Truman Faces Railroad Walkout Delay With Board
President Truman named a three man fact finding panel to study the rail strike dispute, delaying a potential walkout for 60 days. The panel includes Leif Erickson, Frank M. Swacker, and Gordon S. Watkins. Truman said wage talks in rubber and telephone were settled by collective bargaining without publicity and refused to intervene in the General Motors strike.
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New York
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Krug To Assume All Posts Once Held By Ickes
WASHINGTON March 8 A. Krug will take over all duties formerly done by Harold L Ickes when Krug becomes interior secretary March 15 President Truman announced Krug will also serve as petroleum administrator and as in wartime continue other duties until a forthcoming reorganization program defines exact Interior Department responsibilities.
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Harold L. Ickes
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Congress
Blaze Aboard Queen Elizabeth Put Out Quickly
Fire broke out on the Queen Elizabeth in the isolation hospital area on the port promenade deck in Southampton. Fire crews extinguished the blaze quickly. cause undetermined. The liner, largest in the world, recently arrived from New York and was being refitted for civilian service after wartime troop transport.
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Pauley Denies Ickes Charge At Hearing
Edwin W. Pauley said he never suggested to Harold Ickes that California oil men would back the Democrats if Ickes would drop the Tide lands suit. Ickes testified otherwise, asserting that Pauley had made such a remark during the dispute.
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Ickes
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Harold L. Ickes
California
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Tidelands
Interior
Senate panel credits Truman delay in Pauley nomination
Senators on the Senate Naval Committee credited President Truman with delaying Edwin W Pauleys withdrawal as undersecretary of the navy after letters between Pauley and the president. two unnamed senators said the move disrupted an agreement for Pauleys resignation to speed confirmation.
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Senate Naval Committee
Edwin W. Pauley
Navy
Pauley
California
Pauley Linked Oil Funds to Navy Nomination Defense
In 1944 Pauley told the Senate Naval Committee that oil men could raise about $300,000 if a government suit to gain title to Tidelands oil areas was not pressed. He made the statement while his nomination as undersecretary of the Navy was under consideration and offered a vigorous defense.
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Senate Naval Committee
Merchant Marine Sailor Admits He Murdered Girl
Clement Whisnant a 20 year old merchant mariner confessed to killing 17 year old Inez Medford whose battered body was found in a Gastonia churchyard. Police say death resulted from strangulation after a fierce struggle and she was found partly clothed with a white handkerchief around the throat. Funeral services for Miss Medford were held in Dallas.
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Dallas
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Medford
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Swiss Women Slower to Embrace Full Suffrage
In Bern Switzerland, women lack voting rights though many elder women push for full suffrage while younger women favor partial rights. The average Swiss woman tends to home and family duties, and politics demand time many housewives cannot spare. Citizens see participation as both duty and practice in local and national governance.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Bern
Switzerland
Truman Mum On Speech Of Churchill
President Truman declined to comment on Winston Churchill’s proposal for an Anglo American military alliance. He noted Churchill spoke freely at Fulton and said he would also express his views if he went to Britain. Truman outlined ongoing allied staff duties, possible future meetings, and plans involving diplomats Marsha ll, Winant, and UNO. He dismissed a reporter about Byrnes retirement.
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George C. Marshall
China
Chungking
John Winant
London
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London Post
UNO Council
New York
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Tass
Soviet Union
Izvestia
Lee Named Dean of Wake Forest Law School
Wake Forest college law school announces the election of Dr. Robert F. Lee of Kinston as dean. Lee has served on the Temple University law faculty since 1929 and will assume duties at Wake Forest next.
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Robert FE. Lee
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Thurman Kitchin
Lee
Law School
Temple University
Philadelphia
Soviets Deny Taking Goods From Korea
Soviet officials deny stripping Japanese industrial properties from Korea and say removal of capital goods would be regulated by each commander in his zone. Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge presents basic points of Soviet American talks that show split, with no known removals discussed. Moscow papers cite Churchill Fulton speech as urging Anglo American military alliance against the Soviet Union.
