AFL President Green Dies After Heart Attack
William Green, 82, longtime AFL president and miner turned labor leader, dies at home in Coshocton after a heart attack. He led 8,000,000 AFL members, guiding the union through decades of growth. George Meany becomes acting president. funeral planned for Monday.
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Philip Murray
CIC
William Green
AFL
Green
Murray
Coshocton
William ¥. Green
American Federation of Labor
CIO
Phillip Murray
San Francisco
Coshocton County
Ohio
Clarence Searr
Weather forecast notes scattered showers and cool weekend
The weather report warns of partial cloudiness and possible late showers around the football game. It cautions fans to bring foul weather gear and predicts continued cool conditions into the weekend with a chance of drizzle for night celebrations.
Gordon Street and the ordinary middle class life
A reader letter describes Gordon Street as a plain tract street with trees and heavy foot traffic from salesmen. It portrays its residents as the average middle class, including clerks, mechanics, teachers, an engineer, and drivers, all earning average salaries amid pets and gophers in sixteen houses.
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Gordon St
Reds probe Sniper Ridge in pre-dawn clashes
Seoul reports a pre-dawn lull as Chinese Reds launched a series of small probes along Sniper Ridge and surrounding fronts, repelled after a one hour fight. Allied patrols tested Red positions, signaling likely preparation for a major new attack while Fifth Air Force bombers hit supply lines and a coastal center.
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Seoul
Sniper Ridge
Triangle Hill
Fifth Air Force
Service Needs Girls or Dads
Washington announced that Assistant Defense Secretary Anna M. Rosenberg warned it may be necessary to draft more young fathers or recall additional reservists unless more women volunteer for the armed forces. She noted women are joining at about 1850 a month now versus 850 in 1950, and urged increased female enlistment to avoid tapping fathers or existing war veterans. The report also mentions McKenzie & Co. branches in Peking and Wuhan being seized.
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Washington
Defense
Anna M. Rosenberg
McKenzie & Co
Peking
Wuhan
Hiss Becomes Eligible for Parole
Former State Department official Alger Hiss, convicted of perjury in espionage cases, qualifies for parole after serving one year and a third of his five year sentence. The Federal Parole Board reviews his interview transcript with Chairman George G. Killinger as it weighs freedom next.
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Waesmiuiuiu
The
Ager Hiss
State Department
Russia
Hiss
Federal Parole Board
George G. Killinger
Tall Gunman Robs Manor Market for 6000 in Norwalk
A six foot bandit with a blue-steel automatic robbed Manor Market at 11018 Rosecrans Ave Norwalk of 6000 during late Friday rush hour trapping two employees in a storage room. Clerk Charles Reilly 23 and assistant manager Johnny Anderson 38 were ordered to open the safe. Deputies were notified and the suspect fled the scene.
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Norwalk
Manor Market
Rosecrans Ave
Charles ©. Reilly
Clarkdale Ave
Reilly
Johnny “Anderson
Anderson
E. Lindale Ave
Sheriff's
S. M. Jones
R. 5. Phillips
Water Hole Wrecks Draw Patrol and Tow Trucks
Deputy H T Meilman spotted a red coupe nose down in a Narbonne Avenue water hole. A tow truck recovered the sheriff’s car and a crane helped free it after the tow truck was pulled out. Salvatore Manzello of San Pedro reported his coupe had been recovered in an unusually tangled scene.
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Lomita
iIt
H. T. Meilman
Lennox
Salvatore Manzello
Centre St
San Pedro
Subsidies Granted to Two West Coast Steamship Lines
The Federal Maritime Board approved federal operating subsidies for two San Francisco based firms, Pacific Transport Lines Inc and Pacific Far East Lines Inc, for trans-Pacific freight service.
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Washington
Federal Maritime Board
San Francisco
trans-Pacific Freight Service
Pacific Transport Lines, Inc
Pacific Far East, Lines, Inc
Rich mond Man Sentenced For Passing Checks
Tom Oliver, 35, of Richmond, began a one year jail term Friday for passing checks with insufficient funds. He cannot read or write and did not know the check amounts. Friends prepared the checks for him.
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Martinezs
Tommy Oliver
Richmond
Oliver
Mayfair Park Pool Blocked By War Board
Mayfair Park pool construction facing delay as National Production Authority blocks funding. Lakewood and Bellflower residents await approval after county appeal for reconsideration dated Sept. 30. The Olympic type facility would serve 500 to 800 swimmers at Mayfair Park near Clark Avenue and South Street.
