A SR pn Sa" A Lives’ CHRONOLOGY 1. YEAR 1948 January 12—Dominican DC-3 air- liner crash between Santiago and Barce- lona, kills 31 persons, including entire San- tiago baseball team. 28—Thirty-two persons killed, including 28 Mexicans, when DC-3 explodes near Coaling, Cal. 29—Army funeral ship, Joseph V. Con- nolly, partly destroyed by fire, sinks while being towed to New York. 30—Air Marshall Arthur Coningham, 52, and 31 others killed in plane crash. February 22—Two truckloads of explosives are - blown up, devastating a three-block business section in Jerusalem. 27—Nineteen persons aboard an Indian National Airways plane en route from New Delhi to 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. Paul. 18—Ten A. F. flyers killed when a B-29 crashés at MacDill field, near Tam- pa, Fla. 19—At least 42 persons killed and more than 300 injured in a series of tor- nadoes which struck nine states from Texas to central New York. April 13—More than 3,000 families are evacu- ated when Ohio river overflows. 15—Thirty persons (19 Americans) killed - when PAW plane crashes in Erie. 20—Cooper mine explosion near Aguas Caliente, Peru, kills 41 miners. May 3—Tornadoes kill at least 23 persons in midwestern states. 30—Flooded Columbia river claims 23 lives, causes great damage in Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Devastates Van- port City, Ore. July 1—Series of earthquakes destroy about 70 per cent of the Japanese industrial city of Fukuk (population 85,000) and surrounding towns of Honshu. 2—Transport plane used by the Mexican- American foot and mouth disease commission crashes on Mt. Orizaba. 16 killed. &—Thirty-nine killed when Swedish DC-6 airliner (32 aboard) collides with R.A.F. York transport (7 aboard) near London, > 27—Thirteen coal miners killed in explo- sion in Princeton, Ind. August 12—Thirteen men killed when B-29 crashes after take-off near Roswell, N. M. A navy weather reconnaissance plane with 12 aboard crashes and burns same day on Rota Island, 5 miles north of Guam. p 20—Seventeen U. S. air force men killed in B-29 crash at Rapid City, S. D. September 6—Labor Day holiday deaths from ac- cidents in the U. S. over three-day period total 407. 14—Forty U. S. soldiers killed and 60 in- jured in troop train wreck in Korea. 17—Floods in Japan leave 541 dead and 600 missing. October 5—Hurricane causes 11 deaths and 10 million dollars damage in Cuba, then does great damage in Miami. 6—A B-29 bomber, struck by lightning, explodes over Waycross, Ga. Nine killed. 30-31—Twenty persons died and hundreds were made ill, apparently as a re- sult of smog (blend of smoke and fog) which blanketed Donora, Pa. November 16—Search abandoned for Air Forces B-29, missing since Nov, 6 en route from Okinawa to Guam. 25—Thanksgiving Day accidents take toll of 114 lives, compared with 128 in 1947. January 1—Bing Crosby named top money - making star for 8th consecu- tive year. 11— ‘Best Years of Our wins daily film poll as the best 1947 picture. 24—California observes 100th anniversary of discovery of gold by Jas. M. Mar- shall in Coloma. 26—Gen. Omar Bradley formally nomi- nated by President Truman to suc- ceed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as army chief of staff. 27—Bolivia is put in stage of siege be- cause of alleged revolutionary plot. * February Su 3—Eric Johnson re-elected president of Association of Motion Picture Di- rectors. 9—President urges congress to continue ° for two more years the 500 million-a- year programs of federal aid to states for highways. 19—Army reports that World War I1 cost U. S. $353,235,000,000 ($2,460 a second). 23—Pope grants ex-King Michael of Ro- mania dispensation to marry Danish Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma. March 9—House grants $200,000 to un-American activities committee by a 337-37 vote. 10—B-29 drops a 42,000-pound non-explo- sive bomb, largest ever made ,in test at Muroc, Cal. April 5—President Truman names Paul Gray Hoffman, president of Studebaker corporation, to supervise ERP. 20—Walter P. Reuther, president of CIO United Auto Workers, badly wounded by unidentified assailant. 24—Commission of the Churches of In- ternational Affairs is established in New York City. May 3—Columbia breaks off diplomatic rela- tions with Russia. Gov. Dewey of New York stumps Oregon. 18—President Truman invokes Taft-Hart- ley law to avert long-distance tele- phone strike. 28—Chrysler ends its 17-day strike. Grants 13c hourly raise. June 2-3—Senator Taft of Ohio tours North Carolina in election campaign. .1.0. Packinghouse Workers in Chi- cago ends its 82-day strike of 8,060 Wilson employes, winning nine-cent hourly raise. 