National Army Units Break Encirclement Near Nanking
Reports from Nanking say elements of the government 12th Army Group broke through a Red encirclement and linked with nationalist troops moving north from the Hwai River line about 100 miles northwest. The Suchow pocket and surrounding forces remain under pressure as air supplies support the beleaguered units. Martial law is extended to the Wuhan area.
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Nanking
12Th Army Group
Hwai River
Here
Suhsien
Fallen Suchow
Wuhan
China
Hankow
Hanyang
Suchow
Kuchen
Kiangyin
Yangtze
Shanghai
Second Hot Ham Defendant Freed
Lancaster Ohio December report shows Dale V. Ca, a restaurant operator, acquitted of buying and receiving stolen property. A jury deliberated 21 minutes finding the youth, 20, did not knowingly purchase the meat alleged stolen from Swift and Company’s Columbus plant.
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Lancaster, O
Dale V. Ca
Landis
Fairfield Paper Co
Basil
Swift and Company
Columbus
Operation May Speed Marshall's Retirement
Secretary of State Marshall underwent kidney surgery and faces a long recovery. With Lovett directing policy, officials say there will be no gap in current foreign affairs while Warren Austin and Dulles are briefly unavailable. The China crisis remains the most urgent issue.
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Washington
Dec
Marshall
Austin
John Foster Dulles
Paris
Robert A. Lovett
Truman
China
Markets at a Glance Mixed Signals Across Stocks and Futures
Irregular stock demand with radio shares in demand. Bonds mixed as rails improve. Wheat firm on short covering for 1949 deliveries. Corn steady aided by wheat grains. Oats steady with December rally. Hogs steady to strong with top at 22.75. Cattle steady to 50 cents lower with top 36.50.
Police reveal girl's kidnapping tale was a hoax
Asbury Park New Jersey police say a 20 year old Cincinnati woman identified as Catherine Raines admitted fabricating a kidnapping story to gain money for returning home. She claimed she left Cincinnati November 26 to sell magazine subscriptions and traveled via Dayton and New York before arriving in Asbury Park after an evening with five men.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Cincinnati
Leroy E. Holloway
Catherine Raines
Holloway
Dayton
New York
Albert Leonard Named Hocking District Scout Commissioner
Albert Leonard becomes Hocking District Scout commissioner succeeding M B Iles with Rev Henry Carr as district chairman. Iles received the Silver Beaver award for long service. A district officers meeting at 7 30 P M next Thursday in the county courthouse will discuss future appointments and the February 10 1949 Boy Scout banquet and Court of Honor.
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Albert Leonard
Hocking
M. B
Bundy) Iles
Rev
Henry Carr
Arlie Brimner
Carr
Presbyterian Church
Leonard
Walter Leonard
Lewis Van Demis Services Thursday
Funeral services for Louis Van Demis a 67 year old Logan coal dealer who died Monday night in Hocking Valley Hospital will be held at 10 A M Thursday in the Heinlein Funeral Home Rev Henry Carr will officiate with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery The body will lie in state at the funeral home for visitation A native of Massachusetts Mr Van Demnis had worked as a coal dealer in Logan for 17 years
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Louis van Demis
Logan
Hocking Valley Hospital
Heinlein Funeral Home
Henry Carr
Oak Grove
Massachusetts
van Demnis
Battery Meeting Notice for Logan Battery A
Battery to meet Logan Battery A 455th Field Artillery Battalion at 8 P M today in Ohio Fuel Gas Co office West Main Street. All members and prospective members urged to attend.
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Logan
Circleville liquor permit shakedown probe hits council
Circleville Ohio four local clubs reported a stranger solicited $1800 for protection for the rest of 1948. City council authorized filing evidence with the county prosecutor for grand jury investigation of alleged bribery and corruption. The case involves a man claiming to represent state liquor department agents.
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Circleville
State Liquor Department
Joseph Atkins
Emmitt Crist
William McCrady
Atkins
Crist
Common Pleas
Liquor Department
Donald T. Geyer
Council
Joseph Harrell
William Galayda
Tito Receiving Capitalist Aid
Belgrade reports that millions of American dollars pour into Yugoslavia to back Tito's rehabilitation and socialist construction. Borba cites $15.5 million in American contributions over three years plus over $1 million in medical supplies and equipment from the United States via the Yugoslav Red Cross.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Communist Party
Borba
United States
America
Red Cross
London
Tito
Accused Sailor Furnishes Bond in Manslaughter Case
Junior K. Foss a 19 year old Gore sailor released on a 1500 cash bond after pleading not guilty to manslaughter in the death of George H. Schmidt 54 of Vergennes Vt a GE plant foreman struck along State Route 75 near the plant site Foss home on leave from a Rhode Island naval base was the driver of the auto involved in the fatal collision with Schmidt an employee of International Chimney Corp of Buffalo N Y which holds the erection contract for a chimney at the plant
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Junior K. Foss
Gore
Common Pleas Court
Foss
Rhode Island
S. B. Whitehart
George H. Schmidt
Virgennes
General Electric
Logan
Schmidt
International Chimney Corp
Buffalo
N. Y
Curly Forelock Latest Fad Among Juvenile Males
In North Olmsted, five high school boys at North Olmsted High revived a decades old stunt by getting permanents for a front forelock while the rest of their hair remains natural. Hazel Hollenbach, a local beauty operator, notes that adults also adopt the look with a cowboy and an elevator operator visiting the shop.
