Eisenhower names liaison officers for briefing conferences
Gen Eisenhower advances plans to designate liaison officers for a series of Washington briefings at the Pentagon and State Department likely to begin early next week. Truman pressures for quick action with budget talks and an urgent message to dispatch reps to top departments. Eisenhower remains at the National Golf Club in Augusta with limited visitors as he weighs the next steps.
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Augusta
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pentagon
State Department
Washington
Departments of State and Defense
Eisenhower
Truman
Air Force
State Departments
White House
National Golf Club
Atlanta
Army
Hagerty
Big Three foreign ministers meet in New York on Korea
Western powers planned top level policy talks in New York with Anthony Eden arriving to join Robert Schuman and Dean Acheson. Acheson to meet Eden separately as Korea debate in the General Assembly continues with Schuman set to speak Monday and Eden aiming to present Britain’s policies Tuesday.
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United Nations
N. Y
New York
Korea
Britain
Anthony Eden
General Assembly
France
Robert Schuman
U.S
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Eden
Ae Bn Cee Ee
Ocnumial
Schuman
Drought Loss In South Runs Into Millions
The drought stricken South faced millions in crop and pasture losses as fires raged through timberlands. Gov Talmadge declared a state of emergency in North Georgia. Fire officials reported 30 million dollars of timber burned in East Tennessee and numerous fires across Virginia and surrounding states.
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Associated Press
South
North
Georgia
Herman Talmadge
East
Tennessee
Virginia
South Carolina
Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
North Carolina
Drunken Actor Broderick Crawford Fined $250 in Los Angeles
Actor Broderick Crawford paid a $250 fine after spending four hours in jail following a Thursday night arrest for drunken driving. His car struck two parked autos, authorities said, in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Broderick Crawford
Crawford
Weather Summary From The Weather Bureau
Cloudy with showers forecast starting at 6 a.m. temperatures rise from 42 at noon to 47 by afternoon. Morning 9 a.m. at 46. Evening 6 p.m. around 2. Sunrise at 6 26. Sunset at 4 41. River stage 1 8 feet and steady. Yesterday humidity averaged 55 percent.
Local Conditions Report Yesterday Weather
The high reached 52 degrees and the low dropped to 38 with trace amount of precipitation recorded.
Forecast for Terre Haute and Vicinity Weather Outlook
Cloudy and windy conditions with light showers tonight and Sunday. Low temperatures range from 40s to mid 50s regionally, with highs from upper 50s to mid 60s. Illinois shows considerable cloudiness with scattered showers, milder tonight then colder Sunday, and street thermometer readings at 6 am 43 and 2 pm 50.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio River
Midwest Showers and Clouds Hit Football Weather
United Press reports showers and cloudy skies sweep across the Midwest and nearby regions affecting football fans choosing between rain and radio or TV. Forecasters expect light showers in Iowa Missouri Illinois Indiana and the Great Lakes area with cooler weekend highs near 60 and lows around 36.
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United Press
Midwest
West
New England
Texas
Kansas
State Fish and Game Commission
Pennsylvania
John S. Fine
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Agricultural Mobilization Committee
Edward F. Arn
Iowa- Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
North Dakota
Montana Mountains
Great Lakes
Rosenberg Arrives in Korea for Far East Visit
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg assistant U S secretary of defense arrived in Seoul and was welcomed by General James A Van Fleet on a Far East tour. She will visit Army and Air Force bases and was escorted by Vice Admiral Joseph J Clark who accompanied her to the battleship Missouri and carrier Kearsage earlier today.
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Seoul
Korea
Anna Rosenberg
U.S. Secretary of Defense
8Th Army
James A. van Fleet
Rosenberg
Far East
Army
Air Force
Joseph J. Clark
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Missouri
Kearsage
Bomb blasts leader's home in Indiana-Ohio border area
The blast destroyed Virgil G. Shilts's auto and damaged his home in New Paris Ohio near the Indiana line. Shilts led a strike resistance at the International Harvester plant with about 500 of 900 workers back to work. Police say a bomb placed under his car caused the damage at 3:30 am. A $1,000 reward was offered by Harvester officials for information leading to an arrest.
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Richmond
Ind
U.P
Virgil G. Shilts
International Harvester Company
New Paris
Indiana-Ohio
Shilts
United Electrical Workers Union
Harvester
Deranged Man Kills Doctor In Shooting Spree
A deranged dishwasher in Los Angeles killed a physician and wounded a florist during a shooting in the Wilshire district. Police booked 38 year old Richard Holbrook as mentally deranged on suspicion of murder after he fired a German 9 mm pistol into morning crowds, then threatened self harm.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Wilshire
Richard Holbrook
J. V. Quinn
Child Suffers Severe Burns After Playing With Matches
Four and a half year old Evelyn Gray sustained second and third degree burns while playing with matches at 317 North Twenty second street. Her father Boling Gray and mother Velma Gray also burned minorly as they tried to extinguish the flames. The child was taken to Union Hospital with a fair condition per attendants.
