Taft Seeks to Retain Policy Chair Amid Senate Shifts
Washington reports Senator Taft of Ohio intends to remain as chairman of the GOP policy committee while veteran Republicans discuss changes in leadership. Proposed lineup keeps Taft, elevates Millikin to floor leader, Vandenberg to conference chair, and Wherry as whip.
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Colorado
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Michigan
Wherry
Nebraska
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High Command
Chinese Forces Retreat From Nanking Front North of Pengpu
Reports say a general government retreat is under way from the Hwai river line toward Pengpu and Chuhsien as communists cross the river. Pengpu's 300,000 residents flee while tanks ride flatcars south, and government announcements claim troop breakthroughs north of Pengpu are overruled by communist forces.
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Liu Tze
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Associated Press
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Topping
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Sixth Army
Giant Bluefield Christmas Tree Show Opens at Noon
Bluefield plans a five hour Granada theatre program to raise 3500 dollars for the Community Christmas Tree fund. The event features hundreds of local acts and Santa’s visit, broadcast on WHIS and WHIS-FM with live donor shout outs.
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Daily Telegraph
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Unwed Mother Held For Jury In Charleston Case
Eva Mae Carr 20, a Bluefield cashier, waived preliminary hearing on a contributing to delinquency charge and was ordered held for grand jury. She admitted leaving her two month old son on a church porch but says he was found in a trash can. the child is in a Charleston hospital with skull fracture and bronchitis.
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Eva Mae Carr
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Frederick Street
Dewey Williams
West Virginia
Carr
Princeton
Mercer County
Jack
Dutch Stop-Gap Government Proclaimed for Indonesia
The Netherlands announced a new interim government for Indonesia and disclosed a new police action in the eastern republic. The move came from The Hague as Dutch authorities push a stop-gap plan amid the conflict.
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State Court Explains Ruling On Road Bonds
The West Virginia Supreme Court explains its 3-2 ruling allowing a 50 million dollar secondary road bond referendum to stay on the November ballot despite not being advertised in every county three months before the election. Judge Riley writes the majority note that advertisement is procedural and substantial compliance suffices. Justices Kenna and Haymond dissent.
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W. Va
Supreme Court
J. N. Kenna
Frank C. Haymond
Kenna
Haymond
C. R. Morgan
James B. Riley
Dutch Police Action Opens in Indonesia Amid Censorship
The Netherlands declared a police action against Indonesian republic forces, citing terrorist elements. Jakarta reports say fighting began hours earlier, affecting central Java and Sumatra with censorship on all press cables and a move toward federation as the aim. Tass notes Indonesian orders to resist any attack.
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Sumatra
Indonesia
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Republic
New Series Of Spy Papers Made Public
Washington reports release of seven pages of 1938 1937 state department documents showing Hitler sought British backing for moves against Austria and Czechoslovakia. The papers were part of 58 documents seized from state files and linked to Whittaker Chambers and alleged sources. The release notes no evidence Chambers sent materials to Russia and mentions Alger Hiss as a named source.
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Cordell Hull
William C. Bullitt
Paris
John C. Wiley
Vienna
Prentiss B. Gilbert
U. S
Berlin
Kurt von Schuschnigg
Australia
Fifth Police Chief In Five Months Charged With Murder
Evarts Kentucky reports the town's fifth police chief in five months, Isachar Combs, 28, charged with murder in a gunfight that wounded Patrolman Lewis Deaton and involved restaurant owner Bryan Middleton, who is also under indictment for a prior murder. The incident follows a series of resignations and violent clashes as the town of 2,000 seeks stability.
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Harlan County
W. J. R. Howard
Isachar Combs
Bryan Middleton
Combs
Lewis Deaton
Harlan
Middleton
Deaton
Baumgardner
H. T. Collier
Orville Brock
Collier
George Sellers
Breathitt County
No. 5
Sellers
Twelve Die as Two Burlington Trailways Buses Collide in Utah
At least 12 people killed and 40 to 50 injured when two Burlington Trailways buses collided and burned on a windswept highway six miles west of Delle Utah. Drivers from Salt Lake City survived, while the scene prompted aid from Tooele and Clearfield fleets.
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Utah
Burlington Trailways
Salt Lake City
C. A. Hymas
D. W. Eggers
Charles Harris
Tooele
Naval
Clearfield
Pfc
Joe Wilson
Wichita
Kans
Frank W. Myers
MatRer Air Force Base
Calif
Harris
Rail Rate Hike Seen To Pay For Wages
Washington reports that a $1.4 billion annual rail rate increase may be needed to fund a 40 hour week for non operating workers and a seven cent hourly rise for 350 000 operating workers. The emergency board notes efficiency gains and delays the change to August 1949. Union and carrier talks set for Chicago around January 4 with no strike before January 17.
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Truman
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Emergency Board
Chicago
Spy Probers To Quiz Officials
Former assistant secretary of state Francis B Sayre and his secretary will be questioned by the House un American activities committee next week to probe government information leaks to Communist spies. Mundt said additional witnesses may include Chambers and Alger Hiss associates, with sessions planned in executive session before Christmas.
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Francis B. Sayre
House UN American Activities Committee
Rep Mundt
R-Sd
Sayre
France
State Department
Anna Belle Newcomb
New York
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
U. S
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Mundt
Attorney General’s Office
Chambers
Donald Hiss
William Ward Pigman
Glider Rescue Try Again After Near Miss
Nine airmen stranded on Greenland ice cap nearly complete a rescue when a tow line broke as the glider rose fifty feet. A second attempt is planned for Sunday after a C-54 transport briefly lifted the glider with the crew aboard.
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Washington
Greenland
Military Air Transport Service
War Trial Official Criticizes State Department Access
The New York Post says former war crimes prosecutor John J. Posner charged the U S State Department kept German documents from him needed to prosecute top German officials. A Washington official stated Posner and his team were given full cooperation and access to requested papers.
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New York Post-Home News Today
U. S. State Department
John J. Posner
Foreign Office
Washington
State Department
Posner
Reds Retaliate Against French in Berlin Tug of War
Telegraf reports Soviet General Kotikov asked French commandant Gen Ganeval to evacuate Stolpe in the Berlin French sector. The move, if true, follows French demolition of Soviet controlled radio towers at Tegel airfield, cited as a danger to airlift.
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Telegraf
Alexander G. Kotikov
Stolpe
Kotikov
Jean Ganeval
Tegel
Forrestal proposes civilian run central agency to fight fifth column
Defense Secretary Forrestal urges creation of a civilian controlled central organization to coordinate measures against fifth column activities and internal security threats. He wrote to Philadelphia resident Mary B. Hartman in a letter publicized tonight, clarifying his stance on organizing counter sabotage efforts.
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Defense
Forrestal
Fifth Column
Defense Department
Philadelphia
Tru- Man
FBI
Mary B. Hartman
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