Czechs Execute Rudolf Slansky and 10 Reds
Vienna report notes Rudolf Slansky once led the Czechoslovak Communist party and was hanged with ten others at Prague Pankrac prison. Eight of the executed were Jews. The purge targets Stalinist leaders, signaling a broader crackdown across satellites and perhaps the USSR.
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VIENNA
Austria
Rudolf Slansky
Communist party
Joseph Stalin
Prague
Pankrac
Slansky
Vlado Clementis
Klement Gottwald
USSR
soviet union
Ukraine
Romania
Ana Pauker
Fowler Rules Out Early Decontrols
Mobilization head Henry H. Fowler said controls will stay in force while the Truman administration is in power and warned it would be a grave mistake to scrap price, wage, and production controls now. He emphasized this is his personal view unless President Truman publicly repudiates it, and noted ongoing administration alignment with retaining control.
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WASHINGTON
Henry H. Fowler
Truman
Fowler
Sen. Maybank
DS.C
congress
Dwight Eisenhower
Missing Plane Search Resumes in California Mountains
SAN BERNARDINO Cal You Air search parties take off at dawn to resume the hunt for an air force transport believed down Monday night in the San Bernardino mountains with 13 men aboard The twin engine C 47 vanished amid a fierce storm while ferrying personnel from Offutt AFB Omaha to March AFB near here
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SAN BERNARDINO
Cali
San Bernardino mountains
Offutt air force base
Omaha
Neb
March air force base
here
Dock Inquiry Hears of Gifts to ILA Leaders
New York reporters reveal cash gifts by Frank W. Nolan head of Jarka corp to AFL ILA president Joseph P. Ryan and other officials as the state crime commission opens a waterfront rackets probe. Gifts included 100 dollar Christmas pledges 1947 to 1951 and 20000 in government bonds to Walter Wells Isthmian Steamship head. The panel notes seven billion dollar port activity and alleged dock crime losses of 350 million annually while a court blocks public release of Nolan testimony pending further hearings.
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NEW YORK
AFL International Longshoremen’s association
Joseph P. Ryan
New York state crime commission
Ryan
Frank W. Nolan
Jarka corporation
Walter Wells
Isthmian Steamship co
Nolan
New York City
Sidney Sugarman
Sugarman
Roggeveen
ILA international
Ryan - Harry Hasselgren
Walter Holt
Italy Holds Grand State Funeral for Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Rome escorts Vittorio Emanuele Orlando to one of Italy’s largest state funerals since World War II. Orlando, last of the World War I big four, died Monday night at age 92 in the capital.
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ROME
Italy
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Grand Jury Slams U N Reds Infiltration Probe
New York December report by a federal grand jury faulted the State Department for clearing disloyal officials and suggested departmental pressure to suppress findings. The panel warned of a planned infiltration pattern into U.N. staff and urged a new jury to continue the inquiry. U.S. Senate security subcommittee and Sen. Herbert O Conor considered the report in ongoing hearings. The jury announced no indictments and did not name individuals.
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NEW YORK
U.S. state department
United Nations
grand jury
state department
Washington
U.N
department
U.S. senate internal security subcommittee
Herbert O'Conor
D-Md
O'Conor
federal grand jury
David N. Edelstein
U.S
Railroad Fare Hike Supported
The Interstate Commerce Commission recommended a 10 percent passenger fare increase for Western railroads led by Southern Pacific and Missouri Pacific. Basic coach rates would rise from 2.5 to 2.75 cents per mile, sleeping and parlor car rates from 3.5 to 3.85 cents per mile, and minimum one way fares from 15 to 20 cents. The examiner cited deficits since 1946 to justify the hike.
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WASHINGTON
interstate commerce commission
Western railroads
Southern Pacific
Missouri Pacific system
A. T. Palmer
Heavy Snow Disrupts Northeast With Fatalities
Wet heavy snow struck the northeast from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island. It caused at least three deaths and widespread traffic jams. Schools closed across many communities as conditions deteriorated.
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NEW YORK
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Untimely Arrival of Twins Gives Mother Party Problem
MEMPHIS Tenn Dec 3 Mr and Mrs Giles Chumney are parents of twins born on different days The little girl greeted the world at 1147 Monday night Her brother lagged along until 1202 yesterday morning You can see right off what a problem that presents when they celebrate their birthdays But Mrs Chumney quickly solved it To start their birthday party a little before midnight to get my daughter in and continue through for my bey
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MEMPHIS
Tenn
Giles Chumney
Stevenson Truman Talk Party Future
Stevenson and Truman meet at the White House to discuss the Democratic party's future after the 1952 loss to Eisenhower. The talks focus on Stevenson’s role, Mitchell’s leadership, and how the party will shape policy and messaging as the minority in Congress.
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Stevenson
Truman
WASHINGTON
Adlai Stevenson
Harry 5S
White House
Dwight Eisenhower
Illinois
Mitchell
Democrats
congress
national committee
Campaign Talks Palled and Election Law Debate
Washington December 3 A SPIA spokesman told a congressional committee that the public has grown fed up with campaign oratory and many are turning off political programs. Ralph W Hardy of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters testified alongside AFL official James L McDevitt University of Michigan professor James K Pollock and Citizens for Eisenhower chair Walter Williams The witnesses urged broader disclosure of political expenditures and revised federal election laws for primaries and conventions while noting current laws are inadequate and offer no concrete fixes.
