United States Pushes Atomic Control as Top Security Council Priority
The United States proposed the security council give first priority to international control over atomic energy and act on the atomic commission report. Herschel V. Johnson urged concurrent consideration of the Soviet motion on arms regulation, with Russia and Poland abstaining on the commission report. Johnson presided for the last time this month as council chairman.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
Security Council
Herschel V. Johnson
General Assembly
Atomic Commission
Council
Andrei A. Gromyko
Johnson
Ang
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Russia
Poland
Ellender backs Bilbo seating on senate probe findings
Democratic members of the special campaign investigating committee will tell the senate there is no reason to bar Theodore Bilbo from a senate seat. Ellender said he and Maybank and Thomas will file a majority report when the senate convenes Friday, supporting seating Bilbo.
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Washington
Ellender
D-La
Special Campaign Investigating Committee
Senate
Theodore G. Bilbo
Bilbo
Mississippi
Maybank
South Carolina
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Bridges
New Hampshire
Hickenlooper
Iowa
War Investi
Old Year In Final Blast Weather Across the Nation
A mass of cold air covered the United States from the Rockies to the Atlantic, bringing sub zero readings in the Northeast and Midwest and freezing temperatures as far south as Louisiana and Mississippi. Sleet and rain marred Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas with light snow at Fort Worth.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Atlantic
Minnesota
Iowa
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Arkansas
Fort Worth
Tex
Mercury
Oklahoma City
Pembina
International Falls
Minn
Canadian
Bemidji
Truman Ends World War II Hostilities Policy Shift
President Truman announced the end of the wartime period while keeping Roosevelt era emergency powers. He said the state of war itself remains in effect and some wartime laws will expire in six months unless Congress acts. He urged a peacetime return of government powers, noting cooperation with Congress and future recommendations.
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Washington
Truman
Roosevelt
United States
Uman
Congress
Smith-Connally
Wiley
Wis
Senate Republican Conference
Physician Committed After Assault and Gas Incident
Dr. Elias Stein, 35, veteran hospital physician, was committed to a veterans mental hospital in Anoke Virginia after allegedly beating his wife with a poker and turning on gas jets at home in Fayetteville. His wife, 28, remains in hospital here and their three year old daughter stays with friends. Police say he may face trial on assault charges upon release. he is held on a $5,000 bond.
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Fayetteville
Elias Stein
Veterans Hospital
Veterans Mental Hospital
Anoke
M. T. Foster
Cumberland County
Stein
L. F. Worrell
North Carolina Weather Forecast For Jan 1 1947
The forecast calls for cloudy conditions with sleet or snow in the mountains and rain in the west today. Temperatures to hold near normal tonight and Wednesday with a gradual warming trend by Friday and Saturday. Expect light to moderate rain tonight and Wednesday, with rain again Saturday or Sunday.
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North Carolina
West Portion
East Port
North
South Carolina
Carolinas
Temperature Rainfall Report December 31 Weather Summary
Official Bureau records show 24 hour temperature readings ending 8 30 a m across multiple cities including Houston Chicago Denver Detroit Jacksonville Los Angeles New York San Antonio Seattle and Washington with rainfall totals listed for stations such as Augusta Birmingham Memphis and New Orleans. The fragmentary data indicate varied highs and lows with limited rainfall amounts noted as .00 in several entries.
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Harveston
Charlotte
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
Hp-Greens
Jacksonville
Tattle Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian
Miami
Mini-St
Mobile
New Orleans
New York
Raleigh
San Antonio
S Francisco
Spartanburg
Tampa Washington
Wilmington
Portal wage suits loom over a billion as windfall tax eyed
Back pay and damage suits claim well over a billion dollars with $1,374,456,000 specified. Lawmakers discuss a windfall tax to divert back pay to the treasury, while Chicago firms argue renegotiation of wartime contracts cannot recoup retroactive portal wages.
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Associated Press
Federal Treasury
Chicago
Rep. Knutson
R-Minn
News
Tax Writing Ways and Means
Washington
Portal
Treasury Y
French Fortes Attacked in Indo China Hue Besieged
Paris reports Viet Nam nationalist forces cut Hue off between Haiphong and Saigon and launched heavy assaults on the French garrison. Vietnamese artillery shell Hanoi with damage to buildings near the governor general’s palace. no casualties. French artillery and Spitfire planes retaliate. troops advance toward Hadong near Hanoi where Ho Chi Minh is believed to have headquarters.
