Miles Bates Details Of Conference
Senate House investigators heard Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles testify that the United States received from Britain a secret method for breaking Japanese codes and that top generals anticipated a possible Japanese strike before Pearl Harbor. He said he could not confirm if Britain supplied U S code information later used by the U S.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Pearl Harbor
Sherman Miles
Army
Senate House
Naval Base
Miles
U. S
George C. Marshall
Thailand
Senate-House
Shall
of State Hall
Qualified Aviators To Get Top Berths
Washington reports new naval plan elevates aviators to six top jobs under the chief of naval operations. Admiral Towers to lead the Pacific fleet, Mitscher to command the eighth fleet. air departments to gain fleet commands as air power evolves.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Quasii
Naval Operations
John H. Towers
Fifth Fleet
Raymond A. Spruance
Pacific
Marc A. Mitscher
Air
Eighth Fleet
Atlantic
Chief of Naval Operations
Manila Youths Lip Bank Robbery Capture in Philippines
Four Manila youths armed with a submachine gun robbed the Philippine Bank of Communications in Manila and were captured eight hours later. They had 399000 pesos recovered of 430000 peso haul. 31000 pesos remained missing. A fifth man was arrested as suspected accomplice.
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Manila
Philippines
J. P. Holland
Philippine Bank of Communi
U. S
Ilitary
Santa Ana
Sky Chief Sets Record Flight Washington to Paris
Paris reports Transcontinental and Western Airlines Sky Chief landed at Orly at 10:35 a m after 14 hours 47 minutes with two stops from Washington. Regular Paris service to start by Dec 20 with Cairo extension planned. Flight from Newfoundland to Ireland took 6 hours 27 minutes, and Washington to Paris time fell to 12 hours 57 minutes, averaging 316 mph.
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Paris
Transcontinental
Western Airlines
Orly Field
Washington
TWA
Cairo
Sky Chief
Newfoundland
Ireland
Yamashita Seeks Supreme Court Stay On War Crimes Trial
Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita asked the U S Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition to halt his war crimes trial in Manila. The military commission planned to decide by Friday whether he must face execution, while arguing the court lacks jurisdiction since the islands are not under martial law.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Military Commission
Yamashita
MacArthur
Philippines
Supreme Court
Peggy Joyce Honey Mooning With Fifth Husband
Peggy Joyce, 39, actress, married engineer Anthony Easton yesterday in New York. The ceremony was in Justice Ferdinand Pecora’s chambers. Easton wore a mink coat and a 50 carat diamond. Joyce asked to replace the word obey with cherish.
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New York
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Anthony Easton
Easton
Tax Evasion Charged Against Charlotte Dress Shop Owner
Charges filed in district court accuse A. A. Zimmerman of Charlotte of evading federal taxes totaling about 129000. Zimmerman is listed as part owner of Lucielle's dress shop in Greensboro reporting.
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Greensboro
United States District Court
A. A. Zimmerman
Charlotte
Lucielle
Nationalists Await Word From Russia in Manchuria
Bolstered by airborne supplies, Chinese nationalist armies in Manchuria await a green light from Russia to begin a final march on Mukden as of December 3.
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Chinhsien
Manchuria
Russia
Mukden
Manchurian forces enter Mukden amid nationalist advance
A Chinese dispatch reports independent Manchurian troops entered Mukden to greet Nationalist forces 30 miles away. It cites a brother of Marshal Chan Sueh Liang who once shocked the world by kidnapping Chiang Kai-shek declaring himself an ally of the Nationalists and sending troops into the city.
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Chungking
Mukden
Arshal Chan Sueh- Liang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nationalist General Says No Mukden Entry Yet
Lt. Gen. Tu Yuming states no entry into Mukden while Russians negotiate or withdraw, as Nationalist spearheads push within 30 miles. He welcomes 11 Curtis Commando transports delivering essential supplies flown by Chinese crews. Final Mukden march orders will come from Chungking.
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Manchuria
Tu Yuming
Mudken
Chungking
Mukden
Tidal Wave In Karachi Bombay Area Kills Thousands
Reuters dispatch from Karachi cites relief workers stating about 4,000 people killed and 40,000 left homeless after a tidal wave struck the coastal belt between Karachi and Bombay last Wednesday. The wave reportedly washed away seven villages.
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London
Reuters
Meg
Karachi
India
Karachi-Bombay
Roosevelt warned of possible U S Japan clash before Pearl Harbor
Congressional investigators disclosed a 1941 message in which Franklin D. Roosevelt told the Philippine high commissioner that the next Japanese aggression could trigger a U S Japan war. He said no clear indications existed of where Japan would strike but Thailand was likely target.
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Washington
Roosevelt
U. S
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Thailand
Pearl Harbor warning debate centers on Marshal briefing
Miles memorandum suggested alerting the Philippines Hawaii Panama and the west coast immediately. Marshall reportedly drafted a message after consulting Admiral Stark. Senator Lucas says Marshall will be asked why Short was not warned that the Pearl Harbor anti sabotage alert was inadequate.
