U S halts Marshall aid to Dutch East Indies after Indonesia clash
The United States suspended all Marshall Plan aid to The Netherlands East Indies pending settlement of hostilities with the Indonesian Republic. Paul Hoffman cited full State Department consultation, with Indonesian charges of aid being used to crush the republic. Dutch ambassador denied recovery funds funded armaments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Netherlands East Indies
Republic of Indonesia
Paul G. Hoffman
ECA
Netherlands
State Department
D. Loemitre
Lovett
Eeleo van Kleffens
Netherlands Far Eastern
Fair Enough Claims Roosevelts and Press in Spy Scandal
The piece accuses a Roosevelt communist ring and Harvard law affiliates of stealing and leaking secrets to the Soviet Union. It targets Eleanor Roosevelt, Whittaker Chambers, Henry Luce, and President Truman, alleging treachery and media complicity while urging impeachment and continued suppression of truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard Law School
United States
American Free Press
China
Henry Luce
Time-Life-Fortune Group
Eleanor Roosevelt
Chinaboy
Whittaker Chambers
Time
Eleanor
Luce
Shantung
Truman
State Department
Roosevelt Cabal
Roosevelt’s Body Still Unfound After Island Crash
Hong Kong dispatch reports four bodies remain in the ashes of a CNAC C-54 crash on Basalt Island killing 35. Grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, 29, was on a Shanghai to Hong Kong trip. Rescue teams work to identify mangled remains as parts and debris litter the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Quentin Roosevelt
Basalt Island
Theodore Roosevelt
Rocky Island
Shanghai
Roosevelt
Former Newsman for World Dies in Georgia
William W. Ellison aged 47, a Columbus Ledger-Enquirer editorial staff member, died after three months of illness. He began his career with the Columbus Enquirer-Sun in 1923 and served as managing editor previously. His career spanned Pensacola, Hollywood, Daytona Beach, Savannah, Macon, Bogalusa, Monroe, Spartanburg, and Greensboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
William W. Ellison
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Columbus Enquirer- Sun
The
Enquirer
Pensacola
Hollywood
Daytona Beach
Fla
Savannah
Macon
Bogalusa
Monroe
Spartanburg
S. C
Greensboro
N. C
Truman Flies to Independence for Christmas
President Truman departed Washington by plane for Independence Missouri to spend the holidays. He traveled with a secretary staff and Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham his physician Mrs Graham and their two children. He planned to return December 29 bearing a three page memo on the economy and material for his state of the union message.
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Washington
Truman
Independence
Wallace H. Graham
Graham
Kansas City
Santa Claus
Edwin G. Nourse
Four Relapses Hospitalized Over Donora Smog Tragedy
Four of the victims of Donora's lethal smog that killed 20 last October were readmitted to hospitals with relapses. Dr. William Rongaus said none are newly sick from air exposure, but remain weakened from the first attack. The American Steel and Wire Company hired the Kettering Laboratory to probe the disaster as state and federal agencies study the case. Public health officers say no single plant is responsible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donora
William Rongaus
Donora Board of Health
Rongaus
George Weisdock
Dr. Rongaus
American Steel and Wire Company
Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology
University of Cincinnati
Profit scrutiny blueprint for tax and policy overhaul
Washington reports lawmakers draft a plan as a Senate House economic subcommittee wraps an extended inquiry into current profits. Senator Flanders notes big corporations must consider social and economic impact as profits influence wages prices and tax revenues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate-House
Flanders
R-Vt
Chiang Okays New Cabinet During Chinese Crisis
Chiang Kai-Shek approved a Sun Fo led cabinet aiming for an honorable peace as Communist forces advance toward the Yangtze. Nationalist troops retreat southward. observers question the fate of north China and whether a deal with the Reds is possible.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Yangtze
Chiang
North
Sun Fo
Sun
Mer cury Dives To Seven Below In North Dakota
The report shows temperatures dipping to seven below zero in North Dakota while Miami Florida records a heat wave at 83 degrees. Forecasters expect 5 to 15 above in North Dakota with sub zero readings in Montana Minnesota and Wisconsin. Colder air moves southeast across the central Mississippi and Ohio valleys as rain and light snow are noted in the Appalachians and Great Lakes region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mercury
North Dakota
Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Montana
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
Appalachians
Great Lakes Region
Northwest Pacific Coast
Dutch Accused Of Violating Treaty
Christmas customs across Europe are described with Pere Noel the whipping father in France and Jan 6 gift traditions in Spain Italy and Czechoslovakia. The piece notes Russia observes Christmas on January 7 and the tale of Ded Slav Santa Claus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
France
Pere Noel
Santa Claus
Spain
Gaspar
Balthazar
Melchoir
Jesus
Italy
Befana
Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
Moravia
Russia
11 Year Old Airman Shoots Off Finger After Rattlesnake Bite
In Hattiesburg Mississippi on December 22 an 11 year old airman, Paul Douglas Carter of Eatonville, bitten on the right index finger by a rattlesnake while hunting near home, fired his shotgun left handed to amputate the finger. The amputation was completed at a local clinic and his physician reported no lingering symptoms of snake bite.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Paul Douglas Carter
Eatonville
Brookley Air Force Base
Mobile
Ala
Carter
Renville Accord Allegedly Violated by Dutch Forces
United Nations good offices committee accuses the Netherlands of breaking the Renville truce as Dutch troops push through Indonesian Java and Sumatra. The report notes a Dutch plan to campaign while communicating with Republicans and cites a December 17 letter deemed an ultimatum.
