Steel strike debate broadens tax reform push
The CIO United Steelworkers urge federal tax reform as they campaign during a three day steel strike. U S Steel president Fairless plans a nationwide radio address defending a wage offer and warning about potential plant idle losses.
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Pittsburgh
Iburgh
Cio-United Steelworkers
Philip Murra
CIO
The
Seas
Vinson
Indust
Steel
B. F. Fairless
ABC
Truman
U. S. Steel
Fairless
Caiane
USW
Congress Outlines Its Own Pay Raise And Reforms
A Senate House subcommittee report proposes pay raises for members to 15000 with an 8000 assistant and federal pension coverage. It urges faster sessions, night hearings, lobbying registration, staff for each committee, and ending riders on appropriations. Senator Lafollette chairs the joint committee.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Senate House
Congress
Senate
House
Court of Claims
Lafollette
prog-Wss
Bobby Soxers May End Up With Sled Runners Feet
Kansas City reports Dr. Earl C. Elkins of Mayo Clinic warns teen age bobby soxers may develop flat feet from moccasins sandals and high heels. He predicts continued wear could pancake arches leading to sled runner feet though he remains optimistic about overall mobility and military impact in past wars.
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Kansas City
Earl C. Elkins
Mayo Clinic of
Rochester
Minn
Girl Claiming Hitler As Father Held in Germany
An 18 year old girl, Gotelind Tortensen, says Adolf Hitler was her father. She alleges her Swedish actress mother was Hitler's mistress, says she served in the Reich chancellery, and claims daily contact with Hitler in Berlin. British authorities keep her in an internment camp near Paderborn as a security suspect.
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Herford
Germany
Gotelind Tortensen
Hitler
Magdeburg
Vienna
Paderborn
Reich Chancellery
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Hermann Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Sheriff Held In Bizarre Murder Case
Deputy Sheriff Arthur L. Eggers of Temple City was booked on suspicion of murder after a mutilated body was found in a San Bernardino canyon. The identified victim was Mrs Dorothy Eggers, 42, wife of the suspect, who denies guilt and says he wants to raise their two adopted children Marie and Lorraine. Authorities note a blanket from the Eggers home near the body and cite a .38 pistol as the weapon.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Arthur L. Eggers
Temple City
San Francisco
Ie Mountain Canyon
Here
Arthur Jewell
Los Angeles
Dorothy Eggers
Eggers
Los Angeles County
Marie
Lorraine
Jewell
Gordon Bowers
Sheriff's Bureau of Investigation
Goya and Duchess of Alba Exhumation Sparks Madrid Gossip
In Madrid the exhumation of the fourteenth Duchess of Alba, who died in 1802, sparks fresh chatter about whether she died of poison and if she inspired Goya’s Madrid nude in the Prado. The Duke ordered the test amid ongoing interest in the artist’s scandalous works and his mysterious life.
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Madrid
Francisco Goya
Goya
Prado Museum
Alba
Beaty
Pado
Gasoline price cuts expand in southeastern states
Heavy gasoline surpluses prompted Standard Oil of New Jersey to lower wholesale prices effective today in North Carolina South Carolina and portions of Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia. Cuts vary up to 1 1/4 cents per gallon with some areas unchanged due to sub normal prices.
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New York
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Big Three Divide German Navy Units After Potsdam Decision
At Potsdam the Allies agreed to split remaining German naval assets. Britain, Russia, and the United States would divide 1 759 surface ships and 30 submarines, including two destroyers and ten torpedo boats and 100 surrendered vessels. Each power receives specific cruisers, destroyers, depot ships, and hundreds of other units with negotiations opening on Britain transferring some units to France.
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London
Britain
Russia
United States
Seay
Germany
Prinz Eugen
Mannebnee
United Kingdom
China Plans Bio Program In Textiles
Premier T. V. Soong announced a three year development company to expand silk and cotton exports by capturing Japan's textile markets. China aims to build its own spinning and weaving capacity and sought 5 million mulberry trees from Japan to revive the silk industry after wartime losses.
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Shanghai
China
Japan
T. V. Soong
Soong
Child birth at Albuquerque hospital reported by Dr Hannett
A 12 year old mother in Albuquerque gave birth to a 6 pound girl at a local hospital Friday. The doctor said both mother and baby are doing well. the mother's name was not released.
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Albuquerque
N. M
J. W. Hannett
Four Heroes Receive Nation's Highest Award at White House
Comdr. Joseph T. O Callahan of Cambridge Massachusetts first Jesuit priest to enlist in the Navy and awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism aboard the Franklin. Lt. Donald Arthur Gary of Oakland California also honored for saving shipmates. Army sergeant John R. McKinney of Sylvania Georgia and Lt. Daniel W. Lee of Alma Georgia awarded for valor in Luzon and Montreval respectively.
