Li Tsung-jen to fly to United States for medical treatment
Nationalist China acting president Li Tsung-jen will depart for the United States Monday, reportedly to enter a New York sanitarium for medical treatment, as Communist forces press a two way offensive against Chengtu. Chiang Kai-shek seeks Li's resignation though Li may still resign before departure.
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Hong Kong
China
Li Tsung-jen
United States
New York
Chengtu
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
San Francisco
Pan American World Airways
Train Leap Claimed Death by Own Action
Hamburg, Germany December 3 AP One of nine French expelled from Poland was killed today by leaping from a French military train in the American Zone. The victim, M. Guy Affray, was said to have died by his own action after doors were locked and he reportedly smashed a window to escape the train, according to a French rail traffic officer in Helmstedt.
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Hamburg
Germany
Poland
M. Guy Affray
Helmstedt
Gasoline Rationing Ends in France This Week
Premier Georges Bidault announced France will stop gasoline rationing on Monday. The move comes with a price of 45.80 francs per liter, about 52 cents per gallon. In other news, about 65 percent of all feldspar mined in the United States comes from the Spruce Pine area of North Carolina.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
U. S
North Carolina
Hippo motif decorates new Monterey Park grade school front
A reader notes terrazzo hippos on the brick facade of a Third Street Monterey Park grade school, marveling at the novelty and pondering hidden meanings while praising the use of the unused Oak Street park area for the building project.
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Monterey Park
Oak Street
Stop Communism Program Drafted
Tokyo dispatch reports Senator Knowland outlined a seven point plan to curb communism in Asia. He would recommend Gen. Douglas MacArthur as U S high commissioner in the Far East and push for new diplomatic teams, military buildup, and an air naval blockade if Americans held remain unfreed.
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Tokyo
Japan
William F. Knowland
California
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Asia
Knowland
Far East
Senate
Congress
MacArthur
United States
New
Post
Washington
H. Alexander Smith
New Jersey
Republican
Albert C.) Wedemeyer
China Theater
China
Woman Jury Frees Man and Cries Under Judge’s Rebuke
An all-woman jury acquitted James Comber, a 31 year old Philadelphia bartender, of murder after testimonies he kicked Hubert E. Madden to death following a drinking bout. Judge Joseph Sloane condemned the verdict as a miscarriage of justice, admonishing the jurors as they sobbed and one fainted, amid courtroom uproar.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Sloane
James Comber
Hubert E. Madden
Comber
John P. Walsh
Sloane
Independence Lures Determined Teenager
Joanne Haver an 18 year old daughter of a Kansas City patent medicine maker disappeared from Marymount School in Westwood saying she fled to make her own way by playing piano in a sheet music shop. Police traced her to a Santa Monica telegraph office where she wired her parents for money and later reunited with her mother. She plans to go home but insists on continuing to make her own way.
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Los Angeles
Marymount School
Joanne Haver
Kansas City
Westwood
Santa Monica
C. V. Haver
Missouri City
Joanne
Brothers Die Within Hour at Good Samaritan Hospital
James L. Ruisinger, 24, and Ruth Ruisinger, 21, both asthmatic, died within an hour yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix. Their parents are Leo E. and the late Mrs. Ruisinger, 1546 West Flower Circle. James was admitted November 19 and Ruth arrived at 3:40 p.m. James died at 4:20 p.m. The father is a local general contractor.
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Phoenician
Good Samaritan Hospital
James L. Ruisinger
Ruth
Leo E. Ruisinger
West Flower Circle
James
Ellender urges Russia action over more aid
Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana called for the United States to "call Russia's hand now" and stop pouring more money into economic aid for Communist threatened countries. He spoke amid debate on foreign aid measures in Seoul Korea on December 3.
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Seoul
Korea
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana
United States
Russia
Brigham Young student named among campus favorites
News Around Phoenix lists Robert Horton Green of 2236 North 39th Street as one of BYU's ten most preferred men on campus, noted as a Navy veteran in his second year. The item reflects campus social recognition and local family details.
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Robert Horton Green
C. W. Green
North 39Th Street
Brigham Young University
Green
Uranium Bomb Powder Allegations Linked to Hopkins
Former Army officer G Racey Jordan testified on a radio program that wartime shipments to Russia included secret State Department documents and uranium labeled as bomb powder. He claimed Harry Hopkins pressured fast lend lease ops via long distance calls, while Gen. Groves avoided comment amid unspecified inquiries. Jordan, now with American Pacific Industrial, pressed for confirmation.
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Washington
Army
United States
Russia
Harry Hopkins
G. Racey Jordan
Hopkins
Foosevelt
Jordan
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Stephen T. Early
Defense
Roosevelt
Early
Great Falls
Mont
Lendlease
Fairbanks
Alaska
State Department
White House
Groves
Lewis
Leslie Groves
Darien
Conn
Congress
Anatole Kotikov
Air Inspector General
American- Pacific Industrial Corporation
New York Contractors and Construction Engineers
Two Car Collision Kills Four People
Four persons died in a two car crash seven miles north of Plainview at sunup today. The victims were Bob Willis Floyda da Tex William Youngblood 45 Tucumcari New Mexico and Fred Geer and Mrs B E Robinson both of Amarillo Texas.
