Senate probes Meyers Hughes ties and court martial threat
Senate investigators reopen the Meyers Hughes controversy with Maj Gen Bennett Meyers accused of using wartime air force dealings for personal gain. Retired deputy chief of air force procurement admits stock holdings and false impressions. Ferguson plans hearings with Neil McCarthy and action hints at possible court martial while Justice Department reviews Meyers affairs.
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Washington
Senate
Bennett E. Meyers
Howard Hughes
Air Force Procurement
Ferguson
Justice Department
Meyers
Neil McCarthy
Hughes
UN Predicts U S Recession Next Year
The United Nations economic department released an 86 page report warning of a serious recession in the United States during the next year. It notes inflationary price movements as a global issue and stresses the U S economy already faces recession risks despite wartime output gains.
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New York
United Nations Economic Department
United States
Omic Department
United Sates
Weather summary for Carolinas and major cities
Rain today ending tonight with clearing and partly cloudy skies. Temperatures mostly in the 50s to 80s across Carolinas and nearby cities with rainfall amounts reported for several stations including Charleston 1.09 inches and Meridian 1.38 inches. Sunrise was 4 57 with sunset 5 12. November 15 readings include Miami 84 and Spartanburg 53 36 1.92.
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Caroolina
Sun Anday
Weather Bureau
Charleston
Charlotte
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Spartanburg
Wacklagwoa
Holy Land Partition Dates May Be Delayed Toward 1948
The partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states may be postponed from July to October 1 1948 due to Britain's pledge not to withdraw troops before August 1. A four power UN working group seeks date changes for mandate termination May 1 and independence July 1, while a plenary session weighs moving the 1948 UN assembly from Europe to its location.
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New York
Palestine
Britain
Holy Land
United Nations
United States
Russia
UN Palestine
Lake Success
General Assembly
Flushing Meadow Park
Assembly
Europe
Battery fumes kill child as family exposed to batteries
Goldsboro reports a fatal lead poisoning from burning old storage batteries used as fuel. James David Napier died at Duke hospital. two other siblings, ages about two and a half and eight months, are critically ill. Doctors warn fumes can travel two to three blocks.
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Goldsboro
Duke Hospital
Durham
W. C. Davison
Duke University Medical School
James David ‘Napier
Asheville ABC Store to Open December 15
Asheville prepares for its first legal liquor sale in over 40 years as the new ABC board, led by chairman J Lloyd Britt, is sworn in and plans to launch operations by December 15. The city council had named the board yesterday and will meet Monday to begin the process.
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Asheville
ABC
J. Lioyd Britt
Harford Gazette to Drop Foreign Subscriptions
Bel Air Maryland November 15 Harford Weekly Gazette will stop subscriptions outside a four county area defined as foreigners Assistant Publisher Robert V Kincaid says the waste of newsprint on foreign subscribers will be redirected to improve the paper The frontier will cover Harford Cecil Baltimore counties in Maryland and York county Pennsylvania Rates were raised to discourage foreign subscriptions and will now be cut out entirely.
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Bel Air
Harford Weekly Gazette
Robert V. Kincaid
Gazette
Harford
Cecil
Baltimore Counties
York County
Kincaid
French Reds Attack Policy of Ramadier
The French Communist party declares war on Premier Ramadier's subsidy cuts as costs rise. The Paris committee accuses the famine policy and calls on Parisians to oppose higher gas electric rates and rail fares after subsidies to the coal industry end.
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Paris
French Communist Party
Paul Ramadier
Ramadier
Greevement
Holy Land Shootings Raise Death Toll to Sixteen
In three days of violence in Palestine, 16 people are dead and 36 wounded. Two British soldiers and two policemen were killed earlier, with Jews and Britons among the victims. Police suspect the Stern gang as the perpetrators. security zones were imposed in Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem
Holy Ad
Haifa
Emanuel Ben - Gurion
David Ben-Guroin
Jewish Agency
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Stern Gang
Alan Gordon Cunningham
Britain
Divided Korea Forecast by American Officials
American occupation officials predict a separate South Korea and possible absorption of North Korea into the Soviet sphere. They cite Moscow's refusal to join UN efforts for unification. The Four-Power Commission approved a Korean independence body and set elections by March 31 to form a national assembly. The Soviet bloc plans a boycott.
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Seoul
South Korea
North Korea
United Nations
4JN
Joint Commission
Moscow
Korea
U. S
Russia
Central Power For President Favored
Rep. Klein of New York announced he will introduce legislation at the opening session of Congress to grant the president entire retaining allocation and price control authority once held under the original price control act.
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Washington
Rep. Klein
D-Ny
Congress
Capital Seamstress to Attend Princess Party
Mrs Louis Guerrieri a 32 year old mother of four from Washington is invited to an afternoon party at St James Palace in London hosted by Princess Elizabeth. She sent green taffeta dress she made for the princess and received a thank you note and invitation. The Washington Post will cover her trip.
