General Hawthorn Blames Japanese Commanders Over Unruly Arms
In Batavia on November 14 British Maj. Gen. D. C. Hawthorn accused the Japanese 16th army commander and his chief of staff of deliberately handing over arms to unruly elements in Java. He ordered the pair to Singapore to answer the charges as fighting persisted between British and nationalist troops at Soerabaja.
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Batavia
D. C. Hawthorn
16Th Army
Java
Singapore
Soerabaja
Bonds of Peace and Anglo American Cooperation
DeWITT MacKENZIE reports on Attlee’s outreach to the United States amid Britain’s nationalized economy and the Palestine issue. He notes two schools over a loan and emphasizes joint efforts in world cooperation through the United Nations. The piece frames a shared path between Britain and America within differing internal policies.
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Attlee
Congress
Clement Attlee
United States Congress
Washington
Senate
Kenneth McKellar
Tennessee
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
George Washington
Con
London
Palestine
England
America
U.S.A
Britain
United Nations Organization
Governor backs 65 retirement for state officers
Raleigh Nov 14 Gov Cherry urged state officials to retire at age 65 and collect state retirement benefits. He defended ousted secretary Baxter Durham saying the retirement was not his lone decision while noting the move should avoid disrupting state services.
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Raleigh
Cherry
Baxter Durham
Durham
Reer
68 Per Cent Of Tobacco Grown In This State
North Carolina produced 68 percent of the nation's flue cured tobacco this year, totaling 828.4 million pounds and setting a record. Agriculture Commissioner W Kerr Scott reports farm incomes averaging 1,138 per acre more than the U S average. Burley tobacco totals 20.58 million pounds, up 23 percent from 1944. Barley is grown in Western North Carolina counties.
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Raleigh
United States
North Carolina
W. Kerrtt
Scott
Yank-Trained Troops Land In Tsingtao
Thousands of American trained Chinese nationalist troops land unopposed at Tsingtao from U S transports. Marines remain in a foothold on the Shantung peninsula with Reds nearby. Japanese guards and factories sustain wartime industry as Chefoo and Weihaiwei remain in communist hands.
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Tsingtao
U. S
China
Shantung Peninsula
Leathernecks
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Chefoo
Weihaiwei
Daniel E. Barbey
United States
National JayCee Head Will Visit Winston-Salem
Henry Kerns of Pasadena California president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce will visit Winston-Salem for the North Carolina JayCee state board meeting. State president W Clayton Frost announced that Kerns will travel from Chicago and be joined by at least three national officers or seven vice presidents during the Saturday and Sunday event.
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Winston-Salem
Henry Kerns
Pasadena
Calif
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina
British Indian Troops Repel Night Assaults at Soerabaja
British Indian troops defending Soerabaja battle area repel three Indonesian night attacks in the naval base. More than 100 Indonesians killed and several dozen British casualties reported. Morning clashes over Kota railway station and marshalling yards with 25 pounder artillery barrages and smoke屏.
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Soerabaja
Kota
Japanese Surrender Ceremony and Indonesian Resistance Report
Hawthorn commands the 23rd Indian division as Lt Gen Ko Nagano and Maj Gen Moichiro Tamamoto surrender their swords at a formal ceremony six weeks after British troops arrived. In Soerabaja Indonesian nationalists resist, while Indian forces suffer casualties after infiltrations in the grand hotel area and harbor fire destroys a 10,000-ton Japanese ship.
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Hawthorn
Ko Nagano
Moichiro Tamamoto
Soerabaja
Sutan Sjahrir
National Press Club Presents Truman Piano
President Truman received a Steinway piano from the National Press Club after a late night with members. Eddie Cantor joked about the president’s playing and warned he once played for Stalin at Potsdam. Cantor quipped the piano still sounds like the Missouri waltz as Mackenzie King and Eisenhower laughed at Joe E. Lewis’ banker line.
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Washington
Truman
National Press Club
Eddie Cantor
Stalin
Potsdam
Cantor
Mackenzie King
Canada
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joe E. Lewis
Jews Strike In Palestine Over Bevin Proposals
In Jerusalem a 12 hour general strike began at noon protesting Bevin's plan for Palestine. Jewish shops, restaurants, workplaces, and some transport halted while essential workers stayed on in camps and key services. Demonstrations were planned across towns as residents studied Bevin's statement and opposed trusteeship ideas.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
el Aviv
Bevin
Ernest Bevin
Britain
United States
Industry Plans To Lay Stand On Issues On Line
Washington Nov 14 Industry plans to lay on the line its stand on every major issue before President Truman’s management labor conference. As the tenth day of the parley opened the 18 member industry delegation began work on a business edition statement. It will address collective bargaining, jurisdictional quarrels, and other topics on the agenda.
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Washington
Truman
Ira Mosher
National Association of Manufacturers
Denied Chance To See Dream Boy Woman Is Returned To Home
Eleanor Deveny 25 wife of a US Army corporal in Japan is sent back toward Long Beach California with her two children after eloping with 16 year old Sonny Wisecarver. Sonny is held pending parents arrival from Los Angeles. Deveny had dreamed of reuniting with him as authorities moved to separate the couple.
