Labor Chiefs Urge Mandatory Food Price Controls
Truman urged by AFL and other labor leaders to impose mandatory controls on food prices and rents. Ford proposed a price stabilization plan to cover rising production costs. GM asked ESA to modify price rollbacks. Valentine called it impossible. Labor leaders pressed Congress to amend defense laws for food price controls amid a 53 percent cost of living share.
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Philip Murray
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Evacuate 1000 Orphans From Seoul to Island
More than 1000 ailing orphans and attendants were flown from Seoul to an island off South Korea. The mass evacuation occurred on 24 hours notice through Fifth Air Force chaplain Lt. K. L. Blaisdell. The children, mostly too ill or small to walk, traveled in 16 C-54 transports from Kimpo Air Field to Inchon and onto awaiting vessels.
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Mike for Ike candidate for Rose Parade marshal
Long Beach civic groups The Independent and many residents launched a campaign to have Pfc Michael J Ropczycki replace Gen Dwight D Eisenhower as grand marshal of the Pasadena Rose Parade on New Year’s Day The move followed pages in yesterday’s paper about Ropczycki returning home to Lakewood and his son’s report of Ike’s replacement being discussed in later pages
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Casualty toll from Korea tops eleven thousand nine hundred
Gen MacArthur announced that American casualties in Korea since November 24 have reached 11,964. The figure reflects ongoing combat and minimal details on locations or causes beyond the cumulative total.
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Definite Objective Urges Hoover Plan for Realism
Former President Hoover called for a new objective urging realistic thinking. He proposed pulling out of Koran and Europe, rearming Japan, and halting aid unless Europe pledges to fight. He bets on American air and naval superiority to shield the homeland. Continued on Page 16-A.
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Japan
Europe
Wave of Executions Stopped at Seoul
Seoul news reports the Korean minister of justice announced a suspension of executions of political prisoners. Minister Kim Joon Yun stated a special review board, to be chaired by President Syngman Rhee, will assess all death sentences now in effect or issued in the future, amid alleged indiscriminate executions in the Seoul area.
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Loyalty Oaths Requested by CBS in Unprecedented Move
The Columbia Broadcasting System asked all 2500 regular employees to sign loyalty oaths for the good of the country and the organization. The action was announced in New York on December 21, with CBS citing national interests and corporate unity.
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County Building Sets All Time Construction Record
Los Angeles reports a record county construction total for 1950, with value expected to exceed 1 billion by year end as December permits are added. Home building accounts for over 64 percent of the total, with 85,769 dwelling units planned to house about 270,000 people.
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Chamber of Commerce
Wreckage of U S C 54 Found in Luzon Peak
Wreckage of a U S Air Force C-54 transport missing for two days with 37 aboard was sighted today on a peak in a wild Luzon region in the Northern Philippines. No signs of life were observed.
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Hoover Urges Air Sea Power Against Korea Risk
Former President Herbert Hoover warned in a national radio address that the United States had already lost the Korea war and warned against defending a disunited Europe. He urged building air and sea power, delaying land invasions, and staking security on maritime strength to avoid another Korea. He cautioned that China India or Western Europe could become graveyards for American forces if a land war resumes.
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