China Says Reds Repulsed In Suchow Campaign
Government warplanes rejoined the Suchow battle as the communist offensive reportedly faltered on the east and south flanks. Suhsien near Suchow claimed recapture, while officials said three columns joined around Nienchuang 33 miles east. The air force aided a counterattack as ground troops faced renewed pressures.
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Suchow
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Suchow-Nanking
China
Communist Radio
Suhsien
Fulichi
Nienchuang
Huanz Po-Tao
Seventh Army
Chen Yi
Ich
Kodak Agrees To Open Up Color Film Industry
Attorney General Clark announced Eastman Kodak has reached a consent judgment to end an antitrust suit and open the color motion picture industry to competition. Judge William C. Mathes entered the judgment in Los Angeles. The suit had charged Eastman with conspiring with Technicolor entities to monopolize professional color movies. The decision closes the case against Eastman but leaves Technicolor Inc and Technicolor Motion Picture Corp defendants.
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Clark Today
Eastman Kodak Company
William C. Mathes
Federal District Court
Los Angeles
Justice Department
Eastman, Technicolor Incorporated
Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation
Britain Revises Holy Land Proposals
Paris reports Britain revised its Palestine plan to meet American objections. A spokesman said London accepted the U S recommendation that Jews and Arabs work out a mutual boundary settlement. Britain had proposed UN assembly approval of the Bernadotte plan trading the Negev for western Galilee.
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Britain
Palestine
U. S
United Nations Assembly
Israel
Negev Desert
Galilee
Gasoline Explosion Injures Wise County Shop Owner
A gasoline explosion at an automobile shop in Wise Virginia shattered 31 panes of glass and sent metal through the roof. The owner Carl Hensley aged 32 from Big Stone Gap suffered critical burns and was hospitalized at Norton General. medical staff did not at once know his odds of survival.
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Wise
Carl Hensley
Big Stone Gap
Hensley
Norton General Hospital
Three Year Old McComas Boy Killed in Road Crash
Mercer county records a third road death in a week as three year old James Everett Kade was fatally struck in front of his home by a pickup driven by Monte O Shelton of Montcalm. Involuntary manslaughter charged over defective brakes. Shelton to appear before Justice Frank Gibson. Funeral at Crane Creek Methodist with time to be announced. Survived by parents two sisters a brother and grandparents.
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McComas
Mercer County
James Everett Kade
E. L. Kade
Monte O. Shelton
Montcalm
E. D. Bassie
Princeton
Shelton
Justice of Peace
Frank Gibson
Matoaka
Mercer Funeral Home
William Greever
Welch
Rupert Caudill
Young Krade
Crane Creek
Paul Hall
Woodlawn
Betty Jean
Virginia Louise
Charlie Lee
C. M. Kade
C. B. Jones
Algoma
Army Takes Over In Venezuela Coup Without Bloodshed
The Venezuelan army ousted President Romulo Gallegos and took control of the nation with troops occupying public buildings. Lt. Col. Marcos Perez Jimenez cited incapacity of the Democratic Action and threats from extremist labor as reasons for the coup. Oil center Maracaibo and Creole Oil announced shutdowns as workers staged a general strike. about 8,000 Americans are employed in the country.
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Venezuela
Romulo Gallegos
Marcos Perez Jimenez
Gallegos
Mario Vargas
Armed Forces
Saranac Lake
New York
Vargas
Isaias Medina Angarita
Maracaibo
Zulia
Lake Maracaibo
Creole Oil Company
Standard of New Jersey
37 Feared Dead As Ship Founders
The coast guard reported the British freighter Hopestar with a 37 crew is believed to have foundered in the Atlantic. An aerial search involved ten planes but officials say survivors are unlikely. The vessel last radioed on November 14 reporting heavy weather damage 900 miles east of New York. Hopestar was en route from Newcastle England to Philadelphia in ballast.
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Atlantic
W. R. Richards
Cape Henlopen
N. J
Newcastle
England
Philadelphia
United States
Cunard Line
Elizabeth
Southampton
Cherbourg
Canadian Pacific Railway
Liverpool
trans-Atlantic
Accused Slayer Of Tot Taken To St. Louis
William Norris Pollard, 26, former mental patient, waived extradition to face murder charges in St. Louis. FBI arrested him at Red Cross. he allegedly fatally beat Joseph Nichols Jr and hid the body in a drawer at the American hotel. Pollard denied a sexual attack. coroner's jury ruled death from internal hemorrhage due to sexual assault.
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Chicago
William Norris Pollard
St. Louis
Pollard
Red Cross
FBI
Joseph Nichols, Jr
James J. McDermott
Walter Feldmeier
William O'Connell
Moscow Deplores Fate Of Peasants In US
Moscow aired claims that American life is grim for the peasants as inflation bites. It cited figures claiming 29 million U S families earned under 2000 dollars in 1947 and a minimum existence of 3500 dollars a year for a family, contrasting with a U S federal reserve survey.
