Chiang Resumes Role of Leader Of Nationalists
Chiang Kai shek resumes control as Nationalist China fights the communists after Chungking falls. Reds take city of 1,000,000, signaling a transfer of power while Nationalists organize a new emergency council and call in leaders to discuss shifting footholds in southwestern China. Confusion and vacancies mark the government’s effort to run what remains.
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CHENGTE
China
Chiang Kateshete
Chungking
Chiang
tan
NaHenallat
Athtorment
Itt Algh
genereilssimo
Chiungking
Reda
telecommunications bureau
Hong Kong
Nansing
Canton
chamber of commerce
Steel Silk Manufacturing co
Yangtze
New Union Eyes Court Suit Policy
The CIOs new Electrical Workers union outlined a policy against court actions that they say harass their membership drive. About 400 delegates at the weeklong convention adopted the declaration unanimously. A statement by acting leader Bo Carey urged caution and fairness from judges while criticizing efforts linked to opposition groups.
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PHILADULPUTA
CIO
Eleeterial Workers union
Bo Carey
talen
Carey
trde trath
atate epiets
agadiathic
Electeiens — Radio
aid Machine workers
United Eleetrical, Hautes and Machite workers
GENER
TER
Cohen Questioned On Crime Troup In LA and KC
In Los Angeles Mickey Cohen was questioned as authorities probe crime activity across cities including Kansas City and Chicago. Max Goldschein, special assistant attorney general for the Midwest, attended the grand jury session while Cohen was interrogated with Mrs Toby Pronsky, sister to Morris Klein, a Kansas City politician convicted for illegal votes in 1946 and sentenced to 18 months.
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LOS ANGELES
Dee
Mickey Cohen
grane daeye
Kansas City
Chicago
Max Goldschein
seneral
midwest
Cohen
Toby Pronsky
Morris Klein
Kansas
Kansas a Ity
Princ
Hiss Trial Character Witness Supports Loyalty Claim
In New York on December 1, Maryland headmaster Paul Banfield testified that Alger Hiss had a good reputation for loyalty integrity and veracity. Banfield, linked to Hiss’s stepson Timothy Hobson, offered support during the perjury trial as sixteen witnesses bolstered parts of Whittaker Chambers story about events in the mid-1930s.
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NEW YORK
Maryland
Alger Hiss
Paul Banfield
London
Montgomery county
Hiss
Timothy Hobson
Banfield
Henry W. Goddard
Washington
state department
bit
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Divorce Wins After Twenty Two Years Of Marriage
Guy De France, 74, won a divorce from Nina De Franca, 70, after 22 years of marriage in Los Angeles. He testified she believed churchgoers were crooks while she thought there were too many women in church choirs, and she thought all good people went to saloons.
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LOS ANGELES
Dee
Guy De France
Nina De Franca
De Franco
Arctic: Cold Locks Gold Strike Fate
In Fairbanks Alaska on December 1 oldtimers Sam Gamble and Eda Farrell return from the Fishwheel gold strike. They say no definite results until spring but prospects look bleak as Arctic winds and subzero temperatures hinder plans.
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FAIRBANKS
Alaska
Sam Gamble
Eda Farrell
House Members Call for Thomas to Resign
Washington December 1. House members say Rep. J Parnell Thomas of New Jersey should resign after sentencing was set on charges of cheating the government. His lawyers predict a resignation. others say the House could expel him if he stays. Thomas faced up to 32 years and a $40,000 fine for a salary kickback scheme. He changed his plea to no contest.
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WASHINGTON
house
J. Parnell Thomas
R-NJ
Capitol Hill
Thomas
William H. Collins
congressional
nolo contendre
Alexander Holtzoff
Res. Wickersham
D- Okla
Rep. Blatnik
D-Minn
Bridges Witness Story Attacked in Dual San Francisco Courts
In San Francisco one defense counsel, Vincent Hallinan, pressed to overturn a six month contempt sentence and bar from federal court while aiming to discredit government star witness John H. Schomaker. Schomaker testified he and Pi Harry Bridges were Communist Party members during the 1934 Pacific Coast waterfront strike.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Harry Bridges
CIO
Vincent Hallinan
federal district courts
Bridges
Hallinan
John H. Schomaker
CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s union
Schomaker
Communist party
Pacific coast
Small Indian boy mocks white men over ship disaster
In Victoria British Columbia a young anonymous Indian boy left a note at the Victoria Daily Times after the tug George McGregor capsized off the harbor killing six seamen. He urged rope on lifeboats to prevent overturns and ridiculed white men for not learning. The note included a drawing of rapids and a boat.
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VICTORIA
B.C
Victoria Daily Times
George McGregor
Victoria harbor
Gerry Anderson
Congo river
United Nations backs Western peace plan over Soviet bloc
In New York the United Nations General Assembly adopted a 12 point Western backed peace declaration by 58 to 5 as Yugoslavia abstained. Soviet bloc members objected with Andrei Vishinsky denouncing Yugoslav charges and insisting there is no gap between words and deeds.
