United States presses UN to act quickly on Korea crisis
The United States with Britain and France seeks a rapid UN Security Council decision to curb Chinese Communist intervention in Korea. The plan demands withdrawal of Chinese forces, urges nations to halt aid to the North Koreans, and tasks the Korean committee to address urgent frontier issues. China, Russia, and Maoist representatives to be debated as the council, already focused on Palestine, weighs the agenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
U. N. Security Council
Korea
Britain
France
Russia
U. N
Council
Palestine
Porter McKeever
Lake Success
Ecuador
United Nations’ Korean Committee
Manchuria
MacArthur
Mao
Red
Peiping
Moscow
Tsiang
China
Push Button Tactics Mark Nationwide Phone Strike
Striking Western Electric workers test new push button tactic with surprise picketing in select exchanges across the nation. The CIO Communications Workers of America seeks a substantial wage increase while local service largely remains unaffected. A federal mediation session is set as 16 000 Michigan workers go hit and run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
CIO Communications Workers of America
Western Electric Couny
Diet Lines
Western Electric
Telebuildings
Dallas
Texver
Newark
New Jersey
Springfield
Missouri
Springfield Newspapers, Inc
KGBX
CIO Communication Workers of America
Western Electric Company
American Telephone Andelegraph Company
Michigan
Expansion of Rent Control Provided For In New Bill
Washington agency reports a bill to extend rent ceilings automatically from December 31 to March 31 and to authorize reimposition of controls in areas near military installations. The expeditor and President may present revisions to Congress when it reconvenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Tighe E. Woods
Truman
Woods
James A. May
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Pennsylvania 28Th National Guard
Business Will Fight Excess Profits Tax
Washington reports a broad business alliance forming an emergency committee to oppose the excess profits tax and push for a defense tax instead. Leaders insist profits must bear fair tax but warn the levy inflates inflation and harms managerial judgment while lawmakers weigh alternatives for the lame duck session or January congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Beardsley Rums
Leon Henderson
OPA
Rumi
Senate
Congress
Winter Roars Eastward
The Associated Press reports unseasonable cold across the nation with temperatures well below normal from the Rockies to the Ohio Valley and into central Texas and Arkansas. Laramie Wyoming recorded 18 below, Denver 6, and widespread sub freezing readings extended from Wyoming to Illinois and Minnesota. The cold, paired with snow in the upper Great Lakes and parts of Missouri, persisted for about a day before easing toward the Atlantic seaboard.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Ohio Valley
Texas
Arkansas
Laramie
Wyo
Wyoming
Colorado
Denver
Mid-Continent
Federal Weather Bureau
Atlantic Coast
Great Lakes
Missouri
Illinois
Minnesota
Michigan
Atlantic Seaboard
GOP May Seek Permanent Senate Committee on Un American Activities
Republican leaders weigh creating a permanent Senate panel on un American activities patterned after the House unit. A joint committee with House and Senate members is discussed as GOP Senators plan for the 82nd Congress beginning January 3. Taft backs meeting but not formal conference as taft race signals party gains.
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GOP
Washington
Senate Committee On
House
Congressional Committee
Senate
Senate Republicans
Capitol
Gress
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Senate Policy Committee
un-American Activities Committee
Blicans
San Bernardino Fire Driven by 50 mph Winds
Wind driven blaze in San Bernardino forces hundreds to flee as flames race through brush and homes. Firefighters report 14 injuries from debris and smoke, with one home on a hilltop lost and several damaged. Evacuees sheltered in a school as buses ferry residents to safety.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Nnt
U. S. Crest Service
Pass
Bernardino Mountains
Mojave
John Baker
Five Rescued From Burning Elevator
Five people including a baby and two elderly women were pulled from a flaming stalled elevator as a south side apartment hotel burned. Two firefighters crawled through flames, smashed fire glass, and tore off a grill to free the trapped group. All five were treated for facial and arm burns at Illinois Central Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
South Side
Illinois Central Hospital
Covey Lamm executed for wife murder in North Carolina
Covey Connor Lamm, 48, a Wilson fish dealer, was put to death by cyanide gas at Central Prison Raleigh after killing his invalid wife. He entered the gas chamber calmly, shook hands with a guard, and spoke with attendants as he was strapped in. A telegram from his son in Los Angeles reached him moments before the execution.
