Haitians Overthrow Lescot Regime in Coup T
In Port au Prince crowds celebrate the overthrow of President Elie Lescot by a three man military junta. 15 to 20 killed and about 100 wounded as riots erupt, looting resumes, and security forces regain control. The junta promises elections and a representative cabinet while Lescot faces exile.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Elie Lescot
Committee of Public Safety
Information and Police
Gontran Rouzier
Frank Lavaud
Lescot
Lavaud
Truman and Congress Renew Battle
Congress returns to tackle election year issues with labor legislation and demobilization on top of the agenda. President Truman pressures lawmakers while Eisenhower faces questions in an informal session as the 79th Congress begins its second session.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Capitol Hill
Senate
House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
UNO to Set Quotas for Armed Force
The United Nations Security Council, formed by the General Assembly, elected Australia Brazil and Poland to two year terms and the Netherlands Egypt and Mexico to one year terms. The five permanent members are the United States Britain the Soviet Union France and China. The assembly also named 17 members to the Economic and Social Council.
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London
Security Council
United Nations Organization
General Assembly
Australia
Brazil
Poland
Netherlands
Egypt
Mexico
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
France
China
Economic and Social Council
Chile
Norway
United Kingdom
Peru
Canada
Lebanon
Colombia
India
Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Ukrainian Republic
Cuba
Greece
New Zealand
Yugoslavia
Fall Kills Baby in Twin Falls Home Accident
Sally Josephine Doerr, 11 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Maury Doerr, died at Twin Falls General hospital after fractures from a fall down basement steps Thursday. Her father served as president of the Twin Falls Cowboys Baseball club.
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Twin Falls
Sally Josephine Doerr
Maury Doerr
Twin Falls General Hospital
Laboratories Preview Future Products At A P Society Meet
Walter C. Smith of General Electric laboratories outlined 500 new products and processes to be released soon, including low cost home heating devices and corrosion resistant metals. He described a foam plastic that expands eightfold from one quart and can be poured like concrete for insulation.
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Walter C. Smith
General Electric Laboratories
Arimo Girl Receives Herd Name Par Felice
Brattleboro Vermont Jane Jenkins of Arimo has earned exclusive use of the herd name Par Felice for her purebred Holstein Friesian cattle announced by the Holstein Friesian Association of America. Nearly 175 prefixes were reserved in 1945. Jane placed second in the beef fitting and showing contest at the third annual 4 H fat livestock show in Pocatello last fall.
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Brattleboro
Jane Jenkins
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Jane
Pocatello
Court Cuts Bond in San Francisco Case
Alfred Igonard Cline an elderly ex convict had bail reduced from 150000 to 100000 by Superior Judge Herbert Kaufman with January 21 set for arraignment on two counts of forgery and one grand theft tied to alleged financial misdoing involving two wealthy widows. He is questioned by police in multiple states related to deaths of elderly women and a murder charge in Dallas.
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San Francisco
Alfred Igonard Cline
Herbert C. Kaufman
Cline
Dallas
Handyman Held Quietly in Degnan Kidnapping Case
A 45 year old African American handyman with a police record for sex offenses was detained for questioning in the Suzanne Degnan kidnap murder. He was held at Summerdale station after being seized in Wilmette and had ties to apartment buildings near the Degnan home. Rewards for information rose to 42500, including 5000 from the Chicago Flat Janitors Union.
