Prison Escape Fails as Guards Battle Yard Shootout
In Chicago eight inmates surrendered after a failed jailbreak at Cook County jail. Nine convicts, many ex offenders, tried to scale 22 foot walls with bedsheet rope. guard Sam Ferri fired warning shots, William Riley fired a shotgun killing the ringleader Andrew Evans of New Orleans. Three guards were suspended for missing heads.
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Chicago
Cook County
Elmer Michael Walsh
Sam
Nicholas Ferri
William Riley
Riley
Andrew Evans
New Orleans
Joliet Penitentiary
AVC Leaders Seek Approval To Oust Reds
American Veterans Committee leaders urged a four day convention vote to purge Communist Party members from AVC ranks. The 25 member planning committee backed the resolution amid expected opposition from about 1500 delegates representing 50 000 members nationwide. Chairman Chat Paterson urged broad support while noting non Communist affidavits were rejected.
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Cleveland
American Veterans Committee
Communist Party
National Planning Committee
AVC
Chat Paterson
AWC
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
Paterson
American Communist Party
Airliner Crash Investigated After Rough Landing in Fog
The Civil Aeronautics Board opened a probe into a four engine airliner fire that broke out after landing at Los Angeles municipal airport. Eighteen passengers and five crew escaped unharmed. Captain Evan Lewis of Los Angeles steered the Constellation away from a ditch after a rough landing in dense fog.
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Los Angeles
Civil Aeronautics Board
Twa
Washington, D. C
Evan Lewis
Constellation
Lewis
Canaday Still Claims Mayoralty After Suspension
POMEROY D. A. Canaday says he remains mayor despite a suspension order by Gov. Thomas J. Herbert, vowing to act as mayor until a December 4 hearing on misconduct and neglect of duty. Council members seek legal advice while Spencer acts as mayor amid a growing political dispute.
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Pomeroy
D. A. Canaday
Thomas J. Herbert
Columbus
Canaday
Alan Goodwin
Richard Vaughan
Sidney Spencer
Mr. Canaday
Clarence Andrews
H. E. Boney
John Sauvage
Herman Hoffner
GOP
Central Committee
Republican Party
Spencer
Goodwin
Boney
Vaughan
Clair Karr
Council
Secrecy Tightened for Jap Executions
General MacArthur ordered all news releases on the seven condemned war leaders be issued through his public information office. The actual death verification will come from General Headquarters, not the Eighth Army, with daily 10 am Japan time updates. Tojo’s wife requested his body after the hanging.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Hideki Tojo
U.S. Eighth Army
Public Information Office
Japan
Sugamo
Tojo
Tydings Seeks 15 Billion Cap On Defense Costs
Senator Tydings of Maryland announced that the incoming Congress will pursue a $15 billion ceiling on defense outlay next year. He pledged to cut nonessential military expense and aim for expenditures no greater than the current year, with possible reductions to 14 or 12 percent. He will chair the Senate Armed Services Committee and serve on the Appropriations panel.
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Washington
Tydings
D-Md
Congress
America
Senate Armed Services Committee
Appropriations Committee
Blum says Moscow seeks Gaulle return to power in France
Paris broadcast reports Leon Blum accuses Moscow of plotting in secret to reinstall General Charles de Gaulle in France's government. The claim cites covert influence and political maneuvering affecting domestic leadership.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Moscow
Charles de Gaulle
France
Billion Dollar Outlay Set In Price Support Program
The government has earmarked over 1.0 billion dollars to support farmers during this year’s record harvest. Loans dominate the outlay, especially for grains and cotton, with potential rise to 1.75 billion by the end of the 1948 season. Cotton leads, with about 385 million in loans on 2,294,400 bales from a bumper crop of 15,150,000 bales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Venezuela Junta Suspends Constitutional Guarantees
The military junta now in power in Caracas suspended many constitutional rights including personal security freedom of speech and home privacy. It also restricted movement residence changes travel and public meetings as it pledged plans for nationwide elections after a bloodless coup that toppled President Romulo Gallegos and his Democratic Action government.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Romulo Gallegos
Democratic Action
Fraud Charges Faced In Purchase Of Autos
PITTSBURGH. Two Springfield Ohio men were charged with fraud after a $12,000 purchase of five cars. Jack Teitelbaum, owner of a used car lot, identified C. E. Hyer and James Prinz. Teitelbaum said he flew to Springfield and could not cash a check for the cars. the autos were recovered and returned to Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Springfield, Ohio
Jack Teitelbaum
C. E. Hyer
James Prinz
Teitelbaum
Springfield
Columbus Extended Forecast Notes Temperature Shifts
Temperatures will run 4 to 7 degrees above normal with a normal high of 39 and low of 24. The forecast calls for rain tonight and Saturday, then Sunday and Tuesday with a switch to snow by Wednesday.
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Columbus
Thanksgiving Dinner Breaks Scarlet Fever Quarantine
Nine residents in a small Akron trailer ended a 16 day scarlet fever quarantine with a festive Salvation Army meal of fried chicken and dumplings. The quarantine was lifted the next Monday as Pvt. and Mrs. William Riley visited the Conrad family, whose mother was hospitalized in labor and whose relative Alberta Muncy and children shared the home.
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Akron—Cp
Salvation Army
Pvt
William Riley
Alvin Conrad
Conrad
Alberta Muncy
Two Albuquerque Fires Cause $200000 in Damages
In Albuquerque a pre-dawn blaze in a downtown pool hall restroom spread to a hotel forcing 55 guests to flee. A second fire in Socorro destroyed a variety store and a barber shop and damaged the post office, totaling $200000 in damages.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Socorro
Thanksgiving Day Accidents Pass 100 Mark Nationwide
Thanksgiving holiday violence tops 100 deaths with 81 traffic fatalities and 27 from other causes. A Letart hunting accident killed 15 year old Harry William Roush when a gun discharged during unloading on Sand Hill Road. The accident occurred at 4 45 p m on Thanksgiving Day. Died in Ohio include Ralph Seymour and children in a burning home near Mt Sterling and two others in traffic crashes across the state.
