Coal strike ends as John L. Lewis yields to presidential and court action
John L. Lewis ordered 400,000 miners back to work under government contract terms as the 17 day soft coal strike ends. President Truman acts and the Supreme Court loom while utilities resume service and embargoes lift across 21 eastern states and DC. Lewis announces near midnight March deadline amid a news conference.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Supreme Court
United States
District of Columbia
Truman
Lewis
Inferno at Winecoff Hotel Kills 116 in Atlanta Fire
An early morning blaze at the 15 story Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta causes 116 deaths and at least 100 injuries. Crowds jumped from upper floors while others burned or suffocated as flames raged through the building near Peachtree Street and Carnegie Way.
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Atlanta
America
Winecoff
Peachtree Street
Carnegie Way
Banks Whiteman
Arthur F. Geele, Jr
Arthur Geele
Ouachita Parish Drainage Plan Receives Backing
The Ouachita Parish Drainage Program gains unqualified support from the Chamber of Commerce as a half mill maintenance tax and $500,000 project move forward. Police Jury allocates $300,000 with $200,000 from the state. property owners must vote to authorize the tax and ongoing canal maintenance. The board underscores need for regular canal cleaning to prevent vegetation buildup.
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Ouachita
Chamber of Commerce
L. Underwood Fourmy
State Department of Public Works
Fourney
Ouachita Parish
L. A. Fourmey
Chamber
Fourmy
Louisiana Department of Public Works
War Price Board opening invites varied applicants
A tongue in cheek recruitment notice from Jes and Mrs. Germany urges candidates for War Price and Rationing Board No. 1504 on December 11 1946. The spoof call requests a 30 day paid service history at War Price Board No. 5328 with odd test questions and a satirical dining implication.
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R. W. Germany
Quachita Parish
Sumons
Enforcement Division
Rebuilt Doll Story Brings Dismal Past To Light
A fragmentary ledger lists donations totaling 607.76 from Brown Paper Mill Drew Grocer and others, alongside a verse recounting a doll’s neglect and rescue from a toy shop, highlighting themes of memory and care. The piece blends charity records with a poetic reflection on an abandoned doll’s fate.
Army officers’ bank accounts eyed for black market gains
A House military committee investigator urged checking bank accounts and tax returns of American officers and men who served in Germany for black market profits. The 40-page Europe occupation study cites lax UNRRA cooperation, promiscuity with German women, retention of poor officers, and ties to former Nazi families. The report, printed for study, names a staff investigator with OSS background but remains unnamed.
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Washington
Germany
House Military Committee
Ace
Europe
UNRRA
Office of Strategic Services
Senate War Investigating Committee
George Meader
Meader
House
Army
Still Propose No Strike Laws
Washington dispatch reports Congress members praise the end of the soft coal strike while urging new labor legislation. Senators Johnson Lucas and Hickenlooper commend miners’ capitulation and stress addressing production threats and recurring labor tensions in the new Congress.
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Congress
Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Coro
Lucas
D-Ill
United States
Lewis
Hickenlooper
A-Iowa
U N Near Pact on Arms Slash Near Final Phase
The United Nations moved into the final phase of an arms reduction program aimed at abolishing war, with a Soviet proposal for separate control commissions prompting debate over whether atomic and other weapons should be overseen by distinct bodies. The United States opposed duplicating veto-excluded inspection machinery and urged alignment with an international atomic development authority. Optimism grew after unanimous approval in a related session.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
Security Council
United States
Council
U. S
International Atomic Development Authority
Livestock to Fly From New Orleans to Managua
A plane load of blooded livestock will depart New Orleans Monday for Managua Nicaragua to deliver to I J Riorda. The shipment by Oscar H Wilden includes six cows two horses and two pigs.
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New Orleans
Managua
Nicaragua
I. J. Riorda
Oscar H. Wilden
Winecoff Hotel Fire Kills 120 in Atlanta
Eyewitness account describes screams and deaths as fire consumed the Winecoff Hotel. Flames erupted from the fourth to sixth floors while guests, mainly women, clung to ledges awaiting rescue. A woman on a seventh floor window hurled two children to the pavement below.
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E. J
Chick) Hosch
Atlanta
Winecoff Hotel
Business gears up as coal strike ends ahead of holidays
After a 17 day stoppage the soft coal strike ends and business leaders vow to reverse cuts. Steel mills and autos face potential closures or reduced output, while retailers expect a robust Christmas season as freight holds ease and parcel rules shift. Thousands of workers had already left plants and stores anticipate renewed activity.
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Associated Press
Fire origin unknown in hotel blaze that killed guests
Fire Marshal Harry Phillips said the flames started in the corridors of the third or fourth floors of the fire resistant brick structure. He noted the blaze spread rapidly through the building trapping guests as rescuers pressed to reach them. Mayor Hartsfield said origin under investigation.
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Harry Phillips
Phillips
Atlanta
William B. Hartsfield
Nine Men to Begin Sentences in Mail Fraud Case
Nine men convicted of mail fraud and securities violations in 1944 are set to start sentences. The scheme sold alleged worthless oil lands in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Sentences range from five to eight years with ages and names listed, and the Supreme Court declined review.
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New Orleans
St. Bernard
Plaquemines Parishes
United States
Robert Weinstein
United States Supreme Court
Millard C. Baker
Nathan Silverman
Isadore Walter Kahn
Benejamin L., Levy
A. M. Safir
William B. Bird
Rubert Johnson
Emanuel M. Burgin
Gabriel Diaz
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Jes Ramblin
Herb Dickard
Monroe
North Second Street
Brown
Cscs
Ceesuses Bunn
Irene Beasley
Brown Paper Mill, Inc
Drew Grocer Company
Helen Tee
F. N. Steele
John A. Salisbury
U.N
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