Truman Attacks Ike Over Soviet Policy Blunders
President Truman assails Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for war era misjudgments that allegedly left the U.S. unprepared for Soviet aggression. He argues Ike favored friendship with Russia and says better 1945 advice would have curbed postwar Communist influence.
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Truman Train
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
America
Russia
Eisenhower
United States
Havre
Mont
Mike Mansfield
Senate
Len Ecton
Adlai Stevenson
T” Trumann
Trumann
Congressional
Army
Sruman
Mansfield
United Nations
Vishinsky
Montana
North Dakota
GOP
Richard M. Nixor
Trumaan
White House
CIA Chief Warns Reds Infiltrating Security Agencies
Gen Walter Bedell Smith testified that Communists likely penetrated the Central Intelligence Agency and every other security unit. He warned insiders must guard against penetration while defending Gen George Marshall’s integrity amid McCarthy era scrutiny.
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Washington
Walter Bedell Smith
Dwight Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Central Intelligence
America
U. S
Central Intelligence Agency
Gen. Smith
Charwomen
Smith
Convict Joins Kiwanis For Pass Outside Gates
Hutchinson Kansas State Reformatory inmate Mack M. Stipp 23 serving a forgery sentence took part in a Kiwanis tour and escaped by stealing civilian clothes from the laundry and walking out with the visiting group.
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Hutchinson
Kan
State Reformatory
Kiwanis Club
Roy M. Frost
Mack M. Stipp
Browder and wife arrested in New York on naturalization fraud
Earl Browder former top Communist official and his wife were arrested in the New York City area on charges of false statements in a naturalization proceeding. The grand jury indicted Mrs Browder on four counts and charged her husband with one similar count. Potential penalties include up to 20 years and $20 000 for Mrs Browder and up to five years and $5 000 for Browder if convicted.
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Washington
Earl Browder
American Communist Party
Justice Department
New York City
New York
Browder
Communist Party
Relief Set For Van Fleet After 17 Months In Korea
The New York Times reported Pentagon decision to relieve Gen James A Van Fleet after 17 months commanding the Eighth Army in Korea. Formal announcement pending selection of a successor with Lt Gen Anthony C McAuliffe and Gen Fred Taylor among possibilities.
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New York
New York Times
James A. van Fleet
Eighth Army
Korea
Pentagon
Washington
Times
Austin Stevens
van Fleet
Taylor
Anthony C. McAuliffe
Army
Polio Closes Schools In Pomeroy Again
Public alarm over a second polio death leads Pomeroy Village schools to shut down again. The Board of Education, 780 pupils, voted unanimously to close until Tuesday October 13 despite state health officials calling the action “absolutely-worthless” in polio control.
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Pomeroy Village
Board of Education
Dixie Soft Coal Owners To Decide Stand Today
Dixie’s soft coal operators meet to decide whether to strike or accept terms in a new one year contract brokered by John L. Lewis. The deal raises daily wages to 18.25 and royalties to 40 cents per ton to fund miners welfare and pensions.
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Dixie Soft Coal
Norman Walker
Washington
Dixie
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
Moses
WSB
Eisenhower Uses Smith Testimony in South Carolina Speech
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith told Congress that communists penetrate U.S. security, a charge Eisenhower planned to cite in a Columbia address. The campaign push aimed to frame Democrats as weak on security, with Clare Boothe Luce set to speak on radio television. Byrnes to introduce Eisenhower at Columbia as the 8,000 mile tour opens.
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Sen. McCarthy
Sen
William Benton
Republican National Committee
GOP
Arthur E. Summerfield
Clare Boothe Luce
Connecticut
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Bedell Smith
U.S
Columbia
S. C
Arthur Summerfield
Smith
Washington
Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
James A. Hagerty
Stevenson
Clare. Boothe Luce
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Byrnes
National Party
Dixie
Cleveland
Bay City
Mich
Police Seek Suspect in Slaying of Young Mechanic
In Clarksburg West Virginia police hunt a man in a green plaid shirt for the murder of Denzil Sands a Barberton Ohio mechanic for Babcock and Wilcox Steel Co. Sands was shot five times dumped in a ditch after leaving Barberton with $73 weekly pay. His wife and infant son had been visiting and he planned to return them to Ohio. The suspect reportedly boarded a bus near the scene.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Barberton
Denzil Sands
Babcock and Wilcox Steel Co
Sands
Ohio
Bevan Forces Win Key Seats in Labour Executive
In Morecambe Bevanites gain six of seven local seats on the Labour Party National Executive Committee and oust Herbert Morrison from the body. Hugh Dalton remains the remaining Attlee faction nominee as Bevanites grow strength in the leadership contest.
