Firefighters Gain Ground In California Silverado Fire
In Silverado canyon near Santa Ana California the wildfire threat to about 350 homes rose then subsided as 1,560 firefighters aided by helicopters and bulldozers built lines along ridges. Evacuees reached about 1,500 residents while the blaze burned over 43 000 acres with damages mounting and hope for containment by 10 am tomorrow.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Silverado Canyon
Santa Ana Mountains
Los Angeles
U. S. Forestry Service
Army
Navy
Marine
el Toro Marine Base
California
Brave Man Addresses Audience Of Women
Marcus Tushnet, president of the New Jersey Association of Master Hairdressers, spoke to the New Jersey Business and Professional Women's League in Newark denouncing fashion dictated female behavior calling women a cabbage in full bloom and rejecting equal rights as long as fashion dictates.
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Brave Man
Newark
N. J
New Jersey Business and Professional Women's League
Marcus Tushnet
The
New Jersey
Market Selloff After Election Shocks Wall Street
New York prices plunged as post election selling hit leading issues with losses up to five dollars a share. The Associated Press average fell to 63.90, the lowest since March, amid brisk trading volume and renewed optimism late in the day.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Congress
Associated Press
Truman
Re Establish Jerusalem Authority Proposed by Orthodox Council
The Rab binical Council of America proposes a central religious authority in Jerusalem for world Jewry. Dr. Israel Tabak says this authority would resemble a supreme court for Jewish law, referencing correspondence with Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Jerusalem. The council represents 1,500 Orthodox congregations and about two to three million Jews in the U S and Canada.
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New York
Rabbinical Council of America
Jerusalem
Word Jewry
Israel Tabak
Shaarei Zion Congregation
Baltimore
Israel
Supreme Court of the
United States
Tabak
Canada
Isaac H. Herzog
Has the jury returned its verdict yet in Westchester
A caller asked at the Westchester county courthouse if the jury had reached a verdict. Ralph Mumford, a member of the Supreme court jury commission, said no deliberations were taking place at that moment. A woman then delivered a sharp complaint about her husband and claimed he was locked up on a deadlocked jury after not returning home all night.
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White Plains
N. Y
Westchester County
Supreme Court
Ralph Mumford
Pennsy Medical Group Backs Fight For Hope's Life
The Pennsylvania Medical Society pledged the best in medical aid to eight year old Hope Hickey a rheumatic fever patient given a year to live. Dr Gilson Colby Engle said he advised Hope s father Edward J Hickey Jr to seek surgical or other scientific options and connected him with specialists at University Hospital and Hahnemann Hospital. Hickey said he hoped any feasible course would save or prolong her life and extend help to other children.
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Philadelphia
The
Pennsylvania Medical Society
Hickey
Pel
Engle
Julian Johnson
University Hospital
Charles P. Bailey
Hahnemann Hospital
Hope
Trenton
N. J
Police Halt Burst of Philanthropy in Newark
A Newark widow, Mrs Helen Kuhl Weiss, about 35, handed around $1000 in hundred dollar bills to strangers at Broad and Market Streets. Police recovered $400 from passersby after she withdrew half her life savings at the bank. She pleaded she had done nothing wrong and was taken home after questioning by Patrolman Michael Boyland.
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Newark
N. J
Market
New Jersey
Michael Boyland
Boyland
Helen Kuhl Weiss
Community Chest Nears Goal Despite Shortfall
Bluefield asks for renewed donations as the Community Chest campaign trails the $53,900 target. Through October 18 a total of $36,743 has been pledged or received, with $23,433.16 from company chests led by Taylor Frazier and the initial gifts division under Roland Luther. The drive, continuing at the Law and Commerce Chest office, aims to cover $17,157 needed for next year’s Salvation Army, YWCA, Union Mission, Boy Scouts and Carolina Community Home.
