Deadline Near For Departure Of Ward And Staff
The 13 American officials and families under Communist orders must quit Mukden by 7 p.m. EST. Consul General Angus Ward and aides, once prisoners for over a year, faced uncertain departure as communications to Mukden were garbled. They planned to move north to Tientsin aboard the Lakeland Victory after winding up consulate business.
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U.S
Mukden
State Department
Washington
Angus Ward
Ward
U. S. Army
Tokyo
Mudden
North China
Tientsin
U. S
Lakeland Victory
White Russians face verdict in Yugoslav spy trial
In Sarajevo ten White Russians charged with spying for the Soviet Union near trial end. most admit partial guilt for aiding Germans or reporting to the Soviet embassy after the war. Closing arguments precede verdicts due tomorrow or Thursday. defendants include refugees who became Soviet citizens and allegedly aided Cominform plots.
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Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
Yugosavia
Soviet Union
Bosnia
Archduke Ferdinand
Austria
Russia
Marshal Tito
Tito
Toscanini Named Italian Senator
The famed conductor Arturo Toscanini was named a lifetime senator of the Italian Republic for his contributions to music. Born in Parma in 1867, he spent much of his exile in the United States and has returned to Italy to conduct concerts since the war.
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Rome
Arturo Toscanini
Toscanini
Parma
Italy
United States
Self Defense Claim in Toledo Court Case
In Toledo an adult defendant named Marinski awaited sentencing after a common pleas court conviction. He testified he acted in self defense during a family dispute in which he knocked his mother-in-law Hazel Tipping, 100 pounds, after an argument. He weighed 180 pounds and stated the act was in self defense.
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Toledo
Harry
Common Pleas
Marinski
John M
McCabe
Defense
Hazel Tipping
Lakeland Victory Sails to Pick Up Ward Party in Asia
The freighter Lakeland Victory will sail from Kobe tomorrow for Taku Bar off Tientsin to fetch Consul General Angus Ward and 27 Americans. Captain Paul R. Sexton reports 15 men 9 women and 4 children aboard with 500 tons cargo. The voyage includes a stop at Pusan and aims for Taku Bar by Sunday or Monday.
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Kobe
Japan
Lakeland Victory
Taku Bar
Tientsin
Angus Ward
Paul R. Sexton
Palo Alto
Cal
Pusan
Korea
Sexton
Principal Kills Ex Wife and Fiancé Then Kills Self
Mt Vernon Washington police report a grade school principal shot and killed his ex wife Betty Trout 27 and her fiancé John Trout 32 in a partly furnished bungalow they prepared for marriage. The suspect William A O Loane 24 a flying instructor and ex husband of Trout shot himself. L F Buchanan a Mt Vernon real estate man and father of the bride discovered the bodies.
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MT. Vernon
Wash
Betty Buchanan Trout
William A. O'Loane
L. F. Buchanan
Trout
Train Hits Truck Stalls Freight Train Collision
A 44 car freight train collided with a stalled tractor trailer at North Bend, scattering sheet steel along 150 feet of track. Driver Otto Stamper, 33, of Portsmouth, Ohio, leaped to safety just before impact.
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Cincinnati
North Bend
Otto Stamper
Portsmouth
Jury awards $2400 to Miamisburg man vs three officers
In Mi amsburg, Montgomery County Common Pleas Court jurors awarded Charles Thomas $2400 after finding three police officers liable for false imprisonment about a year ago. Thomas had originally sought $15000.
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Miamisburg, O
Montgomery County Common Pleas Court
Charles Thomas
Miamisburg
Chiang Urged To Resume Presidency As Reds Advance
Clamor for Chiang Kai-Shek to resume leadership grows as Communist forces push toward Chengtu. Li Tsung Jen orders Nationalist officials to press on while seeking medical rest in the United States. Reds claim Yungning fallen and push toward the Indochina border. mutinies reported near Kunming. Civil unrest and mass movement spread among towns along the advance.
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Chengta
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Hong Kong
Associated Press
Wayne Richardson
Li Tsung-Jen
Chengtu
United States
Chungking
Neichiang
Peiping
Yungning
Kwangsi Province
Indochina
Pai Chong-Shi
Yuki
Kunming
Negotiations on Hard Coal Contract Begin in New York
In New York AP reports negotiations on a new hard coal anthracite contract for about 80 000 miners in northeastern Pennsylvania start today. It is unclear if John L Lewis will attend. a union committee led by Thomas Kennedy arrives to steer talks.
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New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Washington
Thomas Kennedy
UMW
Pennsylvania
Tampa Hit By Bus Strike Sparks Violence and Delays
Tampa transit line resumes limited daytime service under an emergency order after a strike and clashes. A Negro woman passenger was slightly hurt by a cement fragment, and 35 to 40 drivers reported for runs as unions dispute conditions.
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Tampa
Fila
Tampa Transit Line
Curtis Hixon
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Ind
CIO Transport Workers Union
The Bowls By Gordon Martin
The piece notes football bowls extend beyond Thanksgiving with games from Dallas to Pasadena and Jacksonville. It highlights many bowls including Cotton Dixie Sugar Gator Delta Raisin and a Florida bowl, and laments towns lacking bowls as seasons stretch past the new year.
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Gordon Martin
Dallas
Birmingham
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Pasadena
Florida
German Press Attacks West German Rearmament Plan
West German newspapers accuse Western Powers of reviving militarism by seeking a German army of mercenaries to deter the Russians. They say Germans overwhelmingly oppose rearmament and question Western Allied plans, while Adenauer aides voice cautious openness under certain conditions.
