Attlee Goes to Washington for Man to Man Talks
Prime Minister Attlee flies to Washington for talks with President Truman expected to cover peace talks with China and Russia. Britain will push for early Korean settlement and a Big Four parley while discussing atom bomb use and Europe’s rearmament. Attlee said he is soberly optimistic about yielding a peaceful outcome.
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London
Attlee
Washington
Truman
Attee
China
Russia
France
Rene Pleven
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Lord Addison
House of Loras
Europe
Hit Run Driver Strikes Travis Man in Brackenridge
Howard Brady of Route 6 in Brackenridge was hospitalized with broken legs and other injuries after a hit-and-run collision at the intersection of Highways 290 and 29 near 20 miles southeast of Austin. The incident occurred around midnight as Brady left a bus. Authorities reported he was resting well and patrolmen said no clues or arrests had been made.
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Howard Brady
Route 6
Brackenridge
Brady
Austin
C. M. Platt
Dwight McDaniel
India envoy mediates Korea crisis in New York talks
Sir Benegal Rau of India meets with Wu Hsiu Chuan of Red China in hopes of a peaceful Korea settlement. The UN is urged to prepare for Chinese intervention as the General Assembly plans shift away from a vetoed political committee session to technical items.
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New York
Sir Benegal N. Rau
India
Red China
Wu Hsiu-Chuan
The
United Nations Geneeral Assembly
China
Sir Bengal
Far East
Rau
Peiping
38Th Parallel
Chen Chiao
iLe
Chen
Chou En-Lai
Austin
John Foster Dulles
Trygve Lie
Asane
Nasrallah Entezam
Scout Workers Launch Budget Drive Tuesday in Travis District
About 350 workers will kick off the Travis District Boy Scout budget drive Tuesday with a 7 to 8 am breakfast at the Austin Hotel Mural Room. George Atkins chairs the solicitation. Dr. Lewis P. Speaker gives the invocation. The goal is $45,000 and 2,000 sustaining members with monthly or yearly pledges starting at $1 a month.
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Travis
Austin
George Atkins
Lewis P. Speaker
First English Lutheran Church
John Burns
Travis Finance
Travis Boy Scout
Scout
Robert Tips
Lester Suber
Gilbert Balke
Frank Barnett
Leroy Oliver
Presly Balke
Frank Foster Jr
Howell Jordan
Joe Bland
Lawson Boothe
Truett Hawkins
Charles D. Nash
Robert Miller
Jack Neff
Tom Harper
Roy LaBauve
J. E. Peck
W. O. Moore
H. H. Dickehut
Guy Cannon Jr
James
Longhorns Dominate All-Southwest Conference Honors
Four University of Texas Longhorns earned unanimous all-SWC honors in a selection by the American-Statesman sports staff. The feature notes UT players' standout performance and team strength as part of a broader Texas sports section.
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University of Texas Longhorns
Longhorns
American-Statesman
Wounded Yanks Rescued by Air
Eleven un armed transport planes evacuated more than 1,200 wounded doughboys and Marines in two days from Hagaru just south of Changjin Reservoir. The C47 Skytrains and Marine R4D transports landed under Red fire. average evacuees per trip reached 34.
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Tokyo
Hagaru
Changjin Reservoir
Far East Air Force
Phil Bwin Troon Cath
Withdrawal Deepens Southward as Forces Reposition in Korea
US Eighth Army backs toward the 38th parallel while Ninth and First Corps move south to new defensive lines. Marines break from a Changjin trap near Hagaru as Chinese units mass around Hamhung and Hungnam amid record cold and heavy losses.
