House Already Has 18 Bills to Benefit Veterans
Congress rushes to fund veterans programs as 18 of 157 House bills seek benefits for ex soldiers. Proposals include a soldier bonus, early cashing of terminal leave bonds, expanded educational aid, and broader on the job training support. Leaders like Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers push to raise aid limits and extend GI Bill provisions while bond redemption could total billions.
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Washington
Congress
House
Edith Nourse Rogers
R Mass
House Veterans Committee
Rogers
Rep
Patman
Tex
McCormack
Mass
Fred M. Vinson
The
United States
Clay to Head Army in Europe
Washington announces Lieut. Gen. Lucius D. Clay named commanding general of United States forces in Europe succeeding Gen. Joseph T. McNarney. McNarney joins the UN military staff as senior representative. Gen. Mark W. Clark takes Sixth Army command in San Francisco and becomes commander in chief in Austria. Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes shifts to Austria as Clark deputy. Clay also becomes commander in chief of U S forces of occupation in Germany.
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Washington
War Department
Lucius D. Clay
United States
Europe
Joseph T. McNarney
McNarney
United Nations
George C. Kenney
Mark W. Clark
Sixth Army
San Francisco
Calif
Joseph W. Stilwell
Clark
U. S
Austria
Geoffrey Keyes
Third Army
Germany
Byrnes
Clay
Four Die in Harlem Tenement Fire
A four alarm blaze in a five story Harlem tenement killed four, injured eight, and rescued about fifty occupants. The fire started from a basement short circuit and spread up the dumb waiter shaft, damaging the fourth and fifth floors.
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New York
Harlem
Goodland Begins Third Term As Wisconsin Governor
Walter S. Goodland, at 84 the oldest U S governor, starts a final two year term in Wisconsin with a simple inauguration. Chief Justice Marvin Rosenberry administers the oath and urges national unity for peace, while state officers Rennebaum Zimmer man Martin and Smith begin second to fifth terms.
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Madison
Wis
J.P
Walter S. Goodland
Wisconsin
Goodland
Marvin Rosenberry
State Supreme Court
Rosenberry
United States
Oscar Rennebaum
Fred R. Zimmerman
John Martin
John Smith
RCA traffic chief Gordon Riley dies at 48
Gordon E. Riley of Camden New Jersey general traffic manager for the Radio Corporation of America died Sunday at age 48.
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Chicago
Gordon E. Riley
Camden
N. J
Radio Corporation of America
Kenosha Post Office Sets 1946 Postal Receipts Record
Postmaster A C Grosvenor announces Kenosha’s 1946 postal receipts reached 402 197 14, a new all time high by about 30 000 over 1945. He notes the war period helped raise totals and sees possible population growth implied by the rise.
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Kenosha
A. C. Grosvenor
Grosvenor
Iceberg Twice Stadium Size Misses Byrd Expedition Ships
A monster iceberg, as large as Yankee Stadium, threatened Byrd expedition ships the Yancey and Merrick for hours before veering away. The Northwind icebreaker towed the Sennett as bad weather hampered search for a missing nine-man seaplane crew led by Capt. Henry Caldwell. Capt. George Dufek commanded the eastern task group as the Pine Island rescue plane returned with no contact.
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U.S.S. Mt. Olympus
Byrd Expedition
Yankee Stadium
Yancey
Merrick
Northwind
Sennett
Ern
Mariner
Antarctic
Henry Howard Caldwell
Pine Island
George J. Dufek F
Rockford
Ill
Thurston Peninsula
Roosevelt
Bellinghausen
Four-Point Labor Plan Highlights President's Message to Congress
One casualty occurred in 14 traffic accidents in Kenosha over the weekend police reported. Multiple drivers including William Mowrey Racine suffered minor injuries and property damage in collisions on Sheridan road Seventy fifth street Thirty third avenue and surrounding streets.
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Congress
Kenosha
William Mowrey
Racine
Sheridan Road
Zygmund Raczkowski
Fifty-sixth Street
Thomas King
George Hartung
Mowrey
Raczkowski Auto
Raczkowski
Seventy Fifth Street
Ronald McCormick
Thirty-second Avenue
Thirty-third Avenue
Thomas Thompson
McCormick
Thompson
Homer Williams
Gllda Packard
Sixty-fifth Street
Harry Reith
Earl Mundt
Seventieth Street
Reith
Mundt
Louis Blood
Royce Greisen
Fifty-fifth Street
John McEvoy
Eleventh Avenue
Anthony Carelli
Thirty-fifth Avenue
Dahl
Thirtieth Avenue
Edward C. Blank
Richard Johnson
Twenty-ninth Avenue
Johnson
Blank
President Faces Fight on Excise Tax Continuation
President Truman vows a balanced budget with a small surplus for 1947–48 and favors continuing war excise taxes to raise about 1.5 billion dollars. House Republicans push for immediate 10–20 percent income tax cuts and rapid excise reductions, risking business stagnation and revenue loss. Knutson plans prompt action on a concurrent resolution to enact cuts. Halleck sees limited opposition to the income tax cut.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
House
State of the Union
Congress
Harold Knutson
Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Knutson
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Dte
U S Seeks Free Port Status for Dairen After Incident
The United States deplores the situation at Dairen Manchuria as Soviet forces ordered an American cruiser to leave. Washington asks the Soviet and Chinese governments to establish a free port under Chinese administration and to implement the 1945 Soviet Chinese agreement. State notes were made public but do not mention the naval incident.
