ARMY-NAVY MERGER BILL ADVANCED IN U N Security Council
Ambassador Gromyko said Russia would attend the UN Security Council session and may raise the Iranian case after ending a boycott begun March 27. Presidenting matters, U S opposition to reopening until May 6, with possible Iran-Russia agreement to dismiss the case.
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Army-Navy
Russia
U.N
New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations Security Council
Gromyko
Council
Security Council
Byrnes
United States
Iran
Hussein Ala
Ahmed Qavam
Tehran
Qavam
Mozaffar Firouz
Autograph of Stilwell Impresses Chinese Youth
In San Francisco a Chinese American youth asked General Joseph Stilwell for his autograph and received it in Chinese. The youth reacted with disbelief at the unfamiliar script.
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Real McCoy
San Francisco
Joseph Stilwell
Vinegar Joe
Jeepers
Letter reveal mother’s plea to care for infant son left at church
In Washington on April 9 a desperate South-born mother who could not marry a service member left a letter with her weeks-old son at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. She explains a forced separation, asks the parish to place Johnnie Doe in a home, and vows to return if possible. The welfare department will place the child in a suitable home.
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Washington
Johnnie Doe
South
Johnnie
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Here
Revere
Ife
P. S
Welfare Department
Admiral Halsey in Navy Hospital in Philadelphia
Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., 63, rests in Philadelphia Naval Hospital with an upper respiratory infection. Navy officials say he is in very good condition and no cause for alarm. he had been suffering from a cold, awaiting his Pan American Airways retirement role. In New Orleans, writer Lyle Saxon was declared critically ill at Baptist Hospital after recent surgery and ongoing treatment.
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Philadelphia
Willian F. ‘Bulb Halsey
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Navy
Halsey
Howard H. Montgomery
Naval Hospital
Wilmington
Del
Pan-American Airways trans-Pacific Service
Lyle Saxon
New Orleans
Louisiana
Baptist Hospital
Saxon
West absolved of OPA charge in federal court
In Monroe federal court Tuesday the case against L. A. West and the West Pontiac Company was dismissed after a witness testified the Dodge ambulance cited had a 1942 model listing with no ceiling price. The judge directed a verdict for the defendants and the jury was dismissed.
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L. A. West
West Pontiac Company
Louisville Avenue
Federal District Court
OPA
George E. Cook
Milner-Fuller Automobile Agency
Ben C. Dawkins
Joe Thomas Kelly
Gussie Ross Kelly
Ross Motor Company
David Duty
Monroe
Eugene Jackson
Rayville
A. J. Campbell
Campbell Motor Co
Tallulah
Dudley O
M. M. McMillian
Dawkins
Pefit
West Monroe election shows quiet turnout at noon
Up to noon Tuesday in West Monico barely 200 votes were cast in the municipal election though more than 3,600 qualified voters are enrolled. Mayor D. C. Golson will be re elected without contest and all five aldermen seek re election with four others also running.
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West Monico
D. C. Golson
Jackson accuses Rosenberg trial of anti Semitic propaganda
Justice Robert H. Jackson charged the defense with disseminating anti-Semitic material at the Nuremberg war crimes proceedings. He alleged the exhibit printed for Alfred Rosenberg's counsel was violent and irrelevant rubbish while defending the murder charges against four to five million Jews. The defense pressed for a retrial and objected to printing sanctions.
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Mernberg
Robert H. Jackson
United States
International Military Tribunal
Jackson
Alfred Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Tom Defense
Rudolf Dix
U. S
Match Anti-Trust Suit Is Settled
Attorney General Tom Clark announced a consent decree dissolving a world-wide cartel in the match industry ending the government's anti trust suit against leading producers in the United States Sweden and Great Britain. The decree requires royalty free licenses for everlasting matches and opens production to smaller firms. The agreement was signed in New York by Federal Judge Samuel Mandelbaum ending a civil suit filed May 1 1944.
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Washington
Tom Clark
United States
Sweden
Great Britain
Bryant and May
Justice Department
Clark
Diamond Match Company
New York
Department of Justice
Samuel Mandelbaum
Anti-Trust
First Families to Sail on April 18 to Europe
War Department announces first group of 1446 women and children will sail from New York aboard The Thamas H. Barty on April 18. The convoy includes Henry Gibbins and George W. Goethals with Bremervhaven bound, carrying wives of Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Gen. Mark W. Clark. Only 24 enlisted men sought transport.
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Washington
Europe
New York
Thamas H. Barty
War Department
Henry Gibbins
George W. Goethals
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Mark W. Clark
Austria
Bremerhaven
Richard S. Green Dies of Heart Attack on Bastrop Station
Richard S. Green 62, longtime Missouri Pacific engineer, died instantly of a heart attack as he approached a Bastrop station on Tuesday morning. He lived with the Travis L. Marks family at 1807 Jackson Street and was honored as a valued railroader after 36 years of service. Funeral arrangements at Mulhearn Funeral Home Monroe were incomplete.
