Idle 261 000 as Walkouts Continue Across Industries
The Associated Press reports 261 000 workers remained idle as postwar labor disputes strain auto steel mine and packing industries. CIO unions push wage hikes up to 30 percent for auto and 25 cents an hour for packinghouse workers amid talks for industrial peace.
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Truman
Cio United Automobile
CIO Steel
CIO
Westinghouse Electric Corp
OTE
CIO Packinghouse Workers
San Francisco Bay Area
AFL
American Can Company
San Francisco Bay Region
Hollywood Movie Studios
Holland faces economic crisis in Indonesia aftermath
Dr. J. M. Roberts outlines Holland’s precarious position as war disrupts Indonesia’s economy. The nation must rehabilitate domestic life while adjusting long term plans to shrinking colonial returns, amid uncertainty over future prospects and policy options.
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J. M. Roberts
Holland
Indonesia
Trial of Yamashita Proceeds With Atrocity Claims
Manila on October 31 report describes the third day of testimony at Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita war crimes trial. Witnesses recount atrocity slaughters and rapes attributed to troops under the former Tiger of Malaya and supreme Japanese commander in the Philippines.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Tiger of Malaya
Philippines
Manila Witness Says Yamashita Troops Killed Thousands
Manila undertaker Marion Del Rosario testified that Yamashita's troops surged to the thousands during Manila's February bloodbath. Other witnesses described a wave of killings as Japanese forces abandoned the city.
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Manila
Mariano del Rosario
Manila City
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Tiger of Malaya
Trial notes recount brutal acts and charges
A court record describes repeated acts of brutality by Ya matshita during the trial. She faces charges tied to the patterns of violence and coercive conduct, with prosecutors detailing the alleged behavior and implications for sentencing.
Japan Labor Unites To Promote Socialist Party Plans
Tokyo reports labor groups under American occupation unite to use politics for advancement. Leaders Makamichi Matsuoka and Kato plan a Friday meeting to form a socialist party. Meanwhile counter espionage in occupied zones arrests Nazis including Meisinger aides and seizures of bullion. Asahi notes cabinet to probe Nippon defeat to prevent future blunders and build lasting peace.
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Tokyo
United
United Action
Komakichi Matsuoka
Japan Trade Unions Congress
Nju Kato
National Council of Japanese Labor Unions
Gestapo
Josef Meisinger
Warsaw
Eighth Army
Meisinger
Wilhelm Seidle
United States
Hitler
Charles Schmidt Jucheim
San Francisco
Count Gottfried Durchiem
Japan
Goebbels
Asahi
Nippon
Auto price ceilings could be issued for some car makers
An official said ceilings on new automobiles may be ready late this week with OPA planning to let manufacturers announce them at their discretion. Work on ceilings for two or three of nine producing companies is nearly finished, but the agency would not name the manufacturers.
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Washington
OPA
All God's Chillun Get Shoes as OPA Ends Rationing
Washington reports that shoe rationing ends at 12 01 am. OPA and manufacturers push a price rise as costs climb due to loss of military contracts and expected lower demand for non rationed shoes. Bowles says output could reach 28 29 million pairs in Nov and Dec.
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OPA
Washington
Indusry
Chester Bowles
Daniels Urges Merger of Armed Forces
Former Navy leader Josephus Daniels told the senate military affairs committee that land, sea and air forces should be unified into a single national defense department. He argued victory depends on forces operating as one and urged ending debate and dispersion.
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Washington
Josephus Daniels
Congress
National Defense Department
Daniels
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Oey
Navy
Remnants of Jap Fleet Will Be Divided Equally
Secretary of State Byrnes announced that Russia, Britain, China, and the United States would share equally in dividing the non destroyed portion of the Japanese fleet. The ships to be allocated include 38 destroyers and several small coastal defense vessels. Those to be destroyed by scuttling are a battleship, four aircraft carriers (three damaged), four cruisers (three damaged), and 51 submarines.
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Washington
Byrnes
Russia
Britain
China
United States
Japan
Arrest 4 Yanks In Black Market Operation
Tokyo dispatch reports four American soldiers, two Italian middlemen, and three Japanese distributors arrested. The ring allegedly moved about 500000 dollars in stolen army rations and clothing into Japanese black markets over roughly three weeks, supplying ten in one rations sugar and woolen underwear to civilians without traceable sources.
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Tokyo
Brazil Quiet As New Regime Takes Power
Brazil began a bloodless transition after a coup ended Getulio Vargas 15 year rule. Chief Justice Jose Linhares became president and pledged to step down after elections. The cabinet includes Pedro Velloso as foreign minister and Gen Salvador Obino as war minister.
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RLO
Vargas
Pedro Velloso
Mexico City
Francisco
Salvador Cesar Obino
Adm
Dodsworth
Brain of Ley on Way to Capital
The brain of Dr. Robert Ley, Nazi labor leader who killed himself to avoid war crimes trial, was sent to the surgeon general in Washington for study. It was removed from his body a few hours after his death.
