Allies warned they are not set to fight
U S Army Secretary Frank Pace warned Atlantic defense ministers that Western Europe faces a potential Communist assault and that the allies are far from ready. He urged each nation to do more to aid its own defense while the United States accelerates mobilization, production, and alliance planning. Western German rearmament remains a core hurdle as leaders push for a unified European army.
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Brussels
Belgium
U. S. Army
Frank Pace
North Atlantic
Europe
Pace
U. S
U. S. Defense
George C. Marshall
United States
Britain
Kurt Schumacher
Duesseldorf
Konrad Adenauer
House Weighs Free Insurance For Korea GIs
The House considers a bill to grant $10,000 free life insurance for men entering service since the Korean War began, plus a $1 billion war damage corporation to insure private property against bombing. Disabled veterans may obtain government coverage if private options fail. NSLI policies remain intact. The measure also extends the Vocational Rehabilitation Act for armed forces members since June 27, 1950.
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Ruth Cowan Washington
National Service Life Insurance
NSLI
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
House
Mo Battles Reds at Hungnam Beachhead in Snow War
U S battleship Missouri joined offshore bombardment to halt a major Chinese assault on the Hungnam beachhead in northeast Korea. An estimated 26 000 Chinese pressed the rim and 75 000 moved in the hills as U S Third Infantry troops fought from snowy foxholes along seashore flats.
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Beachhead
Tokyo
United Nations
Hungnam
Korea
Missouri
Reds
Hamhung
MacArthur
U. S. Third Infantry Division
Hungnam Beachhead Christmas Turkeys Eaten
Seventh Division soldiers at Hungnam Beachhead in Northeast Korea marked Christmas by using up their turkey supplies. The chaotic frontline conditions meant no formal celebration.
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Hungnam
Northeast Korea
Gi's
Artillery Rains On Chinese Forces At Hungnam Port
Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond, commander of the U S 10th Corps, praised heavy firepower as guns and one ton shells shield units. He said the artillery concentrations disrupt and repulse Chinese infantry pressing Hungnam from three sides, remarking that the plan is working.
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U. S
Edward M. Almond
10Th Corps
Hungnam Port
Kefauver Warns of Imminent Global War
In Chicago Senator Estes Kefauver warns the U S is headed toward a hell of a war with millions in a fighting force likely to leave training camps. He criticizes leadership and notes deep pessimism about a third world war, citing Korea and General MacArthur.
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Chicago
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
U. S
Kefauver
Senate ‘Civil Defense
Truman
Congress
Korea
McArthur
Department
Dewey Faces Impeachment Call Over Hanley Job Deal
New York AP reports Rep. Vito Marcantonio ALP NY urged impeachment of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey within a day of appointing outgoing Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanley to a $16,000 state post as special counsel for the Division of Veterans Affairs. Hanley’s move fuels charges of a political deal to influence elections and Senate ambitions.
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NEW York
Vito Marcantonio
ALP NY
Thomas E. Dewey
Joe R. Hanley
Hanley
State Division of Veterans Affairs
Leo V. Lanning
Dewey
Marcantonio
American Labor Party
Mad Sniper Search Shocks Philadelphia Oak Lane
Police sweep Oak Lane as they hunt a mysterious shooter blamed for one death and six injuries in six weeks. Residents stay indoors as 130 officers and 50 auxiliaries patrol. Earlier a 17 year old and an 18 year old were fired at, with a bullet nicking a coat.
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Philadelphia
Oak Lane
Speediest U S jet scores in first Korea combat
In a five minute air duel south of Sinuiju four North American F-86 Sabres battled four Soviet MIG 15s. Lt. Col. Bruce Hinton of Stockton Calif. shot down a MIG 15 in a cockpit victory. Col. John C. Meyer praised the Sabre as the finest airplane he has flown and noted its comfort and reliability.
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U. S
Korea
America
Sinuiju
Bruce H. Hinton
Stockton
Calif
John C. Meyer
Newcastle
Del
Forest Hills
N. Y
Muroc Air Base
California
Hinton
U. S. To Put Controls Under 'Honor System
Hope rose for an early settlement of the rail wage and hour dispute as the White House pressed negotiators from railroads and four operating unions to terms. Yardmen returned to work after a brief stoppage that tied up freight and Christmas mail. federal courts and President Truman pressured unions to comply with orders. Contested issues included retroactive pay and cost of living allowances, with yard and road workers seeking raises and shorter work hours under a new three-year contract.
