Sub-Committee To Study Veto Voting Privilege
The United Nations Security Council votes to form a sub-committee of 15 members to review veto use. Britain Australia and the US clash as the panel to consider reforms, with Cuba urging abolition and Russia backing study. The aim is a compromise acceptable to big and small powers.
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John A. Parris
Lake Success
N. Y
Britain
United Nations Political and Security Committee
Security Council
Great Britain
United Nations
Australia
Russia
United States
Peru
Cuba
Philippines
Poland
Denmark
India
Argentina
Venezuela
Hartley Shawcross
Tom Connally
D-Tex
U. S
Shawcross
Ernest Bevin
Council
Auto Skids and Strikes Light at Edgewood and Main
An automobile operated by Joe Morelli skidded Sunday night about 9 30 and struck a street traffic light at Edgewood and Main, damaging it slightly. Morelli was unhurt.
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Joe Morelli
Edgewood
Main
Morelli
Boy Killed by Brother in Accidental Gun Discharge
Walter Newman ten died at home in Central City when brother James Newman tossed a 12 gauge gun and it discharged fatally. Coroner Dr A M Uphouse ruled accidental. Survivors include Fred and Laura Newman and many siblings. Funeral Tuesday 2 p.m. at the home with Rev Arthur Vesta. Burial in Daily cemetery.
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Walter Newman
Fred Newman
Central City
Newman
James Newman
A. M. Uphouse
Somerset County
Fred
Laura Pebley Newman
Fred Newman, Jr
R. D
Ezra
Betty
David
Ethel
Wilma
Bobbie
Dickie
Donald Newman
Arthur Vesta
J. H. Deaner
Murray predicts greatest steel year in history
Pittsburgh December 1 CIO President Philip Murray told District 16 officers that 1947 will be the greatest steel year. He cited rising living costs cutting workers pay and said steelworkers may seek wage increases while arguing industry profits could support raises without raising steel prices. He estimated next year profits at 125 million dollars.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
United Steel Workers Union
District 16
Two Die In Bedford County Turnpike Crash
Two people were killed and four injured in a Saturday night accident 14 miles east of Bedford on the turnpike. Mrs Olive M Duguid died of a fractured skull. Christine M Davenport was instantly killed. James Duguid and Floyd Meiser were among the injured. the truck trailer and coupe sustained extensive damage. State police investigated the crash.
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Bedford
Olive M. Duguid
Turtle Creek
Timmons
Christine M. Davenport
James Duguid
Duguid
Floyd Meiser
Prescott
Chesnut to Try to Settle Beer Controversy
CIO and AFL leaders will meet in Pittsburgh with William H. Chesnut to attempt a settlement of the jurisdictional labor dispute over control of several thousand brewery workers. The AFL and CIO claim to represent a majority of bottling house employees amid sporadic clashes.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
AFL
William H. Chesnut
Labor and Industry
AFL Teamsters Union
Anthony J. Federoff
Chesnut
Winter Snow Paralyzes Roads Across Roof Garden
Snow swept over the Roof Garden area on December first as the temperature plunged from 54 to 18 degrees. Crews battled slick roads and a string of accidents followed, with one vehicle overturning on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Somerset injuring Mrs Horner who was treated and discharged.
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Christian World
Pennsylvania Highway Department
W. R. Will
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Mercury
Somerset
Horner
Somerset Community Hospital
Cold Spell To Be Brief Says Forecaster
A Canada originating cold snap pushed temperatures to 17 below in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota early Sunday and to 30 degrees lower in the Missouri Mississippi valleys. Forecaster H L Jacobson said the chill would be short lived with cold spots at Grand Forks and Pembina North Dakota and Bemidji Minnesota at minus 17 and minus 16 respectively.
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Associated Press
Canada
North Dakota
Minnesota
H. L. Jacobson
Missouri
Mississippi
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Weather Bureau
Grand Forks
Pembina
N. D
Bemidji
Minn
Coal strike may aid French Reds, Welles warns
Former Undersecretary Sumner Welles said the coal strike could boost the French Communist party. In his weekly broadcast he argued French inability to buy U S coal would shape public opinion toward an economy that avoids strikes.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Communist Party
France
Welles
U. S
Below Freezing Weather Expected in Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh reports a sharp cold front bringing the season’s first substantial snow flurries. Temperatures fell from a high of 57 to below freezing by late afternoon, with overnight lows expected to dip to 15 to 20 degrees as a freeze warning spreads across the region.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Bomb blasts beer warehouse in Pittsburgh
A handmade bomb was tossed onto the roof of a beer warehouse at the rear of the Hays home of distributors Mrs. Pierina Cupancic and Mrs. Rose Terreri. Police said the device was thrown from a hillside and caused slight damage.
