Greek secrecy on casualties sparks Senate ire
Senate inquiry into Greece’s casualty numbers and aid issues reveals Athens refusal to share lists with the appropriations committee. Reported items include destruction of U.S. bombers, idle fishing boats, 8,000 freight cars owed by Russia, UNRRA relief delays, and reallocation of funds to buy second-hand British planes for Greece. Senator Young notes destroyed B-17s and explains the surplus aircraft rationale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Athens
Appropriations Committee
Europe
Appropriations
Greece
Russia
Soviet Union
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Sen. Young
R-Nd
Army Air Corps
Young
Congress
Turkey
Newspaper Publishers Fight Unfair Case in Taft-Hartley Hearing
The ANPA faces charges of unfair labor practices by ITU under Taft-Hartley. NLRB. Denham alleges four counts. Inland Daily Press and Southern Newspaper associations seek to join, with examiner Leff to rule on evidence rights. Hearing could last two months before NLRB in Washington decides next steps.
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Max Hall
Indianapolis
Taft-Hartley
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
ANPA
International Typographical Union
ITU
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
AFL
Gerhard van Arkel
NLRB
Denham
Inland Daily Press Association
Gerard D. Reilly
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Thurman
Arnold
U. S&s. Court of Appeals
ITV
Arthur Leff
Allen Sinsheimer
Washington
Grain Use In Liquor Doubled Ere Holiday
Government report shows wheat use in liquor making more than doubled before distilleries shut for 60 days to save grain for Europe. Corn use rose about one third. Distilleries closed Oct 25 to Christmas at Luckman committee request aiming to save about 10 million bushels. October wheat use 90 thousand bushels vs 34 thousand in September.
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Washington
Europe
Luckman Committee
Internal Revenue Bureau
Inflation Curb Plans Move Through Congress
The House fast tracks the emergency foreign aid bill toward a final vote as Speaker Martin signals action on anti inflation measures before Dec 19. Harriman proposes new powers to allocate scarce items and extend controls, with a Senate and House path through committee before a final vote.
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Jerry Korn
Washington
House
Martin
R-Mass
Congress
Truman
Senate
Harriman
Secretary of Commerce
Senate Judiciary
Joint Economic Committee
Mr. Truman
Eisenhower to Lead Columbia University Next June
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower will assume the presidency of Columbia University on June 7. Frederick Coykendall, chairman of the university trustees, announced the move amid long deliberations and expectations from faculty and donors.
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New York
Dwight PD. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Frederick Coykendall
Record price for Choice steers hits 39 a hundredweight
In Chicago prices for Choice steers reached a new alltime high of $39 per hundredweight in the regular market on Tuesday. The consignments averaged 1,150 pounds with prime grade material in the mix. The previous record was $38.50 set last week, and a year ago the market differed. See BULLETINS on Page 13.
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Chicago
Theo
Knowland questions wording on British German fund explanation
In Washington Senator Knowland questions the wording of an official explanation of the joint British American fund in occupied Germany The fund of 80 million dollars is to buy raw materials and bolster the German economy British officials reportedly sought to cancel unlimited convertibility into dollars Royall calls Knowland's understanding substantially correct and notes hard work and stubbornness in negotiations The group proposed delaying action on unfreezing the fund with Snyder the Treasury secretary
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Washington
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Germany
Army Royall
Great Britain
Royall
Cold wave grips Midwest with subzero readings
The coldest weather of the season hits the Midwest with Minnesota reporting 28 below in Bemidji and other subzero readings across the region. Winds, clear skies, and deep snow contribute to frigid conditions as far as the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes areas.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Minnesota
Canada
Iowa
Wisconsin
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Texas
North
Atlantic
Bemidji
Rochester
Willmar
Minneapolis
la Crosse
Mason City
New England
New York State
Oswego
N.Y
Lake Ontario
Rocky Mountain
Lewis Summons Top Executives
John L Lewis called a 30 member inter national executive board of the United Mine Workers to meet in Washington. The sessions were private as speculation swirled about AFL relations and the possible appointment to the late John O Leary’s vice presidency.
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Washington
John L.lewis
International
United Mine ‘Workers
Lewis
UMW
American Federation of Labor
John O'Leary
Pittsburgh
O'Leary
San Francisco
AFL
Federation
Former Tucson Nurse Assumes State Tuberculosis Post
Phoenix Dec 9 Helen Harkavn, formerly Pima County public health nurse and former director of a public nursing course at Marquette University, was named nursing consultant for the division of tuberculosis control of the state health board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Helen Harkavn
Pima County
Marquette University
Division of Tuberculosis
State Health Board
Ask Soviets Share Occupation Costs
The United States and Great Britain urged Russia to share deficits in administering western Germany occupation zones. Molotov softened earlier demands for reparations, proposing a working paper on Soviet economic proposals while criticizing the Marshall Plan. The conference faced pessimism but some progress awaited key German policy decisions.
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London
U.R
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
Britain
France
V. M. Molotov
Big Four Conference of Foreign Ministers
Molotov
George C. Marshall
West
Europe
Ruhr
Welfare Group Meets Friday in Phoenix Discussion
Kingman reports the interim legislative social security committee will meet in Phoenix Friday and Saturday with welfare board members and department heads to review the Public Administration Service survey on welfare and social security. Jameson notes the $50,000 survey appropriation will be returned to the general fund after costing under $10,000. The topic will return to the legislature in a special session next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingman
U.R
State Department of Social‘security and Welfare
Legislative Social Security Committee
D Jameson
Phoenix
Welfare Board
Public Administration, Service
Chicago
Jameson
Nun's Diary Details Desert Trek to Found St Mary’s Tucson
Diary notes seven sheltered Catholic sisters journeying from San Diego to Tucson in 1870 to establish St Mary’s. They faced extreme desert heat and cattle deaths amid rough ranchers. The Tucson hospital, once the first there, seeks 1 million dollars for a building fund.
