Senate Moves to Allow Truman to Reshape Bureaus
Senate judiciary panel okays a bill permitting President Truman to reshuffle government bureaus and commissions, signaling possible veto battles. The session also covered Puerto Rico independence options and a push to raise the federal minimum wage, with broader tax and defense debates unfolding in Congress.
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Washington
House
CIO
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Truman
Senate
Puerto Rico
Wallace
Palestine
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
Taft
Vinson
A and Navy
General MacArthur
Armed Services
War and Navy Departments
Walsh
D-Mass
Senate Naval Committee
Council of National Defense
Air Service To Begin Nov 15 From Detroit To Miami
Eastern Airlines will start the Detroit to Miami service on November 15 with two daily round trips. The route includes eight regular stops such as Winston-Salem Charlotte and Columbia South Carolina.
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Charlotte
Eastern Air Lines
Winston-Salem
Columbia
S. C
MacArthur’s stark epitaph on Japan ends its world power reign
The World Today column quotes AP analyst MacArthur declaring Japan utterly smashed and deprived of gains as it sinks to a small island kingdom. The piece notes a vacuum in the Orient and ponders who will fill the space left by a vanished dominant power.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
MacArthur
Japan
Nippon
Orient
Indonesians deny war declaration amid Dutch tensions
Free Indonesia radio claims the Indonesian republic on Java did not declare war on the Netherlands while Aneta reports from The Netherlands News Agency say the Soekarno movement’s army issued a war proclamation against Dutch, Eurasians and Ambonese.
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London
Free Indonesia Radio
Java
Netherlands
all-India Radio
Dutch East Indies
Aneta
Folger To Speak At Postmasters Convention
Congressman John Folger will be the principal speaker at North Carolina postmasters statewide convention in Winston Salem. The event runs Thursday to Saturday with officers elected and committee reports heard. Other speakers include George E. Wilson J W Johnson and R B Beatson.
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Winston-Salem
John Folger
North Carolina
George E. Wilson
Charlotte
J. W. Johnson
R. B. Beatson
Ruler Denies He Has Role Of Strong Man
War Minister Gen. Eduardo Avalos, leader of the army movement that toppled Peron, denies being a strong man and says he is carrying out army orders in the government revision. Civilian offers to join a military-led cabinet are being weighed as interior ministry post looms for Juan Alvarez.
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Buenos Aires
Eduardo Avalos
Juan Peron
Argentina
Associated Press
Avalos
Peron
Edelmiro Farrell
Juan Alvarez
Farrell
Alvarez
Interior Ministry
Foreign Ministry
Tomas Libreton
London
Vernengo Lima
Albert Hueyo
Augustin
Higher prices foreseen in coming year say economists
Economists at the 17th annual Boston conference on distribution warned businessmen to expect higher prices for manufactured goods in the next year or so due to combined domestic and foreign demand pressures. The forecasts closed the second day of the two day meeting.
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Boston
Winter Arrives on Mt. Mitchell With Two Inches Snow
Winter arrived at Mt. Mitchell over the past weekend. Two inches of snow capped the peak Sunday night. The Asheville weather bureau reported this as the season's only deep fall so far, following a prior light fall on Sept. 16.
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Mt. Mitchell
Asheville
Halsey Sees Peace Only By Military
Admiral Halsey, welcomed home from the wars, says lasting peace must be military. He urges global cooperation for a world organization and vows vigilance against aggression as he discusses Japan’s postwar status. He will receive the key to the city during a parade and banquet with officials.
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San Francisco
Halsey
San Francisco Bay
United States
Market Street
Golden Gate
Japan
Society of Nations
Eleven Members of Lost Battalion Reach Moore General
Eleven members of the Lost Battalion of Java, part of the 131st Field Artillery, 36th Division, have arrived at Moore General Hospital for rest before returning home. Captured in March 1942, they endured 42 months in prison camps in Indo China, Burma, Manchuria and Japan, and were liberated in August and September by American forces. The unit earned the Lost Battalion nickname as its communications were cut during the closing days of the Battle of Java.
