Sabres Clash with MIGs in Korea Sky Battle
Tokyo dispatch recalls the largest air clash of the Korean War near the Manchurian border with 40 MIGs engaging 15 F-86 Sabres. Two MIGs damaged, all Sabres returned safely. Earlier, Sabres downed one MIG and damaged another near Sinuiju. Ground forces Inch toward the east coast as UN lines hold Inje and Taegok. Ridgway warns of looming large-scale invasion and MacArthur cites ongoing patrols and limited gains amid mounting Red artillery.
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TOKYO
South Korea
U. S
eighth army
United Nations
Sea of Japan
Inje
Taegok
Seoul
MacArthur
Fifth air force
Kaesong y
Yonehon
Matthew B. Ridgway
Korea
Washington
Valley Forge
Ridg- Way
U.N
A. P
Hal Boyle
Reds Take Over China Missions
Hong Kong report says the Red China government announced it would seize control of all cultural educational relief groups and religious institutions receiving American subsidies. The Peiping radio broadcast gave no further details and it was unclear if the move follows the freeze of American holdings or targets missionary bodies.
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HONG KONG
Red China
Peiping
China
Sheriff's Fortune Put Under Scrutiny
Tampa dated report states Hillsborough County Sheriff Hugh Culbreath faced Kefauver committee scrutiny after Bolita gambling payoff testimony by Paul Giglia. Giglia said he gave Culbreath 1500 dollars in two payments from Jimmy Velasco, with 500 as campaign support and 1000 as rent to the old man, as the committee documented Bolita procedures and payouts.
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TAMPA
Fila
Hugh Culbreath
Kefauver committee
Hillsborough county
Paul Giglia
Lester C. Hunt
D-Wye
Jone
senate crime probe committee
Culbreath
Jimmy Velasco
Giglia
Velasco
Gigliia
Jimmy
Bolita
Prayer and Revelry Mark New Year Across United States
Americans will mark the transition to 1951 with prayer and revelry. Churches lead a day of prayer while New York Times Square hosts crowds and traffic as bowl games close the football season. Saloons charge up to fifty dollars per couple for high end New Year’s Eve events.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
California
Pasadena
New York
Times square
Four Men Die In Private Plane Crash Near San Mateo
Four men were killed when a private plane from Burbank crashed in a slough west of the San Mateo airport. Thick fog hung over the area as fuel ran low. The aircraft went down in three feet of water between Bayshore Highway and the airport on December 30.
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SAN FRANCISCO
UPi
Burbank
San Mateo
San Francesco
Bayshore hightway
Truman Cruises On Williamsburg on Potomac
President Truman cruised the Potomac aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg with a small aide party. He planned to spend the weekend drafting the state of the union message to be delivered to Congress next month.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Potomac river
Williamsburg
congress
Seventeen Die as Government Plane Crashes near Mar Del Plata
In Buenos Aires on December 30, a government-operated airlines plane crashed near the seaside resort of Mar Del Plata, killing seventeen people as the aircraft caught fire.
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BUENOS AIRES
Argentina
Mar Del Plata
Cominform Finds No Friend In McCarthy Pearson Fight
Prague dispatch notes the Bucharest Cominform weekly condemns both McCarthy and Pearson. It cites McCarthy spreading anti-Communist fables about the State Department, and brands Pearson as the worst enemy of democracy and socialism. The brawl is seen as decadence and corruption among U S top circles fueling hysteria.
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PRAGUE
Czechoslovakia
Bucharest
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Drew Pearson
Washington
McCarthy
state department
Pearson
United States
Use of Copper Banned in 300 Civilian Items
The government barred non essential copper use in over 300 civilian products effective March 1 to conserve copper for defense and defense supporting needs. Items include pots, pans, hardware, furniture, electrical appliances, jewelry, toys, and paper clips, with copper allowed only as functional parts or conductors in household appliances.
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WASHINGTON
national production authority
William H. Harrison
NPA
NPR
Battle Over RFC Boss Headed to Congress
Washington December 30 Senator Fulbright said he will push a one-man boss plan to oversee the Reconstruction Finance Corp with Truman opposing the move. He heads a Senate subcommittee and expects hearings in early January into alleged political interference and loan policy criticism at RFC.
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WASHINGTON
Fulbright
D-Ark
congress
Reconstruction Finance Corp
RFC
Truman
senate
Douglas
D-Hil
Australian air force plane crash on crowded beach kills three children
An Australian air force shark patrol plane crashed on a crowded Sydney beach today killing three children at play and injuring 12 sunbathers. The pilot and a passenger were also injured in the accident.
