Fresh campaign to enlarge state wildlife area at Ft. Huachuca
Petitions from Cochise and Navajo county residents urge turning the Ft. Huachuca military reservation into a wildlife area supervised by the game and fish commission. The board would stock deer turkey antelope and a buffalo herd for sportsmen and tourists while the university objects to buffalo on range lands funded by the proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Cochise
Navajo County
Ft. Huachuca Military Reservation
State Game and Fish Commission
Robert O. Kelly
University
H. L. Reid
Commission
J. Byron McCormick
Kelly
Board of Regents
McCormick
Regents
Game and Fish Commission
Truman Seeks Running Mate In Shadow of GOP Finish
President Truman weighs a broad field for vice president with six months to decide after the Republican convention. Whispers from the White House note a dozen possible candidates including lawmakers, a cabinet member, a Supreme Court justice, and the era’s shifting political bets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
White House
Philadelphia
Supreme Court
House
John McCormack
Massachusetts
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Joe Martin
Illinois
GOP
Sen
Taft
Lucas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
Defense
Forrestal
Commerce
Harriman
Wall Street
Anderson
Agriculture Anderson
New Mexico
Gasoline Prices Rise After Oil-Producer Hike
Standard Oil of California announced a 50 cent per barrel increase in crude oil payments to producers, triggering a near two cent rise per gallon for gasoline and higher prices for diesel oils and light fuels. The new rates take effect Friday at 7 am and follow Union Oil’s similar move last month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Standard Oil of
California
Standard
Union Oil
Union
Trade pacts with five nations terminated by proclamation
President Truman terminated the old trade agreements with Belgium Canada France the Netherlands and the United Kingdom by proclamation effective December 3 1947. The pacts are superseded by the Geneva general trade agreement which takes effect January 1 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
United States
Geneva
Belgium
Canada
France
Netherlands
United Kingdom
New York Hit By Historic Snow Storm
The New York metropolitan area faced the heaviest snowstorm since 1900 with 14 inches blanketing the region. Forecasters warned the snow would continue into the night as storm centers converged on New England and the Northeast endured high winds and bitter cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Atlantic Coast
Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
New York City
New England
Washington
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
East
New
Brokers Told to Provide List of Government Traders
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson ordered over 600 registered brokerage firms to name any government employees or their immediate family members who traded futures between Jan 1, 1946 and Dec 15, 1947. They must report by Jan 3 with details by Jan 10, covering all federal state and local employees. Earlier, 71 government workers were found trading wheat on Sept 17, 1947.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Anderson
Department
United States
Commodity Exchange Administration
Chicago Board of Trade
Reds Fail To Quit Hungary
In Budapest on December 26 observers note about 25,000 Soviet troops remain billeted in Hungary. The peace treaty had called for reductions to lines of communication units by December 15, but no fixed troop number is required. Western powers cannot force a diplomatic stance on continued Soviet presence in western Hungary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPR
Defense Department
Congress
Budget Bureau
Air Force
Aircraft Industry
Air Coordinating Committee
Budapest
Hungary
Red Army
Common cold germ isolated signals vaccine hope
National Institute of Health researchers Norman Topping and Leon Atlas report isolating and growing a common cold germ, seen as a step toward a protective vaccine. The work, aided by volunteers at Lawton Reformatory, used infected eggs to produce an agent causing a severe sinusitis like cold in most volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Institute of Health
Norman Topping
Leon T. Atlas
District of Columbia
Lawton Reformatory
Science
Topping
R. W. G. Wyckoff
Institute
Reds Penetrate Nearer Mukden
Peiping dispatch reports Communist forces pressuring Mukden as Paichipao falls 40 miles west. Evacuations planned as consulates fear collapse. Red attacks escalate around Changwu Faku and Hsinlitun with likely losses. Nationalists rush reinforcements while seeking food supply fixes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peiping
Mukden
Paichipao
Chiang Kai-Shek
Red
Changwu
Faku
Hsinlitun
Jewish Agency Official Slain in Holy Land Sniping
A Jewish agency official Hans Beith and 12 Jews died in Friday attacks in the Holy Land amid sniping near Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. An Arab ambush killed four on a Jewish bus and a convoy attack wounded six, as total Palestine fatalities rose to 363 since UN partition. Beith helped organize Jewish child migration and had ties to Henrietta Szold. Mrs Golda Meyerson and Isaac Gruenbaum escaped unharmed in the same attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Curtis Jeruselem
Jewish Agency
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Hans Beith
Jewish Youth Alliance
Palestine
United Nations
Beith
Henrietta Szold
Golda Meyerson
Isaac Gruenbaum
Harry R. Tovrea Dies of Heart Ailment in San Diego
