Indonesians Beaten Back as Java Tensions Rise
A British Indian force repelled a 1,000 strong Indonesian assault near Batavia, with casualties on both sides. Dutch troops also repelled attackers at Tililitan airfield, while Magelang residents fled fear as Nationalists mobilize. Soekarno plans talks in Jogjakarta with 100,000 troops reported.
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New York
FE. C. Mansergh
Aneta Today
Soerabaia
Java
Batavia
Ipi
Tililitan
Tijiklitan
Magelang
Soekarno
Jogjakarta
the Indies
Supryadi
Netherlands East
Long Beach Mayor Proclaims Plumbing Exam Board a Monopoly
Theodore Ornstein, mayor of Long Beach New York, condemned a local plumbing examining board as a monopoly that blocks competitive bidding. He urges others with authority to investigate and notes a public health guise masking a $1000 newcomer fee and barriers to entry by outside contractors.
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New York
Theodore Ornstein
Long Beach
N. Y
Department of Indignation
Honor
Jury panel seated in Elmore Redman aggravated battery case
In district court five jurors were chosen for the Orville Elmore and Lamon Redman aggravated battery trial. The selection began Wednesday and extended into Thursday with jurors J G Sawyer Max Wilbanks Robert O Neal Walter Beal and D C Brothers. Additional talesmen were summoned as needed and Judge Gladney excused several prospective jurors including Petit Juror Clay Ellis who knew the defendant.
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Orville
Jimmy” Elmore
Lamon V. Redman
J. G. Sawyer
Max Wilbanks
Robert O'Neal
Walter Beal
D. C. Brothers
George W. Lester
Tree
Tales
Deputis Sheriffs
E. L. Gladnew
Unususl
Clay Ellis
Gladney
Orville Elmore
Ellis
Elmore
Army Navy merger opposed by Cooke in Senate hearing
Vice Admiral Charles M. Cooke Jr told a Senate military committee that a single U S department for both armies would have risked slower war progress. He warned integration could be revolutionary or catastrophic for the navy and cited recent strategic decisions as evidence of field chiefs’ warnings. In Bucharest, troops fired on mourners for King Mihai, killing or wounding six.
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Washington
Charles M. Cooke, Jr
U. S. Army
Navy
Senate Military Committee
Cooke
United States
U. S
War Department
Bucharest
Romania
King Minhat
West Monroe Gifts Listed for United War Fund
West Monroe residents and local businesses contribute to the United War Fund Chest drive. Donations include school personnel, teachers, and numerous individuals with amounts ranging from 2 cents to 1 dollar plus.
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West Monroe
United War Fund
United War Fund-Chest
W. R. Mitchell School
Aimee Cool
St. Thi. Fannie Oxford
Maida Walis
C. H. Tait
N. G. Elkins
T. J. White
T. H. Spurlock
John Moos
Orland Chapman
Kate McGuire
W. C. Minnear
B. B. Humphries
R. D. Luckett
J. E. Ware
Sidney Kart
T. C. Hembree
H. M. Fields
R. B Farmer
J. J. Shell Jr
R. E. Rushing
A. L Burson
Sybil Lovelady
Blanche
Rescuers Converge On Plane Victims In Luzon
Rescue parties from plane, ship, and ground routes moved toward the site in Eastern Luzon near Puerto Reol where 18 survivors await aid after a naval air transport C 54 crash en route to Manila Bay from Guam. Two more survivors reached an army outpost. Lt. Redding said several suffered heart injuries and two crew members had broken arms. Evacuation planned to Cavite navy hospital. Vice Admiral Kauffman denied reports that any high ranking personnel were aboard.
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Manila
Luzon
Puerto Reol
Manila Bay
Guam
Redding
Cavite
Adm
J. L. Kauffman
The
Philippines Sea Frontier
Truman orders full cooperation with Pearl Harbor probe
The White House released a memorandum directing all federal department and agency heads to provide the joint Congressional committee investigating Pearl Harbor with any information in their possession. It urges officials to come forward voluntarily if they have undisclosed information. The move follows partisan tensions as lawmakers debate the inquiry’s impartiality and effectiveness.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Joint Congressional Committee
Pearl Harbor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Armed Services
Joint Committee
George
Georgia
Brewster
Attempt to Kill Japan Home Minister in Tokyo
Two former kamikaze pilots with drawn knives attacked Home Minister Kenjiro Horikiri in the Tokyo Ministry halls as he returned from a police chiefs meeting. Horikiri, uninjured, called the attempt unimportant and tied unrest to deteriorating social conditions. He planned to visit a relief station housing vagrants and said such attacks may recur.
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Tokyo
Home Ministry
Associated Press
Nichols and seven others killed in Asmara crash
Navy and army officials report ten fatalities from a B 25 bomber crash at Asmara Eritrea. Among the dead are Jack Nichols vice president for international operations at Trans continental and Western Airlines and two TWA officials A J Naslor Milo H Campbell. Army crew names withheld pending relatives’ notification. Nichols had been in Cairo preparing TWA Middle East passenger service.
