Hopes Raised For Prisoners In Far East
Washington reports a Chinese order expelling Consul General Angus Ward from Mukden fuels optimism for early release of four other American prisoners in the Far East. Ward and aides, including 150 Americans, plan to return home via Tientsin next week after a Mukden deadline. Meanwhile the State Department awaits Moscow’s word on freeing two ECA officials held by North Korea, with officials hoping Soviet influence will secure their release.
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Washington
Angus Ward
Mukden
Far East
Ward
North China
Tientsin
State Department
Moscow
Economic Cooperation Administration
North Korea
Russia
U. S
South Korea
Seoul
ECA
Albert, Willis
Brooklyn
N. Y
Alfred T. Meschter
Kinderhook
Kimball ‘R.smith
Tsingtao
National Guard Quarrel Probed by Army and Air Force
The Army and Air Force ordered a joint inquiry into the National Guard Bureau. Secretary Gordon Gray and Secretary Symington instructed inspectors general to investigate a dispute between Maj. Gen. G. G. Finch and Maj. Gen. K. F. Cramer, plus questions of control over the Air National Guard and training adequacy raised by Maj. Gen. C. A. Walsh.
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Washington
Army
Air Force
National Guard Bureau
Gordon Gray
Symington
G.G. Finch
K. F. Cramer
Cramer
Finch
Guard
U. S. Air Force
Air National Guard
The
National Guard Association
U.S. Air Force
Air National iGuard
Employment View Is Best in Year Yet
Washington reports that Ewan Clague, labor statistics chief, says the nation's employment situation is improving, with gradual strengthening across manufacturing. Unemployment may rise after Christmas, a normal pattern, and next year more workers will enter the labor force, including 250,000 veterans finishing training programs.
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Washington
Ewan Clague
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Clague
VA Sets Up New Appeals Board for Schools
The Veterans Administration formed a new appeals board to rule on disputes over contracts and tuition allowances for training former servicemen. It will be led by Charles Thompson, 72, dean emeritus of the University of Illinois College of Commerce and Business Administration, and starts December 16.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Wll
Charles Thompson
University of Ilinois College of Commerce and Business Administration
Ex Czarist Admits War Aid to Nazis
In Sarajevo a Yugoslav court heard ten White Russians charged with operating a Cominform anti-Tito spy ring. Vladimir Ogniev, a former czarist captain, admitted wartime collaboration with Nazis and postwar talks with Soviet officials, while denying Soviet espionage. Ksenia Komad, a teacher, admitted helping recruit Russians for Nazi forces in Yugoslavia. Father Aleksei Krishko testified he maintained contact with the Soviet Embassy.
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Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Vladimir Ogniev
NEKVD
Belgrade
Ogniev
Marshal Tito
Ksenia’ Komad
Lespionage
Aleksei Krishko
Father Krigshko
Barkley challenges GOP to specify curbs on government
Vice President Alben W. Barkley, at a $100-a-plate Democratic dinner, urged Republican leaders to name specific government or welfare programs they would cut or abolish. He urged voters not to be scared by GOP charges of statism, arguing that Democratic policies have strengthened peace and prosperity and asking for a concrete bill of particulars.
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Alben W. Barkley
Democratic Party
Barkley
Truman
Hej
G.O.P
Jerusalem Crisis Moves Toward UN Decision
The United Nations nears a decisive stage on Jerusalem’s future as the General Assembly considers a plan to internationalize the holy city. The special political committee approved a $54.9 million relief project for nearly 1 million Palestine refugees while drafting a proposal to place Jerusalem under UN trusteeship. Israel vows to fight international rule, offering limited acceptance of supervision over holy sites within its Jerusalem area.
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United Nations
Jerusalem
Holy
Jordan
Israel
International
General Assembly
Nazi Broadcaster Faces Deportation
Washington reports Nazi broadcaster E. V. Sittler, born in Delaware, now a German citizen, ordered deported. He broadcast from Berlin during the war and was fired from Michigan Tech. Hearing likely in Sault Ste. Marie. Deportation grounds cite his refusal to leave the U.S. after his visitor permit expired. Sittler came to testify in treason trials in 1946 and joined the Nazi Party in 1942.
