South Korean Army to Replace U.S. Troops on Front Lines
General Van Fleet announced that a newly trained South Korean division is nearing readiness to take over an American unit on the Korean front. A second ROK division will follow soon, with about 100,000 troops still undergoing training. He suggested no major winter offensive by the Communists is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Korea
U.P
James A. van Fleet
van Fleet
R.O.K
Eighth Army
Reds Lose Regain Nori Peaks In Savage Fighting
In bitter Western Front actions on the Big and Little Nori hills, Chinese Reds retook the ridges two hours after South Korean forces had captured them. Allied air power supported the fight with about 150 missions and a large depot strike, while UN troops briefly held a crest north of Munsan before withdrawing. General Van Fleet announced new South Korean divisions nearing readiness for combat duty and a large pool of recruits in training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Nori
Republic of Korea
Big
Little Nori
Air Force
van Fleet
R.O.K
R.O.K. Army
Senators Push Quick Probe Of MacArthur Korea Views
Sen Hunt proposes an extraordinary Senate Armed Services Committee session to probe General Douglas MacArthur's Korea plan. President Truman rejects calls to bring MacArthur and Eisenhower to the White House, drawing GOP protests on Capitol Hill. Senator Russell chairs the committee and is away. Stennis backs the idea, urging informed peacemaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Milton Kelly
Washington
Hunt
D.-Wyo
Senate Armed Services Committee
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
MacArthur
Eisenhower
White House
Korea
G.oo.p
Capitol Hill
Sen
Russell
D.ga
Armed Services Committee
Senate
Far East
Congress
Sen. Stennis
D.-Miss
Police Probe Passing of Worthless Checks
Terre Haute police probe a spree of fraudulent checks in the city over the past days. Shirleen Parker and Steve Milanovich were arraigned on vagrancy charges with a $2000 bond after a $688 check at David Store on Dec 9 proved invalid. Detectives Neal and Koll tied similar forgeries to Kroger Market and Montgomery Ward Store as the investigation continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Gary Couple
Shirleen Parker
Steve Milanovich
David
Wabash Avenue
Robert Neal
Charles Koll
Kroger Market
Fourth
Walnut Streets
Montgomery Ward
Agreement Ends Cab Drivers Strike at Black and White
Local 144 of the AFL CIO Teamsters called off the 18 day Black and White Cab strike after reaching a new contract with management. Drivers returned to work as the company agreed to a trial $5 weekly minimum pay raise and $50 for a 60 hour week with 43 percent commission above the guarantee, plus 60 drivers and 15 service personnel back on duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.F.L. Teamsters Union
Howard Clare
Jack Reynolds
Quarry Search For Missing Tots Continues
NAPERVILLE Illinois December 12 17 divers from the Navy Coast Guard police and volunteers labor in a sixth day effort to locate six year old Jean Petersen and three year old Edward Rosenstiel missing after vanishing at an abandoned quarry water level down more than 15 feet pumping and suction hoses working to empty the site with a bloodhound guiding to the edge authorities caution uncertain outcomes as search continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naperville
U.S. Navy
Coast Guard
Edward Otterpohl
Jean Petersen
Edward Rosenstiel
Navy
Marshall M. Erb
du Page
Kathy Fiscus
San Marino
Calif
Eisenhower in Hawaii Shuns Truman MacArthur Clash
President-elect Eisenhower relaxes in Hawaii after the Korea tour and plans golf at Kaneohe. He will meet with John Foster Dulles and Gov. Douglas McKay while aides say he will avoid public quarrels with President Truman over a Korea peace plan. He may head to Travis AFB Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Eisenhower
Truman
Gen. MacArthur
Korea
Kaneohe
Marine Corps Air Station
Oahu Island
John Foster Dulles
Douglas McKay
Oregon
Interior
MacArthur
Ske
Far East
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Travis
C.S.T
Couple and two children perish in Canonsburg fire
A family of four including two children was killed when their frame home in Canonsburg Pennsylvania burned after midnight. Firemen found the bodies about four hours after the blaze began. The victims were Gus Kappotas 58 Victoria 51 and daughters Agnes 14 and Thespina 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canonsburg
Pennsylvania
Gus Kappotas
Victoria
Agnes
Thespina
Mad Dog Billy Cook Executed in Gas Chamber
William E. Cook known as Billy Cook the so called Mad Dog Slayer of six died in San Quentin’s gas chamber after a two year crime spree. He faced execution with defiance reading Bad Luck on his knuckles and refusing chaplain visits as he awaited his last meal of fried chicken potatoes peas pie coffee and milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Cook
Mad Dog
San Quentin
Calif
William E
Billy) Cook
Joplin
Cook
Atwood
Seattle
Wash
Harry O. Teets
Truman to name four new WSB industry members
President Truman prepared to announce four industry appointees to the Wage Stabilization Board to end a weeklong freeze on thousands of pay raises. An administration source said the appointments likely would come before nightfall, selecting regional wage board members and businessmen. The shakeup followed industry quits in protest of a $1.90 daily coal miners raise, crippling a board that requires labor, industry, and public reps to operate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Wage Stabilization Board
New TV Station WSBT-TV Authorized in South Bend
The Communications Commission approved South Bend Tribune’s WSBT-TV to go on air next Monday on UHF Channel 34 though construction is not complete. The station will serve the South Bend area with television service and is part of a broader rollout of new UHF channels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
the Communications Commission
South Bend
Ind
Tribune
Wsbt-Tv
Christmas Basket Fund Reaches 570 Dollars at Tribune-Star
