MacArthur Attacks Truman Policy At Seattle Centennial
General Douglas MacArthur delivered a sharply critical Seattle centennial speech broadcast nationally. He warned current administration policies threaten ruination and potential world war, urging a change in leadership. Rep. Hugh Mitchell accused him of courting a presidential bid.
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Seattle
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
Mr. Truman
Democratic Party
United States
Hugh Mitchell
D-Wash
University of Washington
MacArthur
Mitchell
Taft Declares Korea War a Truman War in Pa Speech
Senator Robert A. Taft condemned U S Korea hostilities as a Truman war saying the president usurped Congress’s power. He criticized the Atlantic Pact and stated he would not enter Pennsylvania’s April 22 presidential preference primary at this time.
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Harrisburg
Robert A. Taft
United States
Truman
Taft
Congress
Ohio
U.S
Europe
Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women
Pennsylvania
Silent Rally Draws 500000 Egyptians in Cairo Demonstration
In Cairo an estimated 500,000 Egyptians joined a silent anti-British protest, marching to Abdin Palace as 100,000 watched. The day honored 20 Egyptians killed in the month’s violence over Britain’s refusal to quit the Suez Canal zone.
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Cairo
Egypt
Farouk
Abdin
Britain
Suez Canal Zone
Reds Charged With Atrocity Slayings Of UN Troops
Pusan Korea The U S Eighth Army chief legal officer Col James M Hanley says communists have killed at least 5790 United Nations prisoners of war and other non South Korean soldiers since the war began. He notes about 250000 Korean civilians killed and cites killings during the 1950 Red retreats.
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Pusan
Korea
U. S
Eighth Army
United Nations
James M. Hanley
Seattle
Judge Advocate Section
United Nations Command
Hanley
China
Red
North Korea
Building Cost Rise Forecast For New Homes
Washington reports a federal price ceiling aims to curb costs for the $36 billion yearly construction industry. The Office of Price Stabilization says higher labor and material costs due to the Korean outbreak will be passed to the public as bids or contracts are submitted. The measure takes effect November 20 and covers broader projects including sheet metal, carpentry, plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical work.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
High Court To Rule On Sawyer Contempt
The Supreme Court will decide the contempt finding against Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and eight others in a multi million dollar steamship stock case. The ruling stems from their refusal to relinquish government control of over 2,000,000 shares of American President Lines stock.
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High Court
Sawyer
Washington
Supreme Court
Secretary of Commerce
Most Soldiers Slated For Christmas Leave
The Army announced last night that as many soldiers as can be spared will receive a ten day Christmas leave, with plans released simultaneously in Washington and at camps nationwide. The other services have not yet announced theirs.
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Washington
Two Vinton County Miners Die in Slate Fall Near McArthur
Two men Walter Lee Hughes and Granville McCoy were crushed to death in a slate fall at a mine on Arthur Tripp farm near McArthur Route 2. Coroner J E Strong said McCoy had a broken neck and Hughes a crushed chest. The incident occurred about 4 p m after the operator Elmer Mitchell briefly left the mine. volunteers attempted rescue but found both men dead. McCoy had just begun work after losing his home in a fire two months earlier. funeral arrangements are by Ralph W Heistand funeral home.
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Granville McCoy
Creola
Elmer Mitchell
Arthur Tripp
McArthur
Here
Mitchell
Hughes
McCoy
J. E. Strong
Vinton County
Ralph W. Heistand
Guilty Plea Suppressed in Kirkpatrick Case
In the William C. Kirkpatrick murder case Judge Francis D. White suppressed the guilty plea Kirkpatrick entered in Mayor W. P. Mickle's court after granting defense motion. The trial, delayed to December 10, follows an earlier overruled request for a transcript of questions. Kirkpatrick, 48, is indicted for first degree murder in the fatal beating of his wife Anita, 38, and burying her body at a Guysville sand bar on Sept 7.
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Common Pleas
Francis D. White
White
Kirkpatrick
W. P. Mickle
Anita
Guysville
Train Crash Near Evanston Leaves Toll Uncertain
Six teen bodies recovered after two swift passenger trains collided three miles west of Evanston Wyoming. Crews worked through wreckage as officials sought the final death toll and cause. Rescue teams reported bodies in shredded coaches with other body parts sighted amid the debris.
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Evanston
Wyo
Here
City of Los Angeles
City of San Francisco
Two Children and Mother Slain in Covington
In Covington Kentucky Mrs Dorothy Lunsford 37 and two of her three children Thomas 12 and Chinkie 4 were found shot to death in their grandparents bed. A third child Charles 11 was wounded in the chest and wrist and taken to St Elizabeth Hospital in serious condition. Mrs Lunsford had been separated from her husband and lived with the children in the back room of the three room house.
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Covington
Dorothy Lunsford
Charles
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Thomas
Chinkie
Marriage filings show Pulling and Hair in Worcester
Marriage intentions filed yesterday in Worcester Massachusetts list Aubrey E Pulling as a laboratory technician and Evelyn M Hair as a secretary. The two plan to wed in the near future in Worcester.
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Worcester
Mass
Aubrey E
Evelyn M
Hair
Pulling
Miss Hair
Warren to announce bid today for presidency in California
Gov Earl Warren, seen as potential GOP candidate, is expected to say yes today to California party leaders urging his run for the Republican presidential nomination. Sen Richard Nixon predicts a strong dark horse bid. Warren plans three news conferences to reveal his decision and slate delegates on the June primary ballot.
