No Deal Ike Denies Coddling Communists in Campaign Tour
Eisenhower repeated he remains a no deal candidate amid Morse’s withdrawal and accusations of fear tactics. He spoke to 4,000 in Manchester New Hampshire and Nashua pledging jobs and fair wages, while Truman denounced GOP anti communism rhetoric in Jersey City and Newark saying the administration fights communism at home and abroad.
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Truman
New England
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GOP
Manchester
N. H
Wayne Morse
R-Ore
Nashua
Eisenhower
Republican High Command
Five Day Forecast Warm Trend With Brief Cooldown
The forecast shows temperatures averaging 2 to 5 degrees above normal with a warming trend into Wednesday and a slight cooldown by Friday. It then warms again by Sunday. Precipitation remains light, under one tenth of an inch, with showers mainly in the northeast portion around Friday. Normal highs are 55 north and 60 south, and lows 34 north and 38 south.
President Truman Denies Distortion On Eisenhower Remarks
President Truman defends his charges against General Eisenhower as not anti Catholic or anti Jewish. He accuses Republican leaders of deliberately distorting his statement ahead of his campaign tour for Adlai Stevenson. Eisenhower counters that GOP attacks reveal a weak record and cites support from Cardinal Spellman Rabbi Silver and Bernard Baruch.
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Truman
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Ilinois
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New England
McCarran
Congress
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Rabbi Silver
Bernard Baruch
Liquor Industry Gifts Tied to Easing Probe Indirect Donations Cited
A House judiciary subcommittee reported possible ties between liquor industry political gifts and the reduced intensity of a 1949 antitrust probe. The panel stressed the evidence is not conclusive and noted gifts were made by associates, not the companies themselves, seen by some as necessary business expenses.
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House Judiciary
Justice Department
Sparkman Enters Naval Hospital for Laryngitis
Sen. John J. Sparkman Democratic vice presidential nominee entered Bethesda Naval Hospital today for treatment of laryngitis and a mild respiratory condition. He was scheduled to depart on a campaign trip to the South and is expected to remain in the hospital for several days.
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John J. Sparkman
Sparkman
South
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Miners Idle Grow as Industry Urges Lewis to Act
The soft coal strike widens with 115000 UMW members idle in West Virginia and 86500 of 92500 in Pennsylvania out. Bethlehem, Grundy violence reported. railroads cut jobs as unions weigh next steps after Wage Stabilization Board cut.
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United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Moses
Harry M. Moses
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Lewis
Wage Stabilization Board
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Pennsylvania
UMW
Grundy
Ishmael Fletcher
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railway
Washington
WSB
Little Change In Retail Food Prices Expected
The Agriculture Department forecasts retail food prices to be about the same in 1953 as 1952 with modest rises in civilian purchases of beef veal chicken margarine frozen fruits juices and vegetables. Reductions in pork eggs turkey and butter purchases will offset gains while meat and produce output may rise if weather normalizes. Military food buying unlikely to shift unless the international situation changes greatly and export food shipments should fall as wheat crops improve abroad and dollar exchange tightens.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Community Chest Campaign Seeks Movement On Line of Peonies
Muscatine launches its annual Community Chest drive with a visual line of little people across the page. The leftmost house marks a $51,840 goal for Chest agencies in 1953, with pledged sums shortening the waiting line. First tabulation expected tonight.
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Muscatine
Red Feather
Need More Men for Decision In Korea Says Naval Chief
Secretary of the Navy Kimball urged greater armed forces to force a decision in Korea. He warned the Allies must plan next steps if Communists refuse peace and did not specify how long to wait. Army rejected claims of outmoded weapons for Korean GI, calling such notes conjecture and affirming soldiers carry the most modern arms.
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U. S
Garett Underhill
Army
Ronald Schiller
Look Magazine
Ward H. Maris
Underhill
Schiller
Maris
Hiss Faces Parole Eligibility Amid Campaign
Alger Hiss, once a State Department official, becomes eligible for parole November 21 but has not filed any application. He is serving a five year term for perjury in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. If he continues earning time off, full release could occur on November 27, 1954, though no hearing is planned before the November 4 election.
