Fair Enough Exposes Union Mobster Trip to Europe
Column details a 1930s era tour linked to Joseph V. Moreschi head of a U S L linked Hod Carriers Union racket. Names include Jamel Bove Nick Stirone and Judge Vincent Brogna with notes on their roles and alleged criminal circles.
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American Federation of Labor
Russia
Europe
Joseph V. Moreschi
Hod Carriers Union
U. S of L
Jamel Bove
New York
Nick Stirone
Fittsburgh
Detroit
Vincent Brogna
Superior Court of
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Brogna
Milan
Moreschi
Joseph B. Ely
Ely
Brogas
Stirone
Angelina
Bove
U.S. Eases Trade Limits With Tito Regime
The United States quietly relaxes export controls to Yugoslavia to aid Marshal Tito in his resistance to Soviet pressure. Officials say only a few goods are allowed and that Tito is viewed as an anti capitalist critic rather than pro Western democracy.
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Washington
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Tito
United States
Kremlin
Russia
Albania
Romania
Mechanic sentenced to death for nurse murder raping on first date
A Pulaski circuit court jury convicted 28-year-old Thomas Edwin Black of murder after he raped 23-year-old Betty Jane McCall on their first date. Black testified the nurse consented then bit his hand during a quarrel and he struck her before abandoning the body at police headquarters. The crime occurred in September after a nightclub first date.
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Little Rock
Ark
Pulaski
Thomas Edwin Black
Black
Betty Jane McCall
Truman Plans China Aid Talks With Madame Chiang
President Truman said aid to China would be discussed when he meets Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at a tea and noted the possibility of further talks. Madame Chiang visited last week to seek more U.S. help for the Nationalist government against the Communists, with prior discussions already held with Secretary of State Marshall.
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Washington
Truman
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Madame Chiang
Marshall
Preacher Critiques U S Diplomacy At Methodist Meeting
The Rev Garland Evans Hopkins told the Methodist board in Buck Hill Falls Pa that American diplomacy hinders missionary work and that to Christianize international relations the U S must expand mission personnel and address racial segregation at home. Dr Ralph Diffenderfer warned Chinese Christians face pressure under communism and possible loss of religious freedom.
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Buck Hill Falls
Methodist Church
Garland Evans Hopkins
Washington, D. C
Board of Missions and Church Extension of
The
U. S
Mr. Hopkins
Church Board
Washington
United States
Hopkins
America
Ralph E. Diffenderfer
New York
Division of Foreign Missions
China
Dr. Diffenderfer
Foreign Aid 10 Gets Scrutiny in Congress Discussion
Senators Connally and Van den Berg discuss the proposed second year Marshall Plan spending estimated around 4.5 billion dollars with budget experts from the Economic Cooperation Administration. The talks focus on ECA money management as current funds run out next April prior to the new fiscal year.
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Washington
Congress
Connally
D-Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Economic Cooperation Administration
China
ECA
Paul G. Hoffman
Three Powers Clash Over 1947 Economic Survey in Asia Far East
In Sydney, December 9, Soviet Kirill Novikov charged the UN secretariat survey is not intelligent and aims to suppress democratic movements. American Myron M Cowen cited US aid in the ECAF totaling over 2.6 billion since World War II, asserting grants with no expected return. Britain defended US and challenged Soviet claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Aussarlia
Russia
Britain
United States
United Nations Economic Commission For
Asia
Far East
Kirill Novikov
Novikov
U. S
Myron M. Cowen
Arab Dispute Over Palestine Escalates In Trans-Jordan
Smoldering differences over Palestine control flare anew as Abdullah king of Trans-Jordan faces a clash between the Palestine Arab government and the Palestine congress. The government denounces Abdullahs plan to proclaimed king of Palestine as a move toward partition. The Jericho conference supporters push Abdullah, while the congress claims to represent all Arab Palestine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Palestine
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Palestine Arab
Palestine Congress
Congress
Maj Amin el Husseini
Mufti
Jerusalem
The
Holy Land
Jericho
Amman
Arab League
Gaza
Good Provider winner named in northeast Louisiana
A 15 year old Calhoun High School 4 H Club member Mary Lou Meachum won a $50 savings bond as top prize in the 1948 Good Provider contest for northeast Louisiana. About forty people attended a luncheon at Hotel Frances where eight winners were honored.
