Europe Holds the Balance of Power Says Vandenberg
General Hoyt S. Vandenberg warned that Communist success in Europe, the theater of decision, could destroy the free world. Speaking to radio news directors in Chicago, he said Europe alone holds the balance of power and that the Soviets aim to distract the US with crises while planning conquest or accommodation.
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Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Europe
Free World
Vandenberg
Air Force
National Association of Radio News Directors
Reserve Showman Snider Named Reserve Champion at ISU Swine Show
Howard Snider son of Mrs Hazel Snider of Long Beach was named reserve champion showman in the swine division at the annual Little International Livestock Show held at Iowa State College in Ames, as announced by the college.
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Hazel Snider
Long Beach
Iowa State College
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Eccentric's Wills All Branded Fakes Fail to Hallmark Authenticity
Charles Babonet's three purported wills are deemed bogus by handwriting expert Clark Sellers. A half million dollar estate may pass to distant relatives in Austria and Missouri as Judge Newcomb Condee sets December 14 for a hearing to decide which will, if any, to accept or if Babonet died intestate.
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Pe Angeles
Charles Babonet
Clark Sellers
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Bank of America
Newcomb Condee
Babonet
California
Locations of 59 X-ray Units for Free TB Survey
In Long Beach, about 59 X-ray units will be set up at locations mostly in front of markets for a free tuberculosis survey to run Nov 28 through Dec 23. Nancy Ott announced the executive officer for the survey. mobile K-ray units will visit on dates to be announced. The general survey committee is headed by Joseph E. Blackburn with Willard Lee as locations chairman. Chest X rays will be taken of all persons 15 years old or older.
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Long Beach
Nancy Ott
Joseph E. Blackburn
Willard Lee
Pontiff Warns Church Faces More Persecution
Pope Pius XII warns the Roman Catholic Church to expect further persecution while praising bishops for relief work among war refugees. The Catholic Legion of Decency report notes 53 percent of foreign films and 20 percent of domestic films reviewed were morally objectionable, with 22 percent overall marked as objectionable in part. The share suitable for the whole family fell, though severity declined.
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Pius XII
Holy Mother Church
Conference of Bishops
Bishops’ Committee On Motion Pictures
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Killer Convicted of Nine Murders in Germany
Rudolf Pleil, 26, confessed to 25 slayings and was found guilty of nine murders. He and two accomplices received life terms in a German court. The trio were also linked to 17 murders and two attempted slayings. Pleil, pale and shaken, had kept a diary describing his killings near the British Soviet border.
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Germany
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Rudolf Pleil
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No-Man's-Land
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Red Guerrillas Burn Town Area Near Kapyong
U S 8th Army dispatch from Korea reports that about thirty Red guerrillas set fire to Kapyong, sending around 8000 civilians fleeing. Much of the town was burned before reinforced South Korean police retook it. An unknown number of Communists held high ground less than a mile southwest of the town.
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Korea
Kapyong
Seoul
Republic
US Sending Score of Heavy Tanks to Reinforce Berlin
On November 17 Berlin reports a score of American Pershing tanks will reach the city around January 1 to bolster the Western Allies garri son. The 45 ton tanks carry 90 millimeter guns and join eight British Comet tanks recently arrived from West Germany by rail. the Pershing unit forms the tank company of the Sixth Infantry Regiment being organized here by the U.S. command, alongside a mortar company and other heavy weapons.
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Berlin
West Germany
U. 5 Command
President attends concert after assassination attempt
Washington November 17 President Truman made his first social appearance since the November 1 assassination attempt. He attended a symphony concert last night accompanied by Mrs Truman and a small group, showing no public signs of distress.
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Truman
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