400000 Coal Miners Involved In Warning Strike
John L. Lewis filed a 30 day strike notice for about 400000 soft coal miners over wages hours and working conditions and invited talks in Washington on March 12. The notice excludes 70000 hard coal miners in Pennsylvania under a separate contract. Lewis said the union will continue to work under the war labor disputes act for 30 days while wage talks are pursued. The notice was sent to the National Labor Relations Board the Labor Secretary and the Wage Stabilization Board.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
Soft Con
Tors
Pennsylvania
Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach
Wage Stabilization Board
United Mine Workers of America
Ezra van Horn
Cleveland
Devastation, strategic stakes in postwar Germany
World Today reports from Fort Germany on the ruin across German cities, noting 30 years to clear rubble and rebuild. It argues Germany cannot wage war soon and stresses the strategic, political center of Germany as a possible battleground affecting future power balance.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Germany
Mar
Touri
Ysica
Biggest Brass To See Bomb Demonstration
Washington reports that top military leaders will witness the atom bomb test against seapower at Bikini Atoll. General Eisenhower and Admiral Blandy join observers from Nimitz and Cartwright to gauge the A-bomb’s impact on ships and strategy while officials say no bias toward bombs, ships, or aircraft exists.
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Washington
Pacific
Bikini Atoll
Dwight Eisenhower
Chester Nimitz
Cart Tr
Army Airorces
Truman
W. H. Blandy
Joint Task Force
Army Force
Truman to keynote annual White House correspondents dinner
President Truman will address the annual White House correspondents dinner at the Statler hotel tonight after an entertainment program. He is expected to speak briefly and review the year’s events.
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Washington
Truman
Kite House
Ciation
Statler
Big 3 Working On Declaration On Spain Crisis
Britain France and the United States pursued a joint declaration urging Spaniards to topple Generalissimo Franco. The proposal calls for national elections amnesty freedom of religion assembly and press, with a representative interim Madrid government receiving economic and concrete support from the three powers. France and the US reportedly disagreed on which elements to include and no final agreement was reached.
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Washington
Britain
France
United States
State Department
U. S
Madrid
Birthrate Drops as Service Exodus Shrinks England There
London reports a government note linking a birthrate decline in England and Wales to the heavy exodus of service personnel after D Day in 1944. Live births last year totaled 685,544, 16.1 per thousand, down from 744,843 in 1944, or 17.5 per thousand.
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London
England and
Wales
United States protests Russia over Manchurian air clashes
Washington reports US charges Russia with two hostile acts in Manchuria near Port Arthur and Dairen as the Navy and State Department insist Moscow violated treaties by targeting American Mariner flights and stripping industrial equipment from Manchuria.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Manchurian
Red Army
Manchuria
Byrnes
Navy
State Department
Arthur-Dairien
China
U. S
Thena
Port Arthur
Moscow
Mariner
Dairen
Tsingtao
French Probing Suppression of News Dispatches
Saigon March 2. Louis Longeau promised a comprehensive investigation into suppression by the French post office of two AP dispatches and additional news copy. The AP reports covered Indochina cabinet inquiries into riots by French servicemen, beatings of socialist leaders, and a socialist newspaper plant wrecking. Both dispatches were sent yesterday.
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Saigon
Louis Longeau
George T. D'Argenlieu
Indochina
Post Office
Associated Press
Two Million Pounds Of Horse Meat For UNRRA
Two million pounds of American horsemeat have been shipped to foreign nations while UNRRA requests 300 million pounds more and plans to take entire 1946 output. An UNRRA esman says demand will far outstrip supply, estimating about 100 million pounds available. The Agriculture Department purchases the meat for canning or curing in federal approved plants. Ceiling prices are 15 cents per pound at the plant for cured or pickled meat and 16 cents for canned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UNRRA
Esman
Department of Agriculture
800000 In Nation Out On Strike
Associated Press notes two major strikes account for about half of the nation's 800000 idle due to labor disputes. The survey shows a drop from near all time highs as roughly 200000 workers at General Motors, and about 175000 at General Electric and Westinghouse plants are affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
General Motors
General Electric
Westinghouse
Detroit GM UAW talks recessed new hope for deal
Negotiations in the General Motors strike recessed until 10 30 a m Monday as vice president Harry W Anderson left the session with federal mediator James F Dewey and union representatives. Dewey said issues in the 102 day walkout remained about the same as yesterday after the UAW CIO rejected GM's maximum offer.
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Detroit
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers
Harry W. Anderson
James F. Dewey
Dewey
Uaw-Cio
CIO UAW Council Warns GM Walkout Will Endure
The CIO United Auto Leaders in Detroit said the 102 day GM strike would continue until General Motors meets its public responsibility. Their 200-man council rejected GM's maximum proposal as failing to meet the standards of the president's fact finding board recommendations.
