Controls Seen for Million Auto Workers
The government wage stabilization board prepared to clamp wage controls on nearly 1,000,000 auto workers, signaling a partial sacrifice now to avert defeat in war. It may issue wage ceilings this week to align with price rollbacks to December 1 levels and could issue orders for other basic industries such as textiles. The CIO textile workers union pledged substantial wage hikes, cost of living adjustments, and $100 monthly pensions for 200,000 cotton rayon workers when contracts renew next spring.
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Washington
Truman
CIO Textile Workers Union
Michael Vv
Economic Stabilization Agency
ESA
Alan Valentine
OPA
Valentine
Ford
Chrysler
Nash
General Motors
ESA Wage Price Honor System Freeze Forecast
The Economic Stabilization Agency plans an early week honor system price and wage freeze with later possible compulsory ceilings on meats. President Truman backed voluntary standards while ESA moves toward nationwide voluntary ceilings and a March end to the freeze.
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ESA
Tax-Boosted Defense Bill Moves Ahead in Senate
In Washington the Senate advances a $17.809 billion military bill while tax measures aim to fund war costs. Senator Lucas signals early actions on raising corporate levies and an excess profits tax, with a 75 percent rate on profits over eight five percent of best three years, plus a higher surtax. The House has already cleared the arms appropriation and faces civilian defense legislation this week.
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Washington
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
Appropriations Committee
Congress
House
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Armed Services Committee
Weather Forecast for Butte Montana and Divide Regions
Butte area expects clear to partly cloudy conditions with little temperature change. Monday highs near 35 with lows around 10. Saturday night through Sunday 5:30 pm readings show Airport 40 max and 17 min, Mines 41 max and 26 min. West of Divide: partly cloudy, high 35 to 40. East of Divide: partly cloudy, high 25 to 45 with northeast near 35. The table notes the 12 hour maxima and 18 hour minima through Sunday 5:30 pm.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Associated Press
Latin American Showdown on Reds Expected
The United States plans to call an inter American conference to confront Communist aggression in Latin America. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said the move aims to curb the region where Reds hold key positions in labor unions and influence governments. Cuba Guatemala Mexico and Uruguay are cited as strongest weights with several nations banning Communists.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Latin America
Dean Acheson
Free World
Panama
Venezuela
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Paraguay
Guatemala
Mexico
Uruguay
Argentina
Ecuador
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Peru
Atom Bomb Test Disaster Draws Philadelphia Airlift
Philadelphia conducted a large airlift Sunday with over 800 landings to bring in medical supplies and evacuate casualties in the nation's first atom bomb disaster test.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Gruesome Christmas Gift Stirs Oakland Residents
Robert R. MacLean Oak land Tribune ad salesman and his wife Betty 19 received a chilling package marked Do Not Open Until Christmas The ticking box contained nitroglycerine clockwork batteries and wiring causing police to dismantle it at city hall with no danger of explosion officials called it a grisly prank by an unknown mischief maker
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Oakland
Calif
U.P
Robert R. MacLean
Oakland Tribune
MacLean
Betty
Headless Body Found After Retriever Brings Home Skull
A decomposed head of a man with gold teeth appeared in a front yard in Klamath Falls Oregon on a Saturday night. Authorities searched for the rest of the body and found a dressed trunk and limbs on a bluff near Upper Klamath Lake. No identifying papers were found and police reported no missing man on record.
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Retriever
Klamath Falls
Ore
Oregon
R. R. McEnary
Lakeshore Drive
Ward
Andes crash in Venezuela kills 31 students and others
A defense ministry report says an air crash in the Andes killed 31 people including 27 students aged 9 to 18 traveling from Merida to Caracas for the Christmas break. The crash occurred on Friday.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Andes
Merida
Defense Ministry
Acheson Leaves for Brussels Talks on Atlantic Defense
Secretary of State Acheson flew from National airport at 10 40 a m MST to join a North Atlantic defense meeting in Brussels You will attend the Atlantic alliance council session hoping to push the creation of an international force for Europe defense President Truman sent a statement of complete confidence Vice President Barkley Defense Secretary Marshall and others saw him off Cooper the Republican adviser joined Acheson to counter GOP demands for his ouster
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Washington
Acheson
Brussels
Truman
National
Council of the Atlantic Alliance
Europe
Williamsburg
Barkley
Defense
Marshall
Robert A. Lovett
W. Averell Harriman
Kentucky
John Sherman Cooper
House
Senate
West German Armament Threat Looms Over Pact Talks
Brussels reports Kremlin notes warn arming Germans would violate the Potsdam pact and Russia’s alliance treaties. Western ministers weigh a German contingent in a combined European army while US, Britain, and France push for early talks to advance Atlantic defense plans.
