Truman Sees Self as World Peace Maker After Presidency
Truman reflects on Stevenson’s loss blaming glamor of Eisenhower, McCarthyism, and anti-Communist charges. He stresses plans to speak to youth, support Point Four, and maintain strength for peace. He hopes Russia may be friendlier and outlines cooperation with Republicans while pursuing domestic progress. He envisions a Truman library and a quiet postpresidency in Independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Ate Times
Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
State Department
McCarthy
White House
Stalin
Missouri
New York
United States
Russia
Eisenhower
Grandview
Delaware Street
Independence, Mo
Queen Amused By Prize Photo Of Earrings
Queen Elizabeth II laughed at a photograph that won a British news picture of the year prize. United Press Photographer Charles Dawson said the image showed her earring look suspended in mid air during a Yale radio broadcast event on a Parliament opening trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandringham
Eng
United Press
Charles Dawson
London
Elizabeth
Yale
Commonwealth
Dawson
Dulles Discusses Soviet Peace Proposals With Eisenhower
Secretary of State Dulles said any Soviet peace plan would be welcomed by the new administration after Eisenhower takes office. He urged proposals through normal channels or the United Nations and noted possible talks with Stalin depend on the new president. Churchill visits New York early next month for conferences with Eisenhower and other leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dulles
Washington
Eisenhower
New York
Stalin
New York Times
James Reston
United Nations
Moscow
Gen
Winston Churchill
Weather and Warfront Struggles Amid Frozen Front Lines
Snow and deep ruts slow advance as bunkers bunker in near freezing noon. Okinawa based B-29s bomb major Red centers while air battles tally MiG-15 losses and supply-line destruction across Manchuria to Pyongyang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chongju
Manchuria
Korea
Kyomipo
Pyongyang
8Th Army
5Th Air Force
U.N
Red Air Force
Locke to Attend Beirut Reception
Edwin A. Locke, newly resigned special U.S. ambassador for the Middle East, postponed his home departure to attend an official Damascus reception in his honor. He will depart Tuesday after being invited by Col. Abib Shishekly. President Truman accepted his resignation with sincere regret as Locke explains his Middle East aid policy speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beirut
Lebanon
Edwin A. Locke
U.S
Middle East
Damascus
Locke
Syria
Abib Shishekly
State Department
Truman
Man flees with bank ornaments in Christmas tree heist
In Park River North Dakota on December 27 a man visiting a local bank noticed dollar bills hidden as ornaments on a Christmas tree. He took one bill and fled, prompting police to hunt for the suspect. The incident involved a single observed theft and no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park River
N. D
Young Blonde Admits She Knew Brink's Suspect
A Rhode Island convict named Alfred J. Gagnon who signed a voluntary confession after the 1950 Brink’s robbery is named as a prospective witness as grand jury hearings resume. Gagnon, 41, is serving a jewel theft sentence and linked to Carlton M. O’Brien of West Warwick who was murdered days after the holdup. Eleven people, including O’Brien’s sister Mary A. Hooley, face contempt for defying the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
Alfred J. Gagnon
Carlton M. O’brien
West Warwick
R. I
Gagnon
O’keefe
Mary A. Hooley
Suspect Held in Man's Murder in Indiana
Owen county authorities held 26 year old Martin Bland of Spencer on his statement that he probably killed 30 year old Solsberry man. Sheriff Christy said Bland signed a statement about events before and after the shooting but was too drunk to remember. A lie detector test and shotgun tests linked Bland to the fatal shooting near his home on Christmas morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer
Ind
Owen County
Solsberry
Carl Christy
Martin Bland
Bland
Christy
Chester McGuire
Indianapolis
Dormant gas field to store pipeline gas near Unionville
Indiana Gas & Water Co plans to buy a 2000 acre dormant gas field near Unionville Monroe county for over 37000. The field already developed in 1943 by Texas Gas Transmission Corp and 12 wells failed to produce recent gas. Indiana Gas will spend about 35000 to build a compressor station to inject gas 900 feet underground for summer storage to meet winter demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Unionville
Monroe County
L. B. Schiesz
Indiana Gas & Water Co
Schiesz
Indiana Public Service Commission
Texas Gas Transmission Corp
Indiana Gas
Decatur County
Baptist Pastor Attacked by Thugs in Mississippi
Mississippi Baptist preacher Rev Sammy Crawford says a "devil-possessed" congregant hired assailants to beat him on Christmas Eve at his Water Valley home. He suffered a broken knee and was told to leave the area within 30 days. Crawford, 43, remains determined to return to his Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church after recovery.
