CIO seeks British aid to end GM strike
The CIO United Auto Workers urge Prime Minister Attlee to intervene in the 15 day General Motors strike. R J Thomas says Britain as a major GM stockholder owns about 100 million shares and should influence the corporation toward bargaining. He notes British labor support would show solidarity among working people of nations.
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Detroit
Cionited Auto Workers
Omas
Inneral Motors
Eneral Motors
U. A
Gen- W Motors
Real Britain
General Motors
Truman calls for Chinese unity with economic pressure
President Truman urged rapid political unification of China starting with a ceasefire between the Communists and Nationalists. He backed this with explicit American economic pressure and gave Gen. George C. Marshall a program to end factionalism, as Marshall left for China with secret instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Washington
Truman
China
United Nations
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Chu
White House
Pat J. Hurley
Chiang Kai-shek
Hurley
United States
Good Fellows Fund Donations Grow Despite Fragmented List
The fund shows receipts totaling $1,625.20 with multiple contributors including Mrs. Willie M. Swan, Mrs. Goldie Murphy, Stonewall Lodge No 8, Knights of Pythias, Pythian Sisters, Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Baur, and Painters Local Union No. 91. The itemized list includes in memory and tribute gifts and miscellaneous entries. continuation noted on the eighth page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gooodfellows
Willie M. Swan
Goldie Murphy
Washington, D.C
Frank H. Jones
C&. Parker
Stonewall Lodge No
Knights of Pythias É
Trevenem
Hams
Plbenk Tok
Painters Local Union
Parcel Post To Keep Long Hours At Monroe Office
Monroe post office will stay open later on peak mailing day with extended hours. Supervisor Hollingsworth says the post will close at the usual afternoon time but remain open to handle urgent business and urges residents to mail early to avoid last minute delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
George A. Wlingsworth
Hollingsworth
Fragmentary note hints at gift time timing
A partial, cryptic line suggests a timed gift moment with urging to hurry purchases. It mentions being alive yet wishing someone dead and pushes ahead with buying. The text is fragmentary and lacks verifiable context or names.
Cline Arraigned in Dallas Murder Case Extradition Looms
Alfred Leonard Cline, 56, appeared mute at a Dallas murder arraignment on a fugitive from justice complaint. His attorney secured a week to decide on extradition to Texas while investigators link him to the elderly victim's death and forgery charges. A Florida letter found ties Cline to funeral arrangements for a woman linked to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Alfred Leonard Cline
Dallas
J. W. Ehrlich
Ehrlich
Cline
Texas
Eva Delora Krebs
Chicago
Carpenter
Bloomington
Ind
Macon
Alma Villa Carter
Krebs Cline
Isabel van Natta
Portland
Ore
Krebs
Jacksonville
Fla
Elizabeth Kannan Klein
Brown
Elizabeth Hunt Lewis
Oakland
Calif
Klein
F. L. Klein
Elizabeth Hannah Klein
William A. Hallowes II
Attroney
Hallowes
Gridiron Club Roast Rouses Truman and Bigwigs
Washington figures including President Truman Governor Dewey and generals were lampooned at the Gridiron Club dinner in the Statler Hotel. The 60th anniversary event revived wartime humor with satirical songs skits and foreign caricatures as top officials and business leaders watched.
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Washington
Truman
Governor Dewey
General MacArthur
Gridiron Club
Club of Washington
Dewey
Statler Hotel
Lyle C. Wilson
United Press
Pearl Harbor
Scotland Yard hits London with dragnet raid drive
Police report 54 men arrested and questioned as Scotland Yard and allied forces expand a wide sweep through London after a wave of armed robberies and kidnappings. Despite large numbers, new offenses emerged near Piccadilly Circus as the operation targets deserters from American, British and Canadian forces.
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London
Scotland Yard
Swank Mayfair
Soho
Evening Star
Picadilly Circus
Times Square
Frigid Weather Pushing South Across the Nation
Intensely cold air from the North Pole spreads toward the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast. Forecasters in Chicago warn of no relief before midweek with records likely, as temperatures plummet across North Dakota Wisconsin Iowa and Illinois and reach near zero in parts of the Ohio valley including Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Associated Press
North Pole
Gulf of Mexico
Rockies
Atlantic Coast
Chicago
Allegheny Mountains
Gulf
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Downstate
Illinois
Ohio Valley
Ohio River
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arizona
Forty Thousand Left to Insane Woman in Ohio Find
A Cleveland State Hospital patient, Blanche Goldsmith, 45, is named heir to 40000 left by Pittsburgh grinder known as Old Bill. The estate, once 175000 in stocks bonds and cash, was discovered by hospital superintendent Dr E H Crawfis who notes she has had no visitors since 1939 and mental illness cannot be treated.
