Berlin Vote Deepens East West Split After Soviet Blocking
Berlin voters backed the Social Democrats by about 64.5 percent in a high turnout that challenged Soviet occupation. Ernst Reuter will lead the western Berlin coalition as mayor while a separate communist government governs the Soviet sector. The result sharpens calls to ban the ruble in the west and widens the east west rift tied to the ongoing blockade.
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Berlin
Social Democratic
Social Democrats
Christian Democrats
Liberal Democrats
Arty
Ernst Reuter
Communists claim trap and destruction of three government army groups
In Nanking reports say the 2nd 13th and 16th army groups totaling about 250 000 men were trapped after abandoning Suchow to aid another encircled force. Communist broadcasts claim 20 000 killed from Dec 2 to Dec 4 and promise annihilation unless surrender. Government sources acknowledge limited supplies after the Suchow depot loss and note a desperate break through as the only option. The 12th army group farther southeast faces a similar encirclement.
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Nanking
Suchow
China
12Th Army Group
United Nations Rejects Soviet Korea Recognition Proposal
The UN political committee voted 34 to 6 against inviting the northern Korean government to send representatives to Korean discussions. The republic of Korea was invited to participate in debates by a 39 to 6 vote, with the Soviet bloc again on the losing side. The assembly plans to resume work in New York on April 1 after adjourning next weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Korea
United Nations
General Assembly
Republic of Korea
New York
Security Council
Palestine Committee
Egypt
Palestine
Israel
Negev Desert
Russia
Assembly
Social Committee
UN Legal Committee
Hitch Hiker Recovers Speech After Wreck
A hitch hiker in Brazl Diaz, Dec. 6, regained speech and hearing after a traffic crash on U S highway 40 near Dayton Ohio. He had claimed six months of deafness and dumbness and told officers he could now talk after being picked up by Dean Schroyer. Police and school officials recorded the extraordinary report but could not learn the man’s name.
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Brazl. Ind
Dean Schroyer
Dayton
Ohio
St. Louis
Schroyer
Cheyenne Woman Near 24000 Prize On Radio Call Mixup
In Cheyenne Wyoming Mrs A H Moeller nearly won 24000 on the Sign It Again program after a long distance call from New York. The line was disconnected just before her name was read though another contestant later claimed the prize for identifying the mystery singer Red Grange. Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph investigates whether the disconnection occurred at the studio or on the long distance network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
A. H. Moeller
Moeller
New York
New Canal Survey Opens From Atlantic Pacific Route
Explorers depart to survey a potential second Atlantic Pacific canal route about 200 miles southeast of Panama. A second group starts from the Pacific side next week. they expect to meet near the Atrato and Truando rivers. U S and Colombia must approve survey plans for the Atrato Truando route.
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Balboa
Canal Zone
Colombia
Panama Canal
Gulf of Aruba
Atlantic
Humboldt Bay
Pacific
United States
U.S
Sighting of Life Rafts in Pacific Crash Search
Navy and air force units hunted survivors from a C54 ferrying personnel from Okinawa to Spokane after engine trouble forced it to ditch 1200 miles southwest of Honolulu. About 30 men and 7 crew were aboard. life rafts and flare signals drew hopeful but inconclusive searches.
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Honolulu
Hawaiian Sea Frontier
Navy
Catalina
Airforce
Okinawa
Spokane
Wash
Mendova
Zelima
Johnston Island
Johnston
Harry A. Hazzard
Hazzard
Rendova
Zelma
Passumpsic
98Th
Allen H. Stotts
Hickam Field
Stotts
Truman Critical Of Greek Army
President Truman said that despite 170 million dollars in American aid a stalemate has developed in Greece as guerrilla forces seek to topple the government. He forecast rejection of a request to expand the Greek army from 168,500 to 250,000 and blamed insufficient effort rather than lack of troops. The two year aid program shows commitments totaling 239.8 million with 170.3 million delivered in arms and services.
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Washington
Truman
Greece
Congress
U. S
White Man Charged By Negro's Widow
Amy Mallard the widow of Marvin Mallard named William L. Howell as part of a group that ambushed and killed her husband on a country road. She identified Howell from six men and filed a murder warrant against him while she remained under police protection in Savannah.
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Lyons
Amy Mallard
William L. Howell
Farmer
Howell
Luckey Offered Cabinet Post Says He Has Been Approached
San Diego December 6 former state senator E George Luckey of Brawley vice chair man of the state Democrat party central committee said he has been approached about a post in President Truman s cabinet He added I have been approached but that s as much as I can say at this time.
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San Diego
Calif
George Luckey
Truman
Luckey
Brawley
State
Democrat Party Central Committee
Supreme Court to study Jap war crime tribunal legality
The Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to hear arguments on whether it can intervene in an Allied Tokyo trial that sentenced seven Japanese leaders to hang. Justice Jackson cast the deciding vote amid concerns this may embarrass the United States. Hearings set for Dec. 16.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Jackson
Germany
United States
Truman
Kenji Doihara
Koku Hirota
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Justice Department Defends Lewis Fine
The Justice Department defended the $1.42 million fines on John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers for violating a no strike order. The brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals argued the fines were fair after a similar $710,000 penalty a year earlier and noted deliberate disobedience by the appellants.
