Mossadegh Transferred To Jail Cell
Tehran AP reports ex premier Mohammed Mossadegh moved from the Tehran Officers Club to a jail cell after surrendering following the royalist coup led by Fazollah Zahedi. Pro Mossadegh uprisings persist as Iran seeks US aid and a settlement with Britain over oil.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Mossadegh
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Fazollah Zahedi
Zahedi
Mosadegh
U. S
Fazollah Zadedi
United States
Kanawha Area House Burns
The home of Drexel Love in Henderson, Kanawha Area, burned late last night. Damage was estimated at 6000 dollars. The interior and furniture were destroyed. Point Pleasant Fire Department fought the blaze. Owner George Mayes of Henderson. this is his second fire in 18 months after his own home burned last year. No one was home. cause undetermined. Mrs Ralph Ratke reported the fire.
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Point Pleasant
Drexel Love
Henderson
George Mayes
Love
Ralph Ratke
Church Membership Growth Reaches Historic Peak in 1952
The National Council of Churches reports U.S. church membership rose to a record 92,277,129 by year end 1952. The gain of 3,604,124 reflects a 4.1 percent rise for 1952, with ten year growth averaging 2 percent and outpacing overall population growth by about two to one.
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New York
National Council of Churches
United States
Point Pleasant Man Dies at Pittsburgh
Harold Emerson Clark of Pittsburgh dies at Aspinwall Veterans Hospital near Pittsburgh aged 46. Former Point Pleasant resident and son in law of Mrs. Maria J. Mees of Point Pleasant. Funeral set for Tuesday at Centerbury Ohio by Snyder Funeral Home.
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Point Pleasant
Harold Emerson Clark
Pittsburgh
Maria J. Mees
Clark
Aspinwall Veterans Hospital
Centerbury
Ohio
Snyder Funeral Home
Baseball Mark Falls With 443-Foot Throw
Chattanooga Lookout centerfielder Don Grate hurled a baseball 443 feet and 3 inches to break his world distance record. The prior 434 feet 1 inch mark stands recognized with the ball now in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Don Grate
Chattanooga Lookout
Cooperstown, N. Y
First Shipload of U S PWs Returns To Welcome Home
The Gen. Nelson M. Walker brought 328 repatriated POWs from Inchon Korea to San Francisco writing the emotional scene at Fort Mason. Families, bands, and a welcoming crowd marked the homecoming as tears and cheers mixed on the pier.
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Robert W. Wells
San Francisco
United States
Korea
Navy
Nelson M. Walker
Inchon
Golden Gate
California
Ft. Mason
Alcatraz
Air Force
Walker
San Francisco Bay
Bay
Roosevelt A. Lunn
Baltimore
Joseph M. Swing
Ohio Crash Fatal To Two In Newark
A car leaving Route 16 two miles west of Newark struck a tree. The driver Mrs Cecil McGinnis 43 and a passenger David M Price 31 were killed. Mrs Josephine Leary 41 and her daughter Louis 9 were seriously hurt. Seventeen Ohio traffic deaths were reported for the weekend including drownings and an electrocution.
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Route 16
Here
Cecil McGinnis
David M. Price
Josephine Leary
Louis
Ohio
Patient Threatens Jump From 114th floor Ledge
New York Navy veteran Sidney Herman aged 22 spent 13 hours and 17 minutes on a hospital ledge before being coaxed inside after Dr. Harvey Kay a hospital psychiatrist spoke to him. Firemen assisted the return to safety and he slept much of the day.
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New York
Sidney Herman
Harvey Kay
Chaplin Welcomes Fourth Son in Switzerland
In Lausanne, Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife Oona O’Neill welcomed a baby boy. Both mother and child are reported well, adding to Chaplin’s two sons with second wife Lita Grey and existing daughters.
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Switzerland
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin
Eugene O'Neill
Oona
Lita Grey
Freighter Palmer Grounded in St Marys River Rescued by Mackinaw
Coast Guard sent the Mackinaw to the St Marys River to assist in floating the grounded freighter William P. Palmer. The operation aims to free the vessel and restore navigation in the area today.
