President Urges Public Action to Push Congress
President Truman called on the American people to press Congress to act on labor fact finding and postwar economic measures. In a half hour national radio address he urged swift action to curb strikes avert inflation and speed reconversion to a prosperous economy. The appeal targeted lawmakers home for the holiday recess and was framed as a direct request to citizens to influence legislative progress.
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Truman
Congress
Stalin Remains Russia’s Strong Man Despite Absence
Paris dispatch reports U S and British officials affirm Stalin’s grip on the Soviet Union remains firm. He conducted decisions via direct wire during a two month Black Sea absence and kept close contact with Byrnes and Bevin. Stalin marked his 66th birthday and became a grandfather without Moscow attention.
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Paris
U. S
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Black Sea
Stalin
Moscow
U. S. Sec
James F.) Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
Kremlin
Efforts Rise to Avert Major Industry Strikes
Government and labor leaders seek ways to prevent walkouts in automotive, packinghouse, steel, telephony and electrical trades affecting nearly two million workers. President Truman urges federal fact finding to uncover truth and calm tensions. Tokyo cabinet convenes to review MacArthur purge of war tainted officials, signaling potential shifts but few immediate moves.
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Tokyo
INS
MacArthur
Mrom Kijuri Shidehara
Plan To Test Atomic Bombs On Warships
Rep. Vinson announces joint Army Navy atomic bomb tests using American German and Japanese warships to study effects on various ship types. Tests to include battleships carriers cruisers destroyers and submarines with surplus vessels deemed no longer useful to the United States.
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Washington
INS
Vinson
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Army-Navy
War and Navy Departments
Original Roberts report Missing in Pearl Harbor probe
Washington dispatch reports that the original Roberts report on Pearl Harbor could not be located. Chief Counsel William D. Mitchell said searches across government departments failed utterly to find the 1942 commission’s findings, hindering follow up questioning of Admiral Kimmel and General Short.
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INS
William D. Mitchell
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Gearhart
Husband E Kimmel
Walter C. Short
Mitchell
Navy
Fog slows PA Newc area as cars skid on pillars
Heavy fog this morning slowed traffic on streets and highways while mild days cleared ice from the roads. Forty six lines report security lights on public square trees removed ahead of removal. 76 stone pillars guard the square and one has toppled in a recent accident. President Truman's fireside talk drew an estimated 97.5 million adult listeners per a Columbia Broadcasting measure. Temperatures over 24 hours ranged from 35 to 37 degrees. A convoy of new cars attracted attention, and a truck blocked East Washington street while turning around at the railroad crossing. Film demand persists postwar, dealers say, with February quotas allowing slightly more supply but still not meeting public demand.
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Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending at am today show a high of 37 and a low of 35 with trace precipitation. River stage stands at 7.5 feet. For the same date last year the high was 32 and the low 29 with trace snow.
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United States
Father Shoots Four Children Ends Own Life
Philadelphia police say domestic strife led Emil H. Schuetz 57 to shoot his children Barbara nine Earl eight Malcolm five and Norman one then kill himself New Year’s Day in a five room apartment notes left behind cite a life with his wife who left him detectives report the shotgun found beside the father.
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Emil H. Schuetz
Barbara
Earl
Malcolm
Norman
Michael Schwarte
Schuetz
Schwartz
No Return of Butter Rationing Seen by Official
Philadelphia January 4. District OPA Director Frank J Loftus doubts any plan to restore butter to ration lists. He cites need for new books and time and notes butter production at a 20 year low. Causes include higher milk consumption, lower overall production, and farmers preferring fluid milk sales over butter.
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OPA
Frank J. Loftus
Loftus
UNRRA Ousts General Morgan From Germany Operations
The United Nations relief agency UNRRA removed Lieut. Gen. Sir Frederick E Morgan from his post as chief of operations in Germany. A joint statement in Washington and Europe cited his news conference remarks accusing a plot to trigger a Jewish exodus from Europe. Morgan had said he would resign, then stated there was no need to quit.
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Washington
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Frederick E Morgan
Germany
European
Morgan
Europe
UNRRA
Christmas Week Business Drops 14.2 From Preceding Week
The Bureau of Business Research at the University of Pittsburgh reports the first peacetime Christmas week drop in four years. The seasonally adjusted combined index fell to 158.6 percent of the 1935-39 average from 172.8. Department store sales for the week ending December 29 rose 18.8 percent versus the prior four weeks of 1944.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Bureau of Business Research
University of Pittsburgh
Press commentators weigh Truman program and its prospects
In Philadelphia and New York, editors note President Truman appeals sincerely yet faces hurdles. Critics question whether Congress can support militant leadership or enact alternative measures to steady postwar production and industry recovery.
