Filipinos Halt Savage Red Thrust In Western Korea
Filipino infantrymen with U S and Philippine forces repelled multiple Chinese assaults on a 3 mile sector in western Korea defending T Bone hill and nearby peaks. Chinese casualties topped 3000 with 550 killed and 350 wounded. American losses were not announced. A P correspondent noted the battle rivaled last December’s Gibraltar fight.
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Seoul
Korea
T Bone Hill
19Th Battalion
Reds
U. S. Eighth Army
A. P
Milo Farnell
Gibraltar
T-Bone
179Th
Harriman Addresses Nebraska Democrats at Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
Averell Harriman, Truman Mutual Security chief, planned a busy Nebraska visit with a 1 p.m. arrival, airport news conference, a three hour open house, and a 1 hour session with delegates before a $25 plate fundraising banquet attended by about 1,000. Nebraska delegates yet uncommitted. Kefauver leading some ballots, Kerr others, with two uncommitted. In Des Moines Harriman touted a new crusading spirit and alignment with New Deal and Fair Deal ideals.
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Omaha
Averell Harriman
Nebraska
Harriman
Iowa
Des Moines
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
America
Democratic Party
Kennan to Confer With Dean Acheson
U S Ambassador George Kennan left Moscow by air for England to confer with Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Acheson plans a six day trip beginning in Washington and includes a Big Three foreign ministers meeting in London on June 27.
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Moscow
U. S
George Kennan
England
Dean Acheson
Washington
London
Prank frees scores of horses at Duluth packing plant
In Duluth last night a gate was opened at the Duluth Packing Co corral allowing 70 to 200 horses to roam residential areas from 42nd to 103rd avenues west. Police aided by residents tried to corral the herd as a car driven by Ed Brekke collided with a horse. the animal escaped unharmed.
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Duluth
Duluth Packing Co
42Nd
103Rd Avenues
West Duluth
Ed Brekke
Carlton
Taft Edges Ike In Texas Battle On Delegates
Senator Taft claims strength against Eisenhower in GOP delegate fight as Eisenhower heads to Texas Nevada on a high stakes campaign swing Hoffman details fundraising gaps and Taft support in Georgia Louisiana Mississippi and Texas. Eisenhower plans a forthright defense speech and moves toward Chicago headquarters.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
GOP
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Chicago
Eisenhower
Texas
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Ban Forces Couple to Have Border Chops
INTERNATIONAL FALLS. Mr and Mrs Harry C Oliver of Chicago planned to bring fresh meat from Canada but were halted by a foot and mouth outbreak ban. They set up a portable stove beside the U S customs house and fried the pork chops. The couple gave the remaining meat including a steak to Canada bound tourists.
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International Falls
Harry C. Oliver
Chicago
Canada
Olivers
U. S. Customs House
Lattimore Investigated Over Visit to Soviet Bloc
Washington reports the State Department ordered Owen Lattimore barred from leaving the United States while it probes an allegation that he was arranging a visit to the USSR or satellites. McDermott declined to confirm travel plans or monitoring, noting such trips require authorization. Lattimore, Johns Hopkins professor and frequent McCarthy target, has repeatedly denied Communist links.
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Warren Rogers JR
Washington
State Department
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
McCarthy
Institute of Pacific Relations
U.S. Far East
Baltimore Sun
United States
Department
Ussr
Customs Bureau
U.S
Michael McDermott
McDermott
Germ Bomb POW Camps Charge by Reds
Peiping radio reported by AP that American planes bombed North Korean POW camps holding US and allied personnel. One American soldier allegedly infected by germ laden ants and hospitalized. other prisoners outraged by what the broadcast called an imperialist crime.
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Tokyo
Peiping
North Korea
United Nations
Associated Press
U. S
Chonchang
Unst
Carles G. Pixley
U. S. Army
Dr. Graham dies founder of Mayo clinic at 96
Dr. Christopher Graham, 96, Mayo clinic founder and veterinary dairy pioneer, died suddenly at his Rochester home. He trained at University of Pennsylvania and Minnesota, helped form the Mayo center with W. J. and C. H. Mayo, led medicine division in 1914, taught in the Mayo foundation 1915 to 1919, and aided regional dairy and poultry progress. He donated land for the Olmsted county fair grounds.
