Remembering Frank Noel and wartime photo triumphs
The article honors war photographer Frank Noel, praised for courage and clear combat imagery from Burma to Korea. It recalls his front-line work with Marines, his Pulitzer winning 1943 Water photo, and his long AP career across the Mediterranean, near east, Germany, then Korea before returning with exclusive pictures.
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Reds
Frank
Burma
Germany
Palestine
Greece
Marines
Hamhung
Changjin
Noel
Singapore
Calcutta
Indian Ocean
Associated Press
Kansas City Star
The
Oklahoma City News
Wichita Eagle
Mediterranean
Near East
Pappy Noel
Attlee Arrives in Washington for Critical Talks
Attlee and a British goodwill delegation lands in Washington to meet President Truman and discuss Korean war policy, world security, and potential talks with the Soviet Union. Officials say the alliance must stay intact amid war tensions as Attlee seeks broad cooperation with Truman and Pleven while wary of concessions to Communists.
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Oliver Franks
Attlee
Truman
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
Acheson
Lruman
London
Washington
Atlantic Alliance
Rene Pleven
Korea
Red China
Soviet Union
United Nations
Russia
Big Four
Foreign Ministers Council
Army-Navy
Philadelphia
State Acheson
Defense Marshall
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Charles Ross
Pentagon
Marshall
Bradley
W. Averell Harriman
Blair House
State Department
U. S
James Webb
Alfred M. Gruenther
Army
Taxes and spending drive scramble in postwar session
Congressional leaders push a large 4 billion dollar excess profits tax with 75 percent rate when profits exceed the 1946 49 average while alternatives and milder plans loom. Hearings begin as Truman seeks 17 85 billion for national defense and rent control extends briefly amid turf fights over Yugoslavia aid and Alaska Hawaii statehood.
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Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate
Truman
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Tito
Yugoslavia
Alaska
Hawaii
House Banking Committee
House Foreign Committees
Gift of Love and Chains Across Christmas Sacrifice
A tale contrasts a husband selling his watch to buy a hair comb for his wife and her sacrificing her hair to buy him a watch chain. The lesson centers on love and giving. The piece then highlights community charitable efforts by Good Fellows, Pine Grove Demonstration Club, and a needy family seeking aid from readers.
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O. Henry
Monroe
Pine Grove
Chinese forces arm with artillery as Nationalist arms fall to Reds
The report notes Ho’s forces aided by Chinese allies receive artillery, leaving Vietnam border outposts vulnerable. Most U S weapons captured from Nationalists as they retreat. From V J Day to Chiang Kai-shek’s Formosa withdrawal, U S aid totals about 1 billion dollars. Vast inventories of rifles, machine guns, mortars, and ammo were lost or captured, with estimates that 80 percent of Nationalist American equipment ended up with Communists. By late 1948, about 400,000 rifles were surrendered in five months, enabling Communist divisions south of the Yalu.
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U. S
Chiang Kai-Shek
Formosa
United States
Yalu River
Fire kills three children and woman in Maryland home
In Emmittsburg Maryland Mrs Grace Elizabeth Wills and her three young children died in a second floor blaze caused by an oil stove explosion. George Bernard Wills 27 and two brothers escaped from the first floor as Carroll Wills tried to reach the trapped family before leaping from a second story window. Richard Bernard 6 Roland Eugene 3 Charles Edward 1 were the victims.
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Emmittsburg
Grace Elizabeth Wills
George Bernard Wills
Carroll Wills
Richard Bernard
Roland Eugene
Charles Edward
Fair Enough: Incident Overbearing Manners At Office
Miss Stuart recalls a man snatching a telephone to prevent talk with Lipschutz's associate. She describes Sheldon as overbearing and rude, resigning due to humiliation. Sheldon, calling himself professor, heads Lipschutz’s anti Nazi League and once taught at Boston University.
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Miss Stuart
James H. Sheldon
Lipschutz
League
Sheldon
Society
Boston University
New York
Underworld
Tammany Totalitarians
Fire destroys building near den during cold Mardi Gras
A small building beside the den burned after intruders seeking shelter from the sudden cold. Safety Commissioner Bernard J. McCloskey called it a catastrophe for Mardi Gras and remarked it would be hard to imagine Rex Mardi Gras without the parade’s iconic figure.
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New Orleans
Bernard J. McCloskey
Rex
Daughter born to singer Mario Lanza in Hollywood
Hollywood, Dec. 4. A baby girl, eight pounds, was born last night to Mrs. Betty Lanza, wife of concert and film singer Mario Lanza. The infant will be named Elissa. The couple already has a two-year old daughter, Colleen.
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Hollywood
Betty Lanza
Mario Lanza
Elissa
Colleen
Bids Tabulated On Road Projects In Seven Parishes
Baton Rouge Louisiana highway department announces bid tabulations for seven parish road projects. Apparent low bidders include J L Jones and Co for Bienville six miles with a reinforced deck girder bridge at 253 515. Newsom Brothers and J M W Snowden for Jackson parish line highway at 189 528. Le Blanc Brothers for Orleans Jefferson asphalt 5 miles at 142 660. LaSalle for 7 miles of routes 57 and C-2184 asphalting.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Department
Bienville
Bienville-Bryceland
J. L. Jones and Co., Inc
Winn
Jackson Parish Line
Newsom Brothers & J. M. W. Snowden
Columbia
Miss
Orleans and
Jefferson
LeBlanc Brothers
Nations ask adding China intervention item to UN agenda
A six nation telegram to the UN secretary-general from Cuba Ecuador France Norway the United Kingdom and the United States requests the fifth regular session include the subject The intervention of the central Peoples government of the People's Republic of China in Korea on the assembly agenda as an urgent question.
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Cuba
Ecuador
France
Norway
United Kingdom
United States
General Assembly of the
United Nations
Honor Assembly
Assembly
Central Peoples’ Government
People’s Republic of China
Korea
Five Indicted 57 In All War Report At Front
Gurfein says a force from Koto tried to reach Hagaru but was hit by Chinese fire and scattered. Some returned. others were captured two days earlier. A night report said two trucks with lights toward Koto from Hagaru, but it was unclear if they were Chinese. Tungsten filaments emerge in modern light bulbs.
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Goebbels
Dachau
Buchenenwald
Sheldon
Lipschutz
New York
David Dubinsky
Garment Workers’ Union
Mahan
Ehrenberg
United Nations
Buchanan Committee
Congress
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Gurfein
Koto
Hagaru
Free Book Promises Help for Rheumatism in Excelsior Springs
Excelsior Springs Missouri promotes a free book on arthritis and rheumatism titled Rheumatism. It claims the Ball Clinic has helped thousands over three years and argues drugs offer only temporary relief. Readers can request the book without obligation by writing to The Ball Clinic Dept. 3792.
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Excelsior Springs
Ball Clinic
Missouri
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