Immediate world troop census debated at UN meeting
A 54 member UN political and security committee considers an immediate worldwide census of troops at home and abroad. Britain and the United States push for full reporting by January 1 1947, while the Soviet Union agrees to report abroad only. Britain seeks an inspection board. no vote is planned today.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
V. M. Molotov
S&s
Tom Connally
D-Tex
Philip Noel- Baker
Molotov
United States
Britain
Tey
Noel Baker
Russia
Connally
America
Subpoena Issued for Interior Secretary Krug Over Coal Crisis
A congressional committee voted to subpoena Interior Secretary Krug in the coal strike dispute. Krug had not appeared after an invitation, and the panel seeks details on the $143 million "big inch" and "little inch" pipelines moving gas from southwest to the coal-short east. Senator Wiley noted the unprecedented move raising checks and balances concerns. Krug plans to comply and meet the committee Monday after talks with Attorney General Tom Clark.
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Washington
Congressional
Secretary of the Interior
Krug
John L. Lewis
House
Big Inc
Committee of Congress
Wiley
R-Wis
Judiciary Committee
Congress
Tom Clark
Miners Leader Holds Government Responsible For Walkout
John L. Lewis blamed the government for the soft coal strike threatening reconversion. Padway led Lewis deputies in court arguing the government is subject to labor injunction laws with no exemption as the UMWA and government dispute continued.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
AFL General Council
Joseph Padway
Lewis’ Legal Corps
United Mine Workers
Padway
Secret Session Shapes Trieste Peace Draft Talks
New York date, world news says the Big Four foreign ministers met in secrecy to push toward a final draft of the European peace treaties. Byrnes Molotov Bevin and de Murville discussed the Trieste issue and about 30 open questions, with a likely accord in private talks and limited press details through the session.
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New York
Trieste
Byrnes
Molotov
Oreign
Bevin
Oave de Murville
Yesay
Kidd Brewer Heads Demos North Carolina Young Democrats
Kidd Brewer, secretary to Senator Jah W. Bailey, is elected head of the North Carolina Young Democrats in Washington. He succeeds Harold Thomerson as secretary to Rep. John Folger of the 5th district at the annual meeting. New officers include Mrs. Lamar Caudle as first vice president Henry Leslie as second vice president Leonard Parker as treasurer Madeline Pitts as recording secretary and Carolyn Bason as corresponding secretary.
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Washington
Idd Brewer
Jah W. Bailey
Caryn Bason
Yanceyville
Weather outlook for Carolina: showers then clearing
Mostly cloudy today with evening partial clearing in the west. Showers affect coastal areas. By Thursday expect clear to partly cloudy skies with a mild turn. Sunrise 5 07, sunset 5 07 as calendar notes November 26 1946.
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Worth Carolina
West Perm
Epes Considers New Avenues to Escape Lifelong Penitentiary
Samuel C. Epes faces two potential routes to avoid life in prison for his wife’s death. An existing state supreme court appeal for a new trial and a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. No decision announced.
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Columbia
S. C
Samuel C. Epes
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Epes
Edgar A. Brown
Ransome J. Williams
Richmond
Mary Lee Williams
100 Lose Jobs In State
Fair and mild weather for Thanksgiving day and Friday in North Carolina was predicted as the coal strike headed into its second week, but 100 workers were laid off temporarily in Asheville with more suspensions likely. Municipal plants in Wilson Kingston and New Bern ordered dimouts as coal supplies ranged from 10 to 30 days. Mayor Jack Boyd of Greenville.
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North Carolina
Asheville
Southern Railway
Wilson
Kinston
New Bern
Jack Boyd
Greenville
Demonstration by Egyptians at Fuad University
Cairo reports a large student march at Fuad University denouncing Sidky Pasha and Bevin with cries of Down with Sidky Pasha Down with Bevin. Police watched as demonstrators burned logs and damaged lines while Britain withdraws naval personnel from Alexandria and evaluations of the Anglo Egyptian alliance proceed. The chamber of deputies backed Premier Sidky Pasha in a confidence vote, clearing the path for a revised treaty.
