Californians Flee Flooded Lowlands as Maps Record Shocking Deluge
Rioting flood waters from the north central mountains drive 10,000 residents from lowland homes near Marysville as the Yuba and American rivers break records. Reno endures historic flooding while Gov. Warren declares a state of emergency and orders relief efforts.
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Associated Press
California
Marysville
Yuba
Sacramento
Sierra Nevada Range
Reno
Trucke
Earl Warren
Cali
Curbs On Credit Slow U.S. Consumer Spending
The commerce department reports consumer buying slowed under higher withholding taxes and credit curbs. The Federal Reserve Board says over one third of families overspent last year, with top income households saving more than all others combined. Installment curbs require down payments and payoff limits, shifting demand to uncontrolled goods. commerce foresees only a modest suppression of total spending despite rising incomes.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
Office of Business Economics
Maybank Signals Support for Rent Control Extension
Washington reports Senator Maybank of South Carolina indicates support for a federal rent control extension, possibly 60 days, marking a shift from earlier doubts. He cited hardship for poorer people due to credit restrictions limiting automobile purchases and high down payments as Congress examines easing those limits next week.
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Washington
Maybank
Senate Banking Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
Florida Supreme Court Voids Sheriff Indictment
The Florida supreme court ruled Sheriff Jimmy Sullivan’s indictment by a Miami Dade County grand jury for gambling offenses void and ineffective. The court said the indictment failed to charge Sullivan with the commission of any crime under Florida law.
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Fla
Florida Supreme Court
Jimmy Sullivan
Dade County
Miami
Sullivan
Florida
Lost $12 000 By Failure To File Claim
Spencer West Virginia November 21 The son of a Civil War veteran learned he has lost about 12000 in federal benefits from his father 30 years ago The claim filed this week by Roy Kelly Elizabeth Wirt county is likely to be approved It will pay Kelly 36 per month He is the son of the late Nathan C Kelly Private in Company A First West Virginia Cavalry The deputy director said the claim is the seventh involving Civil War veterans he has processed since August 1945
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W. Va
Ray Taylor
State Veterans Affairs Department
Roy Kelly
Elizabeth
Wirt County
Kelly
Nathan C. Kelly
First
West Virginia Cavalry
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Roane
Wirt
Jackson
Calhoun
Clay
Braxton
Gilmer
Veterans’ Service
Northeast gale ravages East Seaboard with deaths and outages
A massive northeast gale hit the East Coast from Maine to New Jersey, causing at least eight fatalities, widespread power and telephone outages, and heavy rain in Boston and central Massachusetts. The storm toppled roofs and structures, sank a duck boat, and left temperatures plummeting to the teens inland.
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Seaboard
Maine
South Carolina
Boston
Massachusetts
Cape Hatteras
Block Island
Cecil W
Portsmouth
Coast Guard
Raritan Bay
N. J
Weather Bureau
Actor Alan Curtis Weds Fourth Wife in City Chapel
Alan Curtis 41 marries Betty Dodero 36 in New York Municipal Building chapel. They arrived from Italy aboard Saturnia, obtained a license, and wed within hours. It is Curtis fourth marriage and Dodero second for the former Elizabeth Landmark of Philadelphia.
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New York
Alan Curtis
Betty Dodero
Alberto Dodero
Italy
Saturnia
Municipal Building
Curtis
Elizabeth Landmark
Philadelphia
State Numbers Law Challenged in West Virginia Supreme Court
Hairston, a 54 year old Bluefield man sentenced on numbers tickets, asks the West Virginia Supreme Court to void his conviction. His lawyers argue the law shifts proof burden to the defendant and violates state and federal constitutions by making mere possession presumptive of guilt. Hairston remains jailed in Logan County after circuit court conviction last May.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Supreme Court
George Hairston
Bluefield
Logan County
Hairston
West Virginia
Supreme Court
Korean Communists Laud Red China Volunteers
North Korean leaders praised Red China volunteers for their Korea war role and said recent withdrawals are temporary preludes to a counteroffensive for final victory. The Moscow radio broadcast quoted the appeal from the United Democratic Patriotic Front of Korea central committee.
