Explosions Hit Kansas Power and Light Plant
In Tecumseh near Topeka Kansas Power and Light plant blasts killed eight and injured many. Rescue crews searched debris as electric service was cut across a city of 90 000. The eight to ten story plant suffered major structural damage and workers reported smelling gas before the explosions.
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Kas
Novies
Kansas Power and Light Company
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Torpela
Ap Lacks
Tecumaeh
Here
Piaot
Jo Man
Power Pliant Lowes
Ety Mee Mast
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Communist Try to Cut Nanking Off From Government
Chinese Communist troops were believed attempting to cross the Hwai river 90 miles northwest of Nanking to strike behind the Yangtze defense. The operation aimed to sever Nanking from the new base at Fonga while 8,009 troops held river defenses. Bevan and the British health service are referenced amid unrelated dental coverage notes.
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Hwa
Yangtae
Nanieing
Figao
East China
Fonga
Pengpu
Shangha
London
Britain
Cey
Aneurin Bevan
Health
Sheng Pao
Bevan
Grand Canal
Nualing
Hungtze
Iheoyu
Suchen
Howai
Sheung
Lab
Chia
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Hearing Postponed In Cox Brickey Death Case
The postponed hearing concerns Roy Cox 24 of Ver ais Va and the death near Fort Blackmore of Early Baron Brickey. Funeral plans remain uncertain with word awaited from the Red Cross about two half brothers in Japan. Cox was released on 435,000 bond as the case proceeds. funeral services likely at Fort Blackmore Baptist Church with Rev Valley Thacker officiating.
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Baron Brickey
Fort. Blackmore
Red Cross
James
Gale
Japan
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Abe
McConnall
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Perdleton
Gate City
Cox
Brickey
Fore Blackmore Navy
Ria
Kate Buckey
Parala Rickes
Misa Tempieckey
Dames
Doctors To Fight U S Health Plan
The American Medical Association plans active opposition to a proposed compulsory federal sickness insurance program. At a secret December delegate meeting in St. Louis the AMA discussed a fund of 7,000,000 to educate and mobilize members, assessing each member $25. The AMA Journal criticized Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing for seeking to rationalize medical services and argued the plan would undermine public confidence in medicine.
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American Medical Association
AMA Journal
United States
AMA
House of Delegates
St. Louis
Oscar Ewing
Federal Security Adminisrator
J . We Journal
Sant
Ewing
Ewing Bes
Street scenes as elderly women block downtown store entrance
Two elderly women confront a storefront crowd in downtown as they block entry, remarking on a fearsome sight and startling youngsters. The shop owner notices rising confusion, checks the door, and quietly shuts off a light, preventing customers from entering.
State Races Draw Big Attention In Election Amid Confusion
Voter turnout figures show 42,690,316 ballots cast for president while about 683,482 voters skipped the top race. Truman led with 49.5 percent but failed to secure a majority as state races and local contests attracted strong support, with Dewey and Thurmond winning minority shares. Presidential electors meet to cast votes in state capitals.
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Previtent
Associatec
Senate
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Penneyirania
Ohio
Dlineis
Indiana
Truman
Dewey
Madam Chiang Appeals to President for China Aid
Madam Chiang Kai shek, wife of China’s leader, met with President Truman at Blair House seeking broad American aid for the government of China. She had two talks with Secretary of State Marshall after arriving December 1, outlining Washington’s role in aiding China.
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Mme
Chi‘ang Kai-shek
China
Blair House
Truman
Chiang
China. She Held Two Conferences’ With Secretary of State
Marshall
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Snow Flurries Seen In Kingsport Today
Kingsport reports brief snowfall with light flurries and a quick end to winter activity. Weather forecasts predict no major snow here next day with moderate temperatures and a chance of rain. Elsewhere the nation sees colder conditions with 25 degrees below in Pembina and varying crop impacts. Saturday should bring increasing clouds and rain chances around 24 degrees high.
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Kingsport
Pembina
Wet tobacco lowers burley prices at Rogersville event
Wet burley tobacco prices slipped to about 3002 cents per hundredweight as 3,780 pounds were sold in three hours at Growers Warehouse No 5 for 287 877.21 dollars. Sales are planned Friday at Planters Warehouse No 1.
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Rogersville
Spi
Growers
Friendly Nations Secrets Allegedly Stolen From State Dept
Washington AP reports the probe into alleged theft of allied military secrets. Whittaker Chambers testified that government workers fed him documents for transmission to Soviet agents. Names tied to the case include Alger Hiss and Henry Julian Wadleigh, with papers dating 1937 and 1938 detailing British battleships bomber orders and Chinese air plans. Wadleigh declined to answer certain questions. Chambers provided papers in photograph or copy form.
