Battle Turns Rough With Chinese Attacks On Korean Outposts
On the Western Front in Korea, three reinforced Chinese battalions attacked Pork Chop Hill and Arrowhead Ridge amid heavy rain and mud. U S Seventh Division and ROK Second Division defenders held crestlines as Chinese artillery and mortars pummeled the positions. Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers then strafed and napalmed Red positions in the Kumsong area.
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Seoul
Pork Chop Hill
Arrowhead Ridge
U. S. Seventh Division
ROK
U. S
Outpost Harry
Fifth Air Force
Kumsong
Power Strike Threat Grows In Northeast Ohio
In Akron negotiations between CIO Utility Workers Akron Local and Ohio Edison with Mayor Russell Bird followed a 12 hour federal mediation session. Harry Doerr said some progress was made though details were not released. Workers at Warren Toronto Lorain Mansfield Alliance Shadyside and Youngstown rejected the offer. Ohio Edison serves 1 500 000 people in northeastern Ohio.
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Akron
Ohio Electric
CIO
Akron Local
Ohio Edison Co
Russell Bird
Harry Doerr
Ohio Edison
Warren
Toronto
Lorain
Mansfield
Alliance
Shadyside
Youngstown
Ohio
Truman Heads to Indianapolis After Columbus Visit
Former President Harry S. Truman and wife Bess arrived in Columbus with 2000 Future Homemakers delegates staying at the Deshier Hilton. Governor Frank Lausche met Truman for about 30 minutes, declining comment on their discussion.
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Columbus
Missouri
Harry S. Truman
Deshier Hilton Hotel
Indianapolis
Independence
Truman
Bess
Homemakers of America
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Ex Tax Collector Begins Jail Term in Danbury
Former Boston Internal Revenue Collector Dennis W. Delaney began serving a year and a day in a Danbury federal prison for accepting a $2500 tax bribe. He was fired in 1951 by President Truman after being accused of taking a check from Daniel Friedman of New York in 1949 to influence an overdue tax collection. Delaney was also fined $5000.
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Danbury
Conn
Boston
Internal Revenue
Dennis W. Delaney
Federal Correctional Institution
Truman
Delaney
Daniel Friedman
New York
Janey
Mediem Sees Truck Tax Pass In Ohio Senate
Ohio Senate Taxation Committee approved an axle-mile levy by an 8-5 vote. Senator C Stanley Mechem predicts enough votes to push the measure to a Thursday floor vote. The tax applies to trucks with three or more axles, charging from half a cent to 2 1/2 cents per mile based on axle count.
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Columbus, CO
Ohio
Ohio Senate
Senate
C. Stanley Mechem
Nelsonville
House
Frank J. Lausche
C&O Expands Power Plant at Preway Station Southwest of Columbus
The Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. begins construction of a building addition and a 100,000 kW generating unit at Preway Station, 12 miles southwest of Columbus. Townsend and Bottom of Ann Arbor are general contractors. The $15 million unit, the largest in the system, raises plant capacity to 220,000 kW.
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Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Pieway
E. M. Poston
Athens County
Taber Defends Against Symington Accusations
Rep. Taber accuses Sen. Symington of violating House and Senate rules by attacking a fellow member over Air Force and General Vandenberg remarks. He notes the speech reflects Symington’s usual style while backing a House move to cut the Air Force budget below Eisenhower’s request.
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Washington
Rep
Taber
Symipeton
D-Mo
House
Senate
Air Force
Hoyt
Vandenberg
Congress
Symington
Tabler
Boston Herald
Defense Wilson
Plastic Blast Fatal to Boy in Akron Factory
A 15 year old named Philip Propst was killed Monday when a plastic solvent exploded in a factory. An electric motor spark touched off the volatile solvent, causing a large fireball. Propst, employed as an errand boy and general handyman, would have been a high school senior this fall. Four women escaped by leaping from a second story window to a neighboring roof.
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Akron
Philip Propst
Compromise Reached On Bill To Open Relief Rolls
Ohio conferees report a compromise on a measure to expose welfare rolls to public inspection. The plan would audit lists at the state auditor's office with access granted upon signing and stating a reason. The 836 million dollar two year budget bill also became law.
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House
Senate
Courty Auditor’s
Wiley accuses Rhee of playing with global dynamite in Korea
Sen Wiley of Wisconsin denounces South Korea's President Syngman Rhee for stalling an armistice while warning of a military disaster that could wreck UN peace efforts. He praises Rhee's patriotism yet calls his stance extreme and dangerous to world peace and UN credibility.
