American Jets Defeat 60 MIGs Amid Eastern Front Patrols
Allied patrol on the eastern front for five hours. Dug in troops east of Kum sung held off a determined assault by 200 to 250 Communist infantry. The Reds finally withdrew. Six probing attacks near Kum sung were beaten back by the Allies, a seventh forced UN infantry to fall back on an advance hill position. New Allied tanks rescued an infantry squad from encirclement south of Kum sung Friday.
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Kumsong
U. N
Toledo in Korea Honors and Heroic Rescue Missions
The Toledo fought near Hungnam on Armistice Day, rescuing an Air Force captain after a failed helicopter attempt and firing 565 eight inch rounds in a single day. It aided wounded sailors, performed an appendectomy at sea, and pushed small craft and enemy positions. As flagship of Rear Adm. Dyer, it earned the Republic of Korea presidential unit citation and a third battle star for its Korean service. Capt. Hunter Wonder was relieved by Capt. George Crisman.
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Toledo
Wonsan
Hungnam
George C. Dyer
United Nations
Republic of Korea
Syngman Rhee
Pusan
GE and Union Reach 3.58 Percent Wage Increase
General Electric and a nationwide independent union representing about 44 000 workers in 44 plants across the United States have agreed on a 3.58 percent wage boost.
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New York
General Electric Company
United States
Smudge Blanket Covers Southland Amid Cold Spell
Orchard owners in Pomona Valley used fires to shield citrus as smudge blankets kept low temperatures in the teens and twenties. In Long Beach frost formed on a bird bath while mountain snows helped drive a bitter offshore wind. dozens of Southland stations reported lows around 30s with notable damage to some fruit.
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Long Beach Municipal
Ansheim
Orange County
San Gabriel Valley
Santa Ana
Farm Bureau
Long Beach
William H. Zinn
Roycroft Ave
Angeles Crest
Red Box
Southland
U. S. Weather Bureau
Los Angeles Municipal
Los Angeles
Mt. Wilson
Palmdale
Oceanside
Beaumont
Riverside
Fairbanks
Alaska
Bail Out Reds May Leave County Jail
Eleven California Communist party leaders held since July in Los Angeles and San Francisco jails may be freed this weekend after a Ninth Circuit order cut bail from 50000 to 10000 or 5000 for most defendants. The group faces trial January 28 for conspiracy to overthrow the government by force.
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San Francisco
California
Communist Party
Los Angeles
U. S. Court of Appeals
U. S
Walter Binns
Washington
Supreme Court
Norman Leonard
William Schneiderman
FBI
Mary Bernadette Doyle
New York
Los
William Healy
Boise
Idaho
Albert Lee Stephens
Walter L. Pope
Missoula
Mont
Clifton B. Mathews
Albert J. Lima
Richmond
Calif
Calif, East San Francisco Bay Regional Party Chairman. Earl Rude Lambert
State Security Review Commission
Oleta O'Connor Yates
Henry Steinberg
al Richmond
Daily People's World
Ernest Otto Fox
Philip M
Slim) Connolly
People’s World
Connolly
Dorothy R. Healy
Los Angeles County
the Arty
Rose Chernin Kusnitz
Committee For Protection of the
Nathan Quizzed on Torrance Deal
Washington reports Frank Nathan a Pittsburgh gambler was questioned by Senate investigators over a six thousand dollar surplus property deal with Landurant Torrance Co. in Torrance California. Nathan said he earned fifty seven thousand dollars in fees as the inquiry continues.
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Washington
Dec
Frank Nathan
Pittsburgh
Senate
Nathan
House Internal Revenue
Francis D. Flanagan
Landurant Torrance Co
Torrance
Calif
Clyde R. Hoey
D-N. C
General Services
Jess Larson
Admiral Radford says Indochina safe from large-scale attack
Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander in chief of the U S Pacific Fleet, said Indochina would withstand a major Communist attack. He praised French, Vietnamese forces and U S aid while declining to confirm mass Chinese troop movements or future fleet intervention.
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Saigon
Indochina
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
U. S. Pacific
I Navy
Radford
Huge Los Angeles Realty Deal Disclosed
Los Angeles Daily News president Robert L. Smith and New York Realtor William Zeckendorff announce the purchase of 11 600 acres of undeveloped land in northwest Los Angeles. The deal is described as among Southern California’s largest real estate transactions with over 2 400 dollars spent so far.
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Los Angeles
Dev
Robert L. Smith
Los Angeles Daily News
New York
William Zeckendorf
Southern California
Smith
B 29 Squadrons Arrive at Riverside Base Training Mission
Riverside reports two more squadrons of B 29 Superfortresses due in today and tomorrow at March Air Force Base to complete a four month training mission. The vanguard of nine planes, all with the 22nd Bomber Wing, landed yesterday. Maj Gen Emmett O'Donnell welcomed the airmen as a band played. The 2nd squadron has been in the Atlantic theater and took part in air strikes over Korea last year.
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Riverside
March’ Air Force Base
22Nd Bombardment Wing
Emmett
Rosie) O'Donnell
Korea
Atlantic
Small Quake Felt in Poughkeepsie N Y
A light earthquake rattled Poughkeepsie at 11 37 p m drawing many phone calls to police with no injuries or damage reported. Columbia University observatory at Palisades measured the tremor and Fordham seismology chief Joseph Lynch called it a mild focal resetlement quake not dangerous.
