.
1—Three-foot snowfall in
Teheran and other
Iranian towns causes
earthen houses to collapse, killing 60.
3—Tornado demolishes Warren, Ark.,
killing 512, injuring 275. High gales,
floods, cold wave kills 39 in western
Europe.
14—Cold waves on West coast kills citrus
crop. Blizzards roar through Rock-
ies, causing 121 deaths,
27—At least 600 Chinese missing follow-
‘ing collision of two steamers off
Shanghai coast.
February
3—Blizzards in western and mountain
states cause 600 deaths and property
damage of $200 million.
8—Twenty-eight die when Scandinavian
plane crashes off Swedish coast.
12—Madrid-Barcelona express train
plunges down 40-foot embankment,
killing 30.
24—Crash of Cathay Pacific plane from
Manila on northern Hong Kong is-
land kills 23. Twenty-two die in air
crash at Cuzco, Peru,
27—Nine students die in fire destroying
dormitory at Kenyon college, Gam-
bier, Ohio
March
24—Tornadoes kill 26 in south and south-
west Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
April
6—Seventy-four die in Effingham,
hospital fire.
19—Sixty-two persons are killed in earth-
quake that rocks c-ntral Chile.
28—Crash in South Africa of three elec-
tric trains kills 74.
May
4—Italy’s entire world champion soccer
team dies in plane crash at Turin.
21—Tornadoes kill 46 persons in Mis-
11.
souri, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and
g Kentucky.
June
6—Twenty-two killed in Greek air crash
near Athens. Crack.up of plane near
Florianopolis, Brazil, kills 27.
Y—Fifty-four persons killed in crash of
plane San Juan, Puerto Rico.
July ]
2—Eighteen persons killed in air crash
near Perth, Australia.
12—Thirteen American correspondents
killed in air crash near Bombay Air
crash near Los Angeles kills 36.
30—Sixteen persons killed when navy
Hellcat hits Eastern Air Lines plane
near Fort Dix, N. J.
August
5—Between 3,000 and 4,000 persons
killed by Ecuador earthquake.
9—Western states forest fires take 13
lives.
19—Manchester, England, air crash
takes lives of 24.
September
6—Crazed war
Camden, N.J.
9— Airline crash near St. Joachim, Que-
veteran slays 13 in
bec, kills 23. Nine die as cabin
cruiser is swamped in Nantucket
Sound.
17—Steamship Noronic burns in Toronto
pier taking 130 lives.
October
18—One thousand die, 70,000 left home-
less in Guatemala floods.
28—Forty-eight die in air crash in
Azores, including boxer Marcel
Cerdan.
November
1—Fifty-five killed at Washington, D.C.,
airport as P-38 hits airliner.
17—Eighteen killed as two B-29's collide
near Stockton, Calif.
29—Airliner crash at Dallas kills 28.
December
2—Dormitory = blaze at University of
Oklahoma kills three.
11—Nine killed by tornadoes in Missouri
and Arkansas, Seventy-ton slab of
granite falls off cliff near Victor-
ville, Calif., killing four,
1—Barbara Ann Scott
wins Lou E, Marsh
memorial trophy as
Canada’s outstanding 1948 athlete.
7—Joe DiMaggio signs 1949 contract
with Yankees for $90,000.
9—U.S. court reverses lower court dis-
missal of Danny Gardella’s damage
suit against New York Giants.
14—Calumet’s Coaltown ties record for
mile and 1/8 at 1:57.6.
March
1—Joe Louis retires as heavyweight
champion, turns promoter,
12—Hamline of St. Paul defeats Regis
of Denver for National Assn, of In-
tercollegiate Basketball champion-
ship.
26—Kentucky wins National Collegiate
AA basketball tournament in Seattle.
Russian Hero wins Grand National
Steeplechase at Aintree, England.
April
18—Baseball season opens. .
23—Olympia, Eddie Arcaro up, wins
Wood Memorial,
26—Tony Zale, ex-middleweight champ
retires from boxing.
