Labor strikes ease but stay widespread across states
The nation’s total strike count fell below 400,000 as Massachusetts seized the eastern street railways and New York longshoremen returned to work. Major issues include miners in six states, northwest lumber workers, and 3,000 to 7,000 movie workers. Delaware and Illinois totals cited. Massachusetts action leads, with 1,800 railway employees affected and pay disputes unresolved pending arbitration.
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Associated Press
Massachusetts
New York
Northwest
Illinois
California
Ohio
Wisconsin
Maurice J. Tobin
Tobin
Frank J. Murray
Boston Corporation
Laval Pays Penalty For Betrayal Of France
Pierre Laval, former premier and Vichy regime official, was executed at Fresnes prison in Paris after attempting to kill himself with poison and failing to die from a firing squad. A final order to command the execution was refused. Laval cried Vive La France as he died at 12:32 PM.
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Laval
France
Mel Most
Paris
Pierre Laval
Marshal Petain
Fresnes
Coup de Grace
High Court of Justice
Joseph Darnard
Vichy
Radio to Carry Mac Arthur Address in Occupation Talk
New York oct 15 all radio networks will broadcast General Douglas Mac Arthur's address on military phases of occupation at 6 o'clock EST tonight. Previously scheduled programs are canceled for that hour.
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New York
Douglas MacArthur
Public sale notice at Gainesboro Va for livestock and farm goods
Public sale to be held in Gainesboro Virginia on Thursday October 18 at 10 AM. Items include livestock farm machinery household goods corn by shock listed by F M Bageant. Also appears as Diamond Cab phone 4106 and office opposite Luthern Church with 24 hour service.
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Luthern Church
Gainesboro
F. M. Bageant
Another New Rule By The O P A
Des Moines Oct 15 A tenant paid finder Oliver W Angell Cedar Rapids 25 for a house. OPA director Walter D Kline said Angell must pay 50 to the U S Treasury as rewards are against OPA regulations. The donor was not refunded.
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Des Moines
Oliver W. Angell
Cedar Rapids
Walter D. Kline
Iowa
OPA
Angell
U. S. Treasury
President Truman Summons War Labor Board for White House Talks
President Truman calls the War Labor Board to a White House meeting to discuss wage policy and labor disputes amid likely dissolution plans. Attendees include Labor Secretary Schwellenbach Reconversion Chief Snyder and board members led by acting chair Lloyd K. Garrison.
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Washington
Truman
War Labor Board
White House
Schwellenbach
John W. Snyder
Lloyd K. Garrison
Frank P. Graham
Lewis M. Gill
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Edwin E. White
Ray McCall
The
Teamsters
John Leonard
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees
AFL
Neil Brant Thomas
Carl] Shipley
United Auto Workers
CIO
Earl N. Cannon
George Bahrs
Clarence O. Skinner
Vincent P. Ahern
WLB
Taylor
Garrison
Frost and cold snap hit county crops and harvest
The city saw a 32 degree low after a 34 degree Sunday morning. County Agent I Fred Stine says frost damaged most county garden crops except greens. Harvest work wanes as about 90 Bahamians are to be shipped this week, corn yields look buoyant, and pastures and hay crops are good.Weather forecast calls for rising temperatures by Tuesday afternoon.
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Fred Stine
Weather Bureau
Virginia
Stine
Japan Demobilizes as Allied Powers Oversee Transition
Japan completes demobilization ending a 7,000,000 strong military force and dissolves the Imperial General Staff. Allied HQ urges democratic reforms led by Prince Fumimaro Konoye while a five day Diet session is set for November 10 to chart future policies amid shifting party dynamics.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Japan
Guadalcanal
China
Fumimaro Konoye
Hirohito
Konoye
Diet
Imperial Household
Imperial General Staff Headquarters
General Staff
Potsdam
Driblets
Amercans
Domei Agency
Kijuro Shidehara
MacArthur
All Construction Controls Are Removed By Government
Washington reports the nation enters a peace month as WPB civilian construction ban ends. Forecasts warn labor disputes may delay reconversion while wages and prices loom as key issues, with unions seeking large strike votes and potential new dispute machinery under consideration.
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Washington
WPB
White House
OPA
War Labor Board
Automopura Lumber
Dutch Efforts to Quell Java Island Riots Amid Crisis
Dr. Hubertus van Mook acted to quell uprisings in Java and offered to meet Indonesian rebel leaders including Soekarno. A Dutch governor-general resigns, while 50,000 Dutch women and children are described as surrounded hostages. General Hawthorn imposes death penalties for looting as Indonesian nationalists call a general work stoppage.
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Batavia
Java
Hubertus van Mook
Dutch East Indies
Aneta
van Mook
Indonesia
Soekarno
Hague
A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Indies
van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Schermerhorn
Reuters
London
Europe
D. C. Hawthorn
Holland
Netherlands Home Radio
Bristol Hospital Board to Hear Nurses Protests
Charges by day duty nurses who walked out at King's Mountain Memorial Hospital last week will be considered by five Bristol area hospital board members at 7 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce. The nurses demand a full investigation, a management overhaul including new administrators, a $150 to $170 base salary scale, eight hour days and one day off weekly, and a doctor placed.
