Lilienthal resigns as Atomic Energy Commission head
David Lilienthal resigns as chairman and member of the Atomic Energy Commission effective December 31, citing a desire to speak with greater latitude. President Truman accepts without naming a successor. Lilienthal, 50, led TVA and then the AEC amid fierce controversy and secrecy disputes. He plans a news conference Monday at 10 a.m.
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Washington
CAP
David FE. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Truman
Commission
Lillenthal
Lilienthal
Klatt Resigns as Trumbull GOP Chairman
William A. Klatt resigned as Trumbull County Republican committee chairman amid controversy over a 1946 liquor permit case. He cited ill health and public scrutiny, insisting the move serves party harmony while facing trial on charges he aided a private club permit for Leonard Fletcher.
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Warren
William A. Klatt
Trumbull County
Republican Committee
Army and Navy Union
James A. Rhodes
Columbus
Union’s Department of Ohio
Klatt
Rhodes
Republican
Metzenbaum Exits Ohio Legislature After Two Terms
Cleveland Democrat Howard M. Metzenbaum, 36, announced he will not seek re election to a third Ohio Senate term. He cites heavy workload and low pay as factors, while serving as Judiciary Committee chair and influential member on Rules and Finance panels amid a contentious employment discrimination bill debate.
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Columbus
Ohio
Howard M. Metzenbaum
Cleveland
Senate
Metzenbaum
Frank J. Lausche
Margaret A. Mahoney
Senate Finance Committee
Driver Sentenced In Author’s Death
Hugh D. Gravitt, a taxi driver, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the traffic death of Margaret Mitchell. He received a sentence of 12 to 18 months in jail for striking the author as she and her husband crossed Weadstone Street toward a theater on the night of August 11.
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Atlanta
Hugh D. Gravitt
Margaret Mitchell
Gravitt
John R. Marsh
Weadtene St
Bomb damages Blue Ribbon Cafe during union picket
Dayton police say a home made bomb exploded four blocks from a downtown intersection, wrecking the Blue Ribbon Cafe as two unions picketed outside. Detective Sgt. Charles Teeter described a destroyed front and interior debris while worker Russell Plynell said he knew nothing of the bombing.
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Dayton
Blue Ribbon
Charles M. Teeter
Russell Plynell
Engineer Hadley Baldwin Dies in Cincinnati at 82
Hadley Baldwin, 82, longtime rail industry figure with the Big Four, died in Cincinnati. Baldwin's career included extensive work as an engineer and notable service in the transportation sector.
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Cincinnati
Hadley Baldwin
The
Big Four
Officer Kills Berserk Man in Miami Apartment
In Opa-Locka a berserk Marine veteran was shot and killed by a policeman after slashing his wife with a broken milk bottle and wrecking their unit. The couple’s one year old was unharmed as patrolmen pursued and shot at the attacker. The man was Alexander Sokalsky, 25, released days earlier from a VA hospital where he was held as a psychiatric case.
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Miami
Fla
B F. Shields
Alexander Sokalsky
Veterans Administration Hospital
Coral Gables
Sokalsky
Rita
Shields
Navy Veterans Housing
Opa-Locka
James I. Jordan
John Pate
W. H. Brown
Jordan
Pate
Seven Die in Cotton Truck Freight Crossing Crash
Seven people were killed and ten injured when a cotton picker truck collided with a freight train at a railroad crossing near Lubbock Texas on Wednesday officials said the crash involved a freight train and the truck loaded with cotton pickers.
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Lubbock
Tex
Reds Reject Nationalist Recognition at UN Debate
Russia, through Andrei Vishinsky, declares it no longer regards the Kuomintang as China’s legal representative in the United Nations. He states 350 million Chinese recognize Mao Zedong’s Communist regime in Peiping. Chieh-Hou Kan denounces Moscow’s actions and vows to present evidence of treaty violations to the Assembly.
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Russia
Moscow
China
United Nations
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Stalin
General Assembly
Mao Tze-Tung
Peiping
Chieh-Hou Kan
Li Tsung-Jen
British
Hong Kong
Flushing Meadow
Visinsky
Vishinsky
Kan
Assembly
Soviet Union
Carlos P. Romulo
Kremlin
Chiang Kai-Shek
U.N
Security Council
U. S
Britain
France
Argentine Committee Seizes Four Newspapers
A Buenos Aires congressional committee seized the offices of four independent newspapers including La Nacion La Prensa La Hora and Clarin amid an investigation into whether they accepted funds from the Peron opposition coalition in 1945.
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Buenos Aires
la Nacion
la Prensa
la Hora
Clarin
Juan D. Peron
Names Pop Up Again At Hiss Perjury Trial
New York reporters recount testimony by Whittaker Chambers who identified Nathan Witt and Lee Pressman as former associates linked to Alger Hiss. Chambers recalled the 1935 Washington visit and a later FBI office meeting as part of his prewar Communist underground claims. Hiss denies handling secrets and faces perjury charges after a previous hung jury verdict.
