Jacobson Held By Russians Just Inside Austria
Austrian border guards report Israel Jacobson expelled from Hungary and held by Russian troops just inside the Austrian border. U S legation says he will be released from prison and expelled with no date given. Jacobson, 37, was arrested December 15, in Hungary, and moved toward the Austrian border.
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Vienna
Israel
Jacobson
Hungary
U.S. Legation
Budapest
Dipeter
American Joint Distribution Committee
Jewish Welfare Agency
Tom
U.S
Vogeler
Robert A. Vogeler
International Telephone Company
United States
Bucharest
Pope Pius XII to address diplomats on New Year
Pope Pius XII plans a New Year message to the diplomatic corps at the Holy See. He will speak in the Vatican in the context of the Holy Year jubilee begun Saturday. About 40 nation representatives will attend and greetings from many countries will be heard.
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Vatican Vity
Pius XII
Holy See
Vatican
Italy
Rome
St. Peter’s Basilica
St. Paul
St. Mary Major
St. John Lateran
Pennsylvania likely to adopt sales or income tax to fund schools
Harrisburg reports tax expert Jesse Burkhead of Syracuse University told the Pennsylvania State Education Association convention that the state may adopt a general sales tax or a personal income tax, or both, to cover rising education costs. He cites a flat rate income tax or a sales tax with food exemptions as possible options.
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Harrisburg
Commonwealth
Jesse Burkhead
Syracuse University
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Burkhead
PSEA
Pennsylvania
David H. Stewart
Dormont
Isabel Epley
Herro. Hill Junior High School
Pittsburgh
Grace R. Clyde
Canonsburg
Zoot Suits Jailed After Times Square Riot
In Times Square Paramount theater lobby, about 15 teen zoot suiters clashed with ushers. One usher, Lawrence Russi, 22, suffered a brain concussion and was hospitalized after a 10 minute melee. Eight youths were arrested on assault charges. others fled.
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New York
Paramount Theater
Times Square
Lawrence Russi
Reddick Jailed for Court Order Noncompliance
Jerry Reddick of 321 North Center Avenue was committed to the county jail by Pvt. Paul Lutz for failing to comply with a court order. He remains jailed awaiting the Bedford County probation officer’s arrival.
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Reddick
Jerry Reddick
North Center Avenue
Pvt
Paul Lutz
Bedford County
Bechtel Charged With Multiple Assaults In Somerset Shooting
Bechtel 44 of Somerset faces four assault and battery counts plus aggravated charges filed by Justice of the Peace amid a drunken dispute with Richard Knupp 29. Knupp, a Christmas furlough soldier at Wright Patterson, is hospitalized in fair condition after being shot with a 20 gauge shotgun.
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Office of Justice of the Peace
Charles J. Harrison
Harry Bechtel
Somerset
R. D
Richard Knupp
Paul O'Mara
State Police
Squire
Wright Patterson Airfield
Dayton
Ohio
Somerset Community Hospital
Bechtel
Somerset County
Knupp
Karl I. Hare
Ferner
Zimmerman
Toll of Christmas Holiday Deaths Reaches 580
The Associated Press reports 580 deaths over a 78 hour Christmas period across traffic 413, fires 66, and other accidents 101. Traffic deaths rose about 78 percent above the long term average, with state tallies led by California 36 and New York 25.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Texas City
Texas
Dearborn
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
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Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Ohio arsonist gets long term after million dollar Barberton fire
Fred Edgar of Smithville Ohio received a two to twenty year sentence in Mansfield Reformatory after pleading guilty to two counts of arson in Summit county. He admitted starting the June blaze that leveled the American Vitrified Products Co. plant in Barberton where he worked, saying he wanted to impress the firemen by aiding their efforts.
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Akron
Fred Edgar
Smithville
Wayne County
Ohio
Mansfield Reformatory
Edgar
Summit County Common Pleas Court
American Vitrified Products Co
Barberton
Community thanks for donations to us and Friedens
A note of gratitude from Mrs Bert C Pugh and family thanks the Highway Department Lions Club and Friedens residents for their generous donations and kindness.
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Highway Department
The
Lions Club
Friedens
Bert C. Pugh
Hyndman Rebuilds After Million Dollar Fire
Grim but resolute Hyndman residents of Bedford county rally with Red Cross police and relief units to restore the business district wrecked by a Christmas Eve blaze. Harden's restaurant has reopened at a new site, the bank vault remains sound, 62 homeless are being aided, and plans include a new post office and an overpass to speed emergency response.
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William R. Drobnich
Hyndman
Bedford County
Red Cross
Harden
Lafe
Ralph C. Reachard
York Safe and Lock Company
Charles Burns
Harper Kohler
York Late Company
Burns
Pennsylvania
Robert Clapper
Duff
Clapper
Baltimore and Ohio
Council
Helen Turner
Somers Fisher
Turner
Manns Choice
Lana
Wherry Urges Truman to Use Power to End Coal Shortfall
Senator Wherry of Nebraska pressed President Truman to invoke emergency powers to restore full coal production amid a three day work week led by John L. Lewis. He warned of a looming industrial crisis and cities losing coal by spring without action, proposing use of Taft Hartley procedures and broader policy shifts.
