Truman Aims Broad Cleanup Of Administration
President Truman, amid 1952 re election pressure, orders a wide shakeup starting with the firing of Assistant Attorney General Theron Lamar Caudle. Advisers say officials with outside activities may be dismissed or forced to resign as the hard race looms and corruption concerns haunt the administration. More dismissals are anticipated from Key West where the President is vacationing.
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Truman
Theron Lamar Caudle
Key West
Caudle
Lamarr Caudle
Associated Press
Mass raid nets 50 heroin peddlers in Washington
Federal agents and metropolitan police arrested 50 of the capital’s top heroin peddlers in a large raid last night. Nearly 200 officers, including U S marshals and Treasury agents, conducted the operation after five months of undercover work costing more than 15000 dollars to buy narcotics and assemble evidence against distributors.
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U. S
Treasury
Warren's Keynote on Moderation in GOP Campaign
Gov. Earl Warren opened his 1952 GOP bid urging a middle course for social progress. He defended the party as nonradical, called for honest government, bipartisanship on foreign policy, UN support, and reasonable medical care. He warned against isolation and urged a sustained push for social progress nationwide.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Reno
Planes Collide in Oakland Tragedy Kills Three
Two transport planes collided over Oakland Airport. One crashed with three crew dead, while the other with damaged tail landed in San Francisco. A motorist was injured by debris as wreckage hit Doolittle road. both planes were on training and check flights.
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Earth
Peace by Yule Awaits Nod From Enemy
Un UN plan proposes a new armistice framework to end the Korean War before Christmas. It requires a prisoner exchange and other details within 30 days, with fighting continuing during negotiations. If no final agreement is reached, a provisional cease-fire line would replace the current front. Reds will study the proposal but are not committed.
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Washington
U.S
U N Votes Study of Disarmament
Paris November 17 The United Nations political committee approved beginning a study of the Western disarmament proposal and replacing the Soviet counterplan 45 to 5 with five abstentions. Dean Acheson will lead the debate citing two unresolved issues in cease fire terms and prisoner returns amid Soviet objections.
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U. N
United States
Britain
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U. S
Dean Acheson
Jacob A. Malik
Malik
Acheson
Auto price boost loom under Capehart amendment
Washington officials signaled a new order within about 10 days that would let auto makers compute prices under the Capehart amendment. Auto manufacturers expect relief from cost based pricing and frozen rates, though exact timing for any increase remains unclear. Each maker must determine its own ceiling, with no OPS estimate of potential change.
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Office of Price Stabilization
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Long Beach Area Weather Tonight and Tomorrow
Long Beach and vicinity briefed to clear skies. Cooler tonight with a low around 44 degrees. Warmer tomorrow with a high near 78 degrees.
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Classifieds and notices reference guide excerpt
The snippet lists where to find various newspaper sections such as Churches Pages Classified Ads Cosmics Financial Obituaries Radio and Television Shipping Sports and Theater pages with page coordinates for each. It appears as a directory item guiding readers to section locations.
Ridgway Confirms Killing of Allied Prisoners in Korea
General Ridgway verified reports of executions of United Nations captives by Communist forces in Korea. He lamented how the sensational story was disclosed, noting deaths already informed to next of kin and urging restraint for grieving families. Col. Hanley later said about 6,000 Allied soldiers, including 3,500 Americans, were killed by captors since the war began.
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Matthew B. Ridgway
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Korea
Ridgway
James M. Hanley
U. S. Eighth Army
Hanley
George Patrick Welch
Peiping
Communist
Robert H. Schutz
Allied Division Breaks Reds in Nine Mile Front Blitz
In Korea Allied forces aided by tanks and planes smashed along a nine mile front near Kumsong. The advance pushed toward a former Red supply base, with U N troops crossing the Pukhan River in assault boats. Air force jets clashed with MiG-15s as the offensive expanded.
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Train Collision Kills Engineer in Swift Manitoba
WINNIPEG Man Nov 17 One man was killed and another seriously injured in a head on collision of two Canadian National trains at Swift Manitoba 135 miles southeast of here on the Rainy River line. Dead is William S Watson 50 engineer of Winnipeg Injured is Olla Tutkaluk 19 formerly of Sioux Lookout Ont The men were crew on a west bound extra which collided with an eastbound freight as it stood in the siding at Swift The engineer and fireman of the standing freight leaped to safety just before the crash.
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Alaskan Hikes 35 Miles For Aid In Crash Rescue
A Fairbanks woman, stranded two weeks after a Nov. 2 crash in interior Alaska, was saved after her companion Bob Rouse hiked 35 miles through deep snow to Eskimo village Stony River. Pilot Bob Vanderpool then flew the pair to Fairbanks in good condition.
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Viola O'Brien
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Bob Vanderpool
Crooked River
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Miss O’brien
Tragic double death ends in car on Route 101
A 23 year old Long Beach mother JoAnne Marie Fritz Williams shot her 15 month old son Jan and then killed herself in a car parked on Pacific Coast Highway Huntington Beach shortly after mailing a farewell letter. Police said despondency over separation from her husband Alvin Williams was the motive.
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Pacific Coast Hwy
JoAnne Marie Fritz Willams
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Alvin Williams
Newport Beach
Hillis
H. G. Oldenberg
Newland St
Frank Hansen
Smith Mortuary
Williams
Ban on Emergency Leaves in Navy Unit
Oakland reports that Emergency leaves for illness or death in sailors' families are banned aboard ships of Navy Task Force 77 in Korean waters. Rear Adm. Joseph James Clark leads the task force, warning officers against granting leaves for kindness or emotion while stressing official duty.
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Oakland Tribune
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Far East Command
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Tribune
van Homme Richard
Red Cross
Joseph James Clark
William G. Thomlinson
San Diego
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