Fair Enough Attacks Union Racketeering and Judge Brogna
The piece accuses the Hodcarriers and other AFL unions of long running racketeering under the Wagner Act. It alleges Judge Vincent Brogna served as attorney to mob leaders like Joe Moreschi during a Bristol England trip funded by the gang. It claims a 31 year hidebound report hides a $10,000 expenditure amid unemployment and local rackets in New York and Boston.
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Hodcarriers’ and Laborers’ Union
American Federation of Labor
Hodcarriers
Musicians
Teamsters
Mine Workers’ Unions
Vincent Brogna
Superior Court of
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Bristol
England
Milan
Italy
Joe Moreschi
Brogna
Moreschi
New York
Boston
Elector Vote Slated Today in Presidential Formalities
Washington reports 531 electors gather in state capitals to cast votes for president. The process will formalize Truman's win with a joint session of Congress on January 6 to open returns and declare the result. Debate over the electoral system continues among some legislators.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Congress
Thomas E. Dewey
J. Strom Thurmond
Export Control Renewal Sought by Secretary Sawyer
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer urged renewal of export and other controls on scarce materials. He said current measures serve national interests and may be extended, with standby powers to ration materials if voluntary allocations fail. Expirations include Feb 28 for export controls and June 3 for other measures, spanning commodities, tin, antimony, fats, oils, rice, and rail transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sawyer
Department
Truman
Chinese Reds Reach Yangtze Soon Threaten National Front
Beijing dispatch reports Chiang Kai-shek faces a swift Yangtze advance as a Communist attack 50 miles northwest of Nanking threatens the Hwai river line. Nationalist losses push the 12th army group toward encirclement near Suhsien, with supplies dwindling. Pilots report continuing pressure.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Yangtze
Hwai River
Yangtze River
12Th Army Group
Suhsien
12Th
Big Airlines Plan To Merge In Transatlantic Tie Up
Pan American World Airways and American Overseas Airlines announced a planned merger creating a dominant overseas network. American Overseas assets and routes to eleven European countries would transfer to Pan American in exchange for stock, ending with American Overseas dissolving after stock distribution. The deal requires stockholder and Civil Aeronautics Board approval and leaves Trans World Airlines as the remaining U S flag carrier in trans Atlantic service.
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New York
Pan- American World Airways
American Overseas Airlines
American Overseas
Europe
Pan-American
Pan American
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pan American World Airways
American Airlines
U. S
Trans- Atlantic Air Service
Howard Hughes
Trans World Airline
Hughes
Juan Trippe
Owen Brewster
R.-Me
Trippe
Brewster
C. R. Smith
Southern educators stake 3 to 4 million on regional college plan
In Savannah Georgia Southern educators propose a regional college program with a 3 to 4 million dollar price tag and 14 state funding, to cover medical veterinary and graduate studies. Governors at a southern conference shown willingness to trim the plan to about 260 thousand for early health training only. The plan envisions broad participation with Kentucky invited to join and meetings led by state governors and Dr John R Steelman.
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Savannah
Southern Governors’ Conference
Southern Regional Council For Education
Kentucky
Dixie State
John R. Steelman
Truman
States
Gov
Five Die in Victoria Hotel Fire in Chicago
A flash blaze on the Victoria Hotel fifth floor killed five men and injured twelve. Bellboys Sanders Davis and Rudolph Taylor found alarms, aiding evacuations as stairways were recently encased. Victims include William Keane Eugene Oyler Allan McCullough Richard Kline and Richard Ulven. Fire blamed on undetermined causes with Hubbard Hotel fire a day earlier.
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Chicago
Victoria
Loop District
Otto Dahl
Sanders Davis
Rudolph Taylor
William James Keane
Eugene Oyler
Allan McCullough
Richard W. Kline
Xenia
Ohio
Richard I. Ulven
Austin
Minn
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Keane
Hubbard Hotel
Near North Side
South
Clark Street
Coal Stockpile May Trigger Lewis To Order Shutdown
A large soft coal stockpile could prompt John L. Lewis to consider mine closures to trim above ground reserves. With about 70 million tons ready for use and stockpiles possibly shrinking before June, operators weigh bargaining leverage as demand weakens.
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Lewis
Washington
John L. Lewis
Four Dead In Oregon Flood Report From Willamette Valley
Floods and storms kill four in Oregon as Willamette River crest at 14.3 feet floods farms and towns including Albany Corvallis Salem and Oregon City. 500 trailer residents evacuated to UO campus and Lane County Fairgrounds. 200 evacuated from Glenwood Springfield.
