Loss Laid By Taft to Financiers
New York AP report cites confidential Taft memo blaming his 1952 GOP loss on New York financiers and press opposition. Memo argues Eisenhower rise traced to eastern business influence and media bias, with Taft noting eight months of undercurrents before Chicago convention.
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Huge four million dollar check causes marital feud
HOLYOKE Mass AP A four million dollar check mix up sparks a dispute between Air Force Sgt James Walsh and his wife. He returned from Goose Bay Labrador and hoped to discard the check but his wife insists on keeping it or framing it while planning legal action to block endorsement transfer or sale.
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Goose Bay
Labrador
Noncom
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Anne Helliwell
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Burkhalter to Head 3-State Reserve Division
Cedar Rapids Brig. Gen. Louis D. Burkhalter is to become commanding general of the 103rd Army Reserve Division on December 7, succeeding Maj. Gen. George Olmsted of Des Moines who resigns due to work needing him out of state. Burkhalter, a 28 year reserve veteran, leads the division's artillery since 1948 and will be replaced as artillery commander by Col. Joseph H. Buchanan of Ames.
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George Olmsted
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Olmsted
Gen. Burkhalter
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Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
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Fort Leavenworth
Two Paintings Fetch $770000 At Impressionist Auction
In London, American siblings owned by Mrs. T. G. Kenefick of Buffalo and George Goodyear sold two paintings. Rosenberg and Stiebel bought Cezanne’s Peasant in a Blue Blouse for 406000 and Gauguin’s I Await the Letter for 364000. The works were inherited from their father years ago.
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Rosenberg and Stiebel
New York
Cezanne
Gauguin
T. G. Kenefick
Buffalo
N.Y
Snow and cold to greet Thanksgiving in Iowa
Eastern Iowans will see snow and colder weather for Thanksgiving with light snow in the west this morning and a statewide mix today. Up to three inches is forecast for eastern counties by Thursday as strong northerly winds push temperatures into the 20s.
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Iowa News
Test Vote Faced By French Govt
Paris AP reports left wing critics won enough signatures to force a confidence vote on Premier Debre's budget. The motion was signed by 60 deputies, short of a majority in the 552 member assembly. Debre appears to have solid support to defeat the challenge, but the vote is postponed for 48 hours amid pension cuts angering veterans.
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Paris
National Assembly
Debre
Joff
Van Allen Rescues Soviet Lecture Power Mishap
Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa quickly fixed a projector blackout during Prof. V. I. Krassovsky’s lecture at a colloquium for physics faculty and students. An interpreter noted the moment as the film began after a switchboard fix, drawing applause.
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Iowa City
James van Allen
University of Iowa
V. I. Krassovsky
V. I. Kostomov
Krassovsky
van Allen
Embassy To Go
Washington UPI reports the 70 year old German embassy will be torn down for a parking lot and hotel project.
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Washington
UPI
New High in Living Costs Reaches October Peak
Washington AP reports consumer prices rose 0.2 percent to 125.5 percent of the 1947 49 base in October, the sixth new record in seven months. CPI is 14 percent higher than a year earlier, with about 1,250,000 workers set for cost of living increases, most by one cent an hour, while 68,000 plus Lockheed Aircraft and Allis-Chalmers workers will receive 2-cent raises.
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Washington
Labor Department
Lockheed Aircraft
Allis-Chalmers
Bakayev claims Western planes buzz Soviet vessels
London reports Soviet merchant marine minister Viktor Bakayev says Western military aircraft are buzzing Russian freighters and fishing boats in the Atlantic and Pacific, raising tensions amid ongoing naval operations and international patrols.
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London
Viktor Bakayev
Atlantic
Pacific
Safecrackers Split Loot Across East and West Germany
Berlin AP reports two sides pursue a team of safecrackers after a factory job straddling the border. The $300 loot was divided roughly equally between East and West German marks, prompting cross border pursuit and tension.
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Berlin
Nehru Defends Policy as Parliament Barrages Reds
In New Delhi Nehru angrily denounced Communist support for Red China in the Calcutta border dispute. He warned against anti national actions as MPs shouted in protest. Some demanded outlawing the party, others backed unity as the debate stretched and ended with his apology.
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Nehru
China
India
Jan Sangh
Praja Socialist
Philippines' Treatment of GIs Assailed in Pacific Trip
Rep. Weaver charged American troops in the Philippines suffer looting extortion and assault with alleged approval by Philippine authorities. He urged a Pacific defense review and first hand commander testimony. The Pentagon and state department offered cautious reactions.
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Washington
Weaver
R-Neb
Philippines
Pacific
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Pentagon
Defense Department
State Department
U.S
Thailand
Mahon
Texas
Pope John XXIII Celebrates 78th Birthday in Vatican
Vatican City AP reports Pope John XXIII marked his 78th birthday on a Wednesday at the Vatican. The brief church observance highlighted the pope's long tenure and public presence.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
Four groups study Midway crash cause in wake of fire
Investigators sift through wreckage near Chicago's Midway airport after a crippled Trans World Airlines cargo plane hit a residential block in pre-dawn rain. Eleven died, 13 injured as flames and debris spread. four CAB teams probe possible engine, propeller, or structural causes.
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Chicago
Midway Airport
Trans World Airlines
Claude Helwig
Los Angeles
Helwig
Housewig
Fires Street
Anson
TWA
Driver License Racket Charged In New York Area
New York AP report states three state agencies probe a driver’s license fix ring. Investigators focus on almost half of motor vehicle inspectors in the metropolitan area and possible driving school involvement. Schools allegedly paid inspectors ten dollars per applicant and supervisors five dollars to pass tests.
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New York
Attorney General’s Office
Grass fires scorch east Texas acres and two homes burn
Tyler Texas AP reports at least 20 fires swept across thousands of acres of east Texas grassland on Tuesday destroying two homes and threatening more structures as firefighters battled the blazes.
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Tyler
Texas
East
Missing Danish U.N. official Bang Jensen feared abducted
New York AP report says Pov Bang-Jensen a former U.N. Hungary expert and CARE associate disappeared after leaving his Lake Success home en route to a New York office. Police from New York City and Nassau County search hospitals and review unidentified remains as friends fear Communist kidnapping. He was 50, Danish accented English, last seen in overcoat and gray suit without wallet or ID.
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U.N
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Bang-Jensen
Hammarskjold
Hungary
U.N. Hungary Commission
CARE
Lake Success
New York City
Long Island
Nassau County
Gunner Leistikow
Copenhagen
Denmark
U. N
Bang- Jensen
U. N. Hungary Commission
Leistikow
Paul Jennsen
Mrs Onassis Seeks Divorce From Aristotle Onassis
New York AP report says Mrs. Onassis seeks a divorce from Aristotle Onassis the Greek shipping magnate who escorted opera star Maria Callas around Mediterranean resorts. The filing was made Wednesday in court.
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New York
Aristotle Onassis
Maria Callas
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