30—Coaltown, Steve Brooks up, wins Gal-
lant Fox handicap.
May
6—Rocky Graziano, ex-middleweight,
reinstated by N_Y. athletic commis-
sion after suspension for failure to
report bribery offer.
7—Ponder, Calumet’s 16-1 shot, Steve
Brooks up, wins Kentucky Derby.
23—Joey Maxim defeats Gus Lesnevich
for U.S. lightheavyweight title.
30—Indianapolis motor speedway Memor-
ial classic won by Bill Holland in
record average speed of 121.327,
June :
10—Frank Frisch, Kew York coach, be-
comes Chicago Cub manager.
11—U.S. open golf championship goes to
Dr. Cary Middlecoff. Capot, Ted
Atkinson up, wins Belmont Stakes.
The 18 players suspended from U.S,
pro baseball because they jumped to
Mexican league re-instated by Com-
missioner Chandler.
14—Jake LaMotta wins world middle-
weight title from Marcel Cerdan.
22—FEzzard Charles win~ world heavy-
weight title by defeating Jersey Joe
Walcott. New York and England re-
fuse to recognize title.
July
2—Ted Schroeder takes men’s singles
in Wimbleton, England, tennis
championships; Louise Brough ‘takes
women's singles; Frank Parker-
Richard Gonzales take men’s doub-
les; Mrs. Margaret Dupont and Miss
Brough take women's doubles.
11—World welterweight champion Sugar
Ray Robinson successfully defends
title from Havana’s Kid Gavilan.
12—American league All-stars defeat
National League team, 11-7.
31—Sam Snead takes Western Open golf
- championship at St. Paul,
August
10—Ezzard Charles successfully defends
heavyweight championship by de-
feating Gus Lesvenich.
19—Hironoshin Furuhashi, Japan, sets
world swimming records of 18:19
minutes in 1,500 meter free style;
4:33.3 minutes in 400 meter free style
and 9:35.5 minutes in 800 meter free
style.
20—Coaltown, Steve Brooks up, sets
world record of 1:34 4 in winning
one-mile Whirlaway Stakes.
September »
1—U.S. retains Davis Cup, defeating
Australia four matches to one (ten-
nis).
3—Charles Coe, Oklahoma City, wins
U.S. amateur golf championship in
Rochester, N.Y. Joseph De Bona,
Hollywood, wins Bendix air trophy.
5—Bill Odom, speed record holder for
round-the-world flight, crashes into
a house in Berea, Ohio, during Na-
ticnal Air Races in Cleveland, kills
self, two others. Silver Cup Trophy
in motorboat racing goes to Bill Can.
trell, driving Horace Dodge’s My
Sweetie. ~~
25—Louise Suggs, Carrollton, Ga., takes
S. women’s open golf title in Land-
over, Md.
October
5-9—New York Yankees defeat Brooklyn
Dodgers in World Series, four games
to one.
28—Capot beats Coaltown to win Balti.
more’s Pimlico Special.
November :
1—1949 major league all-star AP base-
ball team team announced.
15—Eddie Vann scores fastest heavy-
weight knockout on record in Lon-
don bout with George Stern (12 sec-
onds, first round),
21—Cleveland Indians sold to a syndi-
cate of Cleveland business men.
24—Ted Williams, Red Sox, named
American League's most valuable
player.
December
3—Notre Dame defeats Southern Meth-
odist to end season undefeated and
lead football pack. Army, Oklahoma
and California remain undefeated.
12—Kentucky and Oklahoma bid for na-
tional cage leadership.
January
3—Israel involved in a
dispute with Britain
after invading Egypt
and shooting down R.A.F. planes.
13—U.S. turns pressure on Britain to
abandon dispute with Israel so as
not to endanger Arab-Jewish peace.
14—U.S. says it plans to join North At-
lantic militaty alliance to ease west
Europe’s fear of Russia, Chinese
Communists say peace terms are
surrender of Nationalists.
21—Chiang Kai-shek enters retirement.