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San Diego
Tuckson
Ao of the
Tucson
Fuel Scarcity Under Probe
United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis told a Senate Commerce subcommittee the oil shortage stems from a shift away from coal after the 1946 strike and condemned punitive rhetoric toward the oil industry. Oil official Howard W. Page argued plenty of oil exists but tanker scarcity hinders distribution as Massachusetts Governor Bradford warned of an acute New England crisis and calls for fair tanker and tank car shares.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Senate Commerce
Howard W. Page
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Maritime Commission
Tobey
R-Nh
Robert F. Bradford
Massachusetts
New England
Page
Arab Leaders Talk Holy War in Cairo Conference
Arab leaders signaled support for a volunteer people's army to oppose a Jewish state in Palestine until British troops depart in August. They warned of counterinvasion to defend the Holy Land and urged Arab volunteers to join guerilla actions as tensions rise across the region.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Palestine
Hussain Khalidi
Arab
Holy Land
United Nations
Near East
Sheik Abdel Latif Draz
Hagana
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Stern
Palestine Liberation Committee
Damascus
Syria
Abd el Krim
Morocco
North Africa
Arab League
London
Whitehall
Navajo Relief Bill Aimed at Southwest Indians
Washington December 9 A House passed unanimously a $2,000,000 emergency relief appropriation for the Navajo and Hopi Indians of Arizona and New Mexico to begin aid this winter. Senate action required and a separate bill would later appropriate funds.
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Washington
Arizona
New Mexico
House
Senate
Congress
Southwest
United States
Europe
Truman Administration
House Public Lands Committee
Runaway Airship Takes Off Lands Without Pilot
A light plane took off from Tyler Texas with no pilot aboard and flew about 65 miles then landed, its undercarriage and wing damaged. Student pilot W B Myers was dragged 200 yards during attempted takeoff. Maj 0 J Palmer chased the aircraft in another plane before it landed in a Timpson area field.
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Tyler
Tex
W. B. Myers
Fred Williams
Myers
Maj
0. J. Palmer
Palmer
Flying Service
Henderson
Timpson
Russia beats America in tobacco supply in Germany says Cooley
Rep. Cooley says Russia is delivering more tobacco to the Soviet zone of Germany than the western zone of Germany. He notes tobacco as a key battlefield in the broader competition between the two powers. He described the situation as America needing to improve its tobacco distribution.
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Washington
Russia
America
Germany
Rep
Cooley
D-Nc
Soviet
Jobs Supplied Army Officers to Contractors Probe
Congressman George Bender and Lindsay Warren expose Army officials who, while deciding payments to contractors, moved into those firms after discharge. Examples include Maj. George W. Parker at Howard Aircraft, Maj. Kerwin Hagerty at Northwestern Aviation, Col. Forrest Smith with Schwitzer Cummings, and Capt. G I Calvert with Sheffield Steel. The piece notes promotions favoring top officers and hints at parlor politics shaping generals appointments.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Rep
George Bender
Ohio Republican
Congress
Bender
Lindsay Warren
General Accounting Office
Army
George W. Parker
Howard Aircraft Corp
St. Charles
Ill
Parker
Howard Aircraft
Kerwin Hagerty
Northwestern Aviation Corp
St. Paul
Col
Forrest Smith
Cincinnati
Schwitzer-Cummings Co
Indianapolis
Smith
Schwitzer- Cummings
G. I. Calvert
Sheffield Steel
Houston
Tex
Calvert
Sheffield Steel Co
Assessors To Fix Minimums At State Conference
Phoenix hosts the annual conference of Arizona county assessors with the state tax commission to set minimum values for property classes. Readings include grazing lands livestock household furnishings merchandise patented mill sites and nonproductive patented mines among others to be valued.
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Phoenix
Arizona County Assessors
State Tax Commission
Former Tucson Soldier Dies In Jeep Accident
Tech 46 Thomas W. Jamack Jr a former Tucson resident now with headquarters company second infantry division Ft. Lewis Wash was killed near Enumclaw Wash last Thursday night Jamack and Pfc Robert W Cook were en route to Ranger Creek camp when their jeep overturned on the highway Surviving are his wife and son Thomas III of Tacoma and his mother Mrs Minnie L Hamack Walla Walla
France Ends General Strike After Government Demands
Communist labor leaders suspended a nationwide wave after France demands force mobilization and a government ultimatum. Schuman's cabinet pressed a final offer to about 1 million idle workers. 240,000 troops stood ready. Moscow expelled a French repatriation mission and ordered closure of Camp Beauregard as reprisals escalated.
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Paris
U.P
Russia
France
Moscow
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Schuman
Robert Schuman
Confederation
Foreign Office
Beauregard
New Disorders Erupt In Sicily
In Sicily riots flared in Vittoria and Scicli as police used tear gas to break a 1000 strong Communist march and labor groups in Vittoria and Scicli called strikes. The Rome government faced 25 questions in the constituent assembly about rioting that killed 23 nationwide and involved the Primavalle slum incident.
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Frank Brutto
Rome
Sicily
Alcide de Gasperi
Constituent Assembly
Italy
Christian Democratic
Vittoria
Ragusa
Italian Social Movement
National Partisan Congress
Scicli
Chamber of Labor
Apulia
Calabria
Primavalle
Giusseppe Tanas
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Yuma
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Clark Center
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp
North States
William McKinley Osceola
President Truman
Everglades National Park
Everglades City
Fla
Shackford
Plan Volunteer Army
Pearson
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