10—Air force reveals that rocket-powered Bell X-1 has been flown faster than speed of sound. July 5—Geo. 1. Hall, of New York, elected Grand Ruler of BPOE in Philadel- phia. 13—John L. Lewis and 18 steel companies sign a contract ending strike of 40,000 UMW miners. 18—President Truman orders all men be- tween 18 and 25 to register August 30 to September 18 for military serv- ice. 30—Combined navy, air force shelling, bombing and torpedoing sinks battle- ship Nevada in Pacific. 31—Idlewild airport—4,900 acres—dedi- cated in New York. August 6—First around the world flight by B-29’s is completed when two of the bomb- ers land at Davis-Monthan base, near Tucson, Ariz. 8—Census bureau estimates U. S. lation at 143,414,000, as of July 1, 1947, 8.9 per cent higher than the 1940 census. : 17—Vanport, Ore., devastated by flood May 30, is sold for salvage for $178,- 591. Original cost, 26 million, September 11—Miss America of 1948 chosen in At- lantic City: Beatrice Vella Shopp, 18, Hopkins, Minn. 13—Rep. Margaret Chase (R., Me.) elect- ed to U. S. senate by a record ma- jority. October 5—UMW announces beginning of a pro- gram to guarantee all 400,000 mem- bers and families free medical and hospital service. 13—Capt. Colin P. Kelly, Jr., first ‘U. S. hero of World War II, is buried in his home town, Madison, Fla. 14—U. S. Judge Luther M. Swygert of Indianapolis holds the A.F.L. Int. Typo. Union in contempt. November 4—Profs. Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns abandoned plans to make two-and-one-half-mile deep-sea dives after their special bathyscaphe was damaged off the Cape Verde islands. 6—White House was closed indefinitely to social engagements and sightseers until extensive repairs to the man- _ sion could be completed. 12—Trial of 12 top U. S. Communist lead- ers postponed for fourth time because of illness of William Z. Foster, Com- munist party chairman. 22—U. S. air force ends efforts to make rain by seeding clouds with dry ice after nine months of experiments prove inefficacy of procedure. December opu- 7—Secretary of State George Marshall undergoes appendectomy. 13—Astronomers at Mt. Wilson observa- tory announced discovery of a new minor planet traveling a route within 140 million miles of Earth. 22—Princess Elizabeth’s son christened. January ° 6—80th congress con- venes. 8—Begin hearings on the Marshall plan. Principal witness is State Secretary George Marshall. 19—Bernard Baruch presents senate for- eign relations committee with his startling ‘“‘peace mobilization’ pro- gram. 23—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief of staff, withdraws from Republican presidential race. February 3—National Airlines’ 145 pilots strike before midnight over dismissal of pilot two years ago. 4—Defense secretary Forrestal consoli- dates navy and air force transport systems into military air transport service. . 23—Sen. Glen H. Taylor (D., Ida.) quits party to become Henry Wallace's running mate. 24—Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers goes on trial on charges of suborning perjury in senate investigation. March 1—House un-American activities com- mittee accuses Dr. Edward U. Con- don, director of the national bureau of standards, of being ‘‘one of the Woohast links in our atomic secu- rity.” 16—FBI declares it has cleared 1,005,944 federal employes in loyalty pro- gram. 24—Gerhart Eisler sentenced to one to three years imprisonment in Wash- ington for passport fraud. April 2—Both houses of congress override tax cut veto, pass omnibus foreign aid bill and adjourn for week. 10—House speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr. intervenes in the 27-day strike of 400,000 soft-coal miners, and soon afterwards an important agreement is announced. 20—John L. Lewis is fined $20,000 and UMW $1,400,000 for contempt of fed- eral court order. 30—Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg succeeds Sen Carl A. Spaatz as air force chief. May 2—Gen. Dwight Eisenhower retires from .the army. 8—President Truman celebrates his 64th birthday. 10—Three railroad brotherhoods call off threatened nation-wide strike after President Truman orders army to seize roads. 19—House passes Mundt-Nixon Commu- nist-control bill, 319-58. 21—N. Y. Gov. Dewey wins Oregon presi- dential primary over Harold E. Stas- sen. June 2—Senate votes to admit 200,000 Euro- pean displaced persons to the U. S. during next two years. 4—House appropriates $5,980,710,228 for foreign aid. 4 10—Senate passes two-year peacetime draft bill. ; ! 