Gerow Accepts Responsibility for Hawaii Pearl Harbor Warnings
Lt Gen Leonard T Gerow told a senate house inquiry he accepts responsibility for the war department failing to extend warnings to Gen Walter Short before Pearl Harbor. He said a Nov 27 1941 message should have triggered a full Hawaiian alert and noted Short’s reply influenced later secretary Stimson remarks. Also learned Roosevelt declined in June 1941 to approve a British American joint operations plan.
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Washington
Leonard T. Gerow
War Department
Walter C. Short
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Gerow
Senate- House
Short
George C. Marshall
Army
William D. Mitchell
Stimson
Gen. Short
War Plans Division
Roosevelt
United States
Congress Moves Toward Action on Labor Bill Amid Auto Disputes
The CIO and UAW clash with General Motors and Chrysler as talks break down and Congress prepares to consider a president's labor program. Walter Reuther travels to meet officials while CIO denounces the plan as aimed at weakening unions. In Detroit delegates weigh action on back-to-work appeals and wage policy debates loom nationwide.
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United Press
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
Chrysler Corporation
Walter P. Reuther
Harry W. Anderson
Reuther
Chrysler
Norman Matthews
Matthews
Truman
Philip Murray
House Labor Committee
Congress
Robert Ramspeck
D-Ga
Detroit
United Steel Workers
Murray
Congress backs Truman plan amid labor pushback
Congress debates President Truman's fact finding strike plan as major labor groups AFL CIO and United Mine Workers oppose it. Bowles urges price and material controls to curb housing inflation while Hurley testifies on State Department diplomats. Senate acts on UN relief funds as Dec 20 recess nears.
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Patrick J. Hurley
China
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
House
Truman
Price
Chester Bowles
Ramspeck
D-Ga
House Labor Committee
Congress
Senate
Leonard T. Gerow
War Department
War Plans Division
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Hurley
Sen. McKellar
D-Tenn
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United States
United Nations
Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Utility Rebates Under Fire at Arizona Corporation Hearing
The Arizona corporation commission heard Tucson Gas Electric Light Power Company protest a 475000 rebate based on estimated 1945 federal excess profits taxes. The motion to quash the order was denied and details on operating costs and tax impact were examined.
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Arizona Corporation Commission
Tucson Gas, Electric, Light & Power Company
W. J. Eden
C. L. Clawson
Clawson
Eden
Harry Juliani
Commission
Two More Ships Disabled by Storm
Hamilton Bermuda December 5 two more American troop transports returning from Europe sent radio pleas for aid from the area north of Bermuda where the U S Henry Ward Beecher lay stranded in heavy seas. Navy officials said none of the vessels was in danger and relief ships were en route. The calls came from the Greek registered Navarchos Koundouriotis with unknown Americans aboard and the American merchantman George W McCrary carrying 586 veterans homeward bound.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Europe
U. S. Henry Ward Beecher
U. S. Navy
Navy
Navarchos Koundouriotis
Kappa Girls Find Grumman Plane Parked At Sorority House
The Grumman fighter from the university lot turned up missing early this morning and was found parked in front of Kappa Kappa Gamma at 1435 East Second Street. University authorities were alerted and the aircraft was expected to be returned to its stall, while the incident suggested a symbolic jab at placing activities on a higher plane.
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Grumman
Navy
University of Arizona
East Stadium
University
Kappa Kappa Gamma
East Second Street
Flu Epidemic Keeps Pupils and Workers Home
Absences in district schools and at work rose to 25 30 percent in some schools amid flu and cold season. Superintendent Morrow cites Dr Howard noting nationwide trend. total 2 298 students out of 12 544. Pascua Yaqui village school hit 36 percent absent. El Rio 28 percent. Jefferson Park 9 percent.
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Robert D. Morrow
Morrow
L. H. Howard
Howard
Pascua
el Rio
Jefferson Park
Dunbar
Hurley details China move by Atcheson and Service
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that George Atcheson Jr. urged lending arms to Chinese Communists while serving at Chungking and that John S. Service proposed letting Chiang Kai-shek’s government collapse. Hurley said Atcheson was recalled and that Service later succeeded him under Stilwell.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Patrick J. Hurley
China
State Department
Hurley
United States
Connally
The
Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
Chungking
George Atcheson, Jr
Atcheson
Joseph W. Stilwell
Chiang Kai-Shek
Service
John S. Service
Stilwell
Roosevelt
Hur
Gen Arnold To Speak At Air Session Conference
Gen Henry H Arnold commander of the Army air forces will speak on Air Power for Defense at a Western aviation conference in Sacramento December 11 and 12. Governors Warren of California and Pittman of Nevada will address topics on What Aviation Means to the West and How Air Transportation Aids Officials and Business Executives. Glenn B Eastburn of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce is conference chairman.
