Russians Curtail U N Session Split Over Peace
In a tense close to the United Nations assembly, Ukraine backed by the West approved a major peace agenda while Andrei Vishinsky and Malik sparred over Anglo American opposition. The body adopted the 1950 budget of 49 million plus an 8 million Jerusalem allocation and chose Adrian Pelt as Libyan commissioner.
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Paris
Malik
General Assembly
United States
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
United Nations
Andrei Y ¥. Vishinsky
U. N
Israel
Hashemite
Jordan
Jerusalem
Jewish Jerusalem
Adrian Pelt
Netherlands
Pelt
Jose Arce
Security Council
Arce
Romulo
Christmas Quiet With Jimmy And His Dog
Santa visits Jimmy as he trims a tree in quiet scenes. Jimmy, weakened by illness, smiles at his gift, a black and white dog named Fluffy. The photographer, about to leave, records Jimmy’s wish to ride a bike once he recovers.
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Jimmy
Pochon
Fluffy
Nationalists face cold march as communists close in
Reports from Hong Kong place communist forces within six miles of Chengtu while Nationalists retreat toward Hainan. Chiang Kai-shek leaves Chengtu for Formosa with his son Chiang Ching-kuo aboard a Skymaster. Taipei chosen as new capital. Formosa may hold for months without U.S. aid.
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Chengtu
Hong Kong
South China
Pai Chung-Hsi
Luichow
Hainan Island
South
Uai
Hainan
Chiang
Formosa
Chiang Ching-Kuo
Sichang
Taipei
U. S
Cold Wave Strikes Nation With Record Subzero Readings
A severe cold wave blankets the northeast with subzero readings from Ware Massachusetts to Albany New York and spreads south and east. Blizzard warnings are issued across the plains and upper Midwest as winds howl up to 40 mph and visibility drops. The coast guard assists distressed vessels and a 1860 harpoon gun invention note appears amid the weather chaos.
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Ware
Mass
Massena
N. Y
Concord
N. H
Utica
Portland
Albany
Montana
Weather Bureau
Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Oklahoma
Dakotas
Illinois
Indiana
California
Hollywood
Coast Guard
Bernardino County
Australians Vote as Labor Off Their Governing Grip
Australia votes in a federal election with compulsory voting. Labor loses after 43 of 74 House seats and 33 of 36 Senate seats, while Liberal and Country parties form the likely government. Evatt narrowly defeats Mrs Wake in Barton as cities rebuke labor rule and price controls. In Philadelphia, 85 percent of homes are single family dwellings.
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Labor
Queensland
Menzies
Melbourne
Joseph B. Chifley
Liberal Party
Arthur W. Fadden
Country Party
Chifley
Australian Labor Party
Senate
House of Representatives
E Ted
House
Herbert B. Evatt
United Nations General Assembly
Paris
Barton
Sydney
Nancy Wake
Evatt
Wake
Sydney Sun
New South Wales
Philadelphia
Capitol Square Meeting Shifts From Banquet To Governors Mansion Reception
An executive committee plans a reception at the governor's mansion replacing the usual banquet for its spring session. Attendees will save dinner costs as the governor's entertainment fund covers punch and knick knacks. The gathering precedes a later session at Sir Walter Hotel.
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Executive Committee
Governor's Mansion
Sir Walter Hotel
Nobel prizes awarded in Stockholm for science and medicine
The Nobel ceremony in Stockholm awarded three science prizes worth 30 000 dollars each. Ivar Waller praised Yukawa for predicting mesons in 1937 and Arne Tiselius honored Dr Giaus and the cold experiments near absolute zero. Hess and Moniz shared the medicine prize for pre frontal lobotomy. A glass fiber strand 15 times finer than hair may surpass steel.
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General Assembly
Stockholm
Ivar Waller
Uppsala University
Yukawa
Columbia University
New York
Arne Tiselius
Giaugue
Giasue
Hess
Antonio Agas Moniz
Portugal
Moniz
Alfred Nobel
Queen Mary Liner Features 12 Decks and Promenade
The Queen Mary, a giant British liner, spans 12 decks and includes a promenade deck 750 feet long, wide enough for two railroad tracks.
Australia’s youth attorney becomes youngest king’s counsel
He started law practice in Melbourne at 34 and rose to become Australia’s youngest king’s counsel, a coveted British empire rank for senior barristers. He entered politics in 1926 and has since engaged in major battles between free enterprise and labor forces.
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Melbourne
Australia
King’s Counsel
Youth Returns to Paris After German War Separation
Rene Girardin an 11 year old boy who had been abducted by Germans in 1944 was returned to his parents in Paris today. A Red Cross nurse brought him to France in 1945 after which he lived in an orphanage until he ran away and reached Paris where a policeman detained him and a children's court led to locating his parents.
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Claridge
State General Fund
Paris
Rene Girardin
France
Red Cross
Rene
Loneliest radio station on Willis Island
The world's loneliest radio station is described as Willis Island station 400 miles east of Australia where two operators maintain and transmit weather records.
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Willis Island
Australia
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