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Washington
Justice Department
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
U. S. Court of Appeals
Lewis
T. Allen Goldsborough
Goldsborough
School Building Needs Listed At 100 Million
West Virginia faces a $100 to $150 million need for new school construction. The State Education Association says less than 10 percent is available to counties and even maxed local levies would yield only about 5.7 million dollars annually. SEA director Sam Lambert outlines the plan in the current West Virginia School Journal.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State Education Association
Association
Sam Lambert
SEA
The
West Virginia School Journal
Meat Isn't Dear At This Hospital
Pittsburgh December 6 33 deer delivered to Leech Farm tuberculosis hospital by state game commission at request of Dr Hope Alexander health director He planned to distribute 23 to other hospitals and charities with the remainder used locally for the hospital.
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Pittsburgh
Leech Farm
Hope Alexander
State Game Commission
Dubois
Alexander
Hiss Accused of Taking State Department Documents
Whittaker Chambers testifies before the House Un American Activities Committee that Alger Hiss obtained government documents for a Russian agent Colonel Bykov. Hiss denies the charges and a New York grand jury probes the matter as Nixon notes additional documents tied to the case.
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Washington
Alger Hiss
State Department
House UN American Activities Committee
Whittaker Chambers
Red Courier
Hiss
Colonel Bykov
New York
Grand
Committee On un-American Activities
Chambers
Baltimore
Rep
Nixon
R-Calif
un-American Activities Subcommittee
Rankin
D-Miss
J. Peters
Peter
Bykov
Mr. Hiss
Mrs. Hiss
Department
un-American Activities Committee
Walter G. Krivitsky
Boris Bykov
U. S
Carnegie Foundation For International Peace
Time Magazine
Justice Department
Five Day Week Adopted in Pocahontas Coal Mines
Coal fields in Pocahontas report cutting operations to five days a week due to market conditions and stockpile replenishment. Pocahontas Fuel leads the shift with others in western fields following. steel-mine adoption remains uncertain amid weather impacts and a shrinking strip-mined market.
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Area Coal Works
Pocahontas Coalfields
Norfolk and Western Railway
Pocahontas Fields
Pocahontas Fuel
Poca Fields
Big Snowstorm Moves North Across the Midwest
A major snowstorm pushed northeast from Kansas to Minnesota and into Canada as winds up to 73 mph lashed the region. One 77 year old woman died on an Aurora porch, two bus crashes killed two and injured 51, and Chicago saw 60 mph gusts with damaged structures. Snow depths reached up to six inches in International Falls with drifts across much of the snow belt.
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Chicago
Kansas
Minnesota
Canada
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Appalachians
California
Rockies
Kansas-Nebraska
Springfield
Aurora
Ill
Grant's Pass
Ore
Chapman
Neb
Michigan
Beaver Island
Midwest
International Falls
Minn
Death of Giles County woman ruled accidental
Pearlsburg Virginia December six authorities say elderly Mrs. Mattie Mayall may have fallen from a table and dragged herself back to bed before neighbors found her. An overturned table, bloodstains, and teeth were located near her bed complicating the case which initially suggested foul play. The autopsy showed a severe skull fracture, but investigators now consider an accidental death. state police took over the case last week. Mrs Mayall was found unconscious in her Green Valley Road home and died without regaining consciousness.
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Pearlsburg
Mattie Mayall
Giles County
Virginia State Police
Mayall
Whiskered Bandit Cleans Up $28,579
In Muncie Indiana two men robbed Ball Stores officials on a Friday afternoon as they headed to the bank. A bandit on a bicycle demanded the satchel of cash and checks amounting to 28579 while a second man acted as lookout. The pair fled down an alley with the loot leaving Fred Staver and William Jones shaken.
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Muncie
Ind
Fred Staver
Staver
William Jones
Jones
Murray To Be Queried On Raid In Michigan
Rep. Hoffman said he will question CIO president Philip Murray in Washington about the December 1 raid on Shakespeare companies in Kalamazoo Michigan. The labor hearing followed a two day session on the invasion of 300 union members and injuries with cars overturned and property damage.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Hoffman
R.mich
CIO
Philip Murray
Shakespeare Companies
House Labor Committee
Murray
Washington
GM Executive Dies In Airplane Crash
The bodies of W. J. Blanchard 48 GM aero products division Dayton C and two women employees Miss Vivian Johnson 29 and Miss Betty Charles 28 both of Dayton were found today in their wrecked private airplane missing since Saturday. The plane crashed in a corn field near Columbus as Blanchard attempted a forced landing with wheels down and engine running.
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Columbus
General Motors
Jamestown
N. Y
W. J. Blancheard
Aero Products
Dayton
Vivian Johnson
Betty Charles
Blanchard
Robert A. Evans
Marine Charged In Russian Roulette Death
Corporal Lawrence Justine a 20 year old Marine at Quantico faced a grand jury after a police court preliminary hearing on murder charges in the death of Joseph C. Ems 27 of Portsmouth. Ems was shot in a Russian roulette game at his home with a .38 caliber pistol and died from the wound. Justine is held on $10 000 bond in jail.
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Portsmouth
Lawrence Justine
Quantico Marine Barracks
Joseph C. Ems
Justin
Ems
Foldaway
Richmond Speed Trap Complaints Portal Meeting
Richmond officials and auto club leaders studied speed trap complaints from motorists before taking action. They described a meeting with Mayor Fred R. Shepherd of Colonial Heights as very profitable, focusing on out-of-state drivers alleging unfair treatment by local law enforcement.
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Richmond
Chamber of Commerce and Automobile Club
Fred R. Shepherd
Colonial Heights
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