Lewis Delays UMW Policy Session Amid Strike Threat
United Mine Workers policy committee postponed again as John L. Lewis fails to attend. A new session is set for 4 a.m. today, eight hours before the truce expires, amid reports of ongoing contract talks and negotiations in Washington with Harry M. Moses of U S Steel.
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New York
United Mine Workers' Policy Committee
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Yeo
Harry M. Moses
U. S. Steel Corporation
Bewis
Washington
U. S. Steel
Moses
Pittsburgh
William J. Murphy
Republican National
Fetty
Lewin
York
Big Stor
John R. Steelman
Key West
Truman
Ching
Detroit
Cyrus Ching
Opening Day Deer Harvest Totals Reported Statewide
On opening day 1 775 deer were killed statewide with 4 775 of the antlered beasts falling to hunters. An additional 28 were killed illegally and meat sent to state institutions. The Conservation Commission notes the first day total may rise with late station reports. Tucker County led with 361 legal deer, while totals by county are listed with last year's figures in parentheses.
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Conservation Commission
Tucker County
Kitla
Parenthe Barbour
Berkeley
Braxton
Clay
Doddridee
Fayette
Che Grant
Greenbrier
Hampshire
Hancock
Hardy
Harrison
Lewis
Marion
Mineral
Monongalia
Morgan
Monroe
Nicholas
Pendleton
Pocahontas
Preston
Randolph
Taylor
Tucker
Tyler
Upshur
Wester
Wetzel
Fragmented student dialogue echoes classroom deception
In a fragmented excerpt a student narrator recalls a teacher warning about telling a lie without naming it. The piece hints at social pressure and politeness in a classroom setting, with unclear details and stray phrases suggesting an informal lesson on truth.
Gillette Probes Coffee Prices and Census Data
Senator Gillette of Iona launches a probe into rising coffee prices and accuses the Census Bureau of suppressing market facts at the behest of speculators. He asks for a survey of stocks and public release of insiders’ holdings while warning the subcommittee will seek Congress’s authority to continue the inquiry.
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Washington
INS
Gillette
Iona
Census Bureau
Senate Agriculture
Bureau 9
Census Bureaue
Philip M. Hauser
Congress
New Wonder Drug May Prove Weapon Against Tuberculosis
Philadelphia reports that the drug neomycin, developed by Dr Selman Waksman, shows promise against tuberculosis and urinary tract infections. Dr Garfield G Duncan cites animal tests and two cured human cases, noting one patient was a deer hunter near death before treatment.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Garfield G. Duncan
Division of Medicine
Selman Waksman
Waksman
Rutgers University
Humbert Lechevalier
West Belle Incorporation Fight Draws Citizen Protest
A group of 148 citizens and six firms protested the proposed West Belle incorporation arguing a 1949 law may be unconstitutional. They sought a writ of prohibition to halt Kanawha County Court actions and slated Dec 16 voter registration and Jan 17 election dates, while challenging the law’s authority over a 2000+ population city.
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Levty of
R. Doyle Fidler
Belle
Wiseman
Texas Airliner Crash Kills 28
An American Airlines DC-6 bound from New York to Mexico City crashed near Dallas Love Field, killing 28 and injuring many others. The airliner struck a hangar near the Dallas Aviation School and exploded, burning two buildings as fire raged before dawn. The wreckage scattered across the area, with responders recovering victims amid thick smoke.
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Dallas
American Airlines
Love Field
Lenigh
New York
Mexico City
Dallas Aviation School
Crash First for Line Since March 3 1946
American Airlines said the Dallas crash was the first fatal accident the company has had since March 3, 1946. It noted 1,394,000,000 passenger miles flown and 10,869,000 passengers carried since that time.
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New Rousa
car—Janor
American Airlines
Dallas
Cominform calls for ousting Tito and Titoists fightback
The Cominform urged Communists worldwide to back an effort to remove Yugoslav Premier Marshal Tito and to battle Titoists in Yugoslav parties. It announced a “peace” program aimed at enlisting Catholic workers and other groups, marking a stance on alleged counter revolutionary forces.
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Communist Group
Moscow
Cominform
Marshal Rito
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Pravda
Poland
Court Upholds Special Police Appointment In West City
The State Supreme Court affirmed a May 2 1948 ruling denying the writ of mandamus to discharge special policemen appointed by the Charlesian city administration. The decision focused on James Gullian a Charleston resident and police officer. judges disagreed on writ relief with Judge Hiley urging disapproval of bonds filed in the city clerk’s office.
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State Supreme Court
Charlesian
Fred Fox
Janawha Common Pleas Court
Police Civil Service Act
Fraternal Order of Police
Herman Fraser
Huntington
James Gullian
Charleston
Fox
High Court
Ludges and Fraser
James B. Hiley
Testimony Highlights Invalid Payroll Receipts in Thomas Trial
Washington November 29 testimony alleged Rep J Parnell Thomas NYNJ had a bedridden relative and his daughter in law on his office payroll and that pay was diverted to him. FBI testimony itemized about 8 675 in checks issued to three alleged employes while Miss Helen Campbell was cited as signing a written state ment.
