High Court Denies Appeal Over Tojo Death Verdict
The supreme court refused to block the 11 nation tribunal that condemned former Premier Tojo and six other Japanese warlords to death. By a 6 1 vote the justices said they had no authority over the tribunal and rejected requests to hear appeals, rule the tribunal illegal, or grant immediate release.
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Washington
Supreme Court
International Military Tribunal
Tojo
International Tribunal
MacArthur
Justice Murphy
Justice Rutledge
Justice Jackson
United States
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Vingon
Koji Hirota
Kenji Doihara
Koichi Kido
Tagasumi Oka
Kenryo Sato
Shigetaro Shaimada
Shigenori Togo
Tokyo Tribunal
Heitaro Kimura
Akira Muto
Yoshijiro Umezu
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Anti-Red Village Stolpe residents flee to West Berlin
Berlin report: Stolpe, a small anti Communist village, is evacuated by residents to western sectors after French handover to the Russians. French officials call it a strategic retreat amid postwar Berlin tensions and Soviet reprisals, with Tegel airfield influence cited.
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West Berlin
Berlin
Stolpe
Tegel
Spy Probers Seek Witnesses to Finish Espionage Report
House committee head Mundt meets with Assistant Attorney General Campbell to decide whether to call witnesses who testified before a New York grand jury. The panel aims to finish its report before January 3 and may question eight listed individuals connected to communist espionage cases and the Hiss matter.
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Washington
House
Justice Department
Mundt
R-Sd
American Activities Committee
Alex Campbell
New York
Congress
New York Grand Jury
Campbell
U. S
George Fay
Farm Bureau backs overhead crossing at Highway 41 50
About 500 Kenosha county farm families unanimously adopt a resolution calling for an overhead crossing at the intersection of Highways 41 and 50. The Bristol meeting also backs continued highway department work and roadside weed control, per Federation president J Lorin Bishop.
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Kenosha
County Farm Bureau Federation
Unanimous
Farm Bureau Federation
Bristol
J. Lorin Bishop
Federation
Harold H. Herzog
Bureau Federation
Highway Department
Bishop
C Aubrey Smith, 85, Noted Actor, Dies in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Calif. C Aubrey Smith famed British screen star dies at 85 after a lingering heart ailment. He acted nearly to the end, last finishing a role in Little Women at his home where friends say he had kept illness private.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
C. Aubrey Smith
Sir Aubrey
Composer William Arms Fisher Dies at 87 in Brookline
William Arms Fisher, 87, music editor and composer famed for his arrangement of the spiritual Goin Home from Dvorak's New World Symphony, died Saturday in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was born in San Francisco.
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Brookline
Mass
William Arms Fisher
Dvorak
New World Symphony
San Francisco
Doctor Makes Money on This Self Service
An intruder broke into Dr. Nelson A. Young’s Los Angeles office at night and removed a cast from an arm, rebandaged it, and left a $20 bill. The doctor said nothing else was taken and he is five dollars ahead because his fee for the service is fifteen dollars.
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Los Angeles
Nelson A. Young
Young
Four Wausau Prisoners Escape Jail Breakout
Four men escaped Marathon county jail last night and were free today. Undersheriff Carl Mueller said two of the escapees were slated for state prison at Waupun after sentencing on Saturday and two others were awaiting arraignment on car theft charges. Identified were Gilbert Klatt 29 Louis Johnson 25 Clarence Wegner 21 all of Wausau and Robert Peck 28 of Rochester Minnesota.
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Wausau
Wis
Marathon County
Liberty
Carl Mueller
Waupun
Mueller
Gilbert Klatt
Louis Johnson
Clarence Wegner
Robert Peck
Rochester
William's Still Wondering It Chimney's Big Enough
William Daubenspeck an 11 year old in Chicago climbed onto a third floor dormer to measure his chimney. He slipped on a snow crusted roof and fell into the gutter prompting a police and fire response. He survived and remains curious about Santa's entry.
