Eisenhower and advisers discuss Korea stalemate aboard Helena
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower and his foreign policy and economic aides met Monday on the cruiser Helena to tackle breaking the Korean stalemate without launching a costly war. Attending were John Foster Dulles and other future cabinet members as the party sails toward Honolulu, crossing the international dateline and losing a day.
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Merriman Smith
Helena
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
John Foster Dulles
Honolulu
Wake
Midway
George Humphrey
Treasury
Interior
Douglas MccKay
Frenzied Lies Pervading Air Against Radio Free Europe
Crusade for Freedom leader Matt F Rice accuses Soviet propaganda of attacking Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia. He cites Budapest press and calls for funds to expand truth programs and acquire more powerful transmitters to beat jamming.
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Radio Free Europe
Twin Cities
Matt F. Rice
Crusade For Freedom
Hardhitting Freedom
Crusade
Henry Ford II
Budapest
Ford
the Crusade
Radio Free Asia
Munich
Iron Curtain
Freedom
Matt Rice
Horse Tells Where To Find Child
A horse named Lady Wonder appears to answer questions by spelling words with rubber discs. In a Kansas inquiry the horse confirms finding a missing boy by spelling Yes. Mrs. Benjamin Hayman seeks help from Kansas authorities hoping the horse’s method locates her nine year old son Gary Hayman who has been missing 76 days.
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Richmond
Gary Hayman
Lady Wonder
Kansas
Benjamin Hayman
Providence
R.J
U.S. Plans to Reveal Stand on Tunisian Question at UN
The United States planned to present its position at the United Nations Assembly's political committee on Tunisia. Philip Jessup, resigning as a Truman ambassador at large, was to state Washington's view as Arab and Asian nations pushed for a UN commission to oversee Tunisian negotiations with France. France boycotted the committee, insisting the issue is domestic. Britain pressed the competence question but offered no formal motion to end the debate.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. S
Britain
France
U. N
Philip Jessup
Truman
U. N. Assembly
Selwyn Licoyd
Frye Murder Case Sought in Harris Community
Homer Louisiana December 8 Special sheriff’s office would not confirm arrest talk in the fatal shooting of Ben F. Frye 82 merchant of Harris community found dead behind the cash register in a store. Coroner jury ruled murder by unknown assailant with a shotgun. Sheriff Brown said a group of Negroes had waited at the store earlier. Frye lived alone in the store.
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Homer
Claiborne Parish
Harris Community
Here
John Nick Brown
Only Cavewoman In Great Britain Visits U S
Britain's only cavewoman Olive Hodgkinson visits Washington praising Wookey Hole as the oldest site with Paleolithic artifacts. She showcases bones flint knives and arrowheads claiming shelter evidence from 75 000 B C and asserts her home is 600 years old.
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Great Britain
U.S
Harman W. Nichols
Washington
Olive Hodgkinson
England
5Th
New York
Britain
London
Mrs. H
Wookey Hole
Hodgkinsons
Marlies Gessler
Florida State University
America
Riots in Casablanca Claim Two Frenchmen and Mob Killings
In Casablanca Morocco a mob attacked a stone quarry killing two Frenchmen and at least twenty Moroccans. A second wave of protests near a police station led to more deaths as military forces encircled the city. The turmoil followed a CGT strike and protests against the Tunisian leader’s assassination.
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Casablanca
Morocco
UGT
Tunis
Jean de Hautecloque
Hached
French
Six Men Escape White County Jail in Searcy Arkansas
In Searcy Arkansas six inmates armed with at least one gun overpowered the jailer and a trusted guard. Identified escapees include Richard Lee Buchanan Boise Idaho Edward Lee Miller 23 of St Louis Missouri and Robert Decker 24 Kensett Arkansas. They used a broom handle to open cells and took the sheriff s gun from the downstairs office.
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Searcy
Ark
White County
Richard Lee Buchanan
Boise
Ida
Edward Lee Miller
St. Louis
Robert Decker
Kensett
Ed McCall
McCall
Horton
Top Suspect Sought In Texas Case
Houston dispatch reports Raymond Fairris 21, nephew of an infamous outlaw, named prime suspect in a Houston used car dealer holdup ten days earlier. The robbery yielded a $1000 diamond ring and $88 cash. Fabris had earlier been charged as part of the investigation.
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Houston
Raymond Fairris
Southwest
Fabris
Youngest outlaw quits hunt by surrender in Pasadena
Badman Raymond Fairris, the youngest member of a family of outlaws, ended a six day chase by walking into his attorney's office in suburban Pasadena to surrender to police. He appeared tired wet and unshaven and said he had no part in the jewelry holdup and had gone into hiding after reading he was a suspect citing rookie cup trigger happiness.
