Eisenhower names Lodge and Dodge to key preinaugural posts
President elect Ike selects Sen. Lodge as liaison to oversee transfers with all federal agencies and Joseph Dodge to head the budget bureau. Lodge may join a cabinet later, while Dodge’s role signals greater policy influence for fiscal matters. Additional attendees included Millikin, Clay, Brownell, Roberts, Hagerty, and Stephens.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Lodge
Detroit
Joseph MM. Dodge
Massachusetts
Truman
Budget Bureau
Dodge
White House
Defense and State Departments
Senate
Defense
Eisenhower Associates
Associated Press
Joseph L. Dodge
Sen. Lodge
Mass
Young Nazi gang disrupted in Louisiana
Juvenile Nazi storm troopers club broken up in Metairie near New Orleans. Eight-year-old informant led police to members, with 4000 rounds of ammunition and weapons seized. FBI joined to check federal violations. no charges announced.
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New Orleans
Nazi Storm Troopers Club
Hitler
Argentina
FBI
J. M. Lopez
Storm Troopers
Metairie
Burea
Bevan and Wife Criticize Eisenhower Victory
British Labour leader Aneurin Bevan and his wife Jennifer Lee condemned the Eisenhower win in a radio address. Bevan said most Britons were disappointed by the American election result though he congratulated the General on his success.
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Birmingham
England
Aneurin Bevan
Jennnie Lee
Eisenhower
Bevan
Gen. Eisenhower
Court Rejects Appeal of Jim Crow Car Ban
The U S Supreme Court rejected the Atlantic Coast Line railroad appeal ruling that segregated Jim Crow coaches violate interstate commerce law. The decision, issued in a brief order with no opinion, leaves segregation common in the South though leaders doubt immediate end.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Bench
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
New York
Frank Costello
Costello
Lie Resigns as United Nations Secretary General
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie announced to the General Assembly that he has resigned and urged election of a successor. He spoke at the UN in New York on Monday and outlined readiness to cooperate in the transition.
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United Nations, N. Y
INS
United Nations
Trygve Lie
General Assembly
Union Pact with Swift Announced
CHICAGO AFL Meat Cutters and Butchers Monday announced a two year agreement with Swift and Company providing a four cent hourly raise for about 10 000 workers plus other benefits.
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Chicago
AFL Meat Cutters and Butchers
Swift and Company
Thorpe Resigns As Acheson Aide
Washington Truman accepts Willard L Thorpe resignation as assistant secretary of state for economic affairs effective November 16.
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Thorpe
Acheson
Washington
INS
Truman
Willard L .Thorpe
Desk goldfish joke about staff raises
A personnel manager kept a bowl of goldfish on his desk. He explained it is not about fish culture but that it is nice to have something around that opens its mouth without asking for a raise.
Drouth Ends In Big Area Fires Curbed By Rain
The East South and Ohio valley cooled and wet on Monday as a broad rain and snow event eased drouth. The 500 mile rain band reached from Texas to New England, ending long fire bans and allowing rangers and guardsmen to rest. Memphis reported 1.87 inches, Texarkana 2.67, Little Rock 1.75, with continued showers expected in Georgia and Alabama.
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Associated Press
Ohio Valley
New England
Sam Wallace
Tennessee
Memphis
Arkansas
Texarkana
Little Rock
Georgia
Alabama
Texas
Texas Panhandle
Lebanon
Grantsburg
Wis
Lexington
Neb
Great Lakes
Neil le May
Wisconsin
North Woods
Football Danger: Boy Finds Unexploded Bomb in Home
In London a father heeded his seven year old son’s tale of a metal ball from a bombed building. He traced it to a neighbor boy playing with an unexploded 42 inch mortar bomb in the family kitchen.
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London
Truman Praises Eisenhower Liaison Selections
President Truman sent a message to President-elect Eisenhower calling his selection of liaison men to consult with the administration eminently satisfactory. He thanked Eisenhower for his promptness in naming the representatives and for facilitating coordination.
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Washington
Ins
Truman
Eisenhower
Parents of Jim Aren't Flattered
Hastings Nebraska report card row describes a first grade teacher giving Jim a low citizenship mark and writing I find Jimmie very interesting. Parents returned card with the quip Is there anything we can do to make Jimmie less interesting.
