Rigid Law Sought to Curb Salary-refund Graft
The Justice Department urged Congress to tighten laws against salary kickbacks in government service. Deputy AG Peyton Ford proposed a bill to cover payments made to keep or obtain federal employment, seeking one year imprisonment or a $1000 fine, with the Thomas case cited as context.
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Washington
Justice Department
Congress
McCarran
D. Nev
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Rayburn
Dtexas
Peyton Ford
Parnell Thomas
RNJ
House un-American Activities Committee
Thomas
Federal Correction Institution
Danbury
Conn
Ford
Hundreds Trained On Atomic Bomb Under Secret Air Force Program
Air Force sources disclose a widening program training hundreds of personnel to handle and prime the A bomb. About 150000 of 480000 airmen involved in varied degrees with the atomic bomb while Army and Navy men also receive training. Only a few know how to make bombs.
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Ashington
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Army
Navy
Gordon Dean
Atomic Energy Commission
Dean
U. S. News & World Report
Ungrateful Man Pushes Wife From Roof in Seattle
An enraged husband allegedly tried to push his wife off the roof while she repaired it. The wife reported the incident to the sheriff's office in Seattle on November 25.
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Seattle
Sheriff's Office
Prisoners Say Chinese Tried to Turn Them into Fifth Columnists
Eighth Army reports liberated American POWs describe Red indoctrination lectures and pressure to persuade friends to surrender. Wounded: 19 of 27 freed recalled orders to fire into the air if forced to fight. Captors claimed Chinese troops were volunteers and sought unity for Korea, with limited medical supplies and standard rations.
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Eighth Army
Korea
U. S
China
Russ
Soviet Union
Libya Proclaims Independence of New Libyan State
At Tripoli's former governors palace the Libyan assembly declared independence of the three provinces Cirenaica Tripolitania and Fezzan and outlined plans for a Libyan monarchy. UN approved the move earlier this year as Britain and France administer the provinces with the United States using a wartime airfield.
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Tripolt
Libya
United Nations General Assembly
Assembly
United Nations
Constituent Assembly
Mutti
Tripoli
Cirenaica
Tripolitania
Fezzan
Mediterranean
Britain
France
Sayed Idris el Senussi
United States
Sailor Lifted From Ship During Night Sea Rescue
The Air Rescue Service evacuated Jackie D. Perdue a sailor from a U S naval vessel in the Arabian Sea last Thursday. A rescue plane flew 600 miles from Dhahran Air Field to intercept the ship. Perdue who lives in Plymouth Indiana is returning to the United States on emergency leave. No reason for the sudden flight was provided. Officials at Dhahran said it may be the first night landing by this type of aircraft in open sea.
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Washington
Jackie D. Perdue
U. S. Naval
Arabian Sea
Dhahran Air Field
Bana Arabia
Perdue
Plymouth
Ind
U. S
Dhahran
Europe Assembly Sets Out on Road to Federal Union
The European Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg outlines a plan toward federation via “special authorities” that gradually transfer power over defense foreign policy finance and commerce. It calls for a unified European army tied to NATO and urges joint authorities in economic agricultural industrial and eventually defense matters led by six Schuman plan nations.
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Strasbourg
France
European Consultative Assembly
Europe
Council of Europe
Committee of Foreign ‘Ministers
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Ilse Koch to Stand Trial Again in Germany
Ilse Koch faces a German court in Augsburg on new charges arising from instigating murders of German and Austrian nationals. The former “queen” of Buchenwald previously received life imprisonment at Dachau before Lucius Clay commuted it to four years served.
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Augsburg
Germany
Ise Koch
Buchenwald
Murer
Au. S
Dachau
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Clay
Pris
Moderate Republicans Seek Bipartisan Foreign Policy Help
Moderate Republicans led by Sen. Millikin of Colorado and Sen. Taft of Ohio propose a common denominator to aid the administration on foreign policy. They expect Sen. Vandenberg to pace GOP strategy when he returns, while stressing consultation and predecision input with Secretary Acheson to win two party cooperation.
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Washington
Sen
Millikin
Colorado
Acheson
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Taft
Sen. Vandenberg
R.mich
Knowland
R.calif
Morse
Ore
Congress
Landsberg prison holds Koch widow after 1949 entry
Mrs. Koch, widow of the former Buchenwald commander, entered Landsberg and was detained by German authorities who confined her in the Aichach women’s prison near Augsburg. The episode followed recent wartime trials and set a notable legal breakout for the former Nazi camp staffer.
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Koch
Buchenwald
U. S
Landsberg
Aichach Women's
Augsburg
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