Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty Arrests Stir Controversy
Budapest reports say interior ministry uncovered documents it claims prove Cardinal Mindszenty acted as a spy with treason and espionage links. Ten church leaders, including Mindszenty’s secretary, were arrested on charges of treason, spying and anti Communist activity. The box reportedly contained western diplomatic correspondence and papers alleging plans to influence Hungary. Francis Spellman in New York denied the ministry’s statements as false.
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Budapest
Hungary
Interior Ministry
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Mindszenty
Cardinal Mindszenty
Andras Zakar
Paul Esterhazy
Gustas Barnai
Aboutussia
Mindszento
Archduke Otto
Chicago
United States
Europe
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Otto
Otto Hapsburg
Chancery Office
New York Archdiocese
Cardinal Spellman
Interior Ministry of
Warden Chooses Sermon Texts For Escape Convict
Jefferson City Missouri December 28 1930 The warden will pick sermon texts for convict preacher M T McDonald who vanished after delivering a Christmas sermon to inmates at the state penitentiary The 47 year old man serving life for a killing slipped away from his quarters and is sought by corrections director Thomas E Whitecotton who says he will personally select any sermon texts he uses upon return.
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Jefferson City
M. T. McDonald
Missouri
Trusty
Thomas E. Whitecotton
Whitecotton
Weary Newsmen Present Pedometer Gift to Truman
Kansas City December 28 newsmen and photographers who followed President Truman on his Independence morning walks presented a belated Christmas gift. The group called themselves the Truman early risers walking society and gave a pedometer and a brown hunting cap with ear flaps at a lunch honoring the president.
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Kansas City
Truman
Independence
Mr. Truman
Soviet Stylists Get New Line On Fashions
Moscow says stylists must craft clothing lines free of capitalist west influence. Society writer A. Donskikh urges simple yet pretty styles meeting the Soviet public’s growing cultural needs.
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Moscow
A. Donskikh
Bolshevik
United Nations Demands Dutch Release Indonesian Leaders
The UN Security Council ordered the Netherlands to free captured Indonesian Republican leaders within 24 hours. Britain sought an immediate cease-fire in southern Palestine and a Negev withdrawal. Dutch objections and questions of council jurisdiction were aired as a Colombian resolution urged consuls in Batavia to monitor compliance.
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Paris
United Nations Security Council
Netherlands
Britain
Palestine
Israel
Negev Desert
Negev
Jan Herman van Roven
China
Batavia
Java
van Roven
Soekarno
Mohamed Hatta
Allies Shackle Ruhr Industries
London reports six powers excluding Russia created the Ruhr authority to control Germany's industrial region to guarantee production only for peace. The board includes the United States Britain France Belgium Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The future ownership and policing remain unresolved amid French demand for international ownership and British and US positions.
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London
Germany
Ruhr
Russia
Ruhr Industries
Britain
United States
France
Age Requirement Met Beyond Any Doubt
Marcello Martinez arrived in San Antonio from Pleasanton to verify age for old age pension and claimed he was 118 years old beyond any doubt.
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San Antonio
Tex
Marcello Martinez
Pleasanton
Roosevelt Wrist Injury Ruled Accidental By Couple
Elliott Roosevelt and actress Faye Emerson said the wrist cut that sent her to a Poughkeepsie hospital was accidental after contact with a razor blade. Dutchess County DA questioned witnesses as hospital officials described the scene after a Christmas Hyde Park gathering.
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New York
Elliott Roosevelt
Faye Emerson
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
San Deigo
Calif
Dutchess County
Rooseveltt
Hyde Park
Rumors Swirl Over Peace Prospects in China
Dispatches from Nanking report renewed peace speculation amid talks of a new government leadership and possible talks with the communists. Some sources say Chiang Kai-Shek may resign with Li Shang-Jen poised to take over and pursue peace, while 2,000 nationalist troops mutinied in Guangdong seeking asylum with the communists.