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WASHINGTON
SPIA
congressional
Ralph W. Hardy
National Association of Radio and Television broadcasters
house
James L. McDevitt
Labor
League for Political Education
AFL
James K. Pollock
University of Michigan
Walter Wiliams
Citizens for Eisenhower committee
McDevitt
Pollock
Williams
U. S. Auto Parts Bound for Reds
Singapore December 3 sixty seven cases of motor car spare parts mainly American were seized today from the 8079 ton British freighter Benavon bound for Hong Kong The spares valued at 400000 Straits dollars about 132000 U S dollars were believed destined for Communist China and included spark plugs electrical equipment brakeshoes and maintenance spares all new.
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SINGAPORE
Benavon
Hong Kong
U. S
China
President Creates Emergency Board Over Dunkirk Steel Strike
President Truman formed an emergency Taft-Hartley board to halt a CIO steelworkers strike at American Locomotive Co. Dunkirk plant in North Carolina. The plant supplies materials for atomic energy facilities and other LOCOMOTIVE strikes affect two other plants, but the order targets Dunkirk only.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
CIO
American Locomotive co
Dunkirk
N. C
White House
Germans Open Treaty Debate
Bonn Germany December 3 The West German Bundestag opened a three day debate on final ratification of Bonn's treaty with the alliance with the free Worm.
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BONN
Germany
Bundestag
over house
Taft May Force Grim Clash Over Durkin Labor Pick
Sen Robert Taft assailed Eisenhower's choice of Martin Durkin for labor secretary calling it incredible Taft hinted of an all out battle in the new GOP administration over Taft Hartley law and Durkin's union ties Durkin, president of the AFL Plumbing and Pipefitting union, said repeal is not imminent but he would back efforts to amend the law and maintain core Taft Hartley principles.
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WASHINGTON
Robert A. Taft
Eisenhower
congress
Truman
Ohio
Martin P. Durkin
Taft
capitol
Durkin
T-H
United Association of Journeymen
AFL Plumbing and Pipefitting International union
AFL plumbers union
Adlai E. Stevenson
Pinpoint Hill Battle Shifts on Korean Front
South Korean troops retook Pinpoint hill after a bitter engagement that lasted about eight hours. A counterattack forced the Communists from the crest on Sniper ridge. U S F-86 jets downed two MiG-15s over the Chongchon river in the only major ground action reported.
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SEOUL
Pinpoint hill
Judge Reserves Rosenberg Ruling in Spy Convictions
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan reserved decision on motions to invalidate the Rosenbergs convictions. The hearings occurred as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg faced electrocution the week of January 12 after their condemned status was upheld.
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NEW YORK
Sylvester J. Ryan
Julius
Ethel Rosenber
Ryan
Chicago Writer Indicted Again Over Secret Testimony
Ray Brennan, Chicago Sun-Times reporter, was indicted again on charges of posing as a government official to obtain secret senate crime investigators testimony. The new grand jury indictment includes two counts alleging false representation as senate crime investigating committee office manager to obtain Captain Dan Gilbert’s testimony transcript, valued at about fifteen dollars.
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WASHINGTON
Ray Brennan
Chicago Sun-Times
senate
Brennan
Anderson reporting company
senate crime investigating committee
Chicago
Dan Gilbert
Gilbert
Alderson reporting company
Casualties in Korea rise to 127 383 in U S update
Washington dispatch reports U S battle casualties in Korea totaling 127 383 as of today, an increase of 386 from the prior week. The count reflects ongoing combat losses and follows recent reporting on engagements across the peninsula.
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WASHINGTON
U. S
Korea
Woman Takes Plows For Cigarette Request
In Pampa Texas a county line woman, snowbound for two days, nagged county commissioner Bill Graham for help. He led plows to her home in a jeep, where she rushed to him and asked for a cigarette, saying she had not smoked in two days.
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PAMPA
Tex
Dic
Bill Graham
Graham
Dulles Pledges Job Protections for Loyal Servants
John Foster Dulles, named next secretary of state, told the State Department that loyal government workers have nothing to fear under the Eisenhower administration and that the foreign service will be protected as a non partisan career group. He added that many angles must be looked into very thoroughly.
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WASHINGTON
John Foster Dulles
state department
Eisenhower
foreign service
United States
Dulles
Secretary of State
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Pentagon
Defense Lovett
John Allison
David Bruce
Bruce
U. S
department
Floor Fight For CIO Post on Convention Floor
Atlantic City N J December 8 Forces opposed to Walter P Reuther move to the convention floor as Reuther appears assured to win any open showdown Allan Haywood CIO executive vice president leads the opposing CTO unions The convention shifts to a memorial session for late Philip Murray with Gov Adlai Stevenson slated as speaker in the afternoon
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ATLANTIC CITY
N. J
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
Reuther
CTO
Allan
Haywood
Reds Say Cis Ask Asylum
Berlin dispatch reports the Red zone news agency ADN says three American soldiers fled to the Soviet zone seeking political asylum. One identified as Philip Morand has reportedly been granted asylum, with no details on date or location of desertion. The agency previously claimed two soldiers, George Smith and Carl Thomas Blake, renounced their U.S. citizenship and remained behind the iron curtain.
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BERLIN
ADN
Red zone
Philip Morand
east zone
George Smith
Carl Thomas Blake
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