UN presses for answer on Korea war prisoner exchange
United Nations demanded a reply from the Communists on the Allied proposal to begin immediate negotiations for prisoner exchange in Korea. The Reds resist, demanding U N supervision of the armistice before talks on prisoners. Negotiators said the mail is under study as a Panmunjom deadline nears.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
U.N
Tokyo
U. N
Panmunjom
Matthew B. Ridaway
Free World
Europe
William P. Nickols
Truman
Washington
Nuckols
Supervisory Commission
Senators Face 1952 Budget Storm In Congress
Washington Dec 10 Senators McClellan and Robertson warned the next Congress must curb domestic spending to keep the government solvent while funding the armament program. Robertson urged cuts in domestic programs and possible defense savings as Truman may push tax hikes. Humphrey said hearings on a Fair Employment Practices Commission will begin in January.
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Washington
McClellan
D-Ark
Congress
Otine
Truman
Robertson
D-Va
Senate
Democratic Policy Committee
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate Labor
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Stake Offsets in Mitchell County Fields With Multiple Test Drills
Mitchell County stakeouts place Richardson and Bass at No. 18 J. H. Nall Estate in the McCabe Penn sylvanian field southeast of Mitchell. No. 1 Emery Estate in Kent wildcat runs 6 220 feet with test yields of 110 feet gas cut mud and 5 162 feet salt water after two hour test. No. 2 Wallace Kent field well flowed 105 barrels oil in 22 hours with no water. Humble No. 2 W M McLaury fast Pennsylvanian project reaches 7 401 feet with tests yielding gas cut water and mud during stems tests.
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Richardson & Bass
J. H. Nall
Mitchell County
Richardson & Bass No
Texas Co
Kent Test
Sun Oil Co
Wallace
Kent
Humble No. 2
W. M. McLaury
Children Die In Fire In Barrie Ontario
Three children perished in a Barrie house fire as four other siblings escaped. The victims were 15 month old twins Peter and Paul Rice and their sister Mary four months old. The blaze started when four year old Malcolm Rice stirred the fire while the mother left to fetch water.
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Barrie
Ont
Peter and
Paul Rice
Mary
Malcolm Rice
Testifies Caudle knew about tax shake down
A diplomatic briefing from Paris cites Western powers and Russia agreeing on a disarmament commission as the only concrete result of top secret talks. The plan foresees spring work on arms limitation proposals while no agreement on prohibiting the atomic bomb was reached. The Big Four plan to report to the Political Committee before Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caudle
Paris
Russia
Disarmament Commission
U. S
Philip C. Jessup
Selwyn
East Germans Postpone Reply to United Nations Election Plan
Paris Dec 10 United Nations Special Political Committee delayed airing East Germany views on a UN survey toward unified free elections in Germany. East German delegation said it was not yet ready to comment. West German representatives pressed for an international inquiry to assess when to hold elections, while East German leaders favored German-led decisions under the Big Four. The disarmament talks and Security Council balloting also stalled with no two thirds achieved.
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Paris
United Nations Special Political Committee
East Germany
U. N
Germany
Selim Sarper
Turkey
Soviet Zone
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Andrei Vishinsky
Jacob A. Malik
Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
Cotton Crop Estimate Drops Again in 1949-50 Forecast
The Agriculture Department released its first 1949-50 cotton projection. It pegs the crop at 15,296,000 bales of 500 pounds, down 481,000 from last month’s forecast and below the 16 million target. Acreage harvested is set at 26,698,000 acres with lint yield averaging 274.5 pounds per acre. production by state lists Texas as the largest producer at 4,100,000 bales and several Southern states contributing multi hundred thousand bales each. The Census Bureau reports 12,802,634 bales ginned before Dec 1, compared with 8,785,265 last year. The department expects next year’s crop to again reach at least 16 million bales.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Census Bureau
Texas
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Truman Discusses Korea Peace Talks With Key Advisers
President Truman, back from Florida, convened a Washington White House meeting with Lovett Webb and the Joint Chiefs to review the world situation led by the Korean truce negotiations. Potential actions were raised if no armistice by December 27.
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Washington
Truman
White House
United States
Korea
Mgr
Defense Lovett
Webb
Armed Services
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Key West
Front line action in Korea shows limited Red probing
United Nations forces repelled nine minor Red probes on the Korean front with five feeler strikes on the East, three center, one west. A North Korean radio claimed heavy artillery damage on the East while Central and West fronts lapsed. Fifth Air Force reported 10 Red jets in Northwest Korea with no contact and two Allied aircraft shot down by ground fire. South Korea said antiguerrilla forces fought 10 battles in the Chini Mountains, with 142 Reds killed and 286 captured, as guerrilla strength nears 40,000 behind lines.
