Postmaster Page Urges Early Christmas Mailings
Postmaster Page repeats a Postmaster General appeal for early mailing of Christmas cards gifts and parcels due to worker shortages. He urges distant mailings before December 15 and local cards by December 18 to ensure delivery before Christmas. Emphasis on correct addressing secure packaging and progressive mailings to avoid post office congestion.
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Ordance Commander Found Shot To Death
Calcutta December reports Lt. Col. Rolf Olaf Wulfburg commander of the ordnance ammunition area at Camp Kancrapara was found shot to death in a railway coach last Saturday. The bullet pierced his head and the Army has not disclosed how the fatal wound was inflicted or the Camp Kancrapara blast results.
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U. S. Army
Rolf Olaf Wulfburg
Ordance
Camp Kancrapara
Imperial House Member Apprehended in Prison Reprieve
Prison continues coverage noting the first member of the imperial house ordered detained. Two hours earlier Lt Gen Masaharu Homma and two officers left Sugamo for Manila to face trial over the Bataan Death March and related atrocities. Yamashita, convicted in Manila, appeals to MacArthur and the U.S. Supreme Court while Tokyo residents sign pleas to spare him.
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Masaharu Homma
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
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Philippines
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U. S. Supreme Court
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Tokyo
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Yamashita
President Steps Into GM Dispute With Ford at Forefront
Ford Motor Company faced post war wage issues as it prepared its reply to CIO United Automobile Workers plans to curb wildcat strikes. The talks, ongoing since November 21, could set an industry wide pattern for settling automotive labor disputes and were intensified by GM’s strike action and Ford’s demand for security against unauthorized stoppages.
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Ford Motor Company
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CIO
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Ford rejects UAW CIO bid to arbitrate Windsor strike
Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd announced today it rejected a proposal from the United Automobile Workers of America CIO to negotiate and arbitrate all differences arising from the union security strike that shut the Windsor plant since September 2.
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Winchester Baby in Serious Condition Sparking Public Appeal
The Star reports infant Thomas Wayne Fadeley, born with a serious heart condition, now weighs 13 pounds 4 ounces and requires an operation with a fifty fifty chance of survival. His parents in Winchester Frederick county seek public help after GI Bill loan efforts failed. Dr Helen B Taussig calls the case operable but extremely serious. the child is a Harriet Lane Ward patient at Johns Hopkins.
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Frederick County
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Baltimore
Helen B. Taussig
Harriet Lane Home
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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the Star
Harriet Lane
Bus Drivers Quit Striking Cumberland Transit
In Cumberland Maryland sixty bus drivers and fifteen mechanics from Potomac Edison Company failed to report to work, halting city transport for the first time. AFL Local 1110 leader James H. Morrison said union talks were ongoing and not a strike, while the company labeled the action a strike violating the agreement. Wage demands included 1.10 dollars an hour, up from 87 cents, plus time and a half for holiday work. contract talks broke down after arbitration was refused.
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Potomac Edison Company
James H. Morrison
Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employer of America
AFL
Henry W. Price
Morrison
Nazi Forced Slavery of Millions Revealed at War Crimes Trial
U S prosecutors presented records showing more than 4 000 000 conquered laborers from 14 nationalities were shipped to Germany by January 1945 to serve Nazi war plants and farms as a ruthless slave system. The testimony described a systematic pattern of murder starvation arson and kidnapping to maintain the labor force.
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U. S
Thomas J. Dodd
Reich
Overseas pay and Maritime Service ranks explained
The War Department states soldiers receive overseas pay concurrently with monthly regular pay. Maritime Service ranks mirror Navy structure starting at warrant officer and ending with captain, with ensign lieutenant junior grade lieutenant lieutenant commander commander and captain as the sequence.
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United States
M.E.C. A
War Department
U. S
G.L. A
Maritime Service
Navy
Santa Claus Behind Bars in Princess Anne Jail
In Princess Anne Maryland Santa Claus character or real life Police Chief Emory Revelle is jailed in the old city jail to comfort two children Patsy Mumford six and Irvin Kelly four whose mother Mrs Henry Kelly 24 faces a preliminary hearing on a murder charge. Local supporters supplied clothing meals candy and a doll as the story unfolds with the Somerset county attorney citing the alleged motive of self defense and abuse by the husband.
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Princess Anne’s
Henry Kelly
Patsy Mumford
Irvin Kelly
Santa
Emory Revelle
Santa Claus
Patsy
Revelle
Somerset County
Woodland Jackson
Iowa Tops Nation in Poultry Production
The Department of Agriculture lists Iowa as the largest poultry producing state, highlighting its lead in output among the United States.
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Union
Department of Agriculae
Iowa
Dutch Nazi Leader Mussert Sentenced to Death
The Hague December 12 Anton Mussert head of the Dutch Nazi party was sentenced to death by a special court after being convicted of collaborating with Germany.
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Anton Mussert
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