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Uni- American Activities Committee
Iren
National Bureau of Standards
Bureau Teyty
Whittaker Chambers
Voutier
Chaimhers
Red Underground
WHR
Alger Hiss
Henry Julian Wadleigh
Hiss
Carnegie Peano
Widleigh
Vienna
State Department
Wadleigh
Chambers
Britain
France
Ja Lee
Two Die As Automobile Rambs Into Freight Train
An automobile carrying three persons collided with a freight train in Chattanooga Tennessee early today. The two dead were identified as Miss T Williams 33 of Chattanooga and Louise Lowe 33 of Tampa Florida. A Marine Sergeant Ramsey of Chattanooga was reported in fair condition at the hospital. The car driven by Williams skidded more than 100 feet before striking the train.
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Texas
Emiss T. Williams
de Leon Street
Tampa
Fla
Maring Corps
Louise Lowe
Chattaoogs
Marins
Awn
Ramsey
Chattanooga
Tenspital Praffie
Ollie
Williams
Sales Continue Unusual Slump In Christmas Retail
Washington reports show department store sales declining for the sixth straight week, the longest postwar drop. Officials blame unseasonable weather and ongoing price pressures, with nationwide losses about four percent from 1967 levels and regional declines from two to eight percent.
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Pers
Federal Reserve Board
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FRA
Boston
Sam Frenergeon
Indians Face Stingarees In Kiwanis Orange Bowl Clash
Indians seek their 26th straight win as they meet Miami Senior High’s Stingarees in the Isthmian Kiwanis Charity Orange Bowl. Ticket sales topped 35,460 with a 3 PM kickoff. Miami aims for a seventh 1948 triumph. both teams rely on senior-heavy lineups and tough defenses.
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Wham Beach
DeByzs- Bennett
Football Indians
Geo
Tomight
Miami Senior High
Indians
Stings
Indiana
Miami
Invaders
Harry Wright
Era Rathbun
Deere
Jepen
Jacob Deshazer
Berg
Howie Confinement
Bowers
Bill
Jordan
George Trogham
Mi‘ami
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Eserves
MHS
Gene Allison
Young High
Kingsport
Milk
Allison
Trogdon
Red Wathingtom
Berney Kesrterson
Don Monroe
Jerry Bill
De La Rosa Heads International Printing Pressmen Union
Herbert J. De la Rosa of Sania California has been elected president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union AFL at Pressmen’s Home Tennessee, succeeding the late George L. Berry who led the union 41 years. De la Rosa, 83, a San Francisco pressman and former Local 3¢ secretary, was elected by the board. his vice president role will be filled by Friday. He vowed to pursue Berry’s arbitration emphasis.
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Herbert J. de la Rosa
Sania
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Calif
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union
AFL
Burshey
George L. Berry
Union
Te la Rosa
Uon
W. H. McHugh
McHugh
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San Francisco
Tol
San Francisco Union
International
AFE
de la Rosa
George Barry
Berry
Missionary Deshazer Recalls War Bygone Hatred and Faith
Deshazer leaving San Francisco with his wife and infant son to serve with the Free Methodist Church in Japan. He recounts flying with General Doolittle over Toya and feeling bitter toward the Japanese, then being captured after his plane crashed. In captivity he received a Bible, prompting a transformation as he pursued mission work back home at Segitle College.
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Free Methodist Church
Japan
Doolittle
Toya
Desharet
Deshazer
Segitle College
Degan
Bar Seeks To End Obsolete Courts in Tennessee
Tennessee Bar Association pushes to replace local justice of the peace courts with general sessions courts statewide. Rep. Ambrose Locke of Hamilton County says the justice system is outdated and advocates mandatory deduction of time served from sentences for pretrial detention and acquittal cases to compensate defendants.
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Tenn
Tennessee Bar Association
Obaalebe
Justice of the Peace
Ambrose Locke
Hamilton County
Locke
Kingsport Tonight Sports Update On Indian Miami Game
WHET radio will broadcast early reports on the Indian Miami game tonight. Kingsport News plans eyewitness coverage Saturday and Sunday mornings with pictures, led by Sports Editor Bud Tucker. Photographer Ellis Binkley will cover the bell game.
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WHET
Kingsport News
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Bud ‘Tucker
Times-News
Ellis Binkley
Tr Biiarhi
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