UN Faces Quick Decision as Allied Forces Reassess
General MacArthur said Communist China backs North Korea with 500000 Chinese troops, part of an undeclared war against UN forces. He cited total NK forces at about 600000, with 300000 moving up from Yalu bases, and noted Chinese superiority growing as the Eighth Army braces for intensified combat.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
China
Korea
United Nations
U. N
Yalu River
U. N. Army
Changjin Reservoir
Eighth Army
GOP plans hard campaign to win southern Democrats
Albert B. Hermann, executive director of the Republican National Committee, urges a major to rebuild GOP in the south calling for joining with Jeffersonian Democrats. He notes Democrats won many southern offices unopposed and declares the party will launch the hardest campaign in its history to organize and attract Southern voters. He cites Arizona and New Mexico as signs the old Democratic machine in the region is cracking.
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Republican Party
South
Congress
Albert B. Hermann
National Committee
Southern Council
Young Republican National Federation
Jefferson
White House
Hermann
Arizona
New
Federal Tax Increase Is Predicted For 1951
Senator George predicts a sharp increase in federal taxes next year affecting corporations and individuals. House plans tax rises on incomes and excise levies as Korea war costs loom. The Ways and Means Committee will start work early in 1951 on an overall bill. House aims to raise 3.4 billion dollars via excess profits. Senate finance committee led by George to hold hearings the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George
D-Ga
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Vawhine Wit Cenawts
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Conally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Three Shots Fired At Pawtucket Rent Collector
In Pawtucket Rhode Island December 2 three shots were fired at rent collector Harry Weisman and a bed was set afire in a three story tenement. Firemen rescued two children and guided others to safety as the fire was extinguished with minimal damage. Weis man reported he was appointed by a court to collect rents for the owner's wife amid a dispute with Armenag Dappinian the property owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pawtucket
R. IL
Harry Weisman
Vincent A. Hourigan
Wiesman
Weisman
Armenag Dappinian
Five Killed In Illinois Storm Toll Reported
Five people died and 17 were injured as a tornado struck Greenville and Mt. Olive in southwestern Illinois. Vandalia police said four deaths and 15 injuries occurred in Greenville where several blocks saw homes leveled and the town lost telephone, light and power. A man was killed near Mt. Olive. two occupants were hurt. The injured were sent to Highland and St. Francis hospitals. The deceased near Mt. Olive was Phillip Horn, 69, of Bellwood. his wife Susan, 76, and daughter Mrs Louis Beyer, 38, were injured.
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Vandalia
Greenville
Mt. Olive
Illinois
St. Louis
U. S. Highway 6
Highland
Phillip Horn
Bellwood
Susan
Louis Beyer
St. Francis Hospital
Litchfield
Police Probe Finances Of Missing Charlotte Merchant
Charlotte on December 2 reports that 34 year old William M. Rigsbee vanished last Monday after telling colleagues he would collect a bill in Gastonia. Police say investigations show he owed money, with loans from banks and individuals. His abandoned sedan was found along the Broad River near Gaffney, South Carolina.
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Charlotte
William M. Rigsbee
Frank N. Littlejohn
Rigsbee
West Trade
Gastonia
Broad River
Gaffney
S. C
Agnes Smedley Will Leaves Estate to Gen Chu Teh
The will of Agnes Smedley writer on China who faced U S army charges over spying for Russia bequeaths her ashes and residuary estate to Gen Chu Teh commander of China's armies as learned in New City New York.
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New City
N. Y
Agnes Smedley
China
Russia
Chu Teh
U S Awaits Attlees Visit Today
Washington dispatch reports the United States delaying major Korea policy moves as Prime Minister Attlee visits. Gen J Lawton Collins flies east for battlefield briefings with Gen Douglas MacArthur amid reports of 500,000 Chinese troops and undeclared war. Secretary Acheson summons Warren Austin from UN HQ for talks as Dean Rusk briefs 20 Latin American nations on the crisis.
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Washington
United States
Attlee
Liing
White
State Department
Eee Attlee
Monda
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Far Eadt
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
U. Eee
Red
China
U. N. Command
Acheson
Warren Austin
U. N
New York
Dean Rusk
Austin
United Nations
Korea
Moslem Bride Hates Mother as Court Returns Girl to Dutch Mother
A Singapore court annulled the marriage of 13 year old Maria Hertogh to Malayan teacher Incie Mansoor Abadi and ordered the girl to be returned to her Roman Catholic mother Adeline Hertogh. The judge kept Maria under court jurisdiction pending appeal, with the child to remain in a convent. The ruling found the Malayan nurse Che Aminah orchestrated the marriage to defeat the Hertoghs.
