Grassroots push for Eisenhower GOP bid grows in 1952
Senator Duff announced a nationwide demand for Gen Dwight D Eisenhower to seek the Republican presidential nomination. He opened an Ike for President office in Washington and said he will relay the grass roots pressure to Eisenhower during a Paris visit. Other senators doubt Ike or Truman will run, while Stassen plans an announcement in Philadelphia.
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Washington
Sen
Duff
R.-Pa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GOP
Eisenhower
Genral
Paris
Edwin C. Johnson
President Truman
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Harald E. Stassen
Europe
Varys
Robert A. Taft
Eisenhower Group
Shoreham Hotel
Willoughby 84-year-old man burns sister-in-law in murder suicide
Fred Churchill aged 84 burned his 93-year-old sister-in-law to death at their Willoughby home then set fire to himself and died. Deputy coroner and police described a night of rage as Churchill tried to murder nurse Almeda Culp before igniting his clothing and the house. The nurse survived to recount the events and identify the assailant’s threats.
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Willoughby
Ohio
Fred Churchill
James G. Billson
Mary C. Brennan
Churchill
Wesley Pignojet
Bilson
Almeda Culp
Chief Billson
Inish
German SD Boss Kurt Schumacher Ill at Home in Bonn
Bonn Germany June 22 UP Pr Kurt Schumacher chairman of Germanys Social Democratic Party is ill with a circulatory ailment and confined to his home at party headquarters an nounces today
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Bonn
Germany
Kurt Schumacher
Social Democrat
Little Virginia Briley Wants Two Front Teeth for Christmas
A Lakewood girl, Virginia Briley, seven, hopes for two new front teeth by Christmas after losing them in a fall while roller skating. Her Navy father, William Briley, stationed in San Diego, will spend Christmas with the family. she also wishes for a bicycle, baton, and a walking toy if the teeth cannot be delivered by December 23, 1952.
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Virginia Briley
Navy
William Briley
Fanwood Ave
Lakewood
Virginia
Rebecca
Susie
Briley
U.S.S
Bryce Caneyon
San Diego
Little Willard
Stassen Sees No War With Russia In 1952
Stassen returning from Europe predicts no war with Russia in 1952 and plans to reveal his role in the 1952 presidential race. He spoke with Eisenhower in France and hinted at a Philadelphia dinner for his announcement. He cited two deterrents against a 1952 Soviet attack, including uprisings in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Ukraine and a likely American air assault.
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New York
Uli Harold
Stassen
Europe
Russia
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North Atlantic
Philadelphia
Ents
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Ukraine
Ex-Air General Dies in Munich At 53
Ex General Kurl Kalier former chief of staff of the German Air Force in World War I died of heart disease at age 53 in Munich. He had worked as an automobile mechanic since the war.
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Munich
Kurl Kalier
Il Aday
Churchill warns of three year fight to avert bankruptcy
London December 22 AP Prime Minister Winston Churchill told a nationwide radio audience Britain must mobilize for a three year struggle against national bankruptcy. He warned the nation will fight alone without expected American money, saying there is no easy solution. He urged end to political wrangling and said three years are needed to judge his regime.
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London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
United States
America
Worth Atlantic Organization
Police seize $15000 in Harlem dice game
New York police broke up a Harlem dice game late at night arresting 46 men and seizing $15000 in cash.
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Harlem
New York
Russia faces decision year as 1952 siege eyes Europe
Inside Germany, Allied command weighs a real West German buildup and air power gaps. The article notes troop increases from 40,000 US combat effectives to 200,000, British strength over 100,000, and a parity in ground capability with Soviet forces. It warns air superiority favors the Soviets, with outdated American and British jet fleets facing MiG-15s beyond the Elbe, and predicts potential for a 1952 decision amid looming rearmament and possible invasion waves.
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Germany
Russia
Rhine
Pyrenees
Brittany
East Germany
Kremlin
Vassily Chuikov
East German
West Germany
Europe
Fe Bnt
U.S
Bavaria
Elbe
Millionth traffic victim dies after crossing in snow
Ella H Wischmeier 52 a trailer camp resident and non driver died in Lakewood Hospital as the AP recorded the nations millionth traffic fatality. She had been struck Dec 11 on Lorain Ave at 150th St while crossing in a snowstorm by a six wheel tractor trailer. The driver Herman Dengel 40 of Dearborn Mich says the light was green. No charges filed. prosecutor reviewing.
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Cleveland
Ella H. Wischmeier
Lakewood Hospital
Associated Press
Lorain Ave
150Th St
Police Accident Prevention Bureau
Edison Mariner Hits Schelde Estuary Collision
The American freighter Edison Mariner, 7176 tons, reached safety after a collision with the British freighter Kittiwake in fog near the Schelde estuary off the Belgian coast. Two unidentified crewmen died in the incident. engine room flooded and eight others survived.
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Swetherlands
Edison Mariner
Northere
Kittiwake
Fogey Schelde
Boy, 2, Survives Three-Story Fall in San Francisco
In San Francisco on December 22 Tony Barca, age two, climbed to a half-open window from a three-story height. He plunged to the pavement but suffered only bruises and shock. Parents Salvator and Mrs Barca were nearby in the kitchen as a doctor examined the child.
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San Francisco
Tony Barca
Salvator Barca
Tony
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