Chavez urges Tehuantepec canal linking Salina Cruz and Puerto Mexico
Sen Chavez proposes a Tehuantepec Isthmus canal across Mexico to replace Panama access. He says 190 miles long, could be built quickly with modern methods, shortening the New York to Pacific sea route by about 2000 miles. Meanwhile US begins evacuating 14 Panama defense sites after Panama assembly rejects wartime lease extension.
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Washington
Mexico
Sen. Chavez
D-N.m
United States
Panama Canal
Panama
Rio Hato
Panama City
Nicaragua
Colombia
Chavez
Tehuantepec
Salina Cruz
Pacific
Puerto Mexico
Atlantic
New York
Nicaragua Offers Full Cooperation If U S Builds Canal
In San Francisco, Nicaragua’s de facto president Dr Victor Manuel Romana Reyes and war minister Lee Somoza told United Press they favor full cooperation with the United States if a canal is to be built through Nicaragua. They emphasized American solidarity and friendship in response to the Panama situation, speaking from Managua’s National Palace.
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San Francisco
Republic of Nicaragua
United States
Nicaragua
Panama
Victor Manuel Romano Reyes
Lee Somoza
United Press
Soth
Americas
Taft Criticizes War as Policy Tool in Foreign Policy
Sen Taft denounced warlike measures marketed as peace in a Christmas eve statement quoted by the New York Daily News. He urged the peace-loving segment to oppose using war as a policy instrument and warned imperialist notions could push the United States toward global bases and territory.
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New York
New York Daily News
Sen Taft
Ohio
Taft
America
The
Ohioan
Russia
Christmas Day Is Fair Fairly Mild
Christmas in Cedar Rapids 1947 began fair and mild with a high last year of 50 degrees. By this morning Cedar Rapids registered 32 degrees after a 23 degree low overnight. A brisk wind cleared the skies and the forecast predicts similar warmth for Friday amid a national pattern with a cold belt in the northeast and sleet in parts of the south.
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Chambers
New Hampshire
Ohio Valley
New England
Georgia
Caroline
Carolna
Chinese Reported Ferrying an Army
An unconfirmed Peiping report said a fleet of Nationalist transport planes ferried Gen Fu Tso yi s 32nd army from north China to Mukden. Ling Pao s 200000 Communist troops faced Mukden defenses with 12 divisions as fighting raged near Hsinmin and Chengwu.
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Shanghai
Peiping
Fu Tso-yi
China
Mukden
Ling Pao
Faku
Hsinmin
Wang Shu-min
Ling
Chengwu
Premier Dimitrov to visit Romania amid Balkan pact talks
Dispatches quote Bulgaria Premier Dimitrov as due in Bucharest Saturday for talks. Reports say his visit could yield a new pact within the Balkan alliance network.
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Prague
Bucharest
Dimitrov
Bulgaria
Romania
Basis Found for Reports Tourists Get Mistreatment
Daytona Beach AAA official admits reports of mistreatment of Florida tourists are partly true. He cites some officers overstepping authority in Volusia County while noting most officers and courts are courteous. He references a prior Georgia route policy and the national office denial.
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Daytona Beach
INS
Bob Carter
American Automobile Association
Florida
AAA
Georgia
Washington
Carter
Volusia County
Union Is Santa At Lattner Plant
In Cedar Rapids the CIO Farm Equipment and Metal Workers union local at P. M. Lattner Manufacturing turned the tables on company officers. Workers were told to stay until noon and then the union staged a Santa Claus delivery, with presents for all 50 employees delivered by a Rudolph Martinec lookalike.
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Cedar Rapids
CIO Farm Equipment and Metal Workers Union
P. M. Lattner Manufacturing Company
Santa Claus
Rudolph Martinec
Merry Christmas in Cedar Rapids Shoes for Neighborhood Boy
A downtown Cedar Rapids shoe store reported a heartwarming Christmas scene. A woman and a small boy entered seeking shoes, and the clerk praised the boy as a fine son. The woman replied that the boy was not hers, but a neighbor child whose toes stuck out of his old shoes. The boy received a new pair as a holiday gesture.
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Cedar Rapids
Mint Officials Puzzled by Drop in Demand for Coins
Washington AP report notes a dip in demand for new pennies nickels dimes quarters and half dollars despite high employment and strong business. Officials say coin circulation remains high with rising vending machine use and more spending in odd change amounts prompting banks and the Federal Reserve to adjust mint deliveries down sharply this year.
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Washington
America
Federal Reserve
Six Shoppers Die in Wreck in Beaufort
A late Christmas shopping bus trip ended in tragedy when a private bus with 56 passengers, all Negroes, overturned on a highway near Beaufort. The bus swerved after a standee fell against the driver, splitting the wooden body as it struck a pine tree. At least six people were killed and 31 injured, 13 in serious condition.
