First War Crimes Trial Opens in Japan at Yokohama
An Allied war crimes commission began hearings in Yokohama on Tatsuo Tsuchiya alias Little Glass Eye, accused of fatally beating Pfc Robert Gordon Teas. Prosecution sought the death penalty, arguing a violation of land warfare rules.
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Yokohama
Tatsuo Tsuchiya
Little Glass Eye
Louis Geffen
Tenameee
Tsuchiya
Pfc
Robert Gordon Teas
Streator
Ill
Bataan
Mitsushima
John Dickinson
St. Petersburg
Fla
Commission
Dickinson
P Utton
Geffen
David Grant
RAF
Grant
Red Cross
R.A.F
Yoshizawa
Toshizawa
Clifton
Snodgrass Junction City
Kan
Teas
Robert V. Laughlin
Eighth Army
Kedari
Teria
Choptera Rushima
Christmas Eve Hospital Fire Claims Dozens in Hartford
Hartford officials disclosed a Christmas Eve blaze at Niles Street hospital killed at least four patients and left many others injured. Fire alarms were delayed by minutes after a rapidly spreading fire started among a dry Christmas tree, delaying firefighting response and rescue efforts for elderly bedridden patients.
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Hartford
Conn
Niles Street Hospital
Edward J. Hickey
Hickey
Fire destroys four planes and car at Wichita area field
A second fire in eight days at Wilson flying field northeast of Wichita destroyed four planes and a car with about 31 000 dollars in damage. The prior Sunday a hangar and eleven planes were wrecked for 35 000 to 50 000 dollars. The Croix hotel fire caused about 7 000 dollars in damage. The causes remain undetermined.
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Wichita
Kan
Wilson Flying Field
Croix Hotel
States to Run Employment Service Postwar Plan
Representative Scrivner of Kansas says job conversion for veterans and wartime plant workers is mainly a local issue. He predicts the U S employment service will be returned to state control before June despite Truman veto, stressing the community and individual must act with government as a last resort.
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Washington
Scrivner
Truman
U.S. Employment Service
Kansan
Thomas R. Wall Dies Head of St. Joseph Department Store
Thomas R. Wall 77 head of Townsend and Wall Co operators of a large department store in St. Joseph died at a local hospital. A St. Joseph native he spent most of his career there with a stint in St. Louis. He led a drive for a free highway bridge over the Missouri River. Survivors include his widow and two children, T. R. Wall Jr. and Miss Annetta Wall, all of St. Joseph.
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St. Joseph
Thomas R. Wall
Townsend and Wall Company
Deartment
Ccal
St. Louis
Townsend
Missouri River
T. R. Wall, Jr
Annetta Wall
Local Marriage Licenses Issued in Topeka and Nearby
Marriage licenses issued Monday by Probate Judge J B Wilson. Recipients include Maurice J Brown and Amelia Bacon both of Topeka Everett Keith Stanley and Myra Hazel Fogo both of Wichita James V Wells and Ruby Anderson both of Lawrence.
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J. B. Wilson
Aurice J. Brown
Amelia Bacon
Topeka
Everett Keith Stanley
Myra Hazel Fogo
Wichita
James V. Wells
Ruby Anderson
Lawrence
Mrs. Mortimer Tops World’s Best Dressed List Again
New York socialite Mrs. Stanley Mortimer retained the title as world’s best dressed woman in the annual New York dress institute poll. The Duchess of Windsor rose from tenth to fifth. other notable names include Mrs. Byron Foy, Millicent Rogers, Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, and Rosalind Russell.
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New York
Stanley , Mortimer
Duchess of Windsor
New York Dress Institute
Mortimer
Barbara Cushing
Jonay Whitney
Vincent Astor
Byron Foy
Walter Chrysler
Millicent Rogers
H. H. Rogers
Lawrence Tibbett
George Schley
Valentina
Harry Hopkins
Louise Macy
Rosalind Russell
Robert Sarnoff
Esme O’brien
Clare Boothe Luce
Henry R. Luce
Missing engagement ring found after Christmas box surprise
Pvt. William Sykucki planned to pop the question by placing a ring in a candy box for his Philadelphia fiancée Miss Mildred Operman. A salesgirl dropped the ring, delaying discovery until midnight Christmas Eve when Operman found the box intact and accepted the proposal.
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Philadelphia
Chicago
G.I
William Sykucki
Frankford Arsenal
Mildred Operman
Bill
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Japan
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Stanley Mortimer
Dad
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Standard Life Association
Whsaesenee, Ward
Fletcher
Castoria
Harry Green
Lawrence, Kansas
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