New Car Ceilings Given G M Cut Others Increased
OPA says new auto prices should cost about prewar levels though dealers expect a clash over pricing. GM built Chevrolets Pontiacs Oldsmobiles Buicks and Cadillacs will average 25 percent below January 1942. Ford ceilings rise from 850 to 882 for deluxe eight cylinder Tudor sedan while other models show mixed increases.
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Washington
OPA
Motors
W.L. Mallon
Automobile Dealers National Association
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Ford
Studebaker
Progressives to Decide Future Course Next Spring
The Wisconsin Progressives plan a statewide conference to choose whether to Maintain the party identity or shift to Republican or Democratic alignment. A five member committee was chosen to meet in Madison this week and form four subcommittees for final plans.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Defense Keynote At Legion Meet
The article covers Legionpost remarks at the 27th annual convention urging universal training while noting public polls favoring it and dissent voiced by officials. It cites Maj Gen Leslie R Groves and Adm Chester Nimitz discussing postwar planning, with potential input from Eisenhower and Doolittle.
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Royall
Leslie R. Groves
U. S Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
James H. Doolittle
Nimitz
Trickel joins state Palomino Board and plans farm
Trickel a Navy Yeoman 2/c stationed at Midway, elected director of the Wisconsin Palomino Association. He recently bought a Palomino from Witt farm in Coleman Tex and plans to buy a filly in spring. The Palomino is kept at the fairgrounds and Trickel aims to start a Palomino farm in Monroe with Leland Boyer present. Wisconsin forms 24th state Palomino group with J. E. Smith as state president and Stanley Walke as first vice president.
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R . D. Trickle
Navy
Midway
Sailor
Witt Farm
Coleman
Tex
Fairgrounds
Trickel
Monroe
Leland Boyer
Wisconsin
J. E. Smith
River Falls
Stanley Walke
Belair
Mary Chaplin
Lake Delavan
Union offers to drop demands to avert Montgomery Ward strike
Samuel Wol chok, president of United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employee union, says the union will drop demands for a closed shop and checkoff to avoid a national strike against Montgomery Ward. Representative Cox denounces congressional delays and hints at labor legislation stalling.
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New York
Samuel Wolchok
United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employee Union
CTO
Montgomery Ward
Ann Beck 15 Months Injured in Highway Crash
Ann Beck, 15 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beck of Twin Grove, suffered a double fracture of her right leg when the car carrying her collided head on near Cedarville. Her mother Mrs. Ralph Beck and grandmother Mrs. Roy Tielkemier were in the car. Mrs. Beck escaped injury while her mother sustained a severe scalp wound and bruises. The other driver was John C. Ross of Rockford. charges of reckless driving were to be heard in Freeport court.
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Ann Beck
Ralph Beck
Twin Grove
Cedarvili
Roy Tielkemier
Monroe
Freeport
John C
Lt Rudolph Regez Returns as D A After Navy Service
Navy Lt Rudolph P. Regez returns to Monroe a civilian and takes over as district attorney. He served 22 months in the Pacific mainly in the Marshalls on the Alabama in the Third Fleet, working in radar. He reunites with wife and two children at 1108 10th Street.
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Navy
Rudolph P. Regez
Monroe
Great Lakes
Herbert N.aa
Reger
Pacific
Marshalls Islands
Alabama
10Th Street
Mrs. Burkhalter Hurt After Car Collision
Mrs. Fred Burkhalter of 713 17th avenue sustained a fractured left shoulder and cuts and bruises to her leg and ankle when struck and knocked down by a car driven by C. Johnson. She was taken to St. Clare hospital for treatment.
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Fred Burkhalter
17Th Avenue
C. Johnson
Ita
St. Clare Hos
Victory Bond drive progress slows in Monroe
Monroe’s final war bond drive lags with 81 percent of the total $210,790 and 53 percent of the $93,900 E-bond target. Weather and outreach issues hinder black workers’ efforts, delaying sales reports as organizers push to finish by Thanksgiving, two weeks before the December 8 deadline.
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H. C. Roth
Airport Backers to Meet This Evening
Air travel enthusiasts will gather at 8 this evening in the Eugene hotel dining room to hear state and federal authorities. The program aims to outline a municipal airport plan with guidance from visitors. Numerous organizations support the Monroe project and invite members and other supporters to attend.
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Eugene
Monroe Project
Phone Strike Halts Service in Illinois and Indiana
A broad operators strike crippled telephone service in 115 Illinois communities and two Indiana counties. The strike began before 6 am with Chicago and Peoria first to walk out, causing widespread disruption to local and long distance calls. Conciliators moved to arrange talks, while both sides claimed negotiations would address the $6 weekly wage demand versus the national commission’s $4 guidance.
