Hitler aims at Christian抯 destruction in Germany
London dispatch reports a secret Berlin file alleging Nazi leadership views the Oxford group as a Christian rival to the state. The document condemns the moral rearmament movement for opposing Nazism and outlines directives to suppress the Oxford group in Germany and occupied territories.
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London
Germany
Munich
Hitler
Europe
Reich Security — Ment
Berlin
British Isles
Oxford Group
Frank Buchman
Fuehrer
Oxford
Reich
Downward Trend Noted in Mid Belt Tobacco Auctions
Mid dle and old best flue cured tobacco markets held auctions with light offerings as prices eased from last week. Old belt markets closed for the season at Petersburg and Brookneal while middle belt markets remain open with five markets operating and four suspending briefly.
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Raleigh
Petersburg
Brookneal
Old Belt
Middle Belt
Patton in Critical Condition After Auto Crash
General George S. Patton was described as critical due to a fractured neck vertebra and partial paralysis following a motor vehicle accident. Army medics summoned nerve specialists as doctors reported the fourth cervical dislocation being set and Patton remaining rational and under observation in Germany.
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Mannheim
Germany
Georges. Patton
Frankfurt
Patton
Army Medical
Indonesians Mobilizing Around Batavia Amid British Strikes
In Batavia area today several thousand armed Indonesians gathered in villages around the capital while British aircraft bombed the mountain village of Tijibadak 50 miles south. Reports spoke of unrest in Batavia suburbs and no clear advance on the city, with rumors of a December 14 uprising. Beaufighters and raiders left Tijibadak in flames after the raid.
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Batavia
Tijibadak
Pandjong Priok
Kramat
Manville Plans Wedding To Wed Fifth Bride By Wednesday
Tommy Manville and his eighth bride Georgina Campbell 26 British born faced new plans to wed in New York after a Greenwich ceremony dissolved in a dispute over a press party. Dr Jeremiah Lynch said the bride objected to costs and expected a New York license in two or three days with hopes of completing marriage by Wednesday.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Tommy Manville
Georgina Campbell
New York State
Greenwich
Conn
Jeremiah Lynch
New York
Manville
Irregulars Withdraw From Mukden
A Chungking dispatch states irregular forces in Mukden withdrew on communist orders as central government troops stood outside the city. Gen. Chu Teh issued the withdrawal to conserve communist strength while Chang Hsueh Shih was said to be moving into the city or negotiating with Chungking.
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Chungking
Mukden
Chang Hsueh-Shih
Chu Teh
Yenan
Chang
Gov
Three Nations Agree To Keep Food Control
The United States Great Britain and Canada will keep their food board to manage scarce food allocations. The production resources and raw materials boards will close December 31 leaving coal textile tin rubber hides and leather committees to continue while shortages persist.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Canada
Combined Food Board
Combined
Production, and Resources Board
Raw Materials Board
Truman
Attlee
MacKenzie King
London
Japanese Used Poison Gas In Isolated Cases
Tokyo reports Brig. Gen. Charles E. Loucks says Japan used poison gas against U.S. troops in isolated incidents in New Guinea and Biak in 1945. A chemical warfare officer notes a vomiting gas candle incident in Biak and gas grenades at American concentrations there.
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Tokyo
Charles E. Loucks
New Guima
MacArthur
Signal Corps
Biak
New Guinea
Loucks
China
Narashino
Truman Returns to White House After Potomac Cruise
President Truman came back to Washington from a weekend aboard the presidential yacht Williams, spending breakfast on the ship before driving to the White House amid drizzling rain.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Williamsurg
Marshall testifies on Thai land move and US Britain war
Gen George C Marshall testified before the Senate Pearl Harbor committee that he believed Japanese moves into Thailand would force the United States and Britain into war. He noted a November 5 1941 memorandum with Admiral Stark urging retaliation if Japan advanced west of 100 degrees east or south of 10 degrees north in Thailand.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Pearl Fbor
Thailand
United States
Britain
Senate House
Pearl Harbor
Ferguson
Michigan
John G. Winant
Stark
Gulf of Siam
Singapore
Marshall
Great Britain
Japan
Yanks Leaving Pacific Area In Rapid Manner
General MacArthur said about 500000 servicemen have returned to the United States from the Pacific since Japan's surrender. Vice Admiral Auffman reported over 100000 navy personnel left the Philippines in three months with 97 percent heading to separation centers for discharge.