22—Israeli-Egyptian armistice delayed
by Jewish retention of Negeb.
28— U.N. security council passes inde-
pendence plan for Indonesia.
February
8—Cardinal Mindszenty pleads ‘guilty
in principle’ to treason charges by
Hungary’s Red regime. Gets life
sentence.
24—Israel, Egypt sign armistice.
26—Bulgaria begins treason trials of
Protestant leaders.
March
4—Andrei Vishinsky replaces Molotov
as Russian foreign minister.
11—Draft of Atlantic pact completed.
Italy decides to join.
Trans-Jordan sign cease-fire.
20—Soviet zone currency barred from
west Berlin.
31—Russia denounces North Atlantic
pact.
April
2—Chinese Communists modify peace
terms,
4—Twelve nations sign North Atlantic
pact and plan for U.S. arms aid.
7—Tories upset Labor in London elec-
tion.
17—Ireland becomes independent repub-
lic.
24—Communists capture Nanking.
30—U_S., Russia negotiate to end Berlin
blockade and set up Big 4 confer-
ence on Germany. Communists gain
in attempt to isolate Shanghai.
May
4—Russians agree to lift rail blockade
of Berlin. Dutch, Indonesians agree
on new truce. Reds capture Hang-
chow, isolate Shanghai.
11—Israel admitted to U.N,
23—Big 4 ministers’ conference opens in
Paris. West German constitution
adopted. Reds capture Shanghai.
30—Big 4 deadlocks on German unity.
Soviet-zone Germans adopt constitu-
tion. Czech Reds hit Catholic church.
June
6—Senate foreign relations committee
approves Atlantic pact.
7—Chinese nationalist government pre-
pares to flee to Chungking,
9—U.S. and Soviet authorities agree on
formula to end anti-Red Berlin rail-
road strike.
13—Pro-Italians win a Trieste election.
17—United States protests Britain's trade
pact with Argentina.
29—Western charter creating civilian
allied high commission for west Ger-
many published.
July
10—Chiang Kai-shek enlists Philippines
in drive to form Pacific union, takes
charge of Chinese nationalist re-
sistance, Britain, U.S., Canada agree
to September conference on Britain’s
dollar shortage. United Kingdom or.
ders 25 per cent cut in dollar ex-
ports through mid-1950.
13—Roman Catholic church issues world-
wide excommunication of Commu-
nists.
23—Yugoslavia breaks relations with
Greek guerrillas.
August
1—Dutch-Indonesian truce signed.
2—Tito calls for uprising against his
Comin’:rm foes in Albania and Bul-
garia, warns Russia not to invade
Yugoslavia.
11—International rules of war revised.
12—Moscow denounces Tito’s Yugosla-
via as enemy of Russia.
16—Greece reports rout of its northwest.
ern rebels. .
September
2—Yugoslavia breaks off two commer.
cial pacts with Russia and discounts
danger of Russian invasion.
16—Hungarian ex-Foreign Minister Rajk
and two other alleged traitors say
they plotted with Tito and the
United States.
17—Western Big Three agree not to
help Chiang Kai-shek.
18—Britain devalues pound and 24 na-
tions follow suit.
23—President Truman announces that
an “atomic explosion” has taken
place in Russia. :
29—Russia and four satellites break off
mutual aid pacts with Tito. Big Four
unity talks in Berlin reach another
deadlock,
October
2—Russia recognizes Communist gov-
ernment in China.
6—Big Four foreign ministers meet
again cn Austria. Yugoslavia takes
its Cominform dispute before U.N.
11--Prime Minister of India, Nehru, ar-
rives for visit in United States.
Israel and ¢
Top Ten Spot News
Stories of 1949
These are the 10 biggest
news stories of the past year, as
selected by a representative
group of weekly newspaper edi-
tors speaking through an an-
nual poll conducted by The
Publishers’ Auxiliary.
1. Announcement that the
Soviet Union possesses atom
bomb.
2. Sweeping victories of
Communist armies in China.
3. Trial of 11 top Commu-
nists in the U.S.
