Mass marches mocked as organized political theater in Albany
In a critical overview the author denounces mass marches linked to the CIO and New York state council, likening them to Mussolini's Rome. He recalls past protest methods, questions spontaneity, and warns unions may endanger religious freedom if political pressure escalates.
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New York
New York State Council
Dooley
Supreme Court
Albany
Juvenile American Veterans’ Committee
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Sisterhood
Jacob Coxey
Washington
Phillip Murray
St. Patrick's Cathedral
House of Worship
iGana
National Maritime Union
Industrial Workers of the World
Judge to rule on portal claims affecting millions in pay
Federal Judge Frank A. Picard faces decisions on portal-to-portal pay after the Supreme Court remanded the Mt. Clemens case. He will determine overtime eligibility for workers who were required to be ready before paid hours, with total claims exceeding 455 million dollars across CIO and AFL unions. The judge noted individual circumstances will guide each award and estimated a ruling in two to three weeks.
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Detroit
Frank A. Picard
Picard
A. F. of L. Union
High Court
Supreme Court
Mr. Clemens
U S Ship Ordered Out of Dairen by Russian Officials
A U S navy vessel LC-31090 left Dairen after a verbal ultimatum from Russian military officials claiming consequences if it remained beyond 20 minutes. Russian troops have controlled Dairen since Japan's surrender, despite a 1945 Chinese Russian free port arrangement. The courier mission carried diplomatic mail to the U S consulate. two correspondents were allowed aboard to cover developments. The state department had no comment on the ultimatum.
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William H. Newton
Combined World Press
Dairen
Manchuria
United States Navy
U. S
World Press
Washington
State Department
Charles M. Cooke
Seventh Fleet
Cooke
Anchorage
Quads' Father Seeks Names As Family Grows
Charles Henn Jr and his British wife welcome quadruplets three boys and a girl after a wartime marriage in England. The births occurred at St. Agnes Hospital with no anesthesia in 55 minutes. Mother in good condition and the quads placed in oxygenated incubators, doctor says survival very good. The couple already have a 15 month old son Johnny.
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Baltimore
Charles Henn, Jr
Thomas J. Bowyer
St. Agnes Hospital
Johnny
England
Henn
84Th Division
Dorothy Geast
Ellen McAdoo Hinshaw Dies By Poison in Santa Monica
Ellen McAdoo De Onate Hinshaw a 31 year old tele phone operator and former White House child, died in Santa Monica Hospital after calling a friend I have done it. Authorities said she was despondent over shared custody of her son Billy 6 and had two marriages and divorces. Her mother Eleanor Wilson McAdoo and sister Faith Thackwell live in West Los Angeles.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Ellen McAdoo de Onate Hinshaw
White House
Woodrow Willson
Santa Monica Hospital
Sid Cherniss
Leon Kahn
Hinshaw
Funeral Held for Talmadge in Georgia
Eugene Talmadge, governor elect and white supremacist campaigner, was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery near his McRae farm after a state funeral in First Baptist Church. More than 19,000 filed past the casket as 10,000 mourners were expected for final rites.
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M’rae
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Oak Grove Cemetery
First Baptist Church
Atlanta
Talmadge
Forsyth
Women’s Republican Club of Georgia
Ku Klux Klan
Ellis Arnall
Little Baptist Church
Feast Day Honors Mother Cabrini Canonization
St Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American saint canonized, honored at solemn mass in New York with Pope Pius XII blessing read. Shrine body in Cabrini High School chapel. attendees from U S and South America. Cabrini founded 67 houses and hospitals. hospital construction begins in Alexandria with groundbreaking for a $1,000,000 facility.
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New York
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Pius XII
Mother Cabrini High School
United States
South America
Italy
New York City
Chicago
125000 Children Entertained at German Red Cross Parties
In Frankfurt on December 23 the Red Cross reports over 125000 German and displaced children plus American dependents are being helped with Christmas parties. Each child receives a gift package of candy gum soap toothbrush and toothpaste from surplus stocks at American Red Cross clubs.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Red Cross
Pope Calls Holy Union of All Christians in Appeal
Pope Pius XII urged a Holy Union of Rome Italy and the Christian world to overcome hostility in a mass in St Peter's Square. He condemned deniers of Christ and ruiners of holy things while security surrounded the crowd amid anti clerical Italian press attacks and threats to Catholic editors.