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Brussels
Russia
Europe
Kremlin
Britain
France
West Germany
China
United Nations
38Th Parallel
Korea
Paris
Moscow
West
London
Foreign Office
Dean Acheson
Germany
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Interest in World Affairs Costly for State Farmer
John Kjelgaard of Wolf Point says his interest in world affairs cost him dearly after he lingered by a radio broadcast of Prime Minister Clement Attlee. He arrived late to the cattle water dam and five cows drowned after the stock pond ice broke as he backed his truck onto it.
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Wolf Point
John Kjelgaard
Here
Herald-News
Kjelgaard
Clement Attlee
Great Britain
UN Mediators Chart Moves in Peace Talk
The three man UN mediation team met to plan next steps after China's Communist rejection of the cease fire plan. They consider flying to Peking to talk with Mao regime leaders while awaiting General Assembly committee decisions and a possible interim report.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nation
Threeman
United Nations
General Assembly
Peking
Assembly
Nasrallah Enteram
Iran
India
Sir Benegal Rau
Lester B. Pearson
Mao Kze-tung
Wu Hhiu-chuan
Rau
Enteram
United States
China
Korea
Formosa
Fairfield Boy 13 Killed by Gunshot Near Home
Barton Tracy age 13 of Fairfield died Sunday after being accidentally shot in the chest by Sgt Milton Beck from the Great Falls Air Force base while Beck target practiced near the Tracy barn. The two boys were playing on ice about a quarter mile away when the line of fire struck. Beck rushed him to a hospital but he died en route.
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Great Falls
Barton Tracy
Lyman Tracy
Fairfield
Milton Beck
Great Falls Air Force Base
Beck
Tracy
Mail Moving to Washington Hopes Christmas Delivery Ahead
The Post Office department said it hopes to deliver Christmas mail by the holiday despite a rail strike that slowed mail volume. Officials noted the strain from increased holiday traffic and pledged full dispatch efforts to meet the deadline.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Defense Area Resists Many Attacks
United Nations forces hold the Hungnam beachhead as Chinese forces press along the northeast Korea perimeter. A 10th Corps dispatch reports nightlong bid s by the Reds failed to dent the fortifications, with about 900 killed by air and naval fire within a 60 mile radius.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Hungnam
Korea
United States
10Th Corps
Hamhung
Hunnam
Eighth Army
Fifth Air Force
Kaesong
38Th Parallel
Seoul
Northeast Korea
Tenth Corps
Stan Swinton
Hambhaing
Hungnam Port
Rahway Parking Tickets to Say Merry Christmas
Beginning Sunday Rahway parking tickets will carry the greeting Merry Christmas. The Rahway Businessmen's Association funds the greeting by having officers leave a tag on overtime cars and add a meter nickel, reimbursed to the officer by the association. normal greetings resume December 26 with the judge's message.
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Rahway
N. J
Commie Executions Reported On Snowy Hill by UN Forces
South Korean troops moved prisoners to a snow covered hill and shot them on execution hill. White helmeted police kept UN observers away as a mass grave was filled amid ongoing executions since September. American and British troops discovered the site only after bivouacking nearby.
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U.P
United Nations
Tom Brodie
Bill Ellery
United States Eighth Army
Delegates Push for Pushtoonistan Nation at UN
Delegates from the Afghanistan Pakistan India border region urged the United Nations to create a new nation Pushtoonistan amid border clashes and a Pathan independence movement. They claim Pakistan holds 12,000 Pathans as prisoners and allege atrocities to suppress revolt.
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New Delhi
India
Afghanistan
Pakistan
United Nations
Gilgit
Baluchistan
Asia
Russia
United States
Dominion
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