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Cleveland
North Olmsted
Hazel Hollenbach
Areas
Schultz Resigns From Hocking Vets Commission
Hocking County commissioner elect Keith Schultz submitted his resignation from the Soldiers and Sailors’ Relief Commission, effective December 31. A successor will be appointed by Common Pleas Judge Harley Meyer and will be a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The commission met for routine business in the county service office at the courthouse.
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Keith Schultz
Hocking County
Hocking County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Relief Commission
Common Pleas
Harley Meyer
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Former Alliance Auditor Indicted for Embezzling Funds
F H Greneisen, former Alliance city auditor, was indicted by the Stark County grand jury on charges of embezzling city funds in 1946 and 1947.
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Canton, O
Alliance City
F. H. Greneisen
Stark County Grand Jury
Ohio selects first woman Senate majority leader
The Ohio Senate will have its first woman majority leader, Margaret A. Mahoney, a Cleveland attorney and longtime legislator, after Democrats won control. The House will name John F. Cantwell of Youngstown as speaker, starting his fifth term, with Governor-elect Lausche supportive of caucus selections.
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Senate
Columbus
Ohio
House of Representatives
Senate Democrats
Margaret A. Mahoney
Mae-o-nee
Mae
Cleveland
Ohio Senate
House
Senate Rules Committee
John F. Cantwell
Youngstown
Frank J. Lausche
Annual Meeting of Hocking County Farm Bureau Planned
The Hocking County Farm Bureau will hold its annual meeting at 8 PM Thursday in Bell Hall with Ray Hobson as principal speaker. Hobson heads a new Field Supervisors department, replacing Carl Blair who joined Farm Bureau Insurance. New officers will be elected and the program includes Kiwanis Club male singers, refreshments, and dancing with no admission.
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Hocking County Farm Bureau
Bell Hall
Ray Hobson
The
Farm Bureau
Hobson
Ohio
Carl Blair
Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
Kiwanis Club
Rites Held Monday For Kresser Baby
Funeral services were held Monday at 10 A M for the two day old son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Kresser of Rockbridge Route 2 who died Saturday morning in Lancaster City Hospital Burial followed at Forest Rose Cemetery Surviving are the parents and two brothers
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Joseph Kresser
Rockbridge
Lancaster City Hospital
Ward Halteman Funeral Home
Lancaster
Forest Rose Cemetery
Telegram Confirms Soldier Rescued in Pacific Crash
Logan relatives celebrate as Air Force confirms S Sgt Joseph L Smith survived a C 54 crash in the southwest Pacific. A telegram from Col James E Briggs at Spokane Air Force Base says he is among 33 survivors en route to Kwajalein aboard the USS Rendova and then to Spokane.
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Logan
Joseph L. Smith
Air Force
Russell Mason
James E. Briggs
92Nd
Spokane Air Force Base
Wash
Southwest Pacific
Kwajalein Island
Rendova
Spokane
Yule Bonuses Given
Simon Thomas 55 and his wife Adla 51 of Marietta Ohio were killed when their car struck a tree north of Wheeling West Virginia yesterday The accident occurred the day after Christmas season holidays.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Simon Thomas
Adla
Marietta, O
Here
Pay Increases Studied by Ashtabula City Council
Ashtabula Ohio city council weighs a proposal from city manager Robert M Hoisington to raise employee pay using a living index test. The plan aims to adjust wages to reflect cost of living as of December.
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Ashtabula, O
Robert M. Hoisington
Former State Dept Worker Questioned In HUAC Probe
Eunice A. Lincoln, identified as a former State Department secretary in 1937 38 in Sayre's office with Hiss, testified behind closed doors to HUAC. The committee probes Whittaker Chambers allegations that Hiss passed secret documents to Russians. Lovett says the State Department code system has changed.
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Washington
State Department
Alger Hiss
House Committee On un-American Activities
Eunice A. Lincoln
Francis B. Sayre
Hiss
Sayre
Whittaker Chambers
Carnegie Foundation For International Peace
Chambers
Maryland
Russia
Mundt
New York
Time Magazine
Art Shires Held On Murder Charge
Art Shires a former major league first baseman known for mixing baseball and boxing was charged with murder in Dallas in the death of W. H. Erwin a former minor league player and umpire. He was released on a $5 000 bond and scheduled to appear before Judge Robert A. Hall. Erwin 56 died in a local hospital after a reported October 3 fight.
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Dallas
Tex
Art (the Great
Robert A. Hall
Erwin
Shires
Feminine Cabbie Wins Odd Case of No Dough in Syracuse
Syracuse tale reports taxi driver Eleanor Hawkins refusing to worry about a $263 fare until learning money does not grow on trees. She recounted transporting Thomas Jocks from Ashtabula to Syracuse. Jocks, a 24 year old merchant seaman, was later arrested as a parole violator after a brief stop at police HQ.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Eleanor Hawkins
Ashtabula
Thomas Jocks
Jalous Galesbrook Weseend
Jocks
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Rev. Carr
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Lewis van Demis
Circleville Council
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Harrell
Thurman I. Miller
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Tsingtao
98Th General Assembly
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