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Rochester
Christopher Graham
Mayo Clinic
Graham
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
St. Mary’s Hospital
Minnesota
Austin Units Share in VFW Parade Trophies
Austin units captured many prizes at the VFW Encampment parade with $275 in cash and multiple trophies. Open band prizes went to Austin Municipal Band and open marching units to American Legion Post 91 Shrine Legion of Honor and Co. C Minnesota State Guard. Hibbing Drum and Bugle Corps won best musical unit and a drum corps trophy. St Cloud all girls unit took second in drum and bugle, New Prague third. Two Harbors Auxiliary marching unit earned $100, with Third and Fifth District ladies placing second and Fourth District third. Woodrow Wilson Post Minneapolis led marching units, with St. Cloud second and Blooming Prairie third. Woodrow Wilson also topped the VFW band. Open drum and bugle prizes awarded to Chaska Ex-Servicemen’s and Gopher Elks, both from St. Paul, with Chaska first. Parade drew large crowds despite Main Street crowding and cloudy skies.
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Austin
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Austin Municipal Band
American Legion Post 91
Shrine Legion of Honor
Co. C. Minnesota State Guard
Albert Lea
Osage
Hibbing Drum and Bugle Corps
St. Cloud
New Prague
Two Harbors
VFW
Woodrow Wilson Post
Minneapolis
Blooming Prairie
Woodrow Wilson
Chaska
Chaska Ex-Servicemen's Drum and Bugle Corps and To the Gopher Elks
St. Paul
Main Street
British radioman facing four new spying charges
William Martin Marshall, 24, a Foreign Office radio operator, was charged with four additional espionage counts in London Magistrates Court. Prosecutors allege he passed information useful to the Soviet Union on dates in April May and June and that he obtained information. Marshall is held without bail pending further hearings.
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London
Britain
William Martin Marshall
Foreign Office
Russia
Bass
Marshall
Clyde T. Wilson
King George’s Park
Wandsworth
Pavel Kuznetsov
Washington Visitor Is Out of This World
Washington reported a foreign visitor last night described as a fireball glowing plate and flying saucer. Astronomers said it was likely a meteor, noting the season brings many such sightings. A motorist claimed it passed over his convertible near the White House as it descended diagonally and vanished high above.
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Washington
Naval Observatory
White House
Population rise in Belgrade and Yugoslavia census
New census figures place Yugoslavia's population at 16,338,504 as of January 1, up 566,397 in three years. Belgrade alone houses 390,733 residents, reflecting urban growth amid national demographic change.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
One in Ten Unfit for Service in Draft Records
Washington reports that about one in ten men examined since 1948 are 4-F, 1,443,315 of 12,416,129. The Canal Zone shows 3.8 percent unfit, Puerto Rico 32.8 percent, and South Dakota 6.5 percent among states.
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Washington
Selective Service
Continental
United States
Canal Zone
Puerto Rico
South Dakota
Transient Dies in Bunker of Railroad Car
A man later identified as Joffre Sargent of Chicago was found dead in an empty refrigerator car bunker at Milwaukee Road Station. He died from head and neck injuries after climbing into the ice bunker near Calmar Iowa on a 108 car train and wedging his head through the hatch. Coroner B J Cranwell said the body had been there less than four hours and the Austin station was reached at 7 15 after a stop at Tappi.
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Milwaukee Road
Joffre Sargent
Madison
Chicago
William Welch
Raymond Neve
Sargent
Calmar
B. J. Cranwell
Austin
Tappi
St Cloud Wins 1953 VFW Encampment Host Site
St Cloud will host the 1953 department VFW encampment after defeating Hibbing in a heated floor vote. The meeting debated timing, roll calls, and a possible 1954 invitation, with officers elected for national council and junior positions. An auxiliary banquet served about 800. Daniel Allen defended the veterans group.
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St. Cloud
Department Veterans of Foreign Wars
Hibbing
VFW
Letnes
Thomas Letnes
Floyd Cooper
St. Paul
Carl Ekman
Aitkin
A. A. Anderson
Luverne
Lawrence Jensen
Minneapolis
William Loftus
Ashton Kennedy
Frank Evan
Wells
A. A. Dittrich
Blanch Baker
Lorna Miller
Albert Lea
Ida Mae Hatfield
Chisholm
Martha Hunter
Marshall
Harmain Lilly
National Council
Paul Lattin
Austin
Lilly
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Austin High School
Frank Detinger
Daniel Allen
Milwaukee
Veterans Organization
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Donald A. McLean
N. Y
William D. Engle
Noedesha
Kan
Fifth Air Force
Kennan
Corral
Sen. Taft
Ike
Edward O. Ethell
Denver
Nevada
John S. Fine
Fine
Pennsylvania
Paul G. Hoffman
National Citizens Committee For
Wall Street
Hoffman
Ford Foundation
Perrin Air Force Base
Denison
Tex
Denton
Dallas
Wade
By Jack Bell
Tip
Main and
Water
Mankato
Mayo
VFW Parade
J. S. Bass
J. S
C. H. Halstenson
Albert Reinartz
Lewain Stephens
Jensen
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