Soviet Mediterranean Demands Move Raises Global Tensions
A Soviet proposal expanding influence in the Mediterranean shocks diplomats, with hints of asserting control over the Dardanelles and Tangier. The move comes as the Big Five discuss Italy’s colonies and publish peace terms for nations allied against Italy, signaling potential redrawn alliances.
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London
Soviet Union
Mediterranean
United States
Britain
Russia
Italy
Big Five Council of Foreign Ministers
Aegean Sea
Dardanelles
Turkey
Domania
Bulgaria
Tangier
Gibraltar
Iran
Frost Hits Monroe Area As Hurricane Near Miami Intensifies
Frost touched down in Monroe and nearby areas with the thermometer near 42 as chill winds and rain moved through. A tropical hurricane near Miami was reported at 11:30 a.m. with 60 mph winds at Fowey Rock and 67 mph near Carysfort Light, spreading threat toward the Keys and southern Florida.
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Miami
Keys
Weather Bureau
Fowey Rock
Carysfort Light
The
Sunny Isles
Wisconsin Duck Hunt Opens Thursday With Long Season
Wisconsin’s 1945 duck hunting season begins Thursday at 6 13 a m and runs daylight hours until close of season. Duck limits include 10 in aggregate with up to one wood duck plus 25 singly or total mergansers backed by geese limits and additional coots and rails. No snipes season. armed forces members in state or on leave may hunt without a license.
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Wisconsin
Dee
Commis
UAW to seek wage hike test case as Ford plants shut
The CIO United Auto Workers plan to petition for a nationwide strike vote in 135 GM plants, part of a wave of stoppages that halted Ford production and left about 50,000 Ford workers idle. The union demanded a 30 percent wage increase, citing “disciplining” wildcat strikes at Kelsey-Hayes as the trigger.
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United Automobile Workers (Cio
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Ford Company
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company
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General Motors Corporation
Ford Motor Company of Canada
Windsor
Ontario
Hudson Motor Car Company
Murray Corporation of America
Henry Ford
Walter P. Reuter
Reuther
Thomas
Washington Roundup GOP Soions Attempt to Formulate Real Program
Senate Republicans meet to map a postwar program while House Republicans convene to align positions. They aim to craft a concrete plan and debate unemployment, full employment, jobs, and appointing authority, amid Truman's push on peace terms and postwar policies. The Pan American highway and postwar navy site hearings also head next steps.
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Senate Republicans
Iscuss
House
Truman
Mies
Pearl Harbor
Peer Rani
Congress
Congressional
Senate
America
Schwaiger Heads Monroe High School Student Council
Monroe high school elected Jerome Schwason or Police Chief and Mrs Schwaiger to lead the student council. The council includes two members from each class with seniors Rol and Shamburek and Ruth Gei. juniors Paul Alston and JoAnn Elmer. sophomores Marleah Prien and William Purcell. Class officers oversee activities with Ray Beckman as graduating class president and aides Lillian Roth, Jean Schoonover, Marianne Speich. Junior king Malcolm Marti heads the prom plans with Leo Hilfiker and Jane Calder in supporting roles.
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Jerome Schwason
J. H. Schwaiger
Monroe High School
Roland Shamburek
Ruth Gei
Paul Alston
JoAnn Elmer
Marleah Prien
William Purcell
Ray Beckman
Lillian Roth
Jean Schoonover
Marianne Speich
Roger Isely
Robin Bennema
Betty Klemm
Martha Dobbs
Malcolm Marti
John Andereck
Ian Schuster
Werner W. Blum
Richard Maur ©Ler
Joyce Broge
Joel Solomon
Leroy Leats
Helen Goldman
Airplane Crash Kills 22 at Kansas City Route to West Coast
A C-47 Army transport crashed soon after takeoff from Fairfax airport killing 22 aboard, including 19 veterans from European fronts. Only three crew survived briefly, all later died. Witnesses saw a blazing explosion as the wreckage scattered near the Missouri River.