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Cairo
Navy
Jack Nichols
Transcontinental
Western Airlines
Asmara
Eritrea
U. S. Army
TWA
A. J. Naslor
Milo H. Campbell
Army
Addis Ababa
Nichols
Oklahoma
Cairy
Middle East
Pay Offer of G M Rejected by United Auto Workers
The United Auto Workers and GM negotiators neared a showdown as the union rejected GM's wage offer for a 3 percent rise in the motor industry and prepared for votes by the remaining workers in GM's big three. Early returns from the National Labor Relations board indicated strong union backing for the stoppage.
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United Automobile Workers
Motor
General Motors Corporation
Detroit
Earliesy GM
Rally
Two Men Sought In Abduction Case At San Francisco Home
San Francisco police searched for two men who allegedly forced entry into a Park Merced home and abducted a waif resembling missing Dickie Luden. Mrs Mildred Beer, wife of a navy commander, gave conflicting accounts and a search bulletin was issued.
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San Francisco
California
Dickie Tum Suden
Mildred Beer
Park Merced
Pacific
Joseph Donegan
Alfred Arnaud
Plan for Sabotage Foiled by German Spies
The 1942 German saboteurs were rounded up within 14 days after George Dasch confessed to the FBI. Dasch and Ernest Berger shifted plans after being confronted, revealing motives and details of the operation. The group faced military tribunals with sentences of death commuted for Dasch to 30 years and Berger to life.
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Washington
TWA
Tom Clark
George Dasch
J. Edgar Hoover
Ernest Berger
Sabuteurs
Dasch
United States
Germany
Berger
Roosevelt
Liberated Areas Get More Food in Oct Dec Allocation
Washington reports the United States will ship about 4 million tons of food to liberated areas in Europe and French North Africa for October through December, about 50 percent more than the prior quarter. Meat supplies rise but rationing of fats and oils may continue into 1946. sugar shortages persist into 1947.
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Washington
Europe
French North Africa
Anderson
Wheeler criticizes UN troop sharing plan in Senate debate
Senator Wheeler of Montana denounces a provision allowing the United States to negotiate security council troop agreements without ongoing congressional authorization. He warns this could commit U S forces without explicit congressional consent, while leaders like Connally and Vandenberg praise the measure's form and prospects. The bill advances from the Foreign Relations Committee toward the Senate and then the House.
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Washington
Wheeler
Montana
United States
United Nations Organization
Security Council
Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
Texas
Senate
House
George
Georgia
Vandenberg
Michigan
United Nations
International Peace Preserving Organization
Congress
Whitaker Case Without Clues Stumps Louisiana Sheriff
In Jonesboro Louisiana Sheriff Neil Thomas and deputies press to solve a five day old murder of Guy Whitaker 35 at a Chatham filling station. No suspect arrest by Thursday noon as clues remain scarce. The killer used a 22 caliber pistol. the widow recounts Whitaker rising when car lights flashed. A roundup of .22 pistols yields no solid evidence yet.
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Jonesboro
Neil Thomas
Guy Whitaker
Chatham
Whitaker
Thomas
Ready to Appear in LSU Probe
Civilian students at Louisiana State University medical school join today in a petition saying the school cannot continue without a satisfactory agreement with recently resigned faculty members. LSU faculty and students were set to appear before a board of supervisors committee examining the school’s difficulties.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Mate University Medical School
Worleans
Navy
Laura State University Medical School
Board of Supervisors
E. Monet Lanier
Baton Rouge
B. I. Burns
Wilbur C. Smith
Urban Maes
Department of Surgery
Communists Demand Apology From U S Commander in China
Chinese Communists at Yenan demand Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer apologize for alleged U S interference in China’s civil conflict and call for compensation. They want Nationalist troops withdrawn from liberated areas and warn of a coming all-out government offensive with 90 divisions massed in the north.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
China
Reds
Wedemeyer
Yenan
Honan
Hopeh
Chou En-Lai
Hulutao
Yingkow
Newchwang
Chou
Kuomintang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Chiatso
Henan
Yen Hsi-Shan
Shansi
Hu Tsung-Nan
Tao Shu-Sun
Tao
Hopeh Provine
Washington
Manchuria
Move to Kill Draft Hearing Sparks House Clash
The House military committee opened with a clash over postponing action on universal military training. Representative Short urged a vote to defer until next year, while Secretary Patterson argued for swift adoption to address atomic threats and maintain trained citizen-soldiers nationwide.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Short
Missouri
Robert P. Patterson
Truman
Senate
Kiday
Texas
House
Patterson
United States
Wage-Price Policy Faces Steel Company Rebuff
President Truman's wage-price policy faces a rebuff from United States Steel. Benjamin Fairless told Labor Secretary Schwellenbach the company will not resume talks with the CIO steel workers until government decisions on steel price increases are clear. He warned wage hikes would require further price rises unless OPA guarantees come simultaneously. Philip Murray of the CIO and United Steel Workers had agreed to resume bargaining under a special council, after Schwellenbach's proposal.
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Washington
Truman
United States Steel Corporation
OPA
Fairless
Philip Murray
The
C. SO
United Steel Workers
Schwellenbach
Murray
Mr. Truman
Pairless
Cotton Crop Projections Fall To 9.37 Million Bales
The Agriculture Department estimated this year's cotton production at 9.368 million bales based on conditions as of November 1, down from 12.23 million last year. The lint yield per acre was 249.7 pounds vs 293.5 last year, with unfavorable weather blamed for the drop. Ginned bales before November 1 totaled 5,153,639, well below last year’s 8,282,768.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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