Fifth Air Force downs 400th Mig in Korea air battle
An American Sabre jet shot down the 400th Mig-15 of the Korean War near the Yalu River border. Two more MiGs were damaged as 24 Sabres and 29 MiGs clashed. Ground UN artillery and planes held further Red assaults on Capitol Hill while a South Korean rescue freed a trapped unit, killing 35 Reds and wounding 72, with 4 taken prisoner.
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Robert Udice
United Press
Seoul
Korea
5Th Air Force
Yalu River
Manchurian
United Nations
Capitol Hill
U. N
Fifth Air Force
Payteen
Red
Eighth Acme
Paul D. Adams
Myson
San Juan
Former Tax Collector Faces Trial
Washington report says Daniel A. Bolich former internal revenue official faces income tax evasion charges from a Brooklyn grand jury indictment. He resigned as assistant revenue commissioner after 29 years amid a congressional inquiry claiming he spent far beyond his $52,000 five year earnings 1946 1950 and reported taxes on $54 771 income while the total should have been $83 314. If convicted he could face up to 25 years in prison and a $50 000 fine.
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Washington
Daniel A. Bolich
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bolich
Bureau
Brooklyn
Cat
Revenue Bureau
Spring Lake
N. J
Stevenson Denounces GOP Claims on Corruption in Government
Gov Adlai Stevenson assailed Republican defenses of corruption in federal government in Los Angeles and promised to link the Democrats with progress not the past. He warned the public servants serve the people but warned against apathy and attacked Eisenhower Stevenson heads Southwest trip toward Arizona and New Mexico.
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Los Angeles
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
United States
America
Southwest
Arizona
New Mexico
Springfield
Washington
GOP
Warren Harding
Charles Evans Hughes
Oil Firms Rapped Over Tar Heel Gasoline Prices
Raleigh reports the governor’s gasoline price committee cites oil firms for discriminatory pricing in North Carolina. Charles A. Poe says a two year price war began after Texaco offered temporary wholesale cuts, leading to lower local prices while Virginia stayed higher. Proposals seek tougher anti trust penalties and easier proof of violations, to be studied by a subcommittee on Oct 16.
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Raleigh
Scott
Charles A. Poe
Piedmont
Texas Company
Texaco
Poe
North Carolina
Virginia
State Bureau of Investigation
Slack Replaced as Head Of Tax Division By Lyon
Washington Attorney General McGranery ousts Ellis N. Slack from leading the Justice Department tax division and names Charles F. Lyon, former chief counsel to the King committee probing tax scandals, as acting assistant attorney general. Slack returns to appellate section chief role amid ongoing grand jury and congressional scrutiny.
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Slack
Lyon
Washington
McGranery
Ellis N. Slack
Justice Department
Charles F. Lyon
House Committee
Will
Truman
T. Lamar Caudle
Congressional Committee
St. Louis
House Judiciary Subcommittee
George Moore
Chelf
Rep
King
D-Calif
MccGranery
Department of Justice
Red
Sumittee
King Committee
Adrian W. Dewind
History's Biggest Joint Peacetime Naval Maneuvers Underway
Allied naval exercise Operation Viernessee unfolds from the Firth of Clyde with 160 warships from eight NATO nations and 500 carrier-based planes across a 13 day maneuver. Eighty thousand personnel including 100 land based aircraft participate in a mock invasion of Norway to reinforce Denmark and defend the Kiel Canal.
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Franklin
Norway
Firth of Clyde
Firth of Forth
NATO
New Zealand
Denmark
Kiel Canal
Russia
People’s Democratic Army
Narvik
Bardufoss
Spoonee
Nath Avan Pact
Matthew B. Ridgway
Woman serves four months in jail for love trip with teen
Los Angeles records show Virginia LeTourneau 28 began a four month sentence after pleading guilty to contributing to delinquency of 17 year old Jimmy Sherwin. The pair toured 10000 miles including a trip to Tijuana and claimed a marriage ceremony. Sherwin, now a juvenile ward, lamented the outcome while LeTourneau received three years probation and was ordered to stay away from the boy.
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Los Angeles
Virginia LeTourneau
Jimmy Sherwin
William B. Neeley
Sherwin
Resere
Armand Jr
Neely
Tijuana Mex
5. S. Hahn
William Shakespeare
Franae
Hahn
Shakespeare
Bacon
Youth on probation in Granite Quarry case
A 16 year old from Granite Quarry received a three year probation after pleading nolo contendere to involuntary manslaughter for the June 27 shooting death of his father. The youth appeared in Superior Court and was continued on probation by Judge Dan K. Moore.
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Salisbury
Reshy Ford Lyerly
Perior
Dan K. Moore
State Prisons Director Leaders Meet With Supervisors in Raleigh
State Prisons Director Walter Anderson and aides met with division supervisors to review operations and plan ahead. Accompanying Anderson were Robert A. Allen, Blaine G. Madison, and others in key roles. In Edenton, Inglis Fletcher was named to the Tryon Palace Commission by Gov. Scott Grey, succeeding the late Judge Richard D. Dixon.
