Lie Fires Nine Balky Witnesses of Senate Probe
UNITED NATIONS Dec. 5— secretary general Trygve Lie fired nine American employees for refusing to answer McCarran committee questions on communist affiliations and subversive connections. The firings bring to 18 the number dismissed in 1952 for this cause. Lie warned 3,000 staff they face the same fate if they act similarly.
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UNITED NATIONS
N. Y
upP
U.N
Trygve Lie
McCarran committee
Lie
Laie
secretarat
U. N. secretariat
U.S. senate internal security
Sen
Pat McCarran
D-Nevy
U. N
U.S. federal grand jury
world organization
Allies Press Air Attacks In Korean Front Standoff
Allied fighter-bombers pounded Chinese Reds on the central front for a third straight day as U N warplanes operated deep into North Korea. Front action was light with Reds throwing about 40 troops in scattered probes while a U N raiding party hit a western front Chinese outpost and drew back after an estimated 58 enemy deaths. Sub zero weather limited fighting and spotters counted 31 bunkers struck.
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SEOUL
U. N
North Korea
U.N
Model State Laws Proposal Outlined To Curb Crime
Chicago December 5. Model laws aimed at curbing gambling crime event fixing narcotics trafficking and other rackets were outlined to officials at the state meeting. The statutes for the anti crime battle were submitted Thursday to governors legislators and other officeholders at the general assembly. The session opened with a statement from the council of state governments urging careful revision of present day techniques.
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CHICAGO
general assembly of the states
council of state governments
Last of Controls On Clothes to End
Washington reports the government is ready to lift the last price controls on wearing apparel for children and infants. The Office of Price Stabilization has already suspended ceilings on men and young men women and young women clothing accessories and furnishings.
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WASHINGTON
office of price stabilization
OPS
New WSB Head Keeps Controls
Washington December 5 1950 The new Wage Stabilization Board chair Charles C Killingsworth said Truman coal wage decision does not change existing wage rules and urged preserving a functioning program for the new administration He noted coal case sealing as essential and acknowledged industry opposition to changes after Archibald Cox resigned over the $190 daily wage boost for John L Lewis miners.
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WASHINGTON
wage Stabilization board
WSB
Truman
Charles C. Killingsworth
Archibald Cox
congress
Killingsworth
Cox
John L. Lewis
Peace Time Use For H Bomb Seen
Atomic scientist Dr George Gamow outlined how hydrogen bomb materials could be tamed for peaceful uses such as power. He described electricity via a thin wire triggering a slowed down reaction and noted other theoretical methods may exist but did not expand.
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WASHINGTON
Dec
George Gamow
Dock Racketeer Keeps Silence Before Probers
New York December hearing at the state crime commission features Jerry Anastasia a feared waterfront figure and AFL ILA delegate refusing to testify as other labor bosses face graft accusations. Testimony uncovers phantom workers and wages diverted to avoid labor strife as the probe targets a $350 million annual graft impact on the New York shipping industry.
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NEW YORK
Jerry Anastasia
waterfront
Murder, Inc
New York state crime commission
Anastasia
AFL International Longshoremen’s association
Albert
commission
Theodore Kiendl
Joseph J. Petite
Phineas B. Blanchard
Brooklyn
Turner and Blanchard
Blanchard
ILA
Frank Russo
Tony
Thomas Maher
Grace line
Maher
Tim O'Mara
Edward Joseph Ross
O'Mara
Search Party Nears Wreckage on Mt San Gorgonio
A ground party on Mt. San Gorgonio in California expected to reach the C 47 air force crash site missing since Monday with 13 men aboard. Aerial observers had sighted wreckage and bodies near the summit. two searchers reached the scene last night but could not radio contact. The main ground team was to arrive at dawn.
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SAN BERNARDINO
Calif
Mt. San Gorgonio
air force
Communists in Italian Parliament Clash in Brawl
In Rome the lower house erupted after a government backed election law proposal. Dozens fought, with an usher knocked unconscious and deputies sustaining injuries as verbal clashes gave way to punches and chaos. The election amendment remained unresolved.
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ROME
Italy
Palmiro Togliatti
Alcide De Gasperi
Christian Democratic party
Dulles and Acheson Agree on Cooperation Before Inauguration
Washington on December 5 reports that John Foster Dulles and top State Department officials outlined a six week plan to coordinate U S foreign policy between the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Dulles will survey policies and operations before January 20 and may seek a united front if emergencies arise.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
state department
Dulles
U.S
department
United States
Truman administration
Post Office Action On Books Planned
A House committee probing obscene reading matter plans to urge the Post Office Department to act against publishers of objectionable periodicals. Counsel H Ralph Burton said he will deliver to postal inspectors over 50 books and magazines the committee has branded as offensive. More than 80 gir lie magazines pocket-size novels and many comic books were admitted as exhibits this week.