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Philadelphia
Truman
Congress
Germans Weighed War Plans As Early As 1924
Jan 4. The Nazi war crimes trial presented affidavits stating that by 1924 most Germans believed three strategic aims would require war the Ruhr the Memel region and the Polish corridor. An affidavit by Werner von Blomberg claimed public mood viewed war as a sacred duty to erase postwar losses and threats to East Prussia.
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Keitel
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East Prussia
Poland
Lithuania
Aged Man Hurt In Collision On State Street Hill
James Eberhart, 73, of 305 Harbor Street, is in Jameson Memorial Hospital with injuries after colliding with an auto driven by Robert D. Johnson, a sailor of 501 West Washington Street. The State street hill crash occurred at 5 30 p m yesterday. Eberhart suffered facial lacerations and head injuries and is listed in fair condition.
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Jameson Memorial Hospital
Robert D. Johnson
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American transport Athos docks at Horta after storm
The American transport Athos with about three thousand passengers including WAC members arrived at Horta Azores today after days wallowing propellerless in a storm. Twenty three were hospitalized with injuries.
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Franco Offer Reported to Crown Spain by Don Juan
London dispatch in The London News Chronicle says Don Juan of Spain received a conditional offer from Francisco Franco to be king. The proposal required a single party and Franco as commander in chief, with Don Juan willing to return only if he could rule freely.
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Boy 13 Dies in Love Crisis in San Diego
Dalton L. Dodson aged 13 reportedly took his life with a 99 caliber rifle after a love note to neighbor girl Joan Lepper. He left his bicycle to the girl in his will, and his mother described him as an especially good yet sensitive child.
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Cal
Dalton L. Dodson
Joan Lepper
Death notices and ages from New Galilee area
Death notices list William McClelland Davidson 8 percent? New Galilee John A Speerhas 63 Enon Valley Miss Davie M Parsons 71 East Lincoln Ave Mrs Harvey Hall 74 Newport Frank McAnlis 67 Wampum Walter G Evans 31 306 North Cedar Street.
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William McClelland Davidson
New Galilee
John A. Speerhas
Enon Val
Building Trades Strike Extends in Pittsburgh Schools
Pittsburgh electricians carpenters painters and other craft workers remain on strike at the city’s public school repair shops for a third day. The strike, called by the Pittsburgh Building Trades Council, protests the dismissal of 14 employees and risks school supplies including cafeteria goods as CIO warehouse staff refuse to cross picket lines.
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Pittsburgh Public Schools
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Pittsburgh Building Trades Council
Pittsburgh Telegraphers End Strike Call Off
In Pittsburgh on January 4 eight hundred AFL Commercial Telegraphers members canceled their January 7 strike after a 204 to six vote to accept the War Labor Board's 12 cent per hour raise and follow the national committee's recommendations.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Afl
National Committee
War Labor Board
War Crimes Trial Testimony Links Homma to Bataan Death March
Two former staff members of Lt. Gen. Masa Haru Homma testified in Manila that Homma ordered the Bataan death march and showed little concern for prisoners of war. Lt. Col Michio Kitayama and Maj Gen Toshimitsu Takatsu said Japanese airmen were ordered to bomb targets around Manila and that many surrendered prisoners suffered neglect and death after the march.
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Masaharu Homma
Manila
Homma
Bataan
An & Stone
Toshimitsu Takatsu
Michio Kitayama
Kitayama
Philippines
MacArthur
Philippine
Takatsu
Green Opposes Truman Fact-Finding Plan
William Green, president of the APL, reiterates labor’s uncompromising opposition to President Truman’s proposal for statutory fact finding to handle strikes. He rejects the radio appeal and says the plan creates government wage fixing and assigns labor and management to government boards, with cooling off periods before strikes.
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APL
Truman
Green
Mr. Truman
Congress
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Reactions to Truman’s radio appeal split in Congress
Washington observers offered mixed judgments on President Truman’s national radio address urging support for his reconvened legislative program. Senator George of Georgia praised production focus but warned on boards, while Rep Mansfield of Montana called the speech very good and urged cooperation.
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Truman
House
Entate
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Congress
Hook
Mich
House Labor Committee
Admiral Stark Memory Probed In Pearl Harbor Inquiry
The Pearl Harbor committee questioned Admiral Harold R. Stark about events in late November 1941 and his memory for two key details. He could not recall where he was on the night of December 6 1941 when parts of Japan's final reply arrived, nor when he and General Marshall learned Secretary Hull's conclusion that U S security rested with the army and navy.
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INS
Pearl Harbor
Harold R. Stark
Weather Talk on Warm Ulsters and Cold Snaps
A weather note from Memeter describes woolens, ulsters, and heavy milts, with wet spells and umbrellas likely. The forecast warns of a snappy cold day, sun briefly appearing to fool readers, and a high around forty four.
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