Steel Strike Seen Inevitable After New Year Talks
Washington AP report says high level talks on the steel dispute started but officials doubt a New Year strike can be avoided. CIO President Philip Murray demands a 15 cent hourly raise and other concessions as 10 major companies attend the mediation session led by Cyrus S. Ching.
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Washington
CIO
Philip Murray
Cyrus S. Ching
Murray
Steelworkers
John L. Lewis
Lewis
U.S Steel Corporation
Ching
Federal Mediation Service
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel
Reds use Christmas stockings for psychological warfare
The U S Eighth Army reports Chinese and North Korean forces are delivering red propaganda via cheesecloth stockings packed with Christmas cards, gifts, and surrender invitations. Stockings include a safe conduct pass and a peace dove pin. Images contrast Korean War hardships with American luxury to sway Allied troops.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Eighth Army
United States
Florida
Hungnam
Life Magazine
Dave Duncan
Eighth Army
Banker and civic leader to receive master's at age 57
Robert H. Myers of Muncie Indiana, a former Indiana Bankers Association president and Muncie Chamber of Commerce leader, will receive a Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago on Friday. His son Robert is an assistant professor of marketing at Miami University Oxford Ohio.
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Chicago
Muncie, Ind
University of Chicago
Heig
Robert H. Myers
Indiana Bankers Association
Muncie Chamber of Commerce
Myers
Robert
Miami University
Oxford
One Millionth Traffic Death Expected This Saturday
The National Safety Council says the U S traffic toll neared one million with 999 750 deaths by last midnight and predicts the millionth may occur by Saturday noon unless travel patterns change. The warning marks final laps in a long rising toll since 1899.
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National Safety Council
Drivand
Danish Vessel Erica Burns At Astoria Port
Coast Guard reports eight passengers and three crewmen possibly missing from the Danish motorship Erica burning near the Columbia River mouth. Some 81 people are at the Tongue Point base while fire spreads, with earlier reports of all aboard being safe and lifeboats used for evacuation.
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Astoria
Ore
Coast Guard
Erica
Columbia River
V. A. Johnson
Tongue Point Coast Guard
Johnson
Portland
San Francisco
Tongue Point
Blyth
Ioo
Seattle
Snow Storm Drives Cold Across Northern States
A Pacific Northwest weather system swept through the Rocky Mountains Plains Midwest and Northeast New England bringing subzero temperatures. The storm left 226 deaths attributed to the severe weather across the region as frigid air reached as far as Northeastern Colorado and Northwestern Kansas with 25 below in Havre Montana and 19 in Sheridan Wyoming.
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Pacific Northwest
Rocky Mountain
Plains States
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Midwest
New England
New York State
U. S. Weather Bureau
Chicago
Colorado
Kansas
Havre
Mont
Sheridan
Wyo
Burlington
Albany
N. Y
Ohio Valley
Georgia
East Gulf States
Snow and sleet hit Ohio as weather worsens
Ohio digs out from heavy snow with more snow sleet and freezing rain expected statewide. Washington Weather Bureau warns hazardous driving conditions as snow turns to freezing rain in the southwest and sleet in the east and north. In Mallon County two more inches of snow atop eight inches with temps near 17, Chillicothe reports five inches turning to slush under freezing rain and several county schools closed.
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Columbus
Ohio
Washington Weather Bureau
Offo
Mallon County
Chillicothe
Husband Faces Lie Test In Wife's Freezing Death
A 44 year old business executive underwent a lie detector test in the mysterious death of his wife who froze to death. The report notes a long line of traffic fatality statistics and a council plan to reach a million deaths milestone with daily adjusted totals.
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Jackson, Mich
Council
Eisenhower Seen Likely GOP Presidential Hopeful in NH Primary
GOP backers expect Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower to reject Democratic efforts to put him on their ticket in the New Hampshire presidential primary. They believe he may avoid a firm stance, signaling Republican support while delaying a formal decision, with a potential ballot listing by petition and negating Democratic interest.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New Hampshire
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Jeaders
Jacehin
Sen. Tadde
R-Mass
Sen. Duff
R-Pa
GOP
Sen
Carlson
Brian
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Toneka
Fiserhower
Red Cross Aides Leave For Korea
Five senior officials of the International Red Cross committee including a medical officer depart Geneva for Korea. The committee announced the move on Wednesday night as part of relief efforts.
