Seven dead as Alaska Airways DC-4 overruns Seattle runway
A four engine Alaska Airlines DC-4 overshot a Seattle Tacoma airport runway while attempting to land in fog, crashing into a passing car and killing seven. Ten others are critically injured. survivors credit stewardess Reba Kong with guiding passengers to safety as rescue teams battled flames.
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Renton
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Civil Aeronautics Administration
Arabs Call Three Day Strike Over UN Palestine Partition
Arab higher executive in Jerusalem called for a three day general strike across the Holy Land starting tomorrow to protest the UN partition decision. The move follows violence that killed at least seven Jews and calls for intensified boycott of Jewish goods. Police boosted patrols as Jews and Arabs were warned to stay clear of each other areas.
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Senate Near Vote On European Relief Plan
The Senate moved toward a decision on a 597 million dollar European relief bill. Senator Edwin C. Johnson urged the Rules Committee to review a 232 million dollar food supplies account, noting about 100 million of 332 million made available in May had been spent aiding Italy Austria and Trieste. He warned against overloading American supplies while winter needs loom.
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President Truman to Visit Key West for Everglades Ceremony
President Truman will depart at 8 a m Wednesday for Key West Florida where he will speak 10 to 15 minutes around 2 30 p m on Saturday at a ceremony related to the Everglades National Park. The event is to take place in Everglades City Florida with remarks from the president.
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Truman
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Everglades
Royall Says He Won't Quit Soon Enough For Governor Bid
Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall declares in a memorandum that he cannot resign in time to run for North Carolina governor. He explains his current duties and future tasks in service to the national military establishment prevent his candidacy, thanks supporters, and asks friends to pursue other commitments.
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Kenneth Royall
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Dangers of Adulterated Foods Warned by Tokyo Lab
Tokyo reports the Metropolitan hygienic laboratory warns that some Japanese processors produce soy sauce laced with arsenic and vinegar spiked with acetic acid. Findings also include ketchup weighed with flour cake and bread and ricecakes bound with alum solution.
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Metropolitan Hygienic Laboratory
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Three Injured In Crash On Susquehanna River Bridge
Three people were injured when a tractor trailer and an automobile crashed and burned on the Susquehanna River bridge during the early hours. The car occupants, a young Black man and woman, were unconscious nine hours after the collision and had not yet been identified by Harford Memorial Hospital.
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Mrs. Lamarre To Tell Her Side In Grand Jury
The Lamarres and T. E. Readnover were subpoenaed to appear before a Federal grand jury in Dayton Ohio as part of the Meyers wartime aviation case. Attorney General Clark plans charges of perjury income tax evasion and war fraud against Maj. Gen. Bennett E Meyers. Truman vows to clean house on pensions amid investigations.
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Fire Rips Through Philadelphia Home for Old Men
Flames swept a four story Volunteers of America building in Philadelphia leaving six dead and about 38 injured. Dozens of homeless men, many elderly, leaped to escape as firefighters battled subfreezing water from hoses that froze to walls. Ten or more were still missing hours after the blaze was controlled.
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GOP Presses For Laws On Anti Lynching
Senator Hawkes of New Jersey says the GOP will push federal anti lynching legislation in 1948 with fines up to 5000 and five years in prison for officials who fail to protect individuals. The measure is supported by GOP leaders and faces past Senate filibusters. Six lynchings were recorded in 1946.
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Harriman Warns Price-Wage Freeze May Be Needed
Secretary of Commerce Harriman told the House Banking Committee that a general price and wage freeze could follow unless authority is granted now for selective controls and rationing. He urged preparing a program to avoid hasty action later and supported the 10 point anti inflation program.
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Eleven Die Over Weekend In North Carolina
At least 11 people died violently in North Carolina over the weekend. Six Lincoln County Negroes drowned when their car overturned in a creek near Lincolnton. Willie Kirksey, 33, of Bolton, died in an overturned car near Holly Ridge. A Charlotte Negro is charged with a shotgun killing of another Negro. Foy A. Osborne, a Greensboro prisoner at Sandy Ridge camp, died in hospital after reportedly throwing himself in front of a truck. Two young Franklin County Negroes died in an automobile crash between Bunn and Wake Forest.
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Babysitter Grieves Loss After Fire Tragedy in Brewerton
In Brewerton New York a 14 year old babysitter grievingly recalls the moment she saved seven month old Ida Amil and Floyd Jr but forgot two year old Lyle Frye during a house fire that claimed his life. She rescued three other Frye children and alerted neighbors and firefighters.
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Paris Subways Halt as CGT Defies Strike Law
Paris subway service stopped when power was cut to strikers as CGT leaders defied government anti strike legislation. Gas pressure surged in the capital and strikes spread to Nice Marseille and Cannes amid a government push for extraordinary powers.
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Judge Warfick to rule on CIO picketing order at Amazon Mills
Greensboro December 1 Judge Wilson Warfick is to rule this afternoon on whether a temporary order restraining CIO Textile Workers union members from mass picketing the Amazon Cotton mills in Thomasville should stay in force.
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Wilson Warfick
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Congress Grounds Overhaul Wage Hour Law
Congress moves toward a broad election year revision of the wage hour law that created the 40 hour week and 40 cent minimum for interstate workers. Business and labor clash over minimums and exemptions as a bill is expected next year with debate on floor guarantees and overtime rules.
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UN chief Lie to convene aides on Palestine partition decision
Trygve Lie, secretary general of the United Nations, summoned top aides for a late meeting to discuss issues arising from the General Assembly's Palestine partition decision. Officials said a key topic was whether the Security Council should be summoned for reports on disorders sparked in the Holy Land by the petition decision.
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Violence flares as Arab and Jewish casualties rise in Palestine
Authorities report multiple Jewish and Arab deaths amid bus shootings and grenade attacks around Jaffa and Tel Aviv as six Arab delegations walk out in protest of the Palestine partition vote. The UN assembly sees renewed clashes after a minority factions challenge.
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Marshall Sets To Present Proposals
Secretary of State George C. Marshall and aides prepared to submit to the Big Four foreign ministers council proposals for unifying Germany and creating a central German government. American informants expect a plan to remove zonal barriers, establish a provisional administration, draft a constitution, and hold elections before a full government.
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