West Backs India Truce Plan Debate
United Nations debate on the Korean War shifts as 21 Western allies back India’s plan to push for a truce and prisoner repatriation framework. The coalition seeks priority in the UN Political Committee while Soviet leader Andrei Vishinsky opposes speeding the proposal.
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India
U.S
Hagling
Korea
Iran
Nasrallah Entezam
Rus
Pond
Andrei
Yly
Panmunjom
Vishinsky
Yester
Wishinake
AFL Selects Head and Renewed Merger Bid
The AFL chose 58 year old George Meany as president succeeding William Green who died at 82. William F. Schnitzler, 46, was named secretary treasurer. The council revived a nine man merger committee to invite CIO talks again.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
George Meany
AFL
William Green
William F. Schnitzler
Chicago
Meany
Green
AFL Council
CIO
Solon Defends VA Budget Amid Possible Cuts
A Veterans Administration official said no major VA cost cuts are possible without legislative changes to benefits. He noted general administration costs are about 4 percent, not yielding large savings. Rep. Rogers opposed drastic hospital and service cuts if proposed.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Congress
Rogers
R-Mass
Girl accuses temper provoked choking death of infant
Seattle police say a 15 year old high school girl Elien Noreen Fern admitted during questioning that she choked four month old Payne son of her neighbor to death with a cloth while babysitting after the infant began crying. Officers C F Kirschner and R W Waitt recorded her statement.
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Seattle
Elien Noreen Fern
Payne
Garry
Paynes
C. F. Kirschner
R. W. Waitt
UN Assembly Accepts Bodet's Resignation
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization accepted the resignation of Jaime Torres Bodet, the former Mexican cabinet minister, after his Saturday departure. The agency had approved funding for a 1953 54 budget figure. exact totals were unclear in the excerpt.
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Paris
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Jaime Torres Bodet
International
Blizzard Strikes Midwest Prompting Guard Aid
Wind whipped snow paralzyed Kansas Nebraska and parts of neighboring states. The Kansas National Guard was sent to aid stranded motorists as hundreds faced closures and resupply efforts by Red Cross and Salvation Army. About six deaths were attributed to the storm with near record snowfall in places like Wichita and Omaha. Public transit and schools were halted while crews worked to restore power and roads.
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Associated Press
Midlands
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Oklahoma
Texas
Weather Bureau
Kansas National Guard Seout
Wichita
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Kansas City
McPherson
Omaha
Nebraska Emergency Network
Dr. Ernest Hahne Dies Miami University President
Dr. Ernest H. Hahne, 62, president of Miami University since 1946, died after illness in Florida. Born October 20, 1890 in Walker Kansas, he held degrees from Nebraska Harvard and Chicago. His widow Helen Madeleine Jess and two daughters survived. Ohio University President Baker praised his scholarship and leadership shaping the university's growth and quality.
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Oxford
Ernest H. Hahne
Miami University
Hahne
Northwestern University
Florida
C. W. Kreger
Walker
Kas
University of Nebraska
Harvard University
University of Chicago
Helen Madeleine Jess
Thomas Hardeman
Milwaukee
Dorothy
John C. Baker
Ohio University
Ohio
French Award to AP Reporter for Indochina War Coverage
The French high command awarded the Croix de Guerre with Bronze Star to Larry Allen, AP foreign correspondent, for front line reporting of the Indochinese war against the Vietminh. Gen. Gonzales de Linares presented the decoration praising Allen’s fearless and objective coverage that conveyed a vivid picture of intense combat.
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Indochina
French High Command
Larry Allen
Associated Press
Gonzales de Linares
Viet Nam
Allen
Baltimore family tragedy ends in self-inflicted gunshots
Three children found their parents dead in a Baltimore home after a man, Peter T. Lang, 32, reportedly shot his wife Katherine, 29, then killed himself. The incident left the children waiting for their mother to wake up as police investigated the murder suicide.
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Baltimore
Peter T. Lang
Katherine
Ex-Prisoner Wins $7500 Damages For Wrongful Incarceration
Ralph Barnes of Richwood was awarded 7500 dollars after 13 months in Ohio Penitentiary for a crime he did not commit. Barnes, 39, was arrested September 19, 1948, for robbing a Marion supermarket of 2500 dollars and sentenced to 10 to 25 years. Governor Lausche pardoned him December 23, 1949, after Earl Bircham confessed the crime. Bircham was later electrocuted for killing a policeman. The Sundry Claims Board also awarded Barnes’s court-appointed attorney Paul G. Simpson of Marion.
