Assassination of Egypt Premier by Colleague Shocks Cairo
Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha was killed by a medical student disguised as a policeman after entering the interior ministry. Abdel Hamia Hassan, 21, a veterinary student at Fauda University and Moslem Brotherhood member, fired five shots. The Brotherhood had been outlawed recently for alleged terrorism. King Farouk ordered a new cabinet, with Hadi Pasha to form the government amid Egypt’s Palestine crisis.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
Palestine
Abdel Hamia Hassan
Fauda University
Arden Nationalist Association
The
Moslem Brotherhood
Ministry of Interior
Brotherhood
Farouk
Ibrahim Abdel Pash
Hadi Pasha
Nokrashy Pasha
Saadist Party
Hani
Aew
Royal Egyptian Air Force
Police officer chokes bulldog to save boy in Oakland
Oakland officer George Hazen wrestled the mad bulldog by the throat with bare hands to free 11 year old Vern Bahr from a severe mauling. The dog had bitten four other children that day before the attack ended at East Oakland intersection.
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Oakland
Cal
George Hazen
Hazen
Vern Bahr
American Wife Convicted in German Military Court
Mrs. Wilma Ybarbo of Malden Massachusetts was found guilty of malice aforethought and sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her soldier husband Sergeant John Ybarbo of Goliad Texas. Tried by a three judge military court, she faces concurrent German law penalties and may appeal challenging jurisdiction and trial rights for American civilians in occupied Germany.
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Marburg
Germany
Wilma Ybarbo
Malden
Mass
John Ybarbo
Goliad
Texas
Military Government Court of Appeals
Nuernberg
Stanley H. Gaines
Brookline, Mass
Ybarbo
Jimmy Ybarbo
Charles Bailey
New Bedford
Salado Carpenter Killed in Crash near Jarrell
James Bethel Adams 36, of Salado, was killed when his light sedan collided head on with a vegetable truck on Highway 81, one mile east of Jarrell. The truck from Poteet, driven by Stephen Frazier of San Antonio, carried his son Jackie. both escaped injury. Adams died instantly. funeral arrangements were pending. The Williamson County deputy sheriff and Jarrell justice of the peace deemed the death accidental.
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Georgetown
James Bethel Adams
Salado Carpenter
Jarrell
Highway 81
Here
Adams
R. E. Davis
Poteet
Stephen F. Frazier
San Antonio
Jackie
Advanc
Friederich
Williamson County
Henry Matysech
Justice of the Peace
Baby Born Under Bridge Dies in Texas Incident
In Fredericksburg on December 28 a mother 23, Mrs. I C Myers, faces critical burns and pneumonia after her newborn died from burns when her clothes ignited while warming the infant under a bridge. The father, an unemployed plumber, plans to stay in jail until his wife recovers and they resume their trip to Aransas Pass, while their three year old remains with the mother’s mother.
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Fredericksburg
Here
I. C. Myers
Gillespie County
Aransas Pass
Myers
Phoenix
Ariz
Kimble County
Myer
Junction
Soviet stylists urged to craft simple pretty fashion
Moscow reports that on December 28 the Moscow Bolshevik urged Soviet stylists to design clothing not influenced by capitalist West tastes. Society writer A. Donskikh called for styles that are simple yet attractive and fit the increased cultural needs of the Soviet people.
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Moscow
A. Donskikh
Bolshevik
Grandmother Dies In Saving Wedding Gown
In Sunnyside Washington Mrs Florence Churchill saved her granddaughter by rushing into a flaming cabin to save the trousseau. Her clothing caught fire and she died from severe burns suffered before firefighters could control the blaze.
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Sunnyside
Wash
Marcella Schwison
Florence Churchill
McKellar Describes Two Fist Fights Over Age Criticism
The ailing Senator Kenneth D. McKellar said he struck Nashville publisher Spillman Evans and Chicago-born reporter Jack Anderson in separate encounters sparked by questions about his age and abilities. Evans and Anderson offered rival accounts, McKellar apologized for the loss of temper, while Evans accused him of fading memory and illness.
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Washington
Kenneth D. McKellar
Senate
Spillman Evans
Nashville
Tenn) Tennessean
McKellar
Jack Anderson
Drew Pearson
Tennessee
Evans
Anderson
Pearson
Naval Hospital
Mayflower Hotel
Senator McKellar
Silliman Evans
Skunk
UN Demands Dutch Free Java Chiefs
UN Security Council orders the Netherlands to release Indonesian Republican leaders within 24 hours, while Britain seeks an immediate Palestine cease fire and Negev withdrawal. The vote also backs a Colombian plan to have consuls supervise cease fire compliance in Batavia. Dutch refusal cited. Soekarno and Hatta named among top prisoners.
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Paris
United Nations Security Council
Netherlands
Britain
Palestine
Israel
Negev Desert
Negev
Jan Herman van Royen
China
Batavia
Java
van Royen
Council
France
Belgium
Russia
Ukraine
Security Council
Soekarno
Mohamed Hatta
Jogjakarta
Peace rumors fly as China fighting lulls
In Nanking rumors of a possible peace settlement with the Communists swirl as a winter lull settles on the civil war. Chiang Kai-shek faces pressure to resign, possibly enabling Li Tsung Jen to assume the presidency and pursue peace talks. Reports of mutinies in Kwangtung and swift troop moves underscore ongoing instability despite talk of negotiations.