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Washington
Sen. Wiley
R-Wis
Syngman Rhee
Wiley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rhee
Korea
Free Peoples
Sen
Knowland
Rcalif
Liaison Officers Gather as Rhee Holds Out for New Proposals
Communist liaison officers plan a Panmunjom meeting on Wednesday amid reports that U S efforts to win Rhee over to an armistice depend on a new proposal acceptable to him The talks follow Rhee’s insistence that the United States back a post armistice political conference and resume fighting only if concrete terms are set.
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Panmunjom
South Korea
Syngman Rhee
U. S
Rhee
Kaesong
Mark Clark
Washington
Eisenhower
Walter S. Robertson
Rhee-Robertson
Korea
Robertson
U.S
State Probes Madison Home Investigation Opens Inquiries
Madison Home for Aged administrator Don A. Wheeler says state welfare officials are probing his Lake County facility amid rumors of improper supervision and inmate mistreatment. He denies any issues with staff or the honor guard trustees from Marysville Reformatory for Women.
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Madison
Don A. Wheeler
Lake County
Welfare Department
John H. Lamneck
Marysville Reformatory
Wheeler
Light Vote Expected In Illinois Election
In the special election for Illinois 7th District to succeed the late Rep Adolph Sabath a light turnout was anticipated. James B Bowler 7T longtime 25th Ward alderman led in the Democratic West Side district while Republican candidate Philip J Boffa a 9 year old druggist ran for the first time officials noted a light ballot.
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Chicago
Illinois
Adolph J. Sabath
House
West Side
James B. Bowler
25Th Ward
Philip J. Boffa
Wife-Killer Claimant Jailed for Robberies
Adrian Bias 47, a former convict, was sentenced in Dayton to two consecutive 19 to 25 year terms in the Ohio Penitentiary for armed robbery after pleading guilty. He admitted killing his wife last February and burying her in a desolate wooded area near Portsmouth, a body not found in a recent search.
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Dayton
Adrian Bias
Ohio
Bias
Portsmouth
Eisenhower to Hold News Conference at 9:30 AM
President Eisenhower will hold a news conference at 9 30 am EST on Wednesday with reporters invited. The event aims to brief the press on current policy and national issues.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Drought Aid Under Study to Be Discussed by Five States
Governors of Texas Oklahoma Colorado Kansas and New Mexico will meet in Amarillo to consider state action for farmers and cattlemen amid a four year drought. Gov. Allen Shivers said the meeting is needed as drought aid debates continue in Congress and within cattlemen circles. Temperatures exceed 100 degrees in many areas and 77 Texas communities face water rationing amid health concerns over water from questionable sources.
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Austin
Tex
Amarillo
Allen Shivers
Texas
Congress
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
New Mexico
Shivers
William L. McGill
Ohioan Clevenger Attacks Eisenhower Bill Strategy
Rep. Clevenger of Ohio criticizes the Eisenhower administration for asking Republicans to back many measures they opposed when Democrats sponsored them. He cites foreign aid and reciprocal trade extension as examples he voted against, and opposes education aid and Taft Hartley amendments as well. He claims Ohioans reject such policies and that New York Republicans influence the program.
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Washington
Clevenger
Ohio
Eisenhower
Truman
New York State
Barred Witness Quizzed At Closed HUAC Hearings
New York reporters were barred from a House Un American Activities Committee hearing that questioned a very important witness. The witness, identified as Max Blitcher, an electrical engineer and former Navy employee, faced questioning chaired by Rep. Kit Clardy in a session closed at the request of the Justice Department over national security concerns. Committee counsel Robert L. Kunzig said the request originated from the Justice Department.
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New York
House
Red Brothers
Justice Department
Max Blitcher
Navy
Rep
Kit Clardy
R-Mich
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Department of Government
Committee
Robert L. Kunzig
New Trial Ordered In Zanesville Action
In Zanesville, Common Pleas Court dismissed a $100000 injury suit by former radio newscaster John M. Peart against publisher Earl J. Jones of the Zanesville News. The Ohio Supreme Court ordered a new trial after alleging a juror in the original panel was offered a bribe, a claim the juror did not accept.
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Zanesville
Common Pleas Court
John M. Peart
Earl J. Jones
Zanesville News
Ohio Supreme Court
Jones
Peart
High Court
Hogan Fires 75 Tops British Open Leaderboard
Bobby Locke of South Africa shot 71 on the rain swept Carnoustie course to lead medalist hopes as Ben Hogan of Texas carded 75 in the British Open Golf Championship.