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Red Cross
Korea
Geneva
Switzerland
International Red Cross Committee
250 Prisoner Names Left For Checking
The Defense Department still had about 250 names to check on the Communist supplied list of American prisoners of war in Korea. At 8:30 p.m. (EST) yesterday, about 2,940 of 3,198 names had been identified and telegrams sent to next of kin.
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Washington
Defense Department
Korea
Pentagon
Air Force
Tokyo
United Nations
Panmunijom
Doesn't Pay To Get Up Some Days
Ohio editor Bert A. Teeters recounts a holiday season run of misfortunes from eye glasses to a broken washer and a hospital trip. He lists nine small calamities from cracked lenses to a blue wardrobe mix up and a mother in law visit, noting he has bought no Christmas presents yet.
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Columbus
O. i
Ohio
Bert A. Teeters
Springfield
Springfield Sun
Cold And Fog Muffle War On Korean Front
Freezing weather and heavy fog hindered fighting along the 145 mile front as truce teams sought armistice terms near Panmunjom. There were no major actions reported. Allied air forces and Navy guns delivered heavy blows with ten B 29 raids on Chongju and ships targeting shore positions.
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Seoul
Korea
Panmunjom
Chongju
Far East Air Forces
Korean
Bar on Congressional interference in tax cases proposed
Washington Senator Monroney announced plans to introduce in January a bill to bar any member of Congress from meddling in tax cases before the Internal Revenue Bureau. The proposal would move tax agents under Civil Service, require publication of lawmakers’ interventions in Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan cases, and disqualify pensions officials convicted of public trust breaches. The Means subcommittee also questioned Henry Grunewald over ties to IRS officials as investigations led to suspensions or firings of about 50 tax service employees.
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Washington
Sen. Monroney
D-Okla
Congress
Internal Revenue Bureau
Monroney
Civil Service
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Means
Henry “the Dutchman
Grunewald
Indicted for Perjury in Fulbright RFC Probe
E Merl Young and associates including Rosenbaum Duidhey and Herschel Young face perjury charges tied to a Senate Fulbright inquiry into RFC loan dealings. The case centers on assertions about a mink coat linked to loan funds. Each false statement carries separate penalties in DC.
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Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Merl
Joseph H. Rosembewm
Robert W. Duidhey
Washington
Young
Herschel Young
Sen
Fulbright
D-Ark
House
Rosenbaum
Rosen
District of Columbia
American backed Greece tops Security Council vote
In Paris AP reports Greece backed by the United States won 4 votes on the United Nations Security Council, defeating Russia in today’s ballot during the 19th session.
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Paris
Greece
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Ex-Senator Capper Dies at 86 in Topeka
TOPEKA Kansas AP Arthur Capper a Kansas Republican who served in the U S Senate for three decades died last night at age 86 He retired from politics in 1949 and had been critically ill with pneumonia Capper owned Topeka Daily Capital Kansas City Kansan and two radio stations He championed farm legislation including the Capper Volstead Act and Capper Tindel Act He supported Capper Pig and Calf Clubs to aid farm youths and served two terms as Kansas Governor.
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Topeka
Kan
Arthur Capper
Kansas
U. S
Senate
Capper
Enna Crippled Children's
Staff Aides Appointed To Study Issues In Korean Armistice
Truce negotiators turned the problem of supervising the armistice over to staff officers in a one shot effort at Panmunjom. The staff met two hours then adjourned for the night with no report of progress. The Communists proposed a partial compromise on airfields inspections and troop rotation. The UN noted the need for time to verify prisoner lists and planned moving thousands of prisoners to Japan and Korea for processing.
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Munsan
Panmunjom
UN Subcommittee
William P. Nuckols
Korea
Air
Col
Don ©. Darrow
Coma
Wash
Air Force
Andrew Kinney
Japan
Panmusjom
U. N
U.N
Truce Supervision Subcommittee
Arabs Allow Bethlehem Christmas Rites Across Front Line
In Bethlehem 2000 Christian residents in Israel will worship at Christmas as the barbed wire line is opened by Jordanian authorities. The move accompanies diplomatic and consular cross-line access amid the 1948 war aftermath.
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Bethlehem
No-Man’s-Land
Israel
Vilage
Foreign Ministry
Moselem Jordan
Thiehem
Jeerusalem
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