Ingenious Conelrad system to keep radio on air in attack
The White House announced a new Conelrad plan to keep AM stations on an emergency wavelength during an alert. Stations will reduce power and broadcast on 640 or 1240 kilocycles with no call letters, while FM and TV must sign off. Over 1,000 stations have volunteered and invested about 1.5 million dollars.
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Washington
White House
Broadcasting, Industry
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Staon
Reuther Victory Appears Certain In CIO Battle
Walter P. Reuther, 45, head of the United Auto Workers, seems certain to win the CIO presidency. Two unions pledged support, boosting his total past the 2.8 million threshold as the CIO convenes in Atlantic City for the final vote. Haywood supporters vow to press the issue on the convention floor.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
CIO
Reuther
Rubber Workers
Oil Workers
Allan S. Haywood
Philip Murray
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Civil Defense
James J. Wadsworth
Haywood
David MacDonald
Steel Workers Union
John L. Lewis
Murray
Auto Workers
Bond Voting Light in Odessa Polls Open Till Seven
Voters in Odessa faced a low turnout in the citys large bond election with about 100 ballots cast in the first four hours of an 8 AM to 7 PM voting period. Propositions include water system and sewer upgrades, fire department expansion, street work, and park improvements, with no guaranteed tax rate increase though valuation adjustments possible.
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Odessa
Eastside Fire Station
City Hall
West Third
North Lincoln
Southside Fire Station
Old City Hall
West 10Th
North Washington
Texas and Pacific
Southside
North Grant
Eastside
West Tenth
Andrews and
Kermit Highway Y
Crown Street
Mgr
Dick Pepin
Poisoned Brandy From Peoples Plant Kills and Blinds in Berlin
Der Tag reports a wave of deaths and blindness in the Soviet sector of Berlin due to poisoned brandy from a "peoples owned" plant. The paper did not provide a death toll.
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Berlin
West Berlin
der Tag
Four Wrecks No Injuries On Traffic Safety Day
Odessa police reported four minor traffic mishaps from midnight Sunday to midnight Monday with no injuries during Traffic Safety Day and the December Traffic Safety Month proclamation by Mayor Fred Gage. Sergeant Buhn noted accidents average three to five daily and up to 12 to 15 in bad weather. November saw 129 accidents with 22 injuries and $49 000 in auto damage.
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Odessa
Fred Gage
M. L. Buhn
Buhn
Communists Outnumber U S Air Forces in Far East
General Hoyt S. Vandenberg stated that in the Far East the Communists now outnumber U S aircraft by at least three to one in combat ready planes. He said the numerical edge has not yet caused the U N forces in Korea significant trouble under the observed limitations.
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Washington
Chinese forces renew bloody fight on Sniper Ridge in Korea
In Korea near Sniper Ridge, a full battalion attacked through heavy snow, reaching 100 yards from the crest before being repulsed by South Korean troops. An American jet ace, 1st Lt. James F. Low, shot down a MIG-15, his seventh destruction in 82 missions.
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James F. Low
Sausalito
Calif
Low
Korea
United States
Rocky Point
Little Finger
Sniper
Roks
No-Man’s-Land
Jury Indicts Wright Patterson Buyer in Fraud Case
A U S grand jury indicted former Wright Patterson Air Force Base civilian buyer Carlton R. Sartoris and Kansas City executive Frank L. Crandell in a $4,355,467 contract fraud case. The trio faces conspiracy against the United States charges stemming from meetings in Kansas City on January 20, 1951 and a signed contract between Sartoris and Crandell's Beaumont and Crandell firm.
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Dayton, O
U. S
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Kansas City
Carlton R. Sartoris
Frank L. Crandell
Beaumont and Crandell
Canvass
Sartoris
Wright - Patterson
Crandell
Odessa Police Report Shows Cleared Crime In November
The Odessa Police Department logged a good November with 1 murder cleared by arrest, 1 rape cleared, 1 robbery uncleared, 4 aggravated assaults with 4 arrests, 25 burglaries and 22 arrests, 7 felony thefts with 5 arrests, 45 misdemeanor thefts with 26 arrests, and 13 auto thefts with 6 arrests.
