Nationalists May Abandon Mainland
Hong Kong dispatch reports rapid Communist gains in western China pressuring Chiang Kai-Shek to retreat to Formosa. Pai Chung-hsi’s forces crumble as headquarters shift to Hainan, with Nanning evacuated. Li Tsung-jen departs Hong Kong for the United States amid signals the mainland may be abandoned.
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Hong Kong
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Formosa
Pai Chung-Hsi
Chengtu
Pai
Hainan
Sing Tao Min Po
Kwangsi
Nanning
Li Tsgun-Jen
United States
China Mail
Stalin to Be 70 on Dec. 21 Birthday Celebrations
Moscow reports the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet formed a 75 member committee of famous citizens to organize a nationwide celebration for Stalin's 70th birthday on December 21. Members include Lysenko, Shostakovich, Tarasova, and Angelina with republic representation.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Russia
Stalin
Plitburo
Trofim Lysenko
Dmitri Shostakovich
Anna Tarasova
P. A. Angelina
UN Makes Progress On Control Of Atomic Energy
U N Assembly President Carlos Romulo said the world is moving toward control of atomic energy but warned no instant agreement will occur. Six sponsoring powers United States Soviet Union France Britain China and Canada acknowledged his four point program and agreed to consider it. Talks with the Soviet bloc continued behind closed doors amid calls to resume sessions of the U N Atomic Energy Commission.
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New York
U.N. Assembly
Carlos P .Romulo
U.N
Romulo
United States
Soviet Union
France
Britain
China
Canada
U.N. Atomic Energy Commission
Eniwetok Atoll
General Assembly
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Momulo
Vishinsky
Warren R. Austin
Alexander Cadogan
Lester B. Pearson
T. F
U.S. Warned To Prepare For Espionage
The Library of Congress analyzes National Defense risks between 1950 and 1970 warning that war with Russia could trigger subversive warfare at home. It cautions against complacency after World War II and warns that communist agents may infiltrate labor groups to disrupt production and sabotage key sites.
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Washington
Russia
Library of Congress
S. Arthur Devan
America
United States
Devan
Reps Thomas And May To Receive Civil Service Pensions
Washington report notes former Rep Andrew J May will receive about 280 dollars monthly for life and during prison, while Rep J Parnell Thomas faces an eight year wait for an estimated 290 dollar monthly pension. The 1946 pension law covers congress members regardless of criminal charges. May began drawing his pension early in 1947 after paying a lump sum. Thomas awaits sentencing on a fraud charge and has not defended his alleged kickback scheme.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
J. Parnell Thomas
May
Thomas
Congress
Ashland
House Military Affairs Committee
Kentucky
House
Alleged Wife Slayer Caught in Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Tenn. December 3 51 year old W F Bean arrested on murder charges in the slayings of his wife and six year old daughter. Sheriff Thompson said Bean was a dangerous killer after a four state manhunt. Bean reportedly claimed he shot to save his own life as six bullets pierced the house.
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Memphis
Tenn
Bud
James FE. Thompson
W. F. Bean
Bean
Thompson
J. R. Bean
U S Warns Nationalist Warships Over Coast Blockade
The United States protested to Chinese Nationalists in Hong Kong demanding they warn warships not to fire on American vessels along the China coast blockade. The note cited the Sir John Franklin attack on the Yangtze near Shanghai and held the Nationalists responsible for any losses to Americans.
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Washington
United States
China Coast
State Department
George Yeh
Hong Kong
Acheson
Shanghai
Isbrandtsen Line
Sir John Franklin
Yangtze River
Isbrandtsen
John Franklin
Department
Wednes
Radford Sideslip Leaves City In Blackout
A car struck a power pole in Radford Virginia at 2 35 am causing a city wide blackout that disabled the fire department switchboard and halted operations at the First and Merchants Bank and three textile plants. Electricity returned at 1 40 pm. Mrs Owen Morris of Portsmouth Virginia was injured with a broken leg. The Radford News Journal published an abbreviated edition after the outage. A dance academy faced gown cleaning delays affecting a group of girls awaiting a Virginia Tech event.
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Radford
First and Merchants Bank
People’s Bank of Radford
Radford News Journal
First
Merchants Bank
Merchants
People's Bank
Radford College
Va. Tech
Owen Morris
Portsmouth
Miners Brace for Christmas With Short Week Pace
In LIBRARY Pa on December 3 1949 miners say it could be worse as 480 000 United Mine Workers face nine working days till Christmas at reduced pay after debt from company stores and four 1949 coal strikes. The week moves to three days with pay about 139 50 per man before deductions and debt. Local managers promise limited credit for essentials so families won’t go without toys or meals while union leader John L Lewis extends the short week.
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United Mine Workers
Durea
John L. Lewis
UMW
J. S. Mebrasky
U.S. Steel Corp
Lygan
Pennsylvania
Lewis
Death Toll In Oklahoma U U Dormitory Fire Three
A flash fire at the University of Oklahoma dormitory killed three students and injured twenty one, with 349 residents evacuated. Identifications were made via personal effects and location, while officials estimated property damage between $500,000 and $700,000 as they worked to confirm the remaining missing.
