Nazi Leaders Testify On Executions At War Crimes Trial
The International Military Tribunal heard affidavits stating Ernst Kaltenbrunner and other Nazi leaders ordered executions of Allied servicemen in Slovakia and at Mauthausen. An interpreter testified Lt Yuri ordered the death of U S Marine Pvt James Pavlokes amid torture, while Admiral Stark discussed a prewar Pearl Harbor warning and how it was handled.
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Hitler
Internasional Minisry Tribunal
Ernst Kaitenorunner
Gesapo
Security Police
Joseph Morton
Associated Press
Morton
Office of Strategic Services
Slovakia
Naltenbrunner
Adolph Butler Agjutan
Mauthausen
Blovakia
Zutter
Standarten Fuehrer
Zeirein
Kaltenbrunner
Iatel
Insé Morton
Piomka
Bratislava
Linz
Austria
Kalten- Runner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ziereis
Wakanaamaa
Kel Yuri
Omuta
James Pavickos
Paviakos
Chicago
Harakichi Ot
Salinas
Calif
Yuri
Heard
Isid Pavlokos
Paviokoa
Pavlokes
Navy
Pavlokos
Murac
James Pavioken
Army
Siam Signs Treaty On Trade And Security Role
Siam pledges participation in tin, rubber and rice control schemes under a three power treaty with Great Britain and India. Siam agrees to UN Southeast Asia security measures and to restore prewar navigation and air services accords. Britain and India back Siam for UN membership. Siam commits to exporting up to 1 500 000 tons of surplus tin and to cooperate on future UN tin and rubber deals.
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Ingeapore
Siamese
Siam
Great Britain
India
United Nations
Fnr
Southeast Asia
Burma
Maseized
Japan
Britain
United Nations Organization
Fiee
Sha
Street Scene After Holidays Distracts Drivers and Pedestrians
Street scene shows children walking home from holiday break on New Year’s Day as pedestrians ignore traffic rules, crossing mid blocks and darting from behind cars. Vision recalls a blizzard’s aftermath with battered straw and a sense spring is uncertain.
Merger Foes Quote MacArthur In Arguments
Congressional opponents cite Gen. MacArthur's 1932 warning that Army Navy unification could bring disaster. Vinson says MacArthur’s past stance should not derail today’s plan as hearings approach and MacArthur may testify.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Committee
MacArthur
Senate Military Committee
Foo Vingon
Truman
Army
Ihe
Navy
Department For
National Defense
House Expenditures Committee
Vinson
Azeema
United States
Aix
Pago
Ethridge Speaks On Balkan Trip
Louisville publisher Mark Ethridge, in his first public remarks from a Balkans trip as a representative of President Truman, said that Serbia and Romania show governments veering toward democracy due to American intervention. He spoke at Louisville’s New Year’s meeting of the Board of Trade with Byrnes’s approval.
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Louisville
Bulseria
Rumania
Mark Ethridge
Balkans
Truman
Louisville Board of ‘Trade
Ethridge
James Byrnes
Mother and Baby Killed In Wreck Near Blaney
A Seaboard Air Line fast train, the East Coast Silver Meteor from New York to Florida, derailed two miles north of Blaney, S C at 1 15 am killing a mother Helen Wilson 22 and her four month old daughter. Alonzo H. Wilson of Williamson WV, husband of the deceased, reported the fatalities while several others were injured. The wreck involved the coach baggage car and six sleeping cars.
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Blaney
S. C
Seaboard Air Line
New York
Compromise Ends French Regime Defense Budget Standoff
Paris reports a government crisis climaxing as President De Gaulle won a compromise in the constituent assembly. The measure authorizes 39,020,000,000 francs for national defense in Q1 1946 with a Feb 15 deadline for a reorganization plan, or face a 20 percent automatic cut on Feb 28.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Alashea
Constituent Assembly
Hirohito Moves To Boldly Hold Throne In Renunciation
The Emperor Hirohito issues a New Year rescript denying divinity and signaling a political role amid occupation influence. General MacArthur lauds the move as a step toward democratization, while court officials acted without prompt prompting. The change shocks some but reflects shifting public psychology and support.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
MacArthur
Hirejiro
al-' Ned
No Change Made In Prepaid Tax Interest 1946
The Kingaport city board kept the prepaid tax interest rate at 3 percent for 1946, reporting $70,000 prepaid taxes in 1945 and $1,300 paid in interest. City treasurer J. R. Packtal announced plans to advertise bids for an annual audit and a new ordinance designates Sullivan County Bank as city depository. An investigating committee reported favorably on a taxi business permit request on Cherokee Street.
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J. R. Packtal
I. M. Fuller
J. Ben -Ron
Mr. Pecktal
Sullivan County Bank
Karl Goerdel
Charles Still
Harold Wallen
Cherokee Street
Bee City Board
Holiday Death Toll In U S Passes 500 Mark
A national survey records 528 violent deaths over the New Year holiday period from Friday evening to Tuesday midnight. Traffic fatalities total 247, with 231 other violent deaths from plane and train crashes, shootings, drownings, fires, and related causes. States with no violent deaths include Delaware, Mississippi, Rhode Island, North and South Dakota, and Vermont.
