Red Spy Hunt Gains Impetus As Films Found
Un American Activities Committee expands its pursuit of Soviet espionage. Chief investigator Kert Stripling cites new, subpoenaed documents of great importance, not from Whittaker Chambers, and says microfilms and papers from Chambers deepen a vast espionage network within the State Department. Mundt calls the materials definitive of a major spy ring.
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WASHINGTON
house un-American activities committee
Kert E. Stripling
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Time magazine
state department
Maryland
Stripling
Rep. Mundt
R-SD
United States
state and
justice departments
Mundt
Hiss-Chambers
committee
Arrest of Manchuria Nationalist Leader Wei Li Huang
Shanghai reports the government has arrested Gen Wei Li Huang, Nationalist commander in Manchuria, following Chiang Kai-shek orders for investigation into his failure to carry out orders. Wei arrived Canton November 6, placed under house arrest three days later, then imprisoned December 1. He is said to have a daughter at the University of California.
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SHANGHAI
Wei Li-Huang
Manchuria
Wei
Canton
Chiang Kai-shek
Nanking
Burma
University of California
Times Square Floods After Water Main Break
A broken 20 inch water main flooded Times Square early today. Water rose to curb height, blocking cross streets between 41st and 42nd, detouring surface traffic while subway service remained on a Broadway section unaffected.
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NEW YORK
Times square
crossroads
41st
42nd streets
Broadway
Chronic pain cured by old bullet removal in Dijon
Reno Maltete a 64 year old farmer from Dijon had a 34 year stomach ache until doctors removed a German bullet from his abdomen. The operation, performed after World War I, relived his chronic pain and ended a long medical mystery.
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DIJON
France
Reno
British Peace Plan Approved by UN Committee
In Paris on December 4, the 58 nation UN political committee narrowly approved Britain's amended plan for Palestine conciliation 25 to 21 with 9 absent and 3 unrecorded. The full assembly will need a two thirds vote, and Russia led opposition over the commission's selection method. The plan envisages a three nation conciliation commission chosen by the Big Five. The panel rejected tying the commission to the 1947 partition and Bernadotte references.
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PARIS
United Nations
general assembly
Russia
Palestine
United States
Britain
France
China
security council
Holy Land
Israel
Arab Palestine
Berlin Holds Free Election in Soviet Blockade Island
Berliners in two thirds of the ruined city vote on a three party slate for municipal posts in a test of Western versus Soviet influence. The poll, watched by Allied observers, could signal endorsement or rejection of Western efforts to oppose Soviet control as food and coal planes fly over the “island of freedom.”
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BERLIN
island of freedom
Europe
Germany
United States
Britain
France
U. S
Russia
Warehouse Destroyed in San Francisco Fire
Fire gutted a warehouse and receiving docks of the California Motor Express company early today. The operating manager J H Croas tentatively estimated damage to stored freight and records at 300 000 dollars.
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SAN FRANCISCO
California Motor Express company
J.H. Croas
Armies Move In Crucial China Battle
Chinese Nationalist and Communist forces mass near Suchow as five Red columns under Chen Wei push toward the Suchow line, while 12th army struggles under siege. Refugees drown near the Yangtze as Nanking braces for a potentially decisive confrontation that could reshape eastern China.
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NANKING
Suchow
China
Chen
Hwai river
Associated Press
San Francisco
Chen Yi
Chiang Kai-shek
east China
Shangai
Yangtze river
Tan Gen-po
Marshall Visit Encourages Envoy
Chiang Kai Shek the Chinese first lady visits Washington for the second time in two days with Secretary of State Marshall and is expected to meet President Truman early next week. The White House meeting is described as social in nature and arranged for Mrs. Truman to attend. The pattern mirrors earlier sessions with Marshall and Chiang at Walter Reed hospital during his medical checkup.
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WASHINGTON
Dec
Chiang Kai Shek
Marshall
Truman
White House
China
Chiang
Walter Reed hospital
Cairo Police Chief Killed in Grenade Attack at University
Cairo police chief Selira Zaki Pasha died after a hand grenade exploded near the Faud university school of medicine amid a student strike against British policy in the Sudan. Three police cars were also said to be struck by grenades as ambulances ferried injured students away and dozens were arrested.
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CAIRO
Egypt
Selira Zaki Pasha
Faud university
Sudan
school of medicine
Mahmour Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
Palestine
Nokrashy
Ibrahim Shawki Bey
council of ministers
Jamil Mardam Bey
Syria
nots
Mardam Bey
Lebanon
Accused Rapists Sent to Prison in Alabama
In Wetumpka Elmore County, two white cousins received 45 year terms for raping two Black women. Jack Oliver, 21, pleaded guilty as testimony began and accepted the same sentence as his cousin John C. Howard Jr., 30, who was previously sentenced. Both were indicted on robbery and rape. Oliver pleaded guilty to raping Annie Grayson, 23, while Howard had been convicted of raping Melinda Jackson, 22.
