College Inquiry Advised
Washington AP The Senate internal security subcommittee urged further investigation of communist influence in U S schools saying hundreds of teachers are communists Evidence from across the nation showed penetration of colleges high schools and elementary schools The panel proposed continued probes and local inquiries by state legislatures as Republicans plan broader subversive in school investigations The hearings last fall in New York helped shape an interim report to the Senate Judiciary Committee and McCarthy Taft and Velde pressed for action
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Washington
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
New York City
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Rep. Velde
R-Ill
House Un-American Activities Committee
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Taft
Ohio
NBC
House
Pope Elevates 24 Cardinals in Secret Consistory at Vatican
Pope Pius XII named 24 new cardinals during a secret consistory in the Consistorial Hall revealing the college of cardinals now at its full 70 for the first time in nearly two centuries. Included is James Francis McIntyre the Los Angeles archbishop and two primates from Communist nations where the church faces pressure.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Vatican
Senate
United States
Far West
James Francis McIntyre
Los Angeles
Redondo Beach Sees 15 Million in Wave Damage
Mayor Dr. J. Russell Shea says waves battering Redondo Beach cause about 15 million dollars in damage. More than 20 families are homeless as streets, sidewalks, utilities, and the breakwater suffer. The sea wall is reinforced with over 40000 dollars in rock.
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Redondo Beach
Calif
Earl Warren
J. Russell Shea
Redondo
Cambridge Boy Fatally Shot in Revolver Mishap
A three year old boy, Richard Hackley, son of Ralph and Mary Hackley, was accidentally shot and died in a hospital. Prosecutor John S. Moorehead said the incident happened in the Cambridge apartment of Mr and Mrs Richard Savage where they were handling a .22 caliber revolver.
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Cambridge
John S. Moorehead
Richard Hackley
Ralph and
Mary Hackley
Moorehead
Richard Savage
Savage
Unfinished Symphony Ends Life of Tampa Conductor
Frank Gras, 58, died during a Tampa Symphonette Orchestra concert on Sunday as he conducted the final piece the Unfinished Symphony. Several hundred listeners witnessed the tragedy in Tampa, Florida.
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Tampa
Fla
Frank Grasso
Tampa Symphonette Orchestra
UN Repels Heaviest Red Raids in Weeks
Communist forces launched near 1500 men in heavy night assaults along the Korean front. In the Eastern sector savage, hand to hand fighting lasted hours with 213 of 900 attackers killed. Allied air power hit Sinanju rail yards as part of a Manchuria supply-line campaign. Chinese forces attacked Old Baldy area but were repulsed in about 20 minutes.
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Seoul
U.S
Eighth Army
Sinanju
Korea
Manchuria
Capitol Hill
Old Baldy
Claim Marine Jets Bombed Yank Outpost
The U S Marines announced a new independent inquiry into a bombing that killed 14 American soldiers and nine others on the Korean front last week. Panther jets may have caused the attack, with Marine pilots planned to strike near the scene. A Tokyo spokesman said the Korea air wing sent investigators to question witnesses and inspect damage.
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Tokyo
U.S
Air Force
Navy
Marine Air Wing
Korea
U S Braces Japan Fleet Transfer at Yokosuka
The United States will turn over 68 ships to Japan beginning Wednesday at Yokosuka. The first group includes six frigates and four large landing ships, with 18 frigates and 50 landing vessels loaned for five years without charge under a recent congressional act. Prime Minister Yoshida had urged more ships to guard Japan's 9000 mile coastline.
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Tokyo
U.S. Navy
Japan
U.S
Yokosuka
Congress
Japanese Maritime Safety Board
Shigeru Yoshida
Build Giant Casket For 565 Pound Man
Ten men will carry 565 pound Lagean Harris to his grave in a custom built 545 pound coffin today. Harris, 66, a Negro tenant farmer in this Mississippi River town, died of natural causes last Monday and funeral services have been postponed while a special casket was built.
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Ark
Lagean Harris
Harris
Mississippi River
Probe of Oil Cartel Stalls Likely Drop in Grand Jury
Indications the Truman administration plans to drop a grand jury probe into an alleged world oil cartel. Court heard documents not needed now as oil companies’ attorneys were summoned to a conference at the Attorney General’s office. The Washington Post reported a civil suit may replace the grand jury inquiry, per NSC advice.