4. Coal and steel strikes and
subsequent events in nation.
5. Marshal Tito’s successful
defiance of Russia and Comin-
form.
6. Story of*Kathy Fiscus fall-
ing into well and subsequent
rescue efforts.
7. Failure of congress to re-
peal the Taft-Hartley labor
law.
8. Ending of the Berlin
blockade by the Russians.
9. Bitter inter-service dispute
between the army and navy.
10. Devaluation of pound in
Great Britain.
14—Chinese Reds take Canton.
15—Wholesale arrest conducted by Com-
munists continue in Czechoslovakia.
20—Yugoslavia elected to U.N. security
council over Sowiet protests.
28—George Bidault becomes French
premier, ending crisis.
29—United States consul and staff
seized by Reds at Mukden.
November
1—Dutch, Indonesians agree on terms
for sovereign Indonesian state.
7—France and Canada team up to urge
nations’ A-bomb pact.
14—Indian extremists hanged for assas-
sination of Gandhi. Britain delays
date for nationalizing steel. Chinese
Nationalists shell U.S, merchant
ship. Chinese Reds ask U.N. to oust
Nationalist delegates.
16—Washington refuses to recognize con-
trol body created for Danube by
Russia.
20—President Chanis of Panama ousted
by coup.
22—Fate of ‘American consul-general ar-
rested by Chinese Reds lies with
peoples’s court in Mukden. Ousted
Panama president leads demonstra-
tion in Panama City, West imple-
ments Paris plan to ease controls on
West German republic.
23—Chinese Reds release U.S. consul-
general - Angus Ward on suspended
sentence.
24—Panama supreme
President Chanis,
forces him out again. Dr.
Arias becomes president.
26—Chinese Reds arrest U.S. vice-con-
sul, William Stokes, in Mukden.
29—Cominform asks unseating of Yugo-
slavia’s Tito.
30—Chinese Reds take Chunking, nation-
alist capital.
December
1—Western defense area divided into
five groups in Paris meeting.
2—Nationalist China warned by U.S.
upon ship attacks.
7—U.N. declares Jerusalem an inter-
national holy city. U.S. will meet
Reds’ terms for release of two
Americans held in North Korea.
8—Chinese Nationalists abandon capital
at Chengtu and flee to Formosa.
10—Labor party defeated in Australia
elections.
11—North Korea Reds free two Yanks
after 81 days detention.
12—Angus Ward and staff,
court re-seats
but police chief
Arnulfo
freed by
Chinese Reds, board ship for U, S.
January
1—Needy children in
China total 20 million,
15 million of whom
were made homeless by war with
Japan.
15—Air Force submits to Defense Secre-
tary James Forrestal proposed pol-
fey to discontinue racial segregation
in ranks. J
29—Repairmen overhauling the White
House open the building to reporters
who found parts of it near collapse,
February
9—Film star Robert Mitchum and ac-
tress Lila Leeds sentenced to 60-day
prison terms in Los Angeles court
on marijuana charges.
23—Grady, inquisitive cow of Yukon,
Okla., plunged into silo, achieved
bovine fame while nation racked
brains for four days over problem
of how to get her out.
25—General Motors announces wages
of 341,000 employees will be reducea
under cost-of-living contract with
union.
26—Axis Sally begins defense at treason
trial by saying treason cannot be
committed by ‘mere words”
March
1—Latest get-rich-quick scheme to
sweep America is Pyramid club,
which works on order of chain letter.
2—-U.S. births reported by Public
Health Service to number 3,559,000
in 1948.
26—Axis Sally sentenced from 10 to 20
years in prison for treason.
April
6—President Truman says he would not
hesitate to use atom bomb under the
same circumstances it was used on
Japan.
16—Bureau of Agricultural Economics
predicts slight drop in prices, in-
comes, production for 1949.
28—Russia completely jams ‘Voice of
America’ broadcasts to the U.S.S.R,
containing accounts of negotiations
ending Berlin blockade.
