Guided Missile Aircraft First Use in Korea Report
The U S Navy used robot planes to attack Communist targets in North Korea from the USS Boxer on September 1 with a guided missile system controlled completely by electronics. An Associated Press photographer aboard the Boxer reported four to six launches and described cockpit television imagery feeding back the flight.
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Korea
Ree Prowaewy
Wwe
Associated Press
Fred Waters
Navy
Waters
North Korea
Two Attempts Made To Derail Fast Trains
FBI agents and sheriff's deputies probed two derailment attempts near Kenosha on the Chicago and North Western line. A suspect from Winthrop Harbor was questioned as investigators, aided by federal agents, examined spikes and plates left on the Sand Ridge crossing and canvassed the area for clues.
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Evening News
Sheriff's
Chicago & North Western
Kenosha
Ed Krok
Harry Mason
Antonio Pontillo
23Rd Ave
FBI
Sand Ridge Crossing
South 7Th Ave
Copper Range
Seymour
Winthrop Harbor
Milwaukee Railroad
Pope Pius XII Recovers From Illness
The Vatican press office announced Pope Pius XII has recovered from an intestinal disorder and feverish cold that had forced cancellation of all public audiences.
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Castelgandolfo
Italy
Pius XII
Vatican
Weather Update for Wisconsin With Rain and Cool Temperatures
Scattered showers spilled across Wisconsin as temperatures rose after two cool days. Kenosha reported 0.5 inches of rain with no temperature rise. overall skies were cloudy. Tonight and tomorrow look partly cloudy and cooler with highs around the 60s. Yesterday the sewage plant reached 69, low 50, today at noon 58 at the plant, 62 at Nash Motors, and 61 downtown.
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Wisconsin
Kenosha
Nash Motors
Eight Die and Fifty Hurt In German Rail Derailment
An express train from Luebeck to Hamburg derailed after jumping tracks near a concrete bridge, killing eight and injuring more than fifty as police and railroad officials initiate a full investigation. The crash occurred after the train had passed Hamburg city limits while en route to the port.
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Hamburg
Germany
U.P
Southern California plants stockpile guided missiles
The Los Angeles Daily News reports that aircraft plants in southern California have for months stockpiled deadly guided missiles for a potential push-button war. The report also notes that pilotless planes used in Korea are the forerunner of improved guided missiles as part of the Navy's missiles program.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Los Angeles Daily News
California
Washington
Navy
Korea
Ike Threatened to Resign Over 1946 Railroad Strike
New York Times reports associates say General Dwight Eisenhower threatened to resign as chief of staff in 1946 if compelled to act as a so called strikebreaker during the spring railroad walkout.
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Ike
New York
The
New York Times
Dwight Eisenhower
Oearene
Touhy Kidnapping Case Contempt Refusal Noted
Special FBI Agent John F. Malone refused to surrender records in the Roger Touhy kidnapping case today. Federal Judge John P. Barnes cited him for contempt of court.
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Touhy
Chicago
U.P
FBI
John F. Malone
Roger Touhy
John P. Barnes
1800 Missiles Ready for Immediate Large Scale Attacks
The U S Navy hosts a fleet of 1800 guided missile planes and uses them in Korea. Lt Cmdr Lawrence A Kurtz, the Far East expert, says the United States has missiles ready for immediate large scale attacks.
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Tokyo
U.P
U. S
Korea
Far East
Lawrence A. Kurtz
United States
Missile Guided by Planes Crashes on Target in Report
A narrative describes a new missile launched from a carrier by a catapult with two guide planes. The airborne plane takes over at altitude and directs the missile to a valley target in Korea. Telecasted progress ends when instruments fail and the missile crashes on target.
Appleton Driver Dies From Sunday Highway 41 Crash
Appleton resident Floyd H. Bissing, 24, the driver of one of two cars in a collision on Highway 41 north of town Sunday, died today from injuries. His death is the third resulting from the wreck.
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Appleton
Floyd H. Bissing
Highway 41
Here
Bissing
Ike and Adlai Plan Major Talks Tonight
Democratic nominee Stevenson heads for Bridgeport to discuss atomic energy while Eisenhower plans a farm address in Omaha. Both campaigns push major speeches tonight as Ike tours Iowa and Stevenson targets Connecticut amid rising talk of leadership and national policy.
