Nearness Of Hostilities Seen By F R
Congressional investigators heard that the late President Roosevelt warned on November 26 1941 that the next Japanese aggression could trigger U S Japan hostilities. A message read to the Pearl Harbor panel said there were no clear indications of targets but Thailand was seen as probable.
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Washington
Roose
U. S
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Thailand
U.S
Roosevelt
Mandated
Sherman Miles
United States
Britain
Miles
Ferguson
R-Mich
Sen Miles
Cc. Marshall
Army
Senate-House
General Marshall
Hull
Lucas
Gearhart
Japs Gloomy Over Finances Amid War Criminal Probes
Tokyo reports show the diet stewing over heavy tax hikes as 26 suspected war criminals including Prince Morimasa Nashimoto face arrest orders. Finance Minister Izo Shibuzawa notes reimbursements for Manchuria Korea Formosa Sakhalin assets totaling about 110 billion yen. Administrators decry the losses while Prime news outlets describe a growing pressure on government rivals.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Kyodo News
Izo Shibuzawa
Manchuria
China
Korea
Formosa
Sakhalin
Pacific
Kyodo
Diet
Sankichi Takahashi
Asahi
Supreme Headquarters
Morimasa Nashimoto
Imperial Household
Shigeru Yoshida
Headquarters v
Local Weather Forecast for La Crosse Area
Cloudy and cold tonight with a low of 22 degrees. Wednesday will be mostly cloudy and warmer with a high near 38 degrees in the afternoon.
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la Crosse
Dachau trial witnesses allege mistreatment by U S officers
Alfred Kramer testified he was beaten on the head with sticks and rubber hoses until breaking down during questioning. Dr Anton Witteler said Lieut Paul Guth questioned him eight and a half hours under an electric lamp after a day without food, calling him a swine criminal and promising a battalion of SS would pass and spit at him.
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Dachau
Germany
United States
Alfred Kramer
Anton Witteler
Paul C. Guth
Long Island
New York
Witteler
Guth
Child Fatally Wounded by Rifle Discharge in Wisconsin
Richland Center sheriff reports 6 year old Louanne Rockwell died from a .22 caliber rifle discharge while she and her sister played. Parents were milking in the barn. children left home to wash dishes.
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Richland Center
Wis
Ben McLaren
Richland County
Louanne Rockwell
Melvin Rockwell
High Level Employment Bill Approved by House Panel
The house expenditures committee approved a bill to set a federal policy of maintaining a high level of employment. The substitute replaces full employment language with the phrase high level of employment as requested by President Truman.
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Washington
House Expenditures Committee
Truman
McVay Enters Innocent Plea At Court Martial
Captain Charles B. McVay III pleaded not guilty to negligence and inefficiency charges in the Indianapolis disaster. The court heard he was commanding officer on July 30 1945 en route from Guam to Leyte. Prosecution testified submarines were warned and route details included zigzag guidance and a 15 knot speed.
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Washington
Charles B. McVay
Indianapolis
John P. Cady
Guam
Leyte
Capt. McVay
Wilder D. Baker
Capt. Cady
McVay
Joseph J. Waldron
Nazi Leaders Denounced As Killers and Robbers
British prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross branded Hermann Goering Rudolf Hess Joachim von Ribbentrop and 18 others as murderers and robbers responsible for breaking the world's peace and urged the tribunal to apply international law to their aggression. He traced treaty violations and deception from 1933 onward and argued the Nazi plan led to war and atrocity under Hitler.
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Muernberg
Hermann Goering
Rudolf Hess
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hartley Shawcross
United Kingdom
Germany
Britain
Shawcross
Hitler
von Papen
von Neurath
Ribbentrop
Stores Boost Bond Effort in La Crosse Campaign
La Crosse merchants assist in last minute effort to meet the $3,127,000 Victory Loan quota. Clerks wear badges and encourage bond pledges while banners promote bond buying as Christmas gifts. Widely supported by tavern keepers and labor unions to protect the county’s financial record. Bangor leads with $56,137.50 sold against a $37,000 quota. E-bond sales lag but remain above pattern with $1.037 billion sold vs $975 million expected.
