Wallace Demands Open Hearing On Uranium Shipments
Former air force major George Racey Jordan told reporters the Soviets received top secret radar gear and atomic materials during WWII. He alleged uranium and radar plans were shipped to Russia with help from Harry Hopkins and possibly Henry Wallace, who demanded a House committee showdown and denied the charges.
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New York
Air Force
Russia
George Racey Jordan
Henry A. Wallace
House un-American Activities Committee
Wood
Lewis
Wallace
Roosevelt
D-Ga
The
un-American Activities Committee
Mutual Broadcasting System
New York World Telegram
United Press
McDowell and
Vail
Neern
Mutual
World Telegram
Milo Perkins
Board of Economic Warfare
Mr. Perkins
Russell Turner
Lewis Broadcast
Great Falls
Montair
Turner
Leonard Woods
General Electric
East Lynn
Mass
Woods
Elmer Williams
John Kukay
Jordan
Soviet Union
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Force
Traichn Kostov treason trial to open in Sofia
Sofia authorities say the treason trial of Traichn Kostov former Communist deputy premier will start this morning. Kostov faces charges of treason spying and sabotage framed six days earlier by official statements.
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Preasy Sofia
Bulgaria
Traichn Kostov
Kostov
Brannan Says Committeemen Free to Speak
Secretary Brannan said he will neither gag nor muzzle the Agriculture Department’s farmer committeemen. He asked them to submit recommendations to the production and marketing administrator and work with Congress. The remarks followed PMA conference with former committeemen present amid Farm Bureau criticisms of flexible price supports.
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Memphis
Tenn
Brannan
Dex
Agriculture Department
Congress
Production and Marketing Administration
Canadian Cold Mass Dashes Across Midwest
A mass of cold air from Canada swept into the Midwest, bringing snow flurries and squalls. Temperatures fell 10 to 15 degrees from morning readings in Montana and the Dakotas, with forecasts calling for minus five to zero in parts of North and South Dakota and Minnesota by morning. Showers occurred in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Arkansas as the region experienced widespread cloudiness and cooler than seasonal conditions.
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Chicago
Canada
Midwest
Cal
Mercury
Montana
Dakotas
North Dakota
South Dakotas
Minnesota
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Arkansas
Middle Atlantic
New England
Reward Offered for Arrest of Fulton Slugger
Fulton police and the State Highway Patrol pursue a masked assailant after a Saturday night attempt to rob Marcella Frank 29. a $100 reward is posted for the arrest and conviction. Clues include a brown felt hat with paint and soft earth footprints near the Callaway grocery store. Frank described the voice as sounding like a man in his early twenties.
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Fulton
Marcella Frank
Miss Frank
Callaway
Mel Frank
State Highway Patrol
Frank
Mrs Mesta Hosts Grand Luxembourg Orphans Party
U S diplomat Mrs Perle Mesta in Luxembourg city threw her largest party for 330 orphans on St Nicholas Day. The Washington society figure wore a black satin dress and presided over the event featuring a Parisian phone theater as the highlight.
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Luxembourg City
Luxembourg
Perle Mesta
U. S
Grand Duchy
Washington
Mesta
Paris
State Hunters Head For Top Deer Season
Early Missouri Ozark reports indicate a record whitetail season with at least 380 legal bucks killed on opening day. Fewer hunters were out than last year due to improved weather and camp moves. notable kills include a 23-pound dressed duck and a 9-point buck by Eugene Blackburn and a 9-point by Richard Carden, with no fatal accidents reported by late night.
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Missouri Ozark
Conservation Commission
Counry
Ozark
Crawford
Franklin
Osage
Gasconade
Washington
Eugene Blackburn
Chamois
Earl
Richard Carden
Ferguson
Carden
Oklahoma Fire Leaves 12 Families Homeless
In Kellyville Oklahoma a two story Oak Leaf apartment hotel was destroyed by fire leaving 12 families homeless. Owner R K Catlett estimated losses at about 20000. One guest leaped from the second floor but suffered only slight injuries. Kellyville sits eight miles southwest of Sapulpa on U S 44 and has a population around 700.
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Kellyville
Okla
Oak Leaf
R. K. Catlett
Catlett
Sapuipa
U. 44
AEC appeals for federal help to end Oak Ridge walkout
The Atomic Energy Commission called on the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Conciliation Service for quick federal aid to halt a wildcat walkout idling about 2,000 construction workers in Oak Ridge Tennessee. The action targets the $66 million gaseous diffusion plant K-29 and other facilities, with NLRB attorney James A. Mackel and BLRB representative Bourton Zein briefing ASC officials. The strike, led by nonunion labor concerns, involves most construction trades except carpenters and cee, but produces no credible link to fissionable material production.
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Oak Hidgh
Tenn
Dec
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
National Labor, Relations Board
U. S. Conciliation Service
James A. Mackel
Atlanta
NLEB
Bourton Zein
Knoxville
BLRB
ASC
Gordon Molesworth
Cee
Molesworth
Oman Construction Company
Nashville
Germans Form New Nationalist Political Groups
Three new political groups appealing to German nationalism appeared in Frankfurt amid the easing of party licensing in the U S zone. Two groups used the Reich in their titles or aims, signaling a nationalist shift as authorities monitor splinter party formation and potential shifts against established parties. In Haifa, 1250 railway workers staged a 24 hour strike demanding higher wages and overtime pay from the government run railways.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S
Reich
Israel
Haifa
Wife Responds To Whistling Hubby Awarded Divorce
Newark court heard George J. Lower testify that his wife Elizabeth would depart when a neighbor whistled Poor Butterfly beneath their window. The 36-year-old man described the signal as a trigger for desertion and was granted a divorce in Superior Court before Judge Thomas Schellino.