May
2—Atlanta city council bans public
wearing of masks except for festive
occasions. This is blow to Ku Klux
Klan.
10—Frank Hague’s 32-year rule as boss
of Jersey City ends when Hague ma-
chine is swept out of office.
27—Movie star Rita Hayworth is mar-
ried to Prince Aly Khan.
June
2—“Wall Street Journal” survey re-
veals used car prices “melting like
snow under a hot spring sun.”
8—American Medical association ‘‘gags’
its chief spokesman and concedes
U.S. needs adequate public health
plan.
25—Attorney General Tom Clark orders
F.B.I. investigation of terrorism in
Alabama where several have been
beaten or intimidated by hooded
night riders. 4
July
1—Justice department files anti-trust
suit in U.S. district court in Chicago
aimed at breaking up du Pont em-
pire.
15—Charles (Lucky) Luciano, ex-New
York vice ‘king, barred from Rome
after being questioned about nar-
cotics ring.
25—Thomas Mann receives Goethe prize
for literature in first visit to native
. Germany in 16 years.
August
3—Photometer, which accurately meas-
ures constituents of single cells, is
demonstrated at Columbia univer-
sity.
4—Dispute over federal aid to-religious
schools between Cardinal Spellman
and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ends.
19—FCC announces a ban on radio and
television quiz programs.
September
1—General i.arry Vaughan defends
himself in ‘‘5-per center’ probe and
keeps White House job. Defense
Secretary Johnson wants to abolish
senators’ world trips at government
expense.
8—American expediticn to find Noah’s
Ark fails.
13—U.S. district judge
from enforcing prohibition of
away programs.
20—Tokyo Rose found guilty of treason.
October
3—Agriculture department reports
Americans spending 2 per cent less
of their incomes for food than last
year. Vatican reports 423 million
Catholics in the world.
17—Ilse Koch, convicted as murderess
of Buchenwald concentration camp
in Germany, formally released from
military prison after her life sen-
tence is commuted.
27—Dr. Walter Hess, Zurich, and Dr.
Antonio Moniz, Lisbon, divide Nobel
prize for medicine for work on brain
function.
November
4—Dealers urge no hoarding of coffee
during shortage.
16—Shah of Iran arrives for American
visit.
18—Vice-President Alben Barkley mar-
ries Mrs. Carleton Hadley of St.
Louis.
19—Eighteen of 20 who went down on
B-29 near Bermuda rescued.
29—New drug, neomycin, works wonders
in ending kidney infections.
December
2—U.S., may have ‘‘booster’” bomb to
set off more powerful bomb. Mt,
Etna eruptions threaten Sicilian
towns.
5—Former Rep. Andrew J. May (D.,
Ky.) enters federal prison on fraud
sentence. Census bureau says em-
ployment is up, Shirley Temple gets
divorce on ‘liquor and lipstick”
plea.
8—New Jersey citizens told to curtail
use of water. G.I. found hiding in
tent in Germany with fraulein and
baby. New German drug reported
as ‘‘promising’’ treatment for can-
restrains FCC
give-
cer.
10—Vice-President Barkley satirizes self
at Gridiron club banquet.
January
1—Sir Malcolm Camp-
bell, first man to ex-
ceed 300 mph on
land.
3—Robert Ingersoll Aitken, sculptor.
4—Dr. August Herman Pfund, author-
ity on infra-red and other rays and
on optics.
5—Joseph H. McNabb, Bell and Howell
president.
11—Nelson Doubleday,
zine publisher,
book and maga-
February
10—Isoo Abe, who introduced baseball to
Japan.
12—Battling * Levinsky, former light
heavyweight boxing champ.
23— Francis Edwin McMurtrie, editor of
“Jane’s Fighting Ships.”
28—John Sanburn Phillips, co-founder of
MecClure’s Magazine and founder of
American Magazine. Charles Han-
son Towne, author, poet, editor
March
4—Arthur Atwater Kent, inventor, phil-
anthropist, famous host.