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Mernberg
Germany
Robert Ley
Washington
Pay Increase Policy Outlined by President Truman
President Truman outlined a postwar wage price policy calling for reasonable wage increases to offset deflation with a hold the line stance on prices. He said increases could be entertained in six months and told labor to avoid excessive demands while noting industry generally could fund higher pay from profits. He emphasized a shift from 48 to 40 hours and urged essential industries to recruit manpower, warning against broad price hikes.
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Washington
Truman
Mr. Truman
Labor Leaders Pleased With Truman's Wage Policy Talk
Labor leaders hailed President Truman's wage policy address as a light of hope and a plain course for workers. CIO leader R J Thomas said it removed excuses for auto companies to refuse a 30 percent payroll increase, while industry leaders offered mixed, often partisan, responses.
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Associated Press
Truman
Victory A. Olander
Chicago
Illinois Federation of Labor
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
C. E. Wilson
Detroit
General Motors
Henry Kaiser
San Francisco
R. J. Thomas
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Paul Shoup
Los Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers Association
House
McCormick
Massachusetts
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Definite Progress in South Cited by Frank Graham
In Raleigh on October 31 Frank Graham says progress is underway in tariffs freight rates and education across the south and at the Greater University of North Carolina Public welfare institute cites reciprocal trade agreements lowering tariffs and freight rate reforms Proposed federal aid to education and national help for hospital and medical care are noted as milestones in federal state local cooperation with social security board official J Shelton Turner mentioned as a source on standards and program development.
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Raleigh
South
University of North Carolina
Annual
Public Welfare Institute
Ing
Graham
J. Sheldon Turner
Washington
The
Social Security Board
Reds Chinese In Agreement On Troops Landing In Manchuria
Chungking dispatch reports Soviet and Chinese military authorities agreed on arrangements for landing Chinese government troops in Manchuria. In northern China fighting continued with Yen Hsi-shan claiming 100000 Reds attacked Tatung and citing possible Chu Teh command.
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Chungking
Manchuria
Changchun
Chiang Chin-Kuo
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Yen Hsi-shan
Shansi
Thieves Steal Impounded Auto From County Jail Lot
In Okla on October 31, sheriff De Arthur Wilson reported that two highwaymen used an impounded car in a local holdup and stole it from in front of the county jail, causing concern over security at the facility.
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Ckasha
Okla
de Arthur Wilson
Statesville Cancels Truman Visit Amid Storm
Statesville officials led by State Senator Hugh G. Mitchell announced cancellation of the planned trip and all events for Thursday and Friday due to rain. Treasury Secretary Vinson War Secretary Patterson and other guests were notified that the presidential visit would not occur. Mitchell said he confirmed from Rep Coughton in Washington that the president could not come to Statesville and the program was called off.
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Statesville
Hugh G. Mitchell
Truman
Mitchell
Treasury
Vinson
Warretary Patterson
Coughton
Washington
Soviet Tass Puts Italy Reparations at 300 Million
Tass reports Italy should pay 300 million dollars in reparations with 100 million to Russia and the rest to Yugoslavia Greece and Albania. It says London conference discussed the sum and that the United States Britain reject claims beyond Italy's foreign assets.
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Moscow
Tass
Italy
United States
Britain
London
Russia
Yugoslavia
Greece
Albania
Horrors Of Atomic Bomb Revealed By Russian Eye Witness
Russell Brines reports from Tokyo on Kaleria Palchikoff a 21 year old Russian displaced by the Hiroshima bombing recounting the scenes of scorched bodies blackened faces and torn clothing. She recalls her family's escape to the mountains and the makeshift hospital in a school lacking effective treatment for extensive burns.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Kaleria Palchikoff
Hiroshima
Palchikoff
Truman Hopes For Action On His Program
President Truman pressed Congress to stay in session until his liberal unemployment and full employment bills are approved. He noted House committees blocked key wage price measures and said Doughton may reconvene the pigeonholed jobless pay bill. He projected postwar Germany and Japan policies and hinted at atomic energy talks among Britain Canada and the United States.
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Washington
Truman
Capitol Hill
Congress
White House
House
Rep
Doghton
Gre. Ou
Ann and Means Committee
Doughton
Germany
Strong Demand For All Types Of Weed Sparks Higher Prices
Raleigh October 31 A market report shows heavy sales on flue cured tobacco as demand strengthens for all leaf types. Prices rose with several grades up 1 per hundred pounds, the Monday average reaching 45.65, highest of the season, while gross sales totaled 6,881,800 pounds and season total reached 156,769,769 pounds at 42.52 average.
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Raleigh
Matthews dairy man dies from truck fall injuries
H V Davis aged 64 of Matthews died in Charlotte from injuries suffered in a fall from a truck near his home Monday. Funeral services will be held Thursday.
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Charlotte
H. V. Davis
Matthews
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