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Memphis
Sammy Crawford
Water Valley
Miss
Crawford
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
East Chicago residents face penalties in city court
Will Murrell, 41, and companions from East Chicago were fined after guilty pleas to intoxication and driving while intoxicated. Murrell’s six month driving ban followed a total $81.75 in penalties. Other cases involved vagrancy charges, assault and battery pleas, and traffic violations with varying fines.
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Will Murrell
East Chicago
Ind
Edward S. Everett
Murrell
Ilty
Will Phillips
John H. Moncrief
Edward France
Fort Harrison Road
U.S. Highway 41
DeBord
Robert Sommer
Mascoutah
Ill
Sommer
Cecil Fink
North Center Street
Delilah
Helen Fritts
Chicago
Samuel Hodson
James Reynolds
West Terre Haute
Patsy
Albert Deakins
Seelyville
James F. Bailey
North Twenty-fifth Street
Steve Milanovich
Gary
Churchill to Press for Formal East West Talks
Washington reports Churchill will likely seek full participant status in any Eisenhower Stalin meeting but British officials say no agenda exists. Dulles urges Russia to propose concrete steps before any summit while Churchill plans informal talks in New York and a farewell visit to President Truman before a Jamaica vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Britain
Churchill
Russia
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
New York
Bernard Baruch
Truman
Jamaica
New York Times
Stalin
Parliament OKs Tito's decision to cut Vatican ties
Belgrade reports Yugoslavia's parliament unanimously ratified Premier Tito's government move to sever diplomatic relations with the Vatican over church state tensions. Monsignor Oddi prepared to depart for Rome as action was carried by Petro Stambolji and other officials taunting Vatican activities, including Stepinac's cardinal designation. The Cardinal had been jailed years earlier for alleged wartime collaboration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshall Tito
Vatican
Silvio Oddi
Rome
Petar Stambolli
Alojzije Stepinac
College of Cardinals
Caudle Critiqued as Weak Official in DOJ Probe
The judiciary subcommittee calling T Lamar Caudle an honorably motivated but weak government official also labeled him a scapegoat in his 1951 firing by President Truman for outside activities. It praised his career as the most accurate reflection of decay within the Justice Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
House
T. Lamar Caudle
Truman
Judiciary
Chelf
D.ky
Keating
R.N.Y
Justice Department
Department of Justice
Illinois Senator Taken By Death
State Senator Simon E. Lantz of Congerville died in Peoria at age 80 after 35 years in the Illinois Senate. He was known as a guardian of farmers and had been visiting Eureka’s Dickinsons over Christmas. Washington reports suggest the U.S. may cut economic aid to European allies next year as debated by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
U.S
Peoria
Ill
Simon E. Lantz
R.congerville
Illinois Senate
Methodist
Lantz
Illinois Farmers
State Senate
Eureka
Richard Dickinson
Washington
United States
Arthur V. Watkins
Europe
Utah Republican
Columbia Broadcasting System
Capitol
Watkins
Gunman grabs payroll snack in holiday caper
New York report details a thief who intercepted Mrs. Alice Badenier as she carried her husband’s payroll to the lamp and shade firm. He fled with a bulky envelope but left with a holiday fruit cake instead of cash, as the Badenier business had been paid earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alice Badenier
Fire damages automobile on Blakely Avenue
Firefighters blame a broken battery for a Saturday morning blaze that caused an estimated 15 damage to Merl Deam Martin’s car at Twenty fifth and Alulman streets. Pumper Company 9 extinguished the minor fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merl Deam Martin
Blakely Avenue
Twenty-fifth