6—Sen. Joseph Melville Broughton,
Democrat, N.C., former governor of
his state.
7—Rep. Sol Bloom, chairman of house
foreign affairs committee.
11—Gen, Henri-Honore Giraud, French
hero of both: world wars.
April
15—Wallace Beery, veteran screen star.
27—Frederic , C. Wallcott, Republican
senator from Connecticut, 1929-34,
author of RFC bill.
May
3—Joseph Peter DiMaggio, father of
ballplayers Joe, Dominic and Vincent
DiMaggio.
6—Count Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian
poet and dramatist, author of ‘The
Blue Bird.”
10—Sam Breadon, ex-president of St.
Louis Cardinals. Neysa McMein, por-
trait painter, illustrator, writer,
18—Dr. James Truslow Adams, histor-
ian, Pulitzer prize winner.
22—James V. Forrestal, former secre-
tary of defense, by suicide.
June
10—sSigrid Undset, Danish-born Norweg-
ian novelist.
14—Charles B. (Uncle Charlie) Moran,
National league baseball umpire,
Russell Doubleday, retired publisher
and author.
26—Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, interior sec-
retary in Hoover cabinet.
July
2—Georgi Dimitrov, Communist premier
of Bulgaria.
8—Harold H_ Knerr, cartoonist who
drew Katzenjammer Kids.
19—Frank Murphy, associate justice of
the supreme court.
August
1—George Moran (Searcy), survivor of
Moran and Mack, the “two black
crows.”
12—Al Shean, survivor of Gallagher and
Shean, comedy team.
16—Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone
with the Wind.”
18—Dr. Samuel Green, imperial wizard
of Association of Georgia Klans
(K.K.K.)
September
3—Maj. Gen. Walter Short, army com-
mander at Pearl Harbor when Japan
attacked. ¥
8—Richard Strauss, German composer.
10—Wiley Blount Rutledge, associate jus-
tice of supreme court.
15—Ernest Edward Bonham, Pittsburgh
Pirate pitcher, former Yankee star.
18—Frank Morgan, film star.
19—Will Cuppy, author, critic and humor-
ist.
October
6—Robert Emmet Hannegan, ex-post-
master general and Democratic na.
tional chairman. Col. Matt J. Winn,
who made Kentucky Derby famous.
November
6—Rex Mays, leading auto racing
driver.
8—Clyde M. Reed, senator from
Kansas.
925 “Bojangles” Bill Robinson, dancer.
27—William H. King, four-term Demo-
cratic senator from Utah.
December
11—Clifford Berryman, editorial cartoon-
ist for Washington Star.
January
5—Truman asks higher
taxes, universal mili-
tary training, wage-
price controls in the state-of-the-
union message.
7—Secretary of State George C. Mar-
shall resigns and is replaced by
Dean Acheson.
14—State department policy statement
says U.S. will join North Atlantic
defense alliance.
February
3—Truman declares Constitution gives
him power to stop walkouts affect-
ing national health and welfare.
17—Presidents says current price de-
cline and unemployment increase
nothing to worry about.
24—Hoover commission makes report on
government reorganization. Truman
says he will stump nation to defend
his program, stalled in congress.
March
2—Air force B-50 makes first non.stop
trip around world.
3—Louis Johnson replaces James For-
restal as secretary of defense.
11—U.S. senate rejects ruling against
filibusters. U.M.W. announces two-
week memorial walkout.
30—President signs bill extending rent
control through June 30, 1950,
April
14—Congress passes second year E.R.P.
authorization. House votes $16 bil-
lion for arms.
19—Government rests case in trial of top
. U.S. Communists,
26—Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan re.
signs in protest against cancellation
of plans to complete super aircraft
carrier,
Ma
oY iplitstration efforts to repeal
Taft-Hartley act come to temporary
halt in congress.
5—Strike of 62,250 C.I.O. workers
closes Ford Motor Co.’s River Rouge
plant,
13—Francis Patrick Matthews, Omaha,
succeeds John L. Sullivan as secre-
tary of navy.