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Winston-Salem
Walter Anderson
L Division
Anderson
Robert A. Allen
Central Prison
Blaine G. Madison
Raleigh
Inglis Fletcher
Edenton
Tryon Palace
Scott Grey
Richard D. Dixon
Raleigh Democrats form 31 member advisory committee
Everett Jordan of Saxapahaw appointed the advisory group to guide fall campaign strategy. Emphasis will be on county congressional district rallies as the party plans outreach. The Paroles Advisory Board prepared a report on improving the state parole system after a three member subcommittee finalized recommendations from visits to 13 states and inquiries from 36 others.
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Raleigh
Everett Jordan
Saxapahan
Paroles Advisory Board
C. H.patrick
Lie by Rollinson Used in Killing of Asheville Carrier
FBI matched evidence from John B. King’s body to the caliber automatic pistol. Isaac Rollinson and Carl Williams, both Asheville men, admitted trying to rob King and blamed each other for the fatal shot.
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Asheville
Isaac Rollinson
John B. King
FBI
King
Rollinson
Carl Williams
Man charged in road crash that killed 16 year old
Greensboro police held 22 year old Donald C. Midgette on a manslaughter charge after a collision between his pickup and a motorbike killed James Sevier, 16, in New Bern. Bond set at $1,000.
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Greensboro
New Bern
James Sevier
Donald C. Midgette
State park plan for Alamance Battle site discussed
Burlington proposal to make Alamance site a state park explored by the state parks committee chaired by Dr. C. Sylvester Green. The May 16 1771 battle site near Alamance described by historians as a pivotal conflict preceding the Revolutionary War.
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Burlington
Alamance
State Board of Conservation and Development
C. Sylvester Green
Chapel Hill
Ere
Taft says he and Eisenhower in substantial agreement on issues
Sen. Robert A. Taft announced that he and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower are in substantial agreement on all issues and that Taft will speak to aid the Republican presidential nominee. He asserted Eisenhower will carry out Republican platform policies and urged Americans to back the ticket. Taft outlined unity under shared aims to reduce government expenditures and reject creeping socialization, while defending Taft-Hartley principles.
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New York
Robert A. Taft
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sen. Taft
Eisenhower
United States
Taft
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Mie
Ohioan
Truman
Acheson
CIO
Nutrition conference set for NC State College in December
Committees prepared the annual nutrition conference for the feed industry at North Carolina State College scheduled for December 11 and 12.
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Nutrition Conference
Raleigh
North Carolina State College
Lottery pickup man arrested in Winston-Salem
Police say Duke Newell, 26, was freed after being charged as a pickup man for a lottery ring. Officers arrested him as he walked out of a grocery store and found 64 numbers writers’ returns in a waiting area, with a grocery clerk complicit in operating the lottery bank.
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Winston-Salem
Duke Newell
Police Scienee
Two Held in Murder Case in North Wilkesboro
Police Chief J E Walker said two white men John Roy Anderson Jr and Banner Washington Marsh of Wilkes County are charged with murder in the death of Jack Bailey last Sunday night. Charlie Owens is held for further questioning in the case.
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North Wilkesboro
Stepionine
J. E. Walker
John Roy Anderson, Jr
Banner Washington Marsh
Wilkes County
Jack Bailey
Charlie Owens
New England Textilers Accept Wage Cuts to Compete
In Providence Rhode Island the CIO reports 5000 New England textile workers agreed to wage reductions and changes in escalator clauses at 15 Textron contract mills. The move aligns these mills with other regional contracts to compete with nonunionized or southern operators, including a nine cent hourly cut and removal of two annual improvement factors.
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Textron, Inc
CIO
Textron
New England
Lonsdale
R. L
Providence, R. I
Providence Journal
Textile Workers Union of America
Fall River
New Bedford
September Heat Wave Continues Across Nation
The September heat wave shows no relief across the Eastern half with midsummer temperatures forecast. Snow plows clear Nevada border highways as Donner Summit logs over six inches of snow. Southwest Texas floodwaters kill five, with two missing and hundreds homeless. Toronto hits 93, Winnipeg 89, while Fort Bridger reports 40 degrees.
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Associated Press
Nevada-California
Donner
California
High Sierras
Texas
Chicago
Mercury
Canada
Toronto
Winnipeg
Fort Bridger
Stock Market Slides After Brief Halt In Trading
New York reports a resumed downward trend with losses across the board. Railroads led the slide as shares fell amid general weakness with volume around a million shares for the day. U S Steel Studebaker American Telephone Northern Pacific Kennecott Cooper DuPont Goodrich United Aircraft Philco Radio Corp among declining names. Curb Exchange listings show Canada ment Central Explorers McWilliams Dredging New Jersey Zinc Unexcelled Chemical with Mesabi Iron and St Lawrence Corp lower.
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New York
U. S. Steel
Studebaker
American Telephone
Northern Pacific
Johns Manville
Kennecott Cooper
DuPont, Goodrich
United Aircraft
Philco
Radio Corp
Canada Ment
Central Explorers
McWilliams Dredging
New Jersey Zinc
Mesabi Iron and
St. Lawrence Corp
Health conference opens in Chapel Hill on Needed Research theme
A group of 40 scientists gathered for the second day of a three day Health Conference in Chapel Hill. Sponsored by UNC Division of Health Affairs and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the meeting drew visiting researchers from medical centers hospitals universities and medical groups.
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Chapel Hill
Division of Health Affairs
University of North Carolina
Rockefeller Foundation
Medical Atiens
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