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Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Adenauer
Western Germany
United States
Two Are Facing Robbery Charges
Harold Thomas of Portsmouth Ohio and Herbert Poling of Ona West Virginia were bound over to the Brown County grand jury on armed robbery charges. Apprehended in Maysville Kentucky they returned to Georgetown Ohio for arraignment where Thomas pleaded guilty and Poling pleaded not guilty. The alleged holdup targeted the Jolly and O Rourke filling station near Aberdeen Ohio on December 2 and the deputy sheriff said the pair admitted robberies in Ona Hurricane and Procterville.
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Georgetown
Harold Thomas
Portsmouth
Herbert Poling
Ona
W. Va
Brown County Grand Jury
Maysville
Thomas
Poling
Jolly
O’rourke
Aberdeen
Bill Utter
Hurricane
Procterville, O
Cleveland Auto Parking Fines Rise to 3 and 5 Dollars
Cleveland residents will face 3 dollar fines for auto parking violations starting December 15. A delay beyond 48 hours raises the penalty to 5 dollars, up from the current 1 and 2 dollar levels.
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Cleveland
Sibelius to mark 84th birthday Thursday in Helsinki
Finland's great composer Jan Sibelius will celebrate his 84th birthday on Thursday in Helsinki. The announcement notes his longstanding influence on national music and his status as a leading figure in Finnish arts.
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Helsinki
Finland
Jan Sibelius
Ching to Speak at Cleveland Dinner on Management Progress
Cyrus S. Ching director of the Mediation and Conciliation Service will be guest speaker Monday at a Cleveland dinner sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Management and the Association Industries.
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Cleveland (Ap
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Cleveland
The
Society For the Advancement of Management
Association Industries
Hitch Strikes Pike County Coal Accord
In Pikeville Kentucky an attempt to settle contract disputes with 34 Pike County truck coal mine operators faltered as two of three UMW committee members resigned. They accused the union of seeking a blank check contract and said they would not sign terms chosen by John L Lewis. A replacement joined John Hodges for a Washington signing at 11 a.m.
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New York Times
the Times
Washington
New York
Robert R. Young
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Alleghany Corporation
Lewis
Young
Chespeake
Ohio
The
Times
Pikeville
John L. Lewis
Pike County
United Mine Workers
UMW
Jack Picklesimer
Thav
Picklesimer
Edwin McGhee
John Hodges
Ohio State Grange Plans 77th Annual Meeting
The Ohio State Grange will hold its 77th annual meeting in Columbus December 13 15. State master Joseph W Fichter announced the event with deputies juvenile deputies lecturers and youth representatives slated to hold special conferences during the three day gathering.
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Columbus
Ohio State Grange
Joseph W. Fichter
Truman Aides On Hand Drafting State of the Union
President Truman receives a rapid influx of aides at Key West to draft Congress messages. John R. Steelman, Charles Murphy, Donald Dawson, George E. Ely, and Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham arrive. Clark Clifford drafts the State of the Union with goals including repeal of Taft Hartley, social security expansion, Brannan farm plan, national health, civil rights, and higher taxes to cover a deficit.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Congress
Navy
Williamsburg
White House
Charles G. Ross
John R
Man dies after being struck while pushing stalled truck
Edward Stanley 31 of Canton Ohio died in Salem hospital from injuries after being struck on US 30 near Lisbon while trying to push a stalled pickup off the highway. Harold Hirsch 26 of Fairmont West Virginia drove the car. no tail lights on the truck were noted.
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Salem
Edward Stanley
Canton
Lisbon
State
Stanley
Harold Hirsch
Fairmont
W.va
Hirsch
Runaway Barge Damages Boats at River Yacht Club
A barge drifted about a half mile hitting outriggers and two pricey pleasure crafts docked at the Southern Ohio River Yacht Club in Bellevue Kentucky. One man aboard was uninjured.
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Cincinnati
Southern
Ohio River Yacht Club
Bellevue
Big Names Enter Investigation Of Shipment Reports
The House Un American Activities Committee renewed its wartime uranium shipment inquiry naming former Vice President Henry A Wallace and others. Wallace denied involvement calling it false and part of an effort to tarnish Franklin D Roosevelt's name.
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Ashington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Henry A. Wallace
Russia
Wallace
Franklin D Velt
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Groves
O’ Wallace
New York
Air Force
Ma Jor
George Racey Jordan
Hopkins
Lewis
Otterageous
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr. Hopkins
Jordan
Great Falls
Lendlease
Louis J. Rosesell
House Committee
Wood
Truman
U. States
Uranium Export Controversy Draws Top Scientists
University of Chicago atomic experts challenge claims that U S uranium was shipped to Russia in 1943. Dr Harold Urey and colleagues say the compounds were common lab chemicals with little explosive use, shipments were minor, and keeping a trickle was prudent. House panel chair Wood vows full inquiry into wartime atomic transfers and potential names involved.
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Harold Urey
State Department
Thorfin R. Hogness
Institute of Radio Biophysics
Samuel K. Allison
University
Fire Destroys Christmas Toys in Chester Closet
In Chester Pennsylvania Daniel and Helen Clemens hid Christmas presents for five children in a bedroom closet. Four year old Ronald found them when he lit a match to peer into the dark closet starting a blaze that destroyed the gifts. Firefighters extinguished the fire and no injuries were reported.
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Chester
Daniel Clemens
Helen
Ronald
Santa Claus
US Job Situation Brightens as November Hits Fall Peak
Washington AP reports census figures showing 60.95 million Americans held jobs in November and unemployment down 167000 to 3.409 million. civilian payrolls rose 517000 from October while nonfarm employment returned to 1949 highs thanks to harvests, weather, and seasonal hiring.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Bureau
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