Alcoa Hints At Reopening Talks With CIO Union
The Aluminum Company of America signals willingness to meet with CIO United Steelworkers to resolve a 20 000 worker strike across nine states over pensions and insurance. No formal talks have begun as of November first, with October talks failing over a social benefits plan linked to Social Security.
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Pittsburgh
Aluminum Company of America Today
CIO
United Steelworkers
Alcoa
Bethlehem Steel Company
Truman Signs New Farm Bill Into Law
President Truman signed the compromise farm bill into law for at least one production season. The measure continues wartime level farm price supports but faces questions about its longevity and a potential Brannan plan influence. No formal statement accompanied the signing. Alfred Alger Hiss trial date set for November 17 for the second perjury case in New York.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
G.O.P
Brannan
Hiss
New York
William Bondy
Alger Hiss
State Department
Snyder Sees 1949 as Strong Year for Business
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder told the American Bankers association that 1949 will be another tremendous year for American business. He said coal and steel strike clouds are temporary and underlying forces will restore production and depleted stocks. He dismissed predictions of long dislocations and noted some industries and localities face challenges.
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San Francisco
Treasury
Snyder
American Bankers Association
President Vetoes Bill on Auto Aid for Disabled Veterans
President Truman vetoed a bill to provide up to 1600 dollars for automobiles for 15 500 handicapped veterans from both world wars. He warned it would create wholesale inequities and abuse, noting 100 percent disabled veterans could be excluded. The plan would extend car aid beyond current World War I recipients and risk diluting rehabilitation principles.
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Washington
Truman
CIO Purge moves to oust left wing at CIO convention
In Cleveland on November 1 the CIO begins enacting measures to purge pro communist officers and unions as part of a right wing drive. The plan includes a permanent ten cent per month per member tax hike to offset losses from expulsions affecting millions of CIO members.
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Cleveland
CIO
Philip Murray
Pact Nations Plan Arsenal for Democracies
London reports the Atlantic pact nations began organizing a new defense arsenal with a 12 nation group meeting to coordinate munitions production. Iceland is absent as Britain Denmark and Norway establish regional planning HQ while Americans pledge to build a bulwark for freedom.
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London
N. E. Halaby
Iceland
Britain
Denmark
Norway
America
Halaby
Cold Weather Sweeps Eastern U S with Frost Alert
The Associated Press reports a freezing line from the Great Lakes to New York and Pennsylvania with subfreezing in Arkansas and near 88 in Tennessee Louisiana Kentucky and Texas. Chicago dropped to 26 while Los Angeles and Fresno reached 90. Warmer air expected to move eastward tomorrow as rain falls in the Southeast upper Michigan and extreme northern Minnesota.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
West Gulf States
New York
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
Tennessee
Louisiana
Kentucky
Texas
Chicago
Midwest
Great Plains
Pacific Coast
Mercury
Los Angeles
Fresno
Calif
Upper Michigan
Minnesota
Atlantic
Mississippi Valley
Washington
Weather Bureau
De Gasperi Cabinet Teeters Amid Socialist Resignations
In Rome a split within anti communist socialists sparks the potential fall of Premier Alcide de Gasperi's cabinet. Vice Premier Saragat and two PSLI ministers quit to pressure unity with other anti communist groups as a general strike by the communist led CGL presses for police accountability.
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Rome
Navy
Alcide de Gasperi
de Gasperi
Christian Democrat Party
Giuseppe Saragat
Italian Socialist Labor Party
PSLI
Ivan Matteo Lombardo
Roberto Tremelloni
Italy
General Confederation of Labor
Pietro Nenni
Saragat
Giuseppe Romita
France Secures $75 Million Five Year Loan
Paris reports the finance ministry says France has been granted a five year loan totaling 75 million dollars. The loan is financed by Chase National Bank and Guaranty Trust Company, both based in New York, and arranged through the French finance ministry.
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Paris
France
Chase National Bank
Guarant Trust Company
Finance Ministry
Invisible light fears loom in new science reports
Two UCLA and Cal Tech announcements warn that a hidden high altitude layer may transform ultraviolet rays into infrared heat, threatening life if Earth's atmospheric shield is breached. Dr. Renato Dulbecco describes life and death rays in invisible light affecting viral control of cell growth.
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Los Angeles
Californian Institute of Technology
University of California At Los Angeles
Earth
Joseph Kaplan
UCLA
Earths
Cal Tech
Renato Dalbecco
Dulbecco
Highway Commission Rolls Out Equitable City Road Funds Plan
Raleigh November 1 The highway commission unveils an equitable distribution plan for road money aimed at towns and cities. Commissioner Henry Jordan cites tests in the sixth division led by George S. Coble and notes 15 municipalities have been surveyed for long range street improvements. Small towns like St Paul in Robeson County illustrate the benefit of pooling projects to gain more mileage. The plan follows two changes in highway funding from the 1949 legislature increasing municipal maintenance funds and a $200 million rural road bond issue.
