Communists Hit by U S Air Strikes in Korea Front
U S Superforts bombed two Communist supply centers in Western Korea near parallel 38 as Sabre jets downed at least four Russian MIGs. Eighth Army logged 2215 Communist deaths last week, with 3462 total casualties Dec 8-14, while weather limited air operations and ground fighting remained light on the Fronts.
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George McArthur
Seoul
U. S
Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Kumhwa
U. S. Eight Army
U. N
Nori
Eighth Army
Peiping
Air Force
North Korea
Kosing
President Warns Against Cut in Defense Funds
President Truman warned against cutting defense spending to lower taxes calling it a false economy. He defended maintaining a strong mobilization program amid critics and noted no commitment to Eisenhower budget reductions. The address at the Armed Forces Industrial College at Fort McNair stressed national security needs.
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Washington
Truman
Soviet Russia
United States
the Armed Forces Industrial College
Eisenhower
Industrial College
Ft. McNair
White House
Student Accused of Killing La Jolla Artist
Donald Crosby 16, tall blond high school student, formally charged with murder in the stabbing death of Ida C. MacKeown 67, a La Jolla artist. Crosby confessed at times, but varied details. arrested after neighbors identified him on the MacKeown porch. He stated marijuana use since parole from a juvenile facility after a 1950 burglary conviction.
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San Diego
Calif
Ida C. MacKeown
la Jolla
Donald Schermerhorn Crosby
Paul Walk
Phil Smith
A. E. Jansen
Crosby
Walk
MacKeown
Ike Is Neutral in Floor Leader Contest
Sen. Frank Carlson said President-elect Eisenhower will stay on the sidelines in choosing the Senate floor leader and in organizing the Senate. Carlson noted Durkin’s taft-Hartley role may be discussed, but Eisenhower will not express a personal preference. Durkin and Carlson visited Eisenhower after meeting reporters.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Eisenhower
Carlson
GOP
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Martin P. Durkin
Chicago
Labor
Durkin
Taft
Sidney Holland
White House
Department of Labor
U N Debates Lie On Subversives Firing Policy
India and Canada urged Secretary General Lie to delay firing staff until General Assembly sets broad policy on subversives. Lie defended his authority and pledge to act only with sufficient evidence. Delegates plan an extended Assembly debate likely in February and criticize the lack of consultation on the panel report.
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United Nations
India
Canada
Trygve Lie
U. N
General Assembly
Lie
Assembly
U. S
Supreme Authority
Carlos P. Romulo
Paul Martin
Secretariat
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
New U N Security Plan Ordered by Truman
Attorney General McGranery said President Truman ordered a plan to maximize security for American personnel at the United Nations. He noted collaboration among State and Justice Departments and the Civil Service Commission and cited support from Sen. Alexander Wiley. The move follows a jurists commission report and recent grand jury criticism of screening practices.
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New York
James P. McGranery
Truman
United Nations
McGranery
State and Justice Departments
Civil Service Commission
Washington
New York City
Alexander Wiley
Wiley
Commission of Jurists
U. N
Trygve
World Organization
State Department
Two Servicemen Die In Alaska Shack Explosion
At Eielson Air Force Base Alaska a flaming explosion in a fuel storage shack killed two servicemen and burned three others. The victims were working inside the building to seek warmth. bases and families were notified later.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Eielson Air Force Base
Here
Coldest December Day Since 1916 in Miami
Cold weather blanketed the South for a second day with freezing temperatures. Miami logged 41 degrees, one degree below the 1916 42 degree record for December 16, as ice and smudge pots marked the cold spell.
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Miami
Fla
Gold Coast
Florida
Briton to Head New NATO Command in Mediterranean Sea
NATO named British Admiral Earl Mountbatten to head a new Mediterranean command guarding lifelines between Gibraltar and Suez while the U S Sixth Fleet remains under Admiral Carney of the Naples based Southern European Command. Mountbatten to report to General Ridgway. fleet to support land operations.
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NATO
Mediterranean Sea
Paris
Atlantic
Earl Mountbatten
Mediterranean
U. S
Robert B. Carney
Churchill
Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Gibraltar
Suez
Mountbatten
Europe
Matthew B. Ridgway
Naples
Southern European Command
Carney
Ridgway
United States
Britain
State Board seeks priority funding for Montana schools
The Montana State Board of Education asked the Legislature to give top priority to improvements at the Boulder training school and Miles City industrial school. It proposed 402000 for Miles City upgrades, 40000 for a girls vocational cottage reroofing, and bond issues for mental health improvements at Boulder, plus 221271 for Twin Bridges orphan home repairs. The board also elevated Ruby Miller to superintendent and urged higher foundation program funding for high and elementary schools. It set Feb 16 to open bids for an $800000 MSU field house and approved wood waste heating at the university.
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Helena
State Board of Education
Boulder
Boys Industrial School
Miles City
Ruby Miller
Twin Bridges
Mary M. Condon
Ray Gerber
Sidney
Teachers Retirement
Montana State University
Everett women paint city cans in green keeps things clean
A humorous note from Everett Washington recalls a civic program painting sidewalk garbage receptacles green. A woman delivering misaddressed Christmas cards to the post office admitted she had mailed them by mistake into a curbstone mailbox, yet she ended up delivering more cards than she dropped.