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Washington
E. V. Sittler
Berlin
Debunk
United States
Terday
Houghton, Mich
Sittler
Michigan College
Mining and Technology
Sault Ste
Herbert John Burgman
Delaware,c
Germany
Nazi Party
Republicans Start New Truman Attack
Washington reports Republicans renew attacks on President Truman's program. Senator Bricker argues to wipe out welfare state, while Senator Flanders says explain welfare costs and effects and avoid overpromising.
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Truman
Washington
Barkley
Bricker
Ohio
Senaor Flanders
R-Vt
China’s Acting President Plans US Visit
Acting Chinese president Li Tsung Jen completed travel arrangements to depart by air Monday for the United States. The State Department has authorized the trip, stated to be for private reasons. Li has been acting president since Chiang Kai-shek retired last January and has been treated for a stomach ailment in the British crown colony hospital.
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Hong Kong
China
Li Tsung-Jen
United States
State Department
Chiang Kai-Shek
O Connor to End Newspaper Service
John W O Connor longtime circulation manager of the Albany Knickerbocker News will retire December 31 after 47 years with the Press Company He began as a carrier boy in 1902 and helped found the New York State Circulation Managers Association He chaired its legislative committee for over 25 years.
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Albany
John. W. O’connor
Albany Knickerbocker News
The
Press Company
O'Connor
Wnickerbocker Press
New York State Circulation Managers Association
State Association
FHA No Bias Rule Brings Few Changes
Washington officials said a new FHA policy to deny guarantees on properties with race, creed, or color restrictions will affect only exceptional cases. Commissioner Franklin D. Richards noted most housing remains eligible for FHA aid, and the ruling aims to curb discrimination without altering current loans for already covenanted properties.
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Washington
Franklin D. Richards
Federal Housing Administration
Philip B. Perlman
Truman
Perlman
New York
Richards
FHA
Cowd
Robbers Take $22,000 From Stevens Hotel in Chicago
Two armed men familiar with hotel routines robed the Stevens Hotel late yesterday and escaped with 22000 in cash and checks after punching the general cashier, 47 year old Kipper, and seizing his briefcase. The heist happened as Kipper exited a service elevator on the fourth floor offices. Police believe the room-owners and staff had aided the thieves, and receipts included 15,000 in checks and 7,000 in cash from room payments.
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Chicago
Stevens
Kipper
Flor
Audrey Lindgren
Record $17.7 Billion in New U S Construction through November
Washington reports combined Commerce and Labor data showing $17.7 billion in new construction spent by end of November 1949, up 2 percent from the first 11 months of 1948. November alone added over $1.7 billion, though down from October, yet 6 percent above November 1948.
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Washington
State Names Aid On Assessments
Edmund B. Mc Granaghan of Olean was appointed principal local assessment examiner for the state Board of Equalization and Assessment. The 54 year old official, who has led the Olean department of assessment and taxation for two decades, will earn $6700 annually and will coordinate with local officials on real estate apprisal work.
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Albany
Edmund
Olean
State Board of Equalization and Assessment
McGranaghan
Olean Department of Assessment
Frank C. Moore
Moore
Hiss Defense Seeks Proof Others Had Papers
In the Hiss perjury trial the defense contends that others, including former State Department workers, had access to the papers Chambers says he received from Hiss. Walter H. Anderson testified 40 to 50 copies circulated, with no record of distribution, and that a German text document did not arrive at Hiss office in that form. Cross will resume interrogation Monday as testimony refines which papers Chambers possessed.
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New, York P
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Deffense
Claude B. Cross
Walter H. Anderson
State Department
Anderson
Hiss’ Office
Chambers
Cross
Julian
Wadleigh
Gulf Coast Seeks Rain to Quell Massive Fires
Fires raged across Mississippi and Alabama as firefighters begged for rain. State Fox trees and scrubland burned across 46 counties with 167 major blazes in protected areas and over 1,000,000 acres scorched in unprotected counties while wildlife fled amid the Dutch-era inferno.
