Ice and Snow Slow Traffic Across East Tennessee Area
Weather and slick roads slow motorists in eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. Kingsport police report no major accidents by noon though several vehicles were left along highways after braking at the wrong time. Wise County Virginia and Hawkins County Tennessee had the worst icing with some travel abandonment and a skidded vehicle outside Hawkins County. A truck crash near Wytheville caused a bus collision with no injuries and a total cost of 33.50. trains run on schedule and bus service is behind slightly. Sheriff Qualls warns motorists to watch the Gate City to Speers Ferry highway for hazards.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kingsport
Wise County
Hawkins County
Tenn
Rotherwood
Church Hil
Hawsina
Geraville Hospital
Clinchfield Railroad
Sherrif E. D Qualls
Scott County
Gate City
Speers Ferry
Virginia State Police
Wetheville
Wytheville
Explosion Ends Lockout At Buenos Aires Stock Exchange
A bomb exploded at the entrance of the Buenos Aires stock exchange two hours after a 72 hour nationwide lockout ended. One police officer was lightly injured by shattered glass. no other casualties reported. Police guarded the area and investigated a cab driver linked to two men seen nearby.
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Havaco No. 8
Welch
W. Va
Buenos Aires
Stock Exchange
Permanent Assembly of Commerce, Industry and Production
Nckout
Kodak reveals Mark 57 gun director for Navy ships
Eastman Kodak announces the Mark 57 gun director using path radar and optical sighting to track enemy planes by night through fog. The device, installed on battleship Massachusetts and cruisers Alaska, uses proximity fuses and a computer relay system called Mark 17 as the brain.
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Hoint Company
Navy
Crusers Alaska and Guard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stark Draper
Johns. Hopkins University
Office of Scientific
France Demands Death Penalty for Nazi Leaders
France presses for the death penalty for 22 Nazi ring leaders and for punishment of hundreds of thousands of terror organization members. Prosecutor Francois de Menthon, wounded veteran, denounces Hitlerism and urges a supreme warning verdict to deter barbarism. He links SS SD SA Gestapo to Nazi crime and says leaders must be criminally declared to allow arrest and punishment.
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Nuernberg
France
Francois de Menthon
Hermann Goering
Miliribunas
de Menthoni
Gestapo
Nazi Germany
de Menthon
No Progress In Electrical Fuss
Three day old strike by 200000 electrical workers in New York and across 16 states leaves wage talks stalled. CIO United Electrical Workers Union and major plants at General Electric Westinghouse and General Motors Electrical division report no resume of negotiations as production remains halted.
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New York
General Electric
Westinghouse
General Motors
CIO United Electrical Workers Union
Wrikouk
Molora
Russia Moves Troops and Families to Kurile Islands
Report says Russia has sent troops with families to the Kurile chain near Siberia for a long stay. Agreement at the Polandoam Conference first sketched occupation. Three options loom for Kuriles include Russo-Japanese treaty, a wartime peace parley, or UN settlement.
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Washington
Russia
Kurile
Siberia
Yamamoto
Pearl Harbor
Kuriles
Werosa
Sea of Okhotsk
Japan
United Nations
U. S
Pacific
Pacific Islands
Patterson warns on demobilization pace and policy
Secretary of War Patterson defended slowing discharge rates to preserve a global U S Army, cautioning that keeping the pace would have left no army by June 4. He cited 3 5 million demobilized in late 1945 and supported Eisenhower’s demobilization plan while flagging possible overseas veterans points and ongoing GI Committee discussions.
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Manila
Patterson
United States
Eisenhower
Philippines
Japan
Korea
Mead Resigns as Kingsport Mead Plant Manager
C B Mead steps down after 12 years at the Mead Corporation Kingsport plant and will pursue personal interests. F W Morris of Chillicothe Ohio is named acting manager arriving recently. Morris, a chemical engineer and 22 year Mead veteran, previously served as technical director at Kingsport and held roles in Chillicothe HQ. He served with War Production Board paper division during WWII.
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Affletala
Mead Corpsion
Wo. F. Morris
Chillicothe
Ohio
Mead Corporation
Kingsport
Mr. Morris
Mead
CG. B. Mead
Washington and Jefferson College
Chililcothe
War Production Board
Mr. Mead
Harriman
Tenn
Morris
Sec. B. Mead
Veterans seek action after GM strike hits ex soldiers
Washington reports a veterans group plans to appeal to Congress over unemployment benefits for veterans affected by the General Motors strike. Omar Bradley upheld a Michigan decision denying benefits to Cody a nonunion worker, saying union activity as gaining agent linked him to the strike. VFW’s Omar B. Ketchum argues amendments needed to protect veterans who lose jobs due to strikes and could impact hundreds of thousands of ex service members.