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Eugene
Ore
Oregon
Willamette Valley
Middle Valley
Willamette Freshet
Albany
Corvallis
Salem
Oregon City
Willamette
Harrisburg
Jefferson
Santiam River
Red Cross
Glenwood
University of Oregon
Lane County
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Springfield
Coquille River
Pacific
Detroit
Louisiana Rural Coops Plan Three Generating Plants
Three generating plants costing about 11 million dollars are planned by 13 rural electric cooperatives in Louisiana. The Dixie Electric Membership Corporation reports REA review, with plants proposed near Zachary Natchitoches Farmerville and Kinder, plus substations in multiple towns. The plan aims to link cooperatives into a statewide power system serving about 73,000 rural homes.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
J. E. McAdams
Dixie Electric Membership Corporation
REA
Washington
McAdam
Natchitoches
Farmerville
Kinder
Zachary
Here
Angola
St. Francisville
Clinton
Greensburg
Lockhart
Brittany
Many
Leesville
Naborton
Campti
Montgomery
Dequency
Deridder
Ruston
Homer
Hiss Resigns Carnegie Endowment Post While Leave Is Granted
Spy investigators press on the Red spy ring case as Als Hiss resigns from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, only to be granted a three month leave. House UN American Activities Committee aides refuse comment on a typewriter linked to 1937 38 secret papers.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace Today
Washington
Congressional
House un-American Activities Committee
Mundt
South Dakota
Agriculture official warns against sharp farm price cuts
Atlantic City December 13 An Agriculture Department official told the American Farm Bureau Federation convention that steep drops in farm price supports could cause wasteful overproduction. Deputy Administrator Frank K Woolley said the department favors gradual adjustment and warned against a policy viewed as a slap at the Aiken Hope long range farm law. Also, Indiana Farm Bureau president Hassil E Schenck warned prewar price levels could bankrupt the federal government and shrink national income, risking national prosperity.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Agriculture Department
Truman
Frank K. Woolley
Department
American Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
Woolley
Farm Bureau
Aiken-Hope
80Th Congress
South
Hassil E. Schenck
Indiana Farm Bureau
Schenck
Bureau
91 Year Old Man Appeals for Help in Christmas Relief
A destitute 91 year old man with a missing leg appeals to Good Fellows for aid. A 14 year old girl writes of a fatherless family needing a modest Christmas, noting the brother's unemployment and the mother's welfare with insufficient funds. The plea highlights poverty along a riverbank shack and urgent need for food and clothing.
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Good Fellows
Bombing Raid on Camp Robinson and Adams Field Reported
Memphis dispatch says a joint air strike by army navy and Tennessee National Guard pilots attacked Camp Robinson Arkansas and Adams Field Little Rock. The plan shifted from Meridian Mississippi due to low clouds and forecast rain. Naval reserve fighters and 155th TN Air National Guard jets took part with Arkansas 154th FG defending Little Rock.
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Memphis
Camp Robinson
Ark
Little Rock
Adams Field
Army
Navy
Tennessee National Guard
Meridian
Miss
Naval Reserve
155Th
Tennessee Air National Guard
Air Force
154Th
Arkansas Air National Guard
Berlin Reuter Pushes Kommandatura Reform and Western Boundary Change
Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter urged reorganizing the allied kommandatura without the Russians and abolishing zone boundaries to place western Berlin on par with western Germany. A Social Democrat victory on December 5 put this revival at the top of his agenda.
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Berlin
Ernst Reuter
Kommandatura
Reuter
Reuter Also Proposed That Boundaries Between the Three Western Zones
Western
Germany
Korean Assembly OKs U. S. Pact
The Korean national assembly passed the American-aid agreement 85 to 0 with 45 abstentions, paving the way for more than 300 million dollars in U S assistance over three years pending U S congressional approval. ECA inspectors may review aid spending under the pact.
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Seoul
Korean National Assembly
South Korea
ECA
Missing Ruth Farnsworth Found Alive in Guam Jungle
Ruth Farnsworth 27, San Francisco, was found unconscious and nude in a bloodstained jungle near a curio shop in Guam where she vanished Saturday night. Authorities say she was assaulted by a gang of sex fiends and is clinging to life after a 12 hour delay. A $1,000 reward was posted for her attackers.
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Guam
Ruth Farnsworth
San Francisco
Curio
German Reds Seek Republic
A British licensed newspaper reports German Communists negotiating with Soviet authorities to form an eastern German republic next spring after purging party ranks. Max Sydewitz, minister president of Saxony, is named as future president. talks reportedly occurred at Karlshorst amid ongoing Unity party清 purge coverage.
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Berlin
Germany
Telegraf
Max Sydewitz
Saxony
Karlshorst
Socialist Unity Party
Educators to Convene in Monroe for City Conference
Monroe city schools will host a Wednesday educational conference with invited speakers from Louisiana State University and the state department of education. Miss Katharine Key and Central Grammar School staff will host a luncheon for principals and school board members, followed by a 1 pm general session in Georgia Tucker School.
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Monroe
Louisiana State University
State Department of Education
Katherine Key
Central Grammar School
Georgia Tucker School
Public description of Princess Elizabeth's baby prince
London December reports describe Princess Elizabeth's four week old son as golden haired with a beautiful complexion. Countess Granville, sister of the Queen, told a Girl Guide conference the infant looks angelic and has delicate features. The prince is to be christened Wednesday.
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London
Elizabeth
Countess Granville
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Girl Guide (Scout
British Commonwealth
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