Rumors Battle Reports In China Fronts
Amid conflicting claims outside Peiping and evacuation by airliners near Nanking and Shanghai U.S. Marines reinforce Shanghai. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek weighs stepping aside for negotiations while Fu Tso-yi's forces counter attack near Peiping.
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Nanking
Peiping
Nanaking
U. S
Shanghai
Chiang Kai-shek
Fu Tso
Dart Peiping
Moosa
Lutheeran
Saint Paul
Tsingtao
Tegation
Feiping
Toucier
U.S
J. Leighton Stuart
National Defense Ministry
Huang -Wei
12Th
Pengpu
Hwai River
12Th Army
West Virginia Flood Dangers Ease as Rains Cease
Weather Bureau reports Kanawha River crest near Charleston at 24 feet with flood stage 34 feet. Pleasant and Pt. Pleasant projections loom but easing conditions seen. Weston and Clarksburg suffer street flooding while roadblocks ease. evacuations planned for low areas as backwater risk lingers late night.
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West Virginia
U. S. Weather Bureau
Kanawha
Charleston
Alemits
Weather Bureau
Pleasant
Pt. Pleasant
Ohio
Clarksburg
Weston
West Fork River
Glenville
Buckhannon
State Road Commission
West Fork
Shinnston
High School Vocational
Clay
Kanawha Falls
Kanawha River
Fayette County
Winfield
Marmet
London
New River
Galax
Radford
Glen Lyn
New
Gauley
Kanawhe
Gauley Bridge
Charleston-Ripley
Sissonville
U. S
Fort Please
Marines Refuse Sides as China Civil War Prospects Vary
The United States says American Marines in Shansi will defend Americans but stay neutral in the Chinese civil war. President Truman declined comment on Madame Chiang Kaishek’s mission while the State Department reaffirmed neutrality regarding talks in Nanking toward a coalition government to replace Chiang. The department indicated that such talks concern China, not the United States.
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Washington
United States
Shanzhai
Chiang Kai-shek
Truman
Chiang
State Department
Nanking
Willie Fillis On A Party Line We Wish To Reconnect
Robert Quillen IV reflects on the value of a party line for home listening during bad weather. The note suggests the simple pleasure of hearing voices and conversations when going out isn’t possible.
Supreme Court Asked To Free Japanese War Lords
The Supreme Court was asked to free Japanese war lords convicted by the Tokyo tribunal of crimes against peace. Hearings opened and will continue. Tojo and six others condemned to death, 18 to prison, with American and government attorneys debating the court’s authority and the tribunal’s international creation.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Tokyo
Tojo
International Military Tribunal For the
Far East
United States
U Nations
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Vinson
Reed
Frankfurter
Burton
Black
Douglas
Murphy
Rutledge
Jackson
Baby found in trash can near church identified as unnamed infant
A three to four month old boy dubbed Jimmy X was found in a trash can behind St. George's Orthodox church at Court and Lee streets. He was hospitalized with bronchitis and a fractured skull after surgery scar. police seek clues to his identity and public assistance authorities will handle custody and possible adoption inquiries.
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Jimmy X
St. George's Orthodox Church
Court
Lee Sts
Charleston General Hospital
Jimmy
Ment of
i _Police
Kanawha County
Department of Public Assistance
Mistaken Intelligence Nearly Triggered Mobilization
A misreported intelligence assessment in 1948 could have led to near full mobilization for war. The Hoover Commission panels said corrected analysis by the CIA and other agencies prevented drastic escalation and a potential overseas military move.
Yuletide Train Donations Flood Christmas Car Sets
Americans packed with food and goodwill contributed to overseas Christmas trains for 43 nations. Christian rural program officials said donations were so large trains must be split into sections in many states, with shipments delayed and reworked to fit available warehouses and port departures.
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Dayton
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Citizens Assail Military Costs and Unification Debate
A citizen committee condemns the military establishment as burdensome and costly despite unification. They warn Russia may seek victory by bankruptcy through growing defense spending, led by Herbert Hoover and Ferdinand Eberstadt on a commission studying executive security.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Herbert Hoover
Ferdinand Eberstadt
New York
Spe
Hiss
U. S
State Department
Apake
United
Justice Department
House Committee
Whittaker Chambers
Maryland
FBI
Feder
Solty
Justice de
OTE Sem ‘Chambers
Hiss Pleads Not Guilty as Charge Fallout Grows
New York December 15 1950 court action sees Alger Hiss plead innocent to perjury charges while a Justice Department official argues HUAC may have bungled a chance to indict a wartime spy. The implication ties stolen documents to Russian strategy in China.
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New York
Alger
Hiss
Justice Department
House un-American Activities Committee
Rhve
Pumpkin Papers Reveal Red Fear and War Prep
U S officials reveal parts of the pumpkin papers from State Department files showing that Stillwell warned Hull China Reds could become strong after Nanking fall. Papers also indicate Japan's war build in Manchuria and fears of a broader war, with committees pursuing probes.
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Washington
U. S
Aples
Russia
China
Joseph C. Stillwell
State Department
America
Hankow
Hull
Nanking
Japa
Houer
Whittaker Chambers
Wise
Alaer Wiss
FBI
pump+ kin papera
Manchuria
France
Cerechoslovakia
Hitler
Europe
Eagle
Argentina
Truman
Military unity praised yet faulted in report
The report finds the unified military establishment not yet working smoothly though largely sound. It lists errors by the armed forces including a mistaken intelligence estimate. An official source cites that President Truman might have sought near full mobilization if that estimate had been followed rather than an immediate abroad move.
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Washington
United States
Hoover
Central Intelligence Agency
Pentagon
Truman
Truman Will Deliver State of the Union in Person
President Truman announces he will address a joint session of Congress in person at 1 p.m. January 3. He will outline views on taxes price controls farm supports tidelands and the St Lawrence waterway and may discuss armed forces unification. Foreign policy budget and economic advisory council messages follow.
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Congress
Washington
Truman
Tidelands
St. Lawrence Waterway
Capitol
Economic Advisory Council
Barkley
New York
Truman backs continued aid to Greece to fight communism
Ambassador Henry F Grady said after meeting at the White House that President Truman favors continuing the Greece aid program. He estimated about 400000 for anti communist work next year while Congress has appropriated 350000000 this fiscal year. Grady reported Truman's cautious optimism despite slower guerrilla clearance and Greece remaining free.
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Washington
Truman
Greece
Henry F. Grady
White House
Grady
Athens
Congress
Latin America Faces Floods Fires and Unrest
Dispatches report Brazil severe floods in Minas Gerais with at least 200 dead and Leopoldina listing 111 recovered. A Guatemalan fire killed eleven, sparked by fireworks. Costa Rica battles an invasion as El Salvador’s president seeks refuge in Chilean embassy amid regional turmoil. Communication disruptions ensue.
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Associated Press
Latin America
Brazil
el Salvador
Bello Horizonte
Minas Gerais
Leopoldina
Blinas Gerais
Mitton Campos
Sil Avall
C 82 Crackup Kills Four Injures Three
Greenville Air Force base reports four men killed and three injured when a C-82 Flying Boxcar crashed three miles south of the base during a local flight. Names withheld pending next of kin notification. injured sent to base hospital. Firefighters extinguished the blaze before it consumed the craft. a board of officers will investigate the crash.
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Greenville
S.C
Greenville Air Force Base
James
Moonville
Augusta Road
Mary Christmas Gift Basket Radio Program Extended
WCHS and The Gazette extend the Mary Christmas Gift Basket radio broadcast to raise food certificates and toys for Kanawha County needy families. The program goes on air at 8 p.m. with a live audience and donations, expanding the show beyond the original time. Contributions support Salvation Army aid for Christmas Day distribution and a Shrine Mosque party for local families.
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Charleston
Nawha
W’ Ich
James
WCHS
The
Gazette
Crouch
Kanawha
Shrine
the Gazette
Kanawha Hotel
P.m
Salvation Army
Bert Souls
Sonis
Mort Cohn
Leah Perry Sloman
Galperin
Dollar for a Laugh Contest Raises Christmas Charity
A radio game on Saturday night December 18 offers a prize of more than $2,000 in gifts to the listener who correctly identifies "Mary Christmas" when phoned in. Participants must mail a completed form with a $1 donation to Mary Christmas Box 2673 Charleston. Funds aid needy Charleston families with food and toys on Christmas Day.
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WCHS
Charleston
French Engineers Blow Up Radio Berlin Towers
French engineers in the Berlin sector dynamited two tall Radio Berlin towers severing Soviet broadcasts. Twelve hours later Soviet commentator Heinz Schmidt resumed on the same wavelength. Berlin officials blamed Washington for the interruption while German and Russian leaders denounced the action as illegal.
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Berlin
Radio
Potsdam
Washington
Schmidt
Atudio
Alexander Kotikov
Disabled Italian Vets clash with police in Rome strike scene
In Rome today twenty injured as mutilated wartime veterans attack police amid a Communist led general strike calling for 24 hours of government employee walkout. Two seriously wounded as police block veterans attempting to reach Premier De Gasperi’s palace.
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Rome
Italian Labor Confederation
Alcide de Gasperi
Riminal Palace
Sega
de Gasper
Christian Democratic Party
Labor Confederation
Probers Call DOJ Attack a Vicious Sneak Attack
The House Un-American Activities Committee condemned a Justice Department spokesman for saying one roll of film in the Pumpkin papers could have contained spy information. The committee called the claim a patent fabrication and challenged the DOJ to support the accusation to the public.
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Washington
Dastlen Department
New York
Fpumpkin
Justice Department
Truman defends stance as probe reveals navy documents
President Truman asserts no change in position on the investigation while the House committee discloses six prewar U. S. Navy documents recovered from the Bureau of Standards files. The panel will release more one secret papers on an installment plan and review Army Aberdeen proving grounds leaks.
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Hia
Truman
Lowell
U. S. Navy
Bureau of Standards
Commite Leemen
Navy
Navy Department
Ine
House
U. S. Army
Aberdeen
Sid) Proving Grounds
State Department
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Willie Fillis
Robert Quillen
Fox
Byrd
Alser Hiss
Betty Jo Winsett
West Coast
Bobby Clark
Butch
Mary Christmas
Dans
Lefty
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