Clash of Arms in House of Commons as Labour Clash Continues
A major parliamentary confrontation unfolds in London as the new Labour government squares off against the Conservatives led by Churchill. The clash signals a broader shift in British society with traditional class distinctions eroding and incomes leveling. Continued on Page 2-Sec A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
London
England
Haps
House of Commons
Labor
Nnts
Churchill
Weed Prices Remain Firm as Sales Stay Light
North Carolina and Virginia flue cured tobacco markets saw light sales with firm prices despite cold damp weather delaying deliveries. The Tuesday average was 46.90 per hundred pounds from 1,826,286 pounds sold, down 65 cents from Monday, with some Damaged tobacco and red leaf grades rising 1 to 3 dollars per hundred. The season total stood at 149,594,153 pounds for a 53.73 average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Virginia
Old Belt
Federal State Market News Service
Middle Belt
Halsey Rejects Damn Word In Address To Senators
Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey told senators the proposed armed forces merger is un American, un democratic and dangerous. His prepared line included damn dangerous but he skipped the word while reading. He urged a postwar defense department uniting navy army and air force and noted Russia once tried such a system.
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Washington
William F. “Bull” Halsey
Tokyo
Senate and Military Affairs Committee
Admiral Halsey
Russia
Japan
Germany
Hurley attacks Acheson over Iran policy in Senate hearing
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley charged Dean Acheson defeated American policy in Iran during a stormy Senate Foreign Relations Committee session. The ex-diplomat, resigning last week as ambassador to China, pressed his claims amid sharp exchanges with Sen. Connally. He delayed by saying he would submit documents instead.
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Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dean Acheson
Iran
Acheson
Secrece Byrnes
Hurley
China
Connally
Dtex
Texas
Connnally
Connall
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Far East
War Delayed By Britain's Aid To Poles
Goering says Britain’s Polish aid pact delayed WWII by seven days as Hitler delayed invasion to fend off British intervention. He claimed secret talks with Lord Halifax aimed to avoid war, while British prosecutor calls it a bogus offer to deter aid to Poland.
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Mernberg
Britain
Poland
Hermann Goering
International Military Tribunal
Goering
Hitler
Far Reichsmarshal
Lord Halifax
Engand
Mervyn Griffith-Jones
England
Nationalists Close on Mukden but Delay for Soviet Approval
Chinese nationalist forces approach Mukden within 25 miles but will hold entry until Moscow approves a Manchurian dispatch. Mukden garrisoned by Soviet troops with no Chinese communists in the city. Negotiations between nationalist officials and Marshal Malinovsky continue smoothly as plans for early airborne entry in Manchuria unfold.
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Chungking
Mukden
Russia
Changchun
Rodion Malinovsky
Manchuria
Harbin
Szechwan Daily
Two Japanese War Crime Suspects Targeted by Mac Arthur
General Mac Arthur ordered the arrest of Fumimaro Konoye and Marquis Koichi Kido among eight top Japanese figures as war crimes suspects. Tokyo reacted with shock as Japanese communists promised a list of 1,000 suspects, and Premier Shidehara faced cabinet strain over allied indictments.
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Ace Fumimaro Konoye
Koichi Kido
MacArthur
Konoye
Japan
Kido
Hidohito
Tokyo
Emperor
Kijuro Shidehara
Kyodo
Shidehara
Morisama Nashimoto
Indonesians Killed in Soerabaja Skirmishes Reported
Batavia Java December 6 British army announces 38 Indonesians killed in recent skirmishes in the Soerabaja sector. Thirty one slain south of the city and seven at a railway station west of the naval base as Indian troops clear the area.
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Batavia
Java
Soerabaja
Pepemiahety
Smithfield youth wins national field crops contest
Walter Bryan Coates of Smithfield is declared a national winner in the field crops contest at the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago and will receive a $200 scholarship, announced by L. R. Harrill, state club leader at North Carolina State College Extension Service.
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Raleigh
Walter Bryan Coates
Smithfield
Chicago
Il. R. Harrill
N. C. State College Extension Service
Marshall testified to planned removal of most P-36 fighters for Hawaii defense
General George C. Marshall testified that in early 1941 he decided to strip nearly all U S combat pursuit squadrons of their P-36 planes to defend Hawaii. He noted engine defects in the P-40 and said 30 P-36s were pulled, bringing Hawaii totals to about 50 planes, as part of preparations against an air attack.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
United States
Hawaii
Marshall
Army
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
William D. Mitchell
Mitchell
War-Navy Department
Pacific
United
United States grants Britain loan amid World trade push
London reports that the United States plans a loan of 4.4 billion dollars to Britain, contingent on congressional and parliamentary approval. The deal follows twelve weeks of negotiation and is welcomed as a boost to world trade.