17—Atomic energy commission under
fire as pound of uranium reported
missing. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.,
elected to congress by New York
district.
25—Congressional investigation of atom-
ic energy commission begins.
June
3—Alger Hiss perjury trial opens. Three
top Communists sentenced to jail
for contempt of court.
7—Gordon Gray appointed secretary of
army.
8—John L. Lewis orders one-week mine
stoppage.
30—John L. Lewis orders miners to
work only three days a week.
Judith Coplon convicted as spy,
gets from 40 months to 10 years.
July
7—John Foster
U.S. senate.
11—Truman abandons tax increase plans.
and calls for deficit spending.
21—-U.S. ratifies Atlantic pact.
rejects Brannan farm plan.
28—Truman offers Attorney General
Tom Clark seat on supreme court,
asks Senator J. Howard McGrath
to become attorney general.
August
5—State department white paper marks
off nationalist China as lost cause.
8—Five per center probers accuse Maj.
Dulles appointed to
House
Gen. Harry Vaughan of influence
peddling.
11—General Omar Bradley appointed
first chairman of joint chiefs of
staff.
25—House recesses without senate’s per-
mission, Probe of corruption in B.36
program collapses. John Maragon,
alleged influence peddler, refuses to
talk in ‘five per centers’ investi-
gation.
September
10—President’s fact-finding board re-
jects steel workers’ demands for
fourth-round pay raises.
13—Federal Judge Sherman Minton nom-
inated to supreme court,
15—Government files anti-trust suit to
break up A & P chain.
19—Strike called by coal miners’ John
L. Lewis.
October
1—500,000 CIO steelworkers strike over
pension-welfare dispute.
3—Navy air force dispute brings on con-
gressional probe.
11—Eleven Communist party leaders
convicted on charges of conspiracy
against U.S. government.
19—Dr, Edward C. Nourse resigns as
head of the President's Council of
Economic Advisers. General Omar
Bradley says navy criticism of de-
fense set-up endangers nation. First
session 81st congress ends. Pennsyl-
vania Railroad drops “Jim Crow”
seating.
29—Dismissal of Admiral Louis Denfeld
as chief of naval operations by the
President raises political storm. Tru-
man freezes air force at 48 groups.
31—Bethlehem steel and steel union
sign pension plan, breaking solid
front of steel companies during
strike,
November
1—Vice Adm. Forrest P. Sherman
named chief of naval operations.
2—C.1.0. ousts left-wing United Elec-
trical and Farm Equipment workers.
3—Eleven convicted Communists freed
on bail to press appeals.
8—Navy Captain John Crommelin rep-
rimanded for revealing navy’'s bit-
terness at defense setup. Fair Deal
program triumphs in New York as
Democratic Lehman defeats Repub-
lican Dulles in senatorial race.
9—John L. Lewis issues back-to-work
order, postponing coal strike until
ec. 1,
11—United Mine Workers and U.S. Steel
sign pact, breaking back of steel
strike. Undersecretary Oscar L.
Chapman succeeds Julian Krug as
secretary of the interior.
12—Senator Thomas (D., Okla.)
Sweden failed to show proper
spect for him on recent visit,
17—Leftwing demonstrators in New York
City riot at National Maritime Union
hall. Alger Hiss perjury trial opens.
21—Whittaker Chambers testifies against
says
re-
Alger Hiss.
23—David E. Lilienthal, AEC head, re-
signs.
28—John L. Lewis calls off meeting with
advisers as coal strike deadline
looms. U.S. announces impending
tests of new A-bombs at Eniwetok.
Device to ‘breed’ atomic energy
fuel disclosed by .S.
29—Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R., N.J.)
drops innocent plea to charges of
payroll padding.
December
1—Government denies F.H.A. loans up-
on racially restricted properties.
Lewis orders three-day work week
after miners quit work again.
6—John L, Lewis signs pact with some
coal companies involving wage in-
créases. Former air force major,
Racey Jordan, says Reds got atomic
materials and radar equipment dur-
ing war with official aid.
