Dock Union Dictated Choice of Bosses For Longshoremen
New York report from the state crime commission hearings shows the AFL International Longshoremen's Association resisting company attempts to name its own hiring bosses. Willard J Swain, former superintendent of terminal operations for the Atlantic Gulf and West Indies Line, testified that the company could not hire its own hiring bosses despite a contract provision. ILA President Joseph P Ryan acknowledged the right to select foremen but noted workers preferred choosing their own bosses, risking work if overridden.
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New York
Steamship Company
AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
New York State Crime Commission
Mom
Willard J., Swain
Swain
ILA
Joseph P. Ryan
Foreen
Seabrook Leaves Arson Case to Fire Officials
SEABROOK The Seabrook Board of Selectmen met to discuss an 18 year old confessed arsonist who admitted his crime but was not arrested last week. Selectman William H. Durkee said it was not the board's duty now and that deputy sheriff Floyd Gale and county fire officials must handle the matter. The arsonist was reportedly released to his mother after admission and custody was placed with her.
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Seabrook
Seabrook Board of Selectmen
Ifn
Selectman
William H. Durkee
Coom
Durkee
Floyd Gale
City to Install Delayed Traffic Lights This Winter
City Manager Robert C. Violette announced that four traffic signals delivered over a year ago will be installed this winter at the intersections of Congress and Vaughan, Congress and Fleet, State and Pleasant, and State and Middle. The delay stemmed from a shared compressor shortage affecting Highway Department work while a survey results are reviewed to adjust timing for pedestrians.
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Highway Department
Robert C. Violette
Violette
Congress
Vaughan
Fleet
State
Pleasant
Train Service Cut by State Utilities Body on Boston and Maine
The State Public Utilities Commission voted 2 to 1 to allow the Boston and Maine Railroad to abandon one of two daily trains on the Fortsmouth Concord branch. The railroad must file a new schedule showing the train it will retain for review. The decision cited revenue losses from operating two trains on the single track.
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State Public Utilities Commission Today
Boston and Maine Railroad
Fortsmouth-Concord
Harold K. Davison
Edgar H. Hunter
Edward R.thornton
Davison
Hunter
Thornton
Portsmouth-Concord
Bail Set On Three Men In Apartment Grocery Holdup
Three men charged with an attempted holdup at the Apartment Grocery Store were arraigned in Portsmouth Municipal Court and sent to Hillsborough County Jail in Manchester on bail totaling 40 000. Francis E. Wylie 26, Richard Libby 29 and Henry Cicerone 24 pleaded innocent to multiple charges with various bails and were held for the Rockingham County Grand Jury.
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Ace
Hillsborough County
Manchester
Portsmouth
Francis E. Wylie
Albany Street
Harry W. Peyser
Rockingham County
Richard Libby
Durham
Henry
Cicerone
Penhallow Street
Wylie
Libby
X OR
William T. O'Brien
O’brien
Teak
Sailor Arrested For Torture Death
A 20 year old sailor was charged in the torture slaying of 32 year old Mrs Ruby Colvin of Hollywood Florida. Wilbur J Whaite of Coupeville Washington son of an Army chief warrant officer now in Korea is listed by the Marine Corps Air Base provost marshal as the suspect. The victim, identified by her husband Buford, left behind a six week old baby and a six year old daughter.
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Miami
Fla
Hollywood
Marine Corps Air Base
Wilbur J. Whaite
Coupeville
Wash
Korea
Ruby Colvin
Buford
Administration Seeks New WSB Members Amid Wage Controls
Washington officials urged a fresh slate of industry members for the Wage Stabilization Board after the seven industry members quit in protest of Truman’s reversal on coal miners pay. Fowler and Putnam pledged wage controls would continue regardless, while labor seeks to maintain a voice and Reuther plans meetings to press for keeping controls.
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Washington — Administration
Wage Stabilization Board
Henry Fowler
Roger L. Putnam
WSB
Truman
John L. Lewis
Fowler
Putnam
Walter Reuther
Allied Pilots Extend Air War Deep Into Northern Korea
Allied fighters clashed with Communist Mig 15s over North Korea as the U S Fifth Air Force reported one Mig destroyed by a British exchange pilot Flt Lt Graham F Huse. The attack followed B 26 Invaders destroying 155 vehicles on roadways and B 29s delivering 14 tons of explosives to Takchon and Yong Yon Cham areas while ground fighting remained quiet near zero temperatures. Carrier planes and surface ships supported U N infantry along the eastern front with air strikes on Chinese and North Korean targets.