21—-Twenty-fourth Republican convention meets in Philadelphia. Gov. Dewey of New York nominated for the presi- dency on fourth day, with Gov. Earl Warren, of California, as his running mate. 24—President Truman signs second peacetime selective service bill. July 5—Gen. Eisenhower reiterates he will not run for the presidency. 8—Soft coal prices rise 46 cents a ton. 15—President Harry S. Truman, 64, and Sen. Alben W. Barkley, 70, of Ken- tucky, are nominated for president and vice-president by the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia. 22—The Wallace third party, meeting in Philadelphia, officially names itself the Progressive Party, and nomi- nates Henry Agard Wallace and Sen. Glen H. Taylor of Idaho as its candi- dates for president and vice-presi- dent. 26—Congress convenes in a special ses- sion called by President Truman. 30—Elizabeth Bentley, confessed wartime Communist spy, makes startling dis- closures before a senate expenditures subcommittee. Top Ten Spot News . Stories of 1948 (As selected by nation’s weekly editors in Publishers’ Auxiliary poll.) President Truman and Demo- cratic party score upset election victory. Russians blockade Berlin, caus- ing inauguration of airlift, height- ening the “cold war.” Count Bernadotte assassinated during U. N. mission in Palestine. Southern Democrats. rebel to form states’ rights or “Dixiecrat" party. War in China nears climax with Communist troops marching to ap- parent victory and U. S. officials refusing to grant additional aid to Chiang Kai-shek. High cost of living plagues Americans and their business with fourth round of wage boosts seen in offing. : Oksana Kasenkina leaps from Russian consulate window in des- perate effort to escape impending return to native land, creating in- ternational episode. Mohandas Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist, terminating life of service to India and cause. of freedom. United Nations proceedings bring into open many interna- tional problems and emphasize conflict between East and West. Eightieth congress sets legisla- tive background for party posi- tions during election campaign. August 2—President Truman appoints three- man displaced persons commission to administrate the DP act, under which 200,000 persons are to be ad- mitted to the U. S. 7—Congress adjourns its two-week ex- tra session. 19—U. S. demands ouster of Jacob Loma- / iin, Sovist consul general in New York. September 2—West coast ports paralyzed when CIO Intl. Longshoremen’s union go on strike. y 6—President Truman launches his re- election campaign. 18—Sen. Alben W. Barkley, President Truman's running mate, begins two- yoo 15-speech tour of eight eastern states. October 2—Population of the U. S. as of July 1 was estimated at 146,114,000 by U. S. census bureau. 4—Railroads grant 10-cent hourly wage increase to railway conductors and trainmen. 11—Former interior secretary, Harold L. Ickes, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt endorse President Truman for re- election. 16—President Truman orders reserves brought up to full strength. November 2—President Harry S. Truman, 64, Democrat, astounded the political world by defeating Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, 42, of New York, for re-elec- tion. The Democrats also swept back into control of both houses of con- ress and won 20 out of 32 governor- ships. 4—Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R., N. J.) invoked his constitutional rights and refused to testify before a federal grand jury on charges that he had padded his congressional office pay- roll and coliected kickbacks. 7—President Truman arrives in Key West, Fla., for a two-week post-elec- tion vacation. 18—F'irst major blizzard of season sweeps through north central states, killing 13 persons. 25—Striking Longshoremen on both coasts return to work as shipping strike ends. December 3—Microfilm copies of secret state, war and navy department documents found in hollow pumpkin on Maryland farm are introduced as evidence in house un-American activities commit- tee’s spy investigation. 10—Whittaker Chambers, confessed for- mer Communist courier and key fig- ure in Communist espionage probe, resigned his position as a senior edi- tor of Time magazine. 14—GOP Sen. Arthur Vandenberg is mentioned as possible successor to ailing George C. tary of state. Marshall as secre- January 4—Dr. Robert Ernest Hume, international- ly known authority on living relations. ... .8—=Charles Michelson, 79, publicity director of the Demo- cratic national committee, 1929-43. 15—Josephus Daniels, 85, World War 1 navy secretary. 30-—Mohandas K. Gandhi,. 