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Washington
Navy
Franklin
Truman
Joseph T. O’callahan
Cambridge
Mass
Holy Cross College
White House
Donald Arthur Gary
Oakland
Calif
Georgia
John Randolph McKinney
Sylvania
McKinney
Luzon
Daniel W. Lee
Alma
Montreval
France
Father O'Callahan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gary
Rudolf Hess Flight to Scotland Aimed at Toppling Churchill
MERNBERG Jan 23 The British government disclosed that Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland in 1941 with proposals to unseat Churchill and make peace to give the Nazis a free hand in Europe. Interrogations show he sought to persuade Britain Hitler would regret the empire's collapse and warned that greedy Americans sought control, with Canada possibly joining the United States.
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Mernberg
Rudo Hess
Scotland
Churchill
Europe
Hess
Hitler
Canada
United States
Lewis May Rejoin AFL Ranks
Miami report says John L. Lewis teases a return to the American Federation of Labor after years apart. An AFL executive council vacancy and talks on filling it frame a possible reuniting move before the council adjourns late January.
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Lewis
AFL
Miami
Fla
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
Harvey W. Brown
Machinists’ Union
AFL Metal Trades
Charles McGowan
Husky
CIO
AFL Council
Federation
Cincinnati
David Dubinsky
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Washington
Fewer Women Working In Industry
Raleigh reports December employment and payrolls show a slight rise in total workers and payrolls while the share of women productive workers in manufacturing falls from 43.0 to 42.2 percent. The survey covers 1,248 plants with nearly a quarter million workers. hosiery and knitting mills lead in women workers. Payroll survey spans 1,947 firms with weekly payrolls averaging $7,156,724 and an average 38.4 hour work week at 72.7 cents an hour.
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Raleigh
State Department of Labor
Rescue of 4296 Japanese from sinking Enoshima Maru near Yangtze
The Japanese vessel Enoshima Maru carrying 4,296 people was hit by a mine and sank within about an hour and a half 60 miles off the Yangtze mouth. The American freighter Brevard rescued nearly all survivors in about 25 minutes, with Lt. John L. Elliott reporting a calm, orderly evacuation aided by cooperation between crew and Japanese passengers.
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Shanghai
Yangtze
Brevard
John L. Elliott
San Diego
Calif
Eliott
Market Price For Babies Drops To Five Pesos
Manila detectives traced a kidnapped baby girl sold for five pesos in a city where undernourished chickens fetch nine pesos in the black market. The infant was found in the shack of fruit vendor Marcela Mercado Y De Anonas, who bought the baby from a young woman for five pesos after noting the clothing was worth more. Police said the baby received excellent care.
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Manila
Marcela Mercado Y de Anonas
Agriculture Department To Seize Meat Packing Plants
The White House announced the Department of Agriculture will seize and operate closed meat packing plants starting January 26, with possible aid from the War Department. Labor and CIO AFL unions ponder the impact as a large steel strike widens, risking disruption to freight and livestock movements. Community and industry leaders await official wage guarantees under government operation.
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Washington
White House
Department of Agriculture
Charles G. Ross
Agriculture Department
War Department
Ross
Secretary of Labor
Pr Eces
CIO
Labor Department
AFL
Chicago
Labor Rement
CIO United Package Fee Workers
Cio-Upw
District Strike Strategy Committee
George A. Eastwood
Armour & Co
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Chicago Junction Railroad
Brotherhood of Railroad
T. L. Green
Roads
Chicago Junction
North Carolina Tag Sales Lag Behind Last Year
Raleigh Jan 23 The eight day countdown to invalid car licenses nears as 1946 tag sales lag behind 1945 figures. Motor Vehicles Commissioner TJ Roddie Ward reports total sales through Monday reached 411 002, down 26 231 from the same period a year earlier.
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Raleigh
TJ Roddie Ward
United Nations Schedules Commission On Atom Control
The United Nations moves to form a commission to study atom control issues and advise the Security Council as Iran Greece and Indonesia cases pause. U S Secretary Byrnes will fly home after the panel is created while Edward R Stettinius Jr leads the American delegation. The Security Council aims to appoint a secretary general nominee today despite ongoing disputes.
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Jack Smith
London
United Nations Organization
General Assembly
World Security Council
United States
Britain
Sia
Canada
Assembly
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Washington
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
UNO
Russia
Security Council
Paul-Henri Spaak
Greece
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