UN approves Republic of Korea but keeps Korean Commission
The United Nations Assembly at Paris endorsed Dr. Syngman Rhee's government in the Republic of Korea and extended the UN Korean commission for another year. The vote was 4 to 6 with the Soviet bloc opposed. Sweden abstained.
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United Nations Assembly
Syngman Rhee
New York
Dr. Rhee
Republic of Korea
Korean Commission
Korea
Jacob A. Malik
Malik
United States
Australia
China
Sweden
Russia
New UN Conciliation Trio Seeks Palestinian Settlement
The General Assembly creates a three nation conciliation commission with Turkey United States and France to craft a lasting plan for Palestine. It aims to recognize Israels existence while addressing Arab Moslem rejection of the Jewish state and to propose an international regime for Jerusalem and Holy places.
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Holy Land
General Assembly
Palestine
Israel
Turkey
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France
Jerusalem
New York
Traffic Fatality Claims Austinite Earl Ponce
Earl Ponce a 20 year old Austin resident was killed early Sunday when struck by a westbound sedan on East Sixth Street. Jesse Rosas 24 of South Second Street was driving the car. Funeral services are set for Monday at Guadalupe Church with Father Diaz officiating. Ponce is survived by his parents a sister and three brothers.
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Santa Rita
East Sixth Street
Guadalupe Church
Father Diaz
East Sixth
Jesse Rosas
South Second Street
Ponce
Justice of the Peace
Frank W. McBee
Endurance Pair Aiming For Record Flight Length In Air
INDIO Calif December 12 Dick Riedel and Bill Barris began a nonstop flight from India Air field on November 20. They plan to stay aloft until January 1 covering over 1 000 hours, aiming to surpass the current 726 hour non stop flying record amid a backdrop of past quakes and fires.
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Calif
Dick Riedel
Bill Barris
India
Five Die in Chicago Loop Hotel Blaze
Five killed and eleven injured when flames swept the fifth floor of the Victoria Hotel at 334 S. Clark Street in Chicago. Fire confined to one floor within an hour. many escaped via stairways and fire escapes. Victims included Chicago residents William James Keane Eugene Oyler Allan McCullough and Navy men Richard W. Kline Richard I. Ulven.
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S. Clark Street
William James Keane
St. Luke’s Hospital
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Allan McCullough
Richard W. Kline
Richard I. Ulven
Great Lakes
Ulven
Austin
Minn
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Keane
George Wilkinson
Rock Island Railroad
Wilkinson
Sanford
Fla
Henry Freuler
Frank Coffey
William Lewis
Ann Wells
Hubbard Hotel
American Red Cross
Bessie Wilson
Des Moines
Iowa
Reds Cut China Railway Lifeline
The Chinese Communists cut the Government railway lifeline to the front near Chiashan about 50 miles northwest of Nanking. Infiltration south of the Hwai River disrupted traffic for the Sixth and Eighth Government Army Groups. Two large Government forces remained encircled about 145 to 185 miles northwest of Nanking as neutral observers noted slim escape chances.
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National Defense Ministry
Ex UT Student Marjorie Darilek Dies in Dallas
Miss Marjorie M. Darilek 23 former University of Texas student from 1942 to 1946 died Sunday morning in a Dallas hospital after a three week illness. She was employed by a life insurance company in Dallas and was survived by her parents Mr and Mrs A J Darilek and two brothers. At UT she led the Women’s Campus Association and served as secretary of the Student’s Association. She was a Bluebonnet Belle nominee for four years and a sweetheart candidate, and she earned a journalism degree.
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Marjorie M. Darilek
University of Texas
Moulton
A. J. Darilek
Daniel J
Houston
Allen H
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Women’s Campus Association
Town bans Life Magazine for nude-photo affront
Lynn Massachusetts bans the current issue of Life Magazine Sunday after a photograph of two nude girls wading in a pool is deemed an affront to local morals and decency by patrolman Arthur P. Witham, the city's censor.
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Life Magazine
Arthur P. Witham
Library of prominent Texan donated to TCU
The library of the late Dr. Gayle Scott, a Texas geologist noted in the oil industry and scientific circles, has been donated to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
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Gayle Scott
Texas
Texas Christian University
Man Attacks Streetcar Motorman in Los Angeles
A man boarded a street car and asked Motorman Laurence Smart if he recognized him. When Smart said no, the assailant claimed to be someone Smart nearly ran over, slammed the brake handle into Smart’s head, shoved him through the front window, then walked away. Smart suffered a scalp laceration.
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Los Angeles
Laurence Smart
Smart
Perestrain
Hiss Denies Espionage Allegations in Albany Statement
Alger Hiss, former State Department official, reiterated his denial that he passed secret government papers to Whittaker Chambers for delivery to Russian agents. Chambers has alleged Hiss and two other ex-officials supplied him with documents intended to be removed from the State Department.
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Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Hiss
Julian Wadleigh
William Ward Pigman
Bureau of Standards
UT student dies in Navy plane crash at Dallas NAS
Leroy B. Buddy McClellan a 24 year old University of Texas student from Houston was killed when his single engine plane crashed on takeoff at Dallas Naval Air Station. The Naval Air Reserve lieutenant junior grade was solo in the plane en route to Houston to pick up a shipmate. Funeral services will be held in Houston and McClellan was active in the Canterbury Club and served as a lay reader. He lived in Houston at 209 East 13th Street.
