Churchill Heads to meet Truman after talks with Eisenhower
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies from LaGuardia to discuss world issues with President Truman after private talks with President-elect Eisenhower. Bernard Baruch accompanies Churchill. Baruch may join Eisenhower talks at the Commodore. Eisenhower names John A. Hannah to lead manpower in defense. reports say Walter Bedell Smith may become under secretary of state. Dewey arrives for dinner at Baruch’s home after the talks.
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New York
Winston Churchill
Truman
Eisenhower
Churchill
LaGuardia Field
Independence
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
Commodore Hotel
Sarah Churchill Beauchamp
President Truman
British West Indies
Commodore
John A. Hannah
Michigan State College
Hannah
Anna Rosenberg
Walter Bedell Smith
Central Intelligence Agency
Smith
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
UN Raiders Press Chinese Lines in Western Front Raid
Allied raiders struck Chinese positions at dawn using flame throwers tanks artillery and air strikes near Panmunjom. Chinese casualties were reported with 35 bodies found and at least 25 more killed or wounded. ROK forces also blew a tunnel mouth at Anchor Hill killing guards and 61 Reds in total.
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Seoul
Panmunjom
U. N
Anchor Hill
Far Eastern Front
Roks
Eighth Army
Wonsan
Redport
Dead Woman Found Stuffed In Auto Trunk
Fresno police probe the death of Rhoda Blackwell 28 found in a car trunk after estranged husband Millard Blackwell 36 of Hanford attempted suicide by truck crash. A note hinted at planned killings and self harm. Authorities located the car in a parking lot. autopsy cites hemorrhages and ruptured liver. The couple had ongoing legal battles and two sons.
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Fresno
Calif
Millard Blackwell
Hanford
Rhoda Blackwell
Negative votes mark Dunn record in state assembly
Columbus report notes Rep. Patrick J. Dunn of Tuscarawas cast two negative votes in the first week of the 100th General Assembly, following a 237 no votes tally in the 99th General Assembly, which he says is a record.
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Columbus
Patrick J. Dunn
Tuscara
General Assembly
Rescuers Seek Lost Troop Special in Idaho Mountains
A sheriff’s posse and air crews from three states comb the Bear Lake region as a twin-engine C46 carrying 37 Korean War veterans and three crew members vanishes near Malad City. A Seattle-to-South Carolina mission, the troop plane’s fate remains unknown amid ongoing search efforts and a concurrent DC4 crash near Issaquah.
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Montpelier
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Seattle
Wash
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Senators Claim Benefits From Filibuster Fight
Senators who opposed the anti filibuster say some gains came from the opening fight though Republicans and Southern Democrats defeated the effort. They aim for victory in a future Congress and seek to modify Rule 22 to lower debate thresholds.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Duff
Hendrickson
Ives
Ruchel
Calif
Tobey
Neely
Eisenhower
Knowland
R-Calif
GOP
White House
Douglas
D-Ii
Second UN Official Quits Post Under Fire
A onetime American Red underground worker and U N documents chief David Zablodowsky resigns from the United Nations amid U S loyalty probes. He follows David Weintraub who quit a day earlier as director of the U N Division on Economic Stability and Development. Both are named on a State Department list of 11 American U N staff labeled as communists or under Communist discipline. Zablodowsky defends his loyalty and says he severed ties with communism long ago while vowing to aid the U N with his departure.
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A. I Goldberg
United Nations
N. Y.P
U. N
Red
U. S
David Zablodowsky
Trygve Lie
David Weintraub
U. N. Division
U. S. State Department
Zablodowsky
U. N. Documents and Publications Division
McCarran Senate
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Chambers
New York
Lie
The
U.N
Weintraub
U S Readying Order To Force Reds To Register
The Subversive Activities Control Board began considering its final order to require the American Communist party to register as Moscow bosssed. Chairman Peter Campbell Brown said the order could be issued in six weeks. Party spokesmen Forer Abt and Marcantonio argued the government failed to prove its case.
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Washington
Subversive Activities Control Board
American Communist Party
Peter Campbell Brown
Joseph Forer
John J. Abt
Vito Marcantonio
Mrs Smith Insanity Defense in Court Martial Murder
In Tokyo the Army psychiatrist testifies Dorothy Krueger Smith was temporarily insane when her husband Col Aubrey Smith was killed. Defense argues instability and sedative abuse while the prosecution cites legal sanity under the court martial rules. The case rests on whether she knew right from wrong at the time of the stabbing and could adhere to it.
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William C. Barnard
Tokyo
U. S. Army
Dorothy Krueger Smith
Rawley E. Chambers
Washington
Far East Command
Chambers
Army
GOP Backing Revamp of VA Veterans Program
A renewed GOP backed campaign on Capitol Hill seeks to expand and reorganize the government veterans program. Proposals include creating a separate Department of Veterans Affairs to replace the Veterans Administration and restoring funding for 16,000 hospital beds cut in 1948 by President Truman. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, newly named chair of the House Veterans Committee, has introduced bills to push both measures.
