Miss America Yolande Berbeze eyes stage or opera career
Atlantic City AP reports Yolande Berbeze of Mobile, Miss America 1951, plans to explore a year of stage, modeling and TV work possibly totaling about 50 000. She aims for musical comedy or opera, values the $5 scholarship, studies voice and dance, and shows no marriage plans soon. She is 5 foot 5 1 2 inches, 119 pounds, and lives with her widowed mother. Betty McAllister was named Mrs America in Asbury Park amid a homespun pageant pairing.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Yolande Berbeze
Mobile
Ala
Betbeze
University of Alabama Extension School
Big Jim Folsom
Miss Berbeze
Ethele Meyer Berbeze
Johnstown, Pa
Congressmen Seek European Help in Fight Soviets
Congressional Foreign Relations leaders urged Western allies to back the free world against the Soviet challenge. They reported Secretary Acheson briefed lawmakers on plans in New York talks with Britain and France, including Germany’s future, UN policy, Korea, Indochina, and Southeast Asia, and ongoing support for nationalist forces.
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Washington
Congressional Foreign Relations Committee
Conally
D-Tex
Senate Committee
Kee
D-W.va
House
E Gonnally
Acheson
New York
Britain
France
Nally
Connally
Germany
Europe
United States
United Nations
Texas
Korea
Major Harold Banning Sought Over Fund Loss
The Army says Maj Harold Dean Banning on leave from Germany is wanted for questioning over alleged misapplication of public funds exceeding 250000 dollars. Police customs and border patrol are aiding the search after the Provost Marshal General confirmed his arrival in New York City. He faces remand to the nearest military installation if captured.
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Washington
Army
Harold Dean Banning
Germany
Provost Marshal General’s Office
Customs
Border Patrol
Banning
New York City
Coast Braces For Big Blow
The Atlantic hurricane advances along the coast from Atlantic City to Cape Cod with gale winds likely from Atlantic City to New York. Forecaster Grady Norton says winds near 100 mph, hurricane conditions near the Cape Cod Nantucket area, center passing east of Nantucket around midnight.
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Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Atlantic City
Cape Cod
Cape Hatteras
Long Island
Grady Norton
Miam Weather Bureau
New York City
New England
Cane Cod
Nantucket
O' Nantucket
Cape
OSU Biochemistry Chair to Take Assistant Dean Role
Thomas S. Sutton, chairman of Ohio State University's Department of Biochemistry, will assume additional duties as assistant dean of the College of Agriculture starting October 1, the school announced yesterday.
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Columbus
Thomas S. Sutton
Department of Biochemistry
Ohio State University
College of Agriculture
Lair Time at the Fair by Gordon Martin
A nostalgic verse invites readers to prepare for fair time with revelry food and sights. It celebrates fruit and pumpkins, children's shoes, car cleaning, and baking while imagining flags pennants bands livestock tents and the joyful atmosphere of a community fair.
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Calliopes
Big Three stage mock invasion at Heidelberg
In Heidelberg Germany the Atlantic Pact powers launch a week long mock invasion drill with nearly 100000 troops. General Clark observes the exercise as U S troops test combat fitness and Western Allied forces combat readiness in a staged conflict against a notional enemy in Western Germany.
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Heidelberg
Germany
Mark W. Clark
U. S
Czechoslovakia
Allies Drive Near Taegu Hold Front Against Koreans
American and Communist artillery and infantry clashed seven miles north of Taegu with no front change by nightfall. A fresh Red offensive was feared as Allied forces recaptured Yongchon and pushed toward the Taegu–Kyongju highway. Reports said 1,000 Communist dead and 1,500 to 3,000 wounded amid heavy air activity and ground attacks near Waegwan, Taegu, and Masan, while U S 25th Division saw lighter action west of Masan.
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Tokyo
Taegu
U.S First Cavalry Division
Korea
Jack MacBeth
Tabu
MacArthur
U. S. Eighth Army
Yongchon
Eighth Perme
Yongchon-Kyongju
Naktong River
Changnyong
U. S
Bulge
Masan
Uiryong
Eighth Army
Waegwan
Kasan
MacBeth
Spirit of St. Louis slams into troop train wreck near West Lafayette
A fog bound collision between the Spirit of St. Louis passenger train and a stalled Pennsylvania National Guard troop train near West Lafayette, Ohio, leaves at least 32 dead and 40 to 50 injured. Most fatalities in an old coach. many victims from Battery B, 109th Field Artillery, Wilkes-Barre region. Train halted by a broken air hose. crew scrambled to warn. Rescue crews worked four hours amid rain as bodies were laid out with Army blankets.
