UN and Reds clash over Kaesong neutral zone
TOKYO dispatch reports Communists accuse the United Nations of violating Kaesong neutrality as Gen Ridgway proposes resuming cease fire talks with new guarantees. RIDGWAY rejects most prior protests, offers to write neutrality guarantees and meet Pan Mun Jom officers to restart negotiations.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Kaesong
Matthew B. Ridgway
Red
U.N
Munsan
Korea
Pan Mun Jom
Phoenix
Ridgway
Reds
Supreme Headquarters
Alligator captured after attack on girl in Coral Gables
AP photos show Florida wildlife officer Joe Johnson lassoing a six-foot alligator in a Coral Gables rockpit after it seized a 9-year-old girl on shore. The girl, injured with a gash from wrist to shoulder and multiple fractures, was aided by 10-year-old Parker Stratt who pulled her from the jaws. The gator was relocated to the Everglades.
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Joe Johnson
Florida Wildlife
Coral Gables
Jerry Gustafson
Parker Stratt
Everglades
Crash On Flattop Kills 2. 5 Missing
Ace Tokyo dispatch reports two men killed five missing and 15 injured when a Banshee jet on the Essex deck crashed after two barriers were crossed during recovery from a North Korea mission. Four planes destroyed and four damaged as flames swept fuel. Casualties include Lt. (jg) John Kemp Keller and James William Stewart.
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Tokyo
Essex
Navy
North Korea
Wonsan
John Kemp Keller
John Everett Keller
Ann Arbor
Mich
James William Stewart
Leona Stewart
la Mesa
Calif
Wade Helton Barfield
Jesse B. Barfield
Columbia
S. C
Charles Lamarr Harrell
Carrier
Governor offers Vernon LaMore liquor agency post
Gov Howard Pyle offered Vernon LaMore a $400 per month chief enforcement officer post in the State Department of Liquor Licenses and Control. LaMore, a veteran peace officer and former prohibition agent, had a meeting with the governor and John A. Duncan yesterday and has not yet accepted, with a reply expected soon. The job has been vacant since last month’s resignation of Fred DeElliott.
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Howard Pyle
Vernon LaMore
Maricopa County
State Department of Liquor Licenses and Control
Phoenix Gazette
LaMore
Pyle
John A. Duncan
Fred de- Elliott
Nighttime refinery blast in Wood River leaves 12 dead
A Shell Oil refinery explosion at Wood River Illinois killed 12 workers and badly burned about 20 others. Flames roared from a cracking unit as a night crew toiled, with survivors recounting terrified escapes and red-hot sheeting clothing. Names of the dead and injured were reported from Alton Wood River and surrounding towns. An official blamed possible gas pockets or static electricity. damage was estimated above 100000 dollars.
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Wood River
Big Shell Oil Co
Willie Burchell
East Alton
Burchell
Alton
Robert McGregor
Malcom Curtis
Harry Ollerton
Livingston
Elvin Ray
Lorento
Ill
Pipefitter
Louis W. Dike
Joseph Mangers
Edward E. Graner
Brighton
Henry Lamb
M. G. McMillen
F. G. Plummer
Grafton
R. B. Ryan
Caseyville
L. F. Smith
Two Felons Surrender In Alabama
Two escapees from the Draper Prison were captured in Selma Alabama leaving four at large. Leo Self 43 a ringleader serving 20 years for robbery had escaped four times previously. Price F Jones 22 serving six years for burglary and grand larceny. They offered no resistance as bloodhounds led to a vacant house. At large: J C Colburn Paul Lowery Paul L Stebbins David Taylor.
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Montgomery
Ala
Draper
Liberty
Selma
Leo Self
Alabama
Price F. Jones
E. W. Mullin
Self
Jefferson County
Navy Orders Jet Fighters From McDonnell and Goodyear
The navy announced it ordered an undisclosed number of F3H Demon jet fighters from McDonnell Aircraft Corp. in St. Louis and Goodyear Aircraft Corp. in Akron. The experimental version of the carrier-based fighter completed its first flight at St. Louis on August 7.
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Washington
Navy
McDonnell Aircraft Corp
St. Louis
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Akron
Ohio
St Louis
Allied forces launch dawn attack on Chorwon front in Korea
U N tanks and infantry strike at a western front hill near Chorwon, held by Chinese Reds. Despite heavy artillery, smoke, and close combat, the assault stalls with entrenched defenders and mounting casualties. Elsewhere patrols report limited contact as Allies push northward in eastern Korea, capturing a peak after a brutal three hour fight.
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U. S
Eighth Army
Korea
Western Front
United Nations
Chorwon
North Korea
Reds
French Cite Red Threat Heightens Indo china Tensions
Washington dispatch reports that the French commander in Indo China warned that Chinese Communists could at any time mobilize 80,000 to 150,000 volunteers armed with American equipment to threaten his position, signaling rising regional peril and potential international involvement.
