Ridgway Orders Inquiry of Red Atrocity Totals
Tokyo report says Col James M Hanley defended his figures as the army probes his disclosure that Reds slaughtered about 5500 American prisoners in Korea. Ridgway sent Col Welch and Col Booth to interview Hanley and review the claim amid world shock and mixed official responses.
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Tokyo
James M. Hanley
Army
Korea
U.S. Eighth Army
Pentagon
Washington
Clarence Ryee
Pusan
Hanley
Patrick Welch
Kenneth L. Booth
Eighth Army
Advocate
Ridgway
U. S
Young
R-N.d
Allies and Reds Clash Over Korea Cease-Fire Lines
At Panmunjom Allied and communist negotiators held their longest session yet five hours thirteen minutes with no new concessions. The talks centered on whether the cease-fire line should be fixed immediately or after other armistice terms. The communists used a new approach challenging the UN plan while noting the old tent collapsed in rain and a new olive drab tent was set up. The 24th meeting is scheduled for 11 am Saturday.
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Munsan
Korea
Panmunjom
United Nations
Howard B. Levie
Levie
War Front Quiet Jets Evade Fight
Allied warplanes roared over Communist Korea and Red jets swarmed from Manchuria in clear weather but both sides held fire. Fifth Air Force pilots logged 230 flights before noon. Attacks resumed on Red supply lines after rains limited flights for 36 hours. The front saw one of its quietest days with two brief clashes along the entire line and Reds probing southwest of Kumsong before being repelled.
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Seoul
Communist
Korea
Manchuria
North Korea
Fifth Air Force
U. S. Eighth Army
Kumsong
Weaver Renamed Ohio Chamber Head for Sixth Term
C. I. Weaver, director of the Ohio Fuel Gas Co., was reelected president of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce for his sixth term. The board named life directors F. O. Schoedinger and George W. Steinman of Columbus Albert J. Mayer Sr. of Cincinnati and former Gov. George White of Marietta as life directors during the 58th annual meeting.
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Columbus
C. I. Weaver
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Life
F. O. Schoedinger
George W. Steinman
Albert J. Mayer, Sr
Cincinnati
George White
Marietta
Supreme Court To Air Phone Dispute Again
The Ohio Bell rate case returned to the state Supreme Court for the third time as six cities Columbus Cleveland Akron Toledo Dayton and Canton challenge an Oct 4 utilities commission ruling. They allege rates are unreasonable unlawful and excessive. The dispute centers on the rate base and return used to set prices with a 4 million rebate previously ordered.
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Columbus
Ohio Bell Telephone
State Supreme Court
Cleveland
Akron
Toledo
Dayton
Canton
State Utilities Commission
Utilities Commission
Supreme Court
Ohio Bell
Train Crash at Hortense Kills Engineer and Station Agent
NAHUNTA Ga. Four people died and 21 were injured when the Atlantic Coast Line Havanna Special sideswiped a freight train and demolished the Hortense depot. Engineer A H Byington jumped and was killed. station agent James Strickland died beneath wreckage. Other injuries were not serious.
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Nahunta
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Marietta Firm Cited For Tax Write Off
The Defense Electric Power Administration named eleven electric utility power projects and four industrial projects for rapid tax write off certification. The list to be considered by the Defense Production Administration includes Union Carbon and Carbide Co. power plant near Marietta Ohio with 160000 kilowatts and a $33200000 cost.
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Washington
Defense Electric Power Administration
Defense Production Administration
Union Carbon and Carbide Co
Marietta
Woman Bound Over for Manslaughter in Columbus Stabbing
Mrs. Ella Kendall, 44, of Columbus, was bound over to the grand jury on a manslaughter charge in the fatal stabbing of her husband, Oliver Kendall, 52. She posted a $1,000 bond and was released pending further proceedings.
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Columbus
Ella Kendall
Oliver
CIO TOSSES PACK OF DEMANDS AT STEEL IN NEW PACT DRIVE
Atlantic City N J Philip Murray unveiled a 22 point demand list for the steel industry including a substantial wage increase. The CIO steelworkers union backed the plan with its 170 man wage policy committee. Negotiations are expected to begin November 27. Murray seeks industry wide union shop productivity bonuses severance pay improved vacations weekend premium pay and guaranteed annual wages. President Fairless warned wage hikes could raise living costs and inflame inflation.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Philip Murray
Murray
CIO Steelworkers Union
CIO
Benjamin F. Fairless
United States Steel Corp
Fairless
Cincinnati
Washington
Judd Outlines Far East Plan
Rep. Walter H. Judd outlines a four point program to beat communism in Asia at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce banquet. He argues the tide of tyranny can turn back without a world war and stresses sea and air strength, boosting non communist areas, aiding resistance movements on China’s mainland, and winning the ideological war.
