Truman Meets Congress Big Six Discusses Nonpartisan War Issues
President Truman met with the Congressional Big Six for about 50 minutes in the White House. Sen Vandenberg said the talks focused on nonpartisan problems including war surplus disposition and renewal of Maritime Commission shipping authority. The group planned future conferences and did not resolve the Senate War Investigating committee debate.
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Washington
Truman
Vandenberg
R-Mich
White House
Robert Littlejohn
Senate
Maritime Commission
House
Senate War Investigating Committee
Lenate
Martin
R-Mass
Halleck
Ind
Rayburn
Tex
White
Barkley
Taft
Ohio
Mr. Truman
Restrict Visitors To Soviet Ports
The U S navy bars American business men and reporters from ships calling at Russian controlled ports in the Far East under orders from Washington. The move follows the December 24 Dairen incident when a courier vessel carrying a businessman and two reporters was told to leave within 20 minutes. The American consulate official in Shanghai confirmed the order. State Department noted Russians acted within rights due to lack of land clearance.
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New York
U. S. Navy
Far East
New York Work Telegram
Shanghai
William H. Newton
Newton
Navy
Washington
Dairen
James E. McKenna
State Department
Bill to Extend War Excise Taxes Proposed in Congress
Rep Grant of Indiana on the Ways and Means panel introduced a bill to extend wartime excise levies on liquor luggage jewelry and furs with aims to ease future income tax cuts and it moves ahead of other tax bills.
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Washington
Grant
Ind
Ways and Means Committee
London Truck Strike Settled After Delegates Vote
London transport workers end a ten day strike as delegates vote to return to work on Saturday. About 60,000 workers joined or supported the walkout as 22,000 Thames waterfronts and port staff were idle. An eight hour day and overtime pay were offered, and a joint industrial council will consider workers demands.
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London
U.P
London Transport
Transport Union
Joint Industrial Council of Employers and Trade Unions
Arthur Deakin
Transport and General Workers Union
Minister of Labor
Deakin
Thames
Port of London Authority
Two Day Truck Growers Meet Set Next Week
A two day truck crop growers meeting and institute will be held in Racine on Tuesday and Wednesday January 21 22 for Racine and Kenosha counties commercial vegetable producers. The program at the Wisconsin Electric Power building runs 10 a m to 4 30 p m with a noon recess. Sessions feature weed control potato varieties and DDT use in potato spray program plus motion pictures and a lunch with Ashur Hobson discussing Agriculture's Future as I See It.
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Racine
E. V. Ryall
Kenosha
Wisconsin Electric Power Company
Ryall
G. F. Warren
Nelson Hotel
Ashur Hobson
E. A. Polley
O. B. Combs
J. G. Milward
R. K. Chapman
Harold Reinecke
A. R. Albert
R. E. Vaughan
J. Petersen
County School Report Presented by Marion Feuerer
County superintendent Miss Marion G Feuerer released the annual report to the County Board for May 1946 showing 1819 rural and state graded school pupils, with 692 rural and 1127 state graded, plus 191 at Wilmot high. The census lists by township and age 4–20, 34 rural schools with 34 teachers, 18 state graded schools with 46 teachers, three parochial schools, and Wilmot High with 11 teachers. 11 schools suspended in 1945–46. The chief aim stresses in service teacher training, with meetings and supervisory programs to boost strengths and address weaknesses.
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Marion G. Feuerer
Wilmot
Fen
Wilmot High School
High Court Denies Stay of Wisconsin UAW Election
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals denied the United Auto Workers petition to stay the Wisconsin Employment Relations Board election at the Allis Chalmers plant in West Allis. The court refused to hear arguments before January 26 or to delay the election pending them.
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Chicago
U.P
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United Automobile Workers
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Allis-Chalmers Company
West Allis, Wis
Uaw-Cio
Wisconsin Board
Too Much Pay Queer Complaint Of City Official
In Portland four city commissioners complained about pay, three saying the 1946 salary of 5000 was underpaid by cents and one noting the salary bonus. Commissioner Kenneth L. Cooper said the 5000.05 payment placed him in a higher income tax bracket.
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Portland
Ore
Kenneth L. Cooper
Senate panel to probe air travel safety and crashes
Chairman Wallace H. White Jr of the Senate Commerce committee announced a new aviation subcommittee will investigate air travel safety and the causes of recent plane crashes.
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Washington
A.P
Wallace H. White, Jr
Senate Commerce Committee
Wiley Would Sell Congressional Record On Newsstands
Senator Wiley proposes marketing the Congressional Record like a magazine to boost readership. He notes only about 43 000 subscribers mainly libraries and officials and says the record could attract more readers with livelier presentation and humor while preserving its core content.
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Washington
U. S
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Wiley
Future” Stant
Ania
Ford cuts prices in postwar shock to halt cost spiral
Detroit Ford Motor Co slashed prices on Ford models by 15 to 50 dollars in a wartime first. President Henry Ford II framed the move as a shock treatment to curb mounting costs and restore postwar production viability. He said the CIO UAW was advised and expressed hope for continued price reductions and profit in the black.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
General Motors
Chevrolet
Chrysler
Plymouth
Ford
Henry Ford II
Ford Company
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
America
Ford price cut praised as step toward broader reductions
Washington officials welcomed Ford Motor Company price reductions as an encouraging start toward Truman’s call for across the board cuts. Edwin G. Nourse called the move crucial for sustaining high production and employment and cited business agreement in principle with the president’s plea to lower prices to maintain purchasing power.
