Nationalists claim Shanhaikwan capture as Changchun situation shifts
Chinese nationalist forces announce capture of Shanhaikwan in a flank move to seize the Great Wall gateway into Manchuria. Chungking reports say officials retreating from Changchun lose Soviet protection, with Communist activity rising near the city. Marines guard Chinwangtao rail links as clashes along the Tientsin Mukden line continue.
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Chinwangtao
China
Shanhaikwan
Great Wall
Manchuria
Chungking
Changchun
Manchurian
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Chung-kuo
Tu Li-ming
Gulf of Chihu
United State
Tientsin
Tientsin-Mukden
Chao Kung Wu
Chinmen
DeWitt Peck
France Assists in De Gaulle Crisis Widening
Paris AP report says the Communist party refuses to join a three party appeal to Gen. Charles de Gaulle to reconsider his resignation as interim president. Cabinet post deadlock persists as De Gaulle rejects Communist demands for war interior or foreign affairs.
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Paris
Communist Party
Charles de Gaulle
France
Christian Democratic Popular Republican Movement
MRP
de Gaulle
Assembly
Felix Gouin
National Constituent Assembly
British Engineer Volunteers as Human Guinea Pig for Atom Bomb Tests
London United States tests on warships may include a human guinea pig. Sir James French, noted British engineer, volunteered Saturday to board a target battleship and record his reactions to the attack. He did not reveal survival plans.
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London
INS
James French
United States
French
Inmate Claude C. Branch Dies at Alcatraz Prison
Assistant Warden E. J. Miller reported at Alcatraz that Claude C. Branch, inmate from Baltimore, died Friday night likely from injuries received on November 14 in an incident with another prisoner.
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Alcatraz Prison
Calif
INS
E. J. Miller
Claude C. Branch
Baltimore
Truck Settlement Unconfirmed Across Eight Midwest States
A strike by an estimated 20 000 AFL drivers disrupted over‑the‑road trucking in eight Midwest states. Fred C Wheelock said meetings with unions had not occurred to negotiate a new contract. Officials reported but could not confirm a Chicago agreement and potential extended walkouts.
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Associated Press
Midwest
AFL
Kansas City
Fred C. Wheelock
Chicago
Wheelock
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
South Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Michigan
B-29 Exhibition Planned at Cedar Rapids Airport Sunday
A United States B-29 Superfortress will arrive at Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport at 3 30 p m Sunday for a day long exhibit. The aircraft departed El Paso Texas at 10 34 a m and will journey about five hours. The display supports Linn County Victory Loan efforts and marks the first public exhibition of a Superfortress in the nation. Interurban service to the airport from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City will run every 20 minutes starting Sunday noon in addition to regular schedules.
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Cedar Rapids
Army Air Forces
Linn County
Tokyo
el Paso
Texas
Linn County Victory Loan Bond Committee
Bill Norris
Washington
Pentagon
Norris
Air Forces
Iowa
Iowa City
Byrnes First Step to Rescue World in Atomic Effort
Secretary of State Byrnes declared the Anglo American atomic bomb control program is the first step to rescue the world from an armament race. He predicted a UN atomic energy commission within 60 days and denied using the bomb as a threat. He spoke at Charleston and outlined safeguards and immediate information exchange under UN sponsorship.
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Charleston
S. C
Byrnes
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Jimmie Byrnes
NBC
Truman
Attlee
Britain
MacKenzie King
Canada
United Nations
United Nations Organization
Nimitz Opposes Military Merger Despite Unity in War
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz told the Senate military committee that theoretical advantages of merging the armed forces are unattainable and the disadvantages too serious. He favored a national security council instead of a single defense department and urged continued unity of command in peace time without consolidating departments. Eisenhower had urged a single civilian headed department.
