Communists Top Voting In 4th French Republic
In incomplete returns from France’s national election, the Communist Party leads with 4966786 votes, prompting speculation of a new coalition era. The MRP and Socialists trail, while anti Communist blocs gain ground. Notable figures include Mauric e Thorez Jacques Duclos Felix Gouin Paul Reynaud and Edouard Herriot.
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PARIS
France
Fourth Republic
Popular Republicans
MRP
Communist Party
Georges Bidault
Interior Ministry
Corsica
Republican Party of Liberty
Gaullist Union
Leftist Rally
PRL
Andrew Philip
Popular Front
Bidault
Maurice Thorez
Jacques Duclos
Felix Gouin
Paul Reynaud
Edouard Herriot
Edouard Aladier
Rene Capitant
Charles de Gaulle
Animal Feeders Strike Averted at Cincinnati Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo avoided a walkout after 25 animal feeders accepted most wage terms in a contract with the zoo board and AFL United Construction Workers. Two clauses remained unresolved, but the agreement prevented a stoppage today.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Zoo
AFL United Construction Workers
Death by gas ruled in Eldon Richards case
Lebanon Ohio Warren County Coroner H M Williams ruled the death of Eldon T Richards 49 an accident due to fumes from a kitchen stove oven. The body was found on a couch in his home on Saturday.
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Lebanon
Warren County
H. M. Williams
Eldon T. Richards
Limiting land ownership urged by Sam Simmons in Mason County
Sam Simmons discusses land ownership limits as vital for farming. He notes farmer opposition to New Deal since 1938, shrinking farm population, and the concentration of land in blocks. He argues breaking large farms into smaller holdings could benefit rural stability and allow more people to work the land. He cites Mason County farms over 1,000 acres and river-bottom fertility.
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Mason County
Jenkins Enters Race for House Floor Leader
Representative Thomas A. Jenkins of Ohio launches a bid for House Republican floor leader citing long service and leadership on Ways and Means. He faces Ohio's Clarence Brown and Indiana's Charles Halleck while Joe Martin moves toward speaker. Taft remains a strategic factor.
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Washington
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ohio
House
Congress
Jenkins
GOP House
Rep
Clarence Brown
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Brown
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Friends
Halleck
New Industrial Plan for Germany Analyzed
Clement Attlee spoke of the need and difficulty of an industrial plan that lets Germany sustain itself and aid Europe without becoming a threat. He warned free German capabilities must be controlled to prevent militarization, noting Anglo American zonal efforts and lack of full Allied cooperation.
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Clement Attlee
Germany
Europe
United States
France
Russia
Labor-Management Meeting Planned in Auto Field
Cleveland union officials mapped plans for a labor management conference to standardize CIO United Auto Workers contracts in the truck trailer bus and trackless trolley field. A resolution urged the union's executive board to combat incentive pay systems.
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Cleveland
CIO- United Auto Works
Unionists Press Ousting Communists From CIO Unions
Democratic Action CIO United Electrical Workers committee adopted a resolution urging CIO leadership to expel Communists from certain unions. The move targets those seen as hindering the CIO PAC from backing a progressive Congress in last week’s election.
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Dayton
Democratic Action
CIO United Electrical Workers Committee
CIO
Cio-Pac
Progressive Congress
Navy Vet Rescues Scioto River Victim
Columbus report says Orville Graham a 24 year old Navy veteran and current steeplejack descended hand over hand on a rope from the Broad Street Bridge to reach John T. Cummins 52 who had fallen into the Scioto River. He held Cummins above water until firemen completed the rescue yesterday.
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Columbus
Broad Street
Scioto River
Orville Graham
John T. Cummins
Cummins
Graham
Governor-elect Herbert to keynote city dinner
Ohio Governor-elect Thomas J. Herbert will be principal speaker at a Cincinnati dinner on November 16 honoring Mayor James Garfield Stewart on his 66th birthday.
