Air disaster tally hits three continents and Pacific
Weekend plane crashes across Germany China and several US states claim 30 known dead with 37 aboard a C 54 forced down at sea survivors sighted by a search plane from Johnston Island. Other incidents include a China transport blaze in Shanghai and a Berlin C 54 crash killing three Americans.
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Pacific Ocean
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China
Johnston Island
Shanghai
Kiangwang
Berlin
Congress Cool To China Plea and Aid
Washington dispatch reports congressional leaders showing coolness to a proposed 3 billion dollar aid program for China over three years. Officials say no likelihood of such a large commitment. Mme Chiang Kai-shek presses President Truman after meetings with Secretary Marshall. In China, Nationalists claim gains near Nanking as Communists retreat, with columns halved in strength and troop movements toward Shantung and Henan.
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White House
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Nanking
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General Daily News
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Henan
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Yellow River
Persistent Cold Snap Continues In Tucson Area
The cold spell extends for several days as a new cold air mass nears Monday night. Lows reached 28 on Monday and 23 on Sunday, the lowest date reading since 1909. November tied as the coolest month since 1922 with 53.6 mean degrees. 25 sunny days, 20 mph winds, 26 dust storms, and only .06 inch of rainfall on Nov 26.
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Tucson
Weather Bureau
Head Of Western Union Dies In Paris Hospital
Joseph Egan president of Western Union died Monday of pneumonia at the American hospital in Paris. The death occurred during an overseas assignment and leaves a leadership gap at the telegraph company.
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New York
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U S Court to Review Jap Cases in Dec Hearing
The Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to review wartime Japanese officials sentenced as war criminals. Hearings set for December 16. two death sentences for Kenji Dohihara and Koku Hirota, with others appealing prison terms for crimes against peace. Justice Jackson authored the opinion.
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Koichi Kodo
Takasumi Oka
Kenryo Sato
Shigetaro Shaimada
Koki Hirota
Japan
International Military Tribunal At
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Gen. MacArthur
Dohihara
Hirota
Civil rights debate shapes Truman era politics in Congress
Washington reports that civil rights tensions threaten to shake the Democratic party as the 81st Congress nears. President Truman faces a pivotal choice on FEPC and party unity as Southerners demand concessions while Republicans push broad civil rights legislation. Barkley arrives in Los Angeles for a victory dinner and praises Hayden as he expresses support for reclamation projects in Arizona.
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Civil Service Suit Seen to Define Law
Phoenix attorney general Eva De Concini said a civil service suit or suits are needed to interpret key provisions of the new state civil service act. He urged a declaratory action in Maricopa County Superior Court with an appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court to decide before January 1.
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Eva de Concini
de Concini
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Probers Name Thief Of U S Data
Washington reports that congressional hearings into a decade old theft of secret records may call former State official Robert Lovett and test the significance of the microfilmed files. Nixon plans subpoenas and invites to Sayre and Welles as probes probe a Communist underground.
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Richard M. Nixon
R-Calif
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UN American Activities Committee
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Nixon
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Sayre
Alger Hiss
Sumner Welles
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Whittaker Chambers
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German Electric Workers Strike Threat in Soviet Sector
About 5,000 Bewag workers in the Soviet sector planned to strike in protest against Russian police methods after an 87 percent anti Communist vote in western Berlin municipal elections. Unofficial tallies suggested near 1.4 million Germans voted Sunday as SPD won a large majority. Police reported 73 Communist arrests during voting and two Soviet soldiers entered a polling place in the British sector.
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U.P
German Socialist Party
SPD
Bewag Electrical Combine
Ito
Governor May Make Patrol Appointments
Governor Dan E. Garvey said he may appoint three members to the state highway patrol merit system council today. He is awaiting word from one candidate and notes there is no salary, yet substantial work to activate the patrol merit system.
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Phoenix
State -Highway Patrol
Dan E. Garvey
6000 Chinese Killed In Manchurian Ship Disaster
A belated report says about 6,000 Chinese died in an explosion and sinking of a crowded evacua tion ship off southern Manchuria. The toll, combined with a prior Shanghai near-miss, could reach 9,200 casualties in two related disasters aboard the Kiangya. Bodies recovered and officials speculate a mine rather than a timed bomb caused the damage.
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Shanghai
Manchuria
Nanking
52Nd
Yingkow
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company
Tom Hamilton Accepts Pitt Athletic Director Post
Pittsburgh, Dec. 6. Captain Thomas Hamilton, director of athletics at the U.S. Naval Academy, accepted a similar position at the University of Pittsburgh. He will report to Pitt on February 1.
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