Britain Scales Yugoslavia Trade Aid Amid Economic Struggles
London officials report Britain will offer Yugoslavia up to eight million pounds in credits, down from a proposed 18 million, as Tito seeks a five year pact worth 200 million pounds. Ambassador Sir Charles Peake and Trade official Noel Patterson will inform Tito that aid is limited. If rejected, talks may shift to short term trading deals.
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London
Britain
Yugoslavia
Tuesay
Tito
Prague Likes James Over Paul Robeson
In Prague on December 6 American singer Paul Robeson drew smaller crowds than trumpeter Harry James. At Grampton Record Theater both artists played, with early rush for James and tickets soon suspended. Robeson drew only half the theater after James began at 5:30 p m.
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Prague
James
Paul Robeson
Harry James
Grampton
Robeson
Chicago Tot Returns Home as Fibrocystic Disease Claims Life
Four year old Patty Owens, gravely ill with fibrocystic disease, is rushed to Illinois Research Hospital after traveling from San Francisco to Chicago with her parents for Christmas. Ambulance crews keep tanks flowing as doctors weigh hopeful reports from Detroit and Ford Hospital.
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Chicago
Patty Owens
Illinois Research Hospital
Patty
City of San Francisco
Robert Owens
California
Owens
A. J. Bodiner
Pullman
San Francisco
Associated Press
Jean Eidson
Detroit
China Red Army Ordered To Help Farm and Factory
San Francisco dispatch reports Mao Tze-tung directs the Chinese Red Army to work part time in farms and factories starting spring 1950 to relieve state finances. Troops limited to agriculture, stock raising, fisheries, irrigation, crafts, construction, industry and transport. Demobilization not declared. many soldiers to enter civilian production while continued national defense.
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China Red Army
San Francisco
China
Red Army
Mao Tze-tung
Peoples Liberation
Mao
British Deny Refugee Return Plea for Soldier
Berlin December 6 Soviet requests for the return of Private Andrei Davidovich Sheika, who fled to the West, were refused by British Army authorities. The Russian soldier, who reached the British zone on November 13, sought political refugee haven under British policy. Deserters are typically returned under the four power agreement from 1945.
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Berlin
Andrei Davidovich Sheika
Hearing Slated on Union Plea for Taft Hartley Exemption
The National Labor Relations Board sets a December 19 hearing on AFL building trades plea to exempt from the Taft Hartley Act ban on closed shops. Case centers on Chester R. Hewes at Hanford atomic project. employers include Guy T. Atkinson Co and J A Jones Construction Co working for General Electric.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
AFL Building Trades
Hanford Atomic Energy Project
Hanford
Wash
AFL
Building
Associated General Contractors
National Constructors Association
International Association of Machinists
John Dunlop
Building Trades Industry
Guy T. Atkinson
J. A. Jones Construction Company
General Electric Company
Chester R. Hewes
Machinists Union
NLRB
Doctors Call Mass Screening For Stomach Cancer
Three Johns Hopkins radiology doctors urged nationwide screening for stomach cancer using gastric photofluorography. They said the painless five to six minute test could detect disease while curable, citing pilot results and low costs. Other researchers noted 40,000 to 50,000 US cases yearly and high operative death rates.
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Cleveland
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Department of
Radiology
The
Radiological Society of North America, Inc
Roach
Johns Hopkins
Carl A. Moyer
8. H. Clayton
Dallas
Texas
United States
Writer Says Russ Excited at A-Work
New York dispatch reports 8 year old writer Murial Draper returning from Moscow with claims that Russians are excited about atomic energy for peace. She notes reforestation irrigation projects and says a 110 woman delegation from 87 countries discussed preventing war and women’s rights. Draper says Americans are loved in Russia but Russians fear impending conflict with the United States.
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New York
Murial Draper
Moscow
Russia
Council of the Women's International Democratic Federation
America
Twins All Over the Place in Iron Mountain
IRON MOUNTAIN Mich UP Mr and Mrs George Jolliffe are used to meeting double They are parents of twin girls grandparents of twin boys and have twin uncles twin nieces and twin grand nephews
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Iron Mountain
Mich
George Jolliffe
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