Hurricane veers off Miami as Cuba struck by storm
A hurricane re formed in the Florida Straits heads toward Bimini in the Bahamas while veering away from the Florida coast. Winds exceed 100 mph with gusts to 80 miles from center as it moves north northeast away from Miami. The storm battered Cuba with winds up to 165 mph causing widespread damage and injuries.
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Fla
Bimini
Bahamas
Florida
Miami Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Florida Straits
Cuba
Island
Republic
Key West
Vero Beach
Florida Keys
Palm Beach
Swan Island
Island Republic
Havana
Cayo Breton Reef
Cuban
Suspect Wounded After Major Robbery in Ft Worth
Orville Lindsay Chambless, free on bond on federal charges, was seriously wounded when a shotgun was fired through a window at his Oklahoma City home. Earlier in Ft Worth two Cuban nationals reported a $248,000 robbery by a gunman at their cabana.
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Oklahoma City
Ft. Worth
Tex
Orville Lindsay Chambless
Ft.Worth
Acheson Denounces Russ Role In Fomenting Korean War
U S Secretary of State Dean Acheson accused Russia of planning and carrying the Korean War. He urged the U N General Assembly to back a peace armistice and warned that failure could lead to further measures against Red China. The speech drew mixed reactions with broad support at the U N and calls to reproduce its text in Australia.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. S
Dean Acheson
Russia
U.N
U.N. General Assembly
U.S
United States
de Wote
Red China
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
General Assembly
Korea
Panmunjom
Soviet Union
India
Viajayalakshmi Padit
Nehru
Richard G. Casey
Capehart Urges GOP to Free U S Economy
U S Senator Homer Capehart Republican Indiana urged a November GOP victory to reduce government meddling and emphasize free enterprise. He cited real buying power and stated that typical families would need far higher weekly earnings today than in 1939 to maintain the same living standard.
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Washington
Homer E. Capehart
Ind
Capehart
Republican National Committee
Benthoscope Dive Aim Seafloor Mile From Shore
Otis Barton, famed underseas explorer, plans a Benthoscope descent to a mile depth about 17 miles southeast of San Clemente, following two successful tests. He will carry cameras and film, stay in phone contact with his crew, and wear cold water gear including a parka. His current record is 4500 feet off Santa Cruz Island in 1949.
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Califoan
Otis Baron
San Clemente
Barton
Santa Cruz Island
Stevenson Headlines Attack On Eisenhower In Campaign Push
Adlai Stevenson intensifies denigration of Eisenhower in Cleveland and New York stops as he campaigns toward Massachusetts. He accuses Eisenhower of a sly campaign and defends Roosevelt legacy while targeting GOP records on communism and old-line party leaders.
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Don Whitehead
New York
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Fisenhower
Stevenson
Truman
Eisenhower
Cleveland
New York State
Massachusetts
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Roosevelt Memorial
French Oven Little TVA Project Lights Up In Mondragon
The Little TVA project in Mondragon France was dedicated by President Vincent Auriol with foreign diplomats and locals in attendance. The Rhone River facility will generate two billion kilowatt hours annually and provide irrigation for thousands of acres plus a 19 mile canal to aid navigation. The $250 million project includes $33 million from Marshall Plan aid.
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Mondragon
France
TVA
Vincent Auriol
Murray Tracks GOP as Rip Van Winkle Party
CIO President Philip Murray labels the Republican party as Rip Van Winkle asleep for 20 years. He remarks on changes since 1932 but says the Republican platform remains a Hoover Taft program for America in a pre-recorded ABC State radio program.
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New York
CIO
Philip Murray
Rip van Winkle
ABC
Murray
America
ROKs Rise To Peak On Sniper Ridge In Korea War
South Korea forces fought a grueling 4 hour battle on Sniper Ridge sapping Chinese strength and seizing Pinpoint Hill. Allied air strikes hit Red trenches near the Yoke while U S Sabre jets claimed two MIGs downed near the Yalu border.
