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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-12-30
March

1-House un.Amercan activities committee
accuses DR.. Edward U. Condor, director
of the national bureau of standards, of
being one Of the weakest links in our
5-Navy rocket sets a 5000 U. S. speed and
18-mile w. S. altitude record at White
l6-FBI declares it has cleared /. DOS, e44 fed
eral employees in loyalty program
24-Gerhart Eisler sentenced to one to three
years imprisonment in Washington for
passport fraud.
April
2-Both houses of congress override tax cut
veto, pass omnibus foreign aid bill and
adjourn for week.
toulouse Speaker Joseph Martin, Jr., in
tervenes in the 27-day strike of 100000
soft-coal miners, and soon afterwards an
important agreement IS announced.
20-John L. Lewis is fined $4,000 and UNIV
81 100000 for contempt of federal court
3O-Gen. Hoyt S Vandenberg succeeds Cen
Carl A. Spaatz as air force chief.
May
2-eGen. Dwight Eisenhower retires from
8-President Truman celebrates his 64th
birthday.
10-Three railroad brotherhoods can off
threatened nationwide strike after Presi-
dent Truman orders army to seize roads.
19-House passes Mundt-NiXon Communist
coHtrol bill, 1883.
l.
dental primary over Harold E. Stassen.
June
2-Senate votes to admit 2OO,O 900 European
displaced persons to the U. S. during
next two years.
4-House appropriates $500, 10. 228 for
foreign aid.
1O-senate passes two-year peacetirne draft
bill.
21-Twenty fourth Republican convention
meets in Philadelphia. Gov. Dewey of
New York nominated for the presidency
on fourth day, with Gov. Earl Warren,
of California, as his running mate.
24-President Truman signs second peace
time selective service bill.
July
Seen. Eisenhower reiterates he will not
run for the presidency
8-Soft coal prices rise 46 cents ton.
Alben w. Barley, TO- of Kentucky, are
nominated for president and Vice-pres-
dent by the Democratic national conVen.
ton in Philadelphia.
22-The Wallace third party, meeting in
Philadelphia, officially names itself the
Progressive Party, and dominates Henry
Agard Wallace and Sen. Glen H. Taylor
of Idaho as its candidates for president
and Vice-president.
26-Congress convenes in a special session
called by President Truman.
30-Elizabeth Bentley, confessed wartime
Communist spy, makes startling disclo-
sures before senate expenditures SUBJ
committee.
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13-Nore than 5000 families are evacuated
when Ohio river oVerfoWs.
15-Thirty persons 90 Americans) killed
when PAW plane crashes in Erie.
20-CoOper mine explosion near Aguas Ca
hente, Peru kills Il miners.
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June
6-George Evan Roberts 30. directo. of
10-Lewis Schwellenbach, SO. secretary Of
labor since 1915
July
Orchard Gerard Husch. 70, author of
Sweet Adeline's lyrics.
5-Filln actress Carole Lands, 80. suicide
in her Hollywood home.
15-Gen. John J. Pershing. 81, commander.
in-chief of the AEF in World War / and
only man holding rank Of General Of
2s-David Wark Griffith. 70. pioneer film pro.
ducer, and producer of Birth Of Ma
ton"
24-AIrs. Eleanor MediH Patterson, 6S. edi-
tor publisher OF Washington Times
Herald.
29-James E; Watson. 81, senator from In.
August
.8-May Desousa, &c, former light opera star.
l3-Geo., +. Shafer, SO, Rep. governor of
16-George Herman (Babe) Ruth, 50, the
Sultan of Swat" who set or tied 76
baseball records.
27-charles Evans Hughes, Sc, former chief
justice of U. S.
September
Charles A. Beard 73 historian, author
of more than 80 books on American his
11-Mohammed Ali Jinnah, II, founder of
Moslem Pakistan.
Dialogues Gordon, 40. violinist and con-
ductor, former child prodigy.
30-Nirs. Edith Kermit CarOW Roosevelt, 81.
widow Of President Theodore Roosevelt.
October
3-Thomas Augustine DAILY, u. poet hui
morist. lecturer and journalist.
1O-Mary Eaton, 46. former New York mu-
steal comedy star.
13-Charles F. Meyer. 81. former president
of Standard Oil Co.
2i-Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 70, Amer
lean d!scoverer of the source Of the
OrinocO river, in Huigra. Ecuador.
Binary Nolan, 40, film actress and Zieg-
fed Follies beauty who won fame as
Imogene (Bubbles) Wilson.
November
9-Edgar Kennedy, SO, film comedian, one
of the original keystone Hops" Of can
Ger. in San Fernando. Calf.
13-Roarll Bradford, So, southern newspaper
man. author of amoebiasis, in New
Orleans.
23-Lewis r. tHacli) Wilson, 48. all-tme Ma
tional league home run king, (56 for Chi
cago in 1890, in Baltimore.
December
3-Carl Lorenz Hagenbeck, 40, head of lead
ing German circus family, in Hamburg
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1O-Tony Yale, 81, regains world middle
weight title by knocking out Rocky Ora
Ziano, &c.
i2-Ben Hogan wins national open golf cham
pionship in Los Angeles, with 273 strokes.
tourney record.
25-Joe Louis a. retains worlds heavy
weight title by knocking out Jersey Joe
Walcott in 18th round.
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May

