U N Rejects Soviet Claim Against U S
United Nations Assembly rejected a Soviet demand to condemn the United States over alleged mass prison murders on Koje Island and Pongam Island in Korea. The 45 to 5 vote with ten abstentions paused until Feb 24 after Eisenhower’s inauguration. U S delegate Gross called the move sickening and propaganda.
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United Nations
N. Y
United Nations Assembly
United States
Pongam Island
Korea
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Assembly
Iraq
Lebanon
Thailand
Soviet Bloc
Ernest A. Gross
Gross
General Assembly
China
Selwyn Lloyd
Henri Hoppenot
France
Kyrou
Greece
David Johnson
Canada
Leslie K. Munro
New Zealand
Lloyd
U. N
Pre Christmas Gas Cut Off Shuts St Joseph Citywide
In St Joseph Missouri a gas line break cut off the entire city leaving about 14 000 homes and 1 500 businesses without gas amid subfreezing temperatures sleet and snow. Restoration began with 2 700 customers back online by Monday morning as crews manually shut off and relit meters. full service to all remains uncertain but a few users may still lack gas by Christmas.
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ST. Joseph
Missouri
Crash injures twelve on holiday-bound bus collision
Twelve service members and an Oakland family of five were injured when a holiday-bound chartered bus carrying 30 hit a car and a stalled transport trailer truck on Highway 6, three miles east of Oakland. Air Force airmen from Lowry Field were among the injured, none seriously, with names listed. The airmen were treated at Offutt Base Hospital.
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Oakland
Highway 6
Here
Air Force
Lowry Field
Denver
Colo
Offutth Base
David Harding
Providence
Edward Akin
Canton
Burrvell M. Schurter
Elyria
Donald Smith
Round Lake
Louis F. Senick
Elizabeth
N.J
Edward J. Bag
James R. Haines
Arlene
Verlin
Marilyn
Dale
Raines
Edward Matous
Omaha
Jennie Edmundson Hospital
C. J. Bartlet
Bartlet
Watson Brothers Company
Harold Casey
Roscoe Butler
Haines
Burlington
Chicago
C. D. Eberly
George Lindsay
H. A. Carter
Lowry Air Force Bases
U.S. Navy
Cal
Nationalist Action Hint Given by MAAG Chief
Maj. Gen. William C. Chase indicated to a luncheon crowd that Nationalist Chinese forces may be in action next year. He cited talks with Eisenhower about the Nationalist armed forces as Chiang Kai-Shek presided over strong preparations to return to the mainland.
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Taipeh
Rormosa P
U. S
William C. Chase
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chase
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Korea
Chiang
Two Cars Damaged in Squeeze Play on Highway 75
A squeeze accident Monday on Highway 75 about two and a half miles north of Honey Creek damaged two cars. Chris A. Petroff, 32, Missouri Valley, reported he was driving south and passed R. Durlick of Logan when a following car tried to pass and crowded Petroff into Durlick’s vehicle.
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Highway 75
Honey Creek
Sheriff's Office
Chris A. Petroff
Missouri Valley
R. Durlick
Logan
Petroff
Durlick
Naperville Search Shifts Into Iowa
The Naperville hunt for missing children Jean Petersen and Ka ward Rosenstiel moved to Iowa but yielded no clues. Authorities in Tipton Cedar County checked truck drivers after a report of two children resembling the pair, yet no matching vehicles were found.
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Naperville
Ill
Iowa
Jean Petersen
Kaward Rosenstiel
DuPage
Tipton
Walter Revoir
Oak Lawn
Cedar
Charles Willey
Cedar County
Bus crash in Austria kills 23 on Arlberg route
In Vienna the Arlberg route bus crash Monday night left 23 dead of the 38 aboard. Many victims described as British skiers. Police and救 local authorities investigating the disaster amid snow and poor visibility.
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Vienna
Austria
Arlberg
Nab 21 in New York Waterfront Crimes
Twenty one persons were arrested in Brooklyn as the Kings County grand jury indicted suspects in waterfront rackets. The sweep followed a dawn raid by the district attorney s rackets squad and the grand jury previously indicted kingpin bookmaker Harry Gross. Arraignment was set before Judge Samuel Leibowitz.
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New York
Kings County
Grand
Samuel S. Leibowitz
District Attorney's
Brooklyn
Leibowitz
Harry Gross
Jed
New York Police Department
Passengers Safe as Tug Capsizes Off Lebanon
A tug capsized while transferring 200 passengers ashore from the French liner Champollion off Lebanon. All 200 reached shore safely. the liner carrying 1,500 Christmas pilgrims to Jerusalem struck a sandbar and broke its back near Beirut Harbor after leaving Marseille.
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Alnaanj Kia
Egypt
Alexandria Nav ‘Igation Co
Champollion
Lebanon
Jerusalem
Beirut
Marseille
Decline in Pork Supplies Forecast by Agriculture Dept
The Agriculture Department predicts a 15 percent fall in next spring's pig crop and a similar drop in pork supplies next year, with the 1952 fall crop down 11 percent. Meat supplies per consumer should be about the same due to more beef slaughter. Higher feed costs and better beef profits drive the hog decline.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Costello's Lawyers Fail to Free Him in U.S. Prison
New York gambler Frank Costello remained jailed as all legal efforts to release him failed. He was hustled onto a prison bus at 5:15 a.m. Monday and bound for a common jail in Milan, Michigan, as lawyers contended he had been illegally held in the U.S. Penitentiary.
