U S Halts Aid To Dutch East Indies
Washington reports the United States halted all Marshall Plan aid to the Netherlands East Indies until hostilities with the Indonesian republic cease. The suspension includes East Indies relief though Dutch homeland funding remains untouched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Dutch East Indies
Washington
United States
Netherlands East Indies
Republic of Indonesia
Paul G. Hoffman
ECA
Netherlands
D. Soemitro
Lovett
Eelco van Kelffens
East Indies
Indonesia
China
Southeast Asia
Senate Power Scramble Before Business Resumes
In the new senate Republicans and Democrats feud over key posts including the President Pro Tempore and GOP floor leader. Rumors pulse around McKellar and Tydings for pro tem, Wherry and Taft for leadership, with liberal GOP challengers eyed. Old civil rights tensions flare as McKellar and Tydings weigh future roles.
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Washington
Senate
Tydings
Maryland
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Congress
Senator Wherry
Nebraska
Wherry
Senator White
Maine
White
Vandenberg
Michigan
Taft
Ohio
GOP
Baldwin
Conecticut
Lodge
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Knowland
California
Millikin
Colorado
Wher
McKellar-Tydings
Administration
McKellar
Truman
AMG Expenses In Germany To Be Drastically Reduced
The plan calls for a 60 percent cut in AMG payrolls in 1949, with a 30 percent reduction in spring and another 30 percent later. The target affects AMG personnel funded by army appropriations as Gen. Lucius D. Clay aims for a German federal state by mid-1949. The current AMG staff numbers about 4,000 Americans, fewer than British and French counterparts in the zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Daniel DE Luce
Berlin
Washington
Army Department
Col
J. T. Duke
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
AMG
Duke
Clay
Growth of Big Corporations Disturbing Says Flanders
Senator Flanders voices concern over the rapid, indefinite rise of large corporations. A senate-house economic subcommittee drafts a blueprint for future economic policy as profits, tax revenues, and wage-price issues intertwine with calls for a national conference of business, labor and farm leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flanders
Washington
Congress
Senate-House
R-Vi
Senate
National Conference of Business, Labor and Farm Representatives
Chapel Hill And Durham Get New Road
Governor Cher allocates 1 500 000 in surplus highway funds for four projects. Durham Chapel Hill road relocation and paving gets 500 000, Cave Creek to Tennessee line 450 000, Manns Harbor to Stump Point 300 000, Red Hill to Green Mountain 250 000. Commission plans a high type dual lane highway between Durham and Chapel Hill.
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Raleigh
Cher
Stateway Commission
Durham
Chapel Hill
Range
Cave Creek
Tennessee Line
Haywood County
Manns Harbor
Stump Point
Dave County
Red Hill
Green Mountain
Yancey
Mitchell Counties
Commission
A. H. Graham
Trumans To Spend Christmas In Missouri
President Truman flies to Independence Missouri to spend the holiday with Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham Mrs. Graham and the Graham children. The Independence plane left at 10 07 a m EST with expected windy cross country travel to Kansas City then drive to Independence.
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Washington
Truman
Independence
Wallace H. Graham
Graham
Kansas City
Quentin Roosevelt Believed Dead In Hong Kong Crash
On Basalt Island near Hong Kong a Chinese air transport crash killed 35. Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson, is believed among four bodies still in the ashes. Fourteen bodies have been recovered. police will transport them to Hong Kong. The C-54 reportedly flew 200 mph and struck the summit area as it was too low on the Shanghai beam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Quentin Roosevelt
Basalt Island
Theodore Roosevelt
Rocky Island
Shanghai
Chiang Kai-Shek backs cabinet for honorable peace
Chiang Kai-Shek approved a cabinet chosen by Premier Sun Fo as Communist forces advance toward the Yangtze. Observers say Chiang remains in control while the Nationalist government vows to fight on for an honorable peace, with Peiping and Tientsin under siege.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Yangtze
Chiang
Sun Fo
Sun
Peiping
Tientsin
Nickel Plate Big News On Stock Market Today
New York December 22 The stock market edged lower with many issues steady or up slightly. Nickel Plate Railroad shares rose over a point as investors welcomed a 7.50 dividend on the arrears of the 6 percent cumulative preferred stock. For the first month of the year the road earned 39.17 per preferred share versus 20.11 in 1947. Other major movers included Chrysler Consolidated Natural Gas American Smelting Westinghouse Electric American Tobacco Gulf Oil and American Airlines while US Steel Dow Chemical Du Pont and Union Pacific lagged.
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New York
VU. S. Steel
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
General Motors
Goodrich
Montgomery Ward
Schenley
Western Union
Kennecott Copper
Dow Chemical
du Pont
Southern Railway
Union Pacific
Texas Co
Sinclair Oil
Chrysler
Consolidated Natural Gas
American Smelting
Westinghouse Electric
American Tobacco
Great Northern Prefered
Gulf Oil
Standard Oil (Nj
American Airlines
McGrath Sees Repeal of Taft-Hartley by New Congress
Democratic Chairman J Howard McGrath predicted a single package bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley act restore the Wagner act and revise it with Truman era suggestions. He stressed outright repeal and simultaneous handling of Wagner Act changes, amid calls from the party platform and presidential campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
J. Howard McGrath
Congress
President Truman
McGrath
Mr. Truman
Rhode Island
Truman
80Th Con
Foul Play Considered in Duggan Death Case
The death of Laurence Duggan, a former State Department expert, prompts questions whether it was suicide an accident or foul play. Rep. Mundt cited possible espionage links while Sumner Welles urged a full police probe insisting Duggan did not take his own life. O'Dwyer indicated agreement to investigate.
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Gress
Truman
Labor Department
Congress
New York
Laurence Duggan
State Department
Manhattan
Karl Mundt
R-Sd
House Un-American Activities Committee
Sumner Welles
William
O'Dwyer
Welles
Duggan
Mundt
Whittaker Chambers
Stalin Guides Two Front Red Offensive Across Asia
Moscow coordinates upheaval in Asia with Dimitrov signaling extended revolutions in Indonesia and Vietnam. The Cominform branch in Bangkok directs the campaign while Moscow sets overall policies and the generalissimo is credited with flawless judgment.
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China
Viet-Nam
Burma
Moscow
Bangkok
Siam
thesCominform
Comintern
Stalin
Last of 3 Axis Chiefs Executed
Tokyo reports seven Japanese war leaders were hanged at Sugamo prison including former premier Hideki Tojo the last to die. The executions followed a U S Supreme Court decision denying appeals and proceeded quickly ending with a Buddhist priest and two U S chaplains present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank L. White
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Tojo
Sugamo
U. S. Supreme Court
Kenji Doihara
Koki Hirota
International Tribunal
U. S
Adolph Hitler
Germany
Benito Mussolini
UN accuses Netherlands of bad faith in Indonesian crisis
UN investigators accuse the Netherlands of violating the Indonesian truce by resuming police action while in contact with Republicans and outline links between Tan Malakka and communists. Australia and the United States push for an immediate cease fire, troop withdrawal, and release of Indonesian leaders.
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Paris
United Nations
Netherlands
Security Council
Java
Sumatra
U. N. Good Offices Commission
Batavia
U. N
Renville
Republic
Australia
United States
Jan Herman van Beem
Council
Musso
Tan Malakka
van Royen
Indonesia
Malaya
China
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Dimitrov
Communist Party
Sofia
Asia
Russia
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