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Washington
Truman Administration
Leonard J. Emmerglick
U. S
James R. Kirkland
McGranery
Washington Post
Post
National Security Council
Justice Department
Six of Family Die in Blaze
Fire destroyed a two story farm home in Erie on Sunday. Six of the Thompson family perished—George 23, Alice 22, Rita 5, Martha 4, Charles 2, and Charlene 9 months—while five others escaped from the first floor as flames spread to the basement. Stanley Szymanowicz, state police fire marshal, said an old oil stove in the children's bedroom likely exploded.
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Erie
George Thompson
Alice
Rita
Martha
Charles
Charlene
Stanley Szymanowicz
Capitol Hill Club Opens Amid Republican Controversy
Rep. James C. Auchincloss helps inaugurate the Capitol Hill Club in a remodeled brick building near the old House office building. The club requires membership for Republicans with a $50 fee, while Rev. Dr. Albert Shirkey denounces it as a sin and blight, warning of a liquor lounge near the Capitol used by party leaders to plan.
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Washington
House
Capitol Hill Club
James C. Auchincloss
New Jersey
Albert P. Shirkey
Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church
Capitol
Taft Seeks Foreign Relations Role in Eisenhower Era
Sen. Taft of Ohio plans to join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the fifth Republican on foreign relations, trading his Finance Committee post. He will receive direct briefings from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. In New York the GOP leaders said Eisenhower accepts Republican involvement in future federal appointments.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eisenhower
Senate Finance Committee
John Foster Dulles
NBC
New York
Senate
Congress
Plea To Void Special Jury Is Refused
Judge Lewis H. Miller refused a plea of abatement to declare the October special grand jury illegal as the Lester Ohlinger trial began in POINT PLEASANT. The judge overruled when arguments cited directory jury rules and noted envelopes and age considerations in West Virginia grand jury selection.
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Point Pleasant
Lewis H. Miller
Lester Ohlinger
New Haven
William Bardin
Celestine Faudree
Bessie Supple
Miller
West Virginia
Lewis
Taft Seeks Role on Foreign Relations Panel
Taft says foreign policy links to large wartime spending while he aims to join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He expects influence over GOP foreign policy and favors Eisenhower objectives with method-based differences. Wiley of Wisconsin slated as group chairman with up to three Republican allies likely joining.
Slays Mother In Rent Row
Unemployed theater usher John Mondore 20 confesses to killing his 64 year old mother Dora after a rent dispute. He says he struck her with an empty beer bottle and stamped her neck amid a quarrel over needed funds for room rent. Authorities found her battered body and a rent payment note attached to her check.
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New York
John Mondore
Dora
Soft Drink Financier Chandler Dies at 72
Asa Griggs Candler Jr. the Coca Cola empire heir, died at 72 in Atlanta after a several day illness. His physician Dr. Vernon Powell cited a malignant condition. He had built wealth in Coca Cola and later owned 33 apartment buildings in real estate ventures.
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Atlanta
Asa Griggs Candler, Jr
Vernon Powell
Candler
Grand Jury to Probe Batavia Slaying of Hayden Rice
Clermont County grand jury will meet in special session Thursday to consider murder charges against 84 year old Clara Rice. Rice, partly blind, has been sent to Longview State Hospital in Cincinnati after the fatal shooting of her husband Hayden. A lunacy warrant was filed in Probate Court following the incident.
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Batavia, O
Clermont County Grand Jury
Clara Rice
Rice
Longview State Hospital
Cincinnati
Hayden
MacArthur blasts Truman over desertions and policy
Gen Douglas MacArthur charged President Truman’s appeasement policy caused desertions, calling Truman insubordinate and his attacks puerile and arbitrary. The feud, prompted by MacArthur’s relief and Korea views, drew fresh sharp rhetoric from MacArthur amid White House silence.
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New York
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
MacArthur
Defense Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
Washington
White House
Gen. MacArthur
Doris Freeson
Bell Syndicate
Miss Freeson
Chicago Tribune
The
Scripps
Lausche sworn in for fourth term as Ohio governor
Gov. Frank J. Lausche, a Democrat, is inaugurated at noon to a historic fourth term. Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt administers the oath in the Statehouse rotunda. At 8 p.m. Lausche delivers the State of the State to a Republican-led Legislature. Inaugural ball follows. Five Republicans also take oaths: Lt. Gov. John W. Brown, Sec. Ted W. Brown, Treasurer Roger W. Tracy, Atty. Gen. C. William O'Neill, and Auditor James A. Rhodes.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Carl V. Weygandt
Ohio Supreme Court
Statehouse
Lausche
League of Young Democratic
Early ROTC Graduates Ordered to Active Duty
The Army announced ROTC graduates who complete training this winter will be ordered to duty within 60 days of graduation. Earlier plans had limited deployments to next summer, with Engineer Corps graduates already told to begin service this winter.