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Singapore
Maria Bertha Hertogh
Adeline Hertogh
Java
Hertoghs
T. A. Brown
Justice Brown
Maria
Che Aminah
Incie Mansoor Abadi
Symington Holds Off On Broad Wage Price Controls
Washington reports W. Stuart Symington, head of the National Security Resources Board, urged Congress to extend the federal rent control law and give current controls more time to work. He warned that world developments could alter his view and noted the impact on American consumers would grow as the new program takes effect.
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Washington
W. Stuart Symington
Congress
Symington
National Security Resources Board
Ansell
Senate Banking Committee
Ienate
Byrd
D-Va
Amer
Support For MacArthur's View Gains Momentum In Korea War
Senators from both parties endorsed General MacArthur’s view that China’s push in Korea is an undeclared war and urged broader authority to act. House and Senate members weighed U N war aims while Mahon said no signs U N forces will be driven from Korea.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Korea
MacArthur
Mahon
Texas
House Military Appropriations Subcommittee
U. N
Defense Marshall
Omar N. Bradley
China
Bolton
Ohio
U. S
Senate
Hunt
D-Wy
Senate Armed Services Committee
United Nations
Manchuria
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Ae
McCarthy Urges Immediate Impeachment Over Korea Policy
Senator McCarthy charged the Truman administration with treasonable policy over Korea. He demanded Congress impeach the President if Chiang Kai shek’s troops are not used, asserting Formosa forces could aid against Chinese communists.
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Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
Truman
Congress
Korea
Iisi
America
Chiang Kaishek
Wisconsin
Chaing
Formosa
China
Trading Space For Time In Effort To Protect 8th Army
United Nations forces began withdrawing from a line 30 miles north of Pyongyang to delay a Chinese offensive. Seventh Division units at the Manchurian border pulled back as part of a broader retreat to cover the Eighth Army. Reports describe massed Reds near Songchon and Sukchon while pilots attacked and civilians fled the area.
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8Th Army
Tokyo
United Nations
Pyongyang
U. S. Seventh Division
Korea
U. S. First Corps
Eighth Army
PulIang Vaen
Sukchon-Sanchoniare
Sonchon
Ang
Songchon
Yang
R. U.N
Sukchon
Red
Pyongmayere
U. S
Pn Pdt
Reds
O Great Angjin Power Reser
Wonsan
Hungnam
Tenth Corps
Changjin
Hagaru
Manchuria
Koto
Six Air
Four Year Old Girl Found Buried in Backyard Grave
In Muskegon Michigan a four year old girl Carol Ann Thompson was found buried in her backyard. Coroner De Horn noted facial bruising while Sheriff Pederson said the mother and stepfather Ted and Barbara Smith, both 27, have been missing since November 11. Relatives Ted Wisniewski and Philip Hammond located the remains.
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Muskegon
Mich
Carol Ann Thompson
John A. de Horn
Axel M. Pederson
Ted Smith
Ted Wisniewski
Russia Amid Rumors of New Moves in Split Berlin
Berlin dispatch reports fears that Moscow may try to divide U S forces between Europe and Korea amid East German leadership absences. Otto Grotewohl Walter Ulbricht Georg Dertinger and William Pieck are away or inactive as Western alert over Truman's atomic Korea remarks grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel de Luce
Berlin
Russia
Germany
Europe
Korea
Heinrich Rau
Otto Grotewohl
Walter Ulbricht
Soviet Control Commission
Truman
North Korea
West Germany
Associated Press
Moscow
East Berlin
Grotewohl
Ulbricht
Georg Dertinger
William Pieck
Soviet Union
Yanks Burn Equipment In Retreat Near Pyongyang
In Korea a massive fire blazed along a road near Pyongyang as American troops retreated for a fifth day. Lt Roland Sias of Martinez California and Sgt Arthur Jacobsen of Oakland ordered troops to throw more equipment onto the flames including Bailey bridges and chemically treated rubber pontoon bridging. They emphasized losing bridge material, critical for later use, and directed trucks to pull out as the engineers’ column moved into dust.
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Pyongyang
Korea
Roland Sias
Martinez
Calif
Arthur Jacobsen
Oakland
Sias
Airlift Busy Moving Out The Wounded In Korea
In Hagaru, North Korea, Marines and Seventh Division troops endure near freezing conditions as wounded soldiers are evacuated by large U and M aircraft from a makeshift airstrip. Evacuees head to hospitals in rear areas, Japan, and the United States amid ongoing ground combat along Chingjin reservoir.
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Chosin Reservoir
North Korea
Jack Macbeth Hagaru
Korea
Seventh Division
U.S
Chingjin Reservoir
Hagaru
Japan
United States
Jane
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