Body believed in ashes of wrecked plane earlier
AP report from Hong Kong states Quentin Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, is believed among four bodies recovered from a CNAC C-54 crash on Basalt Island near Hong Kong. The death toll reached 35 with 28 passengers and seven crew. Roosevelt, 29, had served as CNAC vice president and previously flew dangerous missions in China before dying on a routine Shanghai to Hong Kong flight.
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Quentin Roosevelt
Basalt Island
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Shanghai
Chinese National Airlines Corporation
CNAC
Here
Charles Sundby
Peng Hsueh Pei
Feng Yu-Cheng
Chinese Central News Agency
P. L. Fang
Sundby
Bias Bay
Young Roosevelt
Profits chart drawn for new Congress plan
Washington AP reports lawmakers draft a profits blueprint for economic policy overhaul. Senate House economic subcommittee winded up a probe into current profit levels sources and uses. Senator Flanders notes big firms grow despite justification and warns growth impacts social and economic systems. Growth links to wages prices and tax revenues.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House Economic
Flanders
R-Vi
Holiday Deadlines At Middletown Journal
The Middletown Journal will not publish on December 25 or January 1, with Sunday editions issued the following two days. News deadline is 5 p.m. Friday December 31, classified ads due 5 p.m., display ads 12 noon Friday. Monday editions accept classified ads until 11 a.m. Monday, display ads not after 5 p.m. Friday.
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Middletown Journal
Journal
Truman Flies To Missouri For Holiday
President Truman departs Washington for Missouri to observe Christmas in Independence. He will use the trip to review the economy and draft portions of the State of the Union, with aides accompanying to maintain White House contact from the Meuhlebach Hotel in Kansas City.
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Truman
Missouri
Independence
Kansas City
Edwin G. Nourse
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Congress
Matthew J. Connelly
Charles G. Ross
Mr. Truman
Meuhlebach
White House
Executive Mansion
Two Are Killed In Auto Crash
A Pennsylvania couple en route to Flint Michigan were killed in a two car crash near Youngstown Ohio. Charles Christy 27 died at 2 a m in a Youngstown hospital and his wife Virginia 21 died about ten minutes later. Lester Jones 34 of North Jackson was injured and in poor condition with possible skull and arm fractures and internal injuries.
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Youngstown
Pennsylvania
Flint
Mich
Charles Christy
Dravesburg
Virginia
Lester Jones
North Jackson
Aid to Dutch East Indies Halted by U S Action
The United States suspended all Marshall Plan aid to the Netherlands East Indies pending settlement of hostilities with Indonesia. The move, disclosed by Paul G Hoffman, follows consultations with the State Department and affects recovery grants totaling about 360 million dollars in the Indies and Netherlands.
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Indonesia
Hoffman
Washington
United States
Netherlands East Indies
Republic of Indonesia
Paul G. Hoffman
ECA
Netherlands
State Department
D. Soemitro
Lovett
Eelco van Kleffens
East Indies
China
Christmas Air Lift Moves 700 Soldiers East
A planned holiday air lift initiated from Seattle aims to move about 700 soldiers from Fort Lewis eastward in chartered C-46 and C-47 planes. Despite a Boeing field blackout and weather delays, flights continue over a 10 day span with routes reaching Chicago, New York, and stops at Omaha Pittsburgh and Philadelphia sparked by Pvt Gerald Roberts's idea.
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Seattle
Boeing Field
Carlson
Fort Lewis
Chicago
New York
Omaha
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Pvt
Gerald Roberts
Peoria
Ill
Plane In Trouble Over Pacific Flight Reported Down
SAN FRANCISCO AP Four engine Navy plane, reported down, remained en route to the mainland from Honolulu as fuel neared exhaustion.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
Truman Inauguration To Be Costly Affair
Washington AP reports the Truman inauguration will cost about 100000 dollars to erect the Capitol platform and grandstands and about 215563 dollars for the week long gala funded by local business leaders. The plan includes 98375 dollars for parade grandstands and 2910 badges plus medals from the Philadelphia mint.
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Truman
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Capitol
Congress
White House
Philadelphia Mint
Indonesians Use Scorched Earth Tactics In Java Campaigns
Indonesian republicans retreating from cities report scorched earth tactics as Dutch forces claim Bukittinggi in Sumatra and multiple Central Java towns. Reports mention towns like Parakan Setjang and Wonosobo, and Kalioerang with 18 UN staff safe. Dutch casualties tally eight killed, fourteen wounded.
