Quick Freeze War Controls Nearly Ready
Washington officials say President Truman may send a separate message to Congress by mid January outlining a rapid freeze plan. The legislation would empower the president to impose price and wage freezes, halt job shifts, impose excess profits taxes, ration scarce goods, and seize vital industries if a foreign attack occurs, with broad manpower controls but not full labor seizure. The National Labor Relations Board staff has provided a tentative draft to Truman and cabinet members.
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Washington
Prident
Truman
JHE
T Pe
Merrow to Meet With Businessmen on Harbor Needs
U S Rep Chester E Merrow to discuss Portsmouth harbor and Piscataqua River needs with local industrialists at the Rockingham hotel on Wednesday. Alan F Redden of the New Hampshire Seacoast Regional Association said the meeting aims to brief Merrow on river and harbor conditions and future industrial water transport plans.
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Merrow
U.S
Chester E. Merrow
Portsmouth Harbor
Piscataqua River
Rockingham Hotel
Alan F. Redden
New Hampshire
Congresman
Townsfolk Aid Stricken Family
Uxbridge Massachusetts residents rush to aid the family of Walter Seagrave a 41 year old truck driver killed in a Westport Connecticut crash on an extra run for Christmas funds. Gifts clothing food and winter provisions pour in from neighbors and friends to outfit the widow and her 13 children while plans to finish renovating their cottage proceed with local officials and Rotary Club funding.
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Uxbridge
Mass
Walter Seagrave
Westport
Conn
Board of Selectmen
Rotary Club
Seagrave
House Probers Seek to Speed Quiz of Witnesses
House un American activities committee races to determine today if the justice department will allow eight key witnesses to be questioned before year end. The panel seeks to add testimony to espionage inquiry reports before Congress opens on Jan. 3. Expected witnesses include Donald Hiss, Mrs Alger Hiss, Elizabeth Bentley, Whittaker Chambers, Henry Julian Wadelligh, Willam Ward Pigman, Franklin Victor Reno, and Hedda Gompers. Francis B. Sayre is not listed as immediate witness though asked to appear Wednesday.
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Washington
Congressional
Justice Department
House un-American Activities Committee
Congress
New York
Communist Party
U. S
Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Mundt
Rs.d
Donald Hiss
Alger
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Henry Julian Wadleigh
Willam Ward Pigman
Franklin Victor Reno
Hedda Gompers
Pigman
National Bureau of Standards
Francis B. Sayre
Sayre
Old Southern Law Costs Yet His Wife Freedom
Ellisville Mississippi December 20 AP A navy veteran white man Davis Knight is convicted of miscegenation under Mississippi law. He faces up to ten years and has filed notice of appeal. Trial focused on Knight ancestry via great-grandmother Rachel linked to Captain Newt Knight. The marriage in 1946 between Knight and his wife was declared void.
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Ellisville
Miss
Paul Swartzfng
Davis Knight
Knight
South Mississippi
Mississippi
Knights
Rachel
Capt
Newt Knight
First Big Storm Hits City Lightly in New England
New England digs out from winter’s first major snowstorm. Portsmouth report 3.5 inches. several local injuries from falls. City crews and private contractors clear streets by dawn. New York City and southern New England hit harder with 19.5 inches in NYC and 16 in New Haven.
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New York
New England
New York City
Grace E. Beane
Lincoln Avenue
Elope Rosen
William T. Foley
High Street
Edward C. Peterson
Peterson
Landers and Griffin, Inc
John Iafolla Store Products Corp
Public Works
Nat S. Stevens
Portsmouth
New Haven
Conn
Tientsin Battles Swirl Over Lifelines
AP reports heavy fighting around Tientsin as Premier Sun Fo forms a no surrender cabinet and seeks an honorable peace. Red forces sever rail and telegraph links between Tientsin and Tangku, isolating Peiping and Tientsin, with Communist artillery targeting the airport and Tangku port lives.
