FBI Joins Search For Tupelo Hoods
Tupelo Mississippi the FBI joined city officials in investigating the assault and threats against Apes newspaperman Newell Anderson 27 who fled with his pregnant wife to North Dakota after masked men slashed him with a razor and warned him to leave town Mayor George Maynard said the motive remains unclear and police will pursue the case as a possible civil rights violation with continued inquiry into the attacks on Anderson and his car windshield.
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Tupelo
Miss
FBI
Newell Anderson
North Dakota
Vankleac
Micheiini
MAE Bhrd
Apra Dere PY
Alfred I. Means
Memphis, Tenn
Anderson
George Maynard
Anthere
Maynard
Tupelo Daily Journal
South
Andersons
Largo
WN. D
D. B. Crockett
Dying Woman Dropped At Hospital Bench in San Antonio
A 58 year old housekeeper spent five days on a hospital bench at Rupert B Green in San Antonio before being placed in a nursing home for advanced breast cancer. Her employer claimed arrangements were made but family offered no help and welfare bureaus had no funds.
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San Antonio
Rupert B. Green Hospital
Charles Whestler
Wheatley
Alamo Heights
Family Welfare Bureau
Milk truck crash claims Lamesa man life
John Curtis Pryor, 37, of Lamesa was killed near the city last night when a tire blew on the milk truck he drove. The vehicle overturned and Pryor was pinned beneath it.
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Lamesa
John Curtis Pryor
Here
Truman Deliberates Lucrative Post White House Offers
Washington November 13 President Truman faces multiple lucrative job offers after leaving the White House January 20 He may delay any decision for months and plans to return to Independence Missouri for a few months first White House aides report the highest salary offer cited was 250000 annually from the Garland Texas based Resistor Hat Co for a VP road sales post Other offers reportedly come from newspaper publishers and syndicates for memoirs or a syndicated column
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Washington
Truman
White House
Roger Tubby
Mr. Trumen
Independence
Resistor Hat Co
Garland, Tex
Harry Rolnick
Koreans Used By Communists In Fierce Sniper Ridge Battle
United Nations reports say Chinese Red forces, possibly 1000 strong, seized Pinpoint Hill on Sniper Ridge in a night assault during a 31 day Kumhwa Heights battle. South Korean infantrymen retook some ground but Reds remained entrenched in tunnels and caves. American planes bombed, using incendiaries on the Sniper Ridge Triangle Hill sector.
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Seoul
Sniper Ridge
John Randolph
Lallied
Pinpoint Hill
Pinpoint
United Nations
Kumhwa Tidges
Republican of Korea
ROK
U. S
Triangle Hill
Gas shell report sparks fresh Korea frontline probe
South Korean troops on Sniper Ridge say Chinese artillery fumes caused breathing trouble but US officers caution there is no confirmation. A US chemical warfare team rushed to the front, survivors sent to medical centers, and officials note past misidentifications of gas or fumes in Korea.
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Central Front
Korea
ROK
U. S
Peeks at Own Trap Leads to Shooting in Houston Cabin
A 30 year old unemployed painter, Fred Oliver Valentine, was shot by detectives after he planned to trap his wife with another man in a tourist cabin. The incident involved Magdalene Valentine and amateur detective Charles William Thomas, who allegedly agreed to be the other man to gain custody of their 19 month old son.
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Houston
Fred Oliver Valentine
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Magdalene Valentine
Galveston
Charles William Thomas
Valentine
Thomas
Mrs. Valentine
Provoo Treason Trial Hearings On Japanese Supremacy Claim
Witnesses at the treason trial of John David Provoo testified that the former Army sergeant said the Japanese were a superior race and that he hoped they would win World War II. An officer imprisoned by the Japanese on Corregidor in 1942 added detail to the government’s portrayal of Provoo as a traitor who served the Japanese. Dr. Edward S. Kago of New Orleans, a medical corps first lieutenant, quoted Provoo saying Americans would deserve the fate of slaves to a superior Japanese race.
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New York
John David Provoo
Provoo
U.S
Edward S. Kago
New Orleans
Medical Corps
Descriptions of Hydrogen Bomb Explosions Reach Readers
A Navy lieutenant and Seaman Andrew I. Butters report witnessing a hydrogen bomb blast in the Pacific, describing a brilliant white red and gold fireball seen from ships about 30 miles away. The letters claim the event as the world's greatest manmade explosion and include vivid first person details.
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United Press
Fort Dodge
Pacific
I. L. Butters
Andrew I. Butters
Butters
U.S.S. Rendo
Woman Testifies Against Father in Murder Trial
In Houston a 5 year old painter received a five year sentence after his daughter testified against him for the fatal shooting of her ex husband Wallace Crowder. Crowder, 33, was shot August 17 in the front yard. Crumpton, 5, testified he began firing after being struck with a chain.
