Treasury Plans Bond Drive to Curb Inflation
Snyder urged restoring installment buying controls and expanding bond sales to individuals to soak up buying power. He argued for keeping taxes high to support a debt reduction with a large early 1948 potential surplus. The plan faces congressional action as anti inflation measures and credit curbs are debated.
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Washington
Mereasury
Truman
House Banking Committee
Snyder
Congress
Connally Warns Communists Aim To Subjugate Europe
Senator Connally told the Senate that Communists seek to reduce western Europe to vassalage and political slavery and urged approval of a 597 million dollar winter aid bill to counter totalitarian tyranny. He joined Senator Vandenberg in backing swift action as Britain and allies negotiate with Austria amid concerns over possible delays after Thanksgiving.
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Washington
Connally
D-Tex
Senate
Europe
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Austria
Russia
Texas
Council of Foreign Ministers
London
Council
United States
France
Italy
Foreign Relations Committee
Ball
R-Minn
Tokyo Faces Deepening Power Shortage Amid Heatwave Images
Tokyo reports a worsening power crisis as lines of diners queue near hotplates and tea kettles blaze in government buildings. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce launches a "save electricity" campaign, urging reductions in usage.
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Tokyo
Yomiuri
Ministry of Indus and Commerce
Weather Outlook for North Carolina Includes Cooler Temperatures
North Carolina weather forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with cooler temperatures. Tonight and Wednesday look colder with near normal readings overall and a warming trend later in the week. Light rainfall may occur Friday across the district, with a colder end to the week in northern areas.
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North Carolina
West Ee
Carolina
Carolinas
Home furniture sales and production reach all-time high
Lawrence H. Whiting of the American Furniture Mart reports 1948 progress with sales 32 percent ahead of last year and wholesale and retail gains, while supply remains strong to meet demand. He notes better agricultural areas show the heaviest buying of home goods.
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Chicago
Lawrence H. Whiting
American Furniture Mart
America
Whiting
Pay Increases For Hosiery Workers Here
High Point's multi million dollar hosiery payroll will expand as new pay increases take effect in all mills yesterday. The second raise of the year reflects varied rates across operations and between seamless and full fashion work. Guilford Mills and United Textile Workers reached agreement after negotiations led by John Pollard. About eight percent of production workers are boarders in local plants, but increases apply to 6 000 to 6 500 employees across all departments. Mills enacting raises include Adams Millis Amos Crown Guilford Harriss O Kearns Melrose Silver Slant Thomas Triangle Hosiery.
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High Point
Guilford Hosiery Mills, Inc
United Textile Workers of America, A. F. of L
John Pollard
J. W. Lindsay
Guilford Mills
Adams-Millis Corporation
Amos
Crown
Guilford
Harriss & Covington Mill
O. E. Kearns & Son
Melrose
Melrose Hosiery Mills
Silver Knit
Slane
Thomas Mills, Inc
Triangle Hosiery Company
Cab driver jailed for life in fatal shooting case
Jas L Register a 47 year old Gastonia cab driver received a life sentence after pleading guilty to being accessory before the fact of murder in the October 31 shotgun slaying of Perry Philbeck at the home of Register’s estranged wife.
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Gastonia
Jas. L. Register
Perry Philbeck
Philbeck
Register
France weighs conscription as strikes paralyze economy
Paris reports Premier Robert Schuman might order conscription of key workers after a nationwide strike by the national federation of railroad workers. Riots disrupt docks in Marseille and most waterfronts as unions demand 25 percent higher pay to match rising living costs. government contemplates wage concessions.
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Paris
Robert Schuman
France
Schuman
Marseille
National Federation of Railroad Workers
Anti Cholera Restrictions Lifted Across Egypt
Cairo reports most of Egypt returning to normal life as anti cholera restrictions are lifted nationwide except two upper provinces still deemed danger points by authorities.
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Cairo
Egypt
Emergency Law Could Be Invoked By President
Western Union workers threaten a 50 000 strike prompting discussion that President Truman may invoke the national emergency provision of the Taft Hartley act for the first time. Negotiations with the Commercial Telegraphers Union Telegraph Employees Union and Telegraph Workers Union AFL affiliates failed over a 15 cent per hour raise. Conciliation efforts have stalled since the contract reopening on October 1.
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Washington
Western Union
Truman
Western Union Telegraph Company
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
The
Telegraph Employees Union
Telegraph Workers Union
AFL
Federal Conciliation Service
Hannegan quits cabinet to head St. Louis Cards
Postmaster General Robe rt E. Hannegan resigns to join a group purchasing the St Louis Cardinals. President Truman names Jesse M. Donaldson to replace him as of December 1. Breadon announces sale to a syndicate including Hannegan and Fred Saigh with Breadon as club president.
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Hannegan
St. Louis
Washington
Robert E. Hannegan
St. Louis Cardinals
Truman
Jesse M. Donaldson
J. Howard McGrath
Rhode Island
Cardinals
Fred Saigh
Sam Breadon
Breadon
Convicts Surrender After 15 Hour Wisconsin Mutiny
Sixty nine striking convicts abandoned a laundry alcove after a 15 hour siege at a Wisconsin state prison. Officers from a wide radius and deputies surrounded the facility. no violence occurred and the four guards held as hostages were unharmed. The surrender followed a staged ultimatum with a public address system.
