Byrnes and Truman to broadcast on foreign ministers talks
Secretary Byrnes returned from Moscow and met President Truman aboard the Williamsburg to report on the foreign ministers conference. The White House announced a nation wide radio address at 10 pm EST Sunday on the news of the conference. The three foreign ministers plan to convene next in Washington or London and possibly at the UN assembly in London next month.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Byrnes
Moscow
Truman
Foreign Ministers
White House
National Broadcasting Pany Network
Wiburg
Cruising i
Éowe
Michael McDermott
Partment
Yalta
Dent Roosevelt
Generalissimolin
Churchill
United Nations Assembly
London
Williamsburg
Mount Vernon
Flames Dim Hopes For Miner Rescue At Kentucky Mine
Volunteer crews rescued eight miners after an explosion at the Ken tucky Straight Creek coal mine near Pineville. Rescuers fought flames fumes and fatigue hoping to reach 21 or 22 men still entombed in a 1700 foot side tunnel. Officials said midnight or later before access, with only cautious prospects for additional survivors after a 53 hour ordeal.
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Kentucky
Huey Miller
Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company
Pineville
Lingar
Kyle Vance
Kentucky Straight Creek
A. D. Sisk
Red Mine
Anna
Marine Corps to replace veterans in China
The Marine Corps announced that more than 10,000 Marine veterans stationed in China will be returned to the United States early in 1946. Brig. Gen. Gerald C. Thomas said via radio that 10,000 new men have replaced veterans, with drafts of 1,000 and 5,000 nearing China to fill duties.
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Washington
Marine Corps
China
United States
Gerald C. Thomas
Corps’ Division
Thomas
Chiang Kai-shek backed re education camp in Manchuria
In Chinhsien Manchuria Maj Gen Liu Kuang Ying oversees more than 1000 Chinese Communist prisoners subjected to intensive political training to reject communism and embrace Kuomintang governance. He says most inmates will become good citizens though many are housed in barred cells.
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J. D. White
Chinhsien
Manchuria
Kuom
Iang
National Army
Chiang Kai-shek
Liu Kuang-Ying
Central
Liu
Britain Protests Book Publication Postponed by State Dept
The State Department postponed for a week the publication of a 135 page booklet on a postwar international information program after a protest from Reuters. The booklet was prepared for the department by Dr. Arthur W. MacMahon of Columbia University and includes two pages on Reuters operations.
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Washington
State Department
Reuters
United States
Arthur W. MacMahon
Columbia University
Navy Declares Surplus Huts And Materials To Ease Shortage
The Navy announced 56 million dollars in building materials and 5,000 Quonset huts at four U S depots to relieve housing scarcity. Huts could house 70,000 as barracks or 10,000 two family dwellings. many huts unused. Materials include nails pipes plumbing and electrical supplies plus 55 million board feet of lumber. Depots: Port Hueneme California Tacoma Washington Davisville Rhode Island Gulfport Mississippi with sales patterned for nationwide use.
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Ie Haley Washington
Navy
United States
Naval
Port Hueneme
Calif
Tacoma
Wash
Davisville
R. I
Gulfport
Miss
E Tion
Arporation
Army
RFC
Veterans Administration
British sweep disarms Indonesian police in Batavia
British troops in Batavia disbanded the Indonesian police force after raids found some officers cooperating with lawless elements. Across western Java troops occupied utilities and searched compounds for arms while the new mixed police force took charge in the capital. British military police and Dutch officers assumed control of city areas as resistance occurred at key sites.
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Vern Haugland
Batavia
Java
Buitenzorg
Eeeepee
Fones
Five Power Military Meeting Slated in London Next Month
London dispatch reports a five power military meeting in London next month to discuss an international police force. Britain has initiated discussions to determine the size and composition of the force, with diplomats already reviewing plans.
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London
Ees
United States to join talks on united nations armed force
The United States will send military representatives to London early next month to confer with Russia Britain France and China on a projected united nations armed force to preserve peace. The talks will include six non permanent UN Security Council members once selected.
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Washington
United States
London
Russia
Britain
France
China
United Nations
State Department
United Nations Security Council
British official avoids confirmation on reports
A Foreign Office spokesman would not confirm or deny the reports but pointed to UN provisions authorizing a military staff committee to work with the Security Council and to be constituted when the Council deems fit.
