Truman discusses Korea crisis with Acheson
President Truman held a long telephone talk with Secretary Acheson about the worsening Korea situation. He was deeply concerned by reports of Chinese Communist troops moving into North Korea from Manchuria, while official comments remained cautious about the development and General MacArthur’s harsh denunciation.
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Kansas City
Truman
Tate Acheson
Korea
North Korea
Manchuria
Presi 1
Douglas MacArthur
Charles G. Toss
Acheson
Yak-3 Red Planes Downed In Border Air Battle
An American fighter pilot credited with downing two Yak-3 fighters near the North Korean border. Captain Howard L Price of Braden, Fla., led the pair in a reconnaissance mission with Lt. George N. Isen and Stephan L. Reynolds. The encounter occurred east of Sinuiju, opposite Manchuria, as six Yak fighters approached from the east. Price described diving and firing on the targets, with one pilot bailing out, while Reynolds pressed another target. The mission ended with both planes destroyed or disengaged and the crew returning.
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Tokyo
Inufju
Howard L Price
Bradenwa
Fla
U. S
Fifth Airorce
Price
George N. Isen
Park Ridge
Stenry L. Reynolds
Jackson
Sinuiju
Ntung
Ollie Olsen
Anther
Election Reminders for Frederick Voters Polls Open 7 P M
Voters in Frederick Precincts 3 A and 5 and 5 A vote at specified locations The Independent Hose Company on West Church Street is not the polling site for these districts The Peoples Court room in the Court House complex serves Precincts 5 and 5 A Precinct 11 votes at Monocacy Motors 615 North Market Street not at Staley Park Other city precincts use long standing polling places Polls close at 7 P M
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Frederick
Independent Hose Company Agine House
West Church Street
Fred‘ick
Peoples Court Room
Court House
South Side
Independent Hose Company
Onocacy Motors
North Market Street
Staley Park
Pirates Call News Conference At Forbes Field
Pittsburgh Pirates scheduled a 6 p m news conference at Forbes Field amid speculation that Branch Rickey may join the Pirates organization. John Galbreath and Roy Hamey told staff to assemble photographers, offering no details on other attendees. Rickey, a legendary baseball executive, recently left the Brooklyn Dodgers after his contract expired.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Pirates
Forbes
Branch Rickey
Pirate
John Galbreath
Pirates
Roy Hamey
Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
Missing in Korea Action Pfc Luby Reported
Pfc Harvey E Luby 19 son of Webster Luby 13 East Sixth street is missing in action in Korea. Telegram from the War Department states he has been missing since July 26. Last word June 22 letter from APO San Francisco says he left the states May 24 from Seattle and arrived in Korea. He enlisted June 1948 after Lincoln High School graduation. He worked part time at Frederick Memorial Hospital. He is the third Frederick county resident reported missing in Korea, after Charles R Roberts and Norman R Thompson.
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Harvey E. Luby
Webster Luby
East Sixth Street
Korea
War Department
Luby
Elizabeth Luby
APO
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington
Army
Lincoln High School
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
Charles R. Roberts
Frederick
Norman R. Thompson
Beauty Fight Closes Meigs County Schools
A local dispute over a high school beauty queen led to the temporary closure of Meigs County schools in Decatur Tennessee. State officials warned loss of funds if the quarrel continued, as administrators shuffled staff and accused grounds of irregular accounting while election politics stirred in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Culvahouse
Powell
Culvahouse
Dudley Culvahouse
Culva
Walter White
Mary Shadow
Miss Shadow
Tennessee
White
Deeds Recorded For Two City Properties Sale
Deeds were recorded in the clerk s office reporting two property transfers. Mr and Mrs W Sheridan Brentlinger sold to Mr and Mrs Kenneth N Ports a property at 18 East Fourth Street for about 4000 dollars. Walter J Powell G Wilson Mercer and A Owen Mercer sold to Mr and Mrs A Dewey Wisner a property at 11 North Wisner Street for about 3500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Sheridan Brentlinger
Kenneth N. Ports
East Fourth Street
Walter J. Powell
G. Wilson Mercer
A. Owen Mercer
A. Dewey Wisner
North Wisner O Street
Heavy Vote Expected Tomorrow in County Election
Widespread interest in state and county candidates and referendums may push turnout to 70 percent or more across 60 polling places tomorrow. Democrats expect at least 70 percent of 14 141 registered. GOP at 11 126 and 193 independents. Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Weather predicts sun and wind. banks and offices close for holiday. parking meters inactive. liquor sales restricted until one hour after polls close at 4 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Election Supervisors
G. Cleveland Trout
Shub Fails to Get Immediate Hearing on Ballot Ouster
Washington Nov 6 Louis Shub Progressive Party candidate for Maryland governor remains barred from the ballot for refusing a loyalty affidavit under the Ober law. The Supreme Court denied his bid for speedy reconsideration in a 6 to 3 order without comment, after a prior October ruling upheld the loyalty oath requirement.
