Ford Rejects Demand For Increase
The long and bitter dispute between the CIO United Auto Workers and the automotive industry continues with no immediate settlement. President Truman's intervention may hasten talks at GM, Ford, and Chrysler as unions push for wage raises while Ford rejects a 30 percent demand.
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CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Truman
General Motors
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Corpora
Tion
Ford
Nee Ies
withae + goe Ford company
Washington
House
Senate
Preserved Head and Lamp Shades Shown at Nazi Trial
At Nuremberg the four power tribunal saw grisly evidence from concentration camps including a preserved human head the size of a baseball and lamp shades made from human skin. Testimony linked tattooing to selective killings at Buchenwald and described heads from two guards hanged for relations with Jewish women.
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Thomas J. Dodd
Standartenfuehrer
Koch
Buchenwald
Ireland Improves Amid War Strains Draws Tourists
Dublin reports show Ireland with less destitution than before the war though poverty remains in places. The city now attracts British and American visitors seeking relief from drab conditions and rationing, drawn by abundant food and liquor.
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DE Witt MacKenzie
Dublin
Southreland
Reyears
Ireland
Britain
Eng
London
Japs Set to Pass Election Reform Legislation
Tokyo reports election reform legislation to be passed by the house of peers as a first step toward proportional representation. General MacArthur orders a broad relief program for the unemployed with food clothing housing medical care and welfare aid this winter as the Diet debates political reform.
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Tokyo
House of Peers
Diet
MacArthur
Government drives to smash black market clothing sales
U S Attorney General Tom C Clark announced a four agency crackdown with the department of justice the treasury department the office of price administration and the U S District Attorney for New York City. The effort aims to restore normal market flow and deter inflation by targeting black market clothing and textiles nationwide with a special federal grand jury impaneled to pursue isolated cases.
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New York
U. S
Tom C. Clark
Department of Justice, Treasury Deriment
Office of Price Adminisation
Office of U. S. Dis
Trict
John F. X. McGahey
New York City
Clark
O. D
Principals Not Entitled To Leaves
Attorney General Harry McMullan ruled that school principals are not officers entitled to leaves of absence under state statute and local boards need not restore principal veterans to their former jobs. He noted agencies are complying with recommendations to restore jobs for returning veterans. The ruling addressed a principal discharged from the army who reclaimed a Negro school post after a teacher who had held the job during absence sought compensation for the 1945 46 term.
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Raleigh
Harry McMullan
State Board of Education
Dutch Reject Dutch Offer Promise in Indonesia Fight
Indonesian leaders from Sumatra rejected Dutch dominion status and pledged support for the unrecognized Indonesian republic in its push for full independence. Acting Governor Amir spoke after a conference with Premier Sjahrir and leaders of the republic. Minor disturbances and clashes near Medan were reported as Dutch efforts continued.
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Batavia
Java
Sumatra
Amir
Sutan Sjahrir
Medan
Pope Pius XII Urges Church Unity In Anniversary Letter
In a message to the Archbishop of Trent marking four centuries since the Council of Trent's inauguration, Pope Pius XII appeals for Christian reunion with Peter and his successor. He calls the Protestant schism a tragic breach and prays for one flock and one shepherd in our time.
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Rome
Pius XII
Peter
Trent
Council of Treat
Marshall Flares Up At Hearing On Pearl Harbor Alert
Gen George C Marshall told a House committee he believed an alert order for Hawaii was definite before Pearl Harbor and that Lt Gen Walter Short was given a direct alert. He said he bore full responsibility for actions of the general staff and that oversight failed to ensure Short went to a full war alert.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Nder
Hawaii
House Committee
Alter C. Short
Ormer
Pearl Harbor
Short
Marshall
General Staff
Rep
Keefe
R-Wis
Fire Hits Detroit Poultry Plant. 700 Chickens Die
A blaze at the Detroit Division Poultry Company last night killed about 700 chickens and caused an estimated $16,000 in damage. Firefighters battled the flames, with the cause still under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Division Poultry Company
Dachau Officials Sentenced to Death by U S Military Court
A U S military tribunal at Dachau convicted 40 officials and guards from the Dachau camp, sentencing 36 to death by hanging for murder torture and starvation of inmates. One received life imprisonment and three got 10 year terms. Court heard witnesses of 5000 Jewish deaths and brutal torture including ice bath experiments.
