Hitler's moral wrecking of Europe and French resilience
In a World Today Paris dispatch dated March 20 the author analyzes Hitler's destruction of morals and morale across occupied Europe, especially France, noting widespread black markets, bribe buying, and loss of public spirit. It highlights German coercion, manipulation of money, and a rise in national disillusionment amid resistance by many French citizens.
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France
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Ross Sees State Put In Hole Over High Bids
Charles Ross former chief counsel told the state highway and public works commission that about half of the bids from the March 12 lettings would be thrown out as too high. The lettings covered 16 projects for about 3.6 million dollars with bids roughly one thousand over estimates. Ross urged not to cancel bids arguing contractors might seek work elsewhere and leave the state in a hole. He noted competition will push prices down and contractors could find contracts in other states with ease.
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Raleigh
Charles Ross
State Highway Andublic Works Commission
Ross
Carolina Road Builders Association
Commission
Gassing Admit: Hoess Confesses 2 Million Deaths
Berlin reports that Rudolf Hoess, the Oswiecim camp commandant, signed a confession admitting the gassing of about 2,000,000 Jews and others between 1941 and 1943. He said Himmler's orders covered the killings and that more deaths occurred after his tenure, totaling around 4,000,000. Hoess also rejected belief in God.
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Berlin
Oswiecim
Rudolph Hoess
Hoess
Flemsburg
Sayly
Himmler
God
Coms
Seven-Point Plan for Feeble-Minded Care In North Carolina
Charlotte report from the North Carolina Mental Hygiene Society outlines a seven point program for care and treatment of feeble minded citizens. It calls for early identification central registration educational facilities during schooling protection during formative years segregation facilities for those needing care supervision of those at large and public information. The study notes there is no central registry or mandatory reporting and that counts rely on school samplings.
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Charlotte
The
North Carolina Mental Hygiene Society
Wedemeyer to Fly to Chungking for Conference
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer will fly to Chungking on a surprise request from Generalissimo Jiang Kai-shek for a conference. The American occupation commander in China did not reveal the reason for China's summons and conferred with officers on repatriation of oceans in China.
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Seoul
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Chungking
Jiang Kai-shek
Wedemeyer
China
Tokyo
Goering Claims Responsibility for Anti Jewish Decrees
In Nuremberg today Hermann Goering told the international military tribunal he signed numerous anti Jewish decrees as president of the Reichstag and takes full responsibility. He said Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler were more radical than he on the Jewish question.
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Hermann Goering
International Military Tribunal Today
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Joseph Goebbels
Heinrich Himmler
Hoess describes mass killings and disposal at Auschwitz
Hoess testified that after gassing the victims, bodies were crushed with wooden clubs and dumped into the Vistula. Early gas chambers were huts, later underground death chambers simulated shower baths with a claimed capacity of 2,500 daily. He said Jews from Warsaw and Budapest were killed on Himmler's orders to protect the Reich, and that Gypsies were ordered exterminated as anti social.
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Postpone Meeting of Western North Carolina Methodist Cabinet
The Western North Carolina Methodist conference cabinet meeting set for today in Charlotte is postponed indefinitely due to the funeral of Dr. Charles C. Weaver. Weaver, a longtime conference leader, died yesterday in Elkin.
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Western North Carolina Methodist Conference
Charles C. Weaver
Weaver
Elkin Yesteray
Local Issues Tie Up GM Plants In Labor Row
General Motors plants remain idle after 120 days as a new clash with the UAW CIO centers on local grievances. The union says national terms are approved but 154000 strikers may keep idle to press for local settlements.
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Cio Auto
UAW
Uaw-Cio
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GM Council
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Fom
200 Die In Brazil Railroad Wreck Near Aracaju
Rio de Janeiro March 20 dispatches report about 200 people killed and 300 injured when a train derailed near Aracaju, capital of Sergipe. A fleeing engineer reached a police station as enraged passengers sought lynching. Hospitals in Aracaju were reportedly full with more victims arriving. Relatives waited all night at the station and telegraph offices for news.
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Aracaju
Sergipe
Laranjeiras
Paper suspended for rumors about Marshal Zhukov
Nacht Express, an independent leftist Berlin paper in the Russian zone, was suspended for one day and fined 20 000 for two front page items headlined Rumors About Marshal Zhukov.
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Berlin
Nacht Express
Marshal Zhukov
Woman policewoman vows to track down ex husband in court bid
Chicago reports Betty Elrod Dobry a 35 year old policewoman won permission to hunt for Dudley Dobry 48 a securities salesman after he owed 200 on a 1500 divorce settlement and failed to appear in court. She pledged to locate him and bring him to court. The judge praised the plan and noted sheriffs could use assistance.
