Marshall Reveals Warnings Sent Before Pearl Harbor Attack
Gen George C Marshall testified before a senate house committee that he ordered warnings to Pacific commanders on the morning of December 7 1941 despite initial Navy opposition. He recalled calling Admiral Stark to urge sending messages and adjusting them so naval outposts would be informed. The hearing examined evidence from Marshall’s actions that day as Japan’s note to Hull reached Washington at 1 PM, the time of the assault.
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George C. Marshall
Army
China
Joint
Senate House
Washington
Pearl Harbor
Harold R
Pacific
Stark
Naval Operations
United States
Marshall
Senate-House
White House
Admir
Japan
Hull
Rep
Keefe
R-Wis
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Angl o American loan faces fight in Congress
Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull endorses a 4.4 billion dollar Anglo American loan and trade deal as the final chance for lasting peace. Britain would receive a 3.75 billion cash loan and a 350 million lend lease settlement, with 2 percent interest, amid strong Congressional opposition.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
State Department
Hull
Britain
Socialist Strength Reinforces Labour Drive in Britain
From London a report on the two day debate shows Conservatives led by Winston Churchill failed to defeat the motion of censure and confirms Labour confidence to push nationalization. The piece notes the socialist program and the government’s aim to forge ahead toward a socialist state over its five year mandate.
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London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
14 Occupants Of Transport Plane Are Found Dead
Corrientes province police confirm the burned wreckage of an American C-47 transport plane found miles south of Colonia Pellegrini. All 14 occupants are dead. The mission carried U. S. Army personnel from Asuncion to Montevideo, including the legal attaché of the U S embassy.
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Corrientes
Colonia Pellegrini
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U. S. Army
Asuncion
Paraguay
Montevideo
Uruguay
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War Department
Washington
Nationalists Reach Outskirts of Mukden in Manchuria
Chinese dispatches report Nationalist vanguards reach the outskirts of Mukden and may enter the key industrial city before December 10. They suffered under 100 casualties in their advance along the Peiping Mukden railroad amid fighting south of Kupehkow. Gen Hsi ying Shih Hui leads troops, and Chou En Lai is expected to meet Gen George C. Marshall for talks.
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Kupehkow
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Manchuria
Hsiying Shih-Hui
World Daily News
Chou En-Lai
Yenan
George C. Marshall
U. S
Factions In Wage Fight Meet Today
The GM walkout affects about 200000 workers as unions reject a 13.5 cent raise while seeking 30 percent. Detroit talks continue with UAW CIO and Chrysler mediators while a CIO electrical workers offer 13.5 cents to 25,000 at General Motors. Strike votes loom for GE and Westinghouse crews.
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Samanaha United Auto Workers
Aed
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Westinghouse
Uaw-Cio
Chrysler Corporation
Penda
Victory Loan Tops Goal With Modest Public Hype
The treasury announced that the victory loan exceeded its $11 billion target, totaling $12.288 billion. Purchases averaged $8.07 per bond and $4.212 billion in E bonds, but overall enthusiasm was subdued as most buyers were individuals with idle cash.
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Washington
Treasury Today
Prisoner Hangs Self in Central Prison
Ray Osborn a 50 year old white inmate from Vanney died at central prison in Raleigh after hanging himself with a chain from his bunk. Coroner Ray M Banks said he was mentally deranged and Osborn had been sentenced in Wilkes county on August 17 this year for 20 to 25 years for second degree murder. The body was found about 5 am by guards.
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Raleigh
Ray Osborn
Vanney
Central Prison
Ray M. Banks
Osborn
Wilkes County
Southern labor calm masks scattered strikes and big auto toll
A postwar labor survey shows fourteen southern states report only 15 thousand idle, less than four percent of the national total. Major outages remain in four states Mississippi Oklahoma Kentucky and Virginia with no work stoppages. The GM strike accounts for 215 thousand idle nationwide alongside 60 thousand in the San Francisco area and 11 thousand machinists idle in that region.