First Congress of Europe is held in The
Hague.
13-Arab League proclaims in Damascus that
state of war exists between its MEM
bers and the Jewish rebels ofPalestne."
14-Israel, first Jewish state in the Holy Land
since 20 A. D, is proclaimed by the jew
ish National Council meeting in Tel Aviv.
26-Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS and his Unit
ed Party are defeated in a South African
election.
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Fl " &SHl1 known authority on liV-
DA-1ZJ ing relations.
8-Charles Nicholson, TO-
publicity director of the Democratic ma
tional committee. l92943.
15-Josephus Daniels. IS. World War l navy
SO-Mohandas X Gandhi, rs, spiritual leader
of the Hindus; slain by Hindu nationalist
so-orville WRIGHT 76. co-inventor of heavier.
than-air plane.
February
9-Burns Mantle. drama critic. N. Y. Daily
23-Dr. John Robert Gregg. 80, inventor of
Gregg system Of shorthand.
24-Will irwin, "A, neWspaperman. novelist
29-Robert MCGOWAN harrington Ward, 81,
London Times editor since l94l.
March
s-Emily P. Bissell, Sc. founder of U. s.
Christmas seal drive in 1907.
25-Adm. Jose Reeves, rs. commandment.
chief of U. s. feet, 1934-36.
April
5-Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 70.
REP. OrVille Zimmerman. 81 d., MOI,
member of house since 1895.
15-Manuel Acuna RoXas, Sc, first president
of Philippine Republic.
2S-Tom Breneman,,, 48, star of radios
Breakfast in Hollywood"
May
15-Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 81,
founder of Boys Town.
27-Rudolph H. Wurlitzer, IA, ex-president of
the musical instrument company.
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January

12-DOminican DC-3 airlin-
er crash between Santi-
ago and Barcelona, kills
81 persons. including en-.
tire Santiago baseball
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September

2-West coast ports paralyzed when CLIO
Init. LongshOremen' s union 60 on strike.
G-President Truman launches his re-elec-
ton campaign.
15-Francis Hitchcock, 80, millionaire sports
man. is married to Stephania Saja, %,
coal miners daughter.
mans running mate begins tWO-Week
15-speech tour of eight eastern states.
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January
3-522 million dollar aid
program for France and
Italy gets under way.
CT. S. aid mission in
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September

3-Chile's Communist party is outlawed
under act of congress.
4-Queen WiheImina ends 50.year reign
over Netherlands. in favor Of daughter
Juliana.
5-Pope Plus XII broadcasts his first speech
to German Catholics since the war
8-Russa begins to hold air maneuvers in
western air corridors to Berlin and puts
on aerial and naval shows of force in
Baltic.
14-Gen. Lucius D. Clay predicts in Berlin
that a winter-long siege is in prospect
17-SWedish Count Follle Bernadotte, u. N.
mediator for Palestine, assassinated.
21-Third annual session of 58-nation U. N.
general assembly opens in Paris.
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August

