China Receives 63 Million in Military Aid
Elton C. Fay announces a 63 million dollar military aid package for China. The grant aims to bolster defense programs and interoperability with allied forces amid regional tensions.
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1948
Page
1
China Seeks More U S Aid Amid Arms Gap
Government estimates show China has received about 63 million dollars in military aid in the last eighteen months, far less than Greece and Turkey which have seen 230 million. First Lady Chiang Kai-shek plans to press for a larger program. officials warn a possible one billion dollar yearly cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
China
Greece
Turkey
Chiang Kai- Shek
United States
Mme. Chiang
Truman
Congress
Truman Says Greek Drive Against Rebels Bogged Down
President Truman told Congress the push to crush Greece’s Communist backed guerrillas has bogged down. He blamed the Greek army’s lack of determined effort and noted morale sag, despite over 170 million dollars in American arms and supplies and a two year Greek Turkish aid program. In Turkey, aid shows progress as the army gains fire power and efficiency to resist pressures. The report says Turks are leveraging U S supplies and training to maximum effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Greece
Congress
America
Turkey
United States
Girls Found Dead In Car In Vernonia Lovers Lane
Two 16 year old girls Bernadine King and Mary Lou Wolf were found dead in a car with two unconscious youths from Vernonia Clatskanie and Mauger after exhaust fumes filled the coupe near a graveyard. State Police identify the deceased and report the companions were hospitalized in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernonia
Ore
Holly Holcomb
Bernadine King
Mary Lou Wolf
Allen Jurvakainen
Clatskanie
Robert J. Phillips
Mauger
Portland
Card Playing Banned at Victoria College
Victoria College bans card playing and student drama activities noting excessive time spent on games and stage plays. Faculty actions target student recreation to reduce distractions and preserve study time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
Victoria College
Berliners vote as Western sector rebukes Soviet rule
Western Berlin voters turnout 84 percent in city elections seen as a plebiscite against Kremlin occupation. Social Democrats win a sweeping 64.5 percent, with Christian Democrats 19.4 and Liberal Democrats 16.1. Russians had barred voting in their sector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Democrats
Christian Democrats
Liberal Democrats
Berlin
Kremlin
117yearold girl and 83yearold widow win radio prizes
In New York AP report a 17 year old from Pawtucket Rhode Island won about 26 200 on ABC Stop the Music for identifying Nancy Dawson on the phone. An 83 year old widow from Watertown New York won about 24 999 for naming Harold Red Grange as the Phantom voice on CBS Sing it Again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alice Heaney
Hill Avenue
Pawtucket
R.I
ABC
Nancy Dawson
Margaret Ash
Holcomb Street
Watertown
N. Y
Harold ‘ Red’’ Grange
CBS
West powers press Berlin peace bid amid postwar turmoil
The United States Britain and France urged Russia to disown the rump German government in the Soviet sector and allow a four power citywide administration. They warned that failure to do so could doom efforts to end the Berlin deadlock as Western voters backed anti communist candidates. The memo was delivered to UN experts before Berlin’s citywide election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Russia
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
UN Security Council
Committee of Experts
Western Union President Joseph Egan Dies in Paris
Joseph Egan, 62, president of Western Union, died of pneumonia at the American hospital in Paris. Egan became president in November 1945 after serving as VP in charge of public relations since 1939. He joined the company as an attorney in 1912 and later led contracts and railroad relations. He played a key role in Postal Telegraph acquisition negotiations in 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Joseph Egan
Western Union
Paris
Egan
Ohio Legislature Opens Third Special Session in Lame Duck Year
Ohio's 97th General Assembly met in Columbus for a brief third special session. Governor Thomas J. Herbert urged emergency funding measures for a tuberculosis hospital at the OSU medical center and an Apple Creek State School building, requiring two-thirds votes in both houses to take effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
97Th General Assembly
Thomas J. Herbert
Ohio State University Medical Center
Apple Creek State School
Apple Creek
Chinese Army Encircled Near Nanking in Key Battle
Chinese Communist radio claimed an air tight encirclement of the Nationalist Suchow garrison near Nanking. about 110,000 troops from the 16th 13th and 2nd Armies retreated toward the Suhsien sector 45 miles south as Red forces massed north and west. Government forces face a decisive moment with scarce supplies and the fate of Chiang Kai-shek's regime tied to developments 100 to 200 miles northwest of Nanking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanking
Communist Radio
Red
Suchow
12Th
Suhsien
Hwai River
Chen Yi
Kuomintang
East China
Chiang Kai- Shek
Storm winds ease across Midwest after snow lashed region
Storm with gusts up to 73 mph in Illinois and 68 mph in Wisconsin weakens as it moves northeast from the Rockies toward Lake Superior. Four inches of snow fell in Kansas and Nebraska, five inches in St Cloud Minnesota, with one to three inches in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. Northward shift brings milder air to the Plains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Middlewest
Federal
J. F. Hovde
Lake Superior
Great Plains
Midwest
Springfield
Ill
Milwaukee
Wis
Rocky Mountains
Kansas
Nebraska
St. Cloud
Minn
Wisconsin
Minnsota
Pacific Northwest
Atlantic States
Hearings Open on Business Profits and Taxes