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Nanking
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Li Shang-Jen
Hong Kong
Kwangtung
South China
Sing Tao Jin Pao
Canton
Premier of Egypt Assassinated in Cairo
Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha was shot and killed at the interior ministry by Abdel Hamid Ahmed Hassan a 21 year old veterinary student and Moslem Brotherhood member. The assassin wore a police uniform to gain access. King Farouk mourned with the widow and children as Egypt faced a leadership crisis amid regional tension and ongoing unrest.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
Palestine
Abdel Hamid Ahmed Hassan
Fuad I University
Moslem Brotherhood
Ministry of Interior
Nokrashy Pasha
Brotherhood
Farouk
Royal Egyptian Air Force
War Ministry
Gaza
Nekrashy Pasha
Ismail Sidky Pasha
Mustapha Nahas Pasha
Nahas Pasha
Wafdist
Sidky Pasha
Ahmed Maher Pasha
UN Secrets Swapped Before Microphones
Paris December 28 delegates admitted exchanging diplomatic secrets near loudspeakers to aid reporters. Canadian and Belgian representatives discussed delaying the vote on Britain’s Palestine cease fire proposal and Israel troop withdrawal. The loudspeakers revealed the true aim to let U.S. delegate Jessup hear from Washington.
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Paris
United Nations Security Council
Canada
Britain
Palestine
Israel
U.S
Philip C. Jessup
Washington
Six Believed Dead In Michigan National Guard Plane Crash
A Michigan National Guard B 26 crashed three miles east of Willow Run airport during a routine navigational flight from McDill Field Florida. Four crew members and possibly two civilian passengers were aboard. the craft exploded on impact and freezing weather was blamed.
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Detroit
Michigan National Guard
Willow Run
Donald W. Armstrong
Air Arm
Michigan Guard
McDuill Field
Florida
Armstrong
City Bus Fare Boost Studied
Charleston December 28 The public service commission will hear a proposed two cent bus fare increase for Bluefield and Princeton raising fares to seven cents from five cents. Princeton filed a formal protest. The commission also set hearings for January seven on a water minimum charge and a private water and electrical distribution purchase opposed by Appalachian Electric Power.
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Charleston
W. Va
Bluefield
Princeton
Public Service Commission
Tri City Traction Company
Joe Perkins
McDowell County
Davy
Perkins
Standard Utility Service Corporation
Glen White
Raleigh County
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Dream Prompts Racial Warrant in Roanoke
The Washington Post reports a Roanoke case where a mother’s dream led to a warrant charging her son in law with violating Virginia’s miscegenation law. Clark Council Hamilton, married to Florence Hammond Hamilton, is jailed in Salem’s white section on a felony charge of interracial marriage.
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Washington
Washington Post
Roanoke
Virginia
Richard Morris
Post
B. P. Hammond
Florence Hammond Hamilton
Hamilton
Salem
B. P. Hamilton
Hammond
Israel Holds Upper Hand In Desert War
Egypt's 40 mile coastal corridor to Gaza is cut or under intense Israeli ground fire. The southern Gaza fortress appears cut off or endangered by artillery and coastal blockade efforts.
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Israel
Tel Aviv
Egypt
Gaza
Lana
Aged Senator McKellar Attacks Newsmen Over Aging Jibes
Washington December 28 Kenneth D McKellar dean of the senate aged 79 or near said he struck a Nash Tennessean publisher and kicked a columnist in anger over references to his age and abilities both men not hurt Evans said the blow was weak Anderson described being attacked after asking his age McKellar president pro tempore veteran senator faces possible bid for chair of the appropriations committee amid past fainting spells and a May 1947 hospital stay.
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Washington
Kenneth D. McKellar
Senate
Silliman Evans
Tennessee
Evans
Nashville
Anderson
McKellar
Pearson
Congress
Tydings
Maryland
Appropriations Committee
Naval Hospital
Missing DC-3 Airliner With 30 Aboard Sparks Wide Search
A charter DC-3 carrying 27 passengers and three crew vanished on a San Juan to Miami flight after leaving Puerto Rico at 10:03 p.m. est. A large multi-branch search covered Florida and nearby waters with a navy blimp awaiting nightfall. Names include Capt. Bob Linquist co pilot Ernie Hill Jr stewardess Mary Burke. owner Karl Knight leased to Airborne Transport. No passenger list available.
