Rain and Snow Grip Southland Weather Update
A cold front from the Oregon coast brings rain to the coast and snow on the Ridge Route and Mt. Wilson. Long Beach reports 0.42 inches today with clearing expected tonight. Winds 15 to 30 mph inland, stronger in desert and mountain areas. aviation turbulence warned. Rainfall this season stands at 1.42 inches in Long Beach, far below last year’s 4.18 inches and the 5.47 inch normal.
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Labor Chiefs Back Truman's Message
Washington January 10 labor leaders praised President Truman's State of the Union message and pledged to work for national unity. The United Labor Policy Committee, representing most major unions, endorsed the pledge with the exception of John L Lewis United Mine Workers.
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Yankees and French Retake Wonju After Battle in Blizzard
A small American led task force with French units retook Wonju amid a blizzard after two days of fighting. Allied forces faced a possible Red counteroffensive with 200 tanks and 500 Chinese planes positioned north, as the Soviet allied Reds massed as many as 280,000 troops for a new push. The town had been abandoned to the Communists Monday. weather delayed air support while artillery intensified. Local reports note a brief Korean War clash with a counterattack beaten back and the U. S. Second Division continuing operations near Wonju.
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Miners Oppose Any Pay Freeze Declares by Lewis
John L. Lewis told the Wage Stabilization Board that miners oppose wage freezes and favor normal collective bargaining to stabilize the economy. He urged repeal of Taft Hartley and said production could rise 25 percent without government fiat, with coal output possible at 100 to 200 million tons annually. He noted 1950 output around 500 million tons and that Cyrus Ching did not seek a no strike pledge.
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Six Die in Fire Trapping Family in Bed Rooms
ILFAX Wash Jan 1 six persons died in a fast spreading house fire at the Robert Walker residence trapping them in bedrooms on the upper floor. Mrs Walker and four small children perished alongside Gene Meyers Walker's brother. The husband survived badly burned but living. Firemen found the house engulfed and Walker narrowly escaped before the floor collapsed. Preliminary exam showed burns over about 90 percent of his body.
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Quadruplets Born in Michigan Doing Fine
In Pontiac on January 10, a 44-year-old wife gave birth to quadruplets two girls and two boys weighing a total of 15 pounds 12 ounces. The four infants, Kryste Kristen Kenneth Jr and Keith, were delivered by Caesarean section at St Joseph Mercy Hospital and placed in incubators. The Rosebush family already has four daughters aged seven to 15. The father Kenneth 36 paced the hospital all night before sleep. This is Michigan's second set of living quads, after Morlok sisters of Lansing.
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Lansing
Draft Universal Military Service Move Urged by Marshall
Defense Secretary Marshall and Mrs. Anna Rosenberg told a Senate Armed Services panel that immediate universal military service should start for all physically and mentally fit 18 year olds for 27 months. They urged drafting 19 year olds as interim, warned extending exemptions keeps fathers and married men from serving, and cited 450000 eligible 18 year olds first year under ceilings, with 1050000 reaching 18 by next July. President Truman reportedly approved the plan as a quick way to enlarge forces and sustain military strength.
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Before Peace Says Truman Liberty Comes First
Washington January 10 President Truman said freedom and justice are more precious to Americans than peace accepting the Woodrow Wilson distinguished service award for taking courageous action against aggression in Korea He called it the people’s award and praised Wilson as one of the nation’s greatest presidents noting peace seeds planted by Wilson through the League of Nations have borne fruit.
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Optimistic British bookies mark odds against world war
London January 10 British bookmakers at their annual dinner set 100 to 1 as odds against a world war this year 193%. Sid Hales an longtime bookmaker offered 500 to 1 against a world war in 1952 He argued such odds prove the event unlikely and unlikely to occur.
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Meat Rationing and Price Curbs Still Undecided
Washington January 10 price director Michael DiSalle said the government has not decided whether to impose meat price and rationing controls. After a meeting with meat industry representatives the industry argued controls would drive meat into the black market. DiSalle said stabilizing meat prices is still under study and did not rule out controls. Industry urged higher production as an alternative, proposing a 12 percent rise in two years and 25 to 30 percent in three to five years, conditioned on monetary and fiscal policies limiting consumer income gains to about 10 percent.
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Stocks Fall Off as Much as $3 in New York Trade
A sudden selling wave in New York on January 10 sent many stocks down, with some shares slipping as much as three dollars. Most losses were a few cents to about two dollars, and selling pressure slowed reporting as the tape fell up to ten minutes behind actual trades.
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News High Lights OFF THE TELETYPE
War weariness and public sentiment are explored as citizens are urged to support continued fighting under Gen. Eisenhower. The piece examines persuasive messaging and the emotional toll of conflict.
MacArthur denies Korea withdrawal recommendation
Tokyo dispatch reports Gen. MacArthur's spokesman denying a Beech Chicago Daily News story claiming he urged pulling all United Nations forces from Korea. Beech cited sources. censorship curbs speculation on withdrawal as U.N. forces face Chinese attacks. Pentagon said no withdrawal recommendation was received.
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Acheson Ready to Discuss Foreign Policy with Taft
Secretary of State Acheson said he would be glad to discuss foreign policy with Senator Taft or any other member of the minority party. He warned that UN failure to resolve the Korean crisis could reduce its prestige, while calling a suggestion that UN action is doomed an overstatement. Taft has been sharply criticizing the administration’s foreign policy as Senate Democrats rally to support Western Europe plans.
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Sinclair Lewis Dies in Italian Hospital at 65
American novelist Sinclair Lewis dies in Rome at 65 after bronchial pneumonia and heart inflammation. He wrote Babbitt and Main Street, won the 1930 Nobel Prize, lived in Italy, and his final novel World So Wide is to be published posthumously.
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Navy Nurse Dies in Car Crash With Pacific Electric Train
Mrs. Ruth Miller, 25, a Navy Relief Society nurse from Long Beach, was killed when her light car collided with a southbound Pacific Electric train at Santa Fe and Del Amo Aves. The auto was carried 200 feet along the right of way. She also worked at the Navy Dispensary on Terminal Island. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10, 07 Weston C. Prettyman, 47, of 205 Fire swept through Rest Haven Chestnut Ave., was motorman of a three-story convalescent home. The train and Paul G. Wine, 116 in suburban Fullerton, conduc day but some 45 elderly pat Y ter, officers reported, were moved to safety.
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Treasury Chief Seeks Tax Hike to Balance Budget
Secretary Snyder said President Truman will ask Congress this week to raise taxes enough to balance the budget for fiscal 1952. Indications point to a possible 20 billion dollar tax increase, a near 40 percent jump, though exact figures and the size of the budget were not disclosed. Snyder backed the pay as you go plan and said the President will propose specifics by February 1 after discussions with congressional tax committees.
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Food Can Be Anti Soviet Weapon Says Mills Chief
Philip W Pillsbury, president of Pillsbury Mills, urged the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce that food can be a weapon against Kremlin despotism. He called for Congress to enact realistic farm laws and to create a bipartisan board to plan mobilization and international aid to boost food production, while keeping the objective distinct from wartime controls.
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