First Tests Of A Boms In Pacific
The United States plans three atomic bomb tests on naval vessels in the Pacific starting in May near Bikini Atoll. A 97-ship fleet including battleships New York Arkansas Pennsylvania Nevada and carriers Saratoga Independence will be used with tests on surface and underwater detonations. About 20,000 personnel will participate with observers from U S military and civilian groups, while some results may remain secret for military value.
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Washington
Mid- Pacific
U. S
Saratoga
Independence
Marshall Islands
Adm
W. H. P. Blandy
Senate
Special Committee On Atomic Energy
Blandy
Bikini Atoll
Marshalls
New York
Arkansas
Pennsylvania
Nevada
Salt Lake City
Pensacola
Prinz Eugen
Boston
Nagati
Sakawa
Army Air Forces
Bikini
Navy
United States
Congress
Foress
Government seizure looms over meat strike in 1940s chaos
Washington officials expect Truman's seizure order to take effect at 12:01 am Saturday and end the CIO and AFL walkout of about 300,000 meat workers. UPW seeks a 17 12 cent raise while AFL demands 15 cents. CIO leaders vow to meet tomorrow in Chicago to decide action. Even with returns, supplies will lag, with a week to 10 days needed to normalize processing.
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Washington
CIO
AFL
Truman
United Packinghouse Workers
Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
ALF
Chicago
UPW
Lyle Cooper
CIO Union
New York
Lewis Clark
Ready for bids on pipe line to GE plant
City to issue bids within days for a pipeline to service the General Electric plant. Pittsfield officials study a water supply rate contract submitted by GE but have not yet decided on acceptance.
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General Electric
Pittsfield
Mass
Spaatz to Replace Arnold as Air Force Chief
President Truman announced Gen. Carl A. Spaatz will succeed Gen. H. H. Arnold as commander of the Army Air Forces. Spaatz led U.S. Strategic Bombing Forces in Europe and later the Pacific. Arnold, ill on return from South America, had been slated to retire early February.
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Washington
Truman
Inday
Carl A. Spaatz
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Spaatz
Arnold
Army
U. S
Europe
Pacific
South America
Labor Strikes Hit Major U S Industries Across Nation
United Packinghouse Workers and Amalgamated Meat Cutters challenge Swift Armour Wilson and Cudahy with a near 300000 workers over wage demands. Steel workers 750000 seek higher pay. auto workers 175000 push for 30 percent rise. Electrical, farm equipment and railroad unions also active with mediation and fact finding under way. Labor disputes extend to telephone and shipyards as government involvement looms.
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United Farm Equipment Workers
International Harvester Co
Chicago
United Nations forms atomic energy commission
The UN General Assembly voted unanimously to create an international atomic energy commission. The body will include Security Council members plus Canada and will report to the Security Council. The move follows James Byrnes’s call for rapid withdrawal of occupation forces from Germany and Japan and pressure on Britain France and Russia to pull troops from Iran Greece Indonesia and the Levant.
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London
United Nations Assembly
James F. Byrnes
Germany
Japan
Security Council
Canada
United Nations
Moscow
Jean Paul Boncour
Atomic Commission
United States
Byrnes
Britain
France
Russia
Iran
Greece
Indonesia
The
Levant
White House urged to end steel strike stalemate
Pittsburgh dispatch reports the U S steel strike enters a fourth day with 750,000 workers idle and allied plants affected. President Truman offers 18 cents an hour as a settlement, while U S Steel chief Benjamin Fairless proposes a executive conference of major industries. He notes he will not arrange such talks by radio or press.
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Pittsburgh
White House
Truman
Steed
U. S. Steel Corporation
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel
Industiies
Rioting Continues In Bombay Area
Rioting continued in Bombay after at least two people were killed and 350 injured in clashes between police and demonstrators. Police used firearms and clubs to break up a parade of Indian Congress members celebrating Subhas Chandra Bose's 50th birthday, a Hindu dominated event.
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Bombay
Indian Congress
Subhas Chandra Bose
Truman Sees Labor Management Battle Over Power
President Truman said the nation faces a battle for power between management and labor and urged the government to assert the people’s power. He rejected a call by Benjamin Fairless for a conference of major industry executives and said he would use the steel settlement approach if possible. He indicated seizing mills is not practical now but not ruled out eventually. He urged everyone who can to return to work to support the reconversion program.
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Wallington
Utps
Truman
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Fairless
Mr. Truman
Coshocton County Track Meet Slated For May Day
Coshocton county high school track and field meet set for the fair grounds on Monday May _ announced at the Coshocton county high school principals meeting in Superintendent Lautenschlager's office. Soil conservation pictures planned for county high schools with showings in January and February at Keene Roscoe Conesville Fresno West Lafayette Plainsfield Union and Warsaw. County trucks to collect donated clothing for war restricted areas on January 28 following plans by Robert Bruning.
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Coshocton County
Fairgrounds
Fred Lautenschlager
M. E. Dush
Soil Conservation Office
Keene, Roscoe
Conesville
Fresno
West Lafayette
Plainsfield
Union
Warsaw
Robert Bruning
Parking Meter Plan For City Council Consideration
City council members will discuss a downtown parking meter installation Monday evening. Knox Stewart, city selector, prepared the proposal and will present the plan for study that night.
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Ciy Seletor
Knox Stewart
County Conference Postponed To Monday
County engineers and county commissioners will meet next Monday at the courthouse to discuss the proposed good roads program. The plan calls for an $38,000 expenditure to construct and reconstruct county highways. Engineer Kenneth Kinkley has been bedfast the past week with a severe bid.
