Pross Union Plot Claimed for Wine and Liquor Post
Westbrook Pegler reports in a Dec 17 Beverage Retailers Weekly story that Benjamin F. Pross, longtime AFL union official, seeks a charter for a wine and liquor post with George J. Oneto as figurehead. The piece details Pross criminal history, alleged grafts, and resistance from Maurice Stember of the American Legion and industry players.
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New York
Beverage Retailers Weekly
Liquor Industry
Pross
Planning Legion Post
Benjamin F. Pross
Wine, Liquor and Distillery Workers’ Union
American Federation of Labor
Wine and Liquor Post
George J. Oneto
Union
France
Oneto
Maurice Stember
American Legion
Stember
Legion
A. F. of
York
A. F. of L
F. of L
Press
Fred H. Bryant
Fecial
Atlanta
Annion
Nowecome
California
Lon
S Company
Ant
Want Ads How to Place Rentals and Sales in The News Star World
Phone 400 for want ads and place ads for big rental and buying crowds. Use the economy plan and pay only for days published. Ads may be telephoned in and a carrier will collect the next day.
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TAN
News‘Star—World
Hope Slim For Entombed Miners In Kentucky Mine
Rescue crews progress toward the explosion blocked Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Mine tunnel near Pineville as fire gas fumes and debris hinder efforts. Officials report 30 to 50 miners trapped with slim chances of survival as teams penetrate 1.5 miles from the entrance while flames burn 3,100 feet in.
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Pineville
Jinich
Westerday
Kentucky Straight Creek
Transfer of Smaller War Plants duties to RFC and Commerce
President Truman ordered the transfer of Smaller War Plants Corporation functions to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the commerce department. Maury Maverick will survey Pacific small business trade in the Philippines, China, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, aiming to stimulate international small business links. The RFC will absorb lending and surplus activities, while the commerce department handles surveying needs and technical assistance. About 80 percent of Maverick’s 1150 staff work in tending and surplus disposal. The SWPC becomes part of RFC and Commerce Department, with abolition effective January 28.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
War Plants Corporation
Commerce Department
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Maury Maverick
Pacific
Maverick
San Antonio
Congress
Philippines
China
Korea
Australia
New Zealand
United States
State Department
White House
SWPC
RFC
Chinese Reds propose unconditional truce in civil war
The Chinese Communists said they delivered a formal written proposal for an unconditional cease fire on all fronts to the government at Chungking. The two hour session with three government representatives was the first formal contact since November 17. The plan calls for a cease fire, peaceful settlement of civil war issues, and deployment of inter party observers to fronts. Government reps promised to forward the proposal to Chiang Kai-Shek for consideration.
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Chungking
China
National Military Council
Chiang Kai-Shek
Merger fight to be resumed in January hearings
The House expenditures committee will reopen hearings in mid January on a unified command bill for a single national defense department with under secretaries for war navy and air. The May Vinson plan would keep separate war and navy secretaries and a separate air arm. Randolph cites cases of bid competition causing delays and costs, detailing four specific instances from 1944 to 1945.
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Washington
House Expenditures Committee
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Department of National Defense
War
Navy
Air
Truman
May
Kentucky
Military Committee
Carl Vinson
Georgia
Naval Committee
Army
Randolph
H. Struve Hensel
Hensel
W. W. McFarland Company
Miami
Fla
Detroit
War Production Board
Haslett Chute and Conveyor Company
Oakes
Berlin slayings of two U.S. soldiers prompt house search
Berlin reports say U.S. military authorities and German police hunted for the gunmen who killed two American soldiers on Christmas Eve near Tempelhof air field. One victim was found in the street, another died earlier. A German actor Fritz Herberholtz also linked to the case amid witness accounts from theater workers.
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Berlin
Tempel-Hof
Tagard Grossa
Fritz Herberholtz
Anhalter Station
Margot Mous
Herberholtz
Ishets
Herbernoltz
Plans for stronger action to quell Java strife
Lt General Sir Philip Christison told Indonesian leaders in Batavia he would take more active measures to restore order in Java and requested command over any Indonesian peace preservation corps units needed to aid British troops. He met with Premier Sjahir and Information Minister Amir Sharifuddin as fighting flared in Bandoeng and other towns including Soerabaja and Semarang.
