Massive Pacific War Games Underway Off California Coast
Off the California coast 120 warships and more than 50 000 sailors Marines and soldiers participate in Operation Miki the first postwar amphibious exercise simulating an invasion of the Hawaiian Islands command under Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan. The exercise involves submarines carriers transports and fort Worth Fort Meade Fort Hamilton and other bases as two sides rehearse an assault and counterattacks.
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INS
California
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiians
Gerald F. Bogan
Korea
Fort Lewis
Washington
Marine Corps
Pacific Fleet
OTHR
Fort Worden
Wash
Fort Meade
Aberdeen
Denver
Fort Bragg
N. C
Uncle Sam
Youth Is Seriously Hurt In Motorscooter Mishap
Richard Gullick, 16, of 429 North 30th Avenue, was severely hurt last night in a motorscooter accident when a lit unlighted trailer parked by Ellis Watson halted him on Lateral 26 near Buckeye Road. Gullick suffered a basal skull fracture and other injuries. he improved today at St. Monica's Hospital.
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Richard Gullick
North 30Th Avenue
St. Monica’s Hospital
Arch Gullick
Buckeye Road
Ellis Watson
Tolleson
Watson
Ralph Jack Dizney
North 16Th Street
Strikers Threaten To Soar Past Million
The Associated Press reports labor unrest pushing total idle workers past one million as coal and steel strikes widen. CIO United Steelworkers set a 12:01 am Monday walkout at nine Alcoa plants, threatening 50 percent production loss, while other fabricators join the stoppage amid pension dispute. Negotiations stall. government mediators seek talks as coal talks resume next week.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations United Steelworkers
Aluminum Company of America
Alcoa
CIO United Steelworkers
AFL
CIO
Philip Murray
John L. Lewis
Northern and Western
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Southern
Bluefield
Murray
William Green
Lewis
United Labor
Green
Three Men Arrested in Phoenix Purse Snatching
Three men aged 19, 26, and 30 were arrested by police over a purse snatching on Second Avenue and McKinley Street that targeted Pho enix school teacher Mary D. Cleaton of Grant School. Detectives Lehman and Fairbanks traced the recovered items, including a key and lighter, to the 26 year old suspect. The victim, walking with Margaret Hutchinson, lost a billfold in the struggle when the strap broke as the robbers fled, and all three suspects are jailed awaiting charges.
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Second Avenue
McKinley Street
Phoenix
Virgil Lehman
Arthur Fairbanks
Mary D. Cleaton
West Portland Street
Grant School
Margaret Hutchinson
North Fifth Avenue
Miss Cleaton
Central Avenue
Jefferson Street
Rail Workers Seek To Curb Train Length
Cleveland October 15 AP The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen plans a national campaign to limit freight trains to 70 cars and caboose and passenger trains to 14 cars. Trainmen News says the drive will target long unsafe trains on two fronts legislative and economic. The effort follows a recent meeting of the brotherhoods general chairmen and state legislative reps.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Nace
Trainmen News
Rail Union
Brotherhood
Strange Sights At Country Club Golf Course
A croquet game on the fourth green reveals Bill Saufley’s half circle putter, approved by PGA specs as a legitimate club though it looks odd. On campus, a decapitated college bear Bumstead guards the quad, neck spikes exposed, while at the Gilded Cage two businessmen watch a floor show and drift to sleep between acts.
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Country Club
Bill Saufley
P.G.A
Phoenix College
Bumstead
Bumsteed
Hemingway
General Collins Halts Far East Tour to Testify in Unification Dispute
General J Lawton Collins plans to rush back to Washington immediately to testify on Army unification claims before the House Armed Services Committee. He arrived in Japan for a three week Far East inspection and will join Eisenhower and Bradley in hearings regarding Navy charges during the unification debate.
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Tokyo
Japan
J. Lawton Collins
United States Army
Far East
Washington
Collins
Tracy S. Voorhees
THF
Army
Air Force
House Armed Services Committee
Navy
Chitose
Negative Blood Test Ends Adoption Hope for Boy
In Ann Arbor six year old Tommy O Neill, a Michigan Children's Institute ward, is not the missing Ronnie Thompson after blood tests in Michigan show he is not the Thompsons child. His foster family searched five years for Ronnie as doctors called the MN test conclusive and more than 300 tests were run.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Tommy O'Neill
Michigan Children’s Institute
Tommy
Arthur Thompson
Dayton
Ohio
Ronald
Clarence Ramsey
Institute
State of
Michigan
Ramsey
Thompsons
Charles Cotterman
University of Michigan
Three Story Fallen Fight Kills Woman in Anderson Hotel
In Anderson Indiana a third story hotel window fall during a fight between Mrs Sybile Shields and Mrs Joan Williams left Shields dead at 47 and Williams seriously injured but expected to live. The dispute began when Williams accused Shields son of stealing a dollar. Witnesses placed them at the hotel near Stevenson.
Quake Prompts Islanders to Move to Mainland
In Queen Charlotte Islands off British Columbia, families fled to the mainland amid a swarm of minor earthquakes since August. About 125 temblors have rattled the region, with Masset reporting ground subsidence up to six inches and fishermen noting new islands appearing while others vanish.
