Yule Shoppers End Splurge Amid Sales Downturn
Washington report notes department store sales fall for fifth straight week trailing last year as price resistance and living costs bite. Analysts cite unseasonable weather and ongoing inflationary pressures with hopes for a prewar last minute shopping rebound. The Fed data show nationwide declines from two to eight percent, while inflationary trends attempt to fade with ongoing anti inflation plans.
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Federal Reserve Board
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Menon
Chiang Extends Martial Law Across Nationalist China
President Chiang Kai-shek extended martial law to all Nationalist held China except western provinces and Formosa. Shanghai Nanking Peiping are under military rule as civil war escalates. Red forces threaten communications behind the Hwai river and may trap government armies north of the Yangtze.
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Chiang Kai-shek
China
Formosa
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Yangtze
East China
Pengpu
Prominent Red dies in Moscow long time Soviet spy official
Red Star reports the death of Lt. Gen. I Y Babich wartime head of counter intelligence on the northwestern front. The army paper notes Babich held a senior post in the state security ministry at the time of his passing.
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Red Star Today
I.Y. Babich
Babich
Weather Update Cloudiness Increases Tonight
Increasing cloudiness but not very cold tonight. Saturday will be cloudy with a rising temperature and snow beginning late afternoon or at night. Low tonight 6. High Saturday 22.
Raid By B 36 Raises Question Was Pearl Harbor Caught Again
Honolulu reports a B 36 conducted an unannounced round trip from Fort Worth to Pearl Harbor and Hawaii and dropped a useful bomb at sea off Oahu. Col T W Blackburn said radar tracked two planes in two hours as Maj John D Bartlett said the aircraft went to Pearl Harbor and northwest of Oahu before returning. The raid spurred doubts about peacetime air defenses though officials note slips can occur with a single aircraft. The B 36 carried a bomb load and a crew of 15.
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Airlift Forces Expanded as Berlin Impact Speeds Growth
The Berlin airlift accelerates U. S. Air Force expansion to a 60 group force with nine troop carrier units. An order redeploys three overseas units including the 317th troop carrier wing from Tachikawa, Japan to Germany. About 1,050 additional airmen join the wing before it reaches Europe.
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Chambers Resigns as Time Editor Amid Spy Probe
Whittaker Chambers former Communist courier and key figure in the espionage inquiry has resigned as a senior editor of Time magazine. Attorneys said the resignation was accepted and tied to new disclosures about Communist espionage, as Mrs. Priscilla Hiss testified in the case.
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Whittaker Chambers
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Leathernecks to Shanghai to guard Americans
Admiral Oscar C. Badger announced U S Marines would be brought to Shanghai to protect American lives during China's civil war. He said Marines would not be kept in Shanghai beyond any emergency and would depart when the danger subsides.
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Oscar C. Badger
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Western Pacific
Badger
Power Plant Explosions Kill Nine in Topeka Area
Nine men died and 16 were injured when blasts ripped through Kansas Power and Light’s main plant near Topeka. Rescue teams searched debris as the plant, located near Tecumseh, shut down electricity citywide. Fire and smoke broke out while most workers were evacuated. authorities investigated cause amid extensive damage and outages.
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Kansas Power and Light Company
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Final Figures On Election Vote Totals
The AP tabulation shows 49,363,798 ballots cast on November 2 with 48,680,416 for president. Truman led with 24,104,836 votes and 304 electoral votes. Dewey had 21,969,500 and Thurmond 1,169,312. Voter turnout lagged the total votes cast in 1944 due to larger eligible voters and state race dynamics.
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Associated Press
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Truman
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Dewey
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Frigid air grips upper Midwest with record lows
The region from Alaska to the Ohio valley plunged to subzero temperatures with many sites reporting four below at the airport and two below in the city. International Falls hit 30 below while eastern Wisconsin saw near freezing to above zero readings. Meteorologist A D Sanial expects a warmer night with a low around six above and a high near 22 on Saturday as snow potential increases.