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Don Whitehead
Washington
Senator Wherry
Nebraska
Senate
Truman
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Wherry
Republican Party
Two Wills Probated Involving Pittsburgh Area Estates
The Methodist Hospital and Home for the Aged in Mt. Lebanon was named sole legatee of Darle Cook’s estate. Miss Cook died August 28, 1949, with Dr. Richard B. Cuthbert named executor and Rev. N. H. Lanne as alternate. Milton Bigley filed a hospital claim after Cuthbert renounced executorship. Separately Agnes Christina Leggie Davis of Detroit received $500 under William P. Cochrane’s will. Robert Cochrane and Mrs. Pauline Fish received $25 each, with the remainder to William Cochrane of Berlin R. D. 2.
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Methodist Hospital
Mt. Lebanon Township
Allegheny County
Darle Cook
Meyersdale
Cuthbert
Agnes Christina Leggie Davis
Detroit
Michigan
Jennie Penrose Leggie
William P. Cochrane
West Salisbury
Robert Cochrane
Pauline Fish
Holsapple
Cochrane
William Cochrane
Berlin
R. D
Fire Breaks Out in Marshall Plan Corn
A blaze swept the hold of the U S Lines ship American Inventor carrying Marshall Plan corn destined for Europe. Fire erupted 400 miles from New York, was fought by firemen, the ship entered port, and hours after they left, a new blaze was found and extinguished.
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New York
INS
U. S. Lines
American Inventor
Europe
Indonesia Gains Independence as Nation Emerges from Dutch Rule
In Batavia Java 77 million people proclaimed a new United States of Indonesia. The transition ended 347 years of Dutch colonial rule with martial law across major islands. Officials warned against unrest as sovereignty shifted from the Netherlands to Indonesia.
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Kenneth Likes
Batavia
Java
Indonesia
Holland
Southeast Asia
Pacific
Indian
United States of Indonesia
U.S
Philippines
India
Pakistan
Ceylon
Burma
Israel
Korea
Daan Jahja
British Commonwealth
U.S. State Department
China
Amsterdam
Juliana
The
Netherlands
Betty Lou Must Withdraw Hand in Battle to Save Life
Ten year old Betty Lou Marbury of Brownsville Tennessee faces amputation of her right hand between the wrist and elbow to stop a malignant bone tumor. The decision came after Boston specialists endorsed the procedure and a nationwide wave of prayers and letters supported the girl.
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Memphis
Tenn
Betty Lou Marbury
Lords
Clay Marbury
Betty
Boston
Brownsville
Children’s Hospital
Poland Rejects French Protest Over Professors Expulsions
Poland rejected a French note accusing Warsaw of violating a Franco Polish cultural agreement by expelling several French professors. Warsaw radio said the professors were treated decently and their exams conducted properly amid ongoing diplomatic tensions involving expulsions reprisals and espionage charges.
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Warsaw
INS
Poland
Yugoslavia Acknowledges Western Aid amid Independence Stand
Belgrade December 27 Yugoslavia publicly acknowledged help from the West in its stand against the Cominform while insisting it will remain nonaligned. Edvard Kardelj said relations with America Britain and France had improved but Yugoslavia would not join any military alliance. Col Gen Ivan Gosnjak announced a 1950 budget around 576 million dollars to strengthen defense and expand armament industry. The cabinet reported 96.8 percent of the 1949 heavy industry program realized and western trade pacts aided recovery despite the Soviet boycott.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
America
Britain
France
Edvard Kardelj
Kardelj
Tito
Gosnjak
Russia
Moscow
Svetozar Vukmanovic
Franc Leskovsek
Fall Down Stairs Fatal in Pittsburgh Area
Andrew Dubick, 36, of Byersdale, dies from a skull fracture after a Christmas Day fall down stairs. He passes at Sewickley Valley Hospital. Separate incident claims Alvin Hogan, 39, who died at Leech Farm Hospital from injuries after falling from a third floor window on December 21.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew Dubick
Byersdale
Sewickley Valley Hospital
Alvin Hogan
Leech Farm Hospital
Kerosene Blast Kills Man In Brynedale Home
A kerosene explosion started a fire that killed Walter Snyder, 47, at his Brynedale residence twelve miles south of St. Marys last night.
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ST. Marys
Walter Snyder
Brynedale
Weather forecast for the mid-Atlantic states
Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia: fair and colder with highs 40 to 45 Wednesday. Thursday fair with little temperature change. Eastern Pennsylvania: partly cloudy windy and colder highs 45 to 50 Wednesday. Thursday fair. Maryland: partly cloudy windy and colder highs 40 to 55, milder east. extended to Sunday with mixed precipitation and an overall warmer trend. Virginia: above normal temperatures by 5 to 6 degrees, then colder late Friday or Saturday and possible snow in the north on Saturday.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
mid-Atlantic
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