Former Army Officer Claims Reds Hid U.S. Secrets
A wartime captain, G Racey Jordan, told radio that Russians with diplomatic immunity hauled home broad secret U. S. documents and A-bomb materials during World War II. He cited confiscated rope-bound cases, carbon copies marked secret, a White House letter with Harry Hopkins on stationary, and Hopkins urging secrecy.
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Washington
U. S
G. Racey Jordan
Russia
Fulton Lewis Jr
U.S
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Jordan
Great Falls
Mont
Fairbanks
Alaska
State Department
White House
Groves
Leslie Groves
Hopkins
Superior
Fire Destroys OU Dormitory. Three Die As Inferno Rages
A two story wooden dormitory on the University of Oklahoma campus burned in the early hours, killing at least three students and injuring 19, two critically. About 300 residents escaped as the Navy barracks building, built in 1941 for wartime use, suffered $500000 in damage.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
Navy
George Cross
David M. Clary
Buckner
Ark
John H. Sorensen
Brooklyn
N. Y
University
New England Snow Blanket Widespread
The weather summary reports light snow in southern New England with seven inches at Hartford Conn and no major precipitation elsewhere. Temperatures are seasonable and another round of snow is not expected soon.
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New England
Chicago
the Weatherman
Hartford
Conn
FHA says new housing policy will cause little change
Washington reports quote Franklin D. Richards saying the plan to deny federal guarantees on mortgages for properties with racial or religious restrictive covenants will apply only in exceptional cases. He notes past covenants remain unaffected and most dwellings remain eligible for FHA financing despite the new rule.
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Washington
Franklin D. Richards
Federal Housing Administration
Philip B. Perlman
Truman
Perlman
New York
Richards
FHA
Government of
First mimeographed Communist Student Bulletin circulated
Chapel Hill December 3 A mimeographed newsletter called the communist student bulletin circulated in North and South Carolina mailed from Chapel Hill to about 500 recipients Hans Freistadt UNC graduate student listed as editor and district communist party publisher Freistadt says the issue may appear monthly He is identified as a communist and previously held an atomic energy commission fellowship at UNC but was not renewed after political disclosures and was dropped as a part time instructor.
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Chapel Hill
Communist Student Bulletin
North Carolina
South Carolina
Hans Freistadt
University of North Carolina
Carolina
Communist Party
Freistadt
Coal Welfare Fund Spent Sparks Dispute Over Trustees
Former Federal Judge Charles I Dawson says fund money spent by trustees is at their peril as he and Senator SUM vote to cut emergency payments. John L. Lewis denies the Dawson vote and UMW stance, while the fund remains two months behind in hospital emergency payments amid stalled coal contract talks with operators.
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Washington
Charles I Dawson
John L. Lewis
Coal Miners Welfare Fund
Dawson
Lewis
Coal Oper
Sum
Sena
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
Bridges
Three Officers Draw Sentences In Wayne Superior Court
In Goldsboro on December 3 three former Wayne law officers and a former drivers license examiner were sentenced by Judge Walter J. Bone. Joe Johnson and Charlie Barwick received nine months each while Bob Ward got four months. Indictments charged highway robbery and assault as Sally Sauls testified he lost 80 dollars during his arrest for careless driving. All three appealed to the state supreme court.
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Goldsboro
Wayne Law
Wayne Superior Court
Walter J. Bone
Nashville
Joe Johnson
Mount Olive
Charlie Barwick
ABC
Lenoir County
Bob Ward
Sally Sauls
Superior Court
State Supreme Court
Truman Plans Strong Civil Rights push in State of the Union
President Truman moves to ask Congress for a broad civil rights program and anti discrimination housing measures. The White House endorses Perlman guidance that federal aid could be blocked for housing projects with racial or creed based clauses. The state of the union message will include a federal anti lynching law repeal of poll tax and broader bans on discrimination. Clark Clifford assists, preparing the final draft.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Congress
White House
Philip 8. Perlman
New York
Clark M. Clifford
Clifford
Washington
South
Philip Perlman
Disappearance Of Girl Aboard Orcades Deepens Mystery
Gwen Joix McCallard 20 from Sydney vanished after Oct 30 on the Orient liner Orcades en route from Sydney to Melbourne. Briton Alister Cameron reported a withered red rose and ash tray of cigarette stubs in her cabin, with the missing pajamas lent by him as the only item absent. Police investigate death by disappearance as ship officers search for clues.
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London
Gwenjoix McCallard
Sydney
Australia
Melbourne
Ministry of Transport
Gwenda
Alister
Cameron
Fiji
Miss McCallum
Pensions for Everybody Probable Says Clague
Washington December 3 The government's labor statistics chief Ewan Clague said pensions for all seem likely as the old and near old form half the voting population. He urged expanding the social security program and said industry pensions can supplement but not replace public security.
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Clague
Washington
Ewan Clague
Labor Statistics
Barkley Sees Democrats Roa d to 1952 Victory at Dinner
Vice President Alben W. Barkley urged 2,600 party leaders at the Waldorf Astoria in New York raising 400000 for the Democratic War Chest. He forecast a 1952 presidential win and mocked Republican critics while outlining the party program. Six cabinet members 14 governors and nearly a dozen senators attended the Jefferson Day dinner. Barkley spoke after interrupting his Georgia honeymoon. his bride of two weeks Mrs Carleton S Hadley sat beside him.
