China 12th Army Breaks Communist Trap Near Suchow
The 12th Army group of about 110000 troops reportedly broke free from a Communist trap that held it for two weeks on the Suchow front. Reports say the Suchow garrison remains in question as fighting continues. Air raids aided the government once weather cleared, with the 12th joining the sixth Army group near Kuchen.
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Nanking
12Th Army Group
Suchow
Associated Press
Harold K. Milks
Sixth Army Group
Kuchen
Milks
Pengpu
Hwai River
Liu Chih
East China Forces
Huang Wei
Hankow
Liu Po-Cheng
Central China
Suhsien
Sixth Army
Chen Yi
East China
First Arms Ship Docks in China
United States military aid shipments reach China with 2000 pound bombs aboard junk fleet at Soochow Creek near Shanghai. Supplies sail from Shanghai Tsingtao and Tientsin for Fu Tso Yi Nationalists in Peiping Tientsin area.
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Shanghai
China
United States
Tsingtao
Tientsin
Soochow Creek
North China
Fu Tso-Yi
Peiping- Tientsin
Pacific
The Doctor Got His Fee Sock and All
An Idaho Falls doctor received a patient’s payment in a sock. The patient returned with an old sock containing 176 silver dollars as payment for the bill. The incident followed the doctor’s note asking the patient to die down and pay what he could.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Gifts of the Magi and Santa Fill a Lock With Peace
Greenville editor prints a moving letter from a “grown-up child” to Santa Claus. The writer asks for forgetfulness and forgiveness to mend a lonely life, hoping for faith, tolerance, and a return of simple joy this Christmas.
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Greenville
Santa Claus
W. C. Poole Jr
Greenville Morning Herald
Poole
Santa
Marines To Help Evacuate Yanks From Shanghai
Washington reports the government will use US Marines to evacuate Americans from Shanghai if needed. Lovett says about 2,500 civilians remain, with shipping and forces available to protect them. Madame Chiang Kai-shek seeks US aid for the Nationalists as she visits Washington.
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Washington
Shanghai
Lovett
China
Madame Chiang Kai- Shek
Madame Chiang
United Service For China
Schoch Wins Southwest Regional Chemistry Award
Dr. E. P. Schoch director of UT Austin bureau of industrial chemistry receives the first Southwest regional award from the American Chemical Society at a Shreveport banquet. He is honored for pioneering acetylene production from natural gas and will speak on electric discharges for gas chemistry. The three day meeting draws about 1,000 chemists and engineers from 10 states with 14 sessions on petroleum chemistry chemurgy and analytical methods.
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E. P. Schoch
Bureau of Industrial Chemistry
University of Texas
Schoch
American Chemical Society
Washington-Youree
Shreveport
Charles Allen Thomas
Society
Monsanto Chemical Company
St. Louis
Southwestern
Mayor Studies Hectic Rate For Pay Hike
Mayor Tom Miller weighs raising City electric rates by five percent in 1949 to fund a proposed $10 to $15 pay raise for policemen and firemen. A rate increase could yield about $135,000 in new revenue plus potential gains from a higher gross receipts tax on Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. The plan also contemplates a $3.25 to $8 rate for phone service with a 4 percent gross receipts levy. Public hearing would precede any action. The move follows a lawsuit over longevity pay and state-law salary comparisons.
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Tom Miller
Miller
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Telephone Company
Austin
Guston Morgan
UN panel approves Korea republic in South Korea
The UN political committee endorsed the Republic of Korea set up in the American zone after elections supervised by a UN commission. The vote was 41 to 6 with the Soviet bloc opposing. Russia urged immediate abolition of the commission, while Australia and others backed its work and a withdrawal timetable.
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Paris
Republic of Korea
United Nations Commission
Russia
United States
Korea
Kuzma Kiselev
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
38Th Parallel
Syngman Rhee
Ukraine
Australia
Philippines
India
Nada
Britain
France
Jakob Malik
Malik
Seoul
United States Army
Vladimir Houdek
Czechoslovakia
Obrad Cicmiš
Yugoslavia
White
Road Crash Near Austin Kills Woman and Injures Man
An Austin woman died and an Austin man was in critical condition after a car colliding with a heavy transport truck one mile south of Austin late Wednesday night. Rica Mae Finfrock 39 died after arrival at Brackenridge Hospital. H G West Jr 39 suffered serious head injuries. Ed Finfrock 38 suffered minor injuries. truck driver Hugo Floyd Miller 21 from Viola Wisconsin was uninjured. State troopers H B Peacock and Adkins investigated.
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Austin
Brackenridge Hospital
Rica Mae Finfrock
Linscomb
H. G. West, Jr
South Congress
Ed Finfrock
Finfrock
Two Texans Plead Guilty To Flying While Drunk
Two Texans pleaded guilty in Oklahoma City to flying an airplane while intoxicated. Judge Carl Traub fined Troy Vencill of Dallas age 40 and Charlie Conners of Shamrock age 35, $100 each after their arrest at Will Rogers Field for flying over the airport and causing delays to transport planes.
