Methodists Attack Halsey Over Drinking Remarks
The Methodist Board of Temperance issued a broadside against Admiral William F. Halsey for saying that he never trusts a fighting man who does not smoke or drink. They criticized his reported whisky provisions for pilots, called it an astonishing breach of Navy discipline, and urged accountability for endangering sailors under his command.
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Washington
Methodist Board of Temperance
William F
Bull) Halsey
Halsey
Pacific
Third Fleet
Saturday Evening Post
San Francisco
Guard
Clipsheet
Robert E. Lee
Jed Stuart
Stonewall Jackson
Alvin York
Jimmy Doolittle
Comdr
J. Bryan DC
Tve Aruna Pany
Methodist Board
Admiral Halsey
Eisenhower Sought as GOP Darkhorse in Northwest
In Spokane and across the Pacific Northwest, Taft’s weak support for the 1948 Republican nomination opens the field to a dark horse. Eisenhower attracts more uncommitted Republicans here than any other candidate, with Vanderberg also discussed. Delegations from Washington and Oregon could swing if a clear bid emerged at the Philadelphia convention.
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Spokane
Wasa
Taft
Robic
Pacific Northwest
Eise
Philadelphia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Arthur Vandenberg
R-Mich
Eisenhower
Vanderberg
Washington
Oregon
Bomb blast hits Haifa police HQ kills nine
A tar barrel bomb exploded beside Haifa police headquarters killing nine and wounding about 50 including British constables, Arab policemen, a 26 year old Arab girl, and a coffee vendor. The attack, claimed by Irgun Zvai Leumi, followed deportations of Jewish refugees and transshipments to Hamburg and Cyprus. An improvised ramp pushed the barrel over the fence and into the building causing the blast.
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Jerusalem
Haifa
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Hamburg
Cyprus
Palestine
Irgun
Cholera Epidemic Threatens Egypt
A spreading cholera threat gripped the Mediterranean region as travel to and from Egypt was largely halted. About 140 suspected cases have been reported with eleven deaths yesterday. Britain and the United States supplied vaccines and medical aid while Iraq Iran Palestine Syria and Lebanon bars travel from Egypt unless vaccination certificates are shown. Travelers face five days quarantine on arrival.
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Cairo
Mediterranean
Egypt
Iraq
Iran
Palestine
Syria
Lebanon
Aiso
Europe
Asia
Objection In UN To Partitioning Plan Expected
Jamal Husseini, deputy chairman of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, slated to appear before the UN Special Committee on Palestine to protest partitioning plans. The 55 year old nephew of Haj Amin El Husseini rejects any plan dividing Palestine and warns of possible measures to block UN action. An Arab spokesman notes support for British withdrawal but declines to comment on its consequences.
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Lake
Jamal Husseini
Arab Higher Committee For
Palestine
United Nations Special Committee On
Holy Land
Haj Amin el Husseini
Mufti
Jerusalem
UN Committee
Husseini
United Nations
Great Britain
Fire Devastates Grace Line Piers In New York Blaze
A forest fire-like blaze tore through timber supports at Grace Line piers on the Worth Riverfront, injuring 29 firefighters and causing more than 5 million dollars in damage. Crews used 60 units and six fireboats. the Santa Rita, due to sail to South America, was moved midstream as fires threatened Pier 58. The Santa Rosa departed Pier 57 Saturday. Investigators to question workers from the weekend as the fire may burn for days.
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Pier 58
South America
Martin Scott
Frank J. Quayle
Pier
Reds Get Coal Freezes Przemysl Near Frontier
Poland faces a coal shortage as Przemysl residents report no heat despite trains delivering about 28 coal carloads daily to Russia. Coal costs soar to 60 dollars a ton with limited government allocations. Russia plans to take 7 million tons this year under a commercial deal while grain moves eastward to alleviate shortages. Przemysl, a key transport hub, also evacuates thousands of Ukrainians to East Prussia under security police control.
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Preemysl
Poland
Russia
Przemysl
Silesia
East Prussia
Germany
Two Lost As Heavy Seas Sink Navy Tug Off Coast
Severe northeast gale and heavy seas sink ships from Florida to Georgia. The SS Bayano reports a man overboard near Cuba, while Navy Tug 274 capsizes off Georgia with one crewman lost. Coast Guard efforts assist vessels near New Smyrna and Savannah as storm wrecks shorelines and damages coastal properties. Coastal communities report widespread damage and emergency shore protection."
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Keys
North Carolina
Bayano
Cuba
274
Georgia
Savannah
Coast Guard
Aurora
Julius H. Barnes
New Smyrna
Fila
Charleston
Navy
ATA
Esso
D. C
Glen Cove Springs
Congress Near Session Over Europe Aid Crisis
Senator Lucas says Truman indicated no emergency aid to Europe without a special session, as House and Senate Appropriations Committees would be recalled. White House officials signaled a forthcoming statement on the conference. Marshall stressed a crisis requiring quicker action amid reports of fighting in China and Manchuria.
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Washington
Scott Lucas
D-1
Truman
Europe
Congress
Lucas
White House
iLucas
Halleck
House
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate
Vandenbere
Charles G. Ross
Illinois
Chieee
I Shek
Chefoo
Marshall
Three Killed As Destroyer Hits Mine Near Trieste
The Navy said the mine exploded under the U S Destroyer Douglas H Fox off Trieste at 6 20 am EST today killing three. The blast wrecked steering gear flooded after cabins and left the ship dead in the water. A sister destroyer and tugs moved to aid as two doctors and five hospital corpsmen were aboard. The mine may have been old and from an uncleared area since the war. The Fox, a Sumner class destroyer built in 1944, displaced 9200 tons with a 315 man wartime crew.
