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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1951
Page
1
Allied troops press toward the main Red defense line in heavy rain across the front from Yonchon to Kansong. Doughboys burn fortified positions with flame throwers as tank-led forces gain one to three miles, while Chinese and North Korean fortifications hold in place along the saw-tooth front.
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and the Iranian oil commission board agreed to postpone definite action to take over the nationalized oil industry while negotiations with representatives of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company proceed. British American and Iranian diplomats voiced optimism for a peaceful settlement.
The Anglo Iranian Oil Company offered to send representatives to Tehran for full discussions on nationalization as Iran set a five day deadline. U S Ambassador Grady welcomed the move saying a fair solution may be found. Deputy Premier Fatemi called it an acceptance of Iran taking over the company. The A I C C reserved its legal rights and did not specify negotiable matters.
Fifty policemen battled a Bronx rooming-house resident for an hour using submachine guns and tear gas. Rosario Virgadimo, 60, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds after police entered. He had shot his landlord Philip Figaro, 60, who was wounded in the shoulder during the confrontation.
Communist dispatches report 14 American and European Catholic missionaries arrested on April 18 in China. Six others including a bishop were denounced as causing 16,000 Chinese child deaths. The China News Agency did not confirm arrests for the six. Denunciation often precedes arrest or expulsion.
San Juan reports Puerto Ricans vote today on a constitution to replace the organic act. Observers expect a large turnout among 777,400 eligible voters with Gov. Luis Muñoz Marin strongly backing the proposal.
The Supreme Court rules the conspiracy convictions of 11 top American Communists under the Smith Act valid. Chief Justice Vinson states they intended to overthrow the US government by force and violence. Justices Black and Douglas dissent. the vote is 6-2 with Clark disqualified.
Indiana State Teachers College will lose two devoted faculty members this year as Charles Roll and Arthur H Leuhring retire. Roll has taught social studies since 1913 and Leuhring since 1915. Roll, a historian of Indiana, authored History of Indiana published 1931.
Disabled American Veterans of Terre Haute expect more than 2 500 attendees for a three day Indiana state convention opening Friday at the Terre Haute House. Local commander Leon Von Schepper says 93 Indiana chapters will be represented by 550 voting delegates, with about 2 000 more rank and file members and guests. Governor Schricker and Lt. Gov. Watkins will speak at a Saturday banquet in the Mayflower Room.
Mrs Ruth N Dodgson wife of Rev Arthur S Dodgson pastor of the First Baptist church had her American citizenship restored by U S District Judge John H Druffel on the recommendation of Neutralization Examiner Henry Beziat in Cincinnati Ohio The Dodgsons plan a six week trip to England with their daughter Lucille They reside at 1637 South Fourth street near Ft Wayne prior to the restoration of citizenship initiated after she married an English citizen in Aug 1922
Paris June 4. Russia says it will attend the July 23 Big Four foreign ministers meeting in Washington only if the North Atlantic Pact and American bases in Europe are on the agenda. The allies have refused the condition after weeks of talks at the Big Four deputies conference. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko delivered the note with the demand.
The United States barred American private citizens from traveling to Communist Czechoslovakia. The State Department cited the arrest of Associated Press correspondent William Oatis and related incidents as reasons making travel undesirable.
An air force C 82 cargo aircraft exploded in midair over NEW BOSTON Texas killing ten passengers. Wreckage spread over a mile and a half as rescuers removed bodies from the burning fuselage. The plane, on a training flight from Greenville to Fort Sill, crashed after reporting its position to the CAA.
Wanda Rose Bostick 17 of Farmersburg died Sunday night at Union Hospital from a fractured skull after a car driven by her mother J A Bostick struck a bridge near Prairieton. Funeral will be Wednesday at Farmersburg Methodist Church with interment in West Lawn Cemetery.
A bolt of lightning killed 24 year old Harold Dennis Myers on the Broadmoor Country Club golf course in Indianapolis. Myers headed the shipping department at National Hosiery Mills, Inc. Dr. Alexander J. Kahn, a physician nearby, attempted artificial respiration but could not save him.
Washington dispatch notes wide participation from business groups labor and government as June 30 expiration looms for the defense production act. The Truman administration seeks a two year extension while critics urge scrapping parts of the act and inflation fears grow. Walter Reuther calls wage stabilization part of broader sacrifice and mobilization chief Charles Wilson predicts no all out war.
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, 95, world war hero and former Vichy head, lay near death on Ile d Yeu after a weakened heart. He had double pneumonia in April and has been imprisoned on the island since the war's end serving a life sentence for treason.
Vietminh forces attacked Phatdiem province triggering a breach of the four year old truce with the Catholic state in North Indo China. French forces deployed a parachute battalion and artillery to defend the outposts along the Red River delta border. Phatdiem covers about 1000 square miles with over a million residents including 400000 Catholics.
Ground parties hunted seven missing U S airmen after UN artillery hit two C 119 planes during a supply drop near the front. Three survivors were found from the ten aboard the two planes. parachutes were seen, some likely personnel. Air resupply continued, delivering 60 000 pounds to a unit 15 miles away despite the incident.
Union rejection of a settlement proposed by three mayors faced conferees as they attempted to end a five week bus strike in Muncie Anderson and Richmond. Mayors suggested a one cent an hour increase to raise rates for mechanics drivers and cleaners amid stalled talks with the Indiana Railroad.
The report notes clearing weather and cooler temperatures. Times show 6am at 56, noon 64, 9am 59, 2pm 60, sunrise 5:24, sunset 8:13. River stage remains at 4.9 and stationary.
Yesterday reached the highest temperature for the period while last night’s low was 56 degrees. Precipitation measured .14 inches.
Terre Haute and vicinity expect gradual clearing and cooler tonight with Tuesday fair and warmer. Indiana outlook shows frost in extreme north with slow clearing and cooler central and south portions tonight. Tuesday remains fair and warmer with lows near 48 to 54 and highs around 75. Illinois forecast calls for frost risk in extreme north away from Lake Michigan, slow clearing and cooler south. Tuesday fair and warmer with lows 46 to 52 and highs up to 79 in the north and 75 in the south. Temperature readings at street level: 57 at 8 AM, 65 at 2 PM.
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