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Waapan
Wis
Milwanee
Milwaukee
Here
A. W. Bayley
Bayley
Burke
Oscar Fennebohr
George Hanley
Conference Plan Meets Opposition
Thomasville November 25 David A Long Jr general manager of the Amazon Mill said he would meet with union representatives tomorrow to smooth over plant idle since March 3 but noted the meeting does not comply with Judge Wilson Warlick guidance. Warlick set December 1 for ruling on mass picketing and suggested informal talks with management labor and employes without lawyers. Participants expected include Fred Ponder federal conciliator Vance Heafner Phillip O Hargett CIO TWUA James L Rankin and others including Long Cahoon and H Lisk.
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Thomasville
David A. Long, Jr
Amazon Mill Company
Marning
Wilson Warlick
Warlick
Long
Fred Ponder
Spartanburg
S. C
Vance Heafner
Truman to Visit Florida and Dedicate Everglades Park
President Truman will travel to Florida in December for a brief holiday and to dedicate Everglades National Park. He will fly to Key West on December 3 for rest before delivering a dedicatory speech at the Everglades on December 6.
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Washington
Truman
Florida
Everglades National Park
White House
Naval Submarine Base
Key West Dee
Everglades
Meyers Case Goes To Federal Jury
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers faces a federal grand jury as wartime financial dealings are exposed. The Air Force stripped Meyers of pension and medals, and he will be court martialed amid allegations of taking profits from an Ohio aircraft parts firm. Secretary Symington calls the probe one of the nation's most shocking government scandals.
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Washington
Justice Department
Bennett E. Meyers
Air Force
Independent Air Force
Meyers
W. Stuart Symington
Senate
Dayton
Ohio
Symington
Aviation Electric Company
Huntington
Jews Plan $2 Million Drive For Security Fund
Tel Aviv reports that David Ben Gurion chairman of the Jewish Agency will open at a mass meeting tonight a fund drive to support Jewish security measures in Palestine. The effort targets two million dollars to bolster defense preparations.
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Jerusalem
David Ben Gurion
The
Jewish Agency
Tel Aviv
Milk By Prescription Strikes Hit Toledo Dairies
In Toledo a milk shortage persists as seven major dairies remain closed on day four of a strike. Milk for invalids and children is available only with doctors prescriptions, with two plants serving hospitals and institutions. Employees rejected a wage offer of 12 and a half cents per hour, after originally seeking 20 cents.
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Toledo
Franz Berlacher
Ohio Clover Leaf Dairy Co
Two Killed in Italian Violence in Calabria
In Calabria and nearby Apulia province violence flared again with two slain. A Christian Democrat and a Communist youth were killed signaling a resumption of two weeks of unrest tied to a leftist assault on Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government.
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Rome
Navy
Calabria
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Apulia
Army Transport Clarksdale Victory Grounded Off Graham Island
The Army transport Clarksdale Victory with 48 crewmen smashed onto a reef near Graham Island in the Queen Charlotte group about 140 miles southwest of Ketchikan Alaska. Coast Guard cutters were sent after Capt Gerald R Langeson reported heavy seas and a possible breakup while a gale warning was issued for the area. No further contact had been made with the stricken vessel.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Navy
Coast Guard
Clarksdale Victory
Graham Island
Here
Seattle
Queen Charlotte Group
British Columbia Weather Bureau
Vancouver
B. C
Queen Charlotte
Bevin and Molotov Hold Friendly Talks on Big Four Summit
British sources report a very friendly meeting between Foreign Secretary Bevin and Russian Foreign Minister Molotov. They stressed unanimity in the forthcoming Big Four conference as vital to world future while seeking German and Austrian settlement with Marshall and Bidault. Bevin’s posture described as potentially more moderate than Marshall’s.
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London
Ernest Bevin
V. M. Molotov
Marshall
Georges Bidault
Germany
Austria
Bevin
Big Four Foreign Ministers Meet in London
The United States Russia Great Britain and France began a second attempt to draft terms for Germany as tensions rise over Europe’s economic and political future. Secretary of State Marshall met with Molotov Bevin and Bidault in Lancaster House's blue and gold council room.
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London
United States
Russia
Great Britain
France
Germany
Europe
Marshall
V. M. Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Georges Bidault
Lancaster House
Austria
Bevin
Attlee
Moscow
America
George C Marshall
Foreign ministers prepared to push Germany peace talks
British and American officials report Bevin and Marshall remain firm against Moscow style terms. Moscow talks in April failed to agree on Germany Austria peace, and anew conference opens amid sharp East West tensions and Soviet propaganda impact.
New Hampshire to Back Eisenhower Slate Planned
Manchester N H November 23 State Rep Joseph H Geisel announced plans to organize a slate of delegates pledged to General Eisenhower for New Hampshire's March 9 GOP primary This would create a three sided race for eight delegate seats with Harold E Stassen expected to enter and supporters of Gov Thomas E Dewey also signaling a pledged slate
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Manchester
N. H
Joseph H. Geisel
New Hampshire
Eisenhower
Harold E. Stassen
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
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