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WASHINGTON
GPI
house
post office department
H. Ralph Burton
Rep. Gathings
D-Ark
Mississippi Soldier Receives Medal of Honor in Korea
Pfc. Mack A. Jordan of Collins Mississippi earned the Medal of Honor for a heroic act on a misty Korean hill last November 15. He protected the withdrawal of comrades and gave his life in the effort. He was 22 years old and the son of Mr and Mrs John W Jordan.
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WASHINGTON
Korea
Mack A. Jordan
John W. Jordan
RFD
Collins
Accused Man Buys Site Of Sentence
Hazlehurst Mississippi December reports Armon Whittington avoids 90 day sentence for liquor in home dry Mississippi by buying Coplah county penal farm at auction. The governing board sold the farm before the appeal ruling in which Whittington was high bidder.
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HAZLEHURST
Misa
Armon Whittington
Coplah county
Whittington
Mississippi
Mrs Truman's Mother Dead
Mrs. David Willock Wallace, mother-in-law of President Truman, died at the White House at 12:35 p m. Eastern Standard Time at age 90 from cerebral thrombosis after several months of illness. Her death comes six weeks before Truman plans to leave the White House and the family will move to Independence Missouri on January 20.
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WASHINGTON
David Willock Wallace
Truman
White House
Independence
Dwight Eisenhower
United States
Mrs. Truman
Mrs. Wallace
Report Calls for Higher Moral Standards in Justice Dept
Congressional investigators urge stiffer laws and stricter ethics to curb what they call the Washington conscience among lawyers in the Justice Department. The House judiciary subcommittee faults fee splitting bribes and double dealing while exempting Attorney General McGranery from blame in past years.
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WASHINGTON
house judiciary subcommittee
justice department
United States
Alty.Gen. McGranery
department
Names Deleted In Jury Report At United Nations Probe
The New York grand jury report on United Nations employment of alleged American disloyals was stripped of names before presentation. The judiciary committee probes juror Max Zimmerman claims of Washington pressure to soften the report and notes promised cooperation from McGranery.
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WASHINGTON
New York grand jury
United Nations
house judiciary committee
Max Zimmerman
U.N
judiciary group
justice department
grand jury
U. S
Myles J. Lane
New York
MacGranery
Lane
McGranery
state
justice departments
state department
Workmen Unearth Ancient Roman Theater Ruin
Workmen excavating for a foundation in Rome uncovered the ruin of an ancient Roman theater. Archaeologists called the discovery one of the most important in Rome this century.
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ROME
Eisenhower Opposes Expanding the Korean War
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower, after three days in Korea, indicated he does not favor attacking Red China or broadening the conflict. He met with Syngman Rhee briefly, toured front-line units, and left Korea for the United States. He said the solution to the war is not a wider conflict and pledged to study all lessons from his trip.
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SEOUL
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Red China
Eisenhower
dent Syngman Rhee
South
alien
Breet
Korea
Rhee
U. S. Eighth army
Europe
Republic of Korea
ROK
Clancy the Collie Returns Home After Long Journey
Clancy the Collie, six months old, was left in Buffalo by the Eugene Moses family before being given to a neighbor. He wandered away, traveled a road he had never walked, and after six months away, arrived home in Michigan City lean and footsore yet unmistakably the same dog. No one knows how he found the way back.
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MICHIGAN CITY
Ind
Clancy the Collie
Clancy
Eugene Moses
Buffalo
N. Y
Moses
Viewpoints on Ike Korea trip split along party lines
Washington December 5 Republican senators urged Eisenhower to propose steps ending the stalemate in Korea while Democrats cautioned that no simple solution exists. The trip was praised as a morale boost for troops by Humphrey Hunt and others, with McCarthy and Connally declining comment.
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WASHINGTON
Eisenhower
Korea
Sen
Dworshak
R Ida
Sen. Wesker
R-Ida
congress
Humphrey
D-Minn
Esenhower
United Nations
Hunt
D-Wye
senate armed services committee
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Sen. Connally
DTex
foreign relations committee
Slaying Increases Tunisia Tensions
Farhat Hached, noted Tunisian trade union official and nationalist leader, was shot dead near his car on a highway south of Tunis. French authorities imposed an overnight curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. as Tunisia's independence push looms at the United Nations. France had blocked his travel to attend ICFTU meetings in New York, intensifying protests by the Tunisian labor federation over repeated travel bans.
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TUNIS
Tunisia
Farhat Hached
Tusnis
United Nations
New York
France
U. N
Hached
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
ICFTU
Tuenisian labor federation
Spellman to Return for Christmas Front-Line Visit
Francis Cardinal Spellman archbishop of New York says he will repeat last year's Christmas visit to the front lines in Korea visiting troops and delivering holiday messages.
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NEW YORK
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Korea
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