Allies Near Red Bastion At Kumsong
Allied forces pressed to within three miles of Kumsong seizing over 40 hills in five days as the UN advance along a 22 mile front intensified. U S Sabre jets shadowed Red MiGs while over 150 UN fighter bombers hit North Korean rail lines and rail yards.
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Heartbreak Ridge
Yanggu
Korea
U.S. 8Th Army
Kumsong
24Th Division
Albert L. Thornton
Birmingham
Ala
U.S
United Nations
Republic of Korea
ROK
First Cavalry
Yonchon
Antung
Manchuria
U.N
Allies Charge Reds Up To Old Tricks
In Munsan Korea the Allies accused the Communists of delaying renewal of Korean truce talks. Gen Matthew Ridgways headquarters said the Reds intend to make the process as difficult as possible, though liaison officers reported considerable progress toward new armistice negotiations.
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Munsan
Korea
Matthew B. Ridgway
Tokyo
Ridgway
United Nations
Clues Lacking In Baby Hunt In Michigan City
Police sought factory and business absentee records to locate four day old Lawrence Lyons who vanished from St. Anthony Hospital. A three day citywide search with two thousand volunteers checked trash cans sewers and dune lands, yielding no leads. The distraught mother suggested a Chicago baby black market ring, citing a letter with magazine clipping stories.
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Michigan City
Ind
Lawrence James Lyons
St. Anthony Hospital
Francis Lyons
Chicago
Four Priests Given Red Jail Sentences
In Warsaw two men were condemned to death and nine others were sentenced to prison for taking part in underground activities against the Communist government. Marian Pilarski and Stanislaw Bizior were named chief organizers of operations in the Lublin district from 1944 to 1950, including several political murders. They received death sentences after a seven day trial by the Lublin Regional Military Court.
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Warsaw
Poland
Marian Pilarski
Stanislaw Bizior
Lublin
Mutiny at West Virginia State Prison Ends Without Casualties
About 1300 of 1700 inmates staged an 18 hour revolt at the Moundsville prison, seizing the power plant and commissary, but guards repelled the attacks with gunfire and tear gas. Warden Skeen said prisoners would stay in the yard, and state police backed the guards around the walls.
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Moundsville
W.va
West Virginia State Penitentiary
West Virginia State Prison
Severy
Orel J. Skeen
Guerm
Chief Buried Quiet Reigns In Pakistan
Pakistan buried murdered prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan as a stunned nation mourned. Thousands lined a guarded route from home to cemetery beside Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Officials feared bloodshed, ordered censorship, and suspended cross border telegraph and phone links amid tense India Pakistan Kashmir tensions.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Liaquat Ali Khan
Liaquat
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Khwaja Nazimuddin
India
New Delhi
Kashmir
Founder of Yeast and Gin Empire Dies by Suicide
Max C. Fleischmann 74, once head of a yeast and gin empire, killed himself with a pistol in Santa Barbara California. Doctors had said he suffered an incurable malignant disease. Confidential secretary Julian Bergen provided details saying Fleischmann traveled from Nevada for an operation that revealed the cancer. He was born in Riverside Ohio.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Max C. Fleischmann
Julian Bergen
Fleischmann
Nevada
Carpinteria
Riverside
Hamilton County
Royal Pair Visits Vast Wheat Fields
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh ended their Winnipeg visit and boarded the royal train for Regina after a windyCanada welcome. They will inspect the wheat belt, then head to Calgary and the cow country, following a brisk Winnipeg ballet assault by 200000 spectators.
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Regina
Canada
Winnipeg
St. Boniface
Princess Elizabeth
Duke of Edinburgh
Calgary
Lights Hint Plane's Fate
Eighteen search planes swept the North Atlantic about 500 miles east of Cape Cod for a missing C97 Strato freighter and its 11 crew. Dim light flashes near Sable Island boost hopes of finding the crew as 64 planes from bases from Florida to Newfoundland operate under the Fifth Rescue Squadron.
