Explosion Kills Fifteen Miners at Glen Alden Colliery
Fifteen miners died and three were injured in an explosion at the Glen Alden Coal Co. Nottingham colliery in Plymouth Pennsylvania. About 22 men were in the blast area 850 feet below surface when rescue crews, risking cave ins, recovered bodies and assisted survivors.
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Edward Griffith
Nottingham
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Thomas Miles
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Krawiec
Talmadge Seizes Georgia Government In Pre-Dawn Coup
Governor Herman Talmadge arose in a pre-dawn move backed by National Guard officers and state troopers seizing the Georgia executive offices and denying Ellis Arnall entry. Arnall, blocked at the mansion, called it a military coup as troopers later admitted Mrs. Talmadge and her two children to the residence.
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Ellis Arnall
Georgia
Atlanta
Herman Talmadge
George Finch
National Guard
Marvin Griffith
Talmadge
Straight Income Tax Cut See Likely to Fail in Congress
An informal Ways and Means poll shows momentum fading for a straight 20 percent income tax cut. Republicans may instead push a graduated relief favoring low income brackets while Democrats resist immediate cuts, awaiting a balanced budget and expenditure ceiling set by the budget committee.
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Ways and Means Committee
Grant
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Knutson
R-Minn
Ways and Means
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Budget Committee
Pay Bill Deliberations Move To Executive Conference
An eight member conference committee seeks to resolve Senate and House gaps on a supplementary salary increase for state employees and teachers. The panel met in executive session at a Raleigh hotel with press excluded. Rep Reg L Harris of Person, chairman, said no decision was reached but a public statement would follow this week after the hearings. The Senate had refused to concur with a House amended proposal raising salaries from 25 to 30 percent.
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Reg L. Harris
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Conference Committee
Cape Fear Flood Expected Rise Near Wilmington
Weatherman Paul Hess of the Wilmington weather bureau says heavy rains in the upper Cape Fear basin will push the river to 28 feet at Elizabethtown this afternoon, three feet above flood level.
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Wilmington
Paul Hess
Wilmington Weather Bureau
Cape Fear River
Elizabethtown
North Carolina Weather Mostly Cloudy With Showers
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Friday. Slightly warmer today, cooler in the west portion Friday.
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North Carolina
Arnall Denied Entry To Governor's Mansion By Troopers
Ellis Arnall was blocked from entering the governor’s mansion by four state troopers who warned they would use force if he tried to use his personal key. He arrived for a luncheon at 11 50 a m and pressed for names of the troopers amid threats of violence. More details follow on page 2 A.
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Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
Governors Mansion
Arnall
Frank Jones
Highway Patrol
Jones
Sergeant Jones
Britain and France Plan New Military Alliance
Britain and France announce a renewed military alliance to counter a potential German threat and to cooperate on reconstruction aid. The statement follows two days of talks between Prime Minister Attlee and French Premier Blum, signaling a new era of western bloc cooperation.
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France
Clement Attlee
Leon Blum
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Pravda
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Germany Will Wait For Treaty
The big four foreign ministers’ deputies in London begin work on a German peace treaty. They seek a self supporting Germany aligned to Europe's economy, with limits on war potential and contested issues on central government, Ruhr control, Saar, internationalization, occupation, trade, and tariffs.
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Witnesses Heard In Rape Case
The Wilkes superior court trial of Ralph Vernon Litteral and Marvin Clyde Bell continued with Peggy Shore testifying she was seized from a city bus Aug 23, forced into a car, taken to Tennessee and raped four times. She described threats of murder and fear during an all night abductio n.
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Ralph Vernon Litteral
Marvin Clyde Bell
Peggy Shore
Wilkes Superior Court
Miss Shore
Tennessee
Littoral
Bell
London Strikers to Return to Work Saturday
In London a 40 minute meeting of delegates ended with an announcement that striking truck drivers will return to work on Saturday morning. The walkout involves more than 50,000 men and has paralysed the port with over 100 ships tied up and cargoes half unloaded as troops were used to supplant the strikers.
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London
Thames
Auriol Elected President of France at Versailles
Vincent Auriol, veteran socialist, won the race for the fourth French Republic presidency at Versailles with broad socialist and communist backing. An unofficial tally placed him at 452 votes, defeating Champetier Des Ribes, Jules Gasser, and Michel Clemenceau as parliament prepared a first-ballot vote. The interim Blum cabinet prepared to resign as plans for a coalition cabinet emerged amid shifting support.
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Michel Clemenceau
Tiger
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Air Accidents Blamed On Lack of Proper Equipment
Senator Brewster urged a Commerce Committee session with the civil aeronautics board to examine airline accident records financing and foreign competition. He questioned a $40 million loan to Trans World Airlines and overseas competition while urging clearer separation of scheduled and unscheduled flights in accident data.
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Brewster
R-Me
Civil Aeronautics Board
United States
CAB
James M. Landis
Senate Commerce Committee
Trans-World Airlines
TWA
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
America
Public Hearing Scheduled on EAL Plane Crash
A CAB spokesman announced a public hearing on the eastern Air Lines crash near GALAX Virginia. The hearing will be in Richmond on January 21 at 9 a.m. The CAB led the investigation with help from other agencies and the airline. Findings will be reported to Washington after on site work is finished.
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Eastern Air Lines
Here
Civil Aernautics Board
Richmond
CAB
Joseph Fluet
Washington
Trippi to Join Chicago Cardinals
Charley Trippi announced he would sign with the Chicago Cardinals to play in the National League. He declined the New York Yankees offer to play both football and baseball.
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New York
Charley Trippi
Associated Press Today
Chicago Cardinals
New York Yankees
Trippi
Yankee
Ford Price Slash Praised by Government Officials
Washington reports that the Ford price cut was called encouraging and crucial for sustaining production and employment. Edwin G. Nourse and other officials praised Ford and noted business support for President Truman's broader price reduction push.
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Washington
Truman
Edwin G. Nourse
Council of Economic Advisers
iYourse
Nourse
Tru
Georgia governorship dispute touches national guard
Secretary of War Patterson said the War and Justice Departments are consulting on the Georgia governorship issue as it relates to the national guard. It was not explained which points concern them. The War Department called the adjutant general dispute in Georgia a purely state matter.
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Jan
Secretary of War
Patterson
War and Justice Departments
Georgia
National Guard
War Department
Arnall Returns to Capitol After Threats and Entrance Fight
After a confrontation at the Georgia capitol Arnall arrived in the rotunda and announced plans to meet the press and then return to business. He had spent the night in Newnan and was driven by a state patrolman after Talmadge supporters attacked the executive chambers earlier.
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Capitol
Georgia
Newnan
Atlan
Talmadge
Ben Odom
State Capitol
Candler
Odum
Three Die in Wake Forest Plane Crash
A twin-engined five passenger plane crashed and burned five miles west of Wake Forest killing three men. The victims identified by wreckage are Charles A Sherwin of Washington DC owner pilot. Jarnett G Gregg 28 formerly of the Army and employed at a Washington airport. Cmdr William Helvestine a lawyer and coast guard executive. A fourth body believed thrown clear remains missing as search continues.
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Here
Charles Allen Sherwin
Washington, D. C
Jarnett G. Gregg
Washington
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