Dutch Attack on Indonesia Raises UN Security Council
Australia urged the United Nations to expel the Dutch from the U N unless they halt the assault on Indonesia Col W R Hodgson called the action the first clear cut violation of the UN charter The UN Security Council discussed the Indonesian dispute as the US resolution demanded an immediate halt and Dutch withdrawal Reports from Batavia said Dutch troops fired on Indonesian civilians while UN Good Offices officials reported gunfire heard around Kaliperang and Jogjakarta
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W. R. Hodgson
Australia
UN Security Council
Council
United Nations
Security Council
C. L. Hsia
China
Philip C. Jessup
United States
Indonesia
Columbia
Syria
Batavia
Java
United Nations Security Council
UN Good Offices
Kaliperang
Jogjakarta
Holiday traffic death toll estimate for Christmas
The National Safety Council projects 265 immediate traffic deaths from the Christmas holiday, spanning 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday. Final toll could rise with unreported fataL ties, but may be reduced if drivers and pedestrians exercise extra caution and weather worsens or improves. Ned Dearborn says the group hopes the estimate proves too high.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Ned Dearborn
Council
Armco Gifts Civic Association Building For Youth Center
Armco Steel announces a 24500 gift in cash and a building site to the Middletown Civic Association to construct a headquarters for Junior Achievers and Armco Scout units on Forest Ave. The project includes a 92 by 28 foot Steelex building with a large first floor assembly room and a basement workshop. The gift supports expansion of Junior Achievement and Boy Scout activities in Middletown.
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Armco Steel Corporation
Middletown
Armco
Forest Ave
Grant
Steelex
Sea Scouts
Air Scouts
Civic Association
Manchester Ave
The
Santa Visits 13 Dorseys In Papered Shack
In Fort Collins Colorado a Santa visit is planned for the 13 Dorsey children living in a tar paper two room shack. The mother, 26, with seven children, traveled from Panora to be near relatives and returns with her husband and six of his children. Salvation Army and welfare aid prepare gifts and groceries. A surgeon is arranged for the father's hernia so he can work.
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Fort Collins
Colo
Santa
Dorseys
Dorsey
Panora
Arthur
Salvation Army
County Welfare Department
Santa Claus
Dad
Parnell Thomas Ill in Allendale Home Amid Ailment
Allendale New Jersey AP reports Rep J Parnell Thomas age 53 is ill at his home with a recurrence of a prior ailment described as a gastrointestinal hemorrhage. He is in satisfactory condition per Dr Fred S Kanning. Thomas heads the House Un American Activities Committee and is indicted on conspiracy charges for padding payrolls. He and Miss Helen Campbell pleaded innocent.
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Allendale
N. J
J. Parnell Thomas
New Jersey Republican
Fred S. Kanning
Thomas
House
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Helen Campbell
Turkey Prices At Record High In Nation Amid Holiday Demand
Prices for Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys reach record highs across the nation. Over 18 pound turkeys run higher by about four cents per pound versus Thanksgiving, with chains around 80 cents per pound and Jacksonville stores at 89 cents for smaller birds. Larger birds cost about ten cents less per pound. Expect tight supplies due to a small crop and breeding adjustments, while other meats and vegetables remain plentiful at similar or lower prices. Oranges and vegetables show abundant, affordable selections for holiday meals. The days are past when bargains dominated the market.
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Associated Press
Jacksonville
Fla
Negev Front Flares as Israel Egypt Clash Reignites
Fighting erupts along the Negev frontier with air and ground forces, dampening hopes for armistice talks. The Negev desert, part of Palestine, was allotted to Jews by the 1947 UN plan. Israel’s October offensive drove back Egyptian troops, with a brigade bottled up at Faluja. Israel notified the United Nations it was ready to negotiate demilitarized lines and step by step release of the Faluja garrison.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Negev
Palestine
Faluja
United Nations
Child Taken For Revenge Reporters Told
A nationwide kidnaping search centers on three year old Vicki Snyder after her mother Braget and stepfather Braget took her from her foster home on a revenge motive. Grandmother Mrs Harry M Snyder says Christmas gifts wait and hopes for homecoming. District Attorney Carl B Shelley reports a felony warrant and flight from Tacoma Washington.
