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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1949
Page
2
Batavia reports turmoil as Indonesia’s defense minister predicts troublemakers may mar the peaceful sovereignty transfer. Indonesian troops patrol Batavia in uniforms of guerrilla forces, while Dutch troops prepare to retreat to barracks for Independence Day celebrations and clashes are feared.
Sultan Hamengku Buwono, deputy premier of the new U S government, will accept authority over Indonesia from Dutch High Commissioner Lovink in Batavia. He warns against troublemakers during the transition and says military representatives will govern five territories while civil authorities run areas without siege. The ceremony mirrors a planned Amsterdam event with Queen Juliana and Premier Hatta. A French Champagne region dish features dandelion and bacon salad.
Central standard time on Sunday Dr. Grupe died about 5 am. He was a member of the state board of chiropractic examiners. The younger Grupe, a Texas A and M sophomore, searched for help, found an empty house, then got lost. A search for the plane continued after it had communicated with Fort Worth Municipal Airport at 6:30 pm. Dr. Grape reported flying at 3,000 feet with fuel for 75 minutes. No distress call was made, and he was not heard from again. A plane in trouble was reported near Weatherford as Slidell lies northeast of Weatherford in Wise county. Dr. Grape departed San Angelo for Fort Worth at 4:44 pm yesterday.
One dies in a Newark fire that damaged three houses as the nation reports statewide death tallies by category. The list shows Alabama five, California twenty five, New York twenty one, Texas thirty nine totals across traffic and miscellaneous fatalities.
The Russian indictment states the unit 731 was founded in 1936 by a special decree of Emperor Hirohito. It quotes Kiyoshi on intensified bacteriological warfare after 1941, including plague-carrying fleas dropped on Changteh in 1941 and again in June 1942 with dissemination of cholera and other pathogens through water supplies.
Christmas passed quietly with a notably calm shipping day while New York City enjoyed a water surge of 163 million gallons in its reservoirs. In Manhattan a one year old, Thomas Brown, became trapped in an elevator for 23 hours after it stalled between floors Saturday, drawing attention to rescue delays.
Early today violence surfaced as stones were thrown at newspaper show-windows of Communist Unita and pro Communist Rinascita and Avanti. The small Nationalist party urged leaders of all parties to declare a holy year truce to prevent incidents and disorders amid a pope dominated popular front setback.
Cary Grant considered marriage as a continuing theme in his life. Born in Bristol, England, he arrived in the United States in 1929 and naturalized in 1942. His prior marriages include Virginia Cherrill in 1934 to 1936 and Barbara Hutton in 1942 to 1946. His fiancée, Miss Drake, by now an American citizen, was born in Paris and is working on a film project with extended honeymoon plans delayed by production.
In 1949 Hollywood showed a year of headlines around Rita Hayworth Ingrid Bergman Robert Mitchum and Shirley Temple while easing into stronger pictures and faith in entertainment. It notes best pictures All The Kings Men Battleground Champion The Heiress A Letter to Three Wives and The Bicycle Thief as best foreign film with Marie Wilson Hopalong Boyd and others making comebacks.
Highlights of film year noting losses for Wallace Beery Harry Davenport Richard Dix Frank Morgan Sam Wood and Maria Ouspenskaya. Celebrities include Bob Hope and Humphrey Bogart incident.“In the Good Old Summertime” tops musical, “The Window” a sleeper, and Wheeling glassware 1819 craft fame noted in the upper Ohio river valley.
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