Jordan details failed radar removal and Soviet shipments
Former Air Force Major George Racey Jordan testified at a news conference that radar equipment was ripped from four planes bound for Russia during World War II, with a fifth plane reaching the Soviet Union. He claimed an investigation into Soviet access to uranium materials and named several officials, while noting he could not reveal certain names on orders from the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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New York
Air Force
George Racey Jordan
Russia
Soviet Union
Jordan
Great Walls
Mont Air Base
Great Falls
Gitwinger
Wrightfield
Dayton
Ohio
Sitzinger
Saat
Arnold
H. H. Arnold
Army Force
Washington
Mej
A. I. Velyser
Ordan
Rus
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Mr. X
Mr. Y
Requess
My. K
Hopkins
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Christmas Tragedy Hits Four Year Old on Train
Four year old Patty Owen was rushed from the City of San Francisco streamliner to Hinds Research hospital in Chicago with fibrocystic disease. Doctors fear she is dying as oxygen is supplied and her condition worsens. Parents Mr and Mrs Robert Owens, who moved to California for her health, brought her back to Chicago for Christmas hoping for a cure.
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Chicago
Patty
Owen
Hinds Research Hospital
City of San Francisco
Robert Owens
California
Owens
A. J. Bodiner
Associated Press
Bodiner
Jesn Eidson
Detroit
Kathleen
New York
Knowland attacks U S China policy on slow tactics
Honolulu AP dispatch reports Senator Knowland criticizing the State department on its China policy after arriving from the Orient. He said a specialist was sent to China to confer as nationalist forces seek aid, and warned against dividing non Communist groups in China amid grave errors by both sides.
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Honolulu
Der
Knowland
China
Munich
State Department
Fara
Protestants to Aid Negroes in Rights Court Battle
Leaders of more than two million U S Protestant church members voted to support Negroes in the Sweatt v. Texas case challenging segregated education. The Federal Council of Churches will plead before the Supreme Court, with Southern Presbyterians the only major dissent, asserting that separation is unequal and illegal.
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Atlanta
Dec
U.S
South
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
U.S. Supreme Court
Hermen Marion Sweatt
Expect Coal Terms To Be Signed Soon
Pittsburg dispatch reports John L. Lewis' top aide in western Pennsylvania said the United Mine Workers expect to sign about 25 soft coal operators in the district to contracts within ten days. John P. Busarello, district 5 president, said no negotiations had been arranged and that operators have agreed to the terms though he did not name them. Lewis ordered all to arrange settlements with individual companies.
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Pittsburg
Jonn L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
John P. Busarello
District 5
Busareito
Lewis
Labor Walkouts Halt Oak Ridge Construction
Oak Ridge Tennessee December 6 AP more than 700 construction workers idled or out by nightfall as walkouts spread among projects. AEC assistant Gordon Molesworth estimated 710 idle including 250 AFL steamfitters, truck drivers and engineers at the $66 million gaseous diffusion plant and 356 at the Oak Ridge National Fertilator projects plus 126 on housing construction.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Atomic Energy Commission
Gordon Molesworth
AEC
Osk Ridge
Molesworth
AFL
Oak Ridge National Fiberateur
Hiss Trial: Wife Mrs Chambers Supports Husband Story
In New York, Mrs. Whittaker Chambers testified for the government in Alger Hiss's second perjury trial, backing her husband's account that he was a courier for a pre war Soviet spy ring. She recalled long acquaintances with the Hisses and Priscilla Hiss, and affirmed her own leftist affiliations.
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Mrs. Chambers
Husband
Hiss
New York
Alger Hiss
Whittaker
Chamber
Henry W. Goddard
Priscilla
State Department
Chambers
Communist Party
The
New Masses
Amtorg
Railroad Head Enters Coal Dispute Talks in New York
Robert R. Young head of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad met with two top operators and went to another meeting with United Mine Worker officials amid the soft coal dispute. Spokesmen said Young aims to bring disputants to sit down and talk, with no clear plan yet. Lewis, UMW leader, may join later as negotiations continue in Washington and New York.
