Acheson Warns of Treachery and World Peril Ahead
Secretary of State Acheson delivers a year end foreign policy summary warning that peace in Korea could be followed by Communist treachery or new aggression in Southeast Asia and other border areas. He cites five danger spots Indochina Burma Egypt Iran and calls for vigilance, unity, and restraint in the 1952 outlook.
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New York
Korea
Acheson
Southeast Asia
Western Europe
Atlantic Alliance
West Germany
Indochina
Burma
Egypt
Iran
I. L
Republic of Korea
Howeve
United States
Suez Canal
Britain
Middle East
Suez
Kremlin
Free Nations
North Atlantic
America
Reds Cling to Hill in Furious Battle Front
Soviet and United Nations forces clash on a snowbound western front near Korangpo and Panmunjom as Eighth Army reports failed attempts to take a dug-in hill held by Chinese Reds. Patrol clashes continue with limited air activity and a storm grounding operations.
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Seoul
Korea
U. N
Korangpo
U.N
Eighth Army
Panmunjom
Bat. Uefront
Fifth Air Force
Carlos N. Dannacher
Anderson
Ind
Marine
Europe Plans Cosily Fetes as New Year Approaches
London and Western Europe prepare for New Year revelry with high prices since World War II. Nearly 6000 celebrate Chelsea Arts Ball in London while Paris clubs host revellions. Food and drink costs up 10 to 15 percent. champagne $15 a bottle. In Berlin West and East officials allow all night celebrations with champagne or schnapps and expect total costs around $6. Vienna hosts 350 public parties. trumpeters from city hall will greet the new year.
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London
Europe
Chelsea
Paris
Montmartre
Montparnasse
Soviet Zone
Berlin
Raye
Vienna
Four Teens Die in WV Traffic Collision
Four teenagers were killed when their car and a tractor-trailer collided near Dvansville West Virginia early today. State police identified the victims as Richard Moore 18 and Mattie.
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Dvansville
Richard Moore
Mattie
Mob Violence on Decline in 1951 Tuskegee Report
Tuskegee Institute released its annual report noting a decline in mob violence in 1951. It cited the unsolved killing of Melvin Womack near Winter Garden Florida as the only lynching, while criticizing another case involving a imprisoned Black man and a Florida sheriff exonerated by a coroner's jury.
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Tuskegee
Ala
UPI
U. S
Tuskegee Institute
Florida
Melvin Womack
Womack
Winter Garden
Fla
Orlando Morning Sentinel
Cles
Ne 1
F. D. Patterson
California Melons Doctored Claim Wins Liars Contest
Burlington Wisconsin dispatch reports Rev Arthur R Kirk pastor Biggs California Community Church won the 1951 world liars title at the Burlington Liars Club contest. His tall tale about California watermelons galloping vines and a melon theft ended with a hospital mishap and a boast of faster growth. Other entrants included C H Patterson of Springfield Missouri and John Myren of Vancouver Canada, who mocked local stunts and a duck hunt misadventure in the fog.
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California
Arthur R. Kirk
Burlington Liars Club
Biggs, Calif
C. H. Patterson
Springfield
Patterson
Biggs Community Church
Biggs
Calif
Burlington
Wis
Liars Club
Spurned Slayer Kills Girl in Church Then Takes Own Life
In Bourbon Indiana a 24 year old soldier fatally shot 16 year old Ruth Golden inside the Apostolic Church after services, then shot himself. A 13 year old girl, Tady Falkner, was wounded as panicked worshippers fled. The shooter Omer Shoemaker drove away, stalled, and died in a blood soaked snowbank. Several witnesses described the chaotic scene as he fired a total of five shots.
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Bourbon
Ind
Jeave
Mentone
Apostolic Church
Omer Shoemaker
Akron
Ruth Golden
Shoemaker
Tady Falkner
Robert “Wilson
Churchill Party Sails Queen Mary to Washington Talks
The Queen Mary departed Southampton for Washington with Prime Minister Churchill and a 35 member party, delaying due to a jammed anchor and fog. Foreign Secretary Eden and Lord Mountbatten were aboard as Churchill prepared papers for talks with President Truman.
