Sabre Becomes Fastest Jet in Wartime Combat Debut
At AX Advance Air Base Korea on December 18 the U S F-86 Sabre, the world’s fastest jet, entered combat and shot down a Soviet MiG-15 over Sinuiju. Lt Col Bruce Hinton led the mission with Capt Morris Pitts, Raymond Janeczek, and Paul Bryce Jr. guiding the attack, luring the MiGs with slow flight before a close- range burst destroyed the enemy aircraft.
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Korea
U. S
Lake Muroe
Calif
Air Force
Bruce H. Hinton
Stockton
Sinuiju
Hinton
Paul W. Bryce Jr
Lawrenceberg
Tenn. J
Janeczek
Bryce
Puts
Contro
Freight Handling Slowed in Toledo by Sick-List Strike
Freight operations slowed in Toledo Ohio as more than 100 union employees stayed home claiming illness. The absence forced layoff of about 200 yard workers across three railroads Baltimore and Ohio Detroit and Toledo Shore Line and Wheeling and Lake Erie Division of Nickel Plate. No passenger service was cut. In Washington White House pressed for early wage and hour dispute settlement as 10,000 yardmen had walked out last week.
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Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio
Detroit and
Tolosa
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Nickel Plate Road
Washington
Hope
White House
John R. Steelman
Strange Yule Crisis Brings Christmas Early to Korea Beach
On Hungnam Beachhead in Northeast Korea the VF Seventh Division soldiers marked an early Christmas as shells roared overhead and burning buildings served as a yule log. Chinese forces hid nearby while ships and planes delivered urgent cargo, in a battered zone that knew no peace during the 1950 Christmas season.
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Hungnam
Korea
Gis
Ghance
Weather Outlook Cooler With Scattered Clouds
Cooler tomorrow with scattered high cloudiness tonight and tomorrow. Light variable winds becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph tomorrow afternoon.
GM orders dealers to halt sales of 1951 cars
General Motors directed Chevrolet Pontiac and Cadillac dealers to stop selling 1951 model cars received from the factory today or later. The halt follows the government price rollback and key action calls cars consigned and not to be sold until GM releases them. The move covers all 1951 Pontiacs Chevrolets and Cadillacs and applies to cars shipped on or after today.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
Chevrolet
Pontiac
Cadillac
Economic Stabilization Agency
Chrysler
Ford
Wash
G. M
General Motors
Hat
Woman Faints While Feeding Cat, Dies in Porterville
Porterville December 18 a 12 year old spinster died in a freak accident while feeding her cat at home. Coroner Frank Myers Romine reported she apparently fainted while tending the cat and bowl, breaking an artery in her neck as she fell.
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Porterville
Des
Hier
Frank Myers
Romine
Shen Sheel
Broadway Producer’s Wife Found Dead in Hotel Suite
In Everly Hills police report Mrs. Constance Wildberg 23 wife of Broadway producer John Wildberg 48 was found dead beside him in their hotel suite. A suicide note on hotel stationery referenced unbearable life and lasting love for “Pappy” with a box of sleeping pills missing most of its tablets. The producer said his wife had been in ill health and a doctor declared her dead after he failed to rouse her.
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Everly Hills
VPI
Constance Wildberg
John Wildberg
W. W. White
Stelionery
Pappy Dearest
White
Wildberg
Anna Lucasta
Pappy
Western Europe army plan under Eisenhower approved
The 12 Atlantic Pact nations formalized a plan for a Western European army of 55 to 60 divisions under an American supreme commander Eisenhower. The move aims to defend against a possible Communist assault as ministers prepare to approve the arrangement and push for faster European rearmament alongside U.S. efforts.
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Russell
Belgium
Dwight D. Eisenhower
West
Truman
Eisenhower
Europe
North Atlantic
Dean Acheson
Frank Pace
Westen Europe
Hye
Germany
Elbe
Eurpope
Acheson
Pace
Atlantic Pact Council
United States
Truman to Seek Expanded War Powers on Contracts
President Truman told congressional leaders he plans to request new powers over government contracts and agency organization to respond to the world crisis. House Speaker Rayburn said the president will send a formal request after papers are drafted, seeking restoration of powers under Titles One and Two of the War Powers Act to create, consolidate, transfer, or abolish bureaus and to authorize war agencies to enter into contracts without standard legal restraints.