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New York
Robert R. Young
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Young
A. C. and
Lexington Avenue
United Mine Worker
George Love
Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Company
Pittsburgh
Joseph P. Routh
Pittston Company of New York
Lewis
John L. Lewis
UMW
Itoad
Jspokesman
C and O
Inter
United States
Washington
Joseph E. “Moody
The
Southern
Coa’ Producers “Association
Moody
J-D. Francis
Island Creek Coal Company
Love
Francis
Rumor Blamed for Sudden Coffee Price Jump
Washington December 6 AP unfounded rumors of drought in Brazil partly blamed for sharp coffee prices. A government crop expert and Senate Agriculture subcommittee investigators said price spikes stem more from rumor than Brazil’s actual output, though Brazil expected a bigger export crop next year than this year.
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Washington
Brazil
Iday
U. S
Senate l Agriculure
Senate
Ed Duensing to Talk To Fair Convention
Ninety one fairs will be represented at the fifth annual convention of the Missouri Association of Fair and Agricultural Exhibitions tomorrow and Thursday. Ed A. Duensing will speak on What Grand Circuit Racing Means to Missouri. On Thursday Robert T. Thornburg commissioner of agriculture will discuss State Aid to Fairs and Henry Baker of the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce will speak on Setting Up Fruit and Vegetable Exhibits. Adolph Kies of Jackson is president and Rol Singleton of Jefferson City is secretary treasurer. Doctor Honored Washington Dec. 8 Dr Andy Hall of Mount Vernon Illinois today named outstanding general practitioner of the year by the American Medical Association. Dr Hall, who will be 85 next Jan. 8, is father of three sons who are doctors.
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Missouri Association of Fair and Agricultural
Ed A. Duensing
Missouri
Robert T. Thornburg
Henry Baker
St. Joseph
Washington
Andy Hall
Mount_Vernon
Ilc
American Medical Association
Hall
False Alarm at 105 Jackson Street Fire Call
Fire department responded to a false alarm at 105 Jackson Street last night. Firemen found no fire and attributed the alarm to 41 mistaken rings of the department's number.
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Jackson Street
Truman and challengers weigh in for weight contest
Key West Florida dispatch reports President Truman weighs 177 pounds, official White House release confirms. Competitors Vaughan and Graham reportedly weighed about six pounds more or less at a November Charlottesville visit, with a pledged stake of a dollar per pound short of a 26 pound goal.
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Key West
Truman
White House
Charles G. Rassin
Charlottesville
Ward Group to Quit Mukden Today
Angus Ward reported that he and his American consulate staff will leave Mukden at 1:45 p m today by train to Tientsin. About 23 consulate members and their families are departing under Communist orders to quit the city by 8 p m CST tonight. The group has been under restriction for over a year and will travel on the Lakeland Victory ship from Tientsin.
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Washington
Angus Ward
Tod
Mukden
Jefferson City
Ward
North China
Tientsin
U. S
Lakeland Victory
Toledo case looms as mother in law attack cited
Barry Marinski faces sentencing after conviction for knocking his mother in law unconscious during a family argument. He claimed self defense, noting his weight and the judge presiding. Mrs Hazel Tipping weighed 390 pounds. Vishinsky sails for home from UN, expected adjournment soon. Union Pacific depot thief mystery as safe combination used to open the box fails to unlock after he fled.
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Toledo
Ohio
Barry Marinski
Common Pleas Court
Marinski
John M. McCabe
Hazel Tipping
Bridal Veil
Ore
Union Pacific
Fortinet Official Dies in Dallas at 71
Frank R. English 71 tax assessor of Ransay City Missouri died in Dallas yesterday. He moved to Dallas two years ago and lived with his daughter Mrs Harold L. Miller. He is also survived by a son Lester G. English of Chicago Illinois.