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Wisecrack’s Return Ends With A Broken Leg
John Leland slipped from a ladder while finishing work to attend the Grange hall. The electrician fractured his leg in the fall as the flapjacks were not ready at 6:30. Local report notes the incident occurred in Sonia Michigan.
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Madison doctor denounces national health plan as un American
Dr C O Wingom of Madison denounces a Washington health insurance proposal as un American at a district meeting attended by 140 Sicilians. He argues freedom of choice in medical care is a right of mentally competent citizens and that the program would undermine essential American values and insurance principles.
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Wis
Washington
C. O. Vingom
Wingom
Father fatally attacks wife and two children in Estill
A middle aged man in Estill South Carolina told police he beat his wife and two of their children to death with a baseball bat on Wednesday night. He described waiting for his family to return home before the killings.
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S. C
Het
New Talks Start on W Europe U S Pact
Washington reports a new round of negotiations to form a North Atlantic defense pact under the United Nations. Undersecretary Lovett will meet with British French Belgian Dutch Luxembourg and Canadian ambassadors to pursue a Western Europe United States security agreement with a 50 year commitment sought by Europeans and a strong pledge to mutual defense in case of attack. The talks aim to wrap up in two to three weeks.
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Navy Officers To Visit Key Middle East Areas
Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford will lead a 16 day tour of Italy Turkey Arabia Egypt Greece and North Africa as part of a hand picked navy mission during the cold war.
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Ex-GI Honored For Conducting Own European Recovery Plan
Birch Bayh a Purdue sophomore and former GI was honored by the National Junior Vegetable Growers association at its 14th convention in Detroit. He organized a seed program in Hungen Germany for about 90 children, aiding 45 families, and received a $50 award from A and P. Bayh had previously won $200 for Indiana garden work.
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Bayh
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New Goshen
Ind
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Rman
Hungen
Frankfort
A & P Food Stores
Indiana
A Freedom
N. Y
James
Joan Morgan
Margaret Muesing
Evelyn Reecer
Janet Sheeffer
Kendallville
Spy hunt uncovers Argentine British war secrets
Uncovered government papers reveal vital military secrets involving British battleships nose bombers and strategic war materials from Argentina. The House Un American Activities Committee presses on as it exposes alleged Red spy activity amid a dramatic hearing.
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House
UN American Activities Committee
Speccan Activities Committee
Congressional spy probe uncovers pumpkin papers tale
Nathan A. Levine, a Brooklyn lawyer and Mrs. Whittaker Chambers’ nephew, told congressional investigators that the so called pumpkin papers lay hidden for a decade in a Brooklyn house dumb waiter shaft.
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Congressional
Brooklyn
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Whittaker Chambers
Spy probe targets suspect in Appleton hearing today
The committee ordered suspect number three to appear at 1 p m CST in Appleton Wisconsin. Chief Investigator Robert Stripling said a reply from William Ward Pigman had been received but he would not confirm whether Pigman would testify. The man is described as a former National Bureau of Standards employee linked to secret weapons testing. The committee traced the name to Whittaker Chambers who testified about government documents for Russian agents and named Alger Hiss and Henry Julian Wadleigh as suppliers.
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House
UN America Committee
Seashington
Tonthe
Plain Talk Magazine
Whittaker Chambers
U. S
Chambers
Appleton
Wis
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Robert E. Stripling
Pigman
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Red Underground
Alger Hiss
Henry Julian Wadleigh
State Department
Hiss
Carnegie
Crivitz Man Re elected Chair of State Welfare Board
Herman A. Kloppman of Crivitz was chosen for his fifth term as chair of the state board of public welfare. John McHale of Green Bay was re-elected vice chairman and Dr. William D. Stovall of Madison secretary. The board supported moving the mental health division to the health department and recommended staffing and salary increases at Winnebago and Mendota state hospitals.
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