Traitors Flee Planes Rake Burma Road
Nationalists recapture Kunming in south China as Li Mi is released at the airport after defecting troops retreat along the Burma Road. Nationalists threaten severing relations with Great Britain amid visa rushes to Hong Kong and Formosa as Liuchow Peninsula port Kwangchowan falls to communists.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Kunming
U.S
South China
Chengtu
Li Mi
Lu Han
Yunnan
Burma
Red China
Great Britain
Hong Kong
Haven
Britain
China
United States
Claire L. Chennault
China National Aviation
Central Air Transport Corporations
Kwangchawan
Hainan Island
Ex Nazi Field Marshal Manstein Receives 18-Year Term
Berlin era details: German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was sentenced by a British military court to 18 years for wartime atrocities in Poland and Russia. He declined mercy, was found guilty on nine charges, and acquitted on eight, with the sentence beginning today and subject to appeal.
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Hamburg
Germany
Erich von Manstein
Manstein
Hitler
Poland
Russia
Britain
Winston Churchill
Walter von Brauchitsch
Gerd von Rundstedt
Adolf Strauss
Wer
Hamm
Albert Kesselring
Nikolaus von ¥Alkenhorst
Couple in Hospital on 50th Anniversary
PASADENA December 19 Dr J Andrew Hall and his wife Jean marked their 50th wedding anniversary in adjoining beds at St Luke's Hospital. The minister and his wife were severely injured when struck by a car on November 20. They were married in Winnipeg and Brent has 37 years in missionary work in the Philippines. They have three children.
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Pasadena
J. Andrew Hall
Jean
St. Luke's Hospital
Hall
Winnipeg
Can
Brent
Philippines
Yule Gift Fund Supports Burned Child in Philadelphia
Charley Wills of the Philadelphia Inquirer library and fellow workers formed the Sunshine Club to fund a Christmas party and help with medical costs after Wills’s year old daughter was badly burned. The club donated 160 dollars from its treasury, and a restaurant party was canceled. Frank Palumbo offered to cover the costs, and Wills, his daughter recovering, will attend. An order to Gwaltney imposed a 60 day jail term if shoes are not returned after release.
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Charley Wills
Charley
Philadelphia Inquirer
Sunshine Club
Philadelphia
Frank Palumbo
Palumbo
Gwaltney
New Yorker Offers to Help Betty in Save Hand
Brownsville Tenn December 19 Betty Marbury may keep her hand after a wealthy New York man vowed to cover all costs for treatment. Betty and her father Clay Marbury travel to Boston Wednesday to see an anonymous specialist who will decide if surgery can be avoided. Doctors in Memphis warned last weeks that amputation could follow if the lesion fails to respond before Christmas.
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Brownsville
Tenn
Tittle
Betty Marbury
Betty
New York
Clay Marbury
Boston
New Yorker
Memphis
Maglc
Jail time on return of shoes in domestic case
In Hamilton Ohio Cecil Gwaltney 47 faces 60 days in jail if he does not return five shoes taken from his estranged wife. The shoes come from five different pairs amid a continued divorce suit and a restraining order violation noted in Common Pleas Court. Judge Bol previously sentenced Gwaltney to five days in jail for the restraint breach.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Cecil Gwaltney
P. P. Boli
Bol
Gwaltney
Con
Life savings blown by daughter in court case
Milkman Charles McKenna lost his 7749 life savings after his adopted 26 year old daughter Marion allegedly withdrew the money from his bank and spent most of it on horse racing. She was arraigned on forgery and held on 1000 bail. She vowed to get two jobs to repay the funds.
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New York
Charles McKenna
Marion
Ac- Sune Bhe
Polio Victim Waits as Parents Die in Crash
A nine year old polio patient at Marmet Hospital waited for Christmas gifts yesterday while her parents, Jack N. Fleshman and Retha Roxana Fleshman, both killed in a collision on U S Route 60 near Cedar Grove, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, were en route to visit her. The car wreck involved a tractor trailer and left the girl with gifts scattered in the wreckage.
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U. S. Route 60
Cedar Grove
Speeder Arrested in 105 mph Chase Near Florence
Florence South Carolina December 12 police pursued a motorist for 25 miles as he hit 105 miles an hour on straightaways and swept through a roadblock at Dartington. William J Gilbert 25 year old farmer was arrested on speeding and reckless driving charges saying I didn't know anyone was following me.
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Florence
S. C
Dartington
William J Gilbert
Barkleys to Return to Jacksonville
Vice President and Mrs. Alben W. Barkley plan to return to Jacksonville after a weekend in Miami where he addressed 3500 Democrats at a victory dinner and helped launch the 1950 Combined Jewish Appeal. They will meet Mrs. Barkley’s daughters and resume their honeymoon at Sea Island, Georgia.
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Miami
Fla
Alben W. Barkley
Jacksonville
Barkleys
Model Sues Countess as Feud Renewed
In Los Angeles on December 19, Ariel Ames a 26 year old model filed a $3000 damage suit against Mrs Bella Fowler who claims the Countess Orpro byszewski title. Ames alleges loss of sleep mental anguish and nervousness from a Sunset Strip tussle on November 26. Last week Ames dropped an assault charge against Fowler.