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Stan Carter
Seoul
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Pinpoint Hill
Pike’s Peak
Triangle Hill
Sniper
U. S. Seventh Division
Iron Horse Mountain
Korea
Yalu River
Manchuria
Kumhwa
Eink
Com
John Raurxane
E Roks
Pinport
Sinuiju
Col
Royal N. Baker
McKinner Tex
Mount Union Students Favor Eisenhower in Poll
Dynamo, Mount Union College student newspaper, reports 62 percent of undergraduates favor Eisenhower and 25.5 percent back Stevenson based on a sampling poll, indicating Eisenhower lead.
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Dynamo
Mount Union College
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Putnam Examining Soft Coal Wage Boost Appeal
Washington economic stabilizer Roger Putnam reviews a joint appeal from soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers to overrule the Wage Stabilization Board and approve a $1.90 daily raise for John L. Lewis miners. The WSB cut the raise to $1.10 previously.
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Rowland Evans JR
Washington
Roger Putnam
United Mine Workers
Wage Stabilization Board
John L. Lewis
Putnam
Harry M. Moses
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
United Mine Workers Union
WSB
Lewis
Truman
Moses
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Moody
Eisenhower Pledges Korea Trip If Elected President
In Detroit, James Devlin reports that Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower pledged to visit Korea personally if elected president to press for an end to the war without appeasement. The wartime Allied commander made the remark before a cheering crowd.
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Eisenhower Special
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Europe
Detroit
Time covers mix up on election issue and Ike Harlem speech
Time magazine printed a misdated cover in Toronto showing Stevenson and Sparkman with the caption election results. In Detroit Eisenhower addressed 4000 at Masonic Temple and promised a trip to Korea to end the war, pledging review of actions and alliance with free nations.
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Korea
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Truman
Korea War
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Asia
United Nations
Morse declares independence from GOP in Stevenson bid
Oregon Senator Wayne Morse quits the Republican Party and calls himself an independent while continuing to identify as an independent Republican. He shifts support from Eisenhower to Stevenson, vows to let the Senate decide his committee posts, and denounces Eisenhower for political manipulation over Korea and Asia.
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Field House
Eisenhower
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Ohio
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Chicago
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Ore
Wayne Morse
Oregon
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Asia
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Young suspect arrested in Nashville in Georgia kidnapping case
Virgil Lemay 15, the youngest of three suspects, was arrested in Nashville after a three day spree that stretched from Georgia through Tennessee to Atlanta. The FBI expects Lemay to be returned to Chattanooga for hearings on kidnapping and auto theft charges. The other two suspects, James Francis Hill 29 and Charles Edward Hopkins 19, remain at large.
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A. I. Means
Memphis
FBI
Virgil Lemay
Nashville
James Francis Hill
Framingham
Mass
Charles Edward Hopkins
Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Lemay
Chattanooga
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Tennessee
Atlanta
Herschel Myers
White County
Tenn
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Nashvile
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Jordania State
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Myers
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Atlanta Force
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FBI Nabs Safe-Cracker In Cincinnati Friday
John Joseph Finn described as the king-pin of a West Florida gang nets about $100,000 in safe-crackings and robberies and is being held by the FBI in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
John Joseph Finn
Florida
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Man Proposes In Police Court After Assault Case
In Hagerstown magistrate court Harry Ridenour proposed to Elizabeth Carbaugh after a tavern incident that left Irene Kendall missing four front teeth. The judge admonished Ridenour and he was ordered to pay Kendall sixty dollars for dental costs.
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Mdf
Harry Ridenour
Harry
Paul Ottinger
Irene Kendall
Elizabeth Carbaugh
Miss Kendall
Elizabeth
Ottinger
Ridenour
Miss Carbaugh
Elizabet
Couple Burned to Death in Pickaway County Blast
Mrs. Harry Powell died and her husband was critically burned when a kerosene stove exploded Friday in their Commercial Point home, Pickaway County. Both were in their mid seventies.
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Harry Powell
Burne
Commercial Point
Pickaway County
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