China Nationalists to Give Up Tsingtao
ANKING Feb. 12. United Press reports authoritative sources say the Chinese high command will abandon Tsingtao, a north China port and former U S Western Pacific Fleet base. Evacuation will be gradual as U S Marines depart. about 5,000 Marines stationed there at one time. The fleet may base farther south or withdraw from China. 60,000 Nationalist troops will be moved to bolster the Yangtze front while Li Tsung jen plans a Monday broadcast pledging peace talks.
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Anking
High Command
Tsingtao
North China
U.S
Farnae Hava
Wutugsdl
Shantung
Oscar C. Badger
China
Tsingtai
Yellow Sea
Nanking
Shanghai
Yangtze River
Li Tsung-jen
Low's J Kroeger Nominated As Possible City Moneyer Successor
News notes indicate J Kroeger submitted to council as a potential successor to City Moneyer Wirsching. Other items mention a youth arrest injuring a policeman, multiple traffic accidents causing five injuries, and various page references for sections like sports theaters and markets.
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Low
J. Kroeger
City Moneyer Wirsching
Pede
Republicans Plan New Labor Bill Not So Stringent
Washington February 12 two Republican senators Morse and Ives said they will offer a new labor bill with no injunction provision against national emergency strikes. They hope Taft will support. The measure would junk the Taft Hartley 80 day injunctions but keep other provisions. The bill echoes ideas from the 1947 committee draft that became the Taft Hartley law.
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Washington
Sens
Morse
R.-Ore
Ives
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Senate Labor Committee
Morse and Ives
Italian Red Leader on Hush hush Trip
Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's Communist leader and Cominform member, left Rome for an unannounced destination. A reliable diplomatic source and a Polish source in Warsaw said Cominform may be meeting in Prague or elsewhere in Czechoslovakia.
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Palmirogliatti
Italy
Lnieftain
Cominform
Rome
Warsaw
Cominform J
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Pope Backs Alliances to Fight Evil Across Nations
Pope Pius XII issued a letter to Catholics endorsing closer state alliances and signaling papal approval of North Atlantic and European unity efforts. Anglo American diplomats noted indirect recognition of Western moves toward political unity as the Vatican warned that wealthier arms and new weapons threaten peace. The pontiff urged faith and brotherhood to make such pacts secure and warned against faltering plans.
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Vatican City
U.P
Pius
Rome
Joseph Mindszenty
Hungary
Vatican
Mindszenty
Brutal Beating Fatal to Child in Paducah
Three year old Larry Daniell Downing died in a Paducah hospital from the effects of the most brutal beating seen, as Sheriff Barkley Graham said. Boyd Allcock, 41, a McCracken County farmer, is charged with murder in connection with the beating and is jailed. He is described as the common law husband of the child’s mother, Margie Downing.
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Paducah
Larry Daniell Downing
Barkley Graham
Boyd Allcock
Allcock
Graham
Alcock
McCracken
Margie Downing
Continental Radar Screen Plan Approved
A House subcommittee approved a radar interceptor plan to blanket the continental U S and possibly extend across northern Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Louis St Laurent said talks are under way to extend the net in the Arctic, with costs and locations to be determined.
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Washington
A.P
House
Canada
Louis St. Laurent
Arctic
Russia
North American
St. Laurent
House Armed Service Subcommittee
U. S
Subcommittee
Durham
D-N. C
Vinson
D.ga
U.S
America
Chinese Money On Skids Again
In Shanghai a currency shortage emerges as mid month paydays approach, banks cash only small checks of 50 000 or 100 000 gold yuan in tens and twenties. Workers prefer cash wages to checks as the gold paper yuan falls further from 4 to 1 us dollar at launch to about 1900 to 1 today.
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Hanghat
China
Shanghai
U.S
Hungary Demands Recall of U.S. Minister Chapin
The Hungarian communist government called for the recall of U.S. Minister Selden Chapin from Budapest. The State Department said Chapin would be brought to Washington for consultation. The move follows Mindszenty’s life sentence and U.S. public reaction to the trial.
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Washington
A.P
Hungary
United States
U. S
Selden Chapin
Budapest
State Department
Chapin
Cardinal Mindszenty
Rusk
Andrew Sik
Sik
John G. Florian
Legation
Russian Red Cross Food for Children blocked in Berlin
Western allied commanders say the Russian blockade prevents Swedish Red Cross food for Western Berlin children aged three to six. Sweden had been delivering 22 tons of soups and cereals via airlift and ground transport as part of supplemental feeding. Soviet commandant Major General Aleksandr Kotkov informs that future shipments to the western sector are prohibited.
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Berlin
Swedish
Red Cross
Alexander Kotskov
Churchill plans visit to the United States
Winston Churchill announced he will sail on the Queen Elizabeth March 18 for a U S trip. He will address MIT March 31 on The Twentieth Century Its Promise and Realization. He also plans to visit Washington in a private trip with no other formal engagements.
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London
Winston Churchill
United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Washington
Churchill
Blizzard Closes Utah Roads and Cuts Travel
A severe winter storm marooned more than 4500 people in California and Idaho as strong winds and freezing temperatures swept the region. Snow blocked major routes including interstates and state highways, with a mass of cold Canadian air moving southward.
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California
Idaha
Satricken West
Marin County
San Francisco
Itell
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
Feather River
Sierra Nevada
Western Pacific Railway
Quincy
Oroville
Siskiyou Mo
Nevada
Air Force
Nevada Ranges
Fallon
Nev
Reno
Jerry Wetzel
University of Nevada
Ned
Bes
Utah
State Highway Patrol
Salt Lake City
Brigham
U. S
Colorado
Wyoming
Dakotas
Kansas
Innesota
Iowa
Ike Assigned to Lead Draft of North Atlantic Pact
General Dwight D. Eisenhower is drafted from Columbia University to preside over the joint chiefs of staff and advise President Truman on U S military pledges under the North Atlantic Pact. He will oversee munitions levels, allied commitments, and strategic questions for about seven to eight weeks.
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Wysencren
U.S
North Atlantic
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Truman
Defense
James Forrestal
Eisenhower
United States
Canada
Britain
France
Belgium
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Viscount Bernard Montgomery
Western European Military Committee
Omar N. Brad Jey
Army
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Air Force
White House
Ike
Russia
Washington
Defense Department
Forrestal
Defense Secretary
Korean Police Foil Stadium Blasting Plot
In Seoul on February 12 police arrested 10 suspects after uncovering a plot by the Communist South Korea Labor party to dynamite Seoul Stadium. No explosives were found after a staged search, and the United Nations Commission on Korea arrived for a welcoming rally without incident.
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Seoul
Seoul Stadium
United Nations Commission On Korea
Kim Tal Sun
South Korea Labor Party
Tavern manager hands over cash in hold up
Brooklyn tavern co owner Lilian Wolfe joined two men in a crime discussion and pledged to hand over all money if robbed. One man produced a gun and demanded cash. Wolfe surrendered a box containing 800 dollars before the duo escaped.
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New York
Lillian Wolfe
Brooklyn
Avalanche Dodger Tells of Horror at Idaho Canyon
About 500 men women and children sheltered in bunkhouses near Anderson Ranch Dam Idaho after repeated snow and rock slides left a 2000 foot canyon scar. A construction worker’s wife describes the fear calmness and resilience as crews endure the danger and wait for relief and fresh food deliveries.
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Anderson Ranch Dam
Idaho
Cnn
Bob
Tacoma
Wash
Bobby
Judith
Nancy
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