Taft Forces in Control of Convention
The Associated Press notes Taft aligned convention leaders in Chicago shaping the GOP platform and seating fights. Key figures include Gen Douglas MacArthur as keynote, Walter Hallanan temporary chair, Sen Eugene Millikin platform head, and Rep Joseph Martin as permanent chair. Taft hold on 464 of 1193 delegates with 209 contested, could still win with disputed seats.
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Associated Press
Robert Taft
Convention Arrangements Committee
Chicago
Douglas MacArthur
Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
Walter S. Hallanan
West Virginia
Eugene Millikin
Colorado
Eisenhower
Texas
Louisiana
Georgia
Mississippi
Sabre Pilots Down 3 MigS Near Sinuiju
U S Fifth Air Force reports Sabre pilots shot down three Mig-15 fighters near Sinuiju on the Yalu frontier as 12 Sabres fought seven Migs in the day’s air clash. UN ground troops repelled a Chinese assault on a hill on the western front, with 123 Reds killed. Evidence grows of increased artillery moves along the front.
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Sequl
Korea
U. S
Sinuiju
Yalu River
Manchuria
U. S. Fifth Air Force
United Nations
Eighth Army
Chorwon
U. N
Race Winner Ditches Plane Off Korea
Lt Cmdr Cook Cleland, 1951 Cleveland air races winner, ditched his crippled plane in Won san Bay off Northeast Korea after flak struck his gas tank. He was rescued by helicopter, one of four Navy pilots to ditch in two days. Cleland hails from Willoughby, Ohio, and leads the Flying Circus VF-653 from Akron, a reserve squadron in combat since December.
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Tokyo
Cmdr
Cook Cleland
Cleveland
Wonsan Bay
Korea
Cleland
Navy
Wonsan
Valley Forge
Willoughby, CO
Flying Circus
VF-653
Akron, O
Painter David Young Dies After Scaffold Fall at Farm Bureau Plant
David Young 36 a Paul painter died in Ancher hospital after six hours in critical condition from a fractured skull. He fell from a scaffold at the Farm Bureau Service Co plant located at 101 E. Fairfield.
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ST. Paul
David Young
Paul Painter
Ancherospital
Farm Bureau Service Co
E. Fairfield
East Reich Tightens Grip on Border Areas
FRANKFURT Germany jackbooted Communist Vapos tightened Red security screws along the iron curtain from the Baltic to Bavaria. West German police reported a border area seemingly deserted except for patrols as shootings rose and two West German farmers were involved near the border one killed and one arrested. Authorities said 3000 refugees fled to Hesse in two weeks while East Germany touted militaristic youth training and sport program expansion at high schools.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Vapos
People’s Police
Iron Curtain
Baltic
Bavaria
East
Volksaapt Ablale
Polzel
Theiir Wateraogs
Vopos
Reds
Hesse
East Germany
West Germany
Defense of
Europe
Neues Deutschland
FDJ
Free German Youth
Fuerstenberg-on-Oder
Hoffman Hits Keynote Choice
Paul V. Hoffman, adviser to Eisenhower, charged the conventions arrangements committee with steering the GOP keynote to Taft. He said the nomination should not be decided by machine tactics and voiced support for Eisenhower despite the keynoter choice. Eisenhower's day included engagements with John Foster Dulles and undecided New Jersey delegates.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
GOP
Robert A. Taft
Paul V. Hoffman
Citizens
Eisenhower
Hoffman
Taft
John Foster Dulles
New Jersey
Miller Comedian Miller Dies at 79 in Los Angeles
Arthur Deming Miller 79, end man singer and piano player for Dockstader Minstrel shows, died at his Los Angeles home yesterday.
Three Inmates Escape Ward County Jail In Stolen Car
Unarmed trio broke out of Ward County jail in Minot North Dakota by slugging jailer Jay Hornberger and stealing his car. Suspects Harlan C Welcome 22 Thomas Johnson 32 and Ollie Suttle 22 escaped from a cell with no obvious tampering and fled after taking 127 dollars plus safe key and car key. Welcome held for federal authorities Johnson Canadian former inmate Suttle AWOL from California camp.
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Minot
N. D
Ward
C. J. Westlake
Harlan C. Welcome
Thomas Johnson
Manitoba
Canada
Ollie Suttle
Hobart
Oklo
Westlake
Jay Hornberger
Hornberger
Williston
Suttle
California
Johnson
United States
Bismarck
Keyserling Labels Critics as New Isolationists
President's economic adviser Leon Keyserling told Baltimore at Americans for Democratic Action that vocal critics of defense spending and foreign aid are a new breed of isolationists. He argued the wealthy few push tax relief by pressuring cuts to defense aid, while ordinary families face taxes. He warned this group is more dangerous and skillful than prior isolationists.
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Baltimore
Leon Keyserling
Council of “Economic Advisers
Keyserling
Americans For Democratic Action
Senators Reject New Seizure Bid
The Senate rejected a plan by Morse to seize steel plants under Taft-Hartley. Morse argued the law wouldn’t ensure production and would align the government with employers. The move failed 53 to 26 as Truman urged action under Taft-Hartley or a broader approach in the steel crisis.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Sen
Morse
Taft-Hartley
Congress
House
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
White House
Taft
Winds Damage Dickinson Meat Plant Near Tornadic Violence
Robert Leonard a government meat grader said winds of near tornadic violence last night damaged the Queen City Packing Co plant in Dickinson North Dakota with losses estimated at 10000 dollars.
