Protests Quieted As Budget Talks Clamp Down
President Truman ordered a silence on budget disputes across the armed services and federal agencies. Departments were urged to avoid premature announcements while the next fiscal year budget fights over a proposed 15 billion dollar cap unfold. The Army Navy and Air Force issued directives to keep salary and spending figures out of public view.
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Washington
Truman
Army
Navy
Air Force
White House
White House and Budget Bureau
Edwin G. Nourse
United States
West Coast Dock Strike Ends Amid New Tensions
The West Coast maritime strike ended at noon with terms reached by CIO and independent unions, but AFL-SUP threatens to halt sailing over jurisdiction and wage disputes. Harry Lundeberg warns shipowners the sailors will not sail without guarantees on longshore and cook rights and wage provisions.
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San Francisco
West Coast
CIO
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
Harry Lundeberg
Afl-Sup
Quail Hunters Capture Mrs. Tanner's Farm
Mrs. Arthur M. Tanner fled into Matador Texas as quail hunters on the Tanner farm 15 miles north of town blasted windows damaged a barn bucket and sent birdshot across the property forcing workers to seek cover. She says the farm was encircled and captured without a struggle.
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Matador
Tex
Arthur M. Tanner
Tanner Farm
Here
Tanner
Bride Killed by Accidental Rifle Discharge in West Virginia
Belington West Virginia December 3 coroner ruled a 23 year old bride killed instantly by an accidental .22 rifle discharge during a deer hunt. The victim Lucille Teter married five days earlier was found on a rain slick hill as relatives described her happiness about marriage and plans to join her husband in Chicago. The rifle shell pierced her heart and exited near the left shoulder after she apparently stumbled in dense brush. Authorities and searchers including Kenneth Hill located the body near her father John Goodman and sister Mrs Wilmoth who testified at the inquest.
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Belington
W. Va
Herman Watson
Lucille Teter
Watson
Jacob Wilmoth
Wilmoth
John Goodman
Chicago
Second Alabaman Sentenced For Rape
In Wetumpka Alabama on December 3 1957 a second white man pleaded guilty to raping a Negro woman and accepted a 45 year prison term. Jack Oliver 21 also pled guilty before testimony. John C Howard Jr 30 was convicted yesterday and sentenced to 45 years the jury sought harsher terms but the judge declined to address pardons or parole.
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Wetumpka
Ala
Jack Oliver
John C. Howard, Jr
Howard
Alabama
Oakley Melton
Couple Acquitted In Neglect Charges In Maryland
An Essex Maryland couple Dewey and wife were acquitted of neglect after leaving three daughters ages 6 9 and 11 when they went deer hunting in West Virginia. The fire destroyed their Maryland home and the children were cared for by neighbor Connie Browning. Judge John B Gentrum placed the girls under welfare supervision for a year. The couple, whose children are from a previous marriage, remained at the home of his brother near Clarksburg West Virginia after the blaze.
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Towson
Essex
West Virginia
Dewey Davis
John B. Gentrum
Welfare Department
Davis
Connie Browning
CWA Criticizes Bell System Rate Increase Request
The Communications Workers of America condemns as excessive a Bell System request for 240000 in rate hikes. The union notes already granted increases total 170 million a year for AT T and its Bell units and argues profits will rise by over 50 million compared with 1947 despite higher costs.
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Washington
Communications Workers of America, Independent
Bell Telephone System
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell System
CWA
Joseph A. Beirne
George Armstrong Mistakenly Seeks Birth Room
In Columbus a man named George Armstrong, calm after his sixth child birth, wanders into the delivery room with a nurse correcting his mistaken wife and a photo confusion. He laughs it off saying he was too excited.
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Columbus, O
George Armstrong
Columbus
George
Everett Watters
Talmadge Promises Protection After Murder of Mallard
Governor Herman Talmadge offered full protection by Georgia military and police to Amy James Mallard widow of Robert Mallard killed near Lyons on November 20. She urged warrants for two white men named as killers. Ohio NAACP member Joseph Goldwasser presented evidence and asked federal help citing civil rights violations.
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Atlanta
Herman Talmadge
Robert Mallard
Georgia
Amy James Mallard
Savannah
Lyons
Toombs
Mallard
Joseph M. Goldwasser
Cleveland
Ohio
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
Talmadge
Sherff
Toombs County
Goldwasser
Dublin
Aaron Kravitch
Kravitch
Unidentified plane fires on U S boats near Nicaragua
Harold Gray of the American Tunaboat Association reported telegrams from Carl Soares, skipper of the Sun Ray, saying three tuna clippers Liberator City of San Diego and Sun Ray were fired on by an unidentified plane about 10 miles off shore 70 miles southeast of Corinto. No damage reported.
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San Diego
Calif
Nicaragua
Harold Gray
American Tunaboat Association
Carl] Soares
Sun Ray
Liberator
Corlinto
Giles County Woman Dies After Skull Injury
Pearlsburg Virginia December reports Mrs. Mattie Mayall 75 of Green Valley died after a skull fracture autopsy ruled out a fall Sheriff Emory Johnston says clues are scarce and a money belt she wore is missing as investigators plan a thorough home search Mrs. Mayall is buried at Birchlawn cemetery
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Pearlsburg
Giles County
Emory Johnston
Mattie Mayall
Green Valley
H. L. Dean
Radford
Johnston
Abdullah May Try For Holy Land Kingship
Beirut reports say King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan may proclaim himself monarch of Palestine and Trans-Jordan within days. The UN committee rejected Bernadotte's plan to award Arab Palestine to Trans-Jordan, while Aleppo and Damascus faced army rule after disorders, 10 deaths and 120 mined in protests over Palestine.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Amman
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Palestine
Trans- Jordan
U. N. Assembly
Paris
Folke Bernadotte
Arab Palestine
Aleppo
Damascus
Syria
Egypt
Raq
Striker's Young Son Shot. Worker Jailed in Georgia
In Rome Georgia a ten year old boy, David Atkins, son of striker Robert Atkins, was wounded with birdshot while chopping wood. Celanese worker Pete Sealock, about 35, was jailed on charges of assault with intent to murder. Doctor Raiden Bellinger said 15 shots were removed from the boy’s hips back and shoulders and his condition was extremely painful but not critical.