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Bristol
King’s Mountain Memorial Hospital
Chamber of Cwilmerce
R C. Boswell
Virginia Grahl
Fatal collision involving Novick Transport truck in Jersey City
In Jersey City a ten ton Novick Transport truck crashed into a parked Akers Motor Lines rig, killing Lloyd Stacy 30 and Horace Smith McKinney 33 while they repaired the truck. Arthur Middleton 31 and Gordon Wilhelm 29 faced charges and detention after the incident.
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Jersey City
N. J
Akers Motor Lines
Gastonia
N. C
Joseph Near
Hudson County Police
Near
Lloyd Stacy
Horace Smith
McKinney
Route 1
Gaffney
S. C
Novick Transport Company
Roanoke
Arthur LeRoy Middleton
Forest Street
Baltimore
Gordon Edward Wilhelm
Middleton
Stacks
Treatm
Hudson c Ty
Kearny
Wilhelm
Tension Easing In Argentina As New Heads Rule
Argentina shows signs of stability as Gen. Eduardo Avalos and Vice Admiral Vernengo Lima reform the government. They reopen universities, reinstate teachers and a habeas corpus judge, lift press censorship, overhaul the army, and shift police focus. President Edelmiro Farrell approves actions amid a broader shakeup.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Col
Juan Peron
Eduardo Avalos
Vernengo Lima
la Plata
Litoral
Peron
Rodolfo Barraco Marmol
Cordoba
Avalos
Lima
Edelmiro Farrell
Army Command
Francisco Saenz
Camp de Mayo
U. S. Plans to Recognize Austrian Provisional Government
The United States announced it is prepared to recognize the provisional government of Austria. The move follows Austria losing independence to Nazi Germany in March 1938 and lacking a fully qualified independent government since. The State Department notes the Renner administration in Vienna seeks full authority over the country, though Austria is currently divided into Russian, British, American, and French occupation zones.
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Washington
United States
Austria
Nazi Germany
State Department
Karl Renner
Vienna
Lisse
Thomas Scully To Head War Fund Drive
Thomas Scully named chairman of the Winchester and Frederick county Virginia War Fund Drive with a $19 000 local quota. The drive runs through October 31 as part of a nationwide push to aid military and home front needs.
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Thomas Scully
Thomas G. Scully
Virginia War Fund
Winchester
Frederick County
U. S. Army
Winchester-Frederick County
America
National War Fund
Boy’s Clubs
Salvation Army
General Stilwell Reaches Manila
General Joseph E. Stilwell former commander of the U S 10th Army arrived in Manila by plane from Okinawa en route to the United States He was accompanied by Major General Frank Merrill famed for Merrill s Marauders in the Burma campaign
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Manila
Joseph E. Stillwell
U. S. 10Th Army
Okinawa
United States
Stilwell
Frank Merrill
Merrill
Burma
Named Secretary of Military Court
BERLIN Oct. 15 Harod Willey deputy clerk of the U S Supreme Court today was appointed general secretary of the International Military Tribunal which try major German war criminals at Nuernberg Willey a native of Portland Oregon and a resident of Arlington Virginia will be assisted by a large secretariat which will handle the files of each of the four prosecuting nations.
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Berlin
Harod Willey
U. S. Supreme Court
International Military Tribunal
Nuernberg
Willey
Portland
Ore
Arlington
Thoughtful Advice Found At Camden Manufacturer
John Mortimer owner of the Schlenzig Manufacturing Company reported two weekend break in attempts at his Camden shop. Notes left at front and back doors warned you shouldn’t leave the doors open.
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Camden
N. J
John Mortimer
Schlenzig Manufacturing Company
Allied Prisoners Used as Jap Bayonet Targets
The Allied translation unit reports five POWs were used as bayonet practice targets by Japanese forces. At Guadalcanal two Europeans and one Eurasian were tortured and killed after hours of beating while officers watched. One prisoner recently married, another left a wife and two children, the third a wife and one child.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Guadalcanal
ATIS
Cider Apples Wanted at Ridgen Fruit Industries Plant
Ridgen Fruit Industries seeks cider apples at its Stean Lane plant. Contact phone 5938 for details. This job notice appears in a local classifieds style brief.
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Ridgen Fruit Industries
Stean Lane
Laval Wounded by Assailant in Early Trials Shootings
During Marshal Petain era Pierre Laval faced trial wounds from a near-fatal attack. He was ejected twice, lawyers quit, and he was confined in a dungeon beneath the courtroom. A speedy burial followed with official escorts and a grave beside an unknown collaborator.
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Laval
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Thiasis
Darnand
Welcome Home Veterans Return to Civilian Life
The Star greets Frederick Clarke counties and Winchester veterans discharged and resuming civilian life. Daily, the list will grow as the public supplies names of those men who have received their discharges.
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Frederick and
Clarke Counties
Winchester
Star
Tne
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L. MacArthur
American Legion
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