Paris CGT strike falters as transport workers back off
In Paris the CGT led two day subway and bus strikes failed to solidify as government offices stay open and transport officials call the stoppage null. Transport chaos subsided after union leaders rejected Premier Schuman's cost of living offer while funeral traffic slowed subway services.
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Louis Retains Heavyweight Title After Scoring Review
Eddie Eagan declined to intervene as the decision stood in Louis versus Walcott. Walcott and manager Joe Webster protested the judging by Frank Forbes who ruled Louis won on rounds eight to six with one even, yet named Walcott the winner on a points basis 12 to 9 and Louis again on the back of the card.
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Weather in North Carolina Turns Clear After Showers
Showers in the state today and coastal areas tonight give way to clearing skies and continued warmth today, with colder conditions tonight especially in the western regions. Tuesday brings fair and colder weather as readings dip. Wilmington and Raleigh report readings in the upper 50s to mid 60s with varying rainfall totals across the nation.
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Diplomatic row over Romania searches of U S officials
Senator Knowland charged Romanian secret police searched U S diplomatic and military homes and cars in Romania during an overseas trip. He cited a captain's home search amid a wife expecting a child, a car with an American flag halted and Ferguson questioned at gun point, and further searches of a sergeant and a lieutenant.
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United States
Knowand
Ferguson
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South Carolina Will Get Big Rayon Plant
Deering Milliken of New York to start a rayon weaving mill in Anderson county between Boscobel Lake and Pendleton. The $4 million plant will open next summer with 400 jobs and an annual payroll around $1.25 million. It will occupy 325 acres one mile south of Pendleton and use new filament rayon cloth machinery.
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Connally Voices Support for Inter American Defense Treaty
Senator Connally urged ratification of the Rio de Janeiro produced inter American defense treaty calling it a safeguard against alien influence and aggression in the hemisphere. He said it upholds the Monroe Doctrine and guarantees liberties of Western states while promoting world peace.
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Demonstration in Rome by thousands of red partisans
Thousands of partisans in red regalia paraded through Rome in a four mile march to the tomb of the unknown soldier and the graves of 335 Italians executed by the Nazis. About 60,000 gathered at the tomb as 1,400 delegates joined the procession in a display of postwar resistance unity.
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Swedish Subjects Pay Honor To King
King Gustaf V and his subjects observed the 40th anniversary of his accession to the throne. Crowds gathered around the royal palace in Stockholm to glimpse the 89 year old monarch as he rode to the cathedral for a thanksgiving service.
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Showdown Looms as Big Four Meet Molotov Demands
London dispatch reports the big four foreign ministers entering a climactic week over Germany's future and German economic unity. Molotov names Soviet demands including 10 billion dollars in reparations and repeal of the US British economic merger as price for agreement.
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Georges Bidault
Ernest Bevin
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Unclear France Role in German Occupation Zone
Dulles seeks clarity in Paris on how far France would expand its occupation zone alongside the United States and Britain if four power talks fail to align on Germany. The question remains whether France would act independently or in concert with the others.
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Dulles
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Texan Woman Wins Miss Hush Title in Radio Quiz
Mrs Ruth Annette Subble of Fort Worth won the Miss Hush prize after correctly naming Dancer Martha Graham as Miss Hush on the Truth or Consequences program. She faces an estimated 20 000 prize tax bill of about 5 000, with 700 000 letters submitted.
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Truman Ends Vacation In Florida
President Truman returns from a five day Florida visit to brief Washington on a long range European recovery plan. He arranged a 10:30 a.m. takeoff from Boca Chica aboard the Sacred Cow and is due in Washington around 3 p.m. EST. He spent time here resting, sunbathing and swimming and earlier spoke at Everglades City dedicating the Everglades National Park.
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Hank) Myers
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Foreign Aid Bill Nears Passage in House Test Votes
The emergency foreign aid measure faces a series of house votes with top Republicans predicting final passage by a large margin. Leaders expect final approval after amendments on funding the France Italy Austria and China packages totaling about 597 million dollars.
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Jonkman
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Dodgers Trade Walker and Roe for Cox and Mauch
Branch Rickey announced a major December deal sending Dixie Walker and pitchers Lombardi and Gregg to the Pirates in exchange for shortstop William Cox Elwin Roe and Gene Mauch. No cash traded.
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Hal Gregg
Pittsburgh Pirates
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Dodgers
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Pravda warns of third world war linked to Western Germany
Pravda in a London dispatch says a western German government would serve as a base for Anglo American imperialism and could trigger a new war. The paper claims capitalists profit from wars and dream of a third global conflict.
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Pravda
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Cotton Crop Estimate Rises for Year in Final USDA Report
The agriculture department projects this year’s cotton crop at 11,694,000 bales, up 189,000 from last month. Acreage harvested reaches 21,148,000 acres with lint yield about 265.4 pounds per acre, while cottonseed output is estimated at 4,744,000 tons and 10,056,347 bales have been ginned to December 1.
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Yroe
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ICC Approves Rail Fare Increases Across Regions
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized a 6.06 percent rise in first class fares on western railroads and a 15 percent coach fare hike for the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Western sleeping and parlor car rates align with eastern first class levels set last June. The New Haven also joins a broader eastern move granting an average 10 percent rise on coach and Pullman fares.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
New York, New Haven
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Mississippi River
New Haven
New Haven Railroad
Eisenhower Backers Step Up Campaign Activity
Fresh signs that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower may leave the army and enter the 1952 race as a Republican candidate. Bradley named Truman successor at Columbia time table shifts. Other declared entrants include Taft Stassen Warren and men speculate Ike is courting delegates.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Ohio
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Minnesota
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California
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Five More Jews Are Killed In Fighting
In Tel Aviv and Jaffa, flames and gunfire killed five Jews and injured five others. A fire in Arab houses and shops sent smoke into the sky as violence surged amid Arab League talks in Cairo.
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Tel Aviv
UN Security Council to Convene Amid Palestine Tensions
At United Nations Headquarters in New York the Security Council prepares to meet tomorrow amid violence in Palestine. Observers doubt the council will debate the issue beyond formal recognition as it is slated to receive the assembly’s partition decision. The body appears poised for a hands off approach for now.
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Uprising in Middle East Raises Palestinian Death Toll
The unofficial Palestine death toll rose to 88 over the past nine days with at least 216 killed across the region. Seven Arabs and one Jew died in knife and gunfire last night. another Jew died in Jerusalem this morning as gunfire rang out in several streets. Chanukah celebrations were subdued as Arab League leaders met in Cairo to decide on armed response to the UN partition plan.
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Butler’s Rites Set for Tomorrow at Columbia College
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler dies of bronchial pneumonia at age 85 in New York. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. in St Paul’s chapel on Columbia University campus, where he served as president for 44 years. He was blind in his last year and had retired as president emeritus in 1945.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
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Columbia University
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