World Hopes For Peaceful Christmas Across Lands
From London to Italy and Britain to the Holy Land, shoppers face high prices and scarce goods. Western Germany sees costly festivities while Paris sells medium turkeys and champagne at high prices. Britain sel ls extra rations and allows more electricity. King George's illness keeps the royal family in London. Italy distributes white bread and panettone to 1,650,000 schoolchildren as recovery boosts feasting amid overall high costs. In Bethlehem, war and weather cloud Christmas pilgrimages.
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London
Germany
Paris
Britain
Food Ministry
Fuel Ministry
George
Elizabeth
Sandringham
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Russia
Brazil
Holland
Holy Land
Bethlehem
Judean Hill
Joseph
Mary
Surprise Amnesty Frees 15 Japanese From Death Prison
In Tokyo on Christmas Eve Gen MacArthur freed 15 high ranking Japanese war crime suspects from Sugamo prison, including members of Tojo's Pearl Harbor cabinet. The amnesty cleared 19 names, leaving two major defendants on trial while some mobility of other officials is noted.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Sugamo
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Nobusuke Kishi
Michiyo Iwamura
Ken Terashima
Kisaburo Ando
Kazuo Aoki
Greater East Asia
Alva C. Carpenter
Japan
Egypt Claims Attack Fails in Negev Battle
Cairo reports say Jewish forces attacked Egyptian positions in the Negev with tanks air and naval units. The battle lasted over 17 hours ending with Egyptian counterattacks and a claimed Jewish retreat. Israeli censorship tightened and civilian traffic was banned.
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Tel Aviv
U.P
Negev
Cairo
United Nations
Gaza
Faluja
Moshe Perlman
Scott Calls GOP Parley On Jan 26 27
Washington December 4 Chairman Hugh D Scott Jr Friday called the Republican national committee to meet in Omaha Nebraska January 26 27 The meeting will consider plans for a policy conference in 1949 organization work for 1949 local elections and the 1950 congressional elections plus a budget for 1949 national headquarters and an executive committee appointment. The session follows the June Philadelphia meeting that elected Scott to a four year term.
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Washington
Dec
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
Republican National Committee
Omoaha
Neb
Scott
Omaha
National Finance Committee
State Finance
Philadelphia
Ohio
Taft
GOP
Sheriff raids South Side Democratic Club over liquor license
Sheriff’s officers raided the South Side Democratic Club at 2000 South Fourth Avenue at midnight. Undersheriff Maurice Guiney said the club lacked a state liquor license and confiscated beer wine spirits slot machines and a cash register containing 125 dollars. Roy Mack bartender and David Lindsay manager were told of charges for operating without a license and Lindsay was ordered to appear in justice court at 10 a.m. Monday. deputies Estrella and Van Valkenburgh assisted.
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South Side
Democratic Club
South Fourth Avenue
Maurice Guiney
Arizona
Guiney
U.’s
Roy Mack
Mack
David Lindsay
Lindsay
Justice Court
Arturo Estrella
Richard van Valkenburgh
Drivers vote to arbitrate Tucson transit dispute
Thirty-one drivers of the Tucson Rapid Transit Bus Co. voted to arbitrate the union’s dispute. Thirty-four members were present at the Labor temple meeting. Eleven company drivers opposed President Harry T. Matthewson’s recommendation that drivers stay on the job during arbitration.
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Tucson Rapid Transit Bus Co
Labor Temple
Harry T. Matthewson
John M. Elliott
International
Military Pay Boost Fought Across Capitol Hill
Washington wires report a five member civilian advisory panel proposed an average 15 percent hike in military pay raising about 451.6 million dollars a year for all services. Generals would see large gains while top officers gain well more than recruits, provoking swift opposition from senators who say supply and demand favors more privates.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
Army
Navy
Air Force
Coast Guard
Public Health Service
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Sen
Tydings
D-Md
Armed Services Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Johnson
Sen. Langer
R-Nd
Navy carrier joins Greenland rescue as Christmas nears
Eleven marooned men on a 7500 foot Greenland icecap face delays as the carrier Saipan heads toward the scene with helicopter crews. Bad weather and strong winds threaten Christmas rescue efforts though supplies and a dismantled shelter have been delivered.