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Egypt
Fuad University
Sidky Pasha
Bevin
Admiralty
London
Alexandria
Alexander
Nile Valley
Malta
Cyprus
Haifa
Chamber of Deputies
Wyatt Seeks White House Backing for Housing Program
Housing expeditor Wilson Wyatt urged President Truman to back a unified federal effort for veterans housing. He warned he might resign if the White House does not affirm powers to marshal government resources, clashing with the RFC over financing prefab housing and with the WAA over leasing a $171 million Chicago plant to Lustron.
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Washington
Wilson Wyatt
Truman
Wyatt
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
War Assets Administration
Chicago
Lustron Corporation
WAA
Tucker Corporation
State Will Have Peaceful Holiday
Gov. Cherry spoke of a durable peace in his Thanksgiving proclamation as North Carolinians prepared for special church services. The state planned closures of offices stores and banks with many industries closing though cotton textile plants would operate normally. Most newspapers would publish though some would not. Open season on turkey and quail opens tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Cherry
Turkey
Hunt
Move to Open Schools Made
ST PAUL Minn Nov 27 The St Paul council of parents and teachers urged urgent city action to reopen 77 grade and high schools strikebound since Monday with 1000 teachers picketing for higher salaries. Gov Thye summoned Ramsey county legislators to meet the eight member strike negotiating committee after two days of talks ended without agreement and teachers were ordered back to picket lines.
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ST. Paul, Minn
St. Paul
Skeleton That Of Nazi POW
New Bern correspondent reports a human skeleton found near New Bern by deer hunters may be a German prisoner of war who escaped in April 1945. Coroner A. W. Daugherty states the prisoner likely hanged himself from a belt to a small tree. a neck bone remained in the improvised noose.
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New Bern
Here
A. W. Daugherty
Daugherty
Strike May Result In Food Shortage
Washington officials warned a prolonged coal strike could trigger food shortages in major cities due to reduced rail shipments of livestock and fuel shortages. Processing plants from dairies to sugar refineries would curtail operations, impacting dairy, oils, meat, and perishable products while exports and tobacco processing may also suffer.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Florida
Texas
California
East
Midwest
Miners Credit May Be Cut
Charleston reports that some soft-coal miners could face bare Thanksgiving dinners as operators weigh extending credit at company stores. Attorneys warned such credits to strikers might violate the Smith Connally act, though labor commissioner Kennedy says no known cases of credit withholding exist.
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Charleston
W. Va
Harry G. Kennedy
Kanawha Coal Operators Association
Kennedy
Coal Walkout Grips Nation Amid Widespread Unemployment
Pittsburgh reports amid a coal stoppage 80,000 related workers unemployed with 200,000 to 250,000 expected idle next week. Schools in Denver to Philadelphia close heatless, 21 states see brownouts, and 400,000 miners may join the strike. U S Steel notes near non existent coal stocks and shrinking operations.
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Denver
Philadelphia
Provo
Utah
Irving S. Olds
U. S. Steel Corp
Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce
Tri-State Industrial Association
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Chinese Reds Await Soviet Withdrawal From Dairen
Reports from Peiping say Gen Tu Li Ming asked the Soviets to indicate when Red army troops would withdraw from Dairen free port but no answer was given. Chinese officials prepare to move to Dairen as rumors of a Sino Soviet agreement circulate.
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Peiping
Gen- Tu Li-Ming
Manchuria
Dairen
Mukden
Pulantien
Kwantung Leased
Red Army
North China
Yenan
National Assembly
Nankine
Federal Judge rebukes United Mine Workers leader in contempt case
Judge T Alan Goldsborough told John L Lewis and 400000 UMW members they made a very great mistake by walking out before a court ruling on a government contract dispute. He interrupted Lewis as opening arguments for dismissal of the contempt citation.
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Washington
T. Alan Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
United Mine
Lewis
Goldsborough
Government clash over Norris La Guardia act cited in mine shutdown
In opening arguments on contempt for United Mine Workers President Lewis, officials argued Norris La Guardia limits apply to private management, not the government. The coal mines seized by the government remained shut despite a federal injunction, and Padway condemned the injunction as a command to return to work as Judge Goldsborough pressed for the contempt ruling.
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Lewis
Federal District Court
Alan Goldsborough
House
Maryland
Norris-La Guardia
T. Alan Goldsborough
United Mine Workers
Goldsborough
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