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Columbus
Bircham
State Sundry Claims Board
Paul G. Simpson
Marion
Million Dollar Profit Rased By Canadian Oil Lease Buyer
A Canadian oil lease buyer told the SEC that over seven months he made nearly a million dollars from an $8,000 investment and sees prospects for more. The prospectus from Canadian Prospects Ltd of Alta says shares are speculative and outlines prior oil brokerage activity and a 1951 stock issuance and split.
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Washington
Security and Exchange Commission
Aalana
Commission
Canadian Prospects, Ltd
Alta
Mt. Vernon
Denver
Griffith
Mildred
New York
UN Pounds Reds Troop and Supply Base Near Wonson
Allied carrier bombers pounded a Red troop and supply concentration near Wonson with high explosives and flamethrowers as U S Sabre jets clashed with MiG-15s over North Korea. A four hour battle followed a Chinese assault on Central Front positions with Lt. Cecil G. Foster credited as America's 24th Korea War ace.
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Seoul
Wonson
Jackson Heights
Cecil G. Foster
San Antonio
America
Hood Named President of United States Steel Corp
Clifford F Hood, 58, selected by the U S Steel board to become president of the world’s largest steel producer starting Jan 1 He now serves as executive vice president in charge of production for the United States Steel Company Hood succeeds Benjamin E Fairless who remains chairman and chief executive officer of U S Steel Corp
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Pittsburgh
Clifford F. Hood
Illinois
United States Steel Corps Board of Directors
Hood
New York
United States Steel Company
Benjamin E. Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Cashier Admits Theft For Week Long Spree
A former OPA investigator, William T. Rinn, 47, confessed to stealing $5400 from a Baltimore cab company cash drawer during a week long spree. He was sentenced to three years in prison and more than $1500 was recovered before the spree ended.
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OPA
William T. Rinn
Baltimore Cab Company
Youth Dies in Bin Accident at Plain City
John Beachy 17 died Tuesday in a grain elevator bin after falling from the dryer and suffocating. A grain elevator worker, Beachy was working at the facility when the accident occurred.
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Plain City
John Beachy
Beachy
Planes To Be Built By U.S. Firms This Year
American manufacturers will produce about 9000 military airplanes this year, according to the Aircraft Industries Association. The figure highlights a vigorous defense orders program and strong wartime production effort.
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Washington
The
Aircraft Industries Association
Summerfield Named Postmaster General in Eisenhower Era
Arthur E. Summerfield, 53, Flint automobile dealer, is named to the post of postmaster general in the Eisenhower administration. He will resign as Republican National Committee chairman to devote effort to mail service, pending Senate confirmation. Summerfield plans to assemble the party committee at inauguration to name a new chairman.
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Republican National Committee
Arthur E. Summerfield
Eisenhower
Summerfield
Flint
Mich
Senate
Summerfield Chevrolet Company
America
Auto Motive
Republican Committee
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Michigan
Post Office
Jesse M. Donaldson
Rowdyism concerns Cleveland schools and police actions
Cleveland police and the school board confront rowdy behavior as Nathan Hale Junior High pledges delinquency charges on 15 students for beating peers. A recent workhouse sentence for punching a principal underscores tension with school discipline. patrols to be extended while Perrysville and Mantua also report disciplinary issues.
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Nathan Hale
Ohio
Perrysville
Mantua
Envoy Resigns as Canada Ambassador
Washington reports Stanley Woodward resigns as ambassador to Canada effective January 15. A former State Department protocol chief, he cites returning to private life after two years in the foreign service. President Truman publicly announced acceptance of the resignation.
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Washington
Stanley Woodward
Canada
Woodward
Department of State
Truman
Foreign Service
State Department
Portsmouth Council Approves Payroll Tax Plan
Portsmouth residents including future Pike County plant workers will pay a 1 cent payroll tax starting May 6, 1953 with the rate halved on Jan 1, 1954. The council approved the tax ordinance and may seek a charter amendment to raise the real estate levy and eliminate the payroll tax before it takes effect.
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Portsmouth
Pike County
Young Tracy Tripped Up In Classroom Radio Cheating
A 15 year old student in Sao Paulo Brazil used a private broadcast to cheat on an exam at McKenzie High School. A fellow student stood outside the hall with an answer book while the two operated a wrist sized transmitter and tiny ear speakers. the devices cost about 100 dollars and took three months to build. Authorities ordered the boys to pursue engineering projects elsewhere next year.
