Superfortress Sets New Transcontinental Flight Record
The B-29 Dreamboat set a new transcontinental record from Burbank to New York aided by tailwinds, clocking 5 hours 28 minutes 8 1 5 seconds. Capt. Bruce Hunt noted the official time would be released by Washington, with seven crew members and observers aboard. The flight surpassed the XB 42’s 5 hours 17 minutes 34 seconds by 18 mph, though distance differed.
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Guam
Washington
New York
C. S. Irvine
G. R. Stanley
F. J. Shannon
Burbank
Calif
Bruce Hunt
Air Transport Command
Wac
Army
D. C
Dachau Defendants Convicted in US Military Trial
Forty defendants at Dachau were found guilty by a U S military court of participation in cruelties at the camp. Sentences to be announced Thursday morning. The commander Martin Weiss, camp doctors and SS functionaries were among those convicted.
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Dachau
Germany
U. S
John M. Lentz
Martin Weiss
Landsberg
City considers 126000 offer to remove north side streetcar tracks
The Mississippi Valley Public Service Company offers 126000 to release the city from track removal duties. City engineers say the project would pave bad brick streets with crushed stone and asphalt while the company clears poles and wires. A public hearing will set before January to discuss major street planning and related proposals.
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Mississippi Valley Public Service Company
Common Council
R. M. Howard
The
Ororganization
John Barth
Public Service Company
Sustee Posals
Wisconsin State Planning Board
City Planning Commission
Snow Thursday Forecast Improves Travel Prospects
Forecaster A. D. Sanial predicts light snow and warmer conditions for Thursday with a low around 15 above after a 13 above morning. Western rail traffic delays persist due to severe cold while a southwest storm spawns snow from the Rocky Mountain region toward Nebraska and Kansas, with minimal accumulations so far.
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A. D. Sanial
Sanial
la Crosse
New Mexico
Colorado
Rocky Mountain
Grand Island
Nebra
Wichita
Kans
Nebraska
Mississippi
Missouri
Philippine Congress Called Into Special Session
Manila reports President Sergio Osmena called a new nine day special session of the Philippines Congress for Thursday to address banking rehabilitation as the current session continues debating election procedures.
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Manila
Sergio Osmena
The
Philippines Congress
Ford of Canada rejects UAW CIO plea in security strike
Windsor Ontario Ford Motor Company of Canada announced it had rejected a CIO UAW bid to negotiate and arbitrate all differences in the union security walkout that shut the plant on September 12.
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Windsor
Weather outlook for La Crosse area turns cloudy and warmer
Increasing cloudiness and not so cold tonight with a low of 15 above zero. Occasional light snow and a warmer Thursday with a high near 28.
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la Crosse
GOP Central Committee Members Accused of Violating Practices Act
Milwaukee authorities were asked to halt GOP funds while investigating charges by Lansing Hoyt that Thomas E. Coleman and fellow officers acted as a rump Wisconsin Republican committee. Hoyt alleges lack of proper constitution and illegitimate control over party funds, and questions the right to hire staff and influence Dewey delegates.
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Milwaukee
Goodland
Republican State Executive Committee
Thomas E. Coleman
Lansing Hoyt
Third Ward
Republican Party
Hoyt
Fourth Congressional District
Coleman
C. L. Kolb
G. Co. Town
Lillian Crandall
William J. Tucker
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of
Wisconsin
la Crosse
State Republican Committee
Coleman Committee
Dewey
Condition Of Gen Patton Reported In Good Shape
In Heidelberg Germany a military bulletin says General George S Patton Jr remains in good condition after a serious automobile crash that broke his neck. Mrs Patton visited and expressed optimism saying she was not the least worried and that he looks well. Three top surgeons departed Heidelberg as part of his care at the 7th Army hospital.
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Heidelberg
Germany
George S. Patton, Jr
7Th Army Hospital
Truman Names Fact-Finding Board in GM Strike Case
President Truman appointed a fact finding panel to probe the General Motors strike as the CIO United Auto Workers union pledged cooperation with the inquiry.
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Detroit
Truman
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Truman forms fact finding board to end GM strike
President Truman appointed a fact finding board led by Judge Walter Stacy to resolve the 22 day GM strike and plans another board for the steel industry. The CIO United Steelworkers threaten a Jan 14 strike imperiling 40 percent of the nation's work and car production.
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Truman
General Motors
CIO United Steelworkers Union
Pittsburgh steel strike threat foretold by CIO United Steel workers
The CIO United Steel workers threaten a January 14 strike over pay. The demand is a $2 daily raise for an eight hour day. Present wages for common labor average $6.24 daily, while the typical steel worker earns about $8.96. Union estimates say over 700000 workers in steel aluminum and iron ore could be idled across 766 plants nationwide.
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Pittsburgh
Cio-United Steel Workers
Labor Front Delays Strike Legislation as GM and Auto Workers Standoff Grows
Leaders of CIO United Auto Workers oppose bystanders while nationwide strikes idle about 400,000 workers. Ford meets CIO UAW to discuss a 30 percent wage rise and address wildcat strikes. UAW-CIO appeals for weekly contributions to aid 175,000 GM workers on strike. CIO steelworkers donate 100,000 to the strike fund and rubber workers urge solidarity.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
Cio-Uaw
General Motors
Ford Company
International Uaw-Cio
CIO United Rubber Workers Executive Committee
New York
CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer
Navy Ended Tapping Of Wires Before War
Congressional investigators learned the Navy stopped tapping Japanese consulate telephones in Honolulu five days before Pearl Harbor. The order, said to be issued by Rear Admiral Mayfield, followed by an officer’s anger, and evidence from FBI taps, shaped testimony on the prewar intelligence picture and General Marshall’s August 1941 beliefs.
