Price Control Legislation Hinges On Living Costs Stability
Washington reports a dip in the cost of living for October and hints that President Truman may ease standby price control and rationing requests when Congress convenes in January. Officials stress inflation risks remain and anticipate foreign aid and defense spending.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Edwin G. Nourse
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Nourse
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chester Bowles
OPA
Connecticut
White House
BLS
General Motors
Wage-Hour Adjustment May Be First on Senate's List
Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah signals wage hour reform as the first priority for the next Congress. He expects to chair the Senate education and labor committee in January and urges boosting the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents for cross border work and quick hearings on education aid. He notes broad support for education and wage-hour changes but cautions a lengthy Taft-Hartley revision.
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Senate
Washington
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Congress
Thomas
Senate Education and Labor Committee
House
Ellender
D-La
Stock Market Dips as Traders Await Anti-Inflation Plan
New York November 24 The stock market lost some price ground with mixed trading. Industrial and tech issues faltered while metal and electrical shares held steadier as investors booked tax-loss sales. A quiet level of investment demand appeared but major traders stayed cautious awaiting the presidents anti inflation program.
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New York
FBI Rounding Up Jersey Carolina Auto Theft Ring
The FBI continued an interstate auto theft probe with seven arrests. In Newark New Jersey four suspects and three in North Carolina were taken into custody including Charles C hessick 19 Arand Joseph LePage 33 Edward Lepage 26 a 17 year old juvenile silent on name James Kennon 26 and William Gray 28 both Newark arrest in Wilmington November 19 Ralph Tueth 42 Newark arrested Fayetteville November 19. Cars stolen in Newark area sold to dealers near Lumberton.
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Newark
N. J
Charles Chessick
Arand Joseph Lepage
Edward Marcella Lepage
East Orange
Brown
James Richard Kennon
William Howard Gray
Lumberton
Wilmington
Ralph Annette Tueth
Fayetteville
Jesse Jones Cleared To Testify In Key Case
A federal judge ruled Jesse Jones is well enough to be questioned as a witness in the Arabian American Oil Co. suit. Jones, 74, formerly headed the Reconstruction Finance Corp, was noted as having stayed up late gambling and drinking prior to the ruling. The testimony is sought by lawyers in an 86 million dollar action brought by James A. Moffett against Arabian American Oil Co.
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New York
Jesse Jones
Samuel H. Kaufman
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Jones
James A. Moffett
Arabian American Oil Co., Inc
MacArthur Denies Clemency To Tojo
General Douglas MacArthur refused clemency for Japan’s top war criminals and ordered the execution of Hideki Tojo and six others. He reviewed the tribunal sentences and urged prayers for peace while noting the executions would be carried out at a later date.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Hideki Tojo
International Military Tribunal
Supreme Court of the United States
MacArthur
Eighth Army
Tojo
Kenji Doihara
Lawrence
Manchuria
Koki Hirota
Seishiro
Ttagaki
Heitaro Kimura
Iwane Matsui
Nanking
Akira Muto
Philippines
Walton Walker
Sugamo
Shigetaro Shimada
Navy
Gen. Walker
Oil Interests Accused of Wrecking Palestine Partition Plan
Soviet bloc delegate Andrew A. Galagan charged British and American oil and military interests wrecked the United Nations Palestine partition plan. He urged Arab troops from Egypt Trans-Jordan Syria Lebanon and Iraq be withdrawn and favored a separate Arab state beside Israel. He warned oil pipelines would move 2,000,000 barrels daily by 1952 and accused Western powers of influencing Bernadotte’s report to exclude Jews from the Negev.
