New Electrical Union Claims Full Powers
The C I U backed by the newly chartered International Union of Electrical Workers claims jurisdiction over electrical employers and seeks to be the sole bargaining agent, urging 1500 manufacturers to not recognize the national C I O. The move follows a fight with left wing unions amid plans to oust Communist dominated leaders in the C I O.
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Cleveland
Electrical Workers
C. I
International Union of Electrical Workers
U. E
C. 1.0
C 1. 0
C. T. Qs
Philip Murray
James B. Carey
Murray
Carey
Electrical Union
Communist Party
Woman's Violator Gives Himself Up
Casper Wyoming, November 4. A conscience-stricken blacksmith's helper, Ernest Eshelman, 33, admitted assaulting Pearl Lewis after she asked him to take her to a doctor. He said he punched her, panicked as she died, and dumped her body in a vacant lot near the town's southwest edge. He now faces murder charges.
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Casper
Wyo
Louis Cooper
Ernest Eshelman
Pearl Lewis
Rancher Offers to Sell Eye to Save His Property
Chris Coglietti a 42 year old rancher facing foreclosure of a 14200 mortgage offers to sell one eye to raise funds for medical bills and operating costs. He came from Los Angeles in 1942 and lives with wife Marie Mary and son Glen. His plan follows two summer surgeries and a pending third.
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Ntario
Calif
Chris Coglietti
Coglietti
Los Angeles
Italy
Salt Lake City
Marie Mary
Glen
Escaped Man Yearns for Prison to Get Warm
In Montgomery Alabama November 4 an escaped convict telephoned the prison department saying he wanted back in because the ward en is cold outside Thomas Columbus Hale a 44 year old trusty said he walked out of Atmore prison ten days ago wearing a shirt pants shoes and socks He reached Atlanta where temperatures were near freezing Hale called Prison Director Frank Boswell asking to surrender Boswell advised him to turn himself over to Atlanta police
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Montgomery
Ale
Thomas Columbus Hale
Atmore
Atlanta
Frank Boswell
Boswell
Hale
Ex-editor's Recording Used at Funeral
Oscar Q. Whitenack, 79, former Denver Post editor, recorded his own funeral saying he wanted no religious songs and that religion is a racket. The atheist's voice proclaimed the beliefs, and the recording was placed in his casket and buried at Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Denver
Oscar Q. Whitenack
Denver Post Open Forum
White Nack
Crown Hill Cemetery
Mayor Claiborne McDonald Takes Pay Cut
PICAYUNE Mississippi reports on November 4 that Mayor Claiborne McDonald Sr. reduced his own salary by 33 percent after presenting a proposal to the city board of aldermen. The move followed a plan to adjust compensation amid governance changes.
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Picayune
Miss
Claiborne McDonald Sr
City Board of Aldermen
Boston University Bandmaster Alters Alcohol Use for Cold Games
Boston November 4. University bandmaster Edgar Gangware revealed that some musicians carry denatured alcohol in pockets to lubricate instrument valves on cold football afternoons. He stressed it is to be used with an eye dropper and only as antifreeze for valves that freeze.
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Boston
Edgar Gangware
Gangware
Man Out to Free Jailed Wife Who Plotted His Death
Wilford Platt, 34, seeks bail to release his jailed wife Margaret Susan Platt, 31, who admitted hiring two men to murder him over nightly passion disputes. The accused killers Hollis D. Scott and Wallace Mottern, Bremerton residents, face embezzlement charges. both deny intent to kill. Platt pleads for liberty for his spouse and pleads to swap places with her in jail.
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Port Orchard
Wash
Wilford Platt
Margaret Susan Platt
Xitsap County
James Munro
Pratt
Ray R. Greenwood
Jali
Last crash victim taken from river
The Potomac River recovered the final body among 55 dead from Tuesday’s collision between an Eastern Airlines DC 4 and a P 38 fighter. William Smythe, 30, of Roslyn Estates New York, was the passenger and secretary treasurer of Eberhard Faber Pencil Co. Erick Rios Bridoux, 28, Bolivian pilot and sole survivor, remained in critical condition with severe injuries.
