France approves new anti strike powers for Schuman
Paris December 6 after a 21 hour session the French senate passed Premier Robert Schuman s drastic new anti strike law by 217 to 82 it tightens penalties for sabotage and for inciting or maintaining strikes the measure, approved by the National Assembly, heads to President Auriol for signature and may take effect today or tomorrow police powers include potential use of firearms to defend against mobs as the government moves to curb communist influence and keep workers on the job.
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Paris
Robert Schumann
National Assembly
Vincent Auiol
Reali
France
Truman Arrives at Everglades City for Park Dedication
President Truman reached Everglades City Florida at 11 21 a m EST to help dedicate Everglades National Park. He was greeted by hundreds as about 100 Seminole Indians watched the ceremony and offered a colorful shirt but declined to grant him honorary tribal membership. He rested briefly at a nearby cottage before activities began.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Everglades City
Fla
Truman
Florida Everglades
Everglades National Park
Florida
150 Planes Search For Army Transport
More than 150 planes took off today in a last chance search for a U S Army C 47 transport missing eight days with 20 persons aboard. Air force officials fear all may have perished in bitter cold as the search widened to five countries including northern Italy, Switzerland, Austria, eastern and southern France and southwestern Germany. The plane vanished a week ago yesterday on a flight from Pisa to Frankfurt.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Air Force
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
France
Pisa
Business and industry hit fastest pace of year this week
Business and industry ran at peak pace this week while inflation fears kept markets tense. A sharp NYSE decline on Friday added to worry over rising prices and policy fights in Washington. Labor unrest appeared with CIO warning of a third wage increase in new contracts. Christmas shopping boosted department store sales as predictions held. See BUSINESS page 4
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Associated Press
Washington
New York Stock Exchange
CIO
Kills Wife Child And Inlaws In Squabble
Salvador de Los Santos a 40 year old Filipino and former American soldier was charged in NAMCY France with killing his French wife and three relatives after an argument over entering the home on St Nicholas Day. He surrendered to American authorities but was released to French police. The couple married in 1945 and an infant son died in the incident while another child survived hid under the table.
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Namcy
France
Salvador de Los Santos
Santos
U. S. Army
St. Nicholas Day
Santoses
Durocher Back as Dodgers Manager for 1947 Season
Brooklyn news confirms Leo Durocher’s contract as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers was extended for one season. Burt Shotton named supervisor of the club’s 26 farm system managers as Branch Rickey Jr. announced the deal at a press conference.
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Jack Hand
Brooklyn
Leo Durocher
Brooklyn Dodgers
National Baseball League
Burt Shotton
Durocher
Dodger
Branch Rickey, Jr
Dodgers
Death by own action follows son's death
Mrs. Lena May Wartnik, a divorced woman from Toluca Lake near Los Angeles, was found dead in a Hermosa Beach hotel in an apparent suicide, shortly after her 11 month old son was found strangled at her home. A note beside her body read I want to be buried with my baby in my arm.
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Lena May Wartnik
Toluca Lake District
Los Angeles
Hermosa Beach
Conant Talks Trade Group On Congressional Bulletins
Paul Conant national affairs advisor for the United States Chamber of Commerce met yesterday evening with Taylor County Board of Trade members to discuss pamphlets highlighting congressional activity. He noted materials such as Congressional Highlights and Bill Digest 80th Congress and urged business leaders to engage lawmakers, urging the local board to stay informed and to contact their congressman and senators on local matters.
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Paul Conant
United States Chamber of Commerce
Taylor County Board of Trade
United States Chamber
Ball-Byrd
Conant
Washington
Board of Trade
Conant Base
Young Mother Is Killed By Unknown Person in Jeannette
In Jeannette Pennsylvania a 25 year old mother Frances C Robinson was shot twice by an unidentified assailant near a playground and died at Westmoreland Hospital Greensburg from abdominal and head wounds. She leaves an 18 month old son. Her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Capone live on 627 South Sixth Street Jeannette.
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Jeannette
Frances C. Robinson
Frank Capone
South Sixth Street
Communists Demand Italians Gov't End Police Violence
Communist Rome workers present a three day ultimatum to Premier de Gasperi and Interior Minister Scelba demanding employment gains and punishment for police who fired on civilians during bloody clashes at Rome gates. The Provincial Committee of Congress and Internal Commissions leads the effort, vowing to direct labor battles in Rome.
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Rome
Congress of Management
Primevale
Sum
L'Unita
Keneckiel
Alcide de Gasperi
Mario Scelba
Italy
Salvator Rebecchini
Avanti
Commies
Three Jews killed as violence flares in Palestine border area
In the Jerusalem border zone between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, three Jews died as clashes erupted. Hagana accused police of firing armored cars into Jewish homes, killing a child and wounding a woman, while one Hagana member was killed by British troops. The death toll since partition rose to 27 Jews, 23 Arabs, and two Armenians.
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Jerusalem
Jese
Aral Jaffa
Tel Aviv
Hagna
Palestine Police
Hagana
Hatizvah
Yaroth
Dewich
Telviv
Palestine
United Nations
Holy Land
Jacob Shhiff
Hagan
Weather Hits 62 Degree High at Brownlow Park
Yesterday registered 62 degrees at the government weather observ er's station in Brownlow Park the warmest since November 5. Tonight's forecast calls for colder air with a rise in temperature expected tomorrow. Last night’s low stood at 36 degrees and the 10:45 am reading was 37.
