Yanks Down 12 Jets In Major Korean War Air Battle
Forty American Sabre jets fought 38 MIG-15s south of the Yalu River in the largest air battle in four months. Eight MIGs were shot down, three damaged, with pilot Capt. Leonard Lilley of Manchester New Hampshire credited with a seventh kill. Allied air forces also struck Sinanju area bridges and rail yards, disrupting Manchuria supply routes as ground fighting continued in zero temperatures.
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Seoul
Yalu River
Leonard W. Lilley
Manchester
N.H
Lilley
Manchuria
Sinanju
Fifth Air Force
Chonchon
Taeryong
Road Workers Hold Ground on Five-Cent Wage Offer in Linn County
Linn County road workers union met with the board of supervisors to review a five-cent-an-hour wage offer. They did not accept, planning to vote Friday and return next Tuesday for a decision. The board approved a new 13-acre quarry purchase for 5000 dollars and spread a road assessment over objections, with hearings set for February 10 on three road projects and a vacation of a road near Cook's pond.
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Cedar Rapids News
Linn County Road Workers Union
Board For Supervisors
Martin Wiley
Henry J. Hood
Miles P. Sutera
Sutera
Wiley
Central City
E. R. Wagoner
Primghar
Beverly
Troyills
Buffalo Township
Prairieburg
Hood
John
Tena Wroblewski
Boulder Township
Putnam
Linn and
Bertram
Cook’s Pond
John Hamilton
Leopold Parole Decision Delayed by New Board Chairman
Springfield AP The Illinois parole board’s new chairman Victor Knowles said Nathan Leopold’s parole decision is postponed indefinitely. Knowles cited ongoing testimony review and said the Leopold case will not be decided on Jan. 22 while more than 100 other cases will be weighed. He stressed inexperience and vowed to study the evidence before ruling.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois Parole Board
Nathan Leopold
Victor I. Knowles
Elkville
William G. Stratton
Leopold
Adlai Stevenson
Joseph Lohman
Knowles
Lohman
Iran Poland oil accord reported by Tehran agency
Tehran says Iran has signed a contract to make its oil available to Communist Poland. The report indicates the move follows nationalization of Iran's oil industry.
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Tehran
Iiran
Poland
Weaker Siamese Twin Roger Brodie Faces Uncertain Survival
Chicago AP reports the weaker twin Roger Lee Brodie remains comatose and near death after separation. Doctor says survival is remote and even if he lives he may not become a normal individual, while Rodney Dee shows no brain impairment and has a good chance at a normal life if he survives.
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Chicago
Roger Lee Brodie
Roger
Rodney Dee
Eisenhowers Inaugural Hat Breaks Tradition
President elect Dwight Eisenhower will wear a black homburg hat at his oath and at the inaugural ball, breaking the long tradition of silk toppers. Press secretary James Hagerty said the new cabinet and top officials will follow suit.
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NEW York
Dwight Eisenhowler
James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower
Appointees Face Probe by Senate Committee
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee ordered a full FBI background probe of all top State Department nominees at home and abroad before confirmation. Chairman Wiley said Eisenhower would cooperate and FBI files would be shared with senators. The panel also created a special subcommittee to study Communist subversion and espionage aimed at the State Department and the U.N. secretariat.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
FBI
State Department
Wiley
R-Wis
Eisenhower
U.N
Crippled Airliner Lands Safely at Claremore
A Peninsular Airlines C-46 with 54 aboard landed on one engine at a pasture airport in Claremore Oklahoma. Most passengers were servicemen on an unscheduled NY to Burbank flight. No injuries reported as Capt. Monroe Cauble chose a grass runway after an engine failure.
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Claremore
Okla
Peninsular Airlines
New York
Burbank
Calif
Monroe Cauble
Tulsa
Bill to raise Iowa gas tax by one cent
Iowa lawmakers opened spending and tax battle as three representatives filed a bill to boost the gas tax from four to five cents a gallon. The plan would earmark new revenue for primary highways, with an estimated rise in state gasoline tax income to 50 million dollars yearly.