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Coshocton
William E. Phandt
Coshocton County
West Lafayette
Art Parks
Frank Townend
Dallas
Spirit of
St. Louis
109Th Field Artillery
Pennsylvania
28Th National Guard
Wilkes-Barre
Spirit
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ft. Hayes
Columbus
20 Islands Are In Allied Hands
South Korean marines and naval units have occupied about 20 islands along the west and south coasts, some by commando strikes, to harass and cut Red supply lines. Islands such as Taeyon pyong Tokchok Tong hung Soijak Taebu and others near Inchon and Kumasan were seized, with Inchon abandoned as a Red port.
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Bill Shinn
South Korean Navy Headquarters
Associated Press
United Nations
Haeju Bay
Taeyonpyong
Haeju
Pyongyang
Tokchok
Tonghung
Soijak
Taebu Islands
Inchon
Kumasan
Ammyun
Kunsan
Mokpo
Imja
Chin Island
Korea
Yellow Sea
Korean Straits
Two Fires Rage through Cincinnati Busy Downtown
AP reports two concurrent blazes in Cincinnati drew half the city’s fire units to the downtown district. The Wilson Poultry and Egg Co. building on Front Street collapsed an hour after the initial three alarm fire began. A separate bakery fire nine blocks north also sent alarms, with no firefighters reportedly inside the poultry company building.
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Cincinnati
Wilson Poultry & Egg Company
Front Street
Poultry Company
Foreign policy will key GOP campaign
Senator Taft of Ohio urged voters to elect a Republican Congress to change the administration’s weak foreign policy. In Illinois, Senate Democratic leader Lucas accused isolationist Republicans of undermining bipartisan policy and criticizing leaders over Cold War aid. Taft stressed Korea war issues dominate the campaign for November.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Illinois
Senate
Lucas
Chicago
Congress
Maine Votes Preview Seeks GOP Sweep In States
Maine votes today in a preview of November contests as Republicans aim for a sweep of the governorship and three House seats. Seven primaries tomorrow name major party candidates for five Senate and 41 House posts and six governorships. Governor Paine seeks reelection over Earl Grant. Leland Currie is seen as minor challenger. New Hampshire Republicans top tomorrow’s primary with Tobey facing Powell and Bridges aide.
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Maine
House
Senate
Frederick G. Paine
Earl S. Grant
Portland
Leland S. Currier
New Hampshire
Tobey
Wesley Powell
Bridges
RNH
Harrison named chief of production in wartime mobilization
President Truman assigns William H. Harrison of ITT to head the new National Production Authority in the Commerce Department as part of a $30 billion annual arms program. He will oversee steel allocations and liaise with industry leaders to divide scarce materials between civilian and war production amid an eight-agency mobilization.
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Washington
Truman
William H. Harrison
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
National Production Authority
NPA
Commerce Department
NPR
Sawyer
Harrison
Economic Stabilization Agency
James F. Brownlee
OPA
GE Cleveland strike pits 1500 CIO workers against GE
Fifteen hundred members of the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers walked out at General Electric in Cleveland. About 1000 unaffiliated workers and 1500 independent United Electrical Workers were said to join or support. The walkout seeks higher pay, better pensions, and broader vacation benefits, with GE stating lamp production and war work are not the core of its operations.
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Cleveland
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
General Electric Company
United Electrical Workers
E. J. Westerlund
Lamp
Nine B-29 Crewmen Missing After Sea Crash
AP dispatch from Tokyo reports the Far East Air Forces confirm a B-29 bomber went down in the China Sea Friday after takeoff from Okinawa. Nine crewmen are listed as missing, while three were rescued. Official details cite the crash site and efforts ongoing to locate the missing personnel.
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Tokyo
Far East Air Forces Today
China Sea
Okinawa
Train Wreck Near Coshocton Shocks Guard Town
Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania hears of a Ohio collision that killed 25 when a troop train carrying 28th Division National Guard members was wrecked. Families flood newsrooms with casualty inquiries as miners underground await word on relatives and friends aboard the train.
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Wilkes-Barre
Ohio
Pennsylvania
28Th Division
Pennsylvania Nations Guard
Camp Atterbury
Ind
National Guard
Coshocton
Altharch Sons
Shaw Enters Hospital After Broken Thigh
George Bernard Shaw, aged Irish playwright, was taken to a hospital in Ayot St Lawrence England after a garden fall. He is 94, and hospital officials planned an operation for tonight.
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Ayot ST. Lawrence
Eng
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Atom Scientists Warn Nation To Disperse Vital Industries
Chicago AP Five Russian atomic bombs could cause more U S industrial damage than 20 American bombs dumped on Russia due to Soviet lead in dispersing key plants and secrecy. Dr Eugene Rabinowitch calls for a massive national effort to reduce vulnerability, urging a blueprint to atom proof industries and transport as part of defense planning. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists highlights civil defense and proactive measures to deter paralyzing attacks.
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Chicago
United States
Russia
Eugene Rabinowitch
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
America
Cles
Rabinowitch
Congress
Ralph EB. Lapp
Washington
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