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Washington
Veterans Organization
Congress
Benefita
General Motors
Omar N. Bradley
Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission
Omar B. Ketchum
Veterans of Foreign Wara
Ketchum
A. C
Cody
Armed Services
Sparkplay
Bradley
Goudy
Faces Clash Over Army Size and Postwar Policy
The article reports on congressional clashes over demobilization and postwar policy. Senator Edwin C. Johnson seeks a 1 006 000 man army by July 1, challenging War Department aims. The Navy faces scrutiny over finishing 37 ships halted after V-J Day. The House Labor Committee weighs continuing federal control of the U S Employment Service through 1947 amid veto battles. The Ways and Means Committee re-examines social security expansion while Fulbright questions the fact finding plan.
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Hower
Capitol Hill
Senate
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Colo
Eli
War Department
Eisenhower
Congress
Navy
House Naval Committee
Sterling Cole
House Labor Committee
Truman
U. S
U.S.E.S
Fulbright D-Arkng
Fulbright
Senate Labor Committee
Bulbright
CIO And Ford Resume Talks
CIO United Auto Workers negotiators and Ford officials resumed contract talks in Detroit but progress toward closing the wage gap was slow. Ford offered 17 percent, rejected by the union, which seeks 19 percent as urged by President Truman. talks focused on company security and productivity with no immediate wage increase.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Company
UAW
Truman
General Motors Corp
Ford
Meat Principals To Meet Today With Labor Sedy
President Truman gives CIO chief Philip Murray and U S Steel head Benjamin Fairless until this afternoon to settle the wage dispute or face a public interest proposal. Talks aim to avert a looming steel strike affecting meat markets and prompt a possible government plan.
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Washington
Truman
CIO
Philip Murray
Benjamin Fairless
U. S
Mr. Truman
White House
Stogather
Charlea G. Fons
Schwellenbach
Ross
Fairless
Murray
Urgen
General Motora Corporation
Uta
White Valls
UNO Control Of Armament Is Proposed
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk proposed full UN control of the world armament industry including bomb factories to the General Assembly. British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin outlined Britain’s plan to place three of its five League mandates under UN trusteeship, with Belgium signaling similar moves for Ruanda and Urandi in East Africa. Belgium’s position was to be declared by M. Van Lankenhove, as Masaryk urged safeguarding humanity from latest weapons.
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London
UNO General Assembly
Jan G. Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Ernest Bevin
Great Britain
Bevin
Britain
League of Nations
United Nations
Ruanda
Urandi
East Africa
Belgium
van Lankenhove
Runanda
Urand
German East Africa
Masaryk
Chinese Government Units Occupy Mukden
Chinese troops occupy Mukden amid sharp exchanges between Communist and government leaders over alleged violations of a Sunday truce. Yenan accuses Chiang Kai-shek of ordering seizures before the ceasefire. government counters say 5,000 Communists seized Yingkow and 40,000 attacked Tajun and Shantung along the railroad.
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C Sty Ne Associates
Mukden
Chiang Wai-shek
National Military
Camcis
Yingkow
Tajun
Shantung
Tlontain-Pulow
Mukdén
Chinese Central News Agency
Soren
Government Holds Meetings On Possible Milk Price Hikes
The government plans hearings in New York and Boston with more sessions planned in major cities under federal milk marketing orders. Dairymen seek higher prices as subsidies end, potentially raising fluid milk by about five cents a quart in spring and summer and three cents in winter, with outcomes dependent on subsidy continuation.
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Washington
New York
Boston
Agriculture Department
Anderson
Department
John C. Collet
Tyne 130
Collet
Truman
Congress
Three Die In Refinery Blast Shocks Midwest town
A massive fire at Midwest Refineries caused seven hours of flames and explosions after a storage tank blast near the cracking plant. Three workers Carl Cramer Harold McRill and Don Winstead died trapped in the blaze. Coroner Dr. Byron Voorhees reported the initial blast during asphalt solvent transfer and estimated damage at $200000. An airplane pilot from Cincinnati described the scene as like a giant bomb.
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Windiny
O.P
Midwest
C. A. Peterson
Carl Cramer
Harold McRil
Don Winstead
Byron Voorhees
Hancock County
Findlay
Carl McVicker
Cincinnati
Street Scene And Valentines In A Busy City
A crowded street scene shows a group of young people exchanging valentines and debating which to give to a friend named Ayaina. Passers by murmur about a dog trapped in a car trunk and pedestrians hurry through a red light to ignore a safety award.
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Ayaina
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