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Kenneth Likes
Batavia
Java
United Nations
Good Offices Committee
Renville
Sumatra
Netherlands Republic
Security Council
Paris
U. N
Republic
Merle Cochrane
United States
T. W. Cutts
Australia
Netherlands
U. S
Mohamed Hatta
Navy B-17 in peril over sea near San Francisco
A four engine B-17 from Honolulu, reported down earlier, remains aloft toward the mainland with about 325 gallons of fuel, burning 200 gallons per hour. Coast guard and navy planes rendezvoused at 9:45 a.m. PDT and escort the bomber at 11,000 feet as its altitude and fuel dwindled.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
Navy
Air Force
Coast Guard
Memory book donations total three thousand fifty four
A list of contributions from numerous individuals and organizations to a local memory fund or tribute, totaling 3054.25 with various small amounts given in memory of relatives and in support of community programs. Names include Mrs. Joe Trammell, Arden Girault, Rae F. Rinehart, C. T. Baird, Jim Cox, Lake Oxford, Lions Club of Monroe, and F. Strauss & Son Inc. The item references the Twin Cities area and mentions a wrestling event proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Trammell
Logborg
Pauline
Lester Kranz
Sam Kranz
Bunny Girault
Arden Girault
R. L. Rinehart
Rae F. Rinehart
Wharton
Jean Elstner Frazer
C. T. Baird
T. W. Baird II
Farmerville
Recreation Dept
Wien
Lake Oxford
Curtis Seaman
Oon
Mike. Rogers
R. W. Germany
Lions Club of
Monroe
John M. Meng
Citizenship Club
Geor- Sim Nes Och
Louis Arent
D. J. Hirsch
F. Strauss & Son, Inc
George M
Snell- Sig Mutt
W. H. Thomp
International force to guard Ruhr aims to curb German arms
A six nation conference plans a joint international police force to patrol the Ruhr and prevent secret arms production. An international control board will supervise the force and limit Ruhr output while addressing ownership questions. Participants include the United States Britain France the Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg.
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London
Ruhr
Germany
United States
Britain
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Control Board
Henri Queuille
Accused Slayer Must Not Laugh in Murder Case
Chattanooga doctor warns Lester Lawson to avoid laughter to prevent dislodging a .38 bullet in his heart after a November 11 shooting that killed Buck Bowman. Lawson, 38, a auto mechanic from Suck Creek Mountain, spends hours blowing bubbles to strengthen damaged lungs. He faces murder charges as the case unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Lester Lawson
Lawson
Buck Bowman
Suck Creek Mountain
Tojo and six others hanged for war crimes
Tokyo December 23. Former premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed by hanging at Sugamo prison. The seven were condemned by the international tribunal for crimes against humanity after a long postwar trial. The U S Supreme Court previously refused to intervene in their appeals.
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Frank L. White
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Tojo
Sugamo
U. S. Supreme Court
Kenji Doihara
Koki Hirota
International Tribunal
Army
Associated Press
Hideko Tojo
Pearl Harbor
General MacArthur
Supreme Court
Four killed including sheriff and family in Mississippi case
A manhunt in Lucedale Mississippi grew for a 48 year old estranged husband after the shotgun slayings of Sheriff J E Nelson Mrs Murdock Hinton 45 and her daughter Gloria 18 and two month old Judy at the Hinton home. Gloria had urged the sheriff to a domestic trouble scene before he was killed. The coroner ruled all victims shot to death as investigators found the slain baby and Mrs Hinton in the wrecked car and set roadblocks along the search path.
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Lucedale
Miss
Here
Murdock Hinton
Gloria
Judy
George County
J. E. Nelson
Justice of the Peace
J. W. Havard
Mississippi
Alabama
Atmore
Ala
Mrs. Hinton
Havard
Justice Havard
Nelson
Hinton
First condemned man dies at midnight in execution line
Report says the first condemned prisoner died at 12:01 a.m. local time as others followed in a delayed sequence. Details on who died first and the exact order were not released.
Duggan Death Plunge Probed in New York
Mayor O Dwyer ordered a thorough NY police investigation into the death of Laurence Duggan after a telegram from Sumner Wells said Duggan did not die by his own action. Duggan fell from his 16th floor office near Fifth Avenue on Monday night. Officials seek whether death was suicide, accident, or foul play amid earlier committee testimony linking Duggan to a prewar episode.
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New York
O'Dwyer
Laurence Duggan
Sumner Wells
State Department
Duggan
Fifth Avenue
Karl Mundt
R-S. D
House the American Activities Committee
Springfield Curb Mail Service Proves Popular
Springfield postal authorities test curb service for Christmas mail rush. An officer at the central post office collects letters from motorists as they pass, easing traffic and praised by patrons for speed and convenience. Postmaster West M. Rourke notes the service addresses the busy season and is well received.
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Springfield
Ill
Central Post Office
West M. Rourke
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