All Aboard Split Ship Are Saved
In Leghorn Italy the Grommet Reefer broke on rocks two days earlier. The last of 39 American sailors was hauled ashore by helicopter as rescuers completed a two day operation. The crew received blankets and Italian brandy before hospital transport.
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Leghorn
Italy
Midway
Leyte
Ligurian Sea
Rescue
Henry P. Sauriant
Brooklyn
Laukant
Navy
U. S
Europe
Early Draft Seen For 19 Year Olds
In Little Rock the draft chief says 19-year-olds will be drafted after January 1 and all by March. He notes fathers may be called in the not too distant future and that the process may deplete reserves in 18 months, leading to discussions on drafting 18 and a half year olds.
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Little Rock
INS
National Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Gandhi Disciple Sriramulu Dies After 58 Day Fast
Pati Sriramulu, 51, a Gandhi follower for 26 years, died in Madras after a 58 day fast protesting Indian government refusal to create a Telugu language state in 11 Madras district areas. Communists seized on the event to broaden influence in southern India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madras
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Pati Sriramulu
Gandhi
Andhra
Sriramulu
Mountbatten Named Mediterranean Command Chief by NATO
NATO selects Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Britain as commander in chief of the Mediterranean, reporting directly to General Ridgway. The appointment excludes the Sixth Fleet strike forces from his command and prompts a French deputy arrangement with sub commands for France and Italy.
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Paris
INS
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council
Earl Mountbatten
Britain
Mediterranean
NATO
Mountbatten
Matthew B. Ridgway
Europe
U.S
South
Robert B. Carney
Mecuntbatten
Sixth Fleet
Red Cross Criticizes U N Actions at Koje Prison
Geneva dispatch reports the International Red Cross Committee accusing U N command of violating the Geneva Conventions in Korea. It cites Koje prison riots where prisoners died after intervention by American and South Korean guards and questions control measures. General Mark Clark defends practices and blames prisoners for unrest aimed at derailing armistice talks.
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Geneva
International Red Cross Committee
U. N
Korea
Koje
Island
Rigts
Mark Clark
Q U. N
Clark
Nancy Ownbey Defends Mother In Street Collision
In Spearman Texas Nancy Ownbey a 7 year old calms an accident scene after a pickup truck hits her car. She stops the vehicle retrieves her mother's purse and refuses to surrender the driver's license from the purse while an officer asks for it. The mother was examined at the hospital and Nancy stands firm with the officer.
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Spearman
Texas
Amarillo
Nancy Ownbey
Nancy
Jim Steve
Hobbie
Robert J. Ownkey
Ownkey
Ownbey
the Law
Vincent Loyalty Suspicion Violates Government Officials
The loyalty review board found treasonable doubt about Career Diplomat John Carter Vincent and recommended firing. The State Department paused action while President Truman may reopen the case. Vincent was ordered home from Tangier. Separately, John Paton Davies Jr. was cleared of loyalty doubts.
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Washington
John Carter Vincent
State Department
Truman
Acheson
Vincent
Tangier
Department
John Paton Davies, Jr
Davies
U.S. High Commission
Germany
Hoard
Hiram Bingham
Bingham
Chiang Kai-shek
U.S
Chiang
Florida Weather Chief Vincent Faces Firing Recommendation
The board urged Vincent be fired amid weather service turmoil. President to discuss after North Atlantic Alliance talks in Paris. Vincent denies Communist ties and had been cleared earlier. The North Atlantic context and past loyalty cases frame a controversial career in Far Eastern policy.
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Vincent
Acheson
North Atlantic Alliance
Paris
Juke Box Fight Sentence Upheld
The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld a three year prison sentence for Huddle Hall who wounded George Topps after an argument over the song The Tennessee Waltz played repeatedly on a juke box at a dance. The ruling denies that the music justified shooting.
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Jackson, Miss
State Supreme Court
Huddle Hall
George Topps
Siamese Twins Separated At Mt Sinai In Cleveland
The twins were separated byOperation at Mt Sinai hospital in Cleveland and are in fine condition in incubators. Their mother is well. The surgical band joining the twins’ chests and abdomens measured about one to one and a half inches. Surgeon Br Jac Geller noted both babies were independent and lacked vital shared structures.
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Cleveland
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Br. Jac Geller
Journal of the American Medical Association
Taft Emerges as Candidate in Senate Floor Leadership Fight
Washington dispatch reports Sen. Taft Ohio emerges as an avowed candidate in the senate floor leadership contest. Sen. Welker Idaho backs Sen. Bridges New Hampshire and cautions no fight is expected to block the administration. Carlson Kansas says Taft will cooperate with Eisenhower and both side aim to settle the matter amicably.
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Washington
INS
Senate G.C.P
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Sen. Welker
Idaho
Sen. Bridges
N.H
Carlson Kan
Eisenhower
Carlson
Ike
Eilsenhower
Welker
Bridges
Nut
Atomic Scientist Found Dead In Gas-Filled Room
Authorities said UC atomic scientist William Emory Bush 44 apparently killed himself in Livermore California. The physicist who worked on World War II radiation research and was reassigned to an Atomic Energy Commission plant left a despondent note citing marital troubles.
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Livermore
Calif
University of California
William Emory Bush
California
Atomic Energy Commission
Bush
Operation Santa Aids 56 Disabled
Washington AP reports 56 service members who are blinded paralyzed or amputees will travel home for 30 days under Operation Santa Claus run by Military Air Transport Service for the sixth year. The group includes all hospitalized personnel in the United States meeting qualified criteria and wishing to return home.
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Washington
G.I
Military Air Transport Service
MATS
U.S
Indict Lattimore on Seven Perjury Counts in Senate Probe
A federal grand jury indicted Johns Hopkins professor Owen Lattimore on seven counts of perjury for false statements to Senate Internal Security investigators. The case centers on his 1950s testimony before the McCarran subcommittee regarding the Institute of Pacific Relations and alleged Communist ties.
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Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Lattimore
U.S
Subcommittee
State Department
Ch’sao Ting Chi
Asiaticus
IPR
Army Secretary Admonishes Pick Over North Africa Bases
Secretary Pace admonished Lt Gen Lewis A Pick and two colonels over rush construction of North African air bases. The Senate preparedness subcommittee had charged waste and confusion in the bases program and urged action. Pace said the letters are administrative and not entered in personnel files.
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Washington
Army
Pace
Lewis A. Pick
Army Engineers
North
Africa
Pace Sq
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Johnson
D-Texas
Pick
Pentagon
Tiny Cedar Rapids home fire kills two children
Two children, Joan Mottinger four and Earl Mottinger Jr two, died Tuesday when a stove exploded and fire destroyed their Vernon View home east of Cedar Rapids. Mrs Mottinger burned rescuing them and was hospitalized with burns and shock. the home owned by Fred Bennett burned in minutes.
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Vernon View
Cedar Rapids
Joan Mottinger
Earl, Jr
Earl Mottinger
Harold Centler
Mottinger
Ace Cab Company
Mottingers
Fred Bennett
Twentieth Avenue SW
Highway 30
Indian Creek
Rehn
President Warns of Defense Lag
President Truman warned the incoming Republican administration against cuts to the defense program he started. He said U S leadership against communism has saved hundreds of millions from slavery and urged paying the cost to prevent a new world war. He spoke at the Armed Forces College alumni event.
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Washington
Truman
the Armed Forces Industrial College
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