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Washington
Potomac River
William Smythe
Roslyn Estates
Long Tend N.Y
Eberhard Faber Pencil Co
Erick Rios Bridoux
Bell “Yian Aviation
Alexandria
Rios Bridoux
Eastern Airlines
National Airport
Ricardo Martinez
Lave
Hoap Ital
Truman Criticized Over Debt and Fair Deal Policy
Republican national chairman Guy Gabrielson said Truman’s government taxes too much and piles debt for future generations while praising Jefferson’s limited government. The dispute followed Truman’s St Paul speech promoting his fair deal to curb communism. Kemper of Chicago resigned as Republican treasurer citing low reserve funds and bipartisan foreign policy differences.
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Washington
Guy Gabrielson
Truman
Gabrielson
Congress
St. Paul
Gabrieleon
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Lnbor
Gabrielson Basa
Ncome
Trunan
James §. Kemper
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Kemper
Republcan
Great Britain
Guy George ‘Gabrielson
Tides and Temperatures Report from Coast Survey
Coast and Geodetic Survey data compiled by Long Beach Lifeguards notes Saturday tides with high at 8:09 a.m. and low at 1:57 p.m. Sunrise is 6:15 a.m. Sunset around 58. water temperatures and surf conditions described as small breakers.
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Coast and Geodetic Survey
Long Beach
Naval Agency Behind Policy Attack Junked
Washington November 4 AP Op 23 a naval agency said to have masterminded the admirals bitter congressional attack on defense policies has been dissolved by Admiral Forrest P Sherman now chief of naval operations Sherman who backed armed forces unification closed the 30 member unit within hours of taking over its work was transferred to other Navy agencies The unit created to study organizational units and policy to aid Navy policy making included 16 officers and 17 enlisted men and was headed by Captain A A Burke who testified in Congress against current Pentagon policy The move followed Sen Tydings critique that US Navy strength lags behind others and a note that the Army would be weak in comparison to Russia The article describes the unit as having completed its tasks and being merged into other Navy agencies
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Washington
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operations
Sherman
Lere
Louis Denfeld
Navy
Office
Chief of Naval Operations
A. A. Burke
Congress
Pentagon
Air Force
National Defense
Operations Division 23
Navy Department
Sen
Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
U. S. Navy
Russia
Actress June Horne Divorces Jackie Cooper Over Custody
Actress June Horne obtained a divorce decree today from Jackie Cooper. Superior Judge William R. Blake granted her custody of their five year old son John Anthony. She alleged cruelty. Cooper rose to fame as a child star in Skippy at age nine and later The Champ. He is 27, she 30. They wed in 1944 and separated soon after.
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Los Angeles
June Horne
Jackie Cooper
William R. Blake
John Anthony
Cooper
Skippy
Norman ‘Taurog
the Champ
Wallace Beery
MacArthur Expects Signing of Japanese Treaty Early in 1950
An unnamead occupation source in Japan says Gen. Douglas MacArthur expects a peace treaty with Japan to be signed in Tokyo early next year. The source notes progress since Bevin and Acheson agreed on major points during economic talks and outlines possible terms including a postwar security pact with the United States and Japan joining the United Nations.
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MacArthur
Mane
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Bevin
U. S
State Acheson
Washington
Mamenindat
China
Russia
Cial
Western Pacific
U. N
United Nations
America
Leading Engineer Dies in Auto Crash
Cincinnati report states Walter A. Landa, a chief engineer for Norden Inc and a key developer of the Norden bomb sight, was killed in an automobile crash late yesterday. The New York resident from El mira, N.Y., was among Norden’s prominent engineers.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Walter A. Landaeldel
Elmira
N. Y
Norden
Ion Rand, Inc
Three Powers Set for Conference on Reich Policy
The United States Britain and France plan a Paris meeting next week to shape a joint anti German policy. Discussions may broaden to Western relations with Russia Yugoslavia and East Germany amid potential dismantling debates and Tito's fate. Vishinsky will visit Washington for a courtesy call.
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United States
Britain
France
Paris
Germany
London
Washington
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
U. S
State Acheson
Vishinsky
Acheson
Foreign Office
John J. McCloy
East Germany
West Germany
Alec
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Ecuador Good Will Fliers Visit New Orleans
Ten Ecuadorian pilots from the Aero Club of Ecuador were hosted in New Orleans to thank the city for aid after last August’s earthquake. The fliers toured the city and dined with city officials at International House as part of a 20 000 mile goodwill flight.
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New Orleans
Aero Club of Ecuador
International House
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