Crackdown on Communists Wider as 21 Indicted
The government expanded its crackdown on American communist leaders after 17 members of a second party team were rounded up. FBI agents seized 18 in multiple autos. 4 detainees remained jailed, and one was held in Pittsburgh on $25,000 bail. The 21 indicted face up to five years and $10,000 fines for conspiracy to overthrow the government.
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Britain Backs Equal Pay Principle but Says No Affordability
Britain s Labor Government affirms equal pay for men and women for equal work yet states the country cannot currently fund such parity. The stance signals a commitment to equality while acknowledging economic limits affecting immediate implementation.
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London
Britain
Korea Gave Us Full Year Bradley Says Korea Gave Us Full Year
General Omar Bradley spoke in Korea praising the free nations for gaining at least one precious year to prepare for future threats. He awarded the Medal of Honor to 11 Army personnel, noting ten were dead or missing in action while 23 total Medals of Honor were awarded to Korean War soldiers and only three survive to receive them. The ceremony honored acts on the grim battlefield that placed these Americans on a roll of courage and patriotism.
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Two Area Men Aboard Transport From Korea
SAN FRANCISCO UP The transport Set. Howard Woodford with 1384 Korean combat veterans aboard was scheduled to dock at Fort Mason at noon today. The troops return under the rotation plan. Officers to be processed at Fort Mason and enlisted men at Camp Stoneman before scattering to homes on 30 day leave and awaiting reassignment. Passenger list includes Pfe. William W. Hahn 21 Brown St Gloucester and Pfe. James J. Kerrigan Little Hocking.
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Glouster
James J. Kerrigan
Little Hocking
Dining Room Chairs or Wheel Chairs For Sale
Messenger Want Ad shows a quick sale method by Horace Palmer for six dining chairs and lightweight floor lamp chair units repurposed as wheelchairs. Ads placed by calling 0242 receive same day processing with service from A M Will and an ads receiver.
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Mighty Messenger
Gallia County Commission Denies Welfare Director Pact
Gallia County's three commissioners said no agreement was reached with state welfare director John H Lamneck. They said they would discuss the matter Monday and inform Lamneck of their decision. Local officials disputed AP’s report that an accord had been made and stressed no settlement was final.
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John H. Lamneck
Associated Press
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Lamneck
Tommy Daniels
Board of County Commissioners
Harry M. Wilcox
Draft Board Keeps Pressing an Aged Man in Florida
Palmetto, Fla. Samuel T Sample, 82, repeatedly told by Tampa draft board to report for pre induction exams and look over his file. He recalls serving in the Spanish American War but was rejected for being underweight. A forged draft card earlier led to promises of correction, now a third notice arrives without clear remedy.
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Samuel T Sample
Semple
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Guam Standby Post Warns of Rapid War Mobilization
If a major war erupts in Asia, Admiral Arthur W. Radford could relocate U S. Pacific Fleet headquarters from Pearl Harbor to Guam within 48 hours. The Navy has built Guam as a standby fleet command post since World War II to ensure immediate wartime readiness.
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Wage Boost ignored Seamen Seek 40 Hours
Idle seamen press for a 40 hour week as wage offers falter. Union cites the length of the work week at sea as the main obstacle while mediators report initial concessions from shippers, including wage increases and shorter contracts, yet the demand for a 40 hour week remains unresolved.
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Shippers
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Joseph Curran
Mason Native Dies at Age 80 in Ashton
Mathew Weighman Stribling 80 died at 7 35 am at his Ashton home after a two year illness. Born in Mason County he lived there all his life. He served 13 years as Mason County state road commissioner before resigning for ill health. A Mercers Bottom merchant and farmer he was active in the Democratic Party a former county board of education member and a one time sheriff candidate. He belonged to the Masons Knights of Pythias and Beale Chapel Methodist Church. Survived by wife Mary Hunter Stribling and foster son H. W. Day of Bell W Va. Funeral arrangements by Kincade Funeral Home Huntington. Cincinnati note follows.
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Mathew Weighman Stribling
Ashton
Mason County
State Road Commission
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Stribling
Democratic Party
County Board of Education
Ex Convict Abducts Woman Then Flees Across States
Chicago detectives hunt Warren Lee Irwin, 27, an ex convict wanted on a murder charge, in connection with the abduction of 42-year-old Doris Myers in Detroit. Myers escaped near Durant, Iowa, after being driven through five states, with the suspect's car found at a Davenport airport.
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Michigan
Warren Lee Irwin
Doris Myers
Detroit
Mich
Durant
Irwin
Adelite Shagena
Pontiac
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Miss. Myers
Smali Davenport
Faulty Shells Kill 8 Marines at Camp Lejeune
Eight Marines were killed and 23 injured when two defective mortar shells fired during a routine training exercise at Camp Lejeune North Carolina burst short and exploded in a forward group of the Second Division. Gunners detected the defect but the warning could not be relayed in time.
