National Emergency and Wage-Price Controls Hinted
President Truman spent the day studying the possibility of declaring a national emergency and imposing wage price controls. A presidential broadcast to explain actions was discussed. Keyserling and other officials signaled imminent, selective controls and reliance on production capacity as a main tool, with tax increases as a possible accelerant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
White ‘House
Stephen Early
Pos- Keyserling
Economic Advisory, Council
Keyserling
America
American Militarists Ponder Guerrilla War
Dispatches from the Far East indicate some U S military officials consider Chinese mainland guerrilla operations by Chiang Kai-shek's forces as a possible diversion in the Korean conflict. Estimates of a large nationalist guerrilla force in China are cited, but critics warn of political risk and limited effectiveness. No U S troop invasion of China is advocated.
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Washington
Chiang
Kai-shek
China
White House
Korea
Truman
Russia
Far East
Spencer ‘Moosa
Associated ‘Press
Formosa
Douglas MacArthur
Pentagon
Tulin
South
Gambler Cohen's Attorney Slain Third Pal to Die
Sam Rummel a 52 year old attorney who defended gambler Mickey Cohen was found shot on his front steps in Hollywood. Detectives call it murder under mysterious circumstances with a possible homicide after a brief autopsy. Rummel had been a close Cohen associate and lived in a $50,000 home in Laurel Canyon. This marks the third Cohen intimate killed since 1943, following the shootings of Harry Roth and Edward Herbert in Cohen related incidents.
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Hollywood
Der
Sam Rummel
Mickey Cohen
Suzve Rummel Jong
Cohen
Laurel Canyon
Soco
Harry
Hooky) Rothman
Sunset Strip
MacArthur Tours Front Finds Yanks Undefeated
British troops battled riotous mobs in Singapore as a custody dispute over a white girl intensified unrest. Thousands attacked police and European targets around the Supreme Court and Catholic convent, while armed police blocked access to the sheltered child and mother.
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MacArthur
Yanks
Singapore
Supreme Court
Maria Bertha Nertogh
Bertha
Adeline Hertogh
Aminah
Java
Remick Appointed To Sergeancy In Portsmouth Police
The Portsmouth police commission announces 34 year old patrolman Remick is promoted to sergeant by a narrow exam score lead. Effective January 1 with a $3200 salary, Remick previously served two years as a special officer and has wartime and local police experience. He lives with his wife Elisabeth Prohaska and son Stanton Jr. in Portsmouth.
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Force
Remick
A. Manning Remick
Rye
Julia P. Remick
Mves
Brackett Road
Portsmouth High School
Hislop
Portsmouth Naval “Shipyard
Searhawk Stress
Elisabeth Prohaska
New Castle
Stanton, Jr
Government orders 28 percent cut in natural rubber use
Washington reports the government directed a 28 percent reduction in natural rubber consumption by car tire makers for January and February. The National Production Authority set November levels at 52,000 tons and the combined natural and synthetic rubber use for the month at 90,000 tons.
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Washington
National Production Authority
NPA
Hearing Slated On Bus Transfer In Portsmouth
The New Hampshire Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing at 11 am Friday in the county courthouse in Portsmouth on Boston and Maine Transportation Companys petition to transfer service to Hudson Bus Lines Inc. Pa Tt will be a continuance of 2 desting held recently in Concord.
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New Hampshire Public Service Commission
Portsmouth
Boston and Maine Transportation ‘Company
Hudson Bus Lines Inc
Pa Tt
Concord
Rau to Disclose New Plan for Korean Peace
Sir Benegal Rau expected to reveal a new Korean peace plan at the United Nations in Lake Success. He says an authorized draft peace resolution by 13 Asian states may call for an immediate ceasefire and direct talks, though the U S stance remains firm on UN negotiations.
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Rau
Lake Sucess
Dec
API
India
Sir Benegal N. Rau
Korea
United Nations
China
38Th ‘Parallel
Will
Conti
Munist Governme
U.S
Peiping
Washington
Girl Becomes War Widow at 15 in Tennessee
In Clarksville Tennessee a telegram from the Department of Defense announced that 17 year old Army Private John Lawrence Sullivan was wounded in Korea on November 29 and died two days later. His widow, 15 year old Mrs. Sullivan, who is with her parents in Louisville, is expecting a baby and confined to bed. Her grandmother Mrs Ed Sales of Port Royal notified her of the loss.
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Clarksville
Tenn
John’ Lawrence ‘Sullivan
Department
Defense
Army
Korea
Ed Sales
Port. Royal
Here
Sullivan
Chester K. ‘Decker
Louisville
Decker
Lone Bandit Robs Stratham Garage For $20
A lightly clothed bandit in the Stratham garage threatened owner Carl D. Stockbridge with a cheap revolver and robbed him of about $20 before fleeing in a cream colored car. Police and state troopers searched Route 1 and nearby highways. the suspect, about five feet five inches tall, weighted 165 pounds, was last seen near Drake's Bridge in North Hampton.
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Stratham
Ahin
Radietratinn
Alstac
Carl D. Stockbridge
Portsmouth Avenue
Drake's’ Bridge
North Hampton
Stockbridge
Hatlesa
Stock
Calais
Republicans Split Over Acheson Ouster Move
Republican leaders failed to decide on Senator Ives of New York's bid to declare no confidence in Secretary of State Acheson and demand his ouster. Subcommittees will meet again as debate continues with no forecasted outcome, amid lingering doubts about a formal party call and possible bipartisan policy alternatives.
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Washington
Ives
New York
Senate
Acheson, v
New York Republican
Acheson
Geis
Earl of Essex Marries in Hike to Honeymoon Oddity
The Earl Algernon Capell and his American fiancée Mildred Carlson wed after a Seattle judge waived the three day waiting period. A misread broadcast and court confusion sparked a comic sequence as they set off toward a Tacoma cottage for a moonlit honeymoon.
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Tacoma
Wash
Earl of Essex
Algernon
George’ DeVere Capell
Mildred Carlson
New York
Seattle
Theo
Lcense
Auto Court
New England Hit By Snow and Sleet Storm
Snow and sleet hit northern New Hampshire and Vermont as a larger storm from New York moves away. Burlington reported four inches of snow. Maine expects heavy rain, while Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut may see only light rain. Boston temperatures in the 40s, with near freezing farther north. weather bureau warned of freezing rain and icing in Vermont as a new storm center east of Boston forms and tidal surges ease fears of damage.
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Boston
New Hampshire
Vermont
New England
New York
Burlington
Maine
Maassachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Boston Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
New York City
Marines Fight Way to Escape in Gory Retreat
General MacArthur toured frontline troops in Korea and praised UN morale as 25 000 marines and doughboys finally reached safety after a brutal 50 mile retreat from Changjin reservoir. US forces prepared to defend Hambung beachhead with naval gunfire and air support as Chinese forces mass north of the Manchurian frontier. A separate notice announces optometrist Dr W T Goodrich opening a new office in Newmarket New Hampshire Wednesdays appointments.
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Associated Press
MacArthur
Korea
Tokyo
United Nations
Hame Hung
Changjin Reservoir
United
Nations
Hambung's
Hungnam
Bamhung
Hamburg
U. S
Manchurian
Yalu River
Pyongyang
W. T. Goodrich
Varney Block
Newmarket
N. H
Rochester
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Nebraska
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