Fair Enough by Westbrook Pegler
Pegler criticizes teachers in colleges and high schools for pushing unionism as fact while urging students to study union constitutions and real-world outcomes. He argues Truman cited Taft Harris law remarks to mislead youth and warns against perceived union propaganda from press and officials. He contends only by clause by clause analysis of unions can truth be found.
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Wall Street
National Association of Manufacturers
Truman
Odd Christmas customs across American towns
The Associated Press notes varied Christmas customs from Boise's sheep-herders ball to Nashville carolers, Ro danthe Old Christmas on January 6, and upstate New York communities embracing a broader, international festive flavor.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Rodanthe
N. C
New York
Probe ends in Duggan death inquiry no new verdict
New York police concluded a three day probe into Laurence Duggan's death, maintaining he either jumped or fell from the Institute of International Education building. The case remains open with a final report sent to Police Commissioner Walander. Welles and Berle attended Duggan’s funeral.
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New York
New York City
Laurence Duggan
State Department
Duggan
Institute of International Education
Arthur Wallander
Sumner Welles
House
American Activities Committee
Welles
Adolf Berle
Amended amnesty frees 15 high ranking Japanese suspects
Tokyo reported a surprise amnesty on Christmas Eve freeing 15 high ranking Japanese war crime suspects from Sugamo prison. Among those released were members of Tojo's Pearl Harbor cabinet and several former ministers. two major defendants remained on trial, and two died recently.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Sugamo
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Shumei Okawa
Hayao Tada
China
Kumataro Honda
Yakahhiro Suma
Foreign Office
Madrid
Fugamo
Nobusuke Kishi
Michiyo Iwamura
Ken Terashima
Kisaburo Ando
Kazuo Aoki
Greater East Asia
Alva C. Carpenter
Korean President Shakes Up Cabinet Amid Tense Politics
President Syngman Rhee announced a cabinet reshuffle: Chang Taik Sang will be replaced as foreign minister by Ko Chang Li and offered as special envoy to London, while Home Minister T Y Yoon is replaced by Capt Shin Seung Mo. Lee Yun Young becomes Social Affairs Minister. Chun Jin Han resigns amid police actions against a rightist youth leader.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Chang Taik Sang
Ko Chang Li
Chang
London
T. Y. Yoon
Shin Seung Mo
Korea
Yoon
Philippines
Lee Yun Young
Chun Jin Han
Chun
Peiping and Tientsin Jammed With Nationalist Troops
In a dispatch from Nanking dated December 24, Harold K. Milks reports Peiping and Tientsin are crowded with well supplied Nationalist forces. They have withdrawn into the cities and offer only a defensive posture, seemingly unprepared to engage Red troops, signaling waning Nationalist will north of the Yangtze.
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Harold K. Milks
Nanking
China
Yangtze
Peiping
Tientsin
Chiang Kai- Shek
Manchuria
Kalgan
Tangku
North China
Lin Piao
Fu Tso-Yi
Rotary Club’s Gift Is Large
The Rotary Club of Monroe raises funds through the Old Hoss sale for the Good Fellows cause, detailing donations from members and supporters totaling 257.80 plus 9000 from McCain Richards and other contributions from local groups. Eleven trucks from Monroe and West Monroe aided the campaign and local bakers supplied bread for the drive.
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McCain-Richards
Jan
Gay Demmary
Jennie Bell Fudickar
Medora Jayne Pearce
Rotary Club of
Monroe
Old Hoss” Sale
West Monroe
Rapuseece
Kiel
Goodfellow
McGuire Golf Club
James McDade
Oak Grove
Dik
Susan and
Jane Cecoereeeese
Rotary Club
Amvets
City Bakery
Ouachita Baking Company
White Christmas Outlook Dampened by Wide Snow Spread
Snow fell across a broad area with travel hazards from Kansas to Montana. Weather forecasts predicted heavy accumulations in the north central states and up to five inches in Pennsylvania by Christmas Day as cold snap and strong winds caused damage and deadly accidents.
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Chicago
Santa Claus
Kansas
Missouri
Rocky Mountain
Pennsylvania
Richfield
Utah
Salmon
Idaho
Montana
Christmas Eve Pilgrimage Blocked by War and Weather
Bethlehem, birthplace of Jesus, faces its strangest Christmas Eve in 1949 years as Arab Jewish clashes and fortified roads halt travel. Sand bags, barbed wire, and mine zones clutter Judean hills, while rain, hail, and fog impede movement. Thousands still journey toward Bethlehem in a tense Holy Land.