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Evelyn Gray
Boling Gray
Velma Gray
Union Hospital
United Community Chest Workers Press Toward Campaign Goal
United Community Chest workers push a final two day drive to reach the 1953 goal of 273000 for 23 Red Feather agencies. Special gifts total 8919 to 91 percent of quota with other divisions at partial completions. Industry and Commercial T-40 show progress but overall totals lag behind the target.
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United Community Chest Workers
United Community Chest
Chest
Red Feather
Eyewitness Details H-bomb Blast at Eniwetok
An alleged Los Angeles eyewitness describes the first hydrogen bomb explosion at Eniwetok as a huge orange ball rising from a feeble atoll column. The account, sent via a friend at the Atomic Energy Commission and reported by the Los Angeles Examiner, notes intense heat, water vapor, a mushroom cloud, and a distant cannon-shot-like report lasting several seconds before the halo expanded. The AEC declined to comment as the story continued on page 2.
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Los Angeles
Eniwetok
Los Angeles Examiner
Examiner
Chris ‘Clausen
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Clausen
Atoll
Pacific Proving Grounds
AEC
Ship Sunk In Rotterdam Harbor By Storm Wreck
Rotterdam's harbor district was halted as the Panamanian freighter Faustus sank at the Rhine approach amid two days of gale winds. The Cunard liner Franconia docked at Liverpool after being held offshore, carrying 225 Canadian passengers. A French trawler Kerne and its six crew were feared lost, with a body found washed ashore.
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London
Rotterdam
Europe
Rhine River
North Sea
Netherlands
Mersey River
Liverpool
England
Canada
British Meteorological Bureau
English Channel
Kerne
Port Trinite Sur Mer
French Blast Foe in Tonkin Patrol Skirmishes
French land and carrier based fighter bombers hit enemy troop and truck concentrations and supply routes in Northern Tonkin. Ground activity consisted of patrol skirmishes with no major engagements reported.
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Hanoi
Indo-China
Tonkin
Bus Fare Protest Hearing Postponed in Indiana
Indiana's Public Service Commission postponed a hearing on Terre Haute City Lines fare protests due to a conference in Little Rock. Negotiations are set for next Thursday to avert a drivers strike planned for Nov 17, timed with the holiday season. Drivers seek wage gains up to 31 cents hourly. the company offers five cents plus fare terms. City officials want fares reduced to 10 cents. Federal and state conciliators are involved.
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Indiana
Public Service Commission
Terre Haute City Lines, Inc
Public Service Commissions
Little Rock
Ark
Terre Haute
Bus Company
United Airliners Fly Again After Strike Ends
United Airlines DC-6s and Stratocruisers resumed service after AFL flight engineers strike cut 78 percent of routes. Union president Kent ordered back to work to let a presidential fact finding board review wage demands. Strike paused 73 transcontinental DC-6 flights daily and 12 Stratocruiser Honolulu flights. DC-3 and DC-4 unaffected. President Truman created the board, and the walkout must pause for 30 days after its report.
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Chicago
United Airlines
A.F.L
William D. Kent
Mineola
N. Y
Honolulu
Truman
Child earns prize as 40000th visitor to toyland
Four year old Jimmy Dolan visited Santa at a Manchester department store and asked for a motor car. Santa promised they'd see what could be done and returned an hour later to crown him as the 40,000th visitor to toyland, awarding a fine model motor car.
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Manchester
England
Jimmy Dolan
Santa Claus
Santa
Jimmy
Rockville Man Reports Being Kidnaped
Rockville Indiana, Nov 8 State police investigated a report by 44 year old William Mitchell a filling station attendant who said he was robbed and kidnaped by three men. He claimed they rode about 70 miles forced him to lie on the floor under a blanket and discussed killing him. He identified a remark by one as I am that three gun bandit youve been reading about. He escaped at a strip mine near Danville and alerted Danville police after contacting miners who directed him to a telephone.
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Rockville
Ind
State Police Today
William Mitchell
Indianapolis
Danville
Mitchell
Three Men Sentenced for Grain Thefts in Indiana
Hubert Shipley R R G Terre Haute Fred W Thomas 1007 North Water street and Kenneth E Frye Martinsville Ill were each sentenced to four years in the U S Court at Indianapolis after pleading guilty to stealing 600 bushels of corn from Commodity Credit Corporation stored in bins near Rosedale and Dana on August 1 August 22 and September 10. State police trapped them as they allegedly shoveled more from a bin into a truck.
