Fog Chokes Dixie As Warm Spell Persists In Southeast
Fog covers Dixie as a warm spell lingers across the region. Temperatures near 57 degrees yesterday noon, with highs in the sixties expected today. Forecasters warn of worsening fog, possible White Christmas hints, and travel hazards from Alabama to New Orleans, where airport operations and river traffic slowed.
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Tles
Mason-Dixon Ring
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Miami
Fla
Dixie
South
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Public Safety
Bankhead Bates
New Orleans
Mississippi
Strike Settled At Bull Shoals Dam Project
A year long strike against the Bull Shoals dam project in North Arkansas has ended. Joe Folsom, president of the Little Rock Fort Smith and Springfield AFL joint council, says union members who walked off December 3, 1948, will return tomorrow.
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Treass
Fort Smith
Ark
Bull *Shoals Dam
Arkansas
Joe Folsom
Little Rock, Fort Smith and
Springfield
AFL
Court to Rule on Law Curbing Union Picketing
Washington split over a statute banning peaceful picketing without direct employer employee ties. The Supreme Court agreed to hear three cases from Seattle and Bremerton. Unions argue the ban violates free speech while courts cited the labor dispute act and common law to halt picketing and award damages.
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Supreme Court
Ilegal
Seattle
AFL Teamsters Union
A ‘Eather Am Three Sons
W. L. Gazam
Enetai Imnary Bremerton
Building Service Employees Union
Partly cloudy to day then colder statewide
Weather report notes partly cloudy skies today and tomorrow with warmer conditions today, then a sharp drop in temperature tonight and tomorrow for the west and north. Winds shift strongly, highs projected around 60 to 70, lows tonight 15 to 20 northwest and 35 to 40 southeast.
Dawson Takes Fight to Court Over Welfare Board Seat
Charles J. Dawson, former federal judge, sought an injunction in federal court to force John L. Lewis to allow him to join the United Mine Workers welfare fund trustees board. Dawson, picked by major soft coal operators to represent them, claims Lewis blocked his seat on the three member panel after Ezra Van Horn’s resignation.
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Washington
Charles JT. Dawson
United Mine Workers Welfare Fund
John L. Lewis
Dawson
Louisville
Lewis
United “ Mine Workers
Dewson
Ezra van Horn
Denfeld Rejects Overseas Post in Bitter Letter
Admiral Louis EB Denfeld rejects a top overseas post as commander in chief of U S naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean in a bitter letter to Secretary Matthews. He cites undesired restraints and lack of confidence from foreign relations. he has not decided on retirement and hints at resignation after being ousted at Matthews request. The letter was made public by the Navy.
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Dec
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U.S
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Mediterranean
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Asnfeld
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Denfeld
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Carol Hill
House Armed Services Committee
Army
Air Force
Pentagon
Republic Steel Announces Four Percent Price Hike
Republic Steel Corp announced a roughly four percent increase in steel prices citing present and anticipated higher costs. United States Steel, the largest U.S. producer, raised prices by about four dollars per ton last week for the same reason. Republic is the nation’s third largest basic steel producer.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corporation
United States Steel, Corporation
Republic
Margaret Truman Plans New York Concert Romance in Life
Margaret Truman spoke to reporters about music being her great romance as she prepared for a Carnegie Hall concert. She dismissed talk of politics and noted plans for a Christmas Eve choir, a solo from Gianni Schicchi, Christmas carols with the Robert Shaw chorus, and a February to March concert tour from Richmond, Virginia to Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Margaret Truman
Carnegie Hall
Groucho Marx
White House
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Missouri
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United States
Trinity Episcopal Church
Independence
Margaret
O Rabbine Care
Gianni Sehleen
Pucaint
Robert Shaw
Broad Production Controls Seen After Near Record Crop
The Agriculture Department reports US crop production at 132 percent of the 1923-32 average, second only to last year’s peak. Large harvested acreage, near record corn, soybeans, and other crops prompt anticipated production controls next year to curb volume.
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Washington
United States
Agriculture Department
Death Lure Ultraviolet Rays Kill Corn Borers
USDA researchers J G Taylor and H L Deay announced at the winter meeting that ultraviolet lamps lure corn borers so moths fall into poison jars. Tests with mercury vapor ultraviolet germicidal fluorescent lamps reduced field borer populations by about 47 percent.
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Chicago
U. S. Department of Agriculture
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
J. G. Taylor
H. ©. Deay
Taylor
USDA
Deay
Purdue University
Joint plan outlines global military standardization effort
Washington reports that the United States Britain and Canada agreed to exchange detailed information on almost all military equipment to base a three nation standardization plan. The aim is interoperable weapons and supplies across tanks artillery planes ships ammunition communications and more. Separately William W Johnson pled not guilty to careless and reckless driving on Highway 50 and was released on bond awaiting court on January 4.
