Britain, Molotov clash over German frontiers in Big Four
In London Britain and France pressed Molotov in the Big Four talks over a German frontier commission and Saar economic status. Bevin warned that any single nation seeking European domination would trigger war while signaling Britain may act independently if Russia pursues chaos.
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London
INS
Britain
Russia
Big Four
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Europe
Bevin
Job
Jeremiah
Germany
Molotov
Decorah Coldest in Nation at 18 Below Zero
Cedar Rapids News reports Decorah recorded 18 below zero, the nation’s coldest spot as a brutal Midwest cold wave persisted for 48 hours. Cedar Rapids hit 9 at 7 am, sun brought 22 by 2:30 pm, while snow fell in Decorah and Elkader. McGregor reached 6 below. Weather outlook: zero to 10 below tonight, then rising to 35 in the southwest and 27 northeast Sunday.
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Iowa
Decorah
Midwest
Laerweg
Elkader
McGregor
Weather Bureau
California
Miami
Misssissippi Valley
Great Lakes
Ohio
These 2 Bandits Weren't So Dumb
Chicago police on a quiet Friday night witnessed two gunmen attempt a robbery. The victim, fresh from a tavern, surrendered nearly a week’s pay but the bandits returned three dollars before a passerby officer intervened. The officer dismissed the scene as the victim wandered away.
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Chicago
INS
John Law
Walda Winchell Returns to Home
New York AP reports Walda E Winchell aged 20 daughter of Walter Winchell returned home Saturday after a police search that began when she was reported missing on Wednesday. Ernest Cuneo the family attorney said the missing persons alarm could be canceled and she had been visiting friends and was back home.
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New York
Walda E. Winchell
Walter Winchell
Ernest Cuneo
Winchell
Cuneo
Missing Persons Bureau
The
Police Department
Miss Winchell
Jap Tastes Change
A Tokyo report notes nude shows were popular in warm weather but have declined recently. It cites a shift toward shows depicting scenes where a man chokes another to death as now in vogue, reflecting changing public tastes.
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Tokyo
Jiji Shimpo
Things Brighten Up at Last for Al
Al Morris a signpainter in his 60s living alone in Omaha died before a promised job materialized. Thanksgiving brought hope with a Navy leave visitor and a Dempsey letter among his possessions mentioning life’s bum breaks.
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Omaha
al Morris
Navy
Morris
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Chicago
Jailer Lets the Wrong Man Out
A Kentucky life term convict was freed by Oklahoma City jailer Bill Shirley who released the prisoner answering the name on a bond receipt. He later learned the man released, James A Landers, was still in custody and sought by Kentucky authorities as a fugitive from a life to 10 year armed robbery sentence. A statewide search was under way.
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Oklahoma City
INS
Kentucky
Liberty
Bill Shirley
Shirley
James A. Landers
Kentucky Penitentiary
Landers
Part Shutdown of Gas Stations Seen
Washington experts forecast winter and Sunday night closures at filling stations due to gasoline shortages. Robert Friedman of the interior department said half the major oil firms are already rationing fuel to dealers and the rest will follow in the coming months. He noted driving remains above last year’s level by about ten percent.
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Washington
Robert Friedman
Interior Department
Oil and Gas Division
Pair Launch Sea Mission In Tiny Sloop
In Seattle AP report Jack Maier and Marvin Norstedt set out in a 35 foot sloop for a thousand mile voyage to Tabiteuea South to aid and serve the friendly people there. They carry Bibles and rely on faith and hope to guide them. Maier recalls drift across the Pacific as a wartime survivor and volunteers to return homeward with Norstedt. Their voyage begins from Seattle with Honolulu as first stop amid looming winter storms and little money available.
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Seattle
South Pacific
Jack Maier
Marvin Norstedt
Tabiteuea
Tarawa
Maier
Norstedt
Bellingham
Pacific
Tabitevea
Honolulu
First of Her $21 000 Prize To Go for Hat
Farm wife 63 wins 21000 for best soap opera song. She plans to buy a new hat first then a dress coat shoes and gloves. After taxes she will have about 14000 and give one tenth to their rural Methodist church. Her husband and she plan a modest spree after a lifetime on a farm.
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Allin
John B. Dunnivant
Architect Held After Car Wagon Crash Near Norwalk
Cass Gilbert Jr a noted architect of the supreme court building was charged with drunken driving after his car hit a hayride wagon carrying 20 youths. Ten injured aged 15 to 20, five boys and five girls, were treated at Norwalk hospital. Gilbert and his wife were also injured.