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Plainview
Tex
Bob Willis
Floydada
William Youngblood
Tucumcari
N. M
Fred Geer
B. E. Robinson
Amarillo
Record Spending Seen For 1949 Construction Surge
Washington reports that the Departments of Commerce and Labor foresee a record amount of dollars spent on new construction in 1949, a projection described as virtually assured. The announcement cites rising activity and strong demand in housing and commercial projects. The statement signals a robust postwar building boom and implications for jobs and materials markets.
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Washington
Departments of Commerce and Labor
Oil Fire Kills One at Colorado Oil Well
A flash fire at Union Pacific No. 53 oil well in Rangely Colorado killed one man and injured three others. Firefighters battled the flames as workers were evacuated from the site. Authorities investigated the cause of the blaze and the extent of injuries.
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Colo
Union Pacific
Dormitory Fire After Alarm At Wister Campus
A one story business building and a wooden dwelling burned in Wister early Thursday. A dormitory with five wings suffered a middle section blaze. Alvin Levine of Oklahoma City, sleeping in the dorm, described escaping via a second story ledge with about ten others. Several residents were injured but not seriously. The president listed numerous individuals as injured. causes and full details remain under investigation.
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Page Onesha
Wister
Alvin Levine
Oklahoma City
Levine
Charles Edwin Brower
Eldorado
Kan
Mario Bagenti
New York City
Norman Hardwick
San Antonio
Tex
Jene Hunter
Duncan
Okla
Bill Johnston
Joplin
Robert King
Robert Klinke
Binghampton
N. Y
Gene ‘Lichtenstein
James Melnyk
Big Valley
Canada
Harry J. Owens
Coffeyville
Logan L. Riggs
Monroe
E. W. Vorlop
Dallas
Jack Schneps
James Edward Williams
Sulphur Springs
Harvey Carew
Livingston
Party To Honor Club's President
The Maricopa County Democratic Club will honor its president Mrs. Grant Merrill with a Christmas party at 8 p.m. Monday in the Assembly Hall 1738 West Van Buren. A program has been arranged by Mrs. Lillian Trosper and gifts will be exchanged. Mrs. Grace Law will act as hostess.
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Maricopa County
Democratic Club
Grant Merrill
Assembly Hall
West van Buren
Lillian Trosper
Grace Law
Christmas Aid Sought for 6 Kids and Sick Mother
A widowed mother with six children faces deep poverty and illness. The family needs $9 to provide food for Christmas and basic clothing, while the older children help with work but shoes and warmth remain scarce. The piece highlights the broader dairy industry context with 50,000 fluid milk distributors and 40,000 processing plants.
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Gazette
Phoenix
Phoenix Gazette-Phoenix Community Council
United States
Eight Injured in 3 Car Crash on North Central Ave
Eight people were injured, two seriously, in a three car crash in front of 2631 North Central Avenue. Mrs Irma Camp 28 of Altona Park and Mrs Elizabeth Loucks 54 of 628 North Second Avenue hospitalized with fractures. Police name drivers W A Howard 55 Joe J Ivelin 33 and Paul R Ball 27. Ball rear struck Howard pushing into Ivelia's car. Also notes another accident near Hadley and Montezuma and a bicycle collision at Drive In Theater.
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North Central Avenue
Irma Camp
Altona Park
St. Monica’s Hospital
Elizabeth Loucks
North Second Avenue
W. A. Howard
North Dayton Street
Joe J. Ivelin
Villa Motel
van Buren
Paul R. Ball
Arizona State College
Tempe
Ball
Howard
Ivelia
Palms Theater
James A. Camp
Mary E. Ball
Michael Ball
Ralph W. Scandlin
North 22Nd Avenue
Jacqueline Camp
Albert Turner
South 10Th Street
St Monica’s Hospital
Hadley and Montezuma
Cecil Ricks
East Corona Avenue
Wendell Reed
van Buren Street
East van Buren Street
Winfred Crowley
North Sunset Drive
Reed
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Naikiang
Shensi
Shensi-Szechwan
Second Ave
NZONA
Ellender
P. W. Bradley
East McDowell Road
Phoenix Title and Trust Company
Bradley
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D. C
Walter Groll
East Edgemont Avenue
H. Gerhardt Groll
West Turney Avenue
Walter
John William Wishon
United States Treasury
C. B. Wilson
J. W. Owens Women’s Relief Corps
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall
Louella Steele
Trumbull County
Ohio
Morrow
Las Ramadas
South Mountain Park
Picknickers
Thomas Monson
Encanto Park
State Motor Vehicle Bureau
Papago Park
Lawrence H. Caruthers
Arizona
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
First Institutional Baptist Church
Fifth and Jefferson Streets
L. D. Nelson
John R. Murdock
Local 78
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers
Six Points
Claudia
Brassieres
PRIC
Dres
Coats
East McDowell
Terbin
Phoenix Association OF Insurance Agents
Phoenix, Arizona
Party To Honor
Aia Via
Newberry
First Ave
M. E. Lewis
Johns-Manville
Jf Engineering & Supply CO
W. Fillmore
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