Southern Freight Re Routes Amid Rail Yard Strikes
Southern Railway southbound trains ran late as Washington Potomac yards workers stayed away. Freight rerouted to avoid Potomac yards causing delays. Knoxville yards strike spreads with three crews out sick. McGrath announces contempt actions against striking yardmen in Chicago and other cities as the strike widens.
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Charlotte
Southern Railway
Washington
Union Station
Potomac
George W. Adams
Knoxville
Tenn
Dee
Southern
W. H. Oglesby
Oglesby
Louisville Nashville Railroad
Chicago
McGrath
Cleveland
White House
Railway Express Agency, Inc
St. Louis
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Mrs. Rosenberg Cleared by Senate Panel on Charges
The senate armed services committee voted 13 to 0 that Communist charges against Anna M. Rosenberg were unfounded. The NY woman is poised for confirmation as assistant secretary of defense next week. Russell said FBI probes found no proof she attended Communist meetings 15 years ago.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Anna M. Rosenberg
Senate
New York
Russell
D-Ga
FBI
Ralph de Sola
Rosenberg
Anna Rosenberg
House Unican Activities Committee
de Sola
House Appropriations Committee Backs Defense Funding
The committee urged Congress to approve the full 16.845 billion defense request without cuts while trimming atomic and aeronautics agency budgets. It foresees additional defense needs as Koreas conflict grows and hints at a possible further supplemental up to 5 billion.
Truman to address nation on war crisis and new atomic program
President Truman prepares a televised address at 10 30 p m to urge sacrifice for the Korea crisis and free world defense. Congress signals demand for manpower and production goals as government announces a $500 million atomic energy site near Paducah Kentucky and a broader plan including two gaseous diffusion plants. A national emergency declaration and price and wage controls may follow with talk of a 4 000 000 man army and yearly defense outlays reaching 100 billion dollars. Page two coverage notes the presidential request for 1 050 million for the atomic energy commission.
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Washington
Truman
Free World
Congress
Paducha
Atomic Energy Oe
Sac
Korea
Atomic Energy Commission
Stock Market Settles After Brief Decline Amid Strikes
New York stock markets eased after an initial drop as transportation disruptions from a wildcat railway strike influenced sentiment. President Truman's possible national emergency weighed, with many blue chip names among the losers. Several issues rebounded, with Douglas Aircraft among the few to slip to a low price.
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New York
Truman
Santa Fe
Chesapeake , Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
Goodrich
Philco
Zenith
American Telephone
Kennecott Copper
American Cyanamid
Dow Chemical
International Home
Gulf Oilce Air Lines
Farm Bureau Opposed To Price Control
In Dallas delegates at the 1950 American Farm Bureau convention urged President Truman to reject price and wage controls and rationing as anti inflation tools. Allan B. Kline urged senators and congressmen to oppose controls, sending a telegram declaring the move a tragic error while Keyserling reportedly agreed with the bureau’s stance. The anti controls resolution won applause as Kline reported efforts to reach the President.
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Dallas
American Farm Bureau Federation
Truman
Iowa
Allan B. Kline
Kline
Federation
Leon Keyserling
Board of Economic Advisers
Keyserling
Bureau
Furniture Designer Thomas Lyle Einstein Dies in Winston-Salem
Thomas Lyle Einstein of Hickory died in a Winston-Salem hospital after several weeks of illness. Born in Radford Virginia, he lived and worked in the Hickory area at multiple furniture factories. He is survived by his wife Miss Ann Boswell of Pilot Mountain and a son Thomas Jr.
