Steel Unions Plan Strike Votes Across Major Industries
CIO unions move to petition for strike ballots affecting over 700000 workers in steel aluminum and iron ore sectors. United Steelworkers authorize Philip Murray to pursue a $2 daily raise with prep for NLRB polls at 766 companies including 86 basic steel makers and Alcoa.
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CIO
United Steelworkers of America
Philip Murray
Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
Murray
USA
United States Steel Corporation
Jones and Laughlin
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Youngstown
Ohio
Aluminum Corporation of America
Midwest
Chinese Fourth Army Fired On U S Flag Barge at Hulato Port
U S Admiral Barbey reported Chinese Communist Fourth army troops fired on an admiral’s barge flying the U S flag near Hulatao, Manchuria. The vessel turned back after a bullet pierced its hull. no casualties were reported and the troops were identified as Fourth army forces.
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Admiral Barbey
Hulato
Manchuria
Fourth Army
United States
Daniel E. Barbey
Hulatao
China
Great Wall
Red Army
Barbey
Catoctin
William S. Maillard
San Francisco
Maillard
Missing Fighter Pilots Are Listed Killed in Action
Cedar Rapids reports two pilots missing over Germany since last winter are listed as killed in action. Lt. Eugene Estill 23, P-38, Ninth Air Force, missing since April 13, 1945, and Lt. Thornton J. Cavanagh 27, P-47, missing since Oct. 18, 1944. Families receive word. Estill's wife Mary and daughter Sharon live at 1637 B Avenue NE. Cavanagh's wife Donna Jean and daughter Cathy Ann live with her parents at 225 Seventeenth Street NE. Both fathers were Franklin and Waterloo graduates, formerly employed by John Deere and Cudahy Packing respectively, with wings earned at Moore Field and Eagle Pass. Surviving siblings noted for both families.
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Cedar Rapids
Germany
Eugene Estill
Ninth Air Force
Thornton J. Cavanagh
Estill
Mary
Sharon
B Avenue
G. E.rstill
Franklin
John Deere and Company
Moorefield
Mission
Texas
Wesley Estill
Navy
Pacific
Margey Ann
Boy Suffered Skull and Jaw Fractures in Car Mishap
Eight year old Roger Millard son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Millard 5150 Mt Vernon Rd SE was struck by a Milan Illinois driven car at 4 pm Friday in front of his home. He was listed in serious condition at Mercy hospital Saturday. Police say he alighted from a west bound car then crossed in front of the Millers car and walked into the path of Leigh Calvin. Highway patrolmen investigate the accident.
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Cedar Rapids
Roger Millard
Ralph Millard
Mt. Vernon Road
Leigh Calvin
Milan
Ill
Mercy Hospital
Millard
Rosédaile School
Calvin
Harriman Talks With Stalin Amid Truman Note Move
U S Ambassador Harriman met Joseph Stalin at a Black Sea resort to discuss President Truman’s Oct 14 letter and mutual concerns. The talks confirm Stalin’s health and signal possible future Allied collaboration.
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United States
W. Averell Harriman
Stalin
Truman
Harriman
Black Sea
Roosevelt
Kremlin
V. M. Molotov
San Francisco
Sochi
J. V. Stalin
W. A. Harriman
Five Servicemen Die in Transport Plane Crash
A transport plane crashed in a field near Pennville killing five servicemen and wounding at least 11. Reports vary on plane occupancy with references to 16 or 18 aboard and identification as an army transport.
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Portland
Ind
Pennville
Dutch Regime Orders Parleys with Indonesian Nationalists
The Dutch ministry for overseas territories said acting governor general Huber ter Vaan Mook was ordered to open negotiations immediately with Indonesian nationalists.
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TME Hague
Dutch Ministry For Overseas Territories
Hubertus van Mook
Dutch East Indies
Einstein proposes world government to avert atom war
Nobel physicist Albert Einstein tells Atlantic Monthly readers that atomic bombs could wipe out two thirds of humanity, but thinking minds will recover. He urges a world government formed by the United States Britain and the Soviet Union with power over military matters to ensure peace and control the bomb secret. He warns nonintervention must end and invites smaller nations to join, while noting the idea may still be dangerous until unity is achieved.
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Albert Einstein
Atlantic Monthly
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Great Britain
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United Nations Organization
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Britain
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Spain
Canada
United Nations
Western Hemisphere
Local Newspaper Index and Notices
A fragmented page shows sections for Deaths Editorial Features Marion tebe Men Women in Service Wang Movies Ration Calendar Sports and Radio with partial headers. The readable parts indicate a standard daily index of notices and features.
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Cecceaes Daily Record
Ccecceuees
Marion
Tebe
Wang Movies
Eeedeod
Eligibles Relieved of Duty in Tokyo Readjustment Order
In Tokyo American enlisted men and officers below brigadier general threshold, with 80 discharge points on V J Day, are relieved and sent to disposition centers. Lt Gen Robert L Eichelberger criticizes rumors on homeward shipment and orders subcommanders to inform all that those eligible with 70 points for enlisted or 75 for officers will likely return to the United States by November barring ship delays.
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Tokyo
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
United States
MacArthur Has No Current Plans to Visit U.S.
Gen Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo said there are no present plans for his return to the United States. War department sources in Washington suggested a visit to the capital could come soon, while Congress invited him to address a joint session at his convenience.
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Douglas’ MacArthur
United States
War Department
Washington
MacArthur
Congress
U S Navy Day Celebrations Honor Mighty Battle Fleets
New York and San Francisco marked Navy Day with large public displays of ships and aircraft. President Truman led the New York program aboard the battleship Missouri, while 1,200 Navy planes roared overhead in a mass airpower demonstration.
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Truman
Hudson River
60Th Street
Spuyton Duyvil
Avengers
Missouri
This GI's Wife Just Too Perfect
A Third Infantry Division GI in Frankfurt mailed pieces of a Luger home to sidestep pistol mailing limits. He sent a letter saying a gun store reassembled the weapon and joked about ordnance doing it for her.
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Frankfurt
G.I
Ordnance
Lord Strabagh on Palestine room for survivors of Hitler's extermination
Lord Strabagh said Palestine has plenty of room for all the survivors of Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a group estimated at more than two million.
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London
Lord Strabagh
Palestine
Hitler
Europe
Truman outlines twelve point plan to outlaw atomic bombs
President Truman in New York unveils a 12 point foreign policy to outlaw atomic weapons and preserve peace. He stresses a sacred trust of possession, UN cooperation, and a world alliance to enforce peace with naval power and allied talks on sharing scientific information.
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New York
Truman
United States
Central Park
Franklin D. ‘Roosevelt
New York Harbor
Washington
Polio Strikes Lt Tom Shive Son of Maj Shive
Lt. Tom Shive son of Maj and Mrs Philip W Shive 1856 D avenue NE was stricken with polio this week. He reported to the medical department at the army air base in San Antonio Texas for discharge and was confined to the isolation ward after doctors diagnosed a mild case. Shive served as a navigator on a Flying Fortress shot down over Linz Austria in 1944 and was a German prisoner of war for six months.
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Tom Shive
Maj
Philip W. Shive
D Avenue
Red Cross
Shive
Army Air Base
San Antonio
Texas
Army Regional Hospital
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