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Washington
Truman
House
Rayourn
Texas
White House
Capitol
Me. Cormack Mass
Enlistees Rush Into Service in Pre-Christmas Wave
NEW YORK December 18 volunteers swarmed Army Air Force and Navy recruiting offices as the national emergency declaration boosted enlistments. At Army and Air Forces HQ about 50 men waited to be interviewed, far more than usual. Navy recruiters reported enlistments doubling the normal rate.
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New York
Army
Air Force
Navy
Air Forces
Wavy
U.N. Seeks Korean Peace Talks with Chow En-lai
U N cease-fire committee disclosed it has asked Chinese Foreign Minister Chow En-lai to arrange time and place for Korean peace talks. The panel said it is willing to meet any Peiping representative at a mutually convenient venue, including Peiping itself. The move followed a cable sent last Saturday and a vote by the 60-nation political committee.
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U.N
Chow En-lai
Chow
Peiping
Eable
Chou
Pearson
Red China
Wu-Hsiu-chuan
Jacob A. Malik
Christmas Toy Reminder Forents Snags Joy For All
A note urges readers to ensure Santa's toys go to children, not adults, reflecting a holiday safety and sharing theme. The item appears on the Page A-15 summary list with cross references to Christmas Coral and Beach Combing pages, indicating multiple holiday content placements.
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Santa
Boyle
Warners S Advices
Mighty Mo s Batteries Join Beach Battle
American doughboys fought ferociously to contain fresh North Korean and Chinese forces attempting to break the Hungnam perimeter in northeast Korea. The battleship Missouri joined the defense with its heavy guns, while cruisers and destroyers pounded enemy positions around the beachhead. A U S Tenth Corps spokesman cited a very aggressive North Korean regiment spearheading the drive, with about 100000 Chinese troops involved on the Hungnam plain. U S Third Division infantry held firm in frozen hills as naval gunfire and air strafing fended off the assault. The Missouri, famed for Japan's 1945 surrender, continued shelling northern ridges as the Red assault pressed the perimeter.
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Tokyo
Hungnam
Korea
Missouri
St. Paul
Rochester
U. S. Tenth Corps
U. N
Tenth Corps
U.S
Japan
Hay
Fire destroys home and Christmas gifts in Essex tragedy
A Baltimore blaze yesterday gutted a suburban Essex bungalow, killing the mother and leaving seven children aged 2 to 9 without clothing or toys. Father William H. Barnes, 42, suffered injuries from falling debris but escaped. The fire, reported as the mother’s suicide, destroyed all belongings and planned gifts for the children.
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Baltimore
Essex
William H. Barnes
Barnes
Draft Advisers Urge Plan for Student Deferments
An advisory group under draft director Lewis B. Hershey urged deferring students by intelligence and ability to maintain Army supply while preserving talent for science and vital fields. Six committees studied the issue for nearly two years and over 20 readers attended the conference. Hershey plans to present the recommendations to Congress before changing current regulations.
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Hershey
Congress
Marine Captain Shot by Sentry Near Seal Beach
17 year old Marine Captain Maddux of Long Beach dies from a gunshot wound inflicted by a Marine sentry at Naval Ammunition and Net Depot Seal Beach during an incident yesterday afternoon. His nephew Simmons reported the boaters had approached a restricted area under a highway 101 bridge when the sentry fired after challenging them. The Navy identified the shooter as Pfc James Marshall 17. The incident prompted an inquiry led by Capt Russell G Sturges with FBI cooperation while Maddux’s wife Juanita was notified at the hospital.
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Long Beach
Robert N. Maddux
Veterans Administration Hospital
Naval Ammunition
Seal Beach
Maddux
Robert Simmons
Sam's
Hwy. 101
Dux
Simmons
Navy
Pfc
James 7 Marshal
Marshe
NASA S
Maddy
Marsh
Russell G. Sturges
FBI
Juanita
Falcon Ave
Stocks Soar in Heaviest NY Trading Since 1939
New York December 18. Prices rose today in heavy trading the strongest in 16 years as shares favored by the nation’s mobilization program climbed 1½ to 3. Aircrafts steels rails and oils led gains. About 5,000,000 shares changed hands, the tape lagging six minutes behind the floor.
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New York
Issaeli
New York Exchange
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