No Clemency For Japanese War Criminals
General MacArthur denied clemency for Japan s 25 top war criminals and ordered the execution of Hideki Tojo and six others. He refused to intervene and said the trial was fair. The seven condemned include Tojo and Doihara with others tied to Nanking and the Pacific war. Date for executions not yet set.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Hideki Tojo
International Military Tribunal
Supreme Court of the United States
MacArthur
Eighth Army
Tojo
Kenji Doihara
Lawrence of
Manchuria
Koki Hirota
Seishiro Itagaki
Heitaro Kimura
Iwane Matsui
Nanking
Akira Muto
Philippines
Walton Walker
Price drop eases push for broad price controls
The October cost of living declined half a percent signaling a potential easing of Truman's demand for standby price controls. Edwin G. Nourse said the dip helps but offered no firm forecast. BLS notes food costs led the drop while overall inflation remains a concern with foreign aid and defense spending under review.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Uary
Edwin G. Nourse
President
BLS
City’s Tax Share Rise From 1947 Totals by $7 368.56
Esther Domke county clerk reports 1948 city share of state and county property taxes will be 7 368 56 higher than 1947. City total climbs from 750 988 56 to 758 356 78 with shifts in state coins, county school tax, soldier relief, social security, and other taxes.
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Esther Domke
Fred Kramer
Labor Leaders Told They Can Defeat Red Propaganda
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas urged CIO delegates in Portland to rely on labor leadership to counter communism worldwide and bridge U S Europe relations. The speech highlighted rising political activity within the CIO and possible plans to mobilize government workers and white collar employees through organizing committees after the convention.
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Douglas
CIO
Portland
Ore
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
America
Europe
Henry Wallace
Dent
Philip Murray
Murray
Eight Michigan deer hunt deaths reported this year
The state records an eighth gun fire fatality as 13 year old Martin Anderson of Reed City dies after self inflicted gunfire while hunting with his brother. A separate fall from a tree kills 49 year old Clare Randolph near Munith while fetching his buck. Robert J. of Champion remains missing in the Ishpeming area as search continues.
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Michigan
Martin Anderson
Reed City
E Boy
Carso
State Conservation Department
Clare Randolph
Munith
Jackson
Anderson
Robert J. A. 16
Champion
Rain and Cloudy Conditions Across U S on Thanksgiving
Forecasts indicate widespread cloudiness and rain in eastern and northern states on Thanksgiving. Snow is expected in parts of the Midwest and northern Rockies while Florida Gulf states and California enjoy milder, sunny conditions.
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U. S
Washington
Midwest
Rockies
Florida
Gulf States
California
Weather Bureau
Michigan
Indiana
Illnois
Great Lakes
United Tes
Plains
Bus Plunge Kills Fourteen in Stockholm Bridge Crash
Stockholm authorities report a bus crash where the vehicle plunged 66 feet into water after breaching a bridge railing. Fourteen people are believed dead and many others injured in the catastrophe.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Weather forecast for La Crosse area turns cloudy with light precipitation
Cloudy tonight and Thursday with occasional rain or snow Thursday. Warmer conditions with low around 30 tonight and high near 38 Thursday.
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la Crosse
Vote Of Confidence For French Cabinet
Parliament in Paris backed Premier Henri Queuille by an unofficial 320 to 0 count as Communist deputies led the opposition. A reversal would have forced the cabinet to resign, but the government remained in office with the confidence vote passing.
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Paris
Henri Queuille
Ora
Queuille
Thanksgiving Day Services Across La Crosse Churches
La Crosse churches plan interdenominational services on Wednesday and Thursday with sermons by Rev. Ray Richardson and Rabbi Abraham Album. Union services at First Congregational feature a carillonic prelude, hymns, readings, and a Harvest Festival sermon. Proceeds support World Service relief work. A Catholic mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral also noted.
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la Crosse
North Side
Caledonia Street Methodist Church
Ray M. Richardson
Calvary Baptist Church
Union
la Crosse Federation of Churches
First Congregational
Rabbi Abraham Album
Raymond Plamadore
Fred Hyslop
Ralph Kuether
Walter F. Huxford
J. Pierce Newell
Mark Andrews
Rayer
Reuben Harry
God
Arch World Service
Holy Name Men
St. Joseph's Cathedral
Gifts to County Road Committees Studied in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin inquiry found highway committees nationwide often receive hospitality from equipment sellers at road schools. Andrew Goetsch testified that meals and gifts were common and not bribes, while salesmen described entertainment as part of sales expense. The investigation into conditions and purchases by county highway committees continues.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Andrew Goetsch
Goetsch
Wisconsin
F. R. Leibrock
Sterling Motors Corp
Milwaukee
M. W. Bennett
Nagle-Hart Tractor and Equipment Company
William Schild
Highway Committee
AFL Seeks Talk On Labor Peace
Cincinnati reports the American Federation of Labor plans talks with the International Association of Machinists the CIO and United Mine Workers to pursue a unified labor movement. President William Green announced after AFL convention actions.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
International Association of Machinists
CIO
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
William Green
AFL
Council To Adopt Budget Tonight
Common council meets at 7 30 p m to set the mill rate and adopt the 1949 budget today. Local officials plan the vote and outline funding priorities for the next fiscal year.