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Oklahoma City
Carl Traub
Common Pleas Court
Troy Vencill
Dallas
Charlie C. Conners
Shamrock
Will Rogers Field
Christmas Gift Offer for The American or The Statesman
A promotion offers 04c per day costs for a Christmas gift with $15 delivers citywide for one year. Gift card bearing your name arrives in the first issue.
Second Gas Ban Made Permanent By Court Action
The 98th District Court granted a second permanent injunction in a week against a railroad commission shut down order aimed at halting gas flaring in Flour Bluff Field Nueces County. Trial patterns mirrored Heyser Field as the state appeals possible.
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BO Byers
Associated Press
98Th District Court
Railroad Commission
Charles O. Betts
Flour Bluff
Nueces County
State Supreme Court
Heyser
Calhoun
Victoria
Sterling Oil and Refining Co
R. C. Granbury
Corpus Christi
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Southwest Texas
Fagan Dickson
Granbury
Humble Oil
Houston Natural Gas Company
State Department tightens secrecy after spy threat fears
Washington officials report new security measures bolster protection of diplomatic secrets. Machines replace hand coding, strict document control and frequent FBI screenings strengthen defenses against leaks and code breaches while acknowledging no system is 100 percent foolproof.
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Washington
Lovett
America
State Department
John E. Peurifoy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Witness confirms Chambers statements on microfilms
Magazine editor Isaac Don Levine testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that he believes at least 10 Soviet rings operated in the United States with potential for many more. He described Chambers as having access to top secret papers stored for trading with Soviet authorities and recounted a 1939 meeting with A. A. Berle Jr. and the safety measures surrounding the documents.
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Lovett
House Commission On unAmerican
State Department
Washington
Isaac Don Levine
Congressional
United States
Levine
House un-American Activities
McDowell
R-Pa
Plain Talk Magazine
Whittaker Chambers
Red Underground
America
Chambers
Moscow
Mexico
Canada
Europe
Committee
Robert E. Stripling
New York
Grand Jury
Alger Hiss
Hiss
House
A. A. Berle Jr
Berle
Roosevelt
Cat Refuses To Play Part Sides With Rat in Hall
In Wilkinsburg a cat and a rat faced off eye to eye in a hallway. Residents feared the intruder and called police. The rat fled under the cat and the officers pursued to kill the rat, calling it the darndest thing they ever saw.
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Cat
Rat
Pittsburgh
Wilkinsburg
No earthly use 35 grave mistakes in burglary
Chicago dispatch describes a burglar who stole two men's suits from a parker car and 33 women's burial dresses worth 300 dollars. Charles Meure of Estelle Dress Company quipped the garments are of no earthly use.
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Chicago
Parker
Charles Meure
Estelle Dress Company
Meure
Truman To Stall SP Rail Tie Up
President Truman plans to delay a potential 60 day strike on the Southern Pacific Railroad if no settlement is reached by the December 15 deadline. The move follows a mediation push by the National Mediation Board to resolve grievances of 700 union members, with no wage or hour changes involved.
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Washington
Truman
Southern Pacific Railroad
Frank P. Douglass
National Mediation Board
Mr. Truman
Douglass
San Francisco
Brotherhood of Firemen
Two Charged in Election Fraud Fail To Appear
In Galveston on December 8, warrants were issued for Charles Neiderman and Leo Rose after they failed to appear in court on charges of vote fraud from last July's Democratic primary. They were among nine indicted on 13 counts. bonds were forfeited and re set at $500 after deputies sought them.
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Galveston
Charles Neiderman
Leo Rose
Neiderman
Rose
Governor's Election Law Panel Skips Campaign Finance Questions
The governor’s committee on election law reforms dodged key issues on campaign expenses and voter registration at its first session. It approved initial reforms to safeguard ballot purity, delayed poll tax abolition and primary system changes, and plans to study secret ballots and rescheduled primaries. Each member will submit proposed changes to be considered next meeting chaired by H Grady Chandler.
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Governor's Committee On
H. Grady Chandler
Austin
Lingya Sinking Death Toll Climbs to 3400
In Shanghai on December 9 194?. The Lingya steamer disaster raised the death toll to 3400 as missing passengers list revisions emerged. Eighty survivors were rescued in Eastern Chekiang while salvagers search the hold for the final count. Around 107 bodies were viewed by families at local mortuaries.
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Shanghai
Chekiang
Officer Recovers Evidence After Dog Bite Incident
SAN ANTONIO reports Police Officer John D. Carver was called to address a vicious dog that had bitten a nearby resident. While warning the owner to confine the animal for observation, the dog bit Carver’s leg as he spoke.
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San Antonio
John D. Carver
Carver
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