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New
Orleans
Gulf
Mississippi
Alabama
Oytn
State Forestry Commission
Albert Legget
Hold Up Nets $7 600 In Robbery At Tavern
A tavern keeper was waylaid by three masked men on the way from a bank to his tavern yesterday and robbed of $7,600. John Tomaka aged 59 said he had obtained the money to pay cash checks for Bethlehem Steel plant employees.
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Lackawanna
John Tomaka
Bethlehem Steel
Woman's Hunch Saves Payrell
Miss Renee Cohen, 24, a bookkeeper, normally collects her company's payroll of 1205 dollars at a bank and carries it in her purse. Yesterday she sensed trouble and hid the cash in a magazine. Moments later a man sprang from a car, grabbed her purse, and fled.
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New York
Renee Cohen
Widow Signs Baker Estate Agreement
The Mexican born widow of banking heir Grenville Baker has surrendered rights to parts of his holdings in Florida Texas and Wyoming for 50000 while retaining her share of the estate including half the residuary. The agreement approved by Surrogate Collins expedites administration and benefits all legatees. Baker was killed last January near Tallahassee with a bullet in his head. his estate was once valued at over 1 million dollars.
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New
Fork
Grenville-Baker
Alicia’ Grajales Baker
Florida
Texas
Wyoming
Sol A. Rosenblatt
William. T. Collins
Baker
Mexico City
Tallahssee
Fla
Edith Kane Baker
A and P Hearing Deferred after Testimony Request
Washington report states Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co head David T. Bofinger declined a Senate hearing invitation. Gillette, chair of the subcommittee probing coffee price rises, seeks company profits salaries advertising and prices. Bofinger asks for more time to gather data, prompting Gillette to hint at using subpoenas.
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Washington
and. Pacific ‘Tea Co
Gillette
Iowa
Senate
David.t.bofinger
Bofinger
Young G O P Leader Calls For Shakeup
Indianapolis says John Tope, chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, urged a party shakeup at the Indiana Young Republican convention. He called for new methods, leadership, and spirit to energize the GOP and counter a socialist drift while refusing to form a splinter group.
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Indianapolis
John Tope
Young Republican National Federation
Indiana
Tope
G.O.P
Republican Party
Plot Charge Jails Turkish Deputy Plot Charge Jails Turkish Deputy
ANKARA Turkey UP A member of the Grand National Assembly was jailed today for investigation of charges related to a plot to assassinate President Ismet Inonu. Deputy Reshat Awdinli was arrested after the nationalist Nation's Party denied his story. Three members were arrested and later released. Party leaders said Ayollini fabricated the tale to discredit the party which had expelled him. The assembly lifted Agdlini's immunity to allow arrest as authorities said he was held to prevent escape during full inquiry.
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Anakara
Turkey
Grand National Assembly
inJail
Ismet Inonu
Reshat Avdinli
Nation’s’ Party
Ayollini
Nation’s Party
Agdlini
Poll Watcher Testifies on Bribe Offers in Utica Vote Frauds
Utica trial of ten Democratic workers faces closing by next week as prosecutors and defense prepare. Witness Sadie Piazza, an election inspector, testified an automobile offer was made to leave a polling place during 1949 registration by defendant Lawrence De Perno. She also recounted a $20 bribe attempt by Rustis P. Elefante.
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Utica CP
Utica
William TH. “Munson
Sadie Piazza
Mun[son
Mes. Piazza
de Perno J
Algo
iRustis
P. Elefante
Greece to hold general election in April 1950
Athens reports Greece will hold a general election in April 1950. Deputy Premier Constantin Tsaladaris and Labor Minister Sophocles Venizelos announced the decision after talks among major party leaders. The four year government term expires in March. U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady urged a lawful election to show commitment to democracy and constitutional compliance.
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Athens
Greece
Constantin Tsaldaris
Sophocles Venizelos
U. S
Henry F.grady
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