2-Secret plan for control of Danube water
ways is presented TO the Danube confer
ence in Belgrade.
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, SO. Russian
chemistry teacher. plunges from third
floor window of Russia s New York con-
sulate to escape Reds.
12-Anglo.U. s. airlift 10 Berlin achieves the
4,500-ton-a-daY goal.
15-Democratic republic of Korea is formally
proclaimed.
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October

1-Panama's new president Domingo Diaz
Arosemena, is inaugurated.
8-Norway, Cuba and Egypt are elected by
the U. N. general assembly in Paris to
replace Belgium. Columbia and Syria on
the security council for twoyear terms.
9-Russias disarmament plan, offered at
the Paris U. N. meeting is challenged
by the u S.
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August

August
2-President Truman appoints three.man
displaced persons commission TO admin
istrate the DIP act, under which 100000
persons are to be admitted to the U. S.
4-President Truman reports to congress
that u s. furnished 1872 billions in post
war foreign aid to Jan. l.
7-Congress adjourns its two.Week extra
session.
Stu signs with Publishers association
of New York representing - metropoli-
tan daily newspapers, giving $500 COM
posing room workers SO weekly raise.
19-U. s. demands custer of Jacob Lomakin,
Soviet consul general in New York.
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kC(( >5s-.sEa ago and Barcelona, kills
lS.SszizzE.Easfl 81 persons, including en-
tire Santiago 5aSeDaH
2s-Thirtv.two persons killed. including 90
MeXicans, when Dos eXplodes near Coal
29-Ariiny funeral ship. Joseph V. Connolly,
partly destroyed by fire, sinks while be-
ing toWcd to New York.
3O-Air Marshall Sir Arthur Cunningham. So,
and 81 others killed in plane crash.
February
22-Two trucbloads of explosives are blown
up, devastating 4 three-block business
section in Jerusalem.
27-Nneteen persons aboard an Indian Ma
toual Arrays plane en- route from New
Delhi 10 London killed in crash.
March
12-Thirty persons killed when Northwest
Airlines DC-4 crashes on Mt. Sanford,
ALASKA, en- route from Shanghai to st.
18-ren A. =. flyers killed when a Bog
crashes at MacDnl field, near Tampa,
I9-At least 42 persons killed and more than
500 injured in a series OF tornadoes which
struck nine states from Texas 10 central
New York
April
13-More than 5000 families are evacuated
when Ohio river OverfloWs.
when Paw plane crashes in Erie.
20-Cooper mine explosion near Aguas Ca.
hente, Peru, kills Il miners.
May
3-Tornadoes kill at least % persons in mid.
3O-FIooded Columbia river claims % lives,
causes great damage in Oregon. Wash
ineton, Idaho. Devastates Vanport City.
Ore.
July
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February

Russia protests that low.fying B-17s
are making inspections of Soviet ships
in the Yellow sea and Sea Of Japan.
2-New Italian trade and friendship treaty
signed in Rome.
6-Paris Figaro states that Soviet fac
tory in the Urals built an atomic bomb
which failed to explode in test.
' France and Spain agree 10 reopen their
frontier. officially closed for two years.
28-Russia gains complete control over
Czechoslovakia through Czech Commu-
mist party in bloodless coup, in one
week.
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November

26-Rocky Graziano. former middle weight
boxing champion, suspended by National
Boxing association after he withdrew
from scheduled fight with Fred Aoostol.
27-Undefeated Army and consistently de-
feated Navy fought to 21-21 tie in, annual
football classic.
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December

12-Chicago Cardinals defeat Chicago Bears
24.21 in seasons top pro football game
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December

7-Secretary of State George Marshall
undergoes appendectomy.
i3-Astronomcrs at Mt. Wilson observatory
announce discovery OF a new minor
planet travelling a route within 140 mil
lion miles of Earth.
22-Princess EliZabeth's son christened.
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October