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Wanking
Tientsin
North China
Sun Fo
Red
Tangku
Hai River
Peiping
Postoffice Publishes Revised Holiday Hours
Revision of special holiday hours announced by Postmaster Peter J. Hickey. Stamp and parcel post windows stay open until 8 pm today and tomorrow, then close at 6 pm Wednesday and Thursday. The postoffice will close at 5 o clock Christmas Eve.
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Portsmouth
Peter J. Hickey
Supreme Court Lets Tojo Case Stand and Death Sentences
The Supreme Court, in a 6-1 decision, refused to intervene in the 11 nation tribunal that condemned former Prime Minister Tojo and six other Japanese warlords to death. The court said it had no authority over the tribunal and rejected appeals to review or reverse the sentences. General MacArthur had confirmed the sentences but stayed executions pending the high court ruling.
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Washington
Supreme Court
International Military Tribunal
Tojo
International Tribunal
MacArthur
Ice Tragedy Strikes Salmon Falls Skating Party
In Salmon Falls, 14 year old Robert Dedier drowned after breaking through thin ice on the river while skating with two companions. Richard Dover, 10, and Edgar Crateau, 13, were involved in the rescue attempt. Dover saved Crateau, but Dedier remained beneath the icy water as rescuers chopped through the ice to reach him.
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Robert Dedier
Salmon Falls
Portsmouth
Richard Dover
Edgar Crateau
Richard
Crateau
Ex-Hotel Worker Held in $1,000 On Forgery Count
A 29 year old Northampton man formerly at Camp Langdon New Castle was held on 1000 bail for the April grand jury in Portsmouth municipal court. James V Castagno pleaded guilty to forging a 120 check on Wentworth Hotel Inc using the president James B Smith signature. He was returned from Palm Beach Florida by Sheriff Frink and Deputy Osgood after passing four other checks totaling nearly 400 in local businesses. Castagno employed at the Hotel Wentworth last summer waived examination and probable cause found.
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Northampton
Mass
Camp Langdon
New Castle
Portsmouth
James V. Castagnol
Wentworth Hotel, Inc
James B. Smith
Castagne
Palm Beach
Fla
Simes Frink
Charles B Osgood
Exeter
Frink
Castagno
Smith
James V. Castagno
Hotel
Wentworth
Harry W. Peyser
Kim
Fire Destroys Farm Poultry Complex in Fremont Blaze
Four fire departments battled a pre-dawn snowstorm to quell a blaze at the Kingston road Pettengill poultry farm in Fremont. A barn, 500 chickens, a brooder stove, a truck, an automobile and a cow were lost. Firefighters from Exeter Brentwood Kingston and Fremont faced treacherous roads eight miles to reach the scene. The origin of the blaze could not be determined. a new brooder stove may have posed a hazard but was not installed.
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Fremont
Kingston Road
Laurence ‘Pettengill
Exeter
Brentwood
Kingston
Emedie Beaulieu
Pettengills
Charles York
York
Pettengill
Two Youths Rescued After All-Night Snow Search
Two youths Roger Gauthier age 19 of Epping and William Popham 21 of Haverhill were rescued at 2 30 am by Epping Police Chief Edward Lavoie after a 12 hour exposure in Spruce Swamp during a search for a Christmas tree. The pair, cold and hungry, no longer in possession of the tree, were reported unharmed.
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Fremont
Epping
Edward T. Lavoie
Roger Gauthier
William Popham
Haverhill
Gauthier
Roger
Joseph Gauthier
Lavoie
Spruce Swamp
Britain Adopts Four Year Economic Recovery Plan
London reports Britain will mobilize men money and materials over four years to end the red and reach self sufficiency by 1953. The aim is to be self supporting as the American financed European recovery program concludes.
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London
Britain
Ex-Glo Romeo Slips Jail in Berlin Romance
Ex paratrooper Edward Jd. Lada, jailed for illegal entry in Berlin, disappeared from the U S army stockade after a letter from Ursula Schmidt allegedly upset him His case involves two German girlfriends and a request for visas for Ruth and their baby Russian zone escape advised as difficult for him with no civilian clothes or money.
