Snowstorm Cripples Metropolis Hundreds Trapped
New York and surrounding areas endure 19.5 inches of snow the third heaviest in history. Subways and elevated lines run near normal while buses and railroads face delays. Several deaths blamed on exhaustion as airports close and schools shut citywide.
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New York
Long Island Railroad
Atlantic
New York State
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New England
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
West Virginia
la Guardia Field
New York International Airport
Newark
N.J
Weather Bureau
Spy investigators seek chance to quiz eight witnesses
The House Un American Activities Committee requests the Justice Department allow questioning of eight witnesses before year end to add testimony to its espionage inquiry. Indictments from a New York grand jury target 12 communist party leaders and Alger Hiss. Names listed include Donald Hiss, Mrs. Alger Hiss, Elizabeth Bentley, Whittaker Chambers, Henry Julian Wadleigh, Hedda Gompers, William Ward Pigman, Franklin Victor Reno, and others.
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Washington
Congressional
Justice Department
House UnAmerican Activiities Committee
Congress
New York
Communist Party
U. S
Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Mundt
R-Sd
Donald Hiss
Alger
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Chambers
Henry Julian Wadleigh
William Ward Pigman
Franklin Victor Reno
Hedda Gompers
Pigman
National Bureau of Standards
Heavy Fighting Around Tientsin Deepens Chinese Civil War
Heavy fighting reported on the flatlands around Tientsin as Sun Fo forms a no surrender cabinet and contemplates possible talks with the communists. Red forces cut rail and telegraph lines between Tientsin and Tangku, isolating Peiping and Tientsin, with the airport under artillery fire and nationalist troops attempting to retake Peiping's air port. Surprising guerrilla action reported in Kang-chouwan, Canton.
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Tom Lambert
Nanking
Tientsin
Teeming
North China
Sun Fo
Red
Eatsin
Tan¢gku
Hai River
Peiping
Tangku
Pieping
Spencer Moosa
Associated Press
Thirteen Die In Utah Bus Collision
Thirteen people were killed and 43 injured when two Burlington Trailways buses collided on a foggy Utah highway 63 miles west of Salt Lake City. Four military personnel died and authorities withheld two names pending next of kin notifications. The list of identified dead includes Daniel W. Eggers Salt Lake City Arvidson Norwegian national Meeery Ann Cook Gold Hill Inez Magionos Elko Catherine Hendrix Akron Albert Marschka Toledo and Joelene Bowcutt Midvale.
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Tooele
Utah
Burlington Trailways
Salt Lake City
Daniel W. Eggers
Salt Lake
Arvidson
Meeery Ann Cook
Gold Hill
Inez Magionos
Elko
Catherine Hendrix
Akron
Albert Marschka
Toledo
Joelene Bowcutt
Midvale
Debt cleared by youngster in Christmas loan tale
Eleven year old John Ralph Barbour secured a $7 loan at the Commercial and Industrial bank in Fayetteville with a note and weekly 50 cent repayments. He paid the loan on his Christmas club savings after selling papers to earn the money.
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Fayetteville
John Ralph Barbour
Truman May Seek Special War Powers If Crisis Arises
President Truman may send a special message to Congress asking standby powers to mobilize the nation in a war emergency. Officials say a national war emergency act with broad controls over industry labor and trade could be ready for final NSSB approval by mid January. The plan would allow a quick price and wage freeze, halt job shifts, levy taxes, invoke priorities, ration scarce goods, and seize key industries if needed.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
National Security Resources Board
NLRB
Meager Clues Unearthed In Slaying
Chicago police sift clues in the rape slaying of 10 year old Roberta Rinearson. A battered old automobile with tire tracks and a man's handkerchief are the only leads. Hunters reported a suspicious car with two men near a county line road around 3 am Saturday.
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Chicago
Roberta Rinearson
Cook County
4 Creek
Automobile Keys Interchangeable Spark Theft Incident
Burlington residents Richard Jones and LeRoy Miller faced police after reporting car thefts. Jones had mistakenly driven Miller’s black coupe, and investigators found the keys interchangeable between the two identical makes and models.
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Burlington
Richard Jones
LeRoy H. Miller
Jones
Miller
Secret plan for Japan denied by allied officials
Tokyo reports quote an allied spokesman who calls rumors of a secret plan to expand Japan militarily unfounded. He says plans focus on economic stabilization and occupation needs, while only essential military installations exist in Japan.