2-Population of the U. s. as of July was
estimated at lac, ia 900 by U. S. census
bureau.
4-Railroads grant 1O-cent hourly wage in.
crease to railway conductors and train
men.
11-Former interior secretary, Harold L.
Ickes, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt en-
dorse President Truman for reelection.
1G-President Truman orders reserves
brought up TO full strength.
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November

1-Chinese Communists completed their
route of the Nationalist in Manchuria
and subdued the last resistance in Muk-
den.
4-U. N. general assembly approved the
western plan for atomic energy control
and rejected Russias alternate pro-
posal.
IA million men locked in battle on a 200
mile front in the SaShow area in the Ma
tionalistCommuniS lwar in China.
12-Hideki Toto and 81 4 co-defendants in the
principal Japanese war crimes trial are
sentenced to death by hanging.
13-Herbert Evatt. president of the U. N.
general assembly, and Trygve Lie. u N.
secretary general. appeal directly to the
Big Four to settle the Berlin dispute by
direct negotiation.
IA son is born to Princess Elizabeth of
England and Primo y Pip Duka of
Edinburgh. ~5t
26-Mme. Chang Ka- tnounceS she
will visit the U.
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January

VIZ Z z1S''zz'4l41S''
w January
q - n mon, Star star for for
f"Elg14S- 9Th consecutive year.
lL-E-ss-=S-I III Best Years of Our
Lives" wins daily film
poll as the best 1947 picture.
24-California observes Tooth anniversary of
discovery Of gold by Jas. M. Marshall in
26-Gen Omar Bradley formally nominated
by President Truman to succeed Gen:
Dwight d. Eisenhower as army chief of
staff
27-Bolivia is put in stage of siege because
of alleged revolutionary plot.
3O-Joint commission on atomic energy ap-
proves giving weapons priority over
peacCtime developments in U. s. atomic
energy production.
February
Eric Johnson reelected president of
Association of Motion Picture Directors
for two more years the 500 millon-a-
year programs OF federal aid to states
19-Army reports that World War II cost
U. S. S353.235 600 900 so. 800 a second).
2S-Pope grants e';.--King Michael OF Ro-
Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.
March
!. 9-House grants $4,000 to un.American ac-
~ tivities committee by a 337-37 vote.
. 't -2-29 drops a AZ 0C0 pound non-eXplosive
NIB largest ever made, in test at
= 4. roc, Cal
~ Truman names Paul Gray
e. resident of Studebaker corpo-
80 ipervise ERP.
Reuther, president OF Go
49, Yoll-crs, badly wounded by
az Sailant
the Churches of Interna.
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September

MT Hibok volcano in Philippines erupts.
menacing thousands on Camiguin island.
6-Labor Day holiday deaths from accidents
in the U. s. over three-day period total
407
1h-Forty u S. soldiers killed and 60 injured
in troop train wreck in Korea.
17-Floods in Japan leave sal dead and 600
missing.
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n { u e rs UdHWa y 7 ct
army and national guard an additional
Is million TO raise army to $4,000.
13-NatiorWide strike of 1000 bank en-
ployees in Italy ends. Salaries raised 10
per cent
18-NIohandas K. GanGhi ends 12l-hour fast
in New Delhi
23-Union of Western nations endorsed by
U. s. state department.
30-Gandhi shot in New Delhi by Hindu
nationalist.
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January