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Department of Defense
National Security Council
Secretaries of State, War and Navy
Secretary of Navy
Forrestal
Nimitz
Gen
Eisenhower
Ivery
America
Navy
Jobs Seen for All By Next Year End
CHICAGO AP Herman B Byer assistant commissioner of labor statistics predicted that by end of 1946 unemployment would be practically wiped out. He told the national employment committee that 5 000 000 to 7 000 000 unemployed were expected by next spring while about 50 000 000 would be working. He cited returning servicemen and rising employment through 1946 as factors shaping the transition from war to peace.
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Chicago
Herman B. Byer
Labor Statistics
Labor Department
Byer
National Employment Committee of the American Legion
Daily Record Weathered Index Listings and Editorial Notes
Fragmentary page shows sections for Deaths Editorial Features and Men, Women in Service with scattered headings. Reads like a 1940s newspaper page with partial titles and column prompts, lacking complete stories or clear events to summarize.
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Eisenhower in Iowa Tonight
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and Mrs Eisenhower visit Boone to stay weekend with relatives. They arrive by train at 6 30 pm and depart 10 45 pm Monday for Chicago to address the American Legion convention. A Seventh Service Command detachment from Omaha arrived Friday causing local speculation before official explanation.
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Boone
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Chicago
American Legion
Seventh Service Command
Omaha
Seventh Service
Beissen Beast Kramer Sentenced to Hang at Belsen Trial
Josef Kramer known as the Beast of Belsen and eight co defendants were sentenced to hang. Irma Grese aged 22 was among the doomed. Twenty one others received prison terms. fourteen were acquitted and the remaining defendant’s trial was suspended due to illness.
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Lueneberg
Josef Kramer
Belsen
Irma Grese
Court vetoes indictment of young Krupp
The international military tribunal in Nuremberg refused to indict Alfried Krupp replacing Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach and ordered Nazi trials to begin as scheduled on November 20. Martin Bormann will be tried in absentia. Gustav Krupp's prosecution is deferred. General Nikitchenko appeared on the bench after arriving from Moscow.
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Mernberg
Germany
International Military Tribunal
Alfried Krupp
United States
Jackson
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen
Halbach
Martin Bormann
Gustav Krupp
Alfried
Bormann
Hitler
Nazi Germany
David Maxwell-Fyfe
I. T. Nikitchenko
Moscow
Iowa City Preflight School to Close December Fourth
The Iowa navy preflight school in Iowa City will close on December 4. Most staff will transfer to Ottumwa naval air station which will become a preflight school. some will go to Glenview Illinois. The cadet transfer count was not released.
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Iowa City
Iowa Navy
Ottumwa Naval Air Station
Glenview
Naval Station
Ottumwa
Veterans exempt from strike duties in La Plant-Choate walkout
Local 116 United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America members at La Plant-Choate Manufacturing are exempt from picketing and strike duties to qualify for unemployment. Union and management said no meeting has been requested. The plant operates two shifts with about 690 workers. strike began after wage demands and concerns over OPA price impacts.
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Cedar Rapids
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
la Plant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Charles Hobbie
Hobbie
United States Employment Service
Roy E. Choate
Choate
C. H. Sage
OPA
Co Ay
Japanese Pearl Harbor Strike Force Ready Before December 7
Congressional hearings reveal Japanese orders to move the strike force into Hawaiian waters 13 days before the December 7 1941 attack and threaten to cancel if diplomacy succeeded. Admiral Inglis cites captured documents and prisoner testimony noting high command secrecy and the emperor's limited advance knowledge.
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Washington
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian Waters
Congress
T. B. Inglis
Naval Intelligence
High Command
Barkley
Brewster
Inglis
Hawaiian
Tsuroku Yamamoto
Hitokappu Bay
Conference Blocks Action On Murray Wage Proposal
The labor management conference executive committee voted 12 to 6 to refer CIO President Philip Murray's wage resolution and two substitutes to a special subcommittee. AFL and UMW members backed the move with industry support as John L. Lewis and Murray offered indirect wage proposals while Green pressed for wage increases but warned the conference could not settle the issue.
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Washington
Labor-Management Conference
CIO
Philip Murray
AFL
UMW
John L. Lewis
William Green
Murray
Truman
Green
George M. Harrison
The
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
RFL
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