Dewey Refuses Action in Rochester Slaying Dispute
Governor Dewey declined to intervene in the November 6 fatal shooting of a 19 year old Negro by Rochester police. Public letters from Monroe County DA O Mara Rochester Progressive Citizens of America leader Wolgast and bus driver Swartz stated the governor would not act.
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Dewey
Rochester
Monroe County
Daniel J. O'Mara
William C. Wolgast
Progressive Citizens of America
Hymnan Swartz
Government Pipers Lead War on Rats Across Nation
Interior Department experts align with county agents to combat a plague of rats destroying an estimated 200 million bushels of grain annually. The plan calls for public cooperation as a nationwide effort to curb rodent harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Washington
Pied Pipers
Interior Department
Deaths of Newsman Robert E Dickson and Capt Thomas Zealand
Notable deaths include Robert E Dickson a 47 year newspaperman with AP and OWI backgrounds and Capt Thomas F Zealand a 69 year marine superintendent with Interlake Steamship Co. in Cleveland. Also listed is Robert H Acre a real estate broker and oil gas lease figure with ties to Indiana and Oklahoma contexts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Dickson
Associated Press
Office of War Information
New York City
Thomas F. Zealand
Interlake Steamship Co
Cleveland
Robert H. Acre
San Francisco
Indiana
Enid
Okla
Tito Reported Set to Try Trieste Seizure
A London Daily Graphic correspondent says Yugoslav Premier Tito likely to seize the free port of Trieste within weeks. Military dispositions have been made in the Trieste zone and Venezia Giulia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tito
Trieste
London
Ins
London Daily Graphic
Marshal Tito
Venezia Giulia
Aunt Het by Robert Quillen
A concise quotation from Robert Quillen notes a stance of skepticism toward rumors about any group unless names dates and places are supplied, expressing a firm insistence on precise verification before believing stories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aunt Het
Robert Quillen
Church votes record $10 million for missions in 1948
The Methodist Church approved a total missionary outlay of 10,177,538 for 1948 at its Board of Missions meeting. The distribution allocates 3 857,359 for foreign missions and 2 048 535 for home missions with 4 271 664 for the Woman's Division. A Christian University for Japan was approved as a voluntary gift project to raise 15,000,000 for a campus and endowments with additional Japanese funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Hill Falls
Methodist Church
Methodist Board of Missions and Church Extension
Division of Foreign Missions
Europe
Asia
Africa
South
Christian University For
Japan
Christian People of America
Ralph E. Diffendorfer
Pauly defends commodity trading amid Senate inquiry
Pauley told the committee there was no impropriety in his trades, saying he is $100,000 worse off after selling most holdings since becoming Royall’s aide in September. He agreed to return with records of all transactions, noting his holdings when joining the Army department were under $1,000,600. The panel weighs information from government departments and sources “in the know” while pausing inquiries into congressional or judicial speculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State
Treasury
Agriculture
Commerce
National Defense
Pauley
Royall
Department of the Army
Bridges
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Commodity Exchange Authority
Ferguson
R-Mich
I. M. Mehl
Congress
Judiciary
The
Army Royall
Truman
Court Upholds Cook's Conviction in Cafe Assault
In Olympia the Washington State Supreme Court affirmed Dan Hogan's second degree assault conviction for breaking Glendie Wayne Noble's arm and head injuries after a March cafe incident near Mount Vernon. Noble, a U S Navy enlisted man, was hospitalized for two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympia
Wash
State Supreme Court
Ecourt
Dan Hogan
Glendie Wayne Noble
U. S. Navy
Mount Vernon
No Duets for Trumans in Kansas City
President Truman and daughter Margaret separate musically after a Kansas City Fourth Estate report. Miss Truman explains duets are not performed because her father does not play the songs she sings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Truman
Margaret
Miss Truman
Testimony in Taft Hartley secondary boycott case heard
In Utica a U S district judge heard the first Taft Hartley case on secondary boycotts against Albany Local 294 of the AFL Teamsters. Judge Brennan signaled broader findings beyond the requested injunction as he noted evidence of union wrongful acts and potential trial on board charges. Rabouin of Pittsfield testified Conway Express Co suffered a 75 percent drop after the strike and Montgomery Ward case follows in Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utica CP
U. S
National Labor Relations Board
Albany
A.F.L. Teamsters Union
Stephen W. Brennan
NLRB
Junion
Conway Express Coa
Henry Rabouin
Pittsfield
Mass
Teamster
294
Montgomery Ward and Co
Brennan
Virginia Hill Case Stir In Phoenix Hospital
The Phoenix area case tests if a recovering patient is Virginia Hill, dating to gang leader Benjamin Siegel. Investigators pursue three hoodlum suspects who checked into a Phoenix suburb hotel after Miss Hill’s hospital admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenisn
Ariz
Virginia Hill
Benjamin
Bugsy) Siegel
Phoenix
Maricopa County
Catholics Form National Resettlement Council
The National Catholic Resettlement Council will aid European displaced persons by creating committees in 118 Catholic dioceses to assist with employment and assimilation into American life, announced by Msgr. Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of war relief services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Catholic Resettlement Council