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Los Angeles
Sunset Strip
Ariel Ames
Bella Fowler
Orprobyszewski
Miss Ames
Fowler
Three Women Saved From Blazing Car in California
Dec 19 near Erside three women were rescued from a blazing, overturned auto by County Supervisor William C. Slape. Mrs Lucy Edgar of Banning drove into a palm tree, trapping her daughter Helen and Rinda Simonds of Colton. Slape forced open the door and pulled them to safety. all suffered minor scratches.
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William C. Slape
California
Slape
Lucy Edgar
Banning
Edgar
Helen
Rinda Simonds
Colton
Pen
Communism Retreating in Western Europe
Western democracies have gained a round against the Russians in a two year struggle west of the Elbe. Communism remains a factor in France Italy and western Germany but has lost cabinet posts and parliamentary seats. Key causes include the Marshall Plan displacing poverty, strikes turning reformist, church excommunication, Tito's break with Moscow, and French government success against a 1947 general strike.
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R. H. Shackford
London
Europe
Elbe River
France
Italy
Germany
United Press
Catholic Church
Kommunism
Marshal Tito
Kremlin
Moscow
Franco’s Daughter Betrothed to Doctor in Madrid
Generalissimo Francisco Franco announced the engagement of his 23 year old daughter Carmen to 28 year old Marquis De Villaverde a doctor. The announcement was read on national radio as the couple exchanged gifts at a party in Franco’s 16th century Pardo Palace near Madrid.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Carmen
de Villaverde
Helen Celenza and the Santa Claus Capers
N Y girl aged 2 years runs away from home after meeting Santa in a department store. Police track her as she wanders city streets wearing a dress and shoes. she tells officers they will find Santa. Officers give her gifts from charity fund before the mother retrieves her at 1 a.m.
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Santa
Helen Celeste
Brooklyn
N. Y
Eugene E. Seigfried
Conrad Walters
Helen
Nolen
York
Helen Celenza
Santa Claus
Ann Celenna
Bergen St
Pressure Grows to Force Miners Back to Five Days
Pittsburgh report notes pressure on President Truman and Congress to compel John L. Lewis’s United Mine Workers to return to a five day work week. Taft-Hartley Act may be invoked as coal stocks dwindle while industry leaders warn of a national emergency after coal strikes and 42 day walkouts.
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Pittsburgh
Truman
Congress
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
United Mine
United Steelworkers
Admi Us
Student Held in Elevator Attack
Edwin C. Guirard Jr. aged 24 was held on assault charges after a San Francisco elevator attack on Mrs. Tracey Klein. She identified him as her assailant, describing how he joined her, forced the elevator to the basement, grabbed her, choked and struck her fracturing a cheekbone, then fled with her purse before police arrested him nearby on a seventh floor fire escape.
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San Francisco
V. C. Li A
Edwin C. Guirard Jr
Tracey Klein
Guirard
New York Draft Director McDermott Dies at 61
Brig. Gen. Arthur V. McDermott, 61, who directed New York City's selective service system from 1948 to 1946, died after a long illness. He led the nation's largest draft system and sent about 900000 men into the armed forces.
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New York
Arthur V. McDermott
New York City
Two Airmen Die as AT-11 Crashes in Sierra Nevada
Hamilton Field reports three airmen aboard an Air Force trainer plane that disappeared Saturday and crashed on a Sierra Nevada ridge. Lt. John F. Raab of El Cerrito and Lt. Richard W. Armstrong of Berkeley were among the crew. two bodies recovered, one remains unaccounted.
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Hamilton Field
Der
Air Force i
Sierra Nevada
AT-11
San Francisco
John F. Raab
el Cerrito
Calif
Richard W. Armstrong
Berkeley
World Flight Crossing Both Poles Planned
A Chicago group plans a nonstop around the world flight over the poles in a Lockheed Constellation covering about 136000 miles. Richard Fohnsen would pilot, with a crew of five to be recruited, stops include Honolulu Dunedin Capetown London and polar crossings under favorable weather.
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Chicago
Richard Fohnsen
Chicapo
HKLM
Johnson
Jair Transport Command
San Francisco
Warner
Ben Reagan
Thisinois Aeronautics Commission
Chicago Adventurers Club
Vhut
Honolulu
Dunedin
New Zealand
South Pale
Capetown
South Africa
London
North Pale
Tides and Temperatures Tuesday December 2
Coastal data lists sunrise at 5 39 a m and moonrise at 8 08 a m. Tidal highs at 8 43 a m and 11 51 p m reach 68 feet and 3 27 fh, lows at 2 24 a m and 12 00 p m. Foregoing statistics credited to Coast and Graders Survey.
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Culvar
Sawtelle
Ares
Associated Press
Burma Road
Speeder
H. Chase
Joseph
Mary
Jermsalem
Jesus
Bey
William E. Gilroy
D.D
Tres Wasther
Fics
Hom
Wim
West
Franco
Doctor
Thomas Valentino
San Jose
Raab
Armstrong
Air Force
Air Force Reserve
Valentino
Long Beach
Betis
Palma
Barbar
Culver City
San Bernardin
Nathan H
Denver
Platte
Yennemueen
T. Deter
Wetone
Paso
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