Anti-Communists Win Berlin Election in Western Sectors
Western Berlin voters turnout hit 84 percent as Social Democrats won a sweeping victory over Christian and Liberal Democrats. Final tallies showed Social Democrats 858,100 votes, 64.5 percent. Christian Democrats 258,496 votes, 19.4 percent. Liberal Democrats 214,224 votes, 16.1 percent. The election contrasted with the Soviet sector bans and a rival communist rump government, marking a plebiscite on freedom versus Kremlin rule. The result grants the Social Democrats control of next city and borough administrations under Western Allied supervision.
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Berlin
Social Democrats
Christian Democrats
Liberal Democrats
Kremlin
England
Committee of Experts
Blanchester Dedicates New Youth Center with Community Support
The Blanchester Youth Center was officially presented by Stanley Dorsey of the Blanchester Youth Foundation during a Sunday dedication. Rev. Fred C. Moore offered the invocation and Mayor Ovid Ray urged ongoing citizen supervision of the youth program. Featured speaker Dave Roberts praised Blanchester and Lincoln’s ideals, stressing youth programs build better futures. Carolyn Cunningham received the building key on behalf of the youth, with other youth leaders named from Cub Scouts to Brownies. A flag pole and American flag were donated by Marion Post of the American Legion and raised at the ceremony. The rustic concrete and wood building sits at Highland Avenue and North Broadway, about 100 by 50 feet, with creosoted materials for durability.
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Blanchester
Stanley Dorsey
Abraham Lincoln
Roberts
Docrsey
Carolyn Cunningham
David Spence
John Simpson
Bonnie Walker
Donald Dorsey
Kathleen Wical
Martha Dewey
Marion Post
American Legion
Highland Avenue
North Broadway
Pope to Deliver Christmas Address on December 24
Vatican announces Pope Pius will give his usual Christmas address at 11 A M local time on December 24. Short wave and medium wave broadcasts will carry the speech, followed by translations into major world languages.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius
Vatican
Christmas Santas Bring Joy to Clinton County Town
Christmas and Santa Claus dominate headlines as December 25 approaches. Three year old Linda Grove cried after meeting Santa at the Wilmington Junior Chamber of Commerce tree, then spotted Santas at two local stores. Hygienic Productions led the city with large scale decorations, while Columbus and South streets hosted a bright biblical scene and wreaths.
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Santa Claus
Clinton County
Linda Grove
Donald Grove
Wood Street
Wilmington
Linda
Columbus and
South Streets
Sinking of Chinese Evacuation Ship Claims Thousands Dead
A late report places about 6,000 Chinese dead in the explosion and sinking of a crowded evacuation ship off southern Manchuria last month, raising the total from this disaster to 9,200 in two similar incidents near Shanghai tied to over crowded steamers Kiangya and the Manchurian vessel.
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Shanghat
Manchuria
Shanghai
Nanking
S2nd
Yingkow
Eggs Dip a Few Cents on Cleveland Market
On December 6 the Cleveland market saw consumer grade eggs fall a few more cents with a Agriculture Department spokesman predicting a leveling off soon. Wholesale grades also eased slightly as egg prices dropped about five cents over the past week.
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Cleveland
Department of Agriculture
Grand Jury To Get Papers On Spy Network
The House Un-American Activities Committee will present copies of secret papers to a grand jury. Investigators will show material said to prove a Red spy network operated in the State Department before the war. Whitaker Chambers, a former courier, possessed the documents cached on a Maryland farm.
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Washington
Dec
House Un-American Activities Committee
State Department
Justice Department
William A. Wheeler
New York
Chambers
Maryland
Robert E. Stripling
House Committee
Tribunal approves death sentences for seven Japanese war lords
The Tokyo tribunal set death penalties for seven leaders, including Hideki Tojo and Heitaro Kimura, by six to five and seven to four votes. All await appeals with stays of execution granted pending U S Supreme Court review for Koki Hirota and Jenji Doihara.
