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March 1, 1946

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Headlines from March 1, 1946

END OF GM STRIKE SOUGHT IN PARLEYS LASTING INTO NIGHT; Wilson Makes 'Last Offer' in Dramatic Sickroom Meeting Before Going to Hospital TALKS RECESSED TO TODAY Dewey Declines to Comment as Adjournment Is Taken at 12:30 A.M.--Detroit Tense Union Council Members Arrive Dewey Cheerful but Reticent END OF GM STRIKE IS BELIEVED NEAR Wilson Makes "Last Offer" Move by Bowles Reported White House Denies Plan

By Walter W. Ruch Special To the New York Times

Admitted to Harper Hosp for observation

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Police Battle 3,500 Pickets In a New Philadelphia Riot; Score Injured as Mounted and Motorcycle Officers Smash March on GE Plant-- 10,000 Demonstrate at City Hall POLICE AGAIN FIGHT PHILADELPHIA MOB STREET FIGHTING BETWEEN POLICE AND PICKETS IN PHILADELPHIA

By H. Walton Cloke Special To the New York Times

LABOR: Gov Martin ready to ask Fed troops aid as police and Gen Elec Co UERMWA strikers clash 2d time, Phila; injuries and arrests noted; Deputy Sheriff Morrow reads Riot Act over loudspeaker; NMU com pleads violation of strikers rights to Mayor Samuel; Phila Indus Union Council threatens gen strike; resolution asks P Murray conf

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Notable Births

Gerry Boulet

1946Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 1990)[†]

Joseph Gaétan Robert Gérald (Gerry) Boulet was a French Canadian rock singer. Most famous as vocalist for the Quebec rock band Offenbach, he also released two solo albums. He is considered one of the innovators of rock music in French Quebec.

Jim Crace

1946Jim Crace, English author and academic[†]

James Crace is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, Crace was born in Hertfordshire and has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin. His novels have been translated into 28 languages—including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew.

Historical Events

Bank of England

1946The Bank of England is nationalised.[†]

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker and debt manager, and still one of the bankers for the government of the United Kingdom, it is the world's second oldest central bank.