Western Allies Plan to Standardize Arms and Training
Britain the United States and Canada announced a plan to standardize arms and military training to overcome technical differences hindering cooperation from World War II. Experts have studied key weapon standardization since 1947 and exchanges of personnel across services have increased. Critics warn the move could be an aggressive step toward Soviet Russia.
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Britain
Canada
Ondon
Cap Britain
United States
Ministry of Defense
Soviet Russia
Armed Services
Futl
Five Children Die in House Blaze Near Emmett Michigan
A two story farmhouse near Emmett Michigan burned, killing five children from one family and injuring two others. Parents Clarence Bethway and Irene escaped with three other children and the grandmother, aided by the 80 year old mother, as flames filled the house. Two siblings, Joe and Mary Lou, survived with serious burns and were hospitalized in Port Huron. The fire, apparently started by a heating stove, trapped upstairs occupants who could not escape except through a bedroom window.
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O'Dwyer Ends Bachelor Weekends With Private Prelude
In Stuart Florida on the eve of their wedding, O'Dwyer and his fiancée Miss Simpson kept separate seclusion. The groom-to-be swam and boated at Hobe Sound while the bride-to-be remained aboard the yacht Almar 1 off Jupiter, as the couple prepare to depart on a seven day honeymoon aboard the yacht after the ceremony tomorrow.
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Stuart
Long Beach Trophics Deaths Hit Year Total 34
Page B-1 reports 34 deaths linked to Long Beach trofic this year as authorities note ongoing public health concerns. Page A-2 highlights former Nazi Field Marshal von Manstein receiving a three year sentence for wartime crimes against Poles and Russians.
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Long Beach
Yeaggs
Vor Manstein
Long Beach Witnesses Explosion Destroys Downtown Stores
In Renton Washington a gas explosion levelled a block of downtown buildings before 5 am scattering Christmas goods across sidewalks. The blast damaged a funeral parlor Eagles Lodge and several shops including a grocery florist appliance store and a pharmacy with many interiors ruined and a water main flooding the site. No injuries reported. a restaurant fire was controlled by firefighters.
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Walt Pariett
KXRN
Partetti
Eagles Lodge
Acro Parts
26 Uninjured in Air Liner Crash
A Transworld four engine Constellation plowed through two wire fences and clipped a cafe corner at Municipal Airport in Chicago. It halted along Cicero Avenue after arriving from San Francisco at 8 a.m. with 21 passengers and five crew. Capt. Stanley M. Kasper, TWA pilot for 15 years, blamed the braking mechanism for the mishap.
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Transworld
Municipal
Cicera Ave
San Francisco
Stanley M. Kasper
Santa Letter Seeks Safety on Christmas
California highway patrol writes to Santa Claus asking for a safer Christmas for all travelers. The letter requests courtesy, restraint for heavy drinkers, pedestrian guidance, and a memory of those who died in the previous Christmas and New Year.
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Sacramento
California
North Pole
Santa Claus
Tratt
Truman Heads Back to Capital for State of the Union
President Truman leaves Key West for Washington to review legislative outlook and meet with his cabinet. He plans the State of the Union message for January 4 or 5, with budget and economic notes, and may repeal wartime taxes to offset a deficit. He flies to Independence for Christmas with family after a brief Washington stay.
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Fla
Truman
Gulf
Washington
Senate House
Independence
British Air Liner Crash-landing Ends Safely
A British airliner with 10 aboard made a safe crash-landing today after its undercarriage jammed. None of the passengers or crew was injured.
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London
Grand Slam Girl Foils Bandit at Cashier Window
Patricia Ream a theater cashier in Los Angeles thwarted a holdup by slamming a door on a robber’s fingers after he threatened her with a gun. The assailant fled after his plan failed.
