Prince Konoye Dies by His Own Hand Deepens Imperial Crisis
Tokyo dispatch reports Prince Fumimaro Konoye died by his own action, a dramatic hit to Emperor Hirohito's position. The incident fuels abdication talks, shocks the imperial household, and follows MacArthur orders against Shinto and postwar purges affecting key court figures.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Hirohito
Imperial House
Konoye Long
Mikado
Konoye
MacArthur
Morimasa Nashimoto
Koichi Kido
Privy Seal
Fair Action at Dies Committee Probe Noted
Westbrook Pegler reports on the Dies committee’s private interview with Samarp of Bridgeport, connected to a Connecticut weekly devoted to personal scandal. The piece mentions political influence and involved figures but lacks full public detail due to department concerns.
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New York
New House Committee On
Dies Committee
Politi
Bridgeport
Henry Weeerous
Park Avenue
Luce
Woman known as Betty abandons baby girl in New Orleans bar
Social workers search for a woman named Betty who entered a bar with a baby girl then left, abandoning the infant who was later taken to Charity Hospital. A prior infant girl was found on the steps of the Baptist Rescue Mission after a man reportedly left a package at his door.
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New Orleans
Betty
Baptist Escue Mission
Charity Hospital
C-Eyed
Barin
Gridiron Club Digs Bigwigs at Washington Dinner
Washington laughs at the Grid Iron Club annual dinner with parodies of Truman Stalin Attlee and MacArthur. Skits include The Spirit of the Ozarks praising Missouri workers and Byrnes steering foreign policy as a showboat. The event resumed after war years with satirical sketches.
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Washington
Truman
Ozarks
Missouri
James F. Byrnes
Brownell
New York
Tom Dewey
MacArthur
Gilbert and Sullivan
Hirohito
Marshall Field 10
The
Chicago Sun
Col
Robert
Strike of Oil Workers Settled in New York
The C O Oil Workers Union and Sinclair Oil Corporation reached a settlement granting an 18 percent raise for a 40 hour week for 400 employees and prohibiting strikes. The contract awaits approval by Vice Admiral Moreell and runs through May 31, 1946. Navy seizure of 11 Sinclair plants to be lifted at midnight.
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New York
C. O. Oil Workers Union
Sinclair Oil Corporation
H. F. Sinclair
Washington
Navy
Ben Moreell
Navy Petroleum
Sinclair
Sinclair Refining Company
Coffeyville
Kan
Corpus Christi
Tex
Chicago
Fort Worth
Houston
Kansas City
Marcus Hook
Sand Springs
Okla
Sinclair, Wye
Wellsville
N. Y
United States
Supreme Court Grants Yamashita Death Stay
Police cracked a Detroit picket line of United Auto Workers strikers to escort office workers into a GM plant while other plants opened their lines voluntarily. Across Michigan and in Flint, non-strikers gained entry in some locations as 38 thousand idle workers widen a 26 day walkout amid 30 percent wage demands. Kaiser-Frazer entered negotiations as the union prepared for talks with Kaiser-Frazer and Ford, with GM and Kaiser-Frazer meetings scheduled today.
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Detroit
C. I. O.united Auto
General Motors
A. C
Flint
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
R. J. Thomas
Kaiser-Frazer
Ford Motor Company
Willow Run
Chemical plant gutted in major blaze near paper mill
A large fire at General Chemical Company in New York and Monroe destroyed about three quarters of a one story plant behind the Brown paper mill. Firemen pulled 1 200 feet of hose to reach water and battled the flames for nearly four hours. The building housed chemicals used by the mill and the cause remains unknown. The plant is reportedly owned by a separate company and is insured.
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General Chemical Company
New York
Monroe
West Monroe Department
Brown Paper Mill
Plane Destroyed After Record Set From Long Beach to Washington
The Army XB-42 Mixmaster bomber crashed at Oxon Hill Md eight days after setting a long distance speed record. Three crew members parachuted to safety as the in-tail propeller design aircraft, built by Douglas, was on a routine flight from Bolling Field. The plane averaged 432 mph on the Long Beach to Washington run. A second model has been built for the Army.
