Atomic Bomb Test At Sea Planned By U S Officials
The United States plans a joint test of atomic bombs against naval vessels with many ships and recording instruments. A separate strategic bombing survey report on German civilian casualties notes fire as the main killer in air raids and about 500000 deaths in German cities. A similar study is underway in Japan. The first phase of the Japan report is due within three months.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Germany
Reich
Maniac Slaying Shocks Chicago Police Probe Frances Brown Murder
Chicago detectives pursue a maniac in the killing of Frances Brown 33 a former Wave stenographer found dead in her Pine Crest hotel room on the north side. Nine people killed in the past week alarm investigators with lipstick message left on wall and entry via fire escape.
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Chicago
Frances Brown
Frank Reynolds
Mist Brown
Pine Crest Hotel
North Side
Lakeview District
Reynolds
Pinesco
Truman Plans Views On Merger Of Army And Navy
President Truman prepares a message to Congress outlining his stance on proposals to merge the army and navy into a single department. Press secretary Charles G. Ross indicated the message would reach Capitol Hill before the Christmas recess, with Eisenhower expected to visit the White House as war department chief of staff.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Army
Navy
Charles G. Ross
Capitol Hill
Gen . D. Eisenhower
White House
War Department
Weather forecast: continued cold with light relief
The report shows clear skies and continued cold across the region with temperatures 8 to 10 below in rural areas. Wednesday should be generally fair with milder conditions and a high near 18 degrees above zero.
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Sally
Car Overturns Leaves Driver Seriously Injured in Coon Valley
T J Smetana of Minneapolis sustained serious head injuries when his sedan left a temporary bridge on US 14 near Coon Valley Wisconsin Monday afternoon. The car rolled over and landed on its top. Patrolman Floyd Potter investigated and Smetana was transported to a La Crosse hospital.
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Coon Valley
Wis
T. J
County Exceeds Quota in Victory Loan Drive
La Crosse county reports bond sales of 4 027 474 with over 2 500 000 bought by industry and business. E bond sales lag at 490 248 or 56 percent of its quota while individual bonds total 1 575 748 at 68 percent. County urges December purchases as Christmas gifts to push past top targets. West Salem surpasses its quota of 53 000 with 62 778 50 in sales, Bangor also over its initial goal. National totals show 17 207 000 000 in Victory loan sales, 156.4 percent of 11 billion goal, with corporate and individual contributions and E bonds at 65.5 percent of the 2 billion E quota.
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la Crosse County
Gysbert van Steenwyk
County War Finance
van Steenwyk
West Salem
Bangor
Washington
War Finance Division
Treasury Department
Steel Strike Set For Jan 14
The CIO United Steelworkers wage police committee adopted a resolution calling for a steel strike on January 14 at 12:01 a.m. More than 400,000 workers nationwide voted by secret ballot to strike for self protection. The committee condemned President Truman’s labor legislation and rejected a fact finding board as unnecessary.
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Pittsburgh
Cio-United Steel Workers Wage Police Committee
Truman
Ford Studies Union Plan To Curb Strikes
Ford Motor Co. studied a CIO UAW plan to curb unauthorized strikes and prepared wage talks set for Wednesday. The union proposed “company security” against wildcat actions, while Ford rejected a 30 percent wage hike demand amid ongoing General Motors strike activity.
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Ford Motor Company
Automotive
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
Uawcio
I U A W CIO Urges $1 Strike Fund Drive For GM
Detroit report says the International United Automobile Workers union declares the GM strike will be lengthy and asks members to donate at least $1 to a special international strike fund. The drive begins December 15 as the I gave to win day and ends with the strike’s end, the union notes.
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Detroit
International United Automobile Workers Union
CIO
General Motors
Labor turmoil widens as GM ends contract talks
The dispute affects over 200000 workers, half of about 400000 idled nationwide. GM terminates its contract with the union while negotiations resume. CIO unions weigh nationwide action with steel and utilities facing potential strikes. in Janesville 400 to 500 office workers return to strike bound Chevrolet and Fisher plants amid management assurances.
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Ing
General Motors
C. E. Wilson
CIO
Pittsburgh
CIO United Steelworkers
New York
Western Electric Employer Association
Western Electric
New Jersey
Janesville
Wis
Uaw-Cio
Chevrolet
Fisher Body
National General Motors
Truman Urges Drive On Juvenile Delinquency
President Truman urged a nationwide crime prevention drive focused on root causes of juvenile delinquency. In a message read to over 700 delegates of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Miami Beach he called delinquency the most alarming issue for law enforcement and urged active action now.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Truman
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Lord Haw Haw Joyce Appeal Arguments Concluded
Counsel for William Joyce completed their case in the House of Lords on Tuesday as the appeal from a treason sentence nears final stages. The prosecution was set to present its case on Wednesday.
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London
William
Lord
Haw Haw
Joyce
House of Lords
Germans Developed World's Deadliest Poison Gas
Senate hearing reveals Col. Bernard Bernstein states I G Farben official in Wuppertal Elberfeld created the deadliest poison gas. Tests began on monkeys, moved to humans, and later used to exterminate groups in camps such as Auschwitz. Evidence links German war aims and cartel tech transfers with prewar German industry.
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Washington
Germany
Bernard Bernstein
U. S
Senate
Kilgore
D-W Va
I. G. Farben
Wuppertal-Elberfeld
I. G
Farben
Auschwitz
Continued Cold Forecast With Snow Flurries End
Weather report notes subzero cold in the city with five below expected Wednesday morning. Snow flurries ended last night and no snow is likely tomorrow. River ice thickens at two inches, while the cold wave shifts southward into Georgia and the Carolinas. High pressure centers over northern Minnesota and southern Manitoba.
