American Troops Battle Red Line on Triangle Hill Crest
American forces neared the top of Red-held Triangle Hill as Chinese fire blocked progress. South Koreans withdrew at dusk after a brutal clash on nearby Sniper Ridge amid heavy artillery on Iron Horse Mountain. The Defense Department list reported 269 Korean War casualties including 71 dead and 181 wounded.
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Seoul
Barren Triangle Hill
Pike’s Peak
Milo Farnell
U. S. Seventh Division
Chun Il Kwon
ROK
U. S
Iron Horse Mountain
Washington
Defense Department
Forest Fires in Five States Lay Timber in Waste
Destructive fires raged across Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana consuming timber and challenging hundreds of firefighters. West Virginia reported nearly 300 woodland fires and flames spread northeast of Brant Lake New York along the Vermont border. Damage estimates were not yet available.
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Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Acre
West Virginia
New York
Vermont
Brant Lake
Acheson Seeks Just and Speedy Peace for Korea
Secretary of State Dean Acheson plans a lengthy address before the UN General Assembly's political committee to push for a just and speedy peace in Korea. He will reveal details of stalled truce talks and press for endorsement of armistice terms agreed at Panmunjom. Britain and allies may co sponsor the resolution backing the negotiated terms and urging Communist acceptance.
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United Nations
Dean Acheson
Korea
U. S
General Assembly
Acheson
Assembly
U. N
Pummunjom
Britain
Chest Campaign Pledges Rise Over Halfway Target
Additional pledges of 15493 were reported to Muscatine's Community Chest at a checkup meeting boosting total to 27968. This is about 53 percent of the 51840 goal. Teams have not yet filed reports, and most territories remain uncovered. Women’s division led by Mrs McPike raised 2843 of 3908, while three teams led by Mrs Foss Mrs Inley and Mrs Phillips topped their quotas.
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Muscatine
Community Chest
J. D. McPike
Paul Foss
A. E. ©Nley
Robert Phillips
William Spieth
Highway kidnapers trap 19th victim in trunk in remote Tennessee
A trio of kidnapers has abducted at least 20 people in two days from Florida to Tennessee. Lee Johnson survived five hours in a car trunk hidden in a Cumberland Plateau barn after two foxhunters heard his cries and alerted authorities. Officers have alerts from Massachusetts to Florida and from South Carolina to Indiana.
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Sparta, Tenn
Cumberland Plateau
Lee Johnson
Johnson
Spencer
Here
White County
Tenn
Herschel Meyers
Squirels
Meyer
Florida
Tennessee
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Indiana
Fleeing holdup suspect captured after car fire
In Rothbury and Whitehall Michigan a heavily armed parolee, Joseph P. Limpy Mahtan, 22, led a 90 mph chase after robbing a Rothbury supermarket. He handcuffed two officers to a police car, damaged a radio, and fled in a stolen vehicle before the engine caught fire and he surrendered.
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Whitehall
Mich
Joseph P. Limpy Mahtan
Illinois
Mahtan
Oceana County
Rothbury
Rex Pagget
Lee Cook
Joe Peterson
Joliet
Pagget
Cook
Nixon backs McCarthy on Wisconsin campaign stop
Senator Richard Nixon endorses Joe McCarthy during a Wisconsin campaign stop calling him a good friend. The event marks Nixon's first appearance in McCarthy’s home state as both pursue reelection opportunities.
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Nixon
Wisconsin
Richard Nixon
Joe McCarthy
Campaign pledges reported for Special Gifts and Classified divisions
The drive shows $8 565 raised toward a goal of $13 220 in the Special Gifts division led by George Springborn and $5 841 raised toward $12 149. In Classified, chaired by L E Satchett, pledges total $10 719 toward $22 863.
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George Springborn
L. E. Satchett
Stevenson Defends Hiss Case as New Campaign Feud Surges
Adlai Stevenson defense of Alger Hiss testifies to a fierce campaign clash with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Stevenson accuses Ike of condoning a sly anti him push while attacking Nixon over Hiss remarks. He travels to New York after Cleveland rally as Eisenhower counters with broad attacks from Buffalo to Michigan rail tour.
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Stevenson
New York State
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike
Nixon
Eisenhower
New York
Cleveland
Miracle Drugs Added to Soviet Lists of Claims
Moscow radio reported that Soviet scientists have added new remedies and drugs including penicillin streptomycin and eretrin to its lists of discoveries and inventions on the day Nobel laureate Selman Waksman received the prize for streptomycin. Diseases once untreatable are described as now curable or arrested.
