Government price issue looms in GM strike talks
A government fact finding panel entered GM wage talks as the White House weighs whether to include price considerations in any suggested wage increase. The move follows a CIO Oil Workers Union dispute being studied by a similar panel, with an adjournment to Friday to allow President Truman to seal the administration’s stance on price factors.
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Washington
General Motors
White House
C. I. O.oil Workers Union
Truman
Higher Prices Work Hardship Good Fellows Donations
The Good Fellows fund shows total donations of 1945.70 with many supporters listed, and notes belief that post war prosperity masked need. The article explains early optimism gave way to a surge of aid requests as Christmas approached and welfare checks were cut, leaving many unable to meet basic needs.
Carousel and its flaws seen through a critic’s gaze
A New York reviewer recalls attending Carousel noting themes of manipulation ambition and class. The piece criticizes the hero a baker who profits from others misfortune and a plot where poverty and exploitation drive tragedy. The article references moral critique and compares stage to modern theater offerings.
Rent Buy Or Sell It Ad Promo For Want Ads
Advertising notice urging readers to place want ads for rentals sales and purchases. Includes phone number 4800 and an economy plan with pay for actual days published. Mentions cash with order and convenience option to telephon e in ads with carrier pickup next day.
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Newstar
Severe cold wave grinds the nation with heavy snowfall
A frigid mass from the middle west pushes southeast driving temperatures down by 10 to 15 degrees in many areas. Snow exceeds eight inches across western Pennsylvania New York Ohio valley to Illinois as a southern sleet and snow storm ends. Land O Lakes Wisconsin records 23 below zero with other cities like North Platte and Oklahoma City seeing deep freezes.
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Associated Press
Middle West
Mercury
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio Valley
Illinois
Virginia
Mid-West
Land O'Lakes
Wis
Nebraska
Texas
North Platte
Nebr
Oklahoma City
Amarillo
Tex
Kansas City
Buffalo
N.Y
Amery Hanged for Treason in London
John Amery, 34, son of a former British cabinet member, was executed at Wandsworth prison for high treason after broadcasting Nazi propaganda. He was the fifth British civilian to die for treason in World War II, hanged by Albert Pierrepont as witnesses looked on under a drizzly dawn.
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London
John Amery
Wandsworth
Europe
William
Lord Haw Haw
Albert Pierrepont
Josef Kramer
Belsen
Germany
Amery
L. 8. Amery
India
Admiralty
Quisling Amery
Una Wing
Pearl Harbor probe fate in doubt amid ongoing hearings
Washington report on December hearings notes Senate and House investigators reviewing whether to extend the five week inquiry beyond January. Senator Barkley says decision to extend may trigger a congressional fight while Senator Ferguson pushes for a longer probe. Committee staff may resign in January as talks continue.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Congress
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate House
United States
Ferguson
Michigan
Wiliam D. Mitchell
Lucas
General Leonard Wing Dies in Vermont at 52
Major General Leonard F. Wing died at his Vermont home after a heart attack. He led the 43rd Division in four Pacific campaigns and landed in Japan with MacArthur’s occupation forces. A respected Vermont lawyer, he served from brigadier to major general, leaving a widow, two sons, and a daughter.
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Rutland
Leonard F. Wing
43Rd
Pacific
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Bee
Wing
Solomons
New Guinea
Luzon
National Guard
Vermont
Price Upholds Press Freedom in Wartime Censorship Critique
Price argues free editorial opinion is a foundation of government and censorship should be limited to wartime needs. He notes voluntary censorship can be as effective as compulsory rules and cites cases where censored information aided military and economic goals. He previously led AP coverage and later joined the MPPDA as a senior executive.
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Washington
Byron Price
Truman
Price
White House
Associated Press
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
United States
U.S
Great Britain
Canada
North Africa
Casablanca
War Production Board
Mexico
Woman to lead $32 million Fifth Avenue store firm
Miss Dorothy Shaver, first vice-president of Lord and Taylor since 1937, elected president of the $32,000,000 Fifth Avenue Store Corp, becoming the first woman to head a department store of such size. She succeeds Walter Hoving, who resigns after 16 years to pursue a national merger of department stores and retailers.
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New York
Dorothy Shaver
Lord and Taylor
Fifth Avenue Store Corporation
Shaver
Walter Hoving
Louisiana State University board chairman L. DeBaillon dies
Daniel DeBaillon 58 opposition prominent Lafayette attorney and banker who chaired the LS U board of supervisors died at Touro Infirmary New Orleans after weeks of illness. A Lafayette native he founded the Lafayette Bar Association and was first president of both the 15th judicial district bar association and the Louisiana Bar Association. He had been appointed to the LSU board on July 9 1940 by Gov Sam Jones and was part of a post scandal overhaul of the board.