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Pacific Area
Tokyo
MacArthur
United States
Pacific
Japan
Manila
Philippines
James L. Auffman
Balkan draft may be major item for Big 3 program
A special State Department survey by Mark Ethridge on Romania and Bulgaria under Soviet influence, due for release as Byrnes heads to Moscow, suggests democracy is lacking but no insurmountable barriers exist to a Balkan settlement. The findings could shape the Moscow talks and potential U N planning.
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Etheridge
Washington
Byrnes
Romania
Bulgaria
Moscow
Mark Ethridge
Louisville
Blisher
Ethridge
Russia
Balkans
Gath
Nazis Urged Japs To Get Into Battle
Nuernberg December 10 German military leaders pressed Japan to enter the war in spring 1941 but doubted a Pearl Harbor strike. A secret 1941 directive by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel urged a Japanese attack to force England from the Far East, disclosed at the war crimes trial.
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Nuernberg
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
Singapore
Eng
Rescue Planes Continue Hunt For 27 Fliers
Air rescue squadrons scoured the sea for the fifth day seeking the 27 missing navy airmen from five torpedo bombers lost over the Atlantic. At dawn 193 planes from Jacksonville and 24 long range bombers from Pensacola joined Navy and Army crews in the search as hope persisted for survivors.
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Miami
Fla
Jacksonville
Pensacola
Atlantic
Navy
Labor Lashes Out Against Training
Washington December 10 labor leaders attacked universal military training legislation during hearings. Lewis G Hines legislative representative of the American Federation of Labor urged the House Military Committee to specify whom the United States would be prepared to fight. Continued on Page Two.
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Washington
United States
Lewis G. Hines
American Federation of Labor
House Military Committee
Entire South To Be Visited By Cold Wave
The Associated Press reports a cold wave from a winter storm on the northern plains moving eastward across the eastern United States. Sub freezing temperatures are forecast as far south as the Florida line with clearing skies expected to drop the mercury. The forecast says the cold front is moving at about 15 miles per hour into northern Georgia and western Carolina regions.
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Associated Press
United States
Weather Man
Florida Line
Weather Bureau
Atlanta
Georgia
Carolinas
Florida
Mercury
Ureau
Lewis Attacks GM UMW CIO and Lawmakers in Strike Speech
John L. Lewis blasted General Motors United Mine Workers and CIO United Automobile Workers over the automobile strike. He attacked President Truman's fact finding bill calling it evil and said Congress must avoid legislation that halts liberty. He urged a 10 day government intervention if price relief were allowed and criticized labor leaders as blundering. He argued GM profits and tax laws contribute to the dispute and denounced proposed government action. He spoke before the House labor committee and echoed calls for a 30 day strike ban while a board operates.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
General Motorspany
Cio-United Autile
United Mine Workers
House Labor
UAW
Omen
General Motors
Congress
J. Truman
Eee
Lewis
UAW Leaders to Discuss Labor Secretary Talks
Associated Press reports UAW top officials planned conversations with Secretary of Labor Schwel to discuss labor matters, signaling high level engagement between the automaker union and the federal labor department.
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Associated Press
CIO
United Auto Workers
Secretary of Labor
Schwel
Twenty Carolinians Die Violently Over Weekend
A weekend toll of twenty lives in North and South Carolina includes eighteen in traffic crashes. Fatalities include Nell Dixon and four others in Orange County near Mebane, plus three found in a parked car near Lenoir from possible carbon monoxide exposure, two men in Charleston area, and a Matthews driver Oliver Caan who crashed into a tree.
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Associated Press
Mebane
Orange County
N. C
Nell Dixon
Jack Finley
Polly Sue Warren
Jean George
Claudette George
Miss Dixon
Dan Dixon
Lenoir
Felix Parker
James Scott
Eva B. Chester
Martha Martin
Charleston
Roy E. Smith
Charles H. Perrette
Summerville
John P. DeVeaux
Charlotte
Crewneers 39
Matthews
Caan
Greenville
S. C
Edward Thackston
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