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Westover Air Force Base
Mass
Cape Cod
North Atlantic
Air Force
Sable Island
N. S
Westover
Florida
Newfoundland
Ted's Happy Hat Returns to Ted's Happy Hat
Ted Lewis smiled as his battered top hat reappeared atop a Vancouver nightclub chandelier after vanishing Monday. Reportedly insured for 50000 dollars, the topper was found as Lewis’s entertainer act resumed last night for the first time in 17 years. A caller tipped the chandelier location and a $100 reward was claimed before officials spoke.
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Vancouver
B. C
Ted
Lewis
Health Plan Debate Looms As Top Issue
President Truman defended the administration health insurance plan while Senator Taft assailed it in separate talks to the American Dental Association. Truman said he is not socializing the country and urged improvements. Taft, announcing his GOP candidacy, favored limited government aid within a proper field and rejected government control.
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Washington
Truman
Taft
Ohio
American Dental Association
White House
Association
GOP
White House Rose Garden
Typhoon Strikes Japan Toll Counts Rise
Tokyo police report the southern Japan typhoon left 448 dead and 1755 injured with 371 missing. They cite 16,865 homes destroyed and 114,659 damaged along with extensive crop and forest losses totaling about 55 million dollars.
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Tokyo
Japan
Taft Announces Candidacy Too Early Eisenhower backers react
Taft declared for the 1952 Republican nomination nine months before the Chicago convention, drawing Ike backers’ criticism that the move is premature. He attacked Truman health programs and defense spending, proposing a military civilian commission to assess economic defense capacity and warning against socialized medicine. Some senators warned the early bid could invite more attacks from rivals familiar with Dewey campaigns.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Chicago
Ohio
American Dental Association
House Beats Tax Bill in Swift Vote
The House rejected a $5.732 billion tax increase in a 203 to 157 vote threatening adjournment and leaving the Senate to decide if any tax hike will pass this year. House input split along regional lines with Republicans backing the measure and many northern Democrats opposing it.
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Senate
House
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Rep
Mills
D-Ark
Conference Committee
River Search Hears Of Guysville Wife Murder Case
A man, William C. Kirkpatrick, 48, allegedly killed his wife Anita, 38, during an argument on Sept 7. Police sought an iron bar in the Hocking River at Guysville using underwater magnet as the case moves to a grand jury. Kirkpatrick has pleaded guilty to first degree murder and confessed to burying the body after the sand bar killing. His 16 year old son is held in jail.
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William C. Kirkpatrick
Anita
Hocking
Guysville
Kirkpatrick
George Bateman
Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
London
Bureau
James Shumaker
Dewey Criticizes U S Far East Policy at Banquet
Governor Thomas E. Dewey condemned U S information services as aiding the Russians in Asia and urged a shift to promoting Asia for Asians not for the Russians. He spoke at a Connecticut Bar Association event after a 40 000 mile Far East tour, praising some governments while saying the United States does not have the best.
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Hartford
Conn
Thomas E. Dewey
United States Information Services
Asia
America
New York
Connecticut Bar Association
American Broadcasting Company
Dewey
Connecticut
Washington
Warm 30 Day Outlook From Weather Bureau
The Weather Bureau projects a warmer than normal eastern seaboard and southwest for the coming 30 days, with cooler than usual temperatures across the Great Plains and western Great Lakes. Near normal in Pacific Northwest, West Gulf, and Ohio Valley, with above normal precipitation east of the Mississippi.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Seaboard
Great Plains
Appalachians
Southwest
Western Lake Region
Pacific Northwest
West Gulf States
Ohio Valley
Mississippi
New Screening Rule Assailed at Ohio State
The Ohio State AAUP chapter meets to discuss a questionnaire screening rule requiring all questionnaires to be cleared by President Howard L. Bevis. AAUP official Prof. Lewis C. Branscomb says the rule will slow operations and concerns many members. The issue follows a trustees ruling that all guest speaker invitations must be cleared through the president.
