Nationalist China Grapples With War Peace Choices
Nationalist leaders converge in Nanking to decide war or peace as Chiang Kai-shek faces pressure to quit. Rumors swirl of a civilian successor and possible peace talks with the Communists while Chen Cheng is named governor of Formosa and districts near the capital remain unsettled.
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Nanking
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Red
Uniang
Nis
Chen Cheng
Army
Formosa
Executive Yuan
Chiang
Eiping
Tientsin
Tu Li-Ming
Suchow
Tsung-Jen
Hsu Yung-Chang
Ku Chu-Tung
T. V. Soong
Canton
Hu Tsung-Nan
Yen Hsis-Han
Yen
Yangtze
New Congress Seen Reconsidering Closed Shop Ban
Washington predicted that Congress will likely repeal the Taft Hartley act’s closed shop ban. Taft indicated a possible shift toward a closed union concept and a union shop proposal. The Chamber of Commerce argues radical Taft Hartley changes are inevitable.
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Washington
Congress
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Taft
Ohio
Conae
Taft-Hartey
E Chamber of Commerce of the
Einstein Smoking Pipe In Hospital
New York December 29. Prof Albert Einstein is in a hospital in Brooklyn for rest and observation. A spokesman says he is perfectly OK and smoking his pipe while continuing his work. The renowned scientist and atomic energy pioneer was admitted yesterday to the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn.
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New York
Albert Einstein
O.k
Jewish Hospital of
Brooklyn
UN Search Fails To Find Missing Puerto Rico Flight
Miami reports hope fades for 30 aboard a charter DC-3 missing on a San Juan to Miami run. Aerial and naval units scour the 1200 mile route while a navy blimp plans a gliding sweep over the Everglades. Official list shows 25 passengers and 3 crew. two babies also aboard per carrier.
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Miami
Fla
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Air Force
Navy
Coast Guard
Florida Peninsula
Gulf of Mexico
Boca Chica
Key West
Everglades
Airborne Transport, Inc
New York
Bob Linquist
Fort Myers
Fila
Ernie Hill, Jr
Mary Burke
Jersey City
N. J
United States
Dutch to Free Indonesian Leaders and End Hostilities
The Netherlands told the United Nations Security Council it will end hostilities in Indonesia at midnight Friday and release President Soekarno and cabinet members captured at the start of Dutch operations. The release hinges on assurances they won’t endanger public security.
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Paris
Netherlands
United Nations Security Council
Indonesia
Jan Herman van Royen
Soekarno
Council
Council On
Holland
China
Republic
Java
Sumatra
van Royen
Hague
Mother Admits Beating Baby Girl To Death
In Durand Michigan on December 29 1936 prosecutors say Domingo Rios wife admitted beating her three weeks old daughter Dolores to death claiming she hated girls from pregnancy. She told the prosecutor she struck the infant with her fists in a rough box crib on December 23 and Tuesday seeking an autopsy before any warrant.
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Durand
Mich
Domingo Rios
Gerald McClear
McClear
Dolores
Rios
General Hodges Plans Retirement From Army
Army says General Courtney Hodges will retire in January as he turns 62. Hodges has led the First U S Army based at Governors Island since 1946 after service in both world wars. He plans to settle in San Antonio Texas after retirement. He hails from Perry Georgia and last commanded the First Army in France and Germany.
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New York
Courtney Hodges
Hodges
Armed Forces Personnel
U. S. Army
Governors Island
N. Y
San Antonio
Tex
Perry, A
First Army
France
Germany
Bombardier Deshazer to Preach in Tokyo Church
In Tokyo the former Doolittle flyer Rev. Jacob Deshazer will deliver his first sermon this Sunday. He recalls the April 18, 1942 raid and his capture in China after the mission. A Bible given by a sympathetic guard helped him convert, returning love for evil. The Free Methodist Church in Sug ni no ward hosts the new, small church in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Jacob Deshazer
Deshazer
China
Suginami
Free Methodist Missionary Board
Winona Lake
Ind
Stock Market Bounces Back After Decline on Dec 29
The New York market shows slight gains following yesterday's broad drop the largest of the month. Rally signs late in the day suggest a temporary resistance level. Winners include Youngstown Sheet & Tube Studebaker Goodyear Sears Roebuck Douglas Aircraft Schenley Westinghouse Du Pont Dow Chemical Southern Railway General Electric Gulf Oil. Losers include U S Steel Montgomery Ward American Telephone Kennecott Cooper J C Penney Philip Morris Owens Illinois.
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New York
American Broadcasting
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Studebaker
Goodyear
Sears Roebuck
Douglas Aircraft
Schenley
Westinghouse Electric
du Pont
Dow Chemical
Southern Railway
Great Northern Preferred
Standard Oil (Nj
Gulf Oil
U. S. Steel
Montgomery Ward
American Telephone
Kennecott Cooper
J. C. Penney
Philip Morris
Owens Linois
Stalin’s real aims in the war of words and deals
Washington dispatch outlines a profile of Joseph Stalin based on a Foreign Affairs study by the pen name historicus. The piece argues Stalin’s lifelong aim is world communism and that any pact with capitalist states is a tactical, temporary move.
