German peace aims dominate postwar talks in London
British Foreign Secretary Bevin urged deputies to craft a German peace that is firm and lasting to prevent a renewed war. Deputies from four powers tackle Germany and Austria treaties as nations push for reparations and territorial changes. Russia and France, backed by others, weigh claims on territory and economic control amid ongoing negotiations.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Netherlands
Germany
Bevin
Austria
Britain
United States
Russia
Mark Clark
U. S. Army
Robert Murphy
U. S
America
Poland
Oder
Neisse
Saar
Ruhr
Rhineland
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Czechoslovakia
Auriol Heads French Salons
In Paris on January 14 Socialist Vin cent Auriol won the national assembly presidency with 294 votes to 194 for Robert Schuman. The left backed Auriol as the leftist rally pulled its candidate Clodius Petit before voting. The council of the republic vote split amid multiple candidates including Marrane and Champetier.
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Paris
Vincent Auriol
France
National Assembly
MRP
Popular Republican Movement
Robert Schuman
Auriol
Fourth Republic
Clodius Petit
Council of the Republic
Alexandre Reubert
Adidate
Georges Marrane
Auguste Champetier de Ribes
Jules Gasser
Marrane
Champetier de Ribes
Gasser
Reubert
Pottery Imports In Straw Banned At Border
With hoof and mouth disease fears, U S customs under agriculture limits bans on Mexican pottery and glassware packed in grass straw or hay at the Nogales border. Mexican curios in other wrappings are allowed. Assistant Collector H R Chatham cites few shipments restricted. Rumors of a full embargo are traced to misinterpretation of the new rules.
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Nogales
Ariz
U. S
Agriculture Department
U. S.-Mexico
United States
Truman Plans Report on UN and Atomic Control
President Truman plans to submit within two weeks a full report to Congress on American operations in the United Nations with emphasis on atomic energy control. Warren Austin, new head of the AEC, met with Bernard Baruch to align on the plan, including veto limits on violators of atomic law. The Security Council prepares to debate atomic control and disarmament, with Britain favoring simultaneous discussion but prioritizing control.
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New York
Truman
Congress
United Nations
Security Council
Russia
United States
Austin
Atomic Energy Commission
Warren R. Austin
Bernard Baruch
Baruch
U.S
Spreading Strike Knocks London Food Supply
Nearly 4,000 London dock workers walked out in protest against food distribution by British troops, swelling total idle to around 50,000 across major English cities. Ministers defend emergency use of troops as unions threaten broader sympathy action and some newspapers warn of possible publication cuts.
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London
England
Britain
Smithfield
John Strachey
Stanley
Liverpool
Victoria and Albert Docks
Port of London Authority
Charles McLoughlin
National Port Workers’ Defense Committee
House Fund Shortage Outlined by Audit Preview
Speaker Martin announced a preliminary GAO audit of the House sergeant at arms office shows a $121000 shortage. Comptroller Lindsay Warren provided a progress report as Martin briefed Republican members at a party conference.
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Washington
Jan
Martin
Tueglay
House
General Accounting Office
Six Killings Near Juarez Deepens Border Crime Mystery
At Juarez Mexico on January 14 authorities reported six slayings linked to underworld warfare remain cloaked in mystery. Police said the victims with criminal records were found in diverse locations near Juarez including a cemetery and near the Rio Grande and nearby villages. None were identified and most had been dead two to three days.
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Juarez
Mexico
Antonio Maese
Maese
Rio Grande
Zaragoza
San Isidro
Weather across the nation brings warm rain to cold fronts
A broad weather sweep from warm rains in the Midwest to blizzards in the Plains and Pacific Northwest. Thunderstorms hit Iowa and Minnesota, Nebraska chills to two below, Indiana reports light rain, and North Dakota endures a blizzard with 40 to 50 mph winds. San Francisco and Seattle stay cold as an Albuquerque storm brings hurricane gusts in New Mexico.
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Chicago
Iowalin
Rochester
Minn
Nebraska
Chadron
Omaha
Indiana
Weather Bureau
Ft. Wayne
North Dakota
Pacific Northwest
San Francisco
Seattle
Connecticut
Las Vegas
N. M
State fair awards horse race meet contract
The Arizona State Fair Commission awards a 14 day horse racing contract at the state fairgrounds to R. S. Snedigar D. M. Haggard and Henry S. Sieck of Safford. Operators pay a daily 2010 rental plus 3 percent of daily pari mutuel handle above thresholds. Revenue funds the state fair.
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Phoenix
State Fair Commission
State Fairgrounds
R. S. Snedigar
D. M. Haggard
Henry S. Sieck
Safford
Paul Jones
Commission
State Tax Commission
Fair Commission
Air Fatalities Stir Congress
Congressional inquiry into aviation accidents and finances advances with Senate Commerce Committee plans to question CAB members behind closed doors. Brewster calls for a safety inquiry and support for an independent air safety board as troubled airlines seek loans amid thin international traffic.
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Washington
James M. Landis
Civil Aeronautics Board
Senate Commerce Committee
Len Owen Brewster
R-Me
Aviation Authority
Senate
Wallace H. White, Jr
Commerce Committee
Brewster
Pat McCarran
Dnew
Transcontinental & Western Air
United States
Air Safety Board
CAB
Eastern Airlines
Virginia
William A. M. Burden
McCarran
B-29 Fleet Heads Home After Miami Air Show
The eighth air force composite group returns to Davis-Monthan Army airfield at 3 30 p m Tuesday after an display at the Miami All American air show. Col James C Selser Jr led 30 B 29 bombers over the field before 90 000 spectators, marking the largest post war in flight seen since the war end.
