Mrs Ecker Body Found After Seabrook Island Tragedy
Peter Morawetz a New York rail lawyer and Carnegie protégé, and J B Rogers with Peter Morris hosted Mrs Ecker on Seabrook Island. They were last seen reaching for a boat oar near a sand bar. Lieut Southworth found the body on the beach at 7:20 a m EST with a life jacket on. Mrs Ecker had arrived Friday and was 83. The county police recovered the body after a dawn search revealing one shoe missing and the victim dead about 24 hours.
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Peter Morawetz
New York
Railrad
Andrew Carnegie
J. B. Rogers
Peter C. Morris
Seabrook Island
Ey md
Herd
Morawetz
Ecker
Lieut. Southworth
U. S. Delays Final Decision on Red Threat
India's Sir Benegal Rau weighs postponing action on the Red Threat until Peiping arrives. He drafts a proposal for a UN peace patrol to study Manchurian border issues and considers a neutral strip along the Yalu river before proceeding.
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Imat
India
Sir Bengal N. Rau
Peiping
U. N
Sir Benegal
Red Army units massed on Manchurian border reports say
Chinese Nationalist reports claim the final elements of Red China’s fourth field army left Canton for Manchuria last week. They say about 400,000 of the 600,000 strong force are now massed along the Manchurian border, with units of the Communist 44th army included in the transfer.
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Taipei
Formosa
Red China
Canton
Manchuria
Labor Pushes Profits Tax Amid Divided Committee
The committee voted 15 Democrats to 10 Republicans against excess profits tax proposals as labor groups urged funding shortages for rearmament. AFL CIO backed President Roosevelt, while some favored raising corporate taxes and excise duties. Analysts say Senate prospects are slim though the President expects passage this year. Elder of the AFL defended a plan to raise 5 to 6 billion dollars from business earnings as not unduly harming corporations.
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CIO
AFL
Congress
House
Senate
Elder
Red Chinese Reinforcements Fuel North Korea Fight
The report notes Chinese and Russian Communists aiding guerrilla raids around Pyongyang and the Chosin corridor. It cites a triangle near Pyongyang Chosun Inchon and Kapyong as flashpoints with 10 000 bypassed Reds, ongoing attacks on Tokchon and the northeast coast.
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U. S
Pyongyang
Red F
Pyonggan
U.N
Tokchon
Igwek
North Central Mountains
Bradley Urges Strong Nation
General Bradley plans a London trip by December 1 to press NATO allies on a German rearmament law. He argues the United States must keep large peacetime forces while balancing manpower with industry needs, suggesting reserve and national guard restructuring to reduce full wartime strength.
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Bradley
London
U. S
National Guard
Injunctions Stall Strike Amid Wage Talks in New Jersey
Injunctions curb picketing by strikers at Western Electric and Northwest Bell facilities as wage talks stall. CWA seeks higher pay from $1.55 to $1.62 hourly plus a one year contract. Western Electric offers 11 cents more under a 16 to 1% month pact. rejected. Federal mediation in New York ended without progress. new talks planned today.
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New Jersey
Western Electric
Northwest Bell
CWA
New York
Trotsky assassination plot traced to New York Red Cross agent
Louis Budenz, ex-editor of the Communist Daily Worker, says a Soviet Red Cross representative in New York, Dr Gregory Rabinowitch, planned the 1940 Trotsky killing in Mexico City. Budenz identified Rabinowitch after years of photo study and linked him to Trotsky aide Sylvia Ageloff and Ruth, with Jacson aiding the Mexico mission. Rabinowitch reportedly left the U S in 1939.
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New York
The
New York World-Telegram and
Sun
Louis F. Budenz
Communist Daily Worker
Leon Trotsky
Mexico City
Soviet Red Cross
America
Budenz
Gregory Rabinowitch
Russian Red Cross
New York City
Catholic Church
Rabinowitch
Roberts
Ruby Weil
Sylvia Ageloff
Ruth
Trotsky
Paris
Miss Ageloff
Frank Jacson
Buden
United States
Chimp Weighs 150 Pounds Revealed by Captain Fleet
In the second half of the show Captain Fleet announced the chimpanzee weighs 150 pounds. The disclosure appears in the late news bulletins of the program.
