Taft and Ike discuss harmony in new administration
Senator Taft and three GOP colleagues met with President-elect Eisenhower for two and a half hours to map a legislative program and set a process for future appointments. Taft said a general understanding for adequate consultation with senators was reached with respect to new picks, while noting lingering questions about Durkin's labor secretary appointment.
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New York
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Martin Durkin
Taft
GOP
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
House
Senate
Ohioan
Durkin
AFL Plumbers Union
Pope assails Communist persecution of Catholic clergy
Pope Pius XII in an encyclical titled Oriental Churches condemns the persecution of Latin and Oriental Rite Catholics in Communist countries. He cites killings, imprisonments, and exiles affecting thousands of priests and bishops across Eastern Europe, including Ukraine and Bulgaria.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Siberia
Iron Curtain
Europe
Ukraine
Switzerland
Oriental
Eugene Bossilkoff
Nicopolis
Bulgaria
Romania
Decline in Farm Prices Signals Incoming Agricultural Challenge
Washington reports December farm prices fell 3 percent, finishing the year 12 percent below December 1951 and 15 percent under February 1951 peak. The Agriculture Department cites record production and weaker export demand as factors, with parity dipping overall to 96 percent mid-December. Meat, cotton, milk, and poultry show declines while a few items like rice and apples maintain parity.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Agriculture Department
Roosevelt
Truman
Department
U. S
Physicist Indicted in Perjury Case
A Federal Grand Jury in Richmond, Virginia indicted Jerome Mayo Greenberg, former government physicist, on charges of falsely denying Communist Party membership. The indictment followed Greenberg’s December 15, 1945 FBI interview in Norfolk, Virginia during an employment check.
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Washington
Richmond
Jerome Mayo Greenberg
Communist Party
Atty
McGranery
Greenberg
FBI
Norfolk
Record Allocation of Structural Steel Is Announced
The Defense Production Administration announced a record 1,692,000 tons of structural steel for April to June 1953 to military and civilian users. The allocation supports atomic and military work, electric power expansion, and petroleum development, with advance plans to possibly dismantle civilian allocation next June 30.
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Washington
Defense Production Administration
DPA
Ralph S. Trigg
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Trigg
Defense Electric Powers Administration
National Production Authority
Petroleum Expansion
Churchill Eden on Issues Before Eisenhower Talks
Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden discussed British proposals on Western defense and Anglo American economic relations to present to President elect Eisenhower. Four themes outlined include Korea tactics, ANZUS pact, Far East strategy, and effects of Eisenhower's Korea visit. Churchill boarded the Queen Mary for transatlantic voyage to New York.
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London
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Eisenhower
Eden
No. 10
Downing Street
New York
Korea
Stalin
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
U. S
France
Southampton
Ocean Terminal
Plane Hijacked Kills Pilot and Passenger Over Quemoy
The Philippine Air Lines jet was hijacked over Quemoy by an armed passenger who killed the pilot and another passenger. The craft landed after Chinese Nationalist fighters forced the plane to land near Amoy. The weapon-wielding passenger was identified as Ang Cho Kio also known as Philip Ang. two U.S. State Department employees were aboard with a crew of three.
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Manila
Philippine Air Lines
Red China
Quemoy Island
Amoy
Quemoy
San Francisco
Ang Cho Kio
Philip Ang
U. S. State Department
Civil Air Transport
Taipei
PAL
CAF
Chinese Air Force
Freed Spy Still Thinks He Did Right
Dr. Alan Nunn May, Britain's first atomic spy, says he acted rightly by sharing A-bomb secrets with the Russians during World War II. Freed after six years and eight months of a 10 year sentence, May hints at seeking a new scientific post to serve Britain, rest at his sister-in-law’s cottage, and defends his motives as aimed at victory over Nazi Germany and Japan. He states he was not convicted of treason and that his objective now is to restart life while correcting erroneous statements.
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London
Alan Nunn May
West
Britain
Germany
Japan
May
Ralph Nunn May
Chalfont St. Peter
A. N. May
Nazi Germany
Typhoon Hester Heads Toward Luzon and Marianas
Typhoon Hester battered Guam with winds to 65 mph and sent Marianas residents to underground shelters. The storm moves 25 mph toward Northern Luzon, with gale winds and large waves 150 miles from its center while evacuations and roadblocks remain in place. It previously struck Eniwetok, injuring 18.
