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P Crouch testifies Remington used official box of Knox County CP as his mailing address in '37; says membership books not essential for CP membership; testifies on own CP background and on CP; on fees he gets for being expert witness on CP; he identifies Remington
PSC rept to Dewey on Richmond Hill Nov 22 accident finds ICC safety proposals inadequate; issues 6 safety orders; makes other proposals for reorgn and mgt rehabilitation; asks adequate financing; scores Penna RR absentee mgt; rept discussed
truce com weighs inviting Communist China to great-power conf on Far East problems if it agrees to cease-fire; move prompted by Sunde inquiry; US cool to plan; urges Assembly condemn China as aggressor and study further steps to halt aggression
enemy pursues 8th Army below Seoul; threatens to envelop UN right flank in central and E Korea; UN forces and civilians evacuated from Inchon by sea; harbor facilities destroyed; Chinese cross frozen Han River; enter Yondungpo; Allies evacuate Kimpo Airfield; fighting reptd SW of Kapyong, at Hongchon; enemy build-up for drive on Wonju seen; Wonju strategic importance noted; vehicles illus quitting Seoul
Spotlight Cafe raided; 3 held as operators of $100,000-a-wk bookmaking business
1951Soh Jaipil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (born 1864)[†]
Seo Jae-pil, better known by his English name Philip Jaisohn, was a Korean American politician, physician, and Korean independence activist. He was the first Korean to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. He also founded the Tongnip sinmun, the first Korean newspaper written entirely in Hangul.
1951Andrei Platonov, Russian journalist and author (born 1899)[†]
Andrei Platonovich Platonov was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism which was not in line with the dominant socialist realism doctrine. His famous works include the novels Chevengur (1928) and The Foundation Pit (1930).
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]