U S Primed Greeks Aim at Spring Push To Rout Guerrillas
State Department announced plans to boost Greek armed forces with 15 million dollars reallocated from civilian to military use. Greece would add 30 000 guards to 50 000 and 12 000 soldiers to 122 000 to prepare a spring offensive against guerrillas. The move, approved by aid administrator Griswold after military study, aims to free forces for offensive operations and defend Greece’s independence.
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U. S
Washington
Jan
State Department
Athens
Dwight Griswold
Department
Greece
Lincoln White
Greek Rebels Establish Temporary Capital in Grammos Mountains
Greek guerrillas reportedly set up a temporary capital for a separate Communist state in an isolated Grammos mountain village near the Albanian border. Villagers say ministers in the Markos government are present, with a military court, hospital, and printing presses at Lykorra khi, while the area remains heavily defended by guerrillas and 20 millimeter anti aircraft guns. Britain plans warnings to Bulgaria Albania and Yugoslavia over recognition.
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Athens
Markos Vafiadea
Grammos Mountains
Vasso Tsimberados
Embros
Grammos
Lykorrakhi
Ronitsa
Tsimberados
Konitsa
Vafiades
Britain
London
Bulgaria
Albania
Yugoslavia
Greece
Marisos
United States
John Howard
Ofi
Howard
U. S. Congress
Resistance Deepens as Franco Regime Faces New Guerilla Threat
Madrid police report that anti Franco leaders slipped from France and resume guerrilla warfare despite executions and jailing of Communists. Zorca Sanchez Nunez Bao were killed December 29, others admitted to Communist ties. New leaders reportedly entered Spain to bolster the fight against Generalissimo Franco, while some defendants got life terms on military trials for terrorism.
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Madrid
INS
France
Dolores Ybarruri
la Pasionaria
Pyrenees
Agustin Zorca Sanchez
Lucas Nunez Bao
Fleass
Willie Willis by Robert Quillen
A light among column sketches where the author notes how ladies prefer talk in soap operas and how a mother skips parts of a book that are not conversation. The piece playfully contrasts dialog with narration and hints at social habits.
Rien Se Turn to Page 3 Col 5
Ambiguous fragment notes page and column references without readable event names or facts. The surviving text provides only page and column indicators, not a clickable incident, person, organization, place, or date to build a factual summary.
Sharp rebuke of Hagana over hotel bombing sparks tensions
In Jerusalem the Palestine government denounced the Hagana for the Semiramis hotel blast that killed 19 Arabs and the Spanish consul, while emergency workers freed a 28 year old Arab woman beside her dead child. Ben-Gurion was summoned to Government House as security concerns rise.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Hagana
Jewish Defense Army
Semiramis
Havid Ben-Gurion
Jewish Agency Executive
Alan Cunningham
Government House
Holy Land
Fifteen Die in Paris Airport Crash
Paris reported that fifteen people perished when an Air France DC-4 bound for Paris crashed near Le Bourget during approach. Only one of eleven passengers and five crew survived, with three Americans named Barrel Libre and Power among the dead.
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Paris
Air France
Brussels
le Bourget
Barrel
Libre
Power
Sold First Day Gas Range and Barber Hiring Notice
Classified brief notes a gas range sale marked sold on first day and a barber shop seeking experienced barbers. Mentions a Boston area property and furnished rooms, with contact hints and job ad language.
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Desire
Answers Given Sen Knowland On Speculators
Washington reports say Senator Knowland pressed for FBI findings on grain trading linked to Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham and whether others were implicated. John F. Baecher declined to reveal answers, noting secrecy. Public hearings were planned for Friday with Harold E. Stassen as the first witness amid an inquiry into government commodity trading since 1946.
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Washington
Knowland
R. Cal
FBI
Truman
Justice Department
John F. Baecher
John F. Sennett
Senate Appropriations
Sennett
Wallace H. Graham
White House
Baecher
Sonnett
T Stassen
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Minnesota
GOP
Ferguson
R-Mich
Drivers Hidden TNT Cargo in Cloak and Dagger Convoy
Two New Jersey truckers hauling 65 000 pounds of TNT to a Palestine bound freighter described a covert pickup, a jeep guide to a farmhouse, and crates they believed held machinery. They faced icy roads and danger, unaware of the explosive load. The convoy's leader said the meeting was with a Mr Wilson from Machinery Processing and Converting Co. and a warehouse man named Moe.
