U S Tank Column Breaks Red Trap in Korea Front
U S forces shattered a Red trap in a northeast Korea engagement as a tank column drove toward the Manchurian frontier in three to four days. Allied patrols probed forward, while Red guerrillas burned Kapyong and fled under South Korean police counterattacks.
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Red Trap
Korea
Manchurian
Seoul
Red
Kapyong
U. S. Seventh Division
Kapgan
Yalu River
Manchuria
Myongcwon
U. S
Changjin Reservoir
Tno
Pakchon
U. S. First Cavalry Division
Yongbyon
Kap
MacArthur
Tokyo
ECA Reports Western Europe Output Surpasses Prewar Levels
The Economic Cooperation Administration says western Europe’s exports and industrial output rose above prewar levels due to Marshall Plan aid. The report covers April 1948 to June 30 1950 and notes continued rearmament needs, with $9.5 billion spent by mid-1950 and unemployment dropping in Italy Germany and Belgium.
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Washington
Economic Cooperation Administration
Western
Europe
ECA
Truman
Gordon Gray
Western Europe
Italy
Germany
Belgium
Labor unions urge higher excess profits tax on corporations
Washington officials report AFL and CIO demand a tax revenue of 5 to 7 billion dollars yearly from excess profits taxes on corporations. They urge retroactivity to July 1 and favor 85 percent rate, supporting small businesses and rapid consideration by Congress.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Truman
CIO
House
Ways and Means Committee
AFL
Arthur A. Elder
Stanley Ruttenberg
Ruttenberg
Ways and Means Group
Congress
Senate
Paris Circus Clown Gabriel Geretti Dies by Train
Gabriel Geretti a 52 year old Paris circus clown known for his act died when he fell before a Paris subway train. newspapers report he left a suicide note and had been out of work since May. Geretti born in Russia held British subject status.
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Paris
Gabriel Geretti
Geretti
Russia
Railroads say need 267000 new freight cars by 1953
William T. Fariey, re elected president of the Association of American Railroads, sets a plan to reach 1,850,000 cars in service by July 1 1953. He cites a current on order of about 122000 and notes steel supply for 10000 cars a month begins January with full rate not expected until March.
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New York
William T. Fariey
Fariey
Association of American Railroads
A.A.R. Head
Faricy
Polio total in Virginia reaches 1132 with three new cases
The Virginia health department reported three new polio cases today, raising the year’s total to 1132. Readings came from Isle of Wight Franklin and Roanoke counties in Richmond.
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Richmond
State Health Department
Isle of Wight
Franklin
Roanoke
U S Plans in China Mocked by Peiping Radio
Peiping radio in London derides President Truman and Acheson over U S nonaggression pledges toward China. The broadcast cites Taiwan and Vietnam as U S expansions, accuses Americans of deceit, and notes Sen. Knowland’s Formosa visit after Korea.
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London
China
Peiping Radio Tonight
Truman
United States
State Acheson
Acheson
America
Taiwan
Formosa
Vietnam
Knowland
Sen. Knowland
R-Cal
Korea
Three Year Old Supposed Draft Notice Sparks Family Sayings
In Poughkeepsie New York Ronald Woodin of Wappingers Falls received a draft board notice and a pre induction physical. His mother Mrs John H Woodin objected noting Ronald would be three on Thanksgiving Day. The draft notice wrongly targeted Ronald instead of his 20 year old brother Donald.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Ronald Woodin
Wappingers Falls
Sam
Dutchess County
Ronald
John H Woodin
Donald
Mrs Ecker's Body Found On South Carolina Beach
The body of Mrs. Frederick H. Ecker 52 wife of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's chairman was found partly buried in sand on Sea Island beaches near Edisto Island seven miles south of the fishing grounds where her party's dory swamped. James Merrill Herd Jr 39 head of a New York theatrical firm was missing as rescuers recovered two companions. The Eckers will have funeral services in New York.
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Frederick H. Ecker
South Carolina
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Charleston
S. C
Sea Island
James Merrill Herd, Jr
New York Theatrical
Atlantic
Ecker
Raymond Poincare
France
Civil Air Patrol
Edisto Island
West Coast
New York
Eckers
Park Avenue
Father says toothache drove him to kill son in Wis
In Hayward Wisconsin a distraught 25 year old Stanley Crocker confessed that a nagging toothache caused him to slash his two small children with a razor blade. 18 month old Stanley Crocker Jr died and four year old Christine was seriously wounded. Their mother Irma suffered head lacerations. Crocker waited in Winter Wisconsin and asked to be arrested.
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Hayward
Wis
Stanley Crocker, Jr
Christine
Hayward County
Stanley Crocker
William Sands
Crocker
Irma
Stan
Winter
Lakewood
Mercer County
Princeton
Wright
South Charleston
Police Rescue Aged Recluse From Barricaded Philadelphia Home
Police removed 56 year old Alma Mickel from a foul two story house after neighbors reported food left on the porch remained untouched for days. She was taken to General Hospital in critical condition with rat bites and sores covering her body. Her husband left years ago and has not returned.