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Cincinnati
Thomas J. Herbert
Ohio
James Garfield Stewart
Ag Department predicts large food supplies
The Agriculture Department said on Saturday that overall food supplies will be relatively large in the coming months with retail prices on average higher than a year ago. It notes supplies of chickens, eggs, butter, dried prunes and raisins, and milk will be somewhat smaller in the near term than in late 1945.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
National Food Food Situation
Lewis and Krug Open Coal Pay Talks in D.C.
John L. Lewis and Interior Secretary J. A. Krug begin wage negotiations in Washington over a pay raise for about 400000 soft coal miners, amid threats of a new walkout on November 20. Lewis leads 26 miners officials as Coal Mines Administrator Collisson and other Interior aides observe.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Secretary of Interior
J. A. Krug
United Mine Workers
Interior Department
N. H. Collission
Krug
Lewis
Army sergeant and two youths killed in Hamilton crash
A weekend highway tragedy in Butler County left Sgt. Clyde Campbell 23 of near Hamilton and youths Robert Couch 14 and Billy Maupin 15 of Hamilton dead. Six others injured when a truck rammed a car already damaged in a minor collision minutes earlier. Coroner Edward Cook called it the county's worst highway accident in years.
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Hamilton
Edward Cook
Butler County
Clyde Campbell
Robert Couch
Billy Maupin
Plane Parts Sabotage Investigation Scheduled
Washington Civil Aeronautics Administration spokesmen promised an investigation into reports of airplane equipment sabotage at the engineering and research company's Riverdale Maryland plant. Company officials blamed disgruntled employees laid off during a monthlong shutdown.
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Washington
Engineering and Research Co
Riverdale
Civil Aeronautics Administration
War veteran Isaac W. Sharp dies at home in Warsaw
Isaac W. Sharp, who served as national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1945, died at his Warsaw home last night. Born March 9, 1848, in Troy, Ohio, he had a long record of Civil War service and veteran leadership.
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Warsaw
Ind
Isaac W. Sharp
Grand Army of the Republic
Troy
Ohio
Wisdom and Restraint Urged After Truman Speech
President Truman urged wisdom and restraint from Democrats and Republicans to govern under divided control. He said decontrol would proceed with rents, sugar, and rice spared, warning some wage demands could threaten economic stability and urging cooperation across parties to serve public interest.
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Washington
America
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Republican Party
Plane Crash Near Cleveland Kills Two, Injures Seventeen
United Airlines flight 404 en route from Chicago to Boston crashed north of Cleveland Airport during a rainstorm. Pilots died, 17 passengers and a stewardess injured. Witness Fred Pasko described the crash near street lights and downed wires.
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Cleveland
United Airlines
Chicago
Boston
F. L. Brown
Robert L. Arnold
Hammond
Ind
Fred Pasko
Senator Wherry Plans Red Slav Meat Probe
Senator Wherry announced a one man investigation into American food shipments to Europe with focus on meat sent to Russia and Yugoslavia. He cited reports that about one third of 1.1 billion pounds of meat shipped to Europe in the first six months of the year went to those two countries.
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Washington
Wherry
R-Neb
Europe
Russia
Yugoslavia
United States
Pastors Crusade Seeks Governor Aid In Steubenville
Steubenville ministers rallied 1200 residents to press Gov. Lausche for a special Grand Jury and prosecutor to probe vice and gambling. Petitions signed by 760 locals call for indictments and possible action against lax officials and corrupt underworld ties. A meeting followed by plans to deliver the plea in Columbus.
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Steubenville
Ohio River
Frank J Lausche
R. K. Russell
Lausche
George W. Floto
Robert D. Bates
Jefferson County
Columbus
Pepper urges UN intervention over Palestine British rule
U S Senator Claude A Pepper called British practices in Palestine barbaric and urged the United States to press the United Nations to intervene. He proposed removing Britain as mandatory power and placing Palestine under UN protection.