Harry R. Tovrea, 51, longtime official of the Tovrea Packing Co. of Phoenix, died after collapsing from a heart ailment at his San Diego home. His wife Doris was with him. Services pending at Beardsley funeral home. He had moved from Arizona four years earlier and later operated a fleet of fishing yachts in San Diego. He is survived by his wife and brother Phil E. Tovrea of Phoenix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Harry R. Tovrea
Tovrea Packing Co
Phoenix
Ariz
Doris Tovrea
Arizona
Beardsley Funeral Home
Tovrea
E. A. Tovrea
Tovrea Packing Company
Packing Company
Doris
Phil E. Tovrea
Virus Research Chief Is Named
Berkeley announces the appointment of Dr. Wendell M. Stanley to head a new expansive virus research program at the University of California. The Nobel laureate will direct work on viruses affecting humans, plants, and animals, with labs at Berkeley and San Francisco and collaboration with the agriculture college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rennie Taylor
Berkeley
Calif
Wendell M. Stanley
America
University of California
Robert Gordon Sproul
Ernest C. Lawrence
Lawrence
Stanley
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Princeton
N. J
Sproul
University’s Medical School
San Francisco
College of Agriculture
Treasury Secretary says most life insurers face no federal tax this year
Secretary Snyder announced that nearly all life insurance companies owe no federal income tax this year due to a 1942 law. He urged Congress to amend the statute to prevent such results in the future. The law sets a deduction formula. this year it allows 100.66 percent of investment income to be deducted for reserves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Manila Typhoon Kills 56 Or More
A savage December typhoon swept the Philippines causing extensive damage from Manila to Tacloban. At least 56 people were dead or missing, including 46 from the Danish motorship Kina which sank off Samar with 40 crew and 15 passengers aboard. Five survivors were rescued by the Danish ship Kina’s wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Philippines
Kina
Samar
Tacloban
Roxas
China Sea
Hainan
Tokyo
Europe
Samar Sea
General Eberle Enlisted Here
Phoenix dispatch chronicles George L. Eberle’s Army career from enlistment in Tucson in 1914 to service on Gen. Clark’s Italy staff in World War II. It notes his roles, rapid promotions, and awards including the DSM and Legion of Merit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
George L. Eberle
Arizona National Guard
Tucson
Southern Pacific Railroad
Eberle
First
Arizona Infantry
Regular Army
Army General Staff
Mark Clark
Italy
Holiday Death Toll Is Heavy
A heavy toll of violent deaths marred the nation's Christmas celebration with 179 traffic fatalities and 107 other deaths over the holiday period. Fires claimed over 30 lives in locations including Gardnerville Nevada Orange Texas and near Fredericksburg Texas. California led in violent fatalities with 27, down from 57 last year, while the four day toll was projected near 400 by the safety council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardnerville
Nev
Orange
Tex
Fredericksburg
Michigan
Connecticut
Maryland
National Safety Council
California
Jett Resigns From FCC. Sterling Named Successor
E. K. Jett resigns from the Federal Communications Commission effective December 31. George E. Sterling of Portland Maine, current FCC chief engineer, is named to succeed him and will serve the remainder of the term until July 1, 1950. The White House announced a second vacancy, formerly held by Charles R. Denny, will be filled soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
E. K. Jett
Federal Communications Commision
Truman
George E. Sterling
Portland
Jett
Sterling
FCC
White House
Charles R. Denny
Panama Severs Military Base Leases Amid Canal Tensions
Panama's national assembly unanimously rejects renewing leases on 14 U S military bases including Rio Hato. The move, linked to anti US sentiment and alleged Communist influence, endangers access to the strategic canal zone and B29 bomber operations from the airbase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Panama National Assembly
Washington
Rio Hato
United States
North
CANAL
Supply Lines To Epirus Sliced By Attack
Guerrilla forces attacking near the Albanian border aimed to enlarge holdings for the northern Greek Communist state. About 500 arrests followed the proclamation as 1,500 fighters struck Konitsa and cut Epirus supply lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epirus
Athens
Greece
Markos Visiades
Ioannina
George Stratos
Albania
Konitsa
Bourazani
Markos Vifilades
Markos
Nicholas Zachariades
Zachariades
Whisky firms resume operations in Louisville after grain holiday
At least five Louisville distilleries ended the two month grain holiday, with National Distillers Products three plants, Bernheim one plant, and Park & Tilford one plant resuming. Seagram & Sons kept plants closed temporarily, while Brown Forman and Glensmore partially resumed. Philadelphia Publicker Industries also kept plants closed despite the end of the industry-wide holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
National Distillers Products Corporation
Bernheim Distilling Company
Park & Tilford Distillers
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc
Brown-Forman
Glensmore
Philadelphia
Publicker Industries, Inc
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Truman Seans Field
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Admiral New Baby Sitter
Chester W. Nimitz
Naval Operations
James T. Lay, Jr
Jimmy
Reds
By Spencer Moosa
Chiang
North China
South China
Hopeh
Peiping-Paoting
Mentou
China
Danish East Asiatic Lines
Samuel Bakke
Bakke
Dewitt MacKenzie
Republic of Panama
Uncle Sam
Pacific
Atlantic
The
Republic
South America
USA
By L. S. Chakales
John Ioannides
Vifiades
Ioannides
Themistokles Sophoulis
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Paris
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