Stalin Returns to Moscow as Big Three Meet
Stalin resumes duties after a 68 day vacation at his Black Sea retreat near Sochi. The foreign ministers of the USSR Great Britain and the United States completed a two hour session and prepare for further talks on atomic energy control and world peace with cautious optimism.
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Moscow
Stalin
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
United States
Council
Kremlin
U. S
W. Averill Harriman
Black Sea
Sochi
Harriman
Wen
U. S. Tary of State James F. Byrnes and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
Ussr
A de Stalin
Byrnes
Bevin
Eme
Vyacheslav Molotov
Wage Battle Continues In Motor City
Ford offered the CIO UAW 12 percent hourly raise with 15 cents, rejected as unacceptable. A new 5,000 dollar fine clause for strikes was tied to production at 80,000 monthly units, costing Ford about 33 million dollars. GM faced pickets at Flint plant as unions pressed 30 percent wage goals and managers sought penalties for walkouts. Government price-profit study delays wage fact finding, adjourned to Friday.
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Associated Press
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
Richard T. Leonard
Ford
Uaw-Cio
Cmmony
General Motors
John S. Bugas
Ford Labor Relations
Strr
Flint
Parkplug
James T. Byars
Cio-Uaw
Tew
Truman
Kaiser-Frazer Corp
Washi
Photo of Parliament Portrait Sparks Irish Neutrality Story
A World Today account from Dublin recalls an incident where a photographer was told not to publish a picture of the parliament building with Queen Victoria in view. After a government employee seized the film, the head of a department apologized and returned it, highlighting lingering Irish bitterness toward Britain amid neutrality during World War II.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Dublin
Eire
United States
Britain
Parment
Eah
Queen
Victoria
Parliament
Ireland
Japanese War Crimes Trial Opens as First Defendant Pleads Innocent
Tatsuto Tsuchiya known as Little Glass Eye faces a U S military tribunal in Yokohama charged with brutality and the death of Pfc. Robert Gordon Teas. Col. John B Ball withdrew from the case citing potential bias after surviving the Bataan death march.
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Yokohama
U. S. Military Commission
Bataan
John B. Ball
Williamstown
Tatsuto Tsuchiya
Little Glass Eye
Robert Gordon Teas
Tsuchiya
Tribunal of Te
Mitsushima
Teas
M.P
Milton Fountain
Richlands
N. C
Cotton Consumption in November 1945 Reported
The census bureau notes cotton used in November 1945 amounted to 743 450 bales of lint and 83 680 bales of linters. This follows October consumption of 759 806 bales of lint and 54 464 bales of linters and compares with November 1944 figures of 836 438 bales of lint and 23 032 bales of linters.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Expert on Booby Traps Gets Caught
In Chicago a 19 year old ex soldier Arnold Olsen fixed a 3 inch shell into a pantry trap as a burglar alarm. The blast injured Frank R. Carr a 37 year old war veteran who helped clean the house. Olsen claimed the trap would trigger on sash movement. Carr joked about his demolition work in France.
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Chicago
Arnold Olsen
Germany
Olsen
Young Olsen
Carr
France
80 Indonesians Lose Their Lives in Java Fight
Batavia Java December 18 At least 80 Indonesians were killed in bitter hand to hand fighting at Buitenzorg with a British Indian column that suffered 32 casualties Three Indians were killed A British officer and 28 Indians were wounded when the column met a road block 30 miles south of Batavia The Indonesians were estimated at 300 An official British statement earlier minimized the action listing two British troops killed and five wounded.
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Batavia
Java
Buitenzorg
Entries Due in North Carolina Short Story Contest
Charlotte December 18 entries for the North Carolina short story contest must be submitted by midnight Thursday, announced Mrs. Fannie Lou Bingham of Charlotte, the chairman.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Fannie Lou Bingham F
McVay Testifies He Did Not Order Zigzag On Indianapolis
Captain Charles B. McVay testified at his court martial that poor visibility and no moon made zigzag steering unnecessary the night Indianapolis sank after explosions. He said he slept in his cabin when the ship was struck and blamed the loss on an enemy submarine.
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Washington
Charles B. McVay
Indianapolis
McVay
Guam
Leyte
Fisheries Dept Names Publicity Chief From Navy Ties
Gene Wike, recently placed on inactive naval service and formerly with Appalachian State Teachers College, will become public relations director for the division of game and inland fisheries on January 1. Commissioner John D. Findlay announced the appointment and salary at three thousand dollars per year.
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Raleigh
Gene Wike
Navy
Appalachian State Teachers College
Division of Game and Inland Fisheries
John D. Findlay
Wike
Appalachian
Total Eclipse Of Moon Will Come Tonight
The moon will be seen in eclipse in parts of the United States where weather permits tonight. The earth's shadow will begin passing across the satellite at 7 30 p m EST and will clear it at 11 03 p m Even during totality from 8 40 p m to 10 p m the moon will be visible with a dull coppery hue.
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Washington
United States
Japs Reply Blocked By Nazi Angle
Tokyo reports reveal Japan delayed peace talks in spring 1941 as Matsuoka sought Germany’s stance. He preponed a U S neutrality pact then rejected by Hull to gain time while Navy and Army pressed for action. Konoe and Matsuoka discussed plans after meetings with Nazi leaders.
