UAW Demands 30 Percent Wage Rise At Ford Talks
The UAW CIO scorns Ford's 15 cent an hour offer calling it mockery and demands wage talks separate from other issues. Negotiations adjourned to Jan 8 as GM faces a separate wage dispute and Ford Canada resumes after a 99 day strike. UAW warns against inflation and seeks broader gains including pensions and overtime benefits.
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CIO Automobile Workers Today
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Richard T. Leonard
Uaw-Cio
Ford Uaw
General Motors Corp
Washington
Truman
UAW
Ford Company
Opa
Record cold wave eases but new blast rolls in
The December chill loosens in the southwest and southern Midwest as Pacific Northwest warms. Yet a South Atlantic Gulf cold front forewarns more snow and subfreezing lows in Florida. Snow blankets northern regions and 81 deaths are linked to the weather.
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Midwest
Pacific Northwest
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Chicago Weather Bureau
Central States
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
Florida
Everglades
Snow and Cold Persist as Pennsylvania Roads Show Drifted Risk
Snow depth rises to about 13 inches with drifting in places raising danger. Main highways and improved roads remain in good shape at 9 p.m. Thursday, seven trucks on night duty for secondary roads. Turnpike largely clear with one truck patrolling. Temperatures move from 14 above to 24 high and 11 low, 13 above at 10 p.m. Shopping crowds grow as winter tightens, with winter dusk settling in as Capricorn approaches.
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Supreme Court to Hear Yamashita Plea in Intervening Appeal
The Supreme Court voted to hear oral arguments on whether to intervene in the Manila trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita. A court order set a January 7 hearing, with actions on Yamashita petitions held pending that argument. The court had earlier granted a temporary stay of execution.
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Supreme Court
Manila
Tomayuki Yamashita
Yamashita
Philippines
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Mother and two young children die in carbon monoxide incident
Pittsburgh police say a small gas heater caused carbon monoxide poisoning killing Mrs Harrison Way 22 and her children Judith 30 months and Harrison Jr eight months in a Southside rooming house. The husband, found in serious condition, aided in an apparent rescue attempt after landlord Gusman Muniz discovered the family.
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Southside
Harrison Way
Judith
Harrison, Jr
Southside Hospital
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Rose Carlan Freed on Bail in Kidnapping Case
Mrs Rose Carlan released on $2500 bail after admitting she staged a kidnapping hoax to cover an accidental death of her infant son Ronnie. Medical Examiner says death resulted from pneumonia with asphyxiation after attacks. infant’s body found under a cupboard. Navy husband James Carlan accompanied her home as she returned from a Boston hospital discharge.
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Chelsea
Mass
Rose Carlan
New England
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Navy
James J. Carlan
Ronnie
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Boston Psychopathic Hospital
Second Accident Saves Man in First
In Greensville South Carolina on December 20 a two vehicle crash sequence saved James Hyde. N A Mc Keithan, who arrived seconds later in a second wreck, found Hyde pinned beneath his car at the ravine foot. Mc Keithan escaped uninjured after his car slid into the same spot. Police say Hyde would have died from exposure soon.
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Absenteeism Hits Somerset Schools Amid Snow Drifts
Nearly 500 pupils were out Thursday as heavy weather and drifting roads disrupted bus routes in Somerset. High numbers stayed home across 237 at Somerset High, 86 at Union Street, and 101 at Patriot Street, with flu affecting younger students more. Crews worked overnight to reopen first class roads and soften the travel danger as two children from Husband area were credited with attendance after battling the drifts.
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Somerset
Homer W. Hay
Trent Road
Somerset High School
Union Street School
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Husband
Dana
MacArthur denies resignation amid Russian role in Japan
General MacArthur rejected reports he would resign as supreme commander of the Allied occupation. A U S official press note said the broadcast alleging threats to resign had no basis and blamed a dubious report from Larry Tighe of ABC.
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MacArthur
Japan
Larry Tighe
American Broadcasting Corp
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U. S. State Department
Russia
American Broadcasting Corporation
Truman says MacArthur did not threaten to quit
President Truman stated that General Douglas MacArthur had not threatened to resign as supreme Allied commander in Tokyo. He told a news conference he knew nothing about such a claim and did not believe MacArthur or himself had made any such statement.
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Washington
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Tokio
Japan
Gen. MacArthur
Russia
General MacArthur
Secretary of War
Demands to cede Black Sea coast to Russia reported
Moscow dispatch notes a Georgian Soviet letter urging Turkey to surrender 180 miles of coast from Batumi to Giresun and inland stretches. The appeal from two Georgian scholars cites the cradle of their people and calls for return of lands, amid Big Three talks on world peace.