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Philadelphia
U. S
Claude A. Pepper
D-Fla
Palestine
United States
United Nations
Britain
American Jewish Congress
War Surplus Property Cleanup Demanded by Administrator
Administrator Robert M. Littlejohn urged immediate drastic action to accelerate the sale of surplus war property. He warned of a collapse in public confidence if disposal rates fall short, aiming to dispose of 75 to 80 percent of surplus personal property by the end of January.
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Washington
Robert M. Littlejohn
War Assets Administration
CIO Convention Eyes Wage Talks and Muray Uncertainty
The CIO heads toward its first convention in two years as wage decisions loom and President Philip Murray’s future remains in doubt. A 51 member executive board meets Wednesday while about 600 delegates prepare to gather at Atlantic City for the November 18 convention.
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Washington
CIO
Philip Murray
Atlantic City
N.J
Prison Quarantine Declared After Smallpox Diagnosis
Columbus officials placed the city prison under quarantine after a fever and rash in the men’s block were diagnosed as smallpox. The health board reported one prisoner as affected and ordered containment measures.
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Iness
City
Columbus
City Board of Health
Goodwill Temple Planned as National Protes tantism HQ
The Ohio Council of Churches said plans have been drawn for a Temple of Good will building to be erected here as a national headquarters for Protestantism.
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Goodwill Temple
Columbus
Temple of Goodwill
Ohio Council of Churches
Heavy Snow and Tornado Kill One in the South
A heavy snow blanket and an unseasonable tornado killed one person and injured two others in Pointe Coupee Parish Louisiana. The storm cut telephone service, with Baton Rouge reporting 40 mph winds while snow affected Colorado to Minnesota and spread toward New York and New England.
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Upper Plains States
Pointe Coupee Parish
Louisiana
Lousiana
Baton Rouge
Colorado
Nebraska
Iowa
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
New York
New England
FBI Reports 8.1 Percent Crime Rise in 1946 Nine Months
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced that crime rose 8.1 percent in the United States for the first nine months of 1946 from 1945. Robberies up 19.2 percent, murders 15.3, negligent manslaughter 9.4, aggravated assault 7.9, burglaries 11.3. Hoover cited a study of about 400 large cities with populations over 52 million.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
United States
Hoover
ACI Keeps Coal Prices Steady After Controls Easing
Appalachian Coal Inc. said prices remain unchanged after price controls were relaxed. President R E Howe stated the firm would not exploit the coal shortage or the privilege to raise prices. He told sales agents in 28 states no price changes would occur.
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Cincinnati
Appalachian Coals, Inc
R. E. Howe
Howe
Truman
College Trustee Dies in Zanesville Funeral
Funeral services are held today for Albert Z. Baker 87 longtime BancOhio Corp director and Wittenberg College trustee. Baker served on corporate boards and supported higher education in Ohio Johnny.
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Zanesville
Albert Z. Baker
Banc-Ohio Corp
Wittenberg College
Toledo Man Killed in Traffic Collision
Harold Hall, 45, was killed yesterday after being struck by an automobile in Toledo. The death marks the city’s 41st traffic fatality of the year.
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Toledo
Harold Hall
Clergy Split Over Atomic Pastry Cake Causes Uproar
In Washington a dispute erupts over a cake shaped like an atomic explosion. Rev. A Powell Davies calls the pastry obscene and a betrayal of humanity while Rev J Warren Hastings and Rev Peter Marshall offer varied views. Blandy and Lowry declined detailed comment.
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Washington
A. Powell Davies
Unitarian Church
Society
W. H. P. Blandy
F. J. Lowry
Davies
J. Warren Hastings
National Christian Church
Peter Marshall
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
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Ft. Wayne
NEA
J. M. Roberts, JR
AP Foreign Affairs
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Ag Department
Dems
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Robert K. Russell
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