Insurgents To Get Strong Aid
An Allied confidential report cites heavy Yugoslav troop concentrations at Skoplje and Bitolj and large ammo movements, with Greek insurgents aided by arms and training. UN Security Council agreed to send a Balkans commission to probe border troubles amid reports of refugees, uniforms, and medical units in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Skoplje
Vardar Valley
Monastir
Bitolj
Vardar
Security Council
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
United Nations Security Council
Balkans
Associated Press
Djevdjelija
UNRRA
Skopije
Red Cross
Belgrade
Turkey
Alexandroupolis
Komotini
Xanthi
Condition of Talmadge Poor
Atlanta December bulletin from Dr. J. E. Paullin reports Gov Elect Eugene Talmage in serious but not hopeless condition due to hepatitis after transfusion related complications. The note says he remains conscious and recognizes family, with dextrose feeding and planned transfusion at 10:30 a.m. The governor’s wife and four children are at his bedside.
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Atlanta
W.P
J. E. Paullin
Eugene Talmadge
Paullin
Roosevelt
Paulin
Talmadge
Herman
W. H. Kimbrough
Charles Smyly
Severe quake recorded at Caltech on Friday
A very large earthquake was recorded at 12 31 p m MST Friday at the California Institute of Technology Pasadena Calif Seismologists measured continuous shocks for 15 minutes more and the quake originated 2000 to 3000 miles away Its direction had not been determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
U.P
California Institute of Technology
Regents To Take Up Salary Issues
Regents prepared to consider salary increases for University of Arizona and state colleges at Tempe and Flagstaff. A proposed bill would fund faculty and staff raises from a per-institution share, with lower income brackets likely to gain more. Also discussed were a college of pharmacy at the university and the resignation of Tempe football coach Coutchie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Lucas
University of Arizona
Tempe
Flagstaff
Board of Regents
Jack B. Martin
Tucson
Arizona
Martin
Pharmacy
Arizona State Board of Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
Regents
Leslie Johnson
State Board of Pharmacy
Newell Stewart
Phoenix
C. Benner Kelly
Tex Oliver
Oregon
Gammage
Coutchie
Norris Steverson
University Physical Education Department
Bill Kajakawa
Steverson
Mesa High
Tempe College
Tom O. Bellwood
Flagstaff College
Alfred Atkinson
University
Sidney P. Osborn
E. D. Ring
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Lynn Laney
Cleon T. Knapp
Clarence E. Houston
John Scott
Showlow
William Stevenson
Sam H. Morris
Globe
W. R. Esworth
Mesa
Garfield Goodwin
Florence Beck
Winslow
Joseph Madison Greer
Miracle saves five plane crash victims in midair collision
Government inspectors called the near-miss a one in a million chance after two large airliners collided at 2000 feet above Aberdeen Maryland. Eastern Airlines and Universal Airlines planes narrowly avoided a flaming catastrophe, with 85 aboard escaping unharmed besides minor injuries and one child casualty on the Eastern flight. Pilot R J Brown credited for grabbing controls and pulling away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Aberdeen
Eastern Airlines
Universal Airlines
Eastern
Universal
Beverly Ann Bouton
Baldwin
L. I. N. Yes
Civil Aeronautics Administration
New York
Miami
Washington National Airport
Lois Greybill
Washington State
Philips Army Field
Joseph Kuhn
R. J. Brown
Brown
Kuhn
Philips Field
Henry Norris
Cambridge
Mass
Wuniversal
Norris
Search Resumed For Marine Plane Missing Since Dec 10
Three ground groups launched from McChord Field to scour Mt Rainier foothills six miles south of Randle for the missing marine transport with 32 aboard. Capt Robert H Mannheimer led a 10 man Army unit with Navy and Coast Guard detachments from Seattle. Search focuses on bluff mountain area and plans call for limited flight use due to low ceilings and poor visibility.
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M'Chord Field
Wash
Mt. Rainier
Randle
Robert H. Mannheimer
McChord
Navy
Coast ‘Guard
Seattle
Bluff Mountain
Ford to close plants for a week over metal shortage
Ford Motor Company announced a nationwide holiday shutdown from December 24 to January 2 due to critical metal shortages. About 90,000 employees are affected, with only seven day operations like coke ovens blast furnaces open. Salaried staff exempt except Christmas and New Year’s Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
U.P
Ford Motor Company
Meteorite device in rocket fails to launch
Dr. James A. Van Allen says the meteorite experiment using a German V-2 rocket at White Sands proved unsuccessful. A time device in the warhead apparently failed and no metal fragments were discharged, with high speed photographs not showing any meteorite launch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.P
Science
James A. van Allen
Johns Hopkins University
White Sands Proving Ground
N. M
van Allen
White Sands
Bilbo Involved In Graft Case
Senator Theodore S. Bilbo testified before the Senate war investigating committee about payments said to be linked to narcotics permits. He denied knowledge of payments to aid a Natchez man and offered to open private files for investigators. The hearings recessed for Christmas with calls for more testimony after Bilbo acknowledged receiving money from Dr. A. J. Podesta but said it did not relate to the permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bilbo
Theodore S. Bilbo
D-Miss
Senate War Investigating Committee
Natchez
Miss
Mead
D-Ny
Sen
Ferguson
R-Mich
Mississippi
A. J. Podesta
Vicksburg
Truman Urges Universal Training For Nation
President Truman called for universal training as essential to preserve the republic. Speaking to a nine member advisory commission at the White House, he said citizens must understand government and responsibilities, and that work on training legislation may wait for the committee’s findings. The panel chaired by Dr Karl Compton and including Joseph Davies and Anna Rosenberg will report back before further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elton C. Fay
Washington
Truman
White House
Karl T. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph E. Davies
Moscow
Anna Rosenberg
New York
Wastebasket Baby Alice Found in Penney Rest Room
A six pound three ounce girl named Alice was found abandoned in a wastebasket in a J C Penney store rest room at 4 25 p m Thursday. Police seek the mother while the juvenile court prepares to guard the child and adoption interest soars in Tucson County Hospital. The infant, blond and healthy, has one minor bruise and is being cared for as officers pursue clues including two Indian witnesses who saw a blonde woman enter and leave the restroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
J. C. Penney
Juvenile Division of
Superior Court
Little Alice
Tucson County
Ada Long
East 22Nd Street
Penney
Pen Pei
Robert Johnson
Juvenile Division of Superior Court
Mary Altice Doe
Johnson
Strauss
J. C. Penney Co
Pima County Hospital
Terresa Joyner
James F. Strauss
James F. Terrell
Nellie Burgess
Reggie Russell
Phoenix Women Can Sit at Bars Under New Law
Phoenix city commission repealed wartime ordinance allowing women to sit or stand at bars. The change becomes effective in 30 days, removing previous restrictions adopted at the request of military authorities.