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Terre Haute
Martinsville
Ill
U.S
Indianapolis
Commodity Credit Corporation
Hubert Shipley
Fred W. Thomas
North Water Street
Kenneth E. Frye
Rosedale
Dana
Tell Them No Conference Finds Child Guidance Theme
Chicago on November 8 reports Prof. James L. Hymes Jr. argues at a Family Living Association conference that occasional explicit prohibition helps junior content by preventing dissatisfaction and unmet expectations.
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Chicago
James L. Hymes Jr
The
Association For Family Living
Hymes
Winter Issue Dogs as Foot Warmers Proposed
A U S Army dispatch from Korea on November 8 quotes Corporal John M. Tyler of Conway, South Carolina, suggesting dogs be standard winter issue for all units to serve as foot warmers and to accompany sleeping bags on cold nights.
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U.S
Korea
John M. Tyler
Conway
S. C
Tyler
Big Artillery Duel Continues on Korean Front
In Korea on November 8 1950 United Nations artillery bombardment pounded the Central Front with over 20000 shells in 12 hours forcing the Chinese to halt major attacks against Sniper Ridge. Two small raids east of the ridge were repulsed as UN gunners using secret lighters fired about ten shells for each enemy round.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
U. N
Search Started For Missing Plane With 19 Aboard
FAIRBANKS Alaska November 8 An Air Force C119 carrying 19 men is the focus of an intensive search by 26 planes despite adverse weather. The aircraft from the 435th Troop Carrier Group Miami was en route from SumIt to Nenana after reporting at 10 000 feet above an overcast and was last heard from at 2 38 a m midway between Fairbanks and Anchorage.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Air Force
Miami
Fla
Summit
Anchorage
Nenana
Ex-soldier fined for assaulting former superior at Atterbury
Judson Hendricks of Mobile Alabama admitted striking Sgt Jack B Meyer of Camp Atterbury in Franklin Indiana on November 8. Judge Oral Barnett fined Hendricks 35 dollars and 80 cents with a 30 day suspended sentence.
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Franklin
Ind
Judson Hendricks
Jack B. Meyer
Camp Atterbury
Mobile
Ala
Oral Barnett
Johnston Circuit
Hendricks
Alumni Banquet Closes Rose Poly Homecoming Night
The Rose Polytechnic Institute home-coming concludes with an alumni banquet at the Terre Haute house. Ford L. Wilk inson Jr. and Paul N. Bogart will lead, joined by Dr. Donald B. Prentice. Richard F. Bergmann will preside as toastmaster. The graduating class will be honorary guests, followed by a Blue Key fraternity dance. Continued on page 7 column 5.
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Rose Polytechnic Institute
Terre Haute House
Ford L. Wilkinson Jr
Paul N. Bogart
Board of Managers
Donald B. Prentice
Bethany
U N Soldiers Ready for Bitter Korea Winter
United Nations troops in Korea brace for a third winter of harsh cold as snow covers the Central Front. Drops in temperature daily affect equipment, roads, and morale. The Eighth Army deploys cold weather gear including the slave kit to thaw gear, heating tents, and specialized boots to combat frostbite. Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
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Central Front
Korea
Ip—United Nations
U.S. Eighth Army
Two Brothers Arrested After Three Car Crash on Third Street
A three car crash at Third street and Washington avenue Friday led to the arrest of Seebree Kentucky brothers Paul E Harmon 32 for driving while intoxicated and M C Harmon 30 for intoxication. Police said Harmon driving south collided with William F Sullivan 1326 South Eleventh and One-half street. A wrecker was en route when Harmon's car was struck by a Veo Mitchell Robinson II truck. The brothers were reportedly travelling from Chicago to Seebree.
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Third Street
Washington Avenue
Seebree
Paul E. Harmon
Head
Melvin Said
William F. Sullivan
South Eleventh
Harmon
Veo Witchell, Robinson, II
M. C. Harmon
Chicago
Indonesian forces clash with rebels in Java
Jakarta reports government troops killed 85 guerrillas after a clash with an estimated 200 terrorists in central Java. The confrontation was disclosed today by officials.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Java
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Gen. Eisenhower
Jesse Donaldson
Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan
Oscar Chapman
Denver
James P. McGranery
Chapman
International Soundphoto
the Weather By
U. S. Weather Bureau
United Airliners
Rose Poly
Ford L. Wilkinson
U.N
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