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George J. Lower
Elizabeth
Lower
Neward
Superior Court
Thomas Schellino
Pearl Harbor Ceremonies Slated on Arizona Today
Brief ceremonies will be held tomorrow aboard what remains of the battleship Arizona in memory of those who died in the surprise Japanese attack eight years ago. Capt. H. B. Harp will lead a small group of military and civil officials in prayer as it is unsafe for a large gathering aboard.
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Pearl Harbor
Arizona
H. B. Harp
Pacific Fleet
U.S. Crackdown on Havana to Miami Alien Smuggling Ring
Attorney General McGrath announced federal agents have captured operators Gaylord Saxton and Charles Cramton, both 26 from Grand Rapids Michigan, tied to a Havana to Miami alien smuggling service charging up to 800 dollars per adult. 26 aliens were seized, with four children admitted under the offer. Saxton and Cramton face alien smuggling charges.
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Washington
Dec
McGrath
Havana-to-Miami
Miami
Florida‘ Coast
Justice Department
Cuba
Cne
New York City
Gaylord Saxton
Michigan State College
Charles Cramton
Grand Rapids
Mich
Mary Jean Saxton
Huth Lucille Cramton
United States
William A. Cave Smichael
Will O
FBI
Immigration
Farm Ring Plan Drive Started in Cole County
County agent Joe Cuzick announced an intensive effort to complete the balanced farming ring reorganization in Cole County by December 31. If not finished, Charles Paden, the balanced farming agent, will move to another county. Eighteen farmers have joined. officials will contact more this month. Membership costs 37.50, payable upfront or quarterly.
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Cole County
Joe Cuzick
Cuzick
Charles Paden
AMA Head Sounds Battle Call Against Health Plan
In Washington the AMA warned that the decisive fight over socialized medicine lies ahead in 1950 as opponents gain ground. Dr. Elmer L. Henderson said non-medical groups support the AMA against Truman’s federal sickness insurance plan while dues proposals and fundraising shape its strategy. The AMA also announced Fishbein’s retirement as editor and named Austin Smith as successor.
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Washington
American Medical Association
Bey
Elmer L. Henderson
Louisville
Organization of
Truman
House of Delegates
Henderson
White House
America
Clem Whitaker
Board of Trustees
Morris Fishbein
Fishbein
Austin Smith
Balleville
Ontario
Council On Pharmacy and Chemistry
The
Atom Powered Cars and Machines Not Feasible Say Scientist
Pittsburgh AP report quotes Lawrence R Hafstad of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission explaining that atomic power requires a large critical size. He says machines extracting atomic energy are necessarily big, ruling out atomic powered autos sewing machines and many household gadgets.
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Pittsburgh
Lawrence R Hafstad
U. S._ Atomicnergy commission
Ward to Leave Mukden as Korea Offers to Free Two
Official dispatch from Tientsin reports U S Consul General Angus Ward and his party plan to sail from China next Monday ending over a year of isolation in Communist held Manchuria. North Korea allegedly offers to free two AEC officials, Alfred Mechter and Albert Willis, held since September. State Department has no confirmation. Ward’s group, 20 people, will depart by special train at 1 45 p m CST to Tientsin a port city on the North China coast.
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Tokyo
Ward
Tientsin
U.S
Angus Ward
China
Alfred T. Welborn
Associated Press
Washington
Manchuria
Binigyaige
Jeg Pial Oh
North Korea
State Department
Itis Genine
U. S
Seoul
ECA
Moscow
Mukden
North Ching
Two Injured in Head-On Collision Near Eldon
Bly Don Heed and Nancy Firty, both injured, are in St Marys hospital after a noon yesterday head-on collision about 15 miles south of Eldon on Route 54. Reed suffered a broken arm and minor cuts. Miss Reed a lacerated forehead and cheek. Norman Clizer of Springfield drove the other car, which was uninjured but totaled.
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Bly Don Heed
West Main
Nancy Ferty
TI East McCarty
St. Mary's
Eldon
Highway Patrol
Reed
Miss Reed
Norman Clizer
Clizer
Careless Driving Sentence in Cole County Court
Wills H Harrington was sentenced to 60 days in the Cole county jail by Acting Magistrate Sam James for reckless and careless driving following his arrest in December on Highway 50. His driver’s license suspension was reinstated for one year.
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Wills H. Harrington
Cole County
Sam James
Harrington
James
Coal Chief Announces Settlement With Soft Coal Producers
John L. Lewis said the contract covers Kentucky producers making about 2.5 million tons yearly, raises wages 95 cents daily and 15 cents per ton for welfare and pensions, shifts signees to a five day week, and sets terms effective Jan 3 through Sept 1, 1951 with 30 days’ notice for cancellation.
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Washington
John.l. Lewis
Kentucky
Lewis
John’ D Battle
National Coal Association
Battle
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Robert
Young
Chesapeake and Ohig Dad
New York
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