World peace hinges on united nations near term action
DEWITT MACKENZIE notes the coming year may determine peace or atomic risk as big powers clash. urgency grows to activate a new UN peace organization, with assembly planned in January and a Christmas deadline for the preparatory commission to finish work. atomic energy control looms as a key early issue.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
London
United Nations Peace Organization
Preparatory Commission
Security Organization Assembly
United Nations
Assembly
Ted Nations Organization
Weed Prices In Two States Remain Steady
Virginia and North Carolina flue cured tobacco prices held steady amid weaker demand. On the Middle Belt low and common smoking grades rose about a dollar per hundredweight, with more cutters and less leaf offered. The Sanford market closed, leaving six Middle Belt markets. Season totals show large sales and regional averages, while the Eastern Belt posted smaller Tuesday volume and a $34.73 average.
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Raleigh
Virginia
North Carolina
Middle Belt
Federal State Market News Service
Sanford
Old Belt
Greenville
Truman cites UN as path to world peace over big three conferences
President Truman said the United Nations should handle global issues within 90 days, rejecting more big three meetings. He dismissed fears about Soviet cooperation, noted possible Potsdam revision, and urged GM executives to negotiate with CIO unions after a War Mobilization Board recommendation.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations Organization
Southalnaans Stalin
Attlee
United Nations
League of Nations
Bert Andrews
New York Herald-Tribune
Russia
Germany
United States
France
Britain
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Byron Price
George C. Marshall
China
Chungking
Marshall
Patrick J. Hurley
China Post
Hurley
General Motors Corporation
CIO
The
War Mobilization and Reconversion Office
Jews Challenge British Palestine Trusteeship Plan
In Jerusalem the Jewish elected Palestine assembly denounced a British trusteeship proposal, asserting historic rights to the Holy Land. David Ben-Gurion warned of increased immigration and state demands, while Rabbi Herzog reaffirmed the Jewish claim based on the eternal book.
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Jerusalem
News of
Palestine
Holy Land
Great Britain
Assehath
Svharim
Palestine Assembly
David Ben-Gurion
Jewish Agency
Israel Halevy Herzog
Davis Cup donor Dwight F. Davis Dies at 66
Dwight F. Davis former secretary of war under Coolidge and donor of the Davis Cup died at his Washington home after a six month heart ailment. He was 66.
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Washington
Dwight F. Davis
President Coolidge
Davis
OPA Plans Higher Furniture Output with Price Increases
The OPA unveils a plan to raise production of low and middle priced furniture with price hikes of 4 to 20 percent for about two thirds of furniture types. It hinges on absorption by wholesalers and retailers, with dealers’ markups trimmed if needed. The aim is to restore affordable furniture after wartime shortages and benefit consumers, despite a past 25 percent rise in furniture prices from 1942 to 1945.
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Washington
OPA
Househol
Southern Railway machinist walkout draws executives in overalls
Spencer North Carolina witness says Southern Railway machinists and helpers staged a walkout with 500 absent at maintenance yards while executives led trains in overalls. T. C. Blackwell of Charlotte and H. G. Trexler among the white collar officials joining the effort in solidarity with Birmingham shops.
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Spencer
Southern Railway
T. C. Blackwell
Charlotte
Blackwell
Southern
Birmingham
Ala
H. G. Trexler
Eastern
Psittacosis Found in North Carolina Parakeets
State health officials traced a shipment of 27 pairs of parakeets to stores in New Bern Wilson Kinston Rocky Mount Wilmington Burlington Charlotte Elizabeth City Raleigh and Lexington. After two birds tested positive for psittacosis the majority of the birds were located and destroyed to prevent human infection. No human cases had been reported.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Carl V. Reynolds
State Board of Health
Reynolds
New Bern
Wilson
Kinston
Rocky Mount
Wilmington
Burlington
Charlotte
Elizabeth City
Lexington
Furniture Outlook Brighter for Postwar Industry
Winston-Salem hosts the first postwar convention of the Southern Manufacturers association with 200 representatives. Peter A. Stone of the OPA price executive office and Horace B. McCoy of the commerce department outline challenges, while Donald R. Richberg discusses the National Industrial Recover Act at a luncheon. Sessions are at the Robert E. Lee hotel. Lumber for low end furniture.
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ED Lewis
Enterprise
Winston-Salem
Southern Manufacturer's Association
Peter A. Stone
OPA Price
Horace B. McCoy
U. S. Department of Commerce
Donald R. Richberg
Washington
Noue
Robert E. Lee
Reconversion Progress Report From President Truman
President Truman says reconversion progress is ahead of schedule though inflationary pressures remain. He reports unemployment is far below expectations and most layoffs from war plants are finished, with 3,500,000 demobilized in the first 100 days.
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Washington
Truman
Wedemeyer Sees Marshall In Role Of Investigator
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer said General Marshall is being sent to China to survey the situation and advise the president on future U S assistance. Wedemeyer praised Marshall as highly experienced and respected by the president, Congress, and the people. Chinese sources report nationalist forces paused their advance toward Mukden as Russians allegedly agreed to a peaceful entry later into the city.