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Washington
Navy
Honolulu
Pri Stellon
Henry C. Clausen
War Stimson
Senate-House
Pearl Harbor
Clausen
Donald Woodrun
Naval Intelligence Division
Woodrun
Mayfield
Naval District
FBI
George C. Marshall
Pacific
U. S
Marshall
Knox
Tokyo
Manila
Army
Alwin D. Kramer
Rep
Keefe
R-Wis
Jap Leaders Surrendering to Allied War Crimes Suspects
Grim scene at Sugamo Prison as war crimes suspects flood the gates led by Prince Morimasa Nashimoto. Diet members spar over Japan’s sovereignty and resumption of diplomatic relations as Masaharu Homma and others head to Manila for trial. Yamashita pursues appeal while a mass petition seeks clemency from General MacArthur.
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Tokyo
Sugamo
Morimasa Nashimoto
Shigeru Yoshida
Diet
Japan
Masanosuke Ideka
Yoshida
Nashimoto
Imperial House
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Manila
U. S
Philippines
MacArthur
U. S. Supreme Court
Washington
Yamashita
Toichiro Araki
Araki Efficiency
Homma
Police Raid Cigar Store Seizes Gambling Equipment
Police raided the Hub Cigar store at 105 South Third Street at 9 p m Tuesday and seized a roulette wheel two card tables and poker chips. Owner Edward Jones was ordered to appear in county court to answer charges of gambling equipment setup in his establishment.
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South Third Street
Edward Jones
Aaron Sanford
Police Department
Jones
Sanford
Plant Reopens After Minor Fire at La Crosse Mill
La Crosse Rubber Mills will resume production at its Indian Hill plant on Thursday after a temporary suspension caused by a minor flash fire Tuesday. The fire caused little damage though some equipment was water saturated and specific departments will restart in stages beginning at 7 a.m. and ending with packing and stripping by noon.
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la Crosse Rubber Mills Company
Indian Hill
Coffey Seeks Clemency In 1927 La Crosse Slaying
William Coffey of Madison seeks executive clemency for the hammer murder of his wife Hattie in La Crosse. He was sentenced to life in prison on February 4 1927 after authorities say he beat her to death and dismembered the body, burying parts in nine woods near Platteville. Lamb, legal counsel to Gov. Goodland, will hear pleas at the pardon hearings in the state capitol.
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Madison
Wis
William Coffey
Wisconsin
Francis Lamb
Goodland
Coffey
Hattie
la Crosse
Platteville
Lamb
Capitol
Admiral Fitch reports 250 midshipmen ill at Annapolis
Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch superintendent, with 250 midshipmen sick from colds and catarrhal fever, canceled drills and town liberty at the U S Naval Academy. A visitors dormitory in Bancroft Hall was opened as a temporary sick bay as hospital facilities ran over capacity.
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Annapolis
Aubrey W. Fitch
U. S. Naval Academy
Bancroft Hall
Soldier extends service in Japan despite not being assigned overseas
Pfc. Donald E. Drew of Dixon NL signed to three more years in the U S Army with a medical report listing him not qualified for overseas duty. The veteran, after 23 months in Alaska the Central Pacific and Japanese sectors, asked, What am I doing over here? The notice highlights his unanticipated continuation of service in Shikoku, Japan with the 6th Army.
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U. S. 6Th Army
Shikoku
Japan
Donald E. Drew
Dixon
Alaskan
Central Pacific
Nazis Forced 4 Million Conquered Laborers Into Slavery
At the war crimes trial of 21 Nazi leaders American prosecutors charged that more than four million conquered laborers from 14 nationalities were sent to Germany to fuel the war effort. The evidence described a system of murder, starvation, arson, and kidnapping as a deliberate plan to supply workers for war plants and farms.
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Muernberg
Germany
International Military Tribunal
Adolf Hitler
U. S
Thomas J. Dodd
Reich
Dodd
Truman Seeks Price Controls and Housing Priorities
President Truman urged price ceilings on both old and new housing and asked reinstatement of building material priorities aimed at aiding veterans. He announced Wilson W. Wyatt as special housing editor and outlined a three point plan including rapid release of surplus housing, material priorities, and ceilings to curb inflation.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt
Louisville
Office of War Mobilization
White House
John W. Snyder
Office of Price Administration
Mitscher explains headgear not a baseball cap
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher clarified that his Pacific headgear was a regulation cap worn by flying boat pilots to shade the long bill. He spoke before the Michigan Army Ordnance association and received a Detroit Tigers baseball cap as a token.
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Detroit
Marc A. Mitscher
Task Force 58
Michigan Army Ordnance Association
Hillsboro
Wis
Detroit Tiger
More Japs On Trial For Executing Yanks
Four Japanese accused of executing three American flyers on Jaluit atoll in March 1944 go on trial for their lives in Kwajalein. They are tried in the same court where ten others were convicted yesterday for beheading five Americans after a bomber was downed on Mill atoll in the Marshalls, with six of the ten sentenced to hang.
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Kwajalein
Jaluit Atoll
Marshalls
Mill Atoll
Major Leagues OK Unlimited Night Baseball Vote 1946
Chicago reports the major leagues voted Wednesday to permit unlimited night baseball for the 1946 season. The decision removes previous limits and allows clubs to schedule as many night games as they wish.
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Chicago
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