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Houston
John Hartford Crumpton
Crumpton
Wallace H. Crowder
Bond
Texas Final Vote Totals Show Eisenhower Victory
The Texas Election Bureau reports 2 073 041 Texans voted in the November 4 presidential election. Eisenhower 1 103 807 votes to Stevenson 965 328 with other party tallies for senator governor and amendments. Prohibition Progressive Christian Nationalist and Constitutional party results listed.
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Dallas
Texas
Texas Election Bureau
Dwight D. Hissenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Eisenhower
Daniel
Shivers
Hamblen
Chick Fair Faces Repeated Arrests Amid Odessa Auction Sale
Odessa jeweler Chick Fair, owner of the Diamond Shop at 202 North Grant, faces a second arrest in two days over auction sales. He remains confident in continuing auctions for two weeks, stating he will post bonds and invoke his constitutional rights.
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Chick Fair
Odessa
North
Grant
Fair
Walter Acreman
French Thai Forces Repulse Indochina Attacks Near Lai Chau
French and Thai troops beat back Vietminh assaults 30 miles northeast of Lai Chau, with 50 enemy troops killed. Vietminh used one to three battalions to storm Pou San Kap posts, but suffered heavy losses under air attacks. This marked a major Vietminh push from the northeast toward Thai centers during their southern offensive.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Tro Epcts
Wai
Lai Chau Teas
Pou San Kap
Ttem
Black River
New Method Uses AC Outlet to Restart Failing Hearts
Harvard physician Dr. Paul Zoll unveils a thyraton stimulator device that plugs into a standard AC outlet to drive heartbeats via chest-placed hypodermic needles. In tests two patients survived, one beating for five days with external impulses before resuming its own rhythm.
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Cambridge
Mass
New England Journal of Medicine
Journal of Medicine
Paul M. Zoll
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Hospital
Critically Burned WACO Man After Stove Explosion
Waco Texas November 13 W Frank Cobb 77 remained in critical condition last night after his clothing burst into flames when a kerosene stove exploded. He was attending a residence in the city at the time of the incident.
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Waco
W. Frank Cobb
County Sets $750,000 Hospital Bond Election Date
County commissioners scheduled a December 6 bond election for 750000 to fund a hospital expansion doubling capacity from 100 to 200 beds and add remodeling. A prior plan also calls for a 250000 road bond on December 6 to widen Dixie Boulevard and Kennedy Drive and pave N Golder Street along South Side Community Center.
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County Commissioners’ Court
S. Dixie Blvd
Murphy
Kennedy Drive
Crane. Hwy
Dixie
Kennedy
South Side
N. Golder
Oleo Heir Jelke Faces New Vice Trial in Manhattan
Cafe Society inherits fresh jitters as Minot F. Mickey Jelke is due in court Monday on charges tied to a lush call girl service. Prosecutors promise broader vice probes, implicating cafe society figures alongside Ray Davioni and Miles Leslie in alleged prostitution profits.
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New York
Up—Cafe Society
Oleo
Minot F
Mickey Jelke
Manhattan
East Side
Odessa Woman 19 Seriously Burned in Gas Explosion
A 19 year old Odessa woman Franca Robinson suffered serious burns when a gas explosion ripped through a rear dual apartment at 814 East 14th. She was taken to Medical Center Hospital by neighbor Mrs. Henry G. Peevy and listed in serious but not critical condition. No one else was injured. Firemen found the gas hose to heating stoves disconnected. The victim was wearing a blouse and blue jeans and was barefooted. She had recently quit a jewelry store job and was living with Dena Perry. Owner of the building is Jim Odom.
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Odessa
Franca Robinson
E. 14Th
Medical Center Hospital
Henry G. Peevy
Miss Robinson
Dena Perry
A. Wesolowsky
Ute
Jim Odom
Hiss Parole Decision Delayed At Northeastern Penitentiary
Dr. George G. Killinger head of the U S Parole Board conducted interviews at the Northeastern Penitentiary with limited expectation of addressing Alger Hiss today. Hiss remains eligible for parole November 21 after serving one third of a five year term for perjury.
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Lewisburg
George G. Killinger
U. S. Parole Board
Northeastern
Alger Hiss
Killinger
Hiss
Mother Charged In Family Poisoning Had Dizzy Spells
Sweetwater reports Nicole Gunn a 24 year old Colorado City mother told Abilene Reporter News she suffers dizzy spells since childhood and admits to poisoning her infant son Thomas Marion with arsenic laced tea after her husband Earl Gunn and another child fell ill. The death followed Oct. 5 in Nolan County.
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Sweetwater
O’levin E. Gunn
Colorado City
H. Don Rodgers
Abilene
Nolan County
Thomas Marion
Mrs. Gunn
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Denver
Leo Ruybal
Garcia
Dean Conger
Denver Post
Letton Hospital
Chemical Warfare
Stevenson
Chick
District Attorney’s Office
Peter Gervais
Cafe Society
Jelke
Trice
Martin Benjamin
Ane Ithony J. Liebler
Ray Davioni
Miles Leslie
Vice
Jeske
Leslie
Kathleen
Davioni
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