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Raleigh
Highway Commission
Henry Jordan
George S. Coble
Lexington
Ordan
Coble
Jordan
Robeson County
St. Paul
Europe Must Unify Its Economy Declares Hoffman
In Washington on November 1 James Marlow reports Paul Hoffman head of the Marshall Plan argues Europe must unify its economy beyond 1952 when aid ends. He contrasts European trade barriers with the U.S. free market benefiting employment and living standards, warning Europe to reduce fragmentation and competitive obstacles to boost demand and growth.
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Europe
Hoffman
James Marlow
Washington
Paul Hoffman
Congress
United States
America
New York
New Jersey
Halloween Stickup Proves to Be Real
A man in a Halloween mask robbed a Pittsburgh supermarket, firing a shot into the ceiling and grabbing $230 from the register. The clerk, Frank Catalbo, was assaulted but unharmed, and the attacker fled.
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Pittsburgh
Frank Catalbo
Catalbo
Czech Church Under Government Control Enacted
Prague reports a new law placing all Czech churches under state authority effective at midnight. The measure strips church funds, names clergy, and runs church administration through government payrolls with priests required to swear allegiance to the state and the communist regime. Alexei Cepicka, justice minister and Gottwald son in law, will supervise church affairs.
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Prague
Celovakia
Czechoslovakia
People's Democratic
Alexei Cepicka
Klement Gottwald
Cepicka
Stock Market Recovers Losses After midday turn
The New York market steadied around noon after a weaker morning. Many issues turned to gains including Youngstown Sheet General Motors Chrysler Goodyear Sears Roebuck and Du Pont while US Steel Bethlehem slipped briefly before recovering.
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New York
Youngstown Sheet
General Motors
Chrysler
Goodyear
Sears Roebuck
J. T. Case
Douglas Aircraft
Philco
Minneapolis-Honeywell
American Power & Light
Phelps Dodge Copper
Allied Chemical
du Pont
American Can
General Electric
Santa Fe
Nickel Plate
Miss Thompson to Tour North Carolina in Three Days
British writer Miss Cynthia Thompson arrives in Raleigh to assess North Carolina in three days for Life-Time-Fortune. An escort is arranged as managers discuss travel with Bill Sharpe guiding the Piedmont mountains and return plans. Skepticism and skeleton crews arise over state scheduling and coverage.
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Cynthia Thompson
London
Car Link
Bill Sharpe
Carolina Power & Light Company
Bill
Piedmont
Puide
North Carolina
Luce
Miss Thompson
W. H. Perry
The
Board of Buildings and Grounds
Perry
Washington Air Tragedy Claims 53 Lives in Collision
A Bolivian fighter plane and an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 collided near Washington airport. Fifty three killed, including Rep. George J. Bates. One survivor delirious, believed to be pilot Eric Rios Bridoux. Crash scattered bodies along the Potomac riverbank and into the water.
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Washington
Eric Rios Bridoux
Eastern Air Lines
Boston
New York
George J. Bates
Massachusetts
Potomac River
Betsy Thorup among victims in Washington airliner crash
Betsy Thorup, 19, a Duke University student from Wellesley Hills Mass was listed as a passenger on Eastern Airlines flight 537, a DC-4 on collision over Mount Vernon Boulevard near Washington. Fourteen bodies were recovered within 30 minutes as wreckage spread along the Potomac shore. The Bolivian air force P 38 and the DC 4 collided midair, with reports of an explosion and heavy loss of life.
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Durham
Betsy Thorup
Duke University
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Eastern Airlines
E.A.S
Washington Today
Raleigh- Durham
Potomac River
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Boston
New York
LaGuardia Airport
Long
Washington
Mount Vernon Boulevard
Alexandria
Mt. Vernon
George Washington
Nationalovina
Potomac
Ill Fated Eastern Air Lines Crash In Washington
Newspaper report identifies J. D. Wicks of Wix Accessories corp. and Rep. George J. Bates as passengers on an Eastern Airlines plane that collided with a military aircraft over Washington D C. Bates, 58, from Salem Massachusetts, had served in the Massachusetts House and as Salem mayor. The article lists other Boston and LaGuardia passengers bound for various cities.
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Gastonia
N. C
J. D. Wicks
Eastern Air Line
Washington
Wicks
Wix Accessories Corp
New York
Fastern Airlines
George J. Bates
Salem
Mass
E.A. S
Washington, D. C
Bates
Massachusetts House of Reprsentatives
Boston
F. Mchulski
L. Igor
George Ray
Charles R. Hazelwood
Oscar Orihuela
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Pact
Garbo
Hanna Schurmann
Copenhagen
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Brenau College
Gainesville
Georgia
Greta Garbo
U. S
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American Red Cross Blood Bank
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