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Washington
Ford
Truman
Edwin G. Nourse
President
Council of Economic Advisers
Ford Action
Nourse
Mr. Truman
Congress
Mr. Ford
Auriol Elected President of France at Versailles
Paris reports that Vincent Auriol, veteran Socialist leader, was elected president of the fourth republic by the combined national assembly and council of the republic at Versailles. He won about 452 votes while Auguste Champe tiers De Ribes received 242, Jules Gasser 122, and Michel Clemenceau 60. The Communists backed Auriol.
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Paris
Vincent Auriol
Versailles Palance
Auriol
MRP
Auguste Champetier de Ribes
Jules Gasser
Radical Socialists
Michel Clemenceau
Tiger
France
PRL
National Assembly
Council of the Republic
China to Resume Talks with Communists Presented by Chang Chih Chung
The government announced it will resume negotiations with the Communists and selected Gen. Chang Chih Chung, governor of Sinkiang, to present proposals to Communist headquarters at Yenan.
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Nanking
Chang Chih-Chung
Sinkiang Province
Yenan
Polio Caseload Shifted to Orthopedic School in Kenosha
Forty polio cases remain under treatment in Kenosha as the March of Dimes marks 1947. Fifty are treated at the Orthopedic school with thirty five inpatients and ambulatory outpatients. The staff expanded to five physiotherapists under Miss Helen L Frederickson. A whirlpool bath hydro-therapy tank hot packs and new gym equipment aid muscle re building and hydro therapy. Portable cots allow students to rest while attending classes and new adjustable crutches are used. All recuperative polio cases moved from Kenosha hospital to the Orthopedic school.
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March of Dimes
Kenoshans
Helen L. Fredrickson
Kenosha Hospital
Sturgeon Bay Girl Dies In Toboggan Accident
Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin Catherine Magley aged 18 died from injuries after a toboggan she rode crashed into another during a church choir party at Pottawatomi State Park Saturday night.
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Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Catherine Magley
Pottawatomi State Park
Studious Alcatraz Convict Seeks Lessons Back
Richard A. Namer a 34 year old Tennessee bank robber asked a federal court to return his English lessons from Alcatraz prison. Judge Michael J. Roche issued a show cause order to Associate Warden E Miller and Chaplain Byron Eshelman to appear in court February 10.
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San Francisco
Richard A. Namer
Tennessee
Federal District Court
Alcatraz
Michael J. Roche
E. J. Miller
Byron Eshelman
Fifteen Miners Die in Pennsylvania Explosion
An explosion at the Nottingham colliery of Glen Alden Coal Co in Plymouth Pennsylvania killed fifteen miners and injured two others. The blast occurred about 5 30 p m eighty feet below the Susquehanna river. Rescue crews and state mine officials opened an investigation as relatives waited at the tipple.
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Plymouth
U.P
Nottingham
Glen Alden Coal Co
Susquehanna River
State Bureau of Mines
Samuel Reese
Andrew Bolinko
Electronics May Put End To Bad Flying Weather
New York reports that automatic pilot systems using radar television and ground signals aim to land planes in fog and rough weather. The Teleran and related ground controlled approaches are being tested with DC4 airliners and installed at LaGuardia and Washington airports.
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New York
U.P
United Airl
Radio Corpo
Ration of America
LaGuara
Dia
Washington
GCA
Sperry
Co., Inc
Great Neck
N. Y
Arnall Efforts to Enter Georgia Governor Office Blocked
In a pre-dawn seizure cited as a coup, Herman Talmadge and state officers occupy the Georgia executive offices and mansion. Ellis Arnall arrives to find the chambers occupied and is refused entry by secretary Ben Odom. Arnall sets up temporary offices as Talmadge asserts control of the capitol and private offices.
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Georgia
Herman Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge
Ellis Arnall
Eft
Arnall
General Assembly
Talmadge
Atlanta
National Guard
Capitol
State Capitol
Ben Odom
Candler
Odom
Blast Kills Two In Fire Station
Detroit U P says an explosion at Fire Station No 12 injured eight firemen in critical condition. Two were killed and two believed dead as Capt Loren G Farrell reports the blast at 11 47 am wrecked the two story brick station and destroyed the card room kitchen and walls.
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Detroit
U.P
Loren G. Farrell
Charles Parish
Farrell
CIO Union Praises Ford Price Cuts, Keeps Wage Demands
Detroit AP The CIO auto workers union commended Ford Motor for cutting car prices but clarified the reductions do not alter the union’s push for a 23 percent hourly wage increase.
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Detroit
Ford Department
CIO Auto Workers Union Today
Ford Motor Company
Former Queen's Maid Dies in London at 99
The Hon. Frances Mary Drummond longtime maid of honor to Queen Victoria died in London at age 99. She served the queen for 30 years and witnessed the royal court through much of the era.
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London
Frances Mary Drummond
Queen Victoria
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