Jurors Start Lattimore Perjury Probe
The federal grand jury will decide whether Owen Lattimore should be indicted for perjury after the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee accused him of five falsehoods about Soviet influence and his Communist ties. Lattimore, Johns Hopkins professor, denies the charges and has not commented on the proceedings.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Senate
Internal Security
Lattimore
America
Far East
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
State Department
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
United States
Edward F. Hummer
Justice Department
Senate Committee
Outer Mongolia
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
New York
Sen. McCarran
D-New
Asiaticus
Chaoting Chi
Institute of Pacific Relations
Catesby Jones
Johns Hopkins
Montana Highway Commission sets bid opening for six projects
The Montana Highway Commission announced bid openings on December 18 for six projects. They include a 390 foot steel and concrete bridge over the Yellowstone River on the Livingston Wilsall road in Park County due by July 31, 1954. paving and repair of the Great Northern Railway underpass on the Glasgow road in Valley County by September 30, 1953. construction of three timber bridges on the Jackson Dillon road in Beaverhead County with removal of an existing bridge by July 31, 1953. grading graveling oiling and draining 8.02 miles of Belgrade west and Belgrade south roads in Gallatin County by September 15, 1953. grading and draining of 0.02 miles of the Fort Benton Havre road in Hill County with culvert installing and removal of two pile bridges by March 31, 1953. and constructing an 8 inch steel waterline to the Highway Department office and shop at Havre by June 30, 1953.
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Helena
Montana Highway Commission
Yellowstone River
Livingston- Wilsall
Park County
Great Northern Railway
Glasgow Road
Valley County
Jackson-Dillon
Beaverhead
Belgrade West
Belgrade South
Gallatin County
Fort Benton-Havre
Hill County
Highway Department
Havre
Travel Restrictions Protested by Allies
Western Allied commandants condemned Soviet Sector police action that halted all traffic between East and West Berlin. Maj. Gen. Lemuel Mathewson reported that crossers were stripped of money and possessions and deprived of cars. He called for return of possessions and free movement across Berlin’s four sectors.
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Berlin
East
West Berlin
Sergei Dengin
Soviet Control Commission
Lemuel Mathewson
Allied Bombers Blast Red Targets on Manchurian Doorstep
Okinawa based B 29s attacked Communist targets on the Manchurian doorstep for the second day. 100 tons of 500 pound bombs hit a major communications center at Cholsan near Antung while other strikes targeted Tae yudong and Choisan amid extreme cold. Sabre jets downed a MiG 15 in a clash near Sniper Ridge as Korean and American forces hold the front.
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Tokyo
U.P
Munist
Cholsan
Korea
Antung
Manchuria
Taeyudong
Suiho
Yalu River
Choisan
Republic of Korea
Stevenson Says Party Interest Subordinated to Public Welfare
Adlai E. Stevenson and President Truman agree that party interests must be subordinated to the country and public welfare. He says Democrats should not obstruct the national program and notes two main problems for the party: debt reduction and serving the public interest. He has no immediate plans for party change.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Truman
Congress
Stevenson
Illinois
White House
Britain to Cut Defense Effort to Shield Economy
Prime Minister Churchill announced a defense cut to protect Britain's solvency. The plan includes delaying deliveries and reducing certain aircraft production while pushing newer models. The House of Commons rejected a Labor censure motion 304 to 280.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
Labor Party
Michigan Man Elected NAM President at 46
Charles R. Sligh of Grand Rapids Michigan was elected president of the National Association of Manufacturers at age 46, the NAM’s youngest head in 30 years. He succeeds William J. Grede of Grede Foundries Inc. Milwaukee. The 57th Congress of Industry opened with speeches stressing the growing federal government's power and how to check it.
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New York
Charles R. Sligh
Grand Rapids
Mich
National Association of Manufacturers
William J. Grede
Grede Foundries Inc
Milwaukee
Sligh
NAM
Congress of Industry
Association
Truman declines to discuss Eisenhower successors actions
President Truman refused to comment on moves by his successor Dwight D. Eisenhower. He said he wants to give Republicans a chance to operate and backed Adlai Stevenson in urging party unity for the country and public welfare. He praised Durkin as a good man and avoided further cabinet talk amid wage disputes and Cox’s resignation.