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Sacramento
Calif
Earl Warren
California
Richard Nixon
Boston
Warren
Allied planes hit battered North Korean rail system
U S Eighth Army reports Allied warplanes swept North Korean skies destroying eight locomotives in pre dawn raids with ten more reported down in the 24 hours to Tuesday midnight. Fighter sweeps found no communist jets as UN ground forces repelled two Red probing attacks on the western front.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
Wast Air Forces
FEAF
Air Force
Eighth Army
Wind Storms Lash Midwest
A series of tornadoes and violent wind storms struck the midwest yesterday. At least one person was killed and eight injured as winds up to 100 miles per hour swept through Illinois Missouri Indiana and Kentucky causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Heavy rain accompanying the storms affected many areas.
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Mid-Continent
Midwest
Illinois
Missouri
Indiana
Kentucky
Deer Guided Through Lock Chamber by Four Attendants
At U. S. Dam 23 Apple Grove the first ever deer to traverse a lock chamber was guided to safety after leaping from the wall. Four lock attendants worked with two yawls as the chamber filled and the deer swam toward shore. The rescue lasted about 25 minutes with onlookers nearby. A second deer was later sighted in Rutland, calmly approaching a car driven by Larry Anderson.
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Pomeroy
Bob McKelvey
U. S. Dam
Apple Grove
West Virginia
Rutland
Larry Anderson
Anderson
Weather hampers search for Air Force transport
In Wiesbaden Germany heavy icing and pea soup clouds hindered the aerial search for a missing U S Air Force Flying Boxcar with 36 American military personnel aboard. More than 60 planes including units from England took off at dawn to locate the C 82 transport missing since yesterday between Frankfurt and Bordeaux.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
U.S
Bordeaux
Air Force
Moulins
France
Paris
Governor Reviews Death Row Slayings of Mast Victim
Ohio Governor Frank Lausche met with state pardon officials to review the cases of Max Amerman and Jerry Killinger, two condemned for the Mast farm murder. Amerman, 27, and Killinger, 18, are on death row at the Ohio Penitentiary with executions scheduled in days. The 1950 crime saw Amerman persuade Killinger to shoot farmer Harold Mast to marry Mast's Norwegian bride, Randi. The decision on commuting to life imprisonment was not set for an imminent time after a 15 minute cabinet briefing.
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Frank J. Lausche
Harold Mast
Medina County
Lauche
Percy L Lowery
State Pardon and Parole Commission
Governor's Mansion
John W. Keefe
Ralph S. Locher
Cleveland
Max Amerman
Jerry Killinger
Ohio
Amerman
Killinger
Mast
Randi
Veteran minister dies at 93 in Chillicothe
The Rev William L Tolliver a Baptist minister for 63 years died yesterday in Chillicothe at age 93 He was the son of former Mississippi slaves a Wilberforce College and Seminary graduate in 1892 and earned a doctor of divinity in 1896 from Lynchburg Theological Seminary and College
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Chillicothe
William L. Tolliver
Wilberforce College and Seminary
Theological Seminary
Lynchburg
Famed Doctor Guilty Of Violating Medical Ethics Code
CHICAGO Dr Andrew C Ivy a renowned physiologist was found guilty of unethical conduct by the Chicago Medical Society for promoting the substance krebiozen in cancer treatment. The 58 year old vice president at the University of Illinois was suspended for three months with the society warning against arousing false hope in cancer patients. Ivy defended himself saying he would not appeal and would pursue further study of krebiozen.
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Chicago
Andrew C. Ivy
Chicago Medical Society
Ivy
University of Illinois
Caner
Krebiozen
Dr. Ivy
Council
Girl 14 Robs Drug Store Then Is Apprehended
Circleville police describe a 14 year old Lancaster girl who held up a Circreville drug store at closing time, took 143 dollars, and was arrested hours later in a hotel room under an assumed name. She said she needed money and enjoyed school. No charges filed yet.
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Circleville
Norman Kutler
Kutler
Lancaster
Lancaster High School
Tories Win Second Victory In Parliament Over Christmas Holiday Plan
London reports the Conservative government secured its second parliamentary win in as many days by defeating Labour objections to Prime Minister Churchill's proposal for a 53 day Christmas recess for Parliament.
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London
Churchill
Reds Insist On Buffer Settlement In Korea Talks
In Panmunjom sessions the Reds demand no armistice unless a fixed buffer line is settled first. Chinese Maj Gen Hsieh Fang warns no progress on items three four or five without item two. UN and Allied officials report pressure to end fighting across air sea and ground if a buffer zone is agreed.
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Mnunsan
Korea
United Nations
Hsieh Fang
Panmunjom
Hsieh
C. Turner Joy
Sen Ior
Lee Chang Cho
Henry I. Hodes
UN Subcommittee
Lee
Kauer Cites Road Problems in Ohio Forum
Ohio State Highway Director T. J. Kauer warned that federal steel curtailment could halt highway construction. He urged reclassifying highway work as essential and called highways the nation’s defense line. Speaking at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce forum, he noted $101 million planned for Ohio road projects through June 30, 1953, is woefully inadequate.
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Columbus
T. J. Kauer
Kauer
Ohio
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Senator Bridges Hospitalized in Grand Rapids
Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire was treated for a serious intestinal influenza illness in a Grand Rapids hospital on Wednesday. Doctor Felix S. Alfenito said the ailment would keep him in bed for several days.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
New Hampshire
Styles Bridges
Grand Rapids
Felix S. Alfenito
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