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Washington
Moscow
United States
U. S. Federal Reserve Board
Truman Asks Reds To Join UN Food Group
President Truman invited the Soviet Union to join the UN FAO at its fourth annual meeting, urging broader participation by old and new nations including Argentina. He called hunger a global issue and suggested forging an international wheat agreement, noting past efforts and current market shifts. He proposed a January conference to draft a new deal among wheat exporters.
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Reds
UN Food Group
Washington
Russia
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
International Food Group
Argentina
Soviet Union
Congress
United States
SCC Row Heads For Court Over Hiring Authority
Richmond Va November 24 The state corporation commission battles over authority to hire employees without governor approval heading to the state supreme court of appeals. The SCC plans a payroll for new staff sent directly to the state comptroller while Governor Tuck and Attorney General Almond dispute the constitutional basis of the commission as a judicial branch.
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Richmond
State Corporation Commission
State Supreme Court of Appeals
SCC
Henry G. Gilmer
Blake T. Newton, Jr
J. Lindsay Almond, Jr
Tuck
Douglas Lands Role Of Labor
Justice William O. Douglas drew a standing ovation at the CIO convention in Portland as he declared labor can guide Western civilization toward abundance security and peace While warning against Communists and right wing totalitarians he urged a middle path for democracy and urged unity among labor and democratic forces A resolution to publish and distribute his speech passed unanimously
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Ore
CIO
William O. Douglas
U. S. Supreme Court
Philip Murray
Douglas
Europe
Seventeen Year Olds Nabbed At License Bureau
A 17 year old boy from Pittsburgh and a 17 year old girl from Swissdale Pa were picked up at the marriage license bureau in Baltimore. Detectives said Pittsburgh police reported they left home Saturday and planned to be married in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Pennsylvania
Robert Oblinger
Pittsburgh
Jacquelyn J. Wilson
Swissdale
Edward Kirchenstein
Civil Rights Compromise Sought by Southern Senators
Washington reports two paths for Truman civil rights: a compromise or a comprehensive national study of racial and economic problems. Senators Fulbright and Sparkman, both of Arkansas and Alabama respectively, push for different approaches with debate likely before January.
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Truman
United States
Fulbright
D-Ark
Sparkman
D-Ala
South
Fire hits Sioux City theaters in $150000 blaze
Abe I. Sadoff, theater operator, learned his venue was among several downtown fires after a porter reported smoke blocking sight. The blaze caused about $150,000 in damages.
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Sioux City
Abe I. Sadoff
Sadoff
Sit-In Strike Binds Queen Elizabeth Passengers Aboard
Passengers aboard the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth vote for a sit-in strike as they face disembarkation by Friday due to an unresolved American longshoremen strike. Cabin and tourist classes vote separately while hoping first class passengers join. line protects no sailing while crews stay ashore.
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England
U. S. East Shore
Southampton
Cunard
White Star Line
Las
Henry H. Crane
Central Methodist Church of Detroit
Cunard White Star
American Federation of Labor
T. R. Dark
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Muskegon, Mich
Father Dark
Mother's Day Founder Anna Jarvis Dies at 84 in West Chester
Anna Jarvis the founder of Mother's Day died at age 84 in a suburban West Chester sanatorium after a long illness. Born in 1864 in Grafton West Virginia she moved to Philadelphia in 1904 and launched the observance on May 9 1907. Her campaign to make Mother's Day a legal holiday spanned decades and faced fierce commercial opposition. Her last years were spent in semi isolation tending flowers and caring for her sister Elsinore who died in 1944. Funeral rites will be private with a simple Christian service at the graveside.
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Miss Jarvis
Woodrow Wilson
Grafton
W. Va
Granville E
Anna Reeves Jarvis
Philadelphia
Elsinore
West Virginia
Sister Elsinore
Philadelphia General Hospital
Anna Jarvis
U S Ponders Ways To Aid China In Crisis
Secretary of State Marshall and President Truman weigh U S options to assist China amid a Communist northward advance. Officials warn against creating an indefinite hot war while seeking real aid, as Ambassador Koo expresses optimism for stronger U S support.
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Marshall
Truman
United States
China
Wellington Koo
State Department
Germany
United Nations Assembly
Paris
White House
Koo
Thanksgiving Day Forecast Narrows Weather Across Regions
The weather bureau predicts cloudy skies for much of the eastern and northern United States on Thanksgiving Day with light rain in New England and the South Atlantic region. Lower Michigan to Indiana and Illinois see rain turning to light snow in the northern Great Lakes, while Nebraska and the Dakotas face snow flurries. Florida, the Gulf states, and California enjoy sunny, mild conditions, with colder air moving into the northern plains.
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Midwest
Rockies
Florida
Gulf States
California
Weather Bureau
New England
South Atlantic
Middle Atlantic
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Great Lakes
Nebraska
Dakotas
Oregon
United States
Plains
Students Stage Self-Induced Blackouts At Ava High
Ava Illinois November 24 principal J H Hammack ordered students to stop a growing fad of self induced blackouts. A freshman girl blacked out 15 times in one noon hour and was unconscious for nearly two hours.
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Ill
J. H. Hammack
Tri-County
Hammack
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