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London
Red China
Moscow Radio
Central Committee
United Democratic Patriotic Front of Korea
Three Virginians Listed As Korean Casualties
The Department of Defense released casualty list No. 157 naming Virginia personnel wounded in Korea. They are Second Lieutenant Dwight L Adams of Afton Greenway Farms, Private First Class Glen Buchanan of St. Paul, and Sergeant First Class Chester A Hall of St. Paul.
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Washington
Department of Defense
Virginia
Army
Dwight L Adams
Margret N
Fowler
Greenway Farms
Afton
Glen Buchanan
Polly T. Buchanan
Route 1
St. Paul
Chester A. Hall
Lizzie H. Glenn
Rex Davis Auctioneering Ad Prompts Provocative Contact
Classified notice from Grand Rapids The Press announces Rex Davis as auctioneer under a farm auction heading. The ad states if not at home to call, make a date with his wife and provides phone number 58563. Dated November 21 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Grand Rapids
the Press
Rex Davis
Most Cities Helpless If A Bomb Hit US Civ Defense
The American Municipal Association reports cities lack detailed federal guidance and funds for civil defense. NYC Chicago Philadelphia Baltimore Washington describe plans as preliminary or hampered by money while mutual aid expands toward neighboring states.
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American Municipal Association
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Philadelphia
Greater Philadelphia
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Baltimore
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Seattle
Army Calls For 3 000 Nurses And Specialists
The army issued a call for 3 000 additional volunteer nurses and 250 women medical specialists to meet expanding needs through June 30.
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Washington
Army
Aged Granny Wins Bremerton Pigskin Contest
A 76-year-old visitor, Mrs. Lottie Becker of Topeka Kansas, edged local experts by selecting 14 of 16 winners in Bremerton Sun’s Professor Pigskin contest. She earned a 10 pound turkey and two Bremerton high school basketball season passes, missing only the Iowa Notre Dame tie and Rice beating Texas A&M.
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Bremerton
Wash
Bremerton Sun
Lottie Becker
Topeka
Kan
Rice
Texas A. & M
Truck Lands On Porch In Icy Mishap On Tazewell Street
A light pickup driven by Kenneth Howell slid on an icy Tazewell street and crashed through a cast iron fence, landing on Belfield C. J. Shepherd's porch at 306 Tazewell. No injuries. The vehicle owner Henry Howell and officers blamed slick streets. no charges filed. Repairs were arranged by the owner.
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Tazewell Street
Belfield C
L. H. Lilly
P. J. Carty
Shepherd
Howell
Brothman Spy Case Heads to Jury Tomorrow
The federal court trial of Abraham Brothman, linked to atom spy Harry Gold, concluded today and the case is set to reach a jury tomorrow in New York.
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Brothman
New York
Abraham Brothman
Harry Gold
Morganthau Pushes Pre Korea Price Rollback At CIO Meet
Former secretary Henry Morgenthau urged rolling back prices to pre Korean War levels and warned against wage controls. He urged higher progressive income taxes and an excess profits levy on corporations, criticizing defense mobilization and calling McCarran Act reform a CIO priority.
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Chicago
Treasury
Aee
Henry J. Morganthau
Morganthau
CIO
Morgenthau
America
Paper Work Deficit in Senate War Readiness Probe
A Senate watchdog committee led by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson criticizes federal agencies for prioritizing paperwork over performance in World War III preparedness. It targets the Munitions Board, Commerce, GSA, and the Air Force over surplus plant sales, aviation gasoline, and rubber plant stockpiles, urging closer coordination and noting forthcoming reports on steel, farm stocks, and Alaska defenses.