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Carnoustie
Scotland
Bobby Locke
South Africa
Ben Hogan
Texas
Police quell riot staged by 53 women at reformatory
Police used clubs and fire hoses to break up a riot of 53 women at the Maryland State Reformatory near Jessups. Twenty five inmates were moved to another cottage while the rest were held at bay for four hours. Attendants locked in their room were released unharmed as troopers prepared tear gas if needed. By half an hour after the assault, the cottage was under control.
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Jessups
Maryland State Reformatory
Baltimore
Washington
Construction boom Spirals in U S History in First Half 1953
The first half of 1953 saw a record forty six percent rise in private building with 10.9 billion dollars in private construction. Residential building reached 5.4 billion while public or government financed projects totaled 5.1 billion including highway spending and atomic plant outlays.
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Washington
U. S
Commerce and Labor Departments
Truckers Strike Ties Up Pike County Plant
A conference of officials from local 413 AFL Teamsters Union will meet today to discuss the strike by 200 truckers at the Pike County atomic energy plant demanding higher hauling rates.
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Portsmouth
AFL Teamsters Union
Pike County Atomic Energy Plant
U.S. House Probe Sought Over AEC Bomb Test Ban
Rep Keating urged a congressional inquiry into AEC handling after barring Rep Condon from witnessing an atom bomb test. Rep Price called the move very unfortunate while Condon, silent on AEC, plans a full floor statement. Condon has been viewed as a security risk by both military services and AEC.
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Washington
Keating
Congressional
Atomic Energy Commission
Rep
Condon
Calif
Price
D-Ill
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Washington Dispatch
New York Herald Tribune
Commission
6000 Tots Inoculated In Carolina
Caldwell County conducted a mass gamma globulin polio inoculation with about 6000 children expected to receive shots in four clinics after yesterday’s turnout of nearly 6000. Health officials predicted over 10,800 more children would be inoculated voluntarily. More than 500 volunteers and 15 hours of labor supported the effort as polio cases rose to 86 nationwide with two deaths.
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Lenoir
N. C
Caldwell County
Montgomery County
Ala
William Happer
Ohio Slayer Given Parole
The Ohio State Pardon and Parole Board granted parole today to 26 inmates from London Prison Farm. George Grissom 41 from Hamilton County was paroled effective Aug. 14 after a second degree murder conviction for the slaying of Frank Camero on March 13 1943. Samuel Bonecutter 28 from Allen County was paroled effective Aug. 14 after kidnapping robbery and assault to rob convictions.
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Columbus
Hamilton County
Allen County
London Prison Farm
State Pardon and Parole Board
George Grissom
Grissom
Frank Camero
Ohio Penitentiary
Samuel Bonecutter
Overseas Libraries Ordered To Restore Purged Books
The State Department directs overseas libraries to restore volumes purged earlier for Communist or controversial authors. A master list lists more than 50 titles among 189 libraries, aiming to end confusion after 10 directives.
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Washington— Department
International Information Adminis
Juvenile 14 Is Delinquent In Neighbor Slaying
Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin fourteenth year old James Duranty was judged delinquent in the killing of neighbors Mr and Mrs Sumner Harris and committed to the State Department of Public Welfare custody until age 21 A mental report found no mental deficiency The boy said he liked the Harrises and did not know why he fatally stabbed them The district attorney said newsmen could not attend juvenile court proceedings under Wisconsin law no one under 16 may be prosecuted as a criminal.
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Sturgeon Bay
Wis
James Duranty
State Department of Public Welfare
Herbert Johnson
James
Waukesha
Sumner Harris
Wisconsin
Figure in Spy Case Cited as Vagrant
Irwin Edelman the sidewalk orator linked to obtaining the Rosenberg spies last stay of execution is free but must register as a vagrant within 48 hours or face nine days in jail. Edelman 54 was convicted Monday of failing to comply with a state law requiring vag rants to register. He said he would appeal.
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Los Angeles
Irwin Edelman
Edelman
President Hosts Farm Leaders at Social Dinner
President Eisenhower entertained 13 guests at a White House social dinner. Among the attendees were Allen B. Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Herschel Newsom of the National Grange, Ben Hibbs of Saturday Evening Post, Firestone Jr., and David J. McDonald, president of the CIO United Steelworkers.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Allen B. Kline
American Farm Bureau Federation
Herschel Newsom
National Grange
Ben Hibbs
Saturday Evening Post
Firestone, Jr
David J. Mcdonald
CIO
United Steelworkers
Fire Injures Five at Akron Plastics Firm
A flash fire in the second story quarters of a plastics firm in Akron injured five persons on Monday. Firefighters battled the blaze and evacuated workers as injuries were reported but details of the victims and the cause were not immediately released.
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Akron
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