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New York
Nathan Witt
Lee Pressman
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Alger Hiss
Witt
Pressman
Hiss
Washington
State Department
CIO
National Labor Relations Board
Lothers
House Un-American Activities Committee
Martha Pope
FBI
Claude B. Cross
Hisses
Duffy Plans To Run Again In Ohio Attorney General Race
Columbus Atty. Gen. Herbert S. Duffy announced his candidacy for renomination in the Democratic primary next May. Born in Perry County, he is 49 and a Dartmouth and Harvard Law School graduate who served as an aircraft pilot in World War I. He directed litigation that led to a $7.5 million refund from Ohio Bell to subscribers in 44 counties.
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Herbert S. Duffy
Perry County
New Lexington
Dartmouth College
Harvard Law School
Naval Flying Corps
William Howard Taft
Treasure Chest
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Conviction Reversed in Butler County Murder Case
The Ohio Supreme Court reversed Marie Abbott's second degree murder conviction and ordered a new trial after ruling that jointly trying Abbott with neighbor Cyril Gordon, who confessed, was error. Gordon had been convicted of first degree murder with mercy recommendation.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Marie Abbott
Butler County
Morris
Gordon
High Court
Common Pleas Court
Chinese government to pull back as Red forces near Chungking
The Chinese government streamlined operations on Wednesday and prepared to abandon Chungking, planning to follow its armies as Red troops advanced to within about 70 miles of the city.
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Chungking
A Squeak In Car Ends In Thanksgiving Dinner
A squeak in an automobile leads to a Thanksgiving meal for Bill Davenport cafe porter after a possum hides on the engine. Cari Fey visits a friend. garage operator Roy Knecht and Davenport identify the animal.
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Cincinnati
Bill Davenport
Cafe Porter
Cari Fey
Fey
Roy Knecht
Knecht
Davenport
Supreme Court Takes Dayton Tax Protest
Taxpayer appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court argues Dayton lacks authority to levy a one half of one percent payroll income tax under its city charter. The case mirrors Toledo’s income tax dispute pending before the court.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Helen F. Zimmer
Dayton
Supreme Court
Toledo
Gas Price Cut Set In Two Counties
The Standard Oil Company of Ohio and Texaco announce gasoline price cuts in Hamilton and Butler counties. Regular gasoline drops to 24 cents a gallon and supreme grade to 26 cents, effective Thursday, the first reduction since wartime end.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton
Butler
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Texaco
Election Ordered for Local 767 Officers in Zanesville
Common Pleas Judge Clarence J. Crossland ordered an election to select temporary officers for Local 767 of the United Electrical Workers in Zanesville. The vote is set to determine interim leadership amid ongoing organizational matters.
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Zanesville
United Electrical Workers
Common Pleas
Clarence J. Crossland
White Says Solons Best Paid in Nation
William L. White of Newark accused Congressmen of subsidizing their own wealth as he sought the Ohio Democratic Senate nomination. He argued lawmakers have raised salaries and benefits, totaling about 31 858 dollars in cash income yearly.
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White
Solons
Dayton
William L. White
Newark
Ohio
Democratic Senate
Hickenlooper Sees New Stimulation
Des Moines Iowa Senator B B Hickenlooper critic of AEC chairman Lilienthal announced after Littenthal resignation that the United States must push for vigorous atomic program growth. He said his interest is in maintaining national preeminence and dismissed personal animosity while noting past calls for Lilienthal’s departure. He defended his charge of mismanagement against the AEC and urged continued strong policy.
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TVA
McKellar
D-Tenn
Senate Appropriations Committee
Hickenlooper
Iowa
AKC
Lilienthal
Senate House Atomic Committee
AEC
Atomic Energy Commission
White House
ABC
New York
Des Moines
B. B. Hickenlooper
David Lilient
Littenthal
Dlog
Sickenlooper
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Belt Credited In Survival Of Boy
Twelve year old Isaac Allal of Oslo explains he was the sole survivor in a plane crash that killed thirty four people including Tunisian Jewish children, nurses, and four crew. He credits fastening his safety belt for remaining strapped under his seat for 42 hours until rescue. He recalls hearing voices and waking when cold and hungry, later finding apples stashed away. The weather in Norway that November was unusually mild.
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Oslo
Norway
Isaac Allal
Tunisia
Isaac
Hostler Charles Howard Dies on Pennsylvania Engine
Charles M. Howard, 52, a railroad hostler, died of heart disease Wednesday in the cab of a Pennsylvania switch engine in Zanesville. He had worked for % years.
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Zanesville
Charles M. Howard
Pennsylvania
How Green Was My Billfold Spanking in Colombian Marriage Case
Miami report details George Cauthen the pilot winning an annulment from Barbara Jean Cauthen on grounds the 1948 Colombia wedding was never consummated. Special Master Kovner ruled it a publicity stunt by Barbara Jean, who later sought to keep Cauthen from jail by covering her bills.
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Fla
George
Cauthen
Barbara Jean Cauthen
William A. Herin
Barbara Jean Floyd
Walter C. Kovner
New Orleans
Barbara Jean
Colombia
Medikin
Columbia
Green
Barbara Jtenp
Gindie
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