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Tokyo
International Military Tribunal
Hideki Tojo
Heitaro Kimura
Tojo
United States Supreme Court
Koki Hirota
Jenji Doihara
Seishiro Itagaki
Iwane Matsui
Akira Muto
Supreme Court Grants Hearings for Japanese War Officials
The Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to grant hearings to two Japanese wartime officials condemned as war criminals and sentenced to hang. Berliners strike in protest as two thousand electric workers refuse to work in the Soviet sector over police surveillance. The Court also refused to force Alabama electors to vote for Truman. Joseph Egan, head of Western Union, dies in Paris. UN Assembly votes to adjourn Paris session and reconvene in New York on April 1, 1949.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Telegraph
New York
Joseph Egan
Western Union
American Hospital
Paris
United Nations Assembly
Weekend air crashes claim 37 lives worldwide
A sequence of plane crashes across three continents and the Pacific claimed 37 lives weekend. Rescue efforts searched for survivors from a C 54 forced down near Johnston Island while Berlin and Shanghai incidents added to the death toll and missing persons reports.
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Pacific
Associated Press
Pacific Ocean
Germany
China
Johnston Island
Shanghai
Kiangwan
Berlin
Salinas
Calif
Navy
United States
Door County
Wisc
Lake Michigan
Dubque
Marseilles
Air Force
Alexandria
Exiled Venezuelan Blames Business For Coup
Romulo Gallegos, 64, former Venezuelan president, arrived in Havana in exile and blamed big business and foreign oil interests for the military coup that ousted him on November 24. He spoke of powerful Venezuelan and foreign capital exploiting the nation's wealth.
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Havana
Cuba
Romulo Gallegos
Venezuela
Gallegos
Princess Elizabeth's Baby Sees Outside World
Princess Elizabeth's three week old son enjoyed his first outdoor experience as a nurse wheeled him in the palace garden for about thirty minutes. The royal infant rode in a carriage once used by his mother twenty two years ago in a brief glimpse of December sunshine.
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London
Elizabeth
Palace Garden
Deaf teaching pioneer Edwin S. Thompson dies at 85
Edwin Stanley Thompson, aged 85, a pioneer and authority on the oral method of teaching the deaf, died Saturday in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Edwin Stanley Thompson
Driver Burns On Route 62 North Of Salem
Clarence R. Miller of Hanover died when his truck trailer overturned on a curve on U S Route 62 north of Salem and caught fire during the crash.
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Salem
Clarence R. Miller
Hanover
Drake Rites Still Uncertain After Fatal Train Collision
Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. John S. Drake, killed when their car was struck by a train near Midland, remain unscheduled Monday noon as word from their Army son Sgt. Delmar Drake in Europe is awaited. His brothers in near New Vienna said the Red Cross granted leave but details and timing were unclear. Services likely set for Tuesday. visitation at Eichelberger Funeral Home in Blanchester.
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John S. Drake
Midland
Delmar Drake
Europe
Sgt. Drake
Eugene
Walter Drake
New Vienna
Red Cross
Drake
Eichelberger
Blanchester
Some Damage in California Quake
Southern California endured a smaller quake with Palm Springs hit hardest. Two broken legs reported, many damaged windows and plaster. A 5800 gallon water tank split, buildings showed cracks but no deaths or wrecked structures. Dr. Charles Richter termed it minor, under one percent of the 1906 event.
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California
Palm Springs
Charles Richter
California Institute of Technology
San Francisco
Normal Weather in Sight for Midwest
Chicago reports the whistling gales and snow from yesterday fading today as a storm moves northeast across Lake Superior. Forecaster J E Hovde notes the storm of marked intensity shifts away and brings balmy air to the plains with only seasonal temperatures expected in parts of the Midwest.
