Dutch Violated Truce Agreement Is U N Charge
The United Nations good offices committee accuses the Dutch of violating the Renville truce as they press a campaign across Java and Sumatra. Indonesians issue scorched earth policy while Bukit tinggi and Jogjakarta fall. The committee notes lack of information from the Dutch and cites noncompliance with article 10 of the truce.
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BATAVIA
Java
United Nations good offices committee
Renville
Sumatra
Tjeppe
Bukittinggi
Fort De Kock
Jogjakarta
good offices committee
Netherlands Republic
security council
Paris
U. N
republic
United Nations
Merle Cochrane
United States
T. W. Cutts
Australia
Netherlands
U. S
Mohamed Hatta
United Nations secretariat
Kalicerang
Kalioerang
Fenville
Rescue Attempt Planned Again in Greenland Mission
In a tentative plan dated December 22, the UP air force outlined a new effort to rescue 11 men from the Greenland ice cap. Strong area winds tempered confidence that the operation could proceed as scheduled.
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UP air force
Greenland
Big Navy Plane Seeking Safety
A four engine Navy bomber landing at Moffett Field after fuel ran low on a flight from Hawaii. Navy and Air Force planes joined a rescue effort as a B 17 faced fuel shortages and possible ditching at sea while another B 17 was to land at Half Moon Bay.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Hawaii
Moffett field
navy
Honolulu
Alameda naval air station field
air force
Half Moon bay
here
Air force coast guard
coast guard
Widow challenges finding in Smith death case
The widow of W Marvin Smith a Justice Department employee who died after falling from a five story stairwell contests the coroner and department ruling that his death was self inflicted. Smith 53 an attorney in the solicitor general s office had been linked last summer to the House Un American Activities Committee espionage inquiry.
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WASHINGTON
W. Marvin Smith
justice department
Smith
department
solicitor general
house un-American activities committee
Duggan Plunge Study Launched By City Police
New York mayor orders a thorough probe into the December death of Laurence Duggan, a former State Department expert. FBI will not join the local case. Officials weigh foul play and possible espionage links amid WH and Mundt comments.
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Laurence Duggan
the
Institute of International Education
state department
New York City
NEW YORK
William O'Dwyer
Sumner Welles
Duggan
Fifth avenue
Karl Mundt
R-SD
house
un American activities committee
Welles
O'Dwyer
Arthur) Wallander
FBI
federal bureau of investigation
Dugigan
Mundt
Whittaker Chambers
Stephan Duggan, Jr
Laurence
Peron record win in Buenos Aires elections
Final unofficial returns from December 12 show President Juan D. Peron and his candidates receiving the highest number of ballots ever recorded in Argentina.
Curb Postal Service Makes Big Hit in Christmas Rush
Springfield postal authorities trial curb service for Christmas mail rush. An employee at the central post office collects letters from motorists as they slow at the curb. Postmaster West M. Rourke says patrons like the service and it eases traffic congestion.
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Curb Postal Service
SPRINGFIELD
Ill
central post office
West M. Rourke
Marshall Plan Aid To Indies Halted
The United States suspended Marshall plan aid to the Dutch East Indies effective immediately to discourage Dutch military action and clarify the situation. Homeland aid to the Netherlands was not affected, with officials noting possible future action depending on the Indonesian civil fighting.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Ntherlands East Indies
economic co-operation administration
state department
Indonesia
United Nations
Paul G. Hoffman
U.N
Hoffman
Netherlands Indies
Netherlands
ECA
U. S
Europe
Indies
Holland
German Payroll Cut Is Planned for 1949 in Germany
Berlin dispatch says the army department drafts a plan to reduce AMG payrolls in two 30 percent steps during 1949, cutting about 60 percent of AMG personnel. Col. J T. Duke, representing Gen. Lucius D. Clay, expects to return to Berlin with details. AMG staff currently numbers about 4000 Americans.
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BERLIN
VPI
Germany
Washington
army department
Col
J T. Duke
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
AMG
Duke
Clay
Costa Rican Inquiry Concludes Five Day Probe
MANAGUA Nicaragua Dec 22 The commission of the Organization of American States leaves by plane for Washington after completing its five day investigation into Costa Rican charges that Nicaragua invaded. Spokesmen said a draft report could be ready on arrival and the council may issue recommendations on the Costa Rican Nicaragua rift.