-.
~
~ 1-BoWl football games =
| f. Rose Bowl: Mich. 80,
u use o. Sugar Bowl:
N-1 ! e,s. u Ala. T. COllOn
Bowl: SMU 49, Penn.
State 10; orange Bowl: Ga. Tech. ~,
kans. 10. Shrine All-Star. East ~,
We5I y. -i.,,,- ,,.i.,, oo.,, C,,,4,,u,, e,,or+
ing, club to defend his heavyweight title
20 W T,sa,, i'm. coli, tor ,.on. conn ooo 70
Detroit syndicate.
l5-Gom Chandler tines New YORK 4anEees
SJUU Tor signing hlsn sChoo4 pltCHeF marry
Nicholas. The signing was nulied.
EeDfuary
- ~ ., n,
yef 19d n tie Bosi9n IetaiGSd by Willie
PEP: who knocks out Humbert Sierra
o. OF 2 CUBA IN IN Mani Iniaa,, --,s fo- re+,,rr
2I-JerseN Joe Nalcott Signs Tor return
hdrCn
,yi,,;o uoooo co 81 r,,ioooo retains
wine Hoppe ~ OF Cm!caSo. retains
world ihtee,cQS4lon blIiaf1 TlIe ae
95- SSIiei Iombardo sets u s eoldcup speed.
boat record of Ii3 .2J3 MPH at Miami
Roach
Abrjl
2-3-Joe Verdeur of Philadelphia sets new
world swimming record of two MINIS. 800
secs. in the 220-vd breaststroke at AAU
Conn: a,,,
@ DiHa5a seS VOTE b rGfoIu nd Ui
~ iSc2; III IL az 49,, ~ lt 1 M "a Of
Jd al oVle q W. I 1il1eP' i,a "a
90 II. 14-lieh III Na'I9'S ''S9' III i''"
10 ISa:or 1o,eue baseball Seasons onens
4S-1IdI'- 4S"eue N19SHaii 9S'''0ti' o'''
No.,
way
on by Sa@e T FSrms IN
Baltimore
25-Ben Hogan, 35, of Hershey, Pa, defeats
Mike Turnesa of White Plains, N. Y,
and 6, in the finals of the Professional
Golfers assn. championship in St. Louis.
~ .. . -, tan.
1O-Iony Z Az g. reganS WoT Rac nli9 Gre
Meign' 9 que ny NioeNi''s ou' i'OeN' VI
12-Ben Hogan WINS atl1nal open o g9l cat-
PIonS ,I III nUS WIN -'o 81
or T Ioa ny ,,is ~ retsirs ,vorId's beavv.
weieh i Tile bv llnockine out jersey Joe
"''-O''' - 80 $780,
July
3-Prncetons 150pound crew wins the
Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley
ROYAL Regatta on Henley on Thames,
falkland
11-IJoyd Manerum wins the $4,000 Column
bus open golf championship.
games in London's Wembley stadium.
A,,o,,e+
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January

%2sM, nj January
EG~4A," ~ 6-80th congress convenes.
tlTcey Is ~ 8-Be5in hearings on the
w ~ Marshall plan. Princi-
GA&- pal witness is State Sec
rotary George Marshall.
19-Bernard Baruch presents senate foreign
relations committee with his startling
peace mobilization" program.
23-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. chief of
staff. withdraWs from Republican presi-
dental race.
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November

16-Search abandoned for Air Forces B-29,
missing since Nov. g en- route from Oii-
naWa TO Guam.
25-Thanksgving Day accidents take toll of
ia lives, compared with 1913 in 1947.
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September

11-Miss America of 1913 chosen in Atlantic
City: Beatrice Vella Shopp, 49, Hopkins,
MINI.
13-Rep. Margaret Chase (R.. Mel elected
TO U. S. senate by a record majority.
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2s-Thirty.two persons killed. including 20
Mexicans, when Dos explodes near Coal
ing, Cal.
29-Arny funeral ship, Joseph V. Connolly,
partly destroyed by fire, sinks while be-
ing toWcd to New York.
30-Air Marshall Sir Arthur Cunningham, 81,
and 81 others killed in plane crash.
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BOWI. SAID Is, ICNU.
State 10: Orange Bowl: Ga. Tech. 20.
Kans. 10. Shrine All-Star. East 40,
West 9.
6-Joe Louis signs with Doth Century Sport
ing club to defend his heavyweight title
in New York bout June % against Joe
WalcOtt.
12-Detroit Lions sold for about 100000 to a
Detroit syndicate.
15-Com. Chandler fines New York Yankees
$500 for signing high school pitcher Harry
Nicholas. The signing was nulliiied
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October

2-Three-year old Citation wins the
S1O8 300 Gold Cup race at Belmont
Park, N. Y.
IA 4-3 victory in Boston gives the Cieve-
land Indians the 1948 world series cham
pionship over the Boston Braves.
13-National hockey season opens.
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August