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Washington
Army
Reserve Officer Training Corps
Engineer Corps
Hunger Artist Claims World Fasting Record in Glass Cage
In Frankfurt Willy Schmitz, a professional hunger artist, declares a new world record after fasting 79 days and 3 hours in a glass cage. Police opened the sealed cage as hundreds watched. doctors allow small sips of champagne and fruit juice while solid food remains barred for days.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Willy Schmitz
Schmitz
Volunteer Firemen Convene in Akron August 21 22 23
The Volunteer Firemen's Association of Ohio will hold its convention in Akron from August 21 to 23. Local fire units and officials prepare programs and demonstrations for the three day gathering.
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Akron
Volunteer Firemen's Association of Ohio
Ohio Newsman Earl W. Baird Dies at 68
Funeral services for Earl W. Baird, 68, former Ohio newspaperman, will be held in Columbus Wednesday. This obituary notes his career in Ohio journalism and his death in Columbus.
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OHIO
Columbus
Earl
Red Atrocity Probe Sought
Representatives Sheehan and Ayres urge a full scale congressional investigation into alleged communist atrocities against American soldiers in Korea. They propose parallel resolutions for a seven member special House committee with subpoena authority and travel powers.
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Washington
Sheehan
R-Il
Ayres
Ohio
Congress
Korea
China
Matthew R. Ridgway
United Nations
Far East
House
Air Force Bomber Crashes Near Charlottesville
A U S Air Force bomber crashed in fog and rain into a wooded area near Charlottesville Virginia Sunday. Searchers found body parts indicating all three crewmen died. Witnesses say no one bailed out.
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Charlottesville
Virginia
Storm Damage Over Million 39 Dead
Rain and snow pelted regions as last week's storms claimed 39 lives and caused millions in property damage. Southwest Virginia saw its heaviest snow of the new year with over seven inches in Lee County. Snow also fell in the northeast with up to 20 inches last week, while Western Alleghenies and parts of the Far West reported lighter totals. Temperatures moderated across much of the nation today.
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Virginia
Lee County
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
California
Washington
Lnes
Seven Die In Ohio Weekend Accidents Report
The Associated Press tally shows seven people killed in traffic crashes, two from burns, and a young boy shot to death in Ohio over the weekend. Names include Cornwallis W. Scott, 80, and Dean Stout, 52, both linked to burn injuries from a rooming house explosion in Columbus.
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Columbus
Ohio
Associated Press
Cornwallis W. Scott
Cox
Burns
Dean Stout
Bald Head May Save Life in Oklahoma Slay Case
Convicted slayer Carl Austin De Wolf, set to die Jan. 27, awaits the electric chair. New witnesses claim the fleeing shooter had bushy hair and a dark complexion, prompting Gov. Murray to issue four stays and a review by the State Penal Institutions Committee. The board has refused to commute and may seek a new trial if innocence is shown.
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Oklahoma City
Carl Austin DeWolf
DeWolf
Tulsa
Johnston Murray
State Penal Institutions Committee
Kirksey Nix
McAlester
State Pardon and Parole Board
Cincinnati Firm Buys WTVN Television Station
Hulbert Taft Jr announces Radio Cincinnati Inc will purchase WTVN Channel 6 Columbus for 1.5 million dollars. The deal awaits FCC approval and WTVN serves DuMont and ABC networks as one of three Columbus stations. Taft says current employees will be retained.
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Cincinnati
WTVN
Columbus
Hulbert Taft Jr
Radio Cincinnati, Inc
Radio Cincinnati
WKRC
Wkrc-Tv
Federal Communications Commission
DuMont
ABC
Taft
Third of Four BIS Escapees Captured
The third of four BIS escapees from the Industrial School at Lancaster was captured in Columbus Sunday. A suburban Bexley officer nabbed the 16 year old in a stolen truck stolen from Leslie Ruble of Carroll Rt. 1. Two escapees had been captured shortly after Saturday morning. the fourth remains at large.
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Columbus, CO
Lancaster
Bexley
Leslie Ruble
Carroll, Rt. 1
Delay Lias Hearing Postponed to February Sixteenth
U S tax court hearing on a claim against William G Lias and his West Virginia companies is postponed to February 16. The government seeks 2 850 000 dollars in back taxes penalties and interest for 1942 to 1948.
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Washington
U. S
William G. Lias
West Virginia
Lias
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