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Eighth Army
Fifth Air Force
Northwest Korea
U. S
Republic of Korea
South
Chini
Red Radio
New Chairman of Party Made Big Stock Deal
The Daily Mirror reports Frank McKinney new Democratic National Chairman earned 74 000 on a 1 000 share Empire Tractor stake bought for 1 each in the late 1940s. McHale also netted 7 000. sister Mable McHale gained 18 500 on a 250 investment as Empire Tractor later went bankrupt.
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New York
The
Daily Mirror
Frank McKinney
New Democratic National
McKinney
the Mirror
Washington
Empire Tractor Company
Empire Ordance Company
Washington Dispatch
Oreanurer
Frank Cohen
Empire Tractor
Philadelphia
Indiana
Mable McHale
Attempted Robbery of Kennedy Service Station Investigated
City police investigated a break in and attempted robbery at the Kennedy Service Station located at 1703 Twenty sixth Street. A .22 caliber bullet was found in the cash register but no money was taken and the padlock was missing from the door.
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Kennedy
Twenty - Sixth Street
Glenn Biddle
Delbert Kennedy
H. N. Bjornsrud
Biddle
Hastings Publisher Seaton Named U S Senator for Nebraska
Fred A. Seaton Hastings publisher was appointed U S Senator to succeed the late Kenneth S. Wherry. The 42 year old will serve until a successor is elected next November. Seaton leads Harold Stassen for President forces and has earlier been a Nebraska state senator.
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Lincoln
Fred A. Seaton
Hastings
U. S
Nebraska
Kenneth S. Wherry
Val Peterson
Seaton
Midwest
Harold E. Stassen
Hastings Tribune
Kansas
Alf Landon
South Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
Tax shake down case linked to Caudle hearing
Testimony showed T Lamar Caudle was told in August of an alleged plan to extort Abraham Teitelbaum for 500000 in a tax fix case. Attorney Cohen said Teitelbaum relayed details to Caudle on August 20, amid a House Ways and Means probe into the IRS and Justice Department. President Truman may act as hearings continue.
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White House
Truman
McGrath
Justice Department
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
House
Ways and Means
Irving Perimeter
Key West
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
T. Lamar Caudle
Abraham Teitelbaum
T. Cohen
Atlanta
Teitelbaum
Caudle
Cohen
Raymond Buck
Fort Worth
General Anderson
Grunewald
Henry Grunewald
Tax Collecting Service
al Capone
Florida
Frank Nathan
Bert K. Naster
Internal Revenue Bureau
House Committee
Mr. Truman
Dedication planned for Winston Field in Scurry County
Dedication ceremonies for Winston Field, Scurry County's newest improvement, will be tomorrow afternoon three miles southwest of the courthouse. Major Gen. Samuel Anderson of the Eighth Air Force will speak, with James Rosser as master of ceremonies. The 514th Air Force Band from Reese AFB will perform, and Pioneer Airlines will display a DC 3.
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Scurry County
Winston Field
Samuel Anderson
Eighth Air Force
Fort Worth
James Rosser
Pioneer Airlines
Snyder's Buzz Bugs Club
Reese Band
Rosser
C. T. McLaughlin
Chamber of Commerce
Raymond Buck
Gen. Anderson
County Commissioners Approve Hospital Plans
The commissioners court adopted plans for the D. M. Cogdell Memorial Hospital this morning. Final approval awaits review by the State Health Department. Architect M. C. Butler of Butler-Brasher Co. called the facility one of the most modern and best equipped in the country.
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D. M. Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Commissioner's Court
State Health Department
Edgar Taylor
M. C. Butler
Butler - Brasher Co
Lubbock
Weather Summary for Texas Regions
North Central Texas shows partly cloudy skies with rising temperatures this afternoon tonight and Tuesday. West Texas remains partly cloudy with light rain possible and increasing temperatures. Del Rio Eagle Pass area reports gradual warming with similar cloud cover. First Texas partly cloudy north and cloudy south with continued cold air today tonight. Not so cold Tuesday with occasional light rain. South South Central Texas partly cloudy with occasional light rain and continued cold this afternoon tonight and Tuesday.
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Texas
del Rio
Eagle Pass
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Reds
U.N. Command
Los Angeles
John C. Jones
Richard C. Russell
Jones
Luis Padilla Nervo
Mexico
Assembly
Vishinsky
Security Council
Scandinava
Greece
Acheson
Omar Bradley
Charles S. Murphy
Seoul
Strange Bedfellows
Catnip
Canary
Tiger
Wendell Hansen
Minneapolis
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