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NEW YORK
United Nations assembly
Soviet union
Yugoslavia
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Marshal Tito
Sava Kosanovic
Vishinsky
Kosanovic
Chile
Hernan Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
May Ordered To Serve Term In War Bribes Case
Former Rep. Andrew J. May is ordered to begin a 24 month jail term for wartime bribery and conspiracy. Judge Henry A. Schweinbaut refused May’s appeal for a reduced sentence. May, who lived in Prestonsburg, must surrender Saturday to the eastern Kentucky marshal along with Henry A. Garsson and Murray Garsson, heads of a $75 million wartime munitions empire, who also face immediate imprisonment. The three were convicted in July 1947 for taking $53,000 in bribes linked to war contracts.
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WASHINGTON
Andrew J. May
Henry A. Schweinbaut
May
Kentucky
Prestonsburg
Henry A. Garsson
Murray Garsson
Bomb Victim's Elaborate Rites End In Dallas
In Dallas on December 1 an elaborate funeral was planned for Mrs. Herbert Noble age 36 killed by a bomb that exploded when she started her gambler husband’s car. Noble said police believe the device was planted for him by a policy wheel operator. A 29-year-old man was questioned with an alibi released. Noble claimed the mastermind was 1500 miles away but runs wheels here and has done so for years. This was to be Noble’s fourth known attempt on his life and many others were unreported.
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DALLAS
Herbert Noble
Noble
Navy asks oil firms to curb output to halt sinking
TRY TO HALT SINKING LONG BEACH Calif Dec 1 The navy has asked nine major oil producers to curtail their output in an effort to stop Terminal Island from sinking.
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LONG BEACH
Calif
navy
Terminal Island
Part Time Strike Invoked by Lewis
John L. Lewis called a three day work week for 480000 soft and hard coal miners starting Monday. He authorized contracts with individual companies allowing longer weeks if signed, while miners view this as a broader strike across the nation. President Truman learned of the move from Key West but offered no official comment during his vacation.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
som
Lewis
Indiana
O. L. Scales
TRUMAN
Key West
Fla
naval submarine base
Rocket Plane to Fly New York to San Francisco in Under One Hour
In New York a projected rocket airplane could cover about 10 000 miles in under an hour with a landing speed near 50 mph. The 80 by 9 foot pencil shaped craft with mid body wings and large tail fins was shown by Dr. Hsue-shen Tsien of Caltech, a Guggenheim jet propulsion center professor. The design is not yet built but deemed within reach of current tech.
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NEW YORK
CPA
San Francisco
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Rocket society
Hsue-shen Tsien
California Institute of Technology
Robert H. Goddard
Daniel and Florence Guggenheim jet propulsion center
Dr. Tsien
Indian Numbers Decline Noted
Washington December 1 The Indian population in the United States is rising according to Indian bureau officials. The rise is about one percent annually with an estimated 400000 to 425000 on tribal rolls. This compares with under 250000 in 1880 and 398000 in 1936. Counted figures exclude many with less than one fourth Indian blood who are not on tribal rolls.
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WASHINGTON
The Redman
United States
Indian bureau
bureau
Colorful Reporter Arouses Fears of Youthful Citizens
CHICAGO December 1 GRI In Pittsburgh a news broadcaster began his program John L Lewis Just Shot Santa Claus and then warned of a threatened coal strike Dozen Chicago children grabbed telephones and begged Say it isn't so The broadcaster NBC commentator Paul Long questioned whether it really happened and expressed disbelief
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CHICAGO
GRI
Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Santa Claus
Sun-Times
NBC
Paul ‘Long
Brussels Pact Atlantic Group Face Conflict
Paris dispatch reports a Brussels Pact Atlantic group clash over who voices the final say in defending Western Europe. U.S. Defense Secretary Les Johnson and Ambassador David Bruce attend a conference amid debate on integrated defense plans linking the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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PARIS
United States
rtalin
Europe
United Stes
Defense
Johnson
Ambasaador
David is
Bruce
Mrenel naval
atsy
aet
Seine
ARISHNAK
tg Aive
Brucels
Ding
geomig
rexponeibye
Tye
Allanlie group
santa
allances high command
weta
U.S
Canada
Wwerle
Truman
SHOHLOOD
busope
Atlantic juwers
pillary teaiers
Witadiny
France
Belgium
Lacie
Netherlands
Brussels
wall
Mayors Push Income Taxes Across Cities
Mayors from 200 regions unite to explore new revenue paths with income, gasoline, sales, tobacco taxes. Charles Henderson of Youngstown argues income tax helps fund urban needs amid state aid limits, noting its burden on earners but its reach to non property payers. He cites suburban residents using city services as a key gain.
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CLEVELAND
Ohie
Pennsylvania
Bil Maso
Charles P. Henderson
Youngstown
American Maniseipal association
Pileta
PinhalI Raid Seizes 650 Suspected Fire Thieves in Tokyo
Hand Tokyo reports a massive police operation as 650 officers raided 60 locations simultaneously arresting 140 Koreans on suspected arson links. Warrants had been issued for the Koreans, marking a wide crackdown in the area.
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PINHALI
TOKYO
Hilan
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