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Everett, Wash
Everett
Postoffice
Curbstone
Weather Synopsis With Partly Cloudy Days Ahead
Partly cloudy with little temperature change through Wednesday. Night lows near zero Wednesday morning rising to around 30 by Wednesday afternoon. Thursday morning near 10. Period temperatures from 12 midnight Monday to 5 30 p m Tuesday vary by location with Airport 12 to 32 and School of Mines 27 to 38. East of divide shows partly cloudy to cooler conditions Livingston area mild changes elsewhere.
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School of Mines
Divide
Livingston
Navy Helicopters Finish Rescue Of Grommet Reefer Crew
In Leghorn Italy the last 13 of 39 civil ian crewmen from the Grommet Reefer were hoisted to safety by four U S Navy helicopters from the Midway and Leyte. The ship broke in two after hitting rocks in 110 mph winds, and Capt Henry P Sauriant was the final survivor landed ashore 36 hours after the wreck.
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Leghorn
Italy
U. S
Henry P. Sauriant
Brooklyn
N. Y
Leghorn Harbor
U. S. Army Hospital
Midway
Leyte
Europe
Perjury Indictment Ties Lattimore to Communist Claims
A Federal Grand Jury in Washington indicted Owen Latti Lattimore director of Johns Hopkins International Relations on seven counts of perjury. The charges stem from his Senate Internal Security Subcommittee testimony last spring in which he allegedly lied about supporting Communism and knowing Dr Chao Ting Chi was a Communist. The indictment, announced after review of the hearing record, accuses him of seven material false statements and follows 12 days of questioning about Communist ties and postwar policy in the Far East.
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Wilmot Hercher
Washington
Owen Lattimore
Senate
Internal Security
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
America
Far East
Hugh Latimer
Ch’ao Ting Chi
Chi
Institute of Pacific Relations
Jap Police Probe International Espionage Case
Japanese police pursue a complex spy case claiming a Russian official involvement. Masao Mitsuhashi, a radio engineer, admits spying for Russia while secretly aiding U S counterintelligence, and a U S Soviet linkage with Wataru Kaji surfaces. The foreign office notes limited action without US secrets.
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Tokyo
Foreign Office
Japan
U. S
Masao Mitsuhashi
Russia
North Korea
U. S. Counter Intelligence Corps
CIC
Mitsuhashi
Siberian
Vladivostok
Wataru Kaji
Kaji
U S Soldier Guards Tell How They Quelled Red Prisoner Revolt
On Ppongam Island Korea U S guards recount quelling a Sunday uprising by 4500 Red prisoners roared to Communist songs under gunfire. 84 prisoners died or were mortally wounded in 55 minutes and 118 were injured along with two American and three South Korean guards. By Tuesday 87 prisoners had died. authorities say it was a mass breakout attempt discovered after a note was intercepted.
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Pongam Island
Korea
U. S
Koje Island
Koje
Stephen N. Gelenger
Koje Field
George P. Miller
Miller
German Doctor Admits Atrocity At Strasbourg Trial
Otto Bickenbach a 48 year old former Heidelberg University professor confessed before a French military court that he used concentration camp prisoners as human guinea pigs to test poison gas effects. He admitted injections followed by gas exposure at Struthof in December 1943 and June 1944 cases where several prisoners died.
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MET
France
Otto Bickenbach
Heidelberg University
Struthof
Vosges Mountains
Bickenbach
Strasbourg
Meat Production Reaches Ten Year High in U S
The Agriculture Department reports meat production under federal inspection at 447 million pounds for the week ended last Friday. This is 2 percent above the prior week and 15 percent above the same week last year.
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Washington
United States
Agriculture Department
Viking 9 Equalled Single Stage Rocket Altitude Record
The Navy's Viking 9 rocket at White Sands Proving Grounds equalled the 135 mile altitude record for single stage rockets. It flew seven and a half tons, 42 feet long, at 3900 miles per hour until fuel exhausted. The 1951 Viking 7 set the prior mark. the Army's WAC Corporal reached 250 miles but was not a single stage missile.
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Washington
Navy
Army
White Sands Proving Grounds
Las Cruces
N. M
Defense Department
White Sands
DiSalle to Take Putnam's Post
Truman brings Michael V. DiSalle back into government as economic stabilizer to run price and wage controls and support an anti inflation program until the Republican administration takes over January 20. DiSalle will supervise prices and wages and likely be sworn in Monday to succeed Roger L. Putnam who resigns to return to Springfield Mass.
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Washington
Truman
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Congress
Roger L. Putnam
Putnam
Springfield
Mass
Falls Man Killed in Auto Accident Near Fort Benton
A car left a curve and tumbled 200 feet down a rocky embankment killing John Woods of Great Falls. Three men were riding. Tom Latham was in serious condition and Dan Evans had minor injuries. Montana highway fatalities reached 229 for the year.
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Fort Benton
Montana
John Woods
Great Falls
Here
Sheriff's Office
Tom Latham
Dan Evans
Three Teen Girls Die in Arizona Gasoline Stove Blast
In Florence Arizona a gasoline stove exploded in a two story cotton camp home killing Lillymae Ferrin 17 and her sisters Rachael 14 and Judy 12 while parents prepared breakfast. Grandfather hospitalized and other survivors treated for burns and shock.
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Florence
Ariz
Lillymae Ferrin
Rachael
Judy
John Ferrin
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