6-First around the world flight by B-29s
is completed when two of the bombers
land at Davis .Monthan base. near Tucson,
Ariz.
8-Census bureau estimates u S. population
a. 1884 900. as of July /, 1947, 89 per
cent higher than the 1910 census.
16-Harry Dexter White. 56. former assistant
treasury secretary, dies of heart attack.
He had denied that he was an "elite
fellow traveller in an un-American ac-
tivities committee hearing
17-Vanport, Ore, devastated by flood May
30. is sold for salvage for Sl73. sol. Orig
inal cost. &c million.
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October

5-UAIW announces beginning of program
TO guarantee all 900 members and
families free medical and hospital serv-
ice
13-Capt Colin P Kelly. Jr., first U. S. hero
of World War II. is buried in his home
town, Madison, Fla.
dianapolis holds the AT. L. Int. Typo.
Union in contempt.
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june
7-Dr. Eduard Benes, GA, elected Czech
president for life in June, 1876. resigns.
11-Cease-ire order takes effect on Pal
estne's fighting fronts under four-week
truce.
12-Senate appropriations committee re-
stores l01l billion of the 1856 billion
cut by the house from ERP.
24-Soviet occupation forces ban all ship
ments from western Germany to Berlin.
July
6-Britain, France and U. S demand in
nearly Identical notes that Russia lift its
blockade of Berlin.
9-Holy Land truce. which began June II,
expires, and all three principal fronts
again flame into action
12-British lend-lease account with the U. s.
is closed out
27-Eaj. Gen. Hershey announces that the
new draft viii take 25-year ODDS first and
youngest men last.
23-France joins the airlft to Berlin with
token flights using former Junkers JU-52
transports.
29-Yugoslav Communists re.elect Marshal
Tito as head of the politiburo.
30-EnVoys of Western Big Three begin
series of official talks in Moscow.
31-Another U. S. tribunal in Nuremberg SEN
fences II of u Krupp munitions direc-
tors 10 prison.
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February

7-Gilbert Dodds runs fastest indoor mile
ever timed. in Boston, (4:08:D.
24-FeatherWcight title is retained by Willie
Pep. who knocks out Humben Sierra
of Cuba in Miami.
27-JerseV Joe WalcOtt signs for a return
Joe Louis bout June %.
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January

ttIIIIdI
4-Dr. Robert Ernest
Hume. internationally
known authority on liv-
ing relations.
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March

4-Rep. Gerald w Lands tR., Ind.) states
that strikes cost 800 million in wages in
1916 and 281 million in 1947.
Estate Secretary Marshall and Defense
Secretary ForrestaI urge authorization
of additional 275 million dollar military
assistance to Greece and Turkey.
19-U. S. abandons its support Of partition
of the Holy Land.
24-President Peron of Argentina says that
Argentina will not ban Communist party.
31-Russia starts battle of blockades against
other allies in Berlin.
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October
November
December

3-Carl Lorenz Hagcnbeck, 40 head of lead
ing German circus family. in Hamburg
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Eel X-l has been flown faster than speed
of sound.
July
5-Geo. I. Hall. of New York elected Grand
Ruler of BPOE in Philadelphia.
13-John l.. Lewis and 10 steel companies
sign contract ending strike of 10000
UNIV miners.
l8-President Truman orders all men be-
tween 10 and 25 to register August 30 to
September IS for military service.
30-Combined navy, air force Smelling, bomb
ing and torpedoing sinks battlcship Neva.
da in Pacific.
3l-Idlewild airport 500 acres-dedicated
in New York
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2-3-Joe Verdeur of Philadelphia sets new
world swimming record of two MINIS. 80
secs. in the 220-vd. breaststroke at AAU
indoor championships in New Haven,
Conn.
17-Harrison Dillard sets world record of
1876 secs. in 129-yard high hurdles and
Charles Fonvile a world shotput mark of
So #. 14-inch in Kansas Relays, in Law
renee.
19-Maior league baseball seasons opens.
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g. bling Crosby named top
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9Th consecutive year
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