Taft blast rocks Eisenhower labor pick unrest in party
Senator Taft denounces Eisenhower's choice of Martin Durkin for labor secretary as a Democrat union official who favors repealing Taft Hartley. The confrontation hints at possible friction within the incoming Republican administration and signals potential clashes over the Taft Hartley law and cabinet selections.
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Washington
Robert A. Tait
Eisenhower
Congress
Truman
Ohio
Martin P. Durkin
Labor Post
Taft
GOP
Durkin
City Council set to tackle 35 items Thursday
The Brnem city council will meet at 7 p.m. in City Hall to consider routing matters and reports from City Manager Robert C. Violette. He plans to seek approval to close offices after Christmas and New Year holidays and discuss low water service installation costs and a new ordinance making consumers pay for equipment between their property and water mains. First readings include ordinances on night parking and Chapel Street parking, with winter restrictions from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. to aid snow removal.
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Brnem
Tomorow
Robert C. Violette
Violette
Oo Bdve
Chapel Street
Flight Engineers Return to Work in Miami Strike Ends
Eastern Air Lines resumes some Constellation flights in Miami and orders striking flight engineers to return by 2 p.m. EST or face termination.
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Miami
Fla
Eastern Air Lines
Constellation
India Pushes Peace Plan for Korea at United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly is set to approve India's four power plan with a fifth power umpire to oversee prisoner repatriation in Korea. Western and neutral nations solidly back the measure despite Soviet bloc opposition and China's abstention.
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United Nations
India
Korea
U. N. General Assembly
China
U. N
Stevenson Truman Meet to Discuss Future of Party
Adlai Stevenson and Harry Truman meet in the White House to review the Democratic Party and plan its future. Talks focus on why the party lost to Eisenhower in 1952 and Stevenson's role, with Mitchell signaling Stevenson as active titular leader while party policy shifts toward Congress and local leaders.
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Stevenson
Truman
Washington
Adlai Stevenson
Harry Truman
White House
Dwight Eisenhower
Winois
Atlantic City
N. Y
CIO
Philip Murray
Democratic Party
Stephen A. Mitchell
Mitchell
Congress
Democratic National Committee
Dulles Promises Thorough Study of Many Angles
John Foster Dulles, named future secretary of state, vows the foreign service will be protected as a non partisan career group. He says many angles must be locked into and thoroughly studied as he met with Acheson and plans to discuss U.S. foreign policy with Bruce and others. Critics have accused Communists in the department.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Eisenhowers
Foreign Service
United States
Dulles
Acheson
Pentagon
Defense Lovett
John Allison
Far East
David Bruce
Bruce
U.S
Sen
McCarthy R
Concord State Education Budget Seeks 60 Percent Increase
The New Hampshire Education Department requests a 60 percent biennial budget hike totaling 1,755,000 above the current allocation. The plan covers the 100 percent school aid formula and adds subsidies for teacher colleges, with a $7.14 million total. hearings progress as 43 departments seek higher funds, with later sessions set for Thursday.
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State Education Department
Hugh Gregg
Hitton C. Buley
Plymouth
Keene
Buley
Welfare Department
Gregg
Wilson Defeated in Rochester City Election Shock
Rochester voters chose W John Shaw over Republican Councilman George Wilson 1913 to 1775 in the municipal contest. Shaw, also chairman of the Democratic city committee, had earlier failed in a 1944 bid for mayor against retiring Mayor C Wesley Lyons.
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Rochesid
John Shaw
Democratic City Committee
Shaw
George Wilson
C. Wesley Lyons
Two Gunmen Rob Bank Teller in Somerville Heist
Two men slugged a bank teller in Somerville Massachusetts stealing 5640 from a working cash bag near the Winter Hill Federal Savings and Loan Association. The teller Thomas Mackey 53 identified as the victim. Police described the incident as an armed street robbery near the Middlesex County National Bank.
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Somerville
Mass
Winter Hill Federal Savings and Loan Association
Thomas Mackey
Middlesex County National Bank
Unclear blaze strikes UNH Cowell Stadium scoreboard
Durham reports the UNH scoreboard burned to the ground early Tuesday, leaving ash and burned foundations. Officials including Stearns and Leavitt caution official causes pending investigation while rumors and guesses circulate among students and town residents.
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Durham
Cowell Stadium
University of New Hampshire
Fortsmouth Herald
William Stearns
Harold Leavitt
UNH
Carl Lundholm
Carroll Nash
Benjamin Thomas
Richard C. Bouley
The
New Hampshire
Dominic Shrudtu
Stearns
Clarence Boston
Thomas
Leavitt
Lundholm
Reuther presses anti election fight for CIO presidency
Atlantic City reports an ongoing CIO leadership scramble after Walter Reuther appears poised to win the presidency but Allan Haywood and the Haywood faction refuse to quit. Memorial session honors Philip Murray as voting for officers set for tomorrow amid talks of constitution changes to prevent Auto Workers domination. Gov. Adlai Stevenson is slated as a speaker.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
Reuther
Allan S. Haywood
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illnois
Haywood
Staywood
United Auto Workers
Mobilization Chief Rules Out Early Curbs on Controls
Mobilization boss Henry H. Fowler said price wage and production controls will stay in force under the Truman administration and that scrapping them now would be a grave mistake. He dismissed reports Truman was studying decontrol and overruled a steel industry bid to ease allocations early next year.
