Defenders Admit Fall Of Suchow
Chinese Communist capture of Suchow was confirmed by government military sources. Evacuation of the Nationalist base north west of Nanking was completed, with the Red radio announcing the seizure. Authorities said 250,000 men pulled out to relieve trapped units, while observers estimated 110,000 in the Suchow garrison.
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Nanking
Suchow
Red Radio
12Th
Suchsien
13Th
Suhsien
Hawai River
Hawai
Paichungshi
Suchow-Hawai
Shanghai
Madame Chiang meets Secretary Marshall for aid appeal
Madame Chiang Kai-shek had a second conference with Secretary of State Marshall regarding quick and large scale American support for the Nationalist government in China. President Truman said she would also meet him at the White House, while administration views doubts extending aid without drastic reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chiang Kai-shek
Marshall
Chiang
Walter Reed Hospital
Truman
China
White House
Mme. Chiang
Gen. MacArthur
Plastic Nose Replaces Iron Lung in New Breathing Device
A compact device named oneophore shown to the American Medical Association delivers artificial respiration by a wartime valve linked to an oxygen tube. Made by Mine Safety Appliances Co of Pittsburgh, it fits over the nose and mouth, allowing adjustable breathing rates and automatic pressure to force air into the lungs. Used for unconscious patients and various conditions, it also incorporates medicines as mists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
American Medical Association
Mine Safety Appliances Company of
Pittsburgh
Bond Set at $1,000 for Former Rep Slaughter
Former Missouri Democrat Roger C Slaughter pled innocent to a charge of violating the federal lobbying act. United States District Judge H A Schweinhaut set bond at $1,000 and gave the defense until December 24 to file motions.
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Washington
Roger C. Slaughter
Missouri
Truman
United States
H A. Schweinhaut
Slaughter
End of West Coast ship unions strike nears settlement
Federal conciliator Omar Hoskins says the CIO American Radio Operators union has reached full agreement with shipowners, leaving only the Sailors Union of the Pacific stand. The pact covers all five original striking unions and includes a 10 percent across the board pay raise, raising operator pay from 294 to 323 dollars monthly.
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San Francisco
Omar N. Hoskins
CIO American Radio Operators
Hoskins
Pacific Coast
Harry Lundeberg
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
Pacific American
Independent Marine Firemen
Inn To Be Built On F R Estate
Plans reveal a Roosevelt family development at Hyde Park including a $1,000,000 inn and restaurant to open by June and leased land from Elliott Roosevelt. The project faces the Roosevelt Memorial National Park and will feature a presidential suite, 48 guest rooms themed to the 48 states, a nautical bar, housing units, a shopping center, and a gift shop.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Reisner and Urbahn
Elliott Roosevelt
Roosevelt Memorial National Park
Department of Interior
CIO Union Admits Two Plant Raids
The CIO United Steelworkers admit their members staged dawn raids on Shakespeare Companies stock plants in Kalamazoo Michigan to support striking workers. About 300 raiders came from state locals. seven injured, cars overturned and a truck burned. A one man grand jury was sought to pursue raiders as authorities collect license numbers and track vehicles from Wayne County.
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CIO
Shakespeare Companies
Michigan
Thomas Shane
United Steelworkers
Shakespeare
Kalamazoo
Shane
Can
Kim Sigler
Raymond W. Fox
State Attorney General’s Office
John Simpson
Jackson
Joseph A. Moynihan
Detroit
Wayne County
Bride Believed To Have Shot Self Accidentally
Relatives in Belington West Virginia say bride Lucille Teter, 23, who had been married five days, accidentally shot herself while deer hunting. Her body was found Friday after she went hunting alone.
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Belington
W. Va
Lucille Teter
Opening Date for School Bids Postponed to Dec 17
Cedar Rapids school board postponed the bid opening for four projects including Kenwood and Cleveland elementary schools and a football stadium to December 17 at 7 30 pm. The delay gives contractors more time to prepare proposals for lighting renovations at several elementary schools and a stadium project. Bids will be opened December 17 and tabulated for the December 20 board meeting actions.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar School
Board of Education
McKinley High School
Kenwood
Cleveland
Fillmore
Johnson, Tyler
van Buren
Shaw Divorced by Kathleen Winsor in Quick Reno Hearing
Kathleen Winsor Shaw was granted divorce from Artie Shaw in a brief Reno court session lasting about four and a half minutes. The author and former Mrs. Shaw became the sixth wife of the famed bandleader, who previously wed Lana Turner Ava Gardner and Betty Kern.
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Reno
Kathleen
Amber” Winsor
Artie Shaw
Miss Winsor
Shaw
Lana Turner
Ava Gardner
Betty Kern
Jerome Kern
Four Year Old Drowns in Orchard Creek
Alan Roehr aged 4 drowned in Spring creek at Orchard while playing with his sister Ann age 5. He slipped into five feet of water and disappeared at once. Osage fire department recovered the body minutes later but resuscitation failed.
