Truman Fails to End Meat Strike in Bid for Settlement
Washington notes a bleak meat-packing strike after three days with 263,000 workers idle. A federal fact finding panel opens wage talks with a Feb 16 report due, while labor officials, CIO, AFL, and packers seek an early settlement. Unions demand 15 to 17.5 cents per hour. employers tie raises to price hikes.
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Spain Faces High Living Costs Hit Wage Earners Hard
Spain's average labor pay ranges from a dollar to 1.35 dollars a day with 1.75 dollars for skilled work. Costly necessities force reliance on a black market where prices exceed government rationing by fivefold. Eggs, butter, meat, rice, flour and olive oil take a large share of scant wages, harming low income families.
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Arrest of 110 New Jap War Criminals ordered
General MacArthur ordered the arrest of 110 more Japanese war crime suspects in Tokyo on January 18 including seven generals and counter intelligence officers. Dr. Ba Maw the Burmese puppet premier was arrested and held incommunicado. Maj. Gen. Eugen Ott, ambassador to Tokyo during Pearl Harbor, was among those named for trial and transport to Japan.
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France moves to sever ties with Spain
The French assembly voted unanimously to sever relations with Franco Spain and to establish contact with the exiled Spanish republican regime. France also urged such a rupture after earlier statements and sought U S Britain and Russia input while backing a May European peace conference in Paris.
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Spain
Georges Bi- Dault
United States
Britain
Russia
British Troopship Believed Sinking
An exchange telegraph from Singapore said the ship ere Brigade carrying 2,000 Indian troops struck a mine 30 miles from Singapore and was believed in danger of sinking. Tugs landing craft and launches rushed to the scene.
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Singapore
Eres Brigade
Brain Of Nazi Leader Shows Degeneration
An army post-mortem in Washington reports Dr. Robert Ley’s brain suffered long standing degeneration likely impairing his mental and emotional faculties. Doctors noted frontal lobe deterioration and said it could explain his conduct after Ley hanged himself in October at Nuernberg rather than face trial.
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Washington
Jan
Robert Ley
Army Institute of Pathology
Germany
Reich
Ley
Nuernberg
Wall Street Moves to Cash Basis on Margin Rule
Wall Street prepared to operate on a cash and carry basis as the government ordered 100 percent margin requirements for stock trades for the first time. Federal Reserve Board Chair Marriner Eccles cited curbing speculative activity. Emil Schram of the NYSE supported curbing speculation. The rule, raising margins from 75 to 100 percent, aims to halt further borrowed money in stock operations.
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Federal Reserve Board
Marriner S. Eccles
Emil Schram
New York Stock Exchange
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Eccles
Steel Firm Refuses Settlement Over Wage Demands
United States Steel rejected President Truman’s settlement terms for the CIO wage dispute as a nationwide steel strike looms. CIO President Murray accepted a 18 14 cents hourly increase retroactive to January 1, while Benjamin Fairless argued the proposal largely matches the union’s revised demand and warned of harm to the company and steel users.
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CIO
White House
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U. S. Steel
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Churchill Not To Be Called To Washington
The Pearl Harbor committee voted 6 to 2 against summoning former Prime Minister Winston Churchill to testify on any prewar Britain United States actions. The move, led by Sen Ferguson, sought Churchill to discuss possible parallel actions with President Roosevelt before the Pearl Harbor attack. Democratic members opposed inviting him. Brewster Gearhart supported. Barkley chaired and resisted subpoenas unless ordered by the committee. Churchill, vacationing in Florida, had no reaction in Miami.
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Sixth graders donate candy money for March of Dimes
Sixth grade pupils at Lewis school in Ogden Utah contribute 25.30 in candy money and pledge to avoid sweets until the March of Dimes drive ends. A classmate who suffered a year ago is now walking again, strengthening the campaign's stake for the students.
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Senate Fights FEPC Bill in Lengthy Filibuster Showdown
The Senate faces a fierce filibuster over the FEPC measure to create a permanent anti discrimination committee. Southern lawmakers vow long speeches and hundreds of amendments while backers consider cloture to push a vote, risking delays to other pending business.
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Barracks Declared Surplus At Boise Army Base
About 75 barracks at Gowen Field Army Air Base in Boise Idaho have been declared surplus and are available for occupancy by veterans. The notice adds veterans may find housing relief as they return home from service.
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Boise
Idaho
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Godwen Field Army Aire Base
Five-Point Program For Government Economy
Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren outlines a five point plan to reduce federal spending and end the financial morass. He urges trimming government excess, revitalizing Congress over public purse powers, a quick return to peacetime balance with states, and stricter executive attention to spending, praising North Carolina public service.
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Lindsay C. Warren
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North Carolina
Chinese Reds Claim 14 Towns Seized
The Chinese communist party issued a formal statement from Chungking reporting government forces seized 14 towns after the Sunday midnight cease fire deadline. It accuses the government of using wireless facilities to order swift seizure of strategic points and says Communists rely on government radio for communications as they plan a new station.
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Chinese Communist Party
China
MacArthur To Review Gl's Death Sentence
General MacArthur will review the death sentence of Pfc. Joseph E. Hirswa of Lodi New Jersey for slaying two Japanese. The court martial report has not yet reached MacArthur's desk and Hirswa is held in a Yokohama stockade awaiting the outcome.
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Joseph E. Hirswa
Lodi
N. J
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Eighth Army
98Th Division
Southern Statesmen Band To Defend Cotton Crop
Cotton sounding officials from Texas to the Atlantic coast rallied to oppose proposed cotton ceilings by OPA Administrator Bowles. A southern caucus in the House and protests from South Carolina urged a final OPA decision, stressing farmers need 1946 crop plans before February planting season.
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Atlantic Seaboard
OPA
Dixie
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Chester Bowles
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Cox
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Pay Rise for Workers Faces Senate Hearing
A Senate labor committee today reviews a bill to raise minimum wage for workers affected from 40 to 65 cents an hour, with gradual increases to 70 cents then 75. The measure, proposed 18 months ago, aims to broaden coverage under the Fair Labor Standards Act and could bring 4 to 5 million more people into its scope. Senator Pepper notes low earners would gain under the plan based on 1944 estimates.
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Senate
Senate Committee On Labor and Education
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Friends of the Bill
Pepper
D-Fla
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