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Hastings
Neb
Jimmie
Duel Over Wife Ends in Neighbor’s Death in Pennsylvania
In Punxsutawney Pennsylvania a neighbor and husband exchanged gunfire over a wife described as in her early 30s. Peterman 85 was shot through the head and killed Stiteler be held on an open charge pending autopsy. Police said the pair fought over Peterman’s wife after several days of dispute.
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Punxsutawney
Beiteler
Ae E.peterman
Hig
Stiteler
Peterman
Petermans
Atomic Plant Hit by Strike
Savannah river atomic energy plant work slowed or stopped by a technical engineers union walkout over the firing of five members. It marks the worst disruption since construction began two years ago on the billion dollar project across the Savannah river in South Carolina as President Eisenhower vacationed nearby in Augusta.
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Augusta
Savannah - River
Savannah River
South Carolina
Dwight Eisenhower
Allies Retake Anchor Hill on Eastern Front
SEOUL AP United Nations infantrymen recaptured Anchor Hill on the eastern front 40 miles north of the 38th Parallel after a bayonet grenade and rifle butt charge. They fought hand to hand as Reds fled down the western slope while a long range rifle duel continued at the Nam river edge.
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Seoul
United Nations
Ky Nam
U.N
North Korea
Anchor Hill
Triangle Hill
Kumhwa
Taft Praises CIO Leader Philip Murray
Senator Taft lauded Philip Murray, head of the CIO and co author of the Taft Hartley labor law, describing him as a great labor leader after Murray’s death Sunday in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Taft
Philip Murray
CIO
Medieval Murals Exposed as Fake Faces of Film Actresses
Luther Malskat, a German refugee painter, confessed to faking medieval murals in St Mary's church Lubeck revealing they depicted German film actresses and friends. He claimed Dietrich Fey ordered the work and faces a libel suit. critics initially endorsed the fakes as genuine.
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Luebeck
Germany
Europe
Luther Malskat
St. Mary’s Church
Malskat
Renoir
Rembrandt
Gaugin
Degas
Corot
Fey
Maiskat
Genghis Khan
Scherly
CIO Faces Leadership Battle After Philip Murray Death
Murray dies at 66 in San Francisco leaving a three way contest for CIO leadership. Walter Reuther James B Carey and Allan Haywood touted as possible successors as the national convention in Los Angeles nears. risk of intra union fights and possible CIO AFL realignment discussed.
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Washington
CIO
Philip Murray
American Labor Movement
Murray
I the Cio
Los Angeles
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
James B. Carey
The
Electrical Workers
Allan 5. Haywood
Oeane Bee
Reuther
Arey
Haywood
Chosen
AFL
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Sharp Increase in Auto Insurance Rates Approved
The Iowa state insurance department announced an immediate sharp rise in automobile bodily injury and property damage liability rates. Director Charles Fischer said the hike is based on findings that current premiums cannot sustain company operations, and the agreement with the National Association of Casualty Underwriters makes the new rates effective at once.
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Des Moines
State Insurance Department
National Association of Casualty Underwriters
Charles Fischer
Moines
Territory
Council Bluffs
Davenport
Sioux City
Burlington
Cedar, Rapids
Clinton
Dubuque
Fort Dodge
O4tunmwa
Waterloo
Soviet Vows to Push Korean War Settlement Plan
Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky urged a UN commission for Korean war settlement naming Russia the U S Communist China Britain France India Burma Switzerland Czechoslovakia North and South Korea with instructions to press for repatriation of all prisoners. The move followed a revised Soviet draft as he warned against adopting an American resolution and called the Korean war a military fiasco for the United States.
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United Nations
Vieshinsky
U.N
Vishinsky
Russia
U.S
China
Britain
France
India
Burma
Switzerland
Czechoslovakia
North Korea
South Korea
Kremlin
Panmunjora
Jon
Korea
New York
U. S
State Adelson
Eden Pe
Washington
A. Ee
Tito to Visit Great Britain
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia has accepted Prime Minister Churchill's invitation to visit Britain for conferences. It will be his first such visit and the first by a Communist nation's leader to Britain. The date will be fixed later. Eden extended the invitation on Churchill's behalf during a visit to Yugoslavia.
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London
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
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