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Columbus
Walter H. Judd
R-Minn
Judd
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Asia
Japan
Formosa
Philippines
China
Campaign tops goal by forty one thousand in Columbus
Franklin County United Appeals and Red Cross campaign official Charles Y. Lazarus reported a final tally of 2,196,248 dollars, surpassing the 2,154,780 dollar goal by more than 41,000 dollars. The drive concluded last night with strong community support.
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Columbus
Franklin County
United Appeals
Red Cross
Charles Y. Lazarus
Truman Plans To Fight For Fair Deal Program
KEY WEST Florida president Truman vows to push his full fair deal agenda including civil rights into the 1952 Democratic platform. He says he will control the party and fight both within Democrats and against Republicans to ensure the program is adopted. Senator Byrd and Gov Byrnes warn of a hard internal battle if civil rights are included.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Democratic Party
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Byrd
D-Va
South
Washington
Alabama
Johnston resigns as ESA chief to return to MPAA
Eric Johnston resigns as head of the Economic Stabilization Agency to resume his position as president of the Motion Picture Association. A search for a successor is underway. President Truman announced acceptance of the resignation with real regret at Key West Florida. Johnston will leave government November 30 after over staying his leave of absence.
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Washington
Eric Johnston
Economic Stabilization Agency
ESA
Motion Picture Association
Truman
Key West
Fla
Johnston
Mercury Dip Is Forecast
Colder weather and rain or snow appeared across wide areas of the nation with summer-like warmth in the south. Snow fell from the Northern Rockies to the Great Lakes. Midwest areas faced colder conditions while the extreme southeast stayed mild. Temperatures reached 90 in Laredo and 89 in San Antonio as many Midwest readings stayed below freezing. Rain fell in the central Appalachians and the Ohio Valley.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Plains
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Coast
Midwest
Laredo
Tex
San Antonio
New Orleans
Miami
Central Appalachians
Ohio Valley
Egypt offers British Plan for Sudan Area
Egypt proposes a United Nations supervised withdrawal of both Egyptian and British officials and armed forces from Sudan in exchange for a plebiscite. Foreign Minister Mohamed Salah El Din said cooperation from the UN could provide the required machinery and atmosphere, though he doubted Britain would accept. Britain remains in Sudan, asserting self governance by late 1952, with about 5 000 British troops and 5 000 native police under imperial command.
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Paris
Egypt
United Nations
Sudan
Britain
Mohammed Salah el Din
Egypts
Ieighbor
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
London
Native Defense Corps
Soviet Spurns UN Appeal On Disarmament Plan
Paris reports that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky rejected small nations’ pleas to reconsider his rejection of the Western disarmament plan. He said the plan does not fill the bill and noted his earlier remarks were cursory. He admitted not yet studying the plan which envisions an arms census including atomic weapons. He added he may or may not refer to his previous remark again.
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Paris
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Convict Ohio Sheriff For Pampering Gambler
Geauga County Sheriff Stuart M. Harland, 62, was found guilty on 17 counts of pampering the operator of a luxury gambling club. The jury deliberated about an hour and 15 minutes. Sentencing was postponed pending a motion for a new trial.
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Chardon
Geauga County
Stuart M. Harland
George Buchwalter
Warren
Mark Sperry
Cleveland
Common Pleas
William K. Thomas
Belpre Man Killed In 60 Foot Fall At Plant
Fred C. Reg er, 25, of Belpre, died Thursday from injuries after a 60 foot fall from a construction platform at the Electro Metallurgical Division of Union Carbide and Carbon Company.
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Marietta
Fred C. Reger
Belpre
Electro-Metallurgical
Union Carbide and Carbon Company
Weather Update Shows Cold Start After Rain
Colder weather followed rain early Friday as the thermometer rose only one degree by 9 a.m. after a low of 39. Thursday brought bright sun with a high of 66 and a low of 44.
Drastic Cuts Predicted For Non-Defense Goods
Washington reports new orders cut civilian use of scarce metals after January 1. The National Production Authority says auto truck output will receive 60 percent of steel plate for 930000 cars and 10000 trucks in early 1951, signaling higher price ceilings on goods.