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Washington
Greenland
Navy
Norfolk
Saipan
Denfeld
Naval Operations
Air Force
UN Orders Cease Fire in Indonesia Amid Dutch Actions
The United Nations security council voted seven to zero with four abstentions to demand an immediate Indonesian cease fire. An American bid for Dutch and Republican troop withdrawals failed to gain seven votes, while Canada floated a separate peace efforts proposal. Dutch envoy Van Royen warned withdrawal would be disastrous as Britain, Russia, and the US pressed for troop pullback.
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Paris
U.P
United Nations Security Council
Indonesia
Jogjakarta
Belgium
France
Soviet Union
Russia
Canada
Good Offices Committee
J. H. van Royen
van Royen
Netherlands
Britain
United States
Council
China Loses Will to Fight North of Yangtze Say War Reports
Dispatch from Nanking on December 24 argues that Nationalist forces north of the Yangtze are depleted and withdrawing into Peiping and Tientsin, seeking a negotiated peace. It notes Lin Piao leaders delaying combat, while Peiping and Tientsin hold fortifications amid looted prizes.
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Nanking
China
Yangtze
Peiping
Tientsin
Chiang Kai-shek
Manchuria
Kalgan
Tangku
North China
Lin Piao
Fu Tso-Yi
Truman Greeted By Home Towners
President Truman enjoys a Christmas visit in Independence Missouri with neighbors and relatives ahead of a nationwide radio address from his living room. Snow blankets the Missouri grounds as the Trumans plan a simple Christmas morning and a turkey dinner. Ahlfeldt provided the chili for a pre holiday meal and shared a playful kitchen note. International tensions cast a shadow over the festivities as Lovett briefs Truman by long distance.
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Independence
Truman
Missouri
Tucson
White House
Washington
Marine Band
State Lovett
Muehlebach
Grandview
Mary Jane Truman
Ernie Ahlfeldt
Alcohol Tax Unit
Ahlfeldt
Trumans
Charles G. Ross
Matthew J. Connelly
Moscow Foreigners Try Vodka Egg Nog
In Moscow on December 24 foreigners in the capital adopt vodka egg nog as a yuletide substitute for the traditional Christmas drink. The absence of whisky prompted the new recipe and tasters say it tastes like egg nog but with vodka flavor.
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Moscow
Spy Hearings End For Year In Washington
The congressional un American activities spy hearings end for 1948. Four new members join the House committee next year and reforms were not recommended. Mundt and Nixon plan a joint statement on proposed changes while McDowell and Rankin opposed them. A final report will cover espionage hearings and government communism with ongoing probes.
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Washington
Congressional
Congress
House un-American Activities Committee
Mundt
R-Sd
Nixon
McDowell
R-Pa
Rankin
Dmiss
Hollywood
Condon
Edward A. Condon
National Bureau of Standards
Names Of Crew Are Announced
A Davis-Monthan B-50 Stratobomber crashed near Eielson Alaska killing ten crewmen. Official reports from Fairbanks list two dead eight missing while bodies are identified. Remaining crew were searched in the snow and timber.
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Davis - Monthan
Eielson Field
Alaska
Associated Press
Fairbanks
Davis-Monthan Field
Eielson Air Force Base
Davis-Monthan
Air Force
Davis- Monthan
Arctic
William J. Valentine
Austin
Minn
Joseph E. Tatum
Charlotte
N. C
Charles C. Cromie
East 23Rd Street
Tucson
Edward R. Kub
Weleetka
Okla
James W. Evans
East 24Th Street
Tech
William J. Lusk
Monterey
Tenn
Norman L. Davignon
Santa Barbara
George R. Hidea
Plains
Benjamin F. Hodges
East President Street
Gerald N. Hamry
Kindred
N. D
Cromie
Davis-Monthan Bombers
Nancy
Evans
Baton Rouge
Tanana River
Boeing Airplane Co
Seattle
Savannah
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Hayao Tada
Kumataro Honda
Yakahhiro Suma
Madrid
Kenny McVey
Capt. Cromie
Egypt
Democrat Club
America
Harold K. Milks
Harry
Lovett
Stratobomber
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