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Washington
Hope
Whiteoase
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Toledo
Truman
Brotherhood
Chicago
Post Office Department
Fire Destroys Home in Franklin. TV Set Saved
A Sunday dawn fire gutted a three room Franklin residence on Franklin-Chautauqua Rd in Simms Grove. The Childress family escaped in nightclothes as a television set miraculously survived the blaze, with damage estimated at 2000 to 3000 dollars. The fire, likely caused by a defective fire, drew Franklin Fire Chief Carl Morgan to the scene at 6 am.
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Franklin
Frank Childress
Simms Grove
Franklin-Chautauqua Rd
Carl Morgan
Morgan
Childress
Sims
Girl Who Abandoned Hollywood For God Marries Pastor's Son
Cullen Townsend, 21, who renounced film stardom for religion, wed Louis H. Evans Jr., 24, a theological student, in Hollywood First Presbyterian Church. The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, witnessed by Jane Haver and Jane Russell. Townsend said she answered God's call and will join her husband at the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
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Hollywood
Cullen Townsend
Louis H. Evans, Jr
Hollywood First Presbyterian Church
Jane Haver
Jane Russell
Miss Townsend
San Francisco
Compulsory Meat Price Controls Loom in U.S.
Washington news reports a voluntary freeze on prices and wages as a possible next step in inflation control, with officials noting December 1 levels or recent figures as a reference. Meat prices may see ceilings soon, while talks with unions and producers proceed and new mobilization leadership prepares broader controls.
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Washington
Alan Valentine
Economic Stabilization Authority
Valentine
ESA
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
General Electric Company
Truman
Office of Defense Mobilization
ODM
Four Die In Crash at Uphill Curve on Bridge
Four people including three women and a baby were killed when a car missed a curve on an uphill approach to a bridge, climbed a slanted girder and crashed onto a car traveling below in Sunbury Pennsylvania tonight.
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Sunbury
Stalin Re elected to Moscow regional soviet
Stalin was re elected to the Moscow regional soviet in yesterday's elections. He received a votes out of a total of 31.
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Moscow
Stalin
West Germany to get new national anthem says paper
Dusseldorf based Rheinish Post reports West Germany will adopt a new national anthem to replace Deutschland Ueber Alles. The anthem will be proclaimed officially on New Year’s Eve by President Theodor Heuss, ending a postwar absence of an official national song.
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West Germany
Dusseldorf
Germany
Rheinische Post
Post
Theodor Heuss
UN Cease Fire Group Proposes Peiping Talks in Korea
The UN cease-fire committee offered to meet Chou En Lai in Peiping or elsewhere for direct Korea peace talks. Lester Pearson read a cable to Peiping. no reply yet. Wu Hsiuchuan said China has no authority to negotiate. discussion continues. The group weighs next steps as tensions rise over troop withdrawal and regional positions.
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Lake Success
Peiping
Chouen- Lai
China
General Assembly
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
Pearson
Chou
Red China
Wu Hsiuchuan
Rau
Wu Hsin-chuan
Ham Saheb
Maharajah of
Nawanagar
Korea
Asia
UN W
Seventh Fleet
Formosa
Chiang Kaishek
Reds
Plague Strikes Hordes Flocking For Cure All
In Orissa state India hundreds of dead and dying lay along roads as cholera raged among seekers of a herbal cure claimed by a 12 year old cowherd Nepal Baba. An official committee said the medicine offered no real cure while pilgrims rushed to get it. Mass inoculations and evacuations were organized as thousands remained stranded and cremations were held to curb the outbreak.
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New Delhi
Orissa
Antali
India
Nepal Baba
GM Freezes Sale Of 1951 Model Autos
Detroit AP General Motors froze the sale of 1951 Chevrolet Pontiac and Cadillac passenger cars following the government price rollback order. Pontiacs Chevrolets and Cadillacs received on or after today will remain GM property on a consign ment basis until released. Buick and Oldsmobile models were not affected. The move drew industry and union criticism over discriminatory price controls and concerns about wage provisions in labor contracts.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers
Reuther
UAW
General Motors
Government Bureau of Labor Statistics
Auto Union
Wintry Blasts Hit Eastern Nation Spread From Midwest
Unseasonably cold weather blanketed the eastern half of the country with temperatures falling to 26 in Atlanta and Birmingham while Jacksonville reported 42. The Weather Bureau warned of a continued downward trend as the cold wave moved in from the Midwest with light snow in the Upper Missouri River Valley and Great Lakes. Temperatures near zero persisted across parts of the northern Midwest.
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Chicago
Jacksonville
Fla
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ala
Mercury
Charleston
S. C
Weather Bureau
Midwest
Missouri River Valley
Great Lakes Area
Middlewest
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U. S. Senate
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Claire Cohen
William C. Barnard
Wage Stabilization Board
Cyrus 5. Ching
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Economic Stabilization Agency
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