Reports clash on fate of China Twelfth army group
Nanking dispatches show rival government and Communist broadcasts claiming the Twelfth army group is either broken through the Red trap or destroyed after 22 days of encirclement. Both sides warn of upheaval as Peiping suffers power cuts and rumor swirls of cabinet shifts and talks with the Communists.
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NANKING
Twelfth army group
Pengpu
Suhsien
Peiping
Chiang Kai-Shek
Fu Tso-Yi
Tientsin
Chiang
Sun Fo
communications ministry
Central Daily News
Shihchingshan
Shanghai financial centers
China
Hwai river
Mingixuang
12th
Hwai
Marines In China Told About Shanghai Mission
Washington reports a small Marine contingent is being sent to Shanghai to protect American lives and property if needed but not to defend the city. The force from Tsingtao will assist evacuations and safeguard essential U.S. properties during an emergency.
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WASHINGTON
Shanghai
state department
U. S
TSINGTAO
Michael J. McDermott
United States
McDermot
Truman Favors More Greek Aid
U S ambassador to Greece Henry F Grady said President Truman is in favor of continuing the aid program. He estimated about 400 million dollars will be needed next fiscal year for anti Communist efforts, up from about 350 million this year.
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WASHINGTON
Henry F. Grady
U. S
Greece
Truman
Grady
White House
congress
Explosion Kills 11 at Guatemala Fireworks Plant
An explosion at a fireworks plant near Guatemala City killed 11 people and injured 15 as it tore through a facility handling Christmas orders. No details on agency or exact location provided. The blast occurred on December 16, according to UP dispatches.
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GUATEMALA
French destroy Russian radio towers in Berlin
In Berlin on December 16 the French sector dynamited two Soviet controlled radio towers near Tegel field, citing danger to airlift planes. Radio Berlin ceased briefly, Deutschlandsender offered Christmas music, while ADN denounced the act as vandalism and blamed reactionary circles. Brig Gen. Jean Ganeval said demolition was ordered to protect air operations.
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BERLIN
Tegel
Radio Berlin
ADN
radio
Rubber Cartel Charge Is Filed
The justice department filed a civil suit in Cleveland to break up a world cartel in natural rubber and latex products. Defendants include United States Rubber Company of New York Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers Ltd of New York and London and Union Rubber Company Ltd of London plus 13 foreign co conspirators. The complaint claims market division and a world patent pool eliminate competition and seeks to remove artificial trade barriers.
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WASHINGTON
Des
justice department
Clark
federal district court
Cleveland
United States
United States Rubber company of
New York
Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers, ltd
London
Luniop Rubber company, let
Supreme Court Asked to Avoid War Crime Case
The U S government asks the Supreme Court to refrain from reviewing the Tokyo war crimes tribunal actions, arguing the court has no power over military and political wartime decisions. Lawyers for condemned Japanese and others press appeals from Tokyo, while justices prepare for a three hour session and a likely decision in early January.
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Supreme Court
WASHINGTON
United States
international tribunal
Tojo
Tokyo tribunal
Perlman
land
high court
Netherlands Deny Aid Profiteering
The Dutch government asked the ECA to repudiate a statement that the Netherlands resold aluminum and lead scrap bought with Marshall plan dollars to U.S. businesses. Howard Bruce, acting ECA administrator, said Britain the Netherlands and Belgium had been warned against such practices in Washington.
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THE
HAGUE
economic cooperation administration
Netherlands
U.S
ECA
Howard Bruce
Washington
Britain
Belgium
Cheaper, Better Military Establishment Urged by Hoover Panel
Washington report from December 16 cites a 211 page Hoover commission task force saying the national defense system is costly and needs overhaul. It endorses six steps including direct defense secretary control of the armed forces, better interservice teamwork, tighter military budgeting, alignment of scientific research with strategy, faster civilian mobilization, and preparedness for unconventional weapons.
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WASHINGTON
Hoover commission
secretary of defense
Grand Jury Indicts Former State Department Official
A federal grand jury has indicted Alger Hiss, ex State Department official, on two counts of lying under oath. The House investigations committee plans further inquiries into prewar Soviet espionage, alleging still-active spying and a civilian in the army who allegedly passed Norden bomb sight secrets to Russia in 1938. The panel released 26 additional documents linked to Chambers and Hiss, while signaling potential questions for other witnesses and weighing new espionage laws.
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WASHINGTON
Congressional
Hiss-Chambers
Capitol Hill
Alger Hiss
state department
house
American activities committee
Russia
Hiss
Germany
Hitler
Czachoslav
United States
Chambers
Maryland
Rep. Mundt
R-SD
Mundt
grand jury
Red underground
justice department
South Dakotan
oance
Communist party in America
attorney general's office
Truman
Rep. Rankin
D-Miss
Rep
Nixon
R-Calif
Hiss pleads innocent to perjury in espionage case
Alger Hiss, 44, former State Department adviser, pleads not guilty before a federal grand jury to two counts of perjury alleging he lied about not giving secret government papers to Whittaker Chambers. A new grand jury will continue the probe, with trial tentatively set for Jan. 24.
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NEW YORK
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
justice department
Alex Campbell
department
house un-American activities committee
state department
John W. Clancy
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
NEW SURY
jClaney
graud
John Gilland Brumini
Harry Sherman
Edward C. McLean
FBI
Hiss Held Key Post Many Years
New York December 16. Alger Hiss a key figure in the state department until January 1947 was indicted on perjury charges. He helped draft the U N charter and served as secretary general of the San Francisco conference. Born 1904 in Baltimore he studied at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Law. He left the state department to head the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1947. He and his wife Priscilla Hobson have two children.
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Philip B. Perlman
United Nations
Perlman
high court
Tokyo
George A. Furness
Boston
John G. Brannon
Kansas City
George Yamaoka
New York
Alger Hiss
state department
San Francisco
U. N
Dumbarton Oaks
Roosevelt
Yalta
LNAAA
Harvard law
Hiss
agricultural adjustment administration
senate
justice department
Baltimore
Johns Hopkine University
Harvard university law school
Felix Frankfurter
supreme court
AOLMES
Harvard
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Carnegie endowment’ for international peace
endowment
John Foster Dulles
United States
U.N
Priscilla Fansler Hobson
Timothy
Anthony
Children Named In Murder Trial in Marburg Germany
In Marburg Germany two children highlighted testimony in the murder trial of Mrs. Wilma Ybarbo for the killing of her soldier husband Sgt. John Ybarbo. Elfriede Kruemmelbein testified she heard Ybarbo cry out that he did not father her six year old son. Corp. Morris Burr testified a girl named Margaret had a baby and Ybarbo said she was in his home less than an hour before the shooting. Defense said Margaret could not be found. A witness said Ybarbo and his wife argued in their bedroom with open hands minutes before the shooting.
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MARBURG
Germany
Wilma Ybarbo
John Ybarbo
Elfriede Kruemmelbein
Ybarbo
Army frees 450 men from military prisons for Christmas
Washington December 16 1944 army announces a Christmas gift of freedom for 450 army and air force personnel held in military prisons. The release was ordered by Secretary Royall before he departed for a tour of Europe.
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WASHINGTON
army
air force
Royall
Europe
Farmers Split Over Supports
ATLANTIC CITY New Jersey December 6 delegates at the American Farm Bureau federation conference faced a possible split over federal price supports for farm products. Southerners pushed for higher supports tied to current crop prices while Midwestern delegates favored somewhat lower supports and different production controls.
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ATLANTIC CITY
N. J
American Farm Bureau federation
midwestern
Aiken-Hope smellet
Republican - con’ congress
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