Chiang Kai Shek seeks U S aid to combat Communists
Chiang Kai-shek flew from Shanghai toward Washington to appeal for greatly increased U S support as his wife prepares to travel to the United States. Officials note the démarche follows Yalta diplomacy criticisms and say Washington’s reaction is cool and cautious.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Shanghai
Washington
Truman
China
U. S
Yalta
United States
Chiang
Mme. Chiang
Russia
Manchuria
CIO Orders FEW To Join Auto Workers
The CIO executive board ordered the Farm Equipment Workers Union to relinquish its identity and affiliate with the United Auto Workers within 60 days. The move, from the CIO convention's left wing, aims to end a long feud over farm equipment plant organizing and furthers a nationwide organizing crusade.
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CIO
Portland, Ore
Farm Equipment Workers Union
United Auto Workers
Farm Equipment Workers
CIO Board
FEW
UAW
John J. Huff Hurt In Fall On Steps
Cedar Rapids resident and United Packinghouse Workers Local 3 trustee John J. Huff, 51, fell down a flight of steps in front of his home Saturday night. He was taken to Mercy hospital with a possible fractured skull and listed in fair condition. Huff previously was hospitalized for a head injury from a fall on the same steps on Oct 16.
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Cedar Rapids
John J. Huff
Second Street
United Packinghouse Workers, Local 3
Mercy Hospital
Huff
Navy halts search for unidentified submarine off base
CORPUS CHRISTI Texas UP The U S navy Saturday discontinued a search for an unidentified submarine reported to be cruising about 20 miles from the naval base in Corpus Christi Texas during a period of unclear activity and no confirmed sightings.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
U. S. Navy
Naval Base
Two Iowans Die In Plane Crash
Two Mason City men, John Evenoff 23 and Roy Platt 23, were killed when their Piper Cub crashed and burned three miles east of Allison Iowa after losing a wheel. They sought to land in an alfalfa field. the craft pancaked and caught fire.
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Allison, Ia
Butler County
Frank F. McKean
John Evenoff
Roy Platt
Mason City
Jay Flynn
Joe Roose
Evenoff
Roose
Donna
Flynn
McKean
Eire Advances Toward Complete Independence
The Dail passed the external affairs act on second reading in Dublin, moving Ireland closer to full republican status. The bill, awaiting third reading and Senate concurrence, would dissolve legal ties with the British Commonwealth and end the formal representation of Ireland by King George VI in foreign affairs.
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Dublin
INS
Eire
Dail
Senate
Commonwealth of Nations
George VI
Ireland
Bathing Persuasion Backfires on Vanity
A mother tries to sell a bath as building a beautiful figure for her 5 year old. The daughter replies with a witty retort asking if the duck has bathed recently, ending the joke with a playful twist.
G O P Heads Seek Ballot Review in Three States
In San Francisco AP reports Republican National Committeeman McIntyre Fairies asked for a precinct level study of California ballot voting to gauge a possible recount. Similar requests were raised in Ohio and Illinois with Illinois officials indicating a review may be discussed.
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San Francisco
California
McIntyre Fairies
Republican State Central Committee
Hugh Scott, Jr
Scott
Philadelphia
Navy
Army
Fairies
G.O.P
Ohio
Illinois
Chicago
Paul C. Rosenquist
State Central Committee
Truman
Ilinois
Rail Engineers Take Strike Vote Across Western Railroads
A strike vote is underway among engineers on 14 western railroads over a proposed rule requiring an additional engineer on multi unit diesel engines. Spokesman P. S. Heith said mediation has stalled in Chicago and noted lines including Great Northern Northern Pacific Burlington Santa Fe Southern Pacific and Missouri Pacific would be affected. If no agreement, eastern carriers may join later.
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Topeka
Kan
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
P. S. Heith
Santa Fe Railroad Engineers
Heith
Chicago
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Burlington
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Brotherhood
Just the Kind of Wedding I Wanted Makes San Francisco Church Crowd
A 20 year old Lucille Cefalu and her 22 year old husband Carl Martineau were wed at Our Lady of Victory in San Francisco with over 200 strangers attending after Lucille placed a public invitation in the San Francisco newspaper. The couple from Oakland had trouble finding guests. many attendees traveled from Rochester New York nine months earlier. The scene included showering rice and emotional gratitude from the groom and bride as they begin a two week honeymoon and plan to live in Redwood City California.
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Associated Press
Lucille Cefalu Martineau
Carl Martineau
San Francisco
East
INS
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church
Lucille Cefalu
Oakland
Calif
Rochester
N. Y
Lucille
Samuel Cefalu
Carl
Stanford University
Palo Alto
Bisbee
Ariz
Redwood City
Greek Premier Sophoulis Near Death in Athens Office
The aging Greek premier Themistocles Sophoulis lay on an army cot in his office after a heart attack with seven doctors warning of rapid decline. Doctor Constantine Samaras revived him with heart stimulants and beer after Sophoulis asked for food and drink. The 88 to 92 year old leader had just won a confidence vote by one vote and had ordered the cabinet into session as Communist guerrillas operated in the Peloponnesus. King Paul and foreign officials were alerted.