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Hickory
Thomas Lyle Einstein
Winston-Salem
Radford
Ann Boswell
Pilot Mountain
Thomas, Jr
Dewey Urges Fast Mobilization of Military and Industry
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey urged immediate national mobilization to halt Communist aggression. Speaking to the New York County Lawyers Association he pressed universal military training, a U.S. army of 100 divisions, full arms production, and a pay-as-you-go economy. He called for rapid call-up of inactive National Guard units and enlisted allies where possible, citing Tito, France, Britain, and Turkey as potential partners.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Stalin
U. S
Hamilton May Lose Stipend as Emergency Judge Case Unfolds
Raleigh December 15 GovernorScott planned talks with the state auditor and possibly the attorney general over whether Luther Hamilton of Morehead City, a retired superior court judge now serving as emergency judge, should continue to receive two thirds pay. The state supreme court disqualified him, saying total disability no longer exists, raising questions about his $555.55 monthly pension and the future of his stipend.
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Raleigh
Scott
Luther Hamilton
Morehead City
Hamilton
State Supreme Court
Henry Bridges
Harry McMullan
Supremeourt
Bleak Korea War Picture Deepens Amid NATO Talks
The story describes worsening Korea fighting as Chinese Communist forces press UN troops on the western border. U S casualties rise toward 878 and fears grow of a revitalized Soviet jet air force and possible new naval threats. NATO planners in Washington weigh defense plans with Gen Eisenhower in attendance.
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Elton C. Fay
Apmi
Washington
Truman
United States
Asia
Europe
Korea
United Nations
Korean Republic
U. S
Pentagon
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Navy
Air Force
Omar Bradley
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Forrest P. Sherman
Jcs
London
NATO Military Committee
West
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GE President To Become Nation's Production Chief
Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric, has accepted a call to be the nation's war production chief. Wilson, former executive vice-chairman of the War Production Board in World War II, would join President Truman's mobilization program as a leading production expert. The appointment remains informal with no official date yet.
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New York
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Company
Wilson
War Production Board
Truman
United States
Two American Platoons Cut Off as UN Fell Back at Hungnam
Tokyo dispatch reports Chinese forces struck the Hamhung Hungnam defense lines in northeast Korea. About 80 to 100 U.S. troops were cut off in the initial assault as a 2,500 strong Chinese force pressed the beachhead. Tanks failed to rescue the trapped platoon, which continued fighting as bombardment and street fighting expanded. Allies holding a sea-side retreat line faced renewed pressure as Chinese attacks intensified along the Hamhung area.
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Hungnam
Tokyo
Hamhung-Hungnam
Korea
Chigyong
Hamhung
United Nations
Sea of Japan
Red
Seoul
Hambhung-Hungnam
Sinsong
Tom Lambert
Dallas
Lambert
U. S. First Marine
House GOP Move Calls For Acheson Ouster
House Republicans adopted a resolution demanding Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s removal and urging changes in personnel and policies at the State Department. The measure, approved overwhelmingly, will go to President Truman as Senate Republicans weigh a no confidence vote.
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House
Senate
GOP
Acheson
Taft
Ohio
Ives
RNY
Truman
Fire ravages Bourbon Street. 216 Bourbon destroyed
Four hour blaze in the French Quarter causes water and fire damage estimated at 100000 by First District Fire Chief Gerald Summers. The flames leveled a three story building at 216 Bourbos as Thursday night Christmas shoppers watched the scene and Bourbon Street night life was interrupted.
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New Orleans
First District
Gerald Summers
Bourbon Street
Bourbos
Senate panel brands sexual perverts security risks in federal service
A Senate expenditures subcommittee report declares homosexuals and others who engage in perverted sex activities unsuitable for federal employment. It cites FBI findings that Nazi and Communist agents could blackmail officials by threatening exposure of private life. The investigation, prompted by McCarthy era charges, targets the State Department and other agencies as lax in removing perverts from government work.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
A. Senate
Senate
State Department
Para
FBI
U. S. Ee
Senate Appropriations
U. S
McCarthy Ress
D-N. C
O'Conoper
P-Md
Eastland
D-Miss
McClellan
D-Ark
Mundt
R-S
Margaret Chase Smith
R-Me
Schoeppel
R-Kan
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Atomic One Commission
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Paar
James J. Metcalfe
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AM Richis
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Britain
Turkey
Indo-China
Near East
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Defense Ministers
NATO
Vinson
D.-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
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