Reuther elected CIO President. plans tough labor program
Atlantic City reports Walter P. Reuther, head of the CIO Auto Workers Union, was elected president and vowed to press for maximum gains for organized workers and to organize non union workers. Allan S. Haywood was re elected as executive vice president. Reuther pledged unity and spoke on foreign policy politics and union affairs. He noted his $11 250 annual salary and said he works for the movement, not the pay.
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Atlantic City
N. J
CIO
Walter P. Reuther
America
Reuther
Philip Murray
CIO Auto Workers
Allan S. Haywood
Haywood
Union League Clubs of America
Auto Workers Union
Wood
CSO
Rains Send River Out Of Its Banks
Rains soak the region as Sabine River overflows in Arkansas causing $75,000 damage to South Central Bible College in Ozark Luthia. About 25 dormitory residents rescued by boat as flooding spreads across the area. Tornado injures three near Trinity Texas.
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Mississipp Valley
Gulf States
Sabine River
Arkansas
Texas
South Central Bible College
Ozark-Luthia
Ark
Trinity
Tex
Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ohio
Kentucky
Appalachian Mountain
Pennsylvania
New York
Pacific Northwest
Democrats Agree to Pull Punches For the Present
Washington reports that President Truman and Governor Stevenson agreed that Democrats should refrain from criticizing the Eisenhower administration while it settles in. They also said Stephen A. Mitchell will remain as DNC chair. Stevenson departed the White House after a two day visit ending with a farewell dinner for the Trumans and other guests.
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Washington
Truman
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
White House
Mitchell
Stephen A. Mitchell
Stevenson
Democratic National Committee
Executive Mansion
Bringfield, Til
The
Pital
Air Force
Thomas K. Finletter
Mr. Truman
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Martin P. Durkin
Tax Evasion Trial Continues In Charlotte
In Charlotte a federal income tax evasion case proceeds with witnesses stating they faced no intimidation by IRS agents. Defendants E M Beaty Keith Beaty and Cliff Passons face charges of unreported taxes from 1945 to 1947 and alleged related criminal activity including black market operations and a fixed baseball game.
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Charlotte
Beaty
E. M. Beaty
Keith Beaty
Cliff Passons
Beatys
Federal Internal Revenue
W. M. Nicholson
Tice
Dist. Atty
Thomas A. Uzzell
Charlotte Police Dept
Will Passons
Nicholson
Gregg Cherry
Gastonia
Carlisle Higgins
Winston-Salem
Asst. U
Francis Fairley Jr
J. B. Craven
Morganton
Uzzell
New Leader Takes Over Wage Board
A new chairman, Charles C. Killingsworth, takes over the Wage Stabilization Board as industry members threaten a walkout over the coal wage decision. The six industry members have boycotted sessions since the $1.90 miners’ wage increase, leaving the board struggling to function and facing potential collapse of price controls.
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Washington
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman
Charles C. Killingsworth
Archibald Cox
White House
John L. Lewis
Cox
Killingsworth
Michigan State College
E.S.T
Elmer E. Walker
Walker
AFL Machinists Union
a_ tripartite
Mob Rule and Theft Tied to New York Waterfront
New York crime hearings reveal mob influenced payroll padding and theft on the waterfront. Witnesses say Grace Line used phantom workers and payoffs to prevent labor unrest, with ex-convicts and public figures implicated in graft and strike suppression.
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New York
State Crime Commission
UNC Presbyterians face Sunday meeting over resignations
Chapel Hill reports mounting support for the pastor and 22 elders and deacons who refused to resign at the request of the Orange Presbytery. An official response is expected at a general meeting Sunday afternoon as churchmen prepare a statement.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Presbyterian Church
Orange Presbytery
Veterans mass meetings push state veterans bonus plan
Nashville opened the month with the first of 11 meetings led by Andrew Del Vescovo to promote a state wide veterans bonus. The plan would grant 15 dollars a month for stateside service up to 500 and 20 dollars a month for overseas service up to 750 with next of kin benefits.
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Nashville
Andrew del Vescovo
Amvet
Korea
National Guard unit to be reorganized next month
Greenville unit of the National Guard will be reorganized and federally recognized on January 23, marking two years since the battery was called into federal service. Lt. Franklin P. Redmond announced the pending recognition.
