Japanese War Lords Given Reprieve
The Supreme Court split five to four to review the Tokyo war crimes tribunal verdicts, potentially staying seven hangings on the seventh anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Justice Jackson cast the deciding vote, noting the case tests presidential power and the court's reach in military affairs. Doihara and Hirota asked for intercession. Tojo and others did not.
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Washington
Supreme Court
International Court
Tokyo
Robert H. Jackson
Germany
Jackson
Nuernberg
Douglas MacArthur
Kenji Doihara
China
Manchuria
Koku Hirota
Hideki Tojo
Economists clash on whether profits are overstated
Harvard economist Sumner Slichter told a Senate hearing profits may be overstated by about 16.4 billion dollars over the past three years because accounting methods lag changes in price levels. He warned that profits could hinder labor and expansion unless fiscal policy tightens taxes and reduces spending.
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Washington
Congressional
Harvard
William A. Paton
University of Michigan
George D. Bailey
Detroit
American Institute of Accountants
Senate-House Economic Committee
Congress
Sumner H. Slichter
Slichter
Seymour K. Harris
Two New Drugs Make History as Microbe Killers
New germ killing drugs chloromycetin and auromycin show dramatic cures in typhoid and other diseases. Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins reported across hundreds of patients, with notable success at University of Maryland hospital and potential to wipe out typhoid this century.
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New York
Perrin Long
Medical School
Johns Hopkins University
American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
University of Maryland
KE. T. Woodward
Long
Burma
New Guinea
Philippines
Mine Owners Opposed To 30-Hour Week
The National Coal association said a 30 hour week would be disastrous to the coal industry. William Blizzard of United Mine Workers urged a 30 hour week, but a conference favored a shorter week without specifying 30 hours. The association cited miners averaging six and a half hours of productive time daily after travel and paid lunch.
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Washington
National Coal Association
William Blizzard
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
UMW
Newt
Blizzard
Labor Department
NCF
Hungarian Leader Is Executed For Alleged Treason
Victor Csornoky, son-in-law of former Hungarian President Zoltan Tildy, was executed by Hungarians for treason in Budapest. Once Hungarys envoy to Egypt and stationed in Washington, he was sentenced by a peoples court to be hanged for traitorous activities with the U S and Britain and for crimes against the people and black market currency dealings.
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London
Victor Csornoky
Zoltan Tildy
Tanjug
Budapest
Inoky
Hungary
Egypt
Washington
People's Court
U. S
Nationalist troops encircled by Communist forces near Suchow
Government outlets report 110000 Nationalist troops trapped in a eight by five mile pocket southwest of Suchow after a Communist encirclement led by Chen Yi. Civil officials evacuated with the trapped forces hinder operations. reports say Red columns inflicted casualties on the 2nd 13th and 16th army groups.
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Nanking
China
Central China Front
Suchow
Chen Yi
Peiping
Twelfth Army Group
Chiang Wei Kuo
Chiang Kai-shek
East China
Hwai River
Yangtze River
Gunman Flees On Stolen Bicycle After Daylight Robbery
In Muncie Indiana a gunman stole 28570 from two Ball stores officials. A passerby advertiser M Ray Applegate chased him but the robber hopped a bicycle left in an alley and sped away. Victim Fred Staver and assistant credit manager William Jones pursued another robber before being outdistanced.
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Muncie
Ind
M. Ray Applegate
Fred Staver
Ball Stores
Staver
William Jones
General Marshall Undergoes Kidney Operation at Walter Reed
General Marshall underwent a kidney operation at Walter Reed hospital today after a summer checkup. Officials said the operation was successful and he is doing excellently with no complications anticipated. Marshall will be 68 on December 31 and has served as Secretary of State since January 1947 after leading the army as chief of staff.
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Washington
State Marshall
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Marshall
State Department
General Marshall
Truman
Nixon to Seek Grand Jury Testimony on Chambers Case
Rep Nixon plans to ask the grand jury for permission to testify and present committee findings on Whitaker Chambers and the Hiss affair. The inquiry centers on alleged pre war Communist underground and secrets tied to a Russian agent.