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Washington
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
White House
Stevenson
Congress
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Martin P. Durkin
Labor
Taft
Durkin
Archibald Cox
Wage Stabilization Board
Price of America's Choicest Beef Hits Wartime Levels
Chicago reports a sharp drop in beef prices as Ohio's Leader 2nd, an 1100 pound grand champion steer, sold for 4.55 dollars per pound at the International Live Stock Exposition auction. The total price reached 5005 dollars, the lowest since 1944. Pfaelzer Brothers bought the steer for Miller's Steak House of Chicago.
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Chicago
America
Ohio
Pfaelzer Brothers
Miller's Steak House
Cardinal Spellman to Celebrate Christmas Masses on Korean Front
Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman announced he will again celebrate Christmas Masses on the front lines of Korea. He will depart New York December 17, spend ten days in Korea, and conduct three front line masses in different sectors on Christmas Day.
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New York
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Korea
Cardinal Spellman
Typhoon Grounds Pan American Planes Near Wake Island
Pan American Airways grounded its trans Pacific operations in Japan and Hawaii as a typhoon roared toward Wake Island, a mid ocean refueling stop. Wake Island was hit by a September hurricane packing 160 mile per hour winds.
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Tokyo
Pan American Airways
trans-Pacific
Japan
Hawaii
Wake Island
Korea Rejects Indian Plan to End War at UN
South Korea refused the Indian compromise on ending the Korean War, arguing the proposal violates the Republic of Korea constitution. UN Assembly President Lester B. Pearson planned to mail an appeal to Peiping and Pyongyang while proposing a neutral repatriation commission and noncoercive handling of prisoners.
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United Nations
South Korea
U. N. Assembly
Y. T. Pyun
U. N
Pyun
South
Korea
Lester B. Pearson
Assembly
Peiping
Pyongyang
Pearson
Reuther Elected CIO President in Bitter Race
Walter P. Reuther, head of the CIOs auto workers union, won the presidency in a contested ballot over Allan S. Haywood. Reuther captured 3,079,181 votes to Haywoods 2,613,103, amid a factional fight and vows to expand the CIO while honoring the late Philip Murray.
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Norman Walker
Atlantic City
N. J
Haywood
CIO
Reuther
United States
Philip Murray
Murray
Court Sets 20 Day Deadline for OPS on Lifting Food Controls
A federal court gives the Office of Price Stabilization 20 days to act on a petition to abolish price controls on numerous fruit and vegetable processed foods. If OPS refuses, the court may rule on whether the revised federal controls law requires lifting ceilings.
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OPS
Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
U. S. Emergency Court of Appeals
Congress
Wreckage sighted of missing Air Force C-47 crash
Search crews reported wreckage and bodies found 11 000 feet up Mt. San Gorgonio sealing fate of the C 47 missing since Monday night with 13 men aboard Maj James McCall March AFB pilot reported sighting wreckage and sign of fire Capt Howard K Hoover led the mission Marine helicopter pilots described bodies scattered around the wrecked fuselage
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San Bernardino
Calif
Mt. San Gorgonio
James McCall
March Afb
Howard K. Hoover
Federal Attorneys Criticized for Loose Ethics Standards
A House Judiciary Subcommittee report faults some federal attorneys for fee splitting bribe-taking and double dealing while praising Attorney General McGranery for past conduct. It urges an absolute, permanent ban on gifts to officials and recommends tightening laws on gratuities and kickbacks.
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B. L. Livingstone
Washington
House
United States
House Judiciary
Justice Department
McGranery
Department
Subcommittee
James A. Mullally
Mullally
Carnation Milk Co
Congress
Doctors Sidestep Action on VA
Denver experts report AMA policy group sidestepped a proposed limit on VA medical care after Adm. Boone warned such caps could wreck the veterans program. The delegates called for study on care halts and government responsibilities, and backed free local physician care for the indigent, draft law revisions, and disapproved convict experiments.
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Edward D. Ethell
Denver
American Medical Association
AMA
House of Delegates
Joel T. Boone
Veterans Administration
Russia backs Pole for Lie's U N job
Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko announced Moscow supports Poland's Foreign Minister Stanislaw Skrzyszewski for United Nations secretary general. He noted Russia has its own candidate and avoided requesting a Security Council meeting on the issue. Lie said he does not plan to resign immediately.