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Westport, Conn
Cass Gilbert, Jr
U. S. Supreme Court
Norwalk
Gilbert
Greenwich
Conn
Louise
Danbury
Wilton
Anti Strike Bills Pushed By Schuman
Paris AP Premier Schuman asked the national assembly for power to crack down on strikes and sabotage by speeches writings or tracts for six months. The bills would punish agitation with imprisonment and fines. key industries nationalized and workers employed by the state. He accused Communists of fomenting unrest and called for a complete sabotage law revision.
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Paris
Robert Schuman
National Assembly
France
Assembly Committee On Civil and Criminal Law
Assembly
Schuman
Lost in Shuffle Patty Goes Home
Cleveland AP reports six year old Patty Brady separated from her parents in a downtown store during the Christmas rush. She trudged nine miles along Euclid Avenue over four hours, following the crowd to reach home, explaining she knew the direction she came from.
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Cleveland
Patty Brady
Firman A. Brady
Euclid Avenue
Outstanding farm girl from Savannah wins 4-H prize
Pat Wall an 18 year old Georgia State College for Women freshman and Savannah suburb leader won a national 4 H prize for outstanding leadership among farm girls though she has never been on a farm. She received a loving cup and 200 college scholarship and plans to aid farmers via radio articles or extension work.
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Chicago
Pat Wall
Savannah
Miss Wall
Georgia State College For Women
Army C-47 Missing Over Europe After Pisa Departure
The United States Air Force reports a C-47 with 17 passengers and four crew missing on a flight from Italy to Rhein Main near Frankfurt. Distress calls were heard at Munich and Bremen Friday night amid bad weather hampering search efforts. Details on those aboard were not released.
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Frankfurt
United States Air Force
Italy
Munich
Bremen
Germany
Pisa
Rhein- Main
Rhein-Main Field
Europe
Army Downs Navy 21-0 in three quarters
Army defeated Navy 21-0 with touchdowns in each of the first three quarters. Rowan had a 92 yard kickoff return for a score in the second period.
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Philadelphia
Army
Navy
Rowan
Milan federal building siege ends after 16 hours
In Milan, Partisans yield after occupying the federal building for 16 hours. Communist leader Gian Carlo Pajetta orders the crowd to disperse as troops gather. a general strike and seizure had followed the dismissal of Milan prefect Ettore Troilo. The protest subsides as Troilo is not reinstated.
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Milan
Federal
Federal Building
Gian Carlo Pajetta
Central
Pajetta
Party of the United States
Christian Democrats
Alcide de Gasperi
Rome
Ettore Troilo
Giuseppe Marazza
Troilo
Canton City Bus Drivers Strike Halts Public Transit
In Canton, a citywide strike by about 160 bus drivers and garage workers started at 6 a.m. Saturday, largely halting public transportation for the 140,000 population. The AF S union rejected a 10 cent raise, sticking to a demand for 33 cents more per hour after a mass meeting post shift.
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Canton
AFS
Canton Bus Lines
Far Eastern Cominform Sets News Bureau in Vladivostok
Peiping World Daily reports a group of Far Eastern Communists met at Harbin Manchuria and formed an international information bureau in Vladivostok to parallel the European Cominform established recently.
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Peiping
Harbin
Manchuria
Vladivostok
Peiping World Daily
Taft criticizes long term Europe aid policy amid western Europe relief bill
Washington AP Senator Taft backs a 597 million winter aid bill for France Italy and Austria to keep them employed but opposes a long term underwriting of world deficits. He faults state department balance of payments policy and Tehran Yalta decisions for expanding Soviet influence. He warns aid should target working restoration rather than solving every government debt.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Europe
France
Italy
Austria
Senate
G.O.P
State Department
Mar
Brazil
Belgium
Russia
Tehran
Yalta
Berlin
Vienna
Mule blocks Huey Long bridge trains for four hours
An old gray mule stalled traffic on the Huey Long bridge across the Mississippi for four hours Friday. Trains backed up as the animal stood immovable, gazing at crews despite prodding and tail twisting. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shot the mule to end the standstill.
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New Orleans
Huey Long Bridge
Mississippi
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Sunday Gazette preview of Cedar Rapids features
In Sundays Gazette a Cedar Rapids couple’s Alaska plan ends in Arizona and a Grant Wood room preview at McKinley school. It also highlights autographed letters in Cedar Rapids Masonic library, doll play research at Iowa City Child Welfare Research station, and staff photography with state national and international reports in the Sunday edition.
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Cedar Rapids
Alaska
Arizona
Grant Wood
McKinley School
Masonic Library
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Iowa City
Gazette
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