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Poughkarsle
N. Y
Columbia University Geological Observatory
Palisades
Joseph Lyncn
Fordham Seismological Laboratory
First TV color heart operation seen by doctors coast to coast
A 20 year old Richard Russell of Pacoima underwent a three hour repair of coarctation of the aorta at Los Angeles County General Hospital. The live color broadcast from AMA sessions showed surgeons and doctors in New York Chicago and Los Angeles observing via CBS laboratories. Russell regained consciousness and said he was resting comfortably. He had been warned his life expectancy was limited and he and his fiancée Gloria Spires awaited marriage if recovery continued.
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Richard C. Russell
Los Angeles
Chicago
New York
James C. Russell
Pat McPherson
Associated Press
Los Angeles County General Hospital
John C. Jones
Richard
Russell
Pacoima
Calif
American Medical Association
Smith’ Kline & French Laboratories
Philadelphia
CBS Laboratories
J. Jones
University of California Medical School
Jones
Dr. Jones
George Humphreys
Calumbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
CBS
John W. Cline
AMA
A. C. Dick
del Mar
Shrine Auditorium
Nathan Goldblatt Memorial Hospital
University of Chicago
Walter W. Higgs
Park Rapids
Minn
Dr. Higgs
Los Angeles Hospital
Gloria Spires
Gil
Red Extortion Note Victim Slain by Police in Bronx
Chin Hong, 40, a Chinese laundryman in the Bronx, reacted to a $1000 ransom demand by lunging with cleavers and knives. Police fired nine shots, four hitting him. he died at Fordham Hospital. Relatives held by Communists could not be identified.
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New York
Dee
Aji
Chin Hong
China
Chin
Bronx
Jront
Fordham Hospital
Mrs Hugo Black Dies at 51 Wife of Supreme Court Justice
Washington December 8. Mrs Hugo Black wife of Associate Justice dies after brief illness at the family residence in Alexandria Virginia. She was 51. Formerly Josephine Foster she was born in Memphis Tennessee and lived in Birmingham Alabama. She is survived by two sons Hugo Black Jr and Sterling Black and a daughter Martha Josephine.
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Dee
UPI
Hugo Black
The
Supreme Court
Josephine Foster
Black
Alexandria
Memphis
Tenon
Liver
Birmingham
Ala
Hugo Black Jr
Sterling Black
Martha Josephine
Nine-Vehicle Crash Blocks Times Square Traffic
In Times Square a nine-vehicle collision snarled traffic for about ninety minutes. Eight people were injured as a Broadway bus hit a taxicab on 43rd Street, causing vehicles to veer into another cab and into six parked cars. Gasoline leaked from the wreckage while thousands watched.
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New York
Times Square
Broadway
43Rd St
Indiana GOP to Restore Bench Seats at Courthouse
Greencastle Indiana December 8 the Republican party plans to bring back observation seats and benches in the Putnam County courthouse main floor corridor after the Democrat led board moved them to a side room last year amid protests. Brown is expected to be elected today and the benches would be restored as the first official act of the year.
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Greencastle
Ind
Putnam County
Board of County Commissioners
Commalebinnes
Ced Brown
OSE
Egyptian March on Suez City Fails
Cairo dispatch reports British artillery repelled an Egyptian push toward a British position outside Suez City near Kafr Abu Amri where 6000 British troops held a fortified road. Egyptian deputy governor Abas Geneina Bey urged police to move in but British gun positions blocked action. Suez officials halted further Egyptian advance to avoid new clashes.
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Cairo
Egypt
Suez City
Kafr Abu Amri
Abas Geneina Bey
Suez
Interior Ministry
United Press
Zaki Salama
Ibrahim Zaki el Khali
Gang Burns Papers Against Iran Regime
In Tehran on December 2 an extremist gang seized and burned copies of the antigovernment newspaper Attash. Three editors fled to the parliament’s lower house claiming threats to their lives.
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Iran
Tehran
Attash Today
Czech Red Leader Purges Subversives
Vienna report says Klement Gottwald purged rivals in the Czechoslovak Communist Party by removing Slansky and others amid a power struggle tied to Moscow. The purge aims to consolidate control as Gottwald acts as both party and national leader, with relations to Slansky and alleged Titoist elements.
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Vienna
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Klem
Gottwald
Kremlin
Prague
Stalin
Heavy Snow Delays North Midwest as Blizzard Strikes
A massive cold front sparked blizzard conditions across the northern Midwest, closing schools and crippling travel in South Dakota. Farmers in Onida to Pierre aided a woman by donating blood after a shotgun accident. Temperatures swung elsewhere as mild conditions persisted in Philadelphia while a new southwest storm pushed snow and 30 degree readings to El Paso. Two deaths were linked to winds and storms along the eastern regions.
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United
Midwest
South Dakota
Onida
Fierre
Elroy Ri‘réenes
Rocky Mountain
Great Lakes
Northern Plains
el Paso
Texas
West Texas
Atlantic
Paraguay Gets Loan for Reconstruction
Paraguay was granted a five thousand dollar loan by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development yesterday to fund agricultural production. The funds will finance imports of farm tools machinery fertilizers and insecticides and other supplies. The loan runs nine years at four and three quarters percent interest.
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Washingson
Paraguay
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development
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