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Mississippi
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Virginia
General Motors
Pacific Northwest
San Francisco
Texas
Louisiana
Alabama
Tennessee
West Virginia
North Carolina
South
Georgia
Electrical Contractors Meet Ends in Charlotte
A two day session of the Carolinas chapter National Electrical Contractors Association closed in Charlotte with W. E. Henry Jr. of Charlotte presiding at the closing session.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
National Electrical Contractors Association
W. E. Henry, Jr
Nazis poised for invasion of low countries in 1939
German records introduced at the war crimes trial show Hitler’s armies massed for an invasion of Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg with plans to strike as soon as weather allowed. Prosecutors cited naval orders and directives from early November 1939, while noting the operation was postponed due to poor weather.
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Hitler
Low Countries
France
Iele
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Norway
Denmark
Truman Moves To End Housing Congestion
Washington December 7 Reported plans to restore building materials to a priorities system to break a bottleneck in home building. Officials cited a quick move to restart construction and noted a possible action at a 4 p.m. news conference.
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Washington
Truman
From Watery Grave To Mightiest Fleet Is American Navy
Pearl Harbor marks four years since the Japanese attack as the Navy, now the world’s mightiest, honors the dead. Soldiers sailors and civilians attend services while remnants of wrecks remain as hawaii remembers the day. Relatives and servicemen hope for homecoming as the fleet redeems the catastrophe.
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Don Whitehead
Pearl Harbor
America
United States
Pacific
Japan
Oahu Island
Japanese War Crimes Trials Begin Early January
Tokyo reports that the war crimes trials are likely to start in January with former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and cabinet members among the first defendants. Special prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan said he would not discuss allied attitudes toward Emperor Hirohito.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Joseph B. Keenan
MacArthur
Hirohito
Yamashita Convicted of War Crimes and Sentenced to Death
Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was convicted by a five-general military commission in Manila for atrocities by Japanese forces in the Philippines and sentenced to death. The verdict marked the first Pacific war crimes conviction of a senior leader. Yamashita’s defense and appeals continue as his wife commented from Tokyo on the fairness of the American justice system.
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
Russell B. Reynolds
Com
Yamashita
Pacific
United States
Bilibid
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Mainichi
United States Supreme Court
Five Ministers May Have Session In Red Capital
London dispatch reports Foreign Secretary Bevin may announce a meeting of the five foreign ministers of the United States Britain Russia France and China. Circulating reports say the ministers might meet in Moscow soon, first since last October's inconclusive London conference.
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London
Foreign Office
Ernest Bevin
United States
Britain
Russia
France
China
Moscow
Bevin
Raleigh Hatchery chief elected president of NC Mutual Hatchery
Charles G. Fox of Raleigh was elected president of the North Carolina Mutual Hatchery association for the coming year at a meeting held yesterday. Other officers named include James E. Rollins of Goldsboro as first vice president A R Gattis of Asheville as second vice president and T T Browne of North Carolina State College as secretary treasurer.
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Raleigh
Charles G. Fox
North Carolina Mutual Hatchery Association
James E. Rollins
Goldsboro
A. R. Gattis
Asheville
T. T. Browne
N. C. State College
Secretary Byrnes defends diplomats in Hurley challenge
Secretary of State Byrnes told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee there is no evidence of disloyalty by two American diplomats cited by Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley. He said Hurley did not obtain a public China policy statement from President Truman or the State Department and defended the officials as loyal to U S policy while allowing expression of differing views.
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Washington
Byrnes
Patrick J. Hurley
Unifia
Chungking
China
Truman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hurley
China Post
State Department
George Atcheson
John Service
Atcheson
Service
Mr. Service
Secretary
Tom Connally
Dean Acheson
Iran
Sea and Air Hunt for 27 Missing Planesmen
A vast sea and air armada searched 100000 square miles of the Atlantic to rescue 27 men from a formation of torpedo bombers and a Martin rescue craft. Clues included an explosion and possible plane crash near New Smyrna Beach and a meteorological storm causing turbulent air over Miami. The last contact came at 5 25 p m with the force about 75 miles northeast of Cocoa Florida.
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S. S. Gaines Mills
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