Panicky China capital clamors for Chiang to resume presidency
As Communist armies close on Chengtu, Hong Kong and U S officials juggle amid chaotic clues. Li Tsung jen travels to the United States for medical aid but remains acting president. Beijing contends Taiwan Nationalists seek American support while the UN faces a face saving plan.
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Chiang
Li Winging
U. S
Chengtu
Chiang Kai-shek
Hong Kong
Li Tsung Jen
United States
Honolulu
U. S. State Department
Jen Wang-chih
Wang
Mme
Associated Press
United Nations
U. N
Cuba
Ecuador
Peru
Little Assembly
General Assembly
British Commonwealth Group
Philip K. Jessup
America
Far East
Indo- China
Shah of Iran Passes Up Hollywood Tours on Southland Visit
In Los Angeles the Shah declined studio visits opting to inspect an aircraft factory instead. He toured the Lockheed plant with president Robert E. Gross, walking briskly along the final assembly line and asking questions. Advisers said such refusals were due to respect for others invited.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Iran
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Shah
State Department
Jack Benny
Carl Brisson
Women’s Press Club
Dorothy Lamour
Robert E. Gross
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Constellation
Gross
British Spend Millions to Get Publicity
The British government reported spending 3,318,773 pounds on publicity for the year ending April 1, an increase of 76,000 pounds from the prior year. The publicity staff grew from 1,698 to 1,738 as noted by the central office of information.
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London
Central Office of Information
Brothers Sleep in Store and Catch Burglary Thief
In Philadelphia two brothers slept five nights in their drapery shop to trap a thief. The intruder, Joseph J. Smith, 21, was captured after a late-night fight and charged with burglary. The yard goods and clothing valued at over 250 dollars were stolen prior to the capture.
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Hiladelphia
Barney Goodwin
Joseph J. Smith
Passkey
Harry
Eugene Rosenberg
Snoopy Boy's Gifts Lost in Blaze
Chester reports a bedroom closet fire destroyed Christmas gifts hidden by Daniel and Helen Clemens for their five children. Four year old Ronald alerted his mother, prompting firefighters to extinguish the blaze but the gifts were total losses.
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Chester
Daniel Clemens
Helen
Ronald
Santa Sy
In-law Battle Held Self-defense Trial In Toledo
Harry Marinski faced sentencing after a Common Pleas Court conviction for knocking his mother-in-law unconscious during a family argument. He weighed 180 pounds and testified to the judge, Judge John M. McCabe, at the hearing.
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Toledo
Ohio
Harry Marinski
Common Pleas Court
Marinski
John M. McCabe
Civic Association approves 12 drive slowly signs in New Hyde Park
The New Hyde Park Civic Association votes to install twelve metal signs in residential areas warning motorists to drive slowly with children at play. Earlier wooden signs installed last summer were torn down by children.
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New Hyde Park
N. Y
Local Civic Association
Children’s Candy Going to England
Sixth graders at Monroe Elementary School in Hamilton Ohio vote to give up their annual candy gift to the school principal. The candy will be sent instead to Acton England pupils taught by Ruth Lewis, a Hamilton native.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Acton
England
Monroe
Fern Keltner
Ruth Lewis
Combination Stolen From Union Pacific Depot Safe
Orc Center Union Pacific depot worker reports a thief opened a depot safe Sunday night using a combination from the cash box and stole the combination itself. The safe now cannot be opened, leaving officials puzzled about the total loss.
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Orc
Union Pacific Depot
New York City Wins 1949 Noise Reduction Award
New York City received the National Noise Abatement Council 1949 achievement award for its efforts to cut general hubbub. The ceremony noted the city’s programs aimed at reducing noise in urban life.
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New York
New York City
National
Scientists downplay 1943 US uranium exports to Russia
ChicagoDecember 6 The University of Chicago atomic scientists dismissed the significance of 1943 US uranium exports to Russia noting State Department licenses covered stable compounds and light quantities. Dr Harold Urey Dr Thorfin Hogness and Dr Samuel Allison argued these chemicals were common lab items then and would not advance an atomic program.
