U S and Canada Reach Accord on Military Intelligence Exchange
The United States and Canada disclosed a year of talks leading to a multi nation agreement to extend wartime collaboration. The pact includes interchange of personnel and observers to enhance defense of the western hemisphere with Arctic tests and material development under a five point program.
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Associated Press
Washington
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Canada
Ottawa
Europe
Asia
Russia
United Nations
Moscow
Plan Baring Atom Secrets Rejeced By Security Body
United Nations Security Council summoned to approve arms reduction machinery after the United States won a preliminary victory on atomic control. Nine to zero with Russia and Poland abstaining, clause for an 11 nation commission to study arms reduction. atomic secrets to remain protected for now.
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Associated Press
Lake Success
N. Y
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United States
Russia
Poland
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Atomic Energy
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Andrei Gromytto
Warren R. Austin
Austin
Gromyko
Four Revenue Bills For Action In Charleston House
The Associated Press reports four revenue measures moved toward passage in the Charleston House. Republicans press to force a prior vote on the teacher salary bill while Democrats argue added costs should be funded first. Measures include a two cent beer bottle tax, a two cent cigarette pack levy, removing the 50 cent grocery exemption, and raising the state share of horse racing pools.
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Associated Press
Charleston
House
GOP Holds To Budget Stand On Army and Navy
Washington Republicans press a $6 billion cut in the 1948 budget despite Army and Navy protests claiming such reductions threaten national security. War Secretary Patterson warns a $1.5 billion Army cut endangers missions including Japan and Germany, while the Navy cautions a $500 million cut could render fleets immobile.
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Associated Press
Washington
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MacArthur
Japan
Gen. McNarney
Germany
Engel
R-Mich
House
War Department
Street Scene on Prince and Neville Streets
A young couple strolls hand in hand along Prince Street with matching gloves. Nearby a man and wife exit a stairway on Neville Street where the wife, eyeing a shop window, takes the arm of a passing stranger and walks a few steps before realizing her mistake.
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Prince Street
Neville Street
Milk Production Group to Discuss Dairy Improvement
The Raleigh County Milk Production Committee will meet at 2 p.m. Friday in the county agent's office to review methods to boost local dairy output. Members include John Cooper, J. FE Williams, L. F. Subaebereet, J. Collins, H. B. Thomas, Franklin Lilly, G. A. Yore, George Armstrong, C. E. Shumate, Fred Vines, Bailey Canaday and Lester, with Cooper, Thomas, and Canaday serving as dairy farmer representatives. Williams and Canaday will discuss techniques from the West Virginia University dairy short course at Jackson's Mill.
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Franklin Lilly
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Mabscott
Greenbrier Dairy Products Company
George Armstrong
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Harper Road
Fred Vines
Odd
Bailey Canaday
Lester
Cooper
Thomas
Canaday
Jackson’s Mill
West Virginia University
Wife of Donald Nelson Dies at 28 in Hollywood
Margue Coulbourn Nelson, 28, wife of former U S war production board chief and new head of the independent motion picture producers society, died last night in Hollywood from a liver ailment. They would have celebrated their second wedding anniversary tomorrow. Burial likely in near Washington or Denton Maryland area.
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Hollywood
Donald Nelson
U. S. War Production Board
Independent Motion Picture Producers’ Society
Marguerite Coulbourn
George Washington University
Nelson
Washington, D. C
Thurman ‘Arnold
U.S. Court of Appeals
Chicago
Helen Nelson
Paul Shastran
New York
Anna Coulbourn
Denton, Md
Freedom Of Religion Vs. Right To Sleep
Pasadena residents near the Church of Christ complained that noisy services disrupt sleep. Letts G L Wilson and J D Nichools spoke with Rev. Thomas Griffith, who promised quieter services.
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Church of Christ
Wilson
J.D." Nichools
Thomas Griffith
Arabs Clash With Jews In Palestine
In Palestine last night seven Jews were wounded and four kidnapped amid skirmishes between Arabs and Jews and between Jewish extremists and moderates. Reports from informants cite a raid on Bnai Geulim near Nathanya, and abductions linked to Hashemi r Hatzair and Irgun Zvai Leumi.
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Palestine
Bnai Geulim
Itshak Biri
Bnai ‘Geulim
Nathanya
Haifa
Tel Aviv
I *Amrak
Hasheimir Hartzair
Young Guard
Rehovoth
Hashemir Party
Poland to resettle up to six million in former German lands
Poland plans to move between 5.5 and 6.0 million Poles into western territories absorbed from Germany by year end. Wladyslaw Gomulka said about one million more Poles will return from abroad to join the resettlement, boosting numbers as Germans are expelled. The western lands near the Oder Neisse borders will see population swell from about 8.2 million (excluding Gdansk) to nearly six million Poles by year end.