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Cleveland
Cleveland State Hospital
Pittsburgh Scrissors
E. H. Crawfis
Blanche Goldsmith
de. Crawfis
George Goldmen
Fatally Injured in Second Mishap Near Huntsville
Beatrice Mount a 23 year old from near Scottsboro died of head injuries after a second wreck in Huntsville while she was en route to a hospital for injuries from an earlier crash. Her companion Marvin Boyett from Hazel Green was seriously hurt in the second collision. The first accident occurred on a rural highway and the second at a street intersection.
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Huntsville
Ala
Beatrice Mount
Scottsboro
Marvin Boyett
Hazel Green
State shintoism ordered halted by MacArthur
General MacArthur orders the abolition of state shintoism in Japan to remove compulsory religious support and militaristic ideology. The directive calls for withdrawal of government control, purging nationalist doctrine, and removal of shinto from schools, while preserving sectarian shinto and respecting religious freedom.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
U. S. State Department
Ken R. Dyke
Navy
William K. Bunce
Otterbein College
General Dyke
Ise
Hirohito
Prince Konoye Dies by Poison Before Surrender
Prince Fumimaro Konoye, three time premier before Pearl Harbor, died at his Tokyo home from poison as he faced impending surrender. Princess Konoye found him in bed with a poison vial nearby, with reporters gathering at Sugamo prison as word spread.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Princess Konoye
Sugamo
Konoye
Hideki Tojo
Selman Field Open for Public View and Aircraft Display
Gates at Selman Field open at 10 a.m. for Monroe residents with flight-line displays of P-61 Black Widow, P-84 Shooting Star, B-29 Superfort, P-51 Mustang, P-38 Lightning, P-47 Thunderbolt, A-26 Invader, B-25 Mitchell, and AT-7s. Visitors receive a guided program. aircraft exhibition runs until 7 p.m. The event marks civilians’ first close viewing of several models in the region.
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America
Utilities probe in state starts hearings on rate cuts
Louisiana Public Service Commission began an investigation into utility rates with plans to order general reductions. Hearings will include electric power, gas, water and telephone firms, while municipal and New Orleans providers are excluded. List of companies expected to appear includes Louisiana Power and Light Co., Gulf States Utilities Co., Southwestern Gas and Electric, Central Louisiana Electric Co., and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Public Service
Comemission
C. W. Coleman
New Orleans
Commission
Coleman
Come
Louisiana Power and Light Co
Gulf States Utilities Co
Baeton Rouge
Southwestern Gas and Electric Company
Shreveport
Gulf Public Service Co
New Theria
Louiisiana Public Utilities Co
Lafayette
Central Louisiana Electric Co
Mother in Chelsea Kidnap Hoax Charged with Murder
Chelsea mass Dec 15 Mrs Rose Carlan 23 mother of Ronald Carlan whose body found under a china closet was held on a murder charge as medical examiner probed cause of death. She faced hearing Dec 24 and was held for observation at a psychopathic hospital.
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Chelsea
Mass
Rose Carlan
Ronald Carlan
Chelsea District Court
Stephen White
John W. McLeod
Psychopathic Hospital
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Prince Konoye
Xsi
Etter
Attlee
R. J. Thomas
Good Fellows Fund
James H. L. Hunt
Abou Ben
Gline
Byrnes
Patrick Hurley
Stassen
Bricker
Ohio
Natonal
Brownell
Mannegan
Philip Murray
Labor
Schwellenbach
Vero M. Molotov
Clement Attley
Supreme Court
Missouri
Battery D
Fru
Patton
George S. Patton, Jr
Geoffrey Keyes
Seventh Army
130Th Station
Heidelberg
Germany
Paris
Suctland
Ath
Selman
UPN
Selman Field
Koneye
Miyagawa
Oyama
Hidemaro
Nonoye
Konove
T. Uchiba
Uchiha
Nippon
Imperial
U. S
Boston Psychopathic Hospital
Charles M. Finn
American Legion
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