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Sacramento
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Arizona
California
Idaho
Nevada
Oregon
Utah
Washington
A. S. Dudley
Earl Warren
Vail Pittman
Warren
West
Pittman
Glenn B. Eastburn
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Veterans' Spokesman Calls for Rent Control in U S
In Los Angeles on December 5, Jack Hardy newly elected national commander of the American veterans of World War II urged rent control. He called high rents criminal for returning veterans and said the policy would aid those facing reconversion from service.
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Los Angeles
OPA
Jack Hardy
Hardy
Nazis Took Czechoslovakia by Threats in 1939
American prosecutors presented evidence that Hitler and Goering threatened to bomb Prague and invade Czechoslovakia at 6 am to force Emil Hacha to surrender in March 1939. The testimony cited a conference at the chancellery and noted Hungary’s Horthy backing the move while Slovakia’s Tiso pledged cooperation.
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Hitler
Hacha
Fuehrer
Czechoslovakia
Adm
Nicholas Horthy
U. S
Sidney Alderman
Horthy
Pp Hitler
Joseph Tiso
Slovakia
Tiso
Former Archbishop Lang of Canterbury Dies at 81
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang dies in London at 81 after collapsing at a railway station. He led Canterbury for 13 years and York for 20, resigned in 1942 to let a younger leader face postwar reconstruction, and later became Baron Lang of Lambeth. He confirmed Princess Elizabeth at Windsor and criticized Allied bombing policy in the Lords.
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London
Cosmo G
Lord Lang
Canterbury
Royal Hospital
Richmond
York
Elizabeth
Windsor Castle
Baron Lang
Lambeth
House of Lords
Cosmo Gordon
Ggorge VI
England
Edward
Mar
Ft Lowell Considers Annexation Talks For Schools
A Ft. Lowell residents group plans another discussion after Jan 1 on annexation with No 1 district. Robert Morrow and Mrs. Ross explain factors and city cooperation. Some students already cross attend, and officials note new schools and a vocational high school may be built.
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Ft. Lowell
Robert D. Morrow
P. H. Ross
Morrow
City School Board
Fort Lowell
Storms Blast Shipping Off Both Coasts
A Pacific storm battered the northwest then moved inland as a new coastwise gale formed off North Carolina. Warnings from Cape Hatteras to Block Island. Snow and rain disrupted the deep south, with six inches in parts of Tennessee and Pensacola hit by cold. The Pacific gale caused at least three deaths in Oregon and Washington and damaged ships in Puget Sound with four destroyers and a repair ship driven aground.
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Pacific Northwest
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Block Island
R. I
Charleston
S. C
Pensacola
Fla
Tennessee
Nashville
Oregon
Washington
Puget Sound
Civilian supply grows as 400,000 rubber casings arrive
The Army and Navy will release about 400,000 new casings for civilians within a month, signaling possible end to rationing around New Year. Surplus auto truck and tractor tires will follow at a sizeable rate. Government ends rubber from alcohol plants as RFC orders closures amid alcohol oil debates. 300,000 tons of natural rubber expected from liberated sources.
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Consumer Goods
War Assets Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
United States
Independence To Be Given India If People Want It
Britain’s new labor government pledges self government for India and vows to let the subcontinent decide its future. Leader Herbert Morrison says India may withdraw from the commonwealth if it chooses, though hopes remain that India stays voluntarily. A nonpartisan committee will study conditions in India to prepare for an assembly to frame an Indian future.
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India
Dewitt MacKenzie
London
Britain
John Bull
India Subcontinent
Herbert Morrison
House of Commons
Morrison
Death Penalty Demanded for Yamashita by Prosecutor
Manila report states Chief Prosecutor Maj. Robert M. Kerr urged death by hanging for Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita for war crimes in the Philippines. Defence counsel Lt. Col. Harry F. Clarke argued acquittal, contending no link to atrocities. Verdict expected Friday Manila time.
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Manila
U.P
Tomoyuki Yamashita
U. S
Robert M. Kerr
Portland
Ore
Philippines
Kerr
Harry F. Clarke
Altoona
Yamashita
Clarke
Adolf Reel
Boston
Mass
Three County Offices Seek Extra Funds in Budget Hearing
The Arizona state tax commission, represented by Warren Peterson, reviewed county requests to exceed the 1945-46 budget to hire extra staff in three offices. The treasurer seeks 1140 dollars, the recorder 1995 dollars, and the assessor 4675 dollars. Commissioner Peterson indicated he will present the matter to the full commission and personally recommends the expenditures.
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Arizona State Tax Commission
Warren Peterson
County Board of Supervisors
Peterson
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