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Washington
U.S
United States
Dairen
Manchuria
U. S
Scripps - Howard
William H. Newton
World Press
Socony- Vacuum Oil Co
State Department
Allis-Chalmers Strikers Postpone Demonstration
Milwaukee CIO United Automobile Workers postpone a demonstration at the Allis-Chalmers farm equipment plant planned for tomorrow morning. They warn that the next strike rally could occur with no advance notice.
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Milwaukee
Wis
U.P
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Allis-Chalmers
Five Dead in East Coast Plane Crashes Amid Snowstorm
A blizzard and freezing rain caused three plane crashes along the East Coast last night. In Carmel New Jersey a Nationwide Air Transport plane crash killed the co pilot and two passengers and injured nineteen others. A small private craft from Mt Pleasant Michigan to Florida crashed in Scott county Virginia killing its two occupants. At Jones Beach a Line American Airlines jet made a crash landing near the water injuring only two crew members while most passengers escaped unharmed. The storm blanketed an area about 250 miles from New York. Passengers and crew fought a small fire and the fuselage remained intact except for a torn left wing and crumpled nose. The Los Angeles bound plane had five minutes of fuel left when it turned back to New York and landed at Jones Beach.
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Carmel
N. J
Nationwide Air Transport Service, Inc
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Florida
Scott County
Jones Beach
New York
Weather Bureau
Los Angeles
Washington
China Orders Suspension of All Commercial Flights
Shanghai reports a government order suspending all Chinese commercial flights after a transport plane crash near Tsingtao killed 42 aboard, including three Americans. Relatives of 71 people react to the tragedy as authorities investigate the incident.
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Shanghai
China
Tsingtao
Bilbo to Undergo Second Operation in New Orleans
Senator Elect Theodore Bilbo and attorney Forrest Jackson travel to New Orleans in Bilbo’s 1946 Cadillac for a second operation to remove cancerous tissue from his lower jaw. Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane University will prepare him for the procedure after a prior operation last summer.
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Washington
U.P
Theodore G. Bilbo
Miss
New Orleans
Senate
Bilbo
Forrest Jackson
Alton Oschner
Tulane University School of Surgery
Nash Resumes Manufacturing After Shutdown
Nash Motors restarts plant operations after a weeklong shutdown caused by a steel shortage linked to the coal strike. Harold E. Long cites the Seaman body plant closure in Milwaukee for halted auto production in Kenosha. Mason pledges higher Nash Kelvinator output in 1947 amid expanded facilities and revamped distribution.
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Nash Motors
Seaman Body
Milwaukee
Harold E. Long
Kenosha
George W. Mason
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
Nash Automobiles
Kelvinator
Mason
Nash-Kelvinator
Nash
Kelvinator Division
Ward Paper inaugurates new research program at Merrill plant
The Ward Paper company of Merrill Wisconsin announced a development program at its focal plant with R A Diehm of Chicago named as new technical director.
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Merrill
Wis
Ward Paper Company
R. A. Diehm
Chicago
Truman's Major Recommendations To Congress
President Truman outlines domestic economy measures to hold price lines and curb wage demands. He calls for compulsory arbitration, labor reform, balanced 1948 budget, continued wartime taxes, and curbs on industrial power, plus housing, agriculture expansion, national defense merger, health insurance, veterans' program tweaks, civil rights, natural resources growth, foreign peace efforts, displaced persons relief, free world trade, and peaceful atomic energy under international control.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Congress
Truman Warns Against Adopting Punitive Labor Laws
President Truman urged Congress to pass a four point labor program to curb strikes and protect the economy. He proposed outlawing jurisdictional strikes, restricting secondary boycotts, creating arbitration for unsettled bargaining disputes, and forming a temporary joint commission to study labor relations by March 15. He warned against punitive legislation and stressed working together despite disagreements.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
House
Labor Department
Mr. Truman
Republican Congress
GOP Critics Say Truman Labor Plan Lacks Depth
Republican leaders and several congressmen criticize President Truman's labor proposals as inadequate despite a generally positive reception. Figures like Reps. Hoffman Landis McConnell Case and Sen. Taft note partial alignment with the Case bill but argue major differences and limits remain.
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Washington
U.P
New Congress
President Truman
Mr. Truman
Clare E. Hoffman
Mich
Gerald W. Landis
Ind
Samuel K. McConnell
Francis Case
S. D
Truman
Robert A. Taft
Senate Labor and
Republican
GOP
Chinese police seal Soviet radio station XRVN in Shanghai
Chinese police closed and sealed the Soviet radio station XRVN the voice of the Soviet Union under a new rule shutting foreign radio transmissions in China. XMHA American owned operated station remained active and officials did not indicate plans to seal it. broader effects on foreign enterprises expected.
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Shanghai
XRVN
Voice
Soviet Union
China
XMHA
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