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Nanking
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Li Tsung-Jen
Hong Kong
Kwangtung
South China
Sing Tao Jih Pao
Canton
Yangtze
Yellow
Hwai
Associated Press
Seymour Topping
Pengpu
Ose
Jet Assisted Plane Boats Navy to Job
Twelve US Airmen were rescued from a 7,800 foot Greenland ice cap in 38 minutes by a C47 with takeoff skis. Lt. Col. Emil J. Beaudry led the mission, flying from Greenland and delivering the survivors a Christmas Tree, Yule dinner, and supplies. The rescue ended a series of failed attempts as the Navy sent the US Saipan with helicopters, awaiting a turn of favorable weather.
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Greenland
Washington
Air Force
Navy
US Saipan
North Atlantic
Saipan
Norfolk
Emil J. Beaudry
Manchester
N. H
Westover
Mass
Col. Beaudry
Europe
Beaudry
Dyke’s Lake
Labrador
International Authority Planned to Rebuild Ruhr Region
London and five Western nations announced the creation of an unprecedented international authority to supervise Ruhr reconstruction. The plan includes six-power governance with Western Germany, aims to disarm and demilitarize Germany, aid European recovery, and promote economic integration while leaving eventual Ruhr ownership undecided.
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London
United States
Ruhr
Russia
Britain
France
Belbourg
Germany
Europe
Accidental Shot Kills Four Year Old Boy
Robert Ernest Wallace four years old of Memphis Tennessee was killed when a pistol found in a dresser drawer discharged in a Snyder Mississippi home. He was the son of Dr Grady Wallace and Mrs. Wallace and survived by a one year old brother James E Wallace. Funeral services were held in Snyder Cemetery after the incident occurred around noon as the family prepared to return to Memphis.
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Snyder Cemetery
James E. Wallace
Beaumont Triplets Doing 'Fairly Well'
Beaumont reports three newborns, two boys and a girl, born Monday at Municipal Hospital, in an incubator and fed by eye dropper. One boy weighs two pounds nine ounces, the girl two pounds one ounce. the other boy’s weight not listed. Mother Mrs Glendowlyn Muschott, 36, a waitress, is divorced with six other children.
Truman avoids answering on Soviet peace talk
President Truman ends Christmas holiday amid questions about his remark that certain leaders in the Soviet Government want to talk peace. Reporters pressed for details but he offered no new information. He plans to return to Washington for a Friday White House conference with Barkley and Rayburn before flying from Fairfax, Kansas.
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Kansas City
Truman
Russia
Washington
White House
Alben Barkley
Sam Rayburn
Fairfax
Kan
Colonial Farm
Belvins Davis
Independence
Skipper
Margaret
Cobina Wright Sr
Beverly Hills
Calif
George Sloan
Chase National Bank of
New York City
Frederick Siebold
New York Hospital
Vincent Abbott
Abracombie and Fitch
Ralph Giddings
Colorado
Warships Stolen and Sold on Black Market in Japan
Tokyo reports state that two Imperial Japanese Navy ships were stolen and dismantled for scrap by Yaichi Mori, a 64 year old iron plant owner from Aomori. Mori allegedly diverted 2,000 tons of sheet metal to the black market, involving a destroyer named Tokiwa and another unnamed vessel.
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Tokyo
Imperial Japanese Navy
Aomori
Honshu
Yaichi Mori
Mori
Tokiwa
Atom Powered Warship Planned
The Atomic Energy Commission announced a contract with Westinghouse Electric to build an experimental atomic engine for naval propulsion. Project led by Argonne National Laboratory and Westinghouse aims to create a nuclear plant adaptable to ship propulsion at the earliest feasible time.
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Chicago
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Tammaro
Navy Department
Bureau of Ships
Westinghouse Company of Pittsburgh
Westinghouse
AEC
Small Craft Warned Of Winds Across Gulf Coast
The US Weather Bureau ordered small craft warnings hoisted from Brownsville Texas to Morgan City Louisiana as winds forecast over the Gulf coast.
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Gulf
New Orleans
US Weather Bureau
Brownsville
Texas
Morgan City
Travis County Dogs May Be Quarantined
Travis County Commissioners Court will consider a proposal to adopt dog quarantine measures similar to Austin's in response to a rabies outbreak. Austin reports 47 mad dog cases since May 1 with the latest found at 1508 Haskell, and a six month city leash and confinement ordinance takes effect January 1. Dr. Ben Primer will present the plan to extend the quarantine countywide at the final 1948 court meeting Wednesday morning.
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Travis County
City of
Austin
County Commissioners Court
Haskell
Ben Primer
US to Cut Forces in Southern Korea
The Army plans a central regrouping of US forces in Korea with a possible reduction of up to half. The Seventh Infantry Division will move from Korea to Japan to replace the 11th Airborne Division, as United Nations and allied authorities seek to withdraw occupiers as conditions allow while preserving southern stability.
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Korea
Washington
MacArthur
Seventh Infantry
Japan
United States
Russia
Republic of Korea
United Nations
Coast ‘Guard
Yasu
11Th Airborne
Camp Campbell
Soviet Russia
Red Army
South
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Free Java
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Argonne National Laboratory
Westinghouse Company
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