Mass murder plot suspected in plane blast
Mexican authorities hunted a labor contractor believed to have planted a time bomb on a Mexico City Oaxaca flight to cash in a $350000 life insurance policy on six workers aboard. The blast injured two Americans and forced an emergency landing. FBI said explosives caused the explosion.
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Oaxaca
Carlos Rodriguez Corona
Santa Lucia
Mexco City
FBI
Novedades
Compania Mexicana
Henry Mankin
Berkeley
Calif
Gertrude
Mankin
Latra Kennedy
Oakland
Robert Stolper
Los Angeles
June Barth
Robert Barth
Weather Notes and Local Quips From 1952 California
Southern California weather outlook shows variable high cloudiness through Saturday with night and morning fog and low clouds along the east. Scattered showers and thunderstorms near mountains, a few showers reaching coastal areas at times, little temperature change. Also includes dated trivia and a humorous exchange about prices and a playful line about the Santa Barbara game.
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Eisenhower Campaign Tour Sparks Southern Rallying Cry
Eisenhower rode the Eisenhower Special into Salisbury and Charlotte and Winston-Salem North Carolina amid crowds as he denounced the Truman administration. He warned of scandals and waste in government and military spending, praised women in the campaign, and pledged integrity in government as he planned a Richmond address broadcast on state networks.
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Eisenhower
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Hhem
Katherine Howard
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Herbert Hoover
Richmond
Fifth Regiment
Rooney Bound For Korea Tour With Hollywood Group
Actor Mickey Rooney leads a party of seven Hollywood entertainers who were scheduled to depart today from Travis Air Force Base for Tokyo and Korea to tour military installations. The group arrived here yesterday.
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Korea
Eisenhower to Launch 26-State Campaign Tour
Dwight D. Eisenhower will begin a new 24 day campaign tour by plane and train visiting 26 states with 15 night appearances and two weekend rests. The itinerary includes California Nevada Oregon New York Ohio and more, with a stop in Columbia South Carolina for a speech before the trip. The plan features whistle stops across the nation starting Wednesday with California stops and a Friday arrival in Salt Lake City.
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Las Vegas
San Diego
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Albuquerque
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Salt Lake City
Call for agency to study organized crime urged by police chiefs
The International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting in Los Angeles backed a proposal by Police Chief William H. Parker to create a government organ to study organized crime and share big-time crime intelligence with local forces. The vote was 209 to 83 as the convention closed. Parker said the FBI lacks legal authority to supply such information to municipal police. Cyrille LeBlanc of Gardner, Mass. was elected president.
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International Association of Chiefs of Police
Wiliam H. Parker
Parker
FBI
Cyrille LeBlanc
Gardner
Mass
Knowland sees possibility of Republican landslide
Senator William F Knowland, adviser to Eisenhower, foresees a definite Republican landslide this fall as GOP hopes rise after Nixon’s expense fund controversy. He credits Nixon’s television explanation and Stevenson's failure to disclose gifts to Illinois officials as factors boosting the Republican position.
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Wiliam F.knowland
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Campaen
GOP
Richard M Nixon
Nixon Case
Taft Attacks Government Sympathy Toward Communists
ULP report from Racine Wisconsin says Senator Taft, with Senator McCarthy, blasted the Democrat administration for sympathy toward communism since the New Deal. He charged State Department failures in Korea and Chinese Nationalists, urged Eisenhower support, and praised McCarthy while framing the race as a crusade against liberalism and communism.
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ULP
Robert A. Taft
Joseph McCarthy
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Yalta
Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chicago
Ohio Republican
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Korea
Department
McCarthy Taft
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Eisenhower
Nixon and Watkins rally slips and jumbled names
At a Utah Republican rally Senator Arthur V. Watkins struggled with Nixon and Bennett names. Nixon praised Hoover’s files re Alger Hiss but stumbled over remarks breaking late into the speech. Watkins admitted “We’re a bit fervous” amid nervous tension.
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Utah
Arthur V. Watkins
Richard M. Nixon
Ivy Baker Priest
GOP
Nixon
Patricia
United States
Watkins
California
Richard M., Dixon
Wallace F. Bennett
Alger Hiss
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Flood Flooding Kills Woman Near Frazer Park
In Sebec UP report a flash flood in Pine Flat Canyon near Frazer Park eight miles southwest of here caused the death of 58 year old Mrs J A Holt wife of the Pentecostal camp caretaker. A six foot wall of water roared down the canyon after a thunderstorm and debris damaged several cabins as the sheriff's office reports.
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J. A. Holt
Nixon Renews Challenge To Stevenson
Senator Richard M. Nixon renewed his challenge to Adlai Stevenson to tell the American people the facts about Stevenson’s special fund. Nixon spoke in Ogden Utah and canceled a press conference to press ahead with a four state tour. He called rumors of layoffs a malicious fire and defended a plan to keep crooks out of government. He planned tonight’s Amarillo Texas speech seeking insurgent Democratic votes while Stevenson signaled support for federal tidelands control.
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Texas Panhandle
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California
Police Watch For $356000 In Stolen Gold
Police across the U S and Canada hunt for nearly half a ton of stolen gold valued at 356000, suspected to be smuggled into the United States. The haul, Canada’s largest gold theft, was linked to Noranda Ontario shipments and an outbound Montreal air shipment to England.
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Child Burned Lighting Oven Fights For Life
Norma Grace Gonzales six year old girl from East Los Angeles is hospitalized in critical condition after severe facial arm and back burns while attempting to light an oven. Doctors report the condition serious but hope for recovery.
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Norma Grace Gonzales
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Acheson accuses Eisenhower of twisting facts in speech
Secretary of State Dean Acheson charged Dwight D. Eisenhower with torturing the facts of a January 1950 speech. He said Eisenhower’s Cincinnati address misquotes and omits key parts, misrepresenting the defensive perimeter and Korea’s status. Acheson affirmed the perimeter ran from the Aleutians to the Ryukyus and then to the Philippines, and stressed Korea would not be left un defended.
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Dean Acheson
Dwight D. Hisenhower
Acheson
Eisenhower
Cincinnati
National Press Club
Press Club
Pacific
Aleutians
Japan
Ryukyus
Philippine Islands
Korea
Free World
Gen. Eisenhower
America
United Nations
Pan Am Clipper Sets New New York to Frankfurt Record
A Pan American Airways clipper flew nonstop from New York to Frankfurt in 11 hours 6 minutes, breaking a record set just three days earlier for the same Atlantic route. The achievement underscores advances in transatlantic air travel and solidifies Pan American’s position as a leader in long distance commercial flights.
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Germany
Pan American Airways
New York
America
Allied Pilots Bay Record Number Of Planes In Month
Allied Sabre jets claim 55 MiGs destroyed and 6 probably destroyed in first 23 days of September, a new monthly record. Most battles east of Sinuiju with 28 MiGs crossing the Yalu, UN forces pound winter depots and front positions as weather clears. 5th Air Force planes, grounded 24 hours by rain, attack infantry along the front. Navy and Marine aircraft strike targets in northwest Korea and Haeyu peninsula. B-29s hit a rail and supply center near Pyongyang and Hullak.
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Sinuiju
Korea
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Haeyu
West Korea
Pyongyang
Hullak
Stevenson to release list of fund contributors and beneficiaries
Gov Adlai Stevenson said he would publish today or tomorrow the names of donors and recipients tied to his controversial fund aimed at boosting salaries of top state officials. He spoke at Capital airport during a two day tour through Indiana and Kentucky while noting eight or nine officials had received money and that he had contacted all involved.
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