Auto Workers Turn Down GM Pay Offer Amid Nationwide Strike
The CIO United Auto Workers council rejected General Motors 10 percent wage increase proposal aimed to end the nationwide strike. Walter Reuther announced the rejection while a formal decision awaited later in the day. A vast motorized picket line formed, with some 400 protesters marching to GM plants as support for the strikers grew.
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Dec
General Motors Council
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors Corp
Truman
Walter P. Reuther
Uaw-Cio
Reuther
GM Council
General Motors
Japs Thought to Bomb Seattle and San Diego in 1941
Gen George C Marshall testified before the Pearl Harbor committee that US wartime leaders expected a strike on West Coast aircraft plants in Seattle and San Diego rather than Pearl Harbor, with Wake or Guam possible and Panama Canal a target, revealing earlier war-time assumptions.
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U. S. High Command
Seattle
Wash
San Diego
Calif
Pearl Harbor
George C. Marshall
Congressional
Guam
Wake
Wake Island
Panama Canal
Marshall
Hawaii
West
Rep
Gearhart
R-Calif
St.en
Walter C. Short
PEARL
Atomic showdown noted at confab of big three
A May meeting of United States Britain and Soviet foreign secretaries will discuss control of atomic energy and other current concerns. Secretaries Kerr and Molotov will meet Bevin and Molotov in early next week on the agreed date to hear Russia's views. Topics include Iran civil state, Allied Japan controls, unification of China, and European peace plans.
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Worivul
United States
Biiish
State Department
Iat
Concen
Lacir
Ealy
Bevin
Brita
Molotov
Russia
Iran
Japan
China
Britain
Rumania
Bulgaria
Truman
Attlee
Mac- Lee
British pressure on Java to restore order
British authorities planned to deploy large British and Dutch forces in Java to restore order and reestablish Dutch sovereignty in the Netherlands East Indies after a Singapore conference between Mountbatten and Allied commanders. The plan aims to use Dutch troops to hold objectives after initial takeover by British forces.
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Vern Haughland
Batavia
Java
API
Netherlands East Indies
Singapore
Lord Louis Mountbatten
London
Foreign Office
Pam
Ambarwa
Grafton Sentinel invites Robert Sinclair to tonight’s shows
The Grafton Sentinel invites Robert Sinclair to attend tonight’s presentation of Rhapsody Blues at the Strand Theater or Pillow To Post at the Dixie Theater, offering a choice of performances.
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Grafton Sentinel
Robert Sinclair
Strand
Dixie Theater
Egg mystery in a London hotel room
World traveler DeWitt Mackenzie recounts finding a carved egg on his hotel desk with a Canada stamp and room number. He learns from a wartime police constable and his wife about scarce eggs in England, their cramped three room flat, and their daily struggle during bombing.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
London
Dec
Uns Parnership
Canada
England
Mat
Wkenzie
Loose Talk Gave Away Nippon Code Breaker Plan
Washington reports reveal the U S cracked the Japanese code but secrets leaked through casual chatter in hotels and clubs Army officers warned of the risk General George C Marshall told congressional investigators the leak path included governors and a bloated code staff He noted Dewey kept silent amid the presidential campaign and Yamamoto was shot down after the war secret began to spread
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Tom Reedy
Washington
U. S
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Pacific Theater
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Pearl Harbor
Congress
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Army
Pacific
Admiral Yamamoto
White House
Missing naval airmen search narrows to marshland clue
In Miami Florida at 2 a m navy officials reported flares and a large fire 20 miles between Melbourne and Orlando as crews rush to locate 27 missing naval airmen. Green flares were seen 150 miles northeast of Great Abaco island in the Bahamas and a coast guard cutter headed toward the scene. An Eastern Airlines pilot saw red flares and a man near Melbourne while another witness noted a large fire. authorities seek survivors and trace the disappearance of five torpedo bombers.
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Fla
Navy
Melbourn
Orlando
Great Abago Island
Bahamas
Coast Guard
Pandora
Eastern Airlines
Melbourne
BAL
Stassen Bricker Lead 1940s GOP Ticket Lobby Talk
The Associated Press reports that Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota and John W. Bricker of Ohio dominate lobby discussions about a 1948 GOP ticket as the RNC readies a congressional policy declaration. A resolutions committee led by Rep. Carroll Reece will meet to review an interim platform amid hints leaders will resist major changes.
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Jack Bell
Associated Press
Chicago
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Carroll Reece
Tennessee
Clarence Budington
Arizona
National Committee
Kelland
Walter
Hallanan
West Virginia
Lew Wentz
Oklahoma
Rep
Dosend W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
House
Dwight H. Green
Illnos
Turkey
Chinese Conies Return American Fliers to Tientsin
Chinese Communists say six American fliers stranded after a forced landing were sent back to Tientsin. They report a 100,000-man offensive crossing the Yellow river in Shansi and Henan, with 5,000 Nationalist troops aided by 1,000 Japanese attacking nearby villages.
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Chungking
Tientsin
Shansi
Henan
Hopeh
Yellow River
Yungchang
Tatung-Puchow
Peiping- Jehol
Peiping
Renewed protections eyed as home building climbs
West Virginia briefs report a surge in construction activity as the White House studies new controls to ensure small homes get a share of the boom. President Truman says price controls on real estate may be needed to curb inflation, with October housing starts up and higher priced housing rising.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
White House
Truman
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor Bureau
Japan Faces High Costs and Trials After Defeat
Tokyo reports reveal Japan pays over 2.2 million dollars daily to support American occupation forces. Trials for wartime leaders may be held in Hawaii or Manila, including Masaharu Homma for the Bataan death march. A U S Army outline on Japanese plotting is shown to readers as the first war crimes hearings begin in Yokohama.
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United States
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Diet
China
Masaharu Homma
Philippines
Manila
Bataan
Yokohama
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