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Odessa
Slaying Suspect James Cooper Questioned Over Discrepancies
Police report discrepancies in the account of James L. Cooper in the death of his estranged wife, 30, a former TV show host. She was found beaten and choked in their New Orleans apartment after parties. Time lines clash with witnesses and coroner estimates. Cooper denies further questioning.
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New Orleans
James L. Cooper
Cooper
Harry Daniels
John Merritt
Daniels
Orleans Parish
Nicholas J. Chetta
Hes Cooper
Diddie
Rhee Calls for Immediate All-Out War in Korea
President Syngman Rhee pressed for an immediate all-out offensive to drive Chinese Reds from North Korea. He asserted Korea could act without Japanese or Chinese Nationalist troops, doubting Soviet entry, and warned that failure to act risks invasion and death. He criticized Panmunjom talks and rejected the Indian UN truce proposal.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
North Korea
Russia
Soviet Union
Rhee
Yalu River
Kremlin
United States
National Broadcasting Company
U. N
Yalu
Taft denounces Durkin appointment stirring Republican rift
Washington dispatch reports Senator Taft condemning Martin Durkin a Democrat and union official chosen by President-elect Eisenhower for secretary of labor The taft faction questions Senate confirmation and potential changes to the Labor Department as Durkin seeks to strengthen it and adjust the Taft Hartley law while Taft leads the Senate Labor Committee plans to grill nominees.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Martin Durkin
Taft
Eisenhower
Senate
Durkin
IGOP
Afl-Cio
Adlai Stevenson
Republican Party
iGov
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Durking
Labor Department
Federal Mediation Service
Senate Labor Committee
Congress
Labor Committee
Danish Cover Girl Defends Christine
Christine Jorgensen, now a “very natural” woman, discusses her two year hospital journey and adjustment to a new life in Copenhagen. Hanne Sorensen, Miss Denmark 1952, urges friends to support Christine as she faces publicity and personal identity changes.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
George Jorgensen
Bronx
N. Y
Carpenter
Christine Jorgensen
Hanne Sorensen
Christine
Hanne
George
Chris
United Press
Ewan Forbes-Sempill
Forbes-Sempill
Long
Sex Change Said Not Rare At All
Medical authorities in New York said sex change cases are not rare. They reported about 10 similar patients being treated in one hospital and that 20 such cases have been worked on in recent years. Presbyterian Hospital and Johns Hopkins host groups specializing in sex conversion.
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New York
George Jorgenson
Presbyterian Hospital
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore
Air Force C47 Missing Near San Bernardino Mountains
A U.S. Air Force C47 with 13 aboard reportedly crashed at about 8 000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains near Big Bear Lake. Deputy Loring Poleman saw a large fire at two spots, smoke lingered at daybreak, as ground teams from George and March Air Bases searched the area after the plane left Davis Monthan and last radioed near Palm Springs.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Air Force
Loring Poleman
Here
Big Bear Valley
Davis-Monthan Air Base
Tucson
Ariz
March Air Base
Palm Springs
Desert
Psi Springs
Mt. San Jacinto
George Air Base
Victorville
March Air
UN Rejects Russia Korea Peace Resolution at UN
The United Nations political committee rejected Russia's Korean peace proposal and moved the Indian compromise plan forward with a 54 to 5 vote. Lebanon’s late recorded vote supported India, while the Soviet bloc opposed and Nationalist China abstained due to references to the Chinese Communist regime.
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United Nations
N. Y
United Nations Political Committee
Russia
India
Lebanon
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Byelorussia
Ukraine
China
Alton Paris Executed in Texas Electric Chair
Alton Paris, 60, the Black father of 13, was executed at Huntsville for the killing of state wildlife biologist Gus Engeling. He received the first shock at 12:06 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 12:09. Paris confessed shooting Engeling last December after being found hunting on the reserve near Palestine.
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Huntsville
Gus Engeling
Alton Paris
Paris
Asst
Joe Byrd
Byrd
Engeling
Palestine
Roy Herrington
Oil Company
Herrington
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Red Air Force
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