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Batavia
Java
Philip Christison
Netherlands East Indies
Strifetorn
Indonesian Peace Preservation Corps
TKR
Christison
Sutan Sjahrir
Amir Sharifuddin
Bandoeng
Soerabaja
Semarang
Sjahrrr
Sjarifuddin
London
Willem Schermerhorn
Netherlands
Accumulating Gas Blamed in Santa Barbara Blast
Five people died and five were injured in a blast that leveled a bottling plant apartment building in Santa Barbara. Authorities tentatively blamed accumulating gas, with fire officials noting possible ignition by a truck exhaust. Witness Ed Tyler described the ceiling collapsing as firefighters worked through ruins.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
John D. Johnson
Rusty
Francis Watson McClain
Mildred Watson
Carolyn Sue Stovall
Claude Stovall
Ed Tyler
Elva
C. L. Tenney
Anthony Berta
Truman plans nation wide radio address after holidays
President Truman ends his Christmas holiday at home and says he will speak to the nation in a radio address in early January outlining his legislative program including labor and universal training. A state of the union message may follow in person from Capitol Hill.
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Kansas City
Truman
Congress
White House
Capitol Hill
Washington
Caronel Henry T. Myers
Myers
Railroads delay rate adjustments under court injunction
The Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington authorized indefinite postponement of the May 15 freight rate changes. The move aligns with a federal court injunction blocking a 10 percent class rate increase in Northern and Eastern states and a corresponding decrease in the South and West. The order was to take effect January 1.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
LC. C
Utica
N. Y
Threats of Two Huge Strikes Darken Labor Picture
Reports warn of a possible nationwide walkout by 500000 electrical and telephone workers. C I O United Electrical workers plan a key meeting January 5 after December 13 authorization for a $2 a day wage rise, with Westinghouse General Electric and General Motors in talks and possible federal mediation. Picket lines and wage demands loom as Detroit hearings resume on government fact-finding.
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Associated Press
Electrical and Telephone Company
C. I
New York
Western Electric Company
New York-New Jersey
Westinghouse
General Electric
General Motors
C. I. O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Edgar L. Warren
General Electrical
National Federation of Telephone Workers
New Jersey
Mayer
Bell System
Western Electric
Western Electric Workers
Joseph A. Beirne
W. F
Chicago
Baltimore
Haverhill Mass
San Francisco
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Washington
C. I. O United Auto Workers
Four-Power Rule For Japs Decided
An unidentified hitchhiker shot and killed two men and critically wounded a third near Lutcher Louisiana early today. Victims are Corporal Irvin A. Pincus of New Orleans and a second man identified as Walter Smith. the wounded is Owen W. Ray of Electra Texas. Ray is in serious condition at a New Orleans naval hospital. The gunman fled after driving the car to Gramercy and changing clothes.
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Lutcher
J. P. Pollet
Pollet
Cpl
Irvin A. Pincus
New Orleans
Walter Smith
Naval Hospital
Owen W. Ray
E. Roosevelt Street
Electra
Tex
Gramercy
Ray
New Star May Change Flag
Secretary Ickes recommendation to admit Hawaii as the 49th state triggers a flag change. A new 49-star design will be decided by the president with military design input, officially taking effect on the first July 4 after admission.
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Washington
Hawaii
Ickes
U. S
Library of Congress
Army
Navy
Japanese war criminal Tsuchiya gets life sentence in Yokohama
Tatsuo Tsuchiya, a prison camp guard, is sentenced to life with hard labor by a U S war crimes commission, instead of death, for torturing and killing Pfc. Robert Gordon Teas. The proceeding also advances, with Lt. Ken Yuri and Lt. Chotora Furushima set for subsequent trials. Jiro Watanabe, defense counsel, expresses gratitude for the fairness.
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Yokohama
U. S
Tatsuo Tsuchiya
Robert Gordon Teas
Streator
Ken Yuri
Chotora Furushima
Hideki Tojo
Jiro Watanabe
Tsuchi
Five Year Trusteeship For Korea Also Reported Approved
London dispatches report Secretary Byrnes announcing Big Three agreement on an atomic plan and a five year trusteeship for Korea. London says four power rule for Japan and council control, with possible MacArthur authority. Details unclear, communique due at 9 p.m. CST.
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Korea
London
Byrnes
Moscow
Japan
United States
Russia
Great Britain
China
Washington
United Nations Security Council
Postmaster and woman abducted near Pontiac
Sandusky Mich Dee 27 two men abducted postmaster Horace Parrish and a postal clerk Helen Shillinger after leaving the Sandusky post office they were bound gagged driven to a tourist camp near Pontiac bound and gagged with sheets Parrish and Shillinger freed themselves after a 15 minute struggle and reported $28 stolen Wyse and Townsend both 25 were in custody awaiting sentence for armed robbery of a Tyre post office Townsend drove the car and Vyse rode in front seat police joined the search for the fugitives.
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Sandusky
Mich
Dee
Horace Parrish
Pontiac
Roland L. Meredith
Parrish
J. C. Wyse
Charles Townsend
Sanilac
Wyse
Tyre
Helen E. Shillinger
Miss Shillinger
Meredith
Townsend
Vyse
Edward K. Thomas
Oakland County
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Cookie
Dickie
Mildred Mason
Henry Gleich
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