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Chicago
Middlewest
J. E. Hovde
Lake Superior
Great Plains
Midwest
Miners End Wildcat Strike at Steubenville
About 550 miners returned to work at Hanna Coal Company's Dun Glen mine in Steubenville after a four day wildcat strike ended with a commitment to settle grievances through negotiation.
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Steubenville
Hanna Coal Company
Dun Glen
Haines Appointed to Blanchester Village Council Vacancy
Edgar Haines was appointed to fill a village council vacancy in Blanchester and sworn in by Mayor Ovid S. Ray. Stanley Dorsey was elected council president, succeeding Ray who became mayor. The Board of Public Affairs was authorized to acquire 13 acres for a 45 million gallon water reservoir to expand storage capacity, financed by bonds, with a dam and pumping system feeding existing reservoirs.
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Blanche Lage
Lage
Edgar Haines
Ovid S. Ray
Stanley Dorsey
Ray
Maynard Kirk
Blanchester Board of Public Affairs
Truman Says Greek Effort Slowed
President Truman told Congress the Greek campaign against Communist backed guerrillas has bogged down. He blamed part of the slowdown on the Greek army’s inadequate effort and noted morale sagging despite more than 170 million dollars of U S arms and supplies. A military stalemate has prolonged the struggle under the two year Greek Turkish aid program.
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Washington
Truman
Greece
Congress
Smog Again Covers Pennsylvania Town
Smog shrouded a western Pennsylvania mill town over the weekend though authorities reported no serious effects. The board of health noted a few asthma cases among residents, but Charles Stacey said conditions were otherwise fine after the three day fog.
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Doroda
Pennsylvania
Milltown
Charles Stacey
Board of Health
Jenkins Rules on Ohio Dental Clinics
Ohio Attorney General Hugh S. Jenkins ruled that operating a dental clinic through a nonprofit corporation does not violate state dental laws. He noted the nonprofit entity was not engaged in the practice of dentistry illegally and issued the opinion at the request of Earl D. Lowry, secretary to the State Dental Board.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hugh S. Jenkins
Jenkins
Earl D. Lowry
Ohio State Dental Board
Two Athletes Die in Oregon Bus Accident
Grants Pass Oregon reports two high school athletes killed and 25 others injured when a chartered Grants Pass football team bus overturned and burned near the city on the eve of a planned homecoming celebration following their state championship win in Portland. Survivors said the bus was engulfed in flames and escaped by breaking windows.
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Grants Pass
Ore
Portland
Communists claim air tight encirclement of Suchow garrison
Nanking reports Chinese Communist radio says 110000 nationalist troops from the 16th 13th and second army groups were cornered after abandoning Suchow to reach the 12th army group near Suhsien. The Red broadcast boasted 20000 government troops annihilated and warned of complete wipeout if theyDo not surrender. Civilians and Kuomintang city officials said to be encircled as well.
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Nanking
Communist Radio
Red
Suchow
Suhsien
Hwai River
Chen Yi
Kuomintang (Government
Actor Booked on Drunk Charges in Topeka
Hollywood actor Robert Walker was booked in Topeka on a drunk and destroying city property charge after a disturbance at a hotel. He allegedly smashed a bulletin board glass while awaiting booking, following a prior October arrest in Los Angeles for erratic driving.
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Topeka
Kas
Jack Simpson
Robert Walker
Walker
Thelma
Patricia Byrne
Los Angeles
Daughter Born To Mr and Mrs Carmen Cavallaro
Hollywood report Carmen Cavallaro the pianist and his wife welcomed a seven pound seven ounce daughter at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital yesterday. The families celebrated the newborn in a home packed with joy.
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Carmen Cavallaro
Hollywood
Carmen
Cavallaro
Infant dies from injuries in auto crash in Sandusky
Seven month old Sandra Bird died from injuries after a car accident last night. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Gene Max Bird of Sandusky.
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Sandusky, Dec
Sandra Bird
Gene Max Bird
Sandusky
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