Alulman Streets
Pumper Company 9
Deaths Mrs Mamie Cooper 78 West Terre Haute
Mrs Mamie Cooper aged 78 of West Terre Haute died at St Anthony Hospital at 10 30am Saturday. She is survived by three daughters Edna Wright Minnie Nichols and Mable Witesell five sons Willis Daniel Clifford John and Abner one sister and one brother along with twenty grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren. The body was taken to the Bedine Chapel of the Valley in West Terre Haute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie Cooper
R. R
West Terre Haute
St. Anthony Hospital
Edna Wright
Dennison
Ill
Minnie Nichols
Terre Haute
Mable Witesell
Willis
Daniel
Clifford
John
Abner
Ann Newell
Clarence Walden
Gary
Bedine Chapel
Roy Everett Craig Jr Funeral Services Set
Roy Everett Craig Jr a Korean War veteran will have funeral services at 2 30 p m Monday at Montrose Methodist Church with Rev C H Love land officiating. Burial follows at Highland Lawn Cemetery with a firing squad from Chanute AFB and a Krietenstein Post American Legion bugler and color guard at the grave. The body arrives at the church from Gillis Memory Chapel at 12 30 p m Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Everett Craig, Jr
Montrose Methodist Church
C. H. Loveland
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Chanute Air Force Base
Krietenstein Post
American Legion
Gillis Memory Chapel
Mrs Bland 83 Dies At Gayne Nursing Home
Mrs Jeyston Elizabeth Bland aged 83 of 125 Sycamore street died at 10 35 Saturday morning at Gayne Nursing Home She is survived by nephew John Sams of Terre Haute Funeral services for her husband Adan Norton Bland 87 who died Tuesday were held at Callahan Funeral Home Friday Her body was moved to Callahan Chapel for services at 2 PM Monday with Rev Naomi Keener officiating They will be buried Monday in Grandview Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeyston Elizabeth Bland
Sycamore Street
Gayne Nursing Home
John Sams
Terre Haute
Adan Norton Bland
Callahan Funeral Home
Funeral services for Georg Kearschner in Seelyville
Funeral services for 58 year old Georg Kearschner of Seelyville will be held at 2 PM Monday at the Seelyville Methodist Church with Rev. Marion Miller officiating. The body will be taken from Gillis Memory Chapel an hour before services. Burial is in Highland Lawn Cemetery with full masonic services by Masonic Lodge No 541 of Brazil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georg
Kearschner
Seelyville
Seelyville Methodist Church
Marion Miller
Gillis Memory Chapel
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Masonic Lodge
Brazil
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Dolan Johnson
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Dolan Johnson aged 111 on South Thirteenth Street will be held at P. J. Ryan & Sons Funeral Home at 8 30 Monday morning with a requiem mass at 9 at St Benedicts Church. Rosary will be recited 7 30 Sunday evening at Ryan Chapel. Burial will be in St Josephs Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Dolan Johnson
South Thirteenth Street
P. J. Ryan & Sons Funeral Home
St. Benedict's Church
Ryan Chapel
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Sibley Rites Set For Terre Haute Man In Indianapolis Death
Theodore R. Sibley aged 49 died Friday morning in Indianapolis. Survived by widow Bernice two sons Theodore Jr and Charles of Terre Haute father William M Sibley Terre Haute three brothers Jack Chicago William Jr and Howard Fort Wayne sister Mrs Lillian Howell Terre Haute. Body to Bell Bracken Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore R. Sibley
Cruft Street
Indianapolis
Bernice
Theodore, Jr
Charles Sibley
Terre Haute
William M. Sibley
Jack Sibley
Chicago
William, Jr
Howard Sibley
Fort Wayne
Lillian Howell
Bell & Bracken Funeral Home
Birth of Bruce Edward Ramey One Day Old