78, spiritual leader of the Hindus; slain by Hindu nationalist in New Delhi. 30—Orville Wright, 76, co-inventor heavier-than-air plane. February 9—Burns Mantle, drama critic, N.. Y. Daily News editor of early collection of best plays. 23—Dr. John Robert Gregg, 80, inventor of Gregg system of shorthand. 24—Will Irwin, 74, newspaperman, novel- ist and playwright. 29—Robert McCowan Barrington Ward, 57, London Times editor since 1941. March 3 8—Emily P. Bissell, 86, founder of U. S. Christmas seal drive in 1907. 25—Adm. Jose Reeves, 76, commander- in-chief of U. S. fleet, 1934-36. April 5—Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 73. 7—Rep. Orville Zimmerman, 67 (Dem., Mo.), member of house since 1935. 15—Manuel Acuna Roxas, 56, first pre i dent of Philippine Republic. 28—Tom Breneman, 48, star of radiy's “Breakfast in Hollywood.” May ! 15—Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, founder of Boys Town. 27—Rudolph H. Wurlitzer, 74, ex-p’ esi- dent of the musical instrument (.om- pany. of June 6—George Evan Roberts, 90, director of U S. mint, 1898-1907, 1910-1914. 10—Lewis Schwellenbach, 53, secretary of labor since 1945. July 2—Richard Gerard Husch, 72, author of Sweet Adeline’s lyrics. 5—Film actress Carole Landis, 29, sui- cide in her Hollywood home. 15—Gen. John J. Pershing, 87, comtnand- er-in-chief of the AEF in World War I and only man holding rank of 7en- eral of the Armies. 23—David Wark Griffith, 73, pioneer film producer, and producer of “Birth of a Nation.” 24—Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, editor-publisher of Washington Times- Herald. August 8—May DeSousa, 66, former light opera star. 13—Geo. F. Shafer, 59, Rep. governor of North Dakota. 16—George Herman (Babe) Ruth, 53, the “Sultan of Swat,” who set or tied 76 baseball records. 27—Charles Evans Hughes, 86, former chief justice of U. S. September 1—Charles A. Beard, 73, historian, au- thor of more than 30 books on Amer- ican history. 11—Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 71, founder of Moslem Pakistan. 15—Jacques Gordon, 49, violinist and con- ductor, former child prodigy. 30—Mrs. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 87, widow of President Theodore Roosevelt. October 3—Thomas Augustine Daly, 77, poet, hu- morist, lecturer and journalist. 10—Mary Eaton, 46, former New York musical comedy star. 3l—Mary Nolan, 42, film actress and Ziegfeld Follies beauty who won fame as Imogene (Bubbles) Wilson. November 9—Edgar Kennedy, 58, film comedian, one of the original ‘Keystone Kops,” -of cancer, in San Fernando, Calif. 23—Lewis R. (Hack) Wilson, 48, all-time National league home run king, (56 for Chicago in 1930), in Baltimore. December 3—Carl Lorenz Hagenbeck, 40, head of leading German circus family, in Hamburg. January 1—Bowl football games —Rose Bowl: Mich. 49, USC 0; Bowl: + 3 . 7; Cotton Bowl: SMU 13, Penn. State 13; Orange Bowl: Ga. Tech. 20, Kans. 13. Shrine All- Star, East 40, West 9. 8—Joe Louis signs with 20th Century Sporting club to defend his heavy- weight title in New York bout June 23 against Joe Walcott. 12—Detroit Lions sold for about $200,000 to a Detroit syndicate. February 7—Gilbert Dodds runs fastest indoor mile ever timed in Boston (4.08.1). 24—Featherweight title is retained by Willie Pep, who knocks out Humbert Sierra of Cuba in Miami. 27—Jersey Joe Walcott signs for a re- turn Joe Louis bout June 23. March 7—Willie Hoppe, 60, of Chicago, retains world’s three-cushion billiard title de- feating Ezequiel Navarra in a chal- lenge series. 25—Guy Lombardo sets U. S. goldcup speedboat record of 113.208 MPH at Miami Beach. April 2-3—Joe Verdeur of Philadelphia sets new world swimming record of two mins. 30.5 secs. in the 220-yd. breaststroke at AAU indoor championships in New Haven, Conn. 17—Harrison Dillard sets world secord of 13.6 secs. in 129-yard high hurdles and Charles Fonville a world shotput mark of 58 ft. Ya-inch in Kansas Relays, in Lawrence. 19—Major league baseball season opens. May 15—Preakness Stakes (72nd annual, $134,- 870) is won by Calumet Farms ‘‘Cita- tion” in Baltimore. 25—Ben Hogan, 35, of Hershey, Pa., de- feats Mike Turnesa of White Plains, N. Y., 7 and 6, in the finals of the Professional Golfers ass’'n. champion- ship in St. Louis. June 10—Tony Zale, 34, regains world middle weight title by knocking out Rocky Graziano, 26. 12—Ben Hogan wins national open golf championships in Los Angeles, with 278 strokes, tourney record. 25—Joe Louis, 34, retains world’s heavy- weight title by knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott in 11th round. July 3—Princeton’s 150-pound crew wins the Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta on Henley-on-Thames, England. 