War crime indictments anchor international law
Two dozen top Nazi leaders are jailed awaiting trial with indictments citing The Hague Locarno Versailles Kellogg Briand Geneva and two power treaties. The document strengthens enforceable international norms and signals that even broken agreements may be called to account later, shaping future state conduct. Labor strike note: LaPlant Choate Manufacturing workers prepare to strike if needed to push for wage gains amid a competitive market and aim to resume peacetime production smoothly.
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Hague
Locarno
Versailles
Orkers
LaPlant- Choate Manufacturing Company
Udabie
Work Week Of 45 Hours Is Proposed By Sandor S. Klein
C E Wilson of General Motors proposed a 45 or 48 hour work week as an economic remedy to offset a 30 percent wage boost. He said GM plans to spend 600 million dollars on reconversion and expansion to meet pent-up demand, with 5 to 8 percent raises for 45 hours and overtime after 45. He suggested the 40 hour week as a possible hurdle and outlined GM expansion projects across multiple states including new plants in Boston Atlanta Los Angeles Flint and more.
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Detroit
C. E. Wilson
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Wilson
Truman
Washington
John Snyder
Chevrolet
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Flint
Mich
Wilmington
Del
North American Aircraft
Kansas City
Hamilton
Ohio
Columbus
Sandusky
Elyria
New Brunswick
N. J
Chicago
United Automobile Workers
CIO
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
K. T. Keller
Chrysler Corporation
Keller
Senate aims further on next year's tax reductions
The Senate finance committee pushes beyond the House stance on tax cuts, drawing sharp criticism that the reforms could lessen tax awareness and delay budget balancing. The piece argues for cautious support of a decade‑long shift toward reduced spending and questions the science of misdirection in everyday choices.
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Senate Finance Committee
House
Congress
Auto labor turmoil as 2000 Michigan workers strike vote ends
A three day strike of about 2000 Michigan power workers ended with 568 voting to accept a settlement. CIO State Utility Workers union members narrowly approved the deal amid broader industry fears of extended strikes.
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Detroit
Michigan Power
CIO
State Utility Workers Union
Former Wac Baby Holds Own Awaiting Wonder Drug Effect
In Muncie Indiana seven teen month old Gayle Harvey lies in a coma from tubercular meningitis while doctors try a new penicillin mold drug called streptomycin. Her mother Jean a former WAC corporal and widow of a Muncie paratrooper watches with guarded hope as physicians await any sign of improvement.
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Muncie, Ind
Gayle Eleanor Harvey
Jean
Wac
Muncie
Gerald Young
Haute
Ind
Walter Reid Hospital
Dr. Young
Long Range Iowa Weather Forecast Update
Cloudy and cooler Sunday with occasional light rain. Cooler Sunday night with lowest temperature Tuesday morning near freezing. Monday fair and cool. Tuesday increasing cloudiness and warmer. Shifting winds becoming northerly 15 to 20 mph Sunday diminishing Sunday night.
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Iowa
Second Drive To Meet Chest's Deficit Planned
Cedar Rapids faces a shortfall of 41009 in the Community War Chest after the initial canvass. Campaign chairman I B McGladrey announces a noon Monday start for a second solicitation to tap un canvassed sources and boost contributions to reach the adjusted quota.
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Chest
Cedar Rapids
I. B. McGladrey
McGladrey
Community War Chest
Chamber of Commerce
Woman and son injured in Milwaukee train collision
A car driven by Mrs Edna Leach and her 24 year old son Richard were injured when a Milwaukee train struck their northbound vehicle at the Sixteenth street NE crossing. Mrs Leach suffered two cracked ribs and a knee abrasion while her son sustained a bruise above his right eye. They were taken to St Luke's hospital by passing motorist.
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Sixteenth Street
Edna Leach
K Avenue NW
Richard
Farm chiefs call for world surplus pool at UN FAO talks
Albert Goss and three other leaders from national farm groups proposed an international granary to store surplus crops. They said the pool could direct food to hungry nations and act like a world Commodity Credit Corporation.
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Quebec
INS
Albert Goss
National Grange
Edward A. O’neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Omar Brinkley
National Council of Farm Cooperatives
James Patton
National Farmers Union
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
World Commodity Credit Corporation
FAO
Agriculture Committee
H. H. Bennett
United States Department of Agriculture
Africa
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Test Tube Babies Proposed as Atom Bomb Guardians
The unidentified originator urged the United Nations sponsor the rearing of hundreds of artificial insemination born children to become future atom bomb guardians. Fathers would be top eugenists and mothers chosen for heredity and health. The UN would educate them in the world’s best schools and they would owe allegiance to the United Nations.