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A. D. Sanial
Sanial
Georgia
Carolinas
Texas
Minnesota
Dakotas
Manitoba
Labor Bill Test Near House Panel Rejects Strike-Prevention Plan
The House Military Committee refused to approve the administration strike-prevention bill as an amendment to repeal the War Labor Disputes Act. In executive session the panel voted about 10 to 8, blocking amendments not proposed by the military group. The bill would create fact finding boards to handle major labor disputes and ban strikes during a period while boards operate.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Military Committee
House Labor Committee
Rules Committee
Legis
Ste Congress
U S Claims Reparations From Japan for Philippines
Manila reports United States will seek reparations from Japan on behalf of the Philippines after talks with U S high commissioner Paul V McNutt Edwin W Pauley President Osmena and local business leaders. Officials say the Philippines need most everything.
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Manila
United States
Japan
Philippines
Aul V. McNutt
U. S
Islands
Edwin W. Pauley
Allied Reparations Commission
Sergio Osmena
Pauley
Mcutt
Abductions by Germans Told at War Crimes Trial
Evidence presented at the war crimes trial details German kidnapings of ten year old Russian children for slave labor in Nazi war factories as part of extermination through work. Prosecutor Dodd says Alfred Rosenberg approved the policy. The session included a screening of a documentary film titled The Nazi Plan, depicting Nazi rise and aggression.
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Muernberg
U. S
Thomas J. Dodd
Alfred Rosenberg
Gestapo
Germany
International Military Tribunal
Hitler
Berlin
Hermann Goering
Britain
Neville Chamberlain
France
Edouard Daladier
Munich
Czech Sudetenland
Horst Wessel
Wilhelm Keitel
Rudolf Hess
Code-Cracking Withheld From Army's Board
Gen. George C. Marshall testified that his deputy ordered code cracking secrets to be withheld from the Army Pearl Harbor board. He said the decision was made by Lieut. Gen. Joseph McNarney, with staff urged not to discuss the magic messages.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army Board
Pearl Harbor
Marshall
Joint
Congressional
Joseph McNarney
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ferguson
R-Mich
Tokyo
Patton Improving in Heidelberg After Neck Fracture
General George S. Patton Jr. shows gradual improvement from a fractured neck as his wife Patton arrives in Heidelberg. A hospital bulletin reports stable vital signs, cautious progress, and a blood transfusion following the crash near Mannheim. Col. Spurling accompanies Mrs Patton amid travel from Marseille.
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Heidelberg
Germany
George S. Patton, Jr
United
130Th Station Hospital
Patton
U. S. 15Th Army
Corp
Salvatore di Bernado
Port Chester
N. Y
130Th Station
Marseille
75 Cents Per Pound Sets Wisconsin Tobacco Record
Wisconsin tobacco buyers drive prices higher after lifting the OPA ceiling. James Napier of New York purchased wrappers at 75 cents per pound and stemming at 30 cents in Ferryville, as state growers near $18 million in potential earnings with acres rising from 19,800 to 23,100.
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Vernon
Crawford Counties
Ferryville
Wis
James Napier
New York
Charles Sandborn
Rush Creek
G. C. Lucey
Napier
Meyer and Mendelsohn, Inc
Connecticut Tobacco
OPA
Vernon County
Triple A
Wisconsin
Lucey
Sandborn
Crawford County
Madison
Pi— Wise Consin
Crop Reporting Service
State
Federal Departments of Agriculture
Thousands To Receive Medals For Underground Railway Job
The U S army disclosed the wartime underground railway helped about 5 000 Allied airmen reach safety over routes to the Spanish Pyrenees and Britain. Britain will award similar honors. The network spanned German occupied Europe with extensive French assistance, while names of rescuers and those aided remain confidential.
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Paris
United States
Britain
U. S
Army
Bureau of Research
France
Spanish
Pyrenees
Freedom
England
Small-Fry Jap War Criminals Face Trial
In Tokyo the first of 300 minor Japanese charged with atrocities against Allied prisoners will face trial on December 18 under a sped up schedule. The date for former wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to stand before the Allied tribunal was not yet determined.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
May Not Call Jap Officer To Testify In Court Martial
The judge advocate in Capt. Charles V. McVay III’s court martial debated calling Japanese submarine commander Ike Hashimoto as a witness for the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Hashimoto, commander of sub I 58, was flown from Japan after four hours of questioning, and his credibility remains undecided. he is held at the Washington navy yard and not a prisoner of war, but treated similarly for practical purposes.
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Washington
Charles V. McVay
Indianapolis
Ike Hashimoto
Japan
Thomas J. Ryan, Jr
Ryan
Arabs object to U S interference in Palestine
A Palestine Arab committee said the United States has no right to meddle in the Palestine issue, calling it a matter for Britain and Palestine alone. Viscount Samuel, Palestine's first high commissioner, urged reopening Palestine to Jewish immigration and disputed claims of overpopulation and Arab displacement. He argued Jewish development could proceed without harming Arabs and could double or triple the population.
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Cairo
Palestine
United States
Britain
London
Viscount Samuel
House of Lords
O Connor Reappointed National Red Cross Chairman
President Truman reappointed Basil O Connor of New York as national chairman of the American Red Cross.
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Washington
Truman
Basil O’connor
New York
American Red Cross
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