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Swannanda
Java
131St Field Artillery
Moore General Hospital
Indo-China
Burma
Manchuria
Japan
WAC Sgt Lora D Blake to remain civilian at Fort Lewis
Fort Lewis Washington will keep WAC Sgt Lora D Blake of Claremont New Hampshire in her fiscal audit branch job after she is discharged. The sergeant said she is not as thrilled about being a civilian again as she was entering the army.
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Fort Lewis, Wash
INS
WAC
Lora D. Blake
Claremont
N. H
Fort Lewis
Army
Plundered China Currency Flood Worth Vast Sum
Tokyo reports that Japanese backed presses flooded China with 54 billion U S dollars in spurious notes totaling 4 trillion yuan issued by the Central Reserve Bank of China under occupation. The notes halved bank assets and topped wartime profits for Nippon while inflation raged. American audits await full figures.
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Tokyo
China
U. S
Asahi
Impe
Central Reserve Bank of China
Japan
Bank of Japan
Nippon
Central
Eisenhower Rejects Harrison Report On Jews In Occupied Germany
General Dwight D. Eisenhower challenged Earl G. Harrison's finding that treatment of Jews and other displaced persons in the American zone was similar to Nazi policy. In a White House letter he said the claim is misleading and that few Jews remained in camps, moved only for urgent medical reasons.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harrison
Germany
White House
Eisenhower
Truman
Earl G. Harrison
U. S
Inter-Governmental Committee On
CIO denounces House tax bill and proposes relief plan
The CIO denounced the House tax-cut bill as benefiting the rich. Clifford McAvoy outlined a three-point program to aid lower income brackets, including repealing the 3 percent normal tax and increasing personal exemptions for individuals and married couples.
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Washington
CIO
Senate Finance Committee
Clifford McAvoy
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
McAvoy
AFL Aims to Cut Strikes Via Cooperation Plan
In Cincinnati at the AFL quarterly conference William Green states the executive council will launch a program to foster cooperation between industry and labor to minimize strikes. He did not provide further details.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
William Green
AFL
New Japan Begins Long Road Back After Surrender
Tokyo reports Japan, poverty stricken and politically humbled, begins demobilization under occupation. Nippon working masses protest for bread while MacArthur signals surrender terms. American officers recount damaged weapons and failed weapons systems amid demilitarization efforts.
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Tokyo
New
Japan
New Nippon
Driver Of Racer In Hospital In Charlotte
Johnny Rogers, auto stunt driver, was hospitalized in Memorial hospital Charlotte after a crash during an attempted 56 foot truck trailer jump at the Southern States fairgrounds. Doctors reported a possible neck fracture with diagnosis incomplete.
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Charlotte
Johnny Rogers
Memorial Hospital
Nazi Beatings Compared To Those In N. C
Ilse Lothe Grese and three co defendants faced Belsen war crimes trial questioning as British counsel argued North Carolina prison floggings reflect harsher brutality. Major Cranfield urged the court to judge conduct by reasonableness not by alleged prison camp horrors.
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Lueneburg
Germany
Irman Grese
Belsen
North Carolina
United States of America
Maj
L. S. W. Cranfield
Cranfield
Grese
Ilse Lothe
Hilda Lobauer
Joseph Klippel
Two Fields In North Carolina To Be Retained
The army air forces propose retaining 85 flying fields depots hospitals and other establishments including Seymour Field Goldsboro North Carolina and Ft. N. C. as storage or support sites for combat and air transport units in North Carolina.
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North Carolina
Washington
Army Air Forces
Seymour Field
Goldsboro
N. C
Ft. N. C
Government Fails To Get Workers Back In Soft Coal Crisis
The government failed to settle the soft coal strike after a 10 day effort that left 200,000 miners idle and half the nation's output down. Secretary Schwellenbach announced the talks collapsed while hope rose for a new wage price plan.
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Washington
Schwellenbach
John L. Lewis
Truman
War Labor Board
WLG
WLB
White House
Industtry
Wight
Associated Press
Schnellenbach
New York City
AFL
CIO
New England
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Coal As Association
Back To Work Movement Fails In England
London and surrounding areas saw thousands of striking dockworkers fail to return to duty as 40,000 remained idle. British troops unloaded ships and stored military supplies for the Middle East, amid faltering food supplies and heightened tensions.
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London
England
Middle East
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