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Harrisburg
Vicki Jeanne Snyder
Vicki
Harry M. Snyder
Snyder
Carl B. Shelley
Washington
Fur dealer killed in Ohio car crash near Fostoria
Howard Benson, 45, of Monroe Michigan, a fur dealer, died last night when his car struck a stump along State Route 487 south of Fostoria. State troopers said Benson was alone and that the vehicle appeared to go out of control at a curve.
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Fostoria, O
Howard Benson
Monroe
Mich
Fostoria
Albert Kinney
Benson
Philadelphia to buy 274 patrol cars at 27 dollars each
Philadelphia city officials said an automobile firm offered to sell 274 new cars to the city for 27 dollars apiece with a trade in. The cars would be used as police patrol vehicles.
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Philadelphia
Cabin Boy, 13, Fights Sharks and Escapes
Russell Anthony Latona, 13, of Sacramento, leaped from the Grete Maersk after Danish cabin boy Bent Jeppsen, 14, was killed by sharks off Cape Maisi Cuba. Russell fought sharks for nearly two days, drifting ashore near Taco in a life belt. He is reported in remarkably good condition at a U S Naval hospital with rescue credited to his life belt.
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Cuba
United States Naval Hospital
Russell Anthony Latona
Sacramento
Cal
Bent Jeppsen
Jeppsen
Bent
Russel
Russell
Cape Maisi
Taco
Cuban
Adm
W. K. Phillips
U. S. Naval Operating Base
Canines Help End Reading Christmas Shopping Woes
In Reading Pennsylvania a newspaper photo of three dogs from the Humane Society sparked a rush at the city pound. All 25 dogs offered yesterday were adopted, solving last minute Christmas shopping woes and promising a merry season for Reading families.
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Reading
Humane Society
House Committee Labels 13 CIO Officers as Communists
The House Committee on un American Activities branded 13 CIO officers as Communists and warned workers of strikes under a Communist government. It named four union presidents including Harry Bridges and Ben Gold and asserted Communist influence remains in several unions. The report urged cleansing by rank and file and warned of a future where unions could be wiped out if Communists ruled.
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House Committee
CIO Union
Washington
House
UnAmerican Activities Committee
CIO
Harry Bridges
Longshoremen's Union
Ben Gold
The
Fur and _ Leather Workers
Abram Flaxer
United Public Workers of America
Donald Henderson
Food Tobacco and Agricultural Workers
United Electrical Workers and
American Labor Party
Democratic Leaders Propose Streamlined Ohio General Assembly
Ohio's 98th General Assembly may convene January 3 on a streamlined schedule if Democrats prevail. Sen. Margaret A. Mahoney and Rep. John F. Cantwell proposed joint hearings and reduced committee numbers to shorten the session, possibly to four months, with Lausche's approval expected.
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General Assembly
Ohio
98Th General Assembly
Margaret A. Mahoney
Cleveland
Senate
John F. Cantwell
Youngstown
House
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
Miss Mahoney
Can
Bly
97Th Assembly
Cantwell
Columbus
Death Plunge Victim Given Clean Slate
New York AP report says House UnAmerican Activities Committee member Rep Richard Nixon cleared Laurence Duggan in the espionage case. An autopsy found no evidence of criminality in Duggan’s 16 story fall from a Manhattan office. Officials pursued the inquiry under Mayor O’Dwyer, expecting results by noon.
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NEW York
House
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Laurence Duggan
Richard M. Nixon
Rcal
Washington
State Department
New York City
Duggan
Manhattan
White Christmas Prospects Flicker Across Midwest
AP reports a white Christmas likely for the mid continent with fresh snow in the central Rockies spreading into the central plains. Forecasters expected a white Christmastide for much of the Midwest while northern states faced record cold with sub zero readings near the Canadian border and temperatures down to 16 below in North Dakota towns.
