UN Troops Capture Peak in Eastern Korea Battle
UN doughboys seized a towering mountain peak north of Yanggu amid the battle of the hills as Reds offered stiff resistance. Reports from Yonchon to the east describe Red tanks and guns dug in, with Allied air and ground forces pressing the offensive and a Marine Corsair shot down by ground fire. Helicopters were used for supply drops for the first time in warfare history.
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U.S. Eighth Army
Korea
United Nations
Yanggu
Yonchon
U. N
Fifth Air Force
U.N
American Macinney
Western Front
Manslaughter Charge Prepared in Kesterson Case
A manslaughter charge was being prepared at 11:30 a.m. today against Elmer Doggie Kesterson for the May death of his wife Ora Mae Kesterson. The case followed a sheriff and prosecutor conference, with no arraignment set. Kesterson is jailed after Wednesday’s arrest in the York Township mystery. Officials noted discrepancies in his story and hair evidence, while his daughter Estella Powell was questioned and released for lack of evidence. A Columbus law firm, Ray E. Hughes, represents Kesterson and may delay arraignment until his attorney is present.
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Elmer (Doggie) Kesterson
Connett
Ora Mae Kesterson
George Bateman
James F. Shumaker
Kesterson
Bateman
Hughes
East Hocking District Votes Consolidation
East Hocking Sev enth School District endorsed consolidation at a West Logan meeting but it takes effect only if the county board of education approves. The plan unites Green Star Washington Ward Local Marion Falls Local Murray City and Falls Gore boards into a five member panel. Students may continue attending their chosen high school. The county board of education will consider the consolidation at its Oct 5 meeting.
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Logan
East Hocking
West Logan
County Board of Education
Green
Star-Washington
Ward Local
Marion
Falls Local
Murray City
Falls-Gore
Yoshida Won’t Re-Arm Japan After San Francisco Visit
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida declared he would refuse to rearm Japan. The 72 year old statesman urged the nation to stay faithful to the western world as Japan consolidates its status after returning from San Francisco. His stance aligns with securing the U S Japan security pact once ratified.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Japan
Yoshida
San Francisco
Deluge Floods Texas Town in South Texas
ALICE Texas hundreds huddled in hastily converted refugee centers as 126 inches of rain turned the town into a lake. The downpour lasted over 12 hours forcing mass evacuations with water curb to curb in downtown. Twenty six trucks and three school buses evacuated residents to the courthouse high school gym and First Baptist Church.
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Alice
Tex
South Texas
First Baptist Church
NPA Grants Stop Gap Materials Allocation
Washington announces a stop gap allocation of critical materials to allow construction of a Cincinnati sewage treatment plant to proceed. The National Production Authority says the project name and details were withheld while filings for five material requests are resolved.
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Washington
National Production Authority
Cincinnati
Ami
NPA
Jet plane strikes C-54 on approach at Kelly AFB
A jet plane clipped the tail of a C-54 during a ground controlled approach at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas last night. No injuries were reported and details on damage were not available.
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San Antonio
Tex
Kelly Air Forces Base
Fantastic Weapon A Problem Fantastic Weapon A Problem
Washington AP The Air Force unveiled a flying guided bomb named Mata dor or B 61 Pilotless bomber amid questions on how guidance signals are transmitted and secured. Officials warned adversaries might jam or seize control of missiles, risking diversion or return fire.
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Washington
Air Force
Truman
NLRB Drops Petition By Maritime Union
Washington four A petition by the National Maritime Union of America CIO to represent a unit of unlicensed river boat employes of the Ohio River Co was dismissed yesterday as National Laborations Boat The company a barge line on the Ohio River with terminals in Addyston and Cincinnati Ohio and Huntington W Va At a hearing the company and District 17 of the United Mine Workers of America asked for dismissal of the petition on the grounds that the unit sought was inappropriate.
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Washington
National Maritime Union of America
CIO
Ohio River Co
National Laborations Boat
Ohio River
Addyston
Cincinnati
Ohio
Huntington
W. Va
District 17
United Mine Workers of America
Iranians Move to Oust Mossadegh Amid Oil Nationalization Clash
Campaign to unseat Premier Mohammad Mossadegh gains momentum with Zia Ed-Din reopening party headquarters and rallying support. Opposition deputies in the Majlis pressure to topple Mossadegh while Britain tightens trade controls, ordering ships to reroute to Basra and cutting dollar guarantees. Mossadegh seeks U.S. mediation via Harriman for revived talks, amid Iran’s fragile finances and looming oil royalties loss.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Zia Ed-Din
National Will Party
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Mossadegh
Majlis
Basra
Iraq
Board of Trade
Abadan
Washington
W. Averell Harriman
Big Three Near German Peace Contract Talks
Western occupation powers plan negotiations with the Bonn government next week on a peace contract for West Germany. Key terms involve ending postwar occupation, Bonn independence, and a shift to a defense force aligned with NATO. Acheson Morrison Schuman and advisers prepared for final rounds with Adenauer as officials depart for Ottawa talks.
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Washington
Bonn
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Rome
Sesson
Acheson
Herbert Morrison
Robert Schuman
Morrison
Schuman
the Treasury
Snyder
ECA
William C. Foster
Army
Pace
Ottawa
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied High Commission
U. S
Pvt Dickinson Services Set For Sunday
Funeral services for Pvt William Henry Dickinson who died in a Metz train wreck on Aug 24 will be at the Cutler Mission at 2 p.m. Sunday. He was a Bartlett High School 1948 graduate, 21 at death, son of Henry and Myrtle Dickinson. Surviving are three brothers, four sisters, and grandparents in Sharpsburg.
