Supreme Court to Review Fate of Wartime Japanese Leaders
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, agreed to hear appeals from two Japanese war leaders sentenced to death and to review five others given prison terms. Justices Jackson, Black, Douglas, Murphy, and Rutledge favored a hearing. Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Reed, Frankfurter, and Burton dissented. The hearing is set for December 16, with no personal appearances required.
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Washington
A.P
Supreme Court
High Court
International Military Tribunal
Douglas MacArthur
Kkenji Dohihara
Koku Hirota
Koichi Kodo
Lore
Takasumoka
Kenrya Sato
Shigetawa
Kenji Dohihara
Koki Hirota
Japan
Tokyo
Mac‘Arthur
Dohihara
Hirota
Hideki Tojo
MacArthur
Deat
Dehihara
China
Manchuria
T &E
Pearl Harbor
William Logan Jr
New York City
Davis F. Smith
Jackson
U. S
Begin and Hoffman hold talks on Europe recovery
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin meets Paul Hoffmann and aides in London after Bevin's vacation to review international affairs. The visit focuses on slowing Ruhr dismantling and stabilizing Europe's recovery with emphasis on Germany's role.
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London
Ernest Bevin
House of Commons
ECA
Paul Hoffman
Ruhr
Bevin
Europe
Germany
News High Lights Harbor Buzzes With Activity
Harbor work resumes after strike amid renewed bustle. Other items note acoustics fixes for Page Auditorium and various notices across pages A and B.
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High Lights Harbor
Reds Rebuked in West Berlin Popular Vote
West Berlin voters delivered a strong anti-Soviet message with 86.2 percent turnout. Social Democrats won a clear majority, while Communists boycotted and faced decisive defeat in the divided city amid postwar tensions.
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Reds
West Berlin
Berlin
Russia
Communism
Paris
Tass
Berlin’ Electric
Bewag
Two Gridders Die in Fiery Bus Crash at Grants Pass
Grants Pass High School football champions lost two players when their bus crashed on an icy curve and burst into flames. Halfback Al Newman and end Sterling Heater died. student manager Ray Alpeter was trapped with a broken leg. Bus driver Arthur Coal fractured his back. Other players, including QB Bob Graue and Vernon Craft, were among the injured. Grants Pass had won the state title earlier in Portland by beating Jefferson 60 to 0.
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Pass
Ore
Grants Pass
Champignship
al. Newman
Sterling Heater
Ray Alpeter
Arthur Coal
Bob Graue
Vernon Craft
Bob Fleck
Jfitle
Portland
Jefferson
New York Grand Jury Hears Spy Hunters Evidence
Washington December 6. A New York grand jury received two batches of evidence from the House on American Activities Committee’s spy hunters. They alleged a prewar Communist underground in the State Department involving Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. Hiss testified via subpoena while Chambers appeared before the jurors. Wheeler of the committee handed over papers said to come from an underground member in the State Department. The State Department cautioned against public release of sensitive documents. A future open session on the 1937 to 1938 State Department inquiry may be delayed.
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Berlin
Russia
LU. N
North Korea
U. N
Paris
New York
Washington
Congress
State Department
Alger Biss
Whittaker Chambers
Rieh
Chambers
Hiss
House On American Activities Committee
Grand Jury
William A. Wheeler
Justice Deprtment
Department
Hiss-Chambers
Wheeler
Time Magazine
Sumner Welles
Welles
Ear Reattached After Street Fight In Calgary
Edgar Williams was brought to the hospital yesterday missing an ear. He told police the ear was chewed off in a street fight. An ambulance rushed to the scene and picked up the ear before doctors sewed it back on.
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Calgary
Amerta
Edgar Williams
Coast Ports Reopen as Strike Ends on Pacific Coast
San Francisco reports the coast longshoremen and four unions end a 95 day strike. Commerce resumes with 92 gangs in Los Angeles and 68 gangs in San Francisco Bay, 19 ships today and 77 ships previously idle. Officials foresee 25 percent operation by noon, 50 percent by night, full by tomorrow. Sailors Union of the Pacific required guarantees before returning, cost of the tieup estimated at 380 million dollars. Rail embargo lifted. Seattle Alaska Steamship Line Baranoff serves the territory.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay
Robert Mayer
Sailors Union of the Pacific
A. F
Strize
U. S
Tacoma
Wash
Seattle
Alaska Steamship Co
Baranoff
Tiny Child Foils Car Thief In San Bruno Standoff
A thief stole a car and called police from nearby San Bruno claiming a 15 month old girl in the vehicle stopped the crime. He reported he planned to abandon the car at Eighth and Mission Streets as the baby cried. Mrs Maxine Baker owned the car. Police hurried to the scene following the call.