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Rome
Celanese Corporation
Floyd County
Frank Russell
Pete Sealock
David Atkins
Robert Atkins
Raiden Bellinger
David
The Best Laid Plans Often Backfire In Atco
In Atco New Jersey Stanley Belleck a 64 year old man rigged a shotgun trap with a trigger wire at his front door. While he tended his yard his dog activated the wire causing the gun to fire and pellets grazed his head sending him to West Jersey hospital for six stitches.
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Atco
N. J
Stanley Belleck
Belleck
West Jersey Hospital
Wife Tells Judge Husband Liked Dressed as Woman
In Chicago on December 3, Mrs. Virginia Lueninghofer testified that her husband William wore women's clothes and looked handsome. She sought a divorce on cruelty grounds, claiming he struck her when she refused to accompany him to movies and taverns while in female attire.
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Chicago
Virginia Lueninghofer
Superior
William H. Lueninghofer
Joseph Sabath
William
U S Economic Controls May Be Necessary
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer spoke with presidential backing to reassure manufacturers amid a looming economic program. He warned controls and higher taxes could follow if the next fiscal year’s military budget exceeds the current one, urged cooperation to curb inflation, and noted a potential need for materials allocation if shortages persist and military spends grow.
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New York
Charles Sawyer
Truman
Sawyer
National Association of Manufacturers
Congress of American Industry
New York Stock Exchange
Washington
Congress
France Sets Three Point Ruhr Demands in Note
France proposes a three point plan for Ruhr control including de cartellization of German combines, denazification of Ruhr management, and continued allied supervision of coal steel and coke production with a voice in investments. The measures aim to persist beyond occupation and prevent full German Ruhr control.
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Washington
France
Germany
Ruhr
Henri Bonnet
Lovett
Bennett
Hitler
Europe
United States
State Department
Another Law Might Save The Cleanup Men
Los Angeles reports city council president Harold Henry says a new law curbs whisky bottle waste at Memorial Coliseum games. Cleanup crews now haul away about half a truckload per game, versus a full truckload last year.
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Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum
Harold Henry
Berlin Social Democrats Fend Off Communist Hecklers
In west Berlin a large Social Democratic rally was disrupted by communist hecklers who were repelled by party guards and medical staff. Ernst Reuter denounced the communists while urging a strong vote in Sunday’s election amid Soviet control of East Berlin and a security barrier formed by Western police.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Social Democratic Party
Ernst Reuter
Reuter
Brandenburg Gate
Social Unity Party
SED
East Berlin
Social Democra
Radio
Doubting Thomases Frustrated In Raid
Burglars in Vioa Wisconsin knocked off the safe dial and rummaged through the Nuzum Lumber yard office. A sign reading No money in here misled no one as they ignored it and searched the contents. The sign proved correct.
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Thomases
Vioa
Wis
Nuzum
Battle near Nanking reshapes Chinese frontlines
Chinese Civil War clashes along the Hwai river 100 miles from Nanking pit government forces from Suchow against Communist columns. Government reinforcements from Hankow mobilize 35 000 troops as civilians flee, rivers run danger as refugees flood ships and trains toward Canton.
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Nanking
Hwai River
Suchow
12Th
Eighth
Hwa River
Chen Yi
Liu Po-Cheng
12Th Army Group
Hankow
Army Special Services
Canton
Air Force
Formosa
Owner of Rabid Dog May Face Charges
Wheeling, West Virginia December 3 Prosecutor Charles L Ihlenfeld said he may pursue criminal and civil action against Sam Sawchuck owner of a rabid dog that bit 26 people Half the families involved have filed petitions for redress The dog declared rabid by the state health department attacked children in a school yard before being killed Health Commissioner John Gilmore said Sawchuck neglected to report the earlier bites from the same dog on his own children two days before.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Charles L. Ihlenfeld
Sam Sawchuck
Ihlenfeld
State Health Department
John Gilmore
Sawchuck
Capital Spy Inquiry May Be Reopened
Washington reports the House American activities committee has obtained microfilmed documents from Whittaker Chambers suggesting conclusive proof of a communist espionage network within the State Department. Rep. Mundt says the evidence points to secret State Department documents fed to Chambers for transmission to Soviet agents. The panel aims to reopen hearings into alleged espionage as soon as possible.
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Washington
House
An American Activities Committee
Whittaker Chambers
Red
State Department
Rep
Mundt
R-Sd
Chambers
U. S
United States
Communist Underground
America
UN- American Activities Group
Time Magazine
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
United Nations
Mme Chiang Kai-shek Seeks U S Aid For China
Madame Chiang Kai-shek met with Secretary of State Marshall at Walter Reed and at Leesburg Virginia as she presses for stepped up aid to the Nationalist government. She called the talks encouraging and said she has not fixed plans for her stay. President Truman granted her an interview but gave no timing.
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Washington
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
Marshall
Walter Reed Hospital
China
Chiang
Mme. Chiang
Mrs. Marshall
Leesburg
United States
Truman
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