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Pittsburgh
Pierina Cupancic
Rose Terreri
Hays
Tyrone Woman Dies At Station In Apparent Suicide
Mrs. Jonathan Lindemuth 72 a Unionville widow and former Tyrone resident was instantly killed at Tyrone railroad station by a westbound Pennsylvania train. Deputy Coroner Edgar G. Walls said she leaped in front of the train as it entered the station. Witnesses saw the body decapitated. A note indicated a death by own action plan with her luggage in the waiting room.
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Tyrone
Jonathan Lindemuth
Unionville
Pennsylvania
Edgar G. Walls
Walls
Lindemuith
Reds Blamed For Riots In Shanghai
Shanghai riots leave at least 100 injured and heavy property damage. Mayor K C Wu ordered police to shoot to kill and mobilized the Woosung garrison under martial law claims the Communist underground sparked the violence. Proclamations urged shops to reopen as street fighting continued and foreign reporters were barred from scenes of violence.
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Shanghai
Woosung
Princeton
K. C. Wu
Associated Press
Yara
Expansion of V-2 Rocket Program to May 1948
The Army Air Forces announced an extended V-2 rocket program from White Sands New Mexico to May 1948. Fifty guided missiles will be fired against earlier plans for twenty five. The program measures the ionosphere using instruments that reached 63.5 miles, with seeds returned for analysis and data on radio wave propagation.
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Washington
INS
Army Air Force
AAF
White Sands
N. M
Army Ordnance
Canton Lumber Yard Blaze Destroys Mills and Hotels
Fire swept Canton's lumber yard Case mill and several factories and hotels as high winds fed the flames. Firemen from Williamsport Elmira and nearby towns battled the blaze for over two hours, estimating damage at 200000 with no injuries reported. The Park hotel and nearby buildings suffered heavy damage.
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Canton
John Keltz
Pennsylvania
Williamsport
Elmira
N. Y
Keltz
Case Lumber
Park Hotel
South Pole Expedition Heads to Antarctica from Norfolk
The navy leads a 4,000-man force aboard the Mt. Olympus at Norfolk as the expedition sails for two to three months of intensive work in Antarctica, serving as an ice box laboratory for the mission.
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South Pole
U.S. S
MT. Olympus
Norfolk
Navy
Antarctica
Protest Grips 20 000 Catholics in Philadelphia
More than 20 000 Catholics packed Convention Hall to protest the imprisonment of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac of Yugoslavia and the persecution of Catholics there. The gathering urged President Truman and the State Department to press for his release and an end to persecution.
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Philadelphia
Convention Hall
Aloysius Stepinac
Yugoslavia
Santo Panetta
Truman
State Department
Stepinac
Philadelphia County
Catholic War Veterans
Fenerty
Common Pleas Court
Clare Gerald Fenerty
Moscow
Fenerty Jlso
Tito
Balkans
Russia
Stalin
Teheran
Marshall Mihailovitch
Children Stage Election Protest With Sandwich Board Signs
Six to 15 year olds in Wellsbaden march with sandwich board signs to urge adults to read the constitution before Sunday's vote. The staged protest, approved by the military government, targets parental ignorance and shows 60 percent had not read the document.
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Weisbaden
INS
Wellsbaden
Meee
Heinz Soell
The
Whermacht
Long Island, N.Y
Svell
Volling
Goebbels
Kind Woman's Body Found Near Railroad Tracks
In Pittsburgh Shady Side district the body of a young red haired woman was discovered on Pennsylvania railroad tracks in mangled condition. Detectives found no identification or clue to determine if death was accidental or self-inflicted. A cleaner's tag with S and 87903 appeared on clothing, and a small amount of cash lay near the body.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Shady Side
Niemoeller Leaves Frankfurt for U S Aid Trip
Rev Martin Niemoeller sails from Frankfurt for eight week visit to thank American church groups for aiding German churches after World War II. The former U boat commander, who spent years in a concentration camp for opposing Nazism, was invited by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and approved by the American military government.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Martin Niemoeller
United States
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Niemoeller
FBI arrests Auto-Furl Robber in Philadelphia
Clifford Altland 26 of York is held in a Philadelphia jail on charges of larceny of an automobile and robbery. He allegedly used York County Sheriff Earl L. Wolf s car to steal 1409 in fur goods from a York cleaning shop and was stopped at a Philadelphia post office while collecting a package containing most of the stolen fur. A tip from York postmistress Vera M Gordon led to his capture.