7—Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves
charges that Henry Wallace and late
Harry Hopkins prodded him to give
atom secrets or materials to Rus-
sia. Steelworkers end strike at
Alcoa.
11—Mineowners talk about forcing coal
strike to bring about showdown with
John L. Lewis. Department of de-
fense drops 116,000 employees.
denies”
Er
Atlantic Pact- Ratified
Britain Devalues Pound
Dallas Kiwanis Women 5
Enjoy Holiday Party 2
Dallas Kiwanis Women held their
holiday party at Irem Country
Club last Wednesday evening.
Tables were festively arranged with
yvule logs and pine boughs. Green
and red candles and Christmas tree
balls completed the arrangement.
Birthday gifts given by Mrs. Le-
roy Troxell, Mrs, Donald Harris,
Mrs. Walter Elston and Mrs, Jack
Loucks ‘were won by Mrs, Harold
Smith, Mrs. Leroy Troxell, Mrs.
Harold Dixon and Mrs. Harry
Ahrendts. , SEs
Mrs. David Joseph acting as good
old Santa distributed gifts to all.
Present were Mrs, Harold Dixon
Jdr., Mrs, Jack Loucks, Mrs, Harold
Smith, Mrs, Sherman Harter, Judith
Ann Phillips, Mrs, Harry Ahrendts,
Mrs. Leroy Troxell, Mrs. John Hen-
ninger, Mrs, D. J, Joseph, Mrs.
Clyde Cooper, Mrs, Walter Elston,
Mrs. Donald Harris, Mrs. C. E. Shav-
er Jr., Mrs. Herbert Griesing, Mrs.
Gary Cuppels, Mrs. Frederic An-
derson,Mrs, Kenneth Rice, and
Mrs. Frank Goeltz,
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dropper. No such thing as a self-
sufficient kitten eight weeks old,
housebroken by a firm mother cat,
and willing to chase its tail in a
strange kitchen on a tank of warm
milk. :
The recent quest for a kitten re-
minds us of a time when kittens
were all too easily come by, There
was the’ black and white kitten
which was dropped nonchalantly
through the front door by some
child on the way to school, heralded
by a cheerful, “Here's another
stray kitten for you, Mrs. Hicks.”
There was the tiny black kitten
with the white spot under its chin,
two days old and hopefully fumbl-
ing around for food in the grubby
little hand of the small boy with
the freckles.
gested to the freckled youngster
that this was a very young kitten,
that it would doubtless be home-
sick for its little brothers and sis-
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ters, there was a hurried departure
through the front door with an
equally hurried and breathless re-
turn five minutes later. Where
there had been one kitten there
were now two kittens, insurance
against homesickness. They could
keep each other company, it was
explained, and if there were two
kittens there would be no need
of a hot-water bottle. The owner
of that, litter must have found her
waning faith in Santa Claus re-
stored. 1
gested, by telephone, that there
were two more kittens, but we did
not wish to be considered greedy.
We told the generous lady, some-
what dryly, that there were other
freckled-faced little boys in the
neighborhood. ; ;
There was the red Persian kitten
adopted at birth because of a cruel
circumstance. This one spent the
first two weeks of its life wrapped
in a woolen sock, carried about in
a sweater pocket by day for warmth, +
tucked beneath the blankets
at the foot of the bed at night,
fed at frequent intervals night and
day, and finally allowed to emerge
from its cocoon when danger of
complications seemed to have been
averted.
There were the numberless kit-
tens
In fact, the owner sug-
dropped casually over the
picket fence by neighbors in Lin-
coln, Nebraska at the time of the
annual summer hegira to the lakes
and the mountains.
This present kitten? It came,
as stated above, from New Jersey,
and its owner, his freckles now
emerged in a solid and becoming
coat of tan instead of standing out
separate and distinct as they did
twenty years ago when he pre-
sented the tiny black kittens on
the palm of his hand, agreed to
part with it if its initial visit to
the Pump House seemed satisfac-
-tory to all concerned.
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