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Kenneth Kinkley
Kinkley
May Consolidate Two Welfare Offices Soon
County welfare administrators discussed uniting two offices, Aid for Dependent Children and Blind Pension, with the relief office in the county court house. Mrs. Tom Hamilton leads the first, Mrs. Ethel Williams runs the second, and Miss Isobel Walter from Columbus outlined the plan yesterday. Hamilton may resign in April to join her husband, a state highway department employee in Ashland who was recently discharged.
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Welfare Department
County Court House
Aid For Dependent Children and Blind Pension Department
Relief Office
Tom Hamilton
Ethel Williamns
State Welfare Department
Isobel Walter
Columbus
Clues Sought in Wills Creek Cottage Burglaries
Five state cottage owners on Wills Creek offered 60 dollars for information leading to arrest of culprits who looted two cottages. Police and Sheriff Jay Abbott suspect a woman aided the thefts at John Bown and M. R. Hillman cottages. Silverware bedding and pillowcases were taken from Bown, Hillman bedding removed, lipstick stolen, soap powder strewn between houses. Each owner contributed 19 dollars to the reward.
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Wills Creek
Jay Abbott
John Bown
M. R. Hillman
Bown
Hillman
Rail Strike Averted After Last-Minute Negotiations
Chicago area freight movement remained uninterrupted as the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen settled 15 grievances on the Indiana Harbor Belt and Chicago Junction lines less than an hour before the strike deadline. T. L. Green and BRT vice-president William Bishop announced the settlement, avoiding a shutdown that could have crippled Chicago freight traffic. The incident followed President Truman’s emergency board action, though Bishop said the mediation board had forfeited jurisdiction.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Railroad
T. L. Green
William Bishop
BRT
Indiana Harbor Belt
Chicago Junction
Truman
Bishop Cliamed
National Railroad Mediation Board
Ration Board Praised by County Leaders
Owen Poohap, chairman of the local OPA Goard, received a tribute letter from Gay Frank J Lausche praising the men and women in the county for their help in rationing and inflation prevention efforts as the campaign continues.
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Owen Poohap
OPA Goard
Frank J Lausche
County Must Choose On Fox Fund Shortfall
Sheriff Jay Abbott announced Coshocton County can afford to buy 23 more foxes with $69 at $3 each. County commissioners meet next Monday to decide whether to continue or discontinue the fox county fund as funds may be depleted before the next regular meeting.
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Coshocton County
Jay Abbott
Joe
Fox County
Athens
Serum proves success in New York mice surplus sale
The New York city health department, after sulfa drugs diminished pneumonia serum tests, announced a sale of 1,700 surplus white mice. Males and females were housed in separate cages as the sale was prepared.
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New York
City Health Department
Radar equipment delay cited in Pearl Harbor probe
The Pearl Harbor committee learned radar gear ordered for Hawaii defense was idle on Oakland docks during the attack. Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short testified about priority battles, reading a telegram from former Army signal corps major George D. Leask claiming frontline radar towers SCR 271 were delayed in transit.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Army
Hawaiian Defense Command
Oakland
Calif
Walter C. Sharf
Hawaii
Signal Corps
Watering
George D. Leask
Army Signal Corps
Short
Leask
Chief Wapns Urges Fire Safety in Coshocton Homes
Fire Chief William Westy urged Coshocton residents to watch for fire hazards during the Heesentene wave. He advised keeping waste paper away from heating walls, not overfiring furnaces, and forbidding tenants from using blow torches to thaw pipes.
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William Westy
Coshocton
Wreck at Jewett Delays Coshocton Trains Detour
A freight wreck at Jewett delayed Pennsylvania railroad passenger and freight trains arriving at Coshocton for a few hours. The derailed eastbound freight caused no injuries. Trains bound for Coshocton were detoured via the Wheeling and Lake Erie and Fort Wayne divisions on the Panhandle.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Coshocton
Jewett
Wheeling and Lake Edie
Fort Wayne
Panhandle
Coshocton weighs own power for water project
Coshocton officials consider using the city pumping station to power pumps for a 585000 water improvement program. Plans call for a 70000 pipeline from the station on Bridge street to the General Electric plant on South River road, plus a line to Fifth street and Walnut street. Bids for the line to the plant are set to open February 9. An 18 inch well is being drilled by Layne Ohio near Lake Park as the city progresses with wells, pipes, and a softening plant to be built this summer.
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Coshocton
Bridge Street
General Electric Company
South River Road
Fifth Street
Walnut Street
Safety Service
J. E Truschenbach
Sears
Lake Park
Layne—Ohio Company
Gouin Tries for Three Party France Cabinet
President Gouin moves to form a three party coalition in Paris negotiations seeking a quick cabinet announcement before nightfall. He aims for equal shares among Communists Socialists and Popular Republicans as the nation faces a food shortage and a fragile government.
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Paris
Felix Gouin
France
Gouin
Constituent Assembly
Rpublicans
Simeilar
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Bid
Ault
Popular Republicans
Robert Tanguy Prigent
Jules Moch
DeGaulle
Tokyo denies comment on Tass story
Brig Gen. Frayne Baker, public relations director for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, denies any official statement criticizing Tass and says no headquarters spokesman discussed the Tass dispatch. MacArthur himself declined to comment when contacted by United Press.
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Tokyo
Frayne Baker
Douglas Mace Arthur
Surpreme
Tasa
Baker
United States
Tass
Korea
MacArthur
United Press
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Wiene
Edlfertel
William Martin
J. E. Trubenbach
Air Force Chief
Labor Picture
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen
Swift, Armour, Wilson, Cudahy
Steel- United Steel Workers
CSO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
United Electrical Workers
Westinghouse
Tesuming Today
A. F. Whitney
Cleveland
Telephone
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Ind
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Metal Trades Department
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Atom
Okeh
Little Hope For Peace
TN Industry
Management and Labor
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