Japan Sees 1125 Dead In Disaster After Quake
Tokyo reports 1125 killed as earthquakes and tidal waves devastate southern Shikoku and Wakayama. More than 2700 listed as killed missing or injured while thousands homeless endure freezing nights. U S Eighth Army says no American deaths and workers aid garrisons with air deliveries.
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Tokyo
Home Ministry
Shikoku Island
Wakayama Peninsula
Kyodo
Japan
Manchurian
Robert L. Eichelberger
U. S. Eighth Army
Christmas Packages Fall From Skies to American Soldiers
Christmas packages were dropped from the skies to American soldiers isolated at Tanabe and Kushimoto by Saturday's earthquake in Nagoya. Regular mail delivery routes were closed.
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Nagoya
Tanabe
Kushimoto
County Attorney Rules War Veterans Tax Exemption Rules
Monday issued an opinion affecting taxes for hundreds of veterans. Couples where both spouses are war veterans may receive 100 percent exemption. otherwise 50 percent applies. To get full exemption, veterans and nonveteran spouses must change deeds to single ownership.
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Cdlin Dodd
Dodd
Reubens Buys Store Building In West Congress Block
Reuben's Buys Store Building reports acquiring 162-70 West Congress street from Harry Akerman trustee for the A Akerman estate. Total price is $76,000, recorded by county recorder Anna Sullinger. The deal is subject to Pekin cafe and Beach's washer service leases. Reuben's already holds frontage in the 100 block and a south side building.
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Reuben's
Arizona Home Supply Company
West
Congress Street
Harry Akerman
A. Akerman
Arizona
Anna Sullinger
Pekin
Beach’s
Reuben’s
Congress
General Clay Objects to French Saar Frontier Move
Berlin dispatch reports Lt. Gen. Clay the deputy American military governor condemning the French for a unilateral move establishing a customs frontier separating the Saar from Germany. Lt. Gen. Koenig, French governor, ordered 1,200 customs officials at Saar borders to curb food exports and currency flow from the Saar region.
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Berlin
Clay
Saar
Germany
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Baden
Rhine-Palatinate
Baltimore Quadruplets Survive After Birth in Hospital
Charles Henn Jr. and Dorothy Geast Henn welcomed quadruplets three boys and a girl at St. Agnes hospital in Baltimore. Doctors estimate each about four pounds. the family, already with a 15 month old, faces space and housing needs as they plan names and a larger home.
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Baltimore
Charles Henn,Jr
Thomas J. Bowyer
Johnny
England
Henn
84Th
Dorothy Geast
ATS
WAC
William H. Sawyers
Walter Benavent
Utility Seeks Dismissal in Tucson Condemnation Suit
The Tucson city faces a motion by Tucson Gas, Electric Light and Power to dismiss the condemnation suit. The filing notes elections in 1945 and earlier, questions of jurisdiction, and the need for parties and engineers if the case proceeds toward a trial to approve a bond purchase.
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Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power Company
U. S. District Court
George R. Darnell
Darnell
South Tucson
Chase National Bank
City of New York
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Speakman
Thomas J. El-iott
Tucson Girl Is Gravely Hurt
A 16 year old Tucson girl, tentatively identified as Mrs. John L. Farley, was found unconscious on a bloodstained bed in a Wilming ton California auto court. Robert Straughan, 30, Ventura, California, faces suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. the girl was taken to Los Angeles General Hospital for treatment.
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John L. Farley
Virginia Love
West
Sonora Street
Wilmington
Calif
United Press
California
Robert Straughan
Ventura
Los Angeles General Hospital
Tucson
Baptist Church At Phoenix Is Burned
Fire destroyed the Park View Baptist Church in Phoenix on Monday with losses estimated at 15000 dollars.
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Baptist Church
Phoenix
Park View
Georgia election feud sparks legal fight over governor elect
Georgia faces a rare vacancy after Eugene Talmadge’s death before taking office. The January assembly will decide succession, with Herman Talmadge and James Carmichael as leading contenders and Gov. Ellis Arnall potentially remaining in office pending court rulings.
