U.S. presses UN disarmament plan and Franco ouster
The United States urged the United Nations to establish a comprehensive system of disarmament without a veto and to demand Generalissimo Franco step down as head of Spain. Senate Foreign Relations head Tom Connally pressed the moves as Andrei Vishinsky fought the broad disarmament concept. The committee considered actions against Franco while El Salvador and Costa Rica opposed moves.
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Lake Success
United States
United Nations
U. N
Assembly
Generalisalmo Franco
Soviet
Russia
Security Council
9 N. N
Presidio
Army Post
San Francisco
Belmont Plateaux-Roxborough
Philadelphia
VU. N
U.S
Tom Connaily
D.tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Andrei ¥. Vishinsky
Connally
United
Atiaie Etes
Francoit Tegime
Attecks
France
Arc
Meang
Franco
Oscar Lange
Poland
el Salvador
Costa Rica
U N site panel backs Presidio San Francisco for UN HQ
The United Nations site committee recommends the Presidio in San Francisco as the foremost location for the permanent UN headquarters with Belmont plateau Roxborough Philadelphia as second. White Plains Harrison NY is a secondary NY area option while Boston and Flushing Meadow are noted as potential debate points.
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Lake Success
N.Y
United Nations
Presidio
San Francisco
Belmont Plateau
Roxborough
Idadelphia
U.N
White Plains-Harrison
West
Shester County
Russia
Yugoslavia
New York Area
Boston
Flushing Meadow
New York City
Crystal Springs
Anti Petrillo Law Invalid Ruling Holds Lea Act Unconstitutional
Federal Judge Wal ter ja Bay ruled the Lea act known as the anti Petrillo law unconstitutional. The decision voided charges against AFL leader James C Petrillo for a Chicago radio strike and invites appeals to the Supreme Court. The judge said the act violated the first fifth and thirteenth amendments while allowing Congress to act in other contexts.
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Chicago
Walter J. la Bay
James C. Petrillo
AFL American Federation of Musicians
Ja Buy
Petrillo
U. S. Atty. J
Albert Woll
Pedrillo
Supreme Court
Ja Bay
Congress
Washington
Rep. Lea
D.cal
House
Mom’s Wish for Big Family Shapes Her Talk With Sia
Willie Willis reports on a conversation where a mother reflects on her longheld desire for a large family. She expresses satisfaction with the current family size and feelings of fulfillment as Sia contemplates future steps.
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Sia
New Oil Barge Terminal Opens at St. Albans West Virginia
Vacuum Oil Co. announced the opening of a 3 000 000 gallon barge terminal at St. Albans West Virginia to store gasoline fuel oil and kerosene for distribution across western and central West Virginia. The terminal features a vapor control conservation tank with a roof that rises up to five feet to minimize evaporation during heat.
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St. Albans
New York
Dee
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co
W. Va
West Virginia
Court Halts Picketing By Striking Bus Drivers
Circuit Judge Bouchelle issued an injunction against picketing to protect school transportation in Kanawha County. About 30 drivers in Cabin Creek and Malden refused to work leaving thousands of students without rides. Schools plan to operate as usual while buses resume once replacements are found.
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Bouchelle
Talian F. Bouchelle
Kanawha County
Ion
E. A. Carter
Homer Bosher
Board of Education
Cabin Creek
Malden
Kanawha
Virgil L. Flinn
Flinn
Persoppines
Cal. 5 Page Ten Turn In Notice
A fragment from page 10 Cal indicates a turn in filing or submission action. The legible portion mentions page numbering and a procedural instruction but lacks full context or parties involved.
Winter Touch Brings Light Snow Across West Virginia
Jack Frost and icy air push temperatures down to eight degrees in places like Beckley Wheeling Charleston Elkins Graf ton and Huntington. Snow ranges from a trace to about an inch with wind and road crews starting the season as highways in the Wheeling district are cindered. Minor accidents occur as traffic slows and a heating failure forces a school recess at Dunbar First Ward elementary.
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West Virginia
Ohio Valley
Road Commission
Wheeling
Ohio River
Beckley
Charleston
Elkins
Grafton
Huntington
Dunbar First Ward
Georgia Grand Jury Ready To Probe Negro Lynching
A federal grand jury in Athens has been impanelled with two Black members to hear testimony on the July lynching of four Black people in Walton County. U.S. District Judge P Hoyt Davis said federal statutes may apply, and 100 witnesses are slated to testify as federal and state investigators pursue the case.
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Athens
Walton County
U.S
P. Hoyt Davis
U. S
FBE
Monroe
Apalachee River
Charles 5
Rowe
Comet
Merehan
Ellis Arnall
Lou Harrison
New
Widge
Roger Malcolm
Harrison
Malcolm
Doroithy
Mae Dorsey
George
Carbide Employees Receive New Salary Increases
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp announces Dec 1 pay hikes for South Charleston plant workers averaging 14 to 15 cents per hour. Superintendent BR Ragland says similar increases will be granted to employees at the Institute plant of Marine Reserve Co. as government approval is secured.
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Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp
Ragland
South Charleston
Hine Nubber Reserve
Sri Jaz
Coval Ig Secur
Senate Bilbo inquiry hears vote suppression tales in Mississippi
Testimony in Jackson shows a Black veteran claiming registration denial and beating after being refused a pamphlet. witnesses say Bilbo speeches scared voters from offices. Bilbo, renominated for a third term, watched from the jury box as the case unfolds.