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Washington
Indochina
Head-on Crash Sends Deputy Baskin to Hospital
Deputy Baskin 49 was hospitalized with a bruised chest after a head-on collision on the Black Canyon Highway north of Cordes. Deputy Edwards received a head wound and was treated. Koebke of San Antonio Texas later pleaded guilty to reckless driving in Prescott, paying a $50 fine.
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Mort Baskin
Good Samaritan Hospital
Black Canyon
Cordes
Baskin
E. Vernon
David P. Edwards
W. Monte Vista
Prescott
Albert Koebke
San Antonio
Texas
Phoenix
John Lubicich
Lubicich
Koebke
Noted Leaders Comment on Yugoslavia and Atlantic Pact
International News Service quotes Marshal Tito in Belgrade criticizing Soviet leaders for enslaving nations and affirming Yugoslavia’s independence. President Truman denounces attempts to discredit government loyalty and public service. General Eisenhower explains the Atlantic Pact forces’ mission to build strength and preserve peace against communism.
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Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Washington
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Safecracking Brothers Escape Detention Home
Two boys aged 11 and 13, described as precocious safecrackers, escaped from a county detention home less than a day after burglary custody. They drilled a hole in Hall's Service Station front door to reach a safe, and were later recaptured by patrolman John F. Johnson. Other inmates allegedly aided the escape by hoisting them over the wall near 35th Ave and Apache.
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Colesville
35Th Ave
Apache
Hall
Johnson
Sheriff's Deputies
Askins Nominated for Assistant Secretary of Navy
Herbert R. Askins of Phoenix Auto Supply and civic leader was named by President Truman to be assistant secretary of the navy. At age 52, he lives at 1132 E. Thomas and was previously chosen by Secretary Dan Kimball. The one year appointment requires Senate confirmation and would oversee navy procurement.
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Herbert R. Askins
Phoenix Auto Supply Company
Truman
Navy
Associated Press
Askins
E. Thomas
Secretary of the
Dan Kimball
Senate
Navy pilot rescued after night training crash in bay
SAN MATEO Calif Sept 18 One navy pilot belly landed a Corsair when fuel ran low during a night training flight another parachuted into San Francisco Bay after two hours in water. Ensign R D Jackson 23 of Denver was rescued. Reserve Lt Edward R Hiratky 26 of Wanamassa N J was uninjured in a belly landing near his home base Moffett Naval Air Station. He denied reports the planes collided.
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San Mateo
Calif
San Francisco Bay
Butist
R. D. Jackson
Denver
Edward R. Hiratky
Wanamassa
N. J
Moffett Naval Air Station
Navy
Iran Prepares Barter Deal With Russia
Iran readies a barter pact with Russia to counter Britain’s sanctions. A trade delegation will sign to obtain scarce products cut off by Britain. Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi said Moscow offered the materials, as Britain halted shipments in retaliation for Iran’s oil nationalization. Poland and Czechoslovakia also placed large crude orders.
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Tehran
Iran
Russia
Britain
Moscow
Hossein Fatemi
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Riots at East German Steel Plant Over Production Quotas
In Saxony Anhalt the Maxhuette works in Saalfeld, run by the Communist regime, faced worker protests against stricter individual quotas. Police arrested two leaders, riots erupted, and two workers and one policeman were injured in clashes as penalties for not meeting norms were imposed.
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Berlin
Saxony-Anhalt
West Berlin
Nacht Depesche
Maxhuette
Saalfeld
Crest Nears Brownsville Threat to 1000 Families
The crest of the swollen Rio Grande moved toward Brownsville threatening to displace more than 1,000 families on the Mexican side. At dawn the river measured 16.21 feet, with waters lapping close to shanties in Matamoros while Brownsville remained protected by a floodway and a levee behind the main town.
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Brownsville
Texas
Matamoros
Mexico
Head On Collision Kills Three in Missouri
CHILLICOTHE Mo Sept 18 Three persons were killed and two injured severely today in a head on collision of a motor car and a truck on U S Highway 36. The dead were Howard Leggett 32 a Korean war veteran his wife Lot tie and a baby boy of Lamar Colo.
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Chillicothe
U. S. Highway 36
Howard Leggett
Lottie
Lamar
Colo
Ex-Policeman to testify in graft trial of cops
James Reardon, former boss of Harry Gross’s gambling empire, agreed to testify for the prosecution in the case against 18 retired or suspended policemen. He ran Gross’s syndicate briefly in 1950 and faces perjury and contempt liability, while remaining in protective custody in Connecticut.
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New York
Harry Gross
Gross
James Reardon
Westport
Conn
Tor
California
Kings County
Samuel S. Liebowitz
Connecticut
Reardon
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