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Washington
Congressional
New Jersey
Helen Campbell
Miss Campbell
Myra Midkiff
Annette Minor
Thomas
Jace Oveline B. Hill
UN- American Activities Committee
FBI
Frederick Vechery
Tobin Urges Floor on Jobless Pay and Duration
Secretary of Labor Tobin urged a federal floor for unemployment payments and their duration at the annual conference, aiming to broaden coverage and raise benefits from the current state varied levels. President Truman urged citizens to use resources to assure jobs, as Tobin pressed for a minimum federal standard.
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Washington
Mov
Labor
Tobin
State Labor Commissioners
Labor Department
Truman
Key West
U. S
Labor Scretary
Guns Spell Chungking's Early Fall
Hong Kong reports gunfire signaling the fall of Chungking as Nationalist capital. Chiang Kai-shek may be restored to the presidency as the government loses the southwest city and Communist forces push near the Yangtze river.
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Chiang
Hong Kong
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Taipen
Pormosa
Yangtze River
Chung- King
Szechwan
Johnson Sees War Danger Diminished But Says Be Ready
United States Defense Secretary Johnson arrived in Paris for Atlantic Pact talks and stated no plan to rebuild armed forces in Western Germany. He noted war danger had eased somewhat but warned the US must be ready for any eventuality at four o clock in the morning. He stressed America will not be lulled into false security and observed German rearmament avoidance in Frankfurt.
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Paris
INS
U. S
Johnson
Germany
London
United States
Frankfurt
Fly Ash Nuisance in Valley Spurs Big Dam Talk
The Ka nawha Valley pollution from pulverized coal fly ash draws concern as industries reclaim land and dispose ash. Reports from Hungry Horse Montana say Chicago fly ash funding may fuel a nation moving toward a huge dam built with ash substitute cement.
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Charles. R
duPont
Hungry Horse
Mont
Chicago
Dam project cuts cement use and raises fly ash costs
A note on the Hungry Horse dam series states fly ash reduces cement use by about half. It adds that fly ash costs 51 a ton in Chicago delivered to the dam, with further details continued on page 16.
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Hungry Horse
Chicago
Bridges Testimony Links Bridges to 1934 Meeting with Browder
A government witness in the Harry Bridges perjury trial testified that Bridges attended a 1934 meeting in Santa Clara County with Earl Browder, then a US Communist. John Schamaker, a former Communist organizer, said the event occurred during the San Francisco waterfront strike era.
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San Francisco
NSI
Harry Bridges
Santa Clara County
Prane
Earl Browder
U. S
John Schamaker
San
Francis Schumaker
Bridges
CIO Longshorermen
Brown
Browder
Schumaker
Ozin
Reds Ready to Yield One of Three Icebreakers
Washington dispatch reports Russia agrees to return one lend-lease icebreaker by next month. The Soviet Union says the other two are frozen in fires and cannot be returned until spring or summer. Negotiations since 1946 culminated with Deputy Undersecretary Dean Rusk accepting the Soviet offer and Vladimir A. Bazykin being summoned to the State Department. The returning ship will be handed over at Yokosuka, Japan.
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Reds
Washington
INS
Russia
U. S
Soviet Union
Vladimir A. Bazykin
State Department
Dean Rusk
Yukosuka
Japan
Quesada to Direct Joint Task Force
The United States will conduct a new series of atomic weapons tests at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, aiming for higher efficiency than the 1948 bombs. The tests, shrouded in secrecy, will be overseen by a joint task force led by Lt Gen Elwood A. Quesada with U S Army Navy and Air Force personnel and no foreign observers expected.
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Pacific
Washington
United States
Russia
H Sill
U.S
Eniwetok
Russsia
Treat
Marshal Islands
San Francisco
Lesss
China East
Atomic Energy Commission
Defense Departement
Quesada Ito
Army
Elwood A. Quesada
USAF
Quesada
Herbert Lopez
Tom B. Hill
Navy
Alvin
Graves
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Brg
John K. Gerhart
Ambassador Austin urges Soviet good faith for peace
In the UN General Assembly Warren R. Austin urged the USSR to live and let live and act in good faith toward all peoples. Delegates discussed the Cominform attack on Yugoslav leader Tito as some viewed Austin's call as a potential reply to Moscow charges of Western war plans. Yugoslav delegate Toze Vilfan said the Cominform blast was not new.
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New York
U. 3
Warren R. Austin
Soviet Union
Lt. N. General Assembly
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Austin
United States
Britain
Cominform
Marshall Tito
I Toze Vilfan
Bisst
Moscow
Charleston Skies Weekly Planets and Moon Phases
The report notes a full moon near Raa Moonset on December 6 and Venus Jupiter visible in the southwest with Mars Saturn high in the southeast. Local forecasts predict fair, mostly sunny weather with mild conditions across Virginia and Kentucky through Wednesday.
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Raa
Venus
Jupiter
Mars
Saturn
Pest
Virginia
Rexinnel
Mit Kentucky
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