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Oroville
Calif
Eleanor Deveny
Japan
Long Beach
Ellsworth
Sonny) Wisecarver
Sonny
Los Angeles
Rents in City Rise as OPA Warns on Controls
J H Wills rent control director for western North Carolina told the High Point real estate board that the OPA does not seek to force rent control but warned that unchecked rising rents could lead to control. A survey of 100 apartments and 100 dwellings showed 55 percent of apartments with average 17 percent increases and 29 percent of dwellings with about 23 percent increases, mostly in the last year. Further citywide survey is planned.
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J. H. Wills
Charlotte
Western North Carolina
High Point Real Estate Board
OPA
Wills
Rey
Congress Will Stick On Job For Must Work
Washington November 14 Congress will remain on the job to finish President Truman is must legislation even if it lasts until Christmas leaders said after meeting with the president. Lawmakers also weighed new automobile price absorptions by dealers and manufacturer concessions amid pressure over keeping car prices near 1942 levels. Rep Taber with Rep Hebert criticized Bowles plan as a racketeering style price control and called for action.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
OPA
Taber
R-Ny
Chester Bowles
Hebert
D-La
The
Ameri
Textile unions clash with NC and SC mills over sitdowns and sellouts
North and South Carolina textile workers face intensified disputes as the Textile Workers Union of America CIO charges management sitdowns and selling out to defeat the union. Walkouts close three mills in Blacksburg and prompt calls for federal probes, with companies denying plant shutdowns and pledging to reopen. Also cited are wage and tax relief tensions and wartime directives urged by War Labor Board officials.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
South Carolina
Textile Workers Union of America-Cio
Blacksburg
8. C
Erwin Cotton Mills
Durham
Erwin
Cooleemee
Erwin Mills
John W. Snyder
Carl Durham
O. D. Blackwood
Twua-Cio
Blackwood
TWUA
Wilson
N. C
Rocky Mount
Tobacco
Toby E. Mendes
National
Patrick Deans
Wilson Cotton Mill
Broad River
Rock Hill
Gaffney Manufacturing Company
Gaffney
Anson Manufacturing Company
Graham Associates, Inc
Wadesboro
Harley-Peoples Manufacturing
Siler City
Entwistle Manufacturing Company
Rockingham
Georgia
War Labor Board
Lloyd K. Garrison
Washington
Industrial Cotton Mills
S&s. C
Athens (Ga
American Sgt Buys Souvenirs For His Buddies
In Kyoto Japan Sgt Ernest B Schnell spends about 500000 yen in his first month abroad buying souvenirs for U S Sixth Army personnel. A former professional souvenir hunter he notes weariness from constant work and hopes to return to Spartanburg South Carolina to marry after re deployment.
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Kyoto
Japan
Ernest B. Schnell
U.S. Sixth Army
Schnell
New York
Spartanburg
8. C
Church Must Have Youth Says Pastor at Convention
Rev Bernard C Clausen of Cleveland Ohio urged North Carolina Baptists to engage youth with strong programs, saying churches need fresh plays like a football team seeking new players. The Raleigh meeting discussed postwar education funding as it opened sessions with prayers and symposium plans.
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Raleigh
Bernard C. Clausen
Cleveland
Ohio
State Baptist Convention
First Baptist Church
L. A. Martin
Lexington
Alied Church League
W. H. Willliams
Charlotte
Committee On Constitutional Changes
J. S. Lynch
Winston-Salem
The
Baptist Hospital
Zeno P. Wall
Shelby
Carl M. Townsend
Biblical Recorder
State Baptist
C. R. Browning F
Asheville
Grover H. Jones
High Point
J. S. Farmer
Arch
Woman's Missionary Union
John H. Knight
Durham
Claude W. Broach
W. W. Jones
Kannapolis
J. Winston Pearce
Phil L. Elliott
Boiling Springs
J. Clenn Blackburn
Lumberton
G.C. Maddrey
Ahoskie
J. Clyde Turner
Greensboro
C. C .Warren
Roy A. Burkhart
Columbus, O
Frank S. Hickman
University Chapel
Duke University
Clausen
Japan seeks heavy barter with gold to avert famine
Tokyo reports Japan formally asks Allied authorities to allow imports mainly from America in exchange for gold diamonds silk and other goods. Commerce minister Ogasawara says barter may cover food coal iron and other items while reparations talks continue and U.S. forces in Japan/Korea approach peak.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Sankuro Ogasawara
America
Robert L. Eichelberger
Korea
U. S
Kyodo
Ogasawara
Nippon
Soviet America Deadlocked Over Jap Issue
Secretary of State Byrnes said the United States and Russia remain deadlocked over a Soviet demand for an Allied control council for Japan with unanimous consent. Russia insists on Berlin style equal voices and veto power for all, blocking action. The US seeks a council giving Gen. Douglas MacArthur decisive voice in case of disagreement.
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Washington
Byrnes
United States
Russia
Japan
Control Council
Berlin
Germany
Douglas MacArthur
Capitol Hill Split Over British Loan Debate
Capitol Hill remains divided as Attlee presses for a multi billion dollar loan to Britain. Some lawmakers praise his candor yet split on Britain’s labor government aims while others doubt the sale of a large credit. Attlee defends the welfare focus and government planning as compatible with American trade.
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Washington
Attlee
Britain
Capitol Hill
England
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Republican Steering Committee
Wherry
R-Neb
Churchill
Labor Party
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NAVY
Boeing Aircraft Company
Seattle
Dewitt MacKenzie
Sgt
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