Prediction of Record US Production in 1948
Washington reports the administration expects next year to bring record US production and possible inflation relief if crops are good. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse cites weather, labor relations, and foreign aid as key factors, with voluntary controls to curb scarce goods and a bumper spring wheat crop forecast.
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U. S
Edwin G. Nourse
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Congress
J. Truman
Agriculture Department
Europe
Nourse
Severe Typhoon Strikes Philippines Killing 56
A savage typhoon hit the Philippines causing at least 56 deaths or disappearances. The Kina motorship sank off Samar with 36 crew and 15 passengers. Tacloban suffered heavy damage and Manila declared an emergency holiday. Several ships were damaged and Tacloban burned as the storm moved toward Hainan.
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Samar
Tacloban
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Red Cross
Laguna
Roxas
China Sea
Hainan
Tokyo
Europe
Samar Sea
Danish East Asiatic Lines
Samuel Bakke
Bakke
Rock Camandag Island
Samar Island
Leyte
Coast Guardsman Safe After 20 Hours Adrift on Lake
Coast Guardsman Clifford Wahl twenty years old from Indiana spent Christmas adrift in Lake Michigan. He was found on a beach near Cane today after a 20 hour ordeal in a 28 foot launch. He appeared to have suffered little and was towed to Indiana harbor. A search with a cutter and two lifeboats began after his absence was noted in the morning.
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South Haven
Mich
Cane
Lake Michigan
Clifford Wahl
Toad Oeton
Idl
Wand
Ene Harbor
Calumet Harbor
Speer Siamese Twins Die After Birth At Indiana Center
Speer twins joined at the tops of their heads died Christmas day, 27 days after birth in Bedford. Born Nov. 29 by Caesarean section, they lived head to head in an incubator at Indiana University Medical Center. Doctors ruled separation would be fatal due to shared brain tissue. Father Edward Speer expressed willingness to risk any chance for separation.
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Indianapolis
Speer
Edward Speer
Bedford
Indiana University Medical Center
Donald Casely
Medical Center
Public Hearing Planned On Bennel Plan For Marsh Fill
A public hearing is set for Monday at 8 p m to discuss Bemel plan to reclaim marsh east of the Causeway west of Burlington tracks north of Standard Oil and south of Monitor Street. The city may spend about 100000 to fill streets and boost tax revenue and eliminate the long standing waste area. Mayor C A Beranek said the council committee will meet that evening to review the plan and consider its impact. All interested parties are urged to attend and present views.
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All Rinks But Two Open For Use
All ice skating rinks except Emerson and Lagoon are open for use today, the park department announces.
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Lagoon
Mayor Calls Meeting Of City Fuel Oil Dealers On Saturday
Mayor C. A. Beranek calls a 9 30 a m Saturday meeting at city hall with all fuel oil dealers to plan equitable distribution as winter tightens heating oil supplies. Families with space heaters and no storage suffer most as small purchases continue. One dealer suggests voluntary 25 percent consumption cut to weather the crisis.
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C. A. Beranek
Ing
Questionnaires to disability retired officers seek detailed income data
Washington dispatch says 2 953 army and navy officers with tax free disability pay will receive forms asking about active service during WWII, medical exams since retirement, life insurance exams, retirement boards, and post retirement civilian employment. Meyers indictment cited. committee probes how long officers held retirement grade.
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Washington
Army
Truman
White House
Senate
Bennett E. Meyers
Meyers
Air Forces
Navy
Elston
Heavy Snowstorm Grips East with NYC At Fourteen Inches
A major nor'easter dumped up to 14 inches on New York City as heavy snow spread through the Middle Atlantic. Atlantic City and Philadelphia saw several inches, trains and cars slowed, planes grounded, and New England faced strong winds and a predicted blizzard. Temperatures plunged with Albany recording its coldest Christmas in 71 years.
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Atlantic Ocean
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Atlantic City
N. J
Philadelphia
New England
Gion
Washington
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
East
Albany
Long Term Convict Executes Christmas Day Escape at Waupun
Roman M. Franken a 22 year old Milwaukee inmate serving 3 to 25 years for armed assault and robbery and burglary escaped from Waupun by 5 30 a m breaking up the four story cell block wall after using a rain spout rope and hook police believe he stole a Buick from Walter Glascoff’s garage two blocks from the prison. Tracks in snow atop the cell block and a split second timing explain the daring move first successful break from the prison in four years and authorities in Milwaukee and Omaha alerted for his arrest
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Waupun
Wis
Mievurivul
Roman M
Roy) Franken
Milwaukee
Walter Glascoff
Franken
John C. Burke
Burke
Omaha
Act Next Week On Inflation
Washington reports President Truman will act early next week on the inflation bill passed by a special session. He plans to issue an adequate statement of his views and is expected to sign the measure despite criticizing it as inadequate.