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Sen
Jenner
R-Ind
Senate Rules Committee
Senate
Congress
Neely
D-Wva
Eisenhower
GOP
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
House
Washington
Capitol Hill
Veterans
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Administration
Truman
Edith Nourse Rogers
Rmass
House Veterans Committee
Chile Death Toll Rises to 52 After Valparaiso Blast
A New Year explosion at a highway department warehouse in Valparaiso, Chile, killed another person yesterday, lifting the total death toll to 52. About 400 people were injured in the blast.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Highway Department
Burning Plane Off Course Carries Seven To Death
A four engine Flying Tiger Airlines DC4, from San Francisco to Boeing Field, crashed near Squak Mountain in a winter storm killing seven aboard including a pilot and co-pilot, two women crew and three passengers. The victims included two children. The wreck occurred about 15 miles east of Seattle as officials reported the plane nosed into a plowed field after flames engulfed it at 500 to 600 feet. Rescue was impossible and witnesses described a bright explosion.
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Seattle
Flying Tiger
Burbank
Calif
Issaquah
Squak Mountain
Bear Lake
Idaho
Pacific Ocean
Jesse Schidegger
Paris
Malad City
Bear Lake County
Gilbert Arnell
Lowry Air Force Base
Denver
Colo
Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Utah
Civil Air Patrol
Marine Adder
Army
Associated Air Transport
San Antonio
Tex
Lawrence Crawford
Maxwell Perkins
Dorothy Davis
California
Here
Memrs
Flying Tiger Airlines
Squak
Boeing Field
Vincent Herlihy
Michael
Charles E. Greber
Wortendyke
N. J
Budlon Merrill
South Pasadena
Warren C. Lowe
Oe Calif
Brookfield
Mayer Drops Schuman From French Cabinet Amid European Plan Doubts
Paris reports that Robert Schuman, key architect of European unity, was left out as Rene Mayer formed a new French cabinet. Georges Bidault becomes foreign minister, stirring concern over Europe defense plans and the fate of a European army amid Gaullist resistance and Bonn’s reaction.
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Paris
Robert Schuman
Rene Mayer
Georges Bidault
Schuman
France
Germany
Mayer
Sty
Charles de Gaulle
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
NCAA Committee OKs Bowl Games
The Extra Events Committee told the NCAA convention that football bowl games should continue. A 63 page analysis supported the bowl system, showing college presidents opposed to bowls 5-3, while the committee urged keeping bowl games going.
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NCAA
Washington
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Television Committee urges tight 1953 football telecasts
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's Television Committee today recommended strict controls on televising football games in 1953.
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Washington
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Costa Rica Quakes Injure Twelve in Coastal Limon
Twelve people were injured in a sequence of powerful earthquakes striking Costa Rica. The tremors toppled structures and caused fires along the coast of Limon province, authorities reported yesterday in San Jose.
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Costa Rica
San Jose
Limon
Just Lucky Misses Korean Veterans Flight
Pfe Ernest Kinsey of Madison Florida narrowly avoided being on a missing C46 transport that vanished with 37 Korean veterans en route from Ft. Lawton Washington to Ft. Jackson South Carolina. Kinsey, next on the loading list, said it was just luck he survived while his fellow soldiers remain unaccounted.
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Salt Lake City
Pfe
Ernest Kinsey
Madison, Fla
Kinsey
Army
Ft. Lawton
Wash
John F. King
Goldsboro
N. C
Idaho
Wyoming
Ft. Jackson
S. C
John W. Kinard Jr
Monticello
Kindeey
Kinard
Cpl
Thomas H. Lee
Elizabeth City
Swedish Ship Split In Two In Pacific Storm
A Swedish tanker named S. S. Avanti split in half in hurricane force winds of 50 to 70 mph in the North Central Pacific. Eleven men on the rear part survived, while eight on the forward section and 21 on a lifeboat drifted. The British freighter King Edgar and Panamanian freighter Santadespo reportedly drifted out of control. A lumber schooner Cyclone Olson jettisoned cargo and headed toward San Francisco after seeking aid. The Avanti's SOS was received by Globe Wireless.
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San
North Central Pacific
Cynethia Olson
Oregon
San Fransico
Globe Wireless
Pacific
Ohio GOP unveils highway and tax plan for state program
The Ohio Legislature's GOP leadership released a broad policy statement ahead of Gov. Lausche's State of the State address. Proposed: a 750 million dollar highway bond issue, federal shifts to fuel tax funding, new highway safety department, and use of surplus funds to tackle highway costs. Also backed are prison reform, school funding aims, farm telephone service, and minimum 25 dollar weekly workers compensation. plus a realistic revenue and expenditure outlook for the state.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
GOP
Lausche
General Assembly
Ray C. Buss
C. Stanley Mechem
Senate
House
William Sax
Highway Safety
Highway Patrol
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Drivers’ Financial Responsibility Law
Department of Highways
General Revenue Fund
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Taft
F i
Dollar Atomic Energy
Pike County
Mechem
Saxbe
School Foundation
State Utilities Commission
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Mt. Vernon
Ill
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Sheriff's Posse
John Chadwick
U.S
Charles Rogers
Los Angeles
F. L. Thomas
Rogers
Janet Woodmansee
Santa Monica
E. K. McLinden
Kelly
Gary
McLinden
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