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Washington
Louis Shub
Progressive Party
Maryland
Supreme Court
Shub
Baltimore
Maryland Court of Appeals
Vinson
Black
Douglas
Identical Hats At Washington Cocktail Party
Mrs Mesta U S Ambassador to Luxembourg and Madame Bonnet wife of the French ambassador wore matching elephant gray hats with shell pearls and sequin dotted veils at a Washington cocktail gathering yesterday. They spoke briefly during the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Perle Mesta
Madame Bonnet
Mesta
U. S
Luxembourg
Communist Buildup Report From Moscow and Mukden
Pravda cites Lt Gen Walton Walker asking for more American reinforcements as Eighth Army fights to hold a stubborn line in Korea. Dispatches claim U S forces cling to creeks and hills while a surge of Communist Chinese aid appeals rise from Mukden amid frontier clashes and Chinese anger at U S actions.
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Moscow
PIA Pravda
Walton Walker
Eighth Army
America
Walker
Communist Party
VU. S
China
Belgium Arms Sold to Mao Tse-Tung
Brussels based La Cite claims Belgium exported large quantities of automatic weapons and cartridges to Communist China from 1948 to 1950. The front page report cites official foreign trade data showing millions of dollars in arms shipments, asserting substantial weapons flows to the Chinese mainland through September 1959, and linking Belgian arms to Chinese Communist forces and Korea volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
la Cite
Belgium
China
Ung
Foreign Trade Official Bulletin
Bulletin
Korea
America
Maco Tse-Tung
Stock Prices Fall On War News From Korea
New York November 8 stock prices sank quickly at the opening amid war news and reports of Chinese Communist forces fighting UN troops in Korea. Large blocks of shares sold at losses up to more than four dollars per share. Notable decliners included Chrysler Jones Laughlin Sinclair Bethlehem Steel US Steel General Motors American Telephone Radio Boeing and Republic Steel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
MacArthur
North Korea
United Nations
U. N
Korea
Chrysler
Jones & Laughlin
Sinclair Oil
Bethlehem Steel
U. S. Steel
General Motors
American Telephone
Radio Corp
Republic Steel
Goodrich
J. I. Case
Boeing Aircraft
U S Steel and Union Enter Final Wage Talks
In Pittsburgh on November 6 the United Steel Workers CSO and U S Steel enter what may be the final wage negotiation round for the companys 135 000 production and maintenance employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corporation
United Steel Workers Union
CSO
Condition of Streams Muddy at Frederick and Clear at Point of Rocks
The report notes the Monneacy river mucky near Frederick while the Potomac remains clear at Point of Rocks. Vague fragmentary text follows, not providing usable details.
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Frederick
Potomac
Mrs Rhee Receives Winter Underwear Gift
Mrs Syngman Rhee, wife of the Korean president, had faced loss when communist troops seized her winter underwear in Seon. A Middletown New York package arrived with a letter from Warren J. Green of Green's department store offering three sets of warm underwear in her size. She shyly nodded, asking if the items fit.
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Syngman Rhee
Seon
Middletown
N.Y
Warren J. Green
Green's Department Store
First Ice Of Season Forms In Frederick Area
The first ice of the season formed last night as Frederick experienced a sharp drop to 27 degrees in Unionville and frost touched low-lying areas. Frost was light in the mountains. an eighth inch of ice noted at a city property. Overnight winds and a cooling trend shaved roughly 50 degrees in three days with 30s to 40s forecast. Snowy, frosty scenes damaged blooms while forecasts called for gradual warming and fair seasonal temperatures by midweek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Unionville
Taft Says Truman Has Lost The Peace
Senator Robert A. Taft charges the Truman administration has lost the peace after the war victory. Taft, campaigning for a third Senate term, denounced the President for high taxes and prices and accused him of omitting critical foreign policy concerns. He claimed the administration helped build up Russia, turning it into a threat to U.S. security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Truman
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
St. Louis
Taft
Senate
Joseph T. Ferguson
Sen. Taft
Russia
Massive Communist Force Reported Near Korea Front
General MacArthur advised the United Nations that Chinese Communist forces are massed along the Manchurian border and active in Korea. He warned of a massing of divisions behind Manchuria and said allied intelligence estimates up to 300,000 to 1,000,000 Red troops could threaten the region as clashes continue near Pyongyang and the Yalu.