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Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
U. S
National Telephone Commission” of the War
Ann Benscoter
Ilinois Telephone Traffic Union
Miss Benscoter
Peoria
J. A. Maloney
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Oer
Win R. Hackett
Chicago Telephone Traffic Union
Federation of Long Lines Operators
NFTW
Department of Labor
William G. Murray
Aubrery H. Mellinger
Iinois Bell
Mony —Pany
Benscotree Dent
Deer Hunt Fatalities Rise During Michigan Season
Michigan reports 13 hunter deaths as the deer season nears its close with 11 days left. Causes include three weekend fatalities from gunfire and heart attacks, plus a fatal car accident. Notable cases involve Jay Stendes in Flint and Earl Richards in Marquette, with Mackin charged in a Sault Ste. Marie shooting.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Woodlands
Jay Stendes
Flint
Tawas City
Thomas Birkhold
Nottawa
St. Joseph County
Bode Lake
Luce County
Earl Richards
Belaire
Richards
Sandriver
Marquette
Sault Ste. Marie
William Warwood
Detroit
Gillespie
Mackin
Machkin
Warwood
Translation claim on Mt Niitaka signal to attack Pearl Harbor
Senate hearing probes whether the Mt Niitaka coded message triggered the Pearl Harbor attack. Senator Ferguson presses navy officials on the message's role, while questioning seeks corroboration of Japanese and U S fleet movements and earlier diplomatic breakdown.
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Pearl Harbor
T. B. Inglis
Congressional Investigating Committee
Washington
Ferguson
R-Mich
Navy
Mt. Niitaka
Naval Intelligence
Michigan
Honolulu
Tokyo
U.S
U. S. Navy
Japan
Inglis
United States
Hull
Jule M. Hannaford
Adm J. ©. Richardson
Cooper
D-Tenn
Lucas
Douglas MacArthur
Brewster
R-Me
Putnam
Army
Col
Bernard Thielen
War Department
Adm
Osami Nagano
Naval General Staff
Hawaiian
Nagano
MacArthur
Congressional Committee
Richardson
Reds to Fight for Manchurian Capital Changchun
Chinese Communists announced readiness to seize Changchun the Manchuria capital as nationalist forces push toward Shanhaikwan. They said 5,000 troops retreat northeast to avoid being flanked while nationalist columns advance along the Great Wall toward the Peiping Mukden railway.
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Manchuria
Can & Gap
Shanhaikwan
Shanhawikwan
Changchun
Associated Press
Olen Clements
Tientsin
Chinhsien
Peiping- Mukden
Mrs Eisenhower Ill in Boone Pneumonia Resting
Mrs Dwight D Eisenhower in Boone Iowa hospitalized with bronchial pneumonia resting comfortably. Dr A B Deering reports very satisfactory condition as Major General Howard Snyder joins Boone physician. Lt Col James Stack says General Eisenhower will fly to Chicago tonight for the American Legion medal event and return to Germany Friday if her condition holds.
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Boone
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chicago
American Legion
A. B. Deering
Eisenhower
Howard Snyder
Army
Eisenhowers
Washington
Afc
James Stack
Germany
Bid to De Gaulle to Head Government
Paris voters in the constituent assembly backed General de Gaulle 400 to 163 to renew efforts to form a coalition government including Communists Socialists and Popular Republic parties. Communists opposed the renewal while Socialists shifted to support de Gaulle after initially abstaining as guards surrounded the Bourbon palace. The assembly adjourned with de Gaulle’s interim presidency left intact.
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Paris
Constituent Assembly
de Gaulle
Bourbon Palace
France
Persian Rebels Drive on Tehran Amid Iran Soviet Ties
Insurgent Democratic Party forces reported advancing along the Mianeh Teheran railway threatening Zenjan and Kazvin while isolating three garrison towns in Azerbaijan province. Iranian officials blamed Soviet-linked arms supplies as clashes killed soldiers and railway workers. Moscow gave no comment.
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Tehran
Iran
Democratic Party
Mianeh
Azerbaijan
Zenjan
Kazvin
Nations
Miandi
Miandh
Tabriz
Iranian Council of Ministers
Riazi
Ibraham Arfa
Sevetnikov
Violent Death Series Continues in Pontiac Michigan
Oakland county authorities faced two new killings a shooting and a stabbing plus three earlier slayings in six weeks. Mose Collier 27 of Pontiac stabbed in an argument with an acquaintance and Lawrence Allen 51 of Detroit shot to death in a ward at Royal Oak. Both victims were Black.
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Pontiac
Mich
Oakland County
Mose Collier
Lawrence Allen
Detroit
Royal Oak
Christmas recess in doubt as Rayburn meets Truman
Speaker Rayburn said Congress may not start its Christmas recess before December 25 after a White House visit with President Truman. He noted the administration hopes to finish key bills by December 23 or 24, including the full employment bill, a deficiency appropriations bill, and an extension of the President’s emergency war powers.
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Washington
Rayburn
White House
Congress
Truman
Dee
Wisconsin Deep Waterways Commission Chooses Leaders
Madison officials elect Madison residents Herman Ekern as chairman and C A Halbert as secretary at a Saturday organizational meeting. The body, first formed in 1919 to promote Great Lakes waterways, is recreated by the legislature.
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Madison
Herman Ekern
Wisconsin Deep Waterways Commission
C. A. Halbert
Great Lakes
St. Ae Eeean Tees
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