Dutch Extend Java Offensive Seize Key Ports And Cities
Dutch forces in central Java seize Toeban and Bojolali as they move toward Jogjakarta and Pati on the coast, while Soekarno and top leaders are held by the Netherlands. The UN awaits word on 18 workers in republican territory as the Security Council debates the crisis. The Dutch parliament backs Premier Drees against a Communist push to halt operations.
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Soekarno
Mohammed Hatta
Indonesian Republic
Jogjakarta
Dutch East Indies
Batavia
Java
Toeban
Bodjonegoro
Pati
Bojolali
Soerakarta
Republic
Soederiman
Sumatra
Indonesia
Netherlands — Indies
Repubc
United Nations
U. N
Willem Drees
Drees
Security Council
Paris
Tax Boost May Trigger Inflationary Revolt Warns Chamber Economist
Washington reports that a new tax boost could spark an inflationary revolt as taxes are deemed too high. Emerson P. Schmidt, director of economics research for the chamber, warned Congress that new taxes and higher state local levies after 1949 may provoke public backlash. The Commerce Department noted profits are high but offset by record overall economic activity.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Emerson P. Schmidt
Senates
Congress
Flanders
R-Vi
Commerce Department
Winter Weather Brings Cold Across Carolinas
Winter arrives with freezing temperatures in many Carolinas towns following a brief warm spell. North and South Carolina forecasts call for partly cloudy and warmer conditions ahead. Morning low readings include Mt. Mitchell 15, Asheville 21, Wilmington 31, Myrtle Beach 30, Florence 32, Raleigh 33, Charleston 31, Columbia 30.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
North Carolina
South Carolina
Mt. Mitchell
Raleigh
High Point
Charlotte
Cape Hatteras
Lumberton
Winston-Salem
Hickory
Asheville
Elizabeth City
Rocky Mount
Cherry Point
New Bern
Wilmington
Florence
Greenville
Anderson
Myrtle Beach
Spartanburg
Charleston
Columbia
Dr Frank P Graham Awarded Atomic Security Clearance
The Atomic Energy Commission granted University of North Carolina President Dr Frank P Graham access to restricted data. The decision notes his role as Oak Ridge Institute president and his past associations with groups of suspected Communist derivation but finds no improper intent. The Oak Ridge Institute is a non profit group linking southern universities to atomic energy education at Oak Ridge.
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Washington
University of North Carolina
Frank P. Graham
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Graham
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Study
Oak Ridge Institute
Oak Ridge
U S Begins Action For Tidelands
Washington December 21 Attorney General Clark filed actions in the supreme court to claim federal jurisdiction over tidelands off Texas and Louisiana coasts The suits seek a federal right over lands and minerals beneath Gulf waters while excluding bays rivers lagoons and inland waters from federal control The move mirrors the California tide lands case decided earlier and aims to regulate underwater oil production
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Washington
Clark
Supreme Court
Texas
Louisiana
United States
Gulf of Mexico
California
Justice Department
Detour Route Arranged For Christmas Pilgrims
In Jerusalem a United Nations communique said Jews and Arabs agreed to open opposing lines between old and New Jerusalem for 24 hours to allow Christians to travel to Bethlehem. The planned route crosses an Arab Legion road via Bethany over ten miles.
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Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Christ
United Nations
Old
New Jerusalem
New City
Old City
Arab Legion
Bethany
U.N
Cabbage Donated to Schools in Nine States
North Carolina officials announced 125 carloads of NC cabbage purchased by the U S Department of Agriculture were donated in November to school lunchrooms and welfare institutions across nine states including North Carolina Georgia Kentucky Tennessee Virginia West Virginia Missouri Illinois and Iowa to bolster sagging prices.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Georgia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Missouri
Illinois
Iowa
War Nearing Close In North China
Nationalist China reports no functioning cabinet and no major offensive north of the Yangtze as civil war drags on. Tientsin is isolated, rail towns fall, and Chiang Kai-shek’s government struggles to form a cabinet while Communist forces advance toward Peiping and Tientsin.
