Burns Homers Crush Yanks in Opener 4-2
Dodgers beat the New York Yankees 4-2 in Game One of the 1952 World Series. Jackie Robinson Duke Snider and Pee Wee Reese homered for Brooklyn while Gil McDougald went deep for New York. Joe Black and Allie Reynolds pitched well in a duel before Snider's fifth inning homer sealed the lead.
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Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Yankees
Dodgers
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Duke Snider
Peewee Reese
Joe Black
Yanks
Gil McDougald
Black
Allie Reynolds
Rizzuto
Reese
Mantle
Rutherford
Lehman
Berra
Hodges
Collins
Furillo
Noren
Robinson
Snider
Campanella
Martin
McDougald
Pafko
Cox
Reynolds
Bauer
Reynolds Wild
Camp
Woodling
Scarborough
Truman accuses Eisenhower of turning against dams
President Truman, during a campaign tour, denounces Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for shifting from support to opposition of dam projects like Hungry Horse. He accuses the GOP nominee of adopting private power lobbyist lines and warns voters it would take a long time to see similar public works again.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Democratic Party
GOP
Columbia Falls
Mont
Kalispell
Gmnasium
Boise
Ida
Dam
Boulder Dam
Denver
Hoise
Des Moines Child Dies of Heat Stroke in Yard
Des Moines report states 3 year old Norman Oakley Jr. died after suffocating in a car parked in his yard. Dr A E Shaw Polk County Coroner ruled death due to heat stroke.
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Des Moines
Norman Oakley Jr
Norman Oakley
A. E. Shaw
Polk County
Nixon to Visit Five Iowa Cities
Republican vice presidential nominee Richard Nixon will tour five Iowa cities on October 22 with 20 minute stops in Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Ft. Dodge and a two hour 25 minute rally in Sioux City Nixon arrives in Ottumwa at 830 am Cedar Rapids at noon and Sioux City at 835 pm according to James S Schramm state chairman no extra stops planned
93 Year Old Woman Plans First Vote in November
Martinsburg West Virginia Mrs Jollie Teillard 93 whose father was Abraham Lincolns law partner will cast a vote for the first time in November and support the Republican candidate She spent the 1920s in France where women won the vote and she later lived in Washington DC before moving to Martinsburg last year to qualify for this years election.
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W. Va
Jollie Lamon Teillard
Abraham Lincoln
Reds Display Gf Body On Independence Day
A Chinese outpost on the Western Front displayed a dead American body and bright pennants in a celebration linked to Communist China's Independence Day. An Allied officer said the corpse was likely a U S patrol member killed in action days earlier on patrol near T Bone hill.
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Korea
T Bone Hill
China
Jeam
Things Look Up For Polio Stricken Nebraska Family
In Morrill Nebraska polio struck eight Rogers children with one death. Five of the survivors returned home while two still in hospital improve. Neighbors raised over 2 000 dollars alongside NFIP aid. Janet 5, Robert 7 died Sept 10. Alberta 12 Edwin 8 James 8 Beverly 3 Frances 7 months Helen 21 months also affected as progress is reported.
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Neb
Frank Rogers
Rogers
Janet
Scottsbluff
Robert Eugene
Robert
National Foundation For
Alberta
Edwin
James
Beverly
Frances
Helen
Northwestern Bell raises local phone rates in Iowa and beyond
The Federal Communications Commission will not intervene as local telephone rates increased today. In Iowa the rise affects Muscatine and 15 other Northwestern Bell exchanges including Burlington Dubuque Sioux City Davenport Hamburg Lake Park Akron Hawarden Northwood Rock Rapids Sibley Estherville and Spirit Lake along state borders Nebraska and South Dakota.
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Federal Communications Commission
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
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FCC
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Dubuque
Sioux City
Davenport
Hamburg
Lake Park
Akron
Hawarden
Northwood
Rock Rapids
Sibley
Estherville
Spirit Lake
Funeral services for George Stimpson in Anamosa
Funeral services will be held at the Anamosa Congregational church at 2 p m Thursday for George Stimpson a longtime Washington newspaper man and author.
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Anamosa
Anamosa Congregational Church
George Stimpson
Washington
McGrath Spiked Clean Up Washington Efforts Criticized
House judiciary subcommittee report portrays former Atty. Gen. J. Howard McGrath as inattentive to the Justice Department clean up mission in Washington. It cites inappropriate appointments, lack of zeal to purge wrongdoers, and poor cooperation with investigators amid the Truman administration’s reform drive.
