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December 12, 1945

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Headlines from December 12, 1945

VETERAN PRIORITY ON HOUSING BACKED IN MAYORS' SESSION; First Choice for Service Men in Buying and Renting New and Emergency Units Urged MEAD BILL IS ENDORSED La Guardia Insists Cities, Not States, Control the Quarters Built With U.S. Funds

By Unknown Author

US Mayors Conf endorses Mead bill; LaGuardia urges cities control of housing made available under bill; conf favors Admr Blandford plan for veterans priority in new homes; OPA rules revision to encourage occupants to share homes with veterans urged; Gen Bradley urges protection from high-pressure sales

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Ford Company Considers Plan for an Annual Wage; Officials Link It to Answer to CIO Offer of Security Terms as Steel Strike Date Enhances Strategic Role in Industry

By Walter W. Ruch Special To the New York Times

Suggestion to stagger Ford Motor Co output noted

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ELECTRICAL DEVICES HELD UP, SAYS UNION; CIO Chief Asks Investigation --Manufacturers Report Lack of Labor and Vital Parts

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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NATION-WIDE STEEL STRIKE CALLED BY CIO FOR JAN. 14; MORE THAN 700,000 INVOLVED; PAY TRUCE INVITED Murray Gives the First Public Indication $2 Demand May Be Cut TRUMAN PLAN ASSAILED Steel Union Board Warns of 'Serfdom' in Fact-Finding-- Strike Would Be Record

By Lawrence Resner Special To the New York Times

USWA wage policy com scores proposed labor legis as leading to indus serfdom

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Father Divine Takes Atom Under Control

By Unknown Author

Claims control of atomic energy, ser

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Notable Births

1945Gísli S. Einarsson, Icelandic politician^[†]

Gísli Sveinbjörn Einarsson is an Icelandic politician and former member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, he represented the Western constituency from September 1993 to May 2003.

1945Tony Williams, American drummer, composer, and producer (died 1997)^[†]

Anthony Tillmon Williams was an American jazz drummer. Williams first gained fame as a member of Miles Davis' "Second Great Quintet", and later pioneered jazz fusion with Davis' group and his own combo, the Tony Williams Lifetime. In 1970, music critic Robert Christgau described him as "probably the best drummer in the world." Williams was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1997.

Historical Events

1945The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.^[†]

The People's Republic of Korea was a short-lived provisional government that was organized at the time of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of World War II. It was proclaimed on 6 September 1945, as Korea was being divided into two occupation zones, with the Soviet Union occupying the north and the United States occupying the south. Based on a network of people's committees, it presented a program of democratization of society and the economy.