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Bandit
Los Angeles
Patricia Ream
Soviet Navy to Build Rocket Battleships and Long-Range Subs
Jane's Fighting Ships reports Soviet plans to assemble three ultramodern 35 080-ton battleships armed with radio controlled torpedoes and rockets, plus 730 to 1,000 long-range submarines by 1951. Two more battleships reportedly in blueprint stage, with Russia already owning two. Three shifts run shipyards in the U.S. and Soviet zone of Germany turning out motor torpedo boats and mine sweepers as defense plans stay unconfirmed by Moscow.
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Dahlia Confession Man Held Again in Los Angeles
Police in Los Angeles detained Robert Cox, 41, who twice confessed to the 1947 Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth Short. Officers cited vague earlier details and noted Cox also admitted killing a 6 year old Black girl around 1940 or 1941.
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Los Angeles
Robert 5. Cox
Elizabeth
Black Dahlia
Cox
Woman Dies Trying to Aid Periled Mate in Queens
NEW YORK December 19 The gas smell from an Astoria Queens apartment likely panicked Margaret Long 70 as she tried to reach her deaf mute husband William 72. After losing footing on a fire escape she fell to a concrete area below. Neighbors alerted police who opened a stuck kitchen window and found the couple. The gas jet was shut off and Long was awakened with the news of his wife’s death.
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Astoria
Queens
Margaret Long
Mrs. Long
Jas
Long
Dogsleds Used in Hunt for Boy
WALLA WALLA Wash Dec 19 An 18 year old Donald McDonald is missing after wandering from an elk hunting camp last Thursday. Nearly two dozen volunteers plan to cross the Blue Mountains on skis snowshoes and dogsled to search. Jack Farquharson, frostbitten and exhausted, alerted sheriffs office after failing to organize a search for two days. The terrain is reported as deep snowdrifts three to four feet.
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Wash
Blue Mountains
Donald McDonald
Jack Farquharson
Sheriffs Office
Farquharson
Rain drenches Southern California setting new December record
Rain fell across Long Beach and neighboring cities with 2.51 inches soaking the area, a weekly total pushing Southern California into record wetness. Los Angeles reached 2.86 inches by noon, while mountains seen heavy snowfall and road hazards prompted chains for motorists. Five deaths linked to the storm noted, including two auto fatalities and exposure.
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California
Weather Bureau
Montrose
la Canada
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Arcadia
Amusa
Glendora
Monrovia
Los Angeles
George Best
Svimar
Brian Yokum
Santa Monica
Tujunga Canyon
Opid
Mt. Wilson
Mt. Waterman
Ble Bear
Nation's Weather in Normal Ranges Reported
Most of the nation has temperatures within normal ranges today. The coldest spot is Cut Bank Montana at 12 below zero and Lewiston at 8 below. Light snow fell in the northern plains plateau and northern Rockies while light rain and drizzle persisted in the northeastern states.
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Cut Bank
Lewiston
Plains
Rockies
Streetcar Collision Injures Twenty in Birmingham Fog
In Birmingham Alabama a heavy fog caused a three way streetcar collision this afternoon injuring at least two people. None remained in serious condition.
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Birmingham
Ala
Move to Take Heart Out of Plan Defeated
California politics report on Warren's lobby control bill moving from Senate Rules committee toward floor action in Sacramento. Key points include amendments, defeats of attempts to remove core provisions, and potential conference committee steps as supporters and opponents vie over registration, disclosure, and felony penalties.
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Sacramento
Warren
Senate Rules Committee
Harold Powers R.eagleville
Senate
Faid
Board of Equalization
California Farm Bureau Federation
Gov. Warren
Develo
Assembly-Senate
Assembly
House
Senate Committee
Charles Gibbs
Associated Farmers
Sen. Powers
Gibbs
Richard Owens
Farm Bureau Federation
Nationalists Warn U S on Ship Blockade
The Chinese Nationalists issued a warning demanding foreign vessels depart Shanghai and other communist areas within a one week grace period. The State Department said copies were sent to American shippers and no U S ships are known to be in Shanghai zones.
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United States
Ghanghai
Strate Department
Taipei
Formosa
Isbrandisen Co
New York
Pers
Shanghai
Michael J. Mc ‘Dermott
State Department
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