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Atlanta
Georgia
General Assembly
Eugene ‘Talmadge
Herman Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge
Talmadge
Carmichael
Ellis Arnall
Bricker Favors Quick Decision on Taft Contest
Friends of U S Senator Elect John W Bricker say he wants an early decision on whether he or Senator Robert A Taft should withdraw for the coming presidential race A Bricker spokesman declined to confirm any agreement but said the issue should be settled promptly after Bricker takes the Senate seat Taft and Bricker have both said they are not presently candidates for president.
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Columbus
U. S
John W. Bricker
Robert A. Taft
Bricker
Bob Taft
Senate
Taft
Cincinnatian
Atlanta Hotel Trip Is Indicted
A Fulton county grand jury indicted hotel lessees on three counts of involuntary manslaughter for the Winecoff fire that killed 119. Indicted are A F Geele Jr of Sheboygan, Wis and R E OConnell of Chicago. One felony count covered the death of J R Moody, with two misdemeanor counts tied to Dr Carl Rasmussen and Miss Virginia Torbert.
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Atlanta
Fulton County
Winecoff Hotel
E. E. Andrews
A. F. Geele, Jr
A. F. Geele Jr
Sheboygan
Wis
R. E. O'Connell
Chicago
J. R. Moody
Arlington
Carl C. Rasmussen
Des Moines
Virginia Torbert
Thomaston
Taft Will Head Labor Group
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio said he will seek the chairmanship of the senate labor committee when Republicans organize for their new majority. He plans to stay on the finance committee and to remain as Republican steering chair.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate Labor Committee
Taft
Labor Post
Labor Committee
Congress
Aiken
Sen
R-Vt
Organized Labor
GOP
Milikin
R-Colo
Powerfu New Commerce Committee
Commercce
Wallace White
Maine
White
Son
Robertson
R-Wyo
Charles Tobey
New Harmpshire
Clyde Reed
Kansas
Commerce Post
Tobey
Committee On Committees
Senate
New Hampshire
Senate Banking Committee
Commerce
Reed
Sen. Reed
Republican Assignment Committee
Arizona Baptists Bid For Thunderbird Field
Arizona Baptists formally bid against the American Institute for Foreign Trade with the War Assets Administration for Thunderbird Field No 1 near Phoenix. They seek transfer of the former Army installation to house a denominational college site after a congressional committee halted a 100 percent discount to the Institute last summer.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
Arizona Baptists
American Institute For Foreign Trade
War Assets Administration
Thunderbird Field No. 1
Institute
Army
Gifts Guaranteed To Make Yure Different
Chicago readers are urged to buy unusual gifts from Robert Bean of Brookfield 700. Offered items include alligators at a dollar a foot under five feet or two dollars over five feet, a male baboon for eighty five dollars, a crab eating monkey at three hundred eighty dollars, pig tailed monkeys at forty dollars, wildebeeste for five hundred, and a myala at three hundred fifty dollars.
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Chicago
Robert Bean
Bean
Brookfield
Santa
Bevin Outlines Basis Of Peace
Bevin says friendship and cooperation among the great powers form the surest basis for lasting peace but peacemaking will take years. He identifies the United States and Soviet Russia as the two dominant powers with Britain midway, praising US cooperation and urging mutual respect for all paths of life as he previews Moscow talks.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Hred Nations
Tolggne
Alf
BBC
United Nations General Assembly
New York
Moscow
Bevin
United States of America
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
United States
Soviet Union
Mary Alice Adds Weight After Rescue at Penney Store
Mary Alice, Tucson foundling rescued Thursday from a J C Penney store rest room wastebasket, has gained four ounces on evaporated milk and now weighs six pounds seven ounces. Police say they cannot determine the mother’s identity. adoption inquiries have lessened as the process is lengthy.