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CIO
United Auto
Detroit
General Motors
Cio-Uawgm
Snyder Cancels Planned Trip To The Pacific
Reconversion director John W. Snyder has cancelled his trip to the Pacific due to pressure of work. Other study group members will depart Monday, including Kenneth Royall, Lt. Gen. Leroy Lutes, and Thomas L. McCabe. They will visit Hawaii, Guam, Shanghai, Tokyo and Manila.
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Washington
John W. Snyder
Pacific
White House
Kenneth Royall
Leroy Lutes
Army Service Forces
Thomas L. McCabe
State Department
Hawaii
Guam
Shanghai
Tokyo
Manila
Terry Taylor And Parents Headed For Home To Climax Kidnaping Episode
Terry Taylor and her parents prepare to fly from Washington to Charlotte ending a three day absence that sparked a nationwide search. The child was found in Annapolis and a teen nursemaid, Rosemary Detective, faces charges in connection with the disappearance.
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Terry Taylor
Andrew Taylor
Charlotte
N. C
Terry
Annapolis
Rosemary Johnson
Thomas G. Basil
North Carolina
North Corona
Washin
Antern Air Lines
Washington
United States
Rosemary
Frank N. Lit
Two Are Killed In Auto Wreck In Fayetteville
In Fayetteville near midnight a car crash killed 22 year old David Jones and fatally injured 19 year old Wyman Hawley. Four other occupants were hospitalized with injuries ranging from serious to minor. The injured include Angelyn Smith 21 Marian Jones 21 Clarence M Averitte 18 and H R Starling all residents of Fayetteville and except Hawley were employed at the veterans hospital.
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Fayetteville
David Jones
Wyman Hawley
Angelyn Smith
Marian Jones
David
Clarence M. Averitte
H. R. Starling
Hawley
Veterans Hospital
Nation Records One Of Its Best Weather Days In Months
The nation enjoyed sunny skies and near normal temperatures with only two light rain belts in the mid east and northwest. Eastern rain should drift to the coast tomorrow, leaving the country except the northwest mostly dry. No cold snap, northern plains near freezing, northern Maine coolest in the twenties. Temperatures across cities ranged from the 20s in Maine to the 60s in the deep south with readings including Chicago 30 and Miami 64.
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Associated Press
Mid-East
Georgia
Ohio
Plains
Maine
Florida
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Memphis
Dallas
Miami
Birmingham
New Orleans
New York
Washington
Atlanta
Boston
Minneapolis
Spokane
Salt Lake City
Denver
Reno
San Diego
Road Figures Of Va., N.C. Compared
Richmond Times-Dispatch contrasts Virginia and North Carolina state payrolls using 1940 census data as of January 1, 1942. Virginia reports 2,677,773 population with 16,300 state employees while North Carolina lists 3,571,623 people and 14,600 state workers. The piece cites Governor Tuck's message to defend payroll levels amid calls to reduce state employees.
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Raleigh
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia
North Carolina
Richmond
Tuck
Franco Blames Communists For Border Closing
Madrid reports Franco government claims the closing of the Spanish frontier and abroad anti Spanish demonstrations are part of an international communist plot to drag Spain into disorder. The 2000 word communique accuses communists of orchestrating protests and attacks on Spanish missions while urging worldwide appeal to defend Spain’s security and neutrality.
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Madrid
Spain
Africa
France
Long Range Naval Reserve Plan for 10-Day Readiness
The Navy proposes a long range reserve plan to ready U S fleets in 10 days for possible war. It envisions a civilian organized reserve of 200000 highly trained workers and a volunteer reserve of 800000 men to activate shore bases. The waves may participate but specifics were not given.
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Washington
U. S
Navy Department
Navy
United States
Flying Boat Service To Be Discontinued
Paule E. Benshea, commercial manager for British Overseas Airways Corporation, announced that trans Atlantic flying boat service between Baltimore and Poole England would be discontinued after the next Monday's flight. A tri weekly shuttle between Baltimore and Hamilton Bermuda would be maintained.
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Baltimore
Paule E. Benshea
British Overseas Airways Corporation
trans-Atlantic
Poole
England
Benshea
Hamilton
Bermuda
Premier Sjahrir Resigns Amid Java Unrecognized Government
Reuters reports Sutan Sjahrir the premier of the unrecognized Indonesian Nationalist government in Java has resigned. Aneta, the Dutch news agency, confirms reports from Soerabaja in central Java.
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London
Reuters
Sutan Sjahrir
Java
Aneta
Soberakarta
Six Hitler guesses aided Allied cause in WWII
MERNBERG, Germany, Mar 4 Allied reports from German ministry files claim Adolf Hitler made six risky guesses in November 1942 that aided Britain and the United States. The notes say Hitler misjudged Allied landings in North Africa, eyed Romanian oil targets, pondered Spain and Gibraltar, hesitated with France, and redirected German guns to shore batteries while pursuing other weapons strategies.
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Mernberg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Great Britain
United States
Eisenhower
Algeria
Morocco
Hitler
Norway
Africa
Narvik
Oslo
Sweden
Spain
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
France
Europe
Karl Doenitz
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General Electric Company
Philadelphia
The
Reich
American
Snyder
N.C
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