Headstrong Hayden and her two friends spark Park Avenue run in New York
Westbrook Pegler reports a young adoptee delinquent plus two companions, one white and one Mocha, roaming until 3 a.m. Police find two loaded pistols and stolen jewelry from her foster-mother. The incident provokes debate on democracy and social class, with clergy noting the girl’s anti Jim Crow stance while critics blame poverty fantasies and Hollywood stereotypes.
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New York
Hayden
James Conway
Park Avenue
St. Patrick's
Hollywood
White House
Welfare Check Darkens Christmas Needs in Local Notice
A plea from charitable donors details families in need, including a sick single mother and a crippled peddler family with two young children. It appeals to Good Fellows to provide aid before January welfare help, outlining distressing shortages like no shoes and winter clothes.
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Good Fellows
VETS ADVISED TO HAVE PHOTOSTATS
Baton Rouge veterans are urged to obtain full sized photostats or full certified copies of discharge papers for the state bonus. Bonus administrator Thomas C. Glaze warned that delays could crowd photostat shops and clerk offices if veterans delay. Wallet size copies and brief extracts will not suffice. Veterans will be notified when applications are ready.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Thomas C. Glaze
Glaze
Air Force Expands to Sixty-Group Force Under Berlin Lift
Washington reports Berlin airlift accelerates U S expansion to a sixty group air force, adding nine troop carrier units and a transfer of the 317th wing from Tachikawa Japan to Germany. A fighter wing joins Panama defense, with total groups by next June set to reach sixty six.
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Washington
Air Force
Japan
Germany
Panama Canal
Berlin
Tachikawa
Drew School Bid Accepted by Quachita Parish Board
The Quachita parish school board voted unanimously to accept the low bid of Frank Masling and Son for Drew School construction at 58,224 dollars. Thirteen bids were reviewed after an executive session, with plans by local architect H. H. Land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quachita Parish
Frank Masling and Son
Drew School
H. H. Land
R. G. Cruse Lumber Co
J. A. Harper
McBride and Son
W. G. Haynes
R. J. Jones and Sons
W. C. Salley
L. M. Ray
Heard and Son
Humble and Humble
Gilbert Bros
Lincoln Builders
J. H. Garland
James H. Trousdale, Jr
Parish
Ward 10
Monroe
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Visits President Truman
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek arrives at Blair House for tea with President Truman to press for broad American aid to the hard pressed Chinese government. She met Secretary of State Marshall and will seek high level military assessment while officials question the Chinese leadership's ability to reverse Communist gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Washington
Truman
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Blair House
White House
Mme. Chiang
Marshall
State Department
George H. Steele Dies After Prolonged Illness in Monroe
George H. Steele, 67, longtime Monroe resident and former real estate and sand and gravel businessman, died after a five week illness. He served with the Monroe fire department, and his funeral will be at Stone Avenue Methodist Church with interment at Riverview Burial Park. Pallbearers include his nephews and fire department members. He leaves a wife, a daughter Mrs. Shelby Hill, two sisters, a brother, and several nephews.
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George H. Steele
St. John Street
Monroe
George Tidwell
Jim Steele
Steele Haile
Vance Haile
Grammont and
Jackson Streets
Post Office
Steele
Monroe Fire Department
Shelby Hill
J. A. Haile
A. S. Tidwell
J. C. Steele
Israel to lift siege of Faluja and withdraw from Negev
A United Nations official said Israel agreed to a stage by stage withdrawal from the Negev, allowing 1200 Egyptian troops at Faluja to leave. Israel plans to negotiate a withdrawal pace while Bunche oversees mediation as the General Assembly considers a Palestine resolution and new conciliation commission.
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Paris
United Nations
Israel
Faluja
Negev Desert
Palestine
Ralph J. Bunche
Negev
Egypt
General Assembly
United States
Jerusalem
France
Belgium
Truce Commission For
Australia
Canada
China
Colombia
New Zealand
Brazil
Nazareth
Lower Galilee
Jesus Christ
Holy Places
U. N
Chambers Resigns From Time Magazine
Whittaker Chambers, a confessed ex Communist courier and key figure in espionage probes, resigns as senior editor of Time Magazine. The move follows his decision to reveal information about Communist espionage and comes as Priscilla Hiss testifies before a grand jury.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Pricilla Hiss
Alger Hiss
Federal Building
Time
Chambers
Red Underground
Henry Julian Wadleigh
State Department
Hiss
Carnegie Foundation For International Peace
Wadleigh
Vienna
Doolittle Raider Becomes Missionary in Japan
Salem Oregon December 10. Jacob Deshazer the Doo little Raider who survived capture after Tokyo mission now plans to return to Japan as a Free Methodist missionary with his wife and young son. Deshazer recounts a change from hatred to faith sparked by a prison Bible and says about a million tracts have been distributed in Japan with 10000 responding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Ore
Doolittle
Tokyo
Japan
Jacob Deshazer
San Francisco
Free Methodist Church
Deshazer
Seattle
Florence Matheny
Toddville
Iowa
Death of Monroe Contractor T L Venable
Thomas L Venable 69 a Monroe contractor and Hotel Frances builder died after a short illness He lived 24 years on Sterlington road The funeral is set for 3 pm Saturday at Hixson Bros Funeral Home Rev Ernest Holloway officiates The body goes Sunday to Bays Church near Kentwood La for family plot interment He leaves a wife three sons Ernest George Richard all of Monroe five daughters J L Wilson Hugh Johnson West Monroe Patrick McHenry Virginia Irene Haygood Lake Charles and Walter Myley Lake Charles three brothers H M Venable Greensburg J D and Willie Venable Greensburg five sisters Clyde Brown Bogalusa Lula Coleman Jena Bethel Jones West Monroe Bessie Lawson Greensburg Annie Carter stepmother George Venable Greensburg ten grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Thomas L. Venable
Monroe
Hotel Frances
Sterlington Road
Hixson Bros. Funeral Home
Ernest D. Holloway
Bays Church
Kentwood
Venable
Nancy J. Venable
Ernest
George
Richard Venable
J. L. Wilson
Hugh Johnson
West Monroe
Patrick McHenry
Virginia
Irene Haygood
Florida
Walter Myley
Lake Charles
H. M. Venable
J. D
Willie Venable
Greensburg
Clyde Brown
Bogalusa
Lula Coleman
Jena
Bethel Jones
Bessie Lawson
Annie Carter
George Venable
Noted violinist and singer Albert E. Ruff dies at 94
Albert E. Ruff, renowned violinist and singer linked with Brahms Liszt and Grieg, died yesterday a month before his 95th birthday. Born in Glasgow, he taught voices to many stars including Geraldine Farrar who paid him 3000 dollars for a month. Ruff played in a Brahms directed string orchestra and recalled Rubinstein turning pages in rehearsal. He lived in New York and Chicago, where he worked with Florenz Ziegfeld. at 93 he gave a noted concert in Chicago.