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Dallas
Tex
Frank R. English
Ransay City
Harold L. Miller
English
Lester G. English
Chica
Klan Official Predicts Unity Under One National Leader
In Tallahassee William Hendrix, national adjutant of the Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, announced a working agreement with the Alabama Klans, forecasting eventual unity under a single national program. The Southern Knights, an offshoot, operate in Florida, south Georgia and south Alabama, with North and South Carolina Klans remaining independent. Two youths injured in a car crash near Eldon as Billy Don Reed and Nancy Petty hospitalized with injuries.
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Klan
Tallahassee
Fla
Ku Klux
Tdes
Florida
South Georgia
South Alabama
Alabama Klans
Klans
North Carolina
South Carolina
Uary
St. Mary’s Hospital
Eldon
Firex
Billy Don Reed
West Main
Nancy Petty
East Bic- Carty
Reed
Miss Potty
Highwer Patrol
City Council Declares Yule Decorations Inadequate
The city council passed a resolution deploring Capital City street decorations this year and sent a copy to the Chamber of Commerce. A prior vote had granted $200 to assist decorating, while members noted constituent complaints about inadequacy and some displays obscuring traffic lights.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Alias Santa Club Seeks Toys Amid Low Support
The Alias Santa Claus club reports a blank collection year with no toys received despite 200 children named for help. Elks, Girl Scouts, and Boy Scouts pledge aid. drivers will haul gifts to fire stations, while Miss Oberman warns of a bleak Christmas without donations.
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Santa Claus Club
Peter Oherman
Suiss Oberman
Bevterly Benson
Secetary
Afiss Oberman
Els EB
R Thetti
Alias Santa Organization
Elks Club
Seth the Spy
Girl Scouts
Girl Scout Glee Club
PSC Grants Hike In Freight Rates
The Missouri Public Service Commission approved a 4 percent rise in railroad freight rates on Missouri shipping today, lifting total postwar increases to about 53 percent and boosting shipper costs by an estimated $855,000 annually. The move aligns with an Interstate Commerce Commission increase last August on interstate shipments. PSC rate expert Roy Reed hopes this is the last hike, predicting no further upward changes for a long time.
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Missouri Public Service
Commission
Missouri
PSC
Interstate Commerce Cormission
Roy Reed
Westphalia hunter among first to bag deer in Missouri 1949
Missouri's 1949 deer season opened with Charles F. Willebrant of Westphalia among early successes, killing an eight point, 200 pound buck near Folk in Osage county. Ed Martin and Mrs. Robert Gray also reported bucks in Taney county while camping activity offered no major accidents. Weather was overcast and dry, with conservation agents patrolling for fires as the nine day archery season ended in Taney county and bow advocates went without a kill.
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Charles F. Willebrant
Westsphalia
Missouri
Willebrant
Folk
Osage County
Colorado
Taney County
Ed Martin
Blue Springs
Robert Gray
Conservation Commission
Pay Check Row Highlights City Hall Feuds and Rezoning
The Democratic city council approved paying ex policeman Elmer Schepers for November over the mayor’s veto, while Mayor Lutkewitte refused to sign. Acting mayor Norman indicated he would sign the warrant when able. Residents pressed Tanner Brides and Hough Park for public services in a 1120-name petition. The council rezoned Miller Street for a 60 unit apartment and Broadway/Aitchison for an eight unit building, with planning commission backing. Other actions included street paving plans, sewer district study, fire captain appointment, and bids for police cars and building notices. The council also set December pay for officials and approved various ordinances and parking measures.
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Elmer Schepers
Lawrence Lutkewitte
Lutkewitte
Schepers
Sthepers
Tate
Latkewitte
Norman
Paul Allen
Charles Norman
Tanner Brides
Hough Park Roads
Council
Miller Street
Broadway
Washington Streets
Aitchison Street
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Wayne Avenue
Dustin Avery
Dick Fowler
Memorial Park
Robert Livingstor
Leslie Supgett
Jona Sullivan
Mem
High Street
Second Ward
Governor Hotel
Ashley Street
Mulberry Street
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Tohane
Paota
Uptown
Yale
Madison
Monroe Streets
Hizb Street
Corncil
Henry Edsin
Mighty “Mother
Vishinsky
Andre ¥. Vishinsky
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United Nations Assembly
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