Indo-Chinese Stage Revolt Rages Near Hanoi and Tourane
French forces suffer heavy casualties in northern Indo China front lines around Hanoi and Tourane. A hospital in Hanoi is reoccupied, while Viet Namese forces attack Tourane and surrounding areas. Martial law declared in Tonkin as Hanoi endures power and communications cuts amid broader clashes. Ho Chi Minh and defense officials flee.
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PARIS
A.P
Vinh
Saigon
Agence France-Presse
Hanoi
Towrane
Tourane
legislative assembly
Ho Chi Minh
Ven
quyen Giat
Louis Mortiere
Tonkin
Viet Minh indepensenre
Indo-China
Viet Namese
Annamese
Jean Sainteney
annem
Fire in Waltham destroys 2 story business tenement
Waltham Mass Dec 21 A general alarm fire wrecked a two story combination business and tenement building causing unofficial damage estimated at 200000. One fireman injured a bedridden woman carried to safety and two others escaped by ladders. Fifty nearby occupants evacuated as firemen fought a drenching northeast storm.
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WALTHAM
Mass
Exclusive Park Avenue movie house opens for velvet patrons
The Beaties own 40 New York area theatres and unveiled a posh Park Avenue venue costing 1,000,000 run like the Metropolitan Opera House. Ordinary moviegoers are excluded. boxes rent for 62.40 to 93.60 yearly with fixed hour reservations. over 3,000 have booked, including John Hay Whitney Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Cole Porter. Perks include in-seat telephones art exhibits coffee cosmetics and occasional fashion shows. Audience must attend at a fixed hour or risk missing the show.
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ALTER Reade
Walter
New York
Park avenue
Metropolitan Opera House
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Opera House
John Hay Whitney
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Cole Porter
Left Hand continued on page eleven in newsprint
A brief item continues on page eleven detailing developments about the left hand topic featured in the report. The note indicates continued coverage and related facts to be explored in the continuation.
Bomb explodes in show window in Buenos Aires display
An unknown group detonated a powerful bomb in Buenos Aires today. The blast damaged a window display showing a painting about the events of October 17 1945 when Juan Perón regained power eight days after being ousted as vice president and war minister by the Campo de Mayo garrison.
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BUENOS AIRES
Juan Peron
Argentina
Campo De Mayo
Chinese To Fight Again
In Peiping on December 21 government and Communist leaders warned civil war is imminent. Gen Li Tsung Jen said Chiang Kai Shek forces would resume offensives as Communists ignore the cease fire. Chow En Lai told AP that the Communists will launch a full offensive if the government does not return to January 13 positions.
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PEIPING
Li Tsung-Jen
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Yenén
Chow En-Lai
Associated Press
John Roderick
Canada ends coal and fuel price controls except prices
Recon struction Minister Howe announced that distribution controls for coal coke and solid fuels will end December 31 while price controls continue under Prices Board. J E Van Buskirk slated as administrator. Canada’s fuel stocks look sufficient with normal winter rail shipments and milder weather reducing household stocks. The forecast contrasts with last June’s shortage fears amid U S coal strikes and Canadian shipping disruption.
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OTTAWA
Howe
Prices Board
J. E. Van Buskirk
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Canada
United States
War Ends For British Unions Next December
British labor unions face an official end to the war era in December, as Labor Minister Isaacs announced the 1342 decree voiding the right to strike would be nullified 22 months hence. Unofficial strikes have occurred since active fighting ceased.
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LONDON
Isaacs
Vancouver loot hunter eyes British treasury nod
Lanky Lewis Dexter a Vancouver man claims to legally bring loot plundered from retreating German troops in 1945 into the United Kingdom. He says a truck with loot lies under the Rhine and he buried it. he awaits a treasury reply as he pursues film work and a possible book.
