Eisenhower campaign ends 12 day tour with near mishap
Dwight Eisenhower wrapped up a 12 day campaign jaunt with large crowds in Virginia and the Carolinas. He avoided injury when a ramp collapsed as he descended the capitol steps in Richmond and praised Senator Harry F Byrd while denouncing the Truman Fair Deal as abandoning Jeffersonian principles. He heads to Columbia for rest and speeches before a westward train tour.
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Richmond
Dwight Eisenhower
Dixie
Columbia
U S. C
Fisenhower
New York
Ike
Virginia
Sen
Byrd
Eisenhower
Capitol Steps
Sen. Knowland
California
Lou Duell
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
N. C
Roanoke
Lynchburg
Petersburg
Midwest
South
Harry F. Byrd
Byrds
Congress
America
Jefferson
Jeffers Son
Hawkeyes Fall to Pittsburgh 26 14 in Opening Game
Pittsburgh defeats Iowa 26 to 14 in the 1952 football opener. Hawkeyes unable to match Pirates' performance as the game ends in Iowa City.
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Hawkeyes
Pittsburgh
University of Iowa Hawkeyes
Boy Tricks Mother To Withdraw 8400 Dollars
An Irvington New Jersey 16 year old deceived his widowed mother into signing bank withdrawal slips totaling 8400 dollars. He left 34 cents in her savings, claiming the signs settled his father's estate. He purchased nine cars, a television, two radios, a wire order, and gave his girlfriend 250 dollars.
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Irvington
N. J
Weather forecast fair and warmer into Sunday
Fair and warmer tonight with a low near 53 to 56. Sunday remains warm with highs around 80 to 83. At 2 30 p m temperatures record show 77 southwest 76 southeast 78 northwest and 77 northeast.
15-Cent Theft Shocks Cedar Rapids Pensioner Case
In Cedar Rapids Oral E. Wilgus 76 faced Judge Charles Penningroth over a 15 cent theft from a downtown polio collection box. The court ordered a 5474 dollar judgment against Wilgus for the state department of social welfare, stating he had drawn 23737.10 in old age aid from 1947 to 1952 and the money on hand at arrest plus penalties were to be accounted for minus the 300 dollar allowed by law.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles Penningroth
State Department of Secial Welfare
Oral E. Wilgus
C Avenue NE
Wilgus
Penningroth
Mice and Monkeys Fly Free in Weightless Rocket Test
Reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and others the Navy tested creatures aboard the carrier Boxer near Honolulu. Two mice and two monkeys endured weightless periods and peak accelerations up to several times gravity without injury. The tests aimed to show animals could withstand spaceflight conditions under controlled restraints. Actress Rita Hayworth news also appears amid the dispatches.
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San Francisco
Washington
Asaan Francisco Chronicle
Navy
Wari
Hollomans
Air Force Base
N. Mattée
Honolulu
Rita
Paris
INS
Rita Ly
Hayworth
Aly
Khan
Air Force
Alyet
Earth
West
Santayana Dies Philosopher and Poet at 89
George Santayana Spanish born philosopher and poet died Friday night in a Rome convent where he had lived in recent years He was educated at Harvard and wrote in English His health declined after a stomach hemorrhage diagnosed as stomach cancer His last work Domination and Powers appeared in 1951 and argued the U S was not ready for world rule.
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Rome
George Santayana
Harvard
Santayana
U.S
Europe
Boy 5 Runs Away Eighth Time Searching for Father
Horral Jones five pleads for his missing father wandering toward police headquarters to seek help. He travels with his younger brother Horace while his mother Mrs. H I Jones notes the boy grieves and searches after his father vanished a month ago. Welfare supports the family and a younger sister.
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Houston
Horral Jones
H. I. Jones
Yanks and Belgians Repulse Chinese On Korean Hill
U S and Belgian infantry beat off 300 Chinese Reds in a seven hour battle for a hill three miles northeast of Kelly Hill in Chorwon sector on the western front. Allied patrols report many Chinese dead and eight Mig jets shot down in the week.
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Seoul
U.S
Third Infantry Division
Kelly Hill
Chorwon
U.N. Plone
Carrier Sets Record with 31 Sets of Brothers Aboard
The aircraft carrier Princeton in Tokyo aboard the U S Navy set a record for the largest number of brothers serving on a single vessel. Thirty one pairs including one quadruplet and three twin sets are aboard the Princeton.
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Tokyo
Princeton
U. S. Navy
Soviet Troops Reported Seen In Korea By Defector
A surrendered North Korean security officer told reporters at U S Eighth Army headquarters that about 20 Russians in Chinese Communist uniforms were at Sinuiju airfield in June 1951. Lt. Lee Dong Yup said Russians installed anti aircraft guns and spoke of Soviet advisers in NK departments after the war began. The defector, once at Panmunjom talks, deserted Sept 5 1952.
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Seoul
Yalu River
North Korea
Lee Dong Yup
Sinuiju
Panmunjom
U.S
Eighth Army
Lee
Rec
Stevenson
Kentucky
Soviet Union
Indiana
Gov
Sen
Jenner
Korea
Maenal
Roll Call on State Fund Promoted by Governor
The Illinois governor released a statement and contributors list for Adlai Stevenson’s special expense fund. The names were not released until Saturday night, amid Stevenson’s Indiana campaign remarks and defense of aid to Illinois officials.
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Chicago
Adlai Stevenson
Ers
Indianapolis
Stevenson
Illinois
Former Gambling Czar Lias Arrested for Deportation
William G. Lias known as Big Bill, Wheeling Downs owner and former gambling and bootlegging czar, was arrested by immigration authorities in Wheeling West Virginia on a deportation charge. He posted 2000 bail and faces a Pittsburgh hearing in two to three weeks. He entered the United States in 1909 from Greece as Vassilios Lincakos. The case stems from an alleged illegal entry in 1935. He also faces a long running income tax dispute amounting to about 2.95 million dollars. Earlier a federal judge placed Lias holdings into receivership over the tax claim. he previously was acquitted in a 1949 tax evasion case.
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Wheeling
W. Va
William G
Big Bill” Lias
Upper
Ohio River Valley
Lias
Pittsburgh
Migration and Naturalization Service
United States
Europe
Harry E. Watkins
Track
Moscow Molly taunts U S airmen at Thule base
Pekin Illinois reporter describes a Russian radio taunt known as Moscow Molly that claimed knowledge of the Thule Greenland base and airmen details. The piece notes the broadcasts aired nightly and named sailors, with mentions of Eisenhower and Taft in related political coverage.
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Pekin
Air Force
Moscow
U.S
Thule
Greenland
Robert Guthrie
Guthrie
Molly
Lished
Pekin Daily
Guthrie Guthrie
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