Iran Threatens To End Relations With Britain
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh demands Britain end the economic blockade and compensate Iran for oil losses after a British move to restrict Iranian exports. The Majlis backed his stance with unanimous confidence as it met to hear the case against Anglo Iranian oil dispute proposals.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Britain
Majlis
Mossadegh
Truman
Winston Churchill
Bagher Kazemi
Anglo- Iranian Oi Co
Tenn Parties Squared Away for Fall Campaign
Tennessee Democrats and Republicans reorganized their state committees in Nashville. Republican chairman Guy L. Smith of Knoxville, unopposed, urged broad support for Eisenhower with Taft allies urging full backing. Democratic chairman Ford Ellington of Marshall County, succeeding Jack Norman, leads a Cresden-born staff with Cayce L. Pentecost aiding in campaign direction.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Eisenhower
Guy L. Smith
Knoxville
Buford Ellington
Marshall County
Jack Norman
Cayce L. Pentecost
Cresden
Ellington
GOP
U. S
R. Beecher Witt
Madisonville
Frank Clement
Kingsport Filly Tops Show at Tennessee State Fair
Ridgefields Farm Kingsport filly Charlen Denmark won top prize $296.74 in the opening program of the Tennessee State Fair Horse Show. The Ridgefields entry took first in the Weanling division of the American Saddle Horse Breeders National Futurity.
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Nashville
Ridgefields Farm
Kingsport
Ridgefields
Charlen Denmark
American Saddle Horse Breeders
China Agrees Reds To Stay In Manchuria
Moscow reports indicate Soviet troops will remain in Southern Manchuria after 1952 and Port Arthur will stay under occupation until Japan signs peace treaties. Chinese delegates continue talks on economic and political questions with Soviet officials, with top-level decisions already reached.
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Moscow
Manchuria
Port Arthur
Manchurian
Japan
Russia
China
Government loosens terms for home buyers
The Federal Reserve Board suspended Regulation X allowing free credit for home and commercial property purchases. HHFA eased related rules on government backed loans in home sales. The moves follow a labor bureau signal that housing starts this year may fall short of 1.21 million, triggering changes under the Defense Production Act.
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Federal Reserve Board
Housing and Home Finance Agency
HHFA
Bureau of Labor Statistics
HFA
Second Victim Of Wreck Dies
Mrs. Cleveland Wallace Jr. of Ghost Rock died at St Marys Hospital Norton at 1130 p m Sunday as the second victim in a Sunday morning wreck near Ghost Rock Church three miles east of Clintwood. Mrs Alex Dutton 68 of Isom was killed instantly when two women were crushed against a parked car by a truck skidding on the slippery road. Buster Bowman 19 of Clintwood driver of the truck was released from Dickenson County Jail under 4900 bond awaiting preliminary hearing this week. Mrs Wallace survived by her husband three sons Cephas Bill and Roland all of Detroit Mich six daughters Mrs Leslie Hay of See Clintwood Page 2
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Clintwood
Sps
Cleveland Wallace, Jr
Ghost Rock
St. Mary's Hospital
Norton
Alex Dutton
Isom
Wallace
Buster Bowman
Dickenson County
Stevenson Hits Taft As Eisenhower Campaign Walks East
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson launches a campaign tour through Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and Maryland to portray Taft as the campaign villain and frame Eisenhower as Taft’s ally. Eisenhower’s Midwest swing draws cheering crowds in Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana as Arthur Summerfield defends the candidate’s seriousness and sincerity against Stevenson’s quips.
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Adial E. Stevenson
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Virginia
Maryland
Arthur Summerfield
Illinois
Eisenhower to Address AFL Convention Then Train Return
Sen. Frank Carlson praised Ike’s 13 speeches as absolutely perfect while GOP audiences in Indiana and Chicago area reacted favorably. Eisenhower briefly leaves his campaign train to fly to New York for the AFL gathering and will resume the train in Moline tonight as he heads into Minnesota where Truman carried 11 electoral votes in 1948 by a 209,000 margin over Dewey.
