Lewis case exposes flaws in labor law and Senate inaction
The piece critiques the Lewis controversy, argues the Senate dodged reform of labor relations laws, and cites the 1940 House committee findings on Communist influence in the labor board. It warns that Wagner Act debates were misused to shield a few powerful leaders, while widespread strikes threaten national stability.
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Senate
Lewis
United States
Communist Party
Roosevelt
Frank Murphy
Henry Wallace
Sidney Hillman
Laugha
Zver
Harold Ink
St. Tobin
Teamsters’ Union
House of Representative
Harvard W. Smith
Virginia
Labor Relations Board
Washington
Suspect Held in Peep-Hole Death in Liverpool
Police in Liverpool announced the arrest of a 31 year-old ship's baker in the peep-hole slaying of Ella Staunton a 30 year old former British racing contest winner. Investigators said two detectives heard a scream through a ceiling peep hole before finding Staunton dead in her manicure salon. The baker's identity was not released.
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Liverpool
Ella Staunton
Busy program planned in Twin Cities Sunday events
A busy Sunday features a Knights of Columbus testimonial dinner at Hotel Frances noon honoring Bishop Charles P. Greco and Chaplain Joseph O Callahan. The bishop will lead morning mass at St Paschal's West Monroe and St Matthew's Monroe at 4 pm. O Callahan speaks at 2 pm at Northeast Junior College. Large crowds expected from Shreveport and Alexandria. Fifth District veterans invited for 3 pm Ouachita Parish event.
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Twin Cities
Knights of Columbus
Hotel Frances
Charles P. Greco
Alexandria
Joseph O'Callahan
U. S. Naval Reserve
Franklin
St. Paschal’s Church
West Monroe
St. Matthew's Church
Monroe
O'Callahan
T. O. Brown
Northeast Junior College
Shreveport
Fifth District
Veterans’ Organizations
Ouachita
Nimitz Acknowledges Unrestricted WW II Submarine Policy
In a deposition at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz says the United States ordered unrestricted submarine and air warfare against Japan on December 7, 1941. He notes U S submarines limited rescue to avoid mission risk and that later reprisals were not ordered, despite Japanese atrocities against survivors.
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Nuernberg
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
International Military Tribunal
United States
Japan
Karl Doenitz
Germany
Atlantic
Doenitz
Nimitz
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Louisiana approves bonds for World War II veterans bonuses
The House introduced an $80 million bond plan to fund veteran bonuses of $100 to $300. A companion bill would fund veteran education programs with $75,000 yearly. The session stayed quiet aside from committee referrals and future mayoral power reforms in New Orleans.
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Baton Rouge
House
Clyde F. Bel
New Orleans
Senate
Bill Dodd
Allen Parish
Education Department
Ambrose Smith
Smith
Clyde Bel
Louisiana State Senate
Louisiana
William Gruber
Schirach links Ford book to his anti Semitism defense
Baldur von Schirach testified before the international military tribunal that Henry Ford’s book The International Jew influenced his anti Semitism. He said Ford was regarded as a symbol and his views taken seriously and cited the book as a factor in his shift. Ford associates disputed authorship and pledged to prevent misuse of Ford’s name.
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League To
New York
Henry Ford
Ford
Samuel Untermyer
League
Germany
Dearborn
E.G. Liebold
Geoffrey Lawrence
Schirach
Louisiana to Get New Rainy Spell
The U S weather bureau forecasts thunderstorms and showers for Louisiana and Mississippi. Scattered showers are expected this afternoon and tonight in parts of west and north Louisiana and north and west central Mississippi with more widespread rain tomorrow.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Mississippi
U. S. Weather Bureau
Baby Deaths Investigated Across GI Brideships
Reports from New York and Paris detail multiple infant deaths aboard the GI brideships Ze bulon Vance and Brazil with investigations into overcrowding and unsanitary conditions aboard the vessels. A five month old girl Vivian Smith died in Pittsburgh after arriving with her mother from the Brazil voyage last Sunday. Robert Ball, nine weeks old, died in Paris as doctors cited malnutrition developing into pneumonia.
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New York
Pittsburgh
Vivian Smith
Howard Smith
Burbank
Calif
S. S. Brazil
Brazil
G. I
Zebulon Vance
SS Private Fleps Admits Firing First at Malmedy
In a Dachau courtroom report dated May 23, SS private George Fleps says he fired the first shot at American prisoners after orders to “bump off the Americans.” The statement was read during the trial of 74 former SS men for murder at the Malmedy field, part of the Ardennes battle.
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Fleps
Malmedy
Winchester
Hans Liptrott
House Navy Battle Nears Over Fleet Size
Washington May 23 The House prepared for a clash over postwar naval strength with two rival ship-count plans. One calls for 1079 ships 319 active 73 ready reserve and 687 inactive while the other would require 965 ships 291 active 42 reserve and 632 inactive. Both factions push cash and authority figures to support their totals and the debate moves to the floor. Vinson vows to restore hundreds of millions in cash and contract authority to save 114 ships.
