Two Guards Reported Held as Hostages at Eddyville Prison
Eddyville Kentucky AP report states two guards were held hostage during a prison riot at the State Prison, which houses about 1 000 inmates. Police and officials rushed to the scene including Dr W E Watson and State Police Commissioner Guthrie Crowe, as another riot erupted at noon. The prison sits on the Cumberland River in Lyon County, long a high security facility.
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Eddyville
Kentucky
Frankfort
Guthrie Crowe
W. E. Watson
la Grange
Lyon County
Cumberland River
Jesse Buchanan
Ceiling On Defense Hits Skids
A Senate defense appropriations subcommittee informally agreed to drop a House amendment that would freeze spending next year. President Truman warned the move would wreck the military buildup as Air Force Finletter cited the ceiling as a factor slowing procurement. The Air Force sought about $1.7 billion in added funding beyond its regular budget of roughly $20.75 billion. The Senate still must act on the defense budget.
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Senate Defense Appropriations
Presient Truman
House
A. Howard W. Smith
D-Va
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Senate
Secre
Air Force
Finletter
Mittee
British Mailmen Know Their Rights
Bristol officials protest a mayoral goodwill mail delivery by helicopter from the Bristol Aeroplane Company. English postal leaders say the move breaches the post master general's monopoly on mail conveyance and violates postal rules.
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Bristol
England
British Post Office
Bristol Aeroplane Company
Europe
Cleveland Officials Decline Shorts for City Hall Workers
Mayor Thomas A Burke ruled that gas workers at Cleveland City Hall will not wear shorts despite hot weather. The decision followed a brief request from employees during a heat spell and a misreported joke about a bake oven.
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Cleveland
Cleveland City Hall
Thomas A. Burke
Non-Whites Start Defiance Campaign In South Africa
In Johannesburg hundreds of non whites prepare to defy segregation laws and seek jail in a campaign led by Yussif A. Cachalia and backed by the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress. Two group actions target permit and curfew rules as leaders promise peaceful, disciplined protests while prisons fill.
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South Africa
Johannesburg
Yussif A. Cachalia
Fke
N. B. Trantzi
African Episcopal Methodist Church
African National Congress
Transvaal
Indian Congress
Nana Sita
Daniel F. Malan
Malan
United Party
Oswald Pirow
Truman Not Tipping Hand On Plans In Steel Strike
The steel strike likely to continue at least a week even if President Truman seeks a court order to end it. Congress requests he use the Taft Hartley Act to achieve a settlement as union and industry debate bargaining in good faith. Bethlehem Steel reportedly reached a tentative contract with Bethlehem, but other firms balked at approval.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
White House
Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem
Steel Strike Drags On With Heavy Auto Layoffs
The 1952 steel strike enters its 25th day with 650,000 idle workers costing 253 million in wages. Allied industries show 216,320 laid off after July 3, with 166,320 already off payrolls. Auto plants face widespread layoffs, especially 30,000 Michigan workers. GM plans extended layoffs across Saginaw, Flint, and Detroit. Ford and Chrysler aim to continue production.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
Allied Industries
Michigan Auto
General Motors
Saginaw
Flint
Detroit
Ford
Chrysler
Senate Ends Ban on Vatican Ambassador Appointment
The Senate voted to remove from an appropriation bill a House measure that barred the President from sending an ambassador to the Vatican without prior Senate approval. The action opens the path for a Vatican envoy pending final passage.
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Senate
Vatican
Washington
House Votes To Rall Lid On Rents
The House approved ending federal rent controls on September 30, 1952, except in critical defense areas and cities asking for continued control. Contingent extensions to March 31, 1953, apply to designated areas. wage and price controls end July 31, 1952. Other reforms include no private credit authority and a Taft Hartley injunction option on steel.
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Washington
House
Wheeler
Dlga
Wage Stabilization Board
Rep
Talle
Iowa
Ching Sets Washington Start For Jet Talks
Federal mediator Cyrus S. Ching prepared to set the time and place for talks to avert a strike and keep F 86 Sabre jet production moving. The United Auto Workers CIO postponed a walkout after government mediation was requested, with 25 000 workers at North American Aircraft Corp plants in four sites involved.
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Washington
Cyrus S. Ching
United Auto Workers, Cio
North American Aircraft Corp
Ching
North American
West Coast
Midwest
Defence Department
UAW Reaches End to GE Jet Engine Strike
Cincinnati bulletin reports 3,100 United Auto Workers representatives voted to return the workforce to General Electric jet engine plant immediately ending a crippling strike.