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Houston
Raymond Firris
Pasadena
Fairris
Sam Hoover
Jewel Robbery Case Ties to Paroled Kansas Inmate
The report links the $14,000 jewel robbery last Tuesday to Fatrris, a sallow-faced parolee from a Kansas reformatory, as investigators pursue leads in the case.
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Fatrris
Kansas
Good Fellows Fund Receives Notable Increase Totaling $959.50
Today the Good Fellows fund at Ouachita Parish continues to grow with numerous contributions and memorials. Donors include M. H. Kulcke 10 dollars, Faulk-Collier Bonded Warehouses 50, and several families from Bastrop Monroe Mangham and St. Louis. The total now stands at 959.50.
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M. H. Kulcke
Ouachita Parish Medical Society
Monroe Assembly Beauceant Society
Alfred Ross Brin
Ben Freeman
Faulk - Collier Bonded Warehouses, Inc
Virginia Boyd
Guy M. Boyd
Bastrop
Brigette Cy
Brehme
St. Louis
Edward M. Strong
J. W. DeMoss
Mangham
A Goodfellow
A. R. Scott
Skippy
Pamela Greene
the Good Fellows Fund
Shark Kills 17-Year-Old In Monterey Bay Attack
In Pacific Grove California a 15 foot shark fatally mauled 17 year old Berry Wilson fifty feet from shore in Monterey Bay He bled to death after severe injuries to his leg and buttocks His companion Brookner W Brady Jr 15 fought the shark with a knife as other swimmers approached and the shark retreated Marine biologists identified the shark fishermen blamed storms for driving the creature into the bay This marked a first in living memory for harm by a shark off the Northern California coast
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Pacific Grove
Calif
Berry Wilson
Monterey Bay
Wilson
Brookner W. Brady Jr
Bay
California
Planes Roar Over North Red Zone
Hundreds of Allied warplanes unleashed raids over North Korea with F86 Sabre jets shooting down a MIG 15 over Sinuiju. The day included 125 destroyed trucks, six bridges destroyed, and raids across the front. Maj. Edwin Heller and Lt. Gene Woodworth shared credit for the MIG.
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North Red Zone
Seoul
North Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Sinuiju
Sabre
Maj
Edwin Heller
Wynnewood, Pa
Gene Woodworth
St. Rockford, Tih
Marine
Republic of Korea
Red Front
Convicts Seize Prison Gates Threaten Escape
Gov Mechem ordered National Guards to seize the New Mexico State prison as armed convicts held seven guards hostage demanding freedom and safe conduct. Maj A B Martinez Jr led a 55 man detachment armed with carbines, riot injuries were reported, and negotiations through a small window continued with no progress.
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Jack Bacon
Santa FE
N. M
Edwin Mechem
New Mexico State Prison
Maj
A. B. Martinez Jr
Mechem
Phoenix
Theodore van Soelen
Morris Abram
Cotton Crop Listed
The Agriculture Department final year report estimates the 1952 cotton crop at 15,038,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, up 133,000 from last month’s estimate and below the 15,144,000 last year. Supplies are expected ample for domestic and export needs with small reserves. Census Bureau notes 13,419,943 running bales by Dec 1, up from prior years.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Condition Of E. J. Ray Improving After Hunting Accident
Twenty year old E J Ray was shot by his father in a hunting accident in LaFourche swamp Richland Parish Thelma Swilley is expecting a child Ray is a West Monroe carpenter married to Swilley He is at St Francis sanitarium with pellets entering his ear jaw and arm and a forehead wound Doctors report gradual improvement Everett Ray the father says the shooting was an accident and investigators continue the inquiry
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E. J. Ray
LaFourche
Richland Parish
Frank P. Rizzo
Ray
North Third Street
West Monroe
Rizzo
Everett Ray
Earl E. Hill
Hill
Thelma Swilley
St. Francis Sanitarium
Hotel blaze in Fort Worth kills three in boarding house fire
A three story Star Arms hotel on the south edge of Fort Worth's downtown burned after 1 am trapping about 32 people. Three deaths were confirmed including an elderly mother and a 34 year old man. 100 firefighters fought the three alarm blaze as the building was gutted leaving only walls at dawn.
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Fort Worth
Dec
Star Arms
City County
Hattie McCrosky
James Burton Shearer
Pantex
Carson County
William Airsworth
Leonard Garn
Dallas
Plans Afoot To Fire Atomic Artillery Shell
Reports from the Pentagon indicate preparations are under way for a test firing of a genuine atomic artillery shell. The Army has demonstrated the atomic cannon but not yet fired an A-shell. officials say a bona fide test may occur in spring after preparations at Nevada proving grounds.
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Washington
Pentagon
Atomic Proving Grounds
Nevada
Army
Aberdeen
Delaware
Frank F. Pace Jr
Preparationi Ag
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Haddonfield
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Frye
Mrs. Hodgkinson
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Calif. Bay
U. S. Eighth Army
Sniper Ridge
Air Force
E. L. Giles
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