New York Newspaper Guild Names Page One Awards Winners
Westbrook Pegler reports the New York newspaper guild announced page one award winners including Henry Wallace and Sidney Hillman. The piece notes Hillman’s alleged union connections and a Times Vox Pop letter claiming communist bias and lack of broad guild consensus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Newspaper Guild of
Page One
Henry Wallace
Sidney Hillman
Political Action Committee
Hillman
New York Times
Edward Hunter
the Times
John T. McManus
Newspaper Guild of New York
Good Fellows Fund Seeks Christmas Help Amid Rising Need
The Good Fellows Fund stands at 145 dollars with 23 days until Christmas. Readers from Chicago and local supporters send donations and letters describing families in dire need of clothes food and toys for Christmas including widows and children with sick mothers and crippled fathers.
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Senuxenses Good Fellows
Chicago
Teske Boys
News-Star— World
Mr. Good Fellows
Two Armed Convicts Escape From Angola Prison
Louisiana State penitentiary at Angola reports two trusted inmates fled Saturday. Charles W. Cloud 23 of Shreveport and Roy Geddie 36 of Birmingham, Alabama, allegedly hid under a tarpaulin on a sugar cane truck bound for Gramercy. Both were serving five year terms for burglary and robbery. Public notices urged officers in nearby states to watch for them.
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Angola
Louisiana
Louisiana State Penitentiary
B. D. Blalock
Charles W. Cloud
Shreveport
Roy Geddie
Birmingham
Ala
Blalock
Grammercy
D. D. Bazer
Bazer
Cloud
Caddo’ Parish
Geddie
Rapides Parish
U S Fears Soviet Arms Plan Seeks Veto Control
The United States accused Soviet Russia of steering arms limits to outlaw the atomic bomb and bury other weapons under UN Security Council veto. Sen. Tom Connally labeled the plan too narrow and insisted on inspection machinery without a veto to ensure all nations observe disarmament rules. Molotov had accepted general international inspection in principle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connally
United States
Security Council
V. M. Molotov
Bakery Driver dies in Ouachita crash at Tenth Street
Leo Miller 39 of 1018 South Third Street, a driver for Ouachita Baking, was killed at 11 30 AM Monday in a collision of a bread truck and a Chrysler sedan at Ouachita Avenue and Tenth Street. He died en route to St Francis Sanitarium. Miller, a former Army serviceman, left a wife Patricia Kay and a 3 year old daughter. Survivors include his mother, three brothers and two sisters.
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Leo Miller
South Third Street
Ouachita Baking Company
Ouachita Avenue
Tenth Street
St. Francis Sanitarium
Mulhearn
Miller
Tenth
Cicero Payne
Thirteenth Street
Quachita
James T. French
Baking Company
Army
France
Germany
Patricia Kay
Angie Miller
Frank
Sam
Charles Miller
Monroe
Rose Carrero
Sam Ciraulo
San Jose
Calif
Decision on Draft Resuming in January Faces Decision
Washington reports an army decision this week on restarting the draft in January after a two month break. Officials say Secretary Patterson and General Eisenhower hold the recommendations, with advisers favoring a February call to spur volunteers and bolster manpower.
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Washington
Patterson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
War Department
Selective Service
Army
Congress
National Guard
Operation High Jump readies South Polar voyage
The U S S Mt Olympus leads a 4,000 man Antarctic expedition with four ships from Norfolk and five from the West Coast. They sail to test cold weather operations and explore Antarctica, aiming for a four month mission with a base on the Ross ice shelf and an airstrip to be prepared for January planes. The force under Adm Richard Byrd splits into three task groups to reach the Ross Sea and push into challenging polar seas.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
JU. S. S. MT. Olympus
Norfolk
South Polar
Antarctica
Mt. Olympus
Pine Island
Brownson
Richard E. Byrd
Olympus
Antarctic Ocean
Panama Canal
Balboa
Antarctic
San Diego
Port Hueneme
Calif
Adm
Richard H. Cruzen
Ross Sea
Ross Ice Shelf
Philippine Sea
Old lifer rejects offer of parole at San Quentin
Antonio Di Tardo, 72, a lifer at San Quentin, turned down a parole offer for the second time. He said he prefers prison life, where he is treated well and enjoys a portable phonograph and a stash of Italian opera records. He has been in prison 26 years for shooting his wife to death in a quarrel.
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San Quentin
Calif
Dec
Antonio di Tardo
San Quentin Prison
California
Clinton Duffy
di Tardo
Italy
Elliott Roosevelt denies embassy implicated in Moscow remarks
Elliott Roosevelt, touring southern Russia, denied charges that the U S embassy or its officials were involved in publication of off the record remarks attributed to him. He called the report a tempest in a teapot and said he would consider writing about how the story got out. Newsweek stood by its story, saying the material came from a reliable witness at the party.
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Moscow
Elliott Roosevelt
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
United Press
U. S
Roosevelt
Newsweek Magazine
Yalta
Potsdam
Tehran
America
New York
Chet Shaw
Newsweek
Shaw
License Plate Rush Comes Two Weeks Early
J M Hawkins Fifth district revenue office manager faced eager auto owners who arrived December 1 with $3 payments for 1947 license plates. He and staff explained plates would not go on sale until December 16 due to delays in plate arrival.