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Fleet
German court sentences Rudolf Pleil to life imprisonment
In Brunswick a German court handed a life sentence to Rudolf Pleil, 26, who confessed to multiple murders seeking sexual satisfaction. Pleil boasted he would kill again, including children and the elderly, after prior work release. In Allentown a 12 year old died from gas seeping from a broken main, the third fatality as investigators hunted for the source.
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Brunswick
Germany
Husky Rudolf Pleil
West Germany
Pleil
Allentown
Sacred Heart Hospital
Amey
Secret MacArthur Meeting Reported With Japanese Parties
Soviet Press says a secret meeting between General Douglas MacArthur and Japanese political parties occurred. It claims America views Japan as an ally in a future world war.
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Moscow
Douglas MacArthur
America
Japan
Connecticut GOP Abandons Recount Bid After Narrow Senate Win
Hartford reports Republicans drop pursuit of a recount in the tight Connecticut senate race where William Benton Democrat edged Prescott Bush by 1,113 votes.
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Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
William Benton
Prescott Bush
American tanks to reinforce Berlin garrison early next year
A score of 45 ton Pershing tanks armed with 90 mm guns will be sent to Berlin around January 1 to bolster the western Allies. They will join eight British Comet tanks already arriving from West Germany by freight train, 33 tons with 77 mm guns.
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Berlin
West Germany
Soviet Press Says Egypt to Denounce 1936 Treaty
Izvestia reports Egypt will formally denounce the Anglo Egyptian treaty of 1936 by week end and view British troops in the Suez Canal zone as hostile forces. The claim circulated through Soviet papers and cited diplomatic circles at Lake Success.
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RED
Moscow
Egypt
Suez Canal Zone
Izvestia
Lake Success
Annual Smile Day Reaches To U N
Harrisburg Pennsylvania observers from the Optimists Club handed out silver dollars to smiling citizens. R A Maxwell visited United Nations headquarters in New York to urge use of the smile as a force for international amity and to deploy a “smile bomb” against atomic weapons, in a telegram to Trygve Lie.
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Harrisburg
United Nations
Optimists Club of
Pennsylvania
R. A. Maxwell
U. N. Inew York
Trygve Lie
U. N
Maxwell
Tiny Mother Given Fortune From Contested Estate
In Philadelphia on November 17 a court recommends the estate of Henrietta Garrett be awarded to three deceased cousins' survivors. The $2 million share plus tax distribution would pass to Wilson Kretschmar, Constance Kretschmar Mock, and heir Johann Schafer, with other heirs possibly receiving nothing due to U S government claims and enemy alien inheritance laws. A separate Los Angeles case cites four wills for Charles Babonet, with estimates around a half million dollars and potential bequests to eight relatives. Judge Condee sets December 14 to decide which will, if any, to accept.
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Garrett
Greenvier
Clinton A. Sowers
Henrietta Garrett
Sowers
Orphans Court
Robert Brigham
Wilson Primm Kretschmar
Greenville
Herman A. Kretschmar
St. Louis
Constance Kretschmar Mock
Chicago
Howard Sigismund Kretschmar
U. S
Germany
Los Angeles
Charles Babonet
Gus
Clark Sellers
Orleans
Bank of America
Newcomb Condee
Baronet
Babonet
Hope sues Life Magazine and John Crosby for 2 million
Bob Hope files a libel suit in Los Angeles seeking 2 010 000 against Life Magazine and radio columnist John Crosby. He claims their Nov 6 issue article and Crosby piece imply he stole Fred Allen and plagiarized, calling plagiarism dishonest and unethical in the entertainment industry.
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Los Angeles
Bob Hope
Life Magazine
John Crosby
Fred Allen
Hope
Crosby
Hadacol testimonial touts health and humor boost for workers
A Louisville tree trimmer, James D. Singletary, endorses Hadacol, claiming improved mood, energy, and work performance after using the vitamin and mineral formula. The ad cites benefits to blood iron and vitamins B1 B2 and Niacin, with a money back guarantee and mail order from The Leblanc Corporation, Lafayette Louisiana.
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James D. Singletary
Oak St
The
Superior Co
Louisville
Lepper
Mr. Singletary
LeBlanc Corporation
Lafayette
Louisiana
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