Committee To Question Hull Tomorrow
Senator Lucas requests army and navy testimony on Pearl Harbor 1941 air patrols and available planes. He seeks counts under Richardson and Kimmel, and long range aircraft in use at the time. Hull will testify tomorrow with other officials to fill in the broader story.
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Washington
Lucas
D-Ill
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Senate-House
J. O. Richardson
Hawaii
Husband E. Kimmel
William D. Mitchell
Richardson
Kimmel
Mitchell
All
Hull
Sumner Welles
Maxwell Hamilton
Joseph C. Grew
William D. Leahy
Philippines
GM strike halts vast factory system across 50 plants
CIO UAW walkout shuts down about 96 percent of General Motors production affecting 162000 workers, with up to 325000 employees potentially impacted. Government mediation looms as Walter Reuther vows to continue until wages rise. nationwide strikes and transport seizures add to economic disruption.
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Associated Press
CIO Auto Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
Walter P. Reuther
Cio-Uaw
Thanksgiving session busy as UNRRA hearing set
Congress held a brief Thanksgiving session with the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Eisenhower on UNRRA and a proposed US grant of 1 000 to the international relief agency. Senators Scott and Thomas urged clarifications on Pearl Harbor defense and a single armed forces department. Congress adjourned for the holiday. an anti-strike bill progresses in committee.
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Max Hall
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
U. S
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Scott
Ill
Army and Navy
Army-Navy
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Senate Military Committee
Europe
Army
Navy
House
Senate
Cordell Hall
Air
Lucas
William D. Leahy
Roosevelt
Leahy
Philippines
House Rules Committee
Damaskinos Plans Resignation as Greek Regent
Arch bishop Damaskinos announced he would resign as regent of Greece. The move followed the swearing in of Themistokles Sophoulis as premier amid British pressure to form a new government. Damaskinos said he would address the nation later.
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Athens
Damaskinos
Greece
Themistokles Sophoulis
Sophoulis
North Carolina Celebrates First Peacetime Thanksgiving
North Carolinians observe the first peacetime Thanksgiving since 1941 with quiet religious services nationwide closures and many businesses shut. Military posts take a holiday and football dominates, led by the Wake Forest versus South Carolina grid classic in Charlotte expected to draw 15 000 fans.
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Preas
Charlotte
Nationalists Capture Hingcheng Near Lienshan Front
Nationalists stabbing into Manchuria have captured Hingcheng on the Peiping Mukden railroad and advance toward Liensen fifteen miles beyond. Hingcheng lies sixty miles northeast of the great wall gateway to Shanhaikwan and near the Communist held Hulutao area.
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Chungking
Manchuria
Hingcheng
Peiping-Mukden
Great Wall
Shanhaikwan
Liensen
Lienshan
Hulutao
Patow
Kweisui
Suiyuan
Nankow Pass
Peiping
Kalgan
Chahar Province
Seven Tons Of Dressed Turkeys Condemned In Charlotte
Charlotte health officials announced the destruction of 14 000 pounds of contaminated dressed turkeys seized by city inspector William Meltiure and pure food inspector Shelby Grey on arrival by truck. The fowls were incinerated in the city incinerator.
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Charlotte
William ©. Meltiure
Shelby Grey
Hatteras Tornado Damages Coast Guard Station
A brief tornado near Hatteras inlet struck at 2 am with 150 to 160 mph winds, heavily damaging the Hatteras banks lifeboat station. No personnel casualties were reported as two water tanks toppled, a tied-up boat was damaged, and weather boarding was torn from the building.
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Norfolk
Hatteras Inlet
Coast Guard
Hatteras Banks
North Carolina
Streicher Found Sane and to Stand Trial at Nuremberg
At Nuremberg on November 22 the four power tribunal ruled Julius Streicher sane and to face trial, denying a defense bid to delay the case. Martin Bormann’s trial in absentia continues as the court weighs the next steps. Goering and Hess appeared in high spirits during proceedings.
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Mernberg
International Tribunal
Hitler
Julius Streither
Martin Bormann
Medical Board
Streicher Sane
Geoffrey Lawrence
Reichmarshal
Herman Goering
Rudolph Hess
Five Point Industrial Peace Plan Proposed for Labor Talks
Sterling F. Green reports a new five point program aims at heated power peace through voluntary arbitration fact finding and a stronger federal conciliation service. Drafted by Frank P. Graham leading a hearings committee the plan is called the minimum pattern for settlement machinery.