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Washington
Congressional
United Nations
House Military Committee
U S Plans 1.6 Cartels Destruction in Postwar Policy
In a report from the American zone in Germany, U S military authorities urge outlawing all I G Farbenindustrie cartels worldwide with one Allied stroke as a step toward destroying the war driven chemical and industrial combine. The plan seeks global legislation via the Allied control council to outlaw cartels while seizing assets and restructuring wartime holdings across zones in France Britain and the Soviet Union.
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Washington
United States
Germany
I. G. Farbenindustrie
War Department
I. G. Farben Corporation
I. G
Allied Control Council
U.S
I.G
France
Great Britain
Capt Sears to Speak at Navy Day Luncheon in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids will host an all city Navy Day luncheon in the Montrose Hotel ballroom Friday with Capt Harry E Sears USN as principal speaker. Also traveling from Washington will Capt Samuel C Anderson and Capt Willis E Cleaves to join the event if weather allows.
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Sears
Navy
Cedar Rapids
Montrose Hotel
Navy League of the United States
Gold Star Navy
Harry Edward Sears
USN
Halsey
Naval Air Primary Training Command
Naval Air Station
Glenview, Ill
Washington
Samuel C. Anderson
Mark Anderson
Adm
Ernest J. King
Willis E. Cleaves
Chief of Naval Operations
Ottumwa
McKinley High School
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Norfolk
Pensacola
Fla
Yorktown
Caracas bombings shake Venezuela capital amid revolution
Rebels and National Guard clash in Caracas as fighting erupts after the overthrow of President Isaias Medina. Casualties top 309 dead and over 1,000 wounded. rebels claim control of the city center while counter-forces mass in western Venezuela. U.S. envoy avoided danger as tension remains high.
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Caracas
Venezuela
National Guard
Isaias Medina
Medina
el Silencio
U.S
San Augustin
Frank Corrigan
Romulo Bettancourt
Zhukov Delays U S Visit Until Next Year
Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov postpones his planned U S visit citing illness. The White House released a letter to Gen Eisenhower forwarded to President Truman expressing gratitude for the invitation and noting Zhukov's regret at being unable to travel.
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Washington
INS
White House
Georgi Zhukov
United States
Zhukov
Gen
Eisenhower
Truman
U. S
Stilwell Road to be Abandoned on November First
NEW DELHI AP The Stilwell road built through jungles and mountains in 14 months to supply blockaded China will be abandoned on November 1. The road, once strategically vital as the only land route into China besides the Hump airlift, cannot be maintained economically in peacetime.
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New Delhi
China
Iowa Woman Killed in Crash at Intersection
Mrs. Alice Battles, 32, died in a two vehicle collision at a gravel road intersection two miles northeast of Altoona Iowa on Saturday. Her son Robert S Battles, 9, suffered a scalp wound. The other driver Orie Stewart, 31, of Altoona, sustained head cuts.
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Altoona, Ia
Alice Battles
Here
Battles
Robert S
Oriel Stewart
Altoona
Move To Abolish House Probe Unit
Washington AP reports critics move to end the controversial House committee on un American activities after threats of a probe into news analysts. Leaders Rep Patterson and Rep Hook say they have liberal support and introduced a bill to abolish the panel.
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Washington
House
Patterson
D-Calif
Hook
D-Mich
G I Christmas Parcels Scattered by Typhoon
The navy reported that a typhoon struck Oki nawa scattering thousands of Christmas parcels and wrecking buildings. G I soldiers faced disruption as relief efforts began amid damaged supply lines and lingering bad weather.
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G.I
Pearl Harbor
Okinawa
Navy
Jap Royalty Not Immune From War Guilt Trials
Tokyo on Sunday AP reports that war guilt prosecutions will reach high officials and even imperial household members may face accountability. General Carpenter, the army’s legal officer, stated no one is immune from postwar trials.
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Tokyo
Imperial Household
Carpenter
uacArton
Grady Named U S Observer Chief for Greek Elections
President Truman named Henry F. Grady to head the American mission observing Greece's forthcoming ballot. Grady, a former Roosevelt trade negotiator and ex assistant secretary of state, is now president of American President Lines and will lead the diplomatic team in Athens.
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Grady
U.S
Washington
Truman
Henry F. Grady
Greece
Roosevelt
Lines, Steamship Concern
Aieason
Rye
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