Stalin Links Wars to Capitalism and Sets Soviet Five Year Plan
Generalissimo Stalin argued that the last two wars sprang from capitalist world economy and unveiled a new five year plan for Soviet Russia with ambitious production targets aimed at near US levels. He promised rationing end and rising living standards as he spoke on the eve of supreme Soviet elections.
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Tom Williams
London
Stalin
Soviet
Russia
United States
Moscow Radio
Supreme Soviet
Statesman
American Iron and Steel Institute
U. S
U. S. Bureau of Mines
NYC Board of Health orders seizure to secure hospital space
New York City officials declare a state of great infirmity and peril due to fuel oil shortages from a tugboat strike. The Board of Health orders seizure of buildings for hospitals, imposes rigid fuel oil rationing, and warns of illness rises among the infirm and aged without relief. Police and fuel escorts man tunnels and ferries as tugboats remain idle awaiting emergency supplies.
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New York
Board of Health
Ooye Ag
Throng
Yaa
Boards of Health
O'Dwyer
Office of Defense
Nova flareup may aid atomic research
Scientists at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay Wisconsin report the 80 year old nova named T in the Corona Borealis constellation erupted again today. Director Otto Struve said the explosion released an enormous quantity of energy and may reveal new clues about atomic energy. The nova could be visible for up to a week and was observed at 2 30 a m CST by Armin Deutsch and verified by photos from the 40 inch telescope.
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Chicago
Otto Struve
University of Chicago
Yerkes Observatory
Williams Bay
Wis
Struve
Armin Deutch
Deent
Observatory
Truman Sees Each Week Grow More Hectic for Government
President Truman told 125 government officials that each week feels a little more hectic than the last. He warned that crises arise around every corner and must be addressed, comparing current events to yesterday’s newspapers as the new civil service appointment plan unfolds.
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Washington
Truman
Lenoir Man Dies In Car Bus Wreck
George McLean 34 of near Lenoir died at 5 30 PM when his car collided with a Queen City Coach Speeding bus on the outskirts of Lenoir. Driver Charlie Stallings 31 and passenger Sam Wakefield 15 were injured and taken to a Lenoir hospital. Bus driver B E Ratchfield of Charlotte and sheriff Felix Parker investigated the crash.
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Lenoir
George McLean
Queen City
Spee
Lenoi
Charlie Stallings
Sam Wakefield
B. E. Ratchfield
Charlotte
Bose
Felix Parker
Senate approves 500 million for veterans benefits
The senate passed and sent to the White House a bill granting the Veterans Administration an additional 500 million dollars for war veterans benefits. Senator McKellar of Tennessee called the extra funds absolutely necessary to meet bureau needs.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Veterans Administration
McKellar
D-Tenn
Committee Seeks Tight Hold On Federal Purses Strings
The house appropriations committee designates five members to form a subcommittee to audit 41 government corporations. Mahon leads the panel and says the aim is close scrutiny of all transactions and operations. The agencies previously obtained congress approval only for administrative expenses charged to their capital. A 1948 act required annual business-type budgets outlining financial condition and operations for the current and next fiscal years. Continued on Page 2 See A
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Mahon
D-Tex
Whitten
D-Miss
Gore
Dtenn
Ploeser
R-Mo
Jensen
R-Iowa
Volved
Congress
Financial Control of Government Corporations
Western Union Striking Operators Return After Settlement
Western Union employes in New York vote to end a month long strike and return to work at 12:01 a m Monday. The CIO AFL union asserted the wage award from the war labor board was downgraded and would cost $6 million annually.
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Western Union
New York
American Communications Association
CIO
Levy
Emnfo
Commercial Telegraphers Union
AFL
WLB
Japan faces acute food problems after war
General MacArthur's aide urged birth control to ease Japan's food shortage. Col. C. F. Sams backed overseas emigration and industrial production to boost imports. Tokyo also announced a political purge. Tojo era allies were barred from office and ultranationalists to be purged. Police reform continued under Tokutaro Kimura with a pledge to end third degree interrogation.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Today
Asahi
Col
C. F. Sams
Supreme Allied Command
E Paper
Sams
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Japan
Tokutaro Kimura
Soviet Citizens Vote in First General Elections Since 1937
Soviet citizens cast ballots for the supreme Soviet and local offices in Moscow as the only legal party fields candidates. Stalin runs from the Stalin automobile factory district with red banners and portraits displayed citywide. Blank ballots allowed if voters oppose a candidate. Elections were ordered October 5 and delayed due to the war.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Stalin
Council of the Union
Council of Nationalities
Stalin Automobile
Communists
Russia
Presidium
The
Murray Optimistic About Early Settlement Of Labor Disputes
CIO President Philip Murray told senators he is optimistic about an early settlement of most labor cases and said any wage agreement in the steel strike would hold until February 15 1947. He testified against Truman’s fact finding plan and noted tentative approval of a 19 cents wage increase for 750 000 steel workers before postponing the strike.