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Oklahoma
Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
Price D. Starks
Oklahoma City
University
George L. Cross
L. J. Hughes
Truman’s Economy Program Aimed at Tax Increases
President Truman seeks cabinet advice on a tax program to be sent to Congress in January aimed at closing a fiscal deficit expected to top 5.5 billion dollars. He blamed the shortfall on the Republican 80th Congress tax cuts and said only higher taxes could balance the budget. John R. Steelman led talks with Treasury Secretary Snyder Commerce Secretary Sawyer and Council of Economic Advisors acting chairman Keyserling for written budget and State of the Union guidance.
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Key West
Fra
Truman
Congress
White House
Washington
Charles G. Ross
John R. Steelman
Corregidor Hero General Moore Dies by Own Hand
Major General George F. Moore 62, who led Corregidor defenses, was found dead with a bullet wound on a California mountain road. A pistol and note to his wife were near his body. Survived by widow and daughter Anne Brown. Moore previously endured Japanese captivity and earned the Distinguished Service Cross for Bataan Corregidor actions.
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Burlingame
Calif
Corregidor
Manila
George F. Moore
George Kurrell
Kurrell
General Moore
Formosa
Manchuria
Philippines
Subic Bays
Bataan
Illness Fatal To Philip Barry 53
Philip Barry, 53, noted playwright, died of a heart attack at his Park Avenue home in New York. His wife Ellen Semple Barry and their son Jonathan, 23, were with him. A Rocheste r native, he wrote Broadway hits including The Philadelphia Story and The Animal Kingdom.
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New York
Philip Barry
Park Avenue
Dana Atchley
Barry
Ellen Semple Barry
Jonathan
Rochester
N. Y
Liberty Jones
Love
Threat of Major Disaster At Mount Etna Diminishing
Shocks and cracks in Mt Etna’s main crater sent lava streams toward Maletto and Bronte but reports indicate the danger of a major disaster is easing. Lava damaged farms orchards and forests with fires in Chiavazza Giardinazzo and on the Duke of Bronte estate. No deaths reported though towns along the base and the Mt Etna railroad remain at risk.
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Mount Etna
Catania
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Maletto
Bronte
Rosario Pappalardo
Pedara
Chiavazza
Giardinazzo
1949 Construction Record Seen By Commerce and Labor
Departments of commerce and labor projected a record year for 1949 with new construction valued through November at 17.7 billion dollars, up two percent from the same period last year. November alone added more than 1.7 billion in new construction.
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Washington
Departments of Commerce and Labor
Welfare state preferred over Wall Street state
AFL president William Green told Britons in London he would rather have the United States as a welfare state than a Wall Street state. He cited Britain’s cradle to grave health and social welfare program started in July 1948 and praised progress in health and social services.
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London
William Green
American Federation of Labor
AFL
United States
Wall Street
Green
Britain
America
Fire hazards rise in country homes prompt preventive checks
Across Capitol Square warnings from agricultural engineers note that frequent fires in country houses have caused many deaths this year. They urge inspections of wiring, stove-pipes and insulation and stress the value of water sources. The Morris rainwater cistern idea inspires cooperative fire pump schemes among neighboring farms to boost firefighting capability.
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Fitzhugh Morris
Raleigh
Morris
Latvians And Estonians Missing Too
Britain challenged the Soviet Union to reveal the fate of 1,500,000 Latvians Estonians and Lithuanians driven into Russian forced labor camps. The UN debate saw Soviet denial and Goebbels charge dismissed with Romulo removing Goebbels references. A refugees resolution creating a UN high commissioner to handle postIRO refugee issues was approved 35 to 7 with 13 abstentions.
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New York
Britain
Soviet Union
United Nations Assembly
Alexander Panyushkin
Assembly
Carlos P. Romulo
Goebbels
General Assembly
G. T. Corley Smith
Smith
Romulo
International Refugee Organization
IRO
New Orleans Jury Convicts Eugene Hoover of Murder
An all male jury convicts Louis Eugene Hoover in the killing of millionaire James A Mahoney of Bristol Virginia Tennessee while Mardi Gras in a French Quarter hotel The verdict makes a death sentence mandatory but no date was set Hoover showed flat emotion during the read verdict then sobbed after leaving the courtroom.
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New Orleans
Louis Eugene Hoover
James A. Mahoney
Bristol
Tenn
Mahoney
Milton
Lucky” Baker
Hoover
Priso
John Grosch
Juanita Patterson
Louisville
Frenchman Dies After Expulsion From Poland
A Frenchman named Guy Auffrey who was expelled by Poland was killed on a train in the American zone of Germany while returning home. Officials suggest he jumped from the train after leaving his compartment. a shattered lavatory window and a body found near Offenbach confirm the tragedy. He was one of nine Frenchmen expelled by Poland in reprisal for France’s expulsion of 27 Poles.
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Hamburg
Germany
Poland
Guy Auffrey
France
Helmstedt
Auffrey
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Killingsworth
Conn
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Mrs. Truman
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