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Washington
U.P
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
East
Iowa
Stevenson
Bridgeport
Conn
Eisenhower
Omaha
Truman
Scott County
Midwest
Heer
Connecticut
New London
Sen
Brien McMahon
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Student Changes Ones Into Fives
Irvin Keenan a 19 year old Bible student was arrested by secret service for altering one dollar bills into five dollar notes by drawing a beard on George Washington and altering numbers to resemble Lincoln He also stretched a dollar into a ten by adding a zero. He was about to depart for St Petersburg Florida where he claimed to attend a Bible institute.
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Chicago
U.P
George Washington
Irvin Keenan
Secret Service
St. Petersburg
Fla
Harry Anheier
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Anheier
Keenan
Caudle Says Clark Ordered Dropping 1944 OPA Case
Former North Carolina U S attorney Caudle testified before the House Judiciary Committee that Tom Clark ordered the 1944 OPA case against T C Coxe be dropped after Coxe hired Clyde Hoey as attorney Clark, then DOJ criminal chief, later a supreme court justice, and Hoey, NC Democratic national committeeman, then town attorney Caudle said he advised Coxe’s brother of the grand jury dismissal order Caudle did not object and shared the view that the case did not merit a grand jury presentation.
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Washington
T. Lamar Caudle
Tom Clark
OPA
North Carolina
Clyde R. Hoey
Caudle
U. S
Clark
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Hoey
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Office of Price Administration
T. C. Coxe
Wadesboro
N. C
Coxe
Robert Collier
Ship Owners Officers Reach Tentative Arbitration Pact
Eight Lake Michigan and Detroit river carferries may run this weekend as Wabash and Ann Arbor railroads reach a tentative agreement with the Great Lakes Licensed Officers organization on contract dispute terms. Marine director Herman Booth said a formal pact will be signed Friday when G. H. Sido, vice president of both railroads, returns from a trip.
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Detroit
Lake Michigan
Detroit River
Wabash
Ann Arbor
Great Lakes
Herman Booth
Independent Union
G. H. Sido
UAW Presses GM for Higher Wages and Pensions
The United Auto Workers seeks immediate wage and pension boosts beyond the current cost‑of‑living pact with General Motors. The UAW council urged GM to raise the annual improvement from 4 to 5 cents, add 21 of 26 cents from past COLA gains to base pay, and adjust pensions to preserve purchasing power, affecting about 350,000 GM workers.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
National
General Motors Council
UAW
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Wisconsin Editors Still Split On Presidential Outlook
A Wisconsin AP survey of 75 editors shows no clear winner if the election were held now. About 28 counties would stay Republican and 14 would stay Democratic, with 24 rural counties shifting toward the GOP and Milwaukee Dane Douglas Kenosha Racine holding Democratic margins.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike
Adlai
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Dane
Douglas
Kenosha
Racine
Morse Flags GOP Setup in AFL Speech
Sen. Wayne Morse charged that Eisenhower's campaign is now run by Sen. Robert Taft calling him a dazed quarterback and predicting defeat. He attacked Taft platform and isolationists as Defense Mobilizer Henry H. argued for readiness against a false sense of security. Morse, once an Eisenhower backer, skipped a joint platform appearance and cooled toward Eisenhower after last week's meeting.
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New York
U.P
Wayne Morse
R-Ore
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Morse
Taft
Congress
Herbert H. Lehman
D-N. Y
AFL
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Henry H
Oregon
Eisenhower
Turnpike Crash Kills Two Injures Twenty Nine in Pa
A Greyhound express bus rear ended a trailer truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike six miles east of the Donegal interchange. Two elderly women Florence Allen and Mrs Molly Allen of Detroit died. Thirty people were hurt, with 29 treated and 3 in serious condition. The incident followed another fatal southwest Pennsylvania bus crash a day earlier near Connellsville.
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Somerset
U.P
Donegal
Pennsylvania
Connellsville
Florence Allen
Molly Allen
Detroit
Molly
Frick Memorial Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Reds Open German Superhighway After Russian Obstruction
German trucks rolled along the 110 mile Berlin to Western Germany route with no Russian interference. The Reds cleared long lines of trucks at western and eastern checkpoints through the night and by morning the backlog had disappeared.
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Berlin
U.P
Germany
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John L. Lewis
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Lyle Milligan
C. H. Seymour
North Western Ticket Office
Sheriff's Department
Ith Ave
Milligan
William P. Schmitt
Pope
Sea
Japan
McCarthy
Lehman
Reds
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