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New York
Alben W. Barkley
Veep
Waldorf-Astoria
Barkley
America
Uncle Sam
Capitol
Democratic National Committee
Georgia
Carleton S. Hadley
St. Louis
Mayor of Aue Flees West Over Drafted Miners
Berlin report says Johannes Heinz mayor of Aue in the Soviet zone fled to the west after refusing to relocate residents to house newly drafted miners. Aue, a uranium mining center in southeast Germany, sits in a district linked to materials for the Soviet atomic program. He fled when Russians ordered a forced housing program. source beyond Telegraf remains unclear.
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Berlin
Aue
Telegraf
Germany
Johannes Heinz
Christian Democrat Party
Fraser to Resign As Prime Minister Soon
Official sources report Prime Minister Peter Fraser will resign on Wednesday after Labour lost its parliamentary majority in the general elections Fraser will be succeeded by Sidney Holland leader of the National Party who won 46 of 80 seats in the lower house The nationalists vow lighter government controls and taxes.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Peter Fraser
Fraser
Labor Party
Sidney George Holland
Nationalist Party
Naonalists
Aberdeen grammar school burns. call for student accommodations
The Aberdeen grammar school, built in 1913, burned at 5 a.m. today. The two story brick building housed 12 rooms. Origin of the fire was not immediately determined. The school board scheduled a meeting to arrange temporary accommodations for students.
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Aberdeen
Aberdeen Grammar School
China Acting President Li Tsung Jen to Visit United States
Li Tsung Jen acting president of China has secured a state department approved trip to the United States for private reasons. He will depart from Hong Kong Monday with a 12 member party and arrive in San Francisco Tuesday aboard a Pan American plane.
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Hong Kong
China
Li Tsung-Jen
United States
State Department
Chiang Wai-shek
Chengtu
Chiang
San Francisco
Bus Official Shot At Home Amid City Cab Strike
James W. Burns, stockholder and auditor of Safe Bus, said three shots hit his Winston-Salem home last night during a strike by cab drivers seeking union recognition. No one was hurt. bullets came from a .32 caliber automatic pistol.
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Winston-Salem
James W. Burns
Safe Bus Company
Burns
Three Armed Convicts Still Elude Officers
Six armed and dangerous convicts escaped from a Northampton county road gang. Three of the six surrendered near Franklin Virginia after being spotted with prison uniforms. Names identified include Glenn Albert Chase Norman Outlaw and George Martin Stanley. Remaining fugitives are John Hookano David E Stevenson and Stanley Wydaszek.
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Raleigh
Northampton County
Franklin
J. G. Sawyer
Kyle Matthews
Virginia
Sawyer
Matthews
Glenn Albert Chase
Williamston
Norman Outlaw
Tyner
George Martin Stanley
High Point
John Hookano
Fayetteville
David E. Stephenson
Greensboro
Stanley Wydaszek
Wilmington
Federal Tax Collections in North Carolina Decline
Federal tax receipts in North Carolina dropped by 3,263,490 last month from November 1948. Collections reached 80,044,184.64 compared with 83,307,673.38 the prior November. For the first five months of the fiscal year, receipts are down 6,598,271.01, totaling 453,051,819.75 through November 30, 1948, versus 459,650,090.76 from July through November 1948.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Internal Revenue Bureau
State Office
Uncle Sam
Supreme Court Overturns Sharp On Minor Daughters Case
The North Carolina Supreme Court overturned Judge Susie Sharp’s ruling that two minor daughters had a right to sue the man who led their mother astray. The majority held such rights exist only in the husband, reflecting old common law. Justice Seawell wrote a dissent with Justice Erwin concurring.
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Susie Sharp
Supreme
Sharp
Superior Court
High Court
Justice Seawell
Justice Erwin
Justice Barnhill
Erupting Mount Etna Pushes Ten New Craters Open
Lava from Etna threatens Maletto and Bronte as at least ten openings act as safety vents. Fire blazes from the main crater, earthquakes rumble, and villagers monitor advancing lava that scorches orchards and destroys farmhouses with no casualties reported.
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Catania
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Maletto
Etna
Bronte
Europe
Chiaxazza
Giardinazzo
New Insurance Rates Okayed by State Department of Insurance
The North Carolina Department of Insurance approved new fire insurance rate reductions saving Tar Heel policyholders about 1.47 million annually. Net reductions totaling 1.19 million were proposed by the rating bureau with no cancellations or rewrites before the effective date. Major cuts include farm property 495,603 and residential property 355,074, while some increases affect metal works and theatres.
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Raleigh
State Department of Insurance
N. C
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Oklas
Iremen
Coal
Mount Etna
Roy Bean
Pecos County
Texas
David Meeker
Meeker
Detroit
Machinery and Allied Products Institute
Changtu
Kunming
Chungking
Capitol Square
Lynn Nisbet
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