Fair Employment Practice Law Urged by Tobin
Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin urged a fair employment practice law to bar job discrimination and supported returning the mediation service to the Labor Department. He backed a “one-package” approach to labor reform, calling for Taft Hartley repeal and Wagoner act reenactment to serve the public interest.
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Charles H.herrold
United Press
Washington
Secretary of
Maurice J. Tobin
Federal Mediation Service
Labor Department
Congress
Labor Committee
House
Senate
Truman
South
FEPC
Tobin
Mediation Service
Cyrus Ching
Labor
Ching
Boston
Massachusetts
British Novelist Declares End Of Money Writing
W. Somerset Maugham, the British novelist, told reporters in San Francisco on January 15 that he is finished writing novels for money. He said he will become an essayist from now on, writing what pleases him as a labor of love and likely to amuse few others.
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San Francisco
W. Somerset Maugham
Maugham
Newsmen
One Legged Pickpocket Used Leg as Loot Vault
A one legged pickpocket in Tokyo was found to be using his hollow artificial leg as a vault for stolen goods. The odd concealment was discovered January 15 in a city area investigation.
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Tokyo
Inaugural Invitation Mixup Sets Washington Stir
Washington headlines tell of a London vegetable stallman Arnold Walker receiving inaugural invitations by mistake. Officials traced them to an export import executive with the same name and later confirmed the mixup was resolved. Officials warn many souvenir invitations are not actual entry tickets.
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Washington
Truman Inaugural Committee
London
Arnold Walker
United States
Melvin Hildreth
Hildreth
Mr. Walker
Covent Garden
Pennsylvania Avenue
Second Battalion 143rd Infantry Cited for Outstanding Duty
The Adjutant General’s Department announced a U S Army citation for the Second Battalion 143rd Infantry Regiment Texas National Guard at Houston. The unit is commended for exceptional performance in December 1944 in France near Mount De Sigolsheim and Frie Boux, where it captured key terrain and repulsed five enemy counterattacks.
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Austin
Jan
U.P
Adjutant General's Department
United States Army
Texas National Guard
Houston
Mount de Sigolsheim
Frie Boux
France
Dallas Symphony Board Confirms Season Will End As Planned
The Dallas symphony board stated the orchestra will finish its current season as scheduled, rejecting reports it might shorten the season due to finances. No decision was made on a new conductor to replace Antal Dorati. Walter Hendl was recommended as a successor and a formal choice could come within a week.
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Dallas
Dallas Symphony Board of Directors
Antal Dorati
Dmitri Mitropoulos
Likely notice precedes February membership meeting
An announcement appeared ahead of the annual membership meeting held in February, signaling upcoming proceedings and potential agenda items. The teaser implies preparation and community involvement surrounding the event.
Jurist Guilty Of Tax Evasion
Circuit Judge Emory E. Smith was found guilty by a jury of income tax evasion in a federal case. He faced sentencing in Kansas City on January 29 after the jury acquitted him on most counts, with one count convicting him for failing to report $2,800 from an estate settlement in 1944.
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Joplin
Emory E. Smith
Albert A. Ridge
Smith
Kansas City
Monett
Ridge
Gov
Forrest Smith
Influenza cases in Texas nearly double in week
Texas health officer Dr. George W. Cox said influenza cases rose to 2,300 in the past week from 1,315 the prior week. Measles surged to 1,769, more than 10 times the weekly average, while overall influenza remained near last year’s level.
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Austin
Texas
George W. Cox
Two Children Drown After Creek Ice Breaks
In Madison Wisconsin two year olds Toni Dussling and her companion failed to survive after ice on a creek near their home broke under them. Authorities reported both children drowned in the incident.
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Lubbock. Tex
Avalanche-Journal
Sun
Y. Pace
Haskell Furmo
Madison
Wis
Toni Dussling
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