East Coast Dock Tieup Slows Trade
The East Coast waterfront strike by AFL longshoremen spreads through Maine to Virginia, sealing ports and delaying $25,000,000 in daily New York trade. Railroads lay off workers. airlines see overseas air traffic rise. President Truman cites Taft Hartley limits. ILA seeks no settlement yet and gains support from Seafarers International Union and National Maritime Union. The New York port remains dead harbor with 118 strikebound vessels and cruise cancellations.
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AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
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Key West
Fla
Ryan
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Galveston
Tex
Jacksonville
Mobile
Ala
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Gulf
Paul Hall
AFL Seafarers International Union
Joseph Curran
CIC National Maritime Union
NMI
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Cunard
Southampton
New York Central
The
Central Railroad of New
Tornadic Winds Flatten Homes in Denham Springs
Eleven houses were flattened and 26 damaged in Denham Springs Louisiana with no injuries reported. About 100 Walker schoolchildren escaped harm as two gym walls collapsed. Winds struck just before 1 p.m after a Baton Rouge thundershower. gusts reached around 35 mph.
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P. T. Jones
Walker
Baton Rouge
Take My Dog Too Hunter Tells Thieves
Doug Kidwell of Mitchell Ind complained thieves who looted his car weren’t thorough enough. He advertised in the Bedford Times Mail offering reward and asking for the return of a gun shells shell vest and game bag missing since Thursday November.
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Bedford
Ind
Doug Kidwell
Mitchell, Ind
Bedford Times- Mail
Foxhunting turns perilous for Griffin farmer
Griffin Georgia November 146. T W Futral lost his fox hunting zeal when a red fox treed above him startled him. Brer Fox leaped onto his shoulders knocking him down. The dogs pursued and killed the fox. A doctor treats a stiff neck as Futral recovers.
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T. W. Futral
Futral
Brer Fox
UN Orders Arabs and Jews to Armistice Talks
The UN Security Council ordered Arabs and Jews to negotiate an armistice immediately to replace the Palestine truce. Dr. Ralph Bunche would push talks, amid votes split by Russia and Ukraine abstentions, as Israel and Arab states weigh direct negotiations and demarcation lines.
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Paris
Security Council
United Nations
Ralph Bunche
Palestine
A. G. L. McNaughton
Canada
Jakob A. Malik
Council
Aubrey St. Eban
Israel
Negev Desert
Russia
Ukraine
Syria
United States
Philip C. Jessup
B-29 Sends Distress Calls From Off Azores
Coast Guard said it received distress signals from a B 29 plane near the Azores on Tuesday night. A spokesman offered no further details on the incident or search and rescue efforts.
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Azores
New York
Coast Guard
Solon Hints US Controls Of Car Sales
Washington reports on a House committee hearing where Rep. Kingsland Macy warned that dealer greed could invite government controls on auto sales. testifying dealers paid large tips and unrecorded trade-ins were common, Macy urged industry reform to preempt controls and pledged to refer findings to federal authorities. A witness described paying a 400 dollar tip for a new car amid higher asks.
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Washington
Kingsland Macy
RNY
House
Macy
Henry D. Laronde Jr
D-Ala
Myer A. Raskin
George A. Adlung
New York Avenue, Motors Company
Central Texas Deer Hunters Thrill First Day Harvest
Central Texas hunters faced warm weather as deer season opened across Hill Country. Marble Falls saw over 100 deer registered at the Ice and Storage plant with early entries by Dr. H. J. Hoffer and T. L. Wharton who shot on the Carl Smith Ranch. A 12 year old Marble Falls student, Gus Emmet Lechow, also registered.
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Buck
Hill Country
Marble Falls
Hill
H. J. Hoffer
T. L. Wharton
Karnes
Carl Smith
Here
Gus Emmet Lechow
Hunters Down Bucks Early As ’48 Deer Season Opens
Austin hunters reported a swift start to the 1948 deer season with two eight pointers taken within seconds by H. D. DeBerry and a first deer claimed by Leslie B. Toungate a white tailed nine point buck near Bee Caves. DeBerry used shotgun and rifle in sequence to take both bucks.
