Taft Faces Long Chance To Lead GOP in Senate
Taft would remain policy committee chairman under a proposed lineup with Millikin as minority floor leader and Vandenberg chairing the Republican conference. Wherry would become whip while Taft vows to fight repeal of the Taft Hartley act. Vandenberg signals continued foreign relations focus as leadership debates proceed.
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Millikin
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Vandenberg
Michigan
Wherry
Nebraska
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Probers To Question Francis Sayre This Week
Former Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Sayre and his secretary, plus several witnesses, will be questioned by the House American Activities Committee next week as it probes leaks to communist spies. Also to be questioned are Anna Belle Newcomb, Sayre’s secretary, and others tied to the Hiss case. The panel released top secret State Department papers and discussed expanding witness questions with the Attorney General’s office.
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Austria
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Netherlands sets up interim government in Indonesia
The Hague reports a new stop-gap government for Indonesia and says police action began against terrorist and undisciplined elements. UN supervision backed negotiations toward a lasting peace after Dutch force actions in Java and Sumatra.
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Hague
Netherlands
Far Eastern
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Tass
Java
Sumatra
U.N
Truck Plunge Into Creek Kills Driver Near State Highway
Marshall Townsend 18 of Springs N C dies when his truck leaves the road and overturns into a creek near State Highway pres aee Si ans F. Son says two youths riding with Townsend were pulled from beneath the wreck by Milton Haywood of McColl The boys Ben Davis 13 and J R Hill 16 of Route 2 Red Springs are returned home after examination
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S.C
Marshall Townsend
Springs
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Milton Haywood
Ben Davis
J. R. Hill
Red Springs
10 Year Old Girl Beaten and Ravished Near Cemetery
The 10 year old Roberta Rinearson, missing after leaving for a movie, was found near a cemetery dix with injuries. She was last seen leaving home at 6 p m and slain around midnight eight miles from Brookfield. Her sister Patricia alerted police at 2 30 am as the family had lived with grandmother Mrs Anna O'Donoghue.
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Chicago
Dex
Roberta Rinearson
Roberta
Brookfield
South
Several Avenue
Patricia
Anna O'Donoghue
Buses Crash and Burn on Utah Highway Killing at Least 12
Two Burlington Trailways buses collided and burned on a Western Utah highway near Delile six miles west of Tooele. At least 12 people died and about 49 to 50 were injured as responders aided victims and identified charred remains amid a chaotic scene. The eastbound driver from Salt Lake City died. the westbound driver survived with non life threatening injuries.
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Utah
Burlington Trailways
Delile
Salt Lake City
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D. W. Eggers
Charles Harris
Tooele
Naval Supply Depot
Clearfield
Pfc
Joe Wilson
Wichita
Kansas
Navy veteran convicted under Mississippi miscegenation law
Ellisville Mississippi December 18 Navy veteran Davis Knight was found guilty of miscegenation under a state law dating to 1890. He faces five years in prison after marrying a white woman. appeal filed. The case centers on the ancestry of Knight’s great grandmother Rachel and whether she was considered Negro. Testimony disputed her racial identity with witnesses arguing both Negro and Cherokee lineage.
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Ellisville
Miss
Paul Swartzinger
Davis Knight
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Rachel
Newt Knight
Mississippi
Quitman Ross
Government Could Freeze Prices Jobs And Wages Under New Security Plan
Washington report details a draft national war emergency act that would grant the President sweeping powers to freeze wages prices and employment during a war or hot wartime emergency. The NSRB plan envisions rigid manpower controls an excess profits tax plant seizure hoarding bans and full rationing authority with OWMR style home front command.
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Congress
National Security Resources Board
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Supreme Home Front Command
Belgium to Build Congo Military Base Next Year
Belgium announces construction of a large military base in the Belgian Congo to serve as a nucleus for a technical operation center if European territory is occupied. The base includes an airfield training facility pilot school and technical school for soldiers, with completion expected in four years.
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U S Ready to Coordinate Forces in Europe if War Breaks Out
Diplomatic officials say the United States would place its forces under Western European command led by Field Marshal Montgomery if conflict with Russia occurred. Talks with France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg target a North Atlantic Regional Security Alliance and a multi billion dollar American military aid program while awaiting congressional approval and time to plan detailed weapons and bases.
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Police Chief Is Under Bond On Murder Charge
Evarts Kentucky police chief Isachar Combs 28 was charged with killing S rvan Middleton 28 a restaurant operator amid a murder indictment tied to a former chief. Combs posted 5000 bond and kept his job as town police head while Patrolman Lewis Deaton 32 lay wounded in hospital after last night gunfight.
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Evarts
Harlan County
W. J. R Howard
Isachar Combs
Srvan Middleton
Combs
Lewis Deaton
Harlan Hospital
Middleton
Freight rate rise eyed to fund 40 hour week for rail workers
Washington experts estimate a 400 million annual freight and passenger rate boost plus a 1.0 billion ICC consideration would fund a seven cent hourly raise for non operating rail workers and a 40 hour week by August 1949. The plan foresees eight months to implement and avoid overtime costs. Talks to start in Chicago around January 4 with unions and carriers.
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Emery
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ICC
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Chicago
Lawor
Thousands of Arabs Face Starvation Warned by Eisenhower
Milton Eisenhower leading a UNESCO delegation warned that thousands of Palestinian Arab refugees face death from exposure and hunger as winter rains hit makeshift camps. He cited 550000 Arabs fleeing Palestine and urged immediate aid. remarks echoed by Kansas State College president and brother of General Eisenhower.
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Palestine
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Eisenhower
United States Commission For the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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Unesco
Beirut
Lebanon
Kansas State College
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New York
Yangtse Is Last Line Of Defense In Nanking Retreat
Chinese government forces retreat from the Hwai river line toward Pengpu and Chuhsien as Communist columns cross the river. Nanking braces as Yangtze becomes the last natural defense. transport links disrupted and residents flee. Train movements south of Pengpu decline, signaling a near complete withdrawal.
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Liu Tze
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Peiping Wall
Seymour Topping
Associated Press
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Topping
Russia Agrees To Austria Peace Effort
London reports that Russia joined Britain France and the United States in agreeing to resume talks on Austria’s future. Negotiations stalled last May over Yugoslavia’s demand for southern Austria and reparations, but Soviet Yugoslav strains have cooled as Austria appeals for a new peace framework led by the four powers.
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Marshall Tito
Samuel Reber
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