Cominform Master Plan Said to Attack Marshall Aid
British and American officials study a purported Cominform plan named Protocol M to sabotage the Marshall Plan by triggering mass strikes in Western Germany. German press calls it a putsch. Berlin Soviet Unity Party dismisses it as nonsense while Hamburg leaders claim a copy exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
der Surier
Germany
Cominformetice Communisé
Poland
Soviet Union
Hamburg
Dedsurt Schimacher
Dade
Sovink Democrats
Hannover
Socialist Unity Party
Mayor Costsello Opens Hopeful 1948 March of Dimes Campaign
Mayor Frank J. Costello announced the 1948 March of Dimes drive with a proclamation urging full public support. He highlighted infantile paralysis tolls and praised the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis as replacing fear with knowledge and restoring mobility to thousands of children. The two week drive runs January 15 to 30 with Francis P. Maloney as general chairman, seeking broad Syracuse participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Barnes
Frank J Costello
Raymond
Granger St
Percy Hughes
Frank J. Costello
Costello
National Foundation For
National Foundation
Tiveretfore
Syracuse
Francis “P.* Maloney
Headon Rail Crash Kills 2 in Little Rock Area
Two trains collided head on on the western outskirts of Little Rock. The dead include W. T. Martin 58 North Little Rock and an unidentified Black woman passenger. Injured were Grady Herr Little Rock engineer of the eastbound freight train and G. W. May 26 North Little Rock fireman who lost a leg. J. C. Mc Daniel Martin’s fireman suffered minor head lacerations.
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Little Rock
Ark
Rock Island
W. T. Martin
North Little Rock
Martin
Grady Herr
G. W. May
North Liill Rock
Herr
J. C. McDaniel
Todays Features And Page Guides For The Paper
The page list outlines comics and features including Ida Jean Kain Dr Brady and Mary Haworth in today’s sections on pages 46 and 47. It also notes TALKING IT OVER on page 16 with Amusements 37 Financial 41 Bridge 35 Inq Reporter 5 Classifieds 42-45 Music 42 City Life 25 Radical Deaths 22 Social 28-36 Editorials 26 Sports 33-40 Letters 26 Winchell 27 and Todays Pictures on page 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Jean Kain
Dr. Brady
Mary Haworth
Inq
Winchell
Daniels Dies At Raleigh News Editor 85
Josephus Daniels longtime Raleigh News and Observer editor and former World War I secretary of the Navy died at his home in Raleigh at age 85 after a winter illness. He survived by four sons and his physician, his long career described as a fighting heart that refused to quit.
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Raleigh
Nicg
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
Mexico
Aid Or Draft Questioned In Marshall Plan Debate
U.S. officials testified that the Marshall Plan aims to prevent war and warned that a return to selective service could be an alternative. Secretary Royall cited a possible draft as a choice while Forrestal highlighted a defense budget of up to 17 billion dollars, with a 6.8 billion dollar 15 month plan down payment.
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Washington
Congress
Army
Kenneth C. Royall
Senate Foreign Relation Committee
Defense
James Forrestal
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Forrestal
U.S
Europe
Plane Forced Down By Engine Fire In Nassau
A DC-4 cargo plane en route from San Juan Puerto Rico to Jacksonville Florida diverted and landed at Nassau Oakes Field after reporting a fire in its No 1 engine. The Willis Air Service plane carried freight with only the pilot and co pilot aboard.
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MIAMT
Fla
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Jacksonville
Nas~sai
Coast Guard
Willis Air Service
Oakes Field
Nassau
Mercury hits eight below as subzero record set
A rigid wave of cold drives the temperature to eight below zero about 4 30 AM, the coldest day since February 20 1947. The reading fluctuates with no clear cause, dipping to three below at 4 AM and eight below again at 5 AM before rising.
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Colum
Senate Rent Control Hearings Open January Seventeenth
Senate committee hearings on extending rent controls begin Saturday January seventeenth. Senator Cain of Washington, banking subcommittee chair, announced witnesses including Rent Administrator Woods. The extension is part of President Truman's cost of living program facing opposition and broader price control battles.
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Washington
Senate
Cain
R-Wash
Banking
Itighe Woods
Truman
Congress
Senator Maybank
DSC
Plane Fires on British Fliers Over Palestine
Israeli and Arab forces clash near Jerusalem as a British reconnaissance plane is fired upon. British troops use tanks and artillery to quell fighting in the Hebron area and Haifa port as casualties rise. The Arab League calls for all Palestine to be occupied by regular armies after British withdrawal.