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SYDNEY
Australia
1950 Traffic Death Toll Seen At 35000
The National Safety Council projects 1950 traffic deaths at about 35,000, the highest since 1941 and among the worst in history. An estimated 330 people will die in 78 hours from 6 p.m. yesterday to midnight Monday, with 31,230 killed in the first 11 months. Five states report new fatalities today.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
national safety council
Ned H. Dearborn
council
Dearborn
Colorado
Idaho
Missouri
New Hampshire
Ohio
District of Columbia
Berserk Veteran Slays Family in Akron Case
A World War II veteran Irvin Snodgress, 25, naked except for an undershirt, killed his parents a niece and a nephew in Akron Sawyerwood. He beat his parents and started a fire smothering two children Clyde Morrow age 2 and Georgianna age 1. James Snodgrass 49 and their grandmother, also 49, were found beaten in the home. Coroner to rule cause after tests. Authorities sought Clyde and Mrs Morrow of Cleveland. Snodgress said parents planned to send him to Crile hospital for examination.
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AKRON
Robert L. Smith
Irvin Snodgress
Clyde Morrow
Georgianna
Sawyerwood
James Snodgrass
C. L Martin
Summit county
Cleveland
Crile veterans hospital
Foreign Policy Debate Sought in Senate on Europe Ties
Senate debate proposed by Senator Sparkman to resolve Western defense policy divisions. Dulles advocates united western defense while Hoover calls for hemispheric defense and no Europe deployment. Taft and Wherry push prudence, air power, and limited spending as critics gauge public confidence in Washington.
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WASHINGTON
Sparkman
D-Ala
senate
United Nations
John Foster Dulles
United States
Europe
Dulles
New York
Taft
Ohio
Cincinnati
Russia
Pentagon
Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
U.S
Truman
Bram snow
DULLES Sparkman
Kem
R-Mo
Hoover
Schoeppel
R-Kan
America
Ernest A. Gross
U. N
sois
U.N
U. S
Korea
Dulles Seeks Collective Security Over Lone Defense
In New York John Foster Dulles urged building a global security ring around the Soviet world rather than solitary defense. He warned Hoover’s plan to withdraw from Europe may invite aggression and emphasized coalition strength, with caution that some nations cannot be fully safeguarded.
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NEW YORK
John Foster Dulles
American Association for the United Nations
Soviet Russia
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
U.S
Europe
Asia
Dulles
Russia
free world
Puptecy
state department
America
Kremlin
Pleven Seeks Confidence Vote Over Tax Hikes
French Premier Rene Pleven faces a late night vote of confidence on proposed tax boosts to fund a new rearmament program. Pleven formally requested the confidence ballot yesterday, with the constitution requiring a full calendar day between the request and the vote.
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PARIS
Rene Pleven
Pleven
Coroner Finds Fatal Test Of Muscle A Foolhardy Attempt
In Swinton England Eric Crawshaw aged 24 boasted of strength at a Christmas party and was found dead next morning beneath a paper baling machine at the refuse plant where he worked. The coroner ruled he likely tried to halt the machine during its descent after a drink fueled bravado.
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SWINTON
Eng
Eric Crawshaw
Crawshaw
Engineers Seek Better Terms on Rail Pact
Cleveland December report shows 80,000 engineers pressing for improvements to a three year peace plan intended to end a long wage dispute with railroads. Union leaders want higher wage boosts and revisions to the moratorium. Meetings set among engineers firemen and trainmen to decide on possible changes and a special board under the railway labor act may be formed.
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CLEVELAND
Brotherhood of Locos motive engineers
White Mouse
James P. Shields
Washington
Shields
national mediation board
St. Louis
David B. Robertson
Aliens Begin 1950 Register On January First
Washington reports that about 4,009,000 aliens will start registering January 1 under the Internal Security Act of 1950. It is an annual process with a ten day period to report addresses to the immigration commissioner. Exemptions apply to certain temporary entrants and students with no violations. About 75,000 notices have been distributed nationwide.
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WASHINGTON
United States
commissioner of immigration
Bub
immigration and naturalization offices
Drunken cycling in Bath clerk sentenced for bicycle driving
A 40 year old farmer was sentenced to one month in jail for drunken driving on a bicycle in Bath England on December 30. The case cites Earl as the defendant and notes the alcohol impairment led to the conviction.
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Eng
Exneest Earl
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