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Sterling F. Green
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
Graham
General Patch Loses Battle For His Life
Lt. Gen. Alexander Mc Carrell Patch Jr a 55 year old decorated veteran who led the Seventh Army across France and Germany died of pneumonia at Brooke General Hospital San Antonio after entering the facility on November 14 The commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston since last July would have turned 56 tomorrow At his bedside were his wife Julia Lillell Patch his daughter Mrs Charles M Drummond his widowed daughter in law Mrs Alexander M Patch III and his brother Major General Patch The general s son a captain with the U S First Army in France was killed on February 22 1944 while assaulting positions
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San Antonio
Tex
Alexander McCarrell Patch, Jr
U. S. Seventh Army
France
Germany
Sandy Patch
Pacific
Brooke General Hospital
Fourth Army
Fort Sam Houston
General Patch
Julia Lillell Patch
Charles M. Drummond
Alexander M. Patch
Patch
U. S. First Army
Erwin Strike Nearing Settlement After Plant Shutdown
Durham November 22 The Erwin Cotton Mills strike appears close to ending as negotiations between mill officials and the Textile Workers Union of America resume today. About 5,000 workers across Durham Erwin Cooleemee plants faced unemployment after the October 8 shutdown, with a state board denying benefits to non-union workers tied to the strike.
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Durham
Erwin Cotton Mills
Erwin
Cooleemee
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
U. S
Fred Beck
D. Yates Haefner
State
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Unon
Indonesians Refuse Talks With Dutch Over Attitude
In Batavia on November 22 Indonesian nationalist leaders refused to meet Netherlands East Indies officials while the Dutch keep their current attitude. They said negotiations are possible only with the British, demanding cessation of burning villages and killings before talks can proceed.
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Batavia
Java
Netherlands East Indies
Sir Philip Christison
T Boe
Furniture ceilings rise to aid North Carolina makers
Washington November 22 AP says the office of price administration will announce a 15 percent increase in ceiling prices on certain low end furniture items. The policy aims to restore cheaper goods to the market after wartime shortages, benefiting North Carolina manufacturers.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
North Carolina
OPA
Subordinates Blamed By Muto For Rape Of Manila
Lt Gen Akira Muto testifies at Yamashita war crimes trial denying sole responsibility for atrocities in the Philippines. He says orders came from Tokyo and that Yamashita administered through other staff, while field divisions answered various generals. He notes prisoner care discussed but asserts deaths occurred among Japanese soldiers due to shortages. The trial pauses for a Thanksgiving holiday and resumes tomorrow.
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Dean Schedler
Manila
Philippines
Akira Muto
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Yamashita
Tiger
Nippon
Muto
Tokyo
Seivil Affairea
Atroci
Hisaichi Terauchi
Malaya
Murata
MacArthur
Leyte
Saburo Ishikawa
Legion Favors One Command Stelle Chosen
Chicago November 22 The 27th annual American Legion convention endorsed unified command of the armed forces and a universal peacetime training program. John Steele of Illinois was unanimously chosen as national commander and five vice commanders were named alongside office of national chaplain Rt. Rev. Edward J. Smith.
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Chicago
The
American Legion
Army
Navy
Legion
John Steele
Illinois
Henry Horner
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Mannd
Steele
McLeansboro
Ill
Fred la Boon
Chickasha
Oklaey
Sanford Leader in Critical Condition
Sanford business man E. L. Gilmore father of AP Moscow correspondent Eddy Gilmore remains in critical condition after a fall last week. He has been unconscious since admission to Lee County Hospital where attending physicians gave the update.
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Sanford
Lee County Hospital
E. L. Gilmore
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
Moscow
Gilmore
U S cotton reaches Shanghai on Tucson shipment
The first postwar cargo of cotton to China arrived in Shanghai today aboard the victory ship Tucson. It carried 5 000 bales of Mexican cotton from Los Angeles harbor. Shanghai remains a leading textile center in the Orient.
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Shanghai
China
United States
Tucson
Los Angeles
Ex-Convict Admits Killing Mrs. Kennedy
District Attorney Bert Clancy said Louis Young a 44 year old Houston Negro convict signed a full written confession to killing Eloise Kennedy 23 wife of Santa Fe banker Leon G Kennedy Jr A first degree murder charge will be filed against Young He was an outside trusty at the state penitentiary and the knife used in the slaying was found behind the apartment building in Santa Fe investigators traced the case within 58 hours of the mutilated body being found.
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Santa FE
N. M
Bert Clancy
Louis Young
Houston
Tex
Eloise Kennedy
Young
New Mexico State Penitentiary
Clancy
Kennedy
Leon G. Kennedy
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Streicher
Sane
America
N. C
Stelle
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