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Mary Lou Meachum
Calhoun High School
Northeast
Louisiana
Meachum
Calhoun School
Hotel Frances
New Orleans Association of Commerce
The
Agricultural Extension Service
Louisiana State University
Times- Picayune of
New Orleans
Jimmy Dillon
Jones
Morehouse Parish
Eugene Lockwood
Lillie
Union Parish
Fred Coons, Jr
Jena
LaSalle Parish
Henry D. Thrash
Bryceland
Bienville Parish
Billie Lou Weldon
Many
Sabine Parish
Robert A. Sistrunk
Blanchard
Caddo Parish
Ernestine Martin
Plain Dealings
Bossier Parish
L. K. Murray
Kilbourne
West Carroll Parish
O. L. Garner
Baskin
Franklin Parish
Thomas Craft
Curtis Bradshaw
Orange
W. C. Hightower
Athens
Claiborne Parish
H. C. Sanders
W. C. Abbott
J. L. Lee
Claude W. Davis
B. B. Jones
Association of Commerce
R. W. Hartshorn
Times-Picayune
Czech consul seeks asylum in the United States
Zdenek Smetacek, a Czechoslovak consul in New York, resigns to protest the Communist regime. He asks U S immigration authorities to allow him, his wife, two children, and mother-in-law to stay as a democratic political exile. He says he was posted shortly before the Prague coup and rejects contacts with Prague agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Czechoslovakia
Zdenek Smetacek
U. S
Smetacek
Prague
U. S. State Department
United States
Department of State
State Department
Macon judge thief charged in blind man concession case
Henry Hysler a 24 year Bibb county courthouse custodian was charged with theft from Talmadge Shepard the blind concessionaire at the legal building. Sheriff Peacock said he saw Hysler take cigars without paying and Hysler is suspended on $150 bond pending investigation. Earlier a theft of Shepard’s overcoat was reported.
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Macon
Bibb County
Henry Hysler
Talmadge Shepard
E. Julian Peacock
Hysler
Shepard
Marvin L. Newberry
Liberty
Sheriff's Office
Santa Help Appeal Reveals Family Struggles At Christmas
A widow and her nine children ask Santa for aid, noting illness and poverty. The letter describes hospital visits, small incomes, and reliance on church and Good Fellows for support as Christmas approaches. The plea underscores hardship and hope for relief from anonymous benefactors.
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Good Fellows
Santa
Santa Claus
Berlin Mail Blockade Sparks Post Chaos
In divided Berlin the Soviet rail system refused freight cars to remove garbage from zones under Western control and mail delivery stalled. East and West Berlin officials traded blame as gift parcels and notice cards failed to move, with each side accusing the other of halting mail.
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Berlin
Western Berlin
Vital codes guarded as state department tightens security
Washington officials confirm constant checks on vital codes to protect American secrets amid spy inquiry disclosures. Acting Secretary Lovett says the safeguarding system has been transformed with machines that render messages gibberish unless correctly decoded. A cryptographic unit conducts spot checks and changes are ordered if a breach is suspected.
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Washington
Dec
State Department
State Lovett
Armed Services
House UN American Activities Committee
James McMillin
Moscow
McMillin
Wadleigh testifies amid HUAC clash over restricted docs
Henry J. Wadleigh a former State Department employee refused to say if he turned over restricted documents to Whittaker Chambers or Alger Hiss HUAC pressed for answers as Truman dismisses the spy hearings as a red herring The exchange sparked sharp partisan rebukes with Nixon Mundt and Rayburn looming in the background as theGOP faced pressure over alleged stolen secrets
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry Julian Wadleigh
State Department
Congressional
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
House Committee On un-American Activities
Wadleigh
Truman
Chambers
Red Courier
Douglas B. Cornell
Nixon
California
America
Mundt
South Dakota
Toto
Mr. Truman
Clark
G. O. P. Congress
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Congress
Bid of Israel to Enter U N Stalled by Security Council
Israel faces likely defeat in its bid to become the 59th United Nations member as the security council stalls. The general assembly plans further debate on Palestine and other items, while a separate Korean commission resolution gains approval and calls for withdrawal of occupation troops.
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Arthur Gayshon
Paris
Israel
United Nations
Security Council
Britain
General Assembly
Palestine Committee
U. N. Korean Commission
U. S
South Korea
U. N
Holy Land
United States
France
China
Giant B36 Ends Big Hop From Fort Worth to Honolulu
The B-36 air force bomber completed a nonstop Fort Worth to Honolulu flight and return, covering about 8 000 miles in 35 hours with a 15-man crew. It carried a useful bomb load and dropped bombs off Honolulu before returning via San Francisco. Brig. Gen. J. B. Montgomery described it as a routine training flight within its capabilities.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Air Force
Honolulu
Carswell Air Field
J. B. Montgomery
Strategic Air Command
San Diego
Calif
San Fancisco
San Francisco
Montgomery
Pearl Harbor
Planes refueled by rope and jeep in desert stunt
Indio California December 9 Endurance fliers Dick Riedel and Bill Barris have flown since November 20 and refuel by a rope system from a jeep at five feet above ground. They have logged over 460 hours and aim for 1,008 while the current record is 726 hours.
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Indio
Calif
Dick Riedel
Bill Barris
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