Taxi Strike Ends After 15 Cent Raise For Drivers
About 400 striking cabbies return to work as Town Tops Checker White Skyline sign 90 cent hourly contracts with AFL Teamsters union. Yellow Cab drivers resume after PSC wage boost request. Fleet sizes: Town Tops 9, Checker White 9, Skyline 45, Yellow Cab 50. Airport limousine service continues during the strike.
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Town Taps
Checker White
Skyline
AFL Teamators' Union
Yellow Cab Co
Roy Mundy
Town, Tops and Checker White
West Virginia
Public Service Commission
Elem Hanna
PSC
Town Tops
Kanawha
Wall ‘9
Eera
Raiders Attack Kalamazoo Plants in Dawn Raid
About 300 raiders attacked two Shakespeare Companies plants in Kalamazoo Michigan. They damaged vehicles set milk truck on fire and injured seven people. Police said the assault showed military style planning and hinted at a possible Communist angle.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan
Gay
Kim Sigler
Donald S. Leonard
Hhont
Goy
Sigler
Howard Hoyt
Sigter
Ita
CIO
United Steel Workers
Shakespeare Companies
Glenn E. Sigman
Leonard
Madame Chiang Kai-shek Arrives in Washington For Talks
Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Washington from China and met at Leesburg with Secretary of State Marshall and his wife. She expressed gratitude for American sympathy and asked for time to regain her balance after a long flight. The visit marks a bid to secure new American backing for China amid military pressure.
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China
Washington
Chiang Kai-shek
Eft
George C. Marshall
U. S
Washington National
Chiang
Indy
Leesburg
Marshall
Mareshall
Terra Firma
Hern
Gen
Mrs. Marshall
Wellington Kop
H. H. Kung
California Lass In Barter Role
Virginia Mattis a California actress joins Barter Theater in Papa Is All, bringing humor to the Charleston performance on December 10. Tickets listed at 75 cents 1 25 and 1 75 via The Gazette promotions or reservations by phone 86 7371 between 9 00 a.m. and 5 00 p.m.
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Papa
Virginia Mattis
Charleston
Gazette Promotion Department
Koo Presses for Swift Aid to China in Crisis
Chinese Ambassador Wellington Koo urged rapid U S help to China and said Beijing will accept corruption proof oversight. He warned Asia’s freedom hinges on resisting an iron curtain as Communist forces near Nanking. He noted the $400 million aid package and $125 million military aid, with payments routed through the U S Treasury. He spoke after meeting Madame Chiang Kai-shek and stressed urgent moral, material, and military support.
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New York
Wellington ‘Koo
China
Aks Institute
Koo
Asia
Jtoo
Freedoms Crusade
Chiang
Washington
Chiang Kai-sek
Russia
Nanking
Nanking braces new line as Suchow trap tightens
Reports say 950,000 government troops face a Communist advance on the Suchow front. A thin defense line 100 miles from Nanking is manned by 80,000 near Pengpu. Neutral observers note 100,000 Communist veterans swing south to encircle first-line forces. Suchow garrison fights to break free toward Nanking.
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Nanking
Suchow
Diplomata
Sisaghat
Canton
South China
Hwai J River
Peng‘pu
Jine
Pempu
Hwal
Yangtze
Inkee
Chen Yi
Menger
Naniing
Stuchow
Bell System seeks $240 million annual rate rise
The American Telephone and Telegraph Co says Bell System subsidiaries have pending rate increase applications totaling 240 million dollars a year. Existing approved increases amount to 170 million yearly, with 14 percent average local bills and 22 percent if full pending amounts are granted. Inter-state long distance would lift only 17 percent.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Bell System
Bell
A. T. and
Bell Companies
Scientist claims antidote may halt atom ray death
CHICAGO Dec 1 University of Chicago scientist Dr Robert D Boche 36 says he has learned how rays from a split atom kill life and predicts an antidote may be found within our lifetimes. He cites experiments on single celled organisms showing fluids can become toxic after exposure and outlines steps to identify the responsible chemical.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Robert D. Boche
Institute of Radiobiology and Bio- Physics
Boche
Bowie
Hiroshima
Raymond Zirkle
Leo Szilard
Institute
Zirkle
Judd says Russia near victory in Pacific war
Rep Judd of Minnesota tells the National Association of Manufacturers that blunders and default by the United States have allowed Russia to approach victory in East Asia. He warns Communist gains in China could threaten global security and U.S. interests.
