Truman Seeks Law To Bar Key Strikes Amid Labor Turmoil
President Truman urged Congress to pass enabling legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act to bar essential industry strikes for 30 days while fact finding takes place. He asked for boards to reveal facts, cover steel autos aviation mining oil utilities and communications, with no compulsion to follow recommendations. He acted before Christmas recess appointing boards for the GM strike and urged workers to return while talks continue.
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Washington
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Congress
Mr. Truman
General Motors
Steenage
G.M
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
Notable World and Legal Headlines
Executed: German Gen Anton Dostler by U S Army firing squad for ordering the deaths of 15 American soldiers captured in Italy on March 25, 1944. Struck: A tidal wave in the Karachi Bombay coastal area of India killed 4000 and left 40000 homeless. Rejected: Russia blocks U S proposal for Allied troop withdrawals from Iran by January 1. Appealed: Yamashita war crimes case to the U S Supreme Court. Married: Peggy Hopkins Joyce weds Anthony Easton in New York City.
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Italy
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Poland
Poznan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Karachi- Bombay
India
Russia
U.S
Iran
Tomoyuki Yamashita
U.S. Supreme Court
Ueed
Ministry of Economics
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Anthony Easton
New York City
Wheeler Opposes UNO Act Power to Deploy Troops
Sen. Wheeler denounces giving the President authority to appoint a Security Council delegate and commit U S troops without Congress approval calling the move a road to ruin. The Senate passes the UNO Participating Act 65 to 7 and rejects a plan to outlaw atomic bombs. it also defeats a Donnell bid to require a two thirds Senate vote for troop commitments.
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America
Russia
Senate
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RMO
Goering faces trial and German war guilt questions
The piece reviews Hermann Goering's Nuernberg trial and German attitudes toward responsibility for crimes against humanity. It notes his claims of limited knowledge, ties to Nazi leadership, and arguments about rearmament, with Byron Price and Allied findings on early submarine construction and the Austrian Anschluss.
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von Ribbentrop
High Command
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AP Newsfeatures
Hank Barrow
Peace transforms wartime science for medicine and industry
Scientists outline postwar uses of wartime marvels including UC Berkeley's cyclotron now rebuilt and used for cancer research. New techniques exploit long life radioactive carbon, iodine, and phosphorus to treat diseases. Static observations dating from the war enable rapid storm tracking over large ranges.
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Berkeley
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U.S
Pacific
LaGuardia to Begin New Radio Commentaries and City Hall Exit
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, leaving City Hall on January 1 with successor William O'Dwyer ready, will debut a Sunday 9 30 P.M. radio program on ABC January 6. The 15 minute show, funded initially by the network, may grow with sponsors. He vows no political sponsors and notes his past civic broadcasts on WNYC since Pearl Harbor Sunday.
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LaGuardia
WNYC
OPA
Radio Row
E.S.T
December 10 47th Anniversary Cession to United States
The entry marks the December 10 anniversary of Spain ceding the Philippines to the United States. It notes another anniversary on December 11 when Germany and Italy declared war on the U S. It lists December 15 as Bill of Rights Day and mentions federal income tax as a last payment.
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Philippines
U.S
Spain
Germany
Italy
Laski voices stark choice on economy and peace
Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor Party, declares there is no middle path between free enterprise and socialism. He argues market economy leads to war while planning and socialism offer peace, urging a planned civilization or perish.
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Harold J. Laski
British Labor Party
Allies name new war crimes suspects in Japan list
MacArthur’s occupation authority released a fourth list of suspected war criminals in Japan, adding civilian leaders and influential figures. The roster includes 26 Diet members, zaibatsu figures, editors, writers, teachers, and former premiers Kiichiro Hiranuma and Koji Hirota, with Admiral Takahashi admitting responsibility for the war.
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Japan
MacArthur
Morimasa Nashimoto
Naruhiko H
MaceArthur
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma
Germany
Italy
Koji Hirota
Sankichi Takahashi
Jitter at Minneapolis Incinerator After Explosive Finds
Workers at the city incinerator worry after a shell and a live grenade were found in trash cans. A shell blew off a door previously, raising safety concerns among staff at the facility. In Indonesia, Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir apologized for the 23 survivors killed near Batavia in a British crash, calling it a mis understanding between troops and locals.
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