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Camp Lejeune
N.C
North Carolina
Wilmington
Young Woman Drowns At MecConnelsville
McConnellsville reports Thelma Black age about 28 drowned in the Muskingum River early today while swimming with her husband during carnival duties. Volunteers recovered the body. the couple believed residents of Baltimore Maryland. spouse's name Hignante or similar not available.
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Mcconnellville
Thelma Black
Uskingum
Hignante
Baltimore
Paul Gauss Chosen Ohio Synod Moderator
The Rev. Paul W. Gauss of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Youngstown was chosen moderator of the Ohio Presbyterian Synod at its tech session at Wooster College yesterday. He succeeds John Lloyd Evans of Nelsonville.
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Paul W. Gaus
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Youngstown
Ohio Presbyterian Synod
Tech
Wooster College
Gauss
John Lioyd Evans
Nelsonville
Israeli Soldier Killed in Near Jerusalem Skirmish
A Israeli soldier was killed and another wounded in a skirmish near the Jerusalem border with Jordan yesterday. The clash occurred in the contested area as forces exchanged fire.
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Tel Aviv
Lerael
Tehran mob roams streets as Mossadegh presses oil seizure
Tehran crowds smash Anglo Iranian Oil Company signs as Premier Mossadegh seeks a vote of confidence to back his plan to nationalize the oil industry. Parliament adjourned for lack of quorum and a new session was requested. Police barred access to AOIC literature while Britain warned it would protect citizens and property. Mossadegh urged unity and vowed no wavering in the nationalization effort.
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Mohammed Mossadegh
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London
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Browns Sale To Bill Veeck Announced In St Louis
In St Louis a plan to sell the controlling interest of the St Louis Browns to Bill Veeck former Cleveland Indians owner was announced by Donald J Barnes former owner of the St Louis American League club The DeWitts hold stock and have optioned controlling interest to Veeck for a limited period Veeck said he would buy 275000 shares and urged delivery of stock others involved include Sidney Salomon Jr a St Louis insurance man and stockholder in the St Louis Cardinals The deal aims to keep the club in St Louis and reflects negotiations on city interests and ownership structure
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St. Louis Browns
Bill Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Donald J. Barnes
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Veeck
Browns
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Sidney Saloman
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Associated Press
William
Charles DeWitt
New Red Drive Seen By Monday Anniversary
Allied officers on the western front report a new communist push marked by the Korean War's 11th anniversary. UN forces say Reds lack majors without Manchurian reinforcements yet show signs of limited activity near Pyongyang and Kaesong. Air losses are tallied as 24 destroyed or damaged, with weather curbing sorties. Chinese patrols loom, but forecasts hint at a possible limited offensive before Monday.
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Manchuria
Weetan
Reda
United Nations
Kaesong
Seoul
I Pyongyang
North Korea
Pyongyang
Iron Triangle
Yalu River
Minging
FEAF
Jim Boker
Becker
Unloaded revolver kills woman in Cleveland
In Cleveland a playful mishap with a revolver thought unloaded ends in the death of Ruth L. Crickett, 22, as Bruce J. Prendergast, 24, faces an accidental shooting inquiry. Police term the incident accidental and await a formal ruling.
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Bruce J. Prendergast
Prendergast
Ruth L.crickett
Solon Urges Seven Billion Tax Increase
Washington Rep. Doughton of North Carolina urged the House to approve a 7.2 billion dollar tax hike to finance defense. As chair of Ways and Means he defended the bill as essential but warned further rate increases would be burdensome. He outlined three options: raise taxes, cut spending, or borrow to fund government and defense programs.
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Washington
Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Coughton
Congress
Testimony on Yalta ties eyed in MacArthur inquiry
Senator Wiley urged subpoenas for Alger Hiss to testify on the 1945 Yalta conference while Maj. Gen. Hurley defended the pact as appeasement of communism. The hearings touched on secrecy, political pressure, and the fate of atomic spies Rosenberg and his wife as the case evolved.
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Hurley
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Roosevelt
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Klaus Fuchs
London
Fuchs
Russia
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel the Rosenberge
New York
Military Rites Planned For W. Va. Soldier
BECKLEY West Virginia a military funeral is planned Sunday for 19 year old Pvt Kenneth Shadrick the first American infantryman to die in Korea fighting for the United Nations He was killed by a burst of sniper fire from a North Korean tank near Sojong on July 5 ten days after the North invaded the South Shadrick lived in Skelton West Virginia His body arrived here yesterday from Brooklyn
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