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Phoenix
Renewed UN Effort Aims At Atomic Controls But Keeps Big Five Veto
AP analysis notes the UN atomic commission resumes work on a control system to outlaw the A bomb without undoing the Big Five veto. Watchmen worldwide would report infractions, with veto preserved for council decisions, risking blocked sanctions if a majority cannot act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Roberts, JR
UN Atomic Commission
Security Council
United States
Council
Russia
Germany
Control Commission
Coal Operators Divided Over Pact Threatens National Contract
A split among soft coal operators over negotiating a new contract with John L. Lewis delays a nationwide agreement. Southern producers oppose timing, while Western and other members show mixed support, with court actions looming over Lewis and UMW fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Supreme Court
Southern Coal Producers’ Association
Far Western
High Court
Lewis
United Mines Workers
UMW
Southern Association
Medley Loses Appeal and Is Executed for Murder
Joseph D. Medley, 45, who favored red headed women, was executed in the electric chair after the U S Supreme Court refused a stay for a lunacy hearing. Medley shot Nancy Boyer in her Washington apartment in March 1945, and his appeals delayed other inmates briefly before the sentence was carried out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph D. Medley
Medley
Supreme Court
Nancy Boyer
United States Court of Appeals
Laughlin
Waterfront Union Seeks Third Hourly Raise for Dockworkers
The CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union asked for a 15 cent hourly wage increase for 20,000 Pacific coast dockworkers. The demand was presented at a meeting with Federal Arbitrator Clark Kerr, with a potential effective date of January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
U.R
CIO International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen’s Union
Pacific Coast
Clark Kerr
CIO
Changes Ahead In Tax Offices
PHOENIX Dec 20 Additional personnel changes will be made after eight employees of the state tax commission were notified they would be replaced Jan 1. Four workers resigned and two quit earlier. Moore, taking office Jan 1, may form a majority bloc with Commissioner Joe Hunt. Warren Peterson is the third member. Several named officials and staff were notified to resign or were dismissed, with more resignations noted including the secretary and division heads. Rose Perica of the highway department will become secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Thad M. Moore
State Tax Commission
Moore
Joe Hunt
Warren Peterson
A. J. Davenport
Joe Butler
Helen Kidd
Catherine McMillan
Cary Young
Ray Patton
James Haggerty
Marie Rohder
Clarence Walker
Bob Fedderson
Business Machine
E. A. Wedepohl
Prescott
Tom Hannon
Farrier
Lillian Swisher
Commission
John R. Stille
Rose Perica
State Highway Department
Magazine Division
United States Atomic Control Plan Backed by U N Commission
The United Nations atomic energy commission adopted the principles of the U S atomic control plan as Russia abstained and refused to vote. The 10 to 0 tally with Poland abstaining set up a potential submission to the Security Council next year. Baruch pushed for moving the plan forward while Russia weighs its final verdict amid narrowing remaining differences.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
Andrei A. Gromyko
Poland
United Nations Security Council
Commission
Gromyko
Atomic Body
Security Council
Atomic Commission
Council
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
Soviet Union
France
United States
Oscar Lange
Udall Honored At Holbrook Dinner
A farewell dinner in Holbrook honored Levi S. Udall of St. Johns before his Jan. 1 move to the Arizona supreme court bench. About 25 Apache County lawyers and spouses attended. Toastmaster John P. Clark chaired. speakers included W. E. Ferguson, Clifford Faires, and Udall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holbrook
Levi S. Udall
St. Johns
Phoenix
Arizona Supreme Court
Navajo-Apache Bar Association
Apache
Udall
Supreme Court
Superior Court
Apache County
John P. Clark
Navajo County
W. EE. Ferguson
Clifford Faires
Globe
Dutch Lawmakers Back Java Pact for United Indonesia Union
The Hague December 20. The lower house approved 65 to 30 a draft agreement with Indonesia to form a United States of Indonesia under the Dutch crown. Catholics Socialists and Communists supported. Conservatives Protestants and the Party of Freedom opposed the motion.
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The
Hague
Java
United States
Indonesia
Netherlands
Party of Freedom
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Vyacheslav M. Molotov
England
Berlin
Allied Control Council For
Joseph T. McNarney
Miracle
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Ford
Hunt
Tucson Clearing House Association
Ernest A. Sayre
Waterfront Union
Third
U. S
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