Agencies Tighten Economic Controls
Washington December 29 federal actions tighten economic controls across defense and anti inflation drives. Banks face deep loan cuts while the government takes over natural rubber and cobalt supplies and creates 13 regional wage price offices. The plan aims to curb price rises and direct material distribution. Regional offices will handle price and wage problems with limited details on locations.
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federal reserve board
economic stabilization agensity
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national production authority
NPA
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Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Denver
Colorado
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New Mexico
San Francisco
California
Nevada
Arizona
Seattle
Oregon
Idaho
U S Dismisses Soviet Threat of Treaty Veto
The United States in a new note barred any Soviet veto over a Japanese peace treaty, preserving options with other nations while inviting Russia to cooperate. The note, handed to UN envoy Jacob Malik in New York, answers Soviet queries from November about a separate peace and veto power, stating the U.S. does not concede any nation a perpetual veto and that Japan, after defeat, is entitled to peace under agreed terms.
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UPI
United States
Russia
ASWER
U.N
Jacob Malik
New York
state department
Japan
U. S
Soviet Union
Humphrey Seeks Watchdog on Civil Defense Powers
Senator Humphrey said he will propose a joint senate house committee to closely monitor the new civil defense administrator and prevent abuse of peacetime powers. The compromise bill creates an independent Civil Defense Administration led by a single chief with a $3.1 billion three year federal state local outlay. Caldwell has been named administrator at $17,500 a year for the post.
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Humphrey
U-Minn
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civil defense administration
senate
White House
Truman
civil- defense administration
house
Millard F. Caldwell, Jr
Florida
Caldwell
civil defense agency
Mr. Truman
Bay Shipyards Adopt Six Day Week for Repairs
SAN FRANCISCO December 29 two major U S navy yards Mare Island and Hunters Point on San Francisco bay will switch to a six day 48 hour work week to repair ships damaged in Korea and mothballed units. Workers receive overtime for time beyond forty hours. At Hunters Point the carrier Boxer and cruisers Toledo and Helena are under overhaul while Mare Island readies submarines and anti submarine vessels. Many other ships are being repaired or reactivated in civilian yards in the bay area. The fleet tanker Mattaponi was recommissioned after being laid up since World War II.
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U. S. navy
Mare Island
Hunters point
San Francisco bay
Boxer
Toledo
Helena
bay area
Mattaponi
San Diego
French Defense Tax Wins Favor in Assembly
PARIS December 29 the French government backed special budget plans for a one billion dollar rearmament program drew broader support in the national assembly. The proposed tax schedule gained greater approval as lawmakers debated the measure amid wartime needs.
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PARIS
Doctor Draft Is Expanded
Washington draft headquarters announced that doctors dentists and veterinarians under 50 not registered will sign up January 15. About 210 000 professionals must register and 21090 mostly younger men were signed up on October 16. Dr Richard L Meilinz said about 13000 doctors will be needed to expand military service to 3 500 000 men.
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WASHINGTON
Lewis B. Her+shey
Richard L. Meilinz
defense department
Six Men Escape Fire in Mine
SILVER PLUME Colo Dec 29 Six men trapped in the Smuggler gold mine were imprisoned for nearly three hours before scrambling out on a rope. The shaft house and hoist were destroyed by flames at about 3 30 a m but all were unhurt. Rescuers reached the mine mouth after cooling and heard calls from below as a rope was lowered. Rescued: Morris Jacobs Herman Reibel Dick Rizzardi Alex Knoll Fred Booth and Pete Rockwell.
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Morris Jakcobs
Herman Reibel
Dick Rizzzardi
Alex Knoll
Fred Booth
Silver Plume
Pete Rockwell
Georgetown
Pickled Pig's Feet Feast Draws Burglary Probe
In Artesia New Mexico on December nights burglars broke into H. and J. Food Basket and stole a case of cigarettes after eating Pickled pig feet. Police found bones scattered on the floor but no other significant damage was reported.
Mother Joins Amputee Son In Washington
Mrs. Clara Smith travels to Washington to be near her son Private Robert Smith the Korean War’s first quadruple amputee. He arrived at Walter Reed Hospital after a tense day of family events and media attention while his mother purchases clothing with support from the American Legion.
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Clara E. Smith
Middleburg
Robert L. Smith
Walter Reed hospital
Washington, D. C
Smith
Joseph McCracken
Penn
WASHINGTON
UPI
Clara Smith
Robert
Marie Heintz
Walter Reed
the
American Legion
Mrs. Smith
O Mahoney hails anti trust bill victory in merger halt
Senator O Mahoney says his amendment to the Clayton act blocks a merger between Carborundum of Niagara Falls and Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing of St Paul. President Truman planned to sign the amendment. The move closes a loophole permitting asset purchases to bypass stock restrictions.