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Foreign Office
United Nationsfter
Security Council
Soldier Hurrying Home Unaware Wife Is Dead
Cpl. Marvin Dietz, a soldier returning from two years in the Philippines, hurries home to Gore Virginia to find his wife Mrs. Lillian Triplett Dietz dead from influenza turning pneumonia. She was 22. Funeral plans set for Sunday after efforts to locate him on a troop train failed.
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Gore
East
West Coasts
Lillian Triplett Dietz
Cpl
Marvin Dietz
States
Philippines
Cpl. Dietz
English Wives Of American Soldiers To Come To U.S.A.
Plans for free transport of wives and children of American soldiers to the United States are ready with the first group to sail by month end. About 26,866 wives and children have been processed through Southampton. no visas required. reception areas and ships are prepared. soldiers will redeploy after return travel.
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Helen
London
United States
United Kingdom
Truman
U. S. Army
Southampton
Tilworth
Perham Down
Bournemouth
Ons
Cauet
Army
Transportation Corps
Five Children Die In Bridgeport Cottage Fire
A Bridgeport fire killed five children who were alone in a seven room cottage. The tragedy raises Connecticut’s holiday week fire toll to thirty. A family member said a boy called the news, while a girl shouted a plea from Funston Avenue where the blaze occurred.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Connecticut
Samuel Carcare
Gba
Funston Avenue
British Loan Faces Potential Defeat In Congress
Washington observers warn the proposed four and a half billion dollar British loan could be defeated on an early vote. House Banking Committee Chairman Spence says passage will be a difficult, prolonged process requiring deep study before any decision.
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Washington
Congress
Britain
Nae Immediate International
Bretton Woods
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Hitler Marriage Contract and Will Found in WWII Documents
Documents dated April 29 1945 reveal Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun married in the Reich Chancellery bunker and specify a joint cremation and a political testament. The finds include a marriage contract officiated by Walter Wagner and a private will denouncing international Jewry. Paustin, adjutant to Martin Bormann, was arrested in connection with the papers.
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Noland Norgaard Muernberg
Adolf Hitler
Eva Braun
Reichschancellery
U. S. Third Army
Third Army
Hitler
Third Reich
Coun
Friederich Wilhelm Paustin
Martin Bormann
Eva
Reichschancellary
Walter Wagner
Berlin
UAW Warns Strike May Be Spread Across Industry
The CIO United Automobile Workers threaten a wage increase linked to GM’s ability to pay and warn of a winter of industrial war that could spread to all American industry. GM opposes basing raises on individual business and refuses to accept collapse of competitive American system.
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Washington
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
General Motors
General Motors Corporation
Associated Press
Orday
Devel
United Automobile Workers
G-M
Euaw
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Libbey- Owens-Ford Glass Company
AFL Window Glass
Spain Accuses Communists Of Agitation
Spain charges communists with a campaign of defamation and says it will isolate itself from nations that seek to undermine its reputation. The statement followed a cabinet meeting led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco addressing foreign relations with the United States Britain and France.
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Alburn
Madrid
Spain
Generalissimoancisco
Used Cars Devalued by Four Percent Under OPA Plan
Washington December 29 The Office of Price Administration announced a four per cent cut in used passenger car ceiling prices to take effect January 1. The reduction targets depreciation with new and old base ceilings listed for as is sales such as a 1940 Ford V-8 deluxe Tudor sedan in region A dropping from 634 to 609 and other regional variations noted across several states.
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Washington
OPA
Ford
Alabama
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Arkansas
Six Feared Drowned In Oregon Flood
Western Oregon floods leave six missing and feared drowned as rivers rose and fell through the valleys. Coastguards patrol the Willamette between Corvallis Albany and Salem with the crest expected to Sunday. A car wreck 48 miles south of Eugene left four missing and possibly drowned. the vehicle registered to John A. Mitchell of Portland, who was moving his family to El Cerrito California. The Rev Neil J Barnes and Harold B Lyons also disappeared when their boat overturned in floodwaters.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Williamette River
Corvalelis
Albany
Salem
Eugene
John A. Mitchell
el Cerrito
Calif
Neil J. Barnes
Harold B. Lyons
Coos Bay
Coos River
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