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Bilbo
V. B. Wilson
Mississippi Progressive Voters League
Senate
Theodore Bilbo
Wilson
Jackson
Miss
Gazette
Theo G. Bilso
Negras
Valins
Drafting Coal Leaders Seen by Senator-Elect
Senator-elect proposes drafting John L. Lewis and 400,000 United Mine Workers into the Army and court martialing them if coal production fails. He warns military courts could impose penalties up to death in wartime, as wartime authority mirrors past railroad strike actions.
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Washington
Oan
Joseph R. McCarthy
John L. Lewis
United Mine
Army Ad
Marine Corps
Inter
Lewis
Truman
Congress
Anglo U S Sign Economic merger pact in Germany
Britain and the United States sign a bilateral economic merger for German occupation zones aiming for self sufficiency in three years. Byrnes and Bevin sign. details to be released after British Commons session. Merger to be 50 50 financing with about 1 billion dollars over three years.
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New York
Britain
United States
Michael McDermott
State Department
Lucius 0. Clay
Germany
Bryan Robinson
London
Russia
France
Europe
Ehig
Foreign Ministers Council
Wedding Bells and Quirky Snippets Tie Gazette Page
Fragmentary notes hint at wedding chatter and playful quotes about Tommy Manville. The snippet mentions a reporter's quip and a lighthearted tone typical of gossip pages in early 20th century newspapers.
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Tommy Manville News
Wiven
Tommy
Stan Arnald
IMA
We the Gazette
Judge to Give Vital Evidence In Trial Today
The government rests its case against John Lewis as Judge Goldsborough will present evidence to determine guilt or innocence. Secretaries testified the coal strike raises costs, with implications for prices to consumers and potential penalties. The court heard potential outcomes depend on whether Lewis and the United Mine Workers violated a restraining order.
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Washington
John Lew
Fedeeral
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Krug
Ihe
Welly K. Hopkins
United State’ Workers
UMW
Unions Call General Strike in Oakland Protesting Police Action
A general strike was called for 5 a.m. in Oakland California in protest of police escorting merchandise trucks through AFL picket lines at two department stores. AFL bartenders and teamsters led by not reporting for work. No immediate word on how long the stoppage would last and other unions began deciding on action.
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Oakland
Cal
AFL
Teamsters
Naw
Coal Shortage Forcing Wider Rationing Across Regions
Shivering households in the east and midwest besieged the Solid Fuels Administration offices for coal from dwindling stockpiles amid a 12 day UMW strike. Schools hospitals and plants without refrigeration sought supplies, with some districts delaying or closing for holidays as Detroit auto plants resumed production.
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SFA
Pittsburgh
Midwest
Solid Fuels Administration
Tte
United Mine Workers
Lansing
Mich
Hamtramck
Detroit
Oust President Debate Rages Over Burke at Southern Coal
Washington December 2 A move to oust Edward R Burke as president of the Southern Coal Producers Association surfaces after Burke calls for immediate negotiations with John L Lewis. Ten of twenty nine directors disavow the plan while Burke defends his stance and awaits a directors call. The group produces more than a third of the nation s soft coal.
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Washington
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers Assoc
John L. Lewis
Burke
Neibragska
Lewis
Jsouthers Association
Big Inch Little Inch To Be Used In Mine War
Secretary Krug announced emergency use of the Big Inch and Little Inch gas pipelines within six days to move natural gas 1 500 miles from the southwest to central and northeastern states. The effort aims to relieve fuel pressure, with capacity rising from 50 million to 250 million cubic feet daily in 45 days, though not a full coal solution. The Tennessee Gas and Transmission Co. will lease the lines, and federal agencies approved emergency use.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
J. A. Krog
Big Inch
Little Inch
Krug
House Committee
Tennessee Gas and Transmisson Co
Federal Power Commission
War Ajeet Administration
Ines
Ohio
Hans Fritzsche Indicted for Trial by Germans
Hans Fritzsche the Nazi propagandist who was acquitted at the Nuremberg trial was indicted by a German denazification board. The charge accuses him of being a principal criminal for helping sustain Nazi rule through extraordinary propaganda during the war.
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Hans Fritzsche
Mernberg
Germany
Fritzsche
Atomic power seen as rival to coal by 1955 says Compton
Compton the Washington University chancellor told a Chicago Sorbonne College audience that atomic energy could rival coal for US electricity by about 1955 if political hurdles do not block progress. He defended using the atomic bomb in Japan and described heat byproducts aiding river health and proposed centralized heat stations reducing smoke.
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Zowimp
Asina
Compton
United States
Chicago
Sorbonne University
Washington University
St. Louis
Japan
Hurmanity
Columbia River
Enrico Fermi
Itatian
War Department
Miners to Seek Unemployment Pay After Strike
West Virginia soft coal miners totaling about 102 000 begin a work stoppage aimed at unemployment benefits. UMW District 17 leader William Blizzard urged 25 000 rank and file miners to file for unemployment insurance arguing the stoppage is not a labor dispute. He cited Judge Alan Goldsborough's ruling and noted other district workers may also pursue payments as Wheeling Steel plans extended curtailment.
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West Virginia
Wiliam Blizzard
United Mine Workers District 17
Blizzard
Alan Goldsborough
Washington
Eace
UMW
John L. Lewis
District 29
Beckley
District 31
Wheeling Steel Corp
Wheeling
Cos
Atrike
Steubenville
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