Government May Clamp Down On Aluminum Supply
The government moves toward controls on aluminum amid rising defense spend ing. An NPA draft order could restrict aluminum use in non essential products within two weeks. Robert C Goodwin is named executive director of the Office of Defense Manpower to mobilize labor for the expanding defense program.
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National Production Authority
NPA
Robert C. Goodwin
Goodwin
Office of Defense Manpower
Bureau of Employment Security
William H. Harrison
Three-Vehicle Crash Kills 2 Near Franklin
Two adults from Christianburg, Robert and Virginia Heck, were killed in a late night three vehicle crash on U S 25 north of Chautauqua dam. Their eight year old son, Larry Dean Heck, remained in critical condition at Middletown Hospital with skull fractures and concussion.
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Christianburg
Ohio
U. S. 25
Chautauqua Dam
Robert Heck
Virginia Heck
Troy
Middletown Hospital
Larry Dean Heck
Heck
George Burton
Central Ave
Ralph Grimes
Middletown
Grimes
Albert M. Shapiro
Boys Ave
Franklin
Miami Valley Hospital
Roger Wilson
Wilson
Miamisburg
Hope Fades for 25 Aboard North Voyageur
Fifty miles off Argentia Newfoundland the former Canadian freighter North Voyageur is feared sunk with 25 aboard after a distress call and loss of radio contact. Searches by ships and a US base plane ended without sighting the vessel or survivors.
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ST. John’s
Nfld
North Voyageur
Argentia
Marconi
S.O.S
United States
Landlady's 40 Goldfish Irk Family Of 10
Chicago reports a mother of seven obtaining a disorderly conduct warrant against her landlady for keeping 40 goldfish in the family bathtub. The family, renting three rooms, cites no hot water or functioning faucets. Patrols failed to serve the warrant as the landlady avoided them at both doors.
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Chicago
Emily McDermot
Anna Starkus
John Zuris
Errol Flynn and Patrice Wy Say Oui to Marriage in Monaco
Actor Errol Flynn and Patrice Wy decided to marry in a civil ceremony at Monaco city hall, watched by over 100 guests and a crowd of 3,000. Best man Fred McEvoy and bride Patrice Wy of Salina, Kansas attended, with a religious ceremony planned in Nice later.
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Monaco
Errol Flynn
Patrice Wymore
Charles Palmaro
Riviera
Flynn
Fred McEvoy
McEvoy
Claude
Salina
Kansas
Nice
Luther Church of the Transfiguration
Prince Ranier III
Igor Troubetzko
ROK Forces Near Manchurian Border in March Toward Yalu
South Korean units push within fifty miles of the Manchurian line as Red Korea collapses northward toward Kanggye. UN troops report 120000 Red Korean prisoners and 26000 North Korean captured in the last day.
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Yalu River
Seoul, Korea
Kangs Gye
Kim Il Sung
North Korea
Yalu
MacArthur
Tokyo
Red China
Manchuria
Pyongyang
Yonghung
Vishinsky to propose new peace plan at UN meeting
Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky frames a new UN peace plan at a United Nations Political Committee session. He repeats prior Big Five pact and arms cuts proposals, adds a section branding any first use of an atomic bomb as war crime, drawing U.S. and Allied skepticism.
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Lake Success
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United Nations
Stockholm
Russia
UN Assembly
Vishinsky
U. S
Thirty Die In Peru Landslide Near Santa River
A Lima AP report says thirty people died in the Santa River landslide high in the Andes with at least 100 missing and 28 injured. The slide from Pisococha Lagoon destroyed Los Cedros hydroelectric station near Huallanca City where workers were camped. Some workers reportedly warned by telephone before the disaster.
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Lima
Peru
Santa River
el Commercio
Pisococha Lagoon
Los Cedros
Huallanca City
Two Ohio Guardsmen Die in Farm Field Plane Crash
A civilian Taylor Craft two seater crashed in a farm field 11 miles NW of Van Wert Ohio killing George Deisier 30 Antwerp and Warren Edward Phillips 28 Hicksville National Guard members. They were en route to Camp Atterbury Indiana for training and attempted a forced landing.
Atomic Expert Off To Russia
Rome AP reports Britain’s missing atom expert Dr Bruno Pontecorvo sailed on September 2 from Finland to Leningrad aboard a Russian ship. Stockholm corresp. Henrico Altavilla says he flew from Stockholm to Helsinki to check Pontecorvo’s whereabouts. Italian papers earlier claimed he slipped to Russia triggering an international search.