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Cleveland
The
Coast Guard
St. Mary’s River
William P. Palmer
Two-Thirds Mark Near in Prisoner Exchange
The Korean prisoner exchange nears completion in its third week as 150 Americans return from Red captivity and 136 more are promised, pushing freed U.S. totals toward 2000. The UN Command reports large counts of North Korean and civilian releases while noting continued Red delays with American captives.
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Panmunjom
Reds
Dispute Halts Plant Transfer at Willow Run
Two thousand CIO United Auto Workers picketed the Kaiser Willow Run plant halting equipment transfer from the Livonia GM transmission plant. Picket line spokesmen blamed GM for using AFL Teamsters to move gear. The UAW says idled Kaiser GM workers could perform the task under contracts amid GM leasing Willow Run space to resume production after a $50 million Livonia plant fire.
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Wilsow Run
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Gen Wainwright and Lt Marks Mark 70th Birthday in Hospital
Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright celebrated his 70th birthday while confined to a hospital bed in San Antonio. Only a few close friends and his son Capt Jonathan M. Wainwright V were present as supporters recalled his defense of Corregidor in Manila Bay and the surrender to Japan on May 6, 1942.
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Jonathan M. Wainwright V
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Right Place For Bookie Inmate and Nurse Linked in Bets
Chicago authorities disclosed a hospital betting operation at the Chicago State Hospital involving inmate Martin Wanzig and nurse Fredonia Jones. Dr. Otto Bettag and Chief Patrick C. Tuohy said a nurse’s suicide after heavy losses provided the first concrete lead. Dorothy Hughes described daily bets and routing winnings to Wanzig.
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Sheriff's Police
Otto Bettag
Escapee flees West VirginiaPolice chase from Lancaster boys school
CHEVLAN West Virginia State Police said one of two boys believed to have escaped from the Lancaster Ohio boys industrial school swam the Kanawha River and fled in a stolen truck after being stopped on suspicion of car theft in Covington Virginia. Covington police identified him as William Smith, companion of Donald Stockman who was arrested Saturday. Stockman told Covington authorities he and Smith fled the Lancaster institution recently.
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W. Va
Boys Industrial School
Lancaster
Ohio
West Virginia
Covington
William Smith
Donald Stockman
Stockman
Smith
Lancaster Institution
Soviet East German Pact Expands Diplomatic Ties and Aid
The Kremlin announced a seven-point treaty with East Germany after four days of talks led by Premier Malenkov and Otto Grotewohl. It raises embassy levels, restores Soviet enterprises to East Germany, limits occupation costs, releases many war prisoners, wipes East German debts, ends reparations after Jan 1, and ships economic aid worth rubles to bolster East German industry. In Washington, Lattimore faces appeal to reinstate four perjury counts after a lower court trimmed the indictment.
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Georgi Malenkov
Otto Grotewohl
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Grotewohl
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Malenkov
Malenov
Russia
Washington
U. S. Court of Appeals
Owen Lattimore
Luther W. Young
Youngdahl
Minnesota
Soldier recounts execution in Korean War behind frontlines
Pfc. David A. Dawson of Cleveland says a Chinese Red firing squad executed an American in spring 1951 after Dawson's capture near Inchon. He cites the communists claiming the man killed a guard, but provides no proof of the charge.
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Korea
Ohio
Cou
David A. Dawson
Cleveland
Dawson
Isabel Roberts 100th Birthday Celebrant Dies in McConnellville
McConnellville Ohio Mrs Isabel Roberts who marked her 100th birthday on February 14 died here today at her residence. She was a longtime resident of the town and remembered by neighbors and relatives for her community involvement.
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Mcconnellville
Ohio
Isabel Roberts
Liberalized Foreign Trade Held Key to World Unity
Denver report by Lewis W. Douglas urges prompt liberalization of U S foreign trade laws to sustain world unity. President Eisenhower endorses the analysis and forwards it to the new government study commission led by Clarence Ek Randall to review U S trade policy and currency stability.