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San Francisco
Maxine Baker
San Bruno
Eighth and Mission Sts
Berserk Slasher Says Wife, Folks 'Made Me Mad'
Raymond E. Jensen, 33, a former paratrooper, surrendered after telling police he killed his 18 month old son and wounded his wife and her parents because they made him mad. He described entering the home, slashing Mrs Bodnar, cutting his wife, stabbing her father, and tearing apart the infant before fleeing to marshland where he ate raw chicken. He claimed amnesiac memory of stamping the child.
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Raymond E. Jansen
Gardena
Jensen
Vic England
Associated Press
Raymond E. Jensen
Ned Jersen
Helen
Mary Bodnar
Jeannie
John Bodnar
Marsh
Barkley to Speak in Los Angeles Tonight
Vice President elect Alben Barkley arrives in Los Angeles to headline a victory dinner for local Democrats. Governor Earl Warren and other dignitaries greet him at the airport as Barkley delivers the major address tonight.
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LOS_ ANGELES
Alben W. Barkley
Los Angeles
Kentucky
Earl Warren
Harksey
Plane Crashes Kill Dozens In Fog Shrouded Mountains
Navy investigation follows a fatal mountain crash in dense fog called The Rocke. Victims unnamed pending kin notification. identities drawn from a flight log near wreckage. All listed as Receiving Station personnel on weekend liberty. all in uniform. Wide toll of air disasters reported in Germany China and the U S with 16 dead in Shanghai and American crew losses in Berlin.
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Navy
Yerba Buena
San Francisco Bay
Naval
Germany
China
Shanghai
Kiangwan
Berlin
Court Upholds Bookie Wire Ban
In Los Angeles on December 6, the California Public Utilities Commission hailed a Court of Appeals decision as strengthening its campaign against illegal betting wires. The Ninth Circuit denied Continental Press Service restoration of leased wire service carrying horse racing info, reinforcing a decree that Western Union and others suspend service when police demand it.
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Los Angeles
California Public Utilities Commission
Ry. v. Court of Appeals
Ninth Court of Appeals
Continental Press Service
Commission
R. E. Mittelstaedt
Western Union
Actor Robert Walker Blows Glass at Topeka Police Station
Topeka police detain actor Robert Walker after he shattered glass panels at the station following a drunken disturbance. He sustained severe hand injuries, received treatment at a hospital, and faces a charge of destroying city property. Walker, once jailed in Hollywood for drunkenness, is listed as a Menninger patient.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Walker
Hollywood Star
Russell Purdie
Walker
Sgt. Purdie
James Bown
Fred M. Tatalaif
Menninger Psychiatric Clinic
Menninger
Sgt
Purdie
Hollywood
Jobiy
Crees
Ship Speeding to Save Fliers in Mid-ocean
Johnston Island dispatch reports an Air Force C-54 with 87 aboard ditched 478 miles southeast of Johnston Island. A rescue ship and escort carrier race to the scene while Navy craft maintain air watch. Survivors possibly aboard life rafts as flares and a boat drops are confirmed, with crews signaling from the water and supplies running low.
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Johnston Island
mid-Pacific
Air Force
Honolulu
Navy
Johnston
Okinawa
Spokane
Wash
98Th
Long Beach
Thomas L. Viper
Allen H. Stotts
Hickman Field
Pacific Command
Stotts
Charles Basset
Arca
Basset
Man Dives From Bridge, Falls 80 Feet in Shed
A 29 year old man leaped from the Jacques Cartier bridge in Montreal yesterday and landed 80 feet down, bursting into a shed roof. He suffered minor lacerations described as blight cuts and was treated on scene.
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Jacques Cartier Bridge
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