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Moscow
Turkey
Black Sea
Russia
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
W. M. Molotov
Byrnes
W. Averell Harriman
Spasso House
Speridoniska Palace
Russian Socialist Republic
Stalin
R. Djanashia
N. Berdzenishvili
Science Academy of
Georgian Republic
Artvin
Oltu
Tortrum
Ispir
Bayburt
Guemnesane
Giresun
Trabzon
Batumi
Vilayet
Izvestia
Red Star
Pravda
Tiflis
V. M. Molotov
W Averell Harriman
Teas Murder Case At Yokohama Court
The prosecution wrapped war crimes testimony against Tat suo Tsuchiya a former guard at Mitsushima camp. Defense urged acquittal citing lack of positive identification as the Little Glass Eye. A surprise Gavord affidavit was admitted as Day testified about POW affidavits and nicknames used by liberations.
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Yokohama
Tatsuo Tsuchiya
Military Commission
Tsuchiya
Robert Gorden Teas
John Dickinson
Mitsushima
Glass Eye
Teas
Pfc
Charles. B. Gavord
Deming
N. M
David I. Day, Jr
Luzon
Gavord
Day
Lagonda Ends Ice-Bitten Detroit Voyage to Buffalo
Buffalo's 1945 navigation season closed as the 5,000 ton lake freighter Lagonda docked from Detroit after a voyage marked by ice and strong winds. Captain Alfred R. Tyrell called the trip routine but noted the ship was frozen in ice for three days after entering Livingston channel in the Detroit river.
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N. Y
Detroit
Alfred R. Tyrell
Livingston Channel
Detroit River
Navy war plans debate on Pearl Harbor timing
Admiral Turner testified that Pacific fleet orders 10 days before Pearl Harbor should have sent the ships to sea ready to fight. He argued war plan No 46 under Rainbow 5 would have deployed forces to cover anticipated Japanese action, rather than keeping battleships in harbor. He noted Sanctions against Japan in July 1941 helped make war likely, but asserted no commitment existed to fight before December 7.
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Navy
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
High Seas
Richmond Kelly Turner
Japan
Hawaii
Kimmel
Husband E. Kimmel
Navy Department
Turner
Plang
South Kina Sea
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Konoye
Senate
House Committee
House
Barkley
D-Ky
Thomas Co. Hart
Asiatic
Tom S. V. Phillips
Britain
Marshall arrives for China peace parley in Shanghai
General Marshall lands in Shanghai on a peace mission for China amid early signals from Communist leaders in Chungking of willingness to halt hostilities. He meets Lt. Gen. Wedemeyer and plans to proceed to Nanking for talks with Chiang Kai-Shek, aiming at a unity government.
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Marshall
China
Chungking
Manila
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
U. S. Army
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Chiang
Cathay Hotel
Cairo
Truman
Lu ‘Ting- Yi
Associated Press
Spencer Moosa
Japan
Consultative Council
Patton condition worsens with respiratory infection
In Heidelberg Germany Gen George S Patton Jr contracted a respiratory infection and his general condition was not satisfactory tonight Army sources at the 130th station hospital said there is no cause for alarm and no immediate sign of pneumonia The bulletin noted excessive bronchial secretions that hinder respirations and feeding following his neck injury in a week old automobile crash
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Heidelberg
Germany
George S. Patton, Jr
130Th Station
Patton
More Charges Vs Homma Expanded in Manila
Manila dispatch reports broadened charges against Lt Gen Mashary Homma alleging he witnessed the Bataan Death March and bears responsibility for a second march of American prisoners in 1942. Lt Col Frank E Meek of Caldwell Idaho will prosecute Homma before an American military commission beginning Jan 3, with five new specifications filed.
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Mashary Homma
Bataan
Luzon
Frank E. Meek
Caldwell
Idaho
Homma
Philippines
Truman says earnings relevant in wage disputes faces boards
President Truman declares that a company's earnings are relevant to wage disputes and that fact finding boards must have authority to examine employers' books when earnings are in question. He notes there is no legal compulsion without new legislation and cites General Motors and Pure Oil as parties threatening to withdraw if profits are examined.
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Washington
Truman
General Motors Corporation
Pure Oil Company
Congress
General Motors Board
Somerset Daily Weather Report Summary
Somerset weather data shows a 24 hour period ending 5 30 p m with unspecified maximum and minimum. this report notes comparison to the previous year with missing high and low values. Weather observer David Grove of U 58 is cited.
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Somerset Weather
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U. 58
Weather Observer
Idishend
Porsatbet
Concentra
Todd Ae
Weather Outlook District by District Through Saturday
Maryland sees fair skies but cold air returns Friday night and Saturday. Eastern Pennsylvania has fair southeast winds, mostly cloudy with light snow west and north Friday and Saturday, colder Friday night and Saturday. Western Pennsylvania remains cold and windy with occasional snow Friday, continuing cold Saturday. West Virginia shows light snow flurries Friday, turning colder Friday night and Saturday with increasing cloudiness and snow at night.
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