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Thailand
Miles
Philippines
Hawaii
Panama
West Coast
Marshall
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Lucas
D-Ill
George C. Marshall
Walter C. Short
Pearl Harbor
The
Pearl
State Revenues Show Increase in Five-Month Total
North Carolina revenues for highway and general funds rose to 37.83 million dollars in the first five months of the fiscal year starting July 1, a 13.26 percent gain from the same period last year. November collections reached 8.09 million with 4.93 million going to the general fund as civilian goods appeared more in the market. sales tax receipts climbed to 2.37 million in November.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Edwin Gill
Americans Study Plan Of Russians
Washington reports officials studied new moves in the Iranian im passe amid ongoing Big Three clashes over Red army activity. Moscow rejected a US withdrawal proposal, UK inaction persisted, and Washington pressed for rapid Soviet and British troop exits by year end and March 2 for the Russians, without evident leverage.
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Washington
Dec
Russia
United States
Moscow
Department
Michael J. McDermott
Britain
Tran
Yank-Laden Henry Ward Beecher Seeks Help Near Bermuda
The liberty ship Henry Ward Beecher carrying 541 returning American troops reported dropping its propeller about 340 miles northeast of Bermuda. The ship sailed Marseille France to Norfolk Virginia and radioed for assistance at 2 26 a m EST. Rescue was believed to be dispatched promptly from Bermuda with several ships on standby. Weather in the region was reported moderate.
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New York
Henry Ward Beecher
Bermuda
Marseille
France
Norfolk
Naval District
Legion of Christian Reforms Adulate Hitler in England
London reports claim a new cult worships Adolf Hitler as a divine instrument to judge the world. The curious story centers on Capt. R. R. Gordon Canning, once linked to fascist groups, who bought a bust of Hitler and housed it at a Sussex estate. The piece notes widespread youthful reverence for Hitler in Germany and cites past meetings with British leaders as context.
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DE Witt MacKenzie
London
Nuernberg
Adolf Hitler
Germany
England
Hitler
R. R. Gordon Canning
British Union of Fasscts
Anglo-German Society
Sussex
Chamberlain
Berchtesgaden
Godesburg
Munich
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Prague
Japanese Diet Shaken by War Crimes List Blow
Tokyo reports 26 Diet members named on General MacArthur's list of war crime suspects. The scene grows tense as MacArthur orders arrests, a price tag of up to 110 billion yen in overseas assets looms, and editors blame militarist strings on press freedom failing Japan.
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Diet
MacArthur
Kyodo
Keizo Shibuzawa
Manchuria
China
Korea
Formosa
Sakhalin
Pacific
Yomiuri
Matsutaro Shoriki
Shoriki
Japan
German Armed Units Present in British Zone
The Soviet Union in a memorandum to the allied control council in Berlin charged that powerful armed German units still exist in the British occupation zone in Germany. An Izvestia Berlin report said about 240,000 Germans plus Hungarian and Baltic units have never been disarmed.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Germany
Izvestia
Anti-Vice Drive Launched in Berlin by Occupation Powers
Four occupying powers in Berlin with local police start a comprehensive anti-vice drive. It targets delinquency and venereal disease among women and girls, with 2,500 weekly admissions and a shift from 50 percent venereal disease rate to about 25 percent after compulsory treatment. A senior American medical officer calls it the world's greatest morals problem.
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Berlin
Germany
Nazis Classed As Murderers By Attorney
Sir Hartley Shawcross, attorney general of the United Kingdom, branded Hermann Goering Rudolf Hess Joachim von Ribbentrop and the other Nazi leaders as murderers and robbers responsible for breaking the world's peace. He opened Britain's case at the international tribunal stating the defendants piloted Germany into naked aggression and plunged the world into a costly war.
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Mernberg
Hermann Goering
Rudolf Hess
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hartley Shawcross
United Kingdom
Germany
Pennsylvanian Ned Samuels Wins U S Open Bridge Title
Ned Samuels of Easton Pennsylvania captured the U S open individual contract bridge tournament in Atlantic City with 373 match points. Runner up was Joseph Foreacre of Wilmington Delaware with 370 and M A Lightman of Memphis Texas with 309.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Ned Samuels
Easton
Joseph J. Foreacre
Wilmington
Del
M. A. Lightman
Memphis
Teas
Measure for labor troubles likely to be introduced
House leaders said legislation to implement President Truman's labor policy will be introduced tomorrow. Democratic whip Rams of Georgia indicated the bill would be submitted by Chairman Norton of the House Labor Committee.
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Washington
House
Truman
Rams Speck
Georgia
Norton
D-Nj
House Labor Committee
House panel approves high employment bill substitute
Washington December 4. The house expenditures committee voted to declare a federal program to maintain a high level of employment in the nation. The substitute drops the term full employment and replaces it with high level of employment. The move ends a two month stalemate over the bill amid criticism of delays by the expenditures group.
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Washington
House Expenditures Committee
Truman
Lawmakers set hearings on labor dispute act reforms
President Truman urged Congress to authorize fact finding and possible 30 day pauses in strikes, seeking passage before Christmas. House and Senate committees prepared to consider repealing key Smith Connally act provisions, with May proposing to add presidentially requested measures to a broader bill.
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Sacto
House
Ramspeck
May
D-Ky
Senate
Truman
Congress
Indonesians Move Against Eastern Java Extremists
Prime Minister Sjahrir said the government is trying to curb extremist groups in eastern Java and has sent representatives to Bandoeng to address the issue. He noted possible Dutch recognition of Indonesian demands as tensions rise amid related fighting and a British air strike against Indonesian forces near Batavia.
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Batavia
Java
Sutan Sjahrir
Bandoeng
Netherlands
Indones
Mascin
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