United States British Loan Pact Reported In Washington
Representatives of the United States and British governments signed a loan agreement reported to total 4.4 billion dollars for Britain. In Washington official information was withheld for the present.
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Washington
United States
Britain
World loan agreement reported by London and Washington
The London press described a 50 year repayment starting 1046 with no interest for five years and 2 percent thereafter, about $88 million first year. Headlines signaled approval from conservative and labor presses, calling the loan a magna carta for world trade and promising relief to Britain while warning of broader trade tensions if talks failed.
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Washington
London
Daily
Sketch
Britain
Daily Herald
Radiation death weeks after atomic blasts described
Dr. Philip Morrison testified to a Senate committee on findings from a mission to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He said rays from the atomic bombs damaged blood forming tissues, caused bleeding, suppressed white cells, and led to infections fatal two to three weeks after exposure.
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Washington
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Philip Morrison
Special
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Morrison
University of Illinois
Iranian Premier Denies He Will Quit Position
Teheran reports quote Premier Ibraham Makimi denying any intention to resign. He said he will continue efforts to settle Azerbaijan province unrest amid separatist agitation and asserted the so called Azerbaijan assembly is illegal.
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Teheran
Ibraham Makimi
Azerbaijan
Soviet Union
Azerbaijan Assembly
Continued Cold Weather Across Carolinas Delays Transit
The Associated Press reports persistent cold air in the Carolinas with near freezing temperatures yesterday and little rise expected today. Ice and snow disrupted bus traffic in western North Carolina while other transport and communication systems largely held. Snow mixed with rain occurred in Greenville and Spartanburg with temperatures at or below freezing across multiple Carolina locations.
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Carolinas
States
North
Winstona
Virginia
Greenville
Spartanburg
Anderson
Carolina
Peace Up To Chiang Says Communists
Yenan authorities stress that Chiang Kai-shek must accept a democratic coalition government for peace. They deny any offer to include communists in a government now, and cite Mao Tze-Tung's writings on a bourgeois democratic revolution and a mixed economy as guiding principles.
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Yenan
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Patrick Hurley
United States
Chiang
Chungking
Mao Tze-Tung
Mao
Enterprise Offers Free Room Rent Ads In High Point
The Enterprise will publish free room rent ads in the classified section from today through the first of the year. Each ad runs for three insertions and excludes houses and apartments. Amid a housing shortage for veterans, Mayor Phillips appeals for vacant rooms and real estate board members offer guidance on fair rents.
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High Point
Enterprise
Phillips
Fewer Bombs and Rising Unemployment in Knoxville Area
The United States cuts atomic bomb material production at Oak Ridge causing a weaker labor market in Knoxville. The USES report notes a reduction in force at the Knoxville area project driving unemployment up, though no plant or area figures are given. The survey covers 133 industrial areas with about 70 million people.
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Washington
United States
U. S. Employment Service
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Knoxville
USES
Verbal orders at shipwreck trial cited in McVay case
Navy court martial heard coxswain Edward Keyes testify that Captain McVay shouted abandon ship about ten minutes after the Indianapolis was hit. Keyes said the loudspeaker failed, hindering timely orders as the cruiser sank en route from Guam to Leyte. The trial also questions McVay's failure to zigzag in waters with plotted submarine contacts.
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Washington
Navy
Chas. B. McVay
Indianapolis
Edward H. Keyes
Mce- Vay
Guam
Leyte
McVay
GM and CIO UAW Near First Wage Talks Amid Strike
Detroit reports rising hopes for settlement as General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers head toward wage negotiations after 16 days of walkout. No formal statements issued. officials in Pittsburgh with CIO President Murray note optimism and no strings attached stance from GM.
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Detroit
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers
GM Walkout Leaders Meet to Break Impasse in Detroit
More than 200000 GM workers prepared to meet with corporation officials and CIO United Auto Workers leaders in Detroit at 2 p.m. EST to discuss wage demands and other issues. The talks follow a secret Pittsburgh conference after a 16 day strike affecting about 70 plants. President Philip Murray said wage hikes of 30 percent and related points would be considered as new government wage price policy negotiations unfold. Chrysler talks meanwhile broke down in Detroit.
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GMAW
Truman
Murray
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Auto Workers
Philip Murray
CIO
Walter Reuther
General Motors
United Auto Workers Union
Detroit
CTI
Pittsburgh
John C. Collet
Washington
CPA
Union
Chrysler Corporation
State Troops Protect Negro In Mississippi
Willie McGee a 30 year old Negro truck driver was brought to Laurel with about 50 state guard troops from Jackson to stand trial for his life in Jones county circuit court for rape of a white woman on November 2. He arrived with rifles and machine guns and was escorted into the courtroom. The alleged assault occurred as a intruder forced his way into the woman’s bedroom while her husband slept.
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Laurel
Miss
Willie McGee
State Guard
Jackson
Jones County
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University of Minnesota
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Mississippi
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