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Richard S. Green
Bastrop
Ferriday
Missouri Pacific
Mr. Green
Mulhearn
Monroe
Missouri Pacific Lines
Travis L
Ernest Duncan Holloway
Heroes of Corregidor and Bataan Take Over Boston
Boston reports a dramatic welcome for veterans of Corregidor and Bataan marking April 1943 with a parade and a large 100 foot flag for General Wainwright who cannot attend. The mood shifts from prior revelry to sober remembrance of four years since the battles.
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Heroes OF Corregidor
Bataan
Boston
Bataan and
Corregidor
Jonathan Wainwright
General Wainwright
Sugar Refinery Strike Called Across Atlantic Coast
Washington April 9 A and B unions today called a coast wide strike at seven Atlantic coast sugar refineries processing about 70 percent of the nation's cane sugar effective at 11 59 p m EST. More than 8000 workers would be involved.
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Washington
A. F. of L
East Coast
Schwellenbach
Atlantic Coast
A. F
Industria
C. S. Transport
Akron
L. Electrical
Cincinnati
Predicts Serious Shortage of Wheat
Washington April 9 A Millers National Federation spokesman warned Americans may face a flour shortage within 66 days due to dwindling wheat supplies. Carl D. McKenzie said millers cannot buy enough wheat as a department conference weighs a 2 percent cut in domestic flour distribution to bolster exports to famine areas abroad. He blamed a possible serious wheat shortage or farmer reluctance to sell at current prices amid opposition to John Harn.
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Washington
Carl D. McKenzie
Millers National Federation
Agriculture Department
McKenzie
John
Anxiety for Japan urged before Pearl Harbor attack
Admiral Harold R. Stark testified that he would have acted that night if he knew Roosevelt believed the Japanese diplomatic message meant war. Documents showed Churchill urged Roosevelt in 1941 to press Japan toward war, with Stark denying memory of the message receipt the night before Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
Harold R. Stark
Roosevelt
White House
Pearl Harbor
Stark
Senate House
Naval Operations
Seth Richardson
Winston Churchill
Mr. Roosevelt
Japan
Singapore
United States
George C. Marshall
Army
China
Chief of
Richardson
Comdr
Lester R. Schultz
Churchill
Tuchardson
State Department
Want Milk Price Control to End
Chattanooga, Tenn. April 9. Southern milk producers demand an end to milk price control by June 30 and call for a two cent a quart price increase to assure adequate production. Dairy representatives from 10 states adopt a program for action blaming GPA price policies for forcing losses and herd sales. B E Stallones of Houston, president of the Southern Dairy Farmers Association, says the cure is removing the GPA. Association members span Tennessee Virginia Alabama Texas Georgia North and South Carolina Kentucky Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Southern Milk Producers
B. £. Stallones
Houston
Tex
Southern Dairy Farmers Association
Tennessee
Virginia
Alabama
Texas
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Kentucky
Mississippi
Louisiana
Miao Ping Given Death Sentence in Kiangsu High Court
Pi Miao Ping former vice president of the legislative council of the puppet Nanking government was convicted of treason by the Kiangsu high court and sentenced to death. His properties were confiscated except a small portion kept for his family. The prosecution accused him of collaborating with Japan since 1937.
Unification Plan Aims To Create Department Of Common Defense
A three member sub committee urged Senate military panel to abolish the war and navy departments and form a single department of common defense. The plan gives autonomy to the air force and places all services under a secretary of common defense with civilian control under the president.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
War and Navy Departments
Department of Common Defense
Truman
Army
Navy
Secretary of Common Defense
War and Navy
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Austin
Vermont
Bill
Alabama
Thomas
Air Force
New Orleans Shipping Lines Outline Expanded Postwar Plans
William Ho Trauth, gulf manager of the Alcoa Steamship Co, outlined plans for increased freight and passenger tonnage from New Orleans as part of a regional push to boost Latin American trade. He noted new ships and faster sailings, with ports offering lower inland freight rates and direct access to manufacturing hubs. Hoover arrived in Amsterdam for a European food survey, expressing hope Holland will prosper and planning future moves to Brussels and Copenhagen.
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New Orleans
U.S. A
Europe
Latin America
Mississippi Valley
Central States
Gulf Ports
Eastern Seaboard
William Ho Trauth
Gulf
Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc
Hoover
Amsterdam
Herebert Hoover
Holland
U. S
Stanley K. Hornbeck
Hooverig
Brussels
Copenhagen
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Chicago
Hyde Park
John Moroney
Cleveland Andrew
Decatur
C. T. Durbin
Federal Treasury
Treasury
Durbin
Admiral Halsey
Navy Hospital
WEST
West Monroe
Anniston
Ala
Trav
M. P
Revere Sugar Refining Co
American Sugar Refining Co
Moston
Mass
National Sugar Refining Co
New York City
W. J. McCann Co
Franklin Sugar Refining Co
American Refining Co
Baltimore
McCann and Franklin
Comideene poRulations
McAphneues
Harn
Cos Nedion
Miao Ping
Orleans
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