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Cincinnati
General Electric
United Auto
Eisenhower Moves Toward Chicago Campaign HQ
Eisenhower will relocate campaign operations to Chicago next week to direct his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Lodge denies Taft slump, while AP tally shows Taft 483 Eisenhower 405 with 189 undecided. Pennsylvania gain for Eisenhower and a Taft five vote rise noted. Stevenson leaves hospital but declines to confirm a presidential draft.
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Associated Press
Dwight Eisenhower
Sen
Robert Taft
Eisenhower
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
Denver
Taft
David Ingalls
Association
GOP
Pennsylvania
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mass
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chicago
Mississippi
Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
Oscar Ewing
Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
Richard Russell
Georgia
Averell Harriman
Stevenson
Soldier Admits Slaying Portsmouth Doctor In 1947
Pvt. William L. Shaffer 20 AWOL pleaded innocent to first degree murder in Juvenile Court over the 1947 slaying of Dr. George E. Obrist in Portsmouth Ohio. Shaffer reportedly confessed after recounting the crime as revenge, claiming he killed the physician when the doctor refused to visit his ailing grandmother. The case hinges on ballistics tests while Shaffer’s wife and mother face separate legal troubles.
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Portsmouth
William L. Shaffer
William H. Harsha
Shaffer
George E. Obrist
West Portsmouth
Obrist
Wilbur Pyle
Mary Hodge
Dr. Obrist
Hughie Rudity
Burl E. Justice
Minnie Shaffer
Shaff
Amos
Brownsville
Ore
UN and Reds Clash Over Prisoner Repatriation at Panmunjom
Brig. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. accused the Communists of claiming and denying Russia’s wartime policies as armistice talks at Panmunjom stalled over prisoner repatriation. Nam I rebutted Harrison’s charge and defended Soviet wartime pledges. A follow up session was scheduled for the next day.
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Munsan
Korea
William K. Harrison Jr
Russia
United Nations
Red
U.N
Ussr
Harrison
Panmunjom
Reds
Stalingrad
Budapest
Nam I
Soviet Union
Jet Union
Dog Sips Driver's Finger After Pointing for Directions
A truck driver Samuel Williams asked for directions at a downtown Albany street corner. Williams raised his right hand to point, and a dog in the truck cab stuck its head out and licked Williams' index finger.
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Samuel Williams
Williams
Reno divorcee found guilty in million dollar burglary
Federal jury convicts Jeanne dArc Michaud, 36, of transporting more than a portion of the loot across state lines in the Reno safe theft. Prosecutors say she masterminded the scheme in a Dec 28 romance with La Vere Redfield, who denied consenting to the crime. FBI found 270,000 in dollar poker chips hidden in a secret basement room. Four men linked to the burglary remain in custody.
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Carson City
Nev
la Vere Redfield
Jeanne d'Arc Michaud
Redfield
Reno Mansion
FBI
Redfied
Field Stone
Michaud
Heat wave grips Middletown with 104 degree peak
Armco's East Side gate recorded 104 at 4 p m with shade readings 94 at 2 p m as the heat stretches across Ohio. Morningstar notes 91 and 96 later in the day while officials forecast 95 to 100 with no rain. Heat deaths rise to three in Ohio and dozens prostrated in Toledo Columbus Cleveland and Gallipolis.
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C. T. Morningstar
U. S
Morningstar
Armco
Middletown
Ohio
Toledo
Columbus
Cleveland
Gallipolis
Jerry Tolson
Bill Barnes
Athens
American Legion
Springfield
East Liverpool
Youngstown
Cincinnati
Dayton
Truman
Washington
Baltimore
New York City
Mercury
Iowa
Philade
South
Macon
Savannah
Nashville
Chattanooga
Virginia
Newport News
Richmond
Norfolk
Texas
Presidio
St. Louis
Compromise on Platform Aims by Millikin Group
Sen Eugene Millikin of Colorado predicts Republican platform drafters will agree on a foreign policy plank acceptable to Taft and Eisenhower. The Platform Committee will convene in Chicago to form subcommittees with adviser John Foster Dulles contributing ideas. Senator Wiley signaled doubt that airpower alone will deter Russia.
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Washinton
Eugene Millikin
Colorado
Millikin
GOP
National Platform Committee
Chicago
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Eisenhower
Milikin
Platform Committee
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Ithout
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Wiley
Senate
Child Falls Under Car in Batavia Tragedy
Four year old Patsy Hughes died when, while playing in a family's automobile, she released the brake and fell under the vehicle in Batavia. Authorities described it as an accidental death.
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Batavia
Patsy Hughes
Truman Orders No Recruiting Of Farmers
President Truman directed the armed services to halt recruiting farm workers deferred from the draft. He cited a loss of six million farm workers over four years and announced an executive order to provide an orderly policy for temporary deferments in essential industrial work. The order does not grant permanent exemption, only a tempered basis for local boards to extend deferments.
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Washington
Truman
Armed Services
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