American Flyers Score Air Victory With Newest Jet
Lt. Col. Bruce H. Hinton of Stockton California led an F-86 Sabre in a high speed air duel south of Sinuiju North Korea against MIG-15s. He described a successful attack and downed enemy aircraft as other Red planes fled and the Sabre impressed base crews with its performance and comfort.
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Sinuiju
Korea
Bruce H. Hinton
Stockton
Calif
John Meyer
Newcastle
Del
Forest Hills
N. Y
Sabre
U. S. Air Force
Muroc Air Base
California
Hinton
Auto Makers and Labor Clash Over Price Rollback
Detroit December 18. Auto manufacturers and labor oppose the government price rollback to December 1 levels though GM Ford and Nash agree to comply. The stance comes amid protests by CIO UAW leader Walter Reuther who warns against discriminatory controls and potential wage-rule changes.
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Detroit
Economic Stabilization Agency
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Nash Motors
Cadillac
Chrysler Corp
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers
Reuther
UAW
Price controls on voluntary basis studied in Washington
Officials say a voluntary price and wage freeze could be proposed by ESA head Alan Valentine within days. The plan would ask business, unions, and the public to adhere to December 1 price levels, as compulsory controls loom after a weekend order on auto prices. Meat price ceilings for beef, veal, and lamb are also anticipated as part of the broader control move. Ralph J. Cordiner elected president of General Electric to succeed Charles E. Wilson who resigns to head defense mobilization board.
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General Motors
Reuther
Government Bureau of Labor Statistics
Auto Union
Indus
Washington
Alan Valentine
Economic Stabilization Authority
ESA
Valentine
NEW GE
New York
Ralph J. Cordiner
General Electric Company
Charles E. W Wilson
New Defense Mobilization Board
Cordiner
Air General Vandenberg backs strategic air war value
In congressional testimony Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg argues strategic air power can aid an outnumbered land army in defending Western Europe. He cites limits of air power in Korea and asserts joint chiefs view strategic air as a major component of defense plans amid ongoing debate over its effectiveness.
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FAYAP
Washington
Congress
Hoyt Vandenberg
Europe
Air Force
Carol Hill
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Vandenberg
House Appropriations Military Subcommittee
Mahon
D.-Tex
Yalu River
United Nations
Joning
United No
Air Pener
Weeles Ak Akapm Army
Navy Adds Firepower In Fighting At Hungnam
American forces in northeast Korea rely on naval gunfire from the battleship Missouri as 10th corps repels Chinese forces at Hungnam. Maj. Gen. Edward Almond notes intensified artillery, while B 20s and B 29s strike key Korean targets before snow slows operations.
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Navy
Hungnam
Northeast Korea
U. S
10Th Corps
Olen W. Clements
Tokyo
United Nations
Korea
Missouri
Edward M. Almond
Ge Hungnam
White Hills
Samchok
Norfolk
Inch
Eastern States Get Cold Blast
Unseasonably cold weather spread over the eastern half of the nation with low temperatures from Jacksonville Florida to Charleston South Carolina. The Weather Bureau warned of continued cooling as a Midwest cold front moved in with light snow in the upper Missouri valley Great Lakes and northeast. Rochester Minnesota recorded minus zero as the coldest point.
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Chicago
Jacksonville
Fla
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ala
Mercury
Charleston
S. C
Weather Bureau
Midwest
Missouri River Valley
Great Lakes Area
Middlewest
Rochester
Minn
Crackles A Man Is Known By The Company He Keeps
A brief aphorism notes that a man is judged by his associations. The saying emphasizes social perception based on companions.
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M.L.P
Rail Strike Talks Reopen as White House Presses Settlement
Washington reports hope for a quick end to the wage and hour dispute between railroads and four operating unions. Negotiators intensify talks at the White House while yardmen’s walkout fades. About 10,000 yardmen halted work for three days, straining freight and Christmas traffic.