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Palestine
Jerusalem
R.A.P
Ing
Hebron
Haifa
Assad Dagher
Araab League
League
Assad
United Nations
Fire rescue saves prominent Syracusans in zero weather
In frigid dawn a fire at 216 Highland Ave destroyed antique furniture and paintings as five rooms suffered smoke and flames. Mr and Mrs John J Pierce were rescued from ladders. Pierce a former executive was treated after being overcome. Fire crews fought the blaze as District Chief Burton Wright coordinated efforts, with onlookers urging rescues. (Concluded on Page 12)
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Highland
John. J Pierce
Pierce
Pierce, Butler & Pierce Co
Burton Wright
Wiight
Oupee. Wrighop
Mrs. Pierce
Hunger Drives Mukden Residents to Suicide Amid Siege
A government report from Nanhing describes Mukden residents in famine conditions during the Manchurian siege. Citizens reportedly hang themselves as evacuation efforts for the besieged city begin and relief food remains unavailable.
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Mukden
Snrid
Constellation Lands Safely At La Guardia With One Engine Out
A four engine Venezuelan Airlines Constellation carrying 29 passengers made a safe emergency landing at La Guardia Airport after one engine failed. Police and three ambulances were on standby as the distressed airliner landed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Venezuelan Air Line
la Guardia
Diane
Chuckle Junior Pun Draws a Smile
A juvenile joke about Wille Brown and a child comparing to a parent. The father asks what was said and the junior replies that he said nothing because the other is bigger. The item captures a lighthearted family humor moment in a newspaper brief.
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Junior
Wille Brown
Daddy
Tanker Blast and Fire Injures No Workers in New Jersey Drydock
An explosion and fire occurred today aboard the tanker Elk at Hoboken drydock. Eight firefighting units were sent to the shipyards where repairs were underway. officials said there were no casualties among workers on the tanker. The blast tore a roughly 40 foot long hole in the hull.
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Hobchen
N. J
Cap I
Eight Jet Planes Set for 970 Mile Non-Stop Flight
Eight jet propelled Army fighters from the 836th Squadron, Fourth Fighter Group, left Miami at 10:50 A M for a 970 mile maximum range non stop flight to Andrews Field Washington The mission is among the longest squadron operations of these swift craft under Lt Col Nathan H Abbott Burlington Vermont control.
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Miami
Fla. @P
Andrews Field
Washington
836Th
Nathan H. Abbott
Burlington
Anti Riot Squad Formed in Capital
Washington police appoint Inspector Lloyd Kelley to form a 125 member flying squadron ready to respond to riots in the capital. The unit mirrors emergency police models used abroad during civil unrest.
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Washington (P
Lloyd EE
Kelley
Lke
Italy
France
Cow Spurns Overtime
Rural science note from London reports Prof. D B Johnstone Wallace of New York State College of Agriculture describing to the Farmers' Club that cows do not work overtime. He states cows spend eight hours grazing and seven hours cud chewing regardless of harvest size.
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London
Ins
D. B. Johnstone-Wallace
New York State College of Agriculture
Planes Hunt Two Adrift Cruiser Jo Ann Off Miami
A Coast Guard flotilla with Army and Navy reserve units searched waters 20 miles south of Carys Foot Reef Light for the 30-foot cabin cruiser Jo Ann adrift with two men aboard Eric Larsen 52 of New York City and Miami and Lawrence Farley 30 of Mattapoisett Vass. They had food and water for three days but no radio and possibly little fuel according to Lt Com Richard G Baxter Coast Guard operations officer.
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Miami
Flo
Coast Guard
Jo Ann
Carys ‘Foot Reef Light
Eric Larsen
New York City
Lawrence Farley
Mattapoisett
Vass
Richard G. Baxter
Wreck near Wykes claims up to twenty lives
Unofficial death toll from the two west bound passenger trains near Wykes rises as rescue teams pull bodies from the snowbound wreckage. At least nine dead and 55 injured are confirmed as crews search the frozen North.
Older Boys Help Clear Bus Fire on Route to School
Fifteen handicapped children were carried to safety as fire broke out on an aging school bus en route to Percy M Hughes School at 8 45 AM. Driver Charles Short and Patrolman Francis Carroll helped evacuate pupils with help from older students. The bus was put out and later replaced by a new machine arriving that week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy M Hughes
Charles
Short
Paul ‘Keohane
Jack Soda
Donald Strait
Vic- Warter
Gauthis
Francis Carrol
Glenwood Av
Carrol
Harvey A. Dedrick
Glenwood
Phere
Dedrick
Marjorie
Syracuse Transit Co
Sun day Parade features Beverly Simmons in Utica canine schools
Photographer ER Pretty Little presents model Beverly Simmons of Rochester on the cover and Jack and his puppies owned by George J. Borden. The feature highlights Borden’s training methods at canine schools in Utica and Rochester with a pictorial inside the magazine.
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Pretty Little
Beverly Simmons
Rochester
Jack
George J. Borden
Utica
Parade
Vis
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Foundation
Headon
Daniels
Emer A
Ero
Charles J. Short
David ‘Waddell
Lett
John Desmond
Mercury
Holy Tiaand
J.B. Pierce
Fear
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