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Sao Paulo
Braai
McKenzie High School
White House Denies Move To End Curbs
The White House denied reports that President Truman planned to end price and wage controls before Congress reconvenes. Officials discussed a 14 month extension of control authority from April 30 1953 to June 1954, though some doubt use of the full period.
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White House
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Maybank
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Congress
Roger L. Putnam
Putnam
Defense Mobilization
Henry H. Fowler
Newark Girl's Release Set
Joanne Thomas a 26 year old Newark woman acquitted by reason of insanity of the 1951 slaying of Frank Rizzo was ordered released from Lima State Hospital after a judge ruled she is legally and medically sane. The writ of habeas corpus was granted and testimony described her bedside words to the dying man.
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Joanne Thomas
Newark
Lima State Hospital
Moran B. Jenkins
Pay Edict Due Today Shint Coal Wage Case
Washington reports the government nears a decision on the Soft coal wage case. Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam was said to have talked with John R. Steelman, assistant to the President, with a possible Steelman desk decision. It was unclear who would announce the ruling. Putnam urged John L. Lewis and the soft coal industry to approve the $1.90 daily pay boost agreed in September.
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Washington
Roger Putnam
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Putnam
White House
Putnam Ld
John L. Lewis
Women Hold U S Purse as Hobby Heads Agency
Washington reports the Eisenhower administration will put women in key money roles. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby is named head of the Federal Security Agency and Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest will sign paper currency as treasurer, succeeding Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark.
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Eisenhower
Oveta Culp Hobby
Ivy Baker Priest
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Houston
Tex
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Bountiful
Utah
Trease
United States
Oscar Ewing
Georgia Neese Clark
Richland
Kan
Uncle Sam
Hoover Commission
Frances Perkins
Labinet
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wreck Sighted On Route Of Missing Plane
Unidentified wreckage seen in high mountains on the route of a plane missing since Saturday with 52 aboard. An Air Force search pilot reported the wreckage near Whittier about 50 miles south of Anchorage in an inaccessible area. Officials said it could belong to the missing Globemaster or possibly two other planes.
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Alaska
Air Force
Whittier
McChord Air Force Base
Wash
Elmendorf
Army Probing Blast Of Ammunition Train Near Paris
Three carloads of ammunition bound for American forces in Germany exploded in a railway switching yard near Chalons sur Marne. No injuries reported as U S Army officers defer comment on sabotage while ordnance investigators prepare a report. Chalons sur Marne lies on a major east west line.
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Chalons Sur Marne
France
Germany
U. S. Army
Funeoil Ordnance
Paris
Delegates to Farm Conclave Vote on Parity Stand Today
Delegates at the 34th OHio Farm Bureau Federation Conference will vote today on farm parity resolutions after three days of discussion. The federation president is to be elected after the resolutions session. Rep. Harold D. Cooley backed 90 percent parity, arguing for government guarantees to buy crops when prices fall. Harry Guthrie of Coolville was among six trustees reelected.
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Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Federation
Everett T. Rittenour
Harold D. Cooley
North Carolina
House Agricultural Committee
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Cooley
Harry Guthrie
Coolville
Eisenhower Aims to Expand Cabinet With Women Appointments
President elect Eisenhower names seventh cabinet member and signals more female appointees. Oveta Culp Hobby would head the Federal Security Agency and Ivy Baker Priest would be treasurer of the United States, with Summerfield named postmaster general. Speculation swirls over other gender-inclusive picks and Korea talks as departure plans unfold.
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NEW York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Desig
Oveta Culp Hobby
Houston
Tex
Ivy Baker Priest
Bountiful
Hobby
Federal Security Agency
Priest
United States
Arthur E. Summerfield
Flint, Mich
Summerfield
Tee
Councilman Faces Anonymous Threats Over Resignation Demand
Steubenville Ohio reports Councilman Charlies E. Christopher receiving an anonymous letter that demanded his resignation and accused him of participating in vice crusade work. Christopher denied the claim and suggested the letter stemmed from a business discussion with Izola Gary, a local laundry operator, while noting a radio salesman named Irene tried to sell time on WEIR in Weirton.
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E. Christopher
Christopher
Izola Gary
Frank J. Lausche
Irene
WEIR
Weirton
W. Va
Defense department lists 82 Korean War casualties
The Defense Department released a record listing 82 casualties from the Korean War including 17 dead, 88 wounded, four missing and three injured.
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Washington
de- Defense Department
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