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R. V. Shanklin
Red Feather
Elmo Agee
Taylor Frazier
Roland Luther
Bluefield
Agee
Law and Commerce
Salvation Army
Young Women’s Christian Association
Union Mission
Boy Scouts
Carolina Community Home
Motive Named in Slaying Over Horse Mistreatment
In Hamlin West Virginia four boys digging potatoes argued over a horse being mistreated near Harts. Hatton Adkins, 17, was fatally shot in the head by a 13-year-old companion who allegedly confessed. The weapon was a rim fire 25 caliber rifle. State Police Corporal H D Coyner reported the arrest and inquiry.
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Hamlin
W. Va
Harts
Hatton Adkins
H. D. Coyner
Adkins
Covner
Weather Scene Features Snow and Hurricane Off Florida
A broad storm system brings rain snow and sleet across the nation while a hurricane spins off Florida with 75 mph winds. It centers about 450 miles east of Melbourne moving west northwest toward the north Florida Georgia coast as forecasts note possible turn or halt from a rising high pressure system.
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Chicago
Florida
Atlantic
Truman
Key West
Miami
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountain
Mercury
Leadville
Colo
Rockies
Seattle
Lake Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Louisiaana
Wausau
Wis
Fort Worth
Tex
Fla
Melbourne
Fila
Grandy Norton
Navy
Georgia
Morgan City
Pensacola
Norton
Landis Widow Estate Suit Seeks Half For Husband
Horace Schmidlapp, husband of late Carole Landis, sues for one half of her $150,000 estate. He challenges a 1944 will that left most to her mother, claiming it invalid since written before their 1945 marriage. Landis faced a divorce suit from him when she died by suicide last summer.
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Los Angeles
Horace Schmidlapp
Carole Landis
Miss Landis
Schmidlap
Holy Land Braces For More Conflict
Israeli commanders expect renewed fighting with Iraqi forces in central Palestine as Arabs and trans-Jordanian troops shift positions. reports say Iraqi strength nears 12 000 with irregulars while clashes flare near Jerusa lem and Faluja with Egypt criticised for not uniting under a single command.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Holy Land
Palestine
Jenin’- Tulkarm - Nablus
Trans-Jordan
Iraq
Suweidan
Faluja
Task Force To Sink Cruiser Pensacola
The heavy cruiser Pensacola will be sunk tomorrow off the Washington coast by gunfire from airplanes surface craft and submarines. Ships of the first task force left Elliott Bay on the mission today. Thirty odd ships and planes will fire against the Pensacola which served in battles at Iwo Jima Okinawa and as a target for atom bombs at Bikini.
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Seattle
Pensacola
Washington
Elliott Bay
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Bikini
Democratic chief bars Dixiecrats from party talks
National Democratic chairman J. Howard McGrath said a few leaders of the states rights movement will not be welcomed back into the Democratic party but urged no general purge. He added it is up to House and Senate members to decide how the Dixiecrats are treated in Congress. He stated the national committee will not deal with top leaders who revolted against Truman over civil rights.
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Washington
J. Howard McGrath
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Senate
Congress
McGrath
Democratic National Committee
Truman
National Committee
Rhode Island
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding Wright
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Thurmond
Demands Death Sentence For Hitler Aides At Nuremberg
American prosecutor Robert W. Kempner pressed for death penalties for 21 members of Hitler s wartime foreign office at the Wilhelmstrasse war crimes trial in Nuernberg Germany. The defendants include Ernst Von Weizsaecker Otto Dietrich and Hans Heinrich Lammers charged with crimes against peace conspiracy war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Germany
Robert W. Kempner
Hitler
Foreign Office
Ernst von Weizsaecker
Vatican
Otto Dietrich
Joseph Goebels
Hans Heinrich Lammers
Reichschancellery
Bullitt to Survey China's Needs in Fast Tour
Former ambassador to Russia William C. Bullitt left by plane to survey China’s needs for Congress. He aims to report to the joint congressional watchdog committee on economic cooperation by Christmas. He will visit Shanghai and possibly other cities as China urged higher U S aid.
