AFL Split on Clerks' Strike
A union split erupts in Los Angeles as the AFL Retail Clerks strike against 1600 area grocery stores continues into a third day. Teamsters chief Dave Beck demands strikers return by 8 p.m. or face severed ties, while clerks insist on their wage demand and decry Beck’s ultimatum. Negotiations stalled. clerks seek a $60 weekly top, operators offer $55, with senior clerks earning about $40 pre strike.
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Los Angeles
A. I. L. Teamsters’ Union
A. F. L. Retail Clerks’ Union
Dave Beck
Clerks
Clerks' Union
James Suffridge
A. F. L. Retail Clerks' Union
Los Angeles Union
Beck
International
Joseph T. de Silva
Reds Take Zeiss Glass Plant in Soviet Zone
Berlin dispatch reports all production halted at Zeiss Ikon glass works in Jena as Russians dismantle the plant for reparations and move equipment to the USSR.
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Berlin
Zeiss-Schotl Optical and Glass Works
Jena
Germany
Aremoval
Ussr
Secretary Sits As Senate Head
Washington reports on June 4 1937 Senate Secretary Leslie L Biffie presiding in the Bilbo case as interim head of the Senate with no standing presiding officer. He opened the session and was described by colleagues as handling the role like a veteran amid oath delays by McKellar and Vandenberg.
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Washington
Jun
Senate
Leslie L. Biffie
Bilbo
Ajl
Littte Arkansawyer
McKellar
D.-Tenn
Vandenberg
Montgomery eyes friendly Moscow tie during visit
Viscount Montgomery chief of the imperial general staff travels to Moscow on a military inspection mission. He aims to establish friendly contact with the Soviet army and hopes to meet Prime Minister Stalin. he will be hosted by the Soviet army and quartered at the British embassy. He is expected to stop at Berlin headquarters and return by RAF transport.
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London
Euurt
Montgomery
Imperial General Staff
Iof
Moscow
Sttalin
War Office
Chinese Students Rally Against Anti American Demonstrations
In Nanking on January 4, Chinese university students returned to classes after two days of minority parades demanding U S forces quit China. At Christian University, hundreds formed an anti demonstration association and issued statements accusing demonstrators of being used as pawns by a political party, implying communist influence.
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Nanking
U S
China
Nanking iGin
Ling) University
Peiping
10 Killed Six Hurt In Greek Disorder Ambush
Dispatches report five gendarmes killed and two wounded when a gendarmerie truck was ambushed by a Communist band on Lesbos island. Five members of another band were killed and four wounded in a clash near Sin Epirus.
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Athens
Dispatches
Lesbos
Sin Epirus
Hair Snipper Strikes Washington Women Again
Washington dispatch reports Jack the Snipper, a roaming thief known as the Lock Snitcher and Hair Thief, targeted two more young women. Victim No 10 lost her hair on a street car while Victim No 11 reported losing locks at a movie. Previous incidents occurred on streetcars, buses, and crowded corners.
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Washington
Jack the Snipper
Harry
Asireet
Fools, Sumner Says He Calls U S A Nation Of Fools
Hatton M Sumner, who retired after 34 years in Congress, told the Dallas A M Club that the United States is a nation of fools governmentally. He criticized the federal bureaucracy and said generations have financed a vast network of agencies with mortgages on the future of their descendants.
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Dallas
Hatton M. Sumners
United States
Sumners
A. and M.club
Acid attackers injure many in Mindu-Mossert disorders
Police report 46 people injured by goldthrowers in Mindu-Mossert disturbances. Two suspects were arrested as authorities work to restore order in Bombay area.
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Bombay
Dan
Petain Ill in Exile in Brittany Island Home
Paris Jan 4 Marshal Petain 86 year old Vichy resident is seriously ill with an infection at his exile home on a small Brittany coast island. His attorney Jacques Isorny said today.
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Paris
Marshal
Petain
Vichy
France
Brittany
Jacques Isorny
Weather Forecast Amid Variable Weekend Skies
Readable forecast notes expect partly cloudy conditions with possible showers Saturday afternoon and night and again Sunday. Saturday high near 44 degrees with a low around 19. Sunday high around 46 degrees with a low near 26. Friday reached 32 and Saturday dipped to 19.
Bilbo Filibuster Tests Senate in National Standoff
Republican strategists seek a two thirds vote to curb debate and seat Theodore G Bilbo after a delayed opening in the Senate. Taft warned of continuous session as Bilbo’s supporters stall and Democrats split over seating and timing. House adjourned for the weekend as Truman weighs a state of the union push.
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Theodore G. Bilbo
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Bilbo
Brewster
Maine
Ferguson
Michigan
8Th Congress
House
Truman
Barkley
Bilio
Ohioan
GOP
Overton
D-La
Ex Flier Held As Robber
A 23 year old former airplane ferry pilot Justin William McCarthy was arrested in New York on charges of assault and robbery tied to four armed holdups including the New York day robbery on Park Avenue involving three wealthy women. Deputy Chief Inspector Conrad Rothenpost identified the suspect.
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New, York
Park Avenue
Conrad Rothenpost
Justin William McCarthy
Clash in Northeastern Baltimore Ends Before It Starts
About 100 teen aged boys from rival gangs invaded the Highlandtown area in jeeps and autos last night in a planned New Year’s Eve rendezvous at Rose Street wall of the Baltimore cemetery. The gathering dissolved as police arrested the invaders for disorderly conduct and cleared Milton Street neighborhood. ages ranged from 16 to 22.
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Bas Inane
Ganaia
Naitimore
Keen
Highland Towr
Milton’ Street
Spd
Rose Street
Baltimore
Ninety Coffee Strikers Arrested in Guatemala Riot
Guatemala city reports ninety Indian strikers held for sedition after a clash at El Pilar plantation near San Juan Sacatepeguez. The protest, sparked by a strike against a pending labor code, left several strikers and soldiers injured as 250 workers confronted troops 20 miles from the capital.
