Navy Institute exposes wartime merchant marine rogues
The December Naval Institute Proceedings review accuses National Maritime Union leaders of Communist ties and wartime criminalism aboard American merchant ships. Lieut. Holmes F. Crouch argues discipline must improve to keep the merchant fleet reliable and ready as a wartime adjunct to the military, warning of future conflict without warning.
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United States Naval Institute
National Maritime Union of the C. I. O
Joseph Curran
Mike Quill
Transport Workers
Stalin
Hitler
Naval Institute Proceedings
Holmes F. Crouch
Coast Guard
Curran
White House
War Labor Board
Crouch
Roosevelt
National Maritime Union
Merchant Marine
Navy
Army
Air Force
Roosevelt Party
Mr. Crouch
Reno Quake Sparks Continuing Fears After Tremors
Reno Nevada and Verdi area endure after a strong quake that damaged buildings and disrupted power lines. University of Nevada seismologist Vincent P Gianella warned of further quakes possibly another heavy one as snow hampers fissure investigation near Verdi Idaho?
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Nev
Reno
California
University of Nevada
Vincent P. Gianella
Gianella
Verdi
Peace Talks Fill Nanking As War Fears Persist
Nanking reports peace talks flood the city while officials deny a Chiang Kai-Shek conference. Spokesman Shen Chang-Chuan says consultations rather than a formal meeting. Li Tsung Jen rumors denied as leaders converge in Nanking amid signs of possible January moves.
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Harold K. Milks
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Shen Chang-Chuan
Chiang
Shen
Li Tsung-Jen
Peiping
Fu Tso-Yi
North China
T. V. Soong
Kwangtung
Lu Han
Yunnan Province
Yen Hsis-Han
Taiyuan
Teng Wen- Yi
Huai River
Tu Li-Ming
Sun Yat Sen
Tientsin
Two Japanese Lieutenants Sentenced to Life for Massacre
In Tokyo on December 30, Lieutenants Noboru Hashiyama and Teruo Akamine were given life terms for beheading captured American B 29 pilots after Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender. They were tried separately from 32 others, nine of whom received death sentences after mass killings of 33 Americans. The U S Eighth Army commission delivered the verdicts.
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Tokyo
Noboru Hashiyama
Teruo Akamine
Hirohito
Japan
U. S
Eighth Army
Democrats in Congress Move to Limit House Rules Powers
Washington dispatch says House Democrats plan to trim the powers of the rules committee to avoid bottling up labor and civil rights bills. Rep Sabath would set up a code of fair treatment for witnesses and allow bills to be pulled from committee with a petition.
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Washington
House
Rules Committee
Sam Rayburn
D.-Tex
Representative Saban
D.-Ill
Sabath
Committee On un-American Activities
Truman aims to keep military costs within safe limits
President Truman seeks to hold annual military outlays at a safe low level amid a world at war with cost controls likely to be debated in Congress. Officials say the next year could pass with no new domestic curbs unless a major emergency arises, as rearmament and foreign aid continue.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Congress
Body of Baby Found in West Pensacola Swamp
A two month old girl was found dead in a swamp west of Pensacola by a quail hunter. Sheriff Kendrick called the death murder and said the infant appeared beaten with exposure listed as the cause. A coroner’s jury recessed until Jan. 31 without a report.
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Pensacola
Fla
R. L. Kendrick
Mathis Lambert
Kendrick
Roosevelt responds to accusations over Faye Emerson incident
Elliott Roosevelt held a news conference in Poughkeepsie after questioning by the county DA. He said there was no family disagreement and that Faye Emerson’s wrist cut was accidental, aiming to clear insinuations and defend her safety.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Elliott Roosevelt
Faye Emerson
Roosevelt
Dutchess County
W. Vincent Grady
C. Fred Close
Emerson Suf
Duchess Convicted of High Treason in Madrid
The Duchess of Valencia, Luisa Maria Narvaez Y Macias, is found guilty of high treason and sentenced to one year in prison for monarchist activities. A monarchist ally, Jose Pardo Balmonte, gets ten months. two army officers face court martial. Nine months of penalties counted from April 6. The case, tried by a 3 judge panel without jury. Prosecution sought three years. fines exceeding 1,000,000 pesetas already paid.
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Madrid
Duchess of
Valencia
Jose Pardo Balmonte
Spain
Luisa Maria Narvaez Y Macias
Don Juan
Truman reads and plans as new Congress convenes
President Truman, back from Missouri, prepares for the 81st Congress due January 3. He will deliver the State of the Union in person, present the economic report and budget requests, and wrap up foreign policy matters. A fogbound return delayed landing for 44 minutes as Truman and officials waited in the rain at the airport.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Missouri
Capitol Hill
81St
Mt. Vernon
Independence
Francis (Frenchy) Williams
Mr. Truman
Twelve airmen rescued from Greenland icecap named happy and healthy
Twelve U S airmen stranded on a 17 800 foot Greenland icecap for 19 days were rescued and reported in good condition. Maj Gen Caleb V Haynes praised the rescue team led by Lt Col Emil M Beaudry and noted only a minor forehead cut to a co pilot. The men will likely remain near Bluie West One with families rather than fly to New York for leave.
