Soviet Marshal Denounces Allied Germany Occupation
Soviet Marshal Wassily Sokolovsky denounced Western occupation policies in Germany and accused the United States and Britain of propaganda for a new war. General Lucius Clay disputed the charges as a misrepresentation of facts as the foreign ministers’ conference looms. The attack, a formal address to the Allied Control Council, mirrors prior pistons before the Moscow talks and signals a renewed propaganda drive.
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Wassily D. Sokolovsky
Germany
United States
Lucius D. Clay
Russia
London
Ger- Pynany
Sokolovsky
Allied Control Council
Moscow
Ile
Britain
France
Potsdam
Yalta
Europe
Senate Okay Slated For Emergency Aid
Senate ready to back President Truman's stop gap relief plan for Western Europe with a $597 million aid bill. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan will press quick passage to counter cold and hunger and to allow time for a full review of long range Marshall plan goals for 16 western European nations. House foreign affairs committee signals continued discussion on the aid package.
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Senate
Truman
Vannenperg
Rhepupilican
Michigan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
France
Italy
Austria
Vandenberg
Congress
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Peace Plan Seen as This Generation's Chance for Peace
The Washington Post says the Marshall plan is this generation's chance for peace. It notes birth on a Moscow flight and credits Secretary of State Marshall with conceiving European recovery. The 16 page Sunday supplement features analysis by Eugene Meyer, Herbert Elliston, and Edward T. Folliard, with Foreign Policy Association involvement.
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Washington Post
Moscow
Marshall
Conference of Foreign Ministers
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the Post
Herbert Elliston
Edward T. Folliard
Star
Foreign Policy Association
Paris
Woman injured in Tallulah crash near U S 80
The wife of an Alabama sheriff, Mrs J O Crawford, was critically injured when a car carrying her husband Sheriff J O Crawford Deputy Sheriff R S Eagle and his wife from a Texas vacation crashed into a bridge on U S 80 near Tallulah La. Mrs Crawford was taken to a hospital in Vicksburg Miss for head injury surgery.
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Here
U. S. 80
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Heriff J. O. Crawford
R. S. Eagle
Texarkana
Ark
Crawford
Vicksburg
Miss
Eagle
Reds penetrate Chinese defense near Paoting in Hopeh
A Chinese press dispatch reports 3000 Communist troops attacking Paoting, seven miles southeast of the city, with a northern thrust breaking into government positions along the railroad. Gen Nieh Jung Chen leads three Communist regiments in the assault as government lines try to hold the triangle defense with Peiping and Tientsin nearby.
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Nanking
Hopeh
Yi Shih Pao
Nieh Jung-Chen
Shihkiachwang
Peiping
Tientsin
Living costs reach new record highs in September
The cost of living index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics hit a new peak, 66.1 percent above August 1939. It stood 12.3 percent higher than a year ago and 22.9 percent above June 1946, reflecting ongoing inflation pressures.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Italian Strikes Subside Amid Looming General Walkout
Italy saw a decline in strikes and disorder on November 22 as socialist leader Pietro Nenni warned a nationwide walkout could be called to protest violence against workers. A Communist-led union spokesman rejected the idea, while the constituent assembly approved anti Fascist and anti Monarchist laws empowering action against armed groups.
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Italy
Pietro Nenni
General Confederation of Labor
Nenni
Confederation
Christmas Seal Fund Campaign Across Parishes
The Ouachita Tuberculosis and Public Health Association mails 5000 Christmas letters with a penny stickers to raise funds against TB. E L Sanford is secretary. Louisiana's 64 parishes join in the drive to uncover cases and provide modern treatment, aiming to eradicate tuberculosis as a public menace. A KNOE program on Thanksgiving at 11 offers a half hour show titled Christmas Seal Party with varied talent.
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Ouachita Tuberculosis and Public Health Association
E. L. Sanford
Louisiana
KNOE
Long outlines 15 point program at West Monroe rally
Earl K. Long assailed the Jones-Davis administration as a repudiation of the people and promoted a 15 point plan as a guarantee of prosperity for Louisiana. Speaking to about 2 000 at Crosley school in West Monroe he accused Sam Jones of taking credit for an eight year period of rising prosperity driven by the war and national wage trends.
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West Monroe
Jones-Davis
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Crosley School
Sam Jones
Jones
Peace meeting hopes for progress in Austrian treaty talks
London officials voiced cautious optimism as the big four foreign ministers prepare to open a conference. They see possible progress toward an Austrian treaty to restore independence and end occupation, plus a better understanding on Germany, while doubting any major decisions on unification of the defeated Reich.
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London
Austria
Germany
Reich
Deputies Fail to Bridge Gaps Before Big Four Talks
The Four- Power Foreign Ministers Deputies ended their 13th session in sharp disagreement over preparations for the Big Four meeting. An American source called the session an all time low as Moscow bound Molotov, Bidault, and Marshall prepared for upcoming Germany Austria discussions and a wartime memory contrasted with current tensions.