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MANAGUA
Nicaragua
commission
the
organization of America states
Washington
council of American states
Request to Court Filed Too Late in War Crimes Case
Washington December 22 The supreme court was asked to reconsider its lack of power over the international military tribunal that convicted 25 Japanese leaders of war crimes The petition for rehearing was filed shortly before Tokyo announced seven of the war lords had been hanged John G Brannon of Kansas City one of the Japanese defense attorneys last week filed the request for a rehearing
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WASHINGTON
supreme court
international military tribunal
Tokyo
John G. Brannon
Kansas City
high court
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Tojo
Sugamo
U. S
Tojo and Six War Lords Hanged At Sugamo Prison
Tokyo confirms seven war criminals condemned by the international tribunal were hanged at Sugamo. Among the executed are Hideki Tojo and Gen Kenji Doihara, Koki Hirota, Seishiro Itagaki, Heitaro Kumura, Iwane Matsui, and Lt Gen Akira Muto. Details were limited and sequestered by order of General MacArthur.
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preme
Kenji Doihara
Koki Hirota
international tribunal
U. S
Tojo
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Hitler
Berlin
Mussolini
Marion P. Echols
MacArthur
Sugamo
H. H. Hawkins
Echols
army public information office
international military tribunal for
Far East
Seishiro Itagaki
Heitaro Kumura
Manchuria
Iwane Matsui
Nanking
Akira Muto
Philippines
Honorable Peace Cabinet Formed Amid Chinese War Chaos
Chiang Kai-shek approved a cabinet pledging honorable peace as Communist forces threaten Yangtze defenses. Premier Sun Fo announced continued fighting until peace is secured, with observers doubting Red willingness to make peace. North and central China crumble. battles rage near Peiping Suchow and Pengpu as a new nationalist line forms.
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NANKING
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Yangtze
Chiang
Sun Fo
Sun
Penping
Tientsin
Peiping
Suchow
Pengpu
Hwai river
Hwai
Wu Te-chen
Yuta-Wei
Robert K. S. Lim
Shen Chang-Huan
Yi-Chi
Mei Juao
Chang Chun
Chang Chih-Chung
Chen Li-Fu
Wong Wen-Hao
Truman leaves for Christmas in Independence
President Truman flies from Washington to Independence Missouri to spend Christmas with his family. He is accompanied by a secretary staff his personal physician Brig Gen Wallace H Graham Mrs Graham and the two Graham children.
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Truman
Independence
Wallace H. Graham
Graham
Economic plan drafting begins as hearings end
Washington reports lawmakers move to draft a profit policy blueprint for a possible overhaul of government policies. Senator Flanders cites concerns about endless growth of big corporations while urging a national conference of business labor and farm leaders to seek long range consensus. Some support an excess profits tax with a $25 000 exemption for small business reinvestment to spur job creation.
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WASHINGTON
congress
senate-house
Flanders
R-VI
industria
Sam
senate
conference of business, labor and
Edwin C. Johnson “.Cale
Detroit Police Chief Attacks Civil Service Plan
Detroit Police Commissioner Harry Toy blasts civil service as a threat to efficiency as he opposes placing the 4100 man police force under civil service. He cites Chicago and other cities where he says gangsters and rackets flourish due to civil service and asserts Detroit’s force is the best.
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Harry
Toy
Chicago
Detroit
civil service
motor city
Foster Parents Charge Mother Kidnapping Case
Harrisburg dispatch reports a nationwide search for Jeanne Morgan Braget and John M. Braget, both accused felons, after they allegedly abducted three year old Vicki Jeanne Snyder from her Harrisburg area foster home. Authorities note the child was adopted by Harry M. Snyder and that the mother relinquished rights. Police are alerted along a southern route toward Washington.
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HARRISBURG
Carl B. Shelley
Jeanne Morgan Braget
John M. Braget
Pacific ave
Tacoma
Wash
Shelley
Vicki Jeanne Snyder
Harry M. Snyder
here
Washington
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