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Washington
Moscow
Selman A. Waksman
Rutgers University
U S Living Cost Index Falls For First Time In Six Months
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.2 percent drop in the cost of living from Aug 15 to Sept 15 led by lower food prices 1 percent. Clothing prices rose 0.6 percent offsetting some declines as the index stands at 190.8 percent of the 1935 39 base.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Korea
BLS
Convicted Killer May File Appeal
Baltimore reports George Ed ward Grammer, convicted of murdering his wife to be with another woman, waited at the Maryland state gallows as his lawyer Anthony Federico said a probable appeal of the first degree murder conviction would be pursued. Judge Herman Moser withheld sentence pending Federico's maneuver.
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Baltimore
George Edward Grammer
Maryland State Gallows
Anthony Federico
Herman Moser
Grammer
Federico
Sparkman to Leave Hospital and Resume Campaign
Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, planned to leave the hospital today after a four day bout with laryngitis. He will resume his campaign on Monday in California.
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Washington
John Sparkman
Alabama
California
Theft of 61 fur coats reported by Iowa trucker
Roy Largent of Marshall Swift Fur Co. said 61 fur coats worth 20000 were stolen from his truck in De Kalb overnight. The loss included 35 coats owned by private individuals and 26 uninsured coats from the company inventory.
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Iowa
de Kalb
Ill
Roy Largent
Marshall Swift Fur Co
Mason City
Largent
Storm Warning Issued for South Florida Coast
A tropical hurricane crossing Cuba nears Florida as warnings spread from Vero Beach to Key West. The Miami Weather Bureau says winds of 115 to 125 mph lash Cuba and preparations in Southeastern Florida and the Bahamas intensify as the storm moves north northeast. Naval ships exit Key West and military aircraft relocate to avoid the heavy weather.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Vero Beach
Key West
Cuba
Caribbean Sea
Bahamas
Caribbean
Havana
Cienfuegos
Grady Norton
Miami Weather Bureau
Approval For Entire Wage Boost Sought
Washington AP reports the soft coal industry is appealing to President Truman and Economic Stabilizer Putnam to approve the full $1.90 daily wage hike won by John L. Lewis. The nationwide strike, now five days old, follows a Wage Stabilization Board ruling that only $1.50 could be paid to avoid harming stabilization.
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Washington
Truman
Roger Putsnam
John L. Lewis
Wage Stabilization Board
Susan Peters Dies at 31 After Battle With Paralysis
Visalia Calif Actress Susan Peters former film star who rose after a hunting accident left her paralyzed and died Thursday night in Visalia while visiting her brother The seven year fight included a 1945 hunting accident that left her wheelchair bound and a 1948 divorce from Richard Quine She is survived by an adopted son Timothy seven and her brother Robert Carnahan
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Visalia
Calif
Susan Peters
Hollywood
Susan
Robert Carnahan
Timothy
Miss Peters
Richard Quine
More Deaths in Philippine Storm Areas Reported
Manila reports at least 443 dead with 209 missing after a devastating typhoon as communications collapse in affected regions hinder casualty tallies. In Japan, 13 fishermen were found on Hokkaido with 55 missing after a Pacific gale.
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Philippine
Manila
Philippines
Tokyo
Hokkaido
Pacific
Yoshida Reappointed Prime Minister in Japan’s First House Session
The opening session of Japan’s first post peace treaty House of Representatives renamed 74 year old Shigeru Yoshida as Prime Minister. His reappointment marks a return to top political leadership after the electoral process.
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Tokyo
House of Representatives
Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
Columbus Junction Lieutenant Struck by Polio Near Baker
1st Lt. Charles R. Bright, 29, of Columbus Junction, is a polio patient at Madigan Army Hospital Tacoma after illness near Baker Oregon during a drive to Tacoma. He returned from Korea after 11 months overseas. His wife Kathryn Dwinell and four children await further word.
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Columbus Junction
Charles R. Bright
Madigan Army Hospital
Tacoma
Wash
Baker
Ore
Bright
McChord Field
Iowa Three Day Forecast Sees Warm Readings Next Few Days
The outlook shows temperatures about 6 to 8 degrees above normal with highs near 55 to 60 and lows around 34 to 38. Cooler Monday brings light rain totals of about one tenth inch or less with showers possible Monday or Wednesday, mainly in the north.
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Iowa
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New Brunswick
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Hiss
Alger Hiss
GOP
State Department
Russia
John Foster Dulles
Fisenhower
Michigan
Tom Pendergast
Alfred E. Smith
Buffalo
N. Y
White House
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Pendergast
Kansas City
Harry Truman
U.S
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Lewis
Zanesville
Oakwood
Widen
W. Va
David L. Cole
Federal Mediation Service
Cole
Harry M. Moses
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Putnam
Howard Law
Archibald Cox
Ellis Arnall
Yoshida Reelected
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