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Paris
Hue
Haiphong
Saigon
Hanoi
Viet-Nam
Hadong
Ho Chi Minh
Atomic Energy Program Swaps Uniform for Civvies
The U S government moves its atomic energy program from military to civilian control with a new five member commission led by David Lilienthal and Carroll Wilson as general manager. The change replaces military executives with civilians while major policy decisions stay with Congress and the President.
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Truman
Carroll Louis Wilson
Framingham, Mass
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
Patterson
Atomic Energy Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Wilson
Congress
Leslie R. Groves
Army
Manhattan
Morgenthau Bares Roosevelt Deals
New York reports disclose in Morgenthau diary notes from 1933 34 showing Roosevelt pushing grain and gold price rises. It cites a 21 cent gold price increase and a federal bid to lift wheat to aid farm prices. The diary details the president urging Morgenthau to buy millions of bushels and press prices higher.
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New York
New York Times
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Roosevelt
Jonathan Grossman
City College
American Historical Association
Grossman
Morgenthau
Spenders Plot Big New Year Eve Celebrations
The nation braces for 1947 New Year’s Eve with record crowds and high spending. Night clubs bars hotels and restaurants in major cities report full reservations and strong cash flow as establishments charge varied cover prices from five to forty dollars per person in New York City and beyond.
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New York City
Eisenhower Ready To Make Race
Washington report says General Dwight Eisenhower is ready to run for president in 1948 if the people want him. He told friends on a Miami fishing trip that he will run if urged by the country, though friends are unnamed. More details on page two.
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Washington
Times-Herald
Dwight Esenhower
Eisenhower
Miami
Times Herald
Weather Report Indicates Cold Rain Across Carolinas
Tonight's forecast shows mid thirties temperatures with rain over most of North and South Carolina. The Charlotte weather bureau reports an overcast condition moving northeastward from the Gulf.
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Associated Press
North
South Carolina
Charlotte Weather Bureau
Gulf
Restrictions Listed On Vital Items
Washington reports the government moved to relax controls on housing materials including nails furnaces baths tubs pipes sinks and water heaters under a new order eliminating set asides dealers will honor outstanding priorities but may sell stock to non priority buyers if no orders exist. National Housing Agency officials Krooth and Vickery resigned amid controversy over the program.
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Washington
Office of Temporary Controls
David L. Krooth
National Housing Agency
Howard F. Vickery
Friends
Government Takes Loss On Potatoes
Agriculture department officials forecast millions of bushels of frozen and rotten potatoes will be dumped under government orders as part of the 1946 surplus. Losses are projected near eighty million dollars due to large overproduction and price guarantees, with tonnage left in fields or sold to distillers and for industrial uses.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Clin
Ton P. Anderson
Tax cuts on liquor and goods eyed after Truman pledge
President Truman’s wartime tax reductions expected to take effect July 1 under his proclamation ending hostilities. Excise levies on liquor, furs, jewelry, luggage and other items would drop, with liquor from 9 to 6 a proof gallon and various products cut to lower rates. Budget balancing remains a priority for three Republicans as White House advisers signal opposition to a broad tax slash.
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Washington
Truman
Colin F. Stam
Joint Congressional Committee On Internal Revenue
White House
Slight Fire Hits Raleigh Hotel Early Morning
Smoke on the third floor of the Andrew Johnson hotel in Raleigh sent guests fleeing as the Raleigh fire department quickly extinguished the blaze.
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Raleigh
Andrew Johnson Hotel
Raleigh Fire Department
Daring Deed Turns Out To Be a Hoax at Hamilton Field
Private Jimmy Hill a 17 year old air corps rookie confessed to FBI that his early Sunday gun battle with six non existent robbers at Hamilton Field Finance Office was a hoax. He aimed to cover breaking a widow and was part of a wider manhunt tied to a $250000 safe at the office and a later $4500 robbery at the Presidio. He faces disciplinary action and awaits overseas shipment.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
Dee
Jimmy Hill
Air Corps
FBI
Furmamee
Presidio Army Base
San Francisco
Hill
Robinson
Harry M. Kirball
In Francisco
U Ted
John A. Feagin
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Hartsville
S. C
American Bankers Association
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O. Max Gardner
Shelby, N. C
U. S
Great Britain
Weather Man
Asheville
Shugusta
Atomic Energy Program
Civvies
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