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Nixon
Grand Jury
New York
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
House
American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss
State Department
New York Herald Tribune
Richard M. Nixon
UN American Activities Subcommittee
Hiss
The
Herald Tribune
Maryland
House Committee
Washington
Fractional Losses Hit Popular Stocks in Narrow Trading
In a quiet New York market on December 7, demand faded with most losses fractional and many stocks unchanged. Only a few gainers such as Youngstown Sheet, Sears Roebuck, United Aircraft, Schenley, and Electric Power and Light stood out amid a sea of declines for U S Steel Republic Steel General Motors Chrysler Studebaker Goodyear J I Case Glenn Martin Anaconda Copper Westinghouse International Paper Santa Fe Union Pacific Chesapeake Ohio Standard Oil NJ Mission Corp.
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New York
U. S. Steel
Republic Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
Studebaker
Goodyear
J. I. Case
Glenn Martin
Anaconda Cooper
Westinghouse Electric
International Paper
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Chesapeake & Ohio
Standard Oil (Nj
Mission Corp
Youngstown Sheet
Sears Roebuck
United Aircraft, Schenley
Electric Power and Light
Governor-Elect Kerr Scott Presses Resignations
Raleigh dispatch says Kerr Scott asked two state officials to resign, chief clerk Charles Flack and chief engineer W Vance Baise, amid controversy over campaign neutrality and a Rutherford county advertisement. Flack defends his position, noting his home county backed Scott in the primaries, while Baise has not decided on resigning by January 6. Scott voiced disappointment over what he calls broken neutrality promises after his return from vacation.
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Raleigh
Kerr Scott
Charles Z. Flack
State Utilities Commission
Scott
W. Vance Baise
State Highway Commission
Flack
Baise
Rutherford County
Laurinburg Sells Storm Sewer Bonds at 2.4963 Percent
The Local Government Commission sold a $118,000 Laurinburg storm sewer bond issue at 2.4963 percent interest. Vance Securities of Greensboro and J. Lee Peeler and Co. purchased the issue with an average maturity of 18.79 years.
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Raleigh
Local Government Commission
Town of Laurinburg
Vance Securities Corporation of
Greensboro
J. Lee Peeler and Co
Germans Upend Bolshevism With Western Berlin Vote
Western Berlin residents defied Soviet pressure and blocade to cast a 82.6 percent non Communist vote in a Sunday election. The socialist platform denounced Russia and called for a peaceful state. Tass claims coercion while Pravda accuses Western plots. voters show long standing anti Communist sentiment.
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Berlin
Socialist Party
Russia
Tass
Communist Party
Pravda
Moscow
Sovp
Reich
Germany
Europe
Hitler
Pearl Harbor Day Observances Mark Seven Year Gap
Amid mixed ceremonies observers in Hawaii focus on saving 33 air force men over the Pacific rather than the seventh anniversary of Pearl Harbor. International figures weigh in with memorial remarks as San Diego plans a veterans gathering and Pearl Harbor itself bears the lingering scars of the 1941 attack.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
mid-Pacific
Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Japan
Washington
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
San Diego
Calif
Veterans of
Navy rescues 33 survivors from mid Pacific plane crash
A navy escort carrier Rendova rescued 33 exhausted air force survivors after a 40 hour search in shark infested waters. Four others were declared dead from the ill fated C54 crash 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu.
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Honolulu
Air Force
Navy
Rendova
Joseph L. Smit
Stockston
Kas
William A. Colvin, Jr
Cross City
Fla
Robert C. Harrell
Mile Ledgeville
Charles T. Millapaugh
Port Jervis
N. Y
William R. Calhoun
Birmingham
Ala
Rene Dova
Calhoun Ise
UN Asked To Grant Korea Protection
United States called for UN protection for the Republic of Korea against threats from North Korea. John Foster Dulles urged solidarity with the new government as he criticized Soviet, Czechoslovakian and Polish recognition of the North Korean regime. The committee discussed inviting North Korean representatives but failed to secure their participation.
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Paris
United States
United Nations
Republic of Korea
North Korea
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Korea
Soviet Union
Thepublic of Korea
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Un-American Activities Committee of the House
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Laurinburg
Dewitt MacKenzie
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