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Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
Walter Storms
Wilmette
Summerdale
Edgewater
North Side
Degnan
Kenmore Avenue
John L. Sullivan
Winthrop Avenue
Winthrop
Suzanne
Chicago Flat Janitors Union
William L. McFetridge
Famed 82nd Leads World War II Victory Parade in New York
Tens of thousands lined Fifth Avenue as Maj Gen James M. Gavin led the 82nd airborne in a four mile tribute to World War II veterans. Police estimated four million spectators witnessed the public display, with tanks, planes, and gliders on show and veterans in wheelchairs among the crowd.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
America
Til
James M. Gavin
82Nd Airborne
Gavin
G.I
John J. Pershing
Hitler
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
France
42Nd Street
Rupert Man Enlists in U S Forces in Austria
Private First Class Randall L. Allen son of Mrs. Mary C. Allen of Rupert Idaho enlisted in the regular army for 18 months while serving with the 222nd Infantry Regiment 42nd Rainbow division in Austria effective November 12 His unit is part of General Mark W Clarks United States Forces in Austria
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United States
Austria
Randall L. Allen
Mary C. Allen
Sixth Street
Rupert
Idaho
222Nd
Rainbow
Mark W. Clark
Argentina plans three day shutdown of all industry and commerce
The permanent committee of manufacturers and businessmen in Buenos Aires announced a three day national halt starting Sunday to protest a government decree ordering Christmas bonuses and wage increases. About 3,000 firms in the industrial union would close, along with groceries, restaurants, bars, and meat packing. Opponents view Peron's regime as the decree’s likely beneficiary amid labor vote speculation.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Permanent Committee of Manufacturers, Industrialists
Pres
Edelmire Farrell
Businessmen’s Committee
Argentine Manufacturers’ Association
Col
Juan Peron
Farrell
Peron
Flu Decrease Reported In Army And Civilian Cases
The surgeon general said anti flu shots shorten illness in uniformed personnel as wartime vaccine shows promise. The Public Health Service noted civilian influenza cases fell for the third straight week from a peak of 148 688 on the week ending December 15 to 47 273 for the week ending January 5.
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Washington
U. S. Public Health Service
Idahoans Donate Plasma For Spokane Emergency
Idaho residents reimbursed Spokane blood bank for two plasma draws in a week. A Cataldo bus brought 22 pints to aid a 14 year old Cataldo boy, while 15 Naples citizens delivered seven pints for Mrs. O. B. Swisher’s abdominal operation five weeks ago.
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Spokane
Cataldo
Idaho
Little Naples
O. BE. Swisher
Naples
Sun Valley Naval Convalescent Hospital to Close
Captain A. J. Toulon reports Sun Valley naval convalescent hospital will cease as a naval unit effective December 1, 1945. Officials had announced the discontinuation, with packing up and shipping equipment the remaining task as patients have run out.
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Sun Valley
A. J. Toulon
Sun Valley Naval Convalescent Hospital
Yaid
Washington
Union Pacific Railroad
Toulon
Army Pleads With GI to End Public Demonstrations
General Joseph T. McNarney urged 55 representatives of 22,000 protesting GIs in Frankfurt to halt demonstrations, saying they harm the country and its prestige abroad. He admitted redeployment flaws and urged home pressure on draft boards to send replacements, noting Congress is pressured by mothers seeking their sons home.
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Front Democratique Unitie
Lescot
Republic
Frankfurt
Germany
Joseph T. McNarney
Congress
McNarney
War Department
Johnny
Car Collision Kills Man Near Arco
Richard Kyle Blackfoot 70 was killed in a head on crash on the Lost River highway four miles north of Arco Idaho Donald R Good Bincham county attorney was seriously injured in the same collision Orval Caskey Mackay was driver and Arthur Jones was examined at Pocatello hospital Gerald Miller 22 Arco suffered severe injuries and was to Idaho Falls hospital Good suffered multiple injuries and was brought to Beck hospital Blackfoot by W S Marvel Arco
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Richard Kyle
Lost River
Donald R. Good
Blackfoot
Bincham
Arco
A. Bottolfsen
My. Kyle
Orval Caskey
Mackay
Arco Physican
Arthur Jones
Lacen 10
Pocatello Hospital
Gerald Miller
Idaho Falls
Good
Beck Hospital
W. 8
Marvel, Arco
Five Cabinet Ministers Resign Posts
The Shidehara cabinet in Tokyo saw six officials resign under Gen. MacArthur’s purge of ultranationalists. New appointees include Sempachi Soejima, Chuzo Mitsuchi, Yoshishige Abe, Wataru Narahashi, and Akiyochi Tajiri. Premier Kijuro Shidehara, 71, expects to resume duties next Tuesday as the cabinet reshapes its foreign-controlled governance.
