Two convicts killed in New York gun battle
Two escaped convicts from Kentucky died in a rapid gunfight with police in upper Manhattan after a crime spree spanning Pennsylvania into New York. A detective was mortally wounded, another detective shot, and a fourth officer wounded as police stormed a seventh-floor apartment. one suspect captured. The trio had robbed a Bronx bank and stolen a dozen weapons from a Bronx gun shop during their spree.
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New York
Pennsylvania
New York City
Joseph Nolen
Ballard
Harlan County
Philip Lamonica
Nicholas Cotter
Elmer Schuer
Chicago
Lewisburg
Nolen Brothers
Scranton
Big City
Schuer
Bronx
Lewishire
Manhattan
Lewis Heads Toward New Victory For Mine Union
Washington reports John L. Lewis planned a broad bargaining surge to secure a $1.90 a day wage rise for 475,008 miners. Southern operators faced a Oct 1 shutdown unless they accede to terms, while the Wage Stabilization Board may adjust the increase under wartime controls.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Producers Association
Joseph E. Moody
Moody
Lewis
UMW
Capitol To See New Faces As Patronage Fantoms Change
Washington report notes likely large turnover on Capitol Hill if Republicans win control of Congress in November. Patronage drives hires for doormen, pages, police, and staff paid around $2,900 to $9,000 yearly. A three member committee selects appointments, with Francis Walter as chair and seniority guiding posts.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Chambers
Capitol Hill
Capitol
Journal
Francis Walter
Pennsylvania
Brooks Hays
Arkansas
Harry Sheppard
California
Founder of Grant Leather Dies in Kingsport At 72
Robert Grant 72 founder and president of the Grant Leather Corporation an early Kingsport business died after a brief illness at Holston Valley Community Hospital He was born in Ridgeway Pennsylvania came to Kingsport in 1914 Bucknell and Eastman Business College alumnus He founded Kingsport Extract and Tannery Plant later expanding to a main office which became Grant Leather Corporation The business closed in 1921 and the main office helped form Kingsport Press He moved to Asheville then returned years ago He is survived by his widow three daughters a son a sister and seven grandchildren Funeral services will be held at St Pauls Episcopal Church at 2 30 p m Tuesday Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Robert ¥. Grant
Old Grant Leather Corporation
Kingsport
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Grant
Ridgeway
Bucknell University
Pennsylvania
Eastman Business College
Poughkeepsie
Charlemont St
Kings
R. Grant Jr
Townsend, Mass
John N.hicks
Nutley, N. J
C. C. J Hyatt
Indian Springs
James N. Fogleman
F. M. Gilder- Sleeve
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
A. F. Kent
Oak Hill Cemetery
Justice Clark May Testify In KC Vote Probe
Congressional investigators review alleged FBI file secrecy to decide if the Justice Department warrants an expanded probe that could lead to testimony from Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark. The House Judiciary subcommittee will examine documents Clark ordered the FBI to hand to the DOJ in 1947 about the 1946 Kansas City vote fraud inquiry. The panel will also hear T. Lamar Caudle, fired last November, as it continues hearings into the department’s operations.
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Washington
FBI
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Tom Clark
House Judiciary
Clark
Kansas City
Chelf
D-Ky
Rep. Keating
New York
Tf So
Robert Collier
T. Lamar Caudle
Last Rites Observed For Preston Collins
State officials paid final respects to Lt. Gov. L. Preston Collins in Marion Virginia after his death from a heart attack at a Wythe County school dedication. A funeral was set for 2:30 p.m. at Royal Oak Presbyterian Church with Roselawe Cemetery burial and the church deacons serving as pallbearers.
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Marion
L. Preston Collins
Collins
Wythe County
Royal Oak Presbyterian Church
Roselawe
Tank-Supported Troops Capture East Korea Hill
Allied forces captrue an eastern hill after 15 hours of fighting near Punch Bowl in Korea. U S Sabre jets clashed with MiG-15s as air sorties hit rail works and tunnels, with multiple MIGs reported damaged or destroyed bringing September totals to over 50. Captain Robinson Risner becomes the 20th jet ace in the campaign. Chinese and Communist forces launch mortar and artillery attacks on the Eastern Front while attempting to seize Finger Ridge, but Allied artillery repels the assault.
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Seoul
Korea
U.N
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Air Force
U. N
RAF to parachute supplies to 12 airmen in Greenland
The Air Ministry said a Royal Air Force plane would attempt a parachute drop of supplies to 12 airmen stranded on a remote Greenland outpost. The operation aims to deliver essential food and equipment to sustain the group until relief can reach them.
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London
British Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Greenland
County Officers Press Manhunt In Safe Robbery
County officers intensified a manhunt after a $8,009 bakery safe robbery near Blountville Saturday night. A sheriff report noted three more leather money folders missing from the 21 originally stored by bakery truck crews were recovered near Highway 58. A boy found five folders along the same highway as the search continued. Witnesses say two masked men forced a night watchman and his wife at gunpoint during the incident.