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Washington
Navy
U. S
Douglas H. Fox
Trieste
Navy Department
James C. Owens
Fox
Adriatic
Venice
Italy
Fler
Mediterranean
Norfolk
Charles W. Travis
Annapolis
Street Scenes At Football Game From Census Courier
A fragmented description recalls crowds at a football game with a young man seen smoking and chewing tobacco, a well known man telling a friend he would not take his wife to Atlanta due to expense, and a young office worker leaving work in a brown corduroy jacket that may have been mispicked from a coat hook.
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Ahsut Fown
Atlanta
Jis
War Prisoner Weds British Sweetheart in Noted Case
Werner Vetter, a German prisoner, married Olive Reynolds in Hampton England while their five month old child was reported. The case led to a change in British law allowing German prisoners to wed English girls. Vetter, 22, had met Olive on a farm and received a 12 month sentence for consorting with a British girl, later released.
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Hampton, Lovett
England
Werner Vetter
Olive Reynolds
Daughing A
Vetter
Fetter
France asks U S to withdraw demands in UN Greece crisis
France urges the United States to back away from demands that the UN Assembly find three Soviet Balkan satellites guilty of aggression against Greece. Yvonne Delbos appeals to the Soviet Union and satellites to seek a peaceful settlement while Greece cites Albania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia for acts of aggression. The French proposal seeks to tone down guilt findings and supports a special UN commission plan.
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Lake
France
United States
United Nations Assembly
Greece
Russia
Balkan
Yvonne Delbos
Soviet Union
Delbos
Assembly
Di-Nation
Constantine Tsaldaris
Albania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Herschel V. Johnson
Andrei A.l Gromyso
Special Assembly
U S Demands Removal Of Red Story On Truman
The United States demanded Soviet disavowal of a Boris Gorbatov article that compared President Truman to Adolf Hitler. Moscow rejected the protest, with Foreign Minister Molotov accusing the American press of bias. Lieutenant General Walter B. Smith filed the protest, emphasizing American citizen outrage over the insult.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Truman
Adolf Hitler
Moscow
State Department
Molotov
Soviet Union
Walter B. Smith
Boris Gorbatov
Smith
United 'States
Jewish Leader Says Ready For Jewish State
David Ben-Gurion, head of the Jewish agency, declared Jews are willing and able to implement settlement of the Holy Land by establishing a sovereign Jewish state. He said Arabs could cooperate, but no independence without a Jewish state as UN debates partition.
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Jerusalem
David Ben-Gurion
Jewish Agency
Palestine Jewry
Britain
Holy Land
United Nations
Ben-Gurion
Palestine
United Nations Special Committee On
New York
Jamaicus
U N Correspondents May Face New Reporting Curbs
Washington and the State and Justice Departments weigh sharp limits on foreign reporters admitted to cover U N sessions for Communist publications. Officials say a proposed policy would impose the same pledges required of Pierre Courtade of L Humanite and others from Soviet orbit nations. Courtade arrived in New York last week and pledged to stay within U N meeting areas and avoid subversive activity.
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Washington
State and Justice Departments
United Nations Assembly
Pierre Courtade
Paris
L'Humanite
Courtade
New York
United States
Atlantic
New York City
Long Island
United Nations
U.N
U. N
Yugoslavia
Poland
Cold Weather Wave Forecasts Cold Snap Across Midwest
A high pressure cold wave moves east from North Dakota bringing subfreezing lows in Jamestown 28 Bismarck 29 Fargo 2 and forecast freezing across North and South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin by tonight or tomorrow. Chicago may dip to 38 with a Lake Michigan storm warning from 6 am to 6 pm EST and winds up to 38 mph.
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North Dakota
Jamestown
Bismarck
Fargo
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Chicago
Chicago Weather Bureau
Lake Michigan
Italian Police Break Up March in Rome After Rally
Italian police arrested 50 people who started a march through central Rome singing Fascist songs following an electoral rally of the Nationalist movement witnesses reported arms were raised in the Fascist salute. The movement's organ Liora D Italia called rivals traitors and poisonous propaganda.
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Rome
Liora D'Italia
Oratore
Haifa Police Headquarters Bomb Explodes Wounding Dozens
Between 200 and 300 policemen were inside the seven story Haifa police HQ when a barrel of explosives rolled through a wire enclosure and detonated on the ground floor. At least 29 officers were injured. three British and four Arab officers were among the dead. The blast damaged walls, shattered windows, and wrecked interiors as residents and shopkeepers rushed to assess losses.
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Haifa
Alara
eHlestine
Aed
Dan
Ingsway
Edmond
Mt. Carmel
Kingsway
Palestine Police
Tigun Zvai Leumi
David Moiri
Beigin
U S Prosecutors Seek Hangman Rope for Nazi Leaders
Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz opened the case against 23 Einsatzgruppen leaders, alleging the units killed about 1,000,000 Jews, Russians, and Gypsies. He argued the deaths were planned and documented in Gestapo and unit records, with daily murders averaging 1,350.
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Nuernberg
Einsatz Gruppen
Group
Benjamin B. Ferener
New York City
Gestapo
Wasi
Ference
Michael A. Musmanne
Ferencz
Heinrich Himmler
Reinhardt Berydrich
Wehrmacht
Otto Ohlendorf
International Military Tribunal
Ohlen
Berlin
Einsatz
Gannett Calls Russia Greatest World Peace Menace
publisher of the Gannett newspapers reiterates that Russia is the greatest menace to world peace in reply to Soviet charges of warmongering. He says exposing the Soviet plan and telling the truth proves he is not a warmonger and defends President Truman and others.
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Rochester
N. x
Prente
Russia
Gannett
X * x Vishinsky
Truman
Maershall Sar Johm
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