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Russia
William C. Bullitt
China
Congress
Bullitt
Asia
Joint Congressional Watch Dog Committee On Economic Co
Shanghai
Barnyard poll may reveal Truman victory, Biffle claims
Arkansas born Leslie Biffle, longtime aide to the Senate Democrats, conducted a barnyard poll by disguising himself as a chicken trader. He visited farmers across key states and reported farmers, miners, and drivers favored Truman over Dewey, countering public polls. He told President Truman he would win after touring West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
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Leslie Biffle
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Democrat Biffle
Democratic Senate Policy Committee
Biffle
Philadelphia
Dewey
Key West
Fla
Bibble
West Virginia
Kentucky
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
John A. Lewis
Minnesota
Idaho
Montana
Beautiful New Comet Appears Over North America
Cambridge reports a striking new comet described as the most beautiful since Halley’s 1910. Astronomers in California and Arizona first sighted it, with observers in Mexico Argentina and Australia noting its progress. Early estimates place visibility near dawn for southern regions, possible across the United States if it moves northward.
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Cambridge
Mass
Halley
Arizona
United States
Chicago
New York
Boston
Dinsmore Alter
Griffith Observatory
Los Angeles
Charles Feterer
Sky and Telescope
Argentina
Mexico
Australia
Railroads press bid for freight rate hike
Washington reports the railroads seek a 13 percent freight rate increase to lift profits above 3 percent on net investment next year. Public hearings begin November 30 before the Interstate Commerce Commission as the industry argues costs rose since 1939, needing offsetting revenue of about $1 billion annually.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Julius H. Parmelee
Association of American Railroads
Parmelee
Rent Control Extension To Be Requested
Washington reports that plans to ask Congress for a wartime rent powers extension of at least one year beyond March 31 were revived by the housing expediter Tighe Woods. The request includes triple damages for tenants, criminal penalties, and possible restoration of rent ceilings in areas of revived defense activity. The OHE notes only 17 of 600 areas could be decontrolled since April 1, due to housing demand and rapid postwar population growth, with concerns over college towns and ex-GIs bringing families.
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Washington
Congress
Tighe Woods
Woods
Office of Housing Expediter
OHE
Erie
Seeing Eye Dog Poisoned Near Ellis Home in West Virginia
In Edgewood Acres near Charleston a seeing eye dog named Molle was found dead from strychnine poisoning. Five neighborhood dogs died in the weekend. state police and deputy sheriffs investigate. Leon ard Ellis, blinded by a dynamite blast, works at Fletcher Enamel in Dunbar and relied on Molle to accompany him to and from the bus each day.
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Charleston
W. Va
Molle
Leonard Ellis
Ellis
Edgewood Acres
Fletcher Enamel Company
Dunbar
Gem Collector Goes to Army Guardhouse
Colorado Springs police say master Sergeant Wiley C Walters released from custody after finding no local law violations He claimed to have collected gems and antiques by bartering 1500 cartons of cigarettes in Europe Walters was transferred to the 15th Air Force guardhouse Mrs Walters under investigation with her husband has also been released
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Colorado Springs
Colo
I. B. Bruce
Wiley C. Walters
Bruce
Europe
15Th Air Force Guards House
Walters
No Place In United States Is Safe From A-bomb Says Experts
New York November 9 The natural security resources board told the American Institute of Chemical Engineers that no place in the United States will be safe from atom bombs Background notes say government will set broad principles and shift defense decisions to industry Dispersal and location strategy are urged as best protections The discussion cites growing U S chemical plant construction totaling about 5 so far with California leading and Texas second and notes large increases in the southwest
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New York
Natural Security Resources Board
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Ralph F. Dimmitt
Hegister
R. S. Aries
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
California
Texas
South
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