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Washington
Long Beach
Army
Oxon Hill
Bolling Field Army Air Base
Douglas Aircraft Company
Santa Monica
High Tribunal Grants Stay for Yamashita Case
The Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita after an airmailed petition for review. The action followed the Philippines Supreme Court ruling that the military commission was legal. The court also considers petitions challenging the commission’s authority to try Yamashita.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Manila
Yamashita
Philippines Supreme Court
Patterson
Spreme Court
Philippines Court
Yaashita
Fatal night club crash claims two lives in Winnsboro
A car carrying six youths crashed into a bridge near Gilbert at 1 30 am on Sunday. William Porter of Wisner and Albert Eugene Wyman of Winnsboro died. Three young Swampers women Hazel Dove Juanita Houston and Mildred Houston were injured. Henry Allbritton drove the car and survived. Wyman funeral held in Winnsboro with services later in Wisner.
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Winnsboro
Gilbert
William Porter
Wisner
Albert Eugene Wyman
J. P Wyman
Hazel Dove
Juanita Houston
Mildred Houston
Winnsboro Hospital
Henry Allbritton
Young Wyman
First National Funeral Home
J. P. Wyman
Amos Wyman
Bernice Wyman
California
H. F. Allbritton
Porter
Selman Field
Hall Funeral Home
Monroe
State Plans 39 Road Projects Outstanding Since 1941
Louisiana plans to revive 39 highway projects costing nearly 12 million dollars, revised for 1946. The program will mix state funds with federal aid, totaling about 31 million to be spent or obligated soon to repair bridges and roads damaged in the war.
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Baton Rouge
D. Y. Smith
Louisiana
Smith
U. S. Bureau of Roads
Grant Parish
Colfax
Moncia
Avoyelles Parish
New Orleans
Orleans
Texas and Gulf Railroad
Winnfield
Winn Parish
Keithville
Caddo Parish
Ninock
Bossier Parish
Sabine Parish
LaSalle
Caldwell Parishes
Delhi-Tallulah
Cow
Henley Bayous
Madison Parish
Bayou Lafourche
Ouachita Parish
Tallulah
Delta Point
Grassy Lake
Cypress Bayou
St. Landry
Lafayette Parishes
Jefferson Davis Parish
Livingston Parish
Little
Big
Natalbany River
Livingston
Tangipahoa Parishes
Hammond-Mississippi State Line
Prosecution seeks conviction of 600000 Nazi leadership members
Mer nberg Dec 17 American prosecutors asked the International military tribunal to convict as war criminals about 600000 members of the Nazi leadership corps described as the brain and directing army of the Nazi party. They argued thousands of members of groups such as the SS SA Reich cabinet Gestapo and German high command should be declared guilty as war criminals. Colonel Storey said the leadership corps had about 600000 active functionaries with totals rising to about 2000000 when including minor staff officers, though only the higher ranks are being pursued for conviction. He listed 41 Gauleiters 808 Kviesleiters and 28376 Ortsgruppen members among others.
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Wes Gallagher Mernberg
International Military Tribunal
Nazi Leadership Corps
Nazi Party
Leadership Corps
Elite Guard
Storm Troops
Reich Cabinet
Gestapo
German
High Command
Germany
Robert G. Storey
U.S
Hitler
Storey
Gauleiters
Kviesleiters
Ortsgruppen
Ministers of three nations meet in Moscow for peace talks
Foreign ministers of the Soviet Union United States and Britain convened in Moscow after a cordial preliminary meeting to discuss world peace and the potential international control of atomic energy. Molotov presided at Speridonska palace as Byrnes and Bevin prepared for a second session with ambassadors Harriman and Kerr in attendance.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Speridoniska Palace
Vyacheslav Molotov
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
Foreign Ministers’ Council
London
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Pike Hall Dies in Shreveport Former Louisiana Senator
Former State Senator Pike Hall dies at a Shreveport sanitarium after a cerebral stroke. The 49 year old Shreveport attorney and past Louisiana Bar Association president is survived by Hazel Tucker Hall, a daughter at All Saints College, and a son at Byrd High School. Hall served in World War I, held Legion roles, and practiced law since 1922. He will be buried in Shreveport after funeral services at 11 p.m.
