McCarthy Heiress Elopes With Cobbler's Son in Houston
Houston reports Glenn McCarthy furious over his 17 year old daughter Glenna Lee's marriage to 19 year old George Pontikes a Rice Institute football player. Justice of Peace Nash Oliver confirmed the ceremony on December 2, while friends describe the couple as former high school sweethearts.
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Houston
Texas
Glenn McCarthy
McCarthy
Glenna Lee
George Pontikes
Rice Institute
Pontikes
Miss McCarthy
Justice of Peace
Nash Oliver
Waco
Lamar High School
Angelo Pontikes
Viches
4 Chemical Company
New Shamrock
Faustine Lee
W. E. Lee
Lee
Lees
Glenn H. McCarthy
Glenna Lee McCarthy
Hollywood
Texas Justice of the Peace
Miss Lee McCarthy
Rice
Angelos K. Pontikes
Associated Press
Half of Civilians Evacuated From Capital of Korea
Seoul officials estimate more than half of the city’s civilian population has moved southward. The government says about 1,000,000 remain in Seoul, with 5,000 refugees shipped daily by train and 50,000 more by various transport. President Rhee will stay until ordered to leave by the Eighth Army.
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Seoul
Clarence Ryee
United Nations
Ryee
Stanton Griffis Named Ambassador to Madrid
President Truman selects Stanton Griffis as American Ambassador to Spain ending a five year diplomatic snub. Griffis, 63, former ambassador to Poland, Egypt and Argentina, heads Paramount Pictures and Madison Square Garden boards and has ties to Cornell University and the American Historical Society. He will face Senate confirmation as Madrid envoy.
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Ashington
Truman
Stanton Griffis
Spain
Generalissimo
Franco
Griffis
Boston
Poland
Egypt
Argentina
Madrid
America
United Nations General Assembly
U. S. Army
Cornell
Oregon
New York City
Ridgway’s Troops Face Offensive by 1 350 000
President Truman plans an expanded and higher tax program for 1952 to fund defense against Communism. The proposal, likely to reach Congress a few weeks after the 52nd Congress convenes on Jan 3, aims to cover about 75 billion dollars in fiscal 1952 with emphasis on corporate tax changes amid ongoing defense costs.
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Ridgway
Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Joseph Short
Short
State of the Union
Senate House
Fireman Trapped as Rochelle Blaze Raged Across District
A Rochelle blaze destroyed the Hornsby five and ten cent store and two other two story buildings, trapping Fireman Kenneth Wendy in the basement. Crews from Rochelle and neighboring towns battled the fire, evacuating about a score of residents in night clothes. Damages top more than 300,000 as the flames began around 5:30 a.m. and were brought under control by noon.
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Rochelle
Til
Cresion
Sycamore
DeKalb
Kenneth Wendy
Hornsby Five
Ten Cent
Hornsby
Weather Summary Hint for Shoreline Areas
The forecast indicates clear conditions tonight and tomorrow with a chance of fog along the shore in the early morning. Daytime temperatures rise steadily, bringing warmer afternoon hours. Strong sun is expected in inland areas.
Red China Army forecast to reach 12 million by 1952
The report from Hong Kong cites Stanley Rich as saying Communist China could field 12 million by end of 1951, with 3.5 million regulars and about 5.0 million irregulars. Mobilization aims to add roughly 2 million more next year as Peiping urges widespread training, amid harsh anti American rhetoric.
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Red China
Stanley Ric
Hong Kong
Dep
Communist China
Peiping
RFC Shakeup Sparks Senate Action Across Docket
Highlights note political shifts in the RFC drawing Senate scrutiny. Various sections list page locations for news, ads, comics, editorials, and entertainment, with sports and tide temperature data noted on specified pages.
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RFC
Senate Group
Panefil
Boyle
Americans Angered by Losing Victory to Numbers in Korea
Reporter Relman Matin recalls the Korean campaign, noting clear military victory is unlikely due to manpower gaps. American morale remains high in Korea and Japan, despite setbacks late last year. He argues the Chinese Reds could demand costly efforts to push U.N. forces off the peninsula, while GIs stay confident they would prevail with greater numbers.
