Pearl Harbor inquiry gets full access to information
Congress and the Pearl Harbor committee were assured access to any information needed for the probe. Secretary Patterson said a year of military training for young Americans is essential for security and world peace. The White House ordered heads of all agencies to authorize staff to provide information to the committee. Speaker Rayburn said progress is expected soon, following talks with the president.
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Pearl Harbor
United States
Congress
Senate House
White House
Truman
Rayburn
House
Attlee
Great Britain
Training as Result of Atomic Bomb Policy Urges Universal Military Training
Secretary of War Patterson testified that atomic bomb development requires universal military training. He said compulsory peacetime training is essential to national security and underwrites world peace, supporting a year of service for every young American. He testified before the House Military Committee on Truman's Oct 22 request.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
United States
House Military Committee
Truman
Blinded War Hero Returns Home With Gift For Farm
Columbia war hero Kent Clark, blinded in Italy by shielding comrades, returns with bride Mary Price Clark of Allentown. Friends present a $5,000 wedding gift to buy a poultry farm. the couple, married Saturday, will be honored at a high school game whose proceeds aid their farm fund. Clark previously studied poultry raising at a government school in Avon, Connecticut.
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War Hero
Columbia
8. C
Kent Clark
Mary Price Clark
Allentown
Italy
Clark
Valley Forge Army Hospital
Pennsylvania
Avon, Conn
Olympia-Porter Military Academy
Olympia
Brutal Japanese Terror Reported in Batangas Masses
Manila dispatch cites a military commission hearing charges against Lt Gen Tomoyu ki Yamashita for a seven month terror campaign in Batangas province. Survivors claim 25 000 people suffered or died while entire villages were burned. A Filipino witness described mass detentions and executions amid gunfire.
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Manila
Batangas
Military Commission
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Point
Cotton Crop Dips Below Last Year, USDA Reports
The Agriculture Department states this year's cotton crop is 9,368,000 bales of 500 pounds gross, down from 12,230,000 the previous year. Unfavorable weather reduced yield to 249.7 pounds lint per acre versus 293.5 last year, with 5,153,639 running bales ginned to Nov. 1.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
MacArthur Seeks Military Leaders as Cabinet Ex Officio
General Douglas MacArthur argues the professional heads of the armed services should be ex officio members of the president's cabinet. He spoke at Leyte on December 3, 1944, during discussions on a possible single Department of National Defense. Senator Johnson noted the idea faces constitutional and practical challenges.
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Armed Services
Washington, Navy
dGen
Douglas MacArthur
Armed Service
Joint Chiefs of Staff Special Committee
Army
Navy
Department of National Defense
Senate Military Committee
Leyte
Philippines
United States
F. Trubee Davison
Army-Navy Staff Committee
125 Foot Fall Costs Tar Heel Dr Life
Dr. Joseph Vance Davis a 24 year old physician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital was found dead after apparently falling from the hospital administration building at Harvard Medical School adjacent premises in Boston. Police say he was last seen speaking with his father and had been ill with a stomach disorder. The medical examiner opened an investigation into the death.
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Boston
Joseph Vance Davis
Walnut Street
Waynesboro
N. C
Peter Bent Bringham
Harvard Medical School
Patrick 4. Mulvey
Game Body To Meet In Greensboro
The game and inland fisheries committee of the department of conservation and development will hold preliminary discussions on open seasons and bag limits to start next July. Commissioner John D. Findlay says the public will have more time to present views than in the past. plans receive preliminary study tomorrow and the full board will get recommendations in January with public hearings to follow.
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Raleigh
Game and Inland Fisheries Committee
Department of Censer
Johnn D. Findlay
Board of Conservation and Development
Steady Averages On North Carolina Virginia Tobacco Markets
North Carolina and Virginia flue cured tobacco markets showed steady general price averages with only a few declines in lower quality grades. The middle belt posted a season high Tuesday with an average of 47.00 per hundred pounds as sales totaled 1,265,948 pounds. The season reached 122,436,135 pounds at 43.15 average. Old belt centers saw mixed moves with light sales and a 46.27 average on 4,305,681 pounds. The big eastern belt reported steady prices with a Tuesday average of 44.47 on 1,353,080 pounds.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Virginia
Middle Belt
Old Belt
Attempt Made On Minister's Life
Tokyo report says two former kamikaze pilots waited with knives in the dark halls of the home ministry last night to attack Home Minister Kenjiro Horikiri as he returned from addressing police chiefs on rising crime and chaotic conditions. He was unharmed and the assailants were captured.
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Tokyo
Home Ministry
Kenjiro Horikiri
Japan
Labor fights flare as automakers face wage protests
The CIO United Auto Workers push for a 30 percent wage boost spurs a showdown as Ford, GM, and Chrysler workers vote on strikes. GM rejects the demand as excessive while unions back possible action. Steel talks stall as CIO Steel seeks reopen negotiations. Streetcar service in Washington returns to normal after a transit walkout.