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Atlanta
Frank Costello
New York
Milan
Mich
Underworld
U.S
20 year sentence for Costello bandit convicted in bank robbery
National Bank and Trust Co. were robbed by Walsh, 63, described as the silent partner. The court ordered Costello removed to a correctional institution in Michigan and fined $5,000 with a 20 year prison term. William F. Riley and aides argued the law required a shorter contempt sentence, but the judge upheld the 18 month term for contempt.
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U. S. District Court
Modes Moines
Michaely. Granery
Costello
Walsh
Central Jaw
National Bank
Trust Co
William F. Riley
Tidge Riley
Walshir
Katyn Massacre in Russia's Law
A congressional committee urged that Soviet Russia be arraigned before an international court for the Katyn Forest massacre of about 15,100 Polish nationals during World War II. The panel pressed for an immediate probe into Communist atrocities in Korea and linked Katyn to broader Soviet conduct, urging Congress to seek the truth for the American people and free nations.
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Washington
Soviet Russia
International
Katyn Forest
House
Russia
Congress
United Nations
Korea
Nazi Germany
Katyn
Heavy Seas Slow Arrivals Delay Troops Homeward
Heavy seas in the Pacific and Atlantic slow ships and troop vessels, delaying up to 8000 service members expected to miss Christmas Day at home. Spokesmen said several days late in arriving include discharged personnel and those returning for reassignment or other reasons.
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Washingson
Spolkesmen
Pacific
Atlantic
Atrocity Smites Japanese Fertilizer Plant
A hydrogen blast at the Tea Synthetic Chemical Company fertilizer plant in Nagoya killed at least 150 workers and injured 370, with 70 in critical condition. Five missing. earlier tallies had 30 dead and 550 hurt. Gas masks used by responders amid toxic fumes in the steel-framed facility. Authorities probe a possible spark in a hydrogen tank as the blast source.
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Nagoya
Japan
U. S. Air Force
Tea Synthetic Chemical Company
Grounded servicemen await travel by train or bus in Des Moines
DES MOINES still grounded by bad weather 67 servicemen aboard a U S Overseas Airline DC6 were headed home and were redirected to surface transport after an unscheduled stop in the city due to sleet and rain. A heavy snowfall canceled a planned morning takeoff. Captain J Shaw Webb of Burlington Vermont told passengers they could wait or switch to train or bus. Twenty seven passengers, including several Korean veterans, were en route and most of the rest planned to travel by surface transport. New York headlines report President‑elect Eisenhower planning to board trains or buses during the trip to assure the ideological battle against Communism remains strong. The Freedom Foundation meeting at the Waldorf Astoria echoed calls for durable leadership.
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Des-Moines
U.S
DC6
Chicago
New York City
J. Shaw Webb
Burlington
New York
America
Iowa City
Freedom Foundation
Waldorf Astoria
Eisenhower
Judge extends TRO to bar strike at Dunkirk Locomotive plant
A federal judge extended a temporary restraining order that blocks the CIO United Steelworkers Union from striking at the American Locomotive Co Dunkirk plant. The action preserves operations while negotiations proceed.
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Buffalo
No. x
CIO
United Steel
Dunkirk
American Locomotive Co
Pope Receives Group of Newly Ordained Priests
The Vatican reports Pope Pius received a group of newly ordained priests including Patrick Norton, 69, of Dubuque Iowa, a widower and father of 14 children. The ceremony highlighted his unique family background among the new clergy.
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Vatican
Pius Fionday
Patrick “Norton
Dupuque, Ja
Landowners Fiercely Oppose Shelby Lake Condemnation
The Iowa Executive Council heard two attorneys argue against state condemnation of land in Shelby County for a proposed lake and park. About 300 acres have options. 4300 remain owned by six owners who refused to sell. Council set a hearing for next Monday with attorneys and commission officials present to discuss further.
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Des Moines
Iowa Executive Council
Shelby County
Bruce F. Stiles
State Conservation Commission
The
Conservation Commission
Commission
Har‘tan
Shelby
County
Ed White
Fol
Leland C
Ey White
Harlan
Ejaerstine Mathiasen
Bertha
White
Stiles
Hav Mathiasen
Dallas Havies
Ling
John White
Thiasen
Marinus. Hansen
Henry Hansen
Coun
Gell
Hitler- The.council
Jess
Leland White
Council
Snowfall to reach six to eight inches by Tuesday
A weatherman predicts six to eight inches of new snow by Tuesday morning in Council Bluffs and southwest Iowa with drifting expected Monday night as winds reach 25 mph. Snowfall should taper off overnight with no local damage reported to utility lines or services.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Iowa Power and Light I Company
Towa
Weather Bureau
Lamoni
Spencer
Roe Endorsed for Iowa Supreme Court Seat
District Judge Charles Roe of Council Bluffs was unanimously endorsed by the Pottawattamie County Bar Association for appointment to the Iowa Supreme Court to replace Justice H. J. Mantz who plans to resign Jan 1 due to ill health. The endorsement was presented to Gov. Beardsley by a committee chaired by Raymond A. Smith. Roe, a native of Nevada, Ia., has served as district judge since 1939 and lives at 528 Oakland Ave with his wife and two sons and two daughters located in Moorhead and Santa Fe.
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Charles Roe
Council Bluffs
Pottawattamie County Bar Association
Iowa Supreme Court
H. J. Mantz
Audubon
J. Leo Connolly
Association
Raymond A. Smith
Don Jackson
DeVere Watson
Ole Roe
Nevada
Roe
Des Moines
Drake University
Carson
Incurable illnesses strike two Manchester children
In Manchester gifts arrive as the Faust family faces two children, Allan age five and Marsha age four, with a rare, incurable brain disease called Peliteous, merz backer. Doctors report no cure and the farm family awaits further word as the community aids.
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Manchester
R. C. Russell
Grant Faust Fam
Russell
Allan
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