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Des Moines
Iowa
L. W. Abel
Guttenberg
Wendell Pendleton
Storm Lake
W. H. Tate
Mason City
M. L. Abrahamson
Senate
de Vere Watson
Council Bluffs
Charles van Eaton
Sioux City
E. C. Myrland
Onawa
Stanley L. Hart
Keokuk
J. H. Nesmith
Kellogg
Frank C. Byers
Marion
R. J. Oltman
Herman B. Lord
Muscatine
Philip T. Hedin
Davenport
G. E. Whitehead
Perry
Jack Schroeder
R-Dav
Schroeder
Cooksey
John Walker
R-Williams
Land Credit Fund
Walker
Freezing Rain Forecast Darkens Iowa Weather Outlook
Heavy fog blanketed Iowa as the weather bureau warned of snow and freezing rain tonight and Thursday. At Cedar Rapids Municipal airport two United Airlines flights could not land in zero visibility. one diverted to Iowa City and the other to Moline. Snow is expected in the north and west, freezing rain in the southeast, with colder air and temperatures around the mid thirties.
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Iowa News
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Municipal
Cedar Rapids
United Aiir Lines
Iowa City
Moline
Kotek Pleads Innocent to First Degree Murder Charge
Charles G. Kotek, 43, pleaded innocent in district court to a first degree murder count for the Dec 9 fatal shooting of Pauline Kassell, 32, in Cedar Rapids. He was ordered held in jail on 40000 bond. Kotek cited a shotgun wound and received daily medical care while under police guard.
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Charles G. Kotek
Charles Penningroth
Kotek
Pauline Kassell
Linn
Willis A. Glassgow
Justice Court
Penningroth
John B. Reilly
Clinton E. Shaeffer
Plane crash kills two farmers near Charles City
Coroner identifies Rupert Rowley and Bud Hatzky both farmers from New Colony as the two occupants of a fox hunting plane that crashed on the Earl Kaiess farm 442 miles northeast of Charles City. Hunters heard the motor roar and a thud before reaching the scene and discovering both men dead.
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Charles City
Carl Hauser
Hauser
Bua
Rupert Rowley
Bud Hatzky
New Colwo
Earl
Defense to draft 471 physicians and 258 dentists in March
The Defense Department announced on Wednesday a March call for 471 physicians and 258 dentists to report for military service. The plan aims to fill critical medical and dental needs across the armed forces.
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Washington
Defense Department
Secrecy Lid Clamped on Spy Search
FBI agents began a secret hunt after a sealed indictment charged various persons with obtaining national defense information to aid a foreign nation. The action followed testimony by about a dozen officers before Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff and was kept under seal to avoid tipping off suspects.
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Washington
FBI
U.S
Justice Department
Alexander Holtzoff
Justice Department Ateys
Harold D. Koffsky
Oran H. Waterman
Department
U. S
Holtzoff
Russia
Amana Society official Moershel dies after illness
Carl F. Moershel 35 of Homestead Amana died Tuesday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a weeklong illness from acute liver infection and complications. A 1940 University of Iowa graduate and former air corps lieutenant colonel, he managed Amana Society insurance and worked as an accountant. Survived by wife Marietta, two daughters, mother, and sister. father preceded him in death. Funeral set for Thursday at Amana Community church with burial in Homestead.
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Homestead
Carl F. Moershel
Amana
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa
Air Corps
China
Burma
India
Moershel
Amana So-ciety Insurance Moefshel i
Amana Young Men’s Bureau
Hawkeye
F. J. ‘Ruff
South Amana
Truman Warns Farm Price Drops Could Signal Recession
President Truman and the Council of Economic Advisers warn that continuing farm price declines threaten the economy. They project reasonably stable prices and full employment in 1953 if business boosts demand, but warn a deflationary trend could emerge in 1955 without proactive steps. They urge modest tax cuts, retention of price controls, and renewed foreign trade expansion to sustain postwar prosperity.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Council of Economic Advisers
Council
Com
Leon H. Keyserling
Airman
Robert C. Turner
John D. Clark
Clark
Mr. Truman
U S Casualties Rise to 128 721 in Korea War
Washington reports separate totals for American war losses in Korea now at 128 721 with 191 more casualties than the prior week. The tally includes 22 683 deaths 93 269 wounded 9 282 missing 2 093 captured and 1 394 previously listed as missing now returned to duty.
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Washington
Amercan
Korea
Aspen Department
Explosion in Belgian coal mine kills 13, injures 13
An explosion of fire damp in a coal mine in Wasmes Belgium killed 13 miners and left 13 others injured on Tuesday. Officials called for safety inspections and investigations into the blast cause.
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Wasmes
Belgium
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California
Mundung
Abel
Ernest Kosek
Kosek
Enport
Paul Cooksey
R Spencer
Research Council
Legislative Research Council
Ses
Keyserling
Turner
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