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Seoul
North Korea
U.S
Fifth Air Force
Graham F. Huse
Hanley
Staffordshire
Eng
Huse
Red Korea
Takchon
Yongyoncham
U. N
Work Worn Hands Oh So Empty
A Wells farmer's wife, after six months save and toil, travels to Portsmouth to buy Christmas gifts for her grandchildren. She loses her bag containing $350 and her return ticket on a city bus, prompting police searches before she is sent back to her Maine farm, heartbroken by the loss.
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Dave Cunnifpf
Wells
Portsmouth
Maine
Santa Claus
Massachusetts State
McGranery Moves to Denaturalize Anastasia in Deportation Case
Attorney General McGranery ordered denaturalization proceedings to strip Albert Anastasia of U S citizenship. The New York waterfront racketeer, once jailed at Sing Sing, allegedly hid aliases and a criminal record to obtain entry. Proceedings will be filed in Newark New Jersey federal court.
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Wasilington
McGranery
Albert Anastasia
Justice Department
New York
Anastasia
Italy
New York State Crime Commission
Fort Lee
N. J
Lord High
Murder, Inc
United States
Federal District Court
Newark
Sing Sing
Truman Orders Long Holiday for Christmas Week
President Truman announced an executive order granting federal employees four days off for Christmas. The order exempts workers from Friday December 26, extending a vacation from Christmas Day through Sunday.
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Washington
Truman
Ike Shoots Skeet and Secret Talks Aboard USS Helena
President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower and his party crossed the International Date Line on the USS Helena and spent Tuesday ashore in skeet shooting sessions. The voyage from Guam to Pearl Harbor continued with high level discussions among Eisenhower, Gen Lucius Clay, and George M. Humphrey, before planned further talks in Hawaii and New York.
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Wake Island
Helena
Dwight Eisenhower
Walter L. Dyer
Joseph M. Dodge
Douglas McKay
Oregon
Interior
Dodge
James Hagerty
White House
Byer
Charles E. Wilson
Defense
Uss
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Far East
Pest
Eisenhower
Korea
Beam Trust
Lucius Clay
George M. Humphrey
Vishinsky Calls U.N. Peace Efforts Unsatisfactory
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, aboard the French liner Liberte, condemned the United Nations General Assembly as an instrument of peace not satisfactory. He cited the Indian resolution on Korea and prisoner repatriation as evidence of the assembly's failure to promote peace.
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New York
Andrei Vishinsky
United Nations General Assembly
Vishinsky
Liberte
Almecelexandre Soldatov
United Nations
Assembly
General Assembly
U.N
Burned Eliot Man Listed as Critical
A Portsmouth man, Bar l Pease of Maple Avenue, is listed in critical condition at Portsmouth Hospital with third degree burns on his right thigh. Dr John T Guy said the Portsmou th Naval Shipyard worker was found unconscious in a chair enveloped in flames by his wife, who was visiting neighbors.
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Portsmouth Hospital
John T. Guy
Portsmouth
Barl Pease
Maple Avenue
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Pease
One Killed Two Hurt In Plane Crash
A small hired plane crashed during an attempted emergency landing on a Harrisville farm. Gaston Hamory, 47, of Meriden New Hampshire, was killed when the craft struck a tree. Pilot Dr William Brewster, 30, of Westwood Massachusetts, and his wife Harriet, 30, of West Newton Massachusetts, suffered facial cuts while Dr John von Felsinger, 30, of West Newton Massachusetts, escaped unharmed.
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Harrisville IM
Gaston Hamory
Meriden
N. H
William Brewster
Westwood
Mass
Harriet
John von Felsinger
West Newton
Witnesses Testify Before Brink's Federal Grand Jury
Boston witnesses including a convict and a young woman appeared before a federal grand jury probing the Brink's holdup of January 17, 1950. Prosecutors charged Mrs. Mary Hooley with contempt after she refused to answer about seeing $70,000, while her husband Paul, brother Donald O Keefe, and John H Carlson face obstruction and evasive answers charges. Judge McCarthy postponed contempt actions to tomorrow as investigations into the $1,219,000 robbery proceed.
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Boston
Pennsylvania
Federal Building
FBI
Money Transportation
Mary Hooley
Paul
Donald O'Keefe
John H. Carlson
William T. McCarthy
Atty
George F. Garrity
Edward D. Hassan
McCarthy
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Portsmouth Air Force Base
Donald Gordon
Eliot
Norman Batchelder
Ogunquit
Leonard Freeman
Richard Ramsdell
Portsmouth Herald
Dock Union
Sailor
Northern Territory
U.S. Fifth Air Force
Pyongcore
Samgang
Yangdok
Suan
Fire Department
Ike
By Don Whitehead
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Commodore
New York City
Brink's
Eal
Jarrys
Ase
The
Advertising Council
Montgomery Ward
Congress St
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