Senator O'Mahoney tells reporters that corporate profits now rival 1929 levels as larger companies earn more. He argues profits should be taxed to strengthen fiscal policy, as two weeks of Senate hearings on business profits begin today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
House Committee Turns Over Spy Papers to Grand Jury
The House Un American Activities Committee sent investigator William A. Wheeler to New York to hand grand jurors copies of secret State Department papers alleged to show a Red spy network before the war. Whittaker Chambers, a former courier, is tied to the documents while Chambers kept copies on a Maryland farm. The panel plans further hearings, aided by Coast Guard and Navy help, as Rep Nixon travels aboard the S S Panama to Panama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Maryland
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
State Department
Chambers
Alger Hiss
Lewis J. Russell
Louisville, Ky
Robert Stripling
William A. Wheeler Ventura
Calif
Robert Gaston
Passaic
N. J
Donald Appell
Baltimore, Md
C. E. McPhillips
NEA
House
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Grand
Justice Department
William A. Wheeler
New York
Communist Underground
The
Reds
Robert E. Stripling
House Committee
Coast Guard
Navy
Representative Nixon
R-Cal
Panama
S. S. Panama
Former Japan Premier Hitoshi Ashida Granted Arrest
Japan's House of Representatives voted 140 to 120 to waive immunity for former Premier Hitoshi Ashida. He faces arrest over alleged involvement in a 2 billion yen Showa Kenko Fertilizer fund disposal scandal that contributed to his cabinet's resignation in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
House of Representatives
Hitoshi Ashida
House
Ashida
Diet
Showa Kenko
G Day Strike Ends on Coast
After 95 days of idle work the Pacific Coast reopened its largest shipping operation. AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific won a written guarantee that CIO union settlements would not intrude on its jurisdiction. About 28 000 members in five unions made peace, allowing 280 ships tied up to resume cargo. Estimated industry losses reach $380 million plus broader economic damage. Only essential vessels and a few exempted ships remained active during the stoppage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
CIO
AFL
Montreal Man Survives 80-Foot Bridge Plunge
A 29-year-old man leaped from the Jacques Cartier Bridge and fell 80 feet into a shed roof. He sustained only minor cuts and was taken to hospital for observation. Police are investigating the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Que
Jacques Cartier Bridge
Man Found Dead on Cleveland Union Terminal Tracks
A man identified from papers in his pockets as Arthur Buckles of New York was found dead on the Cleveland Union Terminal railroad tracks yesterday. He was about 37 years old and apparently had been run over by a train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Arthur Buckles
New York
Cleveland Union Terminal
Record of two ship disasters raises death toll to 9200
Belated reports say about 6000 Chinese died in a Manchurian sinking and another disaster near Shanghai involving the crowded passenger steamer Kiangya. Official sources in Nanking reported the boiler explosion killed all on board as troops were evacuated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Manchuria
Nanking
Yingkow
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company
Kiangya
Democrats Schedule Columbus Caucus Meeting
Miss Anna F. O'Neil ranking Democratic member of Ohio's House of Representatives called a caucus of house Democrats for 4 p.m. Tuesday. The session will be held in the caucus room of the Capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Anna F. O'Neil
Akron
Ohio
House of Representatives
House Democrats
Eight Ohioans Die In Weekend Traffic Toll
The Associated Press reports a deadly weekend across Ohio with twelve deaths including George Bicknell 60 beaten in a Cincinnati tavern basement stairs Sherman Heskett 82 died after a fall in Cambridge Christian Schaan 87 burned in a Wooster fire George Lapish 38 49 Russell Sturgeon 49 killed in separate crashes Bonnie Jean Baker 6 Effesio Picco 69 Philip Zimmerman 58 Paul Roberts 34 Julia De Fresno 58 George Miranda 17 Carl Leroy Smith 6 among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bicknell
Cincinnati
John A Bicknell
Canton
Sherman Heskett
Cambridge
Bonnie Jean Baker
Roseland
Mansfield
Effesio Picco
Cleveland
Philip Zimmerman
Paul Roberts
Martins Ferry
Lloydsville
Morristown
Julia de Fresno
Lima
George Miranda
C. and O
Lancaster
Carl Leroy Smith
Warren
Route 1
Effort to Save Crew After Air Force C-54 Downed at Sea
Rescue operations were under way after a C-54 transport with 37 aboard force landed at sea in the Pacific. Survivors were sighted by a search plane from Johnston Island, which dropped a boat as the aircraft circled back. The weekend also saw crashes in Shanghai, Berlin, near Salinas California, and other U S locations with multiple fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Ceremany
China
Johnston Island
Rege
Shanghai
Kiangewan
Berlin
Salinas
Cal
Navy Peresonnel
Navy
United States
Door County
Wisc
Lake Michigan
Dubque
Marseilles
Air Force
Alexandria
Jamestown
N. Y
Dayton
Missing plane pursued in four states from Jamestown
General Motors Aero Products executive W J Blanchard 48 and two Dayton women Miss Vivian Johnson 29 and Miss Betty Charles were reported missing after leaving Jamestown New York Saturday afternoon. Air rescue planes from Westover and Selfridge joined a search across New York Pennsylvania Michigan and Ohio for the Navion aircraft believed to be in danger. Blanchard had flown from Buffalo to Jamestown then to Dayton without filing a flight plan before departing for Dayton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
N. Y
General Motors
Dayton O
W. J. Blanchard
Aero Products
Dayton
Vivian Johnson
Betty Charles
Air Force
Westover Field
Mass
Selfridge Field
Mich
Buffalo
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BY Elton C. Fay
U. S
Daniel DE Luce
Herbert
OSU
Senate
GOP
Storm
Sting
Hiss-Chambers
Associated Press
Bugs Bunny
Toni Addya
Carolling
Caraid
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