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Washington
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Johnson
Munitions’ Board
Commerce Department
General Services Administration
GSA
Air Force
Radio and TV Set Output Seen to Fall After New Year
Washington reports industry leaders expect a 25 to 40 percent drop in civilian radio and television set output after the new year as the National Production Authority cuts cobalt deliveries by 70 percent. Cobalt, essential for magnetized radio and TV parts, had sales frozen last week then resumed at 30 percent of earlier volume, with aluminum, copper, nickel, and zinc curbs also looming.
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Washington
National Production Authority
Radio-Television Manufacturers Association
NPA
William H. Harrison
NPR
Cobalt
Africa
Navy Viking rocket sets 107 mile altitude record
The navy Viking rocket soared to 107 miles over New Mexico today, claiming an American made single stage missile record. The altitude trails a German V-2 flight of 114 miles at White Sands New Mexico. The Viking was built by the Naval Research Laboratory Glenn L. Martin Co and Reaction Motors Inc.
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Naval Research Laboratory
Glenn L. Martin Co
Reaction Motors, Inc
United Nations forces reach Yalu border at Hyesanjin
U S 7th division troops planted the UN flag on the Yalu river bank at Hyesanjin and dug in on defensible hill positions. The advance split Communist forces, with engineers building bridges and airstrips under fire as winter supply checks mounted.
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Hyesanjin
17Th
Herbert B. Powell
U. S
10Th Corps
Manchuria
Chongjin
Soviet
Siberia
ROK
Chosan
U. N. Es
Princeton soldier dies in Korea at age 20
Pfc. Earl Toby Sargent 20, son of Mrs. Cecil King of Princeton, was killed in action in Korea on November 2. He served three years and five months in the U. S. Army, with three overseas, and was attached to the 17th Infantry Regiment, Seventh Division. He was born February 5, 1930, and is survived by his mother two brothers and three half brothers in service or at home.
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Toby) Sargent
Cecil King
Bluefield Avenue
Princeton
Korea
Defense Department
Pfc
Sargent
U. S. Army
17Th Infantry Regiment
Bill Sargent
Jack Sargent
Tazewell
Sgt
George W. Colvard, Jr
Fort Knox
Douglas Colvard Altizer
Layland
Bobby Joe King
Navy Unveils $1.4 Million Robot Brain for Missiles
Princeton report states Project Typhoon is the largest accurate electronic computer built to evaluate guided missiles and aid air defense. RCA officials say it can reduce design time, save millions, and test missile characteristics iteratively using an analogue calculator with 4000 electron tubes and precision components.
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RCA Laboratories
Navy
John R. Ruhsenberger
Office of Naval Research
Special Devices Center
RCA
Four New Army Reserve Units To Be Set Up In West Virginia
In South Charleston on November 21 Colonel Willard B. Carlock announced four new army reserve units to start December 1. The units include a tank battalion commanded by Major Edward R. Marine with posts in Huntington Morgantown Parkersburg and Elkins. Two ordnance companies will form in East Rainelle and Beckley Charleston. A support company will serve the 398th airborne infantry regiment with two paid drill periods monthly during hometown training.
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W. Va
West Virginia
Willard B. Carlock
Carlock
398Th Airborne Infantry
Edward R. Marine
Huntington
Morgantown
Parkersburg
Elkins
East Rainelle
Beck- TE Supply
Charleston
CIO Urges Worldwide Fight Against Reds
The CIO calls for full strength of free peoples to combat Communism on all fronts. A guns and butter foreign policy is adopted with no dissent. It urges mobilizing war weapons to halt aggression and using peace tools to fight poverty hunger and injustice. It also calls revamping the European Recovery Program to raise living standards in France Italy and western Germany.
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Chicago
CIO
France
Italy
Germany
Governor Refuses Anti-Communist Donation Returns Offer
Indiana Governor Henry F. Schrecker rejects a $23 anti communism donation from Laterans of North Manchester and South Whitley. He suggests contributors give the money to their church as religion is the bulwark in the fight against communism.
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Henry F. Schrecker
Laterans
Manchester
Whitley
Indiana
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