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Tokyo
Japan
Yosuke Matsuoka
Germany
Prince Konoye
Matsuoka
United States
Cordell Hull
U. S
United
U.S
Britain
Italy
Konoye
Tachikawa
Europe
Fire destroys First Methodist church in Cherryville
Fire tore through the First Methodist church in Cherryville on Sunday morning causing an estimated loss of $100,000. Congregants will hold services in the Cherryville High School while rebuilding plans proceed.
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Cherryville
First Methodist
Pearl Harbor Safest Place For Fleet Day Of Attack
Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson testified that the U S fleet would have faced greater danger if attacked outside Pearl Harbor or on the West Coast on December 7 1941 than at the Hawaiian anchorage He spoke before Congress outlining strategic lessons from the attack.
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Pearl Harbor
Washington
Theodore S. Wilkinson
U. S
Hawaiian
Naval Intelligence
Congressional
Japanese intercepted U.S. Pearl Harbor broadcast report
A Senate-House inquiry committee reviewed a Japanese naval officer statement via General MacArthur's Tokyo HQ showing broadcasts from December 6 1941 revealing numbers of battleships cruisers and destroyers at Pearl Harbor. The testimony followed by Vice Admiral Wilkinson's evidence.
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Washington
Senate-House
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Theodore S. Wilkinson
Testi
Pearl Harbor Defense Committee Testimony Questioned Fleet Location
A Pearl Harbor defense committee member stated the harbor defenses were the best possible. Rep Murphy asked if moving the fleet from Pearl Harbor to Lahaing Roads would have reduced security. the witness indicated it would have been less secure.
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Pearl Harbor
Rep. Murphy
Dpa
Lahaing Roads
Year 1945 Busy for State Auditor With Thousands of Claims
The state auditor’s department preaudited about 90 000 claims and issued warrants in 1945. The bureau postaudited 30 institutions and 52 departments, examined railroad records, and handled Confederate veterans pensions totaling 25 650.56 for January 1946. The law enforcement retirement fund began paying July 1 1945 and mailed 57 retirement checks by December 1 1945.
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Raleigh
State Auditor's Department
Bureau of
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
Comny
Lrgest
Pension Bureau
General Assembly
Law
Snow and Rain Forecast for North and South Carolina
Weather officials warn of continuing subfreezing temperatures with snow in the northern and western areas of North Carolina and rain mixed with snow in the southeast. In South Carolina the south portion will see rain and the north portion rain mixed with snow. Cities report lows from eight to 36 degrees with Greensboro 19 Raleigh 21 Asheville 22 Charlotte 25 Wilmington 28 Spartanburg 26 Columbia 26 and Charleston 36.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
U. S. Weather Bureau
Greensboro
Raleigh
Asheville
Charlotte
Wilmington
Mount Mitchell
Spartanburg
Columbia
Charleston
Deadly Cold Weather Grips Large Nation
A prolonged arctic outbreak drops sub zero temperatures across much of the United States with at least 30 deaths attributed to the cold. Northern states report 38 below in Yellowstone Park area and heavy snow in Buffalo and Lackawanna, while the east endures icy blasts and cities dig out from blizzards.
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Buffalo
Indiana
Illinois
Montana
Pennsylvania
Maine
Ohio
Broadus
Monest
Yellowstone Park
Brookfield
Pittsburgh
New York City
Lackawanna
Breaks Neck Of Fox on Savannah Road
Anat. Ga. December news item reports W. Grizzard of Tattnall County returning with a dead red fox after stopping to inspect tires eight miles from Savannah. He says a fox suddenly sprang from the leaves and he bit the animal’s snout, breaking its neck in the struggle.
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Anat
Grizzard
Tattnallalae
Morning News
Savannah
Negro Dining Car Regulations Fail to Protect Negroes
A three judge federal court held Southern Railway dining car rules inadequate for Negroes reversing a prior ICC ruling. Elmer Henderson of Baltimore claimed denial of dining space on a Washington to Atlanta trip in May 1942. The case is remanded to the ICC for further action.
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Baltimore
Southern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Elmer W. Henderson
ICC
William C. Coleman
Morris A. Soper
W. Calvin Chestnut
Henderson
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Washington
Atlanta
Stranger Robs Man After Ride in North Carolina
Theodore Whisnant of Shelby picked up a stranger in sailor uniform in Spindale on the way to Marion. The man struck him, robbed him of 140 dollars, and fled. Whisnant was found by police in Rutherford hospital today.
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Rutherfordton
Theodore Whisnant
Shelby
Rutherford Hospital
Whisnant
Spindale
Marion
Raleigh Names Bar Association Committees for New Year
Louis J. Poisson of Wilmington announces appointments to the North Carolina Bar Association committees for the new year. The move sets the board and sections for upcoming legal actions, member services, and organizational planning in Raleigh.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Bar Association
Louis J. Poisson
Wilmington
Four Die in Suburban Summit House Fire
In sub zero conditions a Summit suburb blaze killed four Jacques children ages 23, 22, 17, and 14 as parents escaped by leaping from a bedroom window. Police recovered two sisters, Mary Ann and Alice, dead at Berwyn hospital and later found Therese and Michael in second floor rooms.
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Chicago
Summit
Albert Jacques
Mary Ann
Alice
Berwyn Hospital
Therese
Michael
Paul Rush
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