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STUART UNDERHILL
LONDON
C.P. Cable
Lanky
Lewis
Slim) Dexter
Vancouver
United Kingdom
Dexter
Bradford
England
France
United States
Aimee
Victoria
Patherland
Rhine
treasury
Must Pay On All Holidays
Regina Leader-Post reports Saskatchewan government weighing charges against Regina employers who pay hourly workers late on statutory holidays. Minimum Wage Board chair J. H. Williams says no charges yet. sources say regulations require full holiday pay for all earners. Rev Dr John Gibson Inkster, 79, noted Presbyterian minister, dies after being struck by a car while running to catch a streetcar in Toronto.
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REGINA
Regina Leader-Post
Saskatchewan
J. H. Williams
Saskatchewan Minimum Wage Board
INKSTER
TORONTO
John Gibson Inkster
Presbyterian Church of Canada
Presbyterian Church
Artificial Kidney Saves Life and Makes History
Toronto reports Dr. D W Gordon Murray devised an artificial kidney to save a young woman's life in a historic first. The device ran on a small electric motor outside the body and filtered poisons from the blood, with the patient expected to regain normal kidney function after the device detaches.
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TORONTO
Toronto Daily Star
D. W. Gordon Murray
Murray
the Star
No Immediate Steps on Nationalization in Canada
Reconstruction Minister Howe said Canada will not take immediate action to nationalize Canadian stations of Canadian and Wireless Limited, a British company to come under British government control January 1. The Canadian terminals are to be nationalised by each Dominion within its borders, with Marconi Limited operating the stations.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Canadian and Wireless, Limited
Howe
Marconi, Limited
Shoemaker's Son Celebrates Stalin Birthday in Moscow
Soviet and Russian dispatches mark Joseph Stalin's 67th birthday with brief Moscow radio notice recalling his birth in Gori Georgia. Berlin newspapers praise him as an outstanding leader in the anti Fascist struggle and a prominent statesman and thinker.
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JOSEPH STALIN
MOSCOW
Reuters
Soviet Union
Moscow radio
J. V. Stalin
Gori
Stalin
Tiflis
Georgia
Russia
BERLIN
Josef Stalin
Coventry and Hamburg To Send Greetings
Coventry and Hamburg, bomb damaged cities, plan Christmas greetings of forgiveness and rebirth. Coventry provost will address Hamburg after heavy RAF raids, Pastor Bernhard Meckenburg of Hamburg will reply. Also reported Italy and Netherlands signed a and goods exchange valued at 4 000 000 000 lire. In Calgary Angus Currie Robertson, 76, longtime Gleichen Flour Mills manager, died in Gleichen.
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HAMBURG
Germany
Coventry
Hameburg
England
wil
R.A.F
Bernhard Meckenburg
Dachau
LONDON
Reutersi
Rome
Italy
Het
CALGARY
Angus Currie Robertson
Gleichen Flour Mills
Gleichen
Postpone Talks On Independence In India
NEW DELHI December 21 Reuters Dr Rajendra Prasad announced in the Indian constituent assembly that further discussion of the sovereign republic of India resolution presented by Jawaharlal Nehru will be postponed until the house reassembles in January The current session is due to end Monday He noted the Moslem League abstentions and said later attendance and views may alter the position Congress meanwhile weighing conditional acceptance of the British government statement from the London round table talks, with a view to provincial arrangements under the cabinet mission plan being compulsory.
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NEW DELHI
Reuters
Rajendra Prasad
Indian constituent assembly
republic of India
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Prasad
London
congress
constituent assembly
cabinet mission
Ask More Time To Prepare Case For Rail Rate Rise
Alberta Works Minister W A Fallon said seven provinces will appear before the Board of Transport commissioners in Ottawa Monday to request a delay in hearings on railways 30 per cent freight rate request. Alberta will be represented by J J Frawley and K J Morrison. Hearings set for January face postponement as provinces seek time to prepare arguments against the increase.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
W. A. Fallon
board of transport
Ottawa
western provinces
Maritime
J.J. Frawley
attorney general's department
K. J. Morrison
Calgary
Fallon
Farm Wheat Deliveries Jump From Prairie Farms
Ottawa reports farm wheat deliveries from the prairie provinces rose in the week ended December 12 to 6,019,097 bushels from 4,812,108 the prior week. Marketings so far in the crop year Aug to Dec total 226,854,488 bushels, up about 38 percent from the same period last year.
