Five Indicted in Contempt Probe of Communist Ties
The Senate and a House committee charged Browder, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, and Philip Jaffe with contempt for refusing to answer questions during a congressional inquiry into communism. Edward A. Rumely and two others face indictments for similar refusals. Browder led the American Communist party for years. Field and Jaffe faced related cases connected to Amerasia and other inquiries. Indictments list 16, 32, and 26 counts respectively, with potential penalties up to a year in jail and $1,000 per count.
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Browder
Frederick Vanderbilt
Philip J
Senate
Communisternment Chase
Edward A. Rumely
Committee For Constitutional Government
House
Joseph P. Sue
Cnmes
Thestitutional Educational League
William L. Patterson
Civil We Congress
Grasse Pauta
Tydings
D.-Md
Field
Jaffe
New Yorker
Communist Party
Institute of Pacific Affairs
Is Budenz
Amerasia
New York
District of Columbia
Troop Train Rams Freight in Screven Georgia
A troop train carrying about 200 soldiers collided with a parked freight train at Screven. Both trains caught fire destroying the depot and several cars. All soldiers were accounted for with minor injuries. brakes failed and the crew escaped before impact. The crash occurred on Atlantic Coast Line tracks near Camp Rucker bound from Savannah to Alabama.
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Screven
Savannah
Here
Camp Rucker
Ala
W. Collins
Atlantic Coast Line Railway
Bipartisan Foreign Policy Commission Proposed by Senator Johnson
Senator Edwin C. Johnson proposed a six Democrats six Republicans advisory commission to shape U S foreign policy across elections. The panel would be continuous and chosen by parties, not the President, providing secret background briefings while allowing final presidential decisions. Taft and Hendrickson weighed in amid anti administration sentiment and calls to reassess U S international role. Senator Wherry signaled immediate scrutiny of administration policy in the lame duck session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Colo
Truman
Johnson
Ickson
N.J
Taft
Ohio
Toledo Blade
Hendrickson
Blade
Recef
New Jersey
Wherry
Nebraska
State Acheson
Mother and son survive 15 hours stranded on icy Blue Ridge
Mildred E. Harkey and her seven year old son Allan were marooned for 15 hours in a 1940 Ford on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Linville at 4000 feet after a snowbound dash left them in 15 below zero. They burned upholstery to keep warm, kept a dashboard fire, and avoided frostbite. They were treated in Asheville hospital and released the next day.
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Asheville
Holly
Blue Ridge Parkway Rangers
Mildred E. Harkey
Allan
Blue Ridge Parkway
Linville
Isle Koch On Trial At Augsburg Court
Isle Koch known as the witch of Buchenwald faced trial in Augsburg accused of instigating the murder of 45 inmates and planning to murder 135 others at the Nazi camp. She sat impassive as prosecutors pressed charges from past crimes tied to her late husband’s command.
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Augsburg
Germany
Isle Koch
Buchenwald
U. S
Dachau
Domestic Storms Dominate New Session News
Washington November 27 Congress opens a short session but major headlines recount disasters. A deadly Long Island Rail Road crash shocks the nation as an unprecedented east coast storm followed, bringing at least 200 deaths and heavy damage inland through Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia. The storm, though not a typical blizzard, featured warm air and unusual snow patterns. Weather officials note one storm with multiple facets, driven by a large low pressure area. They compare to historic killers hurricanes and tornadoes, citing Galveston 1900 and the Tri State tornado of 1925 as worst in their classes, and noting Johnstown 1889 as the worst flood.
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Washington
Congress
Long Island
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Carolinas
Galveston
Tex
Gulf
Tristate
Missouri
Mllinois
Indiana
Johnstown
Normalcy Returns in Most Storm Areas After Appalachian Event
News reports show the eastern seaboard regaining energy, with 76 deaths tallied across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and beyond. Property losses reach an estimated 100 million dollars in the northeast as power and communications slowly resume and cold relief arrives after the massive storm diffusion.
