Congress to Probe State Department Diplomacy and CIO Demands
Congress to investigate State Department actions amid claims some diplomats aided China unification efforts and clashed with Potsdam policy. Gen. Marshall to China as Chiang Kai-shek advances postwar economic plans. CIO shifts from wartime pay raises to defense against strikes as Ford and GM seek wage controls and UAW disputes unfold.
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Congress
State Department
CIO
U. S
Patrick Hurley
China
Capitol Hill
Hurley
Chinese Communist Party
Bloc of Nations
Orient
Wherry
Rep
Neb
Foreign Service
Ford Motor Company
United Automobile Workers
Ford
UAW
General Motors
Yamashita Denies War Crimes As Nazi Trial Advances
Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita testifies denying rape pillage and murder charges, claiming no atrocities were ordered and questioning the feasibility of killing 18 million. The Allied tribunal weighs legality of proceedings amid Japan’s command split. Simultaneously 20 Nazi leaders face Nürnberg case, with prosecutors citing Von Papen and Hitler’s infiltration plans.
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Tomoyuki Y
Yamashita
Philippines
Manila
Nuernberg
U. S
Franz von Papen
Europe
Germany
Silver Lake woman denies request to move home in street widening
Mrs. Clara Caspryzk 44 refused town offers to relocate her five room house and rejected a court order to move. Carpenters cut the building, leaving one bedroom as the rest burned, while Caspryzk returns to live with relatives. The case highlights village action to expand Center street amid dispute. The article also notes U.S. rethink of Potsdam aims and postwar German recovery issues with Byron Price urging policy review on occupation and food aid.
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Silver Lake
Minn
Center Street
Clara Caspryzk
Caspryzk
Frank Bandes
Germany
Reich
U. S
Byron Price
Office of Censorship
Europe
Truman
Price
Labor Industry Conference Ends With Cautious Accord
The Washington DC conference on labor industry nears its close with no new machinery for speedy disputes. Delegates urge collective bargaining first conciliation then voluntary arbitration. Grievance provisions should curb strikes or lockouts. They approve flexible follow up meetings as needed.
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Labor Industry Conference
Washington, D. C
Lighting study shows pupil gains in multiple cities
The Miami Kiwanis club reported improved student performance in well lit rooms. In Tuscombia Alabama two year tests reduced failures by two thirds. Lebanon Pennsylvania showed 28 percent improvement and Cambridge Massachusetts recorded fifth grade failure ratio at one to three in favor of better lighting.
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Miami
Fla
Kiwanis Club
Tuscumbia
Ala
Lebanon
Cambridge
Mass
Novel Uses for Radio Surplus
Laboratory technicians with the Reconstruction Finance corporation adapt surplus radio and electronics from the armed forces into peacetime markets. They cut antenna tube sections into small whistles for children and explore several other civilian products from the vast quantity of decommissioned gear.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Pearl Harbor kept top secret on decoded Japanese messages
Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles testified before Congress that nine top officials knew of the decoded Pearl Harbor messages. He said President Roosevelt and key leaders including Stimson Hull Knox Stark Marshall and Miles possessed the knowledge, while Short and Kimmel were kept informed of events but not the code details. He noted the Sept 24 1941 message fit a broader pattern of Japanese signals seeking fleet information.
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U. S
Sherman Miles
Army Intelligence
Congressional Committee
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Stimson
Hull
L. T. Gerow
War Plans Division
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Admiral Stark
Naval Operations
Col
R. S. Bratton
Army Intelligence Staff
George C. Marshall
Miles
Walter Short
Husband Kimmel
Far East
Short
Kimmel
Hawaii
Tokyo
Pearl
Washington Digest on Postwar Unemployment Trends
The Social Security Board analyzes postwar unemployment in the United States as millions of workers enter reconversion. It notes a first wave of layoffs and a looming second wave as demobilization expands the labor force, with eight million poised to seek work in 9 to 12 months and a crisis foreseen by 1947 if jobs don’t materialize.
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G. M
United Steel Workers
OPA
UAW
WNU
Eye Street
Washington, D. C
Peter Pugh
Japan
Hank Haines
Hank
United States Employment Service
Peter
Pacific
Haines
Unemployment Compensation Office
Washington
Social Security Board
Tae Es
Suerte
SSB
Employment Bureau of the
Congress
Aleo
Pazo
Coieesia Cemietie Aidiatie Arena
Mrs Beulah Hankins Praises Faultless Starch
In Indianapolis Mrs Beulah Hankins writes a humorous letter praising Faultless Starch for easy ironing. She irons for a young family including twins and a four year old, noting the starch saves hours of work and helps whites stay smooth and smelling fresh.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Beulah Hankins
S. Collier
Faultless Starch Company
Adv
Barbs on education and leadership shifts in postwar America
The piece notes two top officials Louis Brownlow and Watson Miller rose high without formal schooling. It mentions General Spaatz as a possible 1946 Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate. It cites 18 million women working on V J Day and critiques calls for reducing labor via teens and older workers.
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Western Newspaper Union
Bestor
U.S
Fowey
England
Berlin
Hamburg
Gen
Washington Digest
Mrs. Beulah Hankins
Ford VapoRub
VapoRub
Vicks Vaporub
Irs
Bankhage
Louis Brownlow
District of Columbia
Civic Administration
Watson Miller
Federal Security Administration
General Spaatz
Pennsylvania
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