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Cutler
William Henry Dickinson
Metz
France
Cutler Mission
Dickinson
Bartlett High School
Henry
Myrtle Kennedy Dickinson
Paul
Robert
Bruce
Betty
Juanita
Janet
Sue
John Kennedy
Sharpsburg
Fawcett- Stone
Chester Hill
Witness Says Boyle Helped Lithefold Firm Get RFC Loan
A diary keeping witness testified before a Senate subcommittee that William M. Boyle Jr aided a St. Louis printing firm, American Litteford, in obtaining an RFC loan in 1949 after three prior rejections. He named Boyle coordinating a conference with RFC chairman Harley Hise, while Boyle denied arranging loans though he did prior legal work for the firm.
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Washington
William M. Boyle, Jr
RFC
St. Louis
John E. Toole
American Litteford Corporation
Senate
Boyle
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Toole
American Litteford
Democratic National
James P. Finnegan
Internal Revenue
R. J. Brauner
Cecil Green
Hise
Examination Set for Shade Postmaster Opening
An open competitive exam is announced by the U S Civil Service Commission to fill the Shade fourth class postmaster job at 1417 dollars a year. Applicants must be 21 to 64 and residents within the Shade post office area. Applications due October 4 at the Shade post office. Mrs Earl Cowen, former postmaster, died this summer.
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Athens
Shade
U. S. Civil Service Commission
USCSC
United States
Shade Post Office
Earl Cowen
Tuppers Plains Resident Dies
Cecil C. Sanders, 67, of Tuppers Plains died Thursday at St.oe Hospital in Parkersburg West Virginia. Survived by wife Emma, sons Nile and Vance, daughters Auttie Rivers Wilma Eymon Justine Smith Evelyn Bennett Carroll Feather Leoma Pullins and siblings Clint Ira Sanders Silas Clark Mabel Chevalier. Funeral by Rev. Ross Swindler at 2:30 p.m. Sunday Church of Christ Success burial in nearby cemetery. Friends may call Arbaugh funeral home until services.
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Tuppers Plains
Cecil C. Sanders
St. +oe Hospital
Parkersburg
W.a
Emma
Nile
Perry and
Vance
Salt Lake City
Auttie Rivers
Mansfield
Wilma Eymon
Near Long Bottom
Justine Smith
Canton
Evelyn Bennett
Carroll Feather
Leoma Pullins
Clint
Ira Sanders
Reedsville
Silas Clark
Lockland
Mabel Chevalier
Coolville
Ross Swindler
Church of Christ
Camp Quarters Planned In Zaleski State Park
Columbus The state controlling board released 25000 dollars for completion of living quarters at two state reforestation camps from emergency funds voted by the last legislature. The camps will be worked by honor prisoners. Quarters will be completed at Shawnee Forest near Portsmouth and at Zaleski State Park in Vinton County.
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Columbus
State Controlling Board
Natural Resources
A. W. Marion
Shawnee Forest
Portsmouth
Zaleski State Park
Vinton County
Bricker Presses Dewey for Far East specificity
In Washington Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s Republican ticket partner Senator Bricker urged the New Yorker to be more definite about his plan for stronger Pacific defenses. Bricker questioned what additional steps Dewey would take to bolster free nations in the Far East as Dewey backs broader alliances and Southeast Asia defense efforts.
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Thomas E
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
White House
Truman
Dewey
Far East
U.S
Free Nations
Pacific
Washington
New Yorker
Bricker
Ohio
GOP
Europe
Southeast Asia
Capitol
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Dean Acheson
Duff
Ives
Carlson
Kan
Saltonstall
Mass
Atlantic Defense Forces
Polish Salvage Crews Raise Nazi Battleship
Polish salvage crews have raised the German battleship Gneisenau at the mouth of Gdynia Harbor and will salvage 20 000 tons of steel for factory use. The ship and the Scharnhorst were bombed and sunk at Brest and Gdynia by British raids in 1942 and 1943, with the Scharnhorst later sunk near Murmansk.
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Warsaw
Poland
Gdynia
Brest
Kiel
Murmansk
Gneisenau
Embezzling $550,000 Charged to Bank Man
FBI agents arrested 60 year old William Paul Smeltzer, assistant cashier at First National Bank of New Kensington, on embezzlement charges totaling about $550,000 over more than two decades. He allegedly took about $25,000 annually, much of which funded the stock market.
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Pittsburgh
FBI
First National Bank
New Kensington
J. A. Robey
Pittsburgh 1
William Paul Smeltzer
State Employee Pay Raises Are Checked
The Legislative Research Commission began reviewing the pay changes for state employees from the last session. Chairman J Frank McClure said data on salaries and service records will be shared with lawmakers at the next session to aid revisions and studies by the commission. The panel sent letters to departments seeking information.
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Columbus
Legislative Research Commission
Commission
J. Frank McClure
Ashland
House Finance Committee
McClure
Senators oppose recognition of China by U S or Japan
In Washington a bipartisan group of 56 senators urged the President to oppose recognizing China with either the United States or Japan. The letter, released yesterday by Senator Knowland, states that both Republicans and Democrats want the issue shared among the Senate and signed by many colleagues.
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Washington
China
U.S
Japan
Blow
Land
Calif
Knowland
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Purdue University
Melvin Wyant
Wyant
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