Traders Names Under Scrutiny
Washington reports indicate two congressional committees will scrutinize lists of commodity traders for possible irregularities and leaks of inside information. Representative Andresen will call certain traders to explain pre market purchases while Len Knowland notes staff study of the 711 traders list released by Secretary Anderson and plans to publish more names as prepared. The inquiry aims to determine if government insiders influenced prices through confidential information.
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Washington
House
Rep
Andresen
R-Minn
Len Knowland
Calif
Appropriations Committee
Anderson
Knowland
California
Appropriations
Congress
Stassen
Harold E. Stassen
Edwin W
Truman Plans Yule Message and Christmas at White House
President Truman will deliver a Yuletide message on Wednesday and host a traditional Christmas at the White House. He will attend tree lighting on the south lawn at 3 p.m. MST, then attend midnight church services. The family will open gifts after breakfast and have a turkey dinner, with guests including Miss Mary Truman and brothers D F Wallace, George P Wallace, and Frank G Wallace.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Miss Mary Truman
Independence
Deportation of Greek UN correspondent paused in dispute
Deportation actions against Nicholas Kyriazidis, a Greek Communist correspondent to the UN, were halted as U S officials weigh a possible breach of the UN headquarters agreement. UN Secretary General Trygve Lie requested prompt consideration and advance notice before any removal, delaying related steps for an Indian UN correspondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Lie
Austin
Nicholas Kyriazidis
Island
Onrges
Aid forecast possible total of 1.2 billion in year
Senate discussions on President Truman's Marshall plan forecast that if the 6.8 billion dollar request covers 15 months, European aid could total about 1.2 billion in the year starting July 1. Taft warned Congress to consider German needs and other funds while Morse urged restraint. Hearings set to begin January 7 before Vandenberg leads study on aid methods and totals.
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Washington
Europe
Truman
Congress
Sen
Taft
R-O
Ohio
International Bank
Ohioan
Morse
R-Ore
GOP
Vandenberg
R- Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Western
Kilgore Reports Truman Opposes Selling Synthetic Rubber Plants
Sen. Kilgore says after a White House visit that President Truman opposes selling the government synthetic rubber plants to large rubber firms. He cites opposition to the sale of the Charleston alcohol plant in West Virginia and urges continued government control.
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Washington
Sen
Kilgore
D-W Va
White House
Truman
Charleston
New All Time Record Paid For Top Steers
Chicago stockyards paid a new all time high of 40 dollars per hundredweight for top grade steers on Tuesday. Omaha also paid the same for 19 Angus steers. A load of 1 220 pound fed steers set the Chicago record. other top and choice fed steers rose up to 50 cents. Veal calves hit new highs of 33 50 at Indianapolis and 35 at St. Louis.
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Chicago
Omaha
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Snow Dims Christmas Cheer Across Eastern States
A belt of new snow stretched from southwestern Ohio through Pennsylvania and New York into western New England, forecasting a white Christmas for much of the northeast. Columbus reported five inches, Dayton four, with varying drifts northeastward. Allentown saw moderate snowfall, New York state above the city blanketed in snow while rain fell nearby.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
New England
Columbus
Dayton
Allentown
New York State
New York City
Chicago Weather Bureau
Lake Superior
Washington
Weather Bureau
State Plans Help in Building New Schools
Phoenix December 23 The state department of public instruction will assist local boards in planning new school buildings Supt L D Klemmedson sent questionnaires to all districts asking details on bond elections and amounts already voted or planned for 1948 Assistant Superintendent C L Harkins said a planning conference will be held soon The department aims to aid districts by supplying construction expert advice by mail
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Phoenix
State Department of Public Instruction
L. D. Klemmedson
C. L. Harkins
British Halt Refugee Ship Intercepted by British Forces
British forces intercepted a refugee ship carrying about 800 visa free Jewish immigrants and brought it to Haifa. Troops prepared to move the evacuees to detention camps on Cyprus as Arab Jewish clashes continued across Palestine. One Jew was killed in Bat Yam Yahella fighting, raising fatalities to 305 since the partition vote. A Swedish journalist was wounded and AP reporter James Long escaped harm as Arab snipers targeted roads into Jerusalem.
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Mary and
Joseph
Nazareth
Bethlehem
Jerusalem
Hagg
Associated Press
James M. Long
Carter L. Pavidson
Haifa
Cyprus
Palestine
Bat Yam
Itp
Sixth Airborne Division
Long
Lydda
Hayden urged to block return of Florence prison land
Gov. Osborn asks Sen. Hayden to protest a transfer plan by the Interior Department that would return 6212 acres at the Florence POW camp to the public domain. The land was previously in the Arizona National Guard and later seized during WWII, with the state seeking it for prisoner confinement and a hospital annex.
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Phoenix
Carl Hayden
Osborn
Florence Prisoner of War
Department of the Interior
Hayden
Arizona National Guard
Taft
State Hospital
Truman signs foreign relief bill funding multiple nations
President Truman signed emergency legislation appropriating 540 million dollars for France Italy Austria and China plus 340 million for Army occupation costs and relief in US occupied areas of Germany Austria Japan and Korea. The package includes 32.011 million for major Western reclamation projects and 500 thousand for Hopi and Navajo relief with other federal needs.
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Washington
Truman
France
Italy
Austria
China
Congress
U. S
Germany
Japan
Korea
Auto bandits trio captured in Oklahoma dawn raid
Three of five FBI suspects tied to California and Arizona robberies were nabbed at a farmhouse 12 miles west of Henryetta Oklahoma after a dawn raid. Henry Wittman 24 Tulare California Arline Wittman 17 Tulare California Harold L Wood 19 Orange Grove California held on FBI warrant for Holbrook affair.