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Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
F . Murray
Murray
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel
Fairless
New York
United Steelworkers Union
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Congress
Inmates Riot in Milwaukee Prison Barracks
Milwaukee Feb. 9 Col. Clarence P. Evers said a food riot in the U S disciplinary barracks left one prisoner dead Nathaniel Jackson of Natchez Miss and an officer with a broken arm and possible skull fracture Lt Raymond Routt of Richmond Va was injured about five or six inmates participated in the disturbance sparked by a protest over additional food.
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Milwaukee
Clarence P. Evers
United States
Col. Evers
Nathaniel Jackson
Natchez
Miss
Raymond Routt
Richmond, Va
Queen Mary Brings British Wives to New York Amid Tug Shortage
The Queen Mary docked at noon in New York after a 23 knot voyage with 1,666 British wives and 668 children of American servicemen aboard. Army tugs will guide the liner to the pier due to a tugboat strike. Debarkation begins at 6 p.m. for the first 500 wives living within 200 miles of New York.
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S&s. S
Wey
New York
U. S. Army
Union
Chinese Officials Fear Reds in Manchuria
Chungking dispatch cites a Chungking newspaper saying Chinese government officials entering Manchuria to take over from Russians were “going about in fear of assassination.” The World Daily News carried the account.
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Chungking
World Daily News
Chung
CIO-UAW Chief Declares Truman Weak in Speech
Detroit February 9 CIO United Auto Workers leader R J Thomas attacked President Truman as weak telling 75 Michigan PAC leaders the issue has never appeared on cabinet agendas and urging tougher political thinking He said the union seeks 30 percent wage boosts while aiming to protect workers economic status and praised Bowles Wallace Ickes and Schnellenbach for backing that principle.
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R. J. Thomas
CIO
United Auto Workers Today
Congress
Truman
Thomas
Political Action Committee
Michigan Pac
Wever
UAW
OPA
Bowles
Wallace
Ickes
Schnellenbach
Thomas Contin
Southern Filibusters Defeat FEPC Bill In Senate Clash
In Washington on February 9 the senate defeated a move to limit debate on a permanent fair employment practices commission bill, 48 to 26, falling six votes short of cloture. Backers pledged to try again, while observers packed galleries and chanted amid heated rhetoric from senators including Millikin who urged action against racial discrimination.
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Washington
Senate
FEPC
Ckief
House
Millikin
D-Cole
GM Electrical Workers Strike Settled for 18 Cent Raise
Detroit February 9 GM announces a settlement with UEW CIO for 18 cents per hour wage increase for 25 000 electrical workers at five plants pending union ratification. The agreement leaves about 175 000 CIO UAW on strike in GM plants nationwide while negotiations continue on broader demands.
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General Motors Corporation
James Matles
United Electricote Ee and Machine Workers
General Motors
General Electric
Westinghouse
Uew-Cio
GM Electrical Division
Frigidaire
Delco
Dayton, CO
Nevo Co
Warren, O
Delco Appliance
Rochester, Y
Antioch Foundasis
Yellow Springs
Harry Ww
Vice
Matles
Neil Brant
Walter P. Reuther
Uaw-Cio
Reuther
Ident
C. E. Wilson
Anderson Coen
du Brul
National Labor Relations Board
James F. Dewey
Dewey
Labor
Schwellenbach
Ashington
Wilson Says Doctors Fixed Fee Schedule
North Carolina's industrial commission rebutted doctors' fee-cutting claims as based on incorrect information. The executive committee of the North Carolina medical society said bills were reduced in a scandalous manner, but the committee contended the final analysis shows the patient bears the burden. Chairman T. A. Wilson, appointed to balance labor management and public interests, chaired a hastily called meeting to issue the statement.
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Industrial Commission
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North Carolina Medical Society
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T. A. Wilson
Medical Society
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