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Peter J. Marsden
Galena
Ill
Truman
Chicago
Washington
Congress
Charles G. Ross
Morse
R-Ore
GOP
Oregon
Toll of 172 Die During Christmas Holiday Across Nation
National Safety Council reports 172 traffic deaths and 102 miscellaneous fatalities for a 6 p m Christmas Eve to midnight period, totaling 274 deaths over two days. Fires claimed over 30 lives including 10 Indians in Gardnerville Nevada and seven in a Texas hotel.
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Nevada
Orange
Tex
Fredericksburg
Michigan
Connecticut
Maryland
National Safety Council
State Congressional Hearing On Reds
Rep Nixon says hearings will start late in January on curbs for Communists by registering them as foreign agents. He chairs the House American Activities subcommittee and will call Attorney General Clark as the first witness.
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Washington
Nixon
Calif
House On American Activities
Clark
Utah Family Welcomes Quadruple Twin Set With Third Child
Four children arrive at Willard Heaps home in less than a year in Cedar City Utah. Twin boys born Wednesday to Mrs Heaps 11 months after the birth of another set of twins a boy and a girl. Mrs Heaps also has a three year old son. Heaps is a pre medical student at Weber College in Ogden.
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Cedar City
Utah
Willard Heaps
OSRD Folds Under Truman Order Ending Six and Half Years
Research Office folds its six and a half year history as President Truman disbands the Office of Scientific Research and Development effective December 31. The move ends wartime science programs and transfers ongoing projects to wartime agencies and new bodies.
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Washington
Office of Scientific Research and Development
OSRD
Truman
Tojo Testifies War Was Fought In Self Defense
Tokyo report from the war crimes trial shows Hideki Tojo defending Japan’s actions as a last resort and self defense. He accepts responsibility for defeat but denies any international crime, detailing a 65,000 word deposition and outlining shifts in U.S. policy and Pearl Harbor misgivings.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Iichiro Kiyose
Tojo
Communist State Proclaimed By Insurgent Reds
Greek forces rushed reinforcements to Konitsa after a surprise attack by an estimated 2000 guerrillas from Albania and local bands. The assault hit with mountain artillery as Gen. Markos Vifiades proclaimed an independent communist state in the fighting zone.
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Athens
Konitsa
George Stratos
Albania
Bourazani
Markos Vifiades
Greece
Markos
Nicholas Zachariades
Zachariades
John Ioannides
Vifiades
Ioannides
Themistokles Sophoulis
Yugo Slavia
Bulgaria
Paris
Truman May Pick Running Mate After GOP Names Ticket
President Truman may wait until after the Republican convention to choose a running mate for the 1948 Democratic ticket. Democratic insiders cite a wide field and note timing due to the July Fourth holiday between GOP and Democratic events. Potential names include Lucas or Nimitz if the GOP selects Taft or Eisenhower, with McMahon and O Mahoney also discussed.
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Hint Truman
GOP
Washington
Truman
White House
Philadelphia
John McCormack
Massachusetts
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
House
Joe Martin
Taft
Ohio
Senator Lucas
D-11
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
O’mahoney
D-Wye
McMahon
D-Conn
O'Mahoney
Minnesota
Harold E. Stassen
California
Earl Warren
Three Die In State Crashes Over Christmas
Three people died in Wisconsin during the Christmas period. An eight year old girl Mary Anne Hall of Racine died Christmas Eve from injuries after being struck by a motor vehicle. In Milwaukee 64 year old Lawrence Harp died Christmas Day from a skull fracture after a fall at a tavern stairs. John Rautio 70 of Lakeside township Douglas county was killed Christmas Eve when struck by a car and police sought the driver.
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Wisconsin
Mary Anne Hall
Varnall Hall
Racine
Milwaukee
Lawrence Harp
John Rautio
Lakeside Township
Douglas County
Mother saves baby by dropping into blanket during apartment fire
A 42 year old Brooklyn mother trapped in a third floor apartment saved her five month old daughter by dropping her unharmed into a blanket held by neighbors on the ground. She then slid down a clothes line to safety.
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New York
Brooklyn
Marie Rodenberger
Weather forecast for La Crosse area
Local forecast shows mostly cloudy conditions with no significant temperature change. Tonight low 18 and Saturday high 30.
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la Crosse
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