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Washington
White House
John R. Steelman
Negotators A Sessoni
A.m
Aiid
Nossa
Sesson
Unon Offeali Sadi
Rairoad
Truman
Unon
Cheago
Strie
Witness testifies to Poles dying in Buchenwald wire cage
At Augsburg Germany a witness in the Ilse Koch trial testified that 24 Polish prisoners were kept in a wire cage at Buchenwald for a month without food or water as Mrs Koch laughed. He said bodies lay on frozen ground and guards feared her while lower ranks carried out beatings.
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Augsburg
Germany
Ilse Koch
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Hans Lackner
Salzburg
Austria
Buchenwald
Koch
Mrs. Koch
Rudolf Engler
Engler
Senate moves to speed excess profit tax passage
Senate leaders pressed for swift passage of the excess profit tax as the finance committee met to finalize the measure. The bill aimed to raise about 3.15 to 3.55 billion in the first year, with credits likely cutting revenues by hundreds of millions. Leaders hoped to vote before a Christmas recess.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
House
Truman
Senate Committee
Taft
Ohio
Aol
Brewster
R-Me
Kerr
D-Okla
George
Dga
Bruce
Rhee Orders Faster Trials and Executions
Seoul reports President Rhee orders speedier Red trials and executions because of military needs and prison limits. Since Oct 1, 391 convicted. 242 executed. one fifth of the dead were women. UN officials found no evidence of child executions.
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Seoul
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
United Nations
F. E. White
Canada
U. N
White
University President Gray Fills Newspaper Route
Gordon Gray, former government official and president of the University of North Carolina, subbed in as a temporary newspaper carrier in Chapel Will yesterday. He apologized after dropping a bundle and knocking papers to the floor, then picked them up. Gray previously published a Winston-Salem newspaper and has a son who was slated to take the route.
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Gray
Gray Wa
Winston-Salem
Maniac Killer Sought By Philadelphia Police
Police hunted a mysterious sniper blamed for killing a 28 year old housewife and wounding six others in Philadelphia's Oak Lane over six weeks. The maniac remains at large with few clues as officers vow to press a citywide manhunt.
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Philadelphia
Oak Lane
Claire Cohen
Truman weighs Symington for defense secretary post
White House source says President Truman may name W. Stuart Symington as his next secretary of defense after Gen. George C. Marshall, who turns 70 end of December. Symington remains NSRB chairman, with Wilson taking over broader economic duties.
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Washington
White House
Truman
W. Stuart A
Defense
Symington
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Louis A. Johnson
National Security Resources Board
Office of Defense Mobilization
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
NSRB
Stock Markets See Buying Surge as Prices Rise
Emergency mobilization plans spurred a buying surge in New York trading with prices edging up to two dollars a share. Aircraft firms led gains with heavy volumes while airlines steels rails and chemicals followed. most motor issues remained sidelined as weekend orders piled up.
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New York
Radio
U. S. Steel
Lockheed
Consolidated Votee
Glenn Martin
United Lines
United Aircraft
Atlantic Pact Nations Hear U S Warning
In Brussels Frank Pace warned NATO allies they are far from ready to repel a Communist attack on Western Europe. He urged faster efforts to build a unified European army and noted real progress after 14 months of talks while stressing the need for speed and self-help by each nation.
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Brussels
Belgium
U. S. Army
Frank Pace
North Atlantic
Europe
Atlantic Defense
Pace
U. S
U.S. Defense
George C. Marshall
Atlantic Alliance
Tighest
United States
Piebay
Shirley Temple And Hubby Make Getaway
Shirley Temple and Charles Black eluded reporters after a Monterey Peninsula wedding. They left Saturday from Black family home and have not been heard from. rumors place them at the Black mansion or possibly Hawaii. Temple, 22, recently divorced actor John Agar. she has a three year old daughter Linda Sue.
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del Monte
Calif
Shirley Temple
Charles Black
San Francisco
Monterey Peninsula
Black
James B. Black
Black Mansion
Hawaii
Pacific Gas and Electric Co
Miss Temple
John Agar
Linda Sue
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James J. Metcalfe
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North Korea
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Kogunyong
Pyongyang
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Chosin Reservoir
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