Demand grows for home front controls action
Washington December 12 Senator George D Ga predicted any national emergency declared by President Truman will be forerunner of price and wage controls next month. He said actions will come in January at the latest as home front mobilization speeds up with Truman to address the nation by radio.
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WASHINGTON
George
D-Ga
Truman
senate finance committee
Maybank
D-S.C
senate banking committee
Charleston
S. C
commerce department
senate
Jimittee
Robert M. Layelt
congress
Mr. Truman
Korea
Tobin
Trusman
Rocket Fizzle in Altitude Try at White Sands
White Sands Proving Ground, N M Dec 12 The sixth Navy Viking rocket fizzled out after 65 seconds of flight short of a new altitude record. It peaked around 68 miles well below the 106.4 miles reached by a Viking in May. The attempt aimed at surpassing 114 miles set Dec 17 1946 by a German V 2.
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WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND
N. M
Viking
mid- Pacific
Peter Fraser Dies at 66 Former New Zealand Prime Minister and UN Founder
Wellington, New Zealand, Dec 12. Peter Fraser, a former New Zealand prime minister and a founder of the United Nations, died today after a series of heart attacks following pneumonia. The Scottish-born farmer's son led the Labor government 1940–1949 and helped chair the 1945 San Francisco Conference, championing small powers and opposing the big power veto.
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WELLINGTON
New Zealand
Peter Fraser
United Nations
commonwealth
San Francisco
U.N
Trial of Ilse Koch Resumed in German Court
AUGSBURG Germany December 12 four policemen carried Ilse Koch into the court to resume her trial for concentration camp atrocities. Pale and weak she walked in after a breakdown and sat staring out the window. The court had not ruled on whether she faked hysteria as doctors testified. The prosecution said she had recovered and would appear for the afternoon session. The 43 year old widow of the former Buchenwald commander had been absent for a day and a half. She had torn furniture and cried I am guilty in her jail cell. The trial continued in her absence with former inmates recounting atrocities.
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Ilse Kach
Augsburg
Germany
Buchenwald
Ilse Koch
Defense Chiefs Hold Meeting in London on Pact Plan
North Atlantic pact top military leaders met behind closed doors in London to outline a European defense force command. They discussed size and scope of NATO armies in Europe and links to Brussels alliance groups as Eisenhower is expected to be named commander in chief. Montgomery currently heads the Brussels defense group including Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg.
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LONDON
North Atlantic pact
pact council
North Atlantic treaty organization
Europe
Brussels alliance
Dwight D
Emergency capital urged for interior with underground links
Rep. Wint Smith of Kansas proposed establishing a new emergency capital inland with underground communications and water supply. He spoke in Washington on December 12.
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WASHINGTON
Wint Smith
R-Kans
Far East Peace Plan From 12 Nations At UN Meeting
Twelve Asian and Middle East states submitted a dual peace plan to the United Nations amid Korea tensions. One proposal would form a three member commission headed by Nasrollah Entezam to define cease-fire terms, while a second would establish a seven nation body to propose settlements in the Far East. The measures aim to avert a direct call for immediate Chinese troop withdrawal and to secure broad U.N. backing.
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Assembly
Nasrollah Entezam
Iran
Korea
Enteram
U. S
scond
zeate
Far East
Attlee Reports Hopeful U N Position in Korea
Prime Minister Attlee told the House of Commons that he has good hopes the United Nations forces will maintain themselves in Korea. He outlined results of world crisis talks with President Truman in Washington and Canadian leaders in Ottawa and said aggression must be halted and no extension of the conflict. The trip aimed for a stable Far East position.
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LONDON
Attlee
house of commons
United Nations
Korea
Truman
Washington
Ottawa
King George
Far East
Red China Troops Near India Border
New Delhi officials report Communist Chinese forces sighted within a few miles of the Indha China border near Assam. Sources say Chinese troops have long been based at Rima in Sikang, with no frontier violation noted as the boundary remains poorly defined.
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NEW DELHI
India
Foreign ministry
Indha-China
Assam
Rima
Sikang
Slain Attorney Linked to Probe
Hollywood reports that Sam Rummel, longtime attorney for Mickey Cohen, met with Sheriff’s Capt. Carl H. Pearson and deputy Lawrence C. Schaffer the night before his death during a grand jury inquiry into gambling protection payoffs. Rummel, 44, was ambushed near his Laurel Canyon home hours later. Cohen’s associates have been slain before, all amid years of criminal cases and investigations including the Guarantee Finance Co. front.
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Samuel Rummel
Hollywood
Calif
Rummel
Mickey Cohen
Tony Cornero Straila
Sam Rummel
Thad Brown
Carl H. Pearson
Lawrence C. Schaffer
Laurel canyon
Pearson
Brown
Schaffer
tangled Guarantee Finance Co
grand jury
California crime commission
U. S. senate crime investigating committee
sheriff's office
Guarantee Finance Co
Cohen
Harry
Hooky) Rothman
Edward
Neddie) Herbert
Vietminh Pressures French on Hanoi Haiphong Lifeline
Vietminh troops pressed along the 65 mile Hanoi to Haiphong lifeline with harassing attacks centered near Haiduong. In the Red River area northwest of Hanoi two French posts and a village fell to Vietminh action while local Vietnamese militia repelled assaults in two nearby villages.