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Blountville
Sheriff's Department
Highway 58
Crawford
Hiltahs
U. S
W. B. Wallace
Stranded group near 8000-foot ice cap after RAF crash
An 13-person party including 11 Britons and an American remains stranded on an ice cap 8,000 feet high after an RAF transport plane crash landed. They have food and fuel for three days and shelter in the wreckage as rescuers coordinate aid.
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Royal Air Force
New Ulcer Operation Saves Stomach Valve
A new ulcer operation removes 75 percent of the stomach while sparing the valve and its vagus nerve. The method cures ulcers by cutting the stomach lengthwise to leave a narrow channel, enabling patients to eat near normal portions as the ulcer heals. Twenty five humans have undergone the procedure with mixed results so far.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
New York
American College of Surgeons' Clinical Congress
William D. Kelley
Snarri Hall-grimsson
Richard Egdahl
Owen H. Wangensteen
University of Minnesota Medical School
Nixon to Bare Finances in Radio Report to Voters
Nixon mobilizes radio to reveal campaign finances as Ike criticizes the Democratic administration. Across Kentucky and Indiana the Eisenhower tour presses the charge of Democratic incompetence while Chicago probes Stevenson campaign funds and a five point labor plan is laid before the AFL convention. Stevenson appeals for union support and responds to Eisenhower’s charges.
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Nixon
U. S
Dwight D. Eiserhower
Truman
Ken‘cky
Richard M. Nixon
Berlin
Eisenhower
Indiana
Kentucky
Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
Chicago Daily News
Adlai
Department of Labor
Agricultural Extension Service
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Stevenson
Dwight D
Lee Stevenson
Seek 'Supermen' For Atomic Sub
The Navy says it is recruiting "supermen" from the fleet to crew the Nautilus, the world’s first atomic powered submarine. Volunteers from about 1,500 submarine officers undergo thorough training for long sea and underwater endurance. Captain Rickover says life aboard the nuclear craft will be no more uncomfortable than living in Washington with hay fever.
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Washington
Navy
David B. Bell
Bell
H.C. Rickover
Red Prisoner Found Hanged On Cheju Island
AP reporting from Panmunjom says a Communist prisoner of war was found hanged in an enclosure on Cheju Island. The UN prisoner of war command stated the death appears to be self inflicted. The event follows expected Communist protests over Allied atrocities.
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Panmunjom
Cheju
United Nations Prisoner of War Command
U. N
Peiping Radio
Janmanseng
Coosa Newsprint Price Hike Takes Effect Nov 1
The Coosa River Newsprint Co increases its newsprint price by $5.50 per ton starting November 1, raising costs for contract customers including the Kingsport Times-News. Vice President R. M. Watt cited rising costs as the reason, noting the firm cannot absorb them much longer.
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Coosa Pines
Ala
Coosa River
Kingsport Times- News
Mits
Von
R. M. Watt
Americans Carrying 519 Billion Dollars In Debt
The Commerce Department reports that total U S debts private and public rose to 519 billion dollars at end of 1951. Debts increased by 33 billion during 1951, the largest non war year gain. Local government debt rose 2.5 billion while federal net debt held steady near 219 billion.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Department
Five GIs Live Playing Dead on Old Baldy Hill
Five American soldiers wounded and without water endured 72 hours under heavy fire on Old Baldy in Korea. After a Chinese assault killed seven and wounded the rest, the five survived by lying still among the dead, later crawling or being carried to safety as Allied forces retook the hill. Cpl. Ed Berlin of Pacific Stars and Stripes recounted the survivors’ ordeal.
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Seoul
Korea
Old Baldy
Cpl
Ed Berlin
Pacific Stars and Stripes
Berlin
Imen
New York City
Stars and Stripes
Nixon pledges radio TV address on finances amid reelection bid
Senator Richard Nixon signals he will stay on as Republican VP candidate and plans a nationwide radio and television report to voters, detailing his personal finances and political fund use. He resumes the Western tour despite an $18,000 expense fund dispute and lays out his case to the American people.
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Portland
Ore
Richard Nixon
Voters of America
California
Eisenhower
Nixon
National Broadcasting Co
40 Catholics Face Red Treason Trials
Soviet radio reported 40 Bulgarian Catholics including 28 priests will be tried in Sofia on charges of treason and spying for France and the Vatican. The indictment accuses the group of attempting to weaken the Bulgarian people's democracy through armed activity and foreign intervention, with links to French intelligence and Vatican agents and alleged subsidies. The defendants face charges of organizing an armed group on Bulgarian soil and plotting a coup.
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London
Moscow Radio Today
Sofia
France
Vatican
Bulgaria
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