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Washington
Louis Guerrieri
London
Elizabeth
St. James’ Palace
General Strike Threatens Rome Amid Leftist Violence
Rome faces a threatened general strike as leftists clash with authorities over the arrest of a street car conductor and raids on anti-communist war veteran meetings. The strike, already echoing nationwide unrest, targets the de Gasperi government with labor and press actions across city and transport workers.
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Rome
Christian Democratic
Alcide de Gasperi
Chamber of Labor
Risorgimento Liberale
Giulio de Marzio
I ‘Momento
Esedra
Association of
Russia
Giovanni Messe
Roberto Lucifero
Constituent Assembly
de Gasperi
Virginia ‘hot car ring’ case ends with sentences
In Abingdon Virginia Judge A D Barksdale sentenced C H Thompson president of Thompson Motor Company to two years in Atlanta federal prison and a $10000 fine as ring leader. Carl Tackett Fred Tackett and Roy Gambrel received one year and a day to be served at Millpoint penitentiary for conspiracy and stolen car sales to Thompson.
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Abingdon
Virginia
Federal Bureau of
A. D. Barksdale
C. H. Thompson
Pennington Gap
Atlanta
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
U. S. District Court
Thompson
Thompson Motor Company
Carl
Fred Tackett
Roy Gambrel
Millpoint
W. Va
Inquisitive Man Wins Free Boston Trip After Question
William H. Wilson asked why it is easy to buy a pistol in Texas to two Texas peace officers. His inquiry led to discovery that he was a Vermont parole violator and wanted in Boston on a car theft charge. He heads to Boston with Officer Harold King.
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EL Paso
Tex
William H. Wilson
Boston
Texas
Wilson
Vermont
Harold King
New England
Loyalty Board Ready to Set Up Quarters
Washington reports the 20 member loyalty review board formed under a presidential directive to model fair government employment. Seth W Richardson heads the panel as it prepares headquarters in a downtown building formerly home to censorship. Attorney General Tom C. Clark joined a luncheon after White House reception.
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Washington
Federal Loyalty Review Board
Office of Censorship
Seth W. Richardson
Congressional Committee
Pearl Harbor
White House
Tom C. Clark
Truman
Clark
Review Board
U. S. Editors Begin European Tour From Berlin
A 14 American editors and publishers arrived in Berlin to start a month long European tour as guests of the army. They will meet Gen. Lucius D. Clay, receive briefings, visit Vienna and the Allied zones, then go to Paris before returning to the U. S. Dec. 13. The group includes Barry Bingham Herbert Brucker Roger Ferger Richard Hollander Wilbur Elston Charles Gratke Charles Guy Ralph McGill Philip Parrish Whitelaw Reid Martin Sommers and Col Leo Codd.
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Berlin
U. S
Europe
Lucius D. Clay
Overnor
F”Rom
Clay
Vienna
Germany
Paris
Barry Bingham
Courier Journal
Louisville Times Company
Louisville
Herbert Brucker
The
Hartford
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
Philip H. Parrish
Portland Oregonian
Whitelaw Reid
New York Herald Tribune
Martin Sommers
Saturday Evening Post
Col
Leo Codd
Army Ordnance Journal
Truman May Ask Congress For Authority
President Truman may ask Congress on Monday for authority to aid other nations in fighting inflation as part of Europe relief plans. A line outline may include a rough Marshall Plan draft and stop-gap aid for Italy France and Austria alongside measures to curb rising U.S. living costs.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Europe
White House
Italy
France
Austria
Compettnt
Rotary
Marshall
Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Taft
Ohio
Senate-House Economic Committee
Polish Peasant Leader Expelled by Parliament
Parliament in Warsaw formally expelled Stanislaw Mikolajczyk accusing him of treason and urged stripping him of citizenship. A special commission said he fled the country with embassy assistance and foreign funds, after persuading seven of his supporters to join the escape on October 20. Mikolajczyk denied fleeing to avoid a death sentence and said he fled to avoid being killed.
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Warsaw
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolajczyk
London
Gate City Man Elected Head Of Gas Body
L. A. Scott of Greensboro was named president of the four-state mid-southeastern gas association at its tenth annual convention in Raleigh. Other officers include H. W. Gree of Johnson City first vice president, E. P. Game of Roanoke second vice president, and C. M. Stone W. S. Lander both of Charlotte and J. D. Barnes of Hickory as directors. Edward W. Ruggles of N C State College was reelected secretary treasurer. Dr. W. G. Van Note spoke on engineering research with H. Carl Wolf and W. E. Stienwedell in attendance.
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Raleigh
Mid-Southeastern Gas Association
L. A. Scott
Greensboro
H. W. Gree
Johnson City
Newark Battle Delayed as Truce Reaches Salvage Settlement
The Newark battle over the decommissioned battleship New Mexico was postponed again as officials and the salvage firm reach a truce. Talks continued on portside actions with no combat while a plan to move the 30,000-ton ship was set for tomorrow.
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Newark
N. J
New Mexico
Port Newark
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Mary Lewry
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