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Point Pleasant
Harry William
Buddy) Roush
Robert Newberry
Sand Hill Road
Walter A. Newberry
Denver Thompson
Letart
Dallas Wilfong
R. C. Dilley
State Police
Oak Grove
Roush
Fred M. Roush
Marcella Howard
Mary
Jackson
Mich
Joan Howard
Charles Howard
Denny Howard
Patty Lou Howard
Joe Howard
Jackson, Mich
National Safety Council
Ohio
Ralph Seymour
Dean
Gloria Jean
Mt. Sterling
Seymour
Lee Cochran
Cochran
Adelle
Dexter City
George W. Rednour
Dayton
Monsanto Chemical Company
Atomic Energy
Miamisburg
Monsanto
Rednour
Harry E. Clark
Mary Catherine Furay
Xenia
Donald J. Baird
Waynesville
Otis R. Shinkle
Cedarville
Springfield
Havana Amos
Bethany English Lutheran Church
Cleveland
Beach City
Mary Jane Amos
George W. Young
Chicago
West Liberty
Youngstown
Lloyd R. Wilson
Columbiana
Harold
Charles Kinnel, Jr
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
New London
Wakeman
CIO Moves To Squelch Communists
Portland report on the CIO convention notes Philip Murray, age 62, seeks re election and leads a strong move against leftist factions. Delegates largely back Murray as four days of speeches push for expanded executive power to reorganize unions and curb Communist influence.
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Portland
Ore
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
International Labor Movement
Mother 38 arrested in alleged gas stove burn assault
A 38 year old mother, Mrs. Geraldine Vetter, was booked on felonious assault after allegedly holding her eight year old son Philip's hand over a gas stove flame as punishment. The boy sustained deep burns and was treated at St Luke's Hospital.
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New York
Geraldine Vetter
Philip
St. Luke’s Hospital
Fourteen More Germans Hanged for War Crimes
In Landsberg Prison Munich, fourteen German war criminals were hanged, raising total executions to eight-seven in seven Fridays for slayings of concentration camp inmates and American POWs. Richard Schulze, 50, escaped death after an eleventh hour stay. he was linked to S S General Ernst Kaltensbrunner, who was hanged following the Nürnberg trial.
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Munich
Germany
Landsberg
Richard Schulze
S. S
Ernst Kaltensbrunner
Nuernberg
Navy Rescues 14 From Santa Maria Wreck Near Guam
The Navy transport President Jackson arrived with 14 survivors from the 180 foot motorship Santa Maria which sank 750 miles northeast of Guam. Three crewmen were lost, one body recovered, another sighted, and a third reportedly went down with the ship in heavy seas.
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Guam
President Jackson
Santa Maria
United States Opposes British Plan on Negev Desert
The United States votes against a British UN proposal aimed at splitting Southern Palestine by diverting the Negev Desert from Israel. The move sparks debate on territorial adjustments and Middle East policy.
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Paris P
United States
United Nations
Palestine
Negev Desert
Israel
Cutting of Pay Is Defended
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson defends removing Simon L. Leis from the state payroll over alleged partial duties on the Liquor Control Board. He says the move saves taxpayers millions. the governor dismisses concerns, noting frothing does not disturb him.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
Simon L. Leis
State Board of Liquor Control
Ferguson
Liquor Control Board
Thomas J. Herbert
Little Joe
Search Continues For Missing Freighter Hopestar
Coast Guard and Air Force planes pressed a near hopeless hunt for the British freighter Hopestar and her 37 crew after bad weather halted a full sweep of the area where the 5267 ton ship is believed to have gone down.
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New York
Coast Guard
Air Force
Ohio Draftees to Enter Army Today
Ohio's first peacetime draftees, 499 strong, enter the Army today for final medical checks and training assignments. Most will report to Fort Knox Kentucky, with 12 induction centers across the state handling the process.
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Ohio
Army
Columbus
Fort Knox
Final Settlement Seen In Maritime Disputes
Negotiators reveal settlement terms ending the 86 day CIO Longshore strike on the Pacific Coast and the 17 day AFL Atlantic strike. Ratification by unions is required before ships sail. Restores 92,000 maritime jobs and releases $30,000,000 Marshall Plan cargo. Pacific group cost to date estimated at $344,000,000. Western wage up 15 cents to $1.82. Eastern daytime base scale to $1.88 with a 13 cent retroactive raise.
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San Francisco
CIO
Pacific Coast
AFL
Atlantic
Eastern
Labor Law Revision Set
Washington reports the administration forms a five member team to draft a Taft Hartley substitute with Wagner Act elements. They prepare alternatives for key sections and aim to brief Truman aides by Monday. The plan remains guarded but aims to reinstate most Wagner provisions with modified Taft Hartley features.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Forces Shift Closer to Yangtze Near Suhsien Lingpi
Communist forces advanced toward the Yangtze River bringing them nearer to Suhsien and Lingpi as the fighting intensified in the area.
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Nanking
Yangtze River
Suhsien
Lingpi
Stricter Rules Over Death Examinations Issued
New York imposes tighter procedures for death determinations after Mary Grey, a 25 year old found unconscious in a hotel room, was mis pronounces dead by an ambulance attendant. Dr Edward M Bernecker ordered the changes following the near tragedy.
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New York
Edward M. Bernecker
Mary Grey
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Saylor
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Gallia County
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Weber
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