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Cio-United Automobile Workers
Perion
Auto
Emplo
Motor
General Motor Corporation
Detroit
National Labor Relations Board
Ford Company
General Motors
Chrysler Corporation
United States Steel Corporation
Schwellenbach
CIO
Cio-Steelworkers Under A Special Conciliator. Cio President Philip Murray
Truman
Washington
AFL
Capital Transit Company
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Akron
More Air Lines Coming Into North Carolina
National Airlines announces plans to start nonstop Miami to New York and Tampa to New York service from Jan 1 1946 with four engine DC-4 aircraft. Wilmington NC service to Jacksonville Tampa and other Floridian cities expected within 30 days. One daily flight to start with NAL routes increasing to two or three per day as demand grows.
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Jacksonville
Fla
National Airlines, Inc
Civil Aeronautics Board
Miami
New York City
Tampa
New York
H. S. Parker, Jr
Wilmington
N. C
Florida
Mobile
Ala
New Orleans
Parker
NAL
Aglas Aircra
Saboteur Tipped FBI Halting 1942 German Plot
One of eight German saboteurs landed in 1942 went to the FBI and exposed the mission. The tip helped authorities round up the group in 14 days and thwarted plans to sabotage TVA power and other war targets. George Dasch, carrying $80,000 and explosives, informed J Edgar Hoover after landing.
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Washington
FBI
TVA
Tom K. Clark
George Dasch
J. Edgar Hoover
Ernest Burger
Indonesians Driven Back by British Indian Forces in Java
In Batavia area fighting with British Indian troops and tanks left 14 Indonesians dead at an internee camp. At Talisitan airfield Dutch forces repelled a nationalist assault, with one Indonesian killed and another captured. Java remains tense as nationalist leaders plan conferences in Jogjakarta.
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Batavia
Java
Talisitan
Magelang
Soekarno
Jogjakarta
Medal Presented to Brig. Gen. Royall at Pentagon Ceremony
Brig. Gen. Kenneth C. Royall of Goldsboro North Carolina was presented the Medal by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson at a Pentagon ceremony. The award honors his service as deputy fiscal director of the Army Service Forces from May 1943 to April 1944 and as special assistant to the secretary of war thereafter. Royall, a Goldsboro attorney, previously served as a field artillery officer in World War I and returned to duty in 1942. In 1942 he was named defense attorney for the German saboteurs captured after entering the U.S. on Long Island.
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Kenneth C. Royall
Goldsboro
N. C
Robert P. Patterson
Pentagon
Royall
Army Service Forces
Roosevelt
U. S
Long Island
Ex Governor Jarvis Portrait to Hang in House of Representatives
Dr Christopher Crittenden announced a portrait of Thomas Jordan Jarvis NC governor 1875 85 will be placed on display in the house of representatives and formally dedicated Sunday November 11. The gift comes from Mrs Nina C of New York, a Jarvis niece, with later move to the governor mansion.
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Raleigh
Christopher Crittenden
State Department of Archives and History
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
North Carolina
House of Representatives
Nina C
New York
Jarvis
Fiend Attacks 18 Year Old Girl With Hammer in Philadelphia
An 18 year old girl from Stamford, Conn named Justine Hume was beaten unconscious by a motorist wielding a hammer in Upper Darby. Police report she cannot be questioned further due to serious injuries. The assailant spoke only once saying I’m sorry before striking.
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Philadelphia
Justine Hume
Stamford
Communists Seek Apology and Compensation from U S
Chinese communists demanded Lt. Gen. Wedemeyer apologize and that compensation be paid for alleged American interference in China’s internal affairs. They urged Chinese government troops to withdraw from red-dominated areas while massing for a northern offensive and claimed rights to damages after a Tientsin incident.
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Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
China
Wedemeyer
Yenana
Communist On China Daily News
Yenan
Chu Teh
Antsen
Chu
Tientsin
Army to Drop Men With 50 Points in Discharges
The army will release enlisted personnel with 50 or more discharge points who are on furlough or on temporary duty in the United States. About 125,000 officers and enlisted men face new exemptions from overseas duty, with exceptions for certain graduates and specialists. Nurses with 12 points or 30 years old are exempt, and no WAC officers are slated for permanent overseas assignment.
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Washington
Army
United States
Military Intelligence Language School
Regular Army
Medical Department
Military Intelligence
WAC
No Announcement On Proposed Cut In Car Discounts
Washington November 8 The House Small Business Committee voted unanimously that the Office of Price Administration should withhold any announcement of a proposed reduction in automobile dealer discounts until committee hearings on the matter are completed.
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Washington
House
Small Business Committee
OPA
War fears and spheres of influence in postwar era
DEWITT MACKENZIE notes that after a recent global upheaval the world faces uncertainty yet potential to meet dangers. Bevin calls for frank talks among great powers to erase spheres of influence while hinting Britain suspects Russia’s territorial aims and warns against threats to the British commonwealth.
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Bevin
Britain
Russia
British Commonwealth
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