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Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
China
Newsmen
Marshal
United States
Marshall
Congress
Wedemeyer
Patrick J. Hurley
Mukden
Manchuria
Teachers to Meet Raleigh December 7 and 8
The department of classroom teachers of the North Carolina Education association will hold a statewide meeting in Raleigh on December 7 and 8.
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Raleigh
Department of Classroom Teachers
North Carolina Education Association
Surprise War Plans At Trials Detail German Invasion Tactics
At Nuremberg trials the prosecution outlines 1938 plans for a surprise war against Austria. Goering directed the blitz invasion by telephone with Austrian Nazis including Seyss Inquart. Telegram and telephone transcripts found in the Berlin air ministry ruins were presented as evidence.
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U. S
Sidney S. Alderman
Goering
Berlin
Air Ministry
Associated Press
Cort Dan de Luce
Alderman
Arthur Seyssinquart
Eisenhower Criticizes France Tactics In Germany
General Eisenhower issued a report from Frankfurt criticizing the French government for hindering the allied control council and calling for a central German administration. He notes October conditions before his departure, cites risks of unrest and disease, but says no immediate emergency in American and British zones if rations hold.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Eisenhower
Allied Control Council
U. S. Army
White House
Truman
Byron Price
France
Steelworkers grant CIO strike authority in nationwide vote
CIO United Steelworkers officials receive strike power after a national NLRB election by 842,125 for and 70,639 against. The vote spans 766 plants and about 650000 workers across 27 states, with Pennsylvania and Ohio showing strong approval and Alabama Maryland Virginia North Carolina Michigan also voting heavily for a walkout.
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Pittsburgh
Cio-United Steelworkers
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
USWA
National Wage Policy Committee
United States
OPA
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York
Alabama
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Michigan
Utah
Texas
Jap Textiles Seen As Menace By Authority
William C. Planz president of the Textile Export Association of the United States warned at the Cotton Textile Institute meeting that Japanese and German textile industries are not defeated and could spread textile influence worldwide. He urged sending Japanese spindles to China only in interior populated areas and condemned using cheap Chinese labor to expand exports.
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New York
William C. Planz
Textile Export Association of the
United States
Cotton Textile Institute
China
Planz
Broad Powers For Marshall In New Job
General George C. Marshall readies a fast flight to China with broad powers as he succeeds an explosive resignation. Senate leaders plan informal talks with Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley and Secretary Byrnes to discuss the ambassador's role and State Department friction. Marshall, five star general and presidential envoy, will wield near unlimited authority over U S military and diplomatic personnel with President Truman's backing.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
China
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Patrick J. Hurley
State Byrnes
Hurley
State Department
Chungking
Wherry
R-Neb
Senate
Potsdam
Truman
Marshall
Army
Azerbaijan Insurgents Retreat From Tehran Push
Azerbaijani insurgent forces veered from their main railroad advance toward Tehran and appeared to abandon any plan to siege the capital. Iranian government troops kept a vigilant watch over Tehran as the situation developed.
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Tehran
Iran
Azerbaijan
Pearl Harbor Probe Update From Marshall Testimony
Gen. George C. Marshall will testify before a congressional Pearl Harbor investigation before departing for China as President Truman's envoy. Chairman Barkley said the schedule is not definite yet and will be arranged in ample time before his departure.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
China
President Truman
Barkley
D-Ny
Senate House Group
General Marshall
Naval attachés told to destroy codes before Pearl Harbor
A December 4 1941 message to naval attaches ordered destruction of their codes and to report actions with the words jaberwock and hoomerang. Admiral Stark sent the dispatch. Admiral Kimmel was copied. The notice surfaced in a Senate inquiry into the December 7 1941 attack.
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Washington
Japan
China
Pearl Harbor
Gerhard Gesell
Senate-House Committee
Harold R. Stark
Husband E. Kimmel
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor Probe Shifts To Military Leaders Testimony
The investigation notes a December 7 1941 alert ordered by Marshall and sent to MacArthur in the Philippines. It follows Army and Navy intelligence chiefs Miles and Wilkinson as potential witnesses and signals a shift toward the military side amid political debate.
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Marshall
Army
Pearl Harbor
MacArthur
Philippines
Hawaii
State Department
Ferguson An
Ilton
State Seanadment
Senate-House Committee
Secret of State
Cordell Hull
Widp
J Cc. Ae
Sherman Miles
Theodore S. Wilkinson
Navy
Ferguson
Policy Toward Germany May Be Revised
Washington dispatch reports a possible major shift in U S policy toward Germany following Byron Price’s report to President Truman about the German administration’s failure. The move could greatly limit Henry Morgenthau Jr influence and push for rewriting JCS1067 into broad general principles.
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Germany
Byron Price
Truman
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
Secretary of the Treasury
Potsdam
Price
Eisenhower
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