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Mary Alice
Tucson
J. C. Penney
Phylis Finn
Childrens
Pima County Hospital
Chamber of Commerce seeks to limit portal to portal back pay
The United States Chamber of Commerce plans a campaign to curb retroactive portal to portal pay liabilities dating to 1938. It will ask 2,000 member groups to back amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act and submit a referendum to about 30,000 companies.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Chamber
Supreme Court
CIO United Pottery
Mt. Clemens
Mich
John L. Lewis
Commissioner Quizzes Durocher Over Reported Dice Game
Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler said he questioned Leo Durocher last month after Westbrook Pegler alleged a dice game occurred in Durocher’s Brooklyn apartment. Chandler spoke for over two hours in Oakland on November 22 and refused to reveal details or possible actions while pledging continued scrutiny of baseball personnel.
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Cincinnati
A. B. Chandler
Leo.Durocher
Brooklyn
New York
Durocher
Oakland
Calif
Chandler
Westbrook Pegler
World Picture Is Gloomy But It’s Not Sans Hope
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Dewitt Mackenzie surveys postwar headlines. He cites imminent civil war in China, French battles in Indo China, Indian Hindu Muslim tensions, Azerbaijan on the Soviet border, Palestine unrest, and Yugoslav Greek and Bulgarian tensions. He warns that Russia and the Western Allies still hold the fate of world peace in their hands.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Peiping
India
Britain
Azerbaijan
Soviet Union
Palestine
Soviets Chase Ship From Port
Weather report from the Chicago bureau says there will be no snow for Christmas across most of the nation. Snow is confined to several northern and inland regions with no further snowfall expected by Christmas morning.
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Associated Press
Chicago Weather Bureau
Santa Claus
Santa
North Dakota
Montana
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
New England
Weather Bureau
Rebels Battle In Indo China Fights Reach Tonkin
Paris reports President Blum warned the Indo China crisis could worsen as Gen. LeClerc is sent. In Saigon martial law is proclaimed as Viet Nam rebels clash with French troops in Tonkin and Annam, Hanoi to Haiphong roads cut, French losses about 50 dead 150 wounded while rebel casualties exceed 200 dead.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Indo China
Jacques LeClerc
Empire
Saigon
Wu.p
Indo- China
Tonkin
Annam
Cochin-China
Indo-China
Adm
Thierry D’argenlieu
Tongking
Viet Nam
Scientist Lost In Desert Found Alive In Arizona Search
A ground search with prison bloodhounds located Asa B. Karns, a Pasadena high school teacher and amateur mineralogist, alive and unharmed in the desert southeast of Gila Bend after he vanished Saturday during a prospecting trip. Luke AFB aircraft joined the four day hunt led by Karns' companion Charles Spann, a Gila Bend sign painter, who had camped with him.
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Gila Bend
Ariz
Arizona State Prison
Asa B. Karns
Pasadena
Calif
Karns
Here
Luke Army Airbase
Charles Spann
Draft Is Scaring World Red Claim
American Communists accuse the administration of pushing universal military training as U S preparations since V J day scare the world. The Army and Navy say demobilization wrecked forces but confirm the atomic bomb exists, with civilians providing mixed views.
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Washington
U.P
The
United States
Navy
Army
Unarmed Courier Vessel Leaves Dairen Under Russian Ultimatum
The LC-3 1090 pulled out of Dairen after a Russian envoy delivered a 20 minute ultimatum. Aboard were the diplomatic courier and two American journalists denied landing. consular efforts and hindering Soviet control followed as officials refused ashore access.
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Dairen
Manchuria
U. S
Combined
World Press
Washington
State Department
Adm
Charles M. Cooke
Seventh Fleet
Coske
Benninghoff
V. U. Korzhanoff
Dairer
Korzhanoff
N. Petrov
Petrov
Moscow
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By Jack Bell
Thunderbird Field
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Harold W. Ward
Pegler
Greece
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Bulgaria
Macedonia
Athens
United Nations Security Council
Russia
William H. Newton
Combined World Press
Red Army
Harris H. Ball
Amarillo
Tex
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