GOP Wins Four Contests and City Races Across States
GOP claimed wins in four House contests including Ohio and New Jersey seats, with Philadelphia's Halley winning City Council president and Mayor Clark defeating Poling. Curley lost Boston mayoralty. Kentucky reelects Gov Wetherby amid national campaigns. Indiana cities swing GOP. Cleveland and Columbus reelect mayors. New Jersey gambling probe noted.
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Philadelphia
Halley
New York
Metropolis
Joseph T. Sharkey
Joseph S$. Clark Jr
Daniel A. Poling
Ohio
Paul F. Schenck
Dayton
Jesse Yoder
Edward Breen
New Jersey
Frank C. Osmers Jr
Evelyn Seuttert
GOP
Pennsylvania
Karl Cc King
Joseph Carrigg
Paul Harris
Curley
Boston
Eugene Siler
Wetherby
Earle C. Clements
U. S
Mississippi
Hugh White
White
Fielding Wright
Director Named for Pan-Am Park in Lakewood
Mrs. John Maryellis Herrin of 700 Arbor Road is named director of Lakewood Pan-American Park South Division. Former Arcadia County Park director, she has led in the Southern California Municipal Athletic Federation and tennis committee. She and her husband, a Lakewood power company foreman, enjoy Dutch folk dance. their son John Arthur, 13, attends Lakewood Junior High. Opal Hamman previously held the park director post.
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John
Maryellis) Herrin
Arbor Rd
Lakewood Pan-American Park
South Division
Dan Furman
Herrin
Arcadia
Southern California Municipal Athletic Federation
Lakewood Water and Power Co
Pasadena
Herrins
JohnArthur
Lakewood Junior
Opal Hamman
Feyboy McEvoy Heroic Death At Sea Near Safi
Feyboy McEvoy died attempting to reach the Moroccan coast after the Cannes to the Bahamas voyage ran aground amid sand storms. Survivors clung to ropes as the ship foundered. McEvoy ordered an Austrian crewman to swim for shore, reaching it exhausted. Two other crew members also survived. McEvoy and his wife made a last futile swim. Born in Australia, he had lived in Europe and America and was twice married, with both unions ending in divorce.
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Cannes
Bahamas
Safi
Swems
McEvoy
Australia
Europe
America
Beatrice Benjamin Pratt Gibson Cartwright
Standard Oil
H. H. Rogers
Trone Wrightsman
Houston
Texas
Charles B Wrightsman
Reading Pa Ends 27-Year Democrat Rule In Mayor Race
In Bergen County and Reading Pennsylvania, Republicans swept key races. Rep James B Bamford defeated Democrat Mayor John F Davis 16 690 to 13 844 to give Reading control to GOP for the first time in 27 years. Two other major ideas were re elected and thrown out as Republicans gained momentum.
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Bergen County
Reading
James B. Bamford
John F. Davis
Southland Collector Defends Tax Unit
Robert A. Riddell, Southern California internal revenue collector, spoke at the Chamber of Commerce breakfast on racketeers and revenue. He cited 56 000 bureau employees with 29 misses, 2 300 000 in Southern California income tax returns, and 1200 known racketeers investigated over four years, urging local law enforcement to curb fraud early.
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Income Tax Law Bureau
United
Riddell
Chamber of Commerce
Robert A. Riddell
Internal Revenue
California
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Pin Removed From Baby Girl in Chicago
An 11 month old infant Elvira Difuntorum flown from Manila for surgery had a pin removed from her lung at St Luke's Hospital in a snowstorm. Doctors used a bronchoscope with a magnet to extract the pin in 59 seconds, while another pin from her brother had already passed naturally or earlier surgeries had removed seven others.
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Chicago
Manila
Elvira Difuntorum
St. Luke's Hospital
Three-power call for arms reduction behind UN plan
The United Nations framework for atom energy control and weapon limits remains the basis for global disarmament talks. Western nations urge measures to ease tensions with the Soviet bloc, challenging Russia to join in on-site inspections and real arms cuts, while warning no substantial progress has been made since World War II. Sell unneeded items via Press-Telegram Want Ads.
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United Nations
Russia
West
Soviet Union
Snowbound Midwest Braces as Storm Rages On
Snow and high winds hammered the Midwest and East Coast. In Missouri towns 200 hunters huddled as roads froze and jails hosted travelers. Chicago, St Louis, La Guardia faced flight and transit disruption with plows in heavy use and efforts to restore service.
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Mississippi River
St. Louis
Potosi
Missouri
Rolla
Missouri Highway Patrol
Mass
Wisconsin
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Seaboard
New
Chicago
Midway
Municipal
Loop
New Haven Mayor Celentano Wins Reelection by 16 Votes
A tense night of balloting ends with Republican Mayor William C. Celentano relected in New Haven by a razor thin margin. The count shows 16 vote difference among more than 88,000 ballots cast.
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New Haven
William C. Celentano
U S Dominance in Insurance Seer
CHICAGO November 7 By end of 1952 the government will share more life insurance in force than all private life insurers combined an Washington insurance expert said to day A L Kirkpatrick manager of the insurance department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States told the National Association of Independent Insurers that socialization of insurance is not only under way but is already well advanced and progressing at an alarming rate.
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Chicago
Washington
A. L. Kirkpatrick
Insurance Department
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
National Association of Independent Insurers
L A Man Killed Under Heavy Machine in Los Angeles
Augustine Lam sbaren, 46, of Los Angeles, was killed when a motor grader crushed his head while he worked to stop a fuel tank leak. He had worked for C O Sparks and Mundo Engineering for over 20 years. Body at White Emerson Mortuary in Whittier.
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PLCO
Augustine Lamsbaren
Los Angeles
C. O. Sparks and Mundo Engineering Company
Emerson Mortuary
Whittier
Blue Star Mothers Elect Leaders at Milwaukee Convention
Mrs Ivah Jones of Long Beach was elected second vice president of the National Blue Star Mothers of America at a Milwaukee convention. Mrs Louise Meyerhoff of St Albans was chosen president. The group supports mothers of war veterans.
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Ivah Jones
Long Beach
National Blue Star Mothers of America
Milwaukee
Associated Press
Louise Meyerhoff
St. Albans
No Power Trains Halt In Tokyo Area
Tokyo reports a severe power shortage halted interurban train service for about an hour yesterday. Trains carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers were stalled as there was not enough electricity to keep them running.
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Tokyo
Japan
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Catalina
Cytron
Kroehler
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Cytro Furniture CO
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Florence
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American Avenue
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