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Washington
Alger Hiss
U. S. Parole Board
State Department
Lewisburg
Hiss
Parole Board
Reds Renew Their Drive On Ridge In Chinese Assault
In heavy rain 1,500 Chinese Reds attacked Sniper Ridge under artillery and mortar fire. South Koreans repelled them with rifle and artillery fire as darkness and overcast limited visibility. Nearby Triangle Hill saw US Seventh Division units poised for action while Iron Horse Mountain battles continued. Communist casualties for October exceed 25,000 with 7,500 killed or wounded in the first week of Triangle Hill fighting.
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Twins Hit by Tractor Accident at UCLA Homecoming Parade
Identical twins Charlotte and Georgia Steeves, 22, suffered left elbow fractures when an earth-moving tractor they were decorating for the University of California at Los Angeles homecoming parade lurches into gear and tossed them eight feet to the ground. Both sisters wear identical casts and reflect on their shared misfortune.
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Calif
Charlotte
Georgia Steeves
University of California At
Explosive Fire Destroys Garage and Warehouse at Bluffs
A half million dollar blaze destroyed a furniture warehouse and an adjacent Blue Star Foods garage in Council Bluffs. A 5,000 gallon gas tank exploded, sending flames 150 feet into the air and injuring two firemen. Losses cover garage valued at 75,000 and warehouse stock over 350,000 with total estimated damage at least 500,000. Fire crews from Omaha aided, preventing spread to nearby coal yard and plastic container plant.
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Blue Star Foods, Inc
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Darrel McTwiggan
Walter Williams
Carl Huber
Blue Star
Omaha
Omaha Fire Company
Clyde Dunn
Howard Manufacturing Co
Chicago and Great Western
Burlington
Rock Island
State school aid shortfall limits 12 million fund
Des Moines reports 12 million dollars yearly general aid for public schools fell about two million short of claims for the last year. The department certified 4,606 claims totaling 13,903,710 dollars to the state comptroller. Funds will be prorated at 86 cents per dollar, with two to three weeks to distribute. Polk County leads in claims. Adams County smallest. Additional aid includes 3 million for bus costs and 2 million for needy supplemental aid.
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Des Moines
State Department of Public Instruction
Comptroller’s
Polk County
Adams County
Truck Crash Ends Bid to Remove Traffic Hazard Building
A truck carrying an 18 ton U S Army tank crashed into a building when brakes failed. The impact demolished the structure and halted a local petition campaign by residents seeking removal of the building as a traffic hazard.
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Tokyo
Bandits terrorize Cedar Falls family in $480 heist
Four people, including 82 year old Del Leversee, his nephew Robert Haman, and Haman’s wife, were terrorized by three masked attackers at a Cedar Falls area farm. The intruders locked them in a closet, ripped apart rooms, and fled with $480 after finding only $400 in a wall safe. Clarence Leversee, who had a heart attack, was struck and later hospitalized.
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del Leversee
Robert Haman
Haman
Leversee
Clarence
Clarence Leversee
Auto Plunges Down Bank Killing Two Sisters
Two elderly women died when a car left U S Route 6 near Galeton Pennsylvania and fell 50 feet down an embankment. The driver, believed to be the husband of one victim, was seriously injured with a leg fracture and internal injuries. The two sisters and their male relative were en route home after visiting relatives in New York. The Hoffman car crashed after failing to negotiate a curve.
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Here
Roy E. Hoffman
Berna Holdeman
40Th Street
Rock Island
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Miss Holdeman
Alice Bleuer
Bestal
N. Y
E. W. Burr
West Liberty
Claude Bowman
Moline
E. M. Case
Des Moines
B. Kirchner
Riverside
Harley Holdeman
Letts
Perry
Iowa City
Vernon
Leslie
Los Angeles
Kenneth
Orlando
Davenport Man Killed in Illinois Collision
Effingham Illinois reports Omer EB William aged 48 from Davenport Illinois died when his car rear ended another vehicle, veered into a ditch and struck a bridge abutment near Casey Illinois on Monday. State police said no other injuries occurred.
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Effingham
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Omer EB William
Ila
Casey
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