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J. M. Hawkins
Fifth District
State Department of Revenue
Heninger
Coal shortages idle 104000 workers amid soft coal crisis
In Pittsburgh and surrounding districts 104,000 plus 400,000 miners idle as coal consuming industries shut down. Steel output in Youngstown area at 35 percent capacity. open hearths and blast furnaces reduced. Plants in New York state furlough workers. gas shortages force layoffs amid cooling demand.
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Pittsburgh
Youngstown
Bessemer
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Erie Railroad
New York State
Schenectady
General Electric
Porcelain Department
Burdick and Sons Metal Working
Albany
Troy
N. Y
L. E. Gurley Co
Mihai Seeks US and UK Friendship as Romania Opens Parliament
King Mihai declared Romania desires closer relations with the United States and Britain. Prime Minister Groza’s leftist cabinet vows peace and stability as parliament includes women for the first time and opposition parties boycott the opening.
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Bucharest
Romania
Mihai
U. S
Britain
United Nations
Premeir Petru Groza
Groza
National Peasant
Liberal Party
Riots in Shanghai Leave 100 Injured Amid Shoot to Kill Orders
Shanghai officials report at least 100 injured as rioting erupts after efforts to clear unlicensed peddlers. Police with shoot to kill orders guard streets while stores close and death toll rumors surface. Mayor Wu blames Communist agitators for the clashes and vows to restore order. An AP photographer witnesses crowd violence and police fire at protesters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
K. C. Wu
Associated Press
Don Carlos Roque
Whangpoo
Roque
U. S. British Pact Alleged by Daily Worker
The Daily Worker claims Britain plans a ten year de facto military pact with the United States to merge forces and arms supply. It says the plan involves A V Alexander as defense minister and Gen Sir William Morgan directing a Washington mission.
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London
Daily Worker
United States
U. S
Britain
Worker
War Office
A. V. Alexander
William Morgan
Mediterranean
Washington
W. L. Mackenzie King
Canada
Newsreel Evidence in Lewis Contempt Case debated in court
The government seeks to admit a newsreel transcript showing John L. Lewis calling last spring's coal strike settlement effective for government operation. Judge Goldsborough postpones ruling while defense objects citing irrelevance to contempt. Government aims to prove Lewis acted with willfulness in canceling the contract and triggering the miners walkout.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
John F. Sennett
Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Welly K. Hopkins
Hopkins
United Mine Workers
Federal Coal Mines Administration
Coal Mines
N, H
Wyatt waits for housing word in interagency dispute
Washington December 2 Wyatt housing chief presses for White House backing in an inter agency fight over housing policy He seeks a conference with President Truman to publish the report on measures to speed home building for veterans and to force cooperation from CPA RFC WAA and WPA in a broad reorganization effort affecting a CPA liquidation unit and pre fabricated housing programs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson W. Wyatt
White House
National Housing Agency
Wyatt
Truman
John R. Steelman
NHA
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
War Assets Administration
Civilian Production Administration
CPA
WAA
Chicago
Death of Father Valen tine Schaff in Rome at 63
Father Valentine Schaff 63 general of the minor friars in the Franciscan order died last night in Rome after a cerebral paralysis attack. The Cincinnati native had returned to Rome a week earlier from a visit to the United States.
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Rome
Valentine Schaff
Minor Friars
Franciscan Order
Molotov Emerges as Possible Stalin Successor in MoscowRumors
London dispatch reports Moscow press praising Vyacheslav Molotov as Stalin’s likely heir amid questions over Stalin’s health. Molotov, 56, is a longtime Communist official and one of eight vice-chairmen of the council of ministers. If chosen, he would supersede Stalin who has not attended recent revolution celebrations.
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Ed Creagh
London
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Europe
Stalin
Molotov
Moscow
Soviet Academy of Science
Paris
New York
Communist Party
Russia
Council of Ministers
George M. Malenkov
Andrei Andreyev
Lavrenti P. Beria
A. M. Zhda
Negro leader testifies on Bilbo campaign ties in Mississippi
T B Wilson president of the Mississippi Progressive Voters League testified before a Senate committee investigating intimidation in the Democratic primary. He said he believed Bilbo's campaign speeches connected to threats against Black voters and noted only 414 of 55 445 eligible Negro voters in Hinds County registered. He cited past disinterest due to primaries and a revived interest from a Supreme Court Texas decision, then renewed discouragement under Bilbo's rallying.
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Jackson
Miss
Theo G. Bilbo
Mississippi
T. B. Wilson
Mississippi Progressive Voters’ League
Senate
Bilbo
Sen
Ellender
League
Hinds County
Wilson
U. S. Supreme Court
Texas
Bulbo
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Pegler
Good Fellows’ Fund
Butchie
Paul Teske
Tom's Radio Hospital
Monroe Typographical Union Ae
Patrick Shirah
Nations
Dallas
J. W. Owens
Neiman Marcus
Old Lifer
E. Roosevelt
King Mihai
United Mine Workers’ Counsel
Father Schaff
Negro
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