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Paris
Soviiet Bloc
United Nations
Palestine
Andrew A. Galagan
Soviet
Ukraine
General Assembly
No. 1
Egypt
Trans-Jordan
Syria
Lebanon
Iraq
Israel
Holy Land
Galagan
Middle East
Robert M. McClintock
U. S. State Department
Sir John Troutbeck
Cairo
Count Folke Bernadotte
Rhodes
Jerusalem
Bernadotte
No Frost On The Thanksgiving Day Pumpkin This Time
The weatherman says there will be no frost on Thanksgiving Day in the Carolinas with little change from yesterday’s warm temperatures. Expect light rain or drizzle through tomorrow as morning lows range from 32 at Mount Mitchell to 60 at Charleston with many Carolinas locations in the mid 40s to upper 50s.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Raleigh
Greensboro
Charlotte
Spartanburg
Charleston
Columbia
Cape Hatteras
Mount Mitchell
Florence
Lamberton
Winston,Salem
Hickory
Greenville, S. C
Anderson
Elizabeth City
Rocky Mount
Cherry Point
New Bern
Wilmington
Myrtle Beach
CIO Leaders Promoted to Defeat Reds and Win Support
At the CIO convention in Portland Oregon William O Douglas urged labor leaders to outperform diplomats in countering global communism and bridging East West ties. Leaders signaled plans for pro committees to recruit federal workers clerks and white collar staff while backing Marshall Plan aid and denouncing Soviet actions.
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Portland
Ore
William O. Douglas
CIO
America
Europe
Henry Wallace
Amon
Retai
Philip Murray
Murray
U.S
Soviet find claims world’s greatest dinosaur graveyard
Soviet expedition leader I A Efremov told Evening Moscow they found a vast dinosaur graveyard in the Gobi near a mountain range, with 70 tons of remains including a 100 foot Zauropod. They describe a river once carrying bodies to the site and 15 to 40 meters of hard soil over the fossils near Nemeget peaks, 730 miles from Ulan Bator.
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Moscow
I. A. Efremov
Evening Moscow
Gobi Desert
Nemeget
Ulan
Bator
Efremov
King George VI Illness Deepens Imperial Duty Questions
The illness of King George VI is treated as a national crisis shadowing Britain’s empire. The piece lauds his steadiness and service, noting his unlikely throne, wartime leadership, and the Queen's support. It highlights the cancellation of a major dominion tour as a sign of gravity.
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George VI
Britain
Empire
Commonwealth
George
Edward VIII
Edward
England
Prince of Wales
House of Windsor
Buckingham Palace
Elizabeth
Methodist Bishop Censures House UnAmerican Group
In Newark New Jersey Bishop G Bron ley Oxnam denounces the House Un American Activities Committee for discrediting Protestant faith calling the committee report a tool of the communist party He notes the panel whose chairman faces indictment has presumed to speak in religion while the Methodist Federation for Social Action rejects the charges as ridiculous and untrue
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Newark
N. J
House
unAmerican Activities Committee
G. Bronley Oxnam
Methodist Federation For Social Action
Communist Party
Oxnam
New Jersey
Methodist Church
Committee On
unAmerican
J. Parnell Thomas
RNJ
Jack R. McMichael
Battle reports from Suchow show conflicting claims
As fighting rages near Suchow and Nanking, neutral observers doubt government successes while noting clouded skies hamper air support. Reports say Communist forces encircled towns east of Suchow and threaten the Suchan flank, with relief columns and evacuations mentioned as the page two continues.
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Nanking
Suchow
China
Shanghai
Kuling
Hankow
Nienchuang
San Francisco
Associated Press
Red
Huang Po-Tao
Seventh
Peace Daily
Tahsuchia
Pavyichi
Nienchuand
Suchan
Neutrals Seek Breakthrough in Berlin Currency Crisis
Six neutrals on the United Nations Security Council resume work on Berlin since the Soviet blockade and western currency split. They review answers from the four powers to a currency questionnaire to find a path to end the Cold War standoff. The panel includes Argentina Belgium Canada China Colombia and Syria. Western powers demand lifting the blockade before currency talks proceed. Western officials fear the effort may fail and foresee rising tensions ahead of December 5 western elections.
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Paris
United Nations Security Council
Berlin
Juan A. Bramuglia
Argentina
Security Council
Belgium
Canada
China
Columbia
Syria
Russia
Bramuglia
United States
Britain
France
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