office of Defense
DDT
J. Monroe Johnson
Union man leaves job to return to army after union fee dispute
Myron F. Oliver, discharged after five and a half years in the army including 16 months in the Pacific, rejoined as a master sergeant after refusing a $50 AFL union initiation fee tied to a promotion at his sheet metal job. He said he preferred service over paying for work.
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Salt Lake City
Myron F. Oliver
Army
Oliver
Pacific
AFL
Fgack
Soviet Withdrawal From Manchuria Reported By Chinese Dispatch
A semi official Chinese dispatch from Tientsin says Soviet forces in Manchuria will begin a large scale withdrawal Friday and finish by Dec 1. Chinese forces would then take over garrison duties and the operation should complete by Dec 3.
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Chungking
Tientsin
Manchuria
Changchun
Chiang Kaishek
United States
China
Chou En-lai
Kuomintang
Seventh Fleet
Chinwangtao
Peiping
Peitaiho
Peiping-Mukden
Chiang
Chou
Enterprise Joins Navy Hall of Fame
The aircraft carrier Enterprise, famed Pacific veteran, was authorized for preservation and to join the naval hall of fame beside the Constitution and other historic ships. President Truman approved the plan after a plea from Secretary James Forrestal noting the ship’s war record and the desire to avoid scrapping.
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Washington
Enterprise
Pacific
Navy
Truman
Naval Hall of Fame
Constitution
Constellation
Hartford
Olympia
United States
Secretary
James Forrestal
Death of Fuehrer Reported By British Intelligence
British headquarters reported that intelligence indicates Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun died on April 30 in the Reich Chancellery bunker. It says Hitler killed himself, Braun took poison, and their bodies were burned in the garden by Goebbels, Bormann, and others after the suicides.
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Berlin
Hitler
Eva Braun
Reichschancellery
Goebbels
Bormann
Marshall Field Workers Hit New Strike Wave
In Chicago AFL Building Service Employees members staged a 1000 person strike at the Marshall Field and Company department store. They formed picket lines at main entrances and threatened to mobilize Merchandise Mart colleagues if wage demands remained unmet.
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Chicago
Marshall Field and Company
AFL Building Service
Merchandise Mart
Release for Enlisted Air Force 50 Pointers
Washington AP announces that Air Force enlisted men in the United States with 50 through 59 points and two years of service are eligible for discharge. Those with 25 through 33 points and one year of service are also eligible. Overseas fifty-pointers will be discharged immediately upon return.
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Washington
Army Lair
United States
Air Force
Navy Flying Might Draws 15000 At City Airport Show
Sky watchers estimated about 15,000 attended a Victory loan bond show at the municipal airport where Navy pilots performed in a flown display. Marine Capt. W. J. Thomas of Los Angeles led with bold aerobatics aboard a Tigercat, praised by teammates for his prowess and risk.
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Navy
W. J. Thomas
Los Angeles
Calif
Thomas
Guadalcanal
Tokyo
Iowa residents buy $1.1 million in Victory bonds in four days
Iowa bond officials report $1.1 million in series E bonds purchased in four days of the Victory loan drive. Officials note many readers are taking on individual quotas as the campaign continues. W. L. Clark says the next days will show if Iowans back the effort.
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Des Moines
Iowa
W. L. Clark
Iowa Bond Committee
Navy pilots lead dramatic air show display over city
Lt. Cmdr. Willard Eder from West Atlantic City opens an air show with the 13 Hellcats Avengers Helldivers Corsairs and Thomas's Tigercat moving from storage to flying position. The squadron roars aloft as crowds watch the aerobatic sequence begin.
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Hellcats
Avengers
Helldivers
Corsairs
Tigercat
Cmdr
Willard Eder
West Atlantic City
N. J
Navy
Air
Page &Col
Georgia Pardons Fugitive Burns After 23 Years
Georgia commuted Robert Elliott Burns sentence and restored civil rights but declined full pardon due to admission of guilt. Burns, famed author of I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, had fled in 1922 after a 580 dollar hold up and later sought clemency with Gov. Arnell before his parole board decision.
