government says 12th army breaks Communist siege at Nanking
Nanking reports say the 12th army group pierced a Communist encirclement near the capital. Nationalist forces linked with units from the New Hwai defense line while Communist columns press to trap 250,000 government troops who abandoned Suchow. Martial law extends to Hankow Wuhan and surrounding areas.
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Wuhan
Central
China
Nanking
12Th Army Group
Hwai River
Here
Suchow
12Th
Red Gen
Chen Yi
Hankow
Hanyang
Chiang Kai-Shek
General Passes Good Night Sits Up in Bed
Secretary of State Marshall underwent kidney surgery and sat up in bed after a night at Walter Reed Hospital. Officials said his recovery is uneventful and a long rest is anticipated while Undersecretary Lovett handles policy. no gap in foreign affairs is expected.
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Walter Reed Hospital
Truman
the Hospital
Marshall
J. A. Weaver
General Marshall
Warren R. Austin
United States
United Nations
Walter Reed
Robert A. Lovett
Marshal
Weather turns cold as Wilmington lows hit 20
The temperature dropped to 20 degrees in Wilmington Tuesday night, reported by weather observer Mrs. Ethel Hayes. The fall cold snap prompted warnings for residents to bundle up and protect pipes.
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Mercury
Wilmington
Ethel Hayes
Notre Dame Southern California clash sparks quake gag
The tale notes a punny headline about the Notre Dame vs USC game predicting an earthquake, then recalls Homer Wright pointing out the irony. It also tells of a past Pearl Harbor Day effort and a charity shower at Lumberton Methodist Church for the Trivett family after a November fire.
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News-Journal
Los Angeles
California
Homer Wright
Tri-State
Eagles
Telegraph
News- Journal
Homer
Gallup
Weather Bureau
N-J Force
Russell Trivett
Santa Claus
Woman's Society
Lumberton Methodist Church
Paul Andrew
Trivetts
Industry Profits Warn of Impending Downturn Says CIO
In prepared testimony before the Senate House Economic Committee, CIO research director Stanley H. Ruttenberg argues industry is amassing profits as a cushion against a likely low mood, urging a new excess profits tax to tax away speculative gains. He warns such protectionism could hasten a bust, reduce production and worsen the economic outlook.
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Washington
CIO
Stanley H. Ruttenberg
Labor Organization
Senate
House Economic Committee
Ruttenberg
High School Boys Get Permanents
Five North Olmsted high school boys revive a front lock permanent wave for a distinctive forelock. A local beauty operator notes other adults also visit for similar styling, including a cowboy and an elevator operator.
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Cleveland
North Olmsted
Hazel Hollenbach
Mrs. Wagner Convicted as Minor Nazi Offender
Winifred Wagner, widow by marriage to Richard Wagner's son, was declared a minor Nazi offender by a German court of appeal in Bayreuth. She received a fine of 6000 deutschmarks, about 1800 dollars.
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Wagner
Bayreuth
Germany
Winifred Wagner
Richard Wagner
Countywide tax distribution totals $115657.59 to local units
Clinton County schools, townships, libraries and corporations receive fall settlements of classified and tangible personal property taxes and state sales tax funds. Amounts include 19121.30 to schools, 91035.35 to townships, 419,617.82 to corporations, 419,901.24 to county, 5976.01 to libraries, with specific local allocations listed for Adams Township through Wilmington and other communities.
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Clinton County
Marietta Walker
Adams Township
Chester Township
Spring Valley
Greene County
Lynchburg
Highland County
Martinsville
Leesburg Highland
New Antioch
New Vienna
Jefferson Township
Liberty Township
Mt. Pleasant
Blanchester
Reesville
Sabina
Wilmington
Clarksville
Wayne Township
Adams
Chester
Clark
Green
Jefferson
Liberty
Marion
Richland
Union
Vernon
Washington
Wayne
Wilson
Midland
Port William
Speed Dash Ends As Motor Fails
Paul Mantz, famed Hollywood stunt pilot, was flying from Burbank to New York to beat the west east transcontinental record set in 1947 when his F-5 stalled 80 miles east of Akron. A failing supercharger and dropping oil pressure forced a turn back to Cleveland airport after six hours seven minutes five seconds of flight in favorable conditions.
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Cleveland
Paul Mantz
Hollywood
Burbank
Calif
LaGuardia Field
New York
Mantz
Akron
Jenkins Rules on Dumping of Coal Slack
Ohio Attorney General Hugh S. Jenkins ruled that damage suits may be brought against individuals who dump coal slack and coal dirt into streams and damage the food supply of fish. The opinion was given to Conservation Commissioner H. A. Rider who sought a court injunction to stop the dumping.
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Columbus
Hugh S. Jenkins
H. A. Rider
State probes Circleville shakedown threats to clubs
Circleville officials report four local clubs were approached by a man claiming to represent the State Liquor Department and seeking 1800 for protection. City attorneys plan to present evidence to the county prosecutor for grand jury action on alleged bribery and corruption as police and inspectors testified.
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Circleville
State Liquor Department
Joseph Atkins
Emmitt Crist
William McCrady
Atkins
Crist
Common Pleas
Liquor Department
Donald T. Geyer
Council
Joseph Harrell
William Galayda
McCrady
Harrell
Thurman I. Miller
Columbus
Jury Dismissed in Coal Suit for Heating Equipment
Common Pleas Judge Frank M. Clevenger dismissed the petit jury after five hours of deliberation in the suit of Lawrence Austin doing business as the Austin Coal Co against R L and Carolyn J Guyselman. Austin seeks 1426.52 dollars for heating equipment installed in the Guyselman home. trial lasted two days.