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Mayfair Park
War Board
Bellflower
Lakewood
Long Beach
William J. Fox
Clark Ave
South St
Torrance Girls Missing Spark Wide Police Search
Two Torrance High School girls missing since Tuesday trigger a large scale search by police, school friends, and parents. Nightly searches by organized groups from the high school comb Palos Verdes terrain and remote areas seeking Margaret Epefanio, 14, daughter of Mr and Mrs Tony Janio, and Joann Harlan, 15, daughter of Mr and Mrs Leo Harlan. The girls were last seen by school friends entering a car near the high school Tuesday afternoon.
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Torrance
Palos ‘Verdes
Margaret Epefanio
Tony Janio
Cabrillo Ave
Joann Harlan
Leo Harlan
Andrea Ave
Jury Acquits L B Youths Of Beating Pompon Girl
In Municipal Court a six man six woman jury found Robert Matthey and Jack D Thomas not guilty of disorderly conduct and assault and battery after a seven day trial. The acquittal followed two hours ten minutes of deliberation. The case centered on an alleged beating of Wilson High pompon girl Joan Flamer at the Wilson Jordan football game October 17.
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Robert Matiney
Jack D. Thomas
Mary E. Vaughan
Staading
Darlene Lane
Jorden High School
Wilson High
Robert Mattney
Bott
Percy Hight
Joan Flamer
Jordan Stadium
Dep
Orlin Peterson
Matthey
Thomas Ince
Jrel
Quakes Jolt Southern California and San Francisco
A slight quake jolted Southern California around 11 48 p m Friday with no damage reported. One minute earlier a sharp quake hit the San Francisco Bay area. San Mateo County deputies described a strong rolling shock lasting over a minute while Hollister officers said it felt pretty stiff. Bakersfield police noted only slight effects and Los Angeles police reported door chimes rang.
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U.P
California
San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco
Redwood City
San Mateo County
San Mateo
Hollister
Bakersfield
Here
Bridegroom Dies Three Hours After Wedding in Indenture
Henry Cox aged 70 died of a heart attack in Hazleton Indiana three hours after marrying Mary Miley aged 68. The ceremony occurred that day at the local church and Cox collapsed shortly afterward. The bride remains widowed.
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Hazleton
Ind
Henry
Anti Aircraft Brigade Arrives to Set Up Guns in L A Area
The 47th Anti Aircraft Artillery Brigade arrives at Fort MacArthur to command radar controlled anti aircraft batteries in the Long Beach Los Angeles region. Col Gerald G Gibbs leads the unit which will bolster bomber defense with plans for additional personnel over two months.
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L.A
Pedro Sinners
Long Beach
Los Angeles
47Th
Fort MacArthur
Gerald G. Gibbs
Red purge in old corral spooks readers abroad
A chaotic broadcast from Tokyo reports Communist radio claims about Chinese cowboys Mongolian herdsmen using scented soap and a new Soviet barging method on the Yangtze. The piece notes vague tactics and a claim buyers pay triple prices with no clear sourcing.
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Tokyo
Elping
Yangtze
Eisenhower appoints 3 more to major posts in cabinet
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower announced key staffing decisions for his administration. George E. Humphrey will be secretary of the treasury, Herbert Brownell Jr. named attorney general and Harold E. Stassen to head the Mutual Security Agency. Brownell will ask J Edgar Hoover to remain FBI director. The moves fill five of nine cabinet posts as Eisenhower teams with Taft allies in a new government lineup.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
General Motors
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
New York
Eisenhower
Herbert Brownell Jr
Davey
Brownell
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Humphrey
Treasury
Taft
Col
Ike Appalled At Problems Facing New Administration
President Truman said Friday that President-Elect Eisenhower was rather appalled by the briefing on the problems facing the incoming Republican administration. Truman noted the chief executive must grasp the implications of decisions and the scale of responsibility, warning the issues before the United States are without parallel in history. He added he is anxious to provide his successor with as much information as possible.
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Green
Ena
AFL
Samuel Gompers
Washington
George Meany
Meany
George M. Harrison
Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks
William L. McFeteridge
Building Service Employer’ Union
Truman
Eisenhower
White House
Mr. Man
Iteres Era
Ploves
Reds Nnb British Shanghai Firms
Tokyo dispatch reports Peiping Radio stating the Chinese Communist army seized four British firms in Shanghai for the public interest. The claim follows a wider seizure pattern amid wartime tensions and foreign business interruptions in the city.
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Reds
British Shanghai
Tokyo
Peiping
Communist Army Red
Shanghai
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