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Columbus
Ohio State
American Association of University Professors
Howard L. Bevis
AAUP
Lewis C. Branscomb
Gale Kills Twelve In Sicily Five Story Block Collapse
A powerful Mediterranean gale battered Sicily to Gibraltar today, smashing a five story residence in Catania and causing at least twelve deaths. Rescue crews searched through rubble as emergency services urged caution and city officials prepared for investigations.
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Catania
Sicily
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Man shoots wife then kills himself in West Virginia
Wiley Workman a 35 year old Wheeling machinist shot and killed his estranged wife Elsie 27 then died by suicide yesterday according to Sheriff Richard Hogg in Follansbee West Virginia.
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Follansbee
W. Va
Wiley Workman
Elsie
Sherrite Richard Hogg
Pipe Line Breaks Near Summerfield, Noble County
The Texas Eastern Gas Transmission Company ruptured a large inch pipe five miles east of Summerfield in Noble County yesterday. No fire or explosion occurred. Nearby residents reported a roaring sound resembling a cannon.
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Caldwell, O
Texas Eastern Gas Transmission Company
Summerfield
Noble County
British Stand Fast Against Ouster Moves At Suez
Cairo dispatch reports Britain and Egypt rushing reinforcements to the Suez Canal area as Lt General George Erskine vows to not be driven out. Seven killed, scores injured in rioting. Egyptian police and troops reinforced Ismailia and Port Said amid tense standoff.
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Cairo
Egypt
Britain
Hiottorn Suez Canal
London
Foreign Office
George Erskine
Interior Ministry
Ismailia
Port Said
Canal
Sues
Canal City
Nicosia
Mediterranean
Cyeprus
16Th Airborne Brigade
Suez Zone
al Misri
Canal Zone
Kasfarit
Hips Ld
Mustafa el Nahas Pasha
Suez Canal
MacArthur Urges Stronger War Policy at Legion Meet
In Miami General Douglas MacArthur condemned current Korea war policy and urged greater military power. He told the American Legion that negotiations with Communists fail and insisted only counter-pressure and possible all-out war can secure an agreement, while stopping short of breaking Kaesong truce talks.
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Miami
Fla
Douglas MacArthur
American Legion Convention
Kaesong
Far East
Beverly Case Clue Revived
Columbus police arrested a 39-year-old man at a downtown bus station after he telephoned Mayor Omas Burke claiming to know something about missing 10-year-old Beverly Potts. He had offered to reveal details for $20, a stunt similar to a Shreveport case days earlier. Cleveland police planned to interview him in Columbus before transporting him to Cleveland.
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Columbus
Omas Burke
Beverly Potts
Shreveport
Cleveland
Burke
Potts
Lonnie Love
Test of State Slots Law Hinges on 2 Key Issues
Ohio's test of its new slot machine law centers on two questions: police powers to regulate slot machines and whether the machines have value as property since the law began Sept. 18. A hearing in Champaign County Common Pleas Court set for 10 a.m. Monday before Judge Arthur Tudor. The motion to dismiss seeks to block enforcement while Albert Dodson asserts $10,000 in machines.
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Urbana
Ohio
General Assembly
Champaign County Common Pleas Court
Arthur Tudor
Hardin County
Tudor
Atty
William O'Neill
Albert Dodson
United Amusement Co
O'Neill
United States
Dodson
Ohio Supreme Court
Train Derails Near Piketon Injures Two Men
A Norfolk and Western freight train derailed at Piketon, 25 miles north of Portsmouth. The engineer, brakeman, and fireman escaped with minor injuries while conductor Edward Winner, 59, of Portsmouth, and Leroy Swisher, 58, of Winkle, Ohio, were seriously hurt as the caboose walls crushed their bodies.
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Portsmouth
Norfolk and Western Railway
Piketon
Edward Winner
Leroy Swisher
Dope Peddlers Await Sentence in Cleveland
Four Cleveland area suspects pleaded guilty to selling drugs and remained jailed as U.S. Judge Charles J. McNamee opened a mass narcotics docket. About 50 cases were being considered, with sentencing pending officers reports as part of the City Federal roundup of accused peddlers.
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Cleveland
Charles J. McNamee
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