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Common Pleas
Frank M. Clevenger
Petit
Lawrence Austin
The
Austin Coal Co
R. L
Carolyn J. Guyselman
Austin
Guyselman
Ex-Jap Premier Jailed on Bribery Charges
Hitoshi Ashida former prime minister of Japan was jailed on bribery charges in Tokyo. He claimed innocence from his cell while prosecutors accuse him of accepting funds from a contractor during his 1948 to 1954 tenure, calling some sums legitimate political contributions.
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Tokyo
Hitoshi Ashida
Japan
Influenza Epidemic Strikes Rome Feels Mild
Health authorities report about 500000 of Rome's 2,000,000 residents ill with mild influenza. No deaths have been reported.
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Rome
Aid Flows To Tito Regime Highlighted In World News
Dispatches describe substantial U S support for Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia with Borba citing American contributions totaling about 15.5 million dollars over three years and over 1 million in medical and industrial aid. Additional funds and goods arrive from Yugoslavs in Canada England and Argentina.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
America
Yugoslav Red Cross
Borba
Canada
England
Argentina
Tito
United States
Eisenhower Labeled War Monger by Soviet Review
The Literary Gazette derides Dwight D. Eisenhower as a war monger for his book Crusade in Europe. V Danilevski accuses him of piling lies, claims Churchill backed his pace with Soviet advances, and mocks his efforts to appease the Russians.
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Moscow
Literary Gazette
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
V. Danilevski
Eisenhower
Churchill
Armed Jewish Force Reported Advancing Toward Red Sea
British note to the United Nations claimed private information that an armed Jewish force was moving toward the Red Sea near Trans-Jordan. Officials said the force was about halfway between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. In Washington, Undersecretary Lovett stated the State Department code system had been fully overhauled in ten years to improve security against espionage.
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Paris
Britain
United Nations Today
Red Sea
Trans-Jordan
Dead Sea
Gulf of Aqaba
Washington
Dec
Lovett
State Department
Food Index Shows Sharp Decline This Week
The Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food index fell to 6.33 the lowest in 17 months. It compares with 6.36 a week earlier and is 14 percent below the July peak and 11.1 percent below the year-ago level. Corn, rye, beef, butter, cheese, sugar, rice and currants rose while wheat oats barley hams lard cottonseed oil cocoa eggs potatoes raisins hogs and lambs declined.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Six Japs Sentenced For War Crimes
An Eighth Army court in Yokohama sentenced six former Japanese lieutenant generals and a colonel to prison terms from one to 24 years for packing war prisoners into overcrowded hell ships. The court ruled they were responsible for transporting 17 000 Allied prisoners, whose transport caused pain suffering and death.
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Yokohama
Eighth Army
Ohio Senate elects first woman majority leader
Ohio's 98th General Assembly will see the first woman as Senate majority leader Miss Margaret A Mahoney of Cleveland principal attorney and former two term state representative who has served in the Senate since 1943 The House will install John F Cantwell of Youngstown as speaker and fifth term House member after leading the minority.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
House of Representatives
House
98Th General Assembly
Democrats
Margaret A. Mahoney
Mae-o-nee
Mae
Cleveland
Ohio Senate
Senate Rules Committee
John F. Cantwell
Youngstown
Fight Over Marshall Plan Shipping Share Sparks Policy Clash
Maritime Commissioner Grenville Mellen condemned the new rule by Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul G Hoff man ending a 50-50 American ship share for Marshall Plan bulk cargoes. Hoff man said higher cost U S shipping limits dollars for European recovery, prompting a special session of commissioners.
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Washington
Grenville Mellen
Paul G. Hoffman
Mellen
Hoffman
ECA
Scientists Track Seal Migration Off California
In a U S Fish and Wildlife Service project, about 3,000,000 seals are moving along the California coast. The 118-foot Black Douglas with scientists aboard has trailed seals from the Pribilof Islands southward for 12 days to monitor pelts valued at roughly 15 million dollars.
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San Francisco
California
Black Douglas
Pribilof Islands
Alaska
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Egg prices fall on Cleveland market to 69 cents a dozen
The Cleveland market saw white eggs drop two cents to 69 cents per dozen.
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Cleveland
Mystery Men Sought in Probe of Secrets to Reds
Congressional spy hunters failed to locate two men accused of supplying secret government papers to Communist agents. The House Un-American Activities Committee cannot serve subpoenas, but proceeds with a closed session. Names of the three alleged couriers mentioned by Whittaker Chambers include a former State Department official and a Bureau of Standards worker, with Alger Hiss named as well.
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Washington
Dec
Congressional
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Campbell
Nixon
Calif
New York
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
State Department
House
Russia
Germany
Japan
Chambers
Bureau of Standards
Alger Hiss
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Red Cross Lowers 1949 Fundraising Goal to 60 Million
The Red Cross cut its 1949 fundraising target to 60 million dollars a quarter and named E Roland Harriman as campaign director. Basil O Connor announced the plan from Washington. The March drive will be overseen by Harriman, a New York banker and railroad executive.
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Red Cross
The
Basil O'Connor
E. Roland Harriman
New York
AP Editor John P. Boughan Dies in Chicago at 88
John P. Boughan, 88, longtime markets editor for the Associated Press Chicago bureau, died last night after several months of illness. He retired after a long career shaping financial news coverage at AP.
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Chicago
John P. Boughan
Associated Press
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Ferdinand Friedensburg
Christian Democrats
Lt. C. Clinton
Jenkins
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Reds
Jacob A. Malik
United Nations’ Korean Commission
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