Old-Age Pensions Under Fire In House Hearing
Washington House subcommittee chair Carl T. Curtis said workers were misled for 18 years about guaranteed social security rights. Former Social Security Commissioner Arthur J. Altmeyer testified after seven hours, with Democratic reps challenging procedures and Curtis accusing witnesses of harassment.
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Washington
House
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Congress
Curtis
Ways and Means
Social Security
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Altmeyer
Subcommittee
Robert H. Winn
Dingell
Michigan
Eberharter
Pennsylvania
Winn
Curtiss
Roosevelt
Truman
Nebraskan
Eisenhower
Aather Curtis
United States
Ma Curtis
United Front Against Communism Joins Chiang and Rhee
Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee publicly affirm unity against communism in Asia. The two leaders meet in Formosa and signal a possible democratic Asian alliance backed by the United States, aiming to mobilize morale and resources to defeat aggression in Asia.
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Taipeh
Formosa
China
South Korea
United States
Chiang Kai - Shek
Syngman Rhee
Pacific
Rhee
Seoul
5Th Air Force
Chiang
Asia
Korea
Nobel Prize Winner Playwright Eugene ONeill Dies
Nobel laureate Eugene ONeill, 65, died in Boston of bronchial pneumonia after a long career marked by three Pulitzers for Beyond the Horizon Anna Christie and Strange Interlude. His last Broadway work was The Iceman Cometh in 1946, and he spent later years with Parkinson's disease and seclusion in Marblehead Massachusetts.
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Boston
Eugene O'Neill
Ually
Carlotta Monterey
Harry L. Kozol
O'Neill
Oere
Anna Christie
George Jean
New York
American Theater
Nathan
Bermuda Meeting May Shift To Counter Russian Tactics
United States, Britain, and France prepare for Bermuda talks to counter Soviet stalling tactics on Western defense. Western leaders weigh tighter pre-conference limits and possible quick end if Berlin turns into propaganda, while EDC ratification and German rearmament loom large.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Bermuda
State Department
Eisenhower
Churchill
Laniel
Berlin
British
Joseph Laniel
State Partment
U. S
Kremlin
Moscow
Russia
West Germany
Southern Politicos Challenge Brief On Segregation Issue
A U S envoy Arthur H. Dean outlined a 12 point plan for a Korean peace conference with non belligerent observers and UN endorsement. The Reds dismissed merit and pledged to unveil their own plan Monday while urging Geneva as venue and setting a 28 to 42 day window after preliminary talks. Rhee warned he may move American trained divisions north if progress stalls, as plenary sessions resume Monday.
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U. S
Arthur H. Dean
Korea
Russia
Dean
United Nations
South Korea
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
Geneva
Switzerland
Strike Halts Publication of 6 Papers in New York
A strike by 500 AFL International Photo-Engravers Union members halted publication of six major New York papers including the Times and Daily News. 20,000 other newsmen and operators refused to cross picket lines. Herald Tribune spared due to a contracted plant. Agencies plan to share ads with the Tribune starting Monday.
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New York
New York City
The
Herald Tribune
AFL International Photo-Engravers Union
Hir
Times
Daily News
Daily Mirror
Journal - American
World - Telegram & Sun
the Post
Journal-American
Eisenhower backs Puerto Rican independence on demand
At the U N General Assembly Henry Cabot Lodge Jr said the President will urge Congress to grant independence if Puerto Rico’s Legislative Assembly passes a resolution. Governor Luis Munoz Marin praised the U S stance as honoring a voluntary relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico.
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United Nations
N. Y
Eisenhower
Caribbean
U. N. General Assembly
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Lodge
Legislative Assembly of
Puerto Rico
Congress
Luis Munoz Marin
San Juan
United States
America
U. N
U.N
Britain
France
Turkey
Australia
Assembly
U.S
U.S. Army
Gadget Saves Half Million at Navy Jet Plant
Detroit report says Allen Harlan, a self styled gadgeteer, claimed three Harlan developed devices saved the Navy jet engine plant about 500000 dollars. He bid about four million and handed Chrysler a 500000 dollar credit memo, enabling Navy to share Chrysler payments. The gadgets included a traveling work bench from a soapbox racer, an electrically driven scaffold, and a simplified fixture clamp.
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Detroit
O. Allen Harlan
Navy
Harlan
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Pusan Fire Destroys Large Port City Section
A massive all night fire scars one sixth of Pusan, Korea, destroying 14 miles of city, killing at least three Koreans, injuring twenty, and driving 45,000 homeless. The blaze, in a crowded tenement area, raged nearly 12 hours with winds up to 30 mph, gutting the railroad station and major U S Army facilities.
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Pusan
Korea
U.S. Army
U. S. Army
Korean Pacific Press
Army Chapel
North Carolina Farm Leaders Accept Quota Theirs for 1954 Flue Crop
North Carolina farm leaders agreed to pay the 1954 flue cured tobacco quota, about the level expected after the U S Department of Agriculture set a 1 325 000 000 pound allotment. Rep Harold D Cooley and others reacted to the unchanged quota while some officials hoped for a cut.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
U. S. Department of Agriculture
North Carolina Farm Bureau
Agriculture Department
Harold D. Cooley
Nashville
Department of Agriculture
W. P. Hedrick
State Department
E. Y. Floyd
Plant Food Institute of
Virginia
Fred Royster
Bright Belt Warehouse Assn
Soldier who switched to repatriation refuses to see parents
BIG STONE GAP Va The first U S soldier to change his mind about repatriation in Korea declined to talk to the parents of Corporal O G Bell captured in 1950. Corporal Edward S Dickenson would not come to the door and said he could not make a statement and did not want to see them. He gave no reason. He had earlier refused to answer a Baltimore woman seeking news of another unrepatriated prisoner. The Army had instructed him not to discuss unrepatriated prisoners with anyone but an accredited representative.
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Big Stone Gap
U. S
Korea
E. A. Bell
Hillsboro
Miss
Edward S. Dickenson
Cpl
O. G. Bell
Dickenson
Washington
Baltimore
Army
Oppose Ban in Schools Sparks Southern Rebuttal
Georgia and other Southern leaders react to Atty Herbert Brownell Jr. brief urging the Supreme Court to end racial segregation in public schools. Rep. Gathings claims federal court overreach, while Gov. Talmadge warns of political fallout and potential upheaval in state education.
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Atlanta
Atty
Herbert Brownell
U. S. Supreme Court
Rep
Gathings
D-Ark
Justice Department
Brownell
High Court
Congress Tts
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Republican Party
Talmadge
Supreme Court
South Carolina
M. D. Collins
James Byrnes
Eisenhower
James S. Peters
State Board of Education
Frank Twitty
House of Repomgery
Letters Hint Man Planned Mate's Death
Richard Winton Deaver, 49, is charged with murder in the pistol slaying of his estranged wife Lil ie Louise Deaver, 36, after he admitted writing letters indicating he planned suicide after the killing. The letters dated November 23 reference the motive and plan, and one was addressed to the Wilmington News with a suggested news story. The couple’s car crash near Leland led to Lil lie Deaver’s death. authorities say Deaver planned the crime over three days. Lester Deaver, possibly the slain woman’s brother, is named as a Knoxville textile mill executive in a related paper. Police released the letters and details from the investigation.
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Southport
N. C.P
Richard Winton Deaver
Deaver
Brunswick County
Lester W. Deaver
Lester Deaver
Richard Deaver
Knoxville
Wilmington News
W. E. Davis
Andrews
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