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Los Angeles
Albert E. Ruff
Brahms
Liszt
Grieg
Ruff
Europe
America
Geraldine Farrar
Metropolitan Opera Company
Glasgow
Scotland
Germany
Johannes Brahms
Arthur
Anton Rubinstein
New York
Chicago
Florenz Ziegfeld
Death toll climbs from Tecumseh power plant blasts near Topeka
Eight men died and 17 were injured in a sequence of blasts at the Kansas Power and Light main plant near Topeka, knocking out electricity for hours. Rescue teams searched debris as hospitals operated on emergency basis and traffic stalled. The Tecumseh site lies five miles east with reports of gas odor and extensive structural damage.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas Power and Light Company
Tecumseh
Here
Yule Sales Near Peak as 1948 Holiday Buying Slows
Washington reports Christmas department store sales declined for a fifth straight week, down four percent from 1947, with regional drops from two percent in Boston to eight percent in San Francisco. Inflation signals ease as housewives curb buying and business loans also fall in late November.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
FRB
Boston
San Francisco
Federal Reserve
Friendly Nations Paper Uncovered in Spy Hunt
Vital military secrets from friendly nations were found among stolen government papers uncovered by the American Activities Committee in its Red spy probe. The papers involve British battleships, Chinese bombers, and Argentine war material, with suspect number three urged to attend a hearing in Appleton Wisconsin.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
American Activities Committee
Truman
Appleton
Wis
National Bureau of Standards
Pearl Harbor caught again on seventh anniversary
Honolulu reports that radar tracked 21 aircraft during a B 36 flight from Fort Worth to Pearl Harbor and back, sparking debate over Hawaii defense. Officials note in peacetime there is no way to block all unannounced aircraft and civilian signals limit identifications.
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Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Fort Worth
Tex
T. W. Blackburn
Strategic Air Command
Hawaiian
John D. Bartlett
Oahu
Blackburn
Gift Turkey for Truman on Way from Minnesota
A 35 pound broad breasted bronze turkey is packed for a flight to the White House for Christmas. Croydon McCully of Maple Plain Minnesota, president of the National Turkey Foundation, will deliver the bird to President Truman. The turkey was raised by Clint Moline of Isanti Minnesota.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
White House
Truman
Croydon McCully
Maple Plain
Minn
National Turkey Foundation
Executive Mansion
Clint Moline
Isanti
Chiang Kai-Shek Extends Martial Law Across China
President Chiang Kai-Shek extends martial law to all Nationalist controlled China with exceptions for western provinces and Formosa as civil war tightens. Shanghai Nanking and Peiping under martial law earlier. Communists push to cut river lines and threaten Nanking defenses along the Hwai river and Grand Canal.
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Seymour Topping Naneng
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Formosa
Nanking
Peiping
Red
Hwai
Yangtze
East China
Pengpu
Shanghai
Grand Canal
Sheng Pao
Hwaiyin
Hwaian
Paoyng
Movie boss ties firing policy to federal censorship threat
Louis B. Mayer testified at Lester Cole’s trial that a threat of federal censorship pushed Hollywood to dismiss employees in contempt of Congress. Mayer said the industry acted to appease the public after Cole refused to answer House questions about communism.
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Los Angeles
Louis B. Mayer
Congress
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Lester Cole
Hollywood Ten
Mayer
Cole
James K. McGuinness
M. G. M. McGuinness
Birth of Prince Announced Again in Radio Mix Up
In Twin Falls Idaho on December 9 Radio KLIX announcer George Platis read a melodramatic line about Princess Elizabeth giving birth. A transcribed program aired a New York City news bulletin and a phantom royal birth, causing confusion and many calls asking about the event.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
George Platis
Klix
Platis
News Room
New York City
Princess Elizabeth
Flatts
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Westbrook
Pegler
Louisiana Tertulia Book Club
J. F. Wetwek
Lizzie Morris
Betty Jane Mage
BR. B. Major
Recesess
Carol Jean Cahn
Saewe
Barkdull Faulk School
Panieiss
Shirley
Patsy
Carol Aene
Juanita Beene
DREW
Frank Masling
Madame Chiang
President Truman
George Steele
Frankie Wojciechowski
Perth Amboy
N. J
Rena Ivan
Artemio Jugo
Doolittle Raider
T. L. Venable
U. S
Tack
Navy
Army
Chiang
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