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Leroy B
Buddy” McClellan
University of Texas
Houston
Dallas Naval Air Station
McClellan
Naval Air Reserve
Reserve
John Hines
Canterbury Club
Episcopal
East 13Th Street
Cuban Head Leaves New York for Havana
President Carlos Pino of Cuba departed New York by plane from La Guardia at 10 34 a m in Truman's Independence ending a state visit begun Wednesday He was to arrive in Havana at 4 30 p m according to the schedule of the Cuban leader.
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Cuba
Havana
la Guardia Field
Truman
Magazine Steel Reports Slight Steel Demand Dip
Cleveland December 12 pressure for steel eased slightly last week as soft spots in the economy appeared, the magazine Steel said Sunday.
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Cleveland
Steel
Congress Probes Espionage Law Holes and Reforms
Congressional investigators say the Federal Espionage Law is full of holes and needs major repairs. Nixon and Ferguson push for tightened controls while Holifield proposes House rule changes to curb the unAmerican activities committee. The probe centers on figures like Hiss Pigman and Wadleigh with witnesses planned next week in New York.
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Nixon
Calif
House On American Activities Committee
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Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate Investigating Committee
Holifield
California
unAmerican Activities Committee
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Tom C. Clark
Germany
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Russia
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Pigman
Wadleigh
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Justice Department
Star Witnesses
Jap Industrialist Admits Taking Cash
Premier Shigeru Yoshida told a Diet investigating committee he wrote a letter thanking textile manufacturer Kiyoshi Umemura for a 1,000,000 yen contribution but cannot recall its use. The sum, about 3,700 dollars in purchasing power, appeared in Umemura’s papers as prosecutors probe bribe links to cotton allocations.
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Shigeru Yoshida
Diet
Parliament
Yoshida
Briebery
Jews Leave Bulgaria For Homes in Israel
A new group of 2,600 Jewish emigrants left Bulgaria for Israel, Izgrev reported. A Jewish spokesman thanked the Bulgarian government for assistance departing.
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Israel
Sofia
Izgrev
Invaders Held As Costa Rica Faces Nicaraguan Assault
Costa Rica reports repelling an invasion said to be led by Rafael A Calderon Guardia with Nicaraguan and Costa Rican exiles. Martial law declared, civilians mobilized, censorship imposed, and protests filed with Nicaragua and the United Nations amid calls for national unity.
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Bay of Salinas
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la Cruz
The Perfect GIFT for Every Day Readers
This note highlights gift subscriptions to two daily newspapers The American and The Statesman offering daily and Sunday editions for year round readership. It emphasizes consistent delivery.
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Statesman
Gift Card Offer for One-Year City Membership
Readers can secure a one year city membership for fifteen dollars. The first issue includes a gift card bearing the recipient's name.
Centexan Killed As Car Overturns Near Round Mountain
Roy Gibson a 19 year old Marble Falls resident was killed when his automobile overturned five miles south of Round Mountain at 10 p m Saturday. Passenger W C Shaffr was uninjured. Gibson’s body was taken to Johnson City and funeral arrangements were not complete. He is survived by his father Ira Gibson, three brothers and four sisters including Mrs Daniel Crownover Mrs Levi Crownover Mrs Fritz Burns and Mrs Anna Lou Moore.
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Gibson
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B. M. Gibson
Billy Joe Gibson
I. V. Gibson
Navy
Daniel Crownover
Levi Crownover
Fritz Burns
Anna Lou Moore
Austin
East German government talks loom with Soviet treaty plan
Reports from Berlin state Russia and German Communists are negotiating an East German government that would sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. Colonel Serge Tulpanov traveled to Moscow for talks on timelines, with possible signing next spring. Also, Major General Kotikov reportedly returned to Moscow with heart disease and may be replaced by Colonel Yelisarov.
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Russia
Soviet Union
Serge Tulpanov
Germany
Moscow
DPD
Alexander Kotikov
Kotikov
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Alexis Yelisarov
Reds Assassination Plot Against Papandreou Foiled in Greece
Police said a Communist plan to kill former Prime Minister George Papandreou was thwarted when a would be killer alerted authorities. The plot targeted Papandreou at a wedding after noon on Sunday, with five others arrested after an informer tipped off police.
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George Papandreou
Papandreou
Princesses Former Tutor Sir Clarence Marten Dies at 76
Sir Clarence Henry Marten, 76, provost of Eton College since 1945 and longtime tutor to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, died Sunday at his Windsor home.
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Clarence Henry Marten
Eton College
Elizabeth
Margaret
Costa Rica seeks Rio Pact aid over Nicaragua invasion
The Organization of American States referred Costa Rica’s request under the Rio Mutual Defense Treaty to its Foreign Ministers after a four and a half hour session. Costa Rica charged armed forces from various nations invaded from Nicaragua and urged a border closure with a five nation watchdog to supervise it.
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Costa Rica
Council of the Organization of American States
Nicaragua
Council
Alfredo Sacasa
Esquivel
Anastasio Somoza
Juan Baustista de Lavalle
Central America
Russians offer free sugar to lure Berliners to Soviet side
In Berlin on December 12, Soviet authorities distributed a half pound of sugar to Eastern Berlin residents and anyone switching food registrations from the western sector. Party claims show 85,000 of 2 million western- sector Germans shifted registrations. anti-Communists say 60,000. Western Berliners fear new frontier controls in January that could bar 150,000 to 200,000 workers living west but employed east.
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Fas
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