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Eighth Army
Korea
Ninth Corps
US First Corps
Hamhung
Changjin
Hagaru
Ofagaru
Earl E. P
Partridge
Luther W. Sweetzer
452Nd
Air Force
Red
Pyongyang
38Th
Changjin Reservoir
Associated Press
Jack MacBeth
Hungnam
Tenth Corps
First Marine Division
Seventh Division
Berliners Vote Their Defiance Of Red Threats
West Berlin voters backed the Socialists for a new four year term amid a record 90.2 percent turnout in the municipal elections. The Socialist Party led by Mayor Ernest Reuter won about 44.59 percent of Sunday’s vote, with Free Democrats Conservatives German Party Refugee bloc Independent Socialists and other groups also appearing in unofficial returns. The election proceeded with little disturbance as police had arrested 303 Communist agitators last week over boycott efforts.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Socialist Party
Ernest Reuter
Christian Democrats
Free Democrats
Reuter
West
Refugee Bloc
Independent Socialists
Free Social Union
New Flood Threats Rise Across California and Near Reno
Flood warnings spread as rivers surged across California and near Reno on Sunday. The Truckee, American, and Russian rivers threatened lowlands with evacuations likely as crests approach and roads like US 50 faced washouts near Kyburz.
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Sacramento
Calif
Weather Bureau
California
Reno
New
National Guard
Truckee
Russian River
Redwood Empire
San Francisco
Sacato
San Joaquin
Fresno County
Sheriff's Office
Kings River
Three Killed and One Injured In Navy Plane Crash Near Asheville
A US Navy plane with four aboard crashed on a mountain slope ten miles southeast of Asheville North Carolina. Three men were killed and one seriously injured. An officer arriving from Greenville South Carolina said the plane was from Atlantic City New Jersey.
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Asheville
N. C
Here
Greenville
S. C
Atlantic City
N. J
Conferences Marking Capital Scene Across Washington
Washington on December 3 4 saw a sequence of high level talks as United Nations forces in Korea triggered crisis discussions with President Truman and top government leaders. Congressional leaders from both parties attended late night briefings with State Department and Defense officials while Attlee prepared to arrive for crisis talks. Officials noted the situation as very serious with disclosures expected from State Department sources.
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United Nations
Korea
Truman
State and Defense Departments
Pede and
Republican Co
Attlee
State Department
Webb
Red China
Lucas
Ill
Myers
Wherry
Ned
Saltonstall
Mass
House
Rayburn
Representatives Battle
Ala
Vorys
Jack K. McFall
Senate
Alfred M. Gruenther
Army
J. Lawton Collins
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Chairman Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Wiley
Wis
Senator Vandenberg
Senators Urge Warning Then A Bomb in Korea
U S senators from both parties urged a demand to Russia and China to exit Korea and support using the atomic bomb if they refuse. Senator O Mahoney proposed giving General MacArthur full authority to deploy the bomb, while Senator Morse questioned its Korea effectiveness and suggested peace talks could influence a drop. Senator Cain backed empowering MacArthur to use the bomb if tactically needed to save UN forces.
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Washington
Russia
China
Korea
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Wayne Morse
Kore
Morse
Tony P. Cain
R-Wash
O'Mahoney
Mrs. Franklin
D As Paine
NBC
New York
MacArthur
Collins in Tokyo Bound for Korea
General J Lawton Collins US Army Chief of Staff arrived in Tokyo after flying from Washington to confer with General Douglas MacArthur. He then departed in MacArthur s plane for Korea to visit American battlefield commanders, accompanied by Major General Charles Cabell.
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Tokyo
J. Lawton Collins
US Army
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Korea
Collins
Haneda
MacArthur
Charles Cabell
US Air Force
East German Reds label Bishop Dibelius warmonger
East German Communists again attack Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius calling him a warmonger and enemy of the people. The charge marks a campaign in both the Soviet Zone and Berlin's Soviet sector, pushed by Neues Deutschland, the official paper of the ruling Socialist Unity Party.
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Berlin
Otto Dibelius
Germany
Neues Deutschland
Socialist Unity ‘S Communist) Party
Pyongyang Tense as Reds Threaten UN Withdrawal
Tense Pyongyang awaits UN withdrawal amid Chinese Red threats. US Army posts bustle as columns of tanks and jeeps move south across the Tae River. Policemen and shopkeepers fear violence and looting while residents glimpse uncertainty under Red pressure.
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Pyongyang
United Nations
Tae River
Pongyang
Ponee
Ag Sige Gg
Burnis Ryo
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Etree
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