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Washington
House
Naval Committee
Navy Department
Budget Bureau
Appropriations Committee
Navy
Naval
Appropriations
Vinson
Georgia
Representative Sheppard
California
National Finance
Sheppard
Vehicle license sales rise in early 1946 figures
Louisiana reports total vehicle license sales for the first two months of 1946 at 268,622 up 6,535 from 1945. Auto mobile plate sales fell to 274,840 from 284,879. gains came from trucking and other vehicle categories. Gross receipts increased from 2,783,838 to 3,387,712.
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Baton Rouge
State Revenue Department
Government recaptures Changchun after four day battle
National troops entered Changchun at 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. the city was declared retaken after fighting Communist remnants. Gen Tu Li Ming said resistance was overcome and Gen Cheng Tung Kuo's First Army moved into the capital of Manchuria. Communists retreated toward Yungki 60 miles east.
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Mukden
Changchun
Tu Li-Ming
China
Manchuria
Cheng Tung-Kuo
First
Yungki
Kirin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kuomintang
Cheng
War bride will live in Bastrop
Charles A. McKay Sr Missouri Pacific engineer and wife prepare to welcome a second war bride daughter in law to their home at 307 Orange Street She arrives June 1 in New York on the Henry Gibbons from Bristol England to join her husband ex Sergeant Charles A McKay Jr married March 10 1945 The couple will move to Bastrop where he works for International Paper Company and has an apartment He served four and a half years and went to England in 1943 as part of the first army headquarters company His bride is daughter of M Chate a retired transatlantic steward Their other son S3c Griffin R McKay 19 enlisted in 1943 and served in the navy and signal corps during Peleliu and Okinawa invasions and was married
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Charles A. McKay
Missouri- Pacific
Orange Street
New York
Henry Gibbons
Kathleen M. Chate
Bristol
England
McKays
Charles A. McKay, Jr
Monroe
States
Bastrop
International Paper Company
Charles A., Jr
Headquarters Company
First Army
M. Chate
Griffin R. McKay
Navy
Signal Corps
Peleliu
Okinawa
Denials Reached On Claim Of Shot Down US Planes
On May 23 in Peiping United States Army and Marine Corps leaders rejected a Moscow report that seven American planes were shot down in Manchuria during bombing runs. Brigadier General Henry A. Byroade said the U S Army has no tactical air force in China and only unarmed transports for logistics. Major General Keller E Rockey stated the Marines have no planes in Manchuria.
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China
Manchuria
Keller E. Rockey
United States
Strike Set For 4 P M By Rail Brotherhoods
The White House summoned rail management negotiators to confer with President Truman as 250 000 trainmen and engineers faced a 4 p m strike. Labor and management debated an 18 1/2 cent hourly wage offer and possible embargo responses were outlined to keep essential supplies moving.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Brotherhood
John J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Alvanley Johnston
A. F. Whitney
John R. Steelman
Steelman
New York
Thomas J. Harkins
Engineers
Mayflower Hotel
Johnston
Whitney
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Eben Ayers
Indian recipient rewarded after flowery praise to U S secretary
M P Sharma of Harrai in Narsinghpur district sent a flattering letter to the U S secretary of the interior praising the country and requesting useful literature and maps. The response included free pamphlets and a map set sent to India.
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Washington
U. S
India
Secretary of Interior
M. P. Sharma
United States Department of Interior
Sharma
Harrai
Narsinghpur
C. P
Shangri la
P. S. Sahis Sharma
Japanese royal tax immunity ends after Allied decree
Allied authorities stripped most of Japan's imperial family of tax immunity and public funding. Emperors Hirohito and core members remain exempt while 14 princely families face taxation on property valued at over 50 million yen. 8 million yen in securities held by the imperial treasury will be returned and taxed.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hirohito
Chichibu
Takamatsu
Mikasa
Higashi-Kuni
MacArthur
Imperial Household Treasury
Jennings
Imperial Treasury
Imperial Household
Tojo Slapper Too Ill to Be Tried
Shumei Okawa the war crimes defendant who slapped ex Premier Tojo is too ill to stand trial. A medical board said Okawa and former foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka are both sick and unable to attend hearings. The tribunal ordered continued treatment at an army hospital until further ruling.
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Tokyo
Shumei Okawa
Tojo
Okawa
Yosuke Matsuoka
Los Angeles Holds Phantom Suspect
Ralph B. Baumann a 21 year old man described as a former army air forces gunner was booked in central jail on suspicion of murder after being questioned by detectives in connection with Texarkana area slayings. He was arrested after writing notes about the Texarkana killings and handing them to the Los Angeles Examiner. Baumann said he hitchhiked from Texarkana and had only been in Los Angeles a few hours. He claimed to have been in a coma during the period of the slayings.
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Los Angeles
Ralph B. Baumann
Army Air Forces
Central Jail
F. A. Rahrman
T. L. Kelly
Texarkana
Texas
Baumann
Los Angeles Examiner
Kelly
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