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Eisenhower
United States
Lewis W. Douglas
Great Britain
America
Douglas
Britain
Fisenhower
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Government Study Commission On
Piece of Wood Is Sole Clue In Murder
Charleston investigators probe the brutal slaying of Mrs Walter F E Clark principal owner of the Charleston Daily Mail She was beaten to death in her home Friday night A fragment of varnished oak wood found beside the body is the sole clue police may have used to identify a weapon Detectives have no motive yet and a stranger photographed the Clark home about a week earlier before an Ohio man reported the photos as part of an architectural study
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Charleston
W. Va
Walter FE. Clark
Charleston Daily Mail
Dewey Williams
Clark
Ohio
Spanish War Veterans Open L Ss Convention
Cleveland hosts the 5th national encampment of the Spanish War Veterans with about 4000 veterans gathering. The United Spanish War Veterans and its allied groups, including the auxiliary and descendants, participate in the event as discussions touch on modern global threats.
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Cleveland
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Revolutionary changes in Russia needed first
Washington officials say any Soviet participation in an international atomic control program is unlikely without revolutionary changes in the Soviet system. The disclosure of a hydrogen explosion and Soviet rigidity in talks underlie dim prospects for disarmament, with the Kremlin’s secrecy cited as a core obstacle.
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French crackdown drives Istiqlal underground in Morocco
Moroccan authorities say over 1000 Arabs suspected of anti French activity were arrested as the outlawed Istiqial Nationalist movement went underground. After last week’s exile of Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, pro French Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa faces a fragile security situation with authorities tight control across the protectorate and potential for further unrest.
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Rabat
Morocco
Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef
Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa
Corsica
Istiqlal
Husband repudiates confession in New Orleans murder case
New Orleans police weigh whether James Roy Johnson of Floyd County Kentucky killed his dancer wife Bessie Nina Johnson found strangled in her apartment in August 1950. Johnson admitted the slaying to Columbus Ohio police but later repudiated his statement saying he did not believe he was guilty.
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New Orleans
James Roy Johnson
Floyd County
Johnson
Columbus
Ohio
Bessie Nina Johnson
Boy Three Is Abducted In Columbus Family Fight Suspect
Muskingum County and Columbus officers pursued leads in the abduction of 3-year-old boy, son of Mrs. Faye Scanian. A man allegedly jumped from a car outside the home and seized the child while he played. Authorities suspect a family quarrel and checked relatives in Zanesville and the father in Nashport.
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Columbus
Franklin and
Muskingum County
Faye Scanian
Youth Admits Priest Slaying Denies Others
A 25 year old fugitive, William Jackson Townsend, signed a statement admitting he shot and killed Rev. Robert A. Hodges, a Kansas City priest, in a river bottom field after Hodges gave him a ride. Townsend said Hodges wore clerical clothes and made advances before the shooting. Townsend was arrested in Logansport, Indiana, by FBI agents. he denied involvement in two truck driver deaths on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
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South Bend
Ind
Indiana Reformatory
Kansas City
Frank Bennett
William Jackson Townsend
Robert A. Hodges
Bennett
Townsend
Father Hodges
Logansport
FBI
Pennsylvania
Back Tax Accusation Denied by Physician
The IRS says Dr. Clifford J. Straehly of Cincinnati owes 47 597 in back income taxes and penalties for 1946. He filed an appeal in U S Tax Court and denies any liability for that year. He claims revenue agents knew their method was based on fiction.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Clifford J. Straehly
Cincinnati
Straehly
U. S
Cabin Cruiser Sinks on Lake Manawa
A cabin cruiser carrying eight passengers including Mrs Curtis Le May sank after hitting an underwater obstruction in Lake Mana wa. Passengers were rescued by the park water patrol and private boatsmen.
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Iowa
Curtis LeMay
Lake Manawa
Park Water Patrol
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