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London
Foreign Ministers’ Council
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Germany
Austria
George Bidault
George C. Marshall
Oxford University
Attlee
Anthony Eden
Marshall
Schuman Approved as French Premier by National Assembly
Paris grants Robert Schuman 412 votes to 184 opposed as he pledges to defend the republic and move quickly against a crippling strike. In local arts notes, The Monroe Little Theatre's December production The State of the Union features Elizabeth Lawrence and Bid Causey leading cast duties with a political flavor.
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Robert Schuman
Lorraine
Popular
Republican Party
France
Chuman
National Assembly
Leon Blum
de Gaullists
Schuman
Assembly
Monroe Little Theatre
Kay Crandall Causey
Elizabeth Lawrence
Bid Causey
Mrs. Lawrence
Mr. Causey
Mary
Grant Matthews
Sam Parrish
Detroit
Kit Walters
Lullabelle Alexander
Dem
Yanks Dressed as Priests Fail to Find Lost Fliers
Two U S soldiers Edward McCallister and John Fox described their six month disguise as Chinese priests to enter Lololand in western China. They sought any evidence that five downed airmen were held captive and found the locals cautious but cooperative and not hostile.
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China
Nanking
U.S
Edward McCallister
Alleghany
John Fox
Tacoma
Wash
Lololand
U. S
India
Sikang-Szechwan Province
Lololands
McCallister
Wilds
Fox
Mid West hit by subzero weather across plains and Rockies
Subzero temperatures swept the mountain and plains states into the middle west on the eve of Thanksgiving. Butte Montana registered 23 degrees below zero and Wyoming reported subzero readings while Fraser Colorado dipped to 11 below. Scottsbluff Nebraska logged 13 below as Omaha saw three inches of snow and Chadron 13. Snow fell in Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota Nebraska Kansas and Missouri with cold rains in the Mississippi Valley. Federal forecasters warned of continued severe cold]]>
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Middle West
Butte
Mont
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Colorado
Fraser
Scottsbluff
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Omaha
Chadron
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New Mexico
Rockies
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Iowa
Wisconsin
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Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Mississippi Valley
Major General Meyers Linked by Senate to Rotten Apple
The Justice Department moved to bring grand jury action against Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers after H H Arnold called him a rotten apple. Senate investigators said Meyers profited from a war subcontracting firm and used a wife of a dummy president as a girl friend. Attorney General Clark said evidence would go to a grand jury next week for fraud tax evasion and perjury charges.
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Justice Department
Bennett E. Meyers
Senate
Meyers
the Army
H. H. Arnold
Arnold
Army Air Force
Senate War Investigating Committee
Clark
Arab groups call civil war in Haifa clash
In Haifa, Arabs were shot in Allenby street after Hariyeh challenged the Stern gang to battle. Earlier shootings killed one Arab and wounded another, and a girl’s body was found near Kishon river. Hariyeh urged an Arab force to meet in Raanana groves next week.
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Haifa
Hariyeh
Freedom
Stern
Allenby Street
Kishon
Raanana
Stern Gang
Negev
Palestine
Former Senator Davis Dies at Capital at 74
James J. Davis, former U S senator from Pennsylvania and once labor secretary, died early today in a suburban Washington hospital. He was 74 on October 27 and had been ill several times during the past year, including a kidney ailment in September.
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Washington
James J. Davis
U. S
Pennsylvania
Davis
Michigan and USC clinch Rose Bowl berths in dramatic wins
Michigan defeated Ohio State 21 to 0 to seal an undefeated Big Nine title and Rose Bowl spot. Southern California edged UCLA 6 to 0 to claim the Pacific coast title and a Rose Bowl berth as Alabama routed LSU 41 to 12 to earn a Sugar Bowl bid. Doak Walker lifted S M U toward a Cotton Bowl appearance with a home victory. Baylor led late in a tense clash.
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Michigan
Southern California
Alabama
Louisiana State
Southern Methodist
Penn State
Ohio State
Trojans
Harry Gilmer
Doak Walker
Mustangs
Baylor
U S Appeals for Jewish Arab Palestine Partition Plan
Lake Success November 22 The United States urged United Nations approval of partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states with economic union. The U S delegate Herschel W Johnson asked for adoption by as large a majority as possible, calling it the most practicable solution despite imperfections. He countered critics who argued the plan lacked a police force to enforce the creation of two states.
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Lake Success
United States
United Nations
Palestine
U. N
Holy Land
U. S
U.S
Herschel W. Johnson
Palegrine Committee
Johnson
Sir Carl Berendsen
New Zealand
Mohamed Fadhil Jamali
Iraq
Mass graves of Nazi victims found near Hammelburg
United States authorities in Hammelburg Germany announced 68 mass graves of Nazi victims had been known since March 1945. The IRO search team recently found two groups of 34 graves containing 23,200 Russian POWs according to markers. The hill lies beside a cemetery of other allied prisoners of war from the former German camp.
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Hammelburg
Germany
United States
International Refugee Organization
I. R. O. Information Division
U. S
Hamemelburg
Niagara Falls Honeymoon Center to Lose Night Illumination
Niagara Falls Ontario endures a power shortage as Ontario Hydro informs the illumination board that nightly cataract lights will be unavailable indefinitely starting tomorrow night. Secretary Maxim T Gray confirms the city will experience a dim era with store lighting restricted at night.
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Ont
Maxim T. Gray
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