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la Crosse
la Crosse County
U. S. Treasury Department
County War Finance Committee
Chamber of Commerce Merchants
Gysbert van Steenwyk
Tavernkeepers’ Association
van Steenwyk
Bangor
Washington
War Finance
Ted R. Gamble
Treasury
War Finance Division
Yamashita Faces Friday Decision On War Crimes Trial
Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita appealed to the US Supreme Court to halt his war crimes trial. The military commission, recessing until Wednesday, planned to decide Friday if Yamashita must face execution for atrocities by Japanese troops. He sought a writ of prohibition and restoration to prisoner of war status under the Geneva convention to appear in Washington for a special hearing.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Military Commission
Yamashita
MacArthur
Philippines
Supreme Court
U S Plans 1550 Calorie Germany Ration Start Jan 1
Lieut General Lucius Clay says the United States will move enough food to Germany to ensure an average 1550 calorie ration for all. The plan begins with the January 1 ration period and will be funded as Germany can pay. Hunger is not an objective of the U S, Clay told German officials in the American zone.
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Miles
Philippines
Hawaii
Panama
West Coast
Marshall
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Lucas
Ill
Walter C. Short
Pearl Harbor
Stuttgart
Germany
United States
Lucious C. Clay
Clay
Tidal Wave Kills Thousands in Karachi Bombay Coast
Reuters dispatch from Karachi says 4,000 people are believed dead and 40,000 homeless as a tidal wave washed away seven villages along the Karachi Bombay coast last Wednesday. Relief workers returning from the scene report widespread devastation.
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London
Reuters
Karachi
India
Karachi-Bombay
Tyler Kent Returns to U S After British Detention
Tyler Kent American diplomat freed from British custody arrives in Hoboken aboard the Silver Oak. He admits taking embassy documents to his apartment to hand to the U S Senate, stating the action aimed at informing the Senate and the public. He dodges specifics about the documents and plan to transmit them.
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Hoboken
N. J
Tyler Kent
Silver Oak
United States Senate
Kent
Senate
United States
Story Invention
Joseph P. Kennedy
London
Berlin
Kennedy
Anna Wolkoff
Navy to put aviators in top posts and form 8th fleet
Secretary Forrestal announced a reorganization to elevate naval aviators to three of six top jobs under the chief of naval operations and create an 8th fleet based in the Atlantic. Admiral Mitscher is slated to command the new fleet, with Towers set to become Pacific commander and Horne to cede the vice chief role to Ramsey. The move ties air power to fleet leadership as the carrier becomes central to the navy.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Naval Operations
John H. Towers
5Th Fleet
Raymond A. Spruance
Pacific
Marc A. Mitscher
Fleet Adm
Ernest J. King
Chester Nimitz
King
Boy Harlan Lair Dies After Thanksgiving Visit
Four year old Harlan Lair of Nilwood Illinois, who Santa Claus visited on Thanksgiving after doctors doubted he would reach Christmas, died Monday from lymphatic leukemia.
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Nilwood, Ill
Harlan Lair
Santa Claus
Soviet Denies Gromyko Opposed Big Three Meeting
Moscow dispatch states the Soviet ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko was not instructed to oppose another Big Three meeting and to evade questions on German occupation, January 1, 1949, or to press for a Far East control council like Berlin.
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Moscow
Tass
France
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
Far East
Berlin
Meat packers strike across 12 plants seeks 25 cent raise
A 1 day work stoppage was ordered by CIO United Packinghouse Workers chief Louis J. Clark affecting about 10 000 employees in Cudahy plants across the nation. The walkout follows a union vote for a strike and demands a 25 cent hourly wage rise. The federal and regional actions span Jersey City Kansas City St Paul Denver Omaha Los Angeles Albany and more with centers in Detroit and Washington amid GM and other labor disputes.
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Cudahy and Co
Louis J. Clark
CIO United Packinghouse Workers
Midwest
Clark
Chicago
Cudahy Company
Cudahy
Jersey City
N. J
Kansas City
Detroit
Washington
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Truman
General Motors
Union
Mobile
Galveston
New Orleans
Houston
Gulf
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Labor measure to be offered in House soon
Washington officials announce a labor bill to carry out President Truman's recommendations on handling labor troubles. Speaker Rayburn says the House plan, likely from Chairman Norton, will include hearings and could be voted on quickly with Senate action pending.
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Washington
House
Trueman
Rayburn
D-Tex
Democratic Party
Ramspeck
Georgia
Norton
D-Nj
House Labor Committee
House Military Committee
May
Senate
Mr. Truman
Congress
GM official hopeful on strike settlement before fact-finder
Washington W W Anderson personnel vice president of General Motors said he hopes the GM strike will be settled before President Truman's fact finding board starts. He disclosed after a meeting with Edgar Warren head of the federal conciliation service that GM and CIO United Auto Workers leaders would confer Wednesday and that general bargaining could resume once illicit picketing is settled.
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Washington
W. W. Anderson
General Motors Corporation
Truman
Anderson
Edgar Warren
Federal Conciliation Service
CIO
United Auto Workers
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