Winter Woes Grip Nation With Cold Front Across Nation
A premature cold spell crashes coast to coast with snow burying Buffalo and Lackawanna under four to six feet, halting schools and industry while labor talks heat up in steel automotives and oil. CIO Sinclair Oil pact eases some pain as wage boosts spark no wildcat actions. housing crisis prompts hefty federal and city plans for veterans housing and temp shelters.
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Florida
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Sinclair Oil
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Ford
Snyder
New York City
O’dwyer
Manhattan Beach
King and Morris Offer Sovereignty and Party Reflections
Canadian prime minister W. L. Mackenzie King warns that atomic age thinking demands surrender of national sovereignty. New York City Council president Newbold Morris states the Republican Party is his party, but not always right or wrong.
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American Red Cross 1946 Campaign Highlights and Wartime Roles
Highlights include a $100000000 goal for the 1946 Red Cross campaign, U S Army Legion of Merit to British Air Commodore Patrick H Huskinson, and the Cleveland Rams NFL championship win over the Washington Redskins 15 to 14. Also noted are a Paris Christmas party for 5000 fatherless children, Emory Land offered Air Transport Association presidency, Denison Texas memorial purchase, XB 42 bomber crash near Oxon Hill, a Detroit doctor's needle find aided by a radiododdlebug, Lord Haw Haw Joyce death sentence, and Pearl Harbor probe council resignation in January.
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William
Lord Haw Haw) Joyce
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Moscow Conference Notes and MacArthur’s Japan Policy
The piece summaries postwar diplomacy with the Moscow talks among the Big Three and Secretary Byrnes. It highlights Stalin’s return, atomic energy sharing, and MacArthur’s tightening of occupation rules including Shinto abolition and war crimes trials, alongside Japan’s leadership upheavals and potential imperial implications.
Cap Welch Civil War veteran dies at 113 in Cincinnati
Cap William D. Welch, one of the region’s oldest Civil War veterans, died at 113 in Cincinnati. His life spanned a river career from deckhand to riverboat master and back to overcoming repeated setbacks at sea and on land.
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Pants Probe Puts Fort Ticonderoga Pants Scene In Pearl Harbor Talk
In a Pearl Harbor inquiry discussion the British Fort Ticonderoga exploit is cited. William D. Mitchell recalls ragged militia catching the British asleep and jokes about the commander with trousers in his hands. Chairman Barkley asks if he was donning or doffing. The point remains unsettled.
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U S Seeks Peace Steps in China Spain and Palestine
The United States moves to aid China only if civil strife ends and a unified government is formed. It signals Franco's Spain and Argentina as peace threats and notes Ambassador Armour will retire. Byrnes backs collective intervention in the Americas and Congress pressures Britain on Jewish entry to Palestine. A six man U S delegation, led by Judge Hutcheson, heads the Palestine inquiry with a British six man group.
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John Pingoton
President proposes National Defense Department in unity plan
The President outlined a plan to Congress for a single Department of National Defense headed by a Cabinet member, with an Undersecretary and civilian aides. A chief of staff would oversee a commander for land, sea, and air branches. Mr. Truman, commander in chief, urged no further study.
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Wake Island Fourth Anniversary Mentioned Sunday
The record notes an upcoming anniversary on Sunday December 23 marking the fourth fall of Wake Island. Details also reference a Christmas Eve address by the President on Monday December 24 at 5 p.m. EST on major networks.
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E.S.T
Cities Vying for UNO Site Debate Focuses on U S Locations
United Nations Organization home site will be decided by the General Assembly meeting in London late January. A subcommittee will trim 40 plus invitations to about six and may send inspectors or leave the choice to the assembly. San Francisco Boston Philadelphia Chicago Atlantic City and Hyde Park are among favored locales.
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Hyde Park
Trial reveals Nazi plans for mass starvation in Russia
Prosecutors cite captured German documents showing 1941 plans by Goering's Economic Ministry to export Ukraine food and seize Russian grain for German use. Alfred Rosenberg is quoted vowing to feed Germans from the east and to disregard Hague Convention rules for Soviet captives.
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Hermann Goering
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