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N. J
U. S
Lada
Cime
Ursula
Criminal Investigation Division
Germany
Jury Acquits Five Of Revere Bribery Case
In Boston a Suffolk County jury acquitted Council President Charles S. Freeman and four Revere councilmen Andrew M. Cataldo Thomas J. Dawson Jr and Roland Merullo along with real estate operator Benjamin Seigel of 26 bribery and conspiracy counts tied to a 1.25 million veterans housing project. Leonard Ginsburg pleaded guilty and testified as a key witness.
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Boston
Revere
Council
Charless. Freeman
Andrew M. Cataldo
Thomas J. Dawson, Jr
Roland Merullo
Brookline
Benjamin Seigel
TRIAE
Ginsburg
Freeman
Merullo
Cataldo
Dawson
One Youth Hurt Three Shaken Up In Durham Crash
A car left Route 108 in Durham, struck a stone wall and overturned injuring Norman Field 22 of Newton Junction who was hospitalized with a concussion and leg bruises. Alfred W. Isacson, the operator, and William Hammond and George Allen of Durham were shaken up.
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Durham
Route 108
Wentworth Hospital
Dover
Norman Field
Newton Junction
Tag Day Nets $200 For Children
More than $200 was netted Saturday by a tag day conducted to establish a hospitalization fund for needy Portsmouth children. The drive was sponsored by Theta chapter, Beta Sigma Phi.
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Portsmouth
Theta Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Dutch Capture Jogjakarta as Indonesia Leaders Taken
Dutch forces seize the Indonesian capital Jogjakarta in a rapid assault. President Soekarno and premier Hatta are among leaders captured. officers report light Dutch casualties while asserting widespread Indonesian resistance collapsed. Paratroopers also reach Tjepoe and surrounding areas in Java and Sumatra as Dutch troops advance through rubber regions.
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Jogjakarta
Lghtning
Republic
East Java
Tjepoe
Toeran
Malang
Ignae
Sumatra
Java
Solok
Singakarak
Bukittinggi
Medan
Netherlands
Dr. Soekarno
Mohamed Hatta
Agus Salim
Sutan Sjahrir
Soederiman
Pearl Harbor
Railroad Signalman Dies in Seabrook Accidental Collapse
Lawrence Massachusetts man Harold L. Blackington aged 51 collapsed and died Saturday while painting signals for the Boston and Maine railroad near Rocks road Seabrook. Dr Wendell P Clare medical referee ruled natural causes.
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Lawrence
Mass
Seabrook
Boston and Maine Railroad
Harold L. Blackington
Chester Street
Rocks Road
Wendell P. Clare
Rockingham County
State Refuses to Postpone Electricity Rate Hearing
CONCORD December 20 AP A hearing on a request for increased charges by Public Service Company of New Hampshire will not be postponed. Newport selectmen asked for delay to oppose the bid and the hearing will stay open if needed. Attorney General Ernest D Amours may be called to represent Newport. The utility seeks a 450000 annual revenue boost via a fuel surcharge for homes and businesses. large industrial users already pay the surcharge.
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Concord
Public Service Commission
Board of Selectmen of
Newport
Public Service Company of
New Hampshire
Newport Selectmen
Ernest R. D'Amours
D’amours
D'Amours
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Bulger
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Quitman Ross
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Arthur Hersey
Dearborn Street
O'Brien
Helen Quinn
Miller Avenue
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Supreme Court Rules
Glo Romeo
Berlin
Henry Pears Fisher
Archbishop of Canterbury
Felicity Sutton
Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer
St. Thomas More
Chelsea
Trred Superior Court
Leonard Ginsburg
George Fingold
Fingold
Suffolk County Grand Jury
John Does
Richard Rees
Felix Forte
Suffolk County Superior Court
Alfred W. Isacson
Wiliam Hammond
George Allen
Durhana
Capital Falls
Sole Oil Center
Batavia
Tieppe
James Doon
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Kittery
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