Union Leaders Challenged Over Communism in AEC Shakeup
The Atomic Energy Commission demanded non Communist oaths for union officials at atomic plants and warned of removing the CIO United Electrical Workers Union from Schenectady plants. AEC chairman Lilienthal said loyalty must be cleared or further steps would be taken, including ousting LE from Peek Street operations. Several UE officers declined to answer Congressional questions about Communist ties.
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CIO
United Electrical Workers Union
Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic Workers
FBI
U.S
U.E
AEC
David Lilienthal
Albert Fitzgerald Lilienthal
U.P
L.E
Peek Street Atomic Plant
Schenectady
N.Y
General Electric Company
U.F
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
U.e.’S
Lausche Attacks GOP Spending As Governor Turmoil
Former Gov Frank Lausche accuses the Herbert administration of overspending beyond state revenue. He cites payroll expenditures of 45 million in 1943 44 under Bricker 59 million in 1945 46 and 90 million in Herbert s five years urging limits on appropriations and expenditures.
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Frank J. Lausche
State House
Thomas J. Herbert
Lausche
John W. Bricker
U. S
Herbert
Man Ends Death Fast After Police Visit in Chicago
John A. Bender a retired contractor who writes religious mottoes ended his death fast after police visited. He began the fast last Sunday to restore virtue and ate his first meal after authorities warned it would be illegal to starve himself to death.
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Chicago
John A. Bender
Bender
Parachuting Spiders Spook San Francisco Officials
Reports of parachuting spiders drifted over the coast north of the Golden Gate prompting Coast Guard and Air Force search efforts. Entomology professors explained autumn spider migrations and wind driven webs can resemble flying discs or parachutes, sometimes reaching 2500 feet.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
U.S. Air Force
Wilma E. Huff
Stinson Beach
Hamilton Field
Air Force
Coast Guard
America
Edward O. Essig
University of California
Dayton man given two years for wilderness death case
Gustav Wiegner of Dayton was sentenced to two years less one day for the killing of John McComas. The 24 year old received a reduced manslaughter verdict after a three hour jury deliberation. Louise McComas testified to indecent treatment after the shooting.
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Gustav Wiegner
Dayton
John McComas
Wiegner
McComas
GOP Leader Found Dying After Murder Attempt
William John Granata a 42 year old candidate for circuit court clerk and brother of State Sen. Peter C. Granata was found dying on a busy loop theater district street in Chicago. Police termed it murder and an autopsy reported two deep wounds to the neck and skull caused by an instrument. Granata died at Henrotin Hospital.
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Chicago
William John Granata
Bermuda Endures Three Hour Hurricane Destruction
A hurricane battered Bermuda for three hours causing extensive damage heavier than two prior storms this fall. No casualties were reported as winds exceed 100 mph taking down power lines and plunging the island into darkness with widespread communications cut. The same storm previously struck Southern Florida and Havana.
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Bermuda
Florida
Havana
Cleveland Teen Couple Die in Crash Killing 67th Year Traffic Victim
A 16 year old couple died yesterday when their car crashed into two parked trucks in Cleveland, marking the city’s 67th traffic death of the year.
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Cleveland
Argentinian Seeks Accord on Berlin Standoff
Argentine Foreign Minister Juan A Bramuglia met with Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in Paris as UN Security Council president to pursue a plan meeting both Soviet and Western demands. He had a second talk with a Soviet leader in 24 hours and sought a compromise through the neutral bloc on the council.
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Juan A. Bramuglia
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Berlin
Bramuglia
United Nations Security Council
U. N
Security Council
Satira Schmidt Freed After Havana Harbor Slay
Patricia Satira Schmidt, the American dancer who killed her married lover aboard his yacht in Havana harbor, was released from Guanabacoa Woman's Prison after serving less than 18 months of a 15 year sentence. She was pardoned yesterday, the Havana report said. Schmidt, a Toledo native, had been imprisoned since December.
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Cuba
Patricia
Satira) Schmidt
Miss Schmidt
Toledo
Guanabacoa
John Lester Mee
Chicago
McKellar and Crump Split Over 1948 Ticket
Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee backed the Truman Barkley ticket after a split with Ed Crump of Memphis. Crump, a Tennessee Democratic leader, said his organization would support the States Rights ticket led by Gov. Strom Thurmond.
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Washington
Kenneth McKellar
D-Tenn
Ed Crump
Memphis
McKellar
Crump
Tennessee
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Berlin Nears Winter Food Lift And Coal Supplies
Gen. Lucius D. Clay said Berliners may receive a winter food lift from Western allies and a small increase is planned. He noted that continuing good flying weather could ensure coal for every Western Berliner.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Clay
Former Jap Colonel Is Sentenced To Hang
Former Lt. Col. Yoshinari Tanaka was sentenced to hang today by an Eighth U. S. Army Commission for ordering the execution of Brig. Gen. Guy O. Fort and three other Americans on Mindanao Island in the Philippines.
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Yokohama
Yoshinari Tanaka
Guy O. Fort
Mindanao Island
Philippines
U. S. Army
Grand Jury Considers Slaying Case
Springfield prosecutors report a Clark County grand jury will review charges in the killing of 14 year old Mary Ann Page. Dwight Tudor of Columbus remains jailed without charge while his girlfriend Lillian Weaver is held without charge. Tudor allegedly signed a confession detailing the rifle slaying.