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OTTAWA
prairie provinces
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Huge Tidal Waves Sweep Over Land
A devastating earthquake and massive tidal waves struck southern Japan, raw reports from Wakayama, Shikoku, and Honshu describe thousands of homes destroyed, tens of thousands displaced, and hundreds dead or injured. Officials warn communications were cut as relief efforts begin.
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Terro
Japan
Pacific ocean
Wakayama peninsula
Shimoda
Honshu
Kochi
Shikoku
wey vom
Hfe
Tanaka
Watayama
waste
Wat
Koshimoto
Shingu
United States army
Kyushu
Shioku end
Shigooka
Kyode
Osski
Kyoto
Nara
Osaka
U.S
Kobe
Wakayama penisula
collcttn
Shinoku Island
Mtho
Kure
Wakayama
Shikiku
Kushimoto
Wakagami
Kyodo
atom
Hiroshima
Miko
Sea of Japan
ARLY
Gen. MacArthur
Oketa
Shikoku Island
Q Splearietay
Okayama
Hirosuma
Odaka
Takaoka
Kochai
Yura
Kainan
London
Forcham
Tokyo
Kyoda news egency
Hokkaido
central meteorological observatory
RUSSELL BRINES
Kain
Canadian physicist faces odds in espionage case trial
Durnford Smith, 34, the fourth NRC scientist to be tried, has his fate tied to a Dec decision after a four day trial. Crown contends evidence shows a conspiracy to provide Russia with confidential information, while defense argues the case rests on vague testimony and misinterpretation of conversations. Smith denies any agreement to reveal information or contact with the Russian embassy.
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OTTAWA
Durnford Smith
Russia
National Research Council
A. G. McDougall
Crown
John R. Cartwright
Toronto
Smith
Cartwright
Lionel Forsyth
Montreal
Edward Magerall
N.R.C
Forsyth
Magerall
Mazerall
Gordon Lunan
Materail
Vassili Rogov
Nicolai Zabetin
Badeau
Bethlehem Sees Record Pilgrim Influx for Christmas Eve
Bethlehem mayor Issa Bandak, described with a Santa Claus like appearance, predicts a larger gathering of pilgrims than ever to visit the birthplace of Jesus Christ on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem Palestine.
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BETHLEHEM
Palestine
Ai—Short
chunky
Issa Bandak
Santa Claus
cald
Jesus Christ
Mysterious Deaths In Decayed 20-Room Mansion
Cleveland authorities probe the deaths of aged William Madoc Roberts and his wife in a decayed 20 room mansion. Neighbors last saw them 16 days prior. The couple, once affluent, lingered unseen as police found gas and electricity cut off for years and a frozen water system. A dog with officers refused entry. police shot the animal during the intrusion.
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CLEVELAND
William Madoc Roberts
Roberts
Cleveland Heights
Trapper Frederick Weller's body found near Duck Lake
Frederick C. Weller, 69, famed trapper and guide, missing since Monday, was recovered at Duck Lake, about 56 miles southwest of Guerrilla Band near Drama. Other items report guerrilla losses near Drama, and a Belgrade court sentencing for banditry with long terms.
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TRAPPER
NORTHBAY
C.P
Frederick C. Weller
Duck Laat
here
ATHENS
Drama
BELGRADE
people's court
Maribs
Slovenia
ferred
U.S
CHICAGO
P.i
east
south
minkdie
Staten
NATIONALIZE BANK OF ROMANIA BUCHAREST
KAMLOOPS
B.C
dved
Meskain
C.P.R
Mme
bere covng teday
F.C. Limdeau
baitrved
Hevelpesia
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