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Morecambe
England
Aneurin Bevan
Labor Party
Herbert Morrison
Bevan
Hugh Dalton
Attlee
Morrison
Canadian Pair Found Guilty of Murdering Officer
A Toronto jury found bank robbers Steve Suchan and Leonard Jeakson guilty of murdering a local detective. They were sentenced to hang on December 16. The men escaped from Don Prison death house September 8 and were captured eight days later. cohorts Alonzo Boyd and William Jackson face bank robbery charges.
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Toronto
Ont.r
Steve Suchan
Leonard Jeakson
Alonzo Boyd
William Jackson
Don
Boyd
Warren cites California traffic toll dwarfs Korea figures
Gov Earl Warren told state department heads that California’s annual traffic deaths total about 3600 and injuries around 100000, arguing the toll in Korea is insignificant by comparison.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Korea
Earl Warren
State Department
Chinese Win Third Hill From Allies
Chinese Reds seized a hill east of Kum Song on Korea’s Central Front marking their third capture in as many days. Heavy artillery and multiple counterattacks defined the east central and western fronts as UN forces and Chinese troops clashed amid evolving battlefield gains.
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Robert B. Tuckman
Seoul
Korea
Kumsong
U. N
Big Nori
U.N
Kamsong
Tokyo
Navy
Cunningham
Thief Nabbed After Killing Cop In Chase
A short thief, not over five feet tall, killed one police officer and wounded others during a chase from Industrial Trust Co. in East Providence. He seized cash, fled toward Pawtucket in a gun battle, killed Pawtucket Officer John Patineaud, held two women hostage, then surrendered after police shot at him outside a home.
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East Providence
Industrial Trust Co
Pawtucket
John Patineaud
Providence
Robert Laprade
Atomic artillery gun moves quickly across fields
The Army unveils an 85-ton atomic gun that can roll onto a field and fire super-explosives within about 20 minutes. Demonstrations at Aberdeen Proving Grounds show it can fire either atomic or standard rounds, with a 20 mile range and a mobile, all-purpose design.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
Aberdeen
Eee
Vrmance Caperus
Army
Atomic Energy Commission Scients
Navy
Electrica
Fire Departments
Stevenson Calls Communist Attack in Korea a Test of Freedom
Governor Adlai E. Stevenson urged in a nationwide broadcast that North Korea’s invasion was a testing point for global freedom. He argued Republicans miscast the war as treason and defended continued U S. action, taxation, and aid to allies to counter communism. He praised Kefauver Douglas Fulbright Chelf and King and urged professional scrutiny of government workers over McCarthyite slander.
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Stevenson
Korea
Springfield
Lll
Adlai E. Stevenson
38Th Parallel
Japan
East Asia
Harry Truman
Joseph Stalin
Outer Mongolia
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Paul Douglas
Illinois
William Fulbright
Arkansas
Frank L. Chelf
Kentucky
Cecil R. King
California
San Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
Russians Reported Behind North Korean Front Lines
An unnamed U S Eighth Army officer said several thousand Russians are in rear areas of North Korea serving as technicians and advisors and possibly manning modern Soviet antiaircraft guns. He warned some may be East Europeans and noted evidence of Caucasian personnel at Red airfield batteries near Antung in Manchuria.
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Seoul
U. S. Eighth Army
North Korea
Soviet Union
Red
Antung
Manchuria
Panmunjom
Sinuiju
Guards Quell Jail Riot In Dayton
In Dayton Montgomery County deputy sheriffs used tear gas to quell a jail riot. Prisoners seized water faucets, flooded cells, and yelled protests over meals while 30 deputies were in a staff meeting. Ring leaders Roland Boyd M Cleveland and James Allen 28 were named.
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Dayton
Montgomery County
Ben Smith
Ship Rescues 74 From Sea
A Portuguese fishing vessel Joao Costa sank in a storm in the Atlantic a week ago with 74 aboard. The American Compass from New York rescued 12. a British freighter and the French liner Henriette Schutt also picked up survivors. Tears and bells greeted the news in Figueira da Foz.
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Santa Maria
Azores
Joao Costa
Figueira Cafoz
Newfoundland Grand Banks
American Compass
New York
Henriette Schutt
Girl, 6, Fatally Struck by Car Near School Bus
Six year old Martha Ann Bilbrey was struck by an automobile Monday while running to catch a school bus. She died four hours after the accident in Clyde, Ohio.
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Martha Ann Bilbrey
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