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United Nations
N. Y.P
Russia
Andrei A. Gromyko
Soviet Union
Poland
Stanislaw Skrzesczewski
U. N
Trygve Lie
Gromyko
Security Council
Lie Fires Seven American Employees in U.N.
United Nations secretary general Trygve Lie dismissed seven American employees who refused to answer U.S. Senate inquiries on alleged subversive activities. Nine more on special leave, from the McCarran hearings, are expected to be dismissed. Senator Ferguson urged a new grand jury probe into disloyal citizens in key UN positions.
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United Nations
U. N
Trygve Lie
U. S. Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Pat McCarran
D-Nev
Lie
Washington
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
McGranery
Premier Pinay Wins Vote of Confidence
In Paris, Premier Antoine Pinay easily secured a confidence vote in the National Assembly after insisting the 1953 budget take priority. The assembly then began a study of his tax reform measures, approving the demand 314-207.
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Paris
Antoine Pinay
National Assembly
Assembly
Weather Summary For Friday To Saturday
Partly cloudy with scattered snow showers and little temperature change. Friday temperatures range near 15 to 35 degrees with a Friday night low, then 10 degrees Saturday morning. Airport and School of Mines readings show highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s and lows near single digits. West of divide stays cloudy with light precipitation. east of divide remains partly cloudy and windy with possible rain or snow showers.
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School of Mines
Divide
Two Montana Men Die Inside Stalled Car Near Hays
Undersheriff William Dove reported two Portman men Clifford Rolandson and Arlow A Johnson, ages about 50 and 33, were found dead in a stalled car 12 miles south of Hays. They had left Sandusky Monday afternoon. the car ran atop a dike and a running engine produced carbon monoxide fumes. J W Wellington of Ft Belknap Indian Reservation located the bodies Wednesday.
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Malta
Hays
William Dove
Clifford Rolandson
Arlow A. Johnson
Portman
Dove
Sandusky
J. W. Wellington
Ft. Belknap
Durkin Proposes Taft Conference
Durkin proposes a Taft labor conference with labor leaders to discuss Taft Hartley amendments. He says a suitable meeting could help reconcile views between Sen. Taft and labor, noting he expects good labor administration relations under Eisenhower and aims for a basic overhaul of federal labor laws.
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New York
Martin P. Durkin
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Durkin
Labor Post
AFL
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Commodore
Labor
Government Labor Post
Government Okays Wage Boost for Hard Coal Miners
Washington reports the Wage Stabilization Board approved a daily raise of about $1.90 for hard coal miners. President Truman had already approved a $1.90 increase for soft coal miners, signaling extension of the policy to similar coal contracts.
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Washington
Roger Putnam
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
John L. Lewis
Putnam
Truman
Truman names Killingsworth to replace Cox on Wage Stabilization Board
President Truman accepts Archibald Cox resignation as WSB chair and installs Charles C. Killingsworth, 35, Michigan State College economist, amid a six-industry boycott that leaves the board unable to act. The full $1.90 wage increase was approved for United Mine Workers, despite the board’s 1.50 recommendation.
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Washington
Truman
Archibald Cox
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Charles C. Killingsworth
Cox
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Killingsworth
Michigan State College
Labor
Lewis
Eisenhower
Mother and Three Children Killed in Sunnyvale Train Crash
In Sunnyvale California a 33 year old housewife Mrs Sidora Wilson and her three children John 10 Sidora 9 and Ciriaca 7 were killed when their car was struck by the Southern Pacific Daylight Limited at a grade crossing. A coroner's deputy found a note in her purse suggesting suicide and indicated she may have planned to end her life in the basement but took the children with her.
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Sunnyvale
Calif
U.P
Sidora Wilson
John
Sidora
Ciriaca
Southern Pacific Daylight Limited
Harry Scott
Burlingame
Jack
Motorist Breaks Leg in Sudden Brake Incident
EMID Oklahoma. Rollin D Drew of Oklahoma City was in a minor automobile accident Thursday when he pressed his brake so hard approaching a changing traffic light that he broke his leg.
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Okla
Rollin D. Drew
Oklahoma City
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