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New York
Judd
R-Minn
Russia
Pacific
National Association of Manufacturers
Congress of American Industry
China
East Asia
Russa
United States
Robert L. Garner
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development
Japan
Bhunder
Defauplt
Kremlin
Asiatic
Europe
Arab States Balk At Israel U N Bid
In Paris the 58 member political committee of the General Assembly delayed Israel’s bid for U N membership as Australia pressed for Security Council consideration. Syria’s Faris el Khouri warned Arab states would reconsider their own U N membership if Israel is admitted. The United States supported Israel but said the issue belongs in the Security Council tomorrow.
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Paris
Australia
United Nations
Israel
U. N. Security Council
Council
Faris el Khouri
Syria
U. N
World Organization
Egypt
Lebanon
Yemen
Iraq
General Assembly
United States
Canada
Britain
Dean Rusk
U.S
Security Council
Holy Land
Coast Guard to Reinstate Separate Alaska District
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder said the Coast Guard will reestablish a separate Alaska district with headquarters in Juneau. Defense needs influenced the move after Alaska activities were run from Seattle since July 2, 1947. Gov. Earnest Gruening and officials discussed the project on a 1947 survey.
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Washington
Dec. L
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Coast Guard
Alaska
Mid Aa
Juneau
U. S
Earnest Gruening
Seattle
U.S. to Develop Alaska Resources
Interior Secretary Krug outlined an all out program to develop Alaska as a military and economic stronghold. The plan includes rehabilitating the Alaska railroad, building a vast highway system, promoting immigration, and coordinating with the defense department to fortify the Arctic perimeter. He cited security needs amid Asian communism and postwar lessons with Japan, while noting potential settlement for European displaced persons and large projects like the Missouri basin and Tennessee Valley Authority style valley authorities.
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Washington
UINS
Krug
Alaska
Defense Department
Pacific
Treasury
Snyder
17Th Coast Guard
U. S
Arctic
Interior
Truman
Asia
Europe
Hrug
Missouri
Columbus
Colorado Valley
Tennessee Valley Authority
Berlin Frenzy during Communist rally sparks clashes
In Western Berlin hundreds clashed as Communist hecklers disrupted a Social Democrat rally. Police, aided by Social Democrats, ejected rioters. no arrests reported. Eastern Berlin streets and city hall echoed with protest as Communists reorganized under Friedrich Ebert. Western authorities condemned the move as a sham election.
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Berlin
Africa
Neukolin
Western
Bemlin
Welry Nass
Social Unity
Nes
Friedrich Ebert
Tojo Disgusted by Hanging Delay in War Leader Executions
Tokyo reported Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders faced delays in their planned executions as U S Supreme Court reviews appeals. Tojo expressed disgust at the delay and hoped for a quick hanging while his wife said he is taking precautions to die manfully. Families visited the condemned at Sugame prison after Gen. MacArthur ordered reprieves.
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Tokyo
Uns
Mageri Yojota
U. S. Supreme Court
Tojo
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Ieaders
Sugame
Neutral powers seek plan as Berlin crisis persists
Paris dispatch reports Western powers refuse to submit to intensified Soviet actions in Berlin. neutrals at the U N Security Council call for a 10 day economic experts committee and warn that city division requires governance and currency solutions. Washington notes Moscow’s city administration complicates a remedy while Brananilla and Brame plan informal western notes to the six nation committee.
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Paris
Berlin
Juan Brananilla
Argentina
U.N. Security Council
Security Council
State Department
Washington
Lovett
Russ
Yaureen
Dram Ula
Bramagna
Moscow
Hramughia
Andrei Viabinsky
Eskdale Fire Destroys Store, One Firefighter Hurt
Fire swept through part of Eskdale yesterday destroying a large department store and post office owned by Wyatt Coal Co. One Marmet firefighter James W. Noe, 23, was injured by an explosion and taken to Staats hospital. The blaze began near 8 p.m. in a doctor's office inside the store building, with water drawn from a creek 1 000 feet away to fight the flames. The loss was estimated over $62,000.
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Eskdale
Postoffice
Wyatt Coal Co
Marmet
James W. Noe
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