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Poland
Larry Allen
Warsaw
Germany
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Neissa
Gdansk
Danzig
Army Gears Up At White Oak Naval Lab
The Army moves into the new 15 million dollar naval laboratory at White Oak Maryland to study mine warfare. Col Herbert C Reuter leads an office at the Navy ordnance research center to learn the latest controlled submarine mine techniques and harbor defenses.
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Associated Press
Washington
Army
Naval Laboratory
White Oak
Navy
War Departments
Herbert C. Reuter
Navy Ordnance Research Center
46 Income Taxes Shatter Records
The 1946 calendar year saw income tax receipts total $38.64 billion, the third highest in peacetime history, with New York leading states at $7.73 billion. Individual taxes were $17.88 billion and corporate taxes $11.05 billion, yielding total income taxes of $28.93 billion, down from 1945 by $5.43 billion.
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Washington
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Bureau of Internal’ Revenue
New York
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Hawaii
Empire State
Winds
California
Pennsylvania
Maryland
District of Columbia
Stassen Presses Tariff Change to Avert Isolation
Harold E. Stassen urged a major tariff policy adjustment to avoid economic isolation as GOP figures in New York and Charleston push the 1948 presidential scene. Taft and Bricker offered cautious noncommittal remarks while Stassen backed Vandenberg and Millikin on reciprocal trade.
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Washington
Harold E. Slassen
New York City
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Fast
Ohio
Charleston
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Taft
Columbus
Senator Bricker
New York
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Millikin
R-Colo
Minnesota
Lincoln Day
Survivors Recall Coast Guard Plane Crash Near Medford
Two Coast Guard airmen survived a PBY crash that killed four crewmen after the aircraft struck Diamond Rock on Mount Richter north of Medford Oregon. The four bodies were recovered from the snowbound rugged terrain. Survivor Seaman 1-C Melvin E. Savage of Plymouth Michigan suffered severe burns while Seaman 1-C Randolph M. Creasy also survived.
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Mount Richter
Oregon City
Britain Goes On War Footing To Conserve Coal
Prime Minister Attlee imposes strict controls as a five hour daily electricity ban expands to England Scotland and Wales to ease a serious coal shortage. A national defense act carries penalties up to 2000 dollars and two years imprisonment. A nine man coal cabinet will speed coal mining and transport with Isaac s coordinating civilian labor to clear snow blocked routes. Street lighting is largely extinguished to match wartime blackout. Northern Ireland remains exempt from the power embargo.
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London
Great Britain
Attlee
England
Scotland
Wales
Altice
George Isaacs
Britain
Isaacs
Trades Union Congress
Arthur Deakin
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Fet
Chinese dollar back at 14000 to 1 in Shanghai and 8000 in Nanking
Shanghai quotes show the shaky Chinese currency at 14000 to 1 the US dollar while Nanking records 8000 to 1. Dealers avoid heavy buying and officials consider the currency crisis amid inflation and foreign-exchange pressure. Communist papers blame profiteers and gold hoarding. H. H. Kung and son deny currency manipulation and seek bank disclosure.
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Shanghai
U. S
Nanking
China
Harold Milks
the National Salvation Daily
Profi
Kuomintang
H. H. Kung
David
Kung
Central Bank of China
Miners Sit Down Strike Surges 600 Feet Underground
In Lansford Pennsylvania fourteen miners began a sub-surface sit down strike 600 feet below the ground. They vow to stay until pay is restored after the Lehigh Navigation Coal Company docked pay for early quitting. Company officials issued no comment.
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Associated Press
Lansford
Lehigh Navigation
Coal Company
Gas Pipeline Break Repaired Near Charleston
A break in the Tennessee Gas and Transmission 20 inch Texas pipeline was repaired early today and full operation restored. The work on the ruptured line near Charleston was finished at 2 15 a m. Natural gas supplies to Pittsburgh area industry were cut off but United Fuel Gas maintained supply through auxiliary lines. Hope Natural Gas kept some pressure from its fields to serve Piltsburgh plants.
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Charleston
Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company
Texas
United Fuel Gas Company
Pittsburgh
United Fuel
Hope Natural Gas Company
Clarksburg
Peoples Gas Company
Piltsburgh
Hope
West Virginia Weather Outlook For Beckley
Mostly sunny and a bit warmer today with clear skies and cold tonight. Holiday fair and warmer with yesterday’s high near 20 and a low around seaey 20. Precipitation none in the past 24 hours ending at 8 a m.
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Beckley
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