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Philadelphia
Clifford Altland
York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Altland
York County
Earl L. Wolf
Ford
FBI
Vera M. Gordon
Contempt Trial Lewis May Occupy Week in Navy Case
The government and unions clash over John L Lewis in a contempt case tied to the UMW contract. Virginia seeks action under state law while federal judges weigh termination legality and possible appeals.
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Washington
United States
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Truman
William M. Tuck
Virginia
Tuck
Virginia Corporation Commission
UMW
T. Alan Goldsborough
Gordon B. Amier
Richmond
Justice Goldsborough
N. H. Collisson
Federal Coal Mines
Welly K. Hopkins
Dwerd R. Burke
Coal Strike May Force Atom Energy
Senator Wiley links the coal walkout to a possible shift to atomic energy for heat and power, warning against dependence on a single fuel source. He and colleagues advocate rapid relief plans and a broader energy strategy while Dworshak cautions against government dim-out and punitive labor action.
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William Theis
Washington
INS
Sen. Wiley
R-Wis
Wiley
Sen
Knowland
R-Cal
Truman
America
Sen. Dworshak
R-Ida
Reublican
Dworshak
House
Congress
Wiley warns against far left federal judges
Senator Wiley asserts that future presidential nominations for the federal bench will not be confirmed if they are too far left. He argues that 284 judges reflect 14 years of Democratic appointments and says judgeships have been given as political rewards.
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Washington
Wiley
Wis
Senate Judiciary Committee
Civil War Shifts to Manchuria Near Dairen
The civil conflict in China moves to Manchuria as government forces approach Dairen within 40 to 50 miles, with reports of entering the Russian-occupied port denied by top authorities.
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Nanking
China
Manchuria
Yenan
Peiping
Chin Shih Jih Pao
Manchurian
Dairen
Tu Li- Ming
Hsin Min Pao
Army repels guerrilla attacks near Salonika on Yugoslav border
The Greek Third army corps said regular outposts near the Yugoslav border repelled guerrilla attacks Saturday near Mount Tzena and Mount Kainatchain in northeast Salonika. Headquarters also reported heavy night fighting by garrisons at Loutrakios Promakos and Lycastromo against a large force armed with mortars.
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Athens
INS
Greek Third Army Corps
Pittsburgh Strike Idled Near 250000
Unemployment from the mine shutdown in the Pittsburgh area may reach about 250000 by week’s end, with impounded coal dwindling to 75000 80000 tons. Production from sip mine operations rose to 37000 tons daily, while steel finishing and fabrication cuts loom, risking further layoffs of about half of 200000 plant workers.
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Pittsburgh
Pitsburgh
Harry A Sutter
Solid Fuels Administration
Sip
Tri-Late Industrial Association
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Steel output sinks to 65.5 percent amid coal strike
The Steel magazine reports national steelmaking at 65.5 percent of capacity as the coal strike weighs on production. If bituminous mine idleness lasts another week ingot rate could fall below 43 percent, matching last spring's low. Regions like Birmingham Pittsburgh Youngstown Chicago Buffalo and eastern Pennsylvania show sharp declines.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Western Pennsylvania
Navy Coal Mine Administration
AFL United Mine Workers
Seaboard
Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association
Cleveland
Steel
Birmingham
Youngstown
Chicago
Buffalo
Eastern Pennsylvania
Ball calls coal strike insurrection not labor dispute
Sen. Ball of Minnesota described the soft coal strike as defying the war labor disputes act and likened it to insurrection, claiming a 400,000-strong minority challenges U S sovereignty during a CBS program. Eugene Cotton countered that economics drive the issue and miners need the right to strike.
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Washington
Sen. Ball
R-Minn
United States
CBS
People’s Platform
Eugene Cotton
CIO
Cotton
Maryland and Pennsylvania Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy and much colder with strong winds on Monday. Colder Monday night then Tuesday becomes sunny and warmer in the afternoon. Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia see continued cold, windy conditions Monday and Monday night. Tuesday brings sunny and warmer conditions in the region.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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