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Dickinson
N. D
Robert Leonard
Queen City Packing Co
King Files for State GOP Nomination
State Auditor Stafford King announces filing for the Republican nomination for governor in the upcoming primary. He plans to file around 3 p.m. and will not issue a campaign statement. Gov. Anderson is expected to oppose him. Anderson plans to run within weeks. Also filed was Mrs. Peder Schmidt of Brooklyn Center, campaigning against fluoridation.
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ST. Paul
Stafford King
Associated Press
King
Anderson
Luther W. Youngdal
Peder P. Schmidt
Brooklyn Center
GOP
Husband Held in Wife's Death Milaca Murder Case
A 41 year old man confessed to fatally shooting his wife, Katherine Grasberg, with a deer rifle in their East Side Milaca home as she rested on a couch. Grasberg was held without charge pending a court appearance before a justice of the peace. The motive cited was family troubles.
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Milaca
Minn
Mille Lacs
Alf T
Katherine) Grasberg
East Side
John S. Nyquist Jr
Grasberg
Justice of the Peace
C. E. Erickson
Nyquist
Bruce Mil
Milton
Income Rises to Record April Total While Wages Dip
U S consumer income reached a record April total of 258.9 billion dollars at an annual rate, with increases in rental income to 47.8 billion and in divi dens and interest to 21.1 billion. Wages and salaries slipped to 177.5 billion, reflecting fewer hours and wage losses amid labor disputes at large manufacturers.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Night of Terror: 15 Red POWs slain in North Korea
KOJE ISLAND Korea Communist prisoners of war in Compound 77 murdered 15 fellow POWs then surrendered to U N troops. American guards seized seven Red leaders and isolated them. Bodies found in a well, trenches, and an oil drum, with signs POWs were arming.
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Robert B. Tuckman
Koje Island
Korea
United Nations
Compound 77
187Th
Korn
House Passes 1.4 Billion Road Aid Measure
Washington report: the House forwarded to the Senate a bill authorizing a two year federal aid highway program totaling 1.39 billion dollars starting July 1 1953. It specifies allocations for primary and secondary systems urban area highways interstate aid forest roads and development projects with no new appropriations and requires future financing.
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Washington
House
Senate
Petrillo Renominated Without Discord
James C. Petrillo was renominated without opposition for the presidency of the American Federation of Musicians at the union's annual convention in Santa Barbara California. The election today is expected to be a mere formality amid prolonged applause.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Honshu Village Declares Monthly Women’s Day Chore Duty
Elders of Futa kawa Village on Honshu decree a women’s holiday on the 15th each month. Men will cook, wash, and handle household chores while women are to elevate their cultural standards during the period.
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Tokyo
Futakawa
Honshu Island
Koje Island Prison Riots Prompt U S Hearings
Washington report on Koje Island prison riots outlines a year long Communist campaign to gain control over 70 000 inmates and trigger violence. General Clark cites 144 deaths and 313 wounded from June 1951 to May 1952 with eight incidents. House subcommittee to hear further testimony from Lovett and Collins and seeks State Department details on Koje and related riots in Japan.
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Russell Brines
Washington
House
Congress
Koje Island
Mark Clark
United Nations
Tokyo
Rep. Sikes
D-Fla
Army Appropriations
Secretary of Defense Lovett
U.N
Clark
Earthquake Devastates San Juan. Deaths Reported
A violent tremor struck San Juan last night causing panic and structural collapse across the city. Initial reports indicate at least one child killed as buildings toppled in the provincial capital near the Chilean border. the town had faced a major quake nine years earlier that killed thousands.
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Bueanos
Aires
San Juan
Rev Erling Dies of Crash Injuries
FARMINGTON Minnesota reports Rev S A Erling 77 of Aitkin died in a local hospital from injuries after a head on crash that also killed his wife. The couple were en route to Des Moines for Augustana Lutheran Church meeting when the accident occurred Monday. The other driver was uninjured.
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Farmington
S. A. Erling
Aitkin
Minn
Erling
Erlings
Des Moines
Augustana Lutheran Church
Moscow headline frames new Korean island incident as monstrous crime
The Soviet press labeled the latest incident on Kore Island a new monstrous crime by American interventionists, signaling heightened Cold War rhetoric and accusing U.S. forces of aggression.
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Moscow
Kore
Prison Riot and Mass Dispersal Shock Korean War POW Camp
Details of brutal clashes at Compound 76 and 95 as anti communist prisoners riot, kill and are dispersed into smaller pens. Seventy eight killed or wounded, including Americans, with discovery of buried bodies and weapons stockpiles. Army touts control by Brig. Gen. Boatner and 187th airborne unit as cleanup follows.
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Thomas J. H. Trapnell
187Th Airborne Combat Team
Koje Island
Haydon L. Boatner
Army
Hitachi Ships Plan Exports to Russia for Sakhalin Deal
Nihon Keizai reports Hitachi Shipbuilding of Osaka plans to export three steel tuna fishing boats to Russia in exchange for a deal involving Sakhalin Island. The business exchange signals cross border marine commerce and asset trade.
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Tokyo
Nihon Keizai
Hitachi Shipbuilding Company
Osaka
Russia
Sakhalin Island
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Koje
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