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Seoul
MacArthur
United Nations Security Ceunei T Aday
Karen
United Nations
MaeArthur
Lake Success
U.S
Warren RR. Austin
Korea
U. N
Manchurian
Red Ching
Kansas City
Rhe Man
Sedas
Asain Agame Dete bin Feltine
Chongelore
Ding Jess Han
Pyongyan
Ani America
No Religious Rites For Late G. B. Shaw
George Bernard Shaw will be cremated today with only a few friends and servants present. There will be no religious service and the ashes of Shaw and his wife Charlotte will rest together until a decision is made. There is a possibility his remains may lie in Westminster Abbey's poets corner.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Charlotte
Shaw
Westminster Abbey
England
Markets Close Tuesday for Election Day in New York
New York reports financial and commodity markets nationwide are closed on Tuesday November 7 for Election Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Pari-Mutuels Could Be Set Up Anywhere In County
Foes say the pari mutuel harness racing bill removes Frederick County from a ban list and grants blanket authority for races. It could be run by the agricultural society or others, at the Fair Grounds or a new track, with dates possibly secured by parties other than the society under state Racing Commission regulation.
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Frederick Fair Grounds
Frederick County
Agriculttural Society
Frederick
The
Racing Commission
U S Pilots Reported Attacked by MiG-15 Jet
Four U S pilots said a Russian built MiG-15 from a Manchurian base crossed the Yalu at Antung and attacked their Mustang formation over North Korea. The encounter marks the first clear crossing by MIG-15s this afternoon, with fifteen seen over North Korea recently.
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U.S
Fifth Air Force
Korea
U. S
Air Force
Antung
Sinpiju
North Korea
Drunken Driver Fined in Frederick Court Session
A construction worker pleaded guilty to drunken driving and was jailed for sixty days when unable to pay a $200.75 fine and costs set by Magistrate Mattel M. Weinberg in Peoples Court. The morning docket included an assault and battery case involving two Frederick men, with William Lane receiving a one year suspended sentence. Other youths from Baltimore and suspects from Rockville and Bethesda faced suspended sentences. collateral forfeitures were issued for traffic violations.
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Frederick-Washington
Roger J. Dixon
Greensboro
N. C
Drontken
Oficer
Richard A. Myers
Lime Kiln
Buckeystown
Dixon
Myers
Lane
Arthur V. Ford
Baltimore
Iiamsville
Gilbert A. Winsor
Charles Crouse
James Williams
Donald A. Tucker
James ©. Hahn
Route 40
Frederick
Clarence E. Compher
Point of Rocks
Frank L. Heller
Silver Spring
Heller
Emanuel Dortsey
Rockville
Chester West
Bethesda
Reginald M. Winpigler
Catoctin Avenue
Hanford R. Thomas
Emanuel C. Ries
Carrol
Special Report on Korean War Intervention Charges
Lake Success November 6 United States calls for a UN Security Council meeting to consider intervention in Korea. Douglas MacArthur reports Chinese Communist forces fighting UN troops and urges action to destroy Peiping troops in Korea. Officials warn of potential escalation and possible broader conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Command
U.N
Red Peiping
Korea
MacArthur
U. N
Manchuria
Austin
Peiping
Frederick Junior Chamber Leads Get Out Vote Drive
The Frederick Junior Chamber of Commerce plans to distribute 10 000 hand bills tonight door to door urging a vote on election day. Scouts Optimist Boys Club Y M C A and Jaycees will cover city sections with supervision by Donald Simpson James Hane John D Shorrow William Drews and others. An additional 8000 hand bills have been circulated by grocers and retailers Kent Nicodemus Jr led this effort. General chairman Nevin S Baker with aides Joseph Lebsherz Sam Maples Jr and Dr Edwin Sponseller also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
James Hane
Optimist Boys Club
John D. Shorrow
Jayceeés
William Drews
Kent Nicodemus, Jr
Jaycees
Hallowe'en
Nevin S. Baker
Joseph L. Lebsherz
Sam W. Maples, Jr
Edwin H. Sponseller
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Korean
Reynolds
Olie
Harge
Rangoon
Burma
PA Social Tribunal
J. Gordon S. Seagrave
Pfc
Lincoln High
Mao Tse-Tung
Mrs. Rhee
G. B. Shaw
Chamonix
France
Air India
Mont Blanc
Pbows
Sharan
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