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Tokyo
Shidehara
Gen. MacArthuy
Kijuro Shidehara
Kyodo
Sempachi Soejima
Agriculture and Forestry
Chuzo Mitsuchi
Yoshishige Abe
Wataru Narahashi
Akiyochi Tajiri
Iranian border clash ends as tribesmen driven back
Armed nomads linked to the Sheik of Khazal invaded Khorramshahr on the Iran Iraq frontier and were repelled by the national gendarmerie. The government reported calm is restored in Azerbaijan after the incident near Abadan. The U S embassy denied a Russian report claiming American aid to insurgents in the north.
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Teheran
Khorramshahr
Iraq
Azerbaijan
Iranian Azerbaijan
Khazal
Abadan
United States
Nesses
Moscow
Baku
Pishehyari
Workers Get Raise for Oregon California Wood Workers
In Klamath Falls Oregon 6500 C S O International Wood workers of America members in the southern Oregon northern California pine belt win a 2 cent hourly raise retroactive to January 1 bringing the minimum to 1.02 dollars per hour. The deal, negotiated by CLO officials and the pine industrial relations committee, must be ratified by individual operators and union locals.
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Klamath Falls
Ore
C. S. O. International Woodworkers of America
Oregon
California
A.P.S
CLO
Pine Industrial Relations Committee
China Orders Nationwide Cease Fire Amid Unity Talks
China halted five months of sporadic fighting with a nationwide cease fire by midnight Sunday. Chiang Kai-Shek urged armies to stop, while Yenan's Communist leadership issued parallel orders. General Chang Chun announced the truce enforcement commission would coordinate terms at the unity conference.
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Chungking
China
Japan
Chang Chun
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chou En-Lai
Yenan
Chang
Political Consultative Conference
Conference approves truce aid and selects eight observers
The meeting unanimously thanked General Marshall for his role in arranging the truce and adjourned to Monday. It chose an eight member commission to visit former fronts and assess conditions, with Madame Feng Yu-Hsiang noted among attendees.
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George C. Marshall
U. S
China
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Training Bill Meets Delay
Washington reports delay in House Military Committee hearings on universal peacetime training as opposition grows within Congress and among backers of compulsory training. Chairman May said hearings will reopen soon though reasons for the pause remain undisclosed. supporters cave in to divisions over a full year of training.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Truman
May
D-Ky
Indians demand aid to replace spawning grounds
Northwest Federation of American Indians members met State Fisheries Director Milo More and urged immediate action by state and federal governments to build hatcheries. Speakers attributed salmon decline to pollution, dams and water diversions.
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Seattle
Northwest Federation of American Indians
Milo More
Factors Agree To Postpone Steel Strike Action
CIO President Philip Murray agreed to delay the 800,000 steelworkers strike for one week at President Truman’s request. Truman said an agreement likely and both CIO and United States Steel Corporation offered new settlement terms through Benjamin Fairless and Murray with a White House meeting set for next Wednesday at 2 p.m.
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Associated Press
CIO
Philip Murray
White House
Truman
Union
United States Steel Corporation
Benjamin Fairless
Murray
Fairless
UAW CIO Board Ends Session Amid GM Wage Fight
The CIO United Auto Workers executive board adjourned after a four and a half hour session in Detroit while GM rejects a Truman fact finding panel proposal for a 19 cent hourly rise. The union seeks 30 percent unless car prices rise. A broader wage dispute echoes across oil and meat packing sectors with talks seen as unlikely to yield a settlement before key deadlines.
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Detroit
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
Truman
Oil Workers Union
Chicago
Edgar L. Warren
U.S. Conciliation Service
Swift and Armour
AFL
Anderson Defends Butter Price Increase Plan
Clinton P. Anderson secretary of agriculture, stated a six cent butter price rise will not widen the inflation fight. Speaking during a brief visit to New Mexico he said the increase would restore the normal cheese to butter and whipping cream ratio.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Clinton P. Anderson
Anderson
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