Dutch Halt Talks With Indonesia Over Interim Plans
The Netherlands ends United Nations sponsored negotiations with Indonesia and says talks are useless unless the republican government shifts its stance. An interim regime may be formed in other Indonesian areas by Jan 1, while the U N assembly in Paris nears its end. Chinese civil war updates and European relief efforts are noted, with a Berlin airlift crash killing one crew member.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Netherlands
Indonesia
Batavia
U. N. good offices
republic
United Nations general assembly
Paris
Palestine
United States
Britain
Folke Bernadotte
U. N
China
Hwei river
Pengpu
Nanking
north China
Peiping
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
Washington
Truman
Marshall
U.S
Bad Homburg
Christmas village blossoms in Savage into Santa Heim town
A southern Maryland hamlet becomes a Christmas wonderland as Savage is renamed Santa Heim. Harry Heim turns a 200-year-old textile mill complex into a festive center with 28 000 lights, a toy town, a post office full of Santa letters, and live reindeer. Special trains from Baltimore and Washington bring hundreds of youngsters, while Heim's trinket business flourishes to about 2.5 million dollars yearly.
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SAVAGE
Maryland
Santa Heim
Heim
Harry Heim
Savage lock, stock and barrel
Washington boulevard
Santa Claus
Baltimore & Ohio railroad
Heim will
Baltimore
Washington
Germany
Japan
San Diego
Calif
Santa
Grand Jury to Examine Spy Films in New York Session
New York December 11 AP The grand jury will examine the famous pumpkin microfilms of vital U S government documents after U S Attorney John F X McGahey announced House Un American Activities Committee authorization. Witnesses include William W Pigman and his brother George Pigman with Alger Hiss also present. The panel planned 10 am Monday sessions with possible night sessions as the term nears its end.
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NEW YORK
federa grand jury
U. S
John F. X. McGahey
house
American activities committee
Whittaker Chambers
Maryland
Chambers
PIGMAN
McGahey
William W. Pigman
Appleton
Wis
U. S. bureau of standards
Richard M. Nixon
William W
George
George Pigman
state department
Alger Hiss
house un-American activities committee
Hiss
Henry Wadleigh
house committee
grand jury
congressional
Prison break tunnel dug by convicts near escape ends in capture
Walla Walla Washington December 11 UPI officers questioned inmates tied to a failed prison break. Two men captured after guards dug into the courtyard tunnel and both suspects kept digging toward freedom. Authorities believe as many as eight men worked on the tunnel over six days beneath the hospital and prison buildings. The escape attempt, the first major one in 13 years, involved 70 feet of tunnel and a three foot spread into the courtyard. Amada Cadena and Harry Callas, both serving long terms, were identified among those involved.
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WALLA WALLA
Wash
UPI
Washington state prison
Tom Smith
Smith
Amada Cadena
Yakima county
Harry Callas
King county
Woman brings ripe strawberries from backyard garden
Montreal resident Mrs James Lyon entered a newspaper office with a bag of freshly picked strawberries from her backyard garden. The unseasonably warm spell keeps temperatures around 35 degrees Fahrenheit, prompting early fruit harvests.
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MONTREAL
Que
James Lyon
Dennis Day Becomes Father to Patrick James McNulty
Irish tenor Dennis Day and wife welcome their son Patrick James McNulty. Both mother and baby are reported to be doing well, with Day continuing his singing career.
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DENNIS
HOLLYWOOD
Dennis Day
Day
Patrick James McNulty
Marines Await Shanghai Call
Shanghai dispatch reports U S marines may be sent to Shanghai in an emergency during China s civil war. Admiral Oscar C Badger stated marines would protect American citizens but not intervene in the war. Businessmen faced decisions to stay or leave as the policy shifts soften.
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SHANGHAI
Amercans
U. S
China
Oscar C. Badger
Badger
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
Crash Survivors Return to Hickam
Twenty two sunburned air men survivors of the C-54 ditching in the Pacific southwest of Johnston Island arrive at Hickam field. Five more of the 33 survivors expected tonight as litter patients. Four of the 37 aboard were lost. Survivors rushed to Tripler general hospital for checkups. The crew praised the pilot Lt Col William R Calhoun for a near flawless ditching.
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HONOLULU
Pacific
Johnston Island
Hickam field
Tripler general hospital
anc
iest
Joseph L. Smith
Logan
Ohio
William R. Calhoun
Birmingham
Ala
Smith
Demand Recall Of Diplomats From Romania
The United States demands Romania recall two top Romanian diplomats in Washington as Bucharest calls for the removal of two American and two British diplomats. Washington rejects Romania's espionage sabotage charges as ridiculous and contrary to fact.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Romania
state department
Bucharest
department
Greek butcher claimed killed by booby trap in Epirus
Athens December 11 the Greek government called the Epirus butcher a Communist leader killed by a booby trap the general staff announced today.
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ATHENS
Epirus
Berserk gunman slays two men in Riverside canyon
In a remote canyon settlement north of Palm Springs a berserk gunman set fires and killed three men. Max C. Salter and John A. Regal were shot in the chest near ruined cabins, while Henry Tolton perished in a burned cabin. Mrs Regal reported Tolton struck her with a hammer earlier, and deputies hunted the shooter among rugged terrain.
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RIVERSIDE
Calif
Dee
Palm Springs
Max C. Salter
John A. Regal
Henry Tolton
Totton
C. F. McCracken
Regal
Albert Wells
Tolton
Secret Documents Reveal World Events of Ten Years Ago
The House Committee on Un American Activities released 12 secret U S documents smuggled from the State Department via Whittaker Chambers. The papers cover Britain’s 1938 naval plans, Japan’s moves in the Orient, and Austria’s prewar posture under Hitler, with memos by Grew and Bullitt.
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Nathan L. Levine
House un-American Activities committee
Washington
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
U. S
house committee on un
Austria
Hitler
France
William ‘C. Builitt
Japan
Joseph C. Grew
Poland
Anthony J. Tyrexel ‘Biddle, jr
Europe
Chambers
Hiss
Herschel
Johnson
London
Lord Chatfield
Britain
house
veterans administration
J . Mundt
China
Chiang Kaishek
John C. Wiley
Vienna
Hull
Kurt von Schuschnigg
Wiley
Schuschnigg
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Bullitt
Biddle
Warsaw
Mussolini
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California
West 20th st
Herbert Rosenberg
Southern Maryland
Priscilla Hiss
Federal building
Washington, D. C
Edward C. McLean
Hisss
Harvard
Hickam
Beserk
Salter
Rep. Mundt
R-SD
house group
John E. Peurifoy
Adolf- Hitle
Carnegie endownement for international peace
Grew
Tokyo
Cordell Hull
Robert Leslie Craigie
Koki Hirota
Hirota
Craigie
England
Italy
Schuschnige
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