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Korea
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Ray Milland and Joan Crawford Win Academy Awards
Hollywood observers describe Ray Milland and Joan Crawford receiving top acting honors for 1945 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Crawford, ill with influenza, was awarded in Brentwood after a hospital visit, while Milland praised for The Lost Weekend. Other winners included James Dunn, Anne Revere, and Peggy Ann Garner for supporting roles and child actress promise.
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Joan
Mildred Pierce
Kansas City
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Paramount
Billy Wilder
Charles Brackett
James Dunn
Brooklyn
Anne Revere
Peggy Ann Garner
Hoey Considers Seven Men For Marshal's Job
Senator Hoey lists seven candidates for U S marshal in western North Carolina, including current marshal Charles R. Price of Asheville and sheriffs Ray Pitts Newton and J R Cline Shelby. He will forward a recommendation to Attorney General Tom C Clark, with Senator Bailey joining the slate.
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Asheville
A. Myles Haynes
Cliffside
J.C. Bowman
Marion
Ray Pitts
Newton
J. R. Cline
Shelby
H. A. Bugle
Morris Durham
David
Tom C. Clark
Bailey
Durham Hosiery Mill Plans $40,000 Alteration Program
Durham March 8 The Durham hosiery mill will begin a 40000 alteration program to ready the plant for manufacturing 51 gauge full fashioned hosiery, W M Sledge president of the company said yesterday.
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Durham Hosiery
W. M. Sledge
Cold air from Canada chills much of nation
Associated Press reports a cold air mass from Canada swept across the United States, ending a warm spell. Temperatures plunged to 20 degrees in western Atlantic Seaboard states overnight, with subzero readings in Minnesota and North Dakota. Snow hit Iowa Kansas and the western Great Lakes while Alabama Georgia and the Carolinas saw showers and thunder in front of the cold front.
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Tobacco Company Head Killed In Mukden Shooting
Mukden March 6 A British American Tobacco Co manager Sung Chu Hsiang was shot three times in the back near his home after a warning phone call. He died March 3. His plant reportedly turned over two thirds of output to the Red Army without payment and faced closure for lack of supplies.
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British-American Tobacco Co
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Sung
Reds Control Changchun In Manchuria
Soviet commandant Marshal Rodion Malinovsky warned against any interference between Russia and China and pledged to cut it off. Red Army now controls Changchun and other Manchurian cities while Chinese officials and civilians face limited access and growing gloom.
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China
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Fushun
Dairen
Harbin
Churchill urges Anglo American unity in wartime peace
Churchill urged Britain and the United States to stand together in defense of shared ideals. Speaking in Richmond he framed unity as essential in both war and peace, hoping Anglo American bonds endure across generations.
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England
Virginia
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Congress
Britain
Truman Says UN Won't Collapse If Russia Cooperates
President Truman stated at a news conference that the United Nations organization will not be allowed to collapse and that Soviet Russia will likely cooperate with the UN’s work. Officials awaited Moscow’s reply to the U S request for immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops, as notes discussed Manchurian and Iran actions. The note urged Russia to withdraw from Iran promptly to support international confidence and peaceful progress.
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Gardner Acts as Acting Secretary of Treasury
North Carolina's former Governor O Max Gardner became acting secretary of the treasury on March 8 as Vinson attends World Bank conferences in Savannah. Gardner, recently confirmed as under secretary, will lead the department for about 10 days. He noted his office mirrors that of North Carolina born secretary David F Houston who served 1920 to 1921.
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North Carolina
O. Max Gardner
the Treasury
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Senate
Treasury
Government Department
Vinson
World Bank
Sasannah
Tragic NC mother dies saving child near Creswell
In Creswell North Carolina a mother Mrs Ellen Ledford 25 died instantly while attempting to snatch her daughter from an oncoming log truck near a service station on U S 64. The child Mary Lee Ledford 5 died later at Columbia hospital after being rushed there. Surviving are husband Everette Ledford and three sons Everette Jr BR L and Harold.
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