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WASHINGTON
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
McGrath
James M. Mead
federal trade commission
Truman
Carborundum company
Niagara Falls
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company
St. Paul
Minn
Truman Labels Hoover Plan As Isolationism
President Truman rejects Hoover's Western Hemisphere defense plan as isolationist while Dulles plans a nuanced response in New York. He asserts the U S will not return to isolationism and signals support for collective security under the North Atlantic pact.
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Truman
WASHINGTON
John Foster Dulles
Herbert Hoover
western Europe
Aid to Yugoslavia Legislation Signed
President Truman signed legislation providing an additional 38 million dollars in food aid for drought stricken Yugoslavia raising total American assistance to about 89 million. The aid aims to avert famine and preserve the independence of a nation defying Soviet threats.
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WASHINGTON
cpi
Truman
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Russia
congress
Western Europe Defense Line Speech by Governor Duff
Governor James H. Duff, addressing the Pennsylvania State Education Association, called western Europe one of the first lines of defense of civilization. He warned that abandoning western Europe now would undermine the background of law ethics morals and religion that underpin America.
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HARRISBURG
James H. Duff
western
Europe
Probers to Show Crime Pattern in Tampa Hearing
Tampa hearing opens with Sen. Hunt asserting that much of Tampa crime is hatched in New Orleans and that the city is a key narcotics receiving point. He says the Kefauver inquiry will reveal a nationwide crime pattern connecting local cases and urges missing witnesses to come forward.
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TAMPA
Fla
UPI
Lester Hunt
D-Wwo
Kefauver committee
New Orleans
United States
Hunt
Florida
Jack Dragma
California
Santo Traficcante, Jr
James Lumia
Red China Seizes American Assets
Hong Kong reports Premier Chou En-Lai announced in Peiping that China would seize all United States property and private and commercial American bank deposits in Red China. The action, in retaliation for U S measures, directs local governments to inventory US assets while allowing limited living withdrawals for Americans and American firms in China.
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HONG KONG
United States
Red China
Chou En-Lai
Peiping
China
China Units Inch Closer to Seoul
Communist probing units gripped the eastern UN line in Korea and edged toward Seoul as a massive Chinese and North Korean force built up for a mass assault. North Korean Reds pushed 4 to 10 miles south of the 38th parallel in the east while Chinese outposts pressed near the Imjin river in the west, as Allied air power targeted the buildup ahead of the new year.
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United Nations
Korea
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Imjin
MacArthur
Associated Press
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North
South Korea
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Munsan
United States
Boyle
Chunchon
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William C. Barnard
Hungnam
Pupyong
Ann Remington Ends Testimony in Perjury Trial
New York December 29 UPI Mrs Ann Remington ex wife of William W Rempton testified about a Harvard professor who is now a Supreme Court justice she did not name Frankfurter a witness in Alger Hiss case was cited as a former Harvard professor and supreme court justice in the trial. She said both she and Rempton were Communists years ago and described his alleged state of mind regarding communism.
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Ann Remington
antercom
New York
William W. Remington
Communist party
Remington
UPI
William W. Rempton
Harvard
supreme court
Felix Frankfurter
Frankfurter
witeness
Alger Ess
state department
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
lawye
Aged Ice From Mendenhall Heads East For Explorers Banquet
In Juneau Alaska December 29 two hundred pounds of million year old cocktail ice from the Mendenhall glacier are being sent to New York for the Explorers club annual banquet at the Hotel Roosevelt on January 13. Maynard Miller, a club member and director of the Juneau Ice Cap project, ordered the antique drink chiller. The ice ship departed aboard a Pan American plane to Seattle and will be moved eastward by United Air Lines.
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JUNEAU
Alaska
New York City
Mendenhall glacier
here
Explorers’ club
Hotel Roosevelt
New York
Maynard Miller
Riverside drive
Pan American
Seattle
United Air Lines
U S Arms Aid Shipments Told
Maj. Gen. Stanley Scott MDAP director said the United States delivered over 725000 tons of military equipment to friendly nations abroad this year. Despite Korea demands, arms flow more than doubled in the last two months with 478000 tons to western Europe and 187000 tons to Greece Turkey Iran. Additional tons went to the Philippines Indochina Malaya Indonesia Burma and Formosa, not including ships and aircraft that went under their own power.
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U.S
mutual defense aid program
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Stanley ©. Scott
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Iran
Philippines
Indochina
Malaya
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Burma
Formosa
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