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Government Weather Observer
Brownlow Park
Records Moved From West Virginia Draft Boards to Charleston
Charleston officials announce the transport of about 200000 pounds of draft records from 90 WV draft boards to Charleston for permanent storage. Director Carleton C. Pierce says a low bid of 2925 dollars from Mathews Storage Co. received National headquarters approval and aims to complete the project by year end. Leases for offices where records were kept have been cancelled effective December 31.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Carleton C. Pierce
State Office of Selective Service Records
Mathews Storage Company
National Headquarters —of Selective —Service
Pierce
Conductor hides two families for 22 years in Chicago
Chicago reports that Thom as Lawrence Foley a 60 year old railroad conductor kept a secret from his two wives for 22 years. Neither knew he supported two families a couple of miles apart in the northwest. Foley’s second wife revealed in a divorce suit that she learned of another wife and family after discovering another name. He appeared in circuit court on her writ to prevent him from leaving the state and was released on a $5 000 bond.
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Chicago
Thomas Lawrence Foley
Foley
Fotey
Lee Conductor
Nage
Revercomb Speaks In Fairmont This Evening
In Fairmont on December 6 the executive committee of the State Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs convened with Senator Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia and leaders including Mrs Frances Ogden Stubblefield and Mrs E Wyatt Payne scheduled to speak at a banquet hosted by the Marion County GOP Women’s Club.
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Fairmont
Chapman Revercomb
R.-W. Va
Republican Party
West Virginia
Te State Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs
Revercomb
Frances Ogden Stubblefield
National Committee
E. Wyatt Payne
Huntington
Federation
Marion County
GOP
Partitioning of Germany Indicates Split Among Allies
London report details ongoing division as Russia and the western powers clash over German unity. Marshall demands concrete terms for unification and the removal of zonal boundaries while Molotov accuses Britain and the United States of breaking Potsdam reparations and hindering western zone recovery.
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John M. Hightower
London
Germany
Russia
Foreign Ministers Council
France
Britain
United States
U. S
George C. Marshall
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Ito
Marshall
Commerce
William Averell Harriman
West Virginians lose 3982 driving permits this year
Charleston reports 3982 West Virginia drivers had permits revoked or suspended this year, with 233 added to the list in November per Motor Vehicles Commissioner Don McClaugherty.
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Charleston
West
Mother and baby perish in Roxbury fire
Roxbury Maine December 6 Mrs Charles Greenwood 27 and her nine month old daughter Mabel died in a blaze that destroyed their home. The mother tossed two other children Martha and Margaret to her uncle Carl Shatney from an upstairs window before dying. Martha suffered minor burns. Shatney was awakened by cries and could not enter the burning house.
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Roxbury
Charles Greenwood
Mabel
Shatney
Congress to pass foreign aid bill by next weekend
Washington dispatch reports congressional leaders intend to send the European winter aid bill to President Truman by the end of next week. The Senate backs the $597,000,000 request, while House members push amendments to reduce the sum. Final Senate action set for Tuesday, then House-Senate conference to reconcile differences. Lovett claims French and Italian strikes show Soviet influence and urges full funding.
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Washington
Truman
House
Senate
France
Italy
Austria
House-Senate
Robert A. Lovett
Senate Appropriations Committee
Decker And Dotson Attend Conference In Clarksburg
City Manager Curtis D. Decker and Mayor Russell G. Dotson attended the West Virginia Municipal League conference in Clarksburg at the Stonewall Jackson hotel. Mayors and city managers from most state cities gathered to discuss a retirement system for municipal employees as the principal topic.
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Curtis D. Decker
Russell G. Dotson
West Virginia Municipal League
Clarksburg
Stonewall Jackson Hotel
Nighttime Burglary Youth Sentenced to 20 Years
In Walters Oklahoma an 18 year old Bill Bennett received a total 20 year sentence after pleading guilty to hardware burglary and related offenses. Judge Floyd Jackson ordered five years for the spring break in and fifteen more for burglaries committed while in jail. Bennett’s prior lawyer Gordon Coker had arranged a prior release.
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Sociey
Bennett
Gordon Coker
Coker
Boyd Vantine
Pilot and mechanic killed in Grask near Wellsburg
Airmail crash four miles east of Wellsburg killed pilot Capt. Thomas Bryan 32 of Pittsburgh and flight mechanic Berger Bechtel 24 of Johnstown. The All-American Aviation CT-18 twin aircraft crashed after a mail pickup on the Hensler farm. Both men were thrown clear. mail recovered. gasoline jettisoned to regain altitude before impact.
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Wellsburg
Here
Pittsburgh
Thomas Bryan
Berger Bechtel
Johnstown
Earl Smith
Franklin
Hensler
Smith
H. R. Bazley
All-American
Bazley
Pittsburon
Cincinnati
Commander Convene Charleston Training Conference
Commander and adjutants of American Legion posts across the state will gather in Charleston on Sunday for a one day training conference, Department Adjutant C A Tesch said.
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Charleston
Dre
American Legion
Elkins
C. A. Tesch
Highways Slippery From Sleet and Rain in West Virginia
A sleet and freezing rain layer covered northern West Virginia mountains early today making highways slick and prompting chains in spots. Cinder crews treated sites around Aurora Terra Alta Elkins Parsons with routes 33 250 219 7 50 and 169 noted as very slippery. Temperatures ranged from 29 at Aurora to 83 in Clarksburg and Kingwood as conditions potentially worsen.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Road Commission
Information Bureau
Aurora
Terra Alta
Elkins
Parsons
U. S
Clarksburg
Kingwood
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