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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1948
Page
2
U S cooling policy toward Chiang Kai-shek and a Russian agreement to blockade talks raise questions. Truman expresses caution about deflation prospects as Western analysts offer commentary, not official positions of the paper.
The article portrays Chiang Kai-shek's leadership under pressure as US opinion shifts. Senator Connally criticizes Nationalist aid strategy while Madame Chiang's visit is viewed skeptically. Export-Import Bank cites China as a poor risk and resists new loans. Chinese forces in Suzhou and Suchow area attempt to relieve Nanking, with large armies encircled and dwindling defense.
The Berlin standstill stirred new hope as Russia accepted a UN Security Council mediated formula. Argentine Foreign Minister Bramuglia cited Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky agreeing to a neutral currency experts commission. Senator Connally predicted Berlin’s blockade would lift soon, saying a way out exists despite currency disputes.
Brambuglia and Western powers discuss a new mediation plan with neutrals China Colombia Syria Canada Argentina and Belgium to resolve the Berlin currency dispute. It envisions a commission of experts and aims to lift the Berlin blockade by introducing the Soviet zone mark as the sole currency. The Big Four seek immediate acceptance and coordinated controls on any new currency.
Officials say inflationary pressures still exceed deflationary forces though they have eased recently. The administration eyes a new wartime spending level and potential boosts to defense outlays, China aid, and lend-lease programs, which could renew inflation and lift living costs.
Army draft calls for January and February were slashed by more than two thirds as defense spending limits under President Truman pressed. January quota dropped from 20 000 to 10 000 and February from 25 000–30 000 to 6 000, with the army noting the next year budget is insufficient to build a 900 000 man force.
The map details U S marine reinforcements from Guam shifted to Tsingtao amid the Suchow fighting. An evacuation center was set up to ensure safe conduct for Americans as the battle between Chinese Reds and Chinese Nationalists reached its final phase in Suchow.
The Rev Kurt Szkalla says underground Christians form a “cave church” with millions of followers in western Soviet Union along the Don and Dnieper rivers. He visited Moscow in disguise and notes leaders face severe persecution.
The National Association of Real Estate Boards portrays public housing as a step toward state socialism in a pamphlet by its legislative committee. It targets the Taft Ellender Wegner bill seen as expanding federally subsidized low rent housing, while noting no solution to the housing shortage without more rental units.
The AMA meeting in St. Louis warned physicians they must volunteer in sufficient numbers or risk a special draft. Dr James C. Sargent urged readiness stating many doctors may take up uniforms in the months ahead to ensure medical care for soldiers.
United States exports for the crop year ending July 1 totaled 19 347 000 long tons the largest shipment by any country in a single year while millions benefitted from fed programs feeding the hungry worldwide and improving domestic lines.
Yaupon, a North Carolina shrub, can be brewed into tea and is even on a local hotel menu. An American holly related to Mate, its leaves and twigs are cured with hot stones then steeped in hot water with syrup and citrus.
Serbian Christmas customs center on a roasted suckling pig and outdoor fire. Families plant wheat on December 10 and display a miniature field by Christmas. A Yule log ceremony with an Eastward falling oak, candles, wine, and a coin wishes prosperity for the coming year.
The article explains that the biblical stable is a hewn cave rather than a modern stable. In biblical times shelters were carved from rocky ledges, and travelers often shared such caves with animals for warmth. Jesus was born in a cave now a grotto beneath Bethlehem's Church of Nativity.
Centuries ago great baronial halls in England built huge fires on Christmas Eve. Servants brought in a log intended to burn through Christmas. A brand saved from each year’s fire was used to light the next. Proper burning was believed to keep the devil from harming the household.
The Christmas tree serves as a global symbol with varied cultural touches. Japan adds Japanese dolls and fortunes, Germany features handmade paper chains, France glitters with ornaments and sugar balls, Italy honors the crib tradition dating to 1228, and the Czech nation decorates with gilded nuts apples and cookies resembling figures and huts.
The Romans celebrated December 19 as the Feast of Saturnalia with green boughs in homes. Druids decorated with mistletoe and Saxons used holly ivy and bay in their winter observances.
A Christmas tale recalls Swiss legends of winter beauty and sport with a custom claiming an onion cut in half and salted layers predicts rain if the layers stay salty by morning.
A busy column mixes social rumors and political chatter from Rome to Washington. Mentions Romano Mussolini eloping with Gioconda Mancuso, Danish royalty, London spats, and a string of U. S. political and entertainment notes from earnings to awards.
At a hill country town dance a refreshment table offered a thin sandwich and two olives. A local Romeo questioned the program, and a hillbilly belle shot back that a skinny sandwich would not fill her program.
A lone traveler on a dark street is ambushed by three attackers. He defends himself, knocking each assailant to the ground as a policeman arrives. The hero calmly lights a cigarette and reveals he is a railway porter, not a ju jitsu expert.
This ad suggests buying Camels and Prince Albert tobacco as ready wrapped gifts for friends who smoke. It promotes several cartons of Camels and pound tins of Prince Albert from a local dealer with festive wrapping and space for a personal greeting.
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