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Yangtze River
Tientsin
North China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sun Fu
Chiang
Sun
Cheng Fu
Kuomintang
Nationalist Party
Chen
Legislative Yuan
Nanking
Yangtze
Peiping
Manchuria
Two Die In Philadelphia Westminster Hotel Blaze
A fire at the Westminster hotel on Chestnut Street West of 20th Street in Philadelphia killed two guests and injured three others. Ninety five people evacuated as flames swept the four story brick buildings on the Chestnut street block. A man and woman escaped by climbing a fire ledge to an adjacent window.
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Philadelphia
Westminster Hotel
Chestnut Street
20Th Street
Midtown
Schuylkill River
Taft Poised to Lead GOP in Senate Policy Role
Senator Taft of Ohio appears an almost sure bet to head the Republican policy committee in the new Senate. He would clash with President Truman on key issues like price controls and labor laws, while liberals seek a larger voice in shaping the party line.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Truman
Ives
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Northeast
Pacific Coast
Interior
Congress
Pence
White House
Market Finds a Stable Price Footing Today
New York stock market shows overall stability with minor fractional gains and slow trading. Du Pont slid after a prior 8 percent rise on stock split rumors while U S Steel Bethlehem Steel GM U S Rubber Montgomery Ward Douglas Western Union International Nickel Allied Chemical Owens Illinois Southern Railway Illinois Central Standard Oil NJ and Loews edged higher.
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New York
du Pont
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
U. S. Rubber
Montgomery Ward
Douglas Aircraft
Eire Declares Independence After Centuries of Rule
Dublin reports Eire becomes free and independent as President Sean T. O Kelly signs repeal of the external relations act ending the last constitutional link to the British crown. Independence day to be proclaimed in spring. Britain’s rule traced from 1169 to 1916 uprising and subsequent guerrilla war.
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Dublin
Eire
John A. Costello
Ireland
Brit
Volunteers
Sinn Fein
Britain
Spy Probe Chairman Admits Condon Got Unfair Deal
James Marlow reports that despite FBI and commerce department backing, the un American activities committee failed to hold hearings on Dr. Edward A. Condon. A committee member now says Condon received an unfair deal after a 1947 loyalty inquiry.
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Condon
James Marlow
Washington
Edward A. Condon
House
American Activities Committee
FBI
Commerce Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Stalin Meets 69th Birthday In Vigorous Health
Moscow dispatch notes Stalin is healthy and active on his 69th birthday. Post travels from a southern vacation and returns to the Kremlin as he continues to lead the Communist Party, Politburo and the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The Soviet press makes no birthday comment.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Kremlin
Russia
Communist Party
Central Committee
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Council of Ministers
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
Soviet Union
Former State Department official dies after 16 story fall
Laurence Duggan, 43, a longtime Latin American affairs expert and former state department official, died after plunging from a Manhattan office window as espionage probes prepared to question him. Police said the death is undetermined pending further inquiry. Duggan had been named by a witness in secret testimony as one of six state department staff alleged to pass confidential information to Red spies. He was president of the Institute of International Education, an organization linked to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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New York
State Department
Department
Laurence Duggan
Manhattan
Duggan
Rep. Mundt
R-S.d
House Committee On
unAmerican
Washington
Francis B. Sayre
Institute of International Education
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Carnegie
Allies Set Up Government For Berliners
The United States Britain and France announced a three power government for Berlin without Soviet participation. The Western allies will exercise powers in the western sectors while the four power structure remains in suspense due to the Soviet withdrawal. Berlin’s temporary constitution requires allied consent for city legislation and affairs and the revived commandatura met at the American sector headquarters with British and American leaders present.
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United States
Britain
France
Jean Ganeval
Komandatura
Kommandatura
E. O. Herbert
W. T. Babcock
Alexander Kotikov
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