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Shreveport
Pike Hall
Louisiana Bar Association
Hall
Mansfield
Whitfield Jack
Centenary College
University of the South
Sewanee, Tenn
Tulane University
Columbia University
Hazel Tucker
Haughton
All Saints College
Vicksburg
Byrd High School
U. S. Army Ambulance Corps
France
Army Reserve
American Legion
Sunny South hit by frigid weather across Louisiana and Mississippi
Arctic air brought the coldest weather of the season to the region with subfreezing readings in many areas. Hattiesburg reported minus eighteen degrees, New Orleans 33, and inland Mississippi towns from Baton Rouge to Shreveport saw 20s and upper teens, with forecasts for warmer, wetter weather and frost tonight in parts of Mississippi.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
United States
Hattiesburg
Miss
Greenville
Jackson
Baton Rouge
Biloxi
Lake Charles
Crowley
Lafayette
Alexandria
Shreveport
Trials set for Japanese war crimes in Yokohama
Yokohama December 17 eight American war crimes commission members opened proceedings for Japan's first such trials. Five Japanese defendants led by Tatsuto Tsuchiya called Little Glass Eye face charges of beating an American to death last March. Nearly 400 Japanese will be tried, with English translations provided for evidence and sworn oaths observed for each religion.
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Yokohama
American Military Commission
Japan
Tatsuto Tsuchiya
Little Glass Eye
Tsuchiya
Commission
John Dickinson
St. Petersburg
Fla
Trial Commission
Oliver G. Trechter
William B. Yancy
Harrisonburg
John H. Ball
Reynold Street
Williamsport
Philippines
Bataan
Col
Michael F. Buckley
Yosemite Avenue
San Jose
Calif
John J. O'Brien
Clarence C. Clen
Collision of Silver Meteor and Sun Queen claims multiple lives
In South Carolina near Kollock two Seaboard trains collide during dawn, killing six including an engineer and several servicemen. more than 60 are hospitalized. Rescue efforts span Cheraw to nearby fields as ambulances rush to aid the wounded and authorities investigate the high speed wreck.
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South Carolina
Kollock
S. C
Seaboard Air Line
Norfolk
Here
Wroton
W. W. Shoemaker
Raleigh
N. C
James Ferrell
Richmond
Perry Clayton Reese
Duke Street
Alexandria
Frank G. Turner
Gibsonia
Shoemaker
Coro Oner
L. R. Redfearn
Cheraw
Redfearn
Laurenburg-Maxeton Army Air Field
North Carolina
Red Cross
Abe Weisman
Cleveland, O
Good Fellows Help With Donations Amid Cold Weather
A church and several donors contributed to aid the needy as winter's cold deepens. The column cites amounts from West Monroe churchgoers, a Selman Field maintenance unit, and individuals including Lt. Norris E White and Lester M Kranz, highlighting a vulnerable 11 year old girl living in a riverbank shack and asking if Santa will visit.
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Good Fellows
First Penticostal Church
West Monroe
E. W. Caughrow
I. Viadcbous
C. Tillman
Selman Field
Stephen M. Glazer
Csesses
Chas
Newman
Ciccres
Santa Claus
Cold snap hits Monroe with subfreezing lows
The weekend brought the coldest weather of the season to Monroe. Official low was 21.1 degrees at an early hour Monday, with Sunday’s high reaching 38. max. A gradual warmup is expected Monday as data from the Civil Aeronautics Authority at Selman airport confirms the readings.
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Monroe
Civil Aeronautics Association
Selman Airport
Want Ad ActionRent Buy Sell Big Crowds
Notice urges readers to place want ads in the News Star World for rentals and sales. It promotes the economy plan and pay only for days published. Ads may be telephoned in and collected by carrier the next day.
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