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Okmulgee
Okla
FBI
California
Arizona
Henryetta
Jim Kirby
Henry Wittman
Tulare
Calif
Arline Wittman
Wittman
Harold L. Wood
Orange Grove
Kirby
Holbrook
Jim Costner
Wallace Strang
Henry
Wittmans
Lt. Glen Davis Seeks To Retire From Army
Lt. Glen Davis, former Army football star, has asked for permission to resign from the Army, a decision disclosed Tuesday in Washington.
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Glen Davis
Army
Washington
U.P
Visitors Flock to Bethlehem for Christmas Celebration
Bethlehem Pennsylvania reports the largest crowd ever for its Christmas pageant with 50 000 visitors and cars from 31 states. A 90-foot Bethlehem star lights the city, a 200-year-old Moravian church hosts a midnight choir, and electric candles replace candles at Moravian College as the town celebrates with lights and song.
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Bethlehem
America
Bethlehem Star
Lehigh River
Lehigh University
Simon Bay
Moravian College
Moravian Trombone
Moravian Church
Town of
Panama Rejects U.S. Pact Over Canal Bases
Panama's national assembly votes 51 to 0 to reject a signed agreement allowing the United States to lease and man 14 military and airfield sites in the Panama canal zone. The move sparks celebrations in Panama City and may push the dispute toward international arbitration.
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Luis C. Noli
Panama City
Panama
National Assembly
United States
Panama Canal
United Nations
Ricardo J. Alfaro
Houston Man In Navy Post
President Truman plans to appoint Mark Edwin Andrews of Houston as assistant secretary of the Navy, with nomination to the senate early in the new session. Andrews, 44, a lawyer and oilman, served in Navy procurement and earned the Legion of Merit.
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Washington
Truman
Mark Edwin Andrews
Houston
Tex
White House
Andrews
Senate
Congress
W. John Kenney
Navy
Sullivan
Arthur William Radford
Naval Operations
Radford
Atlantic
Princeton
South Texas School of Law
Texas
Louisiana
Baker, Makin
Tarawa Island
Army
Air Force
Grinnell
Iowa
New Canal Outside Panama Is Proposed
Rep. Engel called for a U S effort to build a new Atlantic-Pacific canal outside Panama if bases are denied. He urged halting funds for the present canal site until the right to defense is secured and to survey alternatives including a canal outside Panama.
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Panama
Washington
Engel
R-Mich
United States
Atlantic-Pacific
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Defense
Panama National Assembly
Canal Zone
Panama Assembly
Appropriations Committee
Anti Red Labor Group Gains in France as Workers Force signs
In Paris on December 23 representatives of over one million French workers lined up to join the Workers' Force, an anti Communist offshoot of the CGT. Leon Jouhaux, leader of the group, predicted broad WFTU support and potential changes in world labor leadership.
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Mel
Paris
Workers’ Force
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Leon Jouhaux
World Federation of Trade Unions
WFTU
Jouhaux
France
Compagnon
Italian Reds Lure Peasants for Land Front
The leftist press reports a land front formed to lead peasants in demands on the government. A 6,000-strong agricultural worker constituent was ordered to organize village committees to push expropriation and limit land holdings. The move challenges Premier De Gasperi's Christian Democrats, who with Laborists and Republicans hold a solid majority. A Cremona protest followed a bombing damaged Communist quarters.
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Rome
Italy
V’unita
Avanti
Bologna
Pietro Nenni
Land
Po Valley
Cremona
Three Men Killed In Rail Wreck Near Norton Kansas
At a grade crossing seven miles southwest of Norton Kansas a westbound Rock Island passenger train collided with a gasoline transport truck. Three men died engineer Pete Modlin fireman John Campbell of Colorado Springs and driver Orin Heaton of Phillipsburg. Seven mail clerks were trapped and the mail car burned. two cars carried 196 sacks of mail for Colorado Springs and parcels for Denver and western Kansas.
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Norton, Kas
Rock Island
Here
Pete Modlin
Goodland
Eas
John J. Campbell
Colorado Springs
Orin Heaton
Phillipsburg
Kas
C. M. Abrahams
Weldon Rock
C. I. Fink
Denver
Colorado
Kansas
Norton
Heaton
Joe Heaton
Agra
Seibert
Colo
Consumers Cooperative Oil Company of
Chicago
Limon
Dealer Sues Buyer Over Black Market New Car Trade
Yuma dealer C C Dunbar files suit in Yuma County Superior Court for 300 damages against a buyer accused of reselling a new car within six months in violation of the contract. He seeks to curb profits from resales and protect buyers who want cars for personal use.
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Yuma
Yuma County
C. C. Dunbar
Dunbar
Senator Downey seeks Straus ouster over reclamation conduct
Senator Sheridan Downey told reporters he asked President Truman to require Michael Straus to resign as U.S. reclamation commissioner. Downey alleged Straus backed a 160acre limit for the Central Valley project and criticized his bureau’s 1948 spending and possible anti lobby act violations. Straus denied any resignation talks and said the idea was news to him. Downey had made the demand after a Senate speech criticizing the reclamation service and California regional director Richard Boke.
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Arnold Irrigation
Oregon
Deschutes
Senate
Budget Bureau
Columbia Basin
Central Valley
Colorado
Big Thompson
Davis Dam
Michael Straus
Washington
Sheridan Downey
D-Calif
Truman
U.S
Straus
Central Valley Project
California
Downey
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Republic of Panama
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