Phone Strikers Return to Jobs in Big CIO Clash End
After 11 days, 33 000 CIO telephone workers come back to work as mediation yields a 15 month contract with wage increases nine to 14 cents an hour. In Detroit and Haverhill, wage raises $3 to $5 weekly and 7 to 15 cents per hour lift agreements plus retroactive wage terms.
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New York
CIO
Yigg
Sony
U. System
Detroit
Michigan Bell Telephone Co
Michigan
Haverhill
Western Electric
CIO Communications Workers Union
CWA
Joseph A. Beirne
Mass
General Birkhead Dies at 70 in Texas
Lieutenant General Claude V. Birkhead, 70, longtime Texas National Guard and National Guard Association leader, died at 6 p.m. after a heart attack at his ranch near Dilley. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Charles Hanavan Funeral Home and 3 p.m. at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery with full military honors. Survivors include his widow Lillian and daughters Betty Jane Kolas and Mary Ann Dodson.
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San Antonio
Claude V. Birkhead
State Guard
Read
Toe —— Ward
Suna Nix
Birkhead
Dilley
Charles Hanavan
Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
Texas
Fort Orth University
Texas National Guard
131St Field Artillery
France
Lillian Alice Birkhead
Betty Jane
Kolas
Plymouth
Ind
Mary Ann Dodson
California Floods Drive Hundreds From Homes
Rain and melted Sierra snow flooded California's San Joaquin Valley driving hundreds from homes. Towns like Chowchilla and Kernville faced submerged streets, with thousands of livestock lost and bridges threatened. Red Cross units aided Isabella while highways shut down and rescue teams worked as rivers like Kings and Kaweah rose to record heights.
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Fresno
Calif
California
San Joan Valley
Kern River
Kernville
Isbaella
Bakersfield
Visalia
Red Cross
Isabella
Weather Bureau
Centerville
Ed Chober
Fresno Bee
Chowchilla
Madera
Friant Dam
San Joaquin
Sierra
Kings River
Tulare County
California Hot Springs
Sacramento
San Joaquin Valley
Coast Guard
Army Engineers
State Highway Patrol
California Edison
Sierra Canyon
Kings
Kaweah
Tule
Ours
Longhorns Clinch First Major Bowl Bid in Cotton Bowl Plans
The Texas Longhorns have clinched a major bowl position and, as Cotton Bowl hosts, await the selection of their Jan 1 opponent in Dallas. Football depth and press buildup noted as potential pressure on teams and coaches.
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Texas Longhorns
Dallas
GOP to Choose Texas National Committeeman Today
The Republican State Executive Committee meets at the Driskill Hotel at 10 a.m. to select a successor to the late R. B. Creager as national committeeman from Texas. Fort Worth chairman Henry Zweifel and gubernatorial candidate Jack Porter vie for the post as party factions rally behind their favorites.
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Republican State Executive Committee
Driskill Hotel
R. B. Creage
Republican National
Creager
Brownsville
White House
Congress
GOP
Texas
Zweifel
Filipino Bandits Kill American Exporter
An American exporter, John P. Herber of Seattle, was shot and killed by three attackers near Manila shortly after arrival from Tokyo. The incident occurred during a roadside robbery as Herber and companions were stopped at a roadblock and shot as Philippine authorities chased the fleeing bandits. A Manila businessman, A. A. Krivenko, was also wounded. Police blamed bandits and noted Hukbalahaps' activity in the area but offered no clear connection.
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Manila
Caering
Tokyo
John P. Herber
Seattle
Wash
Herber
A. A. Krivenko
Philippine Constabulary
Slayer of Five to Face Swift Court Action
Ernest Ingenito, 25, charged with slaying five of his wife s relatives and wounding four others in a shooting spree across three homes within six miles. Five murder counts likely to be presented to Gloucester County Grand Jury. psychiatric tests ordered while he is held without bail.
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Vineland
N. J
Ernest Ingenito
Woodbury
Milton Hannold
Ingenito
Gloucester County Grand
Gloucester County
George Shank
Franklinville
Teresa
Newcomb Hospital
Michael
Pearl Mazzoli
Teresa Pioppi
Meee Pew
Frank Mazzoli
P E' Oppi
Ainmito
Power Plant Failure Leaves Boston in Brief Blackout
Boston and nearby communities were dark for about an hour after a Boston Edison Company power plant failure. The outage disrupted theaters newspapers telephone radio stations traffic lights and most buildings using alternating current.