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Vatican City
St. Peter’s Square
Pius XII
Christ
Don Basilio
Willing Hands Fill Baskets for Good Fellows Distribution
Willing workers at Central Grammar School packed clothing toys and food for Christmas aid. City trucks will deliver Tuesday morning and afternoon through Monroe and West Monroe to ensure destitute families receive cheer. Included are last minute letters from families seeking help for their twelve member households.
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Central Grammar School
Good Fellows
City of Monroe
City of West Monroe
Southern cotton industry recovers from sharp October break
New Orleans Dec 23 The southern cotton industry shows substantial recovery from October's 50 per bale price drop. Brokers note rising demand and reduced speculation, with middling spot cotton around 33.05 cents, and market sentiment turning toward a higher prices trend into 1947.
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New Orleans
Quake Death Toll Tops Thousand in Japan Disaster
Tokyo reports 1 125 killed with 2 700 total dead missing and injured as thousands endure freezing conditions near wrecked homes in Shi koku and Wakayama. Relief crews distribute food clothing and medical aid while U S forces confirm no fatalities among personnel in Wakayama.
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Japan
Pacific Ocean
Shikoku
Tokyo
Home Ministry
Shikoku Island
Wakayama Peninsula
Kyodo
Manchurian
Robert L. Eichelberger
U. S. Eighth Army
Army
Kochi
Honshu
Taft Plans to Seek Labor Committee Chairmanship
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio said he will ask for the chairmanship of the Senate labor committee when Republicans organize for their new majority on December 30. He will remain on the finance committee and hopes to keep as head of the Republican steering committee.
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Jack Bell Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate Labor Committee
Taft
Labor Post
Labor Committee
Congress
Aiken
Vermont
Gearhart urges probe into reciprocal trade program effects
Rep. Gearhart of California called for a sweeping inquiry by the new Republican Congress into Democratic foreign trade and tariff policy. He blamed reciprocal pacts for hurting agriculture and warned against becoming a dumping ground for world surpluses after other nations resume production.
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Washington
Congress
Gearhart
Calif
House
Ways and Means Committee
Commissioners of Agriculture
South
America
Attacks on Hanoi City Hall and Courthouses Reported
French troops bombarded Hanoi as they fought for control of the capital. The Franco-Vietnamese battle left 29 French civilians dead, with reports of brutal mutilation. French engineering crews tried to restore power and water as the siege continued.
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Paris
Hanoi
Rue Coton
Boulevard Gambetta
Tonkin
Annam
Viet-Nam
Ho Chi Minh
Marius Moutet
Blum
Moutet
Orly
France Presse
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
Indo- China
Saigon
Cochinchina
Johnson attacks universal military training proposal
Senator Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado denounces universal military training as an un-American plan that would impose martial and moral decay on youth. He argues Congress is split on conscription and warns the commission report could shift opinion. He urges defense to rely on intelligence and nonmilitary means rather than coercive arms training.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
Colorado
Karl T. Compton
Truman
Advisory Commission On Universal Training
Coloradoan
Senate Military Committee
Johnson
Compton
Congress
Commission
Compton Group
Civilian Advisory Commission On Universal
Russia
Latin America
Rome
United States
Spare Stamp 53 Allows Five Pounds Sugar Start Jan 1
OPA announced spare stamp No 53 will be valid for five pounds of sugar beginning January 1 and could trigger another ration by April 30. The agency expects the 1947 sugar crop to allow an extra five pounds per person and notes a possible total of 20 pounds on regular stamps. Home canning stamps provide five pounds each, with two issued in 1946.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
Most of Nation Won't Get Snow for Christmas
The Chicago weather bureau reports no substantial snowfall for Christmas across most of the country. Present snow cover is confined to North Dakota, Montana, parts of South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and northern New England. No additional snow is expected by Christmas morning, with some areas like Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia likely to see melt by tomorrow evening. Temperatures in the Midwest, once up to 50 degrees in Kansas City, are expected to return to normal as a cold front advances from the Dakotas.
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Associated Press
Chicago Weather Bureau
Santa Claus
Santa
North Dakota
Montana
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
New England
Weather Bureau
Midwest
Kansas City
Dakotas
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