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Indochina
SAIGON
north Vietnam
Hanoi
China sea
Haiduong
Red river
Trapped Units Hold Open North Area Escape Port
AP dispatch from Tokyo reports 27 Chinese Communist divisions pressing toward South Korea as UN forces retreat from the north. Mongolian cavalry and camel caravans aid a large Red China force looping toward the Hamhung area, with the 10th corps encircled and the Hungnam port under evacuation readiness. The Eighth Army withdraws to the 38th parallel while allies brace for a possible push on Seoul amid tense negotiations with Beijing.
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TOKYO
South Korea
United Nations
Ghengis Khan
Red China
North Korea
Eighth army
38th parallel
North
Lt. S. 10th corps
Hamhung
10th corps
U. S
Pyongyang
Don Whitehead
U. N
west Korea
Whitehead
Seoul
U.N
Korea
C. H. P. King
Syngman Rhee
King
Trapped Marine Loss Estimate Scaled Down
Washington reports scaled down casualties for the First Marine Division in Korea’s Changjin area. The tally now places total losses at 8000 to 3300 including sickness and exposure with actual battle deaths, wounded, and missing about half that figure. Infantry regiments were at about 70 percent strength after a ten day battle. early estimates ranged to 6500 based on assumed similar losses across units.
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WASHINGTON
Marine
Changjin reservoir
Korea
San Joaquin Flood Strikes Central California Again
Flooded central California began to ease but flood waters remain critical. The San Joaquin River and its tributaries spilled over causing 110000 acres in the delta to flood for the third time in a month. Army engineers warn conditions will stay dire through tomorrow. Over 7000 people are homeless in Stockton and Modesto as 20 feet of water closes U DC highway 50 and injures rail lines.
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STOCKTON
Calif
California
San Joaquin
Francisco bay
Maidesto
U. DC
Chrysler Grants Wage Increase in Five-Year CIO Pact
Chrysler Corp and CIO United Auto Workers sealed a new five year contract adopting cost of living wage controls. Immediate 1 cent hourly raise with a further four cents each June for four years. Pension boosts raise max to 125 dollars monthly by 1952. Wage changes tied to CPI and a modified union shop.
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DETROIT
Chrysler Corp
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
economic stabilization agency
CIO
United Auto Workers
consumers’ Price index
U. S. bureau of labor statistics
Britain launches $10 billion three year rearmament plan
London reports Britain will begin a $10,000,000,000 three year rearmament program without American aid. Informed sources say Britain now considers itself solvent enough to undertake the plan, which previously hinged on U S shipping and $1.5 billion in aid.
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LONDON
Britain
United States
U. S
congress
Senate Vote Split On Aid to China
Washington December 12 AP A Senate vote split over military aid to Nationalist China with 34 Republicans and four Democrats backing aid. Knowland failed to earmark 38 million yesterday and plans to try again in the new 82nd Congress. Fulbright warned outright aid could lead to war. the party split underscores GOP foreign policy tensions as a policy subcommittee weighs hard lines on Acheson.
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WASHINGTON
China
82nd
congress
senate
Knowland
Calif
Fulbright
DArk
Yugoslavia
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Aiken and Flanders
Vermont
Margate
Chase Smith
Maine
Ives
New York
GOP
State Acheson
Key Nepal City Falls to Rebels
New Delhi reports that Biratnagar, Nepal's key industrial town in the southeast, fell today in a dawn attack by insurgent forces. The governor's residence, ringed by 400 government troops, was still holding out against the rebels.
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NEW DELHI
India
Biratnagar
Nepal
Patna
Curfew Imposed In Moslem Riot
Singapore imposes dusk to dawn curfew as two days of ethnic rioting claim 14 lives and leave 140 plus injured. Soldiers fire on massed crowds in the east. four Chinese dead. Moslem leaders seek calm while a court allows Maria Hertogh to return to Holland with her Catholic mother.
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SINGAPORE
supreme court
Maria Bertha Hertogh
Holland
Maria Bertha mareried
Big Four Session On Germany Called
Paris dispatch says Foreign Minister Robert Schuman announced to the French assembly that a Big Four meeting on German rearmament is imminent. French officials privately show strong concern over reports that West German Chancellor Adenauer may reject a plan for using German units in a western European army.
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PARIS
Robert Schuman
French national assembly
Russia
U. S
Britain
France
Konrad Adenauer
North Korean Leader Orders Offensive Against U.S. in Korea
Dec 12 dispatch reports North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung ordered forces and Chinese allies to push American troops in Korea into the sea. The Moscow press carries the claim of a major escalation in the Korean War.
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MOSCOW
Kim 1l Sung
Korea
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Hamhung plain
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