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Greenville
Weather forecast with tonight and tomorrow temperatures
Tonight set to drop to 40 degrees with a 50 degree high tomorrow. Today's high reached 45 while last night’s low was 40. Sunset is at 5 06 p m and sunrise tomorrow at 7 16 a m.
Lodge Asks FBI Check Of Record
Washington Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr says he has asked the FBI to review his record to set an example for U N cooperation. He notes nine U N employees may be fired over loyalty tests and urges ongoing investigations into alleged subversive activity within the U N staff. Ferguson urges renewal of the Senate Internal Security subcommittee to probe State Department approvals of loyalless appointments and lingering security warnings.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
United Nations
Eisenhower
FBI
World Organization
Lodge
U.N
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Homer Ferguson
R-Miech
Subcommittee
New York
International Secretariat
U.N. Organization
U. S. Diplomatic Service
Army
Ferguson
Congress
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Herbert Brownell Jr
Brownell
New York Land
State Department
Planes Hit Front as UN Forces Press Korea Fight
US and UN forces claim little front activity as sub zero weather limits action. A raid on a Chinese outpost yields about 58 Reds killed. Spotters report 31 bunkers hit while South Koreans hold Sniper Ridge. Okinawa-based B 29s bomb Cholsan supply center near Manchuria.
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Seoul
U. N
North
U.N
Cholsan
Korea
Manchuria
Tobacco prices rise in Raleigh and Virginia markets
Flue cured tobacco prices advanced yesterday in Raleigh North Carolina and Virginia markets per the Federal State Market News Service. Old Belt prices ranged steady to 3 per hundred pounds higher than Wednesday with mixed trades and overall quality noted amid rising averages.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Virinia
Federal State Market News Service
Old Belt
Eisenhower Tours Korea Sees War Front and Rhee
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower spent three days in Korea assessing the war situation. He toured front lines, met with General officers and troops from U N units, Britain, France, Canada and others, and held a hastily arranged conference with President Syngman Rhee before departing for the United States. He urged caution on widening the war and said no panaceas exist, promising to study all he had learned on return. His son John Eisenhower accompanied him as aide.
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Don Whitehead
Seoul
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Red China
Eisenhower
Synghman Rhee
South Korea
Rhee
Asia
Eighth Army
Europe
Redina
Korea
Republic of Korea
ROK
Britain
France
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Thai
Philippines
Sabre
U. S. First Corps
United Nations
Maj
John Eisenhower
Young Eisenhower
U. S. Third Infantry Division
Omar Bradley
Navy
Pacific
Adm
Arthur Radford
Far East
Mark Clark
James A. van Fleet
Eisenhower Secrecy Marks Korea Mission Departure
Report details Eisenhower and Defense Secretary Charles Wilson slipping from New York at 5 30 a m on November 29 to board air force transports toward Mitchel Field and a Korea mission, with reporters and photographers quietly gathering for the clandestine departure.
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Don Whitehead
Eisenhower
Morningside Heights
New York City
Mienousing
U. S
Secret Service
Edward Green
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
Mitchel Field
Air Force Base
Long Island
Air Force
Defense
Charlies E. Wilson
Waldorf Hotel
58Th St
Fifth Ave
General Motors Corp
Pennsylvania Station
Don Whitehead's Long Beat Through War and Korea
The narrative honors Associated Press reporter Don Whitehead, a Pulitzer Prize winner who covered major wars and campaigns from North Africa and Sicily to D-Day Normandy and the Rhine breakout, and later the Inchon landing and 1952 presidential race with Eisenhower.
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Whitehead
Eisenhower
North Africa
Afrika Korps
Sates E 8Auatton
Sicily
Normandy
English Channel
Bater
Inchon
Douglas MaceArthur
Han River
Seoul
Han
Korea
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Democratic Peasant
Pa Taws
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AFL International Longshoremen's Association
TILA
Grace Line
14Th Street
Joseph P. Ryan
ILA
John Scanlon
United States Lines
Brevard
Dewey Lance
Transylvania County
Myrtle Lance
Kings Creek
Bert Freeman
American College of Physicians
T. Grier Miller
Philadelphia
Statesville
Veterans Meet
Kerr Scott
New Bern
Trent River
Scott
Highway Commission
Henry Jordan
Weather Bureaun
Asheville
Atlanta
Boston
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Bam
Antonio
Dwight Eisenhower
Associated Press
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