Turkeys, Tumbling Picks Spark Holiday Gridiron Parade
Oscar Fraley surveys a collage of Thanksgiving week football selections. Army edges Navy by two touchdowns while Michigan State and several powerhouses clash in bowls and classic matchups. From Notre Dame versus USC to Texas versus Texas A&M, the nation weighs in with bold forecasts and festive bets amid holiday excitement.
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NAACP to file more suits over Negro school facilities in Georgia
NAACP plans additional lawsuits challenging unequal educational facilities for Negro children in Georgia. Atlanta attorney A T Walden says petitions filed with county and city boards will evolve into federal court actions, with NAACP funding. Several petitions already lodged in Bulloch Greene Irwin and other counties, targeting transportation salaries buildings and teaching facilities as cases proceed toward court before Christmas. Gov. Talmadge has criticized the Irwin County suit and elicits a state deputy to defend the program. estimated cost to provide equal facilities ranges up to 100 to 200 million dollars.
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Bulloch and Greene
Ity
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Monroe
Spettle
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Missing transport plane hunted in Cascade Mountains
Portland AP reports an Air Force search gany scanned ridges north of the city for a four engine C54 transport missing with six men aboard. Ground teams from McChord Air Force Base checked logging camps and ranches as dark clouds hampered efforts. The aircraft was on a training flight from McChord Base and had asked to descend to 8000 feet.
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Tom Day
Cascade Mountain
Pacific
McChord Airy Force Base
Tacoma
Wash
Defense Takes Over Slit Counterfeiting Case Against Thomas
In Savannah Georgia the defense opened its case in the Alfred Paul Thomas counterfeiting trial after government testimony about a threatened arrest of a federal agent and about as much as two million dollars in bogus currency in circulation. Fred Shein testified he planned to move the cash to Europe for narcotics and jewels but the plan collapsed when some notes were stolen. Secret agents testified they used fifty six thousand dollars of the stolen money to trap Thomas. John J Sullivan, attorney for Thomas, allegedly threatened jail if personal papers were not returned. The judge and prosecutor noted the counterfeit money involved is part of a larger amount now circulating in the United States.
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U.S
Mississippi's Dottley Leads SE Rushing Marks
Atlanta UP report notes Mississippi back John Dottley tops Southeastern Conference rushing with 1086 yards on 198 attempts, while Vito Parilli leads in passing for Kentucky and Eddie Price of Tulane nears 1000-yard totals. The piece details leaders in total offense, rushing, and receiving as teams rest or push season totals.
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Unemployed Man Held in Attack Case in Red Lake Falls
Police held Raymond Dempsey, 25, unemployed, for questioning after Vivian Shannon identified him as the man who abducted and attacked her, leaving her for dead by a haystack near Shaystack. Shannon, recovering in a Crookston hospital, urged proof while Sheriff Prout said the search continues.
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Raymond Dempsey
Vivian Shannon
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Dempsey
Crookston
Noel J. Prout
Red Lake County
Minnesota
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Ny Dale
Rood Conea
Tung Oil Groups Seek 90 Percent Parity in Prices
Tung Growers Council of America and American Tung Oil Association pressed for price supports at 90 percent of parity for the 1949 50 crop. They argued 80 percent parity would yield $80 to $85 per ton for tung nuts, used in fast drying paints and varnishes, with China as key competition. A Gulfport meeting on December 2 will address 1949 60 crop price supports amid congressional debates.
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Representative Urges Franco Recognition in Spain
Representative James P. Richards urged U S recognition of Franco's Spain during a Winthrop College lecture. He argued the policy is inconsistent noting ambassadors to Tito and Stalin. The item also touches on geology and a dam fact section with assorted figures.
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Tito
Stalin
Georgia Trial Links Democratic Politics to Beating Case
In a federal trial in Rome Georgia 12 men face conspiracy charges for beating seven Black men. The defense argues politics sparked the case and claims government targeted the wrong 220 men. Jurors include individuals tied to the Ku Klux Klan and the defendants deny guilt. The prosecution says officers delivered the beaten men to a mob in Xan robes and stood by during the abuse, violating equal protection and due process.
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Mundy
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Psychiatrist Educated By Prussian Method Sparks Debate
In Benton Texas a psychiatrist testifying before Southern teachers defended the Prussian system of education, saying it shapes learners but leaves some marked by its methods. In Wichita Falls a federal judge instructed a jury to verdict of not guilty in a car theft case, but the foreman declared the defendant innocent.
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Southern Governors Fight Freight Rates Near Success
Southern Governors conference said it was near success in fighting discriminatory freight rates. Gov. J Strom Thurmond reported the group’s final 1948 session in Biloxi that a reply to the Interstate Commerce Commission had been filed to a Western railroads petition. He noted new forces supporting rate reductions amid competition from trucks barges and pipelines.
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Inter-State Commerce Commission
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