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Dwight D. Tudor
Mary Ann Page
Springfield
Ohio
Tudor
Columbus
Clark County
Stanley N. Husted
Dwight David Tudor
Husted
Lillian Mae Weaver
State Bureau of Criminal Identification
Everett L. McSavaney
Richard Longnecker
Page
Trial Set for Actors Facing Narcotics Counts
Los Angeles report states dancer Vickie Evans 25 faces trial November 22 alongside actor Robert Mitchum and two others on criminal conspiracy and narcotics possession charges. Also named are actress Lisa Leeds and realtor Robin Ford, arrested August 31 at Leeds residence during a marijuana party.
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Los Angeles
Vickie Evans
Robert Mitchum
Mitchum
Miss Evans
Lisa Leeds
Robin Ford
Miss Leeds
Insurance expert Wilbur Benoy Dies at 61
Columbus obituary notes Wilbur E. Benoy an authority on Ohio insurance law and former assistant attorney general from 1924 to 1926 died yesterday at age 61.
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Columbus
Wilbur E. Benoy
Ohio
United States shifts to blunt anti Soviet propaganda
Washington signals a new hard line in information policy as Lovett says Paris ordered debunking of Vishinsky atomic proposal. Saltzman in New Hampshire accuses Soviet rulers of aiming for world domination and warns war may come despite hopes for peace. The Advisory Commission on Information meets to advise on propaganda strategy.
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United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Robert A. Lovett
Paris
Marshall
Durham
N.H
Charles E. Saltzman
University of New Hampshire
Saltzman
State Department
Lovett
United States Advisory Commission On Information
United Nations
Andrei Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Information Commission
Former Labor Leader Seeks Action by Church
Former CIO research director Kermit Eby told World Mission Assembly delegates that laboring men turn from church seeking bread. He urged Christianity to translate justice into concrete programs of action, addressing communism at the 3000-attendee Protestant conference in Columbus.
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Columbus
CIO
World Mission Assembly
Kermit Eby
Truman Stop Sought Here By Kirwan for Dewey Day
Congressman Michael J. Kirwan seeks a presidential stop by Harry S. Truman in Youngstown on Wednesday October 27 the same day Governor Thomas E. Dewey plans a rear platform campaign talk in the city.
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Truman
Youngstown
Michael J. Kirwan
Dohio
President Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Three Nations Elected To U N Security Council Terms
Cuba Egypt and Norway won two year Security Council terms beginning Jan 1. Cuba and Norway secured early ballots while Egypt beat Turkey after four rounds. Egypt's election drew Israeli criticism and Arab solidarity cheers in Paris and London.
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Cuba
Egypt
Norway
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Belgium
Syria
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Turkey
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Ahmed Khashaba Pasha
Riad el Solh
Lebanon
United Nations
Reuther Case Charee Seen in Detroit
Detroit authorities move to charge 39 year old Carl Bolton with attempted murder in the Walter Reuther shooting case. Prosecutor James McNally plans to seek a warrant in recorder's court today based on undisclosed evidence. Bolton, a former UAW CIO local vice president, is jailed in Pontiac on a separate burglary charge dated February 28.
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Walter P. Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers
James McNally
Recorder’s Court
Carl Bolton
Uaw-Cio
McNally
Reuther
Bolton
Pontiac
Mich
Rev Dr E Harold Mohn Named Head Of Methodist Plan
The Rev Dr E Harold Mohn of Warren Ohio was appointed executive director of the four year Methodist plan "the advance for Christ and his church." He will start immediately with headquarters in Chicago and will oversee the new national effort announced by Bishop William C Martin of Dallas Texas.
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Columbus
E. Harold Mohn
Warren
Ohio
Methodist Church
Advance For Christ
Weather outlook with cooler spell midweek
COLA forecasts average temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below normal with a normal high of 60 and low of 40. No major changes, a colder edge Sunday night and a warmer tilt by Wednesday. Precipitation around a quarter inch in showers through Sunday.
Baltimore School Board Fires Communist Teacher
The Baltimore school board unanimously approves the dismissal of kindergarten teacher Regina Frankfeld, an admitted Communist, effective at the start of the fall semester. Superintendent Dr William H Lemmel cites a new policy adopted last June to bar Communists and other subversives from the school system.
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Baltimore
Regina Frankfeld
William H. Lemmel
UMW Proposes Veterans' Bonus
The United Mine Workers convention urged a veterans bonus of three dollars per domestic service day and four dollars per overseas day from the 1945 war. A five hundred dollar payment to any wounded veteran was also proposed to aid postwar recovery.
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Cincinnati
United Mine Workers Convention
McIntyre
America
Dewey Urges Clearing Slums Amid Campaign Rivalry
President Truman invades Dewey's home state as the Republican rival attends a New York ground breaking for the Alfred E. Smith housing project. Dewey calls for federal housing aid to close a vast housing deficit and lift slums. Truman campaigns in New Jersey and New York, arguing for higher wages and stronger Social Security.
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Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Albany
Buffalo
GOP
New York City
Alfred E. Smith
Smith
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
New Jersey
Miners Union Leader Backs Dewey and Calls a Holiday Vote
In Cincinnati AP report John L. Lewis indirectly endorses Thomas Dewey and urges a November 2 holiday so miners can vote. He outlines lean years goal a share the work plan and possible three day work weeks to stabilize contracts amid growing demand slack and potential wage cuts.
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John L. Lewis
Thomas E. Dewey
Lewis
Truman
United States
United Mine Workers of America
UMW
United Mine Workers
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