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Raleigh
Covey Connor Lamm
Central Prison
Lamm
Corey Medford Lamm
Los Angeles
Calif
Daddy
Hunt
Wilson
Faulkner Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
William Faulkner of Oxford Mississippi and Bertrand Russell were named Nobel laureates in literature for 1949 and 1950 respectively. Faulkner becomes the fourth American to win, joining Lewis Buck ONeill and Eliot among laureates. The award totals 164 203 krona this year with a 31 715 dollar equivalent.
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Stockholm
Sweden
William Faulkner
Bertrand Russell
Swedish Academy
Faulkner
Oxford
Miss
Russell
Gustaf VI
Novel Foundation
Sinclair Lewis
Pearl S. Buck
Eugene O'Neill
T. S. Eliot
South
America
O'Neill
Ernest Hemingway
Chinese Reds Retreat Under Relentless Allied Attack
Allied air forces pound ten Russian built tanks and attack Red supply lines near the Yalu as Communist forces withdraw into northern Korea. U S and Red jets clash near Sinuiju with no reported losses. Marines mark the 175th anniversary near Changjin dam as allied advances push north of Kilchu amid a broad front in the peninsula.
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Seoul
North Korea
Yalu River
Manchuria
Sinuiju
U. S
Red
Changjin
U. S. First Corps
Kilchu
U.S
Eighth Army
MacArthur
Korea
China
U. N. Security Council
Red China
Britain
France
U. S. State Department
Lake Success
Formosa
McGrath Urged to Probe South Carolina Klan Violence
U S Attorney General J Howard McGrath was urged by 22 labor unions in the Carolinas to act to stop Ku Klux Klan violence in Horry County South Carolina. The telegram followed reports of masked riders bull whipping a sick father and forcing his sons to run a quarter mile in underwear after a Klan raid on a Negro nightclub two months earlier.
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Conway
S. C
Ku Klux Klan
South Carolina
U. S
J. Howard McGrath
North Carolina
McGrath
Horry County
Tobacco County
Doad
Democratic Senate Control Jeopardized by Attrition
A Washington analysis notes the slim Democratic edge in the new Senate could vanish due to deaths and resignations. With 49 to 47 after Tuesday's elections and potential gubernatorial appointments, party control remains uncertain as vacancies have shifted seats before.
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Senate
Washington
Navy
Barkley
GOP
House
Congress
B. M. Miller
Idaho
Henry C. Dworshak
Miller
Raymond Baldwin
Connecticut
Chester Bowles
William Benton
Benton
Prescott Bush
Woman Picked For Important Defense Post
Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg of New York is recommended as assistant secretary of defense, the highest post for a woman in the military branch. She would influence manpower and personnel policy, with Senate confirmation expected. Rosenberg has held high level posts since 1935 and served as Roosevelt and Truman representative to Europe on soldier repatriation.
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Washington
Anna M. Rosenberg
New York
Defense Marshall
Paul H. Griffith
American Legion
Griffith
Defense Department
Ruman
Louis J
Gr. Griffith
Allied Public Relations Associates
Rosenberg
NRA
Social Security Administration
War Manpower Commission
Budapest
Hungary
United States
Europe
Roosevelt
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Manpowereo
W. Stuart Symington
NSRB
Stock Market Holds Even Turn Amid Little Change
New York investors saw a mostly flat session with gains slightly ahead of losses as many stocks moved within 50 cents. Sinclair Oil rose about 50 cents amid news of 1948 pricing while other majors such as U S Rubber and American Telephone posted gains and a few like U S Steel and Sears Roebuck lagged behind. Meanwhile in California strong winds closed U S 99 and U S 66, creating near zero visibility and prompting Coastal storm warnings from Point Conception to Newport Beach with gusts up to 45 miles an hour and small craft advisories offshore.
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New York
Sinclair Oil
U. S. Rubber
Woolworth
Admiral
Motorola
American Telephone
Los Angeles
U.S. 99
California
U.S. 66
Upland
San Bernardino
Point Conception
Santa Barbara
Newport Beach
Hare
Newport
Sanmer
the Weather
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Yee
William Cramer
Pinellas County
Florida
St. Petersburg
Cramer
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Mao Tze-Tung
Southwestern Bell Telephone
James J. Metcalfe
Field Enterprises, Inc
Covey Lamm
Gas Chamber
S. C. Klan
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