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Beaufort
S.C
J. E. McTeer
George Brown
U.S. Aid Reported for Iran Army Advisory Mission
Tehran papers report that the United States reached an agreement with Iran to provide an American advisory mission to the Iranian army without command authority. Rightist papers hailed it while leftist outlets denounced the move as potentially illegal for bypassing majlis disclosure.
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Tehran
United States
Iran
Majlis
Christmas Joy After Child Paralysis Recovery in Pasadena
A six year old girl, Andrea Brodine, paralyzed and nearly blind two months earlier, returned home for Christmas and showed steps again. Parents Mr and Mrs Albert Brodine thanked thousands who prayed for Andrea as specialists doubted and the family sought divine aid. She enjoyed gifts with her younger sister Pamela, and described Christmas as wonderful.
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Pasadena
Andrea Brodine
Albert Brodine
Andrea
Pamela
First American Fan Ship Arrives in Genoa Italy
The freighter Exima arrived at Genoa, becoming the first American Friend Ship to reach an Italian port. It unloaded about 200 tons of gift parcels from the United States.
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Italy
Genoa
United States
Seven Hurt In Head On Collision Near Anamosa
A Cedar Rapids woman and six others were injured in a Christmas Eve head on crash four and a half miles west of Anamosa on Highway 151. Mrs Edward Burke Jr and her husband were among the injured, with pelvic and head injuries reported. The eastbound vehicle carried five youths. causes and conditions were under investigation as of Christmas morning.
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Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Edward Burke, Jr
Daniels Street
Mercy Hospital
Burke
Edward Reiter
Cascade
Ralph J. Tegler
Grinnell
Tegler
Richard Kurt
Melvin O’shea
Monticello
Highway 151
Jones County
Henry Eichhorn
Wyoming
Crystal French
William French Eichhorn
Reiter
Welles Denies Backing ADA Insulting Peron
The Argentine ambassador accused Sumner Welles of sponsoring an ADA pamphlet that insults President Peron. Welles denied sponsorship, stating he helped draft the liberal foreign policy report but disagreed with Peron references and is not an ADA member. He has not received the ambassador’s letter.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Peron
Welles
Oscar Ivanissevich
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Fares Refuse Drink Motorman Runs Wild
Los Angeles police charged Theodore Tudor, 29, with drunk driving after a street car ride on Main Street ended when passengers subdued him. Tudor allegedly sped the car with no boardings while irked by refusals of a offered drink, and was treated for cuts and bruises by citizens who boarded the vehicle.
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Los Angeles
Theodore Tudor
Main Street
Tudor
Costly Yet Worth It Christmas Tree Adventure
A Cedar Rapids observer chronicles a costly holiday spruce quest. He details time, travel, and expense chasing a home-grown tree amid scarce supply, finally paying 4.50 for a tall cut specimen and noting hidden costs of transport, upkeep, and fuel.
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Montana
Young Father Dies in Christmas Tree Blaze
Hartford AP report records the death of Charles Newman, 27, who perished trying to repair a defective lighting circuit as a Christmas tree fire started. His wife, 25, and their two young children escaped, along with eight other families in the apartment building.
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Hartford
Henry G. Thomas
Charles Newman
Greece arrests 250 Communists in counter attack
Athens reports 250 Communist self defense members taken into custody as the first move against a guerilla state in northern Greece. The suspects face court martial as authorities plan further arrests to thwart fifth column activity in the capital. A leftist broadcast charged American imperialists with turning Greece into a political military base against democracy.
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Athens
INS
Greece
Greek urged to expand armed forces with U.S. aid
Athens pressed Washington for more equipment to grow the national defense corps to 100 battalions while the U S aid mission had authorized about 40. Officials said any decision rested on Maj Gen William G Livesay’s return from Washington.
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Athens
National Defense Corps
Greek National Guard
United States
Karl L. Rankin
Dwight Griswold
William G Livesay
Washington
Communist press says Soviet bloc to recognize Greek guerrilla government
L'Humanite declared that the Soviet satellite nations will recognize the Athens guerrilla government and guarantee its independence against Anglo American intervention. The piece predicts Western recognition of a de facto Greek government and warns aid to the Athens regime would entail heavy responsibility for interventionists.
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Paris
L'Humanite
L’humanite
Greece
Athens
Britain
United States
Free Greece
Vnfiades
Indiana Siamese Twins Die at 26 Days
Indiana twins born joined at the head died Thursday at 26 days old. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. Edward Speer. The brief notice confirms the loss of the infant siblings and names the family.
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Indianapolis
Edward Speer
Evacuation Complete for Eniwetok Inhabited Island
Vice Admiral H S Sallada announced that the removal of 142 inhabitants from Eniwetok to clear a site for a new United States atomic weapons testing ground was completed on December 20.
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Pearl Harbor
Eniwetok
United States
H. 8B
Sallada
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