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Argentia Naval Basf
Greenland
Caleb V. Haynes
Air Force
Fort Pepperrell
St. Johns
N. F
Bluie West Eight
Arctic Circle
Haynes
Bluie West
New York
Emil M. Beaudry
Forrestal seeks greater power over armed services
Secretary of Defense Forrestal urged Congress to amend the unification act to grant the defense secretary direct authority over the army navy and air force. He also pressed aid to re arm non Communist Europe even at home costs and hinted at a satellite vehicle program. He warned the nation faces hard decisions possibly higher taxes and shortages as dollars flood Europe.
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Truman
France
Secretary of Defense
Forrestal
Europe
America
Mr. Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
Edwin G. Nourse
United States
Defense Secretary
Air Force
Navy
Auto Licenses To Go On Sale In District
C R Tidwell announces 1949 auto license sales begin January 3 for passenger cars light farm trucks and farm semi trailers in Monroe sub stations. Other license categories will be sold at Monroe office with out of Monroe district sites in West Monroe Ruston Bastrop Winnsboro Jonesboro Rayville Delhi and Farmerville listed with sale days through February 5.
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C. R. Tidwell
State Department of Revenue
Monroe
West Monroe
Ruston
Bastrop
Winnsboro
Jonesboro
Rayville
Delhi
Farmerville
Kerosene Heater Explodes In Hut Fatal Levee Fire
Four Kelly children die in a river hut blast at 313 Walnut street just before 6 a.m. Parents Willie and Beatrice Kelly escape with infant Patsy. Victims are Lillian 15 Clara Etta 6 Victor 4 and Joseph Lloyd 2. Coroner Dr. J T French rules accidental burns. Firefighters from stations 1 and 9 remove bodies.
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Walnut Street
J. T. French
Ouachita Parish
Willie Kelly
Patsy
Lillian Kelly
Clara Etta Kelly
Victor Kelly
Joseph Lloyd Kelly
French
Kelly
Beatrice
A. W. Branch
Caldwell Seeks Rehearing In Crowell-Collier Suit
Florida Governor Millard Caldwell asks the U S Fifth Circuit for a rehearing and modification of its order in Caldwell v Crowell Collier. He challenges the court’s characterization of the verdict as excessive and objects to references implying a north south clash and bias in the trial.
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New Orleans
Millard F. Caldwell
Florida
U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company
U.S. District Court For
Caldwell
United States
Circuit Court
North
South
New York
David
Goliath
Ivanhoe
the Templar
Cold Wave Hits Monroe Area With Tragic Fatal Fire
A severe cold spell dropped temperatures to 3 degrees below zero and a peak of 33.5 degrees in Monroe area. A river bank shack fire caused four children to die from an overheated oil stove as the house burned. Warmer weather is forecast afterward.
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Twin Cities
Vatican excommunicates Catholics linked to Mindszenty arrest
The Vatican excommunicated all Roman Catholics involved with the arrest of Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungary’s primate, in a decree dated December 28. The move targets those connected to his imprisonment and to Archbishop Stepinac’s 1946 conviction, framing the offenses as gravely infamous.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Sacred Consistorial Congregation
Cardinal Mindszenty
Mindszenty
Apostolic See
Holy See
Yugoslavia
Alojzije Stepinac
Stepinac
Ouachita Parish Voters Seek Re registration Start
The Ouachita parish registrar of voters Miss Lillian Collins announces re registration for all voters will begin Monday January 3 and run through 1949. Re registration occurs every four years with 1945 last period. The office will be open daily except Sundays and holidays and until 30 days before the election. The voting list is expected to grow from 6,000 names in 1925 to about 30,000 in 1949.
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Ouachita Parish
Miss Collins
Ouachita
Foster parents await Vicki Snyder return as extradition looms
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania the three year old Vicki Jeane Snyder remains with foster parents awaiting her return from California. Extradition proceedings are set for the child’s mother and her second husband to face kidnapping charges. The Bragers say they adopted Vicki at four months. The Snyders say the adoption was lawful and no fraud occurred.
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Harrisburg
Vicki Jeane Snyder
California
Vicki
John Brager
Tacoma
Wash
Los Angeles
Harry M. Snyder
Nctor
Brager
W. L. Browneing
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Westbrook
Pegler
Leno
Ouachita River
L. C. Noland, Jr
Rankin
E. Roosevelt
Defense
Tidwell
Federal Circuit Court
Collins
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