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Washington
National Production Authority
NPA
Manly Fleischmann
NPR
Four Ohio hunters die on opening pheasant rabbit season
Six deaths marked the first day of Ohio hunting, with four from heart attacks and two from carbon monoxide poisoning. An accidental shooting near Salem killed Philip Chennell, 40, as the season opened at 9 am. Other incidents left 19 wounded. among the dead were Fred Moody, 34, and Ray Phillips, 47, found in a Wakefield car park.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Philip Chennell
Salem
Fred Moody
Ray Phillips
Friendship
Scioto County
Wakefield
Pike County
Bur
Pierce Osenbaugh
Corning
Osenbaugh
Governor Frees Youth From Chair in Murder Case
Ohio Governor Frank Lausche commuted 18-year-old Gerald Killinger’s death sentence to life imprisonment after citing the influence of Max Amerman, 27, who orchestrated the Mast killing for love of Randie Mast, 24. Amerman was executed at the Ohio Penitentiary, while Killinger’s case may be reviewed sooner under state law.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Jerry Killinger
Harold Mast
Medina County
Killinger
Max Amerman
Mast
Randie
Ohio
Lausche
State Pardon and Parole Commission
Amerman
Haustad
Ralph W. Alvis
Medina
New Jersey
Randi Mast
G.I
Randi
Vote Fraud Hearing Set in Springfield City Election
Secretary of State Ted W. Brown will hold a formal hearing in Springfield on charges of irregularities in the city election. Complainants Andrew Bold and Ray J. Norton testified under oath about the rotation of symbols and candidates’ names on voting machines in 17 precincts, a discrepancy the official review says involved transposed figures.
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Columbus
Ted W. Brown
Springfield
Brown
Andrew Bold
Ray J. Norton
City Commission
Board of Elections
Secretary of State
Three Airmen Die In Crash of B-26
Langley Field Va report states three Air Force crewmen died when a B-26 crashed during an instrument approach in dense fog. Names withheld awaiting next of kin notification. It marked a second fatal Langley B-26 crash within ten days after a November 5 incident killed two when an engine fire forced a crash.
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Langley Air Force Base
Air Force
Sees Accord On Disputed Speaker Rule
Ohio State University Alumni Association secretary Jack Fullen reports in the university monthly that concessions are appearing on both sides in the campus speaker screening dispute. He notes conciliatory moves by faculty and trustees and expects a compromise to end the impasse, balancing academic freedom with safeguards against abuse. The ruling formerly required president approval for all campus speakers, then relaxed to allow some groups to choose speakers with no prior president consent but with responsibility.
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Columbus
Ohio State University Alumni Association
Jack Fullen
Ohio State University Monthly
University Board of Trustees
Howard Bevis
Cancer Drive Ruling Looms in Dayton Battle
The American Cancer Society pressed a court fight to run its own Dayton fundraising drive. It asks the common pleas court to strike down a city ordinance barring solicitations for funds without mayoral committee approval. Society attorney Mason Douglas says the rule discriminates and restricts interstate commerce.
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Dayton
American Cancer Society
Common Pleas Court
Cancer Society
Mason Douglas
Wilson Urges U.S. Soviet Unity Against Want
Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson urged Russia and the United States to bury differences and cooperate to fight fear and privation. He spoke to the Toledo Chamber of Commerce detailing massive military production plans and arguing strength, not weakness, should drive the call for peace and joint action.
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Toledo
Charles E. Wilson
Russia
U. S
Wilson
Toledo Chamber of Commerce
Moscow
Sperican Production
Road Official Resigns Over Cement Use at Home
Columbus Ohio State Highway Director Thomas J Keegan, personnel officer in Cleveland, resigned after admitting use of state owned concrete in the foundation of his new house. The resignation ends an investigation into materials misuse by highway department workers. Keegan and six others were suspended. others cleared and back on duty. Patrol found workers on Keegan project worked in their own time.
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Columbus
T. J. Kauer
Thomas J. Keegan
Cleveland
Highway Department
Kauer
Keegan
Point Pleasant Man Starts 60 Day Term
Vic Turner owner of a Main Street restaurant and beer dispensary was jailed in Mason County to serve a 60 day term from the September circuit court session. Deputy Kayser carried out the order on Judge Miller's instruction after Turner was found guilty of brandishing a weapon in his business. Turner had been released on bond pending appeal to the state Supreme Court, with appeal arrangements not yet in place.
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Point Pleasant
Vic Turner
Ted
Mason County
Robert A. Kayser
Lewis H. Miller
Turner
State Supreme Court
Thousands of U.S. Soldiers Plan to Bring Japanese Wives
Tokyo reports nearly 6000 American enlisted men intend to take Japanese wives to the United States. Gen Ridgway’s headquarters said by October 20 it had approved 5437 marriage applications from military personnel including 772 airmen and 108 sailors.
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Tokyo
Amercan
United States
Matthew B. Ridgway
Dragging Ohio River for missing Portsmouth woman continues
Firemen resume river search on the Ohio near Portsmouth for missing 68 year old Mrs Florence Joseph who vanished at her home yesterday noon. Her coat was found on the riverbank last evening as investigators pursue clues in the case.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Florence Oseph
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