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Relman Matin
Associated Press
Japan
Korea
A. P
Tokyo
United Nations
United States
Far East
York
Pacific
Eighth Army
Tthat Peiping
New Port Security Rules Reveal Coast Guard Action
The Coast Guard issued new port and ship security rules to screen subversives from maritime workers. Commandant Merlin ONeill ordered immediate effect amid a strike threat on West Coast embarkation points for Korea. Two ex CIO union leaders facing Communist charges threaten action at hearings unless the proposed rules are carried out.
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Charles Molo
Washington
Coast Guard
Merlin O'Neill
Korea
C. I.0
Communist Party
Milk carton foils would-be robber in Detroit
In Detroit on December 27 a man attempted to rob Mrs. Dorothy Kozal as she returned from a grocery. She struck him with a half gallon milk carton. The carton shattered, milk sprayed his face, and in the subfreezing night the milk froze quickly.
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Detroit
Dorothy Kozal
NO PAYOFF Yeggs Fail to Steal at Oil Office
Del. Insp. A. B. Castille reports safecrackers at General Petroleum Corp. on 3381 Long Beach Blvd. forced open a relock device after punching the safe lock. They opened the safe but found only papers, which they scattered in disgust as no payoff was recovered.
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General Petroleum Corp
Long Beach Blvd
del. Insp
A. B. Castille
New U S Chief in Korea Says I Aim to Stay
Tokyo dispatch reports Lt Gen Matthew Ridgway, newly appointed Allied commander in Korea, telling President Syngman Rhee he plans to remain in Korea. The shift follows redeployment of U S forces as forces along the 150 mile border brace for possible renewed conflict amid reports of Red aggression and mass troop movements from Manchuria.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
United Nations
Korea
Matthew B. Ridgway
Syngman Rhee
10Th Corps
Eighth Army
Republic
Associated Press
Bill Shinn
Chongong
Seoul
Plains
Shinn
South’ Korea
Manchuria
Record Cold After Heavy Snowstorms Across Regions
Cold air swept the midwest and east after massive snowstorms, with readings plummeting to 36 below in Lone Rock Wisconsin and dozens of spots across Iowa Minnesota Ohio and New York City. Subzero temps spread south toward the Gulf states as three Ohio deaths were linked to the cold.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Rockies
Atlantic Seaboard
Florida
Lone Rock
Wis
Iowa
Decorah
Moose
Rochester
Minn
Mich
Duluth
Syracuse
I. C
New York State
Ohio
Chicago
Gulf States
Mine sighting near Point Vicente prompts coast guard hunt
A Texas Company tanker Illinois reported a floating mine off Point Vicente. Coast Guard cutter Morris is patrolling the area to locate the hazard with plans to sink or detonate the mine if found.
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Coast Guard
Point Vicente
Morris
Texas Company
Illinois
INDEX SOARS Prices of Food Rise Sharply Throughout U.S.
New York December 27. The Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index jumped 10 cents to 6.90 the sharpest rise of the year and the highest since September 14, 1948. The index, 20.6 percent above a year ago, measures the total wholesale cost of a pound of 31 foods. Wheat oats hams bellies butter cheese cocoa beans peas potatoes steers hogs and lambs led the gains.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Two fugitives recaptured. two still at large in burglary case
City police nabbed three of five knife-wielding inmates who escaped from San Mateo County jail last night. Richard McWhorter, 31, and Paul R. Campbell, 26, of Tampico, UL, remain at large, charged with burglary as Redwood City police continue the hunt.
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San_ Mateo County
Redwood City
Richard McWhorter
Paul R. Campbell
Tampico
Remington Gave Top Secret to Russia Says Ex-wife
The divorced wife of William H. Remington testified that he turned over a top secret explosive formula to a Russian spy ring courier. She described meetings with a courier later identified as Elizabeth Bentley and said they took orders from Browder campaign operatives in 1940.
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New York
William H. Remington
Russia
Ann Remington
Commerce Department
Remington
Communist Party
Elizabeth Bentley
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U.S
Yeggs
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