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Guam
U.P
Hester
Philippines
Marianas Islands
Weather Bureau
Luzon
Here
Marianas
U. S. Western Pacific
Saipan
Tinian
Marianas Chain
Eniwetok
Alaska Military Housing Program Criticized by House Panel
A House subcommittee report faults the Alaska military housing program for trial and error construction, weak contract administration, and lax oversight by the Army Corps of Engineers. It notes the program totals about 212 million, centered at Ladd Eielson and Ft. Richardson, and urges consideration of external housing as taxpayers fund both military and private ventures.
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Washington
House
Corps of Army Engineers
House Committee On Government Operations
Holifield
Calif
Alaska
Alaska District of the Army Engineers
Lax Super
Ladd and
Eielson Air Force Bases
Fairbanks
Ft. Richardson
Anchorage
Federal Housing Administration
Democrats Plan Filibuster Fight Abolish the Senate rule 22
Three Senate Democrats led by Lehman announced a plan to fight the filibuster rule, aiming to curb marathon speakers and allow debate limits. They expect support from Republicans and other Democrats, and may move early in the new Congress.
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Washington
Senate Democrats
Lehman
D-Lib-Ny
Congress
Sens
Douglas
D-Ill
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Ives
R-Ny
Duff
R-Pa
Green
D-Ri
Anderson
D-Nm
Mansfield
D-Mont
Morse
Ind-Ore
Kilgore
D-Wv
Hunt
D-Wye
Magnuson
D-Wash
Smith
R-Nj
Twin brothers separation surgery gains brain skin cover
Rodney Dee Brodie, 15 months, received a two hour and 15 minute operation in Chicago to place a skin covering on about 75 percent of his brain after Dec 17 separation from his Siamese twin Roger Lee. Roger Lee remains in a coma with limited plastic options at this time.
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Chicago
Rodney Dee Brodie
Rodney
Roger Lee
Butte Prepares Noisy Welcome for New Year 1953
Butte looks to a loud New Year’s Eve with mine whistles horns bells and crowds across the Mining City. Parties and dinners planned at the country club Elks lodge churches and social groups. Moderate weather, light snow possible, heavy traffic expected. New Year’s Day will be quiet with stores closed and students servicemen returning to their studies.
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Butte
Rocky Mountains
Mining
Butte Country Club
Elks Lodge
Superforts Blast Red Ore Plant and Munitions Dump
B-29 Superforts bombed the Choak-tong ore processing plant and an 85 acre munitions dump northwest of Sinanju in North Korea, delivering over 200 tons amid heavy anti-aircraft fire. Return crews reported good to excellent bombing runs. Seoul blackout and unidentified aircraft over the capital followed the raids as Allied jets repelled a MIG threat farther north.
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Seoul
North Korea
Choak-tong
Yalu River
Sinanju
Fifth Air Force
U. S. Fifth Air Force
West Central
Reds
Weather Outlook for the Week
Partly cloudy with light snow flurries and cooler conditions. Temperatures range from 0 to 48 degrees across regions with a Tuesday to Thursday period showing lows near 0 and highs near 48. Precipitation is a trace and conditions vary by location including west and east of divide zones.
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School of Mines
Divide
UN Loyalty Checks Rated Colossal Flop by Chelf
House investigators pressed Secretary Acheson to testify on the State Department handling of loyalty cases at the United Nations. Acheson agreed to appear while the department announced an FBI led inquiry into possible Communist backgrounds of key UN personnel.
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Frank L. Chelf
D-Ky
House
Justice Department
New York
United Nations
Washington
Joseph A. Cahil
Corinne L. Geist
Rep. Chelf
Charles J. Harsany
State Acheson
Frank Chelf
State Department
Acheson
U. N
Truman
Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Adrian Fisher
FBI
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Fisher
Trygvie Lie
U. S
House Group
Chelf
Dr. R. B. Durnin Dies Pioneer Great Falls Physician
Dr. Richard B. Durnin 70 a Montana physician founder of the Great Falls Clinic died in a local hospital. A University of Toronto graduate he moved to Great Falls in 1910 and helped organize the clinic in 1917. Survivors include his wife Bes sie Louise son James daughter Gail Burleigh and siblings. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Great Falls
Richard B. Durnin
Montana
University of Toronto
Durnin
Minot
N. D
Northcentral
Montana Power Company
Dungannon
Ont
New York
North Dakota
American Legion
Meadow Lark
Masonic Lodge
Helena Algeria Shrine
Lineman in Idaho suicide by dynamite blast
Ada County Coroner identifies Leonard Edge 32 of Baker Oregon as the lineman who killed himself in Boise by placing a stick of dynamite under his pillow and detonating it with a battery and blasting cap. Edge recently divorced and remarried in Boise Monday.
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Boise, Idaho
U.P
Ada County
Clyde Summers
Leonard Edge
Baker
Ore
Edge
Boise
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