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James M. Long
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Jesus Christ
Joseph
Mary
Holy Land
Truman Budget Taking Shape Amid Fiscal Forecasts
Washington December 24 The administration’s 1950 budget is seen near 42 to 43 billion dollars with bets on a small deficit of 1 to 2 billion if taxes stay unchanged. Current year outlays run around 29 billion dollars as final figures are awaited.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
World Christians Seek Brighter Christmas Across Nations
Christmas hope spans Europe with Germany seeing high prices and scarce goose, France enjoying luxury meals despite cost rises, Britain prepping for a milder Christmas with plentiful poultry and loosened rationing, while King George and Queen Elizabeth remain in London due to illness and Italy reports improved meals under the recovery program.
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London
Germany
Paris
Britain
Food Ministry
George
Elizabeth
Sandringham
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Spy Hearings This Year End
Washington December 24 The congressional spy hearings end for the year with changes likely in the House Un American Activities Committee as four new members join. Current members plan to advise the 149 committee while no reforms are endorsed. Mundt and Nixon draft proposals for hearings and due process while McDowell opposes shifting control before the new body.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Congressional
Congress
House un-American Activities Committee
149 Committee
Mundt
Nixon
R.-Calif
McDowell
R.-Pa
Rankin
D.-Miss
Christmas Masses Plan Midnight Services at Grace and St Matthew
Grace Episcopal Church hosts a 11 30 p m midnight Eucharist with a carol concert and full liturgy featuring Mrs W W Cloud and Mrs David Agnew, Cruickshank settings, and festive hymns. St Matthew's schedules two midnight masses in church and school auditorium with Monsignor J C Marsh and Father T J Lennon leading and singing respectively.
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Grace Episcopal Church
St. Matthew’s Catholic Church
Grace Church
Carrilon
Ave Marie
Schubert
W. W. Cloud
David Agnew
Kyrie Eleison
Cruickshank
Simper
Pietro von
Camille Hancock
J. C. Marsh
T. J. Lennon
Ex-GI Reinjures Leg After Leaving Hospital for Christmas
Robert W. McCully a 27 year old former G I left McKinney VA hospital on crutches to visit family in Oklahoma City. In Fort Worth his foot slipped on a store stairway and he broke the same leg again.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Robert W. McCully
McKinney
Veterans Administration Hospital
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
McCully
United Nations Orders Indonesian Cease Fire and Dutch Release
The United Nations voted for an immediate cease fire and demanded the Dutch release Indonesian leaders including President Soekarno and Premier Hatta. Australia and the United States proposed the resolution with Syria backing it, while Russia abstained and other proposals failed. The council also faced a separate Palestine truce discussion as fighting flared in the Negev.
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Joseph E. Dynan
Paris
United Nations
Netherlands
Security Council
United States
Australia
Soekarno
Mohamed Hatta
Syria
Palestine
Egypt
Israel
U. N
Negev
Russia
Indonesia
Jacob A. Malik
France
Argentina
Canada
Belgium
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Truman greets Independence in snowy Christmas visit
President Truman walked through snow to greet friends in Independence Missouri visiting Mayor Sermons grocery post office and newspaper early then prepared to address the nation at 5 16 p m EST from the White House living room signaling the lighting of the giant White House living tree during Washingtons Christmas Eve ceremony
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Independence
Truman
Roger T. Sermon
White House
Delaware Street
Washington
Robert P. Patterson
Missouri
Accused Slayer's Trail Narrowed Across Gulf Coast
The hunt for Murdock Hinton, 48, of Lucedale Mississippi, believed to have killed four people, narrowed to a two miles square wooded area west of Mobile Alabama. A fugitive warrant was issued as witnesses identified him in Pascagoula and Mobile. Authorities said a Mobile fireman, who knew him, identified Hinton and that officers were ordered to "shoot to kill."
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Mobile
Ala
Murdock Hinton
Lucedale
Miss
W. H. Holcombe
Mississippi
Alabama
Talley Rollings
Hinton
Gloria
Julia
J. £. Nelson
Nelson
Rollings
Canada Recognizes State of Israel in De Facto Form
Ottawa December 24 Canada recognizes the state of Israel and its provisional government in de facto terms matching the United States and Union of South Africa. External dependence and effective internal government within defined territory are cited as conditions of statehood by External Affairs Minister L B Pearson.
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Ottawa
Canada
Israel
United States
Union of South Africa
Russia
Chaim Weisman
David Ben-Gurion
Great Britain
L. B. Pearson
Shreveport Man Kills Wife Then Himself in Grocery
In Shreveport Louisiana a man named George W Nobles killed his divorced wife in a grocery store as she shopped with her 14 year old son and then shot himself dying shortly after at hospital Deputy Coroner Charles S Boone said the couple had been divorced for several months and Mrs Nobles was mother to six children.
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Shreveport
E. G. Huckabay
George W. Nobles
Charles S. Boone
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