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Chicago
Betty Elrod Dobry
John A. Sbarbara
Sbharbaro
Lewis Puts Pressure On Operators
Washington reports John L. Lewis pushing for a health and welfare fund as a condition of a new contract to avert an April 1 coal strike. Negotiators discussed details of medical care improvements for 400,000 soft coal miners but offered no decisions. Lewis warned the current contract ends March 31 and signaled a standoff if his fund demand is not met.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine
UMW
Chiang Kai Shek opens peace plea at council
Chungking March 20. Chiang Kai Shek urged peace and unity at the opening of the people's political council. The Communist delegation was absent in protest over the Kuomintang congress. The council will meet until April 2 with expected Communist attendance later.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai- Shek
China
People's Political Council
Chiang
Kuomintang
National
Asheville Man Kills Wife and Then Takes Own Life
In Asheville, Dock Walter Buckner shot his wife Edith Forster Buckner at their home and then fatally shot himself while children witnessed. The 48 year old carpenter died later in a local hospital. the 13 year old Willie Mae Buckner described the events at breakfast and the family’s turmoil.
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Edith Forster Buckner
Dock Walter Buckner
Here
Woodrow Dillingham
Buckner
Dillingham
Willie Mae Buckner
Marie Buckner
Judy Yvonne
Coast to Coast Sleeping Cars to Begin March 31
Six major east west railroads announce daily coast to coast sleeping car service to end train changes. Participants include New York Central Santa Fe Pennsylvania Chicago and Northwestern Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Lines with Rock Island joining June 2. Cars will move between rail lines while passengers stay in their sleepers.
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New York Central
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Conference on Delinquency Plans Nationwide Action
Attorney General Tom Clark announced a national conference to curb juvenile delinquency. The FBI reported youth crimes rose in 13 states, with ages 17 and 18 most affected, and 65 million people in 2,000 cities seeing a 12.4 percent rise in serious crimes in 1945.
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Tom Clark
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FBI
Attorney General's
North Dakota
South Carolina
Flood Control Measure Nears End Of Course
A $360 million fund for navigation flood control and other war department civil functions neared final legislative action. The measure, the first big wartime funding bill of its kind, passed the Senate and went to a conference committee to decide on amendments including a $74 million increase over the $285 million House authorization. Both chambers must act before sending the bill to President Truman.
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War Department
Senate
House
Truman
Soviet Shakes Up Its Regime at Meeting
In Moscow on March 20 Nikolai Shvernik, 58, named chairman of the presidium of the supreme Soviet, succeeding Kalinin who resigns due to failing eyesight. Stalin remains premier and generalissimo. Vyacheslav Molotov re elected vice chairman. presidium powers include ratifying treaties and declaring war.
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik
Russia
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Kalinin
Joseph Stalin
Council of Ministers
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Central Committee
Communist Party
London
Commissars
Vyacheslav M. Malotov
Shvernik
U.S.S.R
Doo Little to Head War Board Study Officers Enlisted Relations
Lt Gen James H Doo Little said the Patterson board to study officer enlisted relations will begin work in Washington March 27. The appointment was accepted by Doo Little who will lead the panel.
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Worth
Tex
James H. Doolittle
Patterson
Washington
Iranian garrisons hold against Kurdish attack near border
Tehran reports three Iranian garrisons Sardasht Baneh and Saqqez under weeklong assault by Kurdish tribesmen aided by Iraqi forces estimated at 3000. Aerial support from seven planes was dispatched to protect the line to Sinneh though heavy snows hinder reinforcements.
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Azerbaijan
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LaGuardia Touted for UNRRA Director Post
A report circulated here today among UNRRA delegates said F. H. LaGuardia, former New York mayor, would become director general. Herbert Lehman, UNRRA head, resigned due to ill health.
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Herbert Lehman
Relief Organization
UNRRA seeks Soviet wheat aid to meet hungry nations
Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton told delegates from 47 nations in Atlantic City that UNRRA had asked the Soviet Union to supply wheat to ease presents from heavy demand. He said he hoped Russia would comply and align with the United States and other supplying countries.
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N. J
Will Clayton
Russia
UNRRA
United States
Delegates Debate Wartime Food Controls Postwar Hunger
A 47 member council faced a stern push for universal rationing and strict safeguards to curb food waste as they seek paths to avert mass starvation. Delegates, many from recently liberated regions, consider Director General Herbert Lehman's plea to return to rigid wartime controls to win the peacetime hunger fight.
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