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Fairfax Ai
Bernard C. Tucker
Etna
Calif
Ora D. de Long
G. L. de Long
San Bernardino
Fred Ebert
Pasadena
Cal
New York
Fairfax
Missouri River
William F. Maxwell
Burlington Railroad
Reopening Here as Polio Cases Wane
Polio cases fall as reopening plans move forward in Monroe and surrounding areas. Churches and theaters plan to resume tomorrow while rural schools in Green County Browntown set Monday reopenings. Milwaukee reports eight new cases, total 49 for the year, with 30 active.
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Monroe
Ilinois
Green County
Browntown
Freeport
Rockford
Sfeneral
Milwaukee
Train Wreck Near Manhattan injures crew as Dodgers ride on
A Chicago bound Brooklyn Dodgers train collided with a gasoline tanker near Manhattan Illinois. The engineer died in the cab and the fireman was badly burned. The truck driver was injured and hospitalized. Dodgers in rear car escaped harm as the train endured a two hour delay and continued to Chicago. Two separate strike talks in Milwaukee reported the 140 Madison drivers nearing a settlement.
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Alexander Lumber Company
Charles _.Tedtmeyer
George Evert
Decatur
Joliet
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James A. Despins
Super Intelligence Service Sought by Senate Leader
Senator Wiley proposes an American super intelligence service led by FBI Director J Edgar Hoover. He claims atom bombs can be fired globally and argues a superior intelligence apparatus is needed to ensure peaceful nights and avoid another Pearl Harbor disaster.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Wiley
R-Wis
36 hour week sought for AFL shop workers
Chicago A 36 hour work week in place of the present 48 hour week with no reduction in weekly pay will be asked of railroads employing 400000 AFL shop workers, a union official disclosed yesterday. Philadelphia Frite Kuhn will be deported to Germany today, the U S immigration service announced. Kuhn will leave Ellis Island at 5 PM aboard the freighter Winchester Victory, immigration officials stated.
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Masaharu Homma
Philippines
Jose P. Laurel
MacArthur
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Laurel
Shigenori Kuroda
Col
Kingoro Hashimoto
U. S
Panay
China
Yoshitaka Ueda
Benigno S. Aquino
Puppet Assembly of the Philippines
Kuroda
Eighth Army
Osaka
Donald Hoover
Domei
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AFL
Philadelphia
Frite Kuhn
Germany
U.S. Immigration Service
Kuhn
Ellis Island
Winchester Victory
Two Bandits Loot Park Hotel in Madison
Two armed masked men robbed the Park hotel in Madison early today, escaping with $600 after locking four employees in a basement. A prior failed hold up at a morning attempt near the Wisconsin Telephone office involved a shot fired at Madison manager Truman Thompson. Police suspect the same duo, clad in raincoats, planned to kidnap Thompson to force the safe opening.
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Madison
Park
Truman Thompson
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Ernest Adgren
Mary Howe
Edgren
Miss Howe
Karsten Thorpe
Arthur Bruckner
Thompson
Western Union
David S. Novik
High Point Wacs Reach Ft Sheridan in discharge group
About 190 WACs from Europe arrived at Fort Sheridan yesterday as the first large batch reporting for discharge. Sgt Anne L Pennick led the group in points with seven while T/4 Marie R Kutz from Newton Wisconsin also earned honors. All wore battle stars for service in combat zones.
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European
Ft. Sheridan
Europe
Anne L. Pennick
Wichit
Marie R. Kutz
Newton
Truman Talks Appointments Hurley Rumors Unclear
President Truman voiced no information on Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley’s possible resignation as ambassador to China after returning home. He said no decision on a Supreme Court vacancy, noted Detroit labor unrest with Ford plant shutdowns, and described shopping for socks in his recent errands.
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Patrick J. Hurley
China
Hurley
United States Supreme Court
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Martha Truman
Grandview
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Federal Building
Frank S. Spinna
Eddie Jacobson
Men Clothing Store
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