11—Lloyd Mangrum wins the $10,000 Co- lumbus open golf championship. 29—King George VI formally opens Olympic games in London’s Wembley stadium. August 9—Home pro Lloyd Mangrum wins $22,500 in prizes in winning the All- American tourney Aug. 6, a world championship event Aug. 7 and Tam O’Shanter professional tournament Aug. 9, in Chicago. 14—Summer games of the 14th modern Olympiad end in London after a 16- day program. September 4—Paul Mantz wins Bendix trophy third time in air race from Long Beach, LL to Cleveland, averaging 447.80 13—Rolland R. Free of Hollywood sets world’s motorcycle speed record of Jonas MPH on Bonneville salt flats, ah. October 2—Three-year old ‘‘Citation’” wins the $108,800 “Gold Cup’ race at Belmont Park, N.°Y. 11—A 4-3 victory in Boston gives the Cleveland Indians the 1948 world series championship over the Boston Braves. 13—National hockey season opens. November 26—Rocky Graziano, former middleweight boxing champion, suspended by Na- tional Boxing association after he withdrew from scheduled fight with Fred Apostoli. ; 27—Undefeated Army and consistently de- feated Navy fought to 21-21 tie in an- nual football classic. December 12—Chicago Cardinals defeat Chicago Bears 24-21 in season’s top pro foot- bali game. January 3—522 million-dollar aid program way. 6—U. S. Athens hands Greek army and na- tional guard an additional 15 million to raise army to 132,000. 13—Nationwide strike of*60,000 bank em- ployees in Italy ends. Salaries raised 15 per cent. 18—Mohandas K. Gandhi ends 121-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. February 1—Russia protests that low-flying B-17’s are making inspections of Soviet ships in the Yellow sea and Sea of Japan. 2—New Italian trade and friendship treaty signed in Rome. T7—France and Spain agree to re-open their frontier, officially closed for two years 28—Russia gains complete control over Czechoslovakia through Czech Com- myst party in bloodless coup, in one week. March 4—Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R., Ind.) states that strikes cost 920 million in wages in 1946 and 281 million in 1947. 6—State Secretary Marshall and Defense Secretary Forrestal urge authoriza- tion of additional 275 million dollar military assistance to Greece and Turkey. ; 19—U. S. abandons its support of parti- tion of the Holy Land. © 24—President Peron of Argentina says that Argentina will not ban Commu- nist party. 31—Russia starts battle of blockades against other allies in. Berlin. April 1—Secretary Marshall tells ninth inter- national conference of American states in Bogota that ERP must take precedence over aid to Latin America. 2 ori refers Holy Land dispute to U. N. 9—Outbreak of rioting interrupts Bogota conference. 12—Bronze statue of Franklin D. Roose- velt is unveiled in London. 28—Finnish parliament approves Russo- Finnish defense treaty. May 7—First Congress of Europe is held in The Hague. 13—Arab League proclaims in Damascus that a ‘‘state of war” exists between its members and the ‘‘Jewish rebels of Palestine.” 14—Israel, first Jewish state in the Holy Land since 70 A. D., is proclaimed by the Jewish National Council meeting in Tel Aviv. 26—Gen. Jan Christian Smuts and his United Party are defeated in a South African election. June 7—Dr. Eduard Benes, 64, elected Czech president for life in June, 1946, re- signs. 11—Cease-fire order takes effect on Pal- estine’s fighting fronts under four- week truce. : 12—Senate appropriations committee re- stores 1.011 billion of the 1.256 billion cut by the house from ERP. y 24—Soviet occupation forces ban all ship- ments from western Germany to Ber- lin. 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 11, ‘expires, and all three principal fronts again flame into action. 12—British lend-lease account with the U. S. is closed out. 27—Maj. Gen. Hershey announces that the new draft will take 25-year olds first and youngest men last. 29—Yugoslav Communists re-elect Mar- shal 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 Nuernberg sentences 11 of 12 Krupp munitions directors to prison. August 2—Secret plan for control of Danube wa- terways is presented to the Danube conference in Belgrade. 7—Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, 52," Russian * chemistry teacher, plunges from third-floor window of Russia’s New York consulate to escape Reds. 12—Anglo-U. S. airlift to Berlin achieves the 4,500-ton-a-day goal. 15—Democratic republic of Korea is for- mally proclaimed. September 3—Chile’s Communist party is outlawed under act of congress. 