Eisenhower launches drive for total victory in GOP
Chicago reports Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower begins his total victory campaign after resigning from the Army with deep regret. He meets with House and Senate Republicans and GOP leaders as Arthur Summerfield is elected chairman of the national committee. Summerfield pledges a united, inspired crusade to preserve America with Eisenhower as the people's candidate.
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Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
House
Senate
GOP National Committee
Arthur Summerfield
Michigan
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
GOP
Taft
Guy G. Gabrielson
Summerfield
United
America
Army
Karl R. Bendetsen
Bendetsen
Frank
Too Old to Try Again Taft Says in Chicago
VP Robert A. Taft announced he will not seek another run for president, calling it his last bid. He pledged loyalty to Eisenhower after Stassen visited, as Taft’s forces prepared to depart amid a chaotic scene ahead of the Democratic convention. Continued on Page A-9, Col 3.
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Sen
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Stassen
Eisenhower
Early steel price boost eyed as talks near break
Pittsburgh July 16 government approval of a roughly five dollar a ton steel price increase buoyed hopes a settlement in the 41 day economy defense stalemate is near. CIO United Steelworkers chief Murray and industry leaders pressed for a new contract as Washington officials said the raise would help finance wage demands. No official word emerged from either side as negotiations continued after a dinner recess.
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Pittsburgh
Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
United Steel Workers of America
Reporis
Murray
John R. Steelman
Defense Mobilizer
United States Steel Corp
Steelman
John R. Putnam
Barton Flats Fire Nears Control In San Bernardino Forest
Forest fire in the Barton flats area of the San Bernardino National Forest was being brought under control tonight but full control was not expected until tomorrow. The blaze has burned away from camps and inhabited sections in the resort area.
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San Bernardino
Barton Flats
San Bernardino National Forest
Magicians Gather for Coast Convention
Local page highlights show a Pacific Coast convention of magicians set to converge in the city on the pages indicated. Also notes FHA building loan activity for late 1952 compared to 1951, with various Southland Magazine features and sport and arts listings across multiple sections.
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FHA
Divers Hunt Plane Off Seal Beach
Navy divers searched waters off Seal Beach for a missing trainer aircraft from Los Alamitos NAS after a Sunset Beach witness reported a crash. An SNJ-1 with two crew was overdue. an oil slick and wreckage pieces appeared, but the fuselage with its identification could not yet be found.
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Seal Beach
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Sunset Beach
P. D. Frederick
Seal Beach Net
Britain orders Soviet diplomat Kuznetsov to leave within a week
London reports that Britain expelled Soviet diplomat Pavel Kuznetsov after accusing him of receiving official secrets from a British radio operator. The operator, William Marshall, was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for passing secret information. This marks Britain’s first direct naming of a Russian in a spy case.
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London
Britain
Pavel Kuznetsov
Foreign Office
William Marshall
Kumetsov
One-Man Gang, 86, In Pokey Over Ice Pick Attack
In New York a tiny 86 year old man, James Cochrane, attacked a bus driver with an ice pick after exchanging ten dimes. He pursued the driver, resisted officers at the scene and at police headquarters, claiming he once drove for J. P. Morgan. He faces attempted felonious assault and concealed weapon charges.
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New York
Thomas Connor
James Cochrane
Cochrane
Jack Greenstein
Greenstein
J. P. Morgan
Sunny Beach Draws Record Crowds Despite Cloudburst
Sunshine returns to Sunny Beach with mid 80s forecast promising crowds. Sixty thousand beachgoers yesterday, calm surf, few incidents, but several people pulled from deep water at Calorada Lagoon. Coastal fog, water 65 degrees, and clear by noon. Sacramento reports: U S 40 closed by heavy rain and landslides near Farah, trains delayed, traffic rerouted to U S 50, Donner Summit blocks, and one-way opening planned by tomorrow morning.