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Washington
Henry H. Fowler
Truman
Fowler
Sen. Maybank
DSC
Congress
Dwight Eisenhower
Steel
Water Survey Planned for Base
Army Engineers will conduct field water studies between Portsmouth and the Pudding Hill section of Madbury over the next weeks. Rights of entry will be sought from private property owners as part of a statewide plan to ensure Portsmouth area communities avoid water loss.
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Portsmouth Air Force Base
Army Engineers
Boston
Portsmouth
Pudding Hill
Madbury
New Hampshire
Helping Hand for Santa Aides Portsmouth Needy Children
Three groups coordinate Christmas toy drive for Portsmouth youngsters. Marine Reserve unit at Camp Langdon will collect and distribute toys, Navy Reservists at Portsmouth Naval Base will repair items, and a teen group the Ulti de Charity Workers will handle repairs at the Community Center with toy pickups at 141 Madison St. The Family Welfare Department provides children's names, while fire officials step back due to duties. Call 1438 or 2965 for pickups.
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Marine Reserve
Camp Langdon
Portamouth Naval Base
Morgan W. Willis
Madison St
Willia
Fire Department
Family Welfare Department
Solon Demands Carb on Space Given Editorials
Washington lawmakers clash over Rep. Clare Hoffman proposal to restrict editorial space for political candidates in newspapers. Committee chair Boggs and others condemn the idea as unconstitutional and impractical, while Hoffman defends it as a limit on biased editorials. Detroit Free Press editor John Knight dismisses Hoffman's plan.
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Solon
Washington
Congress
Clare E. Hoffman
R-Mich
House
Hoffman
Boggs
D-La
Rep
Keating
New York
Karsten
D-Mo
Rep. McCulloch
Ohio
Noffman
John Knight
Detroit Free Press
Arthur Summerfield
Republican National Committee
Eisenhower
Suspected Reds Targeted in U S Investigation
Atty Gen McGranery ordered a grand jury probe into Owen Lattimore Johns Hopkins professor and former State Department adviser over testimony on Far East policy. Similar action eyed against John P Davies Jr deputy adviser in West Germany. Irving P Schiller said he is not a Communist but refused to confirm party membership.
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Washington
Atty
MclGranery
Owen Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
State Department
Lattimore
Senate
Far East Polity
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Justice Department
John P. Davies Jr
Davies
U.S
West Germany
New York
Irving P. Schiller
Schiller
United Nation
Geneva
Communist Party
Water Service Restored After Main Break Repairs
Service resumed in the Heights area after crews repaired an eight inch water main break under the North MUI Pond bridge on Maplewood Avenue. Cold weather and ground settlement caused the break which disrupted supply to the Atlantic Heights and Maplewood Avenue areas last night around one o'clock.
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Tmpoygs
Maplewood Avenue
Mui Pond
Atlantic Heights
Million Dollar Plant Proposed on Newington Site
A $1,000,000 manufacturing plant may be built on Dover Road in Newington near Louis de Rochemont’s property. The Planning Board held a preliminary hearing to rezone the land from residential to industrial while keeping the company’s name secret. Neighbors protested the secrecy. officials promised a subsequent public meeting and noted the project would include a one-story facility with landscaping, a hospital, cafeteria, and parking for about 600.
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Newington
Planning Board
Dover Road
Louis de Rochemont
Stillman’a. Packard
Thomas B. Heavner
deRochemont
Seth Gardner
Packard
de Rochemont
Leavitt Moulton
Piscataqua River
Moulton and Gardner
Moulton
Fox Point
Dover Roads
Gardner's
Bean's Hill
South Koreans Regain Positions In Wild Fighting
South Korean troops regained most forward positions on Pinpoint Hill after a heavy dawn assault by Chinese forces on the 155 mile front. The Reds launched their heaviest attack since Nov 14, fought hand to hand in near zero weather, and briefly held Allied caves before counterattacks by US and ROK forces restored the crest. Air and artillery strikes hit enemy supply lines and trenches, with B26 bombers destroying trucks and Superforts targeting Pyongyang airfield.
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Seoul
Roks
U. S. Eighth Army
Rocky Point
Pinpoint Hill
Okinawa
Pyongyang
Prisoner Escapes Naval Base Brig To Kittery
Pfc Michael T Genchur USMC of Turtle Creek Pa escaped from the Ports mouth Naval Base brig last night by climbing a window, rowing a flat bottom boat across Locke's Cove to Kittery, and fleeing. Base officials and police conducted a wide search as a red 1948 jeep theft near Locke's Cove was investigated. Genchur faces a court martial for AWOL after a radio theft charge in Dover.
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Portsmouth Naval Base
Locke’s Cove
Kittery
Michael T. Genchur
USMC
Turtle Creek
Dover
Leon N. Blair
USN
Genchur
Brig
Blair
Gendar
Naval Base
Marine Barracks
Naval
FBI
Harley Remick
Locke's Cove
Maine
New Hampshire
Gencar
Wolfeboro
Strafford County Superior Court
Five Hunters Fined for Elk Confusion in Claremont
Five hunters from Claremont and Wilder faced $50 fines after claiming elk were deer during a closed season. Judge Albert D. Leahy noted his Elks ties, saying a $100 fine with $50 suspended was recommended, and praised the hunters for alerting the state officer and helping remove the elk.
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Claremont
Albert D. Leahy
Elks Club
Elks Organicization
Robert Cote
Paul E. Lambert
Donald A. Eaton
Edward Bebean
Richard
Wilder
Leahy
Jesse Scott
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Rochester
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