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Leslie B. Toungate
Toungate
Bee Caves
Petmecky’s
H. D. DeBerry
Route One
DeBerry
Bliss Spiller Ranch
Manchaca
Infant British Prince Elizabeth Welcomes Royal Baby Boy
Buckingham Palace announces the birth of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip's son. The two day old prince received a national identity card and will obtain ration books, with details of his weekly fats sugar and cheese allowances and candy. Parliament offered congratulations to the royal couple.
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Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
S. Clare
Westminister
Prince Philip
Houses of Commons
Lords
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Princess Elizabeth
Clement R. Atlee
Commons
Winston Churchill
Palace
Tegel Airport Opens as New Airlift Span for Berlin
Berlin reports Tegel Airport in the French sector will open officially Wednesday with American C-47s to operate 90 daily flights, expanding the Allied airlift to three Berlin airfields. Soviet propaganda questions Dec 5 elections and criticizes U.S. aid to France as propaganda.
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Berlin
Tegel
Kreikemeyer
Roosevelt challenges Soviet attacks at UN on colonial powers
In Paris on November 16 Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt urged Russian delegate Alexei Pavlov to “name names” if he would question motives of others. Pavlov, seated nearby, criticized colonial powers for mocking labor and rejected Article 21 of a draft declaration on human rights. Chinese delegate P C Chang urged a full reversal, prompting the delegates to vote again.
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Paris
Eleanor Roosevelt
P. C. Chang
Precaution Urged On German Rebirth
French Ambassador Henri Bonnet urged the United States to take more precautions against a German war machine's rebirth in the Ruhr. He conveyed this view to Undersecretary Lovett during a 40 minute State Department meeting.
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Washington
Henri Bonnet
United States
Ruhr
Bonnet
Lovett
State Department
Suchow Siege Pressure Mounts as Reds Battle to Encircle Base
Nanking reports a major victory east of Suchow base but signs of a southern Communist push threaten to encircle the city. Fu Tso Yi awaits collapse, foreign banks pull out, and thousands of officials and foreigners evacuate while diplomats meet in emergency session.
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Suchow
Shanghai
Fu Tso-Yi
North China
Peiping
Tientsin
Inner Mongolia
China
Koo Seeks U S Policy Statement on China War
Chinese Ambassador Wellington Koo said he asked the State Department, on behalf of his government, for a declaration of American policy on China amid the crisis. President Truman plans to review the international situation with Secretary Marshall next Monday, with policy toward China a major issue.
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Washington
Wellington Koo
State Department
China
Truman
Marshall
Koo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Army
War Department
Bridges
R-Nh
Congress
Truman Marshall Parley Monday To Review Policy
President Truman announced a full review of peace prospects will occur Monday in Washington with Secretary of State Marshall and Harriman. He reiterated he will not meet with Stalin or send a Russian emissary, and pressed for domestic agenda including Taft-Hartley Act repeal and civil rights laws.
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Truman
Washington
Marshall
ECA
Harriman
Stalin
Big Powers Park Berlin Peace Efforts in Clash Over Talks
Paris dispatch notes Washington and Moscow stand firm on Berlin talks. Truman in Key West says four power talks resume only if USSR lifts the Berlin blockade. Soviet note calls for a broad four power meeting and insists on addressing all German issues. Public replies by Marshall Schuman and McNeil await final government approval amid dim prospects for progress.
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Russia
Lie-Evatt
Berlin
Truman
Key West
Fla
United States
Germany
Herbert W. Evatt
United Nations Assembly
Trygve Lie
Washington
Stalin
Moscow
Britain
France
Lie
Evatt
Enemies of Democracy Warned at AFL Leaders’ Meeting
Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman told AFL delegates in Cincinnati the “enemies of democracy” seek to seize unions for infiltration into society. He praised American labor representatives as ambassadors abroad and urged unity to overcome opposing interests. James Roosevelt visited, praising his father’s legacy and AFL’s role. Tobin cited 16,000,000 workers behind in the third postwar wage round, trailing industry gains by about nine percent.
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Cincinnati
John R. Steelman
Steelman
American Federation of Labor
Harry S. Truman
White House
James Roosevelt
California
Roosevelt
AFL
United States
Tobin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Truman Deal Already Rolling
Washington reports Congress has acted on several recommendations from Truman’s 21 point domestic program first presented in 1945. Actions include a pay raise for lawmakers, veterans transition laws, and peacetime draft, with many items like housing reform and higher minimum wage still pending.
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Congress
Truman
Fair Employment Practice Commission
FEPC
Labor Department
Employment Service
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