Unidentified plane fires on San Diego tuna clippers off Nicaragua
Harold Gray of the American Tunaboat Association relayed a telegram from Carl Soares, skipper of the Sun Ray, reporting an unidentified plane fired on three tuna clippers the Liberator the City of San Diego and the Sun Ray at 12:15 Greenwich time on December 2, ten miles offshore and 70 miles southeast of Corinto, with no damage. Gray notified the U S State Department about the incident.
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San Diego
Nicaragua
Harold Gray
American Tunaboat Association
Carl Soares
Sun Ray
Tuna Clippers Liberator
City of
Corinto
Cary
State Department
Ineen
U N General Assembly Extends Little Assembly Tenor
Paris report says the interim committee known as the little assembly will operate for one more year. The American sponsored resolution passed 40 to 6 with India abstaining. Russia and five satellites opposed. The body continues work when the general assembly is not in session amid boycott tensions.
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Paris
U.N. General Assembly
Little Assembly
Russia
General Assembly
Emigration Ban Criticized By Allies At UN
United States Britain and Chile press censure of Soviet emigration limits affecting Russian wives of foreign citizens. Ernest A. Gross cites 50 wives left since 1933 and 350 wives and 65 husbands awaiting approval, with 826 Americans denied exit visas.
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Paris
Britain
United States
Ernest A. Gross
Soviet Union
Russia
U.N
Gross
Moscow
G. G. Fitzmaurice
Chile
Luis .Cruzcamp
Chilean envoy denounces Soviet policy at UN
Chilean ambassador Luis David Cruz Ocampo told the UN that the Soviet Union blocks his son and daughter in law, a Russian wife, from leaving Moscow. He said families flee to support war effort but face death threats and that Soviet state security hinges on internal control rather than external policy. He criticized isolation, violence, and the Iron Curtain as reflections of internal peril.
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Alexei Pavlov
Russia
Legal Committee
Pavlov
Gross
Paris
U.N
Luis David Cruz Ocampo
Chile
Moscow
Alvaro
Cruz Ocampo
Fumes Sickened Dozens Near Philadelphia Across Bucks County
Philadelphia reports describe fumes drifting from a Delaware River industrial plant north of the city causing nausea in residents, mostly children. Health officials say the odor resembled rotten eggs, with about 100 calls to state police and lingering Donora smog concerns but no serious danger expected.
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Philadelphia
Bucks County
Theodore Staudenmayer
Langhorne
Harrisburg
Staudenmayer
Delaware River
Donora
New Evidence In Hiss Case Surfaces In Washington
Attorney General Clark says new depositions in the Alger Hiss Whittaker Chambers case may prompt a New York federal grand jury to reopen its inquiry. He notes the material from Chambers and others could influence the probe and will depend on the jury's wishes.
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Washington
INS
Clark
Alger Hiss- Whittaker Chambers
New York Federal Grand Jury
White House
Alexander M. Campbell
Hiss
Chambers
Baltimore
Rock
New York
Grand Jury
Two Executed as Alcatraz Rioters
SAN QUENTIN Two Alcatraz convicts and leaders in the 1946 riot on the Rock were executed in San Quentin prison. Miron Thompson aged 32 and Sam Shockley aged 37 were put to death in the gas chamber. Shockley, an Oklahoma kidnapper, refused spiritual aid. Thompson, a Texas cop killer, spoke with a social worker before death. The riot left two guards and three convicts dead as Marines subdued the inmates who remained in their cell building.
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San Quentin
Alcatraz
Miron Thompson
Sam Shockley
Shockley
Oklahoma
Thompson
Texas
Bessie Clayton
Four Square Gospel
Pact of Americas Becomes Official
The United States and 13 other American republics formed a defense alliance against external attack. The pact, signed in Rio de Janeiro 15 months ago, took effect after Costa Rica ratified with the Pan American Union, reaching the two thirds requirement. the U.S. Senate had ratified a year earlier.
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Washington
United States
Rio de Janeiro
Costa Rica
Pan-American Union
United States Senate
President Restricts Talk on Military Budget
White House orders all armed forces personnel to refrain from discussing budget figures and policy. President Truman directed caution in statements tied to items in the budget and legislative programs, while budget pressure and interservice debate influence the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Truman
Air Force
Army
Navy
James E. Webb
Congress
Nazi Hanged as Leader of Yank Flyer Massacre
In Landsberg prison courtyard German war criminals including Lt Erich Wentzel were executed for the Borkum island massacre of seven unarmed American airmen. The US Army said Wentzel joined the guard detail and did not stop beatings before the victims were killed.
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Munich
Borkum Island
Erich Wentzel
North Sea
United States Army
Wentzel
Borkum
Landsberg
George Eickstein
Warren to greet Barkley arrival in Los Angeles
Governor Warren will greet Vice President elect Barkley upon his arrival for a Democratic victory dinner. The state committee said Warren chose himself as the official state representative for Barkley’s airport arrival in Los Angeles.
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Warren
Barkley
LOS Angeles
Democratic State Committee
Kentucky
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