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Dachau
U. S
Notorous Dachau
Peter Eee
Bencon T
Lausterer
Albin Gretsch
S.S
Johann Schoe
Chiang Kai-shek Returns to Peiping as Troops Advance in Manchuria
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appears in Peiping for the first time in years while forces move rapidly beyond Mukden toward Harbin. National troops plan to seize Changchun and Harbin with air support, signaling a likely quick gain of Manchuria with limited bloodshed.
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Tientsin
China
Chiang Kai- Shek
Peiping
Mukden
Hara
Manchurian
Changchun
Manchuria
Chiang
Harbin
Dairen
Atomic Secrets Explained in U-235 Concentration
AP News outlines how U-235 makes up seven tenths of one percent of uranium and how scientists build large centers to concentrate it. Descriptions cover gas strainers, magnetic separation, and liquid diffusion with thousands of steps before usable amounts appear. The atomic bomb relies on quickly fusing or splitting atoms, triggering nearly total fission in a fraction of a second.
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AP News
U. S
High Point Snowfall Forecast Dims White Christmas Hopes
Weather officials at the High Point Greensboro airport report limited snow prospects for a white Christmas with today's forecast showing more snow and a slow temperature drop. The morning low reached 20 degrees, four above yesterday.
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High Point
S. Weather Bureau
High Point-Greensboro
Snow accumulates in Western North Carolina. schools closed
Western North Carolina reports two and a half to six inches of snow with continued snowfall. Asheville records three inches at noon as Buncombe County schools close for the day and may not reopen until Monday. State patrol warns drivers to proceed cautiously due to packing and freezing roads. no serious accidents reported yet, though western buses had not arrived in Asheville by noon.
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North Carolina
Asheville
Buncombe County
First Snow Falls in Charlotte. Freezing Conditions Ahead
CHARLOTTE, Dec. 13. The first snow of the winter fell today starting at 9 30 a m with large flakes. The ground remained near freezing and the snow mostly adhered with little melt. The Weather Bureau predicted the snow would continue or turn to freezing rain, with sledding prospects good barring rain.
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Charlotte
Weather Bureau
Cleaner Overcharges Reduced in Supreme Court Ruling
J. L. Hilgreen sued Sherman's Cleaners and Tailors in Guilford county alleging five overcharges totaling 85 cents under the OPA. The Supreme Court, in a ruling by Justice Emery B. Denny, found only one offense since a single price list was published, reducing damages from 250 to 50 dollars.
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Raleigh
Supreme Court
OPA
J. L. Hilgreen
Guilford Superior Court
Sherman's Cleaners and Tailors, Inc
Greensboro
Emery B. Denny
High Court
Cleaners
Patton Paralyzed General Shows Signs of Improvement
In Heidelberg the U S army hospital chief said Gen George S Patton Jr has a good chance of being on his feet again after a good night and satisfactory condition. Doctors reported no overnight change in his paralysis from a broken neck suffered in an automobile accident near Mannheim last Sunday.
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Heidelberg
Germany
U. S. Army Hospital
George 8. Patton, Jr
George S. Patton
Patton
Mannim
Moscow agog over session of ministers
Moscow awaits arrival of U.S. Secretary Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Bevin for talks signaling a high profile session. Foreign Commissar Moscow notes public interest rises as ministers prepare to meet in the Soviet capital.
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Ike
Byrnes
Russia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
James F. Byrnes
Washington
Moscow
U. S
Bevin
Mystery Killings Investigation Expands Across Six Cities
District Attorney Edmund Brown reports a continental probe into deaths and cremations of three elderly women. Ex-con Alfred L. Cline, held on forgery charges in Chicago, is tied to estates of Eva Krebs. Cases spread to Portland Chicago Dallas Tampa Jacksonville Columbus Bloomington with several cremations linked to Krebs.
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San Francisco
Edmund Gerald Brown
Alfred Leonard Cline
Portland
Chicago
Dallas
Tampa
Jacksonville
Fla
Columbus
Bloomington
Ind
Cline
Eva Dolora Krebs
Gerald Ryan
Krebs
Pfctael
Alfred L. Cline
John Engler
Isabel van Natta
Oregon
George S. Carpenter
Sally W. Carpenter
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Walter P. Stacy
North Carolina Supreme Court
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Fisher Body
Ford Motor
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Chiang Kai-shek
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