AEC Admits H-Bomb Research at Eniwetok Tests
The Atomic Energy Commission announced that hydrogen bomb research was included in the third series of weapons tests at Eniwetok Atoll. It stopped short of confirming a full-scale H-bomb explosion and noted security concerns over letters from test crew members describing a powerful blast.
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Eisenhower Faces Early Test in Congress on Taxes and Civil Rights
President elect Eisenhower may face a clash with Congress over tax cuts spending limits and civil rights policies. House Speaker hopeful Joseph Martin pushes for tax cuts and a balanced budget while Senator Styles Bridges urges balancing the budget first. Senator Harry Byrd agrees with Bridges, as Eisenhower weighs extending or letting expire eight and a half billion in annual taxes. Senator Taft cites a seventy billion dollar spending plan as a target for the new administration.
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Short to Head Military Group in New House
Dewey Short, Republican of Missouri, will chair the House Armed Services Committee in the next Congress. He vows a tough regime and may push for defense cuts while keeping U.S. security strong. Short opposes universal military training and favors Congress control over troop deployments to Europe.
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Big Business Expects Four Bright Years Under Ike
Major American firms wrap a four day session at Sea Island Georgia and forecast a more favorable business climate under Eisenhower. They foresee no major policy shifts and warn a mild recession could come in Ike’s first year, basing views on economics not politics.
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CIO calls for end to wage controls in 1950s economy
The CIO urges abolishing wage controls citing a virtually abandoned price control program and risks of deflation. Philip Murray, the late president, warns the current law lacks basis to keep controls and asks the new Congress to grant immediate authority to impose them if living costs rise.
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Rosenbergs Slated to Die If Rehearing Refused
The U S Supreme Court may rule Monday on whether Julius and Ethel Rosenberg receive a rehearing or are to be executed for passing atomic secrets to Russia. A decision to deny would set an execution date. Truman has not intervened.
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Four Parker children and grandfather found frozen to death
In Ukiah California on a snowy country road near town the Parker family tragedy left Mrs. Parker with a newborn. Michael Parker two sisters Caroline Ann age four and Peggy Js age two were found dead together along with grandfather Reginald Parker sixty. His ditched jeep lay nearby suggesting he tried to seek help before collapsing.
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Spy temptations haunt globe trotter Gypsy Markoff in talk
Gypsy Markoff recalls offers to spy for Russia after World War II including a Paris hotel lounge approach and dinners with a handsome British accented man. She describes anonymous threats woven into her life since the Lisbon crash of 1943 and her return from a new tour abroad.
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War Hero Papagos Wins Greek Election Victory
Athens Greece November 18 field marshal Alexander Papagos veteran of two wars and leader of the Greek Rally party swept to a decisive national election victory. Analysts forecast the Greek Rally securing the majority in Parliament amid a backdrop of American support and a hands off policy by officials. Former Premier Gen Nicholas Plastiras led a leftist coalition but trailed in the early returns as Papagos announced his triumph.
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Today’s Definition Conscience
A compact aphorism defines conscience as the inner force that prompts a man to reveal to his wife what he believes she will eventually learn, reflecting a 1953 Gazetto copyright note.
Army Colonel Dies of Buckshot Blast at Camp Stewart
Colonel Lloyd A. Corkan chief of staff and acting post commander at Camp Stewart was fatally wounded by buckshot on the hunting reservation. Sheriff Sikes questioned likelihood of accidental shooting as Corkan was shot in the back. FBI and Army investigators probe. Corkan had served in acting capacity during Gen. Armstrong's absence.
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Boxcar Missing In Alaska Signals Mystery
Alaska coast mystery deepens as 20 U S soldiers remain aboard a missing boxcar craft. The incident unfolds amid broader debates on toll road policy and 1947 West Virginia Turnpike Act implications. Legislators plan January return to Charleston for a 60 day session.
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Logan County
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Truman Urges Faiths to Unite Against Bigotry
President Truman appealed to U S religious leaders to join against outbreaks of bigotry. He spoke at the cornerstone ceremony for a new temple of the 100 year old Washington Hebrew Congregation, urging mutual respect and faith in God to preserve American freedoms amid totalitarian threats.
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ROKs Repulse 3 Red Thrusts In Cold Ridge Skirmish
South Korean infantry on Sniper Ridge repelled three Red Chinese thrusts as snow and freezing temperatures closed in. Abbott reports from the Central Front that combat centered on Pinpoint Hill and Little Finger Ridge with persistent harassment and shifting gains by Allied forces along an 158 mile front.
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General Byers Arrives For Duty In Italy In Naples
Maj Gen Clovis Byers of Columbus Ohio World War II paratrooper and former corps commander in Korea and Japan arrived in Naples to become chief of staff to Adm Robert B Carney Allied commander in chief Southern Europe He succeeds Maj Gen James Gavin who departs to command the U S Seventh Corps in Stuttgart Germany
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GOP Women Target Five Assistant Secretary Posts
Republican women leaders push for assistant secretary roles in five departments including Post Office Agriculture Commerce Interior and Defense. Ivy Priest says President-elect Eisenhower promised to appoint women to key posts while aiming to present a qualified list for consideration. They seek broader representation in policy making and note past limits in housing and General Services Administration. women hold about 20 000 postmaster roles and Frances Perkins remains the lone woman in a presidential cabinet.
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Navy C119 Crash Missing 20 On Routine Alaska Flight
Anchorage reports a C119 Flying Boxcar, third of its type in eight days, missing with 20 aboard during Exercise Warmwind. The two-engined transport, from Elmendorf to Kodiak, last heard at 12 06 p m Saturday. Wreckage sighted at Mt Silver Throne but bodies unrecovered.
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Korea
Names revealed of three of 20 aboard missing C 119
The 435th Troop Carrier Wing in Miami released the names of three crew members among 20 aboard a C 119 believed down on a flight from Anchorage to Kodiak Alaska. The incident is being investigated and the three identified are listed by rank and unit.
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Alaska
FBI Investigates Widen Incidents in Elk River Strike
An FBI spokesman said about eight agents and office staff joined the Elk River Coal and Lumber Co strike investigation. The focus is on who dynamited two railroad bridges near Widen in October, with FBI Agent J. R. Woodruff declining to comment.
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