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Guatemala
el Pilar
San Juan
Sacatepeguez
Hit and Run Injures Man in New Year Greeting Farewell
In Fall River Massachusetts on January 4 an unidentified auto struck Krank Schiere as he crossed a street. The driver sped away after shouting New Year. Schiere sustained a minor injury and was treated locally.
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Fall River
Mass
Krank Schiere
Schiere
Grenades and Pistols Mark Old Neapolitan Feud Duel
In Scisciano a two year feud between the Danzica and Nucerina families culminated in a gun and grenade battle in the village square. Two men died in twenty minutes and a third, then fourth, succumbed later. The feud traces to killings in 1945 and 1944, with a final deadly confrontation witnessed in Naples dispatches.
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Rome
Vilage
Scisciano
Naples
Amilcare Danzica
Salvatore Nucerina
Nucerine
Danzica
Nucerlio
Luigi
Sessiano
Below Zero Weather Hits Texas
Subzero temperatures blanketed much of Texas on Saturday as a prolonged cold wave spread. Wichita Falls logged four below zero, the lowest on record. Del Rio area faced a severe gas shortage as pressure dropped and supplies were cut to homes and businesses. Other affected cities included Uvalde, Crystal City, Curaao Springs, and Eagle Pass as northwest counties saw snow and the state stayed mostly clear otherwise.
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Atate
Particwarly
Wichita Falls
del Rin Eagle Pass
Hel
Texas Gas Distributing System
del Rio
Uvalde
Crystal City
Curaio Springs
Eagle Pass
Pampr
Lubbock
Abilene
Guadalupe Pasy
Fort Worth
Laredo
Nine Sought in Swindle Case With 1946 Buick
Police searched Saturday for a party of nine including four children driving a 1946 Buick a Studebaker pickup and a Ford truck. A complaint from Earl Deathe service station on Fredericksburg road stated a woman in the group bought oils tires and gas totaling 44.60 and ordered more tires. The group left the tourist courts where they had been staying.
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EarlDeathe
Fredericksburg Road
Bater
McNarney Silent Amid Possible Occupation Shakeup
In Frankfurt on January 4 General Joseph T. McNarney offered no comment amid reports he may be replaced as commander of U S forces in Europe. Washington sources say he could move to the United Nations military staff committee within days, with Lt General Geoffrey Keyes eyed to succeed General Mark Clark in Austria while Clark becomes deputy to Secretary Byrnes in Moscow.
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Frankfurt
Joseph T. McNarney
U. S
Lucious D. Clay
Washington
MccNarney
United Nations Military Staff Committee
Geoffrey Keyes
Mark Clark
Austria
Keyes
Third ‘Army
Heidelberg
Germany
Clark
James F.byrnes
Moscow
Battle Ends In Sumatra
Medan, Sumatra is reported to have seen a four day battle end after Indonesian attacks, according to a Netherlands spokesman.
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Sumatra
Batavia
Netherlands
Medan
Midwest Cold, Eastward Snowstorm Lingers Across Nations
The Associated Press reports a Midwest cold wave eased in the north and persisted in the south as a snowstorm shifted east. Subfreezing temps hit Georgia Tennessee and Louisiana with Arkansas at zero and Oklahoma City at six below. Chicago reports near 100 inches of snow while Los Angeles records 34. The Midwest forecasts five days of clearer weather as the storm retreats eastward.
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Weather Bureau
Oklahoma City
International Fails
Minn
Bismarck
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
Georgia
Tennessee
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Ivy
Kansas
Missouri
San Antonio Cold Snap Briefly Breaks, More Frost Expected
The San Antonio area endured a record cold morning with a 19 degree low at 6 am, rising to 21 by 6 50 am and two days after a three degree drop from Friday. Forecasters expect a 2% degree low Sunday morning, warming to mid forties, with possible weekend rain. Wood and coal demand surges, some outages remain, and air traffic runs near normal as rural frost kills small birds.
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San Antonio
Bureau
Blanco Road
Alamo Fuel Company
Unexplained Door Unlocking Baffles Kansas City Police
In Kansas City on January 4, police probed the hospital morgue locking mystery after the body of Lewis J. Spencer, 26, a male student nurse, was found beaten to death in his University of Kansas Hospital room. The morgue door, with two entrances, was found unlocked three times by night staff, despite keys remaining with a night supervisor and maintenance man. Officials noted no signs of a break-in inside the morgue and emphasized the puzzle of how the door could be unlocked repeatedly without obvious access.
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Kansas City
Kang
City Pretorive
Stanley Beatty
Lewis J. Spencer
Spencer
University of Kansas
Iheager
Spenner
Buding
Beatty
Night Supermanent
Man Stillion
Mary Teter
Teter
Fransces Pishny
Youth Killed By Police In Bronx Liquor Store Hold Up
In New York on January 4 a 25 year old male detective shot and killed a 16 year old youth identified as Gerald Dowell during an attempted holdup of a Bronx liquor store. A second youth, William Cadigan, 16, was critically wounded and a third 16 year old was captured. Detective Edward Loran suffered a superficial wound as the clash drew over 3,000 onlookers.
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New York
Bronx
Gerald Dowell
William Cadigan
Edward Loran
Snowgram Triggers Plane Search Near La Grande
In a remote snow country cabin Mrs. Gale Vincent sent a snow gram saying Heard OK Plain. Private flyers along with state police and military units scoured the Cascades from 200 miles away for a Marine transport missing since December 10 with about 32 aboard.
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LA Grande
Ore
Gale Vincent
Here
Army
Navy
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