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Boston
Boston Edison Company
Vale Declines District Judge Post After Late Write-in Votes
State Representative A J Vale declined the 79th District judgeship after Duval County reported late write-in totals. Governor Shivers could appoint incumbent Judge Sam G Reams to a full term. Reams and Vale had contested results in the four county district.
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Rio Grande City
A. J. Vale
Duval County
John Ben Shepperd
Austin
Vale
Sam G. Reams
Reams
Allan Shivers
Yale
Shepperd
Associated Press
Shivers
Price Daniel
Daniel
Texas
Falfurrias
Vale-Reams
Starr County
Brooks County
Jim Wells County
Late Pact Averts TV Actors Strike
An fifth hour agreement averted a television actors strike that would have halted Sunday programs on CBS NBC Dumont and WOR TV in New York. A separate deal later in the day averted a radio performers strike, keeping the airways for scheduled shows.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
American Broadcasting Company
Dumont Television Network
Wor-Tv
Reds Ambush Backfires as US Seventh Division Advances
In northeast Korea the 17th Combat Team of the US Seventh Division pressed toward Kaplan near the Manchurian frontier. American tanks moved through defended positions, forcing Reds to abandon dugouts and retreat as a heavy engagement unfolded.
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Northeast
Korea
Navy
17Th
Manchurian
Kaplan
Car Wreck Kills Del Valle Resident
A Del Valle resident, 56 year old Henning Johnson, died in a Sunday night car crash near Montopolis after his car ran off the road, jumped a creek, and struck a cattle underpass. He was alone in a sedan and died at Brackenridge hospital. Investigating officers were C. M. Platt, R. M. Adkins, W. F. Hendricks, and Dwight McDaniel.
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del Valle
Montopolis
Henning Johnson
Johnson
Brackenridge Hospital
Route 2
C. M. Platt
R. M. Adkins
W. F. Hendricks
Dwight McDaniel
Veto Looms on GOP Excess Profits Tax Plan
Washington reports a GOP excess profits tax substitute headed for a veto by the House Ways and Means Committee led by Doughton. Democrats argue the plan harms small business and favors defense-boosted corporations while the President presses a 75 percent excess profits tax for 1946 to 49.
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Washington
Truman
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
DNC
GOP
Reed
Newark
Ways and Means
Congress
Norther Promises Cooler Texas Weather This Week
A new norther is forecast to enter Austin and Central Texas Monday with no freezing expected. Daytime highs near 60s to 70s and overnight lows in the 20s to 30s across Panhandle and South Plains, plus dust and possible thundershowers in East Texas.
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Austin
Weather Bureau
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
East Texas
East
Red River Valley
Nine Chinese Delegates Grounded En Route to UN talks
Nine Chinese Communist delegates traveling to New York for United Nations Security Council talks were stalled by bad weather between Moscow and Prague. The party led by Wu Heiu-Chuan left Peiping on Tuesday and reached Moscow Saturday before boarding a special plane to Prague, but were grounded in Minsk, White Russia, as poor flying conditions persisted. The weather was expected to keep them delayed at least until Monday.
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Prague
New York
United Nations Security Council
Moscow
Peiping
Ong li Peng
Minsk
Russia
Wu Heiu-Chuan
Vishinsky Doctrine Cited by Lodge At UN
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge denounces a Soviet Vishinsky doctrine asserting a just war against non communist states. He argues Moscow frames peaceable efforts as aggression and cites Lenin and Stalin to justify wars.
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New York
United States
Russia
Moscow
United Nations
Lodge
Korea
Vishinsky
Automeve
Whn A
Massachussetts
State Department
Lenin
Stalin
Seventh Division Tanks Lead North Korea Border Push
US Seventh Division tank support accompanies 17th Regimental Combat Team as it advances toward the Manchurian border from Kapsan, probing near Taechon and Pakchon amid light resistance. UN patrols report Chinese reinforcements and entrenched Red positions along the Chongchon and Yalu fronts. General Barr confirms mobile advance and readiness to strike.
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Paulo
Korea
United Nations
China
US 1 Corps
Kapsan Fonder
Hyesanjin
Taechon
Suihogh
Yalu
Manchuria
S First Corps
Chongchon
Pakchon
US First Corps
Unsan
US First Cavalry
Won
Chongchon River
Tokchon
Aout
Kunu-Tokchon
Kapsan
Tole
Reds Hit Parole of War Criminal
The Soviet government protested the parole of Mamoru Shigemitsu Japan’s wartime foreign minister sentenced in 1948 to seven years for war crimes. Moscow called the action illegal and arbitrary by General MacArthur and noted the light sentence among major Japanese war criminals.
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Washington
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Japan
MacArthur
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