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Rome
Britain
Bruno Pontecorvo
Finland
Leningrad
Stockholm
Il Tempo
Henrico Altavilla
Helsinki
Pontecorvo
Russia
Massacre at Sunchon Tunnel Shocks U S Army
Survivors and victims from a brutal massacre near the Sunchon railway tunnel are recounted. Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen led a rescue to confirm the killings and evacuate the wounded though at least 68 Allied prisoners were slain by North Korean guards. Twenty one survived the night.
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Don Whitehead Sunchon
North Korea
Sunchon Tunnel
Sunchon
Here
Frank A. Allen
Cleveland, O
Justice Department rounds up top alien Communists
The Justice Department announced a roundup of leading alien Communists in the United States and said it has arrested 10 individuals in the operation.
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Washington
The
Justice Department Today
United States
Canada US defense production pact to be signed in Washington
A Canadian government source said a peacetime Hyde Park agreement will be signed in Washington on Thursday to mesh the economies of Canada and the United States for defense production.
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Ottawa
Hyde Park
Canada
United States
Washington
Supreme Court agrees to hear NY conspiracy case of 11 leaders
The Supreme Court today agreed to review the New York conspiracy conviction of 11 top Communist leaders, signaling a pivotal federal appeal over wartime era security policies and due process.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
New York
South Koreans To Take Care Of Guerrillas
President Syngman Rhee of the Republic of Korea says the army can handle remaining guerrilla threats after defeating North Korean Communist forces. He spoke from Seoul in a telephone interview with U S New and World Report and predicted peace and eventual unity with the north once UN forces finish the invasion.
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Washington
Syngman Rhee
Republic of Korea
North
South Korea
Rhee
U. S. New and World Report
Seoul
United Nations
The Clock as a Daily Plague in Modern Life
Gordon Martin laments clocks dominating daily routines from morning alarms to office chatter. The essay argues timekeeping devices steal peace, rush people through tasks, and even threaten spiritual calm, suggesting heaven would be clock free.
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Gordon Martin
Heaven
Great Power Source Found In Lignite Gas
A new gas from lignite, developed by the U S Bureau of Mines with the University of North Dakota, promises a vast power source. The design uses a red hot steel bottle with steam filled corridors to convert lignite into water gas, enough to power electricity for a town of 10 000.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Grand Forks
N. D
University of North Dakota
U. S. Bureau of Mines
United States
Bureau of Mines
University
Taft Backers See Ferguson Camp Falling Apart
Willis D. Gradison, chairman of the Taft for Senate Committee, says Ferguson’s campaign is failing while Taft’s side reports growing cautious optimism for reelection. He cites meager audiences and embarrassed PAC support as signs of collapse.
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Associated Press
Senate
Joseph T. Ferguson
Willis D. Gradison
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Gradison
Ferguson
PAC
Taft
Ferguson Camp
Truman To Be Renominated Says Anderson
Senator Clinton Anderson predicts President Truman will win the 1952 Democratic nomination without a contest. He noted on a television program that Truman will be the only man considered by the Democrats in 1952. He doubted a GOP move to draft Eisenhower would succeed. A Senate subcommittee plans an early discussion on a possible formal inquiry into related circumstances.
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Clinton Anderson
DNM
Truman
Anderson
Democratic
Democratic National Committee
Democras
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Eisenhower
GOP
Dewey
Senate
Old Bonds May Bring Virginia Lady 250000
Mrs. Benny Walker of Vine ton aged 76 discovered two $1,000 Virginia state bonds in her attic from the Civil War era. The 85 year old documents may date to 1861 or 1864. if 1864 the bonds are void due to constitutional limits on wartime debts. Virginia records are incomplete but officials vow to search. if valid, the bonds could worth $250,000 at six percent compound interest.
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Richmond
Benny Walker
Vineton
Commonwealth of Virginia
Virginia
Jesse W. Dillon
Commonwealth
Dillon
Walker
Bob Hope Arrives in Korea for GI Shows
American comedian Bob Hope and actress Marilyn Maxwell arrived in Seoul Korea by jet fighter plane from Japan. They headlined a troupe of entertainers for two shows at Seoul stadium drawing more than 10000 U S troops.
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Seoul
Korea
Bob Hope
Japan
Marilyn Maxwell
Seoul Stadium
Ohio Soldier Escapes Sunchon Death Train
Four American GIs including Pfc Theodore Stamper of West Portsmouth Ohio escaped a Red prison train near Sunchon just hours before mass murders. They walked to a rear air base en route to Japan after two death marches from Taejon to Seoul and Seoul to Pyongyang.
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Korea
West Portsmouth
Japan
Ohio
Theodore Stamper
Maniong Stamper
Russellville Ave
Hadong
Charles E. Jarvis
Minnora
W. Va
Taejon
Pyongyang
Jarvis
Stamper
Theth Regiment
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