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Chicago
Santa Claus
William Daubenspeck
Santa
William
Daubenspeck
Fire Department
Chinese Form New Cabinet Amid Heavy Fighting Near Tientsin
Heavy fighting around Tientsin isolates Peiping as Red forces sever rail and telegraph lines. Premier Sun Fo forms a no surrender cabinet while possible compromise with the Communists looms. Separate reports say Red units threaten Pengpu and Suhsien fronts and eye Yangtze areas as Nationalists withdraw to Chuhsien.
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Nanking
Tientsin
Peiping
Spencer Moosa
Associated Press
Pengpu
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chen Yi
Pengpu-Suhsien
Liu Po-Chen
Yangtze
Red
Hsienmumiao
Tienchang
Hsiennumiao
Fire destroys second story dental lab in Sunday blaze
An early morning fire Sunday gutted the second floor dental laboratory of Drs Anthony and Louis De Furio at 2203 52nd Street. Estimated losses total 71 000 with 21 000 to building and contents and 10 000 for equipment and 10 000 for building. Firefighters fought the blaze over two hours and the cause was believed to be defective wiring. No damage to the adjoining apartment or Haertlein Drug Store beyond smoke, and a 16 year old resident Leonard Saladis alerted the occupants.
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Drs. Anthony and
Louis de Furio
52Nd St
Leonard Saladis
Saladis
Haertlein Drug Store
New York City Endures Third Heaviest Snowstorm on Record
A 19.6 inch storm ended in New York City after a 20 hour event starting yesterday morning. City workers cleared streets while trains and flights faced disruptions and six deaths were attributed to exertion. The storm affected the Northeast from Boston to Washington and followed a collision of two Atlantic systems.
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New York
William O’dwyer
Norfolk, Va
Atlantic Seaboard
Boston
Washington, D. C
New York City
Weather Bureau
Long Island
New Jersey
LaGuardia Field
Truck Car Collision Fatal to Kendall Farmer
Baraboo Wisconsin report says 62 year old Kendall farmer John Garrity died from injuries after a truck car collision on icy pavement near Baraboo Saturday night. Garrity's widow and three others were injured but not seriously.
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Baraboo
Wis
U.P
John Garrity
Kendall Farmer
Garrity
Dutch Report Steady Gains In Indonesia
Dutch forces push through the Indonesian republic with American trained marines reaching the oil refinery city of Tjepu near Soerabaja. The UN charged the Dutch with violating the truce as censorship limited news to official communiques.
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Batavia
U.P
Tjepu
Soerabaja
Indonesia
Jogjakarta
United Nations Committee of Good Offices
UN Security Council
Paris
Council
U.S.S. Renville
Tuban
Death toll rises in bus crash west of Salt Lake City
The Burlington Trailways head on collision 55 miles west of Salt Lake City claimed 14 lives. Sailor Donald Stoltz, 20, of Greeley Colorado died in Salt Lake Veterans Hospital from severe burns. two buses were engulfed in flames.
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Salt Lake City
Burlington Trailways
Here
Donald Stoltz
Greeley
Colo
Salt Lake Veterans Hospital
Marzani Conviction Affirmed by U S Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today affirmed the conviction of Carl A. Marzani for concealing Communist ties during government service. Marzani, a former State Department official, was free on $2,500 bail and previously sentenced in 1947 to one to three years in prison.
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Washington
U.S
Supreme Court Today
Carl A. Marzani
U. S
Marzani
State Department
1948 Traffic Toll Make Your Yuletide a Live One
Traffic safety campaign urges careful driving during the holiday season. Authorities ask motorists to observe speed limits and plan ahead to prevent accidents.
Icy roads slow traffic after weekend snow in Wisconsin
Crews worked through the weekend to remove ice and snow from highways and streets across southern Wisconsin. A 22 man crew battled pack snow and new ice on arterials, hills, and curves as conditions remained hazardous on side roads. statewide crews reported main roads safer, while the snow belt stretched from LaCrosse to Green Bay and south toward Illinois.
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Wisconsin
Harold Herzog
Kenoshans
Frank L. Grasser
William Hoenig
State Highway Commission
LaCrosse
Green Bay
Illinois
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Wilfred Hoff
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31St Ave
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Racine
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6Th Ave
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18Th Ave
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30Th Ave
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