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Chicago
University of Chicago Atomic Scientists
United States
Russia
State Department
Harold Urey
Thorfin R. Hogness
University
Institute of Radio Biophysics
Samuel K. Allison
California Firms Win $5000 In River Water Rights Case
The U S Court of Claims awards East Side Canal and Irrigation Co and Stevinson Water District five thousand dollars plus interest for San Joaquin River water rights seized by the Friant dam project.
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Washington
U. S. Court of Claims
California
San Joaquin
Friant Dam
East Side Canal & Irrigation Co
Stevinson Water District
Tito Plot Failure Revealed by Belgrade Press
Belgrade reports Borba claims the Cominform admission of failure in its 18 month effort to spark revolt against Premier Marshal Tito. The Cominform resolution in Hungary is denounced as a tool of the Soviet Union to topple Tito, labeling him a Marxist heretic.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Cominform
Marshal Tito
Borba
Tito
Communist International Information Bureau
Hungary
Truman weighs 177 pounds as aides draw dead heat
President Truman weighed in at 177 pounds as his weight contest with two aides ended in a dead heat. Brig. Gen. Graham and Maj. Gen. Vaughan reportedly lost three or four pounds each, with bets off and no money changing hands.
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Key West
Fra
Truman
White House
Wallace H. Graham
Harry H. Vaughan
Charles G. Ross
Charlottesville
Vaughan
Graham
Australia Ne expects 1949 wheat harvest over 200 million bushels
Sydney reports a Department of Agriculture official estimates that Australia 1949 wheat harvest will top 200 million bushels as the harvest begins. It would be the second largest crop after the 220 million bushels in 1947-48.
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Sydney
Australia
Department of Agriculture
Ward and Consul Staff Quit Mukden Today
U S consul general Angus Ward and 23 associates plan to leave Mukden today by rickety train to Tientsin then board a U S freighter to Japan and finally fly home. They have been held by Communist authorities since Sept 22 when a South Korean freighter crew fled with them to North Korea. The United States seeks to press Moscow to secure their release.
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Ashington
Angus Ward
State Department
Mukden
U. S
Manchuria
Tientsin
China
Japan
Ward
Alfred T. Meschter
Kinderhook
N. Y
ECA
North Korea
Russia
Moscow
Alan G. Kirk
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Willis
Meschier
Detained Naval Fliers Await Word on Protest
Washington officials awaited word on a sixth protest to China over the detention of William C. Smith of Long Beach California and Emer C. Bender of Cincinnati and Chicago. The two naval fliers have been held in Red China since their plane was forced down more than 13 months ago.
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Washington
William C. Smith
Long Beach
Calif
Emer C. Bender
Cincinnati
Chicago
Red China
End of Consulate Emploees House Arrest Saga Nears End
Ward and four others flee the Mukden area as the communists order the whole group expelled by 7 p m eastern standard time. The group had been under house arrest for a year and included non American employees and dependents. State Department officials renew efforts to free two more Americans, Albert Willis of Brooklyn and another.
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Ward
Mukden
State Department
Albert Willis
Brooklyn
Voorhees consults chiefs in Japan talks with MacArthur
In Tokyo on December 6 4 Undersecretary of the Army Tracy Voorhees held talks with General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Maj. Gen. E M Almond and Lt. Gen. George Stratemeyer. He planned to visit staff sections to gather needed information before departing Friday for the United States.
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Tokyo
Tracy Voorhees
Gen. MacArthur
Far East
Voorhees
MacArthur
E. M. Almond
George E. Stratemeyer
States
Coastal Report From Long Beach Lifeguards
Tides and temperatures note a calm surf with water at 57 degrees. Day details include sun and moon times, high and low tides, and minor coastal conditions observed by lifeguards.
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U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Long Beach
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