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Eisenhower
Stevenson
East
Taft
Eisenower
Midwest
Minnesota
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Wake Island Hit By Typhoon Evacuation Ordered
Wake Island, home to 750 people, faced destruction from a 138 mph typhoon. Ninety percent of facilities were ruined, communications cut for eight hours, and all evacuation plans shifted to sunrise arrivals. Pan American and Navy officials ordered evacuation and assessed damaged airstrips and fuel sites.
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Wake Island
mid-Pacific
Navy
Pan American World Airways
Honolulu
Tokyo
Kwajalein Island
Pan American
G. F. Maxwell
Maxwell
Harriman says capital mess is Republicans in Washington
Averell Harriman aligned with Eisenhower on a Washington mess but blamed it on the Republican party. Speaking at the AFL convention he mocked GOP confusion and accused the nominee of botching history while Tobin and Ewing urged repeal of Taft Hartley and a higher minimum wage.
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New York
Mutual Security
Averell Harriman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Harriman
GOP
Maurice J. Tobin
Oscar E. Ewing
Eisenhower
Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
Tobin
Ewing
AFL
Wiliam Green
John L. Lewin
Johnson City Lawyer's New Home Targeted in Blast
The home of McKinley Green, Johnson City city attorney, on Millican Road was dynamited in the early morning in what police label gang retaliation against cleanup efforts. The family had not moved to the new house on West Pine Street. no injuries reported. A side window screen was removed and a homemade bomb suspected. Living room wrecked, glass shattered, plaster torn, and outer walls warped.
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Johnson City
McKinley Green
Milligan Road
Gangsend
West Pine Street
Fifth Air Force sets Korean War air victory record
Allied pilots destroyed three MiGs in one month and belatedly confirmed a fourth, boosting September total to 45 MiGs with several weeks remaining. Marine jet pilots died in Korea in a stormy mishap as details of a secret Sabre device were withheld pending investigation.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Washington
Marine Corps
Next of
Tokyo
Defense Department
Beer Board Ruling Upheld in Ferguson Circuit Court
Judge Shelburne Ferguson upheld the county beer board in two appealed cases and withheld judgment on a third. Rehearings of the Dutch Tavern and Gunnings Grocery licenses resulted in revocations, while Rainbow Inn proceedings paused for defense briefs.
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Shelburne Ferguson
County Beer Board
Dutch Tavern
Gunnings
Ferguson
Rainbow Inn
Jury Selected For Long Trial In Lee County
In Jonesville Virginia Lee County Circuit Court entered a second day of jury impaneling for a murder case against Bill Long a 28 year old war veteran. A panel of 20 was chosen from about 100 venire members with 13 to be seated by attorney agreement. Monday left 14 jurors qualified and more than a dozen others were to be examined Tuesday morning before testimony begins. Long was arrested before dawn on March 6 after the death of Hagan Hoop bakery route salesman.
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Jonesville
Lee County
Bill Long
Hagan Hoop
Long
Radio industry defends moral aims before Congress
Washington hearings before the Interstate Subcommittee heard industry spokesmen from the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters American Broadcasting Co Mutual Broadcasting System and DuMont defend efforts to keep objectionable material off air and to produce programs that are psychologically and morally acceptable and wholesome.
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Washington
Radiotelevision Industry
Congressional
House
Interstate
Congress
Kootchy
National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters
American Broadcasting Co
Mutual Broadcasting System
Dumont Television Network
Hollis M.seavey
MBS
Seavey
Lewis Signals Slowdown as Coal Contracts End
John L Lewis signaled a possible strike by about 300,000 Eastern soft coal miners as Northern and Southern contracts near expiry. He warned neither group may operate without a pact, while Western and Midwestern mines not in the Northern group would be allowed to run. He hopes to secure separate deals with Pennsylvania hard coal interests, totaling about 140,000 workers, before broader terms are settled.
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Washington
John L Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Southern Soft
Northern Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Pennsylvania
Retired JC Editor Hodge Found Dead
R Clyde Hodge 69 editor emeritus of Johnson City Press Chronicle died today from a self inflicted gunshot at his home in Shouus Tennessee. Deputy Glenn Osborn said the heart shot occurred as he took his own life after a long career starting in 1916 and including roles at Johnson City Staff News Bristol News and the Press Chronicle. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Shouus
Tenn
R. Clyde Hodge
Johnson City
Tennessee
Ais
Hodge
East
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Sion
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