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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
Frangee
Robert E
Caroline
Arnall
Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles
Chicago
Emily Pachao Burns
New York City
Harry Moore
New Jersey
Tax Bill Goes To President
The senate approved a 5.92 billion tax reduction bill sending it to President Truman for signature. It boosts incomes for millions, exempts 12 million from tax, aids veterans, repeals excess profits tax on corporations and other levies, lowers business tax rates, ends the use tax, and freezes social security payroll tax at 1 percent for 1946.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Truman
Extremist attacks cripple Palestine railways in coordinated strikes
In Jerusalem district a wave of coordinated attacks by Jewish extremists damaged rail lines from Dan to Beersheba. Four or five people were killed and eight wounded, including a British soldier, policemen, and railway staff. At Lydda station a locomotive shed and trains were set ablaze as crews exchanged fire. An explosion sank a Jaffa police launch and blasts hit Haifa.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Dan
Beersheba
Britain
Pales
Lydda
Jaffa
Haifa
Ina Hibbard Dies Beloved Cedar Rapids Teacher at 81
Miss Ina Hibbard longtime Cedar Rapids teacher of 52 years died Wednesday at a local hospital after a lingering illness. She was 81. Services Saturday at 10 30 am Turner chapel burial Linwood Park Boone Iowa. Remembered for discipline through love and strong rapport with students including Washington High pupils from 1892 to 1934.
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Ina Hibbard
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
Linwood Park
Boone
Washington High
Miss Hibbard
Byrnes backs Monroe plan in East Europe
Secretary of State James Byrnes told the New York Herald Tribune forum the United States supports a Monroe Doctrine style arrangement under Soviet leadership in eastern and central Europe while opposing forced imposition of the Soviet system. He urged full integration of regional systems into a world UN framework and warned 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 Stage Air Push to Clear Magelang Amid Java Action
RAF fighters blasted Indonesian forces at Magelang in Java aiding British troops to retake the interior stronghold. Thunderbolts hit three targets while supplies and ammo were dropped for Gurkhas inside the city. Allies also airlifted tanks to Soerabaja as talks began between Dutch and Indonesian representatives in Batavia.
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Batavia
Java
Magelang
Ghurka
Semarang
Soerabaja
A. W Mallaby
Dutch East Indies
Hubertus J. van Mook
R. Sukarno
Sukarno
Soerabaya
R.A.F
November Signals Change in Drouth Policy for C. R.
Weather notes from Iowa describe November bringing a shift in drought policy and a rainy spell. Cedar Rapids reports show limited precipitation with many traces and showers, while statewide records highlight October as very dry. Temperatures varied from mid forties to upper sixties with a chilly Cedar Rapids low of 24 degrees on two dates. The outlook for November remained unsettled as temperatures fluctuated through the day.
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Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Iowa Bureau
Sibley
Border friction grows between Poland and Czechoslovakia at Teschen
Reports of new clashes between Polish and Czech nationals in the Teschen border zone heightened tensions. Officials from both sides blamed the other as patrols tightened controls and residents feared further incidents.
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Warsaw
Teschen
Laborites To Run Aviation In Britain Plan Nationalized Airways
Britain's Labor government announced plans to nationalize civil aviation and the empire’s cables and wireless system. The plan envisages three government owned airlines and nationalization of all airfields in the British Isles, forming a national system adaptable to commonwealth or international cooperation.
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London
Britain
Empire Communications System of Cables and Wireless, Ltd
House of Commons
Cables and Wireless
British Isles
Discharge score reductions widen GI release eligibility
The army cut enlisted men's discharge score from 70 to 60 on Thursday, enabling about 900,000 more soldiers to be released. Wacs saw their score fall from 36 to 34, expanding eligibility for service members in that category.
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Washington
Army
Molotov Rejects Anglo American Press Censorship Plea
Moscow reports Foreign Commissar Molotov rejected a request from the Anglo American press association to lift censorship on dispatches to the United States and Britain. The reply was delivered verbally through a press department attache and cited as not solid, thus under consideration.
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Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Anglo-American Press, Association
Russia
United States
Britain
Molotov
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