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Washington
Defense
U. S
Britain
Canada
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Ottawa
Defense Secretary
U.S
William W. Johnson
Highway 50
Sam James
Auto Club Not Opposed to Gas Tax Vote
The Automobile Club of Missouri says it supports holding a special election on April 4 for the gasoline tax increase but will oppose the increase bill itself. The club notes petitions with over 212,000 signatures refer the issue to voters, while a 1950 referendum set the November general election as the baseline. Governor Forrest Smith plans to attend the St Louis Ad Club Christmas party.
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ST. Louis
Automobile Club of Missouri
Smith
Forrest Smith
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Ad. Club
Truman to Act Soon on Top Appointments
President Truman nears decisions on four key posts after a Florida vacation. Possible picks include a new Atomic Energy chair, a new Economic Advisory Council head, a chairman for the National Securities Resources Board, and a special council for Clark Clifford as he enters private practice. Lilienthal may stay briefly. Nourse successor awaits Congress and the annual economic message.
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Key West
Fla
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David EB. Lilienthal
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Economic ‘Advisory Council
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Resources Board
National Securities Resources Board
Clark M. Clifford
Atomic Energy Post
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Nourse
Lilienthal
Congress
Pew
Jackson County Voter Registration Law Signed
Gov Forrest Smith signed a bill yesterday making Jackson county s permanent voter registration elective Jan 1 1952 The new law delays the effective date A law enacted earlier this year set the effective date as five weeks before the next state primary election Jerry Palmer shoots Christmas tree in Bridgeton Maine description of the accident is given with a rabbit hound training incident included
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Forrest Smith
Jackson County
Bridgeton
Jerry Palmer
Palmer
Santa Joins Police on Collision Scene in City
In a red suited, whiskered exit from a police car, Santa Claus appeared near a minor collision in the 200 block of Monrot as onlookers watched. He was escorted from the southside to Madison and High streets, then hurried to the designated spot where carols played while the crowd marveled at the delayed investigation.
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Monrot
Santa Claus
Santa
Madison
High Streets
Alger Hiss Denies Giving Secrets in Perjury Trial
Alger Hiss testifies for the second time this year denying he turned over State Department secrets to a pre war Soviet spy ring. He states the copies were not typed in his house and he does not know their origin as defense attorney presses on Whittaker Chambers’ claims of Hiss as courier.
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New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
Washington
America
Chambers
Say Ting
Chest Workers Continue Drive For Community Chest
Campaign officials reported the Community Chest total remains short of 346 739 by about 6 000. About 9 200 is in sight but not counted until collected. Remaining 8 00 and 5 200 will rely on hard work and follow ups with absent or unreachable donors. No date set for a final meeting to determine the result.
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Community Chest Campaign
Divorce Finding In Rhyme From Common Pleas Judge
HAMILTON OH Dec 19 AP Alfred Toomb of Middletown seeks divorce from Zula Keel Toomb of Jackson Michigan. Judge P P Bell entered a rhymed verdict noting the couple married in 1912 and separated in 1947. The verse mocks Al as weak in his case while describing Zula as long-suffering, with the court granting no relief to the petitioner.
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Alfred Toomp
Middletown
Zula Keel Toomb
Jackson
Mich
Common Pleas
P. P. Bell
Toomb
Alfred
Zta
Onte
Dan Cupid
Zula
Judas
Cage
Sit
Navy Antisub Warfare Centerpiece of Plan as Sub Fleet Grows
Reports that Russia may push to 750 1000 submarines by 1951 spurred the U S Navy to stress antisubmarine warfare as its top priority. Jane's estimates Saudi long range subs and three new battleships suggests a shift toward carriers and air power with Adm Forrest Sherman signaling carriers as the fleet's principal offensive striking element.
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United States Navy
Jate
Russia
Navy
Denfeld
Thas
Congress
Louis 5. Denfeld
Jane’s
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Jane's
U. S
Missouri
U. S. Navy
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Jfor
Seeeks To Avert Sw Bell Strike
The federal government moves tonight to avert a possible strike against Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Bargaining broke down at noon between the utility and CIO Communications Workers of America, representing about 50,000 Bell employees in six states. Southwestern Bell serves Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and part of Illinois. In 1947, employees went on strike for 41 days. Missouri later passed a law banning strikes in public utilities. Union vice president Frank P Lonergan says interstate workers could strike if they chose to do so under a strike vote.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Utility
CIO Communiccations Workers of America
Bell
Southwestern Bell
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Milnais
Frank P Lonergan
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Blackin" Schwamb
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