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J. Howard McGrath
Justice Department
McGrath
Truman
House Judiciary
Newbold Morris
New York
Rep
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D-Ky
A. DeWitt Vanech
Vanech
District of Columbia
Virginia
Tennessee
Morris
Curtiss Candy Bull Named Grand Champion at Dairy Congress
Waterloo reports Curtiss Candy's Guernsey bullAbr on named grand champion at the National Dairy Cattle Congress.
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Waterloo
Curtiss Candy
Curtiss Candy Company
National Dairy Cattle Congress
Ike Accuses Demos of Ending Bipartisanship
A Brooklyn judge ruled that calling someone a Communist is not slanderous in speech, though false written accusations are libel. The AFL organizer David Keefe and his wife Mary sued neighbor Helen O’Brien for damages. Eisenhower condemned partisan politics during a Flint speech, praising bipartisan work and railing against Democratic attacks.
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New York
Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Maximilian Moss
AFL
Moss
David Keefe
AFL Office Employee International Union
Mary
Helen O’brien
State Court of Appeals
Guards Quell Anniversary Demonstration on Cheju Island
American guards fired on Chinese prisoners of war during a Cheju Island riot as celebration of the third anniversary of the Communist regime turned violent. About 45 POWs were killed and 120 injured, with two American soldiers slightly hurt.
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Cheju Island
Korea
China
Prisoner of War Command
Koje
Cheju
Pusan
Davenport Man Killed in Crash
Bettendorf scene left Richard Quick a 24 year old Davenport stock car racer dead when his new convertible struck a truck, rolled and burned. Betty Lou Ferguson 23 of LeClaire remained critically injured after being pinned under the car.
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Betty Lou Ferguson
LeClaire
Richard Quick
Quick
Bettendorf
Miss Ferguson
Wholesale Food Prices Slip for Fourth Week
New York wholesale food prices, tracked by the Dun and Bradstreet index, fell for the fourth consecutive week and reached their lowest level since the week of June 24. The index stood at 6.43, down from 6.45, and 5.3 percent below the year-ago level of 6.79.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Wilton Woman Leaves Muscatine Junior High for Korea Air Force Arts Post
Phyllis Mead, four year Muscatine junior high art teacher, accepted a one year Air Force arts and crafts supervisor role at a Korea base. She will report to Travis Air Force Base by October 10 and travel to Japan before locating in Korea. Richard Amfahr succeeds her in Muscatine, bringing a BA from Iowa State Teachers College and Army discharge.
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Wilton
Air Force Base
Korea
Muscatine
U. S. Air Force Base
Phyllis Mead
Mead
E. W. Mead
Air Force
Travis Air Force Base
California
Travis Base
Richard Amfahr
Muscatine Junior High School
Journal
Japan
United States
Miss Mead
Oelwein
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Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Muscatine Board of Educa
Richard Amphar
U. S. Air Force
Republicans back away from making CIA espionage line into campaign
GOP leaders signaled restraint on turning Gen. Walter Bedell Smith comments about Communist infiltration of the CIA into a political issue. Eisenhower was considering positioning it as campaign material but later shifted to avoiding a political football, with RNC saying no plan to escalate.
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Washington
Walter Bedell Smith
America
Smith
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
October Temperatures Projected Warmer West
The Weather Bureau outlook predicts milder October in the western half of the United States with the largest departures from normal west of the Continental Divide. Below normal temperatures expected east of the Mississippi, except near normal in Florida New England and the upper Great Lakes. Subnormal rainfall likely across most of the nation except areas east of the Appalachians and in the southwest where normal to above normal totals are forecast.
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Weather Bureau
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Mississippi
Florida
New England
Great Lakes
Appalachians
Farm Prices Dip 2 Percent as Food Costs May Drop
Washington reports a 2 percent fall in average farm prices for the month ending Sept 15 led by meat and potatoes. Prices paid by farmers fell 1 percent to 101 percent of parity, with livestock prices 15 percent lower year over year and potato prices down sharply around 50 cents per bushel. Meat and potato movements pushed the downward trend amid a record September average in 43 years.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Allies Lose 30 Planes in September Air War
The U S Air Force reports 30 Allied planes lost in September. seven shot down in air battles while Communists incur a record 62 MiG-15s destroyed. Four F-86 and three F-84 jets lost, 18 other wave planes lost to other causes. B 29 raid targets a chemical plant near the Manchurian border.
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Korea
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