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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1952
Page
3
A USA Today style briefing notes rising anti U.S. sentiment across Latin America. Argentina readies a new president while Peron rises as a regional influence. Guatemala faces Communist pressure, United Fruit battles labor strikes, and the U.S. contemplates economic isolation and national policy shifts affecting copper oil and exports.
An embedded reporter recalls a Korea frontline scene with a medic dying after a mortar burst and a wounded boy insisting on saving his companion. Amid chaos, a missing ear and raw courage reveal the cost of war and the resolve of soldiers on the same team.
Hollywood report notes Jack Benny says his famed tightwad persona costs him about five thousand dollars yearly in tips and pampered expenses. He recounts incidents with cab drivers, a valet, a local hatchback girl, and a London journalist noting his stinginess while touring Europe. He defends his spendthrift image as a blend of fact and fiction.
In New York on September 30 Captain William H. O'Brien toppled from a chair at police headquarters and suffered a head injury. He was removed to Morrisania hospital for treatment. A separate note mentions using antibiotics in poultry rations to speed growth in day-old to three week old chicks.
President Truman labeled Eisenhower a front man for special interests and a gullible Army veteran. He spoke from a campaign train platform in Fargo, North Carolina, to an 8,000 to 10,000 strong crowd, drawing cheers as his daughter Margaret was introduced.
In Council Bluffs Iowa authorities revealed a high school football player claimed as 22 and a war veteran named James Rehms. He appeared competent on the team at Thomas Jefferson High School but was ineligible initially, saying he came from Rama City South Dakota and is married with a wife in Billings Montana expecting a baby. Rehms said he is a Korean War veteran wounded twice and awarded the Purple Heart, claiming he escaped from an Army hospital while being treated for combat fatigue.
La Prensa reports the man in the moon now resembles a woman's face, seen since Eva Peron’s death on July 26. The formation of shadows on the moon’s surface prompted the description in a Buenos Aires newspaper.
CHAPEL HILL North Carolina September 30 United Press Richard Nixon president of UNC Young Democrats admitted Tuesday he was a distant cousin though he is a Republican candidate for vice president and a longtime Democrat.
Eisenhower plans a historic campaign stop in Columbia on Tuesday as the first GOP nominee to visit South Carolina. He will campaign near Washington’s statue with Democratic party symbols nearby, while Byron Byrnes former Democratic secretary of state plans to vote for independents. The visit is organized by South Carolinians for Eisenhower, not tied to the state GOP, and will be broadcast on at least 77 southern radio stations.
Hollywood actor Rex Barker says career versus wed lock ended his marriage to Arlene Dahl. She pursued film stardom and design while Barker prioritized personal relationships. The couple, once engaged in a see-saw courtship, married in New York after delays, then separated amid Dahl seeking independence and Barker on location.
Weekend games feature junior high teams from Robert E. Lee Cedar Bayou league play. Central games and venue details remain unclear in the fragment.
MT CLEMENS Mich Sept 30 UP Police said Tuesday Daniel Chalfont 29 admitted making it easy for them when he took a $56 check from a mail box endorsed it with the payees name but absent mindedly wrote his own address.
GRAND FORKS ND Sept 30 UP Four women who crew perfect bridge hands in the same deal never got a chance to play them. Hinderlie noted Tye had a perfect hand with 13 diamonds. Mrs Rovelstad held all clubs, Mrs MacDermott all hearts, Mrs Blair all spades. The band was conceded to Mrs Blair.
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