Bruce Edward Ramey, a one day old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ramey of 412 Johnson Avenue West Terre Haute, died Friday at 4 40 in Union Hospital. Survived by grandparents Garnett Woolley and Henry Ramey. Body sent to Bedino Chapel Valley in West Terre Haute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Edward Ramey
William Ramey
Johnson Avenue
West Terre Haute
Union Hospital
Garnett Woolley
Henry Ramey
Bedino Chapel
James A Oldham dies at 75 in West Terre Haute
James A. Oldham 75 died at his home 512 Prairieton Road at 1 a m Saturday. Survived by daughter Mrs Mary Potts Englewood California a grandchild and two great grandchildren. Body to Bedino Chapel Valley West Terre Haute. Services at 2 p m Monday Rev A G Simmons officiating burial in Dunlap Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Oldham
Prairieton Road
Mary Potts
Englewood
Calif
Bedino Chapel
West Terre Haute
A. G. Simmons
Dunlap Cemetery
Funeral Services for James T Hoopes at Gillis Chapel
Funeral services for 61 year old James T Hoopes who died Tuesday will be at 1 30 Monday afternoon at the Gillis Memory Chapel with members of the Eagles Lodge conducting the services Bethesda Cemetery burial follows with Ft Harrison Post No 40 Sauron Legion conducting military rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James T. Hoopes
Gillis Memory
Eagles Lodge
Bethesda Cemetery
Ft. Harrison
Sauron Legion
Obituary: Daniel V. Scott of Sullivan Dies at 80
Daniel V. Scott 80 of R. R. 5 Sullivan died Friday at Mary Sherman Hospital. Survived by wife Flora two sons Charles Scott and Harold Clark a daughter Mrs. Lillian Dudley seven grandchildren. Body to Billman Mortuary with services Sunday at 1 30 Paul Neal officiating burial Center Ridge Cemetery.
Eva Letsinger 85 Dies in Clay City Nursing Home
Eva Letsinger aged 85 of Jasonville R. R. 2 died Friday at Dove Dell Nursing Home Clay City. Surviving are two sons Ben Letsinger and another son. Funeral arrangements pending local notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasonville
Ind
Eva Letsinger
Dove Dell
Clay City
Ben Letsinger
Cardinal Spellman Visits U S Troops in Korea
In Korea Cardinal Francis Spellman visited American airmen during a five day tour. He celebrated Mass at the Fifth Air Force chapel urged airmen to walk in God's love and gave blessings as troops passed by. He planned visits to Eighth Bomber Wing Sabrejet pilots and met Lt Gen Glenn Barcus at dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Korea
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Fifth Air Force
Eighth
Glenn O. Barcus
Letsinger of Crown Point Dies. Rites Set in Jasonville
Coal City and Arthur Letsinger of Crown Point mourn the death of four daughters and many relatives including Zora Goble Danville VUlive Nay Terre Haute Ona Fields and Marie Suttle. The body rests at McClanahan Funeral Home with services Sunday at 10:30 a m at Jasonville Methodist Church led by Rev. E P White. Burial is planned in Oak Grove Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coal City
Arthur Letsinger
Crown Point
Zora Goble
R. RK
Jasonville
Vulive Nay
Danville
Ona Fields
Terre Haute
Marie Suttle
Chicago
Green Robert Letsinger
Gay Leach
Dayton
Ohio
McClanahan Funeral Home
Escapee Lonnie Cooper Kept in Pulaski County Jail
Arkansas state police hunted Lonnie Cooper, escapee from the state mental hospital since November, who was later confined in Pulaski County Jail on December 14 for 13 days. He is charged with first degree murder in the May death of Stuttgart night watchman Charles Bowman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas State Police
State Mental Hospital
Lonnie Cooper
Charles Frank Bowman
Stuttgart
Cooper
Sam Hallam
Cleve Odom
Pulaski County
Death of Mrs Elizabeth Light in Clay City
Mrs Elizabeth Jane Light 74 died Friday in Clay City. Survived by daughter Gladys Crouse and Mabie Clark, sons Ellsworth Light and Roscoe Light, a Florida brother Joseph Rawhey, a sister Mrs James Beaman, seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral at Assembly of God Church Clay City Sunday 2 PM. Rev Roy Warner officiating. Burial Maple Grove Cemetery. Body to church from funeral home at 12 30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay City