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Roy J
Dutch) Miller
Long Beach
Miller
Calorada Lagoon
Weather Bureau
Sacramento
Floriston-Truckee
U.S. 40
Southern Pacific
Farah
Truckee
U.S. 50
Highway Patrol
Donner Summit
Sparks
Nev
San Francisco
San Francisco Overland
Gold Coast
Trucker Cited as Crash Hurts 7
Seven teenagers were injured when their sedan was struck by a loaded oil truck at Wardlow Road and Orange Avenue. Driver Warren K. Norman, 36, was cited for running a red light. Injured youths were taken to Seaside Hospital, includes Barbary Jean Minix 17 with a fractured pelvis and Margaret Holloway 17 with bruises.
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Orange Ave
Warren K. Norman
el Monte
Seaside Hospital
Delta Ave
Ray R. Sanders
Easy Ave
Glynn L. Sumrall
37Th St
Carol A. Harvey
Ocean Blvd
Wayne A. Milburn
Baltic Ave
Dorothy Ann, Rose
Sanders
Kent McIntyre
Redondo Ave
McIntyre
Four Million Fire Incinerates Oil Docked Ships
A $4,000,000 blaze at the Local Union Oil dock in Oleum near Martinez destroyed the tanker Victor H. Kelly and heavily damaged the Lompoc while the terminal burned. Captain Eugene Fulton died, two crew unaccounted, and about 30 injured as fireboats and Coast Guard units battled the inferno. The Navy tug saved the Lompoc, and radioman W. A. Liggins remains missing as crews escaped into the bay.
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Union Oil Co
Victor H. Kelly
Lompoc
Oleum
Martinez
San Francisco Bay
Kelly
Eugene Fulton
Los Angeles
I. L. Lishman
Fulton
W. A. Liggins
Yorter
Sabres Down Mig in Korean Sky Dogfights
In two dogfights over northwest Korea, U S Air Force Sabres shot down one Russian built MIG, likely destroyed another and damaged three more as Communist jets proved aggressive for the first time in over a week. Ensuing air operations were hindered by weather across most of North Korea following raids on Pyongyang that Pyongyang radio says left 2000 dead, 4000 wounded and 250 missing.
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Feot
Kelly
Fulton
Seoul
Northwest Korea
U. 53
Fifth Air Force
North Korea
Pyongyang
Two Killed as Jet Training Plane Falls
A T-33 jet trainer from Wichita Air Force Base crashed in a rainstorm east of Wichita. The pilot instructor and the Air Force student were killed. Wreckage scattered over a half mile area near a hedge lined pasture.
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Kan
Wichita Air Force Base
Air Force
U N Air Raid Accuses Killed POWs at Camp No 9
Communist truce delegates claim 13 Allied POWs were killed and 72 injured in a night air raid on POW Camp No 9 near Pyongyang. Brig. Gen. Nuckols said the charges would be investigated by the United Nations command. The meeting of truce delegates was brief, focusing on prisoners of war.
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Munsan
Korea
Nam Ii
William K. Harrison
No. 9
Pyongyang
William P. Nuckols
United Nations Command
Nuckols
U.N.C
Sabres Strafe Antung in Manchuria Killing 49
Peiping radio charged that eight U S F 86 Sabre jets strafed Antung Manchuria Friday killing 49 persons The Red air base near the Yalu River was cited while Chou En Lai condemned the raid and warned the United States to take responsibility and face consequences
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Peiping Radio Today
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Manchuria
Pyongyang
Yalu River
North Korea
Red China
Chou En-Lai
America
Chou
U. S
Food Poisoning Strikes Boilermakers Picnic In Portland
At a Portland boiler makers picnic on July 12 food poisoning sickened about 138 attendees within hours. Ambulances, police roadblocks, and a radio alert rushed aid as doctors tested lunch foods and a first aid worker used mustard emetic. News crews faced gate clashes amid chaotic scenes. Nearby merchants blamed touring farm workers for theft and losses as deputies aided traffic control.
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Ore
Boilermakers’ Union
Pienie Grounds
Tte
Ghesitts
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