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Southampton
Winston Church
America
Truman
Ly Bot
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Yantt
Cunard
Winchester Cathedral
Early Mountbatten
Admiralty
Washington
First POW Mail Home Delivery From POW Camps Aims Christmas
Five hundred POW letters marked Prisoners of War Mail expedite were airmail delivered to homes nationwide. The first batch arrived in San Francisco, with letters from jailed Americans including Paul Schnur Jr and Benjamin Tolerson, describing Christmas plans and prayers. The letters, screened in Peiping, then handed to U S Army at Panmunjom, postmarked December 28 in Tokyo.
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United Press
Panmunjom
San Francisco
John F. Fixa
Paul F. Schnur
Paul F. Schnur Jr
Reds
Schnur
Myrtle Tolerson
Oakland
Fic
Benjamin ‘Tolerson
Korea
Tolerson
Hie
Guy
Britain and Europe reel from deadly 63 dead storm
A severe gale across Western Europe leaves at least 63 dead and 18 missing. British winds reach 100 mph, with widespread damage and sea losses. Sailors and fishermen die across Ireland, Spain, and the North Sea as ships break up near the Bay of Biscay. Rescue attempts continue for crew missing from several vessels, including the Flying Enterprise and tanker Gemma.
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London
Europe
Borkum
Germany
Britain
Bay of Biscay
Flying Enterprise
Ireland
Kurt Carlsen
Gemma
Oesthay
Wild Bay of Biscay
Mia Entegro
Santander
Uto
Mina Entrego
Testka
Oesthav
Nooks
Inverness Moors
Hull
Dysart
St. Ives
Cornwall
Klan denies role in Miami bombings
The Ku Klux Klan at a meeting Saturday night denied knowledge of the Florida bombings, as Gov. Fuller Warren criticized NAACP executive secretary Walter White as a hired Harlem agitator. White vowed to return to Florida to pursue the Moore case, while Warren accused him of stoking strife.
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Miami
Fis
Dac. d
Ku Klux Klan
Florida
Fuller Warren
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Harlem
New York
White
Warren
Lake County
Two Prisoners Die From Poison Drink
In Cumberland, two inmates at the New Cumberland Army Disciplinary Barracks died after consuming duplicating machine fluid. Col. Benjamin B. Albert identified the victims as Aubrey Oscar Mann, 23, of Palmetto, Georgia, and Erle A. Penton, 22, of Norman, Oklahoma. Authorities said 22 other men drank the fluid, which had been stolen from an office.
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Cumberlany
New Cumberland Army
Georgia
Benjamin B. Albert
Albert
Aubrey Oscar Mann
Palmetto
Year of Heartbreak, Raily in Korea Told
In Korea’s turning year of 1951 Maj Loyd A Brown recalls a dramatic reversal. The Eighth Army, after a brutal winter offensive, now holds a 145 mile front across North Korea. He praises armor infantry and air power in renewed defense and notes the Panmunjom talks as the year ends.
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Raily
Korea
U.S
Maj
Loyd A. Brown
Marysville
Calif
Brown
Eighth Army
Rene
U. S
10Th Corps
Seoul
Han River
Iron Triangle
Chorwan
Kumhwa
Hwa‘thon
Punchbowl
Kumsong
Yule Mail Delayed For Snowbound Boise Hamlet
In Boise Idaho on December 31 19 20 Christmas waits for about 200 residents of the remote mining hamlet of Atlanta snowbound since December 22 with 25 sacks of mail gifts and greetings held there An aerial drop failed due to a heavy snowstorm and road travel was blocked by snowdrifts hindering delivery by stage and driver named Carl Whitmore
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Boise
Idaho
Temote
Atlanta
Boise River
Carl Whitmore
Arrowrock
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Far East Air Force
U. S. Air Force
John Myren
Vancouver
B. C
Canada
Peiping
China
United States Army
Fanmunjom
U. S. Army Postal Service
Tokyo
Klan
Wanda Babbitt
Grand Rapids
Mich
Donnie Wilshe
Donnie
Wanda
Sequl
IM Parc
Imjim
Walton H. Walker
Ridgway
Jwest
United Nations
South Korea
Imjin River
U. N. Surpreme
James A. van Fleet
First Corps
24Th Infantry
Munson
ROK
Highth
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