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National Safety Council
Delaware
Mississippi
Rhode Island
North
South Dakota
Vermont
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
Texas
New York
Illinois
Chicago
Suburbs
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Final Figures On Victory Loan in Kingsport
Kingsport War Finance Committee reports final Victory Loan figures. Individual and corporate quotas exceeded. E bond sales reached 445,140.75 dollars against 400,000 quota. Corporate purchases totaled 2,247,244 dollars versus 1,100,000 quota. Overall 1,602,384.75 dollars against 1,500,000 quota. Final purchases include 4,593.75 dollars for Saturday and 12,337.50 dollars for Monday.
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Triva
Kingsport
Kingsport War Finance Committee
Hitler Prophesied His Spirit To Rise From Grave
A long secret letter by Joachim von Ribbentrop to Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden describes Hitler predicting his spirit would rise from the grave and that the world would see he had been right. The missive, written before his capture, portrays him as hoping to reconcile with Britain and viewing the war as a clash of world concepts.
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Nuernperg
Germany
Hitler
Fuehrer
Joachim van Ribbentrop
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Hamburg
von Ribbentrop
Fuehrer G
Great Britain
United States
von¢ Ribbentrop
Britain
Government Shifts to Strike Threat Over Steel Wages
Washington planned positive action today on a strike threat by 200000 electrical workers while awaiting the steel wage dispute panel. Conciliation Chief Edgar Warren urged talks with GE and Westinghouse after delayed sessions. The CIO United Electrical Workers said a strike was inevitable if talks failed. a January 14 steelworkers deadline loomed. President Truman named a three-man fact finding panel for the steel dispute with Nathan P. Feuerstein as a member.
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Washington
Steal
Edgar Warren
Weslings House
General Electric Companies
Cio-United Electrical Workers
Warren
Westinghouse
CIO
Truman Monday
War Labor Board
U S Should See That Farmer Gets Leaf Price Reece
Johnson City Tennessee Congressman B Carroll Reece urges federal action to guarantee fair tobacco prices. He says government fixed barley tobacco price floors, must protect farmers and consumers with ceilings and stop price raiding. He aims to prevent further burley price declines, noting a seven cent drop in early season sales.
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Johnson City
Tenn
B. Carroll Reece
Tennessee
Reece
Patterson Says MacArthur Informed On Occupation Decisions
Secretary of War Patterson told reporters that General MacArthur receives all information possible regarding Allied occupation policies for Japan, though he need not be consulted in advance. He noted MacArthur has no voice in making foreign policies, referencing the Moscow conference and Allied council.
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MacArthur
Japan
Patterson
Moscow
Steel Price Boost May Not Prevent Strike
Washington officials say little chance any price rise allowed by OPA would fuel a steel wage boost demand from CIO United Steel Workers. Truman named a fact finding board to report by Feb 10 on whether steel price increases are warranted, as a strike is set for January 14. The industry seeks a $7 per ton overall rise, with an extra $2.30 per ton for current operations, while wage policy delays price hikes.
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Washington
OPA
CIO
United Steel Workers
Truman
Truman Returns To White House With Two Speeches Ready
President Truman arrived in Washington from a cruise aboard the Williamsburgh to deliver his legislative program directly to the nation by radio and television. He will speak on radio networks at 10 p.m. EST tomorrow and address Congress in person on January 15 with a televised Presidential Message. White House aides described the Thursday night speech as an overall report to the nation. AT&T released the January 15 date after Congress reconvenes.
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Washington
Williamsburg
Navy Yard
White House
Trumanapeska
Congress
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Truman
Limited Auto Production Restarts in Half Nation Plants
Nationwide restart begins as half the factories resume output for 1946 model passenger autos. GM lines remain strikebound, while Ford Canada, Studebaker, and Willys Overland resume with supplies from parts makers. Packard stays closed due to shortages. overall January output potential around 100,000 vehicles if GM strike ends soon.
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Detroit
General Motors
Chrysler and Hudson
Studebaker
Willys-Overland
Windsor
Ont
Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd
Toat
Planta
Packard
China to Take Over Jehol Area as Central Government Moves
Chinese cabinet spokesman P H Chang said Beijing intends to assume control of Jehol as a matter of course and dispatches administrative staff after National troops moved into inner Mongolian province. He claimed no Communist troops were in Jehol before Japan's collapse and rejected claims of a democratic Red rule. The government awaits the Communist reply to its truce counter proposal amid civil strife.
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Chungking
P. H. Chang
China
Jehol
Naional
Jebel
Japan
Chang
Reda
Central Execut
Sona
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Harold R. Stark
Pearl Harbor
Stark
Senate House
Honolulu
Naval Operations
Naval Intelligence
Saaid
Navy Department
Wiliam D. Mitchell
Drancy
France
Red Cross
Kingaport
U. S
America
U.S
South Bend
Ind
Stutebaker
Toledo
Wilys-Overland
Jeep
Charles E. Sorensen
Sar
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