The Tribune-Star fund for Christmas food baskets rose to 570.96 with Friday donations from donors including James Quell and Forest McBride. Proceeds from a boxing tournament and a Phi Beta Psi bridge party are included. applications for baskets are due by December 17 at the Family Service Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune-Star
Graham
James Quell
Cooss
Forest McBride
Vdoove
Wabash Avenue
Family Service Association
Chestnut Street
Clothe-A-Child Drive Opens With Auction Dinner
The Optimist club launched its nineteenth Mile O Dimes drive with a dinner and auction at Hotel Deming raising 775.97 dollars. Wilbur Shaw of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp urged small gifts to fund clothing 500 children at twenty dollars each, with local students and Delta Kappa members aiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute House
Wilbur Shaw
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Willbur Shaw
William E. Shaker
Anton Hulman Jr
C. L. Bartley
Robert Coates
S. L. Banfield
Pete Froehole
Charles Blanford
Hotel Deming
Optimist Club
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation
Optimists
Shaw
Lincoln Monument
Washington
William Shaker
Optimist International
W. Richard Kirk
Shaker
Charles Simons
South Fourth
St. Mary-of-the- Woods College
Delta Kappa
Indiana State Teachers College
Chas E. Blanford
Wabash Avenue
Seoul Air Alert Briefing Overhead Unsighted Planes
Sirens in Seoul announced a brief air raid alert as unidentified aircraft were sighted overhead. The red alert started at 8 46 p m and the all clear followed at 9 22 p m with no incidents reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Korea
Weather Review for Terre Haute and Indiana
Cloudy and colder tonight followed by partly cloudy conditions on Saturday. Temperatures range from a low of 22 to 28 degrees in Indiana with highs 35 to 49. Local conditions show a 36 degree reading at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. with no precipitation yesterday. River stage at 4.2 feet and falling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Indiana
Velasco Ibarra crushes Ecuador revolt arresting Guevara Moreno
President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra says his three month old government has crushed the first revolt. Former ally Carlos Guevara Moreno mayor of Guayaquil and other leaders were arrested for allegedly planning to seize the Guayaquil air base amid accusations against Diario de la Nacion and its publisher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quito
Ecuador
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Carlos Guevara Moreno
Guayaquil
Popular Forces
F.P
Velasco Ibarra
pro-Velasco
Simon Canarte
Furniture truck drivers strike in Terre Haute stores
Five Terre Haute furniture stores walk off the job as union contract negotiations with Teamsters continue. Two of seven stores near agreement accepted AFL terms. Silverstein's Fair Indiana Anchor Corner, Court House and Pearson's General named in the action. Wage increases of 70 cents hourly plus $2 weekly health plan, with extra 5 cents in year two and possible cost of living rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute Furniture
Teamsters’ Union
A.F.L
Silverstein’s
Fair
Indiana
Anchor
Corner Furniture
Court House and
Pearson's General Stores
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Soviet Accuses Cite 10 Million In Slave Labor Camps
Frankfurt reporting that the German magazine Deutschen Rundschau cites U N information claiming 10 million people in the Soviet Union including 2 million Germans and non Russian East Europeans are held in 220 slave labor camps. The piece links this to a 1954 industrial production demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt
Germany
Soviet Union
Deutschen Rundschau
United Nations
Ie Aconsians Rundschau
Indiana's December draft quota to be completed
Indianapolis December draft quota to be completed today with no inductions until January. Maj Wayne Rhodes state induction officer said all December draftees should arrive before Christmas in camps where they can be considered for Christmas leaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana
Wayne Rhodes
Eastern Satellites Face Hunger Crisis Claims From Refugees
Vienna reports from refugees and diplomats describe the Soviet bloc food crisis with famine risk in parts of Hungary Romania and Poland. Official Red leaders condemn maldistribution while authorities purge food officials and industry. Czech outlets flag shortages and sabotage in distribution amid widespread store scarcities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Austria
Russia
Romania
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Hungary
Erno
Gero
Tion
East Germany
Otto Grotewohl
Berlin
Poland
U N Employees Admit Former Ties With Reds
Two Americans employed by the United Nations testified they once joined the Communist party but left due to disillusionment. John Charnow and Mrs. Evelyn Thaler told an internal security subcommittee they briefly affiliated with the party, with Charnow citing no place for dissent in the party line and Thaler saying she joined by mistake and left after a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Nations
Communist Party
Homer Ferguson
R.mich
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Ferguson
John Charnow
U.N. International Children’s Emergency Fund
Evelyn Thaler
Konstantin E. Zinchenko
Russia
U.N
Security Council
Charnow
Washington, D. C
Robert Morris
Char- Snow
Fn U.N
Kelley Sues Girdler for 150000 Over Onsite Injuries
Pearl E. Kelley of Clinton filed a 150000 damage suit in the Terre Haute division of the U S District Court against Girdler Corporation, contractor at the Wabash River Ordnance Works, claiming permanent injuries from a January 6 fall at the Dana construction job. He alleges fractures, a three month hospitalization, and inability to work, due to a hole in metal flooring and negligent maintenance and failure to mark the danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl E. Kelley
Clinton
Girdler Corporation
Wabash River
Terre Haute
U.S. District Court
Kelley
Dana
Jack Mankin
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Sam Summerlin
Ike
Hawaii
Don Whitehead
Richard Jordan
WSB
Basket Fund
U. S. Weather Bureau
Reds
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