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Philadelphia
Alma Mickel
General Hospital
Body Of Child Victim Sent To New York
Front Royal Va November 17 The body of Lynn Frances Danton four was sent to New York for burial. Federal authorities hold her father Andrew Danton thirty four on a murder charge. The mother Florence Danton thirty three remained in critical condition at Front Royal Community hospital from injuries in the same episode. FBI charged Danton with murder and said he admitted beating Lynn to death and slashing his wrists before driving the car down a mountainside.
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Front Royal
Lynn Frances Danton
New York
Lynn
Florence Danton
Front Royal Community Hospital
FBI
Andrew Danton
Wife Divorces Actor Bob Hutton in Cruelty Case
Actress Cleatus Caldwell testified that Doctor Bob Hutton was jealous and would accuse her of seeing other men when she was away from home. Caldwell obtained a divorce on cruelty charges in Los Angeles as the couple, previously divorced from Ken Murray, recalled their Las Vegas 1946 marriage.
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Los Angeles
Cleatus Caldwell
Bob Hutton
Miss Caldwell
Hutton
Ken Murray
Las Vegas
Nev
Puerto Rican in plea of not guilty in Truman assassination case
Oscar Collazo pleaded not guilty in Washington to murder and housebreaking with intent to murder in the November 1 Blair House attack aiming at President Truman. The judge postponed a trial date and ordered defense motions by December 8 with further proceedings to follow.
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Washington
Oscar Collazo
Truman
Collazo
U. S
Henry A. Schweinhaut
Schweinhaut
George Morris Fay
Fay
Griselio Torressola
Blair House
Torresola
White House
New York
Berserk Gunman Kills Four in New Jersey Farm Area
A gunman identified as Ernie Inganito, about 26, shot and killed four people and wounded four others in a rural Piney Hollow farm area eight miles north of Vineland New Jersey. Malaga police reported the incident and state police in Trenton said all south Jersey officers were alerted to aid in the search for the unidentified man.
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Vineland
N. J
New Jersey
Ernie Inganito
Piney Hollow
Here
Malaga
South Jersey
Trenton
Couple's Marital Woes Parade in Classifieds
In Hinton West Virginia on November 18 a husband states I will not be responsible for debts contracted by anyone other than myself in a classified ad. A following note signed by the wife says I have never charged anything to anyone other than myself and the old debts have never been paid yet.
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Hinton
W. Va
Hinton Daily News Today
Battleship New Jersey to Be Recommissioned in Bayonne
The 45 000 ton battleship New Jersey flagship of Admiral Halsey s Third Fleet in World War I will be recommissioned in Bayonne New Jersey on Tuesday. It had been mothballed in the Atlantic reserve fleet since.
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Bayonne
N. J
New Jersey
Admiral Halsey
Wright Convicted of First Degree Murder in Dotson Case
Charles Wright, found guilty of first degree murder for shooting deputy W. Calvin Dotson in Princeton after a jewelry store burglary. Jury deliberated 84 minutes. sentencing postponed pending defense motion for new trial. Wright’s companions, Charles and Robert Clements, Jr., face separate trials in January.
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Charles Wright
W. Calvin Dotson
Princeton
Wright
Dotson
Charles Clements
Robert Clements, Jr
South Charleston
Mercer County
F. Morton Wagner
Bluefield
Philip T. Lilly, Jr
Dan Wells
Calvin W. Dotson
U N Condemns Fifth Columns Urges Atomic Control Plan
The United Nations General Assembly condemned fifth columns as aggressive weapons and backed a two part peace plan for atomic energy control. The vote on the fifth column section was 50 to 5 with Yugoslavia abstaining, while the second section condemning propaganda against peace passed 49 to 0 with the Soviet bloc abstaining.
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New York
U. N. Assembly
U. N
United States
West
Stockholm
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
India
Israel
U.N
Forecast Sees Warm Trend Across South Next Month
Weather bureau predicts above normal temperatures for most southern and western states with California showing the largest departures. Colder than normal likely in the northern lakes region. near normal in New England and Mid Atlantic. Precipitation above normal in northern border states and parts of Oregon and northern California. below normal in southern plains, southwest and Florida. Elsewhere near normal.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
California
Northern Lakes
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Ohio Valley
Northern Plains
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Plains
Southwest
Florida
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Associated Press
Tom Stone
Yalu
Seventh Division
Tokchon-Kum
Pujon Reservoir
Jae
U.S. Eight Army
North Korea
Gray
AFL and
Virginia
Joseph B. Rogers
Leo A. Rover
Rover
John R. Morris
Walter G. Burton
Wagner
R. W. Dudley
W. Robert Carr
Dudley
Carr
South
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