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New York
Seaboard
South Carolina
Maine
New England
Lake Erie
Ohio
Freshman Senators Take Oaths of Office Today
Willis Smith of North Carolina became a U S senator ahead of schedule taking his oath as the 78th Congress convened He was joined by Earle C Clements of Kentucky both Democrats In the same session other freshmen expected include Frank Carlson Richard Nixon and Robert Byrd The oaths and seniority rules shape early committee assignments and party leadership moves as the new Senate convenes to begin its term
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Washington
Willis Smith
North Carolina
U.S. Senate
Senate
Smith
Hoey
D-Nc
Barkley
North Carolina Board of Elections
Frank P. Graham
Earle C. Clements
Kentucky
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Richard M. Nixon
California
American Bar Association
Truman
Frank Graham
Clements
House of Representatives
Withers
Nixon
Downey
D.-Calif
Earl Warren
William F. Knowland
Pastore
Rhode Island
Leahy
Cold Blasts Ease Hold On Carolina
The year’s worst cold spell eased slightly as the Carolinas faced continuing severe winter weather. Four deaths were attributed to the cold in both states, with wind and ice disrupting travel and schools. In North Carolina, two deaths occurred near Vei an Falls and Hamlet, and in South Carolina a Charleston waterfront death and a Columbia death were reported. Coasts guardsmen rescued 21 boys off a windswept island near Charleston. Farmers noted crop damage but potential insect control from the freeze. Maximum readings stayed in the forties in SC and thirties in NC.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
U. S. Weather Bureau
Charleston
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Piedmont
mid-Atlantic
New England
Eastern Seaboard
Canada
Gulf of Mexco
South Carolina
Tar Heel
James Ee Elmore
Ian
Mary Toomer
Robert O. Busbee
Columbia
Man Dies on Train Near Greensboro
W. Robert Cameron, 62, of Paoli Pennsylvania president of General Coal Co died aboard a Southern railway train between Greensboro and High Point likely of a heart attack. He and his wife Narcissa Beal Cameron were returning from a visit to a daughter in Charlotte. The body was taken off the train at 11 08 p m and will rest at Hanes funeral home. Cameron a 1909 Princeton graduate was brother of Eddie Cameron Duke athletics director.
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Greensboro
W. Robert Cameron
Paoli
General Coal Co
Pennsylvania
Southern Railway
Here
High Point
Narcissa Beal Cameron
David B. Smith
Charlotte
Hanes Funeral
Live Firing Demonstrations at Fort Bragg
At Fort Bragg a 200 strong group of officers including 10 generals and an admiral observed two days of live firing demonstrations. The highlight is a 82nd airborne division battalion drop at 10 a.m. with paratroops from Stewart AFB Tennessee and aerial support from Turner AFB Georgia.
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Fort Bragg
82Nd Airborne Division
314Th
Stewart Air Force Base
Tennessee
Vision
Army Air Support Center
Army
Air Force
Ninth Air Force Thunder
82Nd Airborne
Chinese Reds Strike as UN Front Falters in Korea
Chinese forces estimated at over 100,000 attacked Allied lines along the 80 mile front from the Yellow Sea inland toward Tokchon. U N divisions including the 25th and second faced heavy counterattacks as reserves from America Britain and Turkey moved up to bolster the eastern and center sectors.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Don White
U. S
Yellow Sea
Republic of Korea
ROK
Lief Erickson
ROK Seventh
Eighth
MacArthur
E Ted
U. N
Whitehead
Eighth Army
Changjin
Erickson
Tokchon
U.N
U. N. First Cavalry
White House Presses Rail Union Settlement Talks
The White House resumes efforts to unite four rail unions representing about 350,000 workers in a single deal. John R. Steelman leads discussions with union heads and rail carriers as government seizure looms over wage increases and a 40 hour work week.
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Washington
White House
John R. Steelman
Truman
Steelman
Gill to Take Over Friday as Internal Revenue Collector
Former state revenue commissioner M. Gill will be sworn in Friday morning in Greensboro as North Carolina's new internal revenue collector. Gill was appointed by Senator Frank P. Graham to replace retiring C. O. Robertson. the oath will be administered by Superior Court Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke Rapids.
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Raleigh
Navy
Edwin M. Gill
Greensboro
North Carolina
Internal Revenue
Gill
Frank P. Graham
C. O. Robertson
Superior Court
R. Hunt Parker
Roanoke Rapids Pig
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Foreign Policy Commission
James J. Metcalfe
Field Enterprises, Ihe
Phoenix
Ariz
Nolya Jamison
Nolya
Valley of the Sun
Pittsburgh
Doris Weight
Lake Huron
Mississippi River
Carolina
Cameron
Princeton University
Eddie Cameron
Duke University
Durham
Ft. Bragg
31St Fighter Group
Turner AF Base
Army Field Forces Board No. 1
Ninth Air Force
Korea
W. R. Wolfinbarger
Tactical
Pope Field
Brig
G. J. Hiegens
Mark Clark
Army Field Forces
Admiral Hall
Armedforces Staff College
Robert O. Shee
Robert C. Candee
Koto-Ri
Reef
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