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Eighth Air Force
Davis-Monthan Army Airfield
Miami
Fla
James C. Selser
Davis-Monthan
Miami Field
Phoenix Bartenders Threatening Walkout
Phoenix bartenders threaten a strike set for tomorrow morning unless a 1947 working contract is agreed upon. Don A. Baldwin, business manager of Hotel and Restaurant Employes and Bartenders Union Local 631, announced the plan.
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Phoenix
Don A. Baldwin
Pan American Solidarity Urged by United States and Brazil Leaders
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg warned at a Cleveland forum that Pan American solidarity is vital amid a rising Communist influence. Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra urged voters to reject Communists, defending democracy. The piece notes the 1945 Chapultepec act aimed at hemispheric defense and curbing subversive activity, calling for fuller implementation of Pan American ideals.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cleveland Foreign Affairs Forum
San Francisco
United Nations
Brazil
Vandenberg
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Western Hemisphere
Lewis Action Called Insult in Supreme Court Fight
Government attorneys in the Supreme Court described John L. Lewis action during last fall's coal strike as an insult to the United States while Lewis's defense argued the remark belonged in a political forum. The case contests $3,510,000 in fines for contempt of a court order, with arguments over civil and criminal contempt and the legality of the district judge's ruling.
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Washington
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
United States
Lewis
High Court
United Mine Workers
U.S. District Court
T. Alan Goldsborough
Tom C. Clark
High Tribunal
Clark
Welwy K. Hopkins
UMW
Hopkins
Goldsborough
Frankfurter
Union
Luxury Taxes May Be Kept
Washington January 14 wartime tax rates on liquor furs jewelry and other items may be extended indefinitely as Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee discuss potential tax reductions on individuals. Under current law rates on liquor and other items are set to fall to prewar levels on July 1 with liquor tax dropping from nine to six dollars per gallon. The wartime levy has brought in about 1.5 billion dollars annually.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Lewis Visits Florida Doctor
John L. Lewis head of the United Mine Workers visits his Springfield physician Dr. Charles Compton in St. Petersburg Florida. He says he is merely passing through and will stay about an hour. He declines to reveal future plans and says he will not go to Washington for hearings on an appeal tied to a fine.
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ST. Petersburg
Fila
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Florida
Viney Park Hotel
Charles Compton
Springfield
Iil
Lewis
Washington
Supreme Court Hears Lewis Contempt Appeal Demand for Space
For the John L. Lewis contempt appeal over $3.51 million from the soft coal strike the Supreme Court faced a full house. Attorneys, lawmakers, officials, labor leaders, and journalists crowded the courtroom with standing room reportedly exhausted.
Osborn Dodges Six Rate and Policy Questions
Governor Sidney P. Osborn answered four questions and refused comment on two during a statehouse Q and A about his legislative message. He dodged issues on rate base methods, watered valuation, Dunn’s survey funding, racing regulation, labor law suggestions, and livestock tax enforcement.
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Phoenix
Sidney P. Osborn
Corporation Commission
Federal Power Commission
George Dunn
FPC
W. J. Eden
Yale McFate
Tucson
Dunn
State Auditor’s
U.S. Treasury
Commission
Supreme Court
Tax Commission
Two Airlines Seek State Certificates
The corporation commission will conduct hearings Wednesday on applications from two airlines for operating certificates. Gee & Gee Air Service seeks to operate aircraft from Casa Grande to all points in the state. Coronado Flying Service requests charter freight express and passenger service from Clifton to all points in the state.
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Phoenix
State Corporation Commission
Gee & Gee Air Service
Casa Grande
Coronado Flying Service
Clifton
Capitol Annex Urged as New State House Plan
A Phoenix special committee urged the 18th Arizona legislature to fund a 1.5 million dollar addition in front of the aging capitol to serve as a new state house. It would convert the old building into offices and house legislative and executive branches, with a building commission to start plans.
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Phoenix
Arizona
H. H. d’Autremont
H. H. l’Autremont
Ed Jameson
Capitol
Senate
Byrd Antarctic flotilla presses toward Little America
The central Byrd expedition group battles huge Ross ice floes near the Mt. Olympus and steams toward Little America. Six convalescents aboard Pine Island receive radio cheers from Rear Adm. Cruzen as the flotilla travels 431 nautical miles in 15 days with more ice ahead.
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Uss
MT. Olympus
Byrd Antarctic Expedition
Ross
Little America
Pine Island
Richard H. Cruzen
South Polar
Three Polish Traitors Sentenced To Death In Treason Case
A Warsaw military tribunal condemned Count Kawery Grocholski and two accomplices to death for high treason linked to an underground group named WIN. Waldermar Baczar and Capt Witold Kalicki received death sentences, while Chrystina Kosiorek drew ten years in prison. A second court also sentenced five NSZ members to death for the Krakow prison attack.
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Warsaw
Jan
Kawery Grocholski
Poland
WIN
Grocholski
Waldermar Baczar
Polish
Foreign Ministry
Witold Kalicki
Interior Security Corps
Chrystina Kosiorek
NSZ
Krakow
100 Millions To Be Loaned To Italians
The export import bank approved 100 million dollars in credits to Italy to restore industry and expand export markets. Bank Chairman William Mc Chesney Martin Jr announced the action from Washington on January 14.
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Washington
Italy
William McChesney Martin, Jr
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