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Athens
Themistocles Sophoulis
Sophoulis
Constantine Samaras
Paul
Constantine Rentis
Refugee ships ordered to China for 13000 evacuees
The International Refugee Organization ordered two ships from Melbourne to China to evacuate about 13,000 refugees under IRO care. Castel Bianca and Wooster Victory can carry 1700 people each. Only visa holders for resettlement will be moved, many Europeans among the refugees. IRO director general William Hallam Tuck said further port instructions would follow once underway.
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Geneva
Switzerland
International Refugee Organization
Melbourne
China
IRO
Castel Bianca
Wooster Victory
William Hallam Tuck
Real Estate Group Attacks Housing Plan as State Socialism
The National Association of Real Estate Boards accused public housing promoters of pursuing state socialism. A pamphlet by its legislative committee called a coalition of planners socialists and radicals behind a propaganda campaign. The pamphlet titled The World Owes Me a Living targets the Taft Ellender Wagner housing features as President Truman plans to push the measure in January after its 80th Congress failure.
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Washington
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Legislative Committee
Truman
Congress
West Berlin Braces for Split Election Over Russians
Soviet plans to form a separate East Berlin government loom as West Berliners vote in a city election halved by the Cold War. About 1.25 million eligible West Berliners proceed to the polls. East Berlin faces a Communist rule and a boycott. The ballot groups three anti Communist parties while the core choice is freedom versus Moscow totalitarianism.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Gustav Klingelhoefer
East Berlin
Social Democrats
Christian Democrats
Liberal Democrats
Moscow
Clinton County Youths Win Junior Grand Champ Honors at IL Expo
Robert Schmidt 18 of Delmar won the junior grand championship with Black Boy an Angus yearling. Glen Mommsen 20 of Miles took reserve junior grand with Peanuts. Family rivals Schmidt and Mommsen planned to compete in car lots. Robert said he bought Black Boy for 125 dollars and spent 200 on raising him. Patsy Miller 17 of Osceola was named Ideal Farmer's Daughter at the National Farm and Garden Show with Marian Clark and Rosina Raber placing.
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Chicago
Clinton County
Iowa
Robert Schmidt
Delmar
Black Boy
Peanuts
Glen Mommsen
Miles
Mommsens
Glenn
Robert
George Schmidt
J. F. Mommsen
Schmidt
Mommsen
Joan
Patsy Miller
Osceola
Marian Clark
Syracuse University
North Norwich
N. Y
Rosina Raber
Bristol
Ind
End of Communist-Led Miners Strike in France
Paris AP reports the nationalized coal industry says the long miners strike is over with more than 90 percent of workers back. In northern fields, those who do not return within six days will be regarded as having quit, as industry resumes production after the stoppage that cost France about 9 million tons.
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Paris
France
Love and gifts spark romance in Fayetteville music shop tale
Thomas A. Baker, a 37 year old Philadelphia realtor, donated seven thousand five hundred dollars and bought half the Fayetteville music shop for Martha Culbreth, 19. He says the gifts were inspired by love after a hotel lobby water incident. Baker met Martha through his mother during a Myrtle Beach trip and planned to move on after his divorce, which he expected to finalize by Christmas.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Thomas A. Baker
Martha Culbreth
Baker
Philadelphia
Martha
Myrtle Beach
S. C
Grace Baker
Newton
Blizzard Strikes Southwest Area with High Winds and Snow
A whirling blizzard hit the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and southwest Kansas with winds over 50 mph, snow drifts, and near freezing temperatures. Concurrently a forest fire on Mount Baldy in California drew 200 firefighters in sub freezing air as winds reached 70 mph fanning the blaze toward Camp Baldy cabins.
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Chicago
Texas
Oklahoma Panhandles
Kansas
California
Camp Baldy
San Antonio Canyon
Mount Baldy
East Coast Longshoremen End Walkout After Vote
AFL Atlantic Coast longshoremen backed a compromise ending an 18 day walkout with 13 cent wage gains to 1.75 dollars per hour and 1.9 percent night overtime rise. West Coast CIO dockers vote pending as San Francisco meeting approves peace plan by 19 to 1.
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New York
America
Atlantic
AFL
CIO
West Coast
Joseph P. Ryan
AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
East Coast
Brooklyn
Jersey City
N.J
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Ryan
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
Halifax
Watkins Farmer Killed as Train Strikes Car
Special to The Gazette. Frank Rothlisberger, 60, a farm hand near Watkins, was killed instantly when the car he drove was struck by a North Western mail train at a crossing Saturday at 4:45 p.m. His body was taken to the Dewey funeral home in B town. Rothlisberger was employed on the Alfred Voss farm.
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the Gazette
Watkins
Frank Rothlisberger
Watekins
North Western Mail
Dewey
B Town
Rothlisberger
Alfred Voss
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DPD
Sokolovsky
Richard Kasischke
Sennen
Drew Pearson
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State Catto Seapeterasocds
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New York Harbor
Maine
Virginia
Harry Bridges
Atlantic Coast
Longshoremen’s Association
Watkins Farmer
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