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Queen Charlotte City
B. C
Queen Charlotte Islands
British Columbia
Canada
Pacific Seaboard
Masset
Test Base Planned for Supersonic Research Center
Lewis E. Haas, Phoenix Chamber of Commerce manager, notes a congressional bill authorizing 100 million dollars to start work on a center to test supersonic aircraft and instruments. It would mirror Wright Field in Dayton and be used by private industry for similar experiments. Governor Garvey meets with undisclosed technicians to discuss the project.
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Lewis E. Haas
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Garvey
Nehru Begins Transcontinental U.S. and Canada Tour
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was to depart Washington to launch a cross continental tour of the United States and Canada. The trip marks a major diplomatic outreach during his visit.
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Washington
INS
Jawaharlal Nehru
India
United States
Canada
Smuts Ousted As Army Chief In South Africa
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, 79, announced he had been dismissed as commander in chief of the South African armed forces, a role he has held since 1940. He said the notice came in a letter from defense minister F. C. Erasmus amid Malan’s National Party government after last year’s elections.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Jan Christian Smuts
F. C. Erasmus
National Party
D. ™. Malan
Smuts
United Party
Malan
Miner Faces Murder Trial
Prescott report says Claude Eckel, 63, bound over to superior court on a first degree murder charge for the shooting of Jack Falk, 58, a fellow miner. Falk had lived at Eckel's Congress area home for eight months. Eckel's housekeeper testified that he had asked her to kill Falk.
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Prescott
Claude Eckel
Superior Court
Jack Falk
Falk
Eckel
Congress
Vivian Wilson
Bulleros to Meet for Legion Auxiliary Roundup
The Bulleros male auxiliary to Hazel Morton Post 43 American Legion will gather at 7 p m Friday at the American Legion Home 346 North Seventh Avenue. The group aims to raise funds to buy shoes for needy children with dinner and a program. Norman A Bennett of Wickenburg will preside and conduct officer elections. wives may attend.
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Bulleros
Hazel Morton
American Legion
North Seventh Avenue
Bullero
Norman A. Bennett
Wickenburg
Matador
Jobless Pay Claims Jump Amid Steel and Coal Strikes
Washington October 15 AP claims for jobless pay rose sharply last week by 63000 to 309000 as secondary unemployment hit plants hampered by steel and coal shortages. Pennsylvania led with 8700 claims. 19 states cited steel and 12 coal disputes. Continuing claims declined to the lowest since February.
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Washington
Bureau of Unemployment Security
Robert C. Goodwin
Goodwin
Maine
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
CIO
Bureau
East German leaders pledge to Moscow and seek trades
In Berlin on October 15, the new East German government pledged allegiance to Moscow in a message to Premier Stalin. President Pieck and Premier Grotewohl committed to employ forces for peace and began arranging trade talks with Soviet satellites. The cabinet approved opening negotiations with Hungary and named Georg Hanke to lead foreign trade deals. A Communist Party statement in Frankfurt hailed Stalin’s note as Germany being treated as an equal.
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Berlin
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Wilhelm Pieck
Otto Grotewohl
Stalin
German Democratic Republic
Hungary
Georg Hanke
Communist Party
Frankfurt
Germany
Three Killed In Bus Truck Crash Near Grand Rapids
Sixteen people hospitalized after a head on collision near Grand Rapids between a bus and a truck. Three truck occupants died: Henry Johnston 45 Manton Mich Henry J Ellery 58 Manistee Mich and Myrtle Reed Brigham widow Cadil lace Mich. Witnesses said truck swerved into bus and the vehicle caught fire.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Henry Johnston
Manton
Henry J. Ellery
Manistee
Myrtle Reed Brigham
Cadillace
North Star Line
Gunmen Seize $50,000 Gems From Importer in Daylight
Chicago police report two gunmen robbed gem importer Swirsky and Ehrlich of several hundred unset diamonds valued at about $50,000 in broad daylight. The attackers approached from the rear, produced a gun wrapped in paper, grabbed the manager Phillip Abrams briefcase, then forced him downstairs before vanishing.
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Chicago
Phillip Abrams
Swirksky and
Ehrlich
Missing Actress Sought In Griffith Park
Los Angeles police launched a 200-man foot by foot search of Griffith Park, Fern Dell area, for screen and TV actress Jean Spangler now in the second week of her disappearance after her battered purse was found in Fern Dell two days after she vanished.
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Los Angeles
Jean Spangler
Griffith Park
Fern Dell
Miss Spangier
Manila rail workers strike over wage demands
Locomotive engineers and firemen of the state owned Manila railroad began a strike in Manila on October 15 to protest the railroad company’s rejection of wage increase demands.
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Manila
Philippines
Grandmalike robber targets bus stop in LA arrest sought
Mrs. Sylvia Stieglitz reported to police that a woman about 60 who appeared like a sweet grandmother pointed a gun and robbed her of six dollars at a bus stop in Los Angeles. Police seek the suspect described as an older woman with a grandmother look.
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Los Angeles
Sylvia Stieglitz
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