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Chicago
Mid-Continent
Central Rockies
Central Plains
Midwest
North Central States
Canadian
Bismark
N. D
Grand Forks
Minnesota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Montana
Boy, 12, Decapitated in Willoughby Car Crash
Gary Graun of Mentor, 12, died when the car he rode in collided with a truck in Willoughby. The AP report notes the fatal accident occurred last night involving a local youth from Mentor.
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Lad
Willoughby
Gary Graun
Mentor
War Vet and Family Die in Plane Crash Near Alice
A wealthy World War II veteran and his wife and three children died when their plane crashed 36 miles northeast of Alice Texas. Authorities described the family as prominent and the tragedy as a fatal aviation accident extending their losses. The incident occurred late last night drawing swift investigations by local officials.
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Alice
Tex
Here
Orville Miller
Dallas
Miller
Oreville B., Jr
James Crane
Robert Stanley
Stinson
Joe Schackerl
Orange Grove
Texas
Millers
Benavides
Duval County
M. M. Miller
M. M. Miller Oil Company
Supervend Corporation
Dalelas
Okinawa
Herbert
M. M. Miller, Jr
Bennevides
J. F. Dunn
Nationalists Drive Back Reds Near Tientsin and Yangtze
Nationalist warships at Tangku repelled Red attacks on the outskirts of Tientsin, with government sources claiming 1,500 Reds killed and 800 more wounded yesterday. Fu Tso yi headquarters said Reds were driven back north of Peiping as Peiping residents show support for defenders. Meanwhile Nationalists near Nanking increased watch posts along the Yangtze as weather eased.
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Nanking
Tangku
Tientsin
Associated Press
Spencer Moosa
Peiping
Moosa
Fu Tso- Yi
North China
Here
Yangtze
Kiaangnan Evening Post
Sun Fo
Mrs. Chambers Is Acquitted Acquittal follows police testimony
Mrs Whittaker Chambers was acquitted of causing the death of 70 year old Mrs Maggie Thom as in a traffic crash last Friday. Patrolman L F Davis testified there were no skid marks and nothing unusual about the accident. Chambers said she knew nothing about the crash until she saw a flash and felt an impact while driving from her Westminster Maryland farm home to meet her husband.
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Baltimore
Whittaker Chambers
Maggie Thomas
Chambers
Reuben Caplan
L. F. Davis
Westminister
Thomas
Army nurse Rosellen Doyle Killed in Traffic Crash
Ellria AP report states Army nurse Rosellen Doyle aged 46 died in a traffic accident last night. She was stationed at the Army hospital in Glendale Maryland.
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Elyria, O
Rosellen Doyle
Army Hospital
Glendale
Czechoslovak DC-3 seen wrecked in Greek hills
U S searchers said a Czechoslovak DC-3 missing Tuesday with 24 aboard en route from Rome to Athens was spotted wrecked in the Taygetos mountains near Kalamata Greece. No survivors reported Captain Arthur G Ray said amphibian planes were being prepared to reach the crash site and bring the group to Kalamata for land travel to the hill. Unofficial reports indicated most passengers were Jews bound for Israel, with five Brazilians among 19 passengers and five crew members.
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Athens
Greece
U. S
Palestine
Arthur G. Ray
Amarillo
Texas
Taygetos Mountains
Kalami
Kalamata
Ray
Kalamai
Israel
Rome
Earthquake Felt near Cleveland and Kamchatka
A seismograph at John Carroll University recorded a strong quake centered near the western Aleutian Islands. The quake began at 3:52 a.m. EST and may have affected Kamchatka in the Soviet Union, with the Cleveland area feeling the tremor about 24 hours later.
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Cleveland
John Carroll
Aleutian Islands
Kamchatka
Soviet Union
Christmas Celebration Starts Early For President Truman
Independence Missouri AP reports President Truman began Christmas preparations early. A 10 foot tree stood in the White House parlor as Mrs Truman and Margaret decorated it. Carols were sung by local students on the White House lawn while Truman remained indoors. He planned to drive to Kansas City for more work in quarters at the Hotel Muehlebach.
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Truman
White House
Delaware St
Margaret
William Chrisman
Independence Junior High School
Hark
Herald Angels
Hideki Tojo
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