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Common Council
Drought Closes Franklin Lakes Elementary Indefinitely
Franklin Lakes New Jersey, the borough elementary school will stay closed until drought conditions end. The school relies on two wells for water and the board of education made the ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Lakes
N. J
Board of Education
Ruling Upholds Seniority Rule During GE Strike
The NLRB ruled GE could not grant seniority to non-striking workers while denying it to CIO United Electrical strikers. It also allowed GE to remove strikers' vacation and retirement benefits, calling those benefits a form of pay. The decision said seniority governs job priority when layoffs occur and noted Taft Hartley prohibits discrimination against union workers in hire or tenure.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
General Electric Company
CIO
United Electrical Workers
NLRB
Hold Yule Parade Friday
Final details for the Christmas parade in La Crosse by the Jaycees outline a 6:30 p.m. Friday event. Santa leads floats, drum and bugle corps, and storybook characters through south and north side downtown, with Kienah's and Gamble Store as sponsors. Motorists are warned to avoid Main Street between Third Street and 11th Avenue after 5 p.m. to keep the route clear.
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la Crosse Jaycees
Robert Gaumer
Santa
Coulee
Kienah
Gamble Store
Third Street
11Th Avenue
Main Street
Anna Jarvis Dies, Mother's Day Founder
Anna M. Jarvis, the Philadelphia woman whose devotion to her mother sparked national recognition of Mother's Day, died after a long illness at age 84.
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Philadelphia
Anna M. Jarvis
China Aid Dilemmas Weighing on Truman and Marshall
In Washington Chinese Ambassador Wellington Koo urged renewed American aid to Chiang Kai-shek as his government faces a Chinese Communist advance. Officials warn that success for communism could require hundreds of millions more in aid and complicate Japan's postwar recovery, influencing Western defense needs in the Pacific.
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Washington
Wellington Koo
Truman
Koo
White House
Marshall
Truman-Marshall
Key West
Fla
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Ciang
China
United States
State Marshall
Congress
Japan
Pacific
Grain Trade Cut Off From Export Deals
President Truman ordered the Commodity Credit Corporation to continue exporting wheat and corn to Europe under the Marshall plan, reversing an ECA shift toward private traders. Hoffman had planned private handling by Dec 1, with CCC duties paused.
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Washington
Truman
Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
Europe
Paul G. Hoffman
Hoffman
Foreign Aid
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
White House
ECA
CCC
Bandits Stage Daylight Hold Up At Local Finance Office
Kenosha Wisconsin bandits robbed the Household Finance office at 10 30 delivering a bold daylight raid. Two young men entered to apply for a loan pulled guns during forms. One stayed with manager Edward Selner while the other took a gun and accompanied Helen Duskiewicz to a bank for a withdrawal. They left with loot exceeding 2000 dollars after about 45 minutes.
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Kenosha
Wis
Household Finance Company
Edward L. Selner
Selner
Helen Duskiewicz
Miss Duskiewicz
Loan Company
Fear Ship Lost in Atlantic Hopestar Believed Wrecked
The coast guard stated the British freighter Hopestar with 37 crew is believed to have foundered in the Atlantic with few if any survivors remaining.
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New York
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Thanksgiving noon print marks 1948 Christmas season start
The Tribune will publish Thursday at noon due to Thanksgiving observance. Switchboard stays open until 2 p m and classified deadline is 9 30 a m. The Thursday issue also inaugurates the 1948 Christmas season.
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the Tribune
Unlucky Huff Family Prepares For Real Thanksgiving Feast
DEERFIELD Ill four children and two older youths were stricken with infantile paralysis in September. The Huff family plans a large Thanksgiving turkey dinner at home with trimmings. Mrs Luella Huff will prepare the meal and has invited another couple and their two children to join them, as doctors say all six children are now recovering.
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Deerfield
Ill
Huff
Luella Huff
China Reds sweep toward Suchow risks for Nanking and Shanghai
Neutral observers credit Communist forces with pressing Nationalists from Suchow toward Nanking and Shanghai. A Suchow loss could open the capital and path to Shanghai, while Shanghai talked of total war plans. Washington policymakers warn aid costs would surge if China falls to Communists and global tensions rise with Berlin and the U N security council.
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Suchow
Red
Seventh Army
Nanking
Shanghai
China
United States
Truman
Marshall
Congress
Japan
Washington
Breen Accepts Public Apology and $300 Bill
Bobby Breen will pay about $300 to Sawyer and Ashland counties as reimbursement for search expenses after a forced plane landing. Breen issued a public apology for not reporting his whereabouts promptly while authorities and volunteers searched snowy forests.
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Hayward
Wis
Bobby Breen
Breen
Sawyer County
Winslow Davis
Ashland
Kenneth Thompson
Waukesha
Glidden
Dist
Clarence Olson
Ashland County
Thompson
Atty
Davis
Pa Breen
Associated Press
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OPA
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Tientsin-Pukow
By Max Hall
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Berlin
UN Security Council
Russia
Britain
France
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