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New Orleans
Daniel DeBaillon
Lafayette
Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors
Touro
DeBaillon
Louisiana
Paul DeBaillon
First National Bank of Lafayette
Lafayette Bar Association
15Th Judicial District Bar Association
Louisiana Bar Association
Tulane University Law Review Committee
Sam Jones
Jones
Earl K. Long
Wainwright To Testify At Homma War Crimes Trial
General Jonathan M. Wainwright will depose as a principal witness in the war crimes trial of Lieutenant General Masa Haru Homma, charged with responsibility for the Bataan death march and related deaths. Homma’s trial opens January 3 before Major General Leo B. Donovan.
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Manila
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Masa Haru Homma
Wainwright
Military Commission
Homma
Bataan
Frank E. Meek
Leo B. Donovan
Military Trial Commission
Meek
Japan
Korea
China
Donovan
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
Yamashita
United States Supreme Court
Jackson Man Describes Yamashita Killer Treatment
Jackson man and former Central High tackle Tomo yuki Yamashita describes brutal acts by General Yamashita while he was a prisoner of war. He recounts beatings, a beheading, and harsh discipline, noting his own injuries and a wish to join the Jackson police if accepted.
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Jackson
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Bobbie Edward Griffin
Tiger of
Malaya
Central High School
Tiger
Bilibid
Yamashita
Konoye Memoir Says U S Willing to Meet Before War
Ex-premier Konoye writes that U S warnings on July 21 1941 about Japan occupying French Indochina strained peace talks yet as August neared both nations still seemed closest to averting war. He notes Roosevelt proposed a three day meeting with Emperor Hirohito's consent and Amb Nomura delivered the plan but later cooled.
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Marlin Spencer
Tokyo
United States
Japan
French Indochina
Frumimare Koenove
Sumner Welles
U. S
Associated Press
Konoye
Konove
Nomura
Roosevelt
Prince Konoye
Big Three discuss Japan control in secret talks
Moscow dispatch reports Molotov hosted Byrnes and Bevin for lunch at Speridnisk Palace as atomic bomb issues tops the agenda. Byrnes and Bevin planned talks with Stalin after courtesy calls with Catroux and the Chinese envoy, with Japan control a key topic under exploration.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
Speridoniska Palace
United States
Byrnes
Stalin
Bevin
Georges Catroux
Russia
Spasso House
Y. A. Malik
Japan
U. S
John Carter Vincent
State Department
James B. Conant
Vincent
Prison camp guards accused in fatal beating of U S prisoner
At Yokohama a U S military commission heard testimony in the trial of Guard Tatsuo Tsuchiya for the murder of Pfc. Robert Gordon Teas of Streator Illinois. Witnesses described repeated beatings with hardwood canes and a rope while Teas was held in Mitsushima camp hospital the day before he died in March 1943.
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Yokohama
U. S
Japan
Tatsuo Tsuchiya
Robert Gordon Teas
Streator
Red Cross
Mitsushima
Charles B. Gavord
Deming
N. M
Gavard
Tsuchiya
Teas
Bataan
Mushmouth
Little Glass Eye
Post Office Reports Heavier Tuesday Mail Cancellations
Monroe post office reported higher first class letter and Christmas card cancellations on Tuesday than Monday. George Hollingsworth, superintendent of mails, said Tuesday cancellations reached 83,000. Parcel post receipts were similar to Monday, with windows remaining open each night this week to serve the public.
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Se Monroe
George Hollingsworth
Truman proposes unified national defense department
President Truman calls for merging the army and navy into a single defense department with an air force equal to land and sea forces. He proposes a civilian-led structure with a chief of staff and separate commanders for army, navy, and air, rotating chief of staff among services when possible. He rejects further studies and urges universal military training.
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Washington
Truman
Army
Navy
Department of National Defense
War Department
Congress
Senate
Defense Department
Air
Secretary of Defense
Department
Forrestal
Trueman
Kidnapping hoax case ends in murder charge for mother
Chelsea Massachusetts medical examiner reports six month old Ronald Carlay died from asphyxiation and acute respiratory infection. He notes possible suffocation when the infant turned face down in his crib. Mother Rose Carlan, wife of a Navy man, is jailed on murder charges and held for psychiatric observation.
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Chelsea
Mass
William J. Brickley
Ronald Careley
Brickley
New England
Wiliam J. Foley
Rose Carlan
Boston Psychopathic Hospital
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