Ind
Elizabeth Jane Light
Gladys Crouse
Mabie Clark
Brazil
Ellsworth Light
Crane
Roscoe Light
Joseph Rawhey
Florida
James Beaman
Freedom
McClanahan
Jasonville
Assembly of God Church
Roy Warner
Maple Grove
Nationalists Expected More War Activity in 1953
Taipei Formosa December 27 1952 informed sources foresee stepped up operations by Nationalist forces off the Red China coast in 1953. They anticipate commando raids on the mainland and attacks on Communist held islands. Reports cite an army hospital on the Ta Chen Islands between Shanghai and Formosa and a new Formosa hospital for front line casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipeh
Formosa
Red China
Daily News Today
Ta Chen
Guerrila
Shanghai
Funeral services for Montezuma man Jacob Adams set
Jacob A. Adams 61 died Thursday in Montezuma Ind funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 pm at the Methodist Church with Rev. Glen Clark officiating. Burial in Oakland Cemetery. Survived by widow Lona a daughter Martha Adams four sons Joseph Adams Lewisburg Kan John Adams Fort Hood Okla Charles Adams Richmond and Warren Adams at home. He owned a local grocery for 25 years and was a Mason in the Montezuma lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montezuma
Ind
Jacob A. Adams
Methodist Carren
Glen Clark
Oakland Cemetery
Brown Funeral Home
Lona
Martha Adams
Joseph Adams
Lewisburg
Kan
Joan Adams
Forthill
Oklo
Charles Adams
Richmond
Warren Adams
Adams
Methodist Church
Montezuma Mayonic Lodge
Obituary of Mrs Gertrude Hughes 78 in Sullivan area
Mrs Gertrude Hughes aged 78 died Friday at her new residence 01 South Section Street. Survived by three daughters Mrs Aitrieda Friedricks and Mrs Marguerite Lietz of Sullivan and Mrs Naomi Burks of Middletown Ohio. a son James Maynard Hughes of Terre Haute. a sister Mrs Naomi Ackmann of Miami Florida. three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Body to Hillman Mortuary. Services 3:30 Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev E E Aldrich. Burial Center Ridge Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Ind
Gertrude Hughes
New Residence
South Sec‘tion Street
Aitrieda Fiedricks
Marguerite Lietz
Naomi Burks
Middletown
James Maynard Hughes
Terre Haute
Naomi Ackmann
Miami
Fla
Hillman Mortuary
E. E. Aldrich
Center Ridge Cemetery
Della Havercamp 92 Dies In Indiana Home
Mrs. Della Havercamp aged 92, of Brazil Indiana, died early Saturday at her son Br W Havercamp's home in Indianapolis. She was a member of Centerpoint E U B Church. Survived by a grandson besides her son. Body at Miller & Sons Funeral Home Brazil with calling after 4 Sunday. Services Monday at 2 with Rev A R Jansen officiating. Burial in Cottage Hill Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Ind
Della Havercamp
Br. W. Havercamp
Southeast Street
Indianapolis
Centerpoint E.U.B. Church
Miller & Sons Funeral Home
A. R. Jansen
Cottage Hill Cemetery
Cromwell Funeral Services Held in Clay City
Oliver Dennis Cromwell aged 75 died Thursday afternoon at Schoppenhorst Funeral Home. The Rev. Mark Hamilton officiated at funeral services with burial in Maple Grove Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay City
Ind
Oliver
Dennis Cromwell
Schoppenhorst
Mark Hamilton
Maple Grove Cemetery
Princess Born to Hohenzollern Line in Bonn
A princess was born on Christmas Eve in the Hohenzollern family in Bonn Germany. She will be christened Arm gard and is the first child of Prince Wilhelm Karl von Preussen, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Germany
Hohenzollern
Armgard
Wilhelm Karl von Preussen
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Prince Wilhelm
Prince Oskar
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