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Java
Anch
Sumatra
Bukittinggi
Fort de Knock
Tjeppe
North Java
Indian Ocean
Equator
Soerakarta
Kalioerang
United Nations
Parakan
Setjang
Wonosobo
Blitar
Kalikonto
Semarang
Jogjakarta
Republic
No. 1
West Java
Thomas court date stands in federal case
Washington AP report confirms Rep. J Parnell Thomas will face a January 10 federal court date after a judge refused to dismiss the grand jury indictment charging him with defrauding the government through payroll padding. Co-defendant Helen Campbell also awaits trial January 10. potential penalties include up to 32 years imprisonment and $40,000 in fines.
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Washington
Rep
J. Parnell Thomas
RNJ
House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Henry Schweinhaut
Thomas
Supreme Court
Congress
Helen Campbell
United States
Miss Campbell
Januar
Chiang Approves New Cabinet but Peace Dim
Chiang Kai-Shek approves a new cabinet to pursue an honorable peace yet prospects for settlement in China remain dim as Communist forces advance toward the Yangtze. Premier Sun Fo announced the Nationalists will fight on until a genuine peace can be won, with uncertainty whether a deal could appease the Reds.
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Chiang
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Yangtze
Sun Fo
Nationalit
Sun
Peiping
Tientsin
Central News
Mental Test To Be Given In Slay Case
CHICAGO AP A 1 year old steel worker Herlindo Perez Arias would undergo a mental test at the Cook County behavior clinic after confessing to police to choking 10 year old Roberta Rinearson. State's Attorney John Boyle said Arias was questioned 1 hour 15 minutes under a lie detector amid immigration scrutiny in Hammond Indiana.
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Chicago
Roberta Rinearson
John Boyle
Herlindo Perez Arias
Cook County
William Haines
Boyle
Arias
Hammond
Ind
Avias
Mother Sought In Kidnaping Of Own Child
A nationwide search is under way for Jeanne Morgan Braget 21 and her husband John M Braget 35 suspected of kidnapping three year old Vicka Jeanne Snyder from her Harrisburg foster grandparents The child had been legally adopted by Harry M Snyder News notes Braget visited Monday asking to take Vicka to see friends in Hummelstown planning return by 6 p m for a church party The couple reportedly drove toward Washington state via a southern route and police were alerted to locate them
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Harrisburg
Carl B. Shelley
Jeanne Morgan Braget
John M. Braget
Tacoma
Wash
Shelley
Vicka Jeanne Snyder
Harry M. Snyder
Here
Washington
Brager
Snyder
Hummelstown
Snyders
Vickie
Senate party fights loom in new Congress
Washington AP reports looming intraparty battles in the new Senate over leadership posts. Contenders include Wherry for GOP floor leader with liberals weighing a rival bid, while Tydings and Vandenberg face reshuffles as Senators debate pro tempore and policy committee roles.
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Senate
Washington
Chamber
Friends
Tydings
Maryland
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Congress
GOP
Senator Wherry
Nebraska
Wherry
Senator White
Maine
White
Vandenberg
Michigan
Taft
Ohio
Baldwin
Connecticut
Lodge
Tojo and six warlords hanged for crimes against humanity
Tokyo dispatch reports seven Japanese war criminals executed at Sugamo prison after being condemned by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Hideki Tojo and six others died within 35 minutes. authorities withheld details and allowed no press access.
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Frank L. White
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Tojo
Sugamo
U. S. Supreme Court
Kenji Doihara
Koki Hirota
International Tribunal
Army Public Information Office
International Military Tribunal For
Far East
Mace Arthur
Seishiro Itagaki
Heitaro Kumura
Manchuria
Iwane Matsui
Nanking
Akira Muto
Philippines
Pacific
Eighth Army
MacArthur
Appeal Rejected in Cleveland Man’s Death Sentence
The Ohio Supreme Court refused Harold A. Beach Jr. of Cleveland's appeal of a first degree murder conviction and scheduled February 2 for his execution at the Ohio Penitentiary.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Harold A. Beach, Jr
Cleveland
Ohio
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