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Tokyo
Japan
Far East
Washington
Russia
Australia
Southeast Asia
Tokosuka
Intelligence Agencies Seek Unified Control
Washington dispatch reports a drive since last spring to coordinate home front intelligence efforts and place the 20 plus agencies under unified control. Secretary Forrestal leads the coordination while Attorney General Clark plans to seek tighter anti spy laws with a new Congress.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
White House
House Un-American Activities Committee
Truman
Defense Forrestal
FBI
Secret Service
State Department
Clark
Congress
Lover Boy Escapes Berlin Stockade in Love Triangle
Edward J. Lada, a 28 year old Newark veteran, fled the U S army stockade after arriving to see his two German sweethearts Ursula Schmidt and Ruth Riecki mother of his child. MPs traced the note from Ursula and found Lada missing Saturday night and his two loves indicated decisive separation.
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Thomas A. Reedy
Berlin
Edward J. Lada
U. S
Lada
Army Stockade
Newark
N. J
Ursula Schmidt
Marki Ruth Riecki
Ruth
Ursula
Freezing Weather Predicted For the Carolinas Tonight
A hard freeze covered the Carolinas with heavy frost. Mt. Mitchell recorded 12 degrees. Other minimums included Charlotte 26, Raleigh 28, Greensboro 27, Asheville 30, Wilmington 33, Myrtle Beach 32, Columbia 32, Spartanburg 29, Charleston 35. Tomorrow should bring slight warmth and partial cloudiness.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Mt. Mitchell
North Carolina
Mississippi
Mercury
Hickory
Greensboro
Asheville
Rocky Mount
Winston- Salem
Charlotte
Wilmington
Cherry Point
Elizabeth City
Raleigh
South Carolina
Myrtle Beach
Florence
Columbia
Spartanburg
Greenville
Anderson
Charleston
Three Persons Believed Out Of Danger After Boat SOS
Three men aboard the 75 foot motorboat SS Hunt Brothers were reported out of danger by Coast Guard at Norfolk Virginia. The craft lay in shallow water near Onancock inside the first beacon on Chesapeake Bay with a bow hole threatening to sink it. Named aboard were Milton Wilson Guy West and Nelson Read. A Coast Guard rescue ship and the Cutter Violet were en route as the vessel threatened to beach three miles south of Tangier Island.
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Norfolk
Coastguard
Hunt Brothers
Onancock
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Hunt
Milton Wilson
Hampton
Guy West
Nelson Read
Newport News
Violet
Tangier Island
Priests Convicted in Plot Against Czechoslovakia
In Prague three leaders of the Greek Catholic church were sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting against the republic. Rev Sebastian Sabol, provincial of the Greek Catholic monastery, was among those convicted. An AP report corrected an earlier misidentification of defendants as Greek Orthodox.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Republic
Sebastian Sabol
Associated Press
Rome
Philadelphia Woman Soothes Suspicions On Police Policy
A Philadelphia housewife said a letter from Defense Secretary James Forrestal eased her fears about a secret police force. Forrestal stated there is no intention to abolish the FBI and urged a single federal authority to coordinate over 20 agencies, though uncertainty remains about future coordination.
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Philadelphia
James F. Forrestal
Clarence F. Hartman
Forrestal
Ginnings Rise In 1948 Cotton Crop Figures
The census bureau reports 13,395,401 running bales of 1948 cotton ginned prior to December 13, up from 1,628,211 at the same date last year and 7,784,904 two years ago. This year includes 3,032 American-Egyptian bales and five Sea Island bales, vs 959 and 20 last year.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Dutch force advances in bloodless Indonesia across Java
Batavia reports Dutch troops roll through Indonesia with little resistance. Airborne forces seized Jogja in early fighting while U N Security Council met in emergency session amid the outbreak. Dutch casualties total six killed and eight wounded. leaders including Soekarno and Hatta captured.
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Batavia
Java
Indonesia
Jogjaa
Paris
United Nations Security Council
U. S
Philip C. Jessup
Australia
Dessup
United States
Sumatra
Netherland
Soekarno
Mohamed Hatta
Agus Salim
Sutan Sjahrir
Soederiman
Wake Forest Library Plan Announced
Wake Forest college in Winston-Salem plans a 2 million dollar Georgian library to hold up to 800000 volumes for a 5000 student body. Architect Jens Frederick Larson designed an outdoor terrace reading rooms exhibition hall treasure room and interlibrary exchange.
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Winston-Salem
Wake Forest College
Jens Frederick Larson
Duke University
Smith
Charles Lee Smith
Raleigh
Baptist
College
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