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Russia
Communist Party
Foreign Affairs
Historicus
Time Magazine
Washington
George A. Morgan
U. S
Moscow
Stalin
Scott Outlines Fresh Policy Pledges by New North Carolina Administration
Governor-elect Kerr Scott, speaking from his farm home, pledges a fresh approach, hints some officials should resign, and outlines plans after inauguration. He backs reorganizing the utilities commission, a state wide liquor referendum, higher teacher pay with a $2400 minimum, increased hospital funding, repealing the meals sales tax, aiding the needy, and expanding welfare and medical programs. He also urges a change in the highway commission and cautions legislative control on salaries and boosts.
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Haw River
Kerr Scott
Scott
State Utilities Commission
State House of Representatives
W. Vance Baise
Utilities Commission
Commission
State Board of Education
Medical Care Commission
University of North Carolina
U S Surplus Arms To Aid Allies In Europe
Washington reports the United States plans to ship surplus arms to anti Communist allies in western Europe next year. Officials expect a Truman request to Congress for about 1 billion dollars for European rearmament, covering packing shipping and related costs.
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Washington
United States
Truman
Congress
Thomasville teacher bound over after fatal English Street crash
Miss Lucile Dubose a 51 year old Thomasville pilot school music teacher faced a preliminary hearing after Judge D C MacRae found probable cause in charges of manslaughter and hit and run in the death of Mary Belle Pierce on English Street. Witness Officer J L Kivett testified that broken crockery and Christmas paper on Dubose s car matched debris from the scene and that a headlight replacement occurred the day after the incident. The defense argued lack of culpable negligence, but the judge ruled probable cause for a jury.
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Lucile Dubose
Pilot School
Thomasville
Superior Court
D. C. MacRae
Mary Belle Pierce
English Street
Miss Dubose
Mrs. Pierce
Pierce
Kivett
High Point
T. J. Gold, Sr
MacRae
Nine Japanese Officers Sentenced to Gallows
Nine Japanese officers including three generals were condemned to hang for beheading 33 American airmen. Seventeen victims died after Hirohito's surrender broadcast. sixteen received prison terms from five years to life. Eight were executed on August 10, 1945 and 17 on August 15, four hours after the speech.
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Yokohama
Hirohito
Eighth Army
U. S
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
UN Votes Relieve Negev Front As Egypt and Israel Face Battle
The United Nations orders Israeli and Egyptian forces to retire from the Negev and urges an end to hostilities. The Security Council passed the resolution with abstentions by the United States and Soviet blocs. Reports say the second battle near the region has slowed with quiet fronts and observers restricted.
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Paris
United Nations
Negev
Palestine
Security Council
Israel
Egypt
United States
Russia
Tel Aviv
Uni Nations
Haifa
Gaza
Weather bulletin warns small craft off southern Atlantic coast
Miami December 29 report states the weather bureau ordered small craft warnings for the coastal area from south of Cape Hatteras to Brunswick. Winds are 25 to 30 mph southerly, shifting to northwesterly tomorrow and diminishing, with warnings in effect until noon tomorrow.
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Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Brunswick
Reno Hit by Renewed Earthquakes Rattle City
Power and telephone lines were knocked down and minor highway slides caused by renewed earthquakes that struck Reno and shook the Sierra. The tremors centered in Reno extended into northern California, reaching as far west as San Francisco and as far south as Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley.
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Reno
Sierra
California
San Francisco
Fresno
San Joaquin Valley
Midwest storm disrupts transport and cuts lines across region
A wind snow and rain storm sweeps the midwest slowing transportation and communications. Nebraska and Kansas communities are isolated with telephone lines snapped and Kearney without power after a power line break. Atlantic Refining raises tank wagon gasoline prices by a half cent a gallon with a similar expected rise at Atlantic stations.
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Chicago
Midwest
Nebraska
Kansas
Kearney
Nebr
Philadelphia
Atlantic Refining Company
Atlantic Stations
Half of Argentine tanker El Capitan reaches shipyard
The 125 foot forward section of the El Capitan, which split in two off North Carolina, was towed into the Bethlehem highway shipyard in Maryland after a rough voyage up the coast. Captain B S Lupton reported the section spinning in heavy seas and drawing 17 feet of water as the stern section was being brought into Norfolk.
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Baltimore
el Capitan
North Carolina
Bethlehem Key Highway
B. 8
Lupton
Wotoco
Norfolk
Chesapeake Bay
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F. Joseph
Kelly
Robert Deyton
Chester
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Garrison
Edward Sasser
Andalusia
Ala
LeRoy Frazier
22Nd Constabulary Squadron
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Japan
Bible
James Marlow
Joseph Stalin
Joe
Soviet Russia
U.S
Isamu Yokoyama
Western Army
Kyusaku Fukujima
Shoshin Ito
Kiyoharu Tomomori
Yusei Wako
Hiroji Nakayama
Kentaro Toji
Masahiko Marazaki
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