Edward E. Swanstrom
National Catholic Welfare Conference
U. S
New England Delegation Seeks Extension of Ship Authority
The New England Congressional delegation may ask for a temporary extension of the Maritime Commission ship operating authority to ease fuel shortages in the northeast and Midwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New England
Maritime Commission
Wallace Ends Fun About Taft Vote
Wallace says his Taft vote speculation has moved beyond fun and will depend on Truman policy. He would back Taft only if Truman shifts on universal military training and Russia, otherwise a third party is possible to give voters a choice. He spoke in Albany and Schenectady about 1948 politics and Dewey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Henry
Wallace
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Truman
Russia
Schenectady
C.so
United Electrical Workers
Westchester County
A.E.W
Buffalo
Iit
Dewey
White House
Truman price controls cited in 1946 report
A committee report quotes President Truman warning that abandoning price controls could distort production and divert goods. It notes the intertwined fate of price and wage controls, cites causes of high prices, and proposes extending export controls and tightening gold reserve requirements to curb inflationary banking credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Congress
Federal Reserve
U. E. Backing 10,000 at Rand In Pact Fight
United Electrical workers plan mass support from seven Remington Rand plants after the company refused to recognize the union as bargaining agent following an NLRB ruling. The 1134-cent wage settlement from July ended a five week strike at plants in Syracuse Tonawanda North Tonawanda Ilion Herkimer and Benton Harbor. Senators Pepper and Aiken argued Taft Hartley does not bar Remington Rand from dealing with the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. E
Rand
NEW York GP
United Electrical Workers
Remington Rand
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Syracuse
Tonawanda
North Tonawanda
Ilion
Herkimer
Benton Harbor
Mich
Evis
Cory Coffee Brewer Company
Chicago
Remington Rand Company
Cory. Company
Washington
Pepper
D-Fla
Aiken
R-Vt
Senate
Lewis Walk Workers Exit Federation Rift Deepens
The Lewis Walk Workers pulled out of the Federation amid strained ties with AFL leaders and questions about political independence next year. The decision followed a week-long UMW executive board meeting, with editors denying any labor deal to unite for the election campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
A.F.L
K. C. Adams
U.M.W. Journal
Federation
U.m.w.’S
Government proposes half grain for whisky makers after holiday
Washington reports the government advised distillers to operate on half their normal grain allotment once the Christmas whisky-making holiday ends. The policy targets stabilizing supply and prices as production resumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bandit Pays Own Way in Detroit Holdup
Wayne Ruggles recounts a Friday night incident in which a would be robber lay in his car and demanded money. After driving with little fuel the bandit supplied 50 cents for gas then pressed for the wallet but Ruggles produced only an empty one. The bandit abandoned the attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Wayne Ruggles
Ruggles
Four Power talks strain over reparations and reunification
Marshall faces pressure to conclude talks quickly as Molotov demands high German reparations while resisting disclosure of Soviet zone data. The two sides clash over four power economic principles and the path to German unification and the stalled Marshall Plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Molotov
Germany
Western
Europe
Molotayv
Russia
Boston official denies March of Dimes liquor charges
Denis Delaney, Massachusetts collector, rejects allegations that champagne cocktails were funded by a March of Dimes collection at meetings he presided over. Subcommittee report cites irregularities in Boston IRS. Delaney says about 80,000 income tax returns were in Washington on orders of the commissioner and some so called missing forms were routine transfers for returns over five thousand dollars. Basil OConnor backs Delaney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Basil O'Connor
The
Foundation
New York City
Delaney
Internal Revenue Office
Washington
Af Internal Revenue
17 Die In Train Crash Near Riom France
A collision between an interurban diesel train and a freight and passenger train near Riom on the outskirts of Clermont-Ferrand killed 17 people and injured 20, some critically, last night due to a switching error.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont-Ferrand
France
Lmm
Riom
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American Legion
Palestine
Chaim Weizmann
World Zionist Organization
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
C.I.O. National Maritime Union
Maxine Elliott
Clinton, Ill
Carl Holtz
Holtz
Clinton
Springfield
Fay Sanford
Tacoma
Greece
State Department
George C. McGhee
Turkey
Tacoma World Affairs Council
College of Puget Sound
Los Angeles
Wilton L. Halverson
Wakayama
Yamaj
Versailles
Ramboillet
Nanking CP
Liu Po-Cheng
Peiping-Hankow
Mufti
Cairo
Han Amin el ‘Husseini
Jerusalem
Jamil Mardam Bey
Ahmad Sharabati
Syria
Geneva
Eleanor Roosevelt
United States
Tass
Taez
Cook
Trumans
Virginia Hill Pals
Butch Haven
Marshall St
Ned
von Se
Genesee St
Genesee Liquor Store
Imperial
Kinsey
Calvert
Philadelphia
Genesee Liquor
Lehi
Faa
Dewitt
East Genesee St
Denis Polio Dimes
Savings Bank
Salina
Erie Boulevard
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Photo Service
Seymour ST
Cedar ST
N. Crouse Ave
Board of Estimate
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