4—Queen Wilhelmina ends 50-year reign over Netherlands, in favor of daugh- ter Juliana. 5—Pope Pius XII broadcasts his first speech to German Catholics since the war. 14—Gen. Lucius D. Clay predicts in Ber- lin that a winter-long siege is in pros- pect . 17—Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, U. N. mediator for Palestine, assas- sinated. 21—Third annual session of 58-nation U.N. general assembly opens in Paris. October 1—Panama’s new president, Domingo Diaz Arosemena, is inaugurated. 8—Norway, Cuba and Egypt are elected Py the U. N. general assembly in Paris to replace Belgium, Columbia and Syria on the security council for two-year terms. 9—Russia’s disarmament plan, offered at the Paris U. N. meeting, is chal- lenged by the U. S. November 1—Chinese Communists completed their rout of the Nationalists in Manchu- ria and subdued the last resistance in Mukden. 11—A million men locked in battle on a 200-mile front in the Suchow area in the Nationalist - Communist war in China. 12—Hideki Tojo and six co-defendants in the principal Japanese war crimes trial are sentenced to death by hang- ing. 13—Herbert Evatt, president of the U. N. general assembly, and Trygve Lie, U. N. secretary-general, appeal di- rectly to the Big Four to settle the Berlin dispute by direct negotiation. | 14—A son is born to Princess Elizabeth of England and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburg. 26—Mme. Chiang Kai-shek announces she will visit the U. S. December 1—Mme. Chiang Kai-shek arrives in U. S., allegedly to press for three- billion-dollar military and economic loan to China during next three years. 12—United Nations assembly ended its 12- week Paris session by endorsing the Korean government of Dr. Syngman Rhee and continuing the U. N. Korean commission for another year. 14—Ernst Reuter, mayor of western Ber- lin, proposes that western allies re- organize the kommandantura with- out the Russians and abolish the boundaries between American, Brit- ish and French sectors. 1948 — WAS PEACE IN PREPAREDNE ¢ for France - x and Italy gets under aid mission in U. N. SESSION THE VICTORS NEW DRAFT OREGON FLOOD \ John Giles, | | i Centermoreland ‘Miss Emily Motichka, student i nurse of Sayre Hospital, spent a few days with her parents last week. eG rey Mr. and Mrs. Jason Harding and Darrell were dinner guests of Mr. as and Mrs. E. D. Roderick on Christ- mas. . iA Mr. and Mrs. Loren Schoonover and children and Mr, and Mrs. Elwood Martin and son were with their mother on Christmas Day. James Winters remains ill at his home, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dickinson returned to Camp after spending a leave with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Harding of Washington, D. C. are visiting his parents. - : Miss Louisa, Neiman of Beau- mont visited Mr. and Mrs. Roderick a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Major are staying in Scranton for the re- mainder of the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Cook’s two children have been very sick for the past week. ~ IDETOWN Mr. and Mrs. Paul Parrish and daughter, Donna, Mrs. Della Par- rish and Bess Cook spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parrish of Kingston. 2 The Confidence Class will meet the home of Bess Cooke on Tuesday evening, January 11, Assis- ting hostesses are Mrs. Alfred Had- sel, Mrs. Kenneth Bonning an Mrs. Kenneth Calkins. Vis Callers at the home of Mr .and at { Mrs. Claude Agnew on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Berdy, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Heck, Mrs. Alice Krieger of Shick- |} shinny, Betty Jane Naugle of Lake Silkworth, Mr. and Mrs. James Agnew and daughter Judy of For- ty-Fort, Albert Agnew, Mr. and, Mrs. Leslie Agnew and daughters ~ 3] Sandra and Joy. ; 7 Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Lamoreaux of Lake Silkworth spent New Year's Day with Mr. and Mrs. John Gar- ringer. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hender- shot and family of Luzerne, Mrs. Mrs. Francis Layaou and son Roger of Blytheburn spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lamoreaux. : T-Sgt. and Mrs. Gavigan 5 Return From Germany T/Sgt. and Mrs. Clyde Gavigan of Milwaukee; Wis., who have been stationed at Ansbach, Germany spent the holidays with Mrs. Gavi- gan’s sister, Mrs. Russell Wilcox and family at Outlet. While here they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilcox in Kingston. They then left for Georgia. 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