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Miami
Fla
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Air Force
Navy
Coast Guard
Florida
Florida Straits
Cuba
Bahama Islands
Florida Peninsula
Gulf of Mexico
Bob Linquist
Fort Myers
Ernie Hill
Mary Burke
Jersey City
N. J
Airways
Kingston
Jamaica
Civil Aeronautics Overseas Radio
New Orleans
Linquist
Overseas
Karl Knight
Airborne Transport, Inc
New York
Knight
Piedmont Airliner Lands Safely After Forced Return
A Piedmont airliner from New Bern to Cincinnati forced a landing at Tri City airport in Johnson City Tennessee after takeoff. All 15 passengers and three crew escaped injury. the twin engine craft landed a mile and a half from the airport, with the cause not immediately stated.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Piedmont
Tri- City
H. H. Hutchinson
Winston- Salem
N. C
Cincinnati
Winston-Salem
New Bern
Lexington
Howard Anderson
James Craig
A. G. Moore
Governor Tuck Cuts 28 Jobs In Virginia Conservation Office
Governor Tuck orders a major reorganization at the Virginia department of conservation and development reducing 28 positions to save salaries, eliminating three units. Net personnel cuts total 19 with nine new positions created, abolishing executive secretary and treasurer roles and the departmental news service, R. E. Lee camp memorial park division, and history and archaeology division.
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Richmond
Tuck
State Department of Conservation and Development
Charles J. Duke, Jr
William A. Wright
R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park
Division of History and Archaeology
Four Die in Campbell Hotel Fire in Twisp Washington
Four persons burned to death when a blaze destroyed the Campbell hotel in Twisp Washington today. County coroner John Hancock said recovery was blocked by smoldering embers. Nine men and one woman escaped.
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Twisp
Wash
Campbell
John Hancock
Rescued Airmen End Greenland Ordeal In 38 Minutes
Twelve U S airmen stranded atop a 7800 foot Greenland ice cap were rescued in 38 minutes by a C 47 with jet assist. They were airlifted from Bluie West Eight and taken to safety with supplies and a Christmas celebration.
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Greenland
Washington
U. S
Arctic
Air Force
Col. Beaudry
Europe
Beaudry
Duke's Lake
Labrador
Bluie West Eight
Westover Picid
Mass
New York
Chanute Army Air Base
Iltnois
Ice Cap
VA plans $2 billion in insurance dividends for veterans
The Veterans Administration will begin paying about 2 billion in dividends to roughly sixteen million veterans with National Service Life insurance policies. Payments, to be calculated per thousand dollars of coverage, may start by August of next year and cover policies from 1940 through 1948.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
National Service Life Insurance
American Woman Sentenced to 20 Years for Killing Soldier
Mrs. Wilma Ybarbo of Malden Massachusetts was convicted by a three judge military court in Marburg Germany for the midnight shooting of her husband Sergeant John Ybarbo of Goliad Texas. She was found guilty of malice aforethought and declared subject to German law. Her self defense plea was rejected and an appeal is planned. The case could affect the legal status of American wives of soldiers in Germany.
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Marburg
Germany
Wilma Ybarbo
Malden
Mass
Set
John Ybarbo
Goliad
Tex
U S Troops to Engage in Arctic Maneuvers Next Month
The Navy will send 18 000 sailors and marines on 34 ships for Alaska drills in January at Kodiak Island. Rear Admiral DuBose said the exercise tests men in cold wet conditions and is not a major naval problem. The Alaska base at Kodiak hosts units from army navy and air force. The first unit departs from San Diego.
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Terminal Island
Cadif
Navy
L. T. DuBose
Kodiak Island
Alaskian
Lieves San Diego
Stork Delivers Two Front Teeth Christmas Baby
In Danville Virginia on December 28 a baby boy named Joseph Wayne Davis arrived at Community hospital with two front teeth already visible. The newborn is a son of Mr and Mrs Joe Davis of New Design suburb. The delivery was reported as a delayed Christmas gift from heaven.
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Danville
Joe Davis
New Design
Joseph Wayne
Community Hospital
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Bluie West Eigth
U. S. S. Saipan
North Atlantic
Saipan
Norfolk
Emil J. Braudry
Manchester
N. H
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