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WETUMPKA
Ala
Elmore county
jery
Jack Oliver
John C. Howard, Jr
Oliver
Alabama
Howard
Annie Grayson
Melinda Jackson
Labor Leader Dies In Pressmen's Home
PRESSMEN S HOME TENN Dec 4 UP Gorge L Berry 65 year old president of the International Printing Pressmen s union AFL died today at his home at 615 am EST He had been ill since Tuesday and in declining health for years Berry had led his union nearly continuously since 1907 when first elected president
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PRESSMEN’S HOM
Tenn
cGorge L. Berry
International Printing Pressmen’s union
AFL
United States senate
Berry
coe
Fortune teller too accurate for Princess Margaret
Princess Margaret blushed and withdrew from a fortune telling at a nurses benefit ball in London. The 22-year-old Marquess of Blandford, long linked with the princess, reportedly heard startling romance readings but she pulled her hand back saying you’re much too accurate.
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LONDON
Margaret
Marquess of Blandford
Blandford
London Star
Sawyer Foresees Price Controls
New York Dec. 4 Charles Sawyer secretary of commerce said that if the federal military budget rises next year new economic controls will be likely to curb inflation He assured the National Association of Manufacturers that business has nothing to fear from an anti inflation program while warning that avoiding controls will require teamwork and restraint from those tied to the military effort.
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NEW YORK
Charles Sawyer
National Association of manufacturers
Sawyer
Truman
Washington
Dawes Recovers From Flulike Virus in Chicago Hospital
Charles Gates Dawes 83, former vice president and later ambassador to Great Britain, is recovering in St Luke's hospital from a virus infection described as influenza like. He entered the hospital on Wednesday.
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CHICAGO
Charles Gates Dawes
United States
St. Luke's hospital
Dawes
Coolidge
Great Britain
Assembly End Date Approved
The 14 nation steering committee approved an American plan to adjourn the United Nations assembly in Paris by December 11 or 12. The vote was 8 to 4, rejecting a British proposal to continue in Europe until current business ended.
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PARIS
United Nations assembly
Russia
Europe
Quake Strikes Prison Colony on Maria Madre Island
A three second quake at 6 34 p m near Maria Madre penal colony 75 miles from Mazatlan and 130 miles south of the city collapsed power plants shops and homes. One man killed radio operator Jose Antonio Baca and many injured. Coast guard boats and seven army planes were sent to the island as doctors nurses and supplies rushed in. Escapes unlikely but air crews warned to watch for boats leaving.
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MAZATLAN
Mexico
Maria Madre island
Islas Miaris
Pacific
Jose Antonio Baca
Sheieland
Kiangya Disaster Near Shanghai Sinks With Thousands aboard
AP reports a Kiangya steamer carrying refugees from Shanghai and Nanking exploded near the Yangtze mouth and sank within an hour. Death toll feared over 3200, with about 200 bodies recovered and 3000 still missing as rescue boats searched the wreckage and crowded decks.
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SHANGHAI
Des
China Merchant Steamship company
Yangtze river
Great Disasters Mark Peacetime Shipping Record
New York December 4 The explosion sinking a Chinese ship near the Yangtze mouth may be the worst peacetime marine disaster in modern history with at least 3000 feared drowned. The record lists other major ship disasters from 1865 to 1926, including the Empress of Ireland and Titanic losses.
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weiter
Shanghai
Nanking
Ningpe
Ninghsien
here
Chekiang
Hwa Foo
NEW YORK
Yangtze river
Hsin Yu
Ching coast
Canadian Pacific
Empress of Ireland
Storstad
St. Lawrence
Kickermaru
Japan
Titanic
north Atlantic
Gen. Clocum
East River
New York City
St. Thomas
West Indies
Sultana
Mississippi river
Memphis
Tenn
French Block Ruhr Proposal Shocks Allied Plans
Washington reports a French plan seeks lasting international supervision over German coal iron and steel output challenging American views. Autonomy for Germany would be limited by a new Ruhr authority to decentralize industry oust Nazis and guide investment, with Western control seen as too vague by officials.
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WASHINGTON
Germany
Ruhr
state department
ter
Henri Bonnet
Lovett
Bonnet
Russia
Hitler
Publisher Harry P. Hornby Sr. Dies in Uvalde
Harry P. Hornby Sr., 72, longtime publisher and collector of customs for the Laredo district, died late last night in Uvalde after illness from pneumonia. He had been ill for several days and passed away around 10 p.m.
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UVALDE
Tex
Harry P. Hornby, sr
Laredo
Toronto Records Warmest December 3 in History
Warmth unsettled Toronto as December 3 marked the highest temperature on record. Officials report the thermometer reached 32 degrees, setting a new historic reading for the date.
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