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Belleville
N. J
New Jersey
George Cornell
Newark
Charles Loguidice
East Orange
Hoffman Motor Trucking Co
Pipersville
Easton
Lamarre Admits Perjury Charge in War Plant Case
Eleriothy Lamarre, once a figurehead president linked to the Ohio war plant Aviation Electric Corp, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about Major General Bennett Meyers war time deals. The three count sentence was deferred pending a probation report as Meyers faces arraignment on related counts.
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Washington
Jan
INS
Eleriothy Lamarre
Ohio
Bennett Meyers
Congress
Meyers
David A. Pine
Lamarre
U. S
Ae 2
Meyers Tndieted- Meyers
Air Forces Purchasing Division
Senate
Ferguson R.mich
Lamerre
Ferguson
Aviation Electric Corp
Lamatre
Ferguson Committee
Congress Set to Hear Truman State of the Union Message
President Truman prepared a slugging State of the Union address to the 80th Congress at 1 30 p m with plans for major tax and foreign aid proposals The Republican leadership criticized tax estimates and warned against excessive foreign spending while House action paused until the address.
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Knutcon
Washington
Truman
Capitol Hill
Sion
Tsier
White House
Jeeds
Congress
Pier
Taber
House Appropriations Committee
Veteranns Administration
Europe
Edwin D. Johnson
D-Cole
Pena Sel
Disabled Housewives May Be Aided by Army Methods
Dr Howard A Rusk told the American Medical Association that the third phase of medicine can aid five million crippled American housewives and millions more disabled. He described training to use limited reach in households and work rehabilitation with examples from World War I veterans who regained mobility and jobs. He warned on cancer risks from certain chemical compounds and shared frostbite treatments using heparin rather than warming or rubbing.
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Cleveland, Jan
Howard A. Rusk
New York
Rusk
W. C. Heaper
New York City
Kurt Lange
Linn J. Boyd
David Weiner
Nimitz Predicts U S Navy Power and War Strategy
Washington reports Admiral Chester W. Nimitz asserts US control of the seas, capable of basing floating airbases, and urges prompt action to secure national security and global stability. The Navy moves to test war strategy and assigns Sherman to command naval forces in the Mediterranean amid Balkan tensions. In Tokyo, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo testifies he believed his actions in entering World War II were just and right, defending Hirohito and noting Pearl Harbor plans before the attack.
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Washington
Chester W. Nimitz
United States
Navy
Forrmer
Nimitz
Forrest P. Sherman Tolt
Mediterranean
Balkan
United Nations
Russia Tl
Central Asia
East Asia
Europe
Tokyo
UNS
Hideki Tojo
Joseph B. Keenan
Pearl Harbor
Keenan
Tojo
International Tribunal
Teo
Hirohito
Japan
America
Record beef steer price hits alltime Chicago mark
A load of choice to prime beef steers sold at 41.25 per hundred pounds at Union Stock Yards, a Chicago alltime market high and the second highest carload price nationwide. The deal covered 23 head of long fed Herefords averaging about 1175 pounds, owned and fed by William Downey and son.
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Chicago
Union Stock Yards
Sioux i City
William Downey and Son, Putnam, Dl
Food Prices Set New Record High
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports mid-December retail food prices at a new high with an index 102.7 percent above the 1935-39 average, near the peak from September 1947. In mid-November prices rose across most food groups except meats and eggs, while city by city changes varied, with butter up 9 percent and cereals up 6 percent, amid larger supplies and slackened demand reducing meat prices by about 5 percent from October to November.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Little Rock
Peoria
